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Detroiters Confer with Almogi

BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX

(Copyright, 1963,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Scholar Writes
Thesis on Yiddish
Dialects in Toronto

TORONTO, (JTA) — A non-
Jewish graduatae student has
submitted the first M.A. thesis
dealing with the Yiddish langu-
grave?
age ever to be completed by a
In general, these stops are
student at the University of
made to display our reluctance
Toronto.
John Knott, a high school
to part with the deceased., At
each of the stops prayers are
teacher engaged in graduate
work at the university, calls his
recited for the soul of the de-1
dissertation "A Study of the
ceased, asking for atonement.
In some practices three stops
Yosef Almogi (left), Israel Minister of Housing and Develop- Lithuanian and Polish Dialects
are made. Seven has always been ment, welcomed Detroiters Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Litwak on their of Yiddish as Spoken in Tor-
a number which signifed total- recent tour of Israel. Litwak, president of Local 285, Laundry onto." It is based on interviews
ity and wholesomeness in Jew- and Linen Drivers Union, has been active in the Israel Bond , with five Yiddish-speaking per-
ish life. Some look upon it as campaign. Minister Almogi addressed the Labor Zionist testi- sons for each of the dialects
analyzed. Knott made sound re-
representing the seven heavens, monial to Harry Schumer in June. Almogi told the Litwaks of
etc.
the key role Israel Bond funds are playing in the economic cordings of his informants'
speech patterns.
development of Israel.
Why is instrumental music

Why does the funeral pro-
cession stop seven times when
carrying the coffin to the

MISS MYRNA COUSENS

forbidden in the course of
prayer service in traditional
synagogues?

`Messiah's Chains,' Allegorical Novel by Posy

The engagement is announced
of Myrna Renee Cousens, daugh-
In general, prayer was con-
Arnold Posy, a pioneer leader to them from far off, and they 'lore will welcome Arnold Posy's
ter of Harry Cousens of Oak sidered to be "a service of the
Park and the late Mary Cousens, heart," stemming from the in- in the Poale Zion 'orld move- want to follow that voice. So "Messiah's Chains."
to Louis Allen Morris, son of inermost being of man who pours ment, has distinguished himself they have dug out the wan-
Mrs. Sol Gerofsky of London, out his soul in total commit- as a writer as well as a leader derer's staff from the refuse
in the labor organization. He has heap, from the place where we
Ont.
ment to the Almighty. Instru- written expressively in Yiddish consign old cast-off things, and
and his
The prospective bridegroom is mental music would' tend to and the fact that his latest they have brought it back to
ORCHESTRA
a senior in the College of En- make the service more artificial novel, "Messiah's Chains," just light, they lean on it, and are
"Music As You Like It"
gineering at Wayne State Uni- as well as it would establish published by Bloch, has been once more preparing to go wan-
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versity. He is affiliated with the illusion that man was using rendered into English by so dering across the wide world."
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Theta Tau and Tau Beta Pi fra- the instrument as an inter-medi- eminent an author and transla-
Leftwich comments upon it:
ternities. A Spring wedding is ary between him and his creator. tor as Joseph Leftwich gives his "It is like life, continuous,
Many have claimed, that besides
planned.
when you plan your wedding or
like the fabulous serpent bit-
story added status.
bar mitzvah party repeat after
this, instrumental music in the
ing
its
own
tail.
Where
it
ends
me — movies by howard triest,
Allegorical, replete with rab-
synagogue service was prohibi-
movies by howard triest, movies
it
begins.
Like
our
Shema.
by howard triest, movies by how-
ted because its absence serves binical legends, Posy's novel When the time for reciting it
ted
ard triest, call -- LI 2-7874 and
as a symbol of mourning for the gains a place in Jewish folklore. has ended, the time for recit-
ask for
destruction of the temple in In the Redemption of Israel de- ing it has begun."
HOWARD H. TRIEST
Jerusalem. Our synagogues, in picted in this work leading roles
The true measure of the book,
MOTION PICTURES
a way, serve as a miniature are played by Elijah the Prophet
Leftwich asserts, is "that it con-
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A sharp temple and the absence of music and the Messiah.
protest against the recent ac- in them serves to remind us
Injected in •it is the story of veys so much, makes the reader 1511110Paieraergenmermegoor
quittal, after a trial at Graz, that there is still something Sabbatai Zevi and his bride think so much."
Lovers of allegory and folk-
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Austria, of Franz Murer, former missing as long as the temple Sarah and the traditional long-
Gestapo chief of the Vilna in Jerusalem is not re-estab- ing for the Messiah becomes a
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ghetto accused of the mass I lished.
major element in the novel.
murder of Jews there during
Typical of the approach made
Why is the shofar blown
World War II, was voiced by every week-day morning in by the author allegorically is the
the World Center of European the synagogue during the cur- {concluding chapter, " The Wan-
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Rabbis, many of whom are sur- rent Hebrew month of Elul? i derer Among Wanderers," which
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vivors of the Hitlerian holo-
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caust. The protest was cabled to The shofar is blown this is in essence a letter to Mother
the Austrian government in month after the morning service 1Rachel by Elijah. It is represen-
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capitals by atoning for our 'sins and im- I tion with the restored State of
proving our moral status. Some Israel. Elijah tells Rachel:
According to Rabbis Moshe claim thaat the shofar is blown
uality Doesn't Cost—It Pays!"—Compare—See For Yourself!
Joseph Rubin and • L.Horowitz,
remnants
of the
• Bar Mitzvahs
to remind us that "The
Moses went
dispersion, weary
and former
exhausted
• Weddings
-
respectively president and sec up to Mount Sinai for the sec- from their long journeys, with
• Portraits
retary of the American section and time at the beginning of their minds disturbed, p 1 a n t
• Candids
of the rabbinical organization, the month Elul and same down themselves in this earth and
Member
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Murer had not only been freed' on Yom Kippur to bring us the strike roots deep into the
but had also been showere d second tablets which were a ground. And others of your chil-
with flowers by Graz residents symbol that our sinful actions dren, Mother Rachel, who have
after his release. The message which then resulted in the lost their desire for watching
to the Austrian government de- breakage of the first set of tab- over gardens, young men who
manded that Murer be retried. lets were forgiven. There are have not yet wived and young
some who fast every week-day women who have no husbands
Wishes to Announce That
The Name 'Leo'
!during the daylight hours in the yet, too much rest has cramped
The name "Leo" means a course of the month of Elul and their limbs; they seek but do
"lion." Whether the name it- the shofar was always tradition- riot find—they don't even know
Is Now Schoichet for Kosher
self is originally Jewish is ques- ally blown on a public fast day. what they want to find. They say
Even though
most people
do not
tionable. It is interesting
to they
have
heard a voice calling
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fast the entire month, at least
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note, however, how the Jews the shofar is blown to remind us New Oil Strike in Israel
came to use this . name. The
that these are days upon which
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For the first time oil has been
Jews of the renaissance period people would fast and do pen-
found
in
Israel
in
a
layer
of
DISTRIBUTORS
OF
KOSH-R-BEST
in Italy led, what might be nance.
dolomite rock at Kochav 5, sev-
called, double lives. One life
FRESH FROZEN POULTRY
eral miles north of Heletz, the
was that which was exper f ence d
country's first oil-producing
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in purely Jewish circles, such Israel Trains 212
as the syn-agogues. The other Congolese Troops,
Until now all of Israel's oil
was experienced in the business
strikes have been made in sand
world — such as in the loan Receives Mobutu
layers. When oil was struck at
banks in which Jews were en-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Gen. Kochav 5 at a sand layer 5,118
A NOTE TO OUR MANY FRIENDS, OLD AND NEW .. .
gaged. In the business world Joseph
Mobutu, commander of feet down, the Lapidoth Israel
Jews used one name for their the army of the Republic of the
administrative documents—this Congo (Leopoldville), arrived Oil Prospectors Corp., which
name was an Italian sounding here for an official visit to Is- owns and operates both the
one. In the synagogue, the Jew rael, during which he will inspect Kochav and Heletz fields, de-
was referred to by his original the 212 Congolese soldiers now cided to drill further. Oil was
Says thanks for making this our most successful
Hebrew name. An interesting being trained in Israel as para- struck at 5,715 feet. It is esti-
season ever. We regret to inform you that we are
manifestation of this was the troopers. Explaining why he had mated that this well can pro-
name Leo, which was used as chosen Israel as the training site duce 2,500 barrels daily, 10
completely booked for the Labor Day Weekend
a substitute for Judah, because for his paratroopers, the General times the amount produced by
but there are still some reservations available for a
Judah was symbolized by the said simply "because of the good Israel's best well until now.
few days in August . . . and we are also taking reser-
figure of a lion in the Biblical name of the Israeli Army."
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blessing.
vations for the fall season.
The general was received with
Henry Castro, descendant of
full military honors at Lydda
12th Century York Leader
Airport. Heading the reception a noted Marrano family, who
For Colorful Brochure and
Aaron of York, a medieval group was Chief of Staff Tsvi lived in France in the 18th and
Jewish financier who lived in Tzur. Others were senior army early 19th centuries, was a
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England in the 12th century, was officers and officials of the senior officer in Napoleon's na-
tional guard. After the fall of
head of the Jewish community Foreign Defense Ministries.
Six Congolese paratroop train- Napoleon he settled in the
in York, and one of An gl o-
Jewry's six principal tax gath- ees welcomed the general on United States, where he served
erers. In addition to his financial behalf of their country's soldiers as consul of Naples in Provi-
Detroit:
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activities in England, he carried in training here. The trainees, dence, R.I.
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