Friday, Sept. 20, 1963 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- 20
Peace Corps Member Eeta Freeman Kops' Life Story Dr. Judah Shapiro to Be Lecturer
THE WORLD IS A WEDDING, by
Bernard Kops. Coward-McCann Inc., for Sholem Aleichern's 'Weekend'
Tells of Pakistan Jewish Community New
York.
Appearing in the current issue
of Beth Aaron Synagogue's "The
Scribe" in an article by Eeta
Freeman, a member of the con-
gregation and daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. B. Z. Freeman. Mrs.
Freeman is president of the
synagogue Sisterhood. Her
daughter, now serving in the
Peace Corps in Pakistan, writes
of Jews and Judaism in a Mos-
lem country.
"Mogain Shalome Synagogue,
over 100-years-old, is maintained
by the 400 Jews that remain
in the country.
"The presidency of the Jewish
community is hereditary. Simon
Reuben (he and others have re-
tained their European surnames
through hundreds of years here)
is the third generation in his
family to hold this title. He is
guide and counselor, arbitrator
and substitute rabbi for the con-
gregation. He proudly points out
that his family built Mogain
Shalome.
"After working with the
Peace Corps in the city of Lah-
ore for almost a year, I vaca-
tioned in Karachi.
"Although they call themselves
orthodox, Pakistan's Jews have
had to veer slightly from the
strict tradition. For instance,
kosher meat is available only
two days-a-week. Being a Mos-
lem country, pork is not sold
anywhere.
MUMIFORD
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By PATTY REISTMAN
"All 70 families are bilingual.
They speak Urdu, the 1 o c al
language, but 'prefer to speak
English at home and in their
businesses. Most families from
India hope one day to send their
children to Israel. Only a few
young people migrate to Israel
each year, but many more boys
than girls have gone.
"The main problem, recog-
nized by all of the adults, is the
lack of Jewish education. The
present generation knows
neither Hebrew nor Jewish his-
tory. The Jewish Agency sent a
teacher who stayed only one
year. What prayer books they
have, are all Hebrew - English
ones from the United States or
Britain.
"Surprising as it is to West-
erners, these Jews living in a
Moslem country are truly first-
class citizens. Pakistan's 400 en-
counter no discrimination in
employment, horsing, social or
religious practices.
"They try to be good Jews,
good Pakistanis, and loyal sup-
porters of Israel. Cut off from
the bulk of Jewish learning and
traditions that developed in Eur-
ope after the Inquisition, they
created and maintain a flourish-
ing community of Bnai Israel
throughout Asia. To anyone
visiting or working here, they
are a constant reminder that you
can find good Jews in every
corner of the globe."
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This Week's Radio and
Television Programs
MESSAGE OF ISRAEL
Time: 11 a.m. Sunday.
Station: WXYZ.
Feature: Rabbi Joseph Bueh-
ler of Temple Mizpah, Chicago,
Following the hustle and ex- Ill., will speak on "When Man
citement of a seemingly short is Most Like God."
* * *
v a c a t i o n, 3,000 Mumfordites
have settled down with their
studies for the 1963-64 school
year. While many Mumfordites
stayed at home, several traveled
abroad under the various aus-
pices of United Synagogue
Youth, Histadruth and United
Council of Churches.
Included was Shelley Kessler,
who, as Mumford's American
Field Service summer exchange
student, spent the summer with
the family of Alfredo Pineda in
Alcalon Province, Philippines.
During her 10-week stay, she
toured the islands and became
acquainted with Philipino
culture.
Marking Mumford's ninth year
of participation in the AFS pro-
gram, the student body wel-
comes Luis Udart of Uraguay.
Luis, who enrolled as a 12B, is
residing at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Benjamin Juliar as guest
of their son Neil.
New members of the Radio
Broadcasters Guild selected
from auditions are Craig Car-
nick, Steve Iczkovitz, Susan
Leamy and Eric Pianin, 12B's;
Babette Krolick, Arthur Lerner,
Bob Rosenberg, Steve Selzer,
Ada Snyder, and Joan Weiss,
11B's. Recently elected Guild
officers include Judi Magi,
president; Gary Rubin, vice-
president; Suzy Weiss, secre-
tary; John Bookston, treasurer;
Karen Newman and Barbara
Miller, board members.
Senior activities got under-
way with the distribution of
class pins and organization of
the steering committee. Candi-
dates for office are currently
circulating petitions and plan-
ning skits for elections to be
held Sept. 30.
The Mustangs are preparing
for their football game against
Northeastern Sept. 26 at North-
eastern. Under the coaching of
Stan Mullin, this year's squad
will be led by co-captains Norm
Lavin and Greg Palmer.
ETERNAL LIGHT
Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday,
Station: WWJ.
Feature: Maurice Samuel will
discuss great Hassidic tales
adapted from his book, "Prince
of the Ghetto," a study of the
life and work of the great Yid-
dish writer I. L. Peretz.
* * *
THE JEWISH HERITAGE
Time: 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
Station: WCAR.
Feature: "The Fast I Have
Chosen," a special broadcast
marking Yom Kippur, will fea-
ture Rabbi Benjamin H. Gor-
relick of Beth Aaron Synagogue,
the choir of Temple Beth El,
directed by Jason Tickton, and
narrators Bob Leslie and Bea
Koenigsberg.
* * *
TO DWELL TOGETHER
A Review by Mitzi Rachleff
Dr. Judah J. Shapiro, secre- tion only. For information and
When Bernard Kops was a tary of the National Foundation reservations, call VE 8-7440.
child, sharing two beds with six for Jewish
- The author of many papers in
siblings in an East End ghetto Culture, w i 11
English,
Hebrew and Yiddish,
during pre-war London, the
world, as the Talmud teaches,
was a wedding. Living in Step-
ney Green with his Dutch im-
migrant parents, getting food
parcels from the Jewish Board
of Guardians, queuing up for
bags of sweets and fruits out-
side the synagogues during Suc-
coth or Simchat Torah, com-
posed the childhood world that
Kops loved. Later, during the
War, the world became a funeral
for Kops and he began clutch-
ing desperately for vestiges of
life. He developed a passion for
books and writing, for the neur-
otic bohemian atmosphere of
Soho, for paths leading to self-
destruction and self-discovery.
Kops was the avatar of the lost
generation which emerged from
World War II, a searcher, a
longer, an unfulfilled Jewish
boy whose beloved mother had
taught him that although, "blood
was thicker than water," Chris-
tions "were human, too."
In his richly colored auto-
biography, poet-playwright Kops
tells of his discoveries in his
quest for identity and security
in a chaotic existence:
"There I realized how much
Jews needed the family. It was
our security. We were obsessed
with it, we indulged in it and
we enjoyed our indulgence and
obsession. For here was our
strength, our only safety, our
place of worship . . . The family
was the essence of our faith .. .
and possibly our religion springs
from this."
Possessed with a curiosity and
humor which all but saves him
from despair, Kops becomes in-
volved in a society of prosti-
tutes, criminals, dope addicts
and other kindred soul seekers.
As he struggles to alienate him-
self from his family his mother's
death brings a further fortifica-
tion of his Jewish conscious-
ness. Kops writes, "It's hard to
assess the meaning and power
of a Jewish mother. She is prac-
tically always a matriarch, hold-
ing the family together, bending
it to her will, making a living
bit of sense out of the sense-
lessness of the universe. When
she dies the family is splintered,
destroyed. The children become
separate planets shooting their
own directions into space."
All ends well, however. Kops
meets beautiful Jewish Erica,
who represents the sanity for
which he had been searching
throughout his life. "I, who had
spent all my life looking for
something, had found what I
was looking for. I, who broke
away from the family, had
merely wanted a place in the
sun for my own family." With
the birth of his son, Adam, the
meaning of existence is reaf-
firmed for Kops.
"The World is a Wedding" is
a skillfully written work en-
dowed with the brilliance and
wit of one of England's most
sensitive and talented Angry
Young Men.
Time: 9:15 a.m. Sunday.
Station: WJBK (radio and
television simultaneously),
Feature: The Book of Jonah
will be discussed by Rabbi Is-
rael Halpern of Beth Abraham
Synagogue and Joseph Edel-
man, director of the Jewish
Community Council Culture Canada's Diefenbaker
Commission. The program is Is Guest of Israel
TEL AVIV, (JTA) —John G.
entitled "Go to Nineveh."
Diefenbaker, former Prime Min-
* * *
SPECIAL
Time: 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
Station: WJR.
Feature: "From All Your
Sins . . ." will feature Rabbi
James T. Gordon, newly-elected
spiritual leader of Young Israel
Center of Oak Woods, in a spe-
cial sermonette and liturgical
selections by prominent cantors.
* * *
COUNCIL-ALTMAN HOUR
Time: 10 p.m. Saturday.
Station: WJLB,
Feature: Movsas Goldoftas,
secretary of the Farband City
Committee, will discuss the
forthcoming conference to be
held Oct. 5.
ister of Canada, arrived here for
a visit as a guest of the govern-
ment, after visiting Egypt.
Diefenbaker t o 1 d newsmen
that, while in Cairo, he had a
talk with Egypt's President Nas-
ser, but, he declared, the con-
ference did not touch either on
Egyptian relations with Israel
or on other Middle East prob-
lems.
High Israeli officials of the
Foreign Ministry, as well as
ranking military officers, met
Diefenbaker upon his arrival.
He left immediately for Jerusa-
lem where he met with Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol and For-
eign Minister Golda Meir.
be the honor-
ed guest speak-
er at the Sho-
lem Aleichem
Institute's an-
nu a 1 banquet
and lecture
weekend Oct.
12-13.
Shapiro will
speak 8:45
p.m. Oct. 12
on "Idle Wor-
ship —Religion
Without Secu-
larism." T h e
Shapiro
lecture is open to the public.
Shapiro will speak 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 13 on "Warsaw—Jerusalem
and Detroit—Patterns of Jewish
Education." This second evening
is the Institute's annual banquet
and may be attended by reserva-
Technion Society
Honors Prexy Gruzen
WEST ORANGE, N.J., (JTA)
—Declaring that to ignore
"Egypt's military build-up, plus
Nasser's insatiable ambition to
rule over all Arab governments
is to turn our backs upon real-
ity," Congressman Emanuel
Celler, Democrat of New York,
chairman of the House Judi-
ciary Committee, warned here
that tension in the Middle East
brooks ill for the western
world."
Celler was principal speaker
at a testimonial dinner ten-
dered in honor of B. Sumner
Gruzen, president of American
Technion Society, a nationwide
group that provides financial
and technical assistance to the
Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology, the oldest institu-
tion of higher learning in Is-
rael.
Shapiro is the former national
director of the Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation. He has also held
executive posts with the Joint
Distribution Committee and the
Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany. He is
a past president of the National
Conference of Jewish Com-
munal organizations.
PM/ Activities
DETROIT LADIES AUXIL-
IARY will meet 8 p.m. Monday
at the Memorial Home. Refresh-
rremts will be served.
* * *
OAK PARK LADIES AUXIL-
IARY will hold a membership
party 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the
home of Mrs. Maurice Nobel,
24144 Westhampton. A "To-
night" program will highlight
the evening. Special guests will
include Mesdames Sam Skupsky,
Dept. of Mich. president; John
Nemon, national junior vice-
president; Philip Bernstein,
past department president; and
Sidney Cohen, past department
president. Mrs. Max Strumeyer,
auxiliary president, invites pro-
spective members to attend.
Israel's Shipping
Israeli shipping cargo traffic
totaled 1,497,000,000 tons in
1962, an increase of 40 per cent
over the figures for the pre-
vious year.
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