Cornerstone-Laying for the
International Synagogue at Idle-
wild will be held Sunday, Nov.
10, 2 p.m., it was announced by
Charles H. Silver, president.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller
and Mayor Robert F. Wagner
will speak.
The Synagogue, which is be-
ing constructed under the aus-
pices of the New York Board
of Rabbis, will be completed in
time for the opening of the
New York World's Fair in
April 1964.
A Jewish information center
which will be established at
the synagogue will guide visi-
tors from all over the world to
places of religious interest in
New York. The synagogue mu-
seum will display religious ob-
jects gathered from the four
corners of the Jewish world.
The main sanctuary, modeled
after New York City's Mill
Street Synagogue, the first
built in America, and the daily
chapel will provide the tra-
veler with the opportunity for
worship. The reading-room will
be stacked with multi-language
newspapers, magazines a n d
books to enable the foreign
traveler to feel at home in
New York.
In addition, the Synagogue
will serve the Jewish employees
at Idlewild and some of the
11 1/2 million passengers who
come through the airport each
year. The cost of the building
will be about $500,000; an-
other half million dollars is be-
ing raised for the maintenance
of the structure.
The Synagogue will be situat-
ed on a 655-foot lagoon oppo-
site the International Arrivals
Building adjacent to the pro-
jected Protestant and Roman
Catholic chapels. It will extend
over the lagoon for about a
third of its 110-foot length to
be enhanced in its quiet beauty
by mirrored duplication in the
still water. The facade of the
Synaogue will be in the form of
two huge tablets of the Ten
Commandments 40 feet in
height, flanked by stained glass
windows with Biblical designs.
Speaker and 14-year-old Cantor
Chaim Eliezer Hertsik as guest
soloist, the annual dinner of
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, to be
held Sunday evening, Nov. 10,
at Cobo Hall, is expected to
draw a record attendance.
Sponsored by the Business-
men's Council, with Circuit
Court Judge Nathan J. Kaufman.
as general chairman of the
event, the response from hun-
dreds who have reserved accom-
modations includes a cross-sec-
tion of the entire community, it
was reported this week.
The occasion serves to recall
the early history of Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah which was founded
49 years ago—in 1916-5676—
on Farnsworth Street, by the
late. Rabbi Yehudah Leib Levin.
The original Talmudical acad-
emy has followed the movement
of the Detroit Jewish population
to Rosedale Court, Pingree, Elm-
hurst, Dexter, Wyoming and now
Oak Park and Southfield. A new
center for the 12-grade Day
School—largest of its kind in
the middlewest—is about to be
constructed at Greenfield and
10 1/2 Mile Road.
Senator Ribicoff will speak at
the dinner on "The Persecution
of Russian Jews—Challenge to
Chicago Rabbinate
Holds Burial Rites
for Religious Books
CHICAGO, (JTA)—About 20
tons of unusable religious books
and other materials were inter-
red at Shalom Memorial Park
in Palestine in a city-wide Gen-
iza ceremony sponsored by the
Chicago Rabbinical Council and
in which more than 50 syna-
gogues in this area participated.
The custom of Geniza, in
which worn-out religious books
and other items are interred,
dates back to antiquity and has
been a great boon to archeolo-
gists and Biblical scholars who
have unearthed valuable parch-
ments buried centuries ago. Two
famous discoveries along these
lines were the Dead Sea Scrolls
in 1947 and the parchments in
It's easy for people to over- the Ezra Synagogue in Cairo,
look their own faults while Egypt at the turn of the cen-
looking over the faults of others. tury.
ment for Congressional action
to stem the tide of anti-Semit-
ism in the Soviet Union.
The young Cantor Hertsik,
who has been acclaimed in Is-
rael, is visiting in this country
on a concert tour. He will pre-
sent a program of Hazanuth and
Israeli folk songs.
For information and reserva-
tions, contact the office of the
Beth Yehudah Schools, Sturte-
vant at Dexter, WE 1-0203.
Religious Zionists'
Conclave Speakers
Sar Chair at Yeshiva
The Dean Samuel L. Sar Me-
morial Chair in Bible has been
established at Yeshiva Univer-
sity, it was announced by Dr.
Samuel Belkin, president.
brew High School of the United
Ability doesn't count when a
Hebrew Schools with the organi-
zation of a bekiut class, consist- man sings his praises—he al-
ing of students from all four ways gets the wrong pitch.
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principal. The class is taught by
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on new
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Pontiacs
have joined this special class
in addition to carrying the nor-
and
mal requirement of high school
Tempest
subjects. While the ultimate
aims of the experience is
"Torah Lishma," learning for
its own sake, the immediate goal
is participation in the national
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Rabbi Mordecai Kirshblum,
president of the Religious Zion-
ists of America, announce that
the annual convention will be
addressed by Israeli Minister
of Social Wel-
f a r e, D r.
Joseph Burg;
Israeli Ambas-
sador to the
United States,
Avraham Har-
man; Rabbi
Raphael
Joseph B. So-
loveitchik, one of the fore-
most Talmudic scholars, and
Israeli Depuyt Minister of
Health and Delegate to the
United Nations Assemply, Yitz-
chak Raphael.
The convention will be held
at Hotel Promenade, Long
Beach, N. Y., November 13-17.
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1 5 —THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, November 1, 1963
Form Bekiut Class
Lay Cornerstone Yeshivath Beth Yehudah History
at Hebrew High School
for International Recalled on Eve of Annual Fete
The deepening of Tanakh
With U. S. Senator Abraham the World's Conscience." Sena- knowledge by students is being
Synagogue May 1 Ribicoff of Connecticut as guest tor Ribicoff is leading the move- implemented in the central He-