Friday, Nov. 15, 1963 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — 24
17,
Mizrachi Women
Vote Funds to
Expand Facilities
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The
Mizrachi Women's Organization
of America voted a budget for
the coming year totaling $1,295,
000 to maintain and expand the
organization's network of insti-
tutions, including the expansion
of facilities at various schools
and institutions in Israel.
The budget was adopted at
the organization's 38th annual
national convention which was
addressed by Sen. William Prox-
mire of Wisconsin and Rabbi
Mordecai Kirshblum, president
of the Religious Zionists of
America.
Proxmire told the delegates
that despite Egyptian attempts
to isolate Israel, the Jewish
State had succeeded in expand-
ing its technical assistance pro-
gram to almost 80 developing
nations. Terming Israel's pro-
gram in Latin America a "mag-
nificent supplement to the Alli-
ance for Progress," the senator
lauded Israel's cooperation with
the Organization of American
States and the training of Latin
Americans in agriculture.
Rabbi Kirshblum, who re-
turned recently from a visit to
Israel, told the convention that
"any reported news of stress
and tension in connection with
religious life in Jerusalem is
only temporary."
An intensive pilot educational
program to help close the gap
between European and Afro-
Asian Jewish immigrants to Is-
rael was approved by the con-
vention. Mrs. S. Deborah Ehin,
of Brooklyn, an honorary na-
tional president reported that
more than one-third of the
children of Oriental communi-
ties who complete eight years
of elementary school cannot
read a newspaper or a simple
book; cannot write a legible
letter; and cannot perform sim-
ple arithmetic problems.
Mrs. Ayraham Harman, wife
of the Israel Ambassador, was
honored with the "medallion
award" of the women's reli-
gious-Zionist organization. Mrs.
Harman, a former member of
the Israel delegation to the
United Nations and a leading
participant in UNICEF, was
cited for "contributions to the
welfare of Israel's youth and
the children of the world."
UJA Parley Speaker
Charles H. Jordan, director
Avraham Harman; UJA General
Chairman Joseph Meyerhoff;
Herbert A. Friedman; Brandeis
UJA Executive Vice Chairman
Herbert A. Friedman; Brandeis
University President Dr. Abram
figures.
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Oakland Hills Chapter, ORT, Plans Jewish Women's
Antique Show, Art Sale and Bazaar League Appoints
Committee Heads
OAKLAND HILLS CHAPTER, Women's American ORT, will
hold an "Antique Show, Art Sale and Bazaar" 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday at the Lazor Zionist Institute. The admission price
will include coffee and cake. Shown inspecting some featured
items for the show are, from left, Mesdames David Levin,
Bernard Colton, Donald Ketai and William Wolk. For tickets,
call Mrs. Bennet Nathan, EL '7.2259, or Mrs. Arlen Gitlin.
"LETTER BOX"
Musicologist Views
Hanukah, Christmas
Observance in Schools
Editor, The Jewish News
Every year Jewish parents as
well as public school music
teachers request examples of
both words and music of Han-
ukah songs. They believe that
Hanukah music as well as
Christmas carols should be
taught in the regular class-
room. This is incorrect and I
have consistently attempted to
refuse to honor their requests.
Because Hanukah is a Jewish
religious festival, I believe
Hanukah songs should be
taught in Sunday School by
well informed Jewish music
teachers.
In 1950, the Synagogue Coun-
cil of America and the National
Community Relations Advisory
Council, of which the Union of
American Hebrew Congrega-
tions is a member, adopted and
issued a "Statement of Princi-
ples on Religious Holiday Ob-
servances in Public Schools."
The Jewish Community
Council has consistently reaf-
firmed this policy—that the
celebration of Hanukah in the
public schools is an unwarrant-
ed intrusion of - religion in
public education. All national
and local Jewish agencies are
in agreement on this position.
I wouuld be remiss in my
duties as a musicologist if I
did not extol the virtues of
Christmas carols. They are
good Christian hymns, possess
fine melodies and traditional
religious harmonies and they
are examples of excellent cor-
Orange College Picks
Dr. Allen Zeltzer for
Radio-Television Post
general for overseas operations
of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, will address the United
Jewish Appeal's 26th annual
national conference to be held
Dec. 6-8 at the New York Hil-
ton. The conference also will
hear U.S. Chief Justice Earl
Warren; Israel Foreign Min-
ister Mrs. Golda Meir; former
Israel Prime Minister Moshe
Sharett; Israel Ambassador
;Am
Dr. Allen M. Zeltzer has been
placed in charge of radio and
t e l e v i s i o n programming for
Orange State College, it was an-
nounced by the Public Relations
Office.
Zeltzer, who joined the OSC
faculty this fall, is an assistant
professor of speech at Orange
State. Previously he was on the
faculty of Wayne State Univer-
sity.
The new radio-TV coordinator
for the OSC public relations of-
fice is an expert in media com-
munications, having served as an
actor, announcer and in other
assignments in mid-Western ra-
dio and TV. He is also a member
of several professional and en-
tertainment organizations.
Zeltzer will develop new in-
formational a n d promotional
programs in cooperation with
local radio and television sta-
tions, as well as continuing such
popular OSC broadcasts as the
10-minute campus newscasts and
the "Inquiry" faculty forum now
aired by Radio Station KEZY.
respondence between words and
music.
Some people are more im-
pressed than I am with the
argument that Christmas ob-
servance in the public school
is harmful to our Jewish chil-
dren who are subjected to it.
Certainly, many of us have
come through our own child-
h o o d experiences unscatched,
even with a sound appreciation
for the loveliness of this part
of our neighbors' faith.
We may have a moment of
embarrassment. We may have
felt that our own religion was
being relegated to a position
of secondary importance. But
our Judaism has survived all
these years and we are not seri-
ously affected by the influences
exerted upon us. It may be
true that the sanction given
Christmas in the public schools
has led some of us to arrive at
the mistaken notion that this
is a secular holiday—a conten-
tion that Christian religious
leaders will be the first to re-
pudiate.
An interesting but rather odd
adjunct to Christmas programs
in some schools is the "Han-
ukah lesson." Hanukah is a
Jewish holiday celebrating the
rededication (in 165 B.C.E.) of
the Temple, which had been
defiled by a Syrian king in an
unsuccessful attempt to sub-
jugate the Jews and to sup-
press their religion.
The coincidental semi-con-
junction of Christmas and Han-
ukah has afforded well-inten-
tioned teachers with an oppor-
tunity to "teach tolerance." A
common method is to have Jew-
ish children, who already know
about Hanukah, prepare reports
on Hanukah, while Christian
children, who already know
about Christmas, prepare re-
ports about Christmas. Aside
from the educational foolish-
ness of having children investi-
gate what they already know
and aside from the fascinating
problem of how religious edu-
cation in the public school can
be reconciled with the federal
constitution and with most
state constitutions, the major
flaw in the procedure is that
there is not the slightest ration-
al connection between Christ-
mas and Hanukah to justify
their being taught together.
Hence it is easily understood
why "Rock of Ages" or "The
Dreidle Song" or "Mrs. Mac-
cabus and Her Latkes" do not
belong in the public school
classroom.
JASON H. TICKTON,
Music Department
Wayne State University
Music Director
Temple Beth El
Money is not required to
buy one necessity of the soul.
—Henry David Thoreau
Mrs. Sol Hammerstein, presi-
dent of the League of Jewish
Women's Organizations, has ap-
pointed committee heads for the
coming year.
The chairmen are Mesdames
Jack Hornfield, Irving Beal,
Marshal Miller and Philip P.
Bernstein, community rela-
tions; P. Fealk, American As-
sociation for the United Na-
tions; Sam Wasserman and Irv-
ing Palman, Greater Detroit
Motion Picture Council; Joshua
Sperka, I s r a el Bonds; Paul
Feldman, Book Fair; Martin
Naimark, Jewish Community
Council; Henry Green and
Leonard Soskin, Keep Detroit
Beautiful; Nathan Spevakow,
March of Dimes; Israel Weiner,
Michigan Cancer Foundation;
Abe Pearlman and Joseph Katz,
Michigan Society for Mental
Health; Earl Gould, Muscular
Dystrophy; Gerald Bloom, pro-
gram planning; Samuel Danto,
promotion of art and culture;
Louis Redstone and Dan Sha-
piro, Roundtable of Christians
and Jews; Julius Ring and Paul
Fenton, Serve-A-Camp; Marvin
B. Levy and James Goodfriend,
United Foundation; Harry L.
Jackson, Women Who Care; and
J. Stewart Linden, youth
awards.
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