Conservative Sisterhoods Hold Statewide Meeting Over 3,500 women affiliated with sisterhoods in the Michigan Branch of the National Women's League of United Synagogue of America were represented at an open branch board meeting Wed- nesday at Cong. Beth Moses. Installed at a recent Michigan Branch conference at Cong. Bnai Moshe were — dames Isadore Leeman, pres i- dent; Sol Docks, Jack Shenkman, Benjamin T. Smith of Grand.. Rapids, Charles A. Smith and Sid- ney Wolin of Flint, vice presi- dents; T h o in a s Partovich, Meyer Mrs. Leeman Levy and Reuben Adleman of Bay City, secretaries; and Adolf Wink- ler, treasurer. Orthodox and Reform Leaders Episcopalians. Lutherans. 1U.-M. Legal Expert Warn of Perils • Threatened by Relitiion-in-Schools The leaders of the Orthodox an d Reform Jew i s h congregation al movements spoke in opposition t 0 the Becker Amendment that wool d permit prayers and Bible readin g in public schools. Appearing before the House Ju- diciary Committee in Washington, Moses Feuerstein, president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congre- gations of America, and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, testified to express their views against an amendment to the Constitution that would neg- ate the First Amendment. American tradition of separation church and state, as well as the freedom of religious worship." Dr. Jefferson B. Fordham, dean of the University of Pennsylvania law school, told the committee that the proposed amendments were not necesary. He characterized as `sheer nonsense" charges made by proponents who say that the back- ers of the Supreme Court ruling are "anti-religious." In New York, delegates to a one- day convention of the metropolitan section of the Protestant Episcopal Church here, representing 136,000 members of the denomination, Feuerstein suggested a mo- voted to oppose draft amendments to the U.S. Constitution, now pend- ment of prayer for each child ing in the House of Representa- by means of a card on which a prayer could be recorded. He tives, which would void the Su- Most of Michigan's unemployment said that children who preferred preme Court's decisions banning insurance programs were establish- not to pray need not to do so. prayers and Bible-reading in public ed as a result of the Social Secur- Dr. Eisendrath said that a bill schools. Leaders of the convention ity Act of 1935. like the one now pending, if said that the 900 delegates defeat- adopted, would "earn for this ed "by a wide margin" a resolution upholding adoption of the consti- Congress the oppropritun of his- Hebrew Corner tutional amendments. tory.' A University of Michigan legal Rev. Norman Temme of New expert expressed opposition to pro- York, speaking for 2,500,00 mem- posed constitutional amendments Petach Tikva justly won the name I "Mother of the Colonies." When it was ' bers of the Lutheran Church-Mis- dealing with prayer and Bible-read- founded a new period was opened in souri Synod told the House Judici- ing practices in public schools. the history of our nation and that of Eretz Israel — the period of agricultural ary Committee that "the sure road Prof. Paul G. Kauper of the settlement. Indeed, individual Jews toward secularism' would be "by U-M Law School, in testimony made previous experiments in agricul- tural settlement. However, Petach Tikva way of prescribed public religion." before the Judiciary Committee is crowned "the first" because it was Appearing in opposition to the va- of the House of Representatives the first successful experiment and the first actual expression of centuries of riety of proposed constitutional in Washington, w a r n e d that longing to resettle agriculturally in amendments which would void the p r a .y e r s or Bible - reading in Israel. Till the settling in Petach Tikva the U.S. Supreme Court ban on pray- schools when supported by 'the Jews hesitated to leave the Jewish ers and Bible reading in the pub- compulsory power of the state, Quarter of the old City in Jerusalem lic schools, he said: "We believe and settle outside of the walls because contribute little to the develop- they saw it dangerous. Here they got that this proposed legislation would ment of any genuine religious up one day. travelled far away and settled amongst Arab farmers. The prove to be destructive of our piety or ethical conduct and may Mother Colony loneliness, hunger and lack of essential things did not keep the settlers back. One of the women in those days applied to the Rabbinate for a divorce because her husband is not mentally well, for he went out into the wilderness . . . After the first experiment to settle, the Petach Tikva Colony was abandoned on account of the floods and malaria, A TRENTON, N.J. (JTA)—An ef- year and a half later the settlers re- turned. fort by a local school board to Despite the many crises. Petach Tikva was successful during the eight years bypass the U.S. Supreme Court's of its existence to be outstanding not ban on school prayers was re- only in its firstness but also as a settle- ment center and an example for other buffed by the State Supreme Court colonies. in a ruling with statewide effect. Petach Tikva is not only the "Mother Colony," but also the mother of the i The state law required reading labor movement in Eretz Israel and the of five verses of the Old Testa- center of the Second Aliyah. ment and allowed the reading, out Translation of Hebrew Column. Published by Brit Tvrit Olamit, Jerusalem New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Against Prayers in State's Schools 1 1ZP ;":1 ft 77 nit kit7 nbnvi, n;i-17 111,14 •trptp'nnri nN rrriprj min:1 nryik.q 7t14y: t310 F1 mx7=,7ij7 nnzin 7t-t my irxtp ',TO? 71.7)7 um'? l2i`fl N171"1 / 1 . 0 tiV724 ninrirtri 'me? n;tzlinr; ritrjr .,7 nit Z? rci.p1D - rinp 44r72 Ntti ntlp •irrypir rT 14' .? )1 T.r) -4;:t ninpL7 1V74 rQ.17.r:1- rinP tit-Tr'? 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Stiles ruled immediately that the state law allowing such prayers was unconstitutional. Rabbi Avigdor Cyperstein, dean of Talmudical studies at Yeshiva Uni- versity and head of Mifal Hatorah in Israel, who is national vice- p r e s i d e n t of Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi, will be the guest of local Mizrachi, and will speak at 9:15 p.m., May 30, at Young Israel of Northwest. He will discuss problems relating to religious affairs in the U.S. and Israel and on issues revolving around Jewish educational needs. The public is invited. Refresh- ments will be served. Beth Yehudah to Honor Leader Back From Israel Cong. Beth Yehudah will hold a testimonial d inn e r f or Meyer Levin, president, and Mrs. Levin, 6 p.m. Wednesday, at Oak Manor Catering. The event marks the oc- casion of their return from a visit in Israel. A musical program and enter- tainment have been prepared. For reservations, call Harold Platt, vice-president, UN 2-9525. 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