Baruch Litvin Is Honored for Service N.Y. Hassidic Croups Mobilize Defense Against Assaults (Direct JTA Teletype Wire Police officials acknowledged additional police personnel, the to Torah Judaism/ by Yeshiva U. to The Jewish News) NEW YORK — The Hassidic that the crime rate had increased Hassidic Jews of Crown Heights auma and other orthodox Jewish resi- in the area but said that it was are still "prisoners at night in their Yeshiva University's Community Service Division, at its National Synagogue Leadership Conference in Long Beach, N.Y., last week honored Baruch Litvin, left. of 57 Lodewyck, Mount Clemens, for dedicated and meritorious service to Torah Judaism and the Ameri- can Jewish community. Proceeding (from the left), are Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva University; Ludwig Jesselson, chairman of the conference and a member of the board of trustees of Yeshiva University, and Mrs. Litvin. Baruch Litvin's Compilation of Replies to David Ben-Gu•ion's Inquiry `Who Is a Jew?' Due in September Ben-Gurion first posed the ques- The widely discussed issue of "Who is a Jew? in Israel," as tion in his letter four years ago— it was propounded by the former on the 13th day of Heshvan. Of Israel Prime Minister, David Ben- the 45 responses received, only Gurion, who also posed the question one refused to give permission to in a series of letters to the world's have his statement included in most distinguished Jewish schol- Litvin's book. Of the 45, 32 of the ars, will be published in English replies were in Hebrew. Several translations in September. of the correspondents prepared Baruch Litvin, nationally pro- their own English translation of minent Orthodox Jew who became this volume. famous in the Mount Clemens Credit is given to Sir Leon "Mehitza" case he took as high as Simon of London and Arthur the Michigan State Supreme Court Lourie, Israel's Ambassador to the to protect the principle of separat- Court of St. James, as having ing men from the women in syna- been helpful in securing permis- gogue services, has just completed sion for the publication of the three years' labors of gathering letters. the manuscripts, securing each The foreword was written by correspondent's permission for use Prof. Hoenig and a prologue by of his reply to Ben-Gurion and Dr. Immanuel Jacobovitz. completing arrangements for a Among the scholars whose re- publisher. sponses to Ben-Burion are includ- Shengold Publishers of New ed in this volume are the late York will issue Litvin's book under Chief Rabbi Itzhak Herzog, the late the title Jewish Identity." Dr. Rabbi Y. L. Maimon, Col Solomon " Sidney B. Hoening of Yeshiva University collaborated with him Goren, Israel Supreme Court Justice Moshe Silberg, Justice in arranging the book for publica- Haim Cohen, Dr. Joseph Soloveit- Lion. chik, the Lubavitcher Rebbe Mena- hem Schneerson, Dr. Louis Finkel- stein, Dr. Solomon Freehof, the late Prof. Yeheskel Kaufman, Prof. Hugo Samuel Bergmann, Prof. Ernest Simon, Prof. Harry A. Wolfson, Prof. Saul Lieberman, Prof. Abraham Heschel, Dr. Mor- decai M. Kaplan, Sir Leon Simon, Y. Agnon, and other noted scholars. 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Rabbi Samuel Schrage, admini- strator of the United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth, who organized the all- night patrols, said that about 120 Orthodox men had volunteered to man the radio cars which cover the area from sunset to dawn every night except Friday night. He said that non-Jewish volun- teers, 12 white persons and eight Negroes, have volunteered to man the patrols on Friday nights. The radio patrols, according to Rabbi Schrage, have been instru- mental in three arrests since the system was set up last week. The cars, which are equipped with two- way radios furnished by a taxi company, are in constant communi- cation with a headquarters set up by the group in a vacant store. also true of other areas. homes, fearing to go out. They said that "extra police" had been assigned to the area in the wake of the numerous attacks directed at Hassidic Jews. They also offered to cooperate with the radio patrols. The Brooklyn Jewish Community Council, representing 800 organiza- tions in the borough, has demanded improved police protection. In a letter to Mayor Robert F. Wagner and Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy, Supreme Court Justice Emil N. Barr, acting president of ASK FOR the Council, said that in spite of "Morrie FENCE Young Israel Installation A joint installation of officers of the synagogue and sisterhood of Young Israel of Northwest De- troit will be held Tuesday, 8:30 p.m., at the synagogue. Mrs. Harry R. Bodzin will be the installing of- ficer. Refreshments will be served. 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