N.Y. Rabbi Charges Missionary Group Mixed Marriages and Assimilation on Agenda of CCAR
and related problems so that solu- with parents and for rabbis serv-
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Tried to Influence Jewish Boy at Fair represents
to be essential to Jewish tions can be found to meet the ing as counselors."
NEW YORK — A Long Island
rabbi charged that a staff member
of a Christian missionary group
which has an exhibit at the World's
Fair "covertly': sought to influence
the beliefs of a 12-year-old Jewish
boy after spiriting him away from
his classmates and mother.
Fair offiicals demanded a writ-
\ ,--,,ten report from the owners of the
I ] 'la11 of Education Pavilion after
Rabbi Alvin M. Poplack of the
Bellerose Jewish Center had made
the charge against a pavilion con-
cessionaire, the American Board
of Missions to the Jews, Inc.
Rabbi Poplack questioned the
right of the Board of Missions
to maintain an exhibit at the
fair and demanded "dismissal"
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of the staff members.
The boy, Fred Hoishman of
Glen Oaks, L.I., visited the Hall
of Education May 31 with 80 other
members of the Jewish Center's
religious school graduating class.
The boy's mother also was pres-
ent.
In the letter of protest to Fair
President Robert Moses, Rabbi
Poplack said the boy and his
mother chatted with officials of
the mission board, under the mis-
apprehension that they were talk-
/ ing with Jews.
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A Baptist minister in charge of salvation," Rabbi Feuer noted.
the exhibit took the boy to the
Billy Graham pavilion to see a
film, and, the rabbi wrote:
"Fred told his mother that he
had asked Rev. (Burl) Haynie on
the way back: 'Does this mean I
have been converted? and Rev.
Haynie answered: 'No, but you are
nearer to our Lord Jesus Christ'."
The boy also said the minister
bought him ice cream.
Rev. Haynie said he was un-
aware Mrs. Hoishman was
searching frantically for her son
He warned that "unless the
American Jewry can be made to
grasp this basic truth that a change
of emphasis is needed, all of the
motivations for the support of an-
cillary programs, indeed for sur-
vival altogether, will vanish in a
few generations," stressing that
"we shall not even have to be con-
cerned about mixed marriage."
Dr. Feuer also called for special
funds to study and combat the
growing crises of mixed marriages
and did not even know she and
the boy's classmates were at the
fair. He apologized for the in-
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Thirty-one
graduates were awarded Hebrew
teachers' diplomas by the Herzliah
Hebrew Teachers Institute at com-
mencement exercises here. This
was the largest graduating class in
the 43 years since the Institute
was founded. In addition eight stu-
dents were graduated from the
increasing threat of Jewish assimi-
lation in the American community.
"We have all been deeply trou-
bled by the problem of mixed mar-
riages," Rabbi Feuer said, but he
stated that he emphatically rejected
a "gloomy forecast."
"Nonetheless," he felt that "we
share with the overwhelming ma-
jority of our fellow Jews of various
shades of opinion in theological
and ritual matters the firm belief
that the preservation of the people
of Israel is essential to that of the
faith of Israel. Whatever threatens
the continuity of that peoplehood
represents for us a mortal spiritual
danger."
"So important and urgently do
I regard this matter," Dr.Feuer
said, "that I have recommended
to our Committee on Mixed Mar-
riage a broadening of the scope
of its inquiry to include the pro-
jection of materials for guidance
to be used in our schools, with
our youth groups, for discussions
cident.
Rev. Haynie added that since
the incident "we have changed our
entire policy in dealing with chil-
dren. We won't even talk with
them. We just let them take the
pamphlets." He said the boy had
seemed so full of questions, "I
Herzliah High School.
was overeager to help him out."
Rabbi Poplack admitted that
Rev. Haynie had made no dis-
Strictly
Kosher
paragement of Judaism, but said
Meats and
an apology is "insufficient."
Poultry
The American Board of Missions
to Jews was established in 1894
Specializing in:
"to promulgate the Gospel of Lord
• Cartwheels
• Fresh, Cutup Chicken Parts
Jesus Christ among Jews."
• Cube Steaks
It was learned that if the inci-
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dent did take place as described
• Kosher TV Dinners
• Oven Ready Turkeys
by Rabbi Poplack, the American
• Beef Ribs
• Mock Chicken
Board of Missions to Jews conces-
• Seasoned Meat Loaf
• Seasoned Meat Balls
sion would be ordered closed.
• Veal for Scalopini
Rabbi Hillel A. Fine, Harrisburg,
Pa., chairman of the CCAR Com-
mittee on Mixed Marriage, report-
ed that his committee had sent a
questionnaire to members of the
Conference to gather and
evaluate available data, initiate
new statistical and depth studies
on various aspects of mixed mar-
riage and conversion.
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Nahum Bernstein, a lawyer and
member of the national governing
council of the American Jewish
Congress, testified in support of
two City Council resolutions call-
ing for removal of the mural.
Bernstein said passage of the
two resolutions — one intro-
duced by Councilman Joseph F.
Ruggieri, the other by Council-
men Arthur J. Katzman and
Leonard Fastenberg — would
"strengthen the hand" of Mayor
Wagner in efforts to remove the
mural.
The mural, speaks of "terror's
fierce practitioners" using their
"gains ill-got to make the desert
bloom with warriors."
"The kingdom of Jordan is ex-
ploiting its presence at the fair in
a malicious and cynical effort to
use the refugees for political pur-
poses," Bernstein declared.
"The exhibit is a libel of the
Jewish people and the state of
Israel and violates the contract
under which Jordan was given the
privilege of exhibiting at the Fair.
That contract requires Jordan to
adhere to the Fair's bylaws.
Article 16 of the bylaws bars 'the
operation of a concession or exhi-
bit which reflects upon any nation
or state.'
"The American Jewish Con-
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Meanwhile, twelve officers of
the AJ Congress, headed by Dr.
Joachim Prinz, president, went on
trial in Queens County Criminal
Court for picketing the Jordanian
Pavilion May 25. All were charged
with disorderly conduct. C. I.
Dwork, AJ Congress secretary,
also was charged with resisting
arrest.
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