Plan Barbour Testimonial Dinner

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Planning the testimonial dinner which will honor Al Barbour,
president of the Wayne County AFL-CIO Council, are (from left)
seated, Emil Mazey, secretary-treasurer of the UAW, and William C.
Marshall, executive vice president of the Michigan State AFL-CIO;
standing, George Merrelli, co-director of Region 1, UAW; Louis E.
Levitan, Detroit Israel Bond Director; Alex Fuller, vice president
of the Wayne County AFL-CIO Council; and Isaac Litwak, presi-
dent of Laundry Drivers Local 285 of the International Brotherhood
of Teamsters. The Al Barbour Testimonial Dinner on May 13, in the
Veterans Memorial Bldg., will be under auspices of the Israel Bond
Trade Union Division.

Synthesis of Sacred, Secular Studies
Stressed at Akiva School Celebration

Dr. William F. Brickman, pro-
fessor of educational history and
comparative education in the Grad-
uate School of the University of
Pennsylvania, speaking at the first
anniversary celebration of the
founding of the Akiva Day School
here, Monday night, at the Labor
Zionist Institute, strongly urged
emphasis cm day school in Jewish
educational planning and declared
that "combined sacred and secular
studies" are vital to Jewish and ,
American democracy.
"The Day School is an American
institution which has richly con-
tributed to American life," Dr.
Brickman declared. He said that
the Jewish parochial school is older
than the American public school
system. Tracing the history of Jew-
ish educational efforts he pointed
to the founding of the first Jewish
day school in 1731. and described
the development of Jewish educa-
tional efforts- in this country.
Proper understanding of Amer-
ican ideals and the American
heritage will show that there is a
deep respect for adherence to
Jewish observances, Dr. Brock-
man said.
He was critical of those who
now oppose the pending bill to
provide federal aid to education
and he declared that the Jewish
religious school, the Day School
system, is the only guarantee there
is for the survival of Yiddishkeit
in America.
Reporting on his visit to the
Ankiva school classes, Dr. Brick-
man said he was impressed to find
that children who had studied
there for less than a year are now
able to converse in Hebrew. He
asserted that Day Schools are "un-
derestimated and underfinanced."
The Day School, he said, provides
a synthesis for an excellent sys-
tem of Jewish religious education
combined with secular studies.
Himself a product of yeshiva
studies, Dr. Brickman, who was
welcomed to Detroit by Wayne
State University representatives,
reviewed in his address the vari-
ous stages of Jewish cultural de-
velopments and described the
emphasis on learning linked with
secular knowledge in the eras of
Maimonides, Rashi and . others.
Dr. Brickman's address to a
gathering of nearly 200. was pre-
ceded by a dinner for a select
group of Akiva supporters to mark
the first anniversary of the found-
ing of the school which now has
seven
for
conducted classes
months.
Akiva Day School, Rabbi Donin
pointed out, has received the
wholehearted support of Mizrachi
and began to function with a
stipend from the Jewish Agency.
He expressed hope for assistance

from the organized Jewish com-
munity. Reporting on a student
body of close to 100, Rabbi Donin
said he anticipated a 50 per cent
increase next year. He said the
school has a budget of $75,000 a
year, of which $30,000 is received
in tuition fees and the balance
must come from private contribu-
tors.
Philip Stollman, in a brief ad-
dress, said education is the major
world a n d Jewish problem
and he admonished the gathering
that Akiva School is not com-
peting with other schools. He
declared: "Akiva can be a bridge
that can unite all shades of opin-
ion in our community."
Rabbi James I. Gordon expressed
gratitude to the dedicated group
of workers whose efforts in behalf
of Akiva school set "a wonderful
example of work for proper hinuch
(education)."
Ittamar Koenigsberg, president
of the school board, greeted the
gathering. Rabbi Manfred Pick,
principal of the school, spoke
about "the true meaning of the
merger of American and Jewish
educational aims." The benshen
after the dinner was led by Zvi
Tomkiewicz.

Vatican Revises
Prayer for Jews
on Good Friday

VATICAN CITY—The traditional
Good Friday solemn prayer for
the Jews will have some changes
when it is recited in Catholic
churches April 16.
The prayer formerly entitled
"For the Conversion of the JeWs"
is now simply "For the Jews." This
change marks the fourth provided
for by the Holy See in less than
two decades, according to the
Catholic News Service.
In 1948, the translation of the
term "perfidis Iudaeis" as "per-
fidious Jews" was changed to
mean "unbelieving" or "disbe-
lieving."
Later Pope John XXIII ordered
the elimination of the word "per-
fidis" - entirely from the prayer.
The new version, "For the
Jews," asks God to "make His
countenance shine upon them" so
the Jews may recognize Jesus as
redeemer. It continues: "Almighty
and everlasting God, who made
your promise to Abraham and to
his descendents, heed in your good-
ness the prayer of your church,
that what was once your chosen
people may reach fulness of re-
demption. Amen."

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
38—Friday, April 2, 1965

Catholic Texts Undergo Study in Italy; AJC Mission Sees Pope

ROME (JTA) — Pioneer pilot intergroup attitudes, they de-
studies on how Catholic religious Glared.
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teaching presents Judaism, Prot-
estantism and other non-Catholic U.S. Clergymen Urged
religions are already well under
way in Italy and soon will be ini- to Combat Anti-Semitism
CHICAGO (JTA) — The direct-
tiated in other European lands as
well, a mission of 50 American or of a survey which found that a
Jewish Committee leaders from majority of Christian respondents
20 cities in the United States was held Jews "most responsible" for
informed here. The members of the crucifixion of Jesus, urged
the mission were received March Catholic and Protestant clergy-
men to take a more active role in
24 by Pope Paul VI.
the fight against anti-Semitism.
Carrying out the pilot studies is
Dr. Charles Y. Glock, director
the Leonard M. Sperry Center for of the Survey Research Center of
Intergroup Cooperation, estab- the University of California, made
lished in Rome last year with the the report and offered his proposal
personal benediction and approval at a meeting of 38 clergymen and
of Pope Paul VI. The joint Catho- educators at Loyola University, a
lic-Jewish Sperry Center, at the
International University for Social
Studies "Pro Deo" in Rome, was
VOTE MON.. APRIL 5
set up to analyze and combat
prejudice in religious teaching.
Sociologists and qualified reli-
gious advisers currently are ex-
amining some 200 texts widely
used in Italian state schools at
every level from elementary
classes to teacher - training
courses, in private Catholic in-
stitutions, and by the branches
of Catholic Action in their sem-
inars, the American Jewish
Committee mission was told at
the Center.
Attitudes expressed toward vari-
ous ethnic groups are being stud-
ied concurrently with the views
set out about non-Catholic reli-
gions.
Following text investigation,
Center researchers will be doing
field work to learn how the texts
actually are used in teaching and
to see how teachers interpret
them to students in class-room
situations, Center officials said.
Researchers are examining the
Italian texts not only to see wheth-
er they incorporate negative reli-
gious and ethnic stereotypes about
non-Catholic religions — like the
charge that Jews are an "ac-
cursed" or a "deicide" people—
but also to what extent they strive
to inculcate positive interfaith and
Catholic school.

The survey was a study of the
views of 5,100 church-going
Christians in the San Francisco
Bay area. Dr. Glock reported
that 58 per cent identified the
Jews as a group with the great-
est responsibility for the cruci-
fixion.
He told the participants that the
findings suggested that "Christian
leadership, Protestant and Cath-
olic, must more actively under-
take the mission of rectifying the
centuries-old injustice of anti-
Semitism" stemming from the
deicide charge against the Jewish
people. He said this "notion" was
"still distressingly alive and a
critical factor in perpetuating
anti-Semitic prejudice."

DAVID H.

WEISBERG

FOR OAK PARK COUNCIL

LAWYERS FOR

REID & COSTELLO

We heartily recommend the re-election of

CLARENCE A. REID, JR.

THOMAS M. COSTELLO

Moscow Jews Seek Right
of Burial in Jewish Cemetery

MONTREAL (JTA) — The
Canadian Jewish Congress made
public an appeal received from a
Jew in Moscow asking Jews
abroad to intervene with the So-
viet authorities for the restoration
of the Jewish cemetery in Moscow.
The appeal pointed out that for
the last two years Jewish dead
in Moscow are being buried in the
same cemetery as non-Jews and
that all efforts by the rabbi of
Moscow and members of the syn-
agogue board there to change the
situation have been to no avail.

For MUNICIPAL and ASSOCIATE MUNICIPAL JUDGES
FOR THE CITY OF SOUTHFIELD ON APRIL 5, 1965

JAMES HUDNUT

DONALD F. WELDAY, JR.

ALBERT A. GOLDFARB

ARTHUR H. BICHAN

SEYMOUR F. POSNER

S. LAWRENCE STEIN

FRANK SCHWARTZ

STANLEY E. WISE

JACK SCHON

MONIS SCHUSTER

ALVIN LEVINE
E. BARRY STULBERG
DAVID ANSENDER

DETRO ► TER'S PREFER O'HAIR!

ELECT

JOHN B. O'HAIR

JUDGE OF COMMON PLEAS COURT

VOTE MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1965

BALLOT NUMBER (14) NON-PARTISAN

The undersigned support the candidacy of John D. O'Hair
for Judge of Common Pleas Court, City of Detroit, and
recommend his election:

Common Pleas Court is the court
of last resort for the average man.
John D. O'Hair has had direct ex-
perience in Common Pleas Court
as an attorney. He has a three-
point plan to effect needed im-
provements in the court system.
The court requires a judge who
can administer justice with special
care. He must have intelligence,
experience and common sense.
This is John D. O'Hair.

Joseph J. Berke, M.D.
Lee B. Brody
Richard S. Brody
Nelson S. Chase
Sidney L. Cohen
Alvin B. Gendelman
Nathaniel Goldstick
Jerry Halpern
Milton M. Howard
John C. Hupp, Jr.
Morey L. Jacobs

Irving F. Keene
Samuel B. Keene
Max Osnos
Philip Dennis Rands
N. H. Schlafer, M.D.
Herman J. Schwartz
Stanley Schwartz
Walter Shapero
Donald Sucher
Cyril Wagner
Milton N. Zussman

"Preferred" by Civic Searchlight

