JNF'S Annual Dinner June 16 to Pay Honor
to Bernard Isaacs' Cultural and Zionist Labors

Bernard Isaacs, one of world
Jewry's most eminent Hebrew
scholars and educators, has been
selected as the honoree at the an-
nual dinner of the Jewish National
Fund Council of Detroit, to be held
at the Shaarey Zedek on June 16.

The JNF's objective is to plant
an Isaacs Forest in Israel, as
part of the larger John F. Ken-
nedy Forest being planted
through JNF by American Jewry.

Announcing the selection, Dr.
Israel Wiener, president of the
JNF Council, said that the choice
was made in appreciation of Mr.
Isaacs' lifetime of service to the
Zionist cause, his devotion to the
Jewish National Fund, his interest
in learning and his literary con-
tributions.
Details about the dinner and the
committees that will arrange the
event will be announced in the
coming weeks.

Mr. Isaacs, who was superin-
tendent of the United Hebrew
Schools of Detroit from 1919 to

toren, Hadoar, Gilyonoth, Shevi-
ley Hachinuch, the local Hed Ha-
Kvutzah and others.
His collections of short stories
include: "Bein Shnei Olomoth,"
published by Histadrutz Ivrith of
America in 1949; "Amos Mocher
Tapizim," published in Israel in
1953, and "Choter Migeza," pub-
lished in Israel in 1960.
Writing in the Israel daily He-
brew newspaper Yedioth Achro-
noth in July, 1958, the eminent He-
brew author, Gershon Schofman,
who also is one of Israel's best
known short story writers, said
about Mr. Isaacs as a comment on
his "Bein Shnei Olomoth" ("Be-
tween Two Worlds") and "Amos
Mocher Tapuzim" ("Amos Sells
Oranges"):
"Aside from his excellent belle-
tristic the author depicts American
Jewish life in a most realistic
fashion.
"I refer to his stories 'In the

White Mountains,' The Windows,'
`She Did Not Come' and many
others, and I wish to call your
particular attention to his story,
`Amos Sells Oranges,' where he de-
scribes a remarkable Jewish type.
"In the last scene which takes
place in Izzy's fruit store, Mrs. Cal-
lahan, in tears, talks to Izzy of her
husband's cruelty and drunken-
ness, and said 'there isn't one cent
in the house for food.' Izzy is fill-
ing her bag with food while quot-
ing the Bible and telling her to
`cast her burden upon God and He
will sustain her.'
"A neighboring minister, who
was seated at the time in a corner
of the store apparently reading
his newspaper, stood up suddenly
and said: 'Do you know who sold
you the food? Amos, the ancient
Prophet of Israel.'
"Yes, this is a remarkably stir-
ring scene. Isaacs knows the secret
of writing."

When All Else Fails — Call Names

BY SAUL CARSON

(JTA Correspondent at the UN)
(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—
When a suave diplomat uses the
word "lies" in rejecting charges
made against his government at an
official session of a United Na-
tions body—the offense is serious.
At the session of the UN Human
Rights Commission, in Geneva, last
week, the chief representative for
the Soviet Union threw the word
"lies" against an associate justice
of Israel's Supreme Court.
The Russian, Yevgeny Naninov-
sky, was very angry with Israel's
Supreme Court Justice Haim
Cohen, who had dared accuse the
Soviet Union of practicing anti-
Semitism in the field of religion.
Mr. Nassinovsky was not repri-
manded for the use of that ugly
word. But while his resort to
epithet went unchallenged, the
facts adduced by the Israeli stood
boldly without denial.
The argument took place in the
context of the commission's debate
of a draft convention calling for

the elimination of all forms of re-
ligious intolerance. Russia, insist-
ing that a) no such convention is
needed and b) if one is adopted,
it should protect atheists as well
as "believers," has been fighting,
stalling and obstructing that draft
convention for years. What Rus-
sia fears is that, once such a con-
vention is adopted—and all signs
point to its ultimate passage—the
USSR will face a genuine dilemma.
If it ratifies the convention, the
Soviet Jews, whose religious rights
are almost totally denied in prac-
tice, will have an international
treaty backing their claims to equal
rights. If the USSR fails to ratify
—what happens to its repeated
claims that "all" religions are free-
ly permitted to practice their rites
in the USSR without hindrance or
discrimination?
It is because of that dilemma
that Nassinovsky showed so much
anger at the Israeli Supreme Court
justice. Since the facts spelled out
by Cohen were, indeed, the truth
—the easiest course indicated
name-calling as the sole defense.

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EIGHTH YEAR

Beginning September, 1965

In the modern classrooms of the

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BERNARD ISAACS

1955, is known in the world of
Hebrew letters as a pedagogue
and as the author of numerous
essays and several books. He has
gained wide recognition as a
short story writer.

Born Dec. 20, 1884, in Pilvishki,
Lithuania, he acquired his Jewish
education in his community's heder
and in the yeshivah. He came to
the United States in 1904, took a
general science course in Cooper
Union, New York, and was grad-
uated with a B.S. degree in 1911.
He also studied literature in But-
ler College, Indianapolis, Ind.
Until 1912 he taught at the. Up-
town Talmud Torah in New York.
From 1912 to 1915 he was an in-
structor in the United Hebrew
Schools in Indianapolis and from
1915 to 1919, until his association
with the Detroit schools, he was
superintendent of the Indianapolis
Hebrew school system.
He has been a member of the
National Council for Jewish Edu-
cation since its inception, a mem-
ber of the Hebrew Authors' P. E. N.
Club, Zionist Organization and the
Hebrew Cultural Society of Detroit.

Mr. Isaacs' numerous publish-
ed works include "Hasefer Hori-
shon" (First Modern Hebrew
Reader, published by Bloch in
1911); "Mikeren Zavith," written
in collaboration with Aaron D.
Markson in 1921; and "Kithvey
Aaron D. Markson," produced in
collaboration with Daniel Persky
and published in 1938.
Author of many short stories

dealing with Jewish life in Amer-
ica, Mr: Isaacs' narratives appear-
ed in the Hebrew periodicals Ha-

From Passover Haggadah

Not one man alone has risen up
against us to destroy us, but in
every generation there rise up
against us those who seek to de-
stroy us; but the Holy One,
Blessed be He, delivers us from
their hands.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, April 16, 1965

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HILLEL DAY SCHOOL'S ANNUAL FOUNDERS DAY DINNER
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23 AT 6:30 P.M.