Israel Fund Aids Turks' Red Cross
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Rabbi Fram Comments
on 'Pawnbroker' Review
Editor, The Jewish News:
In your "Purely Commentary"
When an outbreak of measles threatened to reach nationwide
proportions in Turkey, the Turkish Red Cross Service broadcast an
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Weizmann Institute Gets Damon Runyon Fund Gift
REHOVOT, Israel — A $14,500
check to finance cancer research
at the Weizmann Institute of Sci-
ence was presented by Maxwell
Powell, director of the Damon
4,500 Immigrants Helped
by UJA Agency
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NEW YORK—Some 4,500 Jew-
ish newcomers to the United
States were helped in settling
here in 1964 by the New York As-
sociation for New Americans, an
agency of the United Jewish Ap-
peal, it was announced by Martin
Kleinbard, president, at the agen-
cy's annual meeting.
Kleinbard was re-elected to a
second term as president.
Chile Population Study
SANTIAGO Chile (JTA) — The
first socio-demographic study of
the Jewish population of Chile
was launched here today by Prof.
Eduardo I. Rogovsky, director of
social studies of the Latin Ameri-
can office of the American Jewish
Committee's Institute for Human
Relations. The study is being spon-
sored by the American Jewish
Committee and the Zionist Federa-
tion of Chile.
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To Aid Handicapped
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The first
segment of a $5,000,000 expansion
program for the 'education and
training of mentally handicapped
children under Jewish auspices
was dedicated here when the
Maimonides Institute for Excep-
tional Children inaugurated its
new campus in suburban Far Rock-
away. The new facility is located
on an 11-acre campus.
Preventing Poverty
"Anticipate charity by prevent-
ing poverty; assist the reduced
fellow man either by a consider-
able gift, or a sum of money, or
by teaching him a trade, or by
putting him in the way of busi-
ness, so" that he may earn an
honest livelihood, and not be
forced to the dreadful alternative
of holding out his hand for
charity." — Maimonides.
t/ Ann,otincem,ents
Last Week's Winner of the
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Runyon Memorial Fund for Can-
cer Research, to Prof Shneior Lif-
son, the Institute's scientific di-
rector.
The money will support the leu-
kemia studies of Dr. Nechama
Haran-Ghera, of the institute's ex-
perimental biology department.
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Aug. 7—To Mr. and Mrs. Sher-
win Harris (Barbara Silverman),
23534 Parklawn, Oak Park, a son,
Steven Mitchell.
* * *
Aug. 6 — To Dr. and Mrs. Ken-
neth L. Shmarak (Suzanne Plot.
kin), • 19519 Cranbrook, a daugh-
ter, Marci Sloane.
* * *
Aug. 5—to Mr. and Mrs. David
Leibowitz (Sally Levine), 15314
Miller, Oak Park, a son, Bruce
Michael.
* * *
July 30—To Dr. and Mrs. Mendel
W. Ettinger (Fern LaPides), 23880
Norwood, Oak Park, a son, Steven
Leon.
* * *
July 30—To Mr. and Mrs. Alan
Odnert (Sheila Buchalter), 20308
Maplewood, Livonia, a son, Eric
Randall.
* * *
July 27—To Dr. and Mrs. Albert
H. Kaner (Pauline Heisler), 15211
Marlow, Oak Park, a son, Harvey
Scott.
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July 23—To Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Parish (Marian Kirsch), 419 Card-
well, Garden City, a son, Robert
Alan.
* * *
July 14: To Mr. and Mrs. Elliot
Rappaport (Jean Bednarsh), 23121
Webster, Oak Park, a son, Aaron
Craig.
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July 8—To Mr. and Mrs. Melvyn
Silver (Margo Sandler), 16249 Hil-
ton, Southfield, a son, Brent David.
30—Friday, August 13, 1965
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
column of the issue of July 30, you
quote the theater critic of the Dear-
born Press, Mr. James L. Lim-
bacher, who is quite evidently a
man of good will.
I am puzzled, however, by his
statement that he would like to
have certain people with obvious
prejudices against Jews see the
film "The Pawnbroker." He seems
to believe that the viewing of the
film would dispel p r e j u d i c e
against Jews.
This is astonishing since the film
presents a Jewish pawnbroker who
accumulates wealth by exploiting
the poorest of the poor, the Ne-
groes of Harlem. In the climatic
scene of the film,. this Jewish
pawnbroker exclaims: "Money is
the most important thing in life.
All I care about is money." (The
quotation is not literal, but close
enough to the original).
How the emphatic repetition of
this ancient myth that the Jew is
primarily a money-making monster
could be relied upon to cure anti-
Semitism I cannot figure out. It
may be that Mr. Limbacher, out of
the goodness of his heart, accepts
the fact that the pawnbroker was a
concentration camp survivor as a
valid excuse for his otheriwse ob-
jectionable behavior. Many fine
Christians, as well as many fine
Jews, react similarly to Shake-
speare's "Merchant of Venice."
The fact that the Jew is goaded by
brutal Christians is to them a valid
excuse for Shylock's twin passion
for money and for Christian blood.
In view of the murderous use
that Hitler was able to make of
this stereotype of the money-grub-
bing Jew, it is unforgivable for any
playwright or producer now to
place upon the stage or the screen
a typically Jewish character, who
cries either "Oh my ducats, oh my
daughter," or "the most important
thing in life is money."
Sincerely,
DR. LEON FRAM.
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Dialogue With Negroes
Urged on Integration
Editor, The Jewish News:
As a resident of the Northwest
area of Detroit, I was particularly
interested in your editorial regard-
ing problems of integration.
Many of the problems emanating
from them is behavior of indivi-
dual Negroes may indeed exist.
Whether these should be character-
ized as Negro problems 4s a moot
question and certainly open to
debate. However, I should like to
raise a problem which by your
reasoning I would call a Jewish
problem. I find shopping in the
Wyoming-Curtis and Schaefer-Sev-
en Mile areas very unpleasant be-
cause of the litter which covers
the sidewalks in front of the stores.
Apparently the shoppers are care-
less, and the storekeepers do not
abide by the city regulation which
requires them to keep their walks
clean. Litter baskets are available
from the city, shoppers can be
educated, and storekeepers should
fulfill thier responsibilities. As is.
these areas conform to the Jewish
stereo type of slovenliness.
Regarding the larger problems
of integration, I wonder whether
a dialogue with the Negro com-
munity is possible. If the influx
into the Northwest area were to
stop now, there is the possibility of
maintaining stability. If the influx
continues, the tipping point will
shortly be reached and the crea-
tion of another Negro ghetto will
be inevitable.. Some statesmanship
on all sides might result in the
example of a stable, integrated
community for the entire city.
Sincerely yours,
(MRS.) ANN PARKER
19180 Lander
Michigan is among the top ten
states in the production of 30 agri-
culture commodities.
Volume of Essays in Albright's Honor
Now Published in And-tor Paperback
Doubleday has reissued as an
Anchor Book, in paperback, the
volume published in 1961 in honor
of Prof. William Foxwell Albright
under the title "The Bible and the
Ancient Near East."
Edited by Prof. G. Ernest Wright,
the 542-page vol-
ume contains 13
essays by emi-
nent scholars.
In his fore-
word, paying
honor to Prof.
Albright, the ed-
itor declares:
"Albright's syste-
matizing con-
Albright
structions have
provided the framework within
which subsequent scholarly work
must move. Examples of this are
his archaelogical chronology of
Palestine, and his studies in the
history of Cannanite, Hebrew and
Jewish paleography."
Among the important articles
is Prof. Harry M. Orlinsky's "The
Textual Criticism of the Old
Testament."
Dr. David Noel Freedman is
the author of the essay "Old
Testament Chronology."
Prof. Samuel Noah Kramer
authorized "Sumerian Literature,
A General Survey."
The editor himself is represent-
ed by an essay on "The Archaeol-
ogy of Palestine."
Other participants in this col-
lection of essays honoring Dr. Al-
bright are Prof. John Bright,
George E. Mendelhall, William L.
Moran, Frank M. Cross, Edward
F. Campbell, Gus W. Van Beek,
Thorkild Jacobson, Thomas 0.
Lambdin, John 0. Wilson, Albrecht
Goetze.
Dr. Albright himself is repre-
sented in the appendix with his
essay, "The Role of the Canaa-
nites in the History of Civiliza-
tion."
Most interesting as an added
appendix is a bibliography of Prof.
Albright's writings which required
27 full pages of closely printed
space.
Editors Seek Re-Election
to Knesset to Avoid Jail
TEL AVIV—Due to a quirk in
Israeli legislation, the editors of a
controversial Hebrew weekly
magazine, Haola•m Hazeh, have ap-
pealed to their readers to re-elect
them to the Knesset (Parliament)
in order to save them from a
year's imprisonment, according to
the New York Times.
A new anti- defamation law, tail-
ored primarily to silence the maga-
zine from slanderous remarks
against the government, was en-
acted last month. Immune from its
jurisdiction, however, are the writ-
ings and speeches of members of
the Knesset, both on and off the
floor of the House.
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