Festival '66 Opens Wednesday

Wayne State President, Johnson Aide
to Join Karl Haas at Ceremonies

Roger Stevens, special assistant '
on the arts to President Johnson;
Dr. William Rea Keast, president
of Wayne State University; and
Karl Haas, chairman of the Michi-

JES Enlarges
Group for Bible
Translation

Sol Satinsky, president of the
Jewish Publication Society of Am-
erica, announces that the society
has expanded its Bible translation
committee through the addition of
three young American Jewish
scholars and two rabbis. The three
scholars are Prof. Moshe Green-
berg, of the University of Pennsyl-
vania; Prof. Jonas C. Greenfield,
University of California, Berkeley;
and Prof. Nahum M. Swim, Bran-
deis University. The rabbis are
Saul Leeman, of Cranston, R.I.,
and Martin S. Rozenberg, of Port
Washington, N.Y.
The new group has been as-
signed the responsibility of trans-
lating the Ketubim (Writings),
while the original group, which
consists of Prof. H. L. Ginsberg,
editor-in-chief of the Nebi'im
(Prophets), Prof. Harry M. Orlin-
sky, who was editor-in-chief of the
Torah, and Rabbis Max Arzt, Bern-
ard J. B a m b e r g e r and Harry
Freedman, will continue with the
translation of the Nebi'im.
Dr. Solomon Grayzel, editor of
the society, will continue as secre-
tary of the Nebi'im translation
committee. Dr. Chaim Potok, asso-
ciate editor of the society, will
serve as secretary of the Ketubim
Committee.
The JPS published the Torah in
1963 as the first work in the new
translation series. Next scheduled
for publication, in 1967, is the
Torah with Haftarot and Megillot
in Hebrew and English.

Swiss Jews to Observe
Emancipation Year

GENEVA (JTA) — The Swiss
Federation of Jewish Communities
announced plans here Tuesday for
the celebration during the current
year of the 100th anniversary of
the official emancipation of the
Jews of Switzerland.
It was in January 1860 that the
Swiss people voted in a referen-
dum to abolish the requirement in
federal legislation and jurisprud-
ence that Swiss citizens belong to
the Christian faith. This constitu-
tional change, however, only sanc-
tioned individual rights of Jews.
The acknowledgement of Jewry as
a religious community and the
right of freedom of worship for
non-Christians were recognized in
1874.
In 1893, the Jewish community
suffered a setback with the in-
troduction after a referendum of a
ban on shehita, or Jewish ritual
slaughter, a measure regarded by
Swiss Jews as discriminatory. The
Swiss Federation of Jewish com-
munities will dedicate its annual
assembly in Zurich next May to
the centenary of Jewish emancipa-
tion in Switzerland.

gan Council on the Arts, will key-
note the opening of the Jewish
Center's Festival '66 8 p.m.
Wednesday in the Center's Aaron
DeRoy Theater.
Ceremonies opening the month-
long art exhibition in the center's
lobby and Allen Lounge will fol-
low. Refreshments will be served.
The center invites the entire com-
munity to attend' at no admission
charge.
Stevens, Dr. Keast and Haas
will each speak briefly on the

Nearly 20 other center volun-
Kavafian, teen-age violinists, will
teers have been working since last
be the soloists.
Winding up the first weekend spring on Festival '66.
Steering committees for Festiv
of Festival will be an 8 p.m can-
torial concert Jan. 30. The pro- include:
gram, "Gems of Our Tradition,"
Dance — Mrs. Reuven Franke ,
will feature 15 prominent cantors chairman, and Mrs. Thomas Kra-
of the Detroit area.
mer; Drama—Joseph Nederlander,
Tickets for all Festival events chairman, Mrs. Edward E. Levine,
are available at the center, DI Mrs. Harold Orbach and Mrs. Sid-
ney J. Winer; Fine Arts Mrs.
1-4200.
Lester S. Burton is general Marcus Fordon, chairman, Mrs.
chairman of the cultural arts Lester Burton, Mrs. Sherwin David-.
program. A long-time active son, Dr. Irving Burton, Louis Red-
Center volunteer, Burton also stone and Max Shaye; Music —
served as general chairman of Cantor Harold Orbach, Mrs. Alan
past year's Winter Cultural Arts Berlin and Mrs.. Albert Silber; and
Publicity — Rudy Simons, chair-
Festival.
man, and Jack Malamud.
Festival '66 has a much expand-
ed program, to continue through
March 1.
WHEN YOU Ric A COCKTAIL
Honorary chairman of Festival
'66 is internationally noted sculp-
George Maislen, past president, tor-artist Jacques Lipchitz. Several
pieces of Mr. Lipchitz' work will
United Synagogue of America.
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Also Max J. Routtenberg, presi- be on display at the center
dent of the Rabbinical Assembly; throughout the Festival.
Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein, presi-
dent, Central Conference of Amer-
ican Rabbis; Mrs. Joseph Willen,
president, National Council of Jew-
ish Women; Jacob Blaustein, hon-
orary president, American Jewish
Committee; Milton Waldor, na-
tional commander, Jewish War
Veterans of the U.S.A.; and Rabbi
Joachim Prinz, president, Amer-
ican Jewish Congress; as well as
Stern and Rabbi Cohen.
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role of the arts in their respec-
tive fields. Haas will represent
Gov. George Romney at the
program.
The dance sequence of Festival
'66 will open 8:30 p.m. Jan. 29,
with "The Village I Knew," a
panorama of the shtetl in song and
dance, choreographed by Sophie
Maslow. An abbreviated version of
the program will be held for chil-
dren 10:15 a.m. Jan. 30.
A family concert, with Julius
Chajes conducting the Center Sym-
phony Orchestra, is also slated for
Jan. 30, at 2:30 p.m.
Gordon Goodman, 16 - year - old
pianist, Sheila Fiekowsky and Ida

Top-Level Committee of All Faiths
Maps Interreligious War on Poverty

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jew-
ish, Protestant and Catholic groups
Tuesday formally established a
united front in the war against
poverty by forming an Interreli-
gious Committee Against Poverty
at a closed meeting here attended
by top-level leaders.
Joining in the creation of the 45-
member committee were the Syna-
gogue Council of America in co-
operation with other Jewish
groups, the National Council of
Churches and the National Catholic
Welfare Conference.
Louis Stern of Essex County,
N. J., past president of the Council
of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds; and Rabbi Seymour Cohen
of Chicago, president of the Syna-
gogue Council of America, are
among the co-chairmen of the com-
mittee. They said combined ef-
forts of both voluntary and gov-
ernmental agencies are required
to help eradicate poverty which
they called "morally indefensible
amid our national affluence."
The committee will not be a pro-
gramming agency but will en-
courage, evaluation and coordi-
nate efforts in the anti-poverty
war, Stern and Rabbi Cohen
declared. The Synagogue Coun-
cil of America and cooperating
Jewish bodies represent the
organized Jewish community's
coordinated anti-poverty pro-
gram. Jewish -groups have been
extremely active in community
action programs against poverty
since the Economic Opportunity
Act was passed in 1964. The
committee will meet at regular
intervals and will have head-
quarters here.
Leaders serving on the commit-
tee include Moses I. Feuerstein,
president of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations; Rabbi Mau-
rice N. Eisendrath, president,
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations; Aaron Goldman, Na-
tional Community Relations Ad-
visory Council; Philip Klutznick,
former president of Bnai Brith;
Rabbi Israel Miller, president, Rab-
binical Council of America; and

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Israel's New Ambassador
to Paraguay Takes Post

ASUNCION, Paraguay (JTA) —
Moshe Alan, Israel's new ambassa-
dor to this country, presented his
official letters of credence Mon-
day to Gen. Alfredo Stroesser,
president of ParagUay.
He was accorded the traditional
honors given to a newly accredit-
ed envoy, reviewing a military for-
mation and being greeted by a
military band playing the national
Don't Go Now—Pay Later
Shortchange your education anthems of Israel and Paraguay.
now and you may be short of He was accompanied during the
change the rest of your life.—The ceremony by Aryeh Shefer, Isra-
el's economic attache to Buenos
Thomaston (Ga.) Free Press.
Aires; and by Banjamin Sapira,
Israel's honorary consul-general
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
here.
8—Friday, January 21, 1966

No one undersells

HARRY ABRAM.

Reform Rabbis
Teach Germans
About Judaism

NEW YORK (JTA) —At the in-
vitation of the State Ministries
of Education of West Germany,
American Reform Rabbis are being
sent this summer to the Federal
Republic to teach students and
teachers-in-training about Juda-
ism, the Jewish people and the
holocaust, it was announced here
Monday by Rabbi Maurice N.
Eisendrath, president of. the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions.
"There exists in Germany today
a virtual vacuum on any informa-
tion on Judaism, other than its
victimization in the Nazi era,"
Rabbi Eisendrath said. "There can-
not be anything but a warped view
of Jews and Judaism, if the only
Contact with them is either to read
of the tragedy, or of the lingering
bitterness which one imagines be-
sets the Jewish people in relation
to Gerinany and the German peo-
ple."
The program has received the
endorsement of the boards repre-
senting the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, the Cen-
tral Conference of American
Rabbis and the Jewish Chaut-
auqua Society — an arm of the
National Feder _ ation of Temple
Brotherhoods.
Plans for the project were out-
lined at a news conference by
Rabbi Balfour Brickner, director
of the Commission on Interfaith
Activities of Reform Judaism; and
Rabbi Joseph Asher, Greensboro,
NC, who proposed the project
after a return visit in 1964 to Ger-
many, from which he fled in 1936.
Rabbi Brickner said in June and
July of this year, at a time when
the German academic year comes
to a conclusion, 10 to 15 Reform
rabbis will be sent for a two-week
stay to West Germany to lecture
in the gymnasiums to students on
Jewish history, theology and reli-
gious practices. They would lecture
in German and English and meet
with smaller student groups to
allow for greater personal contact
and discussions.

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