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Rabbis' Salaries New Issue in Great Britain

BY S. J. GOLDSMITH
(JTA Correspondent in London)

(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)

LONDON — British Jews don't
seem to be able to calm down.
Hardly has the storm over the
validity of marriages performed in
Reform and Liberal synagogues
subsided, and there is a new argu-
ment raging. It is so heated that a
meeting of the council of the Unit-
ed Synagogue could not conclude
in orderly fashion. The president—
Sir Isaac Wolfson—had to adjourn
it without any decisions having
been taken because of an uproar
which prevented business to be
transacted.
The issue this time is the sal-
aries of rabbis and ministers, as
well as of other functionaries of
the United Synagogue, the largest
group of Orthodox synagogues in
the United Kingdom.
It was not the rabbis and minis-
ters who caused the uproar. They
are not members of the council
which consists of representatives
of member-synagogues, or to use a
good old term—Gabboyim. But the
rabbis and ministers do ask for
new salary scales.
A rabbi in a Grade One syna-
gogue, meaning a wealthy syna-
gogue in a Jewish area with a
large membership, is paid about
1,500 pounds sterling per annum,
which is about $4,200. Most rabbis
receive less.
Sir Isaac Wolfson is not look-
ing for cheap labor. The reason
he made no move until now in
this matter is simple: The United
Synagogue cannot afford to pay
more. He does not see where the
money would come from. One
elder of the United Synagogue
had a brillant idea; in order to
raise the salaries of rabbis the
organization needs another 25,-
000 pounds a year in income.
This is exactly the sum allocated
for the office of a new Chief Rab-
bi. Since no new Chief Rabbi is
yet available, perhaps the United
Synagogue ought to dispense
with this office, or suspend it for
a decade, and use the money to
pay the rabbis a decent salary.
Very simple — like all great
ideas. But most people seem to
think that a new Chief Rabbi
ought to be found soon.
A more realistic proposition was
made by several leading Anglo-
Jews: the United Synagogue is out
of date and its methods of adminis-
tration and finance need renova-
tion. Therefore the whole structure
of the body must be looked into,
and this investigation ought to in-
clude in its terms of reference the
salaries of ministers and rabbis.
This is a typical British way out:
appoint a Royal Commission . . .
Or any kind of 'commission. No-
body will be so crude as to refuse
to wait for the results of an in-
vestigation. In olden days it used
to work. Nowadays it does not. If
a reform is desirable, it must be
put into effect.
It transpired at that stormy
meeting that about half the mem-
bers of the council wanted an in-
vestigation, while the rest wanted
to adopt a resolution raising now
the salaries of rabbis to 2,200
pounds per annum, and the salaries
of other functionaries accordingly.
There were also some who con-
sidered this offer far too small.
The rabbis had written to the
president and the members of
the council demanding a rise in
their salaries at once—to meet
the cost of living and to enable
them to maintain adequate
standards. Their letter was not
supposed to go to the press, but
it got there, as it so often hap-
pens in such cases. Their chair-
man then wrote to point out that
their letter was intended for
home consumption only, which
some people interpreted to mean
that a strike was not imminent.
Incidentally, a Halakhic expert
tells me that a strike would not be
sacrilege at all. One can pray with-
out a rabbi officiating, he said, and
a strike would Merely mean no

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

38—Friday, March 11, 1966

sermons, no Bar-Mitzvot, no wed-
dings—things that can wait, as a
rule.
There is general discontent with-
in the United Synagogue. To be
sure, not with Sir Isaac's leader-
ship, but with the dated structure
and archaic method of administra-
tion. There is a general tendency
here to underpay intellectual
workers, and many citizens, in-
cluding Jews, fight it both as a
matter of principle and for the
sake of sound economics. And
there is the usual rivalry between
people at the head of a public
body, which breaks out into a rush
from time to time. Finally, many
are puzzled as to why a wealthy
community should underpay its
spiritual leaders. So there was
pandemonium at the meeting.
To judge by past experience, the
next few meetings will be quiet—

until a new argument breaks out
about another issue . . .
The rabbis will evenutally get a
raise and it will most probably be
backdated to the day of the unruly
meeting. .
A side issue causing the United
Synagogue trouble is the Beth Din.
The Federation of Synagogues, an-
other Orthodox group, a little more
Orthodox, has its own Beth Din.
This is of course wasteful and un-
seemly. Thus, both sides agreed on
a merger so as to establish a single
Beth Din. But the Dayanim of the
United Synagogue resist a merger
strenuously. As a result of this
staleniate, the United Synagogue
is denied the promised financial
contribution of the Federation of
Synagogues. This makes it difficult
to give rabbis higher salaries and
it also affects the Dayanim them-
selves, who are due for a raise.

Bagels and the Constitution

BY DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)

The television program, "Candid
Camera," the other night revealed
a highly deplorable state of affairs.
In this day of a knowledge as well
as population explosion, there are
still people not aware what a bagel
is. In a not so small eastern town,
people were asked what a bagel is.
Not one knew. One man did come
close. He thought a bagel was a
musical instrument of some kind.
He probably was confusing it with
a bugle.
More disturbing was a news
story of the appearance of a Mr.
Venable, the Imperial Wizard of
the Klan before the Congress Com-
mittee on Un-American Affairs.
The Imperial Wizard admitted that
he financed a campaign "to expose
the kosher food business." The wit-
ness, wrote the New York Times,
said "that every time someone
bought a kosher product he would
be paying indirectly to support
a religious faith, contrary to the
Constitution."

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which adopted the Constitution in-
cluded several physicians and they
would have favored the bagel. They
adopted a provision in the Consti-
tution that Congress was to pro-
mote the general welfare of the
people and certainly the general
welfare is more advanced by the
bagel than by over-rich pastry.
Some have objected to bagels on
the grounds that they have holes
in them. It is contended that in
this day, when we are so cramped
for room, this should not be en-
couraged. But, if we eliminate the
holes where are they to go?

Ex-JTA Director
in Poland Dies

REHOVOT, Israel (JTA)—Men-
del Mozes, 76, noted Jewish jour-
nalist and former director of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency in pre-
war Poland, died here March 3 at
his daughter's home. He has
been living in Israel since 1955.
Born in Poland, he was active
in Jewish communal and literary
life there until the Nazis invaded
Warsaw in 1939. He was a founder
of "Tlomacka 13," the club of
Jewish journalists in Warsaw and
one of its early presidents. He
was also president of the Jewish
section of the Journalists Associa-
tion of Poland and a founder of
the Foreign Press Club in War-
saw.
He was active in the Labor
Zionist movement in Poland and
served as president of Hias in
Warsaw in 1938-39. He wrote for
numerous Yiddish and Hebrew
publications and actively partici-
pated in promoting Jewish art. He
was a member of the executive of
the Jewish Art Society in Warsaw.
When Warsaw was bombarded
by Nazi planes during the first
day of the outbreak of World War
II, he was attending a World
Zionist Congress in Geneva. He
returned to Warsaw but found the
city in flames. He succeeded in
reaching Lithuania, together with
his family, and proceeded from
there, through the Soviet Union,
to Shanghai and then he was
brought over, with his wife and
children, by the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency to New York.
He remained on the JTA edi-
torial staff in New York until his
retirement in 1955 when he left
for permanent settlement in Israel.
During the years he lived in the
United States he was a member
of the Jewish Writers Union. Upon
settling in Israel, he wrote articles
for the World Jewish Congress
and the Jewish Daily Forward in
New York.

The circular shape of the bagel
is supposed to symbolize to the
Jew his own wanderings and the
general mystery of life. Indeed, the
circle, as Emerson pointed out, is
the primary art farm. "Our life,"
he wrote, "is an apprenticeship to
the truth that around every circle
another may be drawn, that there
is no end in Nature but every end
is a beginning." So a bagel not
only provides food for the body but
for the soul and preaches immor- Zionist Sol Cohen, 73;
Representative Pool of Texas, tality.
Pioneer in U.S. Movement
chairman of the committee, ex-
We should like to ask Mr. Ven-
NEW YORK (JTA)—Sol Cohen,
pressed bewilderment. "Am I sup- able one question. Under the ques- a leading pioneer in American
porting the Catholic Church if I tioning of Congressman Pool of Zionism, died here last weekend
buy or do not buy a can of fish on Texas, he began to weaken a little at age 73. He was a founder and
Friday?" he asked. The Texas Con- and confessed that he too liked past president of the Long Island
gressman went on to say that he Jewish pickles.
Region of the Zionist Organization
himself was very fond of Jewish
But apparently he is against ev- of America and a cofounder, along
pickles.
erything else kosher or Jewish. with the late Dr. Abb a Hillel

Bagels have been attacked on
other grounds but never before on
the ground that they are uncon-
stitutional. It is said, to the con-
trary, that they are very good for
the constitution, since they have
no fat and therefore are lacking
in cholesterol, the substance,
which some think, causes harden-
ing of the arteries.
Mr. Venable, in his contention
that bagels are unconstitutional,
has got his history a little twisted.
It wasn't the Boston Bagel Party
which started the American Revo-
lution, but the Boston Tea Party.
The founding fathers didn't par-
ticularly care for the British tea,
they could get cheaper tea. Be-
sides many of them preferred New
England rum for an eye opener.
You cannot easily picture the
smart Sam Adams or John Han-
cock leading his townsmen to dump
the bagel in Boston harbor. The
New Englanders liked nothing bet-
ter than molasses which goes won-
derfully well with a bagel.
The delegates to the convention

Syrian Coup Looks Bad
to Israel ; Ghanaian Good

JERUSALEM (ZINS)—Two mil-
itary upheavals occurred last week
—one in Syria with a direct bear-
ing on Israel; and the second
in Ghana, which has indirect im-
plications for the Jewish state.
Experts are of the view that
the new Syrian government, which
will be more radical, will make
closer contacts with the Eastern
countries as well as take a more
aggressive stand towards Israel.
This may result in a tenser situ-
ation along the Israel-Syria bor-
der. In regard to Ghana, there
are possibilities that the new gov-
ernment w ill lean toward a friend-
lier relationship with Israel.

But suppose his child or grand-
child—Mr. Venable is in the sixties
—were faced by the threat of polio.
Would he regard the Salk or Sabin
serum against that disease as un-
constitutional also because they
are kosher or Jewish products?

Silver, of the Herzl Zion Club of-
New York.
Born in Russia, Cohen emigrated
to the United States in 1905 and
immediately became active in the
American Zionist movement. He
aided in the establishment of Neve
Ilan settlement in Israel, where
a square was named in his honor.
New Cultural Attaches
He was active on behalf of the
to Expand Diaspora Work United Jewish Appeal and the Jew-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The ac- ish National Fund.
tivities of the Israel government
and the Jewish Agency in Jewish Nellie Kahn Schiller
communities outside of Israel will
Nellie Kahn Schiller, wife of the
be overhauled, modernized and late Harry Schiller, died March 4.
expanded, Haim Yahil, head of the Among her survivors are a daugh-
Israel Foundation for Cultural Re- ter, Mrs. John C. Hopp, prominent
lations in World Jewry, announced. club woman here, and a son,
He said that such efforts have Ivor J. Kahn. She was a lifetime
concentrated on emergency areas member of Temple Beth El.
and geared to the needs of the pre-
Mrs. Schiller, 87, was born in
state period. Top priorities in such Russia and lived 45 years in De-
efforts, he declared, have now been troit. She resided at 19470 Shrews-
assigned to work among intellec- bury.
tuals and college students. He esti-
Other survivors are her daugh-
mated that the total of such Jews ters, Mrs. George (Louise) Way-
in the United States alone was burn and Mrs. Conrad (Velma)
around 300,000.
Friedman; seven grandchildren
Yahil said that the best method and 18 great-grandchildren.
of enlisting their interest in Jew-
ish affairs was to attract them
Plan to Enlarge Quarters
to visit Israel. For that objective,
in Jerusalem Corridor
he said, the fOundation and the
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jew-
Hebrew University were setting
up committees to increase the ish Agency as announced a pro-
number of Jewish students com- ject to substantially enlarge living
space for residents of settlements
ing to Israel.
He reported that the foundation in the Jerusalem Corridor. Areas
had decided to abolish the criterion of the housing units will be in-
of party membership as a key for creased by more than 50 per cent.
The plan is being financed by
selecting emissaries to visit Jew-
ish communities abroad. To expand the Jewish National Fund, with
the program of contact with Jew- the families themselves contrib-
ish intellectuals, he said, the for- uting 25 per cent of the cost. Fam-
eign ministry has decided to station ilies comprising more than nine
four additional cultural attaches members will not have to pay. The
abroad. These will be sent to Chi- project, which had been postponed
cago, Los Angeles and Philadel- for a number of years, was made
phia; while a second cultural at- possible this year by a decline
in immigration.
tache will be assigned to Paris.

