Routtenberg Gets Sabbatical Award
The Herbert H. Lehman Insti-
tute of Talmudic Ethics of The
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America announced today the
establishment of the Sabato Mor-
ais Fellowship.
The new award
will be the
highest acco-
lade conferred
upon a member
of the pulpit
rabbinate.
Awarded in
recognition of
extraordinary
service to the
con gregation
and the com-
munity, the fel-
lowship will
take the form of
an annual sab-
batical grant
for "an academ-
ie year of inde- Routtenberg
pendent study which promises to
bring new insights to bear on the
areas of the Bible, Talmud, Jew-
ish education or congregational
life."
"In granting the award to pul-
pit rabbis, the Seminary hopes to
emphasize the relationship that
rabbinic scholarship and practical
rabbinics bear to one another,"
Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor
Swiss Jewry Dismayed
at 'Increasing Growth' of
Neo-Nazism in Germany
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
BERNE—Concern over the "in-
creasing growth" of nee-Nazi
movements in West Germany and
Austria was voiced Tuesday by
the Central Committee of the
Federation of Swiss Jewish Com-
munities at its meeting here.
The committee cited par-
ticularly the anti-Semitic headlines
of the extremist West German
newspaper Deutsche National and
Soldatenzeitung and asserted that
West German authorities had not
taken any action to ban it. It was
also noted that an anti-Semitic
article had recently appeared in a
provincial Swiss Catholic News-
paper.
of the Seminary, said. "It is our
sincere hope and expectation that
this annual Lehman Institute sab-
batical fellowship will stimulate
creative thinking and writing about
some of the most perplexing and
complicated theoretical and prac-
tical problems of our time.
Dr. Finkelstein announced that
the first recipient of the Sabato
Morais Fellowship is Rabbi Max
J. Routtenberg of Temple Bnai
Sholom, Rockville Centre, N.Y.,
president of the Rabbinical Assem-
bly, the international association
of Conservative rabbis.
Rabbi Routtenberg plans to de-
vote his year to independent study
to research on, and the writing
of, a book which will atttempt to
distill the ethical teachings of
Judaism from biblical times to the
present. The book will consist of
material from the sources, as well
as original material revealing the
pertinence of Judaism's ethical
tradition to today's world.
Orthodox Rabbis Council
to Conduct Discussion
on Passover Observance
Seminary Students to Learn the Hows of Social
Action in Course at UAHC Center in D.C.
A panel discussion on "Passover
Observance in Modern Times" will
be held 9 p.m. Tuesday at Julius
Rotenberg Building, Council of
Orthodox Rabbis.
The Beth Din panel will consist
of Rabbis Leizer Levin, Leib Bakst
and Chaskel Grubner. Consultants
are Dr. Oscar Bigman, Morris
Karbal and Jerry Cohen. Rabbi
Samuel H. Prero will be mod-
erator.
The public is invited. The panel
will individually answer problems
concerning health and medicines.
Anyone with queries is asked to
bring medicines or prescriptions.
The Council
in
issuing its
Passover message to the commu-
NEW YORK — The first inter-
religious study program offering
seminary students an opportunity
to study the process of government
as related to religion will be con-
ducted this summer by the Di-
vinity School of Harvard Univer-
sity and the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations.
Twenty-one students drawn from
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
seminaries will spend July 4-29 at
UAHC's Religious Action Center in
Washington in this new course in
theological education, made pos-
sible by a grant of $18,000 from
the Stern Family Fund.
Students will hear a cross-
section of views from prominent
authorities in government and
from nongovernmental groups—
labor, religious, business and the
mass media. Many high govern-
ment officials will address the
group including members of the
Supreme Court, Senators and
Congressmen and representa-
tives of federal agencies.
Dr. Herbert Long, Peabody Lec-
turer and dean of the students of
the Harvard Divinity School, and
Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch, Wash-
ington, D.C., director of the
UAHC's Religious Action Center,
will serve as full-time advisers
for the seminar. Prominent theo-
logians and religious spokesmen
will also participate.
Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath,
UAHC president, commented "If
religious groups are going to be
effective in social action, they
must develop a corps of experts
who are capable of using the
knowledge of others and whose
own knowledge will be motivated
by the search for moral values."
IF YOU TURN THE
nity, cautioned the following:
1. Matzot baked during the year
are not for Passover use. All mat-
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zot must be properly designated
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
"Kosher for Passover."
2. Every product must be certi-
fied by a known rabbi or rabbini-
cal organization.
3. The search for hometz takes
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place Sunday evening, April 3.
4. Siyum B'Chorim (the fast of
the first born) is held April 4.
Two prominent Orthodox rab-
We Are Pleased to Announce That
5. No hometz may be eaten after
binic and lay leaders representing 9:30 a.m. April 4.
the major Orthodox organizations
6. Selling of hometz must take
issued an urgent appeal to the So- place before 10:30 a.m. April 4.
viet government to permit the bak-
7. Removal and burning of ho-
ing of matzot for the 3,000,000 metz also must be done before
Jews for the forthcoming Passover 10:30 a.m.
Are Again Available From
holidays.
Questions on any rule for Pass-
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Moses I. Feuerstein, president of over should be addressed to one's
the Union of Orthodox Jewish Con- own rabbi or the Vaad Harabonim
gregations of America, and Rabbi office, 342-6260.
Israel Miller, president of the Rab-
The Council of Orthodox Rabbis
binical Council of America. stated calls the attention of the public
that "it is imperative that the Rus- to the following: All kosher-killed
sian government permit their Jew- poultry must have a sign of kash-
ish community to bake and prepare rut, a sealed "plombe," from the
their conventional Passover items Vaad Harabonim.
such as matzot. It would be a
major catastrophe and tragedy for
human rights and religious freedom Jews Join in Resolution
to deny to Jews their historic right on Halt to Viet Bombing
to participate in the beautiful
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jews
seder ritual and ceremony."
joined with Catholics and Protes-
The two -religious leaders pointed tants in a resolution adopted
out that "the consumption of mat- at the National Inter-Religious
zot by Jews during the eight days Conference on Peace calling for
of Passover is a most salient and an immediate halt of all bombings
sacred part of the whole body of in Viet Nam.
Jewish law, tradition and observ-
ance."
Feuerstein and Rabbi Miller
indicated that "world Jewry is vi-
tally concerned with the plight of
their brethren in the Soviet Union.
The denial of the right to prepare
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