THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20—Friday, June 10, 1966
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ON LAKE
MICHIGAN
$7.50
ON THE BEACH
Air Conditioned Room with
Private Both
• . 3 Meals and Midnight Snack
• Air Conditoned Room with
and Recreation Rooms
• Floor Shows
• Dancing
• Private Beach • Swimming Pool
• American-Jewish Cuisine •
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JUNE SPECIAL
As low as
ATLANTIC RESORT
Per Person
2 In Room
Minimum
3 Days
per day
Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Eichenbaum
MICHIGAN BEACH HOTEL
SOUTH HAVEN,- NIICH.cptiONE
SOUTH HAVEN, MICH.
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637-2506
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CHILDREN (ROOM)
Under 12 Years
All Pool-side and Cabana rooms now
air condiioned, heated & carpeted.
Children's Wading Pool & Counselor.
DIETARY LAWS OBSERVED
Phone:
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During July & August
GOLF
• MUSICAL SHOWS
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• DANCING
SWIMMING • POOL LOUNGES
WIENER ROASTS
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Area Code 616
637-5403
Occupying room with parents—limit 2 children per room
10% DISCOUNT In July-5 days Sun.-Fri. only
July 4th-8th, July 10th-15th, July 17th-22nd.
• Limit 2 to a room
• Children Room Free
Deluxe New Rooms • Air Conditioned Throughout
American Plan — B'fast, Lunch, Dinner & Midnight snack
At Mid-America's fabulous resort ...
a playtime paradise where you'll enjoy :
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All Indoor and Outdoor Sports — King size indoor &
outdoor pools, childrens pool & 18 hole golf course.
• Terrific food
• Beautifl heated pool
and patio
• All sports
• Gala floor shows
• Supervised activities for children • Special Rates for Groups
Reservations:
BR 5-2545-4948 Sheridan Rd., Chicago
• FREE GOLF
UNTIL JULY 1
New Low Rates,
Reservations: In Detroit Call Isadore Goldstein 313.356-7555
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SOUTH HAVEN, MICHIGAN
July 3-for-2 SPECIAL!
Phone 637-5118 (Area 616)
will
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July 31, the 3rd person
4th until Sunday,
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SO UTH HAVEN
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Controlled
Dancing &
Entertainment at
Pool-side Patio
• Free Dancing Lessons
• Champagne Hour - Midnight
Snacks
• Famous Jewish-Style Cooking
June "Early Bird' Specials
• SPECIAL FOR CHILDREN Sep-
arate Dining Room & Counselor
Supervision
• Additional Air Conditioned and
Remodeled Rooms
Call or Write Now for
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THE FAMILY —
all the time!
Special Weekly Family Rates ! !
Up to 10 years — same room with
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weekly. Full. rate for child with
Phone or write for low, low rates and brochure
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For Reservations: WRITE or PHONE
Detroit Office • Isadore J. Goldstein • 25839 Southwood • ELgin 6-7555
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thru-Set fare,
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Day a Jetourist
$63.60.
5:20pm Last Set at
Cali Delta or see your Travel Agent.
July 2
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FAMILY BONUS!
July 4th to 15th only
Attractive accommodations
In addition to 3-for-2 Spe-
Delicious full . course meals
dal, extra children in the
Private 18-hole golf course
same room will cost only
Floor show and dancing nightly
$4.00 per day, including 3
Free group lessons — golf,
meals.
swimming, cha-cha, twist
• Afternoon cocktail dancing
• Tennis, Boating,
Swimming—
Water Ski School,
Friday,
Any days . • Sunday, June 26th to
Bicycling, Softball
per
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July 1st . . . from only $14.00 day,
• Complete children's
dayt
complete. FREE GOLF every
program for
person,
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AND CHILDREN under 17 yers,
only
all ages
$4.00 per day,. including 3 meals, when
Fun for ALL
sharing room with parents.
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Dr. Julian Morgenstern's New Book
Describes Semitic Folklore and Rites
Since his retirement from the
presidency of Hebrew Union Col-
lege 20 years ago, Dr. Julian Mor-
genstern has continued his literary
efforts. Now re-
siding in Macon,
Ga., he does re-
search in bibli-
cal lore and his
published works
are among the
authoritative cre-
ations in Jewish
scholarship.
His newest`,
work, "Rites of
Birth, Marriage,
Death and Kin-
dred Occasions
Among the Sem-
ites," published
jointly by H e -
brew Union Col-
lege Press and Dr. Morgenstern
Quadrangle Books (180 N. Wacker
Dr., Chicago 6), actually was be-
gun by him 45 years ago. It was
well under way in 1921, but its
completion was interrupted by the
manifold duties of the HUC presi-
dency.
Confining his study to the
Semitic field, Dr. Morgen,stern
has gathered a vast amount of
data, folklore, enlightening facts
that relate to the beliefs that
were current among the peoples
under discussion.
Describing the belief in spirits,
he points out that they "developed
early in the mental evolution of
mankind—spirits who peopled the
earth thickly, unseen yet omni-
present—who caused the countless,
strange, inexplicable experiences
of existence."
There are the explanations of the
birth rites among Semitic peoples
and the "evil spirits at birth,"
taboos, ceremonies, superstitions,
magical trends, "redemptive sacri-
fices," incantations.
There are revelations, such as,
that "from the earliest stages of
Semitic cultural evolution down to
the present day the lives of both
the mother in childbirth and the
infant just born were thought to be
directly threatened by evil spirits;
not merely evil spirits in general,
but specific demon s, many of
whom were so far individualized
as to have their own personal
names and their own traditional
appearances by which they could
always be recognized."
That is hOw many ceremonials
came into practice. For example,
among the Bedouins, "at Jerusa-
lem, mother and child are con-
ducted to the bath npOn the 40th
day after birth," the mother takes
her first bath • on the 40th day
after birth and the superstition
persists that if the husband has
intercourse with her during these
days he will become leprous.
Dr. Morgenstern traces the
belief to Leviticus 12 that a
woman is ritually unclean during
the first 40 days after birth of
a son and during the first 80
days after the birth of a daugh-
ter.
Circumcision is described and is
related to other customs and prac-
tices, including the akikah cere-
mony among some tribes of cut
ting the hair of an infant and of-
fering it as a substitute sacrifice
on the seventh or eighth day after
birth. And there is the rite of
Tahnik, of smearing the gums of
a newborn child with the juice of
pressed dates.
Many taboo-sacrifices are among
those delineated here, including su-
perstitions related to marriage and
to death.
Dr. Morgenstern points out:
"Rites of the removal of taboo
and redemption in all their
countless forms, the closely re-
lated rites of ritual purification,
the myriad primitive birth and
marriage rites, and, above all,
the equally numerous and varied
rites of death, burial and mourn-
ing, all had their origin and
have their only possible logical
explanation in the cult of spirits
among the earliest Semites."
Among the unusually interesting,
explanatory facts in Dr. Morgen-
stern's descriptive work is this ref-
erence to virginity:
"More and more now, it would
seem, the custom of virgins sacri-
ficing their hair preliminary to
marriage became general, until
among the Syrians, according to
Lucian, it had become the normal
practice, and the sacrifice of vir-
ginity was the substitute for it, as
it must have been originally.
"And still another substitute for
the original sacrifice by all maid-
ens of their virginity to strangers
was the institution of sacred har-
lotry. There 1,s ample reason for
believing that, in the gross forms
in which it was practiced in his-
toric times, this to us thoroughly
abhorrent institution was not na-
tive in Israel but was borrowed,
together with many other ele-
ments of Canaanite agricultural
civilization, when the Israelite
tribes entered and settled in Pale-
stine. The practice seems to have
no exact parallel in pure Semitic
nomadic culture and to be alto-
gether contrary to the principles
and standards of sexual relations
and practices which obtained
therein. This was a major reason
why this institution was so com-
pletely out of accord with the true
Yahweh-worship, the roots of
which were set in nomadic culture
and ideals, and was therefore so
bitterly denounced and combatted
by the prophets of Israel."
The element of ancestor-worship
is treated interestingly in this im-
pressive work. Some old customs
that still retain a hold in some or-
thodox sections are under review.
More than a third of this volume
is devoted to explanatory notes,
thus additionally indicating the
immense scholarship that went
into producing it.
Prison Escape Plot
Uncovered in Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A mass es-
cape of Arab prisoners held at
Ramleh Prison, Israel's largest
institution of the kind, was pre-
vented Sunday night, it was an-
nounced here by Aryeh Nir, com-
mander of Israeli prisons.
Nir said that a routine check
had disclosed that iron bars had
been cut in one cell, and that the
electric lines in the prison had
been tampered with in such a way
that a short-circuit might,,haVe oc-
curred.
Many of the Arab priOners at
Ramleh are being held there "for
security reasons. - Two of the men
in the cell where the bars had been
severed, Nir said, are serving
long sentences for "serious • acts
against the security of the
country."
One of those prisoners had been
sentenced to 14 years' imprison-
ment, the other to an 11-year term.
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