12—Friday, June 24, 1966

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Jewish Teens Cr ideal of Apathy
to Religion Sho wn by Parents

U.S. Committed to Israel
Defense—Like Vietnam—
Johnson Aide Tells Peres

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

WASHINGTON—The American
The participants charged that Commitment to Vietnam's defense
BUFFALO (JTA) — Jewish
is part of a philosophy that also ap-
teen-agers in Buffalo were critical the Jewish adults "have made go- plies to Israel and other states,
ing
to
the
temple
a
social
event,
of the "apathy" shown by their par-
Shimon Peres, a member of the
ents toward the Jewish religion at rather than a religious experience." Knesset; Israel's parliament; re-
a youth conference conducted here
A group of 17 participants in ported Wednesday he was told by
by the Jewish Center. More than a symposium on Jewish educa- Walt W. Rostow, special assistant
150 Jewish teen-agers, represent- tion agreed that their Jewish ed- to President Johnson.
ing 20 temple, Bnai Brith Youth ucation "did not do any harm,
Peres, Israel's former deputy de-
and fraternity and sorority groups
but did not accomplish what we
fense minister, met with Rostow
from the Buffalo community parti- would have liked."
and exchanged views on the world
cipated in the conference.
Most of the participants said
Reacting negatively to the role they have a "feeling" of Judaism, situation and current Middle East
played by their parents in their but no understanding of Judaism. problems.
Rostow referred to Vietnam and
religious lives, the teen-agers ex- They declared that what they had
pressed the feeling that their gen- learned of Judaism in Hebrew emphasized that the United States
eration is "confused and apathetic school could have been taught would adhere to her commitments.
Peres received the impression that
toward Judaism because the par- them in a secular course.
Rostow felt this position applied
ents are confused and apathetic
The majority of the participants not only to Vietnam, but also to
toward their religion."
in the conference claimed that be- other states, including Israel, to
ing Jewish in a Christian society which the United States has ex-
"is very difficult." The consensus
Retarded Children
tended commitments.
was that the meaning of the Sab-
Peres is general secretary of
bath and its identification with a
Pay Visit to LBJ
Jewish way of life "was being boil- R a f i , Ben-Gurion's opposition
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
ed away in our melting pot so- par t y ,. and consequently met
to The Jewish News)
with the White House official in
WASHINGTON — President ciety."
a private capacity.
Johnson Monday welcomed .a
Justice William B. Lawless, who
A four-point program for ce-
group of mentally retarded Jew- addressed a luncheon session of the
ish Orthodox children to the conference, advised the teen-agers menting the relations between Is-
White House and commended to learn about Judaism from the rael and American Jewry was out-
the aims of Maimonides Insti- successes and errors of the preced- lined by Peres, who has just con-
cluded his visit to the United States.
tute, Far Rockaway, N.Y., where
ing Jewish generations.
Peres said in a press interview:
they are students.
"The efforts to cement stronger
The eight children, partici-
understanding between the Jews
pants in the Maimonides Insti-
in Israel and the Jews in the
tute's new development program
United States should be based on
to teach the handicapped
the following principles: 1. Israeli
through religion were introduced
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The and American Jews must assume
to the President by the insti-- Harry Truman Center for the Ad-
tute's chairman, Rep. Herbert vancement of Peace has acquired joint responsibility for the fate of
Tenzer, New York Democrat, the 20,000-volume library of Prof. Russian Jewry;
2. They must make a joint effort
who voiced appreciation for the Martin Buber, the famed Israeli
to meet some of the problems that
$100,000 grant recently awarded philosopher who died last year.
may face Israel in the future in the
the institute. Rep. Tenzer pre-
The collection, which was pur- field of security; .
sented the President with a 49-
chased from the Buber family, con-
3. They must organize a dialogue
volume set of Judaica.
tains rare volumes on comparative
The children, through funds religion as well as philosophy, Jew- about the future of Judaism as a
faith and as a concept;
raised by their own efforts, pur-
ish studies, the Bible, European,
4. Hebrew and Jewish educa-
chased a beagle puppy to replace
and Oriental studies.
tion must be expanded for the
the President's recently killed
younger generation in the coun-
The archives of the late Dr. Bu-
agie. Him. However, after the
President voiced appreciation ber are currently being sorted and tries outside Israel."
"These steps," Peres continued,
for their thoughtfulness, he re- catalogued by the library of the
turned the puppy to the Jewish Hebrew University. The archives "must be taken not only through
school, suggesting it be adopted include manuscripts, notes and cor- the existing organizations, but by
respondence with many of the nonpartisan conferences and by
as a mascot.
leading intellectuals of the world. establishing institutes and commu-
nications devoted to these prob-
'11,3 Members Warned
lems. In that way, American Jews
Trial Against War Nazi
7n Birch Society Tactics
will know more about Israel, while
AUSTIN. Tex. (JTA)—Members Begun in Bremen, Germany the Israeli people will know more
BREMEN (JTA)—A war crimes about American Jewish life."
f Bnai Brith were called upon
A hope that French President
by David M. Blumberg of Knox- trial expected to last nine months
an international vice presi- started here Monday against Fritz Charles de Gaulle will discuss
dent of Bnai Brith, to make a Hildebrand, a former high officer with Soviet authorities the situa-
tion of Russian Jewry, and help
special effort to inform themselves in Hitler's SS.
Hildebrand, who is 63, is charged thereby to alleviate the oppres-
about the activities of the John
with participating in the individual sive conditions being imposed on
3irch Society.
the Jews in the USSR, was ex-
He charged that the society is murders of 15 Jews, and in aiding pressed by Jacques Torczyner,
spending $12,000,000 a. year six mass killings of Jews, during president of the Zionist Organ-
against "everything that our so- World War II, in Galicia and ization of America, at a dinner
ciety stands for, from the United Poland.
Witnesses against Hildebrand of several hundred Zionist rep-
Nations and civil rights to even have been brought here from vari-
resentatives honoring Peres.
the PTA."
Torczyner referred to President
ous parts of the world. The prose-
Addressing the Bnai Brith Dis- cutor said that the costs of the de Gaulle's current visit to Mos-
trict 7 convention, Blumberg said trial are expected to reach 500,000 cow, and said:
that the John Birch Society, by Deutschemarks ($125,000).
"It is our fervent hope that, dur-
attacking the Bnai Brith Anti-
Meanwhile, the international con- ing his current meeting with the
Defamation League, is employing gress of the European Assembly leaders of Soviet Russia, President
"Hitler-like" divisive technique by of Persecutees of Nazism, meeting de Gaulle, a world statesman of
inaccurately labeling the ADL in Frankfurt, requested the Ger- courage and vision, will discuss
"as an independent unit, out of man government to expedite in- the plight of the Jewish community
step with the national rank and vestigations into Nazi war crimes. there, with a view that it be ac-
file of its parent body, Bnai The congress also adopted a reso- corded equal treatment as guar-
3rith." "It's not going to work," lution crticizing the German gov- anteed under the Soviet constitu-
:)e said.
ernment for the manner and pace tion to all minorities.
in awarding indemnification to
"Recent declarations by the So-
^wish Soldiers Serving
victims of Nazism.
viet government, in response to
U.S. in Vietnam Receive
protests against discriminations
iIBBYO Judaism Pamphlets
ORT Schools in Poland practiced there toward the Jewish
community, manifest that it is sen-
SAIGON, South Vietnam—Sev-
sitive to public opinion in a larger
eral hundred copies of the Bnai Have Govt. Support
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
measure than .heretofore."
Brith Youth Organization's Judiasm
The Jewish News)
The ZOA president continued:
Pamphlet Series have been or-
WARSAW — The Polish govern-
dered by Jewish chaplains for dis- ment is showing "deep understand- "The voice of President de Gaulle,
tribution among American Jewish ing" of ORT 'activities in this particularly a direct plea on his
soldiers here and in the Danang, country," it was stated here Tues- part, will go a long way toward
Chu Lai, and Phu Bai Areas.
day by Dr. Vladimir Halpern, Ge- redressing the discriminations
"There is a great shortage of neva director for the World ORT practiced against Soviet Jewry."
Peres warned that the present
good reading materials for Jewish Union.
servicemen in Vietnam, and the
Summarizing his impressions of balance of arms in the Middle East
men greatly appreciate the oppor- ORT activities in Poland, after a "may be disrupted because of the
tunity to read the BBYO pamph- visit to this country, Dr. Halpern growing competition between East
lets," wrote Robert L. Reiner from said that the ORT schools in Po- and West in the Middle East, and
the office of the Jewish chaplain land have the highest percentage the slow infiltration of the Red
with the Third Marine Division.
of pupils, compared to the coun- Chinese in that area."
Discussing Israel's e c o n o m y,
The first nine writings in the try's total Jewish population. ORT
BBYO Judaism Pamphlet Series education in Poland, he said, is Peres said that affiliation of Israel
have sold more than 175,000 copies "attuned to conditions in this with the European Common Mar-
to individuals, synagogues, libra- country and to the need of the ket "is prerequisite for the. broad-
ening of its economy."
Polish economy."
ries, and chaplains.

Buber's Library
at Truman Center

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Translierating Hebrew Into English

BY L. H. FRISCH

Editor, American Jewish World
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)

The transliteration into English
of the names of the Jewish festi-
vals and other Hebrew terms has
long posed a vexing problem.
The approval by the American
Jewish Press Association of the
report of its committee on trans-
literation at the convention in
Washington marks a forward step
in the resolution of this problem.
The report climaxes a study
originally authorized at the Asso-
ciation's 1950 convention with the
appointment of the writer as
chairman. Working closely with
him was Philip Slomovitz, editor
of The Detroit Jewish News, then
president of the group.
When the heads of America's
leading Jewish educational insti-
tutions — Rabbi Louis Finkelstein,
president of the Jewish Theologic-
al Seminary, and Rabbi Moshe
Davis, dean of the JTS Teachers
Institute; Rabbi Nelson Glueck,
president of Hebrew Union Col-
lege - Jewish Institute of Religion;
Rabbi Samuel Belkin, president of
Yeshiva University; Dr. Abraham
Neuman, president, and Prof. Is-
rael Efros of Dropsie College; and
Rabbi David Aronson of the Uni-
versity of Judaism at Los Angeles
—were invited to cooperate in the
study, they warmly endorsed the
proposal and commended the
AJPA for "undertaking the too
long deferred project."
All were in agreement on the
desirability of a uniform system
of transliteration, and made some
very helpful suggestions which
were incorporated in the report.
But, unfortunately, there was on
agreement on a specific plan
mainly because of personal pre-
dilections and the desire to fol-
low philologlical rules which are
suitable for scientific scholarly
works, but do not meet the re-
quirements of popular media.
There the matter rested. The
committee was reactivated at the
1956 convention, but still no agree-
ment could be reached among the
membership.
Finally, at the 1965 meeting in
Atlanta, the standardization proj-
ect was revived. Philip Slomovitz,

Gift from Philadelphian
Establishes Eilat Library

NEW YORK — Mrs. Myer Fein•
stein of Philadelphia has estab-
lished the Myer and Rosaline Fein-
stein Public Library in Eilat, Is-
rael, with a gift from the Myer
and Rosaline Feinstein Foundation
to the Israel Education Fund of
the United Jewish Appeal.
It was announced here by Joseph
Meyerhoff, IEF chairman, at a
meeting of the Israel Education
Fund advisory board, at which
Mrs. Feinstein was elected to
board membership.
Dr. Bernard E. Donovan, super-
intendent of schools of New York
City, and IEF President Charles
J. Bensley, recently returned from
officiating at ground-breaking cere-
monies for Eilat's new compre-
hensive high school, reported that
Eilat officials, privately advised of
the Feinstein gift, had hailed it as
an added guarantee of the stabil-
ity and growth of Israel's crucial
Red Sea port community.

Israelis Invest Abroad

TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Israeli in-
dustrialists seem to be reaching
out beyond their country's borders,
the daily Ha'aretz writes. The
paper mentions a number of big
businessmen who have established
enterprises abroad and are now
planning to expand further.
Among them are Shimon Bejera-
no, owner of Assis, with branches
in Greece and Italy; the brothers
Meyer, who established a finance
company in Switzerland and are
building factories in Liberia; and
the Leibowitz family of "Etz Haza-
yit" who are expanding in Bangkok
and South Korea. The paper adds
that there are Israelis purchasing
land in Crete, building hotels in
Greece and opening factories in
Spain.

Albert W. Bloom, editor of the
Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, with
the writer as chairman, were
charged with the task of arriving
at a consensus.
All through the intervening
years, as a growing number of He-
brew words entered the main-
stream of American communica-
tions media, the need for devising
a simple, uniform system for
transliterating. Hebrew words for
the English-Jewish as well as the
generil press became more
pressing.
As many as 15 different versions
of the spelling of Hanuka, Shavuot
and Rosh Hashana, to name but a
few, have been noted in news re-
ports, feature articles, holiday
messages, press releases and ad-
vertising copy which flood the edi-
torial and advertising desks. Since
there existed no authoritative
guide, every writer was a law
unto himself.
Under the circumstances, the
AJPA. standardization determined
to disregard philological rules fol-
lowed in scholarly works, and
resort to arbitrary decisions, in
the interest of uniformity and sim-
plicity.
Recognizing that the Sephardi,

or more specifically Israeli, pro-
nunciation is winning ever wider
acceptance, it was decided that
the phonetic spelling of the He-
brew word as it pronounced in
Israel today be followed.
As the system employed in
scholarly works requires special

type not generally available in
commercial printing plants, it was
agreed that the Hebrew letter
"het" (now commonly written as
ch) as well as the letter "khaf,"
whose sound is similar to "het,"
be represented by the Eng-
lish "h." -
The "h" is to be omitted where
it is silent at the end of a word
as in Rosh Hashana; it will be
employed for "het" sound as in
"Simha" and as the "khaf" sound
in the last letter of Tanah. The
"h" also, of course, will serve in
its normal function as the aspirate
for the Hebrew letter "hei."
The Hebrew letter "tof" will be
represented by th English "t" as
in Histadrut. The Hebrew "tza-
dik," by the English "TZ" as in
Bar Mitzva and matza.
The words whose spelling was
agreed on to date are: Rosh

Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot,
Hoshana Raba, Shemini Atzeret,

Slinhat Tora, Hanuka, Hamisha

Asar b'Shvat, Purim, Pesab,
Lag b'Omer, Shavuot and Tisha
b'Av.

The new spelling version for
non-scientific use will be made
available to organizations, edito-
rial associations, book publishers,
public relations and advertising
agencies for their guidance.
Thus we arrive at the close of
the first chapter in the 16-year-old
quest for peace in the anarchic
Hebrew-English war of words. It
is to be hoped that that next chap-
ter will be written with greater
speed.

DICK TRACY
Chester Gould

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