32—Friday, September 9, 1966
THE DETROIT JEWISH ,NEWS
Record Bnai David Bond Sale
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Don Asher Novel
`The Piano Sport'
Has Much Action
Halpern-Gordon Vows
Are Set for December
"The Piano Sport" by Don
Asher, published by Atheneum, is
well written and an interesting
novel. It has lots of action, is re-
plete with episodes involving love
affairs, deals with piano players
and is marked by a style that holds
the reader's attention throughout.
,
At the Bnai David testimonial dinner honoring Harold Soble as
Bnai David Man of the Year, where a record $140,000 in Israel Bond
subscriptions was announced are (from left) seated: Emil Cohen, guest
star; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Soble, Morris J. Brandwine, a dinner co-
chairman; standing, Julius Rotenberg, Max Sosin, toastmaster; Max
Ostrow, dinner co-chairman; Jack J. Kraizman, president of the
congregation; Rabbi Hayim Donin, who gave the tribute to Soble,
and Cantor Hyman J. Adler.
Arguing With the Lord
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
never became a rabbi but his an-
cestors for several generations
Arguing with the Lord is a n were rabbis, and Marx wrote on
ingrained Jewish habit. Whom capital, a subject of some inter-
else could a Jew in olden time s est to bankers. After all, as the
argue with? Argue with the anti - Ethics of the Fathers puts it, if
Semitic Russian Governor? He here is no kemach (flour) there
wouldn't listen. But God always is no Tora and if there is no
Tora, there is no kemach. The
listens.
The rabbi of Berditchev was es two are interrelated.
pecially famous for it. No one
Former rabbis may be found in
loved God more, but he was for - many occupations. Edward G.
ever arguing with Him. Maybe Robinson was a rabbinical student.
it was because of this love -that Stephen Wise used to say that
he argued so. If we fear some - many people thought a great actor
one, we don't argue with him , was lost when he became a rabbi.
but if we continue to argue, there We can imagine him successful in
must be a basic friendliness.
the political field—a kind of Jew-
The Jewish dialogue with the ish William Jennings Bryan. He
Lord goes far back to Abraham. had the personality for it, and
When God proposed to destroy non-Jews came to hear him. Abba
sinful Sodom, Abraham called at- Hillel Silver had much of the same
tention to the fact that, in this quality. Another rabbi of a previ-
holocaust, righteous people would ous generation who can be brac-
also perish. Was it right to de- keted with these was Emil Hirsch,
stroy these good people in order of Chicago. His wife once re-
to get at the wicked? The ques- marked that when her husband
tion that Abraham raised is a spoke in public, people trembled.
recurring one. A thinking per- Dr. Hirsch commented "and when
son must -raise it about war. We my wife speaks in private, I
hope to remove a few people we tremble."
call wicked; so, in the course of
If Maxwell Silver had now
it, many thousands of good and turned playwright, there is a pre-
innocent people are slain. Abra- cedent. The stage is -a natural
ham didn't feel it was justified and outlet for a rabbi. Israel Zang-
he asked: "Shall the Lord of all will once remarked that, if Moses
the earth not do right?"
were to return, he would doubt-
The matter of reconciling a just less be a playwright.
(Copyright, 1966 JTA, Inc.)
God with sufferings of the righte-
ous is the theme of the book of
Job. Carlyle called Job one of the
literary masterpieces of the world.
All of us have said or heard
quoted phrases and sentences out
of Job. "The Lord giveth and the
Lord taketh away. Though He
slay me, yet will I trust him.
Verily ye are the people and wis-
dom will die with you." People
are constantly quoting such
snatches of Job, yet the book as
a whole is not much read today.
With the intent of popularizing
it, Dr. Maxwell Silver has pre-
pared a dramatized version which
has now been published by the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations. Dr. Silver has sought
to present the work in the modern
idiom and it would seem to be
a natural especially for synagogue
dramatic groups to present.
Maxwell Silver is a brother, of
the late Abba Hillel Silver. Ac-
cording to the Book of Proverbs,
words in their season are "like
apples of gold in pitchers of sil-
ver." That wasn't said of the Sil-
ver brothers, but might have been.
For a time, Maxwell, like his
brother Abba, was a practicing
rabbi. Later he turned to bank-
ing. Something like that hap-
pened in the case of Mayer Roths-
child, the founder of the Roths-
child fortune. He too had studied
for the rabbinate. Karl Marx
The novelist is well qualified to
write about musicians and their af-
fairs. Having specialized in organic
chemistry at Cornell, Don. Asher
worked briefly as a chemist and
teacher and then turned to music
as a profession. He has been writ-
ing and playing in San Francisco
since 1959 and has appeared in
nightclubs, the hungry i and The
Committee.
Thus, when he writes about pi-
anists in "The Piano Sport," he
writes authoritatively, and the
book's title is explained by the
prefaced explanation from World
Book Encyclopedia which states:
"The new type of plant or ani-
mal produced by mutation is
called a mutant or sport, because
it seems to be a prank of nature.
Many of the mutations in plants
arise from the seed, but sometimes
the new trait is confined to a sin-
gle branch and is known as a
bud sport."
MISS SARAH HALPERN
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Halpern of
Addison Ave., Southfield, announce
the engagement of their daughter
Sarah to Eric Marshal Gordon, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Gordon
of Northfield Blvd., Oak Park.
Mr. Gorden is a psychology ma-
jor at Macomb Community Col-
lege, where he is affiliated with
Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity. Miss
Halpern attends Wayne State Uni-
versity.
The couple will be wed Dec. 17.
17 Pct. of World Jewry
The story is told in the first per-
son by Jay Greene, the novel's Now Lives in Israel
hero, whose Jewishness is referred
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Almost
to but without special qualifica 17 per cent of world Jewry lives in
tions. There is plenty of action to Israel, according to a report by
make this an impressive novel.
the Israel Bureau of Statistics.
There are 13,225,000 Jews in the
world today. The bureau report re-
vealed that in 1850 the Jewish
people totalled 4,800,000 persons,
which by 1882 increased to 7,-
700,000. In 1945, after the holo-
caust, the number of Jews totalled
only 11,000,000.
Broder Appointed
Business Chairman
for '66 Torch Drive
N. Brewster Broder, president of
Truswal Systems, Inc., has been
named 1966 Torch Drive Central
Wayne region business chairman.
Don W. Mc-
Cracken, Central
Wayne Business
Unit chairman,
announced t h e
appointment.
Broder lives at
22 Cambridge,
Pleasant Ridge,
with his wife
Ruth, and four
children.
In this year's
drive, Broder will
be in charge of
organizing a n d
supervising busi-
ness contribu-
tions in the Cen-
tral Wayne re-
gion.
Broder
The campaign, Oct.
18
through Nov. 10, will seek
operating funds for nearly 200
health and social services.
Besides his Torch Drive work,
Broder is vice president for the
Detroit chapter of the United
Service Organization, member of
the board of directors of Travelers
Aid Society of Detroit, treasurer of
the Jewish Community Center, vice
president of the American Jewish
Committee and a member of the
Jewish Welfare Federation.
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Israel at Radiation Parley
ROME (JTA) — Israel was rep-
resented by a delegation of 12
experts at the International Con-
ference on Protection Against
Radiation this week. The 'confer-
ence evaluated the possible dan-
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the IATA organization, leading
citizens of Israel and represent.
atives of airlines and civil avia-
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urge in internaional civil avia-
tion who retired from his post as
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April, was guest of honor at the
ceremonies and planted the first
tree with an assist from Israel's
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