THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
36—Friday, October 28, 1966
Drs. Max Jammer, Lookstein Named
Bar-Hail's President and Chancellor
Dr. Joseph H. Lookstein has
been elected chancellor of Bar-
Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Is-
rael, at a meeting of the univer-
sity's board of trustees, it was
announced by Moshe Haim Sha-
piro, chairman of the executive
council and Israel's Minister of
Interior and Health. Dr. Look-
stein is currently serving as act-
ing president of the university.
Dr. Max Jammer was elected
president at the same meeting,
Minister Shapiro announced. Dr.
Jammer has served as rector of
the university and currently heads
its physics department.
Dr. Lookstein assumed the act-
ing presidency of the university
nine years ago. upon the death
of Dr. Pinhas Churgin, founder
and first president. He is spiritual
leader of Cong. K e h i l at h
Jeshurun, New York, and is found-
er and principal of the Ramaz
School. He also serves as profes-
sor of sociology at Yeshiva Uni-
versity. This past summer, Dr.
Lookstein was elected chairman
of the World Council on Jewish
Education.
Dr. Jammer, eminent in inter-
national physics circle s, has
served as chairman of the univer-
sity's physics department, as well
as its first rector. In 1960, he was
the recipient of the physics prize
of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
Minister Shapiro indicated that
investiture ceremonies will take
place at a special convocation
to be held in early 1967.
Bar-Ilan University, currently
entering its second decade with an
enrollment of 2,700 students, is Is-
rael's only American chartered in-
stitution of higher education, hay-
LETTER BOX
Beth Hillel Rabbi
Takes Issue With
Triennial Cycle
Editor, The Jewish News:
Allow me to comment on the
report that Beth Moses Synagogue
has decided to introduce the tri-
ennial system of the reading of
the Tora.
Maimonides in his authoritative
code Mishna Tora, Chapter 13 of
Hilhot Tefila, states "the straight
forward practice in all of Israel
is to complete the Tora reading
within one year, beginning with
the Sabbath after Sukkot and read-
ing the portion of Bereshit . and
completing the Tora reading at the
time of Sukkot. There are those
,■
who complete the Tora reading
DR. MAX JAMMER
within three years, but it is not
the straightforward practice (Min-
hag Poshut)."
While there was an ancient
minhag in Palestine that followed
the triennial cycle, obviously it
remained only a local rule and
was never adopted by our an-
cestors, who transmitted to us
the annual cycle, which is still
in force today the world over..
This cycle allows, among other
things, for the annual Simhat Tora
celebration, when the reading of
the Tora is concluded and keeps
intact Ezra's decree that the por-
tion of Atem Nitzovim should al-
ways be read immediately before
Rosh Hashana. An innovation of
this system is thus a presumptuous
breach of tradition.
Similarly, the elimination of the
repetition of the Mussaf Amida
constitutes an unwarranted change
of established usage and law, one
DR. JOSEPH H. LOOKSTEIN
that can only rob the Sabbath
ing been granted this recognition service of its festivity, sanctity
by the New York State Board of and musical warmth.
Perhaps it is thought that by
Regents this year.
some strange alchemy, the less
* * *
recited in the synagogue the more
pious our people will become.
JOEL J. LITKE
Rabbi, Cong. Beth Hillel
4-
Israel Gives Priority to Education,
Stollman Says; Urges Aid for Bar-Ilan
`To the Precipice,'
Tale of Tensions,
Family Rift, Sex
Singer to Tell 'Philosopity
as Jewish tIrriter' at Beth El
The annual Theodore and Mina of Lublin" was awarded the Prix
Bargman Scholar Series of Temple de Meilleur Livre, Etranger in
Beth El will open 8:30 p.m. Nov. 7 1965. His work has also appeared
in the chapel when Isaac Bashevis in Harper's, Commentary, Mid-
Singer will lecture on "My Philos- i stream and other periodicals.
ophy as a Jewish Writer."
Admission is open to the public
Singer, author of "Gimpel, the at no charge. A social hour will
Fool," "The Slave" and his most follow. Dr. Richard C. Hertz will
recent novel, "In My Father's preside and introduce each lec-
Court," received the Louis turer.
Lamed Prize for his first novel,
`'The Family Muskat." He was
awarded a grant by the American
Academy and National Institute of
Arts and Letters in 1958, and the
French edition of "The Magician
LONDON — The West German
magazine Stern, which has bought
the memoirs of released Nazi Bal-
dur von Schirach, published an
interview in which the former Hit-
ler Youth leader insists that Ru-
dolf Hess is not insane, as some
have thought.
The Guardian of London sug-
Jacob M. Snyder, general man-
ager of the Rassco Israel Corp. gested that instead of pitying Hess,
for the Western Hemisphere, will the only Nazi who remains in
be guest speaker at the second Spandau Prison near Berlin, "it
annual dinner of the Detroit Coun- might be more appropriate on this
cil of Rassco Associates, 6:30 p.m. anniversary of the Nuremberg
Monday at the Sheraton-Cadillac judgment to consider to what ex-
tent "ex" Nazis have crept back
Hotel.
into positions of influence and
Snyder, w h o
power in Germany.
has held this
The Federal German Supreme
position since
Court recently dismissed an ap-
1963, h a s been
peal by a Nazi victim against re-
associated with
fusal of compensation which had
the economic de-
been based on the ground that the
velopment of the
chairman of the court had been a
state of Israel
member of the SS.
since 1949, one
year after its
The Fourth Civil Senate of the
establishment.
Federal Supreme Court held that
Former invest-
this did not disqualify him from
ment counselor
taking part in the adjudication of
in the economic
compensation claims by Nazi vic-
department of the
tims.
Jewish Agency
for Israel, he be- Snyder
Michigan has no spot farther
came the general manager of a than 85 miles from the Great
pharmaceutical plant in Israel, then Lakes.
newly established as a joint ven-
ture of Israeli pharmacists and
Make Your Party
American investors. After building
up this company, he was invited
Swing With
by the Rassco management in Is-
rael to become its national sales
director in the Western Hemis-
phere, a post which he held until
his appointment in 1963 to his
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Hess Not Insane,
Von Schirach Says
Rassco Manager
for Hemisphere
to Address Dinner
Upon his return from Israel early 2,700. It is no wonder that Israelis
this week, Phillip Stollman, chair- have such a high regard for Bar-
man of the national board of Ilan University—its many courses,
American Friends of Bar-Ilan Uni- its academic standards, its exten-
versity, reported on the progress sion classes which assist many
that is being made by Bar-Ilan settlements throughout the land."
Judith Rossner, in her novel, "To
University and expressed the hope The annual Detroit Bar-Ilan din-
that Detroiters will again be in ner, Nov. 30, at Cobo Hall, will the Precipice," published by Wil-
the lead in assisting in the support be addressed by Dr. Or mand liam Morrow & Co. (425 Park, S.,
of the Israeli educational efforts Drake of New York University, NY16), covers many areas. It deals
in this university. Theodore Bikel will be guest art- with Jewish family life. It contrasts
"In spite of Israel's mounting ist. Reservations for the dinner life in a poor environment with an
problems," Stollman said, "priority are now being taken at the Bu- emergence into affluence. It is a
love story with an angle of in-
is being given to education and Ilan office.
fidelity. It introduces the premari-
there is -a recognition that unless
tal sex experiences.
the cultural standards are high the
Ruthie Kosoff in this story re-
state will not benefit. There is a
lates it in the first person. It is a
heartening desire to strengthen all •
long monologue with interjections
educational activities, to provide M
of her silent thinking and her
the finest school media for the
lover's thoughts.
youth, to assure knowledge amidst
She is independent, supplements
challenges. The most encouraging
STUTTGART (JTA) — Sixteen
sign of such activity is the progress former SS and Gestapo members her income while pursuing her
recorded by Bar-Ilan University. went on trial on. charges of par- college studies. She shares her
Few dreamt that in the few years ticipation in the wartime murder room in her parents' home with
her younger brother who later dies
of its existence the school will of 160,000 Polish Jews.
in an accident. Her brother's quar-
rise to a student body numbering
The defendants worked in rels with her father are not a
Gestapo headquarters and in a pretty picture.
slave labor camp near Lvov, then
She gets a job as companion to
in occupied Poland. The trial, one a younger girl and a young boy
of the largest in the lengthy list who needs tutoring and in this
of such war crimes cases in post- new home she has the taste of
By Sid Shmarak
PEERLESS/DETROIT, s ales war Germany, is expected to last wealth.
Later she marries the father of
promotion and specialty advertis- a year. More than 140 witnesses
ing firm located at 15039 West from the United States, Israel, these two children, but she has had
Eight Mile, was awarded first Canada, Poland, Austria, France love affairs with David, a family
neighbor, and the affair continues.
prize in a "Best Showroom" con- and Australia will testify.
Court officials said they will The child she bears is her lover's,
test sponsored by Speciality Ad-
vertising Association. The award send representatives to New York not her husband's.
There are tensions, frights, un
was accepted by Robert B. Golby, during the trial to take testimony
president of Peerless/Detroit, at from witnesses unable to come to certainties, and there are the dif-
ferences in economic status.
ceremonies during the associa- Stuttgart.
Some of the defendants were
The Jewish angle is injected in
tion's convention in Chicago. The
3,500 square-foot Peerless/Detroit accused of being members of brief discussion of Jews' attitudes
showroom displays more than "Special Squad 1005," whose as- on the civil rights question, but the
10,000 items geared to the adver- signment was to open mass graves matter is unclear and confusing in
tising, sales promotion and in- and burn the remains of murdered this presentation.
Mrs. Rossner writes well, has
centive needs of business and in- Jews to erase evidence of the
dustrial firms. The judges based crimes from the advancing Soviet woven a good plot and her char-
acters are real. The issues relate
their selection on the appealing, armies.
Most of the 16 former Nazis well also to our time.
distinctive decor as well as the
interesting and attractive manner have been charged with complicity
Michigan has no community
in which the advertising special- in the mass murders of Jews in
ties, awards and business gifts the Lvov area and with individual more than six miles from an in-
killings. • land lake or stream.
are arranged.
16 Nazis on Trial
Stuliefart for
Murder of 160 000
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