16—Friday, November 11, 1966 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Epic Recreated in 'Is Paris Burning? vsr wx. Leslie Caron in "Is Paris Burning?" opening at the Music Hall for a benefit performance Thursday. Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret and a host of others, the film is being shown on a reserved- seat basis for all performances the early weeks of its engagement. The film is based on the international best seller by Larry Collins and Dominque Lapierre. Nazi-nunter Wiesenthal Says 1 Austria Harbors Murderers VIENNA (JTA) — About 1,100 Austrians living as free men in this country are implicated in the Nazi wartime mass murders of European Jews, and about 100 of them are in the Austrian police force, Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Jewish Documentation Center here, charged in a 30-page report Talks Get Under Way for Desalination Project WASHLNGTON (JTA) — The first exploratory talk on imple- mentation of a joint American- Israeli nuclear desalination pro- ject took place here Wednesday when Ephraim Ben Arzi, newly ap- pointed Israeli desalination co- ordinator, met here with U.S. Ambassador-at-large Ellsworth Bunker. Bunker was personally desig- nated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to evaluate the long-de- layed undertaking and make recommendations. The plan was declared feasible by a joint study group but a question of financing remained along with other econ- omic issues. Buenos Aires Book Fair BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A Jewish Book Fair, held here for the last six weeks under the spon- sorship of the Buenos Aires Jewish community, ended on a successful note: 16,000 copies of books in He- brew, Yiddish and Spanish were sold for a total of $25,000; record- ings of Jewish music were sold for $4,000; and Jewish religious ob- jects worth $2,000 were bought by the visitors to the fair. r OM MN INN ME INN MN NM HANK'S Breaks The Price Barrier! SUITS • $120, $99 and $89 Values 0 ▪ $-in 5o $695o $595 I 1 7 SPORT JACKETS 1 $85, $75 and $65 Values I $ 54 " $ 49 " $3 9 " SLACKS $19 to $30 Values $ 4 50 $ 1 5 50 7 $0 I HANK'S I Custom Clothes 15850 W. 7 Mile Rd. 3 Blocks W. of Greenfield Mon., Thurs. and Fri. 9 to 9 Tues., Wed. and Sat. 9 to 6 835-2999 ▪ Sun.: 10:30 to 5 p.m. N. ma MR IN MIN EN NI NI presented to the Austrian govern- ment. He also charged that most of the Austrian murderers had never stood trial. About half of the Six Million who were murdered during World War II, perished at the hands of Nazis in Austria, he said. "I would be satisfied if the Austrian judiciary worked as effi- ciently as the Germans concern- ing war crimes," said Wiesenthal, adding that the prosecuting of Nazi criminals is particularly inefficient in Austria. He demanded that the interior ministry enlarge its department that deals with war crimes and called for a trial by judge rather than jurors. He also proposed a new law to exclude former Nazis and Nazi victims from serving on such juries. Wiesenthal said that Austrian authorities had ignored evidence supplied by German prosecutors and the German Central Office for the Investigation of War Crimes. Wiesenthal said "A u s t r i a n s should feel morally obliged to show the world they do not want murderers in their midst." British Chief Rabbi Warns American Jewry on Danger of 'Freedom' BOSTON (JTA) — American Jewry, like Jewry the world over, faces the problem of saving Juda- ism itself, Rabbi Immanuel Jako- bovits, the newly elected chief rabbi of the British Common- wealth, told an audience of 750 here Sunday night, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Associated Synagogues of Massachusetts. "The affluence and freedom that exists for Jews in this coun- try," he declared, "is as big a fac- tor in the decline of Judaism as is the repression behind the Iron Curtain. American Jews are more familiar with the stars of Holly- wood than with the revered names of the Bible or with the Jewish sages. "We must imbue Jews with a sense of urgency about main- taining Judaism, the same sense of urgency that marked the Zionist movement that led to the formation of the State of Israel." Stressing the primacy of Jewish education, Rabbi Jakobovits, how- ever, said he was hopeful of Juda- ism's future. "I believe," he de- clared, "we have reached the bot- tom of the estrangement, and a resurgence is taking place." The freedom which Jewish youth is experiencing on the American campuses, he said, "is leading them to a stronger belief in the credo of their religion." all of us on Yom Kippur. Still others claim that the fast was in- stituted so as to keep the bride and groom sober and in full presence of mind so that the cere- • mony would command their full faculties and complete free will, since the absence of such free will which might come about in a state of intoxication would cast doubts on the validity of the marriage. niz Box The Jewish and multiply" (Genesis 1:28). This was the Almighty's blessing to the Why does a traditional syna- first couple on earth. Carrying the gogue require a physical parti- two candles down the aisle to the tion separating the male from canopy would thus be an omen of the female worshipers? blessing wishing the couple to have The synagogue, like the temple children. of olden times, is the place for group prayer. Even as early as in Q.—Why do bride and groom the days of Moses and the Exodus, Savannah's Mayor Gives the women had their own assem- customarily fast on their wed- ding day? Land Tract for Synagogue bly in offering thanks to the Al- mighty because, while Moses led SAVANNAH, Ga. (JTA) — A.—A number of reasons are the people of Israel in song, his advanced for this practice. It is Mayor J. Curtis Lewis Jr., an ac- sister, Miriam led the women of first mentioned in the work of tive member of the local Baptist Israel in their song (Exodus 15:20).1 Eleazer Rokeach of Worms (Hil- Church, has presented a tract of The temple in Jerusalem had a chot Berahot 353:78c). In his own land to Cong. Agudath Achim for special section for women called opinion the fast was a demonstra- its planned new synagogue build- "Ezrat Nashim." Maimonides in tion of the special attention paid • ing. The mayor made the gift to his Commentary on the Mishna by the couple to the fulfillment honor an associate of the mayor's. (Succah. Chapter 5) explains the of a religious commandment. This firm who has been a member of establishment of the physical parti- fast was, then, like the practice of the firm for 50 years. tion between the men's and worn- the pietists who would fast before Benjamin M. Garfunkel, presi- en's section, as a means of assur- performing a special command- dent of Cong. Bnai Brith Jacob, a ingthat the two sexes would not ment (e.g. like Lulav, etc.) Some fourth-generation, fully observant gaze upon each other during Jew, has been elected an alderman prayer. In his Code, Maimonides claim that the fast of the bride of the city, •receiving 'the highest explains the significance of this and groom is representative of the fact that the people of Israel total of votes among the elected partition as an assurance that the fasted upon the occasion of re- aldermen. The aldermen herefore two sexes would not intermingle voted that Garfunkel is to serve as with each other (Beth Habechirah ceiving the Torah at Sinai which Mayor Pro Tem. is regarded as the marriage be- 5:9). Either looking at each other, or intermingling with each other, tween the Almighty and Israel. would interfere with the true re- Others say the fast is observed quirement of deep concentration because one's wedding day is like For Some which is mandatory in Jewish the Day of Atonement because it of the prayer. Our prayer is supposed to is a day of judgment and the sins of bride and groom are forgiven best buys be so intense an experience that on new any possible distractions were on that day just as they are for eliminated. Jewish tradition has Pontiacs . SUPERB., FULL-COURSE always been cognizant of the at- and traction that the sexes have to- Tempests wards each other, even considering 4RIVATE-MEETING ROOM it as part of the Divine plan of COMPLETE -FACILITIES FOR , PARTIES; • ASK the universe. Therefore, the sepa- BANQUETS; STAGS —.SPECIAL RATES ration was instituted between the FOR sexes in the synagogue so that this attraction would not serve as a distraction during prayer. In olden times, the women had a spe- AT cial prayer leader of their own in STEAM ROOM • MASSAGES'.* SUN BATH the women's section. EXERtISEAMOM . 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