THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, November 25, 1966
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Significant Educati onal Random Children's Book Series
Random House has issued a
series of books for young readers
that has special significance for
the serious student.
Of major importance among
the new Random children's
books is "The Story of the Thir-
teen Colonies" by Clifford Lind-
sey Alderman, illustrated by
Leonard Everett Fisher. This is
a marvelous account of the ori-
ginal status of the colonies,
their growth, their participation
in the Revolutionary War. Peo-
ple and events are recorded
here and the story will provide
excellent supplementary reading
for boys and girls at home as
well as for use in their schools.
Equally significant, in its educa-
tional value for young people, is
"The Mayor and the Changing
City," by David Lavine, with nu-
merous pictures by Ira Mandel-
baum and other photographers.
Lavine uses New Haven as an
example of a city's operation un-
der mayoral direction. But other
cities can be substituted for the
example taken. The topic is ex-
pertly handled. It gives an idea of
changing times and explains how
responsible elected officers func-
tion in the direction of a commu-
nity.
Then there is another Random
classic — an explanation of how
the highest court in the land
operates.
Anthony Lewis, in "The Su-
preme Court and How It Works, -
bases his outline on his famous
best seller, "Gideon's Trumpet."
Thus, an important role is played
here by Abe Fortas, the volunteer
attorney in the Gideon case, who
had called the injustice of Gideon
to the high court's attention. Now
Fortas is a member of that court.
The positions of Supreme Court
Justices Goldberg, Frankfurter
and Brandeis are included in this
volume together with the analyses
of the activities of other justices.
Primarily, it is the high court as
the great deciding factor in law
cases in this land that is intro-
duced and defined in this book. It
is as great a work for young read-
ers as "Gideon's Trumpet" was
for the elders.
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Puerto Rico may become the
51st U.S. state. Meanwhile, it is
one of the most important vacation
spots for Americans, and its people
are of interest to all who would
study changing conditions in a
land that was backward not so
long ago but which is growing im-
mensely and is making rapid prog-
ress as an industrial as well as
an entertainment and vacation
spot.
Puerto Rico is the subject of an
interesting study for young read-
ers in the Knopf-published "Maria
and Ramon—A Girl and Boy of
Puerto-Rico," by G. Warren Sch-
loat, Jr.
The wonderful set of photos in
this book, the tracing of steps in
this boy-girl experience as they
learn English and the sciences,
their life in their wonderful en-
vironment — all combine to make
this a splendid story for the young
readers. It is a most attractive
Knopf addition to the children's
book shelf.
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Alfred Knopf's remarkable col-
lection of good stories for young
readers continues to increase. New
titles issued this month point to a
remarkable choice of subjects for
the very young and for teen-agers.
"Cindy's Snowdrops" is present-
ed as "a read alone book." Written
by Doris Orgel, illustrated by Ati
Forberg, this book, ably written,
with pictures that help to hold the
young reader glued to the develop-
ing plot, deals with seven bulbs
that are planted in the fall with
the intention of making a special
spring birthday. Cindy's role as
she follows the advice of the nur-
sery man provides a plot with
action and creates interest in the
changing seasons and in planting.
There is timeliness in another
Knopf book for youngsters-
"Ninji's Magic." Elizabeth Mac-
Intyre introduces here a New
Guinea lad and shows in the
action of her story how a colored
boy adjusts to life among whites.
Ninji's activities in school, his
relation to teachers and pupils, the
attitudes that create wholesome en-
vironment, make this a most in-
teresting story. It was well illus-
trated by Mamoru Funai.
Random House children's book
department deserves highest com-
mendations for this new series of
educational volumes.
What maintains one vice, would
bring up two children. Remember,
many a little makes a mickle: and
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Farmer, former executive director a small leak will sink a great ship.
of the Council on Racial Equality,
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to Speak at Biased Club
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The Negro civil rights leader,
now professor of social welfare at
Lincoln University, was scheduled
to speak to the University Club of
Lancaster at Meadia Heights Coun-
try Club here. When informed by
the ADL that the country club was
biased, a charge he said he
checked and found to be true,
he refused to speak there. His
lecture was transferred to the
Franklin and Marshall College.
The Negro leader said that he
had asked many artists not to
speak at places which bar Jews
and Negroes. At his request, an
Israeli pianist recently canceled a
concert in Mississippi because the
hall "discriminated," he said.
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YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
Congratulates Its Distinguished Member
Of The Board Of Trustees
A Short Menora History
ABRAHAM BORMAN
Upon his being chosen to receive the
Hanuka menorot are probably
the best-known and most widely
used kind of ceremonial objects.
Lamps in shapes similar to the
seven-branched Temple menora,
which Judah Maccabee had placed
in the Temple for the one stolen
by the Greeks, are found in in-
numerable Jewish households.
Most Jews believe that the pres-
ent general shape of the menora
has been traditional since the days
of antiquity, but this is not the
case.
Because of the talmudic pro-
scription, which forbade the fash-
ioning of any of the objects which
were part of the Temple, Hanuka
lamps in the periods following the
destruction of the second Temple
had quite a different shape.
During the Roman and Byzantine
periods, simple one-wick clay oil
lamps served as Hanuka lamps.
During the Middle Ages, it became
customary to fashion a metal con-
tainer for all lights and to hang
this metal bench-type lamp on the
left doorpost of the house.
This form of Hanuka lamp main-
tained itself without variations for
many centuries. Only from the 17th
Century on, did it become a cus-
tom to fashion large Hanuka lamps
in shapes resembling the seven-
branched Temple menora. This
type of Hanuka menora, of course,
had two additional light arms, and
the Hebrew Union Museum in Cin-
cinnati has a rich collection of such
menorot.
ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER'S MEDAL
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At the State of Israel Award Dinner
Tuesday, December 13 at Cobo Hall
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DR. SAMUEL BELKIN
President
Yeshiva University
MAX J. ETRA
Chairman,
Board of Trustees
DAVID GOLDBERG
Founder of the Detroit Friends
of Yeshiva University
JEWISH NATIONAL
FUND
Phone UN 4-2767
OFFICE HOURS: MON. THRU THURS., 9 TO 5; FRIDAY, 9-4; SUNDAY, 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.
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