THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 30, 1906-9

Report Progress in Construction
of WSU Religious Center Building

Mrs. Edelman Supervises Italian Rescue Program

Bnai Brith has initiated a litera- ' pressed enthusiasm for it prospects. printed in subsequent years, she
The first list of reprints. to be i added.
ry rescue program to avert the
threatened extinction of 200 years ' expanded in the coming months. is ',
' composed of Hebrew works. An I
of historic Jewish literature.
The projeclikinvolves reproduc- initial list of Yiddish volumes. to
DAN NY
ing, through lbw-cost offet print- • be published in the fall of 1967, is
ing, limited editions in fascimile of now being compiled. Mrs. Edel-
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great Jewish works of the 18th and man said
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19th centuries that might otherwise
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Dr. Harold Weisberg. dean of of Sephardic Jews, are to he re-
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Dr. William' Keast (right), president of Wayne University, and

Leonard N. Simons are examining architect's drawing for WSU's
Charles Grosberg Religious Center Building.

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Bnai Brith Fund Committee, of
which Leonard N. Simons is
chairman. this week reported pro-
Bnai
gress in attaining the goal for the
Hillel Foundation section in the
Activities
Charles Grosberg Wayne State Uni-
Thousands of such volumes—
versity Religious Center Building.
SHOLEM ALEICHEM LODGE
Speaking in behalf of the com- will meet 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at novels, history, drama, poetry—
which
directly influenced the
mittee, Milton M. Weinstein, who Cong. Beth Hillel. This meeting
has been active in securing special "Hanukas Habyes" will be dedi- "emancipation" of Jews, were
gifts. stated that additional sums cated to the Jewish National originally published in small edi-
. still are needed and that construc- Fund. Guest speaker will be Rabbi tions on poor quality paper and
tion is under way for the important Joel Litke. JNF's latest film, "The have all but vanished over the ,
structure that will house the Hillel Story of the Jewish National years. Large numbers were de-
stroyed by the book-burnings of
activities.
Fund, - will also be shown. A social the Hitler regime.
In the Hillel section. he stated, hour ‘,N, th refreshments will
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The Bnai Brith project. said Dr.
there will be. two k
for low. All members of the lands-
kosher food service, a chapel, meet- manshaften societies which also Weisberg. "is to preserve the rem-
ing halls and the Maurice Zeiger meet at Beth Hillel, are invited. nants in their original text and
form as primary sources for his-
Memorial Library in memory of ,
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Mauricel Zeiger who, at the time ' LOUIS MARSHALL CHAPTER torical research of a major period
of his Oath, was vice president of will hold a luncheon meeting 12:30 of Jewish history."
Volumes for reproduction are be-
the Bnai B-rith District 6.
, p.m. Thursday at Workmen's Circle
Irwin I. Cohn Hall will he part Center. Guest s p e a k e r, Rabbi ing selected by Dr. David Patter-
of the Hillel department. I David Jessel of Temple Beth Am, son. Cowley Lecturer in post-bibli-
Rabbi Max Kapustin, director of ' will discuss "The Jewish Woman cal Hebrew at Oxford University,
the WSU Hillel Foundation. is an in the Talmud. - Friends are in- who recommended the project to
active member of the committee vited. . Bnai Brith and is serving as its
consultant.
that seeks the balance of funds
AMS Press, a New York publish-
needed o complete the project.
Need for Dav Schools
ing firm that specializes in re-
in French Language
prints, is associated with Bnai
Goldmann Assures Israel
Brith in the project.
Urged
in
Montreal
of Germany's Friendship
Mrs. Lily Edelman. Bnai Brith
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The opin-
director of adult Jewish education.
to The Jewish News)
MONTREAL — Rabbi David who , is supervising the project,
ion that the present West German
government, headed by Chancellor Feuerworker said here Wednes- said that leading Jewish scholars.
Kurt Georg Kiesinger, would be day that there was an urgent need educators and librarians have ex-
friendly to Israel, was expressed for French-language Jewish day
by Dr. Nahum Goldmann. schools in Montreal. Speaking for
upon his arrival here following Montreal's 15.000 French-speaking
his visit to Bonn.
Jews. the rabbi said that if support
He stressed that this is very fo rsuch schools was not provided
important both with regard to rep- by the government of Quebec, "My
arations payments to Nazi victims people are in danger of losing not
in Israel and the problems con- only religious values but French-
nected with Israel's talks for af- cultural identity as well."
filiation with the European Com-
He said most of the French-
mon Market.
speaking Jews - are recent arrivals
Dr. 5oldmann said that. as a who do not have the resources to
result of his visit to Bonn and his create their own day schools. as
talks with leaders of the West English-speaking Canadian Jews
German government, a decision have done. He reported that many
was taken by the government not of the French-speaking Jewish
to make any cuts in the payments families were suffering conflicts
of reparations or indemnification because their children who go to
in 1967. He reiterated that Chan-
Protestant-spon-
cellor Kiesinger had promised to English-language.
fight any resurgence of neo- sored schools cannot communicate
with their parents.
Nazism in West Germany.
The rabbi spoke in support
In Bonn, the economics minis-
try reported that West Germany of the Committee for Tax-Sup-
has paid out indemnities totaling ported Jewish Schools, which
Mrs. Lily Edelman, Bnai Brith
4.500,000.000 marks (51.125,000,- presented a brief last week to
director of adult Jewish educa-
000) to Israel, and 21.000.000.000 the special committee studying
Lion. examines a rare Hebrew
marks S5,250.000,000) inside Ger- the non-Protestant and non-
book, one of a series of classics
many. Israel's share was almost Catholic minorities in the pro-
of the Haskalah (enlightenment)
half of the total of 10.000,000.000 vince.
The committee asks that Jews in era that Bnai Brith is reprinting
marks paid in global indemnities.
Quebec have the same educational to save an "irreplaceable literary
the report said.
rights which Protestants and heritage" of two centuries from
' Catholics have. without suffering threatened extinction. The books,
Discipline
Train up a child in the way he extra financial burdens. A Jewish many yellowed and decomposing,
be reproduced in fascimile
should go: and when he is old . parent. to educate his child in a are to
Jewish day school. must pay about in limited editions as "basic
he will not depart from it.
sources" for historical research .
—Prov. XXII, 6 . 5400 above his annual school taxes.

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