U. of Toronto Philosophy Professor
Dr. Emil Fackenheim, Due at Institute
Dr. Emil L. Fackenheim, pro-
fessor of philosophy at the Univer-
sity of Toronto and contributing
editor of Judaism magazine, will
be next speaker in the Midrasha
Institute aeries on "The State of
Jewish Belief" 8:15 p.m. Wednes-
day at the Esther Berman Building,
United Hebrew Schools.
The memorial • lectures, now in
their lithe year, were made pos-
sible by the late Mina and Theo-
dore Bargman. This y e a r, the
American Jewish
Committee is co-
operating with
the Midrasha in
the presentation
of the lectures.
Dr. Facken-
heim, born in
Halle, Germany,
in 1916, was edu-
cated at the High
School for the
Dr. FackenheimK nowledge of
•
Jewish Culture (Hochschule fuer
die Wissenschaft des Judentums)
in Berlin and at the universities of
Halle, Aberdeen and Toronto. He
was ordained a rabbi in Berlin and
received his PhD in philosophy at
the University of Toronto.
Author of "Metaphysics and
Historicity" and "Paths to Jewish
Belief," Dr. Fackenheim has also
written many articles and re-
views, mostly in medieval Arabic
and Jewish philosophy, modern
German philosophy and Jewish
theology. He was awarded the
President's Medal of the Univer-
sity of Western Ontario for the
best scholarly article published
in Canada in 1954.
A former Guggenheim Fellow,
Dr. Fackenheim was Aquinas Lec-
turer at Marquette University in
1961 and last year was both Mah-
lon Powell Lecturer at the Univer-
sity of Indiana and Efroymson
Memorial Lecturer at Hebrew
Union College.
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Separateness Must Be Maintained
by Jewish Community — Hertzberg
"Nothing is more ridiculous and
self-deluding than the image of
an American Jewish community
going to the social and political
left to capture Jewish youth . . .
Jews on the left are on the left
because they want out."
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, recall-
ing his own youth in the 1930s
when the popular initials were not
CORE, but YCL—Young Commu-
nist League—said at the Midrasha
Institute Wednesday evenin g:
"Vietnam is as much to them
(young Jewish leftists) as the
goyish country club is to Marjorie
Morningstar."
It's an old, recurring theme,
according to Dr. Hertzberg, rabbi
of Temple Emanu-El in Engle-
wood, N.J., and a member of the
graduate faculty of Columbia Uni-
versity. "Saul of Tarsus said 'Our
young people are hung up on Hel-
lenism .. . let's find them where
they are'." Saul became the
apostle . Paul.
The first 25 centuries of
Judaism, said Dr. Ilertzberg,
"were based on the idea of sep-
arateness . . . Jewish modernity
is dedicated to the destruction
of that value." Judaism "sur-
vives where it is alien:" it dies
where it tries to become a part
of the total, general community,
he added.
Dr. Hertzberg, took issue with
those Jewish leaders who have
made public statements on Viet-
nam policy, and insisted "It's a
personal thing." Anyone who
thinks he can give a Jewish answer
to this problem, he said, "is out
of his cotton-picking head."
"When Jews imagine," he went
on. "that Judaism is within the
world, they're kidding themselves
. . . it is apart from the world
. . . My problem within the Jew-
ish community at this moment is
to keep alive enough of the emo-
tional concreteness of the distinc-
tive Jewish tradition so it may
act as the trunk" upon which
Judaism can grow, he declared.
Gloomy in his predictions for
the future of American-brand Ju-
daism, Dr. Hertzberg said, ''the
Jewish tradition will not be
preserved by the overwhelming ,
mass of the Jewish community,"
but by "the saving remnant . . .
We must now negotiate the sur-
vival of Judaism in a truly modern
world," he said.
Dr. Hertzberg, who was among
the contributors to the Commen-
tary magazine symposium on "The
State of Jewish Belief," which
sparked this Midrasha series, as-
serted: "My answer to the state
of Jewish belief ... is more learn-
ing." The way to create a Jew-
ish community, he said, is to re-
turn to "the source"—the Tora.
Dr. Hertzberg expanded on
his call to Tora learning during
the question-answer period and
decried the fact that "there is
today less kashrut, less daily
prayer and more Hanuka ... We
can begin by discussing Tora
in the hope that out of knowl-
edge will come commitment."
The speaker emphasized that
he sees no relationship between
Judaism and the American en-
vironment. Jews, not Judaism,
have to '.'speak to America," he
said . . . "I don't look to Judaism
for a definition of what the uni-
versity is. but what I do has to
do with the fact that my feet are
planted in tradition."
If those who insist that "in its
encounter with modernity, Juda-
ism refreshes itself' were correct.
said Dr. Hertzberg. then "our chil-
dren should be looking at us and
saying 'We'll continue along this
path' . . . we should be living in
a great Jewish age." It is obvious,
he said, that "we are not."
"The whole of the syndrome of
Judaism with modernity is as
Phony as a nine dollar bill."
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MISS LINDA LEDERMAN
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lederman of
Tracey Ave. announce the engage-
ment of their daughter Linda Diane
to Kenneth Alan Leavitt, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Leavitt of San
Juan Dr.
Mr. Leavitt attends Wayne Slate
University. A July wedding is
planned.
Bonnie Stern Engaged
to Kenneth C. Laker
and treatment services — some of
them innovations — are provided
by Jewish agencies to care for
emotionally disturbed children.
The changing trends of these
services by Jewish agencies are
reviewed in the 1966 Yearbook of
Jewish Social Services of the
Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds.
The goal of these agencies is
the return of the child to his own
home if possible and as soon as
possible, according to the year-
book survey.
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futual Society of Detroit are
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hosting a leadership reception in s ponsoring the dinner-dance on
advance of the United Israel Bond .. c lay 20.
champagne dinner-dance in their
home, 13240 Burton, Oak Park,
MUSIC! ENTERTAINMENT!
Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. Robert Lurie,
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speaker.
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MISS BONNIE STERN
Mr. and Mrs. Nickie Stern of
Allan Ave., Oak Park, announce
the engagement of their daughter
Bonnie to Kenneth Charles Laker,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James Laker
of Annchester Ave.
Mr. Laker, a U.S. Army veteran,
attended the Electronics Institute
of Radio Broadcasting.
The couple has set an Oct. 22
wedding date.
The only Reform Jewish congre-
gation in South America, estab-
lished in 1965, is still , encountering
stiff opposition from Orthodox
Jews, according to Barnard L. Col-
lier, former Detroiter who is cor-
respondent for the New York
Times, writing from Buenos Aires.
The temple, Cong. Emanu-el,
with a membership of about 60
families, is situated in Buenos
Aires, believed to have between
450,000 to 500,000 Jews in the met-
ropolitan area, making it second
only to New York in size.
The Jewish population of Buenos
Aires is almost entirely Orthodox,
and there has been much opposi-
tion to the new congregation. The
influential Orthodox newspaper.
Mundo Israelita (Jewish World),
published an article shortly after
the founding of the Reform congre-
gation which accused the temple of
"dividing the community" and
of attempting to lead Argentine
Jews toward a kind of Protestant.
ism and assimilation.
Rabbi Rifat Sosino, spiritual
leader of the congregation, says
that there has been no let-up in
verbal attacks from the Ortho-
• dox groups. The problem, ac-
cording to Rabbi Sosino, in dis-
cussing the matter with the Or-
thodox Jews, is that "most of
them don't consider us Jews,
and practically nobody knows
anything about Reform Ju-
daism."
Cong. Emanu-el was formed by
a small group of mostly United
States - educated Jews, and holds
its Friday night services in a mod-
est rented house that also serves
as an office, and owns a single
Tora. Rabbi Sosino says of his
congregation, "This is not a rich
congregation but it is an interested
and very intellectual one, and it
is going to grow despite the prob-
lems."
Winning Candidates
in Suburban Elections
the re-elected Southfield council.
men was Norman Feder. Alex
Perinoff, although defeated in the
mayoralty race, retains his seat
on the council.
Among those elected in Oak Park
was incumbent Merton Colburn.
, In Mount Clemens, Abraham S.
Levine was re-elected mayor and
II. Arthur Feldman was elected
to a short term as associate mu-
nicipal judge.
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