Israel Festival of Music,
Drama Set in Caesarea
HtsgatIts for litsrtiall g Sighted
CAESAREA — A varied pro-
gram, including the Kathakali
Dance Theater of India, the
American Dance Theater of Alvin
Ailey,
the Vocal Sextet Luca
Marenzio and evenings of chamber
music with Isaac Stern, Leonard
Rose and Eugene Istomin, will
highlight the seventh Israel Festi-
val of Music and Drama. Most of the
performances during the month-
long festival, July 30 to Aug. 29,
will he held in the excavated 20-
centuries-old Roman theater at
Caesarea.
The French composer-conductor
Pierre Boulez will lead the Kol
Israel Symphony Orchestra in a
program with accent on Bartok
and Boulez's own works. Later in
August pianist Lili Kraus will play
with the same orchestra, mainly
Mozart and Schubert. Also per-
forming will be Frank Pelleg, Is-
rael's leading pianist.
'The Boston Strangler'
Richard Fleischer will direct
filmization of Gerold Frank's best-
seller, "The Boston Strangler," for
20th Century-Fox, with a budget
of $3,000,000. Terence Rattigan is
writing the screen play.
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Kashrut Supervisory Body Formed for 3 N.J. Areas
CAMDEN, N.J. (JTA) — An or- elected president of the new body,
rvance
ganization to supervise observance
Rabbi Bernard E. Rothman
of the Jewish slaughtering and has been appointed director.
Under the supervision of the
dietary laws, entitled the Tri-
County Vaad Hakashrut, has been Vaad Hakashrut, all Jewish cater-
formed here, with the cooperation ing services as well as Jewish
b
of rabbinical and lay Jewish lead- butchers
in the entire area will be
ers from Camden, Burlington and inspected, and strict full-time kash-
rut
supervision
will be provided
Gloucester counties.
Alexander E. Segal. of Congre- to kosher summer camps. Caterers
gation Sons of Israel, has been will be required to have full-time
kashrut supervisors on their
premises.
Canadian House Told
War Criminals to Stay
HOLIDAY GREETINGS 31:1 ,
OTTAWA (JTA) — Any war
criminals in Canada cannot be de-
ported for alleged crimes commit-
ted abroad, said Donald MacDonald,
parliamentary secretary to External
Affairs Minister Paul Martin, in
the Canadian House of Commons.
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...
Looking at the first large-print edition of the Hagada for the
partially sighted, issued by the Jewish Braille Institute of America
in 18-point bulletin type, in Hebrew and English, are (from left)
Mrs. Isidor Freedman, national chairman for Braille, Women's
Branch of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America;
Cynthia L. Groopman, honor student at Stern College for Women
of Yeshiva University in New York City; and Mrs. Nathan H. Wadler,
president of the Women's Branch UOJCA. Publication of the volume
was made possible through a grant from the affiliated sisterhoods
of the Women's Branch UOJCA of the United States and Canada.
Shestov's 'Athens and Jerusalem':
Distinct Study in Existentialism
A great Russian-Jewish existen- tion in Jerusalem." He points
tialist philosopher dealt with the to Shestov's contention that "faith
theme of reason as contrasted with results in the liberation of man
faith and revelation, and his works not only from all physical compul-
emerge significant in the evalua- sion but also from all moral con-
tion of logic as well as the biblical straint."
Prof. Martin's evaluation of
thesis.
Lev Shestov treated the subject Shestov also includes this valuable
in challenging fashion and his comment:
"Shestov has been dismissed
"Athens and Jerusalem," now made
by some critics as a wild ir-
available in an English transla-
rationalist,
a willful protagan-
tion by Ohio University Press,
ist of the absurd, who wished to
Athens, 0., 45701, provides a new
abandon reason entirely in order
material for study by logicians,
to make room for a trans-rational
theologians and students of philoso-
revelation. But the case is hard-
phy.
ly so simple as this. His polem-
Primarily, Shestov's emphasis is
ics against scientific knowledge
on the idea revealing Athens as
and reason . . . are themselves
the• promoter of logic and science,
peculiarly lucid and rational.
while Jerusalem emphasizes faith.
They are also based on a mas- I
In an excellent translation
terful knowledge of the entire
accompanied by an illuminating
Western philosophical tradition-
introduction, Bernard Martin,
, Faith in God was, for Shes-
who holds the Abba Hillel Silver
tov, the ultimate source of man's
Chair of Jewish Studies at West-
deliverance from despair and the
ern Reserve University, provides
guarantee of his own freedom
important background data valu-
in a universe all of whose en-
able in studying Shestov's work.
ergies seem bent on denying ,
Prof. Martin declares that Shes-
it "
tov "when he discovered the dead-
Shestov, who was born Lev
ly threats to the human spirit .. .
in the style of the prophet, not Isaakovich Schwarzmann, son of
a
wealthy
Kiev manufacturer, had
the theologian or religious apolo-
gist, summoned men to turn away a good Jewish education. His
from Athens and seek their salva- father was a lover of Hebrew lit-
erature. Shestov had an interesting
career, was for a time in his
father's textile business, he be-
came a member of a talented
circle of young writers and he
turned to writing. He settled in
France, studied philosophy and
wrote extensively under influence
of Kierkegaard and existentialists.
Students of philosophy, of exis-
tentualism, of Kirkegaard — the-
ologists, historians, those interest-
ed in the God-idea — all will find
a great treasure in "Athens and
Jerusalem," directing them to-
wards the contrasts between the
two world philosophies.
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He was replying to H. W. Her-
ridge, a British Columbia New
Democrat, who said there have
been reliable reports that 15 Nazi
war criminals are living in Canada.
MacDonald said the government
has a list of alleged war criminals
but the criminal code does not
extend to crimes committed out-
side Canada. Ile said there is a
basic conflict of interest in the
matter: the concern that some peo-
ple arc going unpunished for a
war crimes and that criminal laws
should not be made retroactive.
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