14—Friday, August 11, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Cancer Society Researcher Becomes Israel Heroine
By MICHAEL GIRSDANSKY
It wasn't intended that way, but
the recipient of an American Can-
cer Society Postdoctoral Fellow-
ship was something of a Florence
Nightingale during the recent six-
day war in the Middle East. The
heroine was Dr. Mary Lou Ernst,
whose home is near Harrisburg,
Due to the abbreviated summer services at most area synagogues, Pa.
The analogy isn't perfect since
the regular listing is dispensed with until fall. For schedules, wor-
Miss Nightingale functioned as a
shipers are asked to call their synagogue.
The following have indicated special sermons or Bnai Mitzva. nurse and nursing organizer dur-
ing the Crimean War of the 19th
CONG. BNAI JACOB: Services 8:20 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Century. Mary Lou Ernst, in con-
Rabbi Isaac will speak on "Tisha b'Av."
trast, worked as the physician she
THE NEW 'TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today at Birmingham Uni- is amidst the improvised facilities
tarian Church. Rabbi Conrad will speak on "Learn to Do Well: of an emergency room to treat the
Seek Justice, Relieve the Oppressed."
wounded brought back from the
CONG. SIIAAREY ZEDEK: Services 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Robert Edel- Jordanian war-front.
man and Jeffrey Berger, Bnai Mitzva.
The possesser of both an MD
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Dr. Fram will speak on
(Temple '62) and a PhD in bio-
"What I Saw and Heard in Israel." Irving Jay Hordes, Bar Mitzva. chemistry (Yale '67). Dr. Ernst
. . ... . .. . .
.. . ..
. . found military medicine far from
her normal interest — cancer re-
search. Only the accidental conver-
gence of time, geography, and the
ferocities of politics made the im-
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
munities still observed a special probable a reality. Had the Middle
(cop) right 1967. JTA Inc.)
match-making ceremony as late as
the 13th Century. Currently some
What is the origin in Jewish
families who follow the original Clergymen of 3 Faiths
tradition of confirming one's
practices even sign documents Appeal for Settlement
word by handshake?
This kind of procedure is already guaranteeing the time of the wed-
of Arab-Israel Issues
mentioned in the Bible. The Book ding and promises of dowry as well
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — An
of Ezekiel. for example. contains as guarantees of the groom to his
bride.
There
are
even
penalties
appeal for a just settlement of the
a passage explaining "When. lo. he
had given his hand . ." (Ezekiel ascribed to the parties who break Middle East crisis which lists a
17:18). In the Apocryphal Litera- the agreement. There was an an- series of issues requiring imme-
ture we find the hook of Tobias cient Semitic custom whereby the diate action and warns of the pos-
referring to this kind of pledge in groom had to deposit a pledge as sibility of renewed armed conflict
connection with engagement and a guarantee of his promise to marry has been issued here by a group
marriage where the father places the bride. A ban was sometimes of 150 Protestant, Catholic and
the bride's right hand into that of placed upon the party who retract- Jewish clergymen.
The appeal was initiated by a
the groom (Tobias 17:13). The ed upon the match. There are some
Samaritans have a custom whereby who felt (although their judgment Jesuit priest, the Very Rev.
is
questionable)
that
such
formal-
Charles S. Cassassa, president of
the groom and his father-in-law
shake hands. l'hilo interprets the ities came about because of the Loyola University; Dr. Carl W.
expression "Teshumas Yad" in the' fact that originally the two parts S'agerhammer, president of the Pa-
hook of Leviticus (5:21) as mean- of the marriage ceremony were as cific Southwest Synod of the Luth-
ing a handshake whose denial is much as a year apart and that eran Church of America; and Dr.
considered a trespass. In the rab- later they were combined into one Alfred Gottschalk, dean of Heb-
binic literature of the 12th and ceremony following each other in rew Union College.
13th Centuries we hear it spoken immediate fashion. Therefore, the
The statement urged support for
of in terms of "Reuben who gave matchmaking ceremony would, in a the right of the Jewish people to
him his hand in faith" (Mordecai. way, resemble the original "eru- exist in a sovereign state; consi-
Baba Metzai 252). From that time sin" (betrothal) which is now ex- deration of the plight of the Arab
on it would seem that the hand- ecuted at the same time as the refugees and persecuted Jewish
shake became a current practice culmination of the marriage.
nationals of Arab countries; the
in commercial transactions.
need for guarantees to all nations
Model of 2nd Temple
of free access to international
waterways in the Middle East; and
Why do some families make a
Stolen From Synagogue
special ceremony out of the event
peaceful settlement of territorial
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
of agreeing on the match of
disputes in the area through di-
to The Jewish News)
bride and groom?
NEW YORK—A model of the rect negotiations.
This practice is usually called Temple of Solomon, stolen from
The appeal also urged an end
"shidukhin." This expression comes the House of Sages, an East Side to the Middle East arms race; con-
from a verb which means "to as- synagogue, was being sought Tues- centration of available resources
suage and appease." It indicates day by police. The 3-by-5-foot rep- on the social and economic reha-
the persuasion of the bride or her lica, weighing more than 200 bilitation of the region; and as-
family to consent to the proposal pounds, was described as "irre- surances of universal and unres-
of marriage coming from the groom. placeable" by Rabbi Julius New- tricted access to the holy places
It seems that in the early Rabbinic man, a spiritual leader of the in Jerusalem by arrangements for
Period at the time of the Mishna synagogue.
direct supervision of the shrines
this procedure was rather infor-
by the appropriate Catholic, Pro-
mal. In medieval times this pro-
Al Rosen was the only man testant, Moslem and Jewish auth-
cedure apparently became more chosen unanimously as baseball's ' orities.
formal. The Oriental Jewish com- Most Valuable Player.
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BY HENRY LEONARD
East remained at its normal (1)
state of tension, the six days of
the war might have found Dr.
Ernst continuing her studies in
the immunity-reactions of cells
under the direction of Dr. Michael
Sela at Israel's famed Weizmann
Institute in Rehovot. Her place of
study adds another improbable, yet
somehow fitting, touch.
Dr. Ernst is only one of 100
physicians and scientists who,
thanks to the Cancer Society's
program, have been enabled to ob-
tain further practical experience,
following receipt of their doctorate
degrees, in fields relating to can-
cer. Her experiences at the begin-
ning of June were, however, not
typical of other "post-doctoral fel-
lows."
What she was observing was the
face of war, seen up close. As she
noted in a letter to her grand-
mother in Pennsylvania:
"The fact that the Israelis cre-
dit me with some courage these
days is probably one of the finest
compliments I'll ever have. Little
do they know that I draw mine
from their own courage. They are
a heroic people."
Much of the Israeli admiration
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