34—Friday, February 9, 1968 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Ziprin's Recollections .. . ..,Triss Goldman Engagea Man and Wild Animals to Harvey Pearlman By DAVID SCHWARTZ About the Royal-Now Defunct By NATHAN ZIPRIN (A Seven Arts Feature) The once-green Second Ave. pastures are now largely seared to me, yet the urge to return in nostalgic memory is often irresist- able. What beckons most is the Cafe Royal, where I spent more days and nights than I care to remem- ber, talking about the sacred and mundane. discussing art, listening to gossip, evaluating the girls, playing pinnochle and resting from the turmoil of the street. There were many stories circu- lating about the cafe, among them one that its last owner won it in a pinnochle game. However, what- ever the legend. the truth is that it was one of the rarest enclaves in the world, attracting the elite, the poor, the rich, dignitaries and- charlatans. purists and gamblers and such disparate segments as writers and actors. For some reason I have never been able to f a t h o m, the Yid- Podhoretz to Speak for AJCommittee Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine and author of the current best-selling "Mak- ing It," will ap- pear at the Jew- ish Center under the auspices o the American Jewish Commit- tee, 11 p.m. Feb. 20 on the topic "How Jewish is Commentary?" The public is in- vited. A native New Yorker. Pod- horetz was a Pulitzer scholai at Columbia Uni-, versity. He holds degrees from Cambridge Uni- Podhoretz versity where he was a Fulbright and Kellett Fellow. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has taught English and philo- sophy at Cambridge and was edi- tor in chief of the Looking Glass Library, publishers of children's classics. Scientist's System Makes Objects Float REHOVOT—A magnetic method which permits objects to "float in the air" has been developed by Ben-Zion Kaplan, of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Kaplan's system is based on the fact that the inductance of an elec- tromagnet varies in accordance with the distance between it and any ferromagnetic body, such as iron, within its field. The electro- magnet used is part of a series resonance circuit, fed by an AC voltage source, whose frequency is slightly higher than the reso- nance frequency to which the cir- cuit is tuned. Objects can be suspended below this electromagnet and held in place. Moreover, even when weight is added, equilibrium can be re-established quickly, leaving the object "floating in the air." Similar systems have been de- veloped independently in Britain and the United States, but Kaplan has made a special contribution to the field by explaining the ten- dency of the suspended body to oscillate by an analogy to para- metric electromechanical systems. Almogi to Speak Here for Labor Zionists Yosef Almogi, former minister of development and housing and a member of the Israel Knesset, will address a dinner sponsored by the Labor Zionist Movement Israel Bond Committee 7 p.m. Feb. 21, at the Labor Zionist Institute. For reservations to the dinner, call Israel Bonds, DI 1-5707. dish poets and writers of belle lettres always kept themselves aloof in one corner of the cafe as if by silent agreement with the more talkative actors. One could tell which was the actors' corner by its exuberance and the exhibi- tionism of its occupants. its gaiety and the string of unusually, and at times exotically, dressed women. The corner where the writers were wont to congregate was generally more subdued, except of course on the frequent occasions when they were engaged in literary, poli- tical or personal feuds. At all times, the actors seemed to be beyond the pale of the dreamers. At its heyday, the Cafe Royal fevered with Jewish writers, intel- lectuals;' poets, actors, playwrights,I producers, journalists, bon vivants and / what then seemed to us, the younger set, an array of the mostl beicutiful, most interesting and most exotic ,women in the world. Such was its fame as a literary cafe , that it attracted celebrities fromi every part of the world and in ev- every field of human and creative endeavor. Trekking to the Royal a-as like going on a pilgrimage. An ineradicable event in this writer's memory is the night when the Hebrew poet Hayim Nach- man Biahk came to the Royal. An- other is the black night of terror when Sacco and Vanzetti were exe- cuted. All of the Royal then seem- ed frozen in silence. An indelible recollection is the occasion when Abe Cahn, the leo- nine editor of the Forward and a literary figure of world renown, learned the meaning of "a Jewish gazlen." He and his wife were seated at a table with a prom- ising young writer whom he apparently antagonized. Angered by the rebuff. the young man be- yin shouting unwholly unprintable deprecations and raised a butter knife against the now frightened editor. However. before he could lower ,t‘he boom, the young man, the would-be Jewish killer, fell 'in a faint from which he was revived by Cahn and his wife. When the turmoil was over and the white faced young man was revived, Cahn ordered the waiter to serve him a cup of hot coffee. Revived and still boiling with anger, the young man tried his hand anew at murder, but it would not obey him. He fell prostrate again, ob- viously convinced that he was not fated for murder. When the con- fusion subsided Cahn remarked, "Now I know what it means when people say about one that he is a `Jewish gazlen.' " To stray visitors the Cafe Royal was a curiosity. To its habitues it was a sanctum to which they trek- ked daily: One met friends there, but more often than not the meet- ings were moments in literary dia- logues, exercises in disputations, and at times, promenades into the pardes that is within the exclusive domain of the creative. The tables at the Royal over the years were often silent witness to literary judgments that either spelled ra- diance or extinction for aspiring writers. They were witness too to the germinating of new literary movements on the Yiddish rialto and to literary conspiracies by the ungreat who feared fresh voices. The Royal, of course, also at- tracted the queer, the bizarre and the unsavory of character. The closing of the Royal — an inexorable victim of time and change—ended the reign of a uni- que Jewish way of life not only on Second Avenue but on all the streets, avenues and nooks and corners of the East Sides through- out the Jewish world, bringing an end to a climate that can never be imitated. The story of the Royal is of the very folklore of the now large- ly vanished Jewish East Side. Only the poets and writers who were of its stream are competent to record the story of that unique corner of 12th and Second Ave. MISS MIRIAM GOLDMAN Mr. and Mrs. Saul Goldman of Burton Ave., Oak Park, announce the engagement of their daughter Miriam to Harvey Pearlman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Moe Pearlman of Roselawn Ave, Miss Goldman is a graduate of the International Data Processing Institute, and her fiance a grad- uate of the Detroit Institute of Technology. An April wedding is planned. Beth El to Host Dr. Hunter Sunday Dr. Sam Hunter will be the third lecturer in the Theodore and Mina Bargman Memorial Scholar Series of Temple Beth El 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Dinner will be at 6 :30. Dr. Hunter, di- rector of the Jew- ish Museum, New York, since 1965, will speak on "Is There Jewish Art?" He has lectured Dr. Hunter widely on mod- ern and contemporary art at museums and public galleries in this country and in Canada. He was formerly lecturer in fine arts at Barnard College; assistant pro- fessor of fine arts at the Univer- sity of California; visiting profes- sor at Harvard University; art critic for the New York Times and associate curator of the depart- ment of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. Ex-Detroiter Gets Research Grant Former Detroiter Dr. Arnold H. Kadish, son of the Jack Kadishes of Patton Ave., is principal investi- gator of the project which recently received a two-year grant for study of automation control of blood glu- cose. The $118,866 grant, to Cedars- Sinai Medical Center in Los An- geles, was by the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York. The grant will aid in the develop- ment of an on-line computer sys- tem and will be directed toward more precise prescription of in- sulin. Dr. Kadish, a member of the California Institute of Tech- nology's Metabolic Dynamics Foundation, attended the con- ference on hormonial control sys- tems in health and disease in Oc- tober in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. He was recently appointed senior research fellow in engineering by CIT. Dr. Kadish was Instrumental in the development of a miniaturized system for the continuous monitor- ing of blood glucose, which will allow rapid and accurate, precisely timed determination of the proper insulin dosage and, also, the com- position and timing of meals for "brittle" diabetics. He is the author of "Cybernetics of Blood Sugar and Fat in Health and Disease," a paper published by Acta Diabetologica Latina, a Spanish-English journal. (Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.) The world's leading dealer in wild animals is Frederic Zeehande- laar. His son was Bar Mitzva last week in New Rochelle, N.Y. The World Almanac contains a brief account of Mr. Zeehandelaar's business. A full biography will shortly appear, written by Paul Sarnoff and published by Prentice Hall. It seems strange to find a Jew in this business, but after all, maybe it is not so strange. Take the name Ben-Gurion. Gur means a young lion. Yael—of Yael Dayan—means gazelle. The Bible shows a great in- terest in animals. Solomon bids us learn from the ant planning for the future nad points to the success of the little spider 'in entering even kings' places. Isaiah admiring the eagle prophesied that man would yet soar on wings like an eagle and looked to the time when the lion and the lamb will lie down together peacefully. His first prophecy of man's flying has materialized. Per- haps, his second about peace, may some day also be realized. The Bible Zoo in Jerusalem aims to have all the animals mentioned in the Good Book and by the way, during the recent snow storm in Jerusalem, the zoo animals suffered severely. A power blackout cut off the heat of the building; and what do you suppose the animals did, when there was no heat? They had a schnapps! The hip- popotomus and the orangoutang, were given shots of brandy, and the other animals had wine. Frederick Zeehandeelaar (the name is Dutch for sea merchant)— he had escaped from the Naz.i,J- was born in Amsterdam. C He planned a medical career, but as Mr. Sarnoff explains, he was im- patient with his medical studies, dropped out of school and went into the pharmaceutical export business. Then came the Nazis. He was arrested but succeeded in es- caping. His father and mother were murdered in concentration camps. When peace came, Zeehandelaar immigrated to the United States and returned to the pharmaceutical export business. He owes his success to the fact that one of his customers in Mada- gascar couldn't pay his bill. He offered instead "some monkeys and some snakes." What sort of monkey business is this, Mr. Zeehandelaar first thought. Then he got busy and made a very profitable sale of them and with this began his new career. He introduced efficiency into the wild animal business that it had not known before and be- came world famous. Perhaps subconsciously, as a Jew, he had absorbed from the Talmud a respect for the superior qualities of many animals. "Had the Tora not been given," says the Talmud, "man could have learned from the ant not to rob; from the dove not to commit adultery; from the cat to be mod- est; and from the rooster, good manners." "A calf may wish to suckle but the cow wishes even more to give suck." (That is, the teacher has need to teach as much as the pupil to learn.) "If you do not teach the ox to plough in his youth, it will be diffi- cult to teach him when he is grown. (The early years are the most form- ative of character.) "When the ox falls, many are ready to slaughter him. (The lamen- table trait of some men to jump on a person when he is down.) "Lions are before thee and thou inquirest of foxes." (The practice of consulting inferior advisers.) The Talmud says a good word even for the most despised crea- tures! Even concerning scorpions, spiders and insects, it is written "It is good." Author to Sell Manuscript of 'The Passover Plot' NEW YORK, — Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield, author of the contro- versial best seller, "The Passover Plot," has donated the original manuscript of his book to World Service Trust. The original manu- script will be sold to the highest bidder above $5,000, and will be accompanied by a signed title page and a personal letter from Dr. Schonfield. The fee received will be used by the World Service Trust in its humanitarian work giving relief to victims of natural disasters. The World Service Trust is a regis- tered charity in Great Britain. 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The defense secretary charac- terized increased Soviet naval ac- tivity in the Mediterranean as primarily "a diplomatic gesture aimed at recouping political losses suffered as a result of Moscow's inability to forestall Israel's vic- tory over the Arabs in June, 1967." He contended that the Soviets "probably do not plan formally to acquire permanent bases in the Mediterranean and the Arab world. Indeed, we believe that these coun- tries which have potentially useful facilities — primarily the United Arab Republic, Syria. Yemen and Algeria — would probably resist granting full base rights on polit- ical grounds." Noting the Soviet re-supply of the Arabs with arms following the Six-Day War, McNamara said that Russian military aid shipments now appeared to have fallen off to pre-war levels. But he added that "the Soviet Union's partisan polit- ical position on Middle Eastern questions, its increased naval pres- ence in the Mediterranean, its in- tervention in the conflict in Yemen and its efforts to reduce or sup- plant Western influence, generally, have contributed to instability in the region." Because of this situation, he added, the United States relaxed its arms freeze and resumed "selected and limited arms ship- ments" to friendly nations in the Middle East. He pointed out that "virtually all of the items sup- plied were ordered prior to the (June) war and, except for a limited number of aircraft pro- vided to Israel, were support items." He said that "Soviet naval craft in the Mediterranean, including guided-missile cruisers, a number of submarines, lesser warships, and support units which could provide for year-round operations, have ef- fectively shown the flag. Although modest in size and punch compared with the U.S. Sixth Fleet, the So- viet fleet provides the type of visibility which Moscow has elected to seek. It has similarly signaled that the future Soviet posture will include marine amphibious forces and helicopter carriers. How all these activities will affect their future behavior is a matter to which we will give close atten- tion." Mayor of French Border Town Cited; Saved Jewish Children from Gestapo GENEVA (JTA) — A former leader of the French resistance movement who rescued 32 Jewish children from the Gestapo in 1944 at the risk of his own life, was presented here with the Award of Righteousness, a silver medal and illuminated scroll symbolizing Jew- ish gratitude for acts of bravery by non-Jews in their behalf. The recipient was Jean Def- faught, former Mayor of Anne- masse, who served the French resistance in the Franco-Swiss bor- der region during World War II. The award was presented by the new Israeli envoy to Switzerland, Ambassador Aryeh Levivi, in cere- monies held in the Israel Mission head quarters here. Ambassador Mordecai Kidron, permanent rep- resentative of Israel to the United U.S. Governors in Israel Visit Shazer, Eshkol Orchestra and Entertainment ' „.... ' - Deteriorated, Notes Arms Freeze McNamara Says Situation in M.E. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Six American governors and the gover- nor of the Virgin Islands, paying a five-day visit to Israel as guests of the government, were received formally Sunday in separate visits to President Zalman S'hazar, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Foreign Minister Abba Eban. They also visited the Hebrew University and Yad Vashem, the memorial to the victims of the Nazi Holocaust con- ducted by the Remembrance Auth- ority. In the group were Governors John A. Volpe of Massachusetts, chairman of the National Governors Conference; Tim Babcock of Mon- tana; Warren P. Knowles of Wis- consin; Robert E. McNair of South Carolina; Charles Terry of Dela- ware; and Hulett C. Smith of West Virginia. Gov . Ralph E. Paiewon- sky of the Virgin Islands is also a member of the group. Yotvata Age Ten EILAT—Yotvata, the first kib- utz founded in the Arava, 40 kilo- meter north of Eilat, celebrated its 10th anniversary. It presently cultivates some 1,200 dunams (300 acres) of land reclaimed by the JNF, 250 dunams (62 acres) of which grow dates, melons and flow- ers for export. The kibutz's 300 dairy cows provided Eilat 'with most of its dairy needs: Nations in Geneva participated in the ceremonies. A number of Mr. Deffaught's former resistance corn- I rades were present. Israeli Commie Joins E. Germany in Attack on 'Aggressor Israel' BONN (JTA) — A joint com- munique, issued in East Berlin by the East German Communist Party on behalf of itself and the Com- munist splinter party in Israel, called Israel the aggressor in the June war and demanded Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories, it was reported here. Issuance of the declaration fol- lowed several days of talks with East German party officials by Meir Wilner, leader of the Israeli party, who also said, in an inter- view in East Berlin with the Com- munist paper, Neues Deutschland, that the meeting early this month between Israeli Premier Levi Esh- kol and President Johnson about peace talks with the Arabs was a "political maneuver." The Israeli Communist also as- serted that Israel was becoming "more and more isolated" and had "lost sympathy" in many countries. He also charged that Israel was seeking "new adventures." Harman Hails 'Decency' of U.S. Towards Israel NEW YORK (JTA)—Addressing 500 guests at a farewell dinner Jan. 23 tendered by the Confer- ence of Presidents of Major Jew- ish Organizations, Ambassador Av- raham Harman of Israel paid trib- ute to "the sense of decency and fair play" which he said the United States had shown towards Israel and other small nations that had obtained their independence fol- lowing World War II. The ambassador praised the United State for its "unswerving policy" of upholding the right of every state to be its own self and to see its existence respected. He said that "never has this policy of supporting small and indepen- dent state been more effectively and clearly expressed than in the American stand during the Middle the . East crisis °last' June - andin. ' UN debate' since that Friday, February 9, 1968-35 Scholar Condemns THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Moves to Condone Orthodox Groups Resume Homosexuality NEW YORK (JTA) — A leading Orthodox rabbinical scholar has charged that contemporary Chris- tianity "is reverting to its pre- Judaic roots" and showing signs of a "resurrection of a long-re- pressed pagan past" in the growing questioning by church leaders of the ancient Judaeo-Christian doc- trine that homosexuality is morally wrong. Battle Against Autopsies JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ultra- be permitted under any circurn- Orthodox groups renewed their stances without written consent demonstrations against autopsies from the patient prior to death or at a rally here on Jan. 31 attended from his family after death. by more than 4,000 persons. At The Israel Physicians Assoela- the same time, posters appeared tion has asked the prime minister in Jerusalem streets accusing doe- to take steps to protect the medi- tors of selling human limbs for cal profession and the reputations profit. The Orthodox protests had of doctors from "a smear cam- been suspended during the Six-Day paign by certain fanatic elements." War. The Orthodox groups are de- PRESENTS manding revision of the present law which permits physicians to order autopsies without prior con- sent of the deceased or his family! in cases where there are over-1 whelming medical or scientific I reasons for autopsy or the suspi- cion of foul play. The law requires BIG BAND OR SMALL COMBOS that three physicians concur in the UN 3-8982 UN 3-5730 need for autopsy. The Orthodox contend that autopsies should not Rabbi Norman Lamm, founder- editor of Tradition, the rabbinical periodical, professor of philosophy at YeshivaUniversity, writing in the current issue of Jewish Life, publication of the Union of Ortho- dox Jewish Congregations of America, cited the recent report on homosexuality to the British Council of Churches, a meeting on the problem in New York last Nov. 28 attended by 90 Episcopa- lian bishops, and a variety of similar pronouncements by Swed- ish and German church spokes. The minimum industrial wage men. in Nicaragua is only 21 cents an He summarized the "new think- hour, and unskilled labor earns ing" on the Christian view on less. Contributions to the CARE homosexuality, as expressed in Food Crusade, New York 10016, those reports, as holding that such help provide a daily meal at new acts should not be dismissed as preschool, centers for undernour- wrong, per se; that when per- ished children from low-income formed by "consenting adults," families. they should be judged "by the same criterion as a heterosexual mar- riage — whether it is intended to foster a permanent relation of love—" and that such acts are Now Booking - - "normally neutral" and even, at times, "a good thing." BY POPULAR DEMAND ! Judaism, Rabbi Lamm said, con- demns homosexuality as an abom- ination and the Tora legislates on it in the context of other sexual vices, such as adultry, incest and bestiality. Capital punishment is ordained in Leviticus for such acts. Homosexuality, whether male or female, "can never be legitimized in the eyes of Judaism," he stressed. This does not mean, the rabbini- cal scholar emphasized, that "Jews who live by Judaism" lack com- passion for the person "trapped by this dreadful disease" or that a case cannot be made, within a Jewish religious context, for treat- ing homosexuals as sick, rather than evil, but authentic Judaism can never agree "to the current campaign in this country and in Europe to declare homosexuality a matter of personal taste within the range of normality." lie warned that Jews must view "this new tendency in Christianity with dismay and profound regret," adding that "this change in direc- tion in Christian opinion" would "undoubtedly have its effect on non-Christian citizens as well." . 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