Israel's Religious Meanin g Hits Home
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Six- said that at no time had the es-
Day War heightened interest in the sentially religious h t of the
religious significance of the State Jew's relation to Israel been more
of Israel, representatives of all apparent than during the summer
branches of Judaism agreed at a crisis. Rabbi Spero and Rabbi
conference sponsored by the Syna- Polish both attributed messianic
gogue Council of America, at meaning to the rebirth of Israel
Columbia University. and to Israel's successful defense
The conference was attended by last summer.
75 rabbis, Christian clergymen and
Rabbi Polish said that the res-
lay leaders. Speakers included toration of Israel was "a hallow-
Rabbi Pesach Z. Levovitz, presi- ed time, capable of interpreta-
dent of the Orthodox Rabbinical tion only in theological terms."
Council of America; Rabbi Shubert Rabbi Spero said that religious
Spero, Young Israel of Cleveland; Jews "must be prepared to look
Rabbi David Polish, Evanston, Ill., upon the present state of Israel as
the Reform spokesman; Dr. Ed- a stage in the process of becoming
ward M. Gershfield, Jewish Theo- the awaited 'Kingdom of Priests
logical Seminary faculty member: and Holy Nation.' " He added that
and Dr. Franklin H. Littell, Prot- the Israeli experience included a
estant theologian. ' call to the Jew in other countries
Rabbi Levovitz, who presided, , "to come home" from those coun-
ZOA to Discuss Aliya at Special Conference in N.Y.
NEW YORK—With the hope and leaders have been calling for West-
goal of increased aliya from the ern immigrants.
United States to Israel, the Zionist i Samuel Wigder, national chair-
Organization of America is calling : man of ZOA aliya committee, will
a
aliya conference March preside at the conference being
10 special
at
Carnegie Endowment held to discuss all aspects of
Building the
harp
In making the announcement, American aliya to Israel including
Jacques Torczyner, ZOA president, absorption, housing and employ-
said that the ZOA would continue ment prospects for professionals,
middle-class businessmen and sen-
promote aliya and encourage its ior citizens.
members to settle in Israel, es-
members
pecially this year when Israeli
Among the experts attending the
conclave will be Abraham Frank,
director, Israel Aliya Center in
New York. Frank has been active
in the field' of immigration and
absorption of western immigrants
in Israel and overseas since the
early days of the state of Israel.
.
Bible Story of Noah
Holds Water for
Designer of Ark
JERUSALEM—An Orthodox Jew,
one of Israel's foremost religious
painters and synagogue designers.
has constructed a model of Noah's
Ark that is probably the most logi-
cal to date—and he stuck to the
Bible to do so.
Meir Ben-Uri made a long, schol-
arly study of the historical evi-
dence on Noah's ark, and the re-
sults are on display in the Ilehal
Shlomo, the seat of Israel's Chief
Rabbinate.
Archaeologists have dug up
cuneiform tablets in the region that
is now Iraq which relate the story
of a man who survived a devas-
tating flood by building a vessel
somewhere around 4000 BCE. I
Woods common to southern
Iraq, bamboo and lightweight
wood, were • chosen by Ben-Uri.
who relied upon God's commands
to Noah, for the design: the ark
should have a door in its side,
a skylight and three decks; its
dimensions should be 300 cubits
(492 feet) long, 50 cubits (82 feet)
wide and 30 cubits (49 feet) high.
For his ark, Ben-Uri devised a
"prismatic rhomboid"—a long bar
whose cross section is shaped like
a diamond. Noah could have built
the vessel while it was lying at an
angle on one side; the animals
could easily climb the gentle in-
cline and enter a door which would
become the skylight as the ark
began to float on an even keel.
Thus, water could not enter the
craft from its sides.
The designer, who is convinced
that the Bible has a basis in fact,
says the ark could easily accom-
modate three decks and provide a
capacity of 5,000 tons, enough for
at least 1,000 pairs of animals.
German Weekly Calls
on Luebke to Quit Post
BONN (JTA)—Stern Magazine
called, in its current issue, on
Heinrich Luebke, president of I
West Germany's Federal Republic.
to "perform one worthy service to
this country, by resigning." ,
Luebke, who was imprisoned by
the Nazis for 20 months in 1933,
has never denied that he was em-
ployed by a Berlin construction
firm during the war but he has not
answered Communist allegations
that he was involved in building
barracks to house concentration
camp victims.
Luebke was expected to meet
with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger to
discuss possible "political reper-
' heie and abroad.
cussiOns.
. . . . . . .
. . .
tries, "where he sits not because it
is the will of God, but because he
likes the view."
Rabbi Gershfield, the Conserva-
tive spokesman, said religious
Zionists had failed to work out the
implications for Jewish religious
life of a sovereign Jewish state and
that religious Jews had not taken
into account the secular and demo-
cratic tradition of the modern
state nor realistically reconciled
the compability of religious phil-
osophy with the exercise of tem-
. oral power.
Dr. Littell said that "the agony
of the breakdown of Jewish-
Christian dialogue seven months
ago was compounded for some
of us by the theological naked-
ness of leading Protest a n t
churchmen." He remarked that
"a former moderator of the
United Presbyterian church fell
into open anti-Semitism. Two
former heads of theological sem-
inaries, one Methodist and the
other Presbyterian, took their
stands squarely on the religious
ground once occupied by the
German Christians—those vapid .
collaborators with the Nazi in
the assault on the Confessing
Church during the Third Reich."
Asserting that "even the general
hoard of the National Council of
Churches itself" failed to grasp
both the political and the theo-
logical issue of the June crisis, the
Protestant theologian said that
"the political issue was the Rus-
sian adventure in the Mediter-
ranean" and "the theological is-
sue was the essential solidarity of
Israel and the Church."
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