THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 12, 1968-53 Cleveland Center Backs Open Membership Policy CLEVELAND (JTA)—The board of the Jewish Community Center has reaffirmed a policy of open membership for all, "regardless of race, religion or national origin." The action was taken at a board meeting after discussion stimulated by a national Jewish Community Center membership policy study, made by the National Jewish Wel- fare Board. Max Friedman, JCC president, said that the center had always welcomed non-Jews "both as parti- cipants and as members." He added that "we believe that non-Jewish participation helps to promote in- ter-cultural understanding. At the same time," he declared, "we are dedicated to the proposition that the presence of non-Jewish mem- bers does not divert our agency in any way in carrying out its dis- tinctive Jewish programs." The mind unlearns with difficul- ty what it has long learned.—Sen- eca. Passover Best Wishes d WAYNE PACKING CO. 2516 ORLEANS WO 1-5060 'Sacred Books of the World' Includes Texts From Jewish Lore New Testament," including Psalms of Solomon, Book of Enoch, Apo- calypse of Baruch, Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. There is a section devoted to "Hellenistic Literature Outside the Bible," and here he devotes him- self primarily to the writings of Philo. Peculiarly, he rates Philo as "a boring writer, and not the least for his earnest efforts tO allegorize everything that he finds in the Hebrew scriotures, so as to give a spiritual meaning to the most trivial detail." He adds, how- ever: "That he is important be- cause he shows how the allegoriz- ing method of Alexandrian schol- ars which the Greeks applied to their own myths, was capable of being diverted by an ingenious Jew to the extraction o' new mean- Dv-is out V. such unpromising mate- rial as Leviticus. This showed a way which was afterwards fol- lowed up by some Christians, with rr.ther dubious results, as may be in the so-called Epistle of Barna bps." These are rather rare criticisms, but they inspire study and re- search to ascertain the Philo philo- sophical thesis in relation to bibli- cal criticisms. The lengthy con- sideration given to Philo by Prof. Bouquet is in itself a valuable commentary. Concerning himself with the hymns of the synagogue and with talmudic lore, Dr. Bouquet distinguishes between Tora and talmudic teachings. He explains the Mishna, the Tannaim and the Geonim and quotes talmudic tractates — Pesahim and Baba Kamma. In relation to the quo- tation from latter on Nezikin or damages in civil law he states that his selected portion is com- parable to similar regulations in the Code of Khammurabi and regulations composed by Mos- lems. Selections from liturgical pray- ers inserted as examples of Jewish :I5 worship include the- Kaddish, Ke- ••• dusha,. Yigdal Adon Olan, a lengthy dissertation on the Shama and the ••• 18 Benedictions- from the She mane Esre. ••• ••• He makes use of the entire Leha Dodi, the acrostical poem on the name of the author, R. Shelmo Aiming at a deeper understand- ing of the religions of the world, Dr. A. C. Bouquet of the Univer- sity of Cambridge compiled ex- cerpts from prayers and preach- ments of various faiths for his "Sacred Books of the World." This volmne has just been reissued as a paperback by Penguin Books. Fragments of religious hymns of extreme antiquity and primitive chants are included in the first portion of the book. They are fol- lowed by hymns of ancient poly- theisms and the literatures mark- ing creative religious developments —including the Old and New Testa- ments—and the fourth and con- cluding section is devoted to ex- cerpts from Jewish literature and prayers. from the Talmud, Hasidic lore and liturgy as well as Moslem, Japanese and other literary mate- rial. 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