Justice Fortas Quoted Endorsing
Objectives of Hebrew Day Schools
Tora Umesora National Society
for Hebrew Day Schools, in a news
release issued this week,. quoted
Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas
as having endorsed the principles
of the Hebrew Day School move-
ment. The release states:
"Abe Fortas, currently associate
justice of the United States Su-
preme Court and the first Jew in
United States history to be nomin-
ated as its chief justice, recently
regretted the fact that when he
grew up as a youngster in Mem-
phis, Tenn., the community did not
as yet have a Hebrew day school,
Tora Umesora, the national So-
ciety for Hebrew Day Schools, re-
vealed today. Speaking in St. Louis,
Mo., on behalf of the local Hebrew
day school, the associate justice
said, When I was a boy growing
up in Memphis, we learned there
only to read the Hebrew script,
and we didn't learn what it meant.
And since that time, as I've grown
older, (I have read a great deal in
Jewish lore, in Jewish literature,
and in the Great Books, and) I am
so sorry—so sorry that we in Mem-
phis were so poor, that we in Mem-
phis were so deprived, that we did
not have the opportunity really to
learn.'
"Tora Umesora, which made
excerpts of the justice's address
available to day school people,
also said that the chief justice-
nominee had an opportunity to
meet a number of day school stu-
dents-6th graders—and to discuss
with them the legal complexities of
a lesson on Talmud which they had
completed that very day dealing
with theories of liabilities and the
doctrine of the last clear chance.
Mr, Fortas who found the experi-
ence most pleasurable and the
discussion most stimulating said,
`Isn't it wonderful that a young
boy is learning in this great book,
this great repository not only of
wisdom but of the training of the
mind and the heart? Isn't it won-
derful that he is reading there a
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ease study that challengeshim to
think—to think about the theory of
responsibility and to think about
what is right and what is wrong."
"So impressed was the associate
justice with the young children
who are already students of the
Talmud that he invited them to
Washington. 'And when they get
to Washington,' he said, "they are
to call me and I am going to show
them around the Supreme Court,
and I am going to ask them to in-
struct me in Judaism.'
"Discarding in the main his pre-
pared talk, the associate justice
said that he did so because of the
impression the day school children
made upon them. 'Very little of
what I have said to you is accord-
ing to plan—but it came to my
I I heart tonight, because of this won-
derful meeting of these few mo-
ments with your children.'
"The associate justice also said
that he likes to speak to Hebrew
Day School audiences and that he
feels particularly wonderful when
he meets day school. students.
When a friend challenged him on
his refusal to speak before another
organization while he accepted the
day school_ invitation, the associ-
ate justice said, 'These Hebrew
academies — the Hebrew day
schools — have a special meaning
to me.' He said that the texts with
which Hebrew day school children
became familiar, 'are such mar-
velous training for the mind. But
more important than that, they are
these marvelous searchlights that
illuminate the hard questions of
life — the questions of right and
wrong, and how you go about find-
ing what is right and detecting
what is wrong.'
"Asserting that the Hebrew day
school belongs on the American
scene Mr. Fortas said, 'Ours is a
country that depends for its rich-
ness upon the richness of each of
the cultures of this great and
magnificent nation. And as these
children increase the strength of
their roots, as they increase the
depth and intensity of their own
background and the greatness of
Judaism, so they increase the
depth and the intensity and the I
meaning of their Americanism. A
Hebrew day school means excel-
lence'. "
Brevities
MRS. MARK SINGER
Elizabeth Sharon Kahn, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Irving S. Kahn of
Independence Dr., Southfield, was
arried recently to Mark Sheldon
_Inger, son of Dr. and Mrs. Harold
Singer of Delmar, N.Y.
The ceremony, held at Adas
Shalom Synagogue was solemnized
by Rabbi Jacob Segal.
The bride wore a princess A-line
gown of silk organza appliqued
with Venice lace. Her matching
lace headpiece held an illusion veil.
She carried Phalaenopsis, ivy and
Stephanotis on a Bible.
Patricia Burev was maid of
honor. Bridesmaids were Susan
Singer, Marjorie Singer, sister of
the bridegroom, Claudia Ruder
and Pauline Eisler.
Donald Alderman of Ann Arbor
was best man. Ushers were Elliot
Kahn, brother of the bride, Lawson
Singer of Long Island, Dr. Arnold
Rosenzweig of Cleveland, Richard
Segal of Evanston, Ill., Lester Pid-
dle of Ann Arbor, Michael Stecke-
lis and Martin Shubert of Platts-
burgh, N.Y.
After a honeymoon in Bermuda,
the couple will reside in Albany.
FRANKLIN SIDEN GALLERY
remains open through July and
August with a new exhibition,
"Season's Highlights." Included in
the group show are works by Allan
D'Arcangelo, Henry Moore, Tada-
aki Kuwayama, Mon Levinson and
Raphael Soto. A plexiglas-and-
light construction by Levinson,
currently on view, was shown in
March at the Second Arts festivals
at the Albright-Knox Museum in
Buffalo, where it received praise
from the art world. Summer hours
are Monday through Friday, 10
a.m. to 5 p.m.
* *
India's exponent of music
and dance, UDAY SHANKAR,
and his celebrated troupe of
-performers, will open the Masonic
Auditorium dance series Oct. 27.
They are considered outstanding
interpreters in the world today of
India's strange and wonderful body
of melody that has fascinated both
laymen and scholars in every part
of the globe since Shankar first
introduced it outside his own coun-
try almost four decades ago.
Kashrut Investigation
ST. LOUIS (JTA) — A commit-
tee appointed to investigate prices
charged here for kosher meat and
poultry, appealed to members of
the St. Louis Jewish community
to come forward with any infor-
mation they had on the situation.
The committee was appointed by
the Vaad-Hoeir-United Orthodox
Jewish Community last February
following published complaints of
excessive prices being charged for
kosher meat and poultry.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 12, 1968-29
Philadelphia AJCongress
Advises Negro Business
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — A
program of counseling Negro bus-
inessmen has been started by the
local American Jewish Congress.
in cooperation with a Negro self-
help group, to help ghetto resi-
dents develop their own business
enterprises.
The program is being imple-
mented with the Greater Philadel-
phia Enterprises Development
Corp., a Negro-directed agency
which seeks to persuade industry
to locate in Philadelphia ghetto
areas. One phase of the GPEDC
program is aid to prospective and
existing Negro businessmen to get
loans for their enterprises.
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