14—Friday, September 27, 1968 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Masada Exhibit Opens Next Friday Teachers, UHS Come to Agreement Masada, the largest archaeolog- ical exhibition ever to travel the United States, will open next Fri- day at the Detroit Institute of Arts and will continue on display through Nov. 10. The exhibit depicts, through arti- facts, dioramas, biblical scrolls, charts, maps and films, the Zeal- ots' fight for freedom on Herod's stronghold in 71-73CE. Lectures related to the exhibit have been scheduled for the dura- tion of the display. On Oct. 9, Dr. Nelson Glueck, author and scholar, will speak on "Palestinian Arch- aelogy and Masada" at 8 p.m. The lecture is sponiored by the insti- tute and the University Center for Adult Education. Dr. Cyprus Gordon, archaeologist and professor at Brandeis Univers- ity, will discuss "Masada" before the Brandeis University National Women's Committee Greater De- troit Chapter. There is no charge for the 11 a.m. talk, but the lunch- ean following is by reservation only. Dr. Gordon, who was a pro- fessor of Assyriology and Evpto- logy at Dropsie College before coming to Brandeis, will lead a tour of the exhibit. Representatives of the United Hebrew Schools and the Associa- tion of Hebrew Teachers sign the two-year contract which became effective this month. Seated are (from left) Jack Shenkman, president of the UHS; Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, president of the teachers' association; and Dr. Benjamin L. Yapko, associate superintendent of the United Hebrew Schools. Looking on are (from left) Robert Kasle, Isadore J. Goldstein, Menachem Glaser and Joseph Bares. Historic Synag ogue Subject of Survival Battle tion, lived and worshiped else- to pay $75,000 on the mortgage where. When the offer was ac- but that a debt of $90,000 still re- mained, partly because of the ac- mained took the issue to court cumulated interest over the long which ruled that the non-worship- period of repayment. The congre- ping congregants could accept the gants have expressed the hope that offer if they did not use the money if another ;40,000 to $50,000 coul be raised, the housing authority— for non-religious purposes. The remaining congregants then which is loath to foreclose the decided to determine whether they mortgage—would accept that sum could save the synagogue on their in full payment. In a two-year ef- own. They changed the name to fort, about ;25,000 has been raised Congregation Beth Haknesses and toward that goal but the congrega- raised ;30,000 which was paid to tion remains in arrears both in the PHA for changes in the La principal and interest. Rabbi Mor- Guardia Houses development plans ris Shisgal, who has served as to allow the synagogue to remain spiritual leader for the past 12 at what had become part of the years without salary, enlisted other site for the housing project. The rabbis in the area to help raise congregants also took a $108,000 the needed cash but, it was pointed mortgage at 3 1/4 per cent with the out, while the rabbis were willing, help of the PHA. Since then, the many, if not most, of them have effort has been in severe diffi- their own fund-raising problems. culties. The battle to preserve the syna- Irwin Goldman, a trustee, said gogue has attracted the sympathy of some leading public figures. In that the congregants had managed 1958, Governor Rockefeller served as co-chairman of a campaign to preserve the structure. Mayor Lindsay has intervened with t h e housing authority for one of the three extensions of the deadline Phillip Stollman, national chair- ' secondary educational facilities for for resuming regular payments on man of the American Committee Oriental Jewish students in Israel, the mortgage and arrears. Hous- for Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and that the vast research plans ing authority officials would like announces the appointment of Jos- have elevated the university to nothing better than to leave the eph Jackier as chairman of this high standards which earned for it ancient synagogue alone but they year's Bar-Ilan dinner to be held U. S. recognition. say that federal agencies are push- Dec. 4, at Cobo Hall. The city-wide committee that ing them to protect the taxpayers Jackier, well-known Detroit at- will assist Jackier is now in forma- money involved in the mortgage. torney, has been active in several tion and will be announced soon. local movements, in Allied Jewish LBJ Greets Dr. Goldstein Leary Tells Orthodox Rabbi Many Jewish Youth on 50th Year in Rabbinate Live by Drug Philosophy NEW YORK (JTA) — President NEW YORK (JTA)—An Ortho- Lyndon B. Johnson sent a message dox rabbi reported this week that of congratulations to Dr. Israel he had been told by Timothy Goldstein on the occasion of the Leary, the self-appointed leader of 50th anniversary of his entry into the "fulfillment - through - drugs" the American rabbinate. The mes- philosophy, that there were many sage was made public by Congre- more Jewish youth in the ranks gation Bnai Jeshurun here of which of the hippies than had generally Dr. Goldstein is rabbi emeritus. been reported and that the number The President wrote, in part: "It of Jewish students among his fol- must be a source of much satisfac- lowers was "very extensive." tion to you to look back upon the Rabbi Irvin S. Borvick, of Young many fruitful years which you have Israel of Syracuse, reported on his spent in dedicated service to God conversation with Dr. Leary in the and to your fellow man. Please current issue of the Young Israel accept my warmest good wishes Viewpoint. The rabbi reported that on this joyous day and during the soon after he and Dr. Leary began years ahead." their conversation, during a Leary Dr_ Goldstein, chairman of the visit to lecture at Syracuse Uni- versity, the drug philosopher was Keren Hayesod, was honored at JOSEPH JACKIER "surrounded by six adoring young golden jubilee services held at Bnai Campaigns and is chairman of the people. Three of the six were Jeshurun last week. He and his committee on the aged that is Jewish. One long-haired young Jew wife, Bertha, also celebrated their planning the erection of a housing traveled all the way from Toronto 50th wedding anniversary. He took unit for older Jewish residents to meet his hero." Jewish mem- under the direction of the Jewish bership in the fading hippie en- the occasion at services to remark Welfare Federation. clave at Haight-Ashbury in San on the serious schism developing Stollman indicated in making Francisco has generally been esti- in Negro-Jewish relations. He urged Jackier's appointment that Bar- mated at about 25 per sent. Dr. Jews not to permit unjustified Ilan University is now expanding. Leary told Rabbi Borvick that . he provocations to turn them away to. welcome -many eveileae.'sitid-• believed the. Jewish. proportion was . froia•support of•the Negroes' strug- ents; that its program includes closer to 40 per cent. gle for human rights. NEW YORK (JTA) — A small but dedicated group of worshipers is waging an against - the'- odds struggle to continue a synagogue founded by Polish immigrants at the turn of the century at what is now the edge of a Lower East Side low-income housing project. The elements of the struggle are a changing neighborhood, the de- parture of most of the tongregants and accumulating debts. There was a time when Congre- gation of the Cities of Sineir and Vilna flourished but as the neigh- borhood changed, the younger, congregants began to move away. In 1953, the New York City Public Housing Authority began condem- nation proceedings to clear the way for the federally - aided La Guardia Houses. The PHA offered $128,732 to 80 officer-members of 1 the congregation for the building and the land. Most of the 80, while still connected with the congrega- cepted, the congregants who re- Joseph Jackier Named Chairman of Bar-Ilan Annual Dinner Committee * There will be continual free film showings of "Return to Masada" and "In Search of History" in the South Wing's Holley Room, and an illustrated Masada catalogue will be avail- able. Containing essays by Louis Finkelstein, Saul Lieberman and Yigael Yadin, the 48-page cata- logue contains photos and maps. Organized by the Jewish Theo- logical Seminary and the Israel Exploration Society, Masada was first shown in London's Festival Hall and since has appeared at the Jewish Museum in New York City and the Field Museum, Chi- cago. Following the Detroit show- ing, it will go to the Dallas Mu- seum of Fine Arts. Photomurals, color projections, recordings, charts, models and re- constructions are included in the display, along with 2,000-year-old sandals, mirrors, jewelry, cos- -411. 4111. ON metic bottles, cooking pots, lamps, coins, mosaics and biblical and secular scrolls discovered•at Mas- ada and nearby caves of Bar Kok- hba. Also, there are documents and tools used by some of the 5,000 volunteers from 28 countries who participated in the excavations in 1963-65. The story of M4sada is told through charts and recorded nar- ration from the Roman occupation of the Holy Land during the rise of Christianity, to the three-year seige. If TOP Tidal 111111 11,1911. MBE SOWN TOP WONT N1 411 111111t Wed MAN ;%/1/00,7* M/77 ` Woo Whontos,-Detroit:Mieh. • • • Do You Know The Last Three Books a Your Child Has Read • • • 13645 W. 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