Dr. Solomon Freehof to Discuss
'Jew, Talmudic Mind' at Temple
Jerusalem Ministry
Awaits Polish Apology
for Mistreating Israeli
Friday, November 29, 1968-17
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Tel Aviv U.'s Medical School Dean
Will Speak in Detroit and Ann Arbor
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The for-
Dr. Solomon B. Freehof, rabbi came to the U.S. at the age of 11 eign ministry said that it had re-
ceived no apology from Poland
emeritus of Rodef Shalom Temple and was graduated from the Uni-
Dr. Andre de Vries, dean of the treat at the Royal Victoria Hospi-
in Pittsburgh, will be the third in a versity of Cincinnati and the He- over the mistreatment of an Israeli
series of speakers planned by Tem- brew Union College.
citizen by police at the Warsaw medical school of Tel Aviv Univer- tal on the pharmacology and the
attendant medical problems of
Prior to his retirment two years airport.
ple Israel, 8:30
sity, will speak at the University
ago, Dr. Freehof had served Rodef
p.m. Monday.
The citizen, Mrs. Ursula Rosen, of Michigan and in Detroit while snake bite, and kidney stones.
The medical school at TAU was
Shalom Temple, one of the coun- said in a radio interview that the
His address on
try's largest Reform congregations, Finnish consul who handles Polish on a three-week visit to the U.S. on established in 1964 with de Vries,
The Jew and the
behalf
of
the
university
and
the
a
native of Holland, as the first
Talmudic Mind"
for more than 30 years.
affairs in Israel, telephoned her
He has written extensively, in- and conveyed official apologies American Friends of the Tel Aviv dean, He will retire from the post
will be under aus-
and
return to the laboratory and
cluding among his work "Stormers from the Polish government. Po- University.
pices of the tem-
lecture room at the end of this
of Heaven," "The Small Sanctu- land broke off diplomatic relations
ple's adult educa-
Dr. de Vries, founding member
ary," "Modern Jewish Preach- with Israel following the war.
tion committee
of the International Society of year.
ing," "Reform Jewish Practice,"
and is open to
Mrs. Rosen went to Poland to Toxicology, also will speak at
"Preface
to
Scripture,"
"The
Re-
series ticket hold-
arrange for the transportation of Princeton and at gatherings of the
sponsa Literature," "Reform Re- the body of her father, who had American Friends' group in New
ers at no addi-
sponsa," "A Treasury of Responsa" died a few days earlier, to Israel York and Chicago to articulate the
tional cost. Indi-
and "Recent Reform Responsa."
vidual tickets may
for burial. She carried a letter needs of the university, and the
be obtained that Dr. Freehof
from the Finnish legation in Tel- medical school in particular.
evening at a nominal fee.
Aviv, asking Polish authorities to
Dr. de Vries is to speak in Mon-
Dr. Freehof is a past president
grant her an entry visa. Instead,
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she was interrogated, abused and
of the Central Conference of Amer-
SEE OR CALL
French Radio to Beam
ican Rabbis and was the first
put on a plane to Paris.
American to serve as president of
Yiddish to E. Europe
Lubavitcher Movement
the World Union for Progressivei
AT
PARIS (JTA)—The French Na-
Judaism.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Nahum Opens Wisconsin Ofice
Born in London, Dr. Freehof
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Luba- tional Radio will start a daily 15-
Goldmann, World Jewish Congress
minute Yiddish broadcast that will
vitcher
movement
has
announced
WiLort-erioiman
I president, expressed sorrow, in a
be beamed to Eastern Europe and
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wire to the Vatican, over the death the opening of a new regional office will be heard clearly as far away
of Augustin Cardinal Bea, the in Milwaukee, its seventh in as Moscow. The program will car-
achatc
prime mover behind the Ecumeni- the United States, to offer educa- ry news of a nonpartisan nature
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
cal Council's declaration absolving tional activities and programs. The as well as cultural and educational
Birmingham
(Copyright 1968, JTA, Inc.)
Woodward
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new office will be headed by Israel-
Why does Jewish tradition ask the Jewish people of guilt for the born Rabbi Israel Shmotkin, who items. No date was announced for
MI 4-1930
Crucifixion
of
Jesus.
The
cardinal
one to confess his sins before
studied at Lubavitcher institutions the start of the broadcasts, but
was buried in Rome Nov. 19.
Res. 357-0326
death?
in Israel and was ordained by the they are expected to begin before
Dr. Gerhart Riegner, WJCon-
The Talmud (tractate Shabbos
Lubavitcher yeshiva in New York. the end of the year.
gress
secretary-general,
told
a
32a) cites this requirement by say-
seminar of the organization's
ing: "When a man is sick and near
American Section here that Car-
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unto death they say to him Make a
dinal
Bea's "contribution to the
confession.' " The Scriptures tell
opening of a new chapter in the
us "He who confesses and forsakes
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people was second only to Pope
is the means of repentance, and re-
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pentance brings forgiveness. The
John XXIII himself."
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prisoner condemned to die. This rector of the American Jewish
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of Joshua (Joshua 7:19) who was described how the late Cardinal
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asked to confess his sin before he Bea personally fought for the
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Was put to death. The Talmud declaration absolving the Jewish
gUal
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seeks to prove that his confession people from collective guilt for the
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brought him Divine atonement for Crucifixion.
his sin (Semahot 2:10) by showing
"In Rome, I saw him on several
that he was still included amongst occasions literally risk his stand-
the sons of his father as an indica- ing by courageously opposing
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tion that he will have a share in the forces from the Arab world, pro-
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world to come (I Chronicles 2:6). fessional anti-Semites and ultra-
The Mishna cites a form of con- conservative prelates who sought
fession on the part of one who is to sabotage the declaration on non-
about to die by having him ask: Christian religions which he had
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"May my death be an atonement struggled so bravely and assidu-
for all mine sins" (Mishna Sanhe- ously to have adopted by the Cath-
F
drin 6:2). Another Tanaitic source olic Church," Rabbi Tanenbaum
tells us that "All who die expiate said.
their offenses by death." (Siphra
The fact that Catholic-Jewish
33a). The form of confession which relations have improved so meas-
we use is basically that which was urably throughout the world is the
recorded by Nahmandies in me- greatest living tribute to his life
dieval times as having already and monumental work."
existed by that time for many years
(Nahmanid es. Torat Ha-adam ) .
Basically the concept of confession Efforts to Aid Economy
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before death is somehow predicted of Refugees Told by Wife
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upon the belief that there is a judg-
of
Dayan
in
India
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ment that is rendered after death.
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NEW DELHI. (JTA)—Mrs.. Ruth
The confession clears the way to
salvation for the individual who is Dayan, wife of Israel's defense
on his death bed. It also brings to minister, Moshe Dayan, described
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mind, even for the living that at a press conference here efforts
"there is no death without sin" being made by Israelis to improve
(Babli, Shabbos 55a), somehow in- the economy of Arab refugees in
dicating to both the dying and the camps in Israel-held territory.
surviving that death finds everyone
Mrs. Dayan is visiting India in
bearing some sin for which he had connection with an International
best confess in order to clear his Labor Organization conference on
way to the salvation of the world the role of handicrafts in the econ-
omy of developing countries. She
to come.
Close to 40 years ago, the House of placed on our label.
said that Arab and Israeli social
Why does the dying man pro- workers worked together in the
Heinz introduced a new variety— The © was
claim the message of the faith by camps and bought whatever the
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saying "Hear 0' Israel, the Lord refugees made. Mrs. Dayan said a
our G-d, the Lord is One" before training course in dress-making
a
Jewish
passing away?
was opened for Arab women in
Kosher, quick-to-fix many-purpose
Rabbi Akiba is said to have pass- Jerusalem.
ed a martyr's death after reciting
delicious food.
Israel will participate in the 21st
this declaration (Berahot, 61b). International Geographic Confer-
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The patriarch Jacob is said to have ence to open here during the first
done likewise. Generally speaking, week of December. Three members
arranged
it behooves a man to express his of the Israeli delegation, Dr. Ami-
faith and to, so to speak, reassure ram Gonen, Dr. Asher Schick and
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words each morning in testimony cities.
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we do contrarywise, every evening.
It is uttered in times of our great-, Yavneh to See Flick
Detroit Chapter of Yavneh will
est change and crisis—the hour of
death. Perhaps the true test of a present a recent documentary film
man's faith is for him to express made by Drew Pearson in Israel
his belief in G-d when G-d is taking 8 p.m. Saturday at the home of
Shoshanna White, 18075 Wisconsin.
from him his very life.
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