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December 13, 1968 - Image 23

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1968-12-13

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Brooklyn Yeshivot Assisted; Tora Scrolls Buried by Mourners

NEW YORK — The American
Jewish Congress Tuesday an-
nounced emergency grants totaling
$500 to two synagogue schools in
Brooklyn that suffered extensive
fire damage last week in an out-
break of attacks on Jewish houses
of worship.
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of
Cleveland, president of the AJC,
authorized the grants following
receipt of an appeal for help from
Rabbi Joseph Kaminetsky, director
of Tora Umesora, the national so-
ciety of Hebrew day schools.
Noting that the fire attacks had
destroyed sacred scrolls, textbooks
and equipment at several Jewish
institutions, Rabbi Kaminetsky
asked that emergency grants be
made "to enable education to pro-
ceed."
Rabbi Lelyveld visited the two
schools Thursday and presented
two $250 checks to Rabbi Melech
Silber of the Yeshiva of Eastern
Parkivay, 418 E. 45th St., in Flat-
bush, and Rabbi Malle Galinsky
of Yeshiva Sharei Zedek, 2876 W.
23rd St., Coney Island.
Rabbi Lelyveld is spiritual lead-
er of Cleveland's Fairmount Tem-

Tora scrolls . . . shall come home
again." The yeshiva is seeking
$200,000 to replace the library,
synagogue and scholarly books.
Last Saturday, the Rabbinical
Seminary of America Yeshivath
Rabbi Israel Meyer Hacohen in
Forest Hills, a Long Island suburb,
was vandalized.
Rabbi Abraham Ginsberg, its ex-
ecutive director, said the Orthodox
institution had been struck by van-
dals frequently in the past. Youths,
later picked up by police, had

smashed six windows with rocks,
some of them weighing five
pounds.
The youths reportedly assaulted
a boy standing near the synagogue
entrance and threw a missile
through an office window, narrow-
ly missing the dean, Rabbi A. H.
Leibowitz, who was conducting a
meeting with Canadian visitors at
the time.
Fragments of glass flew through.
out the room, but no one was in-
jured.

Rabbi Ginsberg said that last
Halloween the lobby and offices
of the synagogue were defaced
with broken eggs and paint, and
a dozen windows were broken. The
seminary, he said, was consider-
ing hiring a private policy agency
to provide protection.

Big

Spurt in Trade Seen
Between Israel, Britain

LONDON (JTA)—Trade between
Britain and Israel increased sub-
stantially during the first nine
months of 1968, compared to the
corresponding period of 1967. Dur-
ing the period that ended last Sept.
30, Britain exported $150,292,800
worth of goods and materials to
Israel and imported $83,926,800
A new untruth is better than an from that country. In 1967, exports
old truth.
and imports amounted to $92,020,.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 000 and $65,116,800 respectively.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 13, 1968-23

ALREADY THE BUSINESS HAS HIM CRAZY

Pie.

In asking for emergency help,
Rabbi Kaminetsky said that the
grants would help replace equip-
ment, sacred scrolls and textbooks
and also "lessen fear among par-
ents by providing greater security
measures and enabling the schools
to obtain more effective safety
precautions." -
Last week, in a telegram to
Mayor Lindsay, the American Jew-
ish Congress urged the appoint-
ment of a special investigator to
coordinate police and fire depart-
ment investigations into the "epi-
demic of fire-bombing attacks on
Jewish institutions" and to ascer-
tain whether they were "isolated
incidents or part of a conspiracy."
In accordance with Orthodox
law, the remains of seven Toras
from the Eastern Parkway
Yeshiva were buried Sunday.
Two thousand Jews watched
while the scrolls, some of them
saved from the Nazis during
World War II, were lowered into
the ground at Beth David Ceme-
tery, Elmont, N.Y. They had
been placed in a pine coffin.
The mourners, who were dressed
In black, attended funeral services
at the yeshiva, where Rabbi Silber
said: "We pledge here today that
the letters and words of our burned

Planned. Theater
Near Synagogue
Draws Clerics' Ire

NEW YORK — A rabbi's protest
against the construction of a movie
theater directly behind the Holy
Ark of his Orthodox synagogue is
getting the support of Protestants
and Catholics, as well as Jews.
Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein is
rabbi of the Kehilath Jeshurun,
125 E. 85th St., whose rear win-
dows and adjoining school would
overlook the theater. Kehilath Je-
shurun is one of the largest and
most influential synagogues in New
York, and its rabbi is past pres-
ident of the Rabbinical Council of
America as well as chairman of
Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Rabbi Lookstein complained that
fhe movie screen of the projected
theater would be "back to back"
With the ark.
Letters from prominent religious

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leaders, including the chancellor
* the Roman Catholic Archdiocese
ot New York, Msgr. Harry J.
tsyrne, emphasized that the jux-'

istposition

of the theater and the
a de-
becration of the synagogue itself,
lie well as a disturbing element in
Om entire area." -

lioly ark would "represent

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