JWB's 'Operation New Year Assists
Jewish Servicemen All Over World
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Bnai Moshe Names Executive Director
Donald J. Sachs, president of
Cong. Bnai Moshe, announced that
Arthur Mandell has been con-
firmed as executive director by
the board of di-
rectors and is
now serving in
that capacity with
the congregation.
Mandell, a
graduate of Long
Island University
with a BS degree
in accounting, is
a veteran of
World War II,
Mandell
having served for
three years in th, U.S. Air Force.
JWB's women's organizations'
services has provided chaplains
with thousands of holiday gifts for '
distribution to the men and has
sent sweets for Rosh Hashana cele-
brations and refreshments for
break-the-fast meals after Yom
Miniature Tora scrolls, prayer Kippur.
hooks, prayer shawls, skull caps,
Cooperating in holiday arrange-
ram's horns, kosher foods, Jewish
ments with the chaplains are local
calendars and inspirational litera-
JWB armed forces and veteran
ture were among the supplies sent
services committees, Jewish Com-
by JWB for High Holy Day serv-
ices in Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, munity Centers affiliated with
• synagogues and other local
Japan, Okinawa, Germany, Italy,
He has lived in the Detroit area
Jewish organizations.
Greece, Turkey, Great Britain,
Spain, Hawaii, the Philippines, the
Azores, Bermuda, Goose Bay (La-
brador). Panama, Iceland, Green-
land, and Alaska, as well as to alt
installations and Veterans Adminis-
tration hospitals in the continental
CERTIFIED KOSHER
United States.
(USN Ret.), is on a special mis-
sion in the Mediterannean to con-
duct High Holy Day services for
Jewish personnel in Naples and
members of the Sixth Fleet. He
will then spend a month visiting
naval installations in the area.
Jewish servicemen in Vietnam.,
on ships at sea, at remote weather
and radar stations, and at more
than 700 other overseas and domes-
tic military posts will attend Rosh
Hashana and Yom Kippur services
through "Operation New Year."
organized by the National Jewish'
Welfare Board, it was announced
by Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow,
chairman of JWB's commission on
Jewish chaplaincy, who is the •
spiritual leader of Temple Beth El,
Cedarhurst, N.Y.
The keynote for these worldwide!
observances was sounded in the'
Rosh Hashana greeting to the
American Jewish community from
the four Jewish chaplains in Viet-
nam—Ira A. Bader, Howard Sha-
piro, Glen M. Stengel and Harold
Wasserman.
Chaplain Joshua L. Goldberg
Friday, September 5, 1969-19
for the past six years with his
his wife and four children.
Associated in Jewish commu-
nal life for the past 21 years,
Mandell's most recent position
was that of east central re-
gional director of the American
Technion Society.
He is a member of the board of
Akiva Hebrew Day School and is
a member of the steering commit-
tee of the "Keep Southfield Beau-
tiful Ball Committee." He was
founding president of the Tangle-
wood Home Owners Association
and has served as a consultant to
Hillel Day School and Adas Sha-
lom Synagogue Building Fund
Campaign.
Brandeis Parley on Judaica Teaching
to Draw Leading
e, C anipus Scholars
WALTHAM, Mass. — Brandeis!
University will host a unique con-1
ference for scholars of Judaica
Sunday through Wednesday when
42 professors from 23 institutions
convene to discuss the teaching of
Judaica in American colleges and
universities.
The Colloquium on the Teaching
of Judaica in American Universi-
ties reflects a "tremendous surge
of interest" in Jewish studies
among American universities, ac-
cording to Dr. I.eon A. Jick, asso-
ciate dean of the faculty of arts
and sciences at Brandeis.
"Professors of Judaica will
discuss the state of the field of
study and the teaching of Ju-
daica in the university, as well
as their own scholarly pursuits,"
Dean Jick said.
Labor Loss Seen
in Balloting for
Histadrut Electors
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Labor sus-
tained a slight but unexpected
setback in Tuesday's voting for
delegates to the 11th convention
of Histadrut. Israel's labor federa-
tion.
Next to the national elections,
to be held in October, the Hista-
drut elections are the country's
most important.
Eleven factions, covering the en-
tire political spectrum, submitted
lists for seats at the convention
which will select members to Ilis-
tadrut's governing bodies.
The Labor Party-Mapam align-
ment. plus the Religious Workers
faction with which it had an agree-
ment, polled 65.8 per cent of the
vote compared to 67.5 per cent in
the last Histradrut election.
Gahal, the Herut-Liberal align-
ment, was up to 16.8 per cent
from 15.2 per cent in tht previous
election. The Independent Liberals
also increased their vote from 4.4
to 5.6 per cent. Of the small fac-
tions, the Ben-Gurion list emerged
the strongest with 3.2 per cent.
Haolam Hazeh scored 1.3 per cent
and the Free Center. 1.9 per cent.
The two Communist lists, only
one of which is Moscow-oriented,
each came out with 1.5 per cent of
the total. But the extreme Com-
munist list scored heavily in Arab
districts, notably Nazareth. where
it won 45 per cent of the vote.
The decline in the Labor vote
was attributed to general dissat-
isfaction over labor issues, par-
ticularly the rash of strikes among
dockworkers, postmen and jour-
nalists.
Only 35 per cent of the eligible
voters in East Jerusalem partici-
pated in the Histadrut elections
Tuesday. A total of 910 ballots
were cast, about half of them in
polling places in East Jerusalem
and the rest in the western sector
where some Arabs preferred to
vote to avoid incidents.
Eight East Jerusalem Arabs
whose names appeared on the
Labor Party-Mapam list had with-
drawn. It is believed they were
threatened by extremists.
•
The colloquium has been made
possible through a grant from
Philip W. Lown of Newton, Mass.
Lown has underwritten Brandeis'
Philip W. Lown School of Near
Eastern and Judaic studies, which
includes the department of Near
Eastern and Judaic studies. the
Philip W. [own Graduate Center
for Contemporary Jewish Studies,
the Institute for East European
Jewish Studies and the Philip W.
Lown Institute for Advanced Judaic
Studies.
Those taking part in the confer-
ence will, in part, try to assess the
burgeoning academic interest in
Judaica that has led to the crea-
tion of new courses, academic
chairs and even separate depart-
ments in American universities.
As an example of the rising in-
terest in Jewish studies, Dean Jick
pointed out that Boston College, a
Jesuit institution, recently estab-
lished a full-time chair in Jewish
religious thought.
In addition, he noted that a
study published in the American
Jewish Year Book of 1966 showed
that, between 1945 and 1965. full-
.time faculty positions in Judaica
rose from 12 to 60.
Dr. Gerson Cohen of Columbia
University will deliver the opening
address, "Jewish Scholarship and
the Challenge of Modernization."
Other speakers are Dr. Jacob
Neusner, Prof. Louis Silberman,
Dr. Nahum Sarna, Dr. Baruch
Levine. Dr. Irving Greenberg,
Yosef Yerushalmi, Dr. Marshall
Sklare. Prof. Arnold Band, Dr.
Natan Rotenstreich and Dean Jick.
Home for Disturbed Boys
Struggling With Budget
NEW YORK (JTA) — The first
Orthodox-sponsored residence facil-
ity in the United States for Jewish
boys unable to live at home has
been opened in Brooklyn and is
struggling with rising costs of op-
eration. The Ohel Residence is
housed in a new structure in the
Boro Park section of Brooklyn.
The residence has a capacity for
20 boys. It opened earlier this year
with 15 residents, all from Ortho-
dox families, and ranging in age
from five to 14, according to Mrs.
Batsheva Mandel, who organized
the effort to create such a facility
some seven years ago and who is
now executive secretary of the
Ohel Children's Home Fund.
Experience is the name everyone
gives to their mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde.
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