JPS and AJContunittee Year Book Reviews
Jewish
School Needs, Theologic Concerns
Jewish schools in America can and Milton Himmelfarb, with Mrs. I
supply guidelines for moral con- Nlartha Jelenko as associate ed-
duct, according to a leading Jew- itor.
ish educator, but "We must avoid
In another article, "Concerning
the pitfall of assuming that the Jewish Theology in North Amer-
Jewish tradition provides precise ica: Some Notes on a Decade,"
and specific answers to contemp- Lou H Silberman, Hillel profes-
sor of Jewish literature and
orary problems."
Writing on "Jewish Education though t, Vanderbilt University,
- for What?" in the 70th annual Nashville, discusses the dominant
edition of "American Jewish Year themes and significant develop-
Book," Walter I. Ackerman, pro- ments in Jewish theology during
lessor of education and dean of the past decade. Prof. Silberman
the Hebrew Teachers College and believes that the Jewish then-
College of Judaica of the Univer- logian's inescapable problem is
sity of Judais m, Los Angeles, and will continue to be Auschwitz.
states that "the search for 'rel - Some Jewish scholars feel that the
evance,' aside from its mercurial Nazi Holocaust has changed the
character which makes long-range Jewish view of God, man and
planning for schools virtually im- morality.
possible, can distort the meaning
Is the God who permitted the
of Judaism and impose connota- slaughter of six million Jews in
tions never before intended."
Europe the same God who wit-
The latest edition of the year nessed the rebirth of Israel and '
book, published jointly by the its survival through three wars?
American Jewish Committee and Jews ignore that question only
the Jewish Publications Society of at their "spiritual and intellect-
America, was made public at the ual peril," writes Prof. Silber-
.
with the smallest percentage of
Jews are Alaska and Idaho, each
with 0.07 per cent. South Dakota
is next, with 0.08 per cent. •
New York's percentage of Jews,
13.95, is the largest of any state,
with New Jersey's 5.46 per cent,
Massachusett's 4.75 per cent, and
Maryland's 4.72 per cent next.
Other states having above-average
percentages of Jews are California
with 3.59 per cent, Connecticut
with 3.50 per cent, and Florida
with 3.08 per cent.
Israel in Antique Exhibit THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Ocotber 31, 1969-27
ROME (JTA)-Six Phoenician
glass objects from the personal
collection of Israel's defense min-
ister, Moshe Dayan, attracted
most attention at the sixth inter-
n a t i o n al antiquities exhibition
which opened in Florence. Viewers
said Israel was well represented,
mainly by Phoenician and Greek
statuettes. The Phoenician glass
was used for cosmetic purposes.
Gen. Dayan is an ardent amatuer
archeologist and collector of an-
tiques.
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vites the community to an open
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two Mondays, Nov. 3 and Nov. 17.
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The leader ship
communities listed in the year reception is in
book's tables were rather small advance of the
Chenkin observes, except Miami, medical profes-
which showed an increase of sion inaugural
10,000 for a total of 140,000.
dinner dance, to
In the past 15 years, the Jewish be held Nov. 19.
ish ethic." population has risen by about 869.-
Dr. Voss, one
The current edition of the "Am - 000, Chenkin asserts, the rate of of the founders
per
cent
a
1.15
erican Jewish Year Book" is a growth averaging
of the American
463-page compendium of events year. In the same period, the total Christian Pales-
and trends in Jewish life, includ- U.S. white population went from tine Committee
ing articles on Jewish population 145.2 million to 176.7 million, an and chairman of
Voss
communal affairs and Jewish af- average annual growth of 1.425 its executive
committee, was minister of the
fairs throughout the world. The per cent.
Jews
constitute
2.94
per
cent
of
New England Congregational
Year Book editors are Morris Fine
data, civil and political issues, the total population. The states Church in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.,
and served as visiting professor of
theology and history of religions
at the Theological School of St.
Lawrence University and also lee-
lured at Skidmore College.
He has visited Israel many
times and recently returned from ty
an extensive tour of the Middle ir
East, during which he met with
Israeli and Arab leaders. He is
the author of "Rabbi and Min-
t ister," a biography of Rabbi Ste-
' phen S. Wise and Dr. John Haynes
,Imes, and a compilation of the Vs:
letters of Rabbi Wise. His other
books include, "The Palestine
Problem Today," and "This Is
Israel."
He will speak on behalf of State
of Israel Bonds.
Fourteen Lubavitch Hasidic
singers and musicians pictured
in a performance here last year,
will be featured at the Hanuka
Hasidic concert at 8 p.m., Dec. 9
in Ford Auditorium under the
sponsorship of Detroit Friends
of Habad Lubavitch and Camp
Gan Israel. Soloist will be Can.
tor Mose Teleshevsky of Brook-
lyn. Dr. VelvI W. Green, asso-
ciate professor of public health
at the University of Minnesota
and a prominent member of the
College and University Council
of Habad, will address the
audience. The singers, under the
direction of Rabbi Eli Lipsker,
will appear with a boys choir.
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and Welfare Funds reports that home, 944 Stuy-
the 1968 population of the United vessant, in Birm-
Changes in the Jewish popula-
lion of most of the hundreds of
Detroit
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By region, 64.0 per cent of the
country's Jews live in the North-
east: 12.5 per cent in the North
Central states; 10.3 per cent in
the South, and 13.2 per cent in the
West.
Of the 4,019,000 Jews in Europe.
about 2,594,000 were in the Soviet
Union. France is the largest Jew-
ish community with 535,000. There
were 410,000 Jews in Great Bri-
tain, some 100,000 in Romania,
and 80,000 in Hungary. Outside of
the
United States and the Soviet
opening session of the annual man.
meeting of the AJ Committee's i He deals with the theological Union, the largest number of the
policy-making national executive implications of Auschwitz - the world's 13,786,000 Jews were the
2,436,000 in Israel.
board by Bertram H. Gold, exec- embodiment of evil in the world
utive vice-president. - and Israel - the affirmation of
In professor Ackerman's view, the presence of a good and kind
"It would be far more honest and God - in the context of Rabbi ; R
efficacious for a teacher to admit Richard L. Rubenstein's "After '
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that on a specific problem of Auschwitz."
Judaism, in its classic formula-
There was "a significant in
to
has nothing
say, rather crease of Jewish self-awareness
than attempt to force a position and concern over anti-Semitic pre-
Rev. Carl Hermann Voss, promi-
which is easily recognized as judice in America" last year. nent Protestant clergyman, noted
nothing more than an intellectual writes Edward T. Rogowsky in author and friend of Israel, will
gymnastic."
' "Intergroup Relations and Ten- be the guest speaker at the leader-
Professor Ackerman believes sions in the United States, 1968." ship reception for doctors and
that one way of solving the per- In the annual demographic re- their wives to be hosted by Dr.
petual problem of finding enough view, Alvin Chenkin of the and Mrs. Bruce
Council of Jewish Federations Danto, in their
qualified teachers would be to
establish a Jewish university to
train "literate, concerned and
responsible persons, as Jewish
educators and community lead-
era. Such a university should
not be "one whose Jewishness
is only in the source of its fi-
nancial support," but one "in
which general and Jewish stu-
dies are integrated within a
framework suffused by the Jew-
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