17—HOUSES FOR SALE
14 MILE-TELEGRAPH AREA
4 year old custom 4 bedroom
colonial, prime condition. 21/2
baths, paneled family room, fire-
place, all built-ins, first floor
laundry. Full basement. !2 acre
lot. City water and sewers. 6%
mortgage. $53,900.
Apts. can be made for between
2 & 5 Sat. or Sun.
626-4260
LIVONIA
Hearthstone Sub
3 bedroom brick ranch, built-ins,
paneled large kitchen. Full .
basement. May assume 4 Y2 %
mortgage, $26,900.
Owner
GR 4-8827
17.A—LOTS FOR SALE
POWDER Horn Estates. 150x174. CRY
sewer and gas. Birmingham mailing
address. Call Sunday, 547-9527.
FRANKLIN VILLAGE area. 11/2 acres In
Woodcreek Farms on Old Colony Dr.
Country setting yet close to 1-696. 851-
0873.
SOUTHFIELD
100'x175' Treed Lot
Coventry Woods Lane
off Bell Rd.
OWNER
40—EMPLOYMENT
MALE AND/OR FEMALE
WANTED — to care for male semi-
Invalid. Live in. Able to drive. Refer-
ences. 358-2028.
COMP ANIO N-Housekeeper for lady.
Private room. Bus line. Salary. A great
deal of free time. 353-5629.
SCANDINAVIAN
PART - TIME
Religious school administrator
needed for Hebrew and Sun-
day School, Fall 1970.
Beth Israel Cong., 1429 Hill St.
Ann Arbor 665-9897
REAL ESTATE
$200 DRAW
Experienced Salesperson for new
houses in scattered locations in
Detroit area.
Call 499-3000
Our investment operation enables on
experienced salesperson to purchase
reidential property as we supply
financing, and all share in the profits.
Call now for details.
822-2010
40-A—EMPLOYMENT WANTED
WIDOW wants babysitting. LI 6.7572.
Need A Maid?
Special Passover Rates
BY OWNER. Corner lot. Bloomfield
Village, Indian Mound Area. 963-0733.
We provide own transportation —
We furnished most supplies. In-
sured.
$16,000 ea.
Phone 626-5049
19—OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT
GARDEN CITY. 1,500 sq. ft. for lease.
Will finish to suit. Dentist in other
suite. Phone GA 7.2880 or EL 7.4558.
20-A—MODERNIZATION
A & D CONSTRUCTION
All types of home improvement
and new construction
Free estimates.
476-9288
Call JIFFI-MAID
Call 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
354-3145
50—BUSINESS CARDS
LADIES — childreni alterations. Call
evenings after 5:30, 642.2315.
ELECTRIC repairs, all types. Reason.
able. EL 6-7228 or TO 9-3738.
CARPENTRY WORK, all kinds.exterior,
interior Free eestimates. I. Schwartz,
BR 3-4826, LI 5-4035.
Household and Office Furniture
Local and Inter-state
Also storage.
894-4587
LARKINS MOVING CO.
PAINTING AND decorating. Experi-
enced paperhanger. All work guar-
anteed. References. TY 7-2501.
HERALD ROOFING CO.
Local Independent Roofer
Free Estimates
Hot Tar or Residential Shingles
534-5100 or Res. 676-5070
ROOM
ADDITIONS
57—FOR SALE—HOUSEHOLD
GOODS AND FURNISHINGS
Order fine contemporary furniture
from Denmark, Sweden and Norway
at direct import savings of
Ask your friends about me. Mr.
Koloff. '542.1443.
BEAUTIFUL ravine lot, 175x196
Thorncliff, 9 Mile and Inkster. Small
down payment. 356-2576.
With trees & all improvements
in & paid for.
ment and show piece. 398-0071.
BA3YSITTER to care for 2 year old
in our home. Mature person. Own
transportation. 5 days. Southfield area.
356-5657, after 6.
851-3880
W. Bloomfield Tnship.
2 Beautiful Bldg. Sites
56—ANTIQUES
ANTIQUE Beckwith pump organ. Com-
pletely restored. A magnificent instru-
PAINTING, exterior, interior. Free esti-
mates. Reasonable. LI 7-5639, KE 8.1047.
Vernco
ELECTRONIC
59 - A — PIANOS FOR SALE
ACROSONIC piano. Excellent condition.
Modern walnut finish with bench. LI
3-0471.
59 - B — MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
VIOLIN — full size. Fine tone. $35
sacrifice. 398-2462.
`Parity' Principle
in Parochiaid -Hit
NEW YORK—The real goal of
those advocating federal and state
aid to religious schools, including
the forces seeking repeal of New
York's so-called "Blaine Amend-
ment," is "parity"—the same ex-
penditure per pupil in parochial
schools as is spent in public
schools.
This charge is documented in a
study just issued by the American
Jewish Congress entitled, "Parity
. A New Kind of Separate but
Equal," by Joseph B. Robison, di-
rector of the Congress' commission
on law and social action.
Robison defines "parity" as
the concept "that government
should finance private and paro-
chial schools to the same extent
that it finances public schools
.. that whatever public funds
are spent to educate children in
public schools should be avail-
able equally for children in non-
public schools."
Should the principles of parity
be adopted, Robison writes, seri-
ous damage to a public school sys-
tem already suffering from a seri-
ous shortage of funds would re-
sult.
"In view of the present plight of
the public schools, it would take
far less than parity to destroy
them," according to the study
"Even limited government support
to private and parochial schools
can spell disaster for the public
schools."
Hebrew U. Library
Shows 274 Treasures
JERUSALEM—The Jewish Na-
tional and University Library is
displaying a selection of its treas-
BATHROOMS
OPENER
ures at a two-month exhibition on
RECREATION ROOMS
the Hebrew University's Givat
VIMCO
Ram campus.
COMPLETE CUSTOM
The exhibition contains 274 items,
HOME MODERNIZATION
a choice of manuscripts, docu-
FREE ESTIMATES
ments, autographs and rare print-
ed books from the collections of the
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BOB STERN BUILDING CO.
library. •
-
Call Evenings Until
,
The library today numbers some
ra
353-3284
tICE !ISE 0. 16511811
OR 861 2749
10,000 manuscripts and a further
11,500 rare printed books.
PLUMBING. Expert home repair special.
list, garbage disposals, repaired and
The first part of the exhibition
serviced. Call UN. 4-6926.
30-A—INSTRUCTIONS
consists of Hebrew manuscripts
FIRST CLASS painting and decorating
and printed books, including the
BAR-MITZVA, Hebrew, synagogue, Eng- 25 years experience. flnishlna
lish. Experienced tutor. 342.9254, 546- and antiquing our specialty. Reason
earliest dated document in the
0583.
able. 547-1438.
library, a deed of sale of cotton
MATH tutoring, grades 7.12. James
from the year 1052 (Cairo) writ-
Wineman. 863-6372.
ten on parchment in Arabic with
COMPLETE LANSCAPING
Hebrew characters.
SERVICE
40—EMPLOYMENT
The 50 manuscripts exhibited
MALE AND/OR FEMALE
were written over a period of
Experienced college students. nearly nine centuries; among them
NEAT pleasant person for Jewish style
cooking. 2 days a week, for elderly
are illuminated manuscripts of the
873-2941, call after 6 p.m.
couple in lovely ranch home on North-
Bible, of which the earliest was
west side. Mrs. Stalin, 342-7124.
written in Egypt in the year 1106-
PANELING, partitions, floors and ceil-
ings tiled. Also small jobs. Reasonable. 1107, and festival prayer books in-
Communal Position
Ron. LI 3-4576.
cluding the Worms Mahzor from
Responsible position with Jew-
DECORATING, painting, neat and 1272, which had been used by the
ish communal organization as
clean. Small carpenter work. 544-4104, Worms community for hundreds of
542.3270.
administrator of volunteer
years until the "Crystal Night" in
womens' program. Includes
FURNITURE refinished and repaired. 1938, when the synagogue was
Free estimates. UN 4-3547.
educational and fund raising
burned.
activity. Interested in male or
FOR BETTER wall washing, call James
The autograph and archive sec-
Russell. One day service. TO 6-4005, tion shows a number of documents,
female applicants.
526 Belmont.
letters
and other written works in
Write Box 966
JULIUS ROSS MOVING CO. the original hand of many Jewish
The Jewish News, 17515 W.
personalities,
such as Manasse ben
Local and Long Distance STORAGE.
9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield,
Packing, pianos, appliances, household Israel, the Gaon of Vilna, Rabbi
Mich. 48075.
furnishings.
Isaac Levi of Berdichev, Moses
8829 Northend—Ferndale
List experience and qualifications to
Mendelssohn and Leopold Zunz.
543-4832
be treated confidentially.
CUSTOM KITCHENS
GARAGE DOOR
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'=!-rd'nn.i= 358.4774
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 10, 970-53
Research in Jewish Law at Hebre U.
Uncovers Wealth of Social History
ponsa in which not one single
word goes ignored.
All are listed on separate cards
by a team of research workers,
graduates of the faculty, skilled
in the intricacies of rabbinic law
and history. Language too is im-
portant, since the Hebrew of the
responsa contains a substantial
admixture of Aramaic and even
other languages, and the style of
writing differs from country to
country.
Here, too, a further offshoot of
the research emerges: the contri-
bution it may make to the scholar-
ly study of Hebrew. Prof. Mena-
chem Elon, who heads the insti-
tute, emphasises that one of the
major reasons for the survival of
Hebrew lies precisely in the way
in which it was preserved through
the practice of Jewish law.
The rabbis nearly always used
Hebrew and Aramaic in the res-
ponsa. Since they frequently com-
municated with each other as be-
tween, for example, Paris and
Barcelona, or Germany and Po-
land, practical as well as ideolog-
ical considerations were involved,
because Hebrew served as an inter-
national medium of expression.
He a d d s, too, that responsa
written in other languages have,
in the overwhelming majority of
PHILADELPHIA—Jewish law- cases, been lost to posterity,
yers now number almost 12 per though we know they existed for
cent of the personnel of what used mention is made of them in other
to be "Christian" or "predomi- sources.
nantly Christian" law firms here,
Thus, in the period of the
an increase of almost 100 per cent
Gaonim, from the 7th to the 10th
in the last nine years, according
centuries, Babylonian r a bb is
to a report just issued by the
sometimes referred to a judg-
Philadelphia chapter of the Amer-
ment handed down in a particu-
ican Jewish Committee.
lar case which can no longer be
The report, released by Chapter
traced, and the same pheno-
President Charles Kahn Jr., an-
menon occurred in other periods,
nounces the results of a survey
too.
conducted by the chapter in 1969,
The likely explanation for the
and compares them with the re-
loss is that as the Jews wandered
sults of similar surveys it made in
from place to place some may
1961 and 1964. The 1961 survey
have taken lawbooks with them to
"documented very clearly the pat-
lands where the books' languages
terns of exclusion that existed," were not understood, and thus
the report states.
they were lost.
The report states that an in-
vestigation of discrimination in
Rabbinical Alliance
law firms was a natural counter-
part to similar surveys the chap-
Complains Israel Too
ter was making regarding Jews
in management level positions
Lenient on Conversion
in banks, insurance companies
NEW YORK (JTA) — R a bbi
and industrial corporations.
Since "the large 'Christian' law Abraham Gross, president of the
firms handle the legal affairs of Rabbinical Alliance of America,
many of the industrial and bank- called this week upon the Ortho-
ing giants in the area .. . lawyers dox rabbinate not to consider the
have often moved directly into case of "Who Is A Jew" closed.
corporate positions . . . and senior The recent definition by the Is-
law partners frequently sit on the raeli parliament is "totally un-
boards of large corporations and acceptable for it permits conver-
sions by the Conservative and Re-
financial institutions."
In 1961, the report reveals, the form bodies to be registered as na-
14 "Christian" or "predominantly tional Jews," he said.
The Rabbinical Alliance of
Christian" major law offices in
the Delaware Valley employed 502 America, Rabbi Gross said, is call.
ing
upon its members and is ap-
attorneys, of whom 35 were Jewish.
In 1969, however, when the pealing to all other rabbinic
third survey was made, and when bodies to exert all pressures on
the number of large law offices the isrnpli government to change
had grown to 18, it was disclosed the recently enacted law by add-
that the number of Jewish lawyers ing the words "according to Jew-
in these firms had grown to 94, ish law" when it speaks of con-
and that only one of the com- versions.
panies was without Jewish involve-
"To accept by silence this recent
ment. The AJC report adds that ruling is to create within our Jew-
this firm took on its first Jewish ish state a dual category of na-
member after the survey was corn-. tional versus religious Jew," he
pleted.
stated. "It is an open invitation to
intermarriage and assimilation,"
"The most significant break-
Rabbi Gross warned.
through in recent years," the
report declares, "has been in the
At the annual convention of the
hiring of Jewish associates," The
Rabbinical Assembly in Kiamesha
number of Jewish associates
Lake, N. Y., Rabbi Ralph Simon,
grew from 10 in 1961 to 47 in
president, said that a "voluntary
1969, and now constitutes almost
ghetto is not the answer to the
16 per cent of all legal asso-
danger of intermarriage.",
ciates." The number of Jewish
Citing reports that about 10,000
associates grew from 10 in 1961
young people last year were con-
of 47 in 1969, and now consti-
verted to Judaism, Rabbi Simon
tutes almost 16 per cent of all
said American Jews were "no lon-
legal associates, the report
ger dealing with a small problem
explains.
involving some exceptional indi-
On the partnership level, it con- viduals." The assembly is the in-
tinues, "the degree of progress is ternational association of Conser-
not quite as impressive but it is vative Judaism. Rabbi Simon urged
still important," The number of the creation of a commission of
Jewish partners rose from 18 to rabbis to provide guidelines, texts
47, but seven firms -still do not and skilled counselors to help new
have a single Jewish partner.
converts.
JERUSALEM—The . preparation
of indices to the responsa of Jew-
ish law is arousing the interest
not • only of Israel's legislators,
international jurists and Jewish
scholars, but also of social histor-
ians.
Revealed in the close legal rea-
soning of cases brought to the
rabbis from the 7th Century to
the present day is a wealth of de-
tail on the social history of the
Jews, much of it unobtainable
from other sources. Thus we learn
much of the frequency and region-
alization of names and occupa-
tions, Jewish social status, the
little known fact that Jews bore
arms, that they sailed to Eretz
Israel by boat in the early Middle
Ages, and even, sometimes, other-
wise unrecorded evidence on the
political climate in various places
and at different times.
While this is clearly not the
major aim of the law faculty's
Institute for Research in Jewish
Law at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, it is nevertheless
an interesting byproduct of a
systematic indexing of the res-
Bias in Law Firms
Seen Declining