22: Year of the Alphabet
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1970 JTA, Inc.)
Israel is now marking its 22nd
birthday, the year of the alphabet.
The Hebrew alphabet has 22 let-
ters.
The Sinai Peninsula, where Is-
raeli soldiers are now ensconced
fighting the Egyptians, is sup-
posed to be the birthplace of most
of the world's alphabets, the He-
brew as well as the Greek and
Roman from which the English
alphabet is derived. The English
word alphabet is obviously kindred
to the Hebrew aleph beth. The Ten
Commandments also come from
the Sinai area and recently Israeli
troops located minerals and water
reserves in the Sinai desert, just
as their ancestors found manna.
Announcements
Aug. 28—To Dr. and Mrs. Ray
mond Weitzman (Rochelle Berlin
former Detroiters of Ann Arbor
a son, Jeffrey Marc.
* • t.
Aug. 26--To Mr. and Mrs. Lon-
nie R. Grossman (Barbara Fain-
tuck), 2445 Torquay, Royal Oak,
a son, Selig.
* • •
Aug. 22—To Mr. and Airs. Ken-
neth R. Joseph (Rochelle AL Ka-
tanick), 14050 W. 10 Mile, Oak
Park, a son, Robert Alan.
g- • •
Aug. 20—To Mr. and Mrs. Steven
Gibbs, 24455 Rensselaer, Oak Park,
a daughter, Jerilyn Michelle.
• •
Aug. 19—To Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
ward L. Aliller, 21681 Church, Oak
Park, a daughter, Susan Roslyn.
• • •
Aug. 18—To Air. and Mrs. Phillip
Fisher (Miriam Goldman), 23121
Scotia, Oak Park, a daughter,
Maria Gina.
Aug. 17—To Dr. and Airs. Ronald
A. Miller (Marilyn Frank), 16325
Harden, Southfield, a son, Todd
Bradley.
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Aug. 16—To Dr. and Mrs. Don-
ald Kaplan (Carolyn Berman),
14291 Borgman, Oak Park, a
daughter, Deborah Ruth.
Aug. 11 — To former Detroiter
Rabbi Lawrence Kushner and Airs.
Kushner (Karen Newman), of
Highland Park Ill., a daughter,
Noa Rachel.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS
friday, acptecioer 4, 1970 37
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Restaurateur 'Jerusalem Good Citizen'
If you put a Jew in the desert, he
is bound to find something. That's
check, plus another 1,000 pounds,
By DVORAH A. SUSMAN
why the Egyptians are fighting.
Jerusalem restaurateur Yehez- donated by himself, to the Hebrew
They are afraid the Israelis may
IRVING S. CANE was elected
University
of Jerusalem to help two
find some new letters of the alpha- chairman of the Southfield Plan- kiel Shemesh was recipient of the
bet, worth a fortune—who knows? ning Commission. Cane was first 1970 Israel Goldstein Award for wotmded, ex-soldier students com-
plete
their
university education.
The Hebrew mystics said the appointed to the Planning Com- Good Citizenship, an annual prize
letters of the alphabet constitute mission by Mayor Norman W. set up by the world chairman of
the soul of the universe. There was Feder to fill an unexpired term Keren Hayesod to encourage and
the old Yiddish song:
in 1969. Cane was appointed to the reward Jerusalemites who dis-
On the pripichock burns a fire Detroit Housing Commission in tinguish themselves in the service
and the house is heiss.
1963 by Mayor Jerome P. Cava- of the public.
Billed as the largest new car
And the rebi teaches the little nagh, who later named him co-
Shemesh describes himself as
children the aleph beiss.
ordinator of industrial and com- "one of the troops" in 1967, an Is- showing in the city's histery, the
The rebi would trudge to every mercial development for the city raeli reservist with the rank of 55th Detroit Auto Show will open
man's home to teach the young- of Detroit in December 1964. Cane first sergeant, called to defend his for a nine-day run in Cobo Hall,
sters the letters, implanting the and his wife, Inez, 20801 Northome, country and serving then, and fre- Nov. 21. More than 350 vehicles
"soul," but he himself found it are parents of four daughters. quently since, in the Jerusalem in- will be displayed.
The announcement was made by
difficult to keep body and soul SANFORD ROSSEN of 24341 Mul- fantry unit that fought its way
together. He was as poor as a berry Ct. was elected commission alongside the paratroopers to the Ford dealer Jerry Bielfield, presi-
dent
of the Detroit Auto Dealers
synagogue mouse.
secretary at the same session.
Western Wall. What makes this
Actually, the Hebrew letters rep-
• • •
47-year-old sixth generation Jeru- Association, who at the same blur:
named
Doug Dalgleish as show
resent more than the soul. They
ERNEST W. MICHEL, veteran salemite of Persian antecedents
are not only metaphysical, b u t Jewish communal executive and a distinctive today is an essentially chairman.
According
to the announcement,
physical. Very real. Aleph means survivor of the Holocaust who was civilian act.
ox. Beth means house. Gim el, brought to the United States in
Every Thursday for over three a special added attraction will be
camel. Dated, door. Lamed, the 1946 with funds raised by the years, Yehezkiel and his wife Mar- a motor home and camper exhibit,
goad used in driving an ox. Nun, United Jewish Appeal, has as- galit have opened their restaurant which will make the show one-third
larger than last year.
fish. Mem, water. Zayin, olives.
sumed the role of executive vice- on Jerusalem's busy Ben Yehuda
In these letters we have a picture president and campaign director Street to all ambulatory soldiers
of the ancient life. The people had
undergoing
treatment
in
the
Hadas-
their house, water, ox. They plant- of the United Jewish Appeal of sah Hospital. Brought in taxis and
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOR
ed olives and went fishing. Some Greater New York. Michel will
(Copyright 1970 JTA, Inc.)
of the remaining letters describe direct the most extensive local ambulances, hobbling along on
man himself: Resh is head; Yod, fund-raising campaign in the na- crutches, pushed in wheelchairs
Chollent is the term colloquially
hand: Ayin, eye; Shin, tooth; Peh, tion, with a corps of 20,000 volun- and sometimes even carried on given to the food which is left over-
mouth.
teer workers in New York City, stretchers, between 15 and 30 of nite in the oven from Friday eve-
When a Jew asked a child whe- Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk them wine and dine at Shemesh, ning to Saturday. It is usually
ther he knew his abc's, he said, counties. He succeeds HENRY C. warmed (for Shemesh means sun) some potatoes mixed with meat
"Do you know your ox, house and BERNSTEIN, who has been the by the truly spontaneous and con- and sometimes beans and barley,
camel" — the translation of aleph, professional head of UJA since its tinuing care of Yehezkiel and Mar- etc. The term is either traced to
beth and gimel.
galit. Sometimes they bring along I a French term Chalt or Chald (or
inception in 1939.
girl friends, sometimes parents in recent French Chaud) meaning
In Hebrew, the letters are also
visiting them from out of town.
used for numerals. Aleph is one. Young Woman Expelled
"warm." The term "chollent" is
Yehezkiers services to the found in the work of Rabbi Isaac
Thirty-six is Lamed Vov. There
wounded do not end with the of Wein (Or Zarua) one of the
are supposed to be 36 righteous From Poland for Passing
weekly outing to his restaurant. medieval halakhic authorities.
people throughout the world, who Leaflets Attacking Bias
go about unnoted and unpublicized
He also takes them to football Some like to give the word a He-
PARIS (JTA)—A young Jewish
doing good for others. Because of woman was arrested in Warsaw
matches and has made arrange- brew derivation and thus trace it
these 36 people, God spares the last week for distributing leaflets
ments with local impresarios
to the Hebrew "shelan" which
world. In Hebrew, these saints are in three languages that exposed
which ensure that top-ranking means "spent the night" indicat-
called Lamed-vovniks, or "thirty- and attacked Polish anti-Semitism
entertainers in Jerusalem appear
ing that it was kept warm over-
sixers."
for the boys in the hospital. He night. Having warm foods on the
After questioning by police, she
According to the Midrash, the was expelled from the country.
is, too, a moving spirit behind Sabbath was stressed by the rab-
letters existed before the creation
Mrs. Beate Klarsfeld, 31, a the special club room establish- bis for centuries--especially as a
of the world, and when God an- writer and university lecturer, ar-
ed at the hospital where the sol-
means of displaying the incorrect-
nounced He would create the rived in Warsaw on a three-day
diers can relax while looking at ness of the Jewish sects who claim-
earth, each asked that the crea- tourist visa. Upon her arrival,
television, playing chess and ed that only cold food should ha
tion might begin with it. The letter Mrs. Klarsfeld chained herself
checkers, reading or listening to eaten on the Sabbath by misinter-
Resh, for instance, pointed out that to a tree in the center of town and
records.
preting the biblical verse which
it meant head or beginning, so distributed her leaflets — which
Well over a thousand soldiers prohibits the kindling of fire on
that it was proper that creation were printed in Polish, German have joined Yehezkiel and Margalit the Sabbath to mean that there
begin with it. God, however, point- and French—to passersby.
at the "Thursday night at Shem- should be no fire burning m the
ed out that Resh is also found in
After several hours, police ar- esh" meal. Nearly all maintain the Jewish home on the Sabbath. The
the word rasha, meaning wicked, rived and Mrs. Klarsfeld was contact long after they leave Had- mainstream of Jewish tradition
so that it was inappropriate. God taken to police headquarters for assah Hospital and Jerusalem. contended that if the fire had been
finally decided that creation begin questioning, and was then placed "We've sworn to keep up this lit on the evening before the Sab-
with the letter Beth, because it aboard a Paris bound airliner.
Thursday evening operation of ours bath it could be kept burning on
begins the word Baruch or blessed.
till the last soldier leaves Hadas- the Sabbath. Thus many made it a
Upon arriving in Paris Aug.
Accordingly, the Bible begins with
sah and that will only be when special point to eat this food which
28, Mrs. Klarsfeld tol, the Jew-
the letter Beth — "Bereshith . .,"
was kept warm overnight to in-
Peace comes," he said.
ish Telegraphic Agency that
meaning "In the beginning . . ."
Shemesh's Good Citizenship Prize dicate that one could enjoy (in-
she would continue her protests
Aleph was the only letter that
deed,
one should enjoy) the luxury
was
a
1,000-pound
check
donated,
against anti-Semitism in Poland ,
had not called on God to single it
and other East European coun- for the second year, by Dr. Israel of warm food on the Sabbath by
out for top honors, so the Lard
keeping
the food overnight in the
Bert
Goldstein.
Mrs.
and
tries.
rewarded it for its modesty by al-
Shemesh decided to give the oven.
Airs. Klarsfeld is a German citi-
lowing it to begin the alphabet.
The alphabet was one of the zen and was a parliamentary can-
great inventions. It provided a key didate in 1969. Two years ago she
whereby one could ascertain the slapped the face of then Chancel-
I thought of others. For the Jew, it lor Dr. Kurt Georg Kiesinger and
was doubly necessary. Without the called him a Nazi at a public
alphabet, the Jew would have per- meeting.
ished. When they are on t h e i r
land, a people can of course pre-
serve their identity. The land does Rod ison's Volume
it, but if you are dispersed, it is Harmful to Israel;
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Not only the recommendation
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"It was easy," he replied. "We be among the most antagonistic
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belief should be based on proof guin Pelican paperback.
that appeals to reason, as in the
Already, the Rodison work is '
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