Brothers Zim Perform Here Death of Cardinal Cushing Mourned as Loss of 'Truly Righteous Person' NEW YORK (JTA)—Jewish lead- ers expressed sorrow over the death Monday at age 75 of Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston since 1944 and a friend of Israel and the Jews (See Com- mentary, Page 2). Philip E. Hoffman, president of the American Jewish Committee, said "Jewish people throughout the world will always remember with satisfaction Cardinal Cushing's ef- forts to achieve an honest and meaningful statement on the Ro- man Catholic Church and the Jews five years ago in Rome, at the Second Vatican Council." Cardinal Cushing, he said, "was at the fore- front in this tremendously impor- endeavor," and "The positive The Brothers Zim will appear tant results of Vatican Council II will in concert at Young Israel of be a lasting memorial to the cardi- Oak-Woods It p.m. Dee. 6. Having nal." World Jewry, Hoffman said, introduced an approach in Is- "has lost a friend and champion." raeli and liturgical mode that Rabbi Roland B. OtteIsohn, bridges the generation gap, the president of the Central Con- two have received International ference of American Rabbis acclaim. The event is being (Reform), declared that "Long sponsored by Young Israeis of before it became fashionable for Oak-Woods and Greenfield. Catholle prelates to participate to functions, Cardinal Intercourse with decent or bad interrreligious Cashing did so in the Boston people is the good or bad educa- area." tion which goes on throughout The archbishop "had many close, one's life.—Eugene Heliterals. personal friends in the Jewish It may be taken for granted community," the CCAR leader con- that a man is as old as he feels tinued, and "His concern for fair- ness and justice on behalf of the until he tries to prove it. great spirit" because "he was what Israel: "(It) is not just a home- he enjoined others to be—compas- land for the persecuted and the sionate and understanding." The oppressed, it is not just a refuge UAHC official added that Cardinal for a people the world has abused Cushing "was a liberal in the truest —It is for the Jews the fffifinTrIent sense of the word, practicing the of prophecy, the return to the principles of ecumenism long be- Promised Land, the realization of fore the term became fashionable." the divine covenant, the answer to Catholics' loss, the Jewish leader the prayers of generations .. ." concluded, "is our loss as well." (In Washington, President Nixon THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS noted that Cardinal Cushing Friday, Nerewhir 6,1970-21 "sought so persistently to serve the spiritual needs and social well being of others.") Cardinal Cushing, whose efforts at ecumenism extended to syna- Due to illness in family, gogue oratory, received a rare Young High School girl tribute when he Implored Vatican coma II to reject the doctrine needs foster home of Jewish guilt for the death of Grads Up at Weizrnann; Jewish Fondly & Children Service Jesus. The bishops who normally Study Advanced Science do not applaud speakers, did so MRS. WINEMAN REHOVOT—There has been a 15 for him. DI 1-5959 The prelate wrote recently of per cent increase in the student body at the Weisman Institute's Feinberg Graduate School. Some 215 of the students are working for their MSC degrees, while another 270 are working for their PhD. Everywhere Call Anywhere The graduate school will con- YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH - tinue its emphasis on physics and. computer science. 15751 W. 101/2 Mile Rd. 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