18—Mdsy, April 23, 1971 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Although Ministries Are Being Abandoned, Author Denies That Religion is Dying Are men of the cloth — of all faiths--abandoning religious roles? Mrs. Laile E. Bartlett, wife of a minister, in "The Vanishing Par- son," a Beacon Press book, among other things states: "While enrollments at Protestant and Jewish seminaries are now in the rise, recruits at Catholic semi- naries are falling, off drastically. Though more students are entering Protestant and Jewish seminaries than ever before — the largest graduating class in the history of Hebrew Union College in Cincin- nati, 1970—a minority of them say they plan to enter the parish ministry." There are a few other relevant comments about the rabbis and the rabbinate. Mrs. Bartlett writes: "Prof. Robert Katz of Hebrew Union College says the rabbi wants to know whether there is a future for him in a new society which is 'rational, experimental and non-parochial.' Is there a place for the syna- gogue in. a Jewish community replete with its own competing .social welfare agencies, let alone the ,Oommunity Chest and Red Cross?" Furthermore, she states: " 'How relevant is the rabbi,' says Prof. Katz, 'in a society impatient with the past, when his basic claim to being heard lies in interpreting classic Jewish tradition? Who needs him, now that Jewish and American identification are so compatible? when so many Jews nominally affiliate with the syna- gogue and so few take part in its worship?" And so the able author has made a deep study of the question—why the theological student leaves the pulpit. She has probed the prob- lems of many churches and has retained faith that a new day will be on the way, that after all the issues of defections, divorces, new marriages, new ministries, will have been faced and solved there will be a reawakening. "Religion is being redistributed and rearranged," Mrs. Bartlett believes, and she rejects the sug- gestion that religion is dying. Israel's Justice Cohn Puts 'Trial, Death of Jesus' Into Perspective In "The Trial and . Death of the Jewish and Roman laws and sus" (Harper and Row) Haim customs of the times. By placing the trial of Jesus an, justice of the Supreme urt of Israel and • a member of within the context of known legal, political and religious procedures, r me Permanent- Court of Arbitra- Justice Cohn is able to recon- tion at the Hague, concludes that struct the events of the trial as rather -than pressing for the death they may have really happened. of Jesus, the Jewish authorities He examines the relationship be- tried to save him from execution. tween the Jews and the Romans, To be published April 28, the the reputation of Jesus as a healer book examines the trial of Jesus in and his reception by the 'multi- light of information available in tude,' the jurisdiction of Jewish neutral and reliable sources about and Roman laws, the Roman method of trial and punishment COLPA Acting on Policy and the political, religious and ideological motivations that would of Post Office Toward have entered into the trial. The author then examines his Sabbath Observers findings in the perspective of NEW YORK (JTA) — The U.S. District Court for the Eastern Dis- later sources, such as the Acts trict of Virginia recently ruled of the Apostles, the Epistles of Paul, New Testament Apro- that the U.S. Post Office does not crypha, Talmud, Midrash, Fla- have to arrange its work sched- ule-. so as to give Saturday as a vius Josephus and Tacitus. He ff to one who requested it on demonstrates that the "perver- ds of religious observance. sion of justice" traditionally as- cribed to the trial itself must ius Berman, president of the t more truthfully be attributed to ri, cra the aftermath of the trial — aid that namely, the prejudice and per- ose contact secutions of the centuries. workers in the Justice Cohn was appointed to se for the past few as part of our Sabbath ob- the Israel Supreme Court in 1960. He has represented the state on server program." the UN Commission on Human Berman said that COLPA is Rights and served as attorney gathering data in connection with general of Israel from 1950 to a coordinated, judicial, legislative 1960. His articles have appeared and administrative program to es- in magazines in Israel, Paris, Mex- tablish rules requiring an accom- ico and the United States, and he modation throughout the Post Of- is the author of "Faith and Free- fice Department. dom," published in Germany. r IT'S A FACT By 1971, the Technion had granted 11,025 BA degrees, 1840 masters and 351 doctorates — 2704 graduates had been granted the diploma of Engineer: Both Hebrew and Arabic are official languages in Israel —in Parliament and in the court3; on stamps, coins and bank notes. Summaries of 5urpreme Court decisions are issued , in Arabic for Arab lawyers, People Make News Samuel Lawrence Brenn- glass of New York has been named the . recipient of the 1971 Kether Shem Tov ("Crown of the Good Name") •'" Award of t h e Union of Ortho- dox Jewish Con- gregations of America UOJCA President Jo- seph Karasick announced. The award, in t h e form of a silver w. replica of a Brennglass Torah Crown above an engraved plaque given for "outstanding national leader- ship and service to the Jewish Rock Hero Dylan `Turned On' by JDL Rock singer and composer Bob Dylan, poet laureate of the New Left, is a mysterious figure,- and rumors about his activities fill rock music magazines. Lately, rumors are that the former Robert Zim- merman has taken an interest in Judaism. In a recent issue of Rolling Stone, rock magazine, there is a claim by the Jewish Defense League that "Dylan was one of their active supporters, actually sending them money under the name of Abraham Zimmerman." Creem, a local rock magazine, reports : "Bob Dylan . . . the mightyman is reportedly taking Hebrew lessons. Figure that one out." On a recent visit here, the JDL's Rabbi Meir Kahane said that Dylan was not a contributor. -- He said Dylan stopped by_ the JDL office in New York and talked with Kahane, who reports Dylan as calling the JDL "the first Jewish group that turned him on." Kahane met up with Dylan later in a television studio. "Dylan said he would like to help, but as of yet has not," Kahane said, adding that Dylan was studying Hebrew with a rabbi in the Queens. —D. S. L.I. Student Programs to Be Aided With Grant NEW YORK (JTA) — A grant of $9,500 for innovative student programs on Long Island - cam- puses has been approved by the board of the new Jewish Associa- tion for College Youth, which pre- viously allocated initial grants to- taling $12,500 for Jewish student groups, the agency reported. Mar- tin Blumenthal, board president, said the new grant will be ad- ministered by the metropolitan of- fices of Hillel Foundations. The grant will aid development of free university courses, establishment of a Hebrew House at one of the Long Island colleges and encour- agement of experimental efforts to interpret Jewish festival cele- brations through various media arts. JACY is an independent sub- vention agency set up by the Fed- eration of Jewish Philanthropies. Expert to Air Pollution Before Single Parents The next regular meeting of Parents Without Partners is sched- uled for 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Jewish Center. Speaker will be Ben Baskin, supervisor of engi- neering, Wayne County Air Pollu- tion Control Division. Guests are welcome. LIFE-SAVING KEYS Cancers of six sites — breast, colon-rectum, lung, oral cavity, skin, and uterus—offer the great- est opportunities for saving lives. Preventive action, early diagnosis and prompt treatment are the life- saving keys, says the American Cancer Society. community," will be presented at the UOJCA annual national dinner, May 23 at the New York ;Hilton. * *. DAN S. ROSENBERG and S. P. GOLDBERG, both key social wel- fare service executives, have been promoted to newly created posts as assistant directors of the Coun- cil of Jewish Federations and Wel- fare Funds, it was announced by Philip Bernstein, CJF executive vice president. * * * Governor FRANK LICHT of Rhode Island will be the principal speaker at the Yeshiva University Heritage Dinner Sunday at the New York Hilton Hotel. The din- ner will honor industrialists ROB- ERT BELSKY of Holyoke, Mass.; WOLF REICHARD of Manhattan and attorney ABRAHAM S. GUT- ERMAN of Mamaroneck, N.Y., who will be presented the Heri- tage Award. * * Wayne State University board of governors approved the appoint- ment of Dr. JOHN M. DORSEY as Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at Wayne State University. Dr. Dorsey, a distinguished member of the WSU faculty for more than 30 years, will retire from his current duties as University Professor July 1. * * * JEAN ROSENTHAL, president of the executive committee of the United Jewish Appeal of France, is in the U.S. for a week's visit in which he is to participate in sev- eral top-level campaign meetings of the UJA. * * * Seven new members, including the first Iranian and the first South African were elected to the Weizmann Institute's board of gov- ernors, the Hebrew University an- nounced. The Iranian, ABRAHAM F. RAD, is a prominent industrial- ist who divides his time between Tel Aviv and Teheran. Justice I. A. MAISELS, from South Africa, is very active in Jewish life, in addi- tion to his legal career. He is cur_ rently chairman of the South African Zionist Federation. '71 DODGES DART! 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