Hadassah •Quints" Survivors Graduate From Incubators
14—Friday, January 7, 1972
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EIN KAREM, Jerusalem—The Berman quints—minus brother who didn't survive—are shown on
first day they have been graduated from the premature-baby unit, where they lived in incubators at
the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. The boy and three girls (shown above) are first quints
born in Israel. Hadassah has special facilities for "preernies"at the Medical Center and, in addition,
maintains a clinic for all "high risk" infants born in Jerusalem. This special clinic, for out patient fol-
low-up care, is centrally located in the city at its Straus Center.
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Young Israeli Converts Inspire
Their Mates' Jewish Loyalties
By MOSHE RON
Jewish News Special
Israel t orresponz.-en:
TEL AVIV — Liturgical songs
were heard from the social club
at the religious kibutz Saad in the
south of Israel, on the way to Beer-
sheba. They were sung on the ter-
mination of a six-week ulpan, held
for 17 women converts and three
men converts to Judaism—mostly
young academicians, who have
lived in Israel since the Six - Day
War.
The converts sang, together with
bearded rabbis from the ministry
for religious affairs, a prayer
which contains the main principles
of the Jewish faith according to
Ramban. It is said on Fridays, but
this time it was sung we Thursday
evening to convince the rabbis that
the converts are well instructed
in the principles of the Jewish
faith.
"Yigdal Elokim" was sung by
the old rabbi, Dov Katz, chairman
of the rabbinical court in the min-
istry for religious affairs. Ile was
joined by the director of the Ulpan,
Rabbi Zeev Gottheld. The best
voice, without doubt, was that of
the convert Marlin Mavar, a beau-
tiful young German girl with a
slender figure, long hair falling
over her shoulders. A fine voice
was displayed by the Greek girl.
Tiarara Zakarkafi, a small, slim
girl clad in a blue robe. An Eng-
lish girl tried with success to ar-
ticulate the Hebrew words of the
prayer correctly in her singing.
The converts were happy when
Rabbi Katz welcomed them as
"fresh Jewish women and men."
He mentioned the famous converts
in Jewish history like Zipporah,
the wife of Moshe Rabenu, the
daughter of Jetro, Priest of Mid-
yon; the wife of Yohoshua Ben
Nun, the representative of Moshe
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the war finished quickly, the
youngsters started working in ki-
butzim, they stayed for several
months, became acquainted with
Jewish members, their relations
often ended in marriages. In order
to avoid the long and complicated
procedure of conversions by the
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Convert Helen Hopper, a small
slender American, who was liv-
ing for several years in Kibutz
Mahnazim in the north of Israel,
presented flowers to two religious
teachers from the ulpan and said
to them: "You are our mothers
who have borne us anew as Jewish
daughters."
A second convert, an English
girl, Shula, thanked the rabbis who
came to the ceremony and bestow-
ed that great honor on the con-
verts. The chairman of Kibutz
Saad, Josef Ginzburg, said: "It is
difficult to be a Jew." Shula
answered: "During our six weeks'
stay on the kibutz we have become
fully aware of the seriousness of
the Jewish religion".
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cleanliness of family life, re- converts in which they could
thoroughly study the Jewish laws
ligious laws and prayers and the in order to become part of the
difference between the Christian Jewish people.
and Jewish faiths.
Till now, 200 such converts fin-
Enthusiastic speeches were de- ished the religious courses in such
ulpanim,
90 per cent - women and
livered by the new general secre-
tary of the ministry for religioui 10 per cent men.
affairs, the American Rabbi Yes
hayahu Dolgin, and the judicial
councellor of the ministry, Rabbi
D. Krieger. The rabbi of the His-
tadrut, Menahem Hacohen, who
was the initiator of the ulpanim for
converts, said the converts should
now act as "missionaries" for
the Jewish faith and should in-
fluence their Jewish husbands in
the kibutzim to lead a more Jewish
way of life. He brought each con-
vert present a prayer-book, a book
of psalms and a booklet about the
laws and customs of Jewish holi-
days.
It was the fifth ulpan held under
auspices of the religious depart-
ment of the Histadrut and the
Rabenu, who married Rahav from ministry for religious affairs. The
Jerico and made her, according idea arose during the Six-Day War
to the Midrash, a convert before
he married her; and Ruth, the wife
of Boaz, who came with her moth-
er-in-law Naomi from Moab and,
after Ruth was converted to Juda-
ism marrying Boaz from Bethle-
hem, had the honor to have King
David as her grandchild.
For six weeks the converts took
an intensive course in ancient and
modern Jewish history. Much time
Men's & Boys' Dept.
was devoted to Jewish demo- rabbinate, it was decided to es-
graphy, holidays, Sabbath law, tablish special ulpanim for such
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