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Rabbi Lehrman's C redo on Faith
Given Bnai Moshe on Anniversary
"Faith plus vision plus courage
these are the factors that never
- fad in elevating Jewish experi
once." This was the credo handed
to celebrants of Congregation final
Moshe's 611th anniversary - , Sunday
evening, at the anniversary ban
quet, by Rabbi Moses Lehrman.
•C.JFWF Delegates
to Meet European
Messages of greeting 'acre re-
Leaders May 4-22
cened from Senator Robert Grit
fin, Governor Milliken and a num
ber of national leaders.
Dropsie U. Honors
Silver. s Menior.-
NEW YORK—American Jewish
leaders will further strengthen the
: ties linking American and overseas
Jewry when they explore areas of
mutual concern with their counter
parts abroad during a series of
visits to European cities now
through May 22, it %vas announced
by Barney R. Radov, Erie, Pa.,
chairman of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds'
;
committee of small cities.
,
Purpose of the visits. which are
, being made at the invitation of
and in cooperation with the Eu-
ropean Council of Jewish Commu-
nity Services (ECJCS), which is
the European counterpart to ('JF,
and the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, are to learn about the
makeup and life-styles of these
West European communities—their
organizations, achievements and
problems: to share the benefits
and experiences in areas of cocn-
mon interest. and to explore ways
of maintaining a continuing inter-
change
Jacob Stein, president of the
United Synagogue of America and
chairman of Major Jewish Organ-
izations of America, the guest
PHILADELPHIA —The publica-
speaker at the dinner, associated
tion of a new edition of -The Book
himself with this dictum of up- of Judith" will continue the series
holding and adhering to faith, in of Jewish Apocryphal Literature
an address in which he described ! sponsored by Dropsie University
the manner in which Russian Jews here.
The new edition of "Judith" is
are clamoring to settle in Israel
and the form American aid takes dedicated to the memory of the
late
Rabbi Abha Hillel Silver.
in aiding them.
The first copy of the boo's will
An interesting feature of the
he formally presented to his widow,
three-day anniversary celebra-
Mrs. Virginia Silver, at the an-
tion, during which Rabbi Lehr-
nual dinner of the board of gov-
man delivered a series of ser-
ernors of Dropsie University, June
mons on the six decades' his-
I, at the Warwick Hotel.
tory of his congregation and the
The new editions and transla-
outlook for the coming 60 years,
tions of Jewish Apocryphal Litera-
was the presentation of a 250-
ture are designed to restore the
year-old Persian Torah to the
scriptures known as the Apocrypha
congregation. Mrs. Lehrman was , and Pseudepigrapha to their proper
invited to the pulpit Sabbath
position in Jewish literature. Spe-
morning to explain the acquisi-
cial emphasis, as in the new
tion of the historic Torah as a
edition of "Judith," is placed on
gift from Mr. and Mrs. Alfred I the recovery of the original sense
Deutsch.
of the writings with reference to
TEL AVIV—A geriatric pavilion
Jewish sources in the commen- which will provide extended reha-
A youth service on Sunday morn-
' taries.
bilitation
and nursing care for
ing attracted more than 250 of the
The Apocryphal hook of "Judith" chronically ill aged here is being
younger affiliates with the con,
replates to the cunning murder of : built in the Chaim Sheba Medical
gregation.
the commander of the forces of Center in Tel llashomer.
Participants in the anniversary Nebuchadnezzar. King of Assyria,
The new 66-bed facility is being
dinner program included the chair- • by the pious and beautiful Judith,
financed by an IL 1,200,000 ($285,-
man of the anniversary committee,
who succeeded thereby in raisimg 700) allocation from the Associa-
Jack Kutnick. Cantor Louis Klein, the siege of her town, Bethulia.
tion for the Planning and Develop-
harles Rubin, the president, and Some scholars have held the story ment of Services for the Aged and
Mayor Norman Feder of South- rictitiOus, written to inspire pea- by contributions from local groups_
field A resolution deglared the nle to fight for independence. Some The association was established in
day Bnai Moshe Day in Oak Park Hebrew midrashic interpretive dis- 1969 mainly through the efforts of
sertations contain the same story JDC Malben which is
was read to the gathering.
providing
half of its five-year budget of
Specially engraved certificates related to the Hanuka festival.
"Judith" was apparently written $8,333,000. The other half will
were presented to 42 50-year mem-
originally in Hebrew, but like
-eme from other local sources in
bers of the synagogue.
much of Apocryphal literature, was Israel_
preserved in its entirety in Greek.
The new edition of "Judith" was
translated by Dr. Morten S. Enslin,
nrofessor of Christian thought and
literature at Dropsie.
Dr.
Solomon
Zeitlin,
Distin-
mished Professor of Post-Biblical
• Installation
Literature and Institutions at
• Repoir
Dropsie, is editor-in-chief of the
• Spring start up
.1ewnsh Apocryphal Literature pro-
ject. and Dr. Abraham L. Katsh,
president of the postgraduate uni-
versity, is chairman of the editorial
With 'Judith" Book
16 — Friday, Moy 5, 1972
Canada Jews Pay 1 Tributeto Postwar Immigrants
MONTREAL (JTA)—Same 400 pressed concern over the plight
persons gathered at the Spanish- of Syrian and Soviet Jews.
here to
Dr. Joseph Kage, national direr-
synagogue
Portuguese
commemorate the arriva in 1945 for of the Jewish Immigrant Aid
of
Canada's
post-
Services
of Canada (JLAS), said
of the first group
that since 1945 the country has
war Jewish immigrants.
The synagogue's new rresident, taken in 95,000 Jews, with one - third
Max Wolofsky, called fcr better of Canada's Jews today being post-
integration of newcomers) and es- war immigrants.
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