Beth Jacob Launches Drive for School Warhaftig Denies Rabbis Have Book Listing Outcasts DRAWING OF PROPOSED BETH JACOB SCHOOL JERUSALEM (JTA)—Dr. Zerach Warhaftig, the minister of religious affairs, denied in the Knesset Tues- day that the Israeli rabbinate kept a "black book of outcasts" contain- ing the names of persons not eligible for marriage according to religious law. But he admitted that there was a list of persons whose marriages were being delayed while religious authorities investigated their status. Dr. Warhaftig said this was done mainly to determine whether the applicants for marriage licenses were singe I.He said 600,000 mar- riages had been consummated in Israel since the state was estab- lished out of which only 200 were blocked pending further investiga- tion. Dr. Warhaftig expressed sur- prise that the problem of "rnam- zerim" (illegitimates) according to religious law was a national issued inasmuch' as there were only two persons in the country so categorized. He was referring to the Langers, a brother and sis- ter who were forbidden by the rab- binate to marry the partners of their choice because the rabbis deemed them "illegitimate." According to the minister, the only solution to the problem of "mamzerim" was "family purity." Plans for a $1,000.000 building the new Beth Jacob Girls School. fund campaign to erect a new Beth Rabbi Goldstein, principal of Jacob Girls School on 11 Mile Rd. Beth Jacob School, has been with between Greenfield and Southfield the Beth Yehudah school system Rds. in Southfield, have been re- for more than 25 years. vealed by Beth Yehuda Schools. To participate in the building Occupancy is scheduled for next fund campaign, and to obtain spring. general information, call Rabbi Details of the campaign and con- Goldstein, 557-6550. struction were announced by Hillel Abrams, president of Beth Yehu- Bar-Ilan Law School dah Schools. He said the modern structure will contain 12 class- Named for Dr. Herzog rooms, a library, chemistry and RAMAT GAN — Bar Han Uni- biology laboratory, a multipurpose versity will name its law school room, home economics center, after the late. Dr. Yaacov Herzog, commercial room, arts and crafts forme r director-general of the room and offices. prime minister's office. announced Girls now attending Beth Jacob, chancellor, Rabbi Dr. Joseph a division of Beth Yehudah Schools Lookstein. are split up in three locations in Rabbi Lookstein said that Dr. Southfield and Oak Park. Almost Herzog had been very close to the 200 girls are enrolled. Beth Jacob, university since its inception and which includes elementary, inter- had served as an active member mediate and high school grades, of the board of trustees for many is one of several educational divi- years. sions of Beth Yehudah Schools. The University plans to raise Others are Beth Jacob Seminary, 510.000,000 for a new law center a postgraduate department for on the campus, which will house girls in the evenings; Yeshivath the law school, a large law library, Beth Yehudah, consisting of a pre- a model ebitrtroom and other school department and elementary, modern facilities. intermediate and high school The law school. headed by pro- grades for boys; Beth Midrash, fessor Arnold Enker, is enter- an all-day postgraduate department ing its third year. Its special for boys; and Beth Yehudah Day contribution to legal education Camp, with summer programs for in Israel is the training of jur- boys and girls separateiy. ists with an analytical knowledge Abrams also announced the of general and Jewish law. arpointment of Rabbi Sholom Among the research programs Goldstein as campaign coordina- is one for the storing by computer tor for the fund-raising drive (or of the 500.000 Hebrew Responsa 1,700 years written more than ago. The project includes se- Synagogues Decry lected Israeli Supreme Court cases. It is being subsidized by the Knesset Defeat of Foundation for Research in the Humanities sponsored by the Who Is a Jew' Rider United States Government. The Detroit branch of the Coun- Dr. Herzog w as the son of the cil For The Survival of the Jewish late Chief Rabbi Isaac Hales' Her- Nation organized public addresses zog of Israel. He was political ad- in several Detroit area synagogues viser to several prime ministers, on the subject of the "Who is a and received his doctorate in law Jew?" The speeches were given on Tisha b'Av, a fast day mourning the destruction of the Holy Temple Algeria Govt. Takes Over in Jerusalem. Oran's Last Synagogue Talks were given by rabbis from RABAT (JTA) — The Algerian Detroit and New York explaining government has nationalized the the recent defeat in the Knesset 92-year-old Kanaoui Synagogue of of an amendment to the Law of Oran, one of the last remaining Return specifying that only those synagogues in Algeria. It is being converted in accordance with Ha- used as a public meeting hall, leav- lakha (Jewish Law) be recognized ing Oran without a synagogue. as Jews. Two hundred Jews live in Oran, The speakers said that each which had a Jewish population of individual J e w was a "holy 15.000 before Algeria's independ- temple," a sanctuary. Blurring ence. the demarcation lines between The Algerian authorities an- Jew and gentile was a desecra• nounced their intention to na- Lion of this individual "sanctu- tionalize the synagogue, which ary"—a disastrous tragedy par- was built in 1820, last May. allel to the destruction of the Jewish community leaders nego- temple, the rabbis said. tiated an agreement providing for Congregants a n d synagogue the dismantling of the synagogue's boards were urged to send tele- religious articles and their ship- grams to Premier Golda Meir de- ment to former Oran Jews now ploring the defeat of the amend- living in Paris. ment and urging that the law be The Jewish community asked changed to read "Giyur Keha- that the building not be used for lakha" (conversion according to political purposes or to house a Jewish Law). They asked, further- mosq ue. more, that cables of encourage- ment and gratitude to sent to all —. Knyat Sanz Religious those who voted in favor of or supported the amendement, espe- Hospital Is Established JERUSALEM—The newly estab- cially Rabbi Israel Unterman. Israel's chief rabbi, and Avner lished Kiryat Sanz Hospital in Shaky of the National Religious Natanya has the distinction of being the cnly religiously sponsored hos- Party. Speeches were given and cables pital to be founded in the last 100 sent from the following syna- years. Kiryat Sanz is a reli gi ous co:n- gogues: Young Israel of Green- field, Young Israel of Northwest munity situated on the northern Detroit, Cone Dodd Ben Nochim, edge of Natanya. It was conceived. Shaarey Shomayim, Cong. Mish- organized and built under the direc- kan Israel, Bais Tefilo, Emanuel tion of Grand Rabbi Solomon Leib Tikvah, Khal Choreic - 11m. Brit]: Halberstarn. the Sanz-Klauscnherg lsral, Bnai Zion, Bnia Yaakov and Rabbi. whose life is dedicated to • ;' A'''1.0, 414 4.1'"Prfirri• Friday, July 28, 1972-21 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Sunday. Tickets are available at Hudson's Grinnell's, Wayne State University, Macomb County Com- munity College and the Festival box office. For information, call the Meadow Brook box office, 377- Pianists Alfred Brendel, Peter Nero and Skitch Henderson are the featured artists this weekend at MEADOW BROOK MUSIC the FESTIVAL. Nero will appear 8:30 p.m. today; Brendel 8:30 p m. Sat- urday; and Henderson 6.30 p.m. Labor Party Opposed to PLO London Office LONDON (JTA)—Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson has ex- pressed strong opposition to the opening of a Palestinian Liberation office here. In a letter to Sidney Goldberg. general secretary of the British Poale Zion, the opposition leader said, "There is no doubt that the Labor Party is very much opposed to the setting up of this office in London." 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