Bridget Loves Bernie, but Jewish,
Catholic Organizations Don't
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Jew-
fah groups are assailing the
intermarriage-can-be-beautiful
theme of "Bridget Loves
Bernie," a new Saturday
night situation comedy series
on Columbia Broadcasting
System-TV.
The first visible protest was
registered last week when 10
members of the Jewish De-
fense League picketed the
network.
Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, ex-
ecutive vice president of the
Rabbinical Assembly of
America, called the show
"an insult to some of the
most sacred values of both
the Jewish and Catholic re-
ligions" and said the Syna-
gogue Council of America
and the Catholic and Pro-
testant churches had been
asked to voice protest.
Rabbi Kelman added that
Rabbi Billet Cohen of Temple
Beth Torah, Westbury, L.1.,
was rallying community sup.
port against the show. The
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith has "received
complaints" and is "looking
Into" them.
(In Washington, the Rab-
binical Council of Washing-
ton, which is Orthodox, de-
nounced the show and urged
all "sincere-minded mem-
bers of every religious de-
nomination" to refuse to
watch it and to send letters
of protest to CBS.)
"Bridget Loves Bernie,"
reminiscent of "Abie's Irish
Rose," of 1920s fame and
notoriety, is the story of
Bridget Fitzgerald (Meredith
Baxter) and Bernard Stein-
berg (David Birney), a Jew-
ish cab driver and playwright.1
The couple are shown as
happily married, with no re-
ligious hangups.
They spend most of their
time trying to avoid the
status-seeking machinations
of their parents — a rich,
snobbish Catholic couple, and
the proprietors of the deli-
catessen above which Bridget
and Bernie live.
The newlyweds' marriage
ceremony was conducted by
her brother, a liberal priest,
and by a rabbi whose Jewish
denomination was not speci-
fied_
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sends the RAJKO HUNGAR-
IAN GYPSY TROUPE on its
first American tour, stopping
at the Masonic Auditorium 3
p.m. Nov. 5.
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FRED WARING'S Pennsyl-
vanians will perform at the
Masonic Auditorium, Nov. 10.
The Pennsylvanians, under
Waring's direction, made the
first recording of a George
Gershwin tune, "Nashville
Nightingale." Recently, War-
ing's Shawnee Press, in Dela-
ware Gap, Pa., published a
discography listing of all the
known recordings made by
Waring and the Pennsyl-
vanians. The total ran to
1,500, many of them now
American standards.
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VAN CLIBURN, the Texas
pianist who returned to a
New York City ticker tape
parade after his stunning
Tchaikovsky Competition vic-
tory in Moscow in 1958,
comes to the Masonic Audi-
torium Nov. 17.
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The wedding took place
after a brief tonference with
the priest during which pos-
sible religious conflict and
the matter of the religious
upbringing of children were
shrugged off. No conference
with the rabbi was shown.
Bridget and Bernie never
discuss religion substantive-
ly, and their scenes alone are
mostly devoted to kissing.
Rabbi Kelman told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that the Catholic parents are
shown as "bigoted and silly"
and the Jewish elders as
"crude and mainly occupied
with f ood . "
The subject of intermarri-
age is treated not "sensitive-
Dr. Stuart Hamburger, a
ly" but as a "burlesque," de-
picting the young couple as staff member of Sinai Hos-
"the very epitome of virtue." pital, presented a scientific
exhibit at the recent Stith ari-
nual meeting of the Ameri-
can College of Surgeons in
San Francisco. The exhibit,
"The Suspicious Thyroid Si,,.
MICHIGAN CONVICT AID, dule — surgical manage-
a new agency to assist ex ment," was comprised of an
convicts in finding employ. analysis of 204 case studies
ment, needs men and women and included a video tape
volunteers to devote a few presentation. Dr. Hamburger
hours Monday-Friday to as- is a member of the attending
sist in the job development; surgical staff and a past act-
contact community resources ing chief of surgery at Sinai.
for donations of clothing;
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or help with information and
referrals. For information, awarded the coveted profes-
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call Lou Bowers, 883-0609.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Sills Program
Announced for Yeshiva U . Scholar Authors
Balfour Event Volume on Rabbi Isserles
represent the Jewish Chau -
tauqua Society as lecturer at
Marygrove College 2 p.m.
Monday. He will lecture on
the subject "Contemporary
Judaism."
Leningrad Jew
Sent Pacemaker
From Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Prof.
Henri Neaufeld, head of the
Heart Institute at Tel Ha-
shomer Hospital's She b a
Medical Center, confirmed
that he sent a pacemaker to
a Jew in Leningrad whom
he had never seen but who
had written to him describ-
ing his heart ailment.
A pacemaker is an elec-
tronic device implanted in a
patient's body to maintain a
regular heart beat. Prof.
Neufeld said his correspond-
ence was with a 53-year-old
man whose family name is
Gurewitz.
"I got his letter giving me
the details of the illness. I
made the diagnosis and
thought the patient needed
a pacemaker," Prof. Neu-
feld said.
"I wrote to him about my
findings and suggestions and
told him to consult his doc-
tors. Then I got a letter say-
ing the Russian physicians
agreed with my diagnosis and
suggestions and asked me to
send a pacemaker. A fort-
night ago, I sent the pace-
maker to Leningrad and
yesterday received a cable
confirming it was received,"
he said.
Prof. Neufeld said he had
no idea how Gurewitz got
his name unless it was given
to him by a Russian doctor
who knew of it from various
publications.
Walter S. Nussbaum, Bal-
NEW YORK —; The first introduction, found in the
four Concert_chairman,,, an- comprehensive study of the British Museum, stresses the
nounced the following pro- life, works and times of ! importance of learning as-
gram featuring Beverly Sills Rabbi Moses IsSerles has tronomy as an aid in calcu--
to take place at Ford Audi- been authored b Yeshiva eating the Jewish calendar.
torium the evening of Nov. University scholar. Dr. Asher
Dr. Siev authored the first
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Gavotte from "Mahon"
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Dr. Talmon said that in•
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survival — therefore, it was
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