THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20—Friday, Dec. 22, 1972
Montreal Agency Alters Name
MONTREAL (JTA)—One • change of name to the
of Canada's oldest social Jewish Family Services of
A Marriage Bureau
welfare agencies, the Baron the Baron de Hirsch Insti-
By RABBI SAMUEL SILVER de Hirsth Institute,
has tute, a change which officials
(A Bevel. Art. FeatOre)
started its 110th year with say reflects a gradual but
major shift in focus of serv-
Many people lament the
ices reflecting
ti
changes in
rising toll of intermarriages. Rabin: Israel Fi
ghts Canadian society during the
But a Florida rabbi and
for
Peace,
Progress
past
century.
his wife have done something
Fewer than 500 Jews lived
about it.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Itzhak
A number of out - of - the- Rabin, Israeli ambassador to in Montreal when the agency
The
founded
in 1863.
faith marriages occur be- Washington, said that Israel was
agency
now serves
a Jewish
cause the Jewish partner was fighting three battle population of 125,000.
for peace, survival, and to In the 19th century, the
can't find anyone Jewish.
continue social and economic annual budget of the agency
To overcome this, Rabbi progress.
never exceeded $10,000. For
and Mrs. Benjamin Rosayn,
Addressing a luncheon
of Boca Raton, Fla., have meeting of Jewish National 1972, the Jewish Family
set up a Central Referral Fund business groups at Services total budget is near-
Registry w he r e approved JNF House here, Rabin said, ly $600,000.
A 1907 budget of about
people can have their names referring to the struggle for
$6,500 was spent for relief
filed after receiving the okay
peace: "Although there is no outlays for coal, matzo, cloth-
of a rabbi.
peace at hand, we are be- ing and medical attention.
The applicant will then re- ginning to discern a glimmer Today, nearly 60 per cent of
ceive the names of people of of light at the end of the the agency's expenditures—
the opposite gender who tunnel, but I must tell you about $340,000—is for wages
seem to be possible spouses. that the tunnel is a very of skilled personnel.
Caring for the Jewish poor
It is no laughing matter, long one and full of barriers
is no longer the central focus
and it is to be hoped that and obstacles."
The
ambassador
expressed
of
the agency's work, but
singletons and their rabbis
will make use of this new his gratitude to President relief re m a ins important.
Nixon,
the
U.
S.
government,
This year, according to the
service which may spell the
end of loneliness for people Congress and the American report, nearly 30 per cent
people
for
their
help.
of the gross budget, about
who have just not met part-
Rabin was told the busi- $174,000, will be used for
ners to their liking.
ness group was establishing relief payments.
A nominal charge of $20 a large recreational area in
is asked by Mrs. Rosayn for his honor in the Upper What can laws do without
this blessed service.
Galilee, morals'—Benjamin Franklin.
'Hadran' Explained
BY RABBI SAMUEL
3.
FOX
(Coy/right Int /TA. Ise.)
Rabbi Yosef Converts to Judaism
40 Falashas From Ethiopia
"Hadran" is an Aramaic
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Rab- would permit the Falasha
word coming from the root bl Ovadia Yonef. the Sephar- women converts to marry •
meaning "to return." There dic chief rabbi, has converted Cohen, Rabbi Yosef replied
is a formula which is recited 40 Falashas,
Black Jews that this was a complicated
after the completion of a trac- from Ethiopia, during the halakhic problem, indicating
tate in the Talmud which past two years.
that he believed the
starts with the word "had-
Rabbi Yosef performed the shas are or may be Jews ac-
ran" and expresses the antic-
cording
to Halacha, religious
conversions apparently to
ipation that "we will return
satisfy other rabbis who law.
unto you."
maintain that the Falashas
According to the Jewish
The significance of this are not Jews but of Ham- law, converts are not per-
formula is that a Jew is itic—Black African—stock.
mitted to marry Cohanim,
made to feel that when he
Rabbi Yosef himself is descendents of the priestly
finishes a tractate of the Tal- known to believe that the caste.
mud he has not yet mined all Falashas are descendents of
the terasure of understand- the Israelite tribe of Dan
ing that is to be derived from who wandered into Ethiopia
the particular tractate. His thousands of years ago.
study, therefore, is never
There are at most about
completed. He, thus, pledges 50,000 Falashas, some 250
to himself and to the world of them living in Israel. Lead-
that he will some day return ers of the community pre-
to study the tractate again. dicted here that the Falashes
would die out within the next
The term "hadran" has
been used to indicate the spe- 20 years unless they emigrat-
ed
in masse to Israel.
cial lecture which the teach-
Israeli immigration au-
er or the rabbi delivers at
the end of the completion of thorities have been equivocal
a tractate. Some connect the about Falasha immirgration
word "hadran" to the word because their status as Jews
"hod" which means glory. is open to question.
The Falashas claim to be
This means that the repeated
study of the Talmudic trac- Jews, and many adhere vag-
uely to Jewish laws and cus-
tate brings glory to the indi
although ,they also
vidual who studies it in an ta ro distinctly Christian and
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practices.
academic sense.
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agriculture.
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When the War of Libera-
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Sdom. The road to Sdom
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