FratvrftndnitIF
Award for WSU Press Volume, `Simultaneous
With Appearance of His Novel About Moses
"Two Living Traditions:
Essays on Religion and the
Bible" by Dr. Samuel Sand-
mel, published by Wayne
State University Press, was
reviewed at length in The
Jewish News, in the June 2,
1972, issue.
This week this volume was
awarded the Frank and
Ethel S. Cohen Award for a
book of Jewish thought by
the Book Council of the Jew-
ish Welfare Board, sharing
the honor with "Souls on
Fire" by Elie Wiesel.
When Dr. Sandmel goes to
New York to accept the Jew-
ish Book Council award, May
20, he will receive added ac-
claim for a novel about
Moses, "Alone Atop the
Mountain," just published by
Doubleday.
The new work marks a re-
turn to an early activity —
fiction writing.
While he had written ex-
tensively on Paulism and the
Scriptures in the last decade,
in 1961 his story "The Col-
leagues of Mr. Chipps" was
included in Best American
Stories for that year.
Now he combines a narra-
tive that reads like fiction
with the story of the Great
Lawgiver, and it is filled
NEW
1973
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Top Chaplain Post
NEW YORK — Chaplain
(Capt.) Samuel Sobel, cur-
rently the 5th Naval District
Chaplain, has been named
Chaplain of the U.S. Marine
Corps, it was announced by
Rear Admiral Francis L.
Garrett, chairman of the
Armed Forces Chaplains
Mrs. Ryan's Extradition OK'd;
Official Hints at Other Hearings
with allegory, parable and come a Hebrew, how she
NEW YORK (JTA) — A the extradition of Mrs. Ryan
legend. It is told in the firs t would not part from Moses'
federal court judge in Brook- in a 10-page decision.
person, and Moses draw s ways and how it was she
lyn denied Mrs. Hermine
upon all the fables in the who kept insisting that Moses
U. S. District Attorney
Braunsteiner Ryan's moves
history about the Exodus , circumcise his first-born son
to avoid extradition to West Robert A. Morse disclosed
transforming them into fac t Gershom.
Germany to face charges that he and "other govern-
that reads like modern ex
Dr. Sandmel even poses
that she murdered inmates ment people" are investigat-
perience and emerges as a the question "What is a He-
ing at least 50 individuals
of a Nazi death camp.
tale applicable in many re - brew?" It is as if the ques-
who
might be in a position
Judge
Jacob
Mishler
re-
spects to our time.
tion had arisen in the year of
jected her petition for a writ similar to that of Mrs. Ryan.
Every aspect of Jewish of _ the appearance of the book
of habeas corpus, and now
Government sources indi-
firmations—the ethical codes "Alone Atop the Mountain"
an appeal is expected to be cated that denaturalization
the quest for freedom, the — in 1973 — instead of 3,000
filed with the Court of Ap- proceedings could be brought
problem of mixed marriages years ago, that Moses rumin-
peals for the 2nd Circuit.
ated and sought an answer.
against as many as 50 per-
— is woven into this tale.
Judge Mishler ordered sons in this coutry.
For example, having forced This is how the confessional
Pharaoh to release the He- is formulated by Dr. Sand-
brews from their bondage, mel, Moses speaking:
people now celebrate me
Moses shares with the audi- as "My
the great lawgiver. Perhaps I
have
earned
their praise. The
ence he addresses as the
A
earliest law framed itself in
spokesman in this story with very
my mind long before I learned
BURTON'S GAL
his view of freedom. He tells the need for laws. Let me re-
mind you of how it runs in the
how he differs with his code:
You shall not oppress a
IS A
brother Aaron: "My own stranger, for you know the heart
of the stranger, for you were
concern, so it seemed to me strangers
CAPT. SAMUEL SOBEL
in Egypt.
in my arrogance, was with
"But my uncertainty of the
Board,
at the board of direc-
the tremendous issue that preceding night now disappeared
I no longer had to ask Him. tors meeting of the National
men must be free, and his and
The experience of the morning
concern, so I thought, was gave me the answer, both for me Jewish Welfare Board, at the
and for me to give Jethro. Not Waldorf Astoria Hotel. He
with lambs and dough and freedom in Egypt, but freedom
. . . in one of our
from it. Arduous as a long march becomes the first Jewish
herbs and clothes."
to a land of milk and honey chaplain to be accorded this
It is Aaron's turn to ex- might
many great new looks
be, surely true freedom honor.
plain: that freedom can be was to be gained only in our own
land. And, little as / knew of
Chaplain Sobel's new title
for summer! Long
forgotten, that Moses under- Canaan,
it was the land where
stands freedom but does not Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had is equivalent to the Chief of
halter dress in
Canaan was where we Chaplains of the M a ri n e
understand people, that free- dwelled.
would go.
polyester
Force. He will be responsible
dom "can perish, unless you
"What I did not know then was
that in anticipating a law for for the supervision of 200
give the people both the strangers,
pique, $46
I was on the threshold
thought of freedom and also on answering the question, What chaplains of all faiths in the
Marines.
is a Hebrew? Then. I knew only
the way to remember the vagely,
as now I know clearly,
The first Rabbi to be com-
thought."
that a Hebrew, beyond being the
BankAmericard
offspring
The way people respond adheres to of Hebrews, is one who missioned as a chaplain in
Master Charge
a law of justice and the Regular U.S. Navy Chap-
had already been Moses' righteousness, to an obligation to
earlier experience — when be more than merely a usual per- lains Corps, Sobel served as
and to be. instead, one who executive director of the
he was nearly betrayed by a son
lives by the highest law and the
fellow Hebrew before he fled noblest principles. It came to me, Armed For ces Chaplains
at that early moment, that Board and received the Le-
OPEN THURS.,
from Pharaoh's court and even
the greater task before me, be-
from Egypt, and later when yond freeing my people, was to gion of Merit Medal for "ex-
FRI., SAT. TIL 9
them from slaves into ceptionally meritorious serv-
there were the dangers of a transform
singular nation of singular ice" in this capacity.
rebellion.
persons."
CLOSED SUNDAY
There is the ethical aspect
It is from his father-in-law
MAY 13th
Zionist
Definition
Jethro the Midianite that of the Moses story. He dif-
in honor of
A Zionist is one who recog-
Moses learned much and re- fered with Aaron as to pro-
all Mothers
nizes
the
existence
of
a
gen-
ceived encouragement to pur- cedure, but their brotherly
eral
and
personal
Jewish
sue the task of freeing his relationship was never in
people; and it was his Mid- doubt. But he was antagon- question and who admits that
ianite wife Zipporah who was ized by his sister Miriam. its solution lies not only in
3E3 MT R. rr 0 INT 9e
with him all the way in the When she sang to glorify the the future but in the present
death of Egyptians who had of the state of Israel, which
quest for that freedom.
GLAMOUR AND LEISURE SPORTSWEAP,
FASHIONS
Because so many often pursued the Hebrews and hints at the future. — N.
draw upon the Moses-Midian- were drowned while crossing Rotenstreich, "On the His-
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ite-Jethro-Zipporah facts to the Red Sea, Moses was out- torical Status of the State of
Southfield
believe that mixed marriages raged. How could he possibly Israel."
could be condoned because condone anyone's gloating
Moses, too, married out of over the death of people?
the faith, the story related There is justification in fight-
by Prof. Sandmel had special ing for freedom, but not in
merit. He explains how Zip- rejoicing over even an
porah was one with him, how enemy's miseries. It is in
. I S s he affirmed her having be-
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