Rabbinic rracticanty Artist's Tribute to Meir Berlin - Bar-Ilan - Is Memorialized in Israel University crcoouctr, PY RABBI MEIR BERLIN LIVES OF OUR TIMES NO&MAN & SJL Abba Joseph, though a rabbi, was a builder's labor- er. While at his work one day he was accosted by a man who wished to drag him into a theological discussion. The Rabbi refused. "I am a day- laborer," he said, "and can- not leave my work. Say quickly what you would and go."—Shemot Rabbah. Nonct—_, it XT HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES BEFORE WORLD WAR I AND BECAME A MEMBER Of THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE,SET UP TO AID JEWS DISLOCATED BY THE WAR. LEADER OF THE ORTHODOX ZIONIST MOVE- MENT,MIZRACHI,CHAIAPION OF THE RIGHTS Of THE JEWISH PEOPLE,SCHOLAR AND AUTHOR AFTER SERVING- FOR EIGHT YEARS AS MIZRACHI MEMBER OF THE ZIONIST ACTIONS COMMITTEE,HE BECAME THAT BODY'S PRESI- DENT IN 1926.HE ALSO HEADED THE AMERICAN MIZRACHI FOR MORE THAN A DECADE. BORN INTO A RENOWNED RABBINKAL FAMILY IN RUSSIA IN 11161,HE STUDIED AT THE FAMOUS YESAIVOS OF VOLOZHIN AND TELZ.AFTER ATTENDING THE UNI- VERSITY OF BERLINA( WAS ORDAINED IN 1902. AS A MEMBER OF THE STATE COUNCIL AND•— AS A DIRECTOR OF THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND, AS WELL AS OTHER IMPORTANT BODIES, 1415 COUNSEL 15 SOUGHT BY ALL IN ISRAEL. IN 1933,RABBI BERLIN LEFT FOR PALESTINE TO ESTABLISH PERMANENT RESIDENCE AND TO DIRECT THE PROGRAMS OF THE WORLD - WIDE MIZRACHI ORGANIZATION.HE 15 TODAY ONE OF ISRAEL'S LEADING CITIZENS. _----- MIZRACHI TOURS TO A FOREST - THE MEIR BERLIN FOREST- WAS PLANTED IN HI5 HONOR IN 1940. WORLD MIZRACHI LEADER,WHO STRIVES FOR AN ISRAEL EASED ON THE TENETS Of THE TORAH. Invites you to have the greatest experience during your visit in ISRAEL We assure you that you vv$' a have spiritual satisfactic SUCCOS TOUR _ LETTER BOX Humanist Manifesto Decried by Reader COPY•r.er .941, JEW19.1 7L6tG.n.0 SPECIAL!!! Bar-Ilan University was established in tribute to the late Rabbi Meir Berlin, who adopted the Hebrew name of Bar-Ilan upon the establishment of the state of Israel. When he was still using the Berlin name, our artists prepared a pictorial sketch portraying his life. We reproduce it here on the occasion of the 18th anniversary celebration of Bar-Ilan University, to be marked at the annual dinner of Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan, at the Shaarey Zedek, next Thursday evening. Reservations for the annual Bar-Ilan dinner can still be made by calling the Bar-Han office 398-7180, 23125 Coolidge, Oak Park. 7-10 DAY TRIPS Beginning Nov. 1 $385 fare only or with accommodations available MAKE ARRANGEMENTS NOW!!! 100's of tours and Flights available For Further Information Call or Write Parents, Bar Mitzva Candidates Join in Unique Preparation By BEN GALLOB (Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.) NEW YORK — A family education program to make preparation of children for Bar and Bat Mitzva a mean- ingful educational experience for both the candidates and their parents has been re- ported by a Reform rabbi who developed it out of frus- tration and disgust with the existing program at his syna- gogue. Each candidate and at least one parent study together for three months in the program which includes homework for both parent and child. Rabbi Edward Zerin of Temple Sinai in Sharon, Mass., stressed that the in- Editor, The Jewish News: The front page of the Aug. 31 issue of The Jewish News prominently featured the Humanist Manifesto II in the name of some 120 religious leaders, among them Rabbi Sherwin Wine and Prof. Mordecai Kaplan. It declares, 'God, ritual and creed do a disservice to the human species. Reason and intelligence are the most ef- fective instruments human- kind possesses, . . . we do not wish to prohibit by laws or social sanction, sexual be- havior between two consent- ing adults." The age of "reason and en- lightenment (intelligence)" is now some 150 years old, and the age of sexual permissive- ness was given public sanc- tion by Freud. We are old enough to see the results of the breakdown of moral re- straint. All around us we see the collapse of marriage and family structure. Children soon learn to imi- tate their elders. The result is "barnyard morality." The Torah was given the Jewish people for exactly this reason. The surrounding cultures in the lands of the east had no restraints, moral or sexual. It is for this reason that we were told that we are given the choice. "Lo, I put before you this day life or death. Therefore choose life." Widespread acceptance of this "humanist manifesto" would soon lead to total an- imalism, not humanism. Rabbis are supposed to lead the people to higher planes of human existence, this manifesto would lead us to the depths of hedonism and ultimately nihilism. Sincerely, MRS. JOSHUA SPERKA novative program was "not just for adults nor just for young people but for par- ents and children together." He reported on the experi- ment in "Compass," a news- letter published by the com- mission on Jewish education of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the Reform congregational agen- cy, and the Central Confer- ence of American Rabbis, the Reform rabbinical associa- tion. Contrasting the new ap- proach with the old, Rabbi Zerin declared that "now the students take their work seri- ously. They carefully do their homework and come to the sessions prepared to discuss. Neighborhood for Learning The parents participate too. They read the assignments and engage in the group give- and-take." Rabbi Zerin said he had been informed that the con- versation at the dinner table at the homes of candidates "also has taken on a new dimension. The talk is about the Torah portion and the Haftora, what ,each one means and how they relate to each other." Each family is asked to research the contents of both the Torah and Haftorah por- tions. The candidate makes a presentation to his or her group. Topics for research include the difference be- tween Torah and Haftora, reasons why particular por- tions are assigned for given Sabbaths and the meaning of the terms Bar and Bat Mitzva. He said that when a three- month study period has been completed, "each family has studied with me at least eight to 10 different Torah and Haftora portions. I also show them how to detect the relationship between the portions, and then we begin to write the speeches." He said a "wonderful by- products" of the project was the fact that "I now know every family personally and maybe what is even more im- portant — the families have come to know each other." Dr. Gerson D. Cohen, right, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, receives a proclamation from the, mayor of New York, John V. Lindsay, center. Others in- clude William McGill, president of Columbia University, fourth from left; and Martha Peterson, president of Barn- ard College, sixth from left. The proclamation hailed the Morningside Heights neighborhood as "one of the greatest collections of diverse academic and religious institutions ever gathered in one place at one time." The mayor spoke at the conclusion of a walking tour of the neighborhood that took him from Columbia University, with visits at several other of the area's institutions, and ended with a reception in the student lounge of the seminary. 20—Friday, Sept. 14, 1973 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Mizrachi Tours 23125 Coolidge, Oak Park 398-7180 Classifieds Get Quick Results WATCH- FOR SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT PACKER • PONTIAC STILL THE WORLD'S LARGEST Free Loaners Come In NOW For the Best Deal on the New "74's" MILT LEVIN RED STOTSKY Call 863 - 9300 Call 863 - 9300 18650 LIVERNOIS, SOUTH OF SEVEN For the Most Elegant Bar Mitzva Suits in Town with the Finest Fit Slims and Huskies Torah as a Light A young rabbi complained to his master: "During the hours when I am studying I feel filled with light and life, but as soon as I cease to study this mood disappears. What ought I do?" Thereupon the rabbi re- plied: "It is like a man who journeys through a forest on a dark night, and part of the way is accompanied by a companion who carries a lan- tern. At length they come to the point where their paths divide, and they must go on alone. If each carries his own lantern, he need fear no darkness." $1050 • Succos in Jerusalem • Full sightseeing, including Eilat & Sharm El Sheikh • 1st Class Hotels with 2 meals a day, 3 meals on Succos 1 111110. HE 15 THE EDITOR OF THE OFFICIAL MIZRACHI ORGAN IN TEIAVIV,'HATIOFE," AND ALSO IS ACTIVE IN NUMEROUS EDU - CATIONAL AND LITERARY ENDEAVORS. Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan University rightfully claims a major share in the joys that attach to celebrating the 18th anniversary of the university. During. the entire hai—denoting life and 18—period, Detroiters dedi- _ cated to the advancement of this university have been among the leaders in its behalf. 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