42—Friday, March 1, 1974
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Court Upholds Beth Din Rule
NEW YORK (JTA) The
right to publicize the ruling
of a rabbinical court (Beth
Din) even when detrimental
to one of the parties in the
Beth Din hearing has been
upheld by the appellate di-
vision of the New York State
Supreme Court, according to
the National Jewish Commis-
sion on Law and Public Af-
fairs (COLPA).
Howard I. Rhine, COLPA
president, said the ruling
was "an important reaffirm-
ation of freedom of religion."
The case involved a suit
which accused the Shatnes
Laboratory of Brooklyn, N.Y.
with trade libel for circulat-
ing a poster citing a Beth
Din decision that a certain
tailor was not qualified to
test clothes for "shatnes."
Jewish religious law bans
the wearing of a garment
containing both wool and lin-
en, called shatnes in the Jew-
ish scriptures. Observant
Jews have their garments
tested to determine whether
linen was used.
The tailor claimed the no-
tice caused injury to his rep-
utation and loss of $50,000 in
income, which he claimed as
damages.
Rhine said the lower court
had held that the losing par-
ty could institute a libel suit
even when the damaging
statements resulted from the
findings of a Beth Din. In
effect, Rhine said, the insti-
tution of the Beth Din as a
forum for Jews to resolve
their differences without go-
ing into civil courts would
have been seriously under-
mined.
Rhine also reported that
one of the nation's largest
pharmaceutical firms has re-
instated with full back pay a
dismissed Sabbath observing
sales representative and that
the company agreed to re-
vise its employment practices
in the hiring of Orthodox
Jews.
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Conversionist
Mazel Toy! Albert Vorspan Keeps Amusing
Gets Lesson in
Jewish Belief
Albert Vorspan, who has
been prominent for s o m e
years as a leading Jewish
social worker, has a new
role: he is an entertaining
story teller who ably provides
the Jewish (Yiddish) kvetch
that amuses and provides
lighter vein reading. He does
it again in "Mazel Toy!
You're Middle-Aged"
(Doubleday
How does a Jew answer a
Christian proselytizer — par-
ticularly when the latter is a
friend and as strong a be-
liever in his religion as the
Jew is in his?
In response to their latest
Christmas greeting, in which
they urged their friend to
check "the prophecies of the
Messiah in the Old Testa-
ment," Leonard Simons
wrote:
"Maybe you are right —
and maybe I am right. I am
not sure of that—but I am
sure that I was born of Jew-
ish parents, and I want to
live my life as a good Jew—
and to die when my time
comes, as a Jew.
"I like being a Jew and
what it stands for—morally
and ethically. I understand
life as a Jew having lived
almost 70 years as a Jewish
person . . .
"What is so important
about being a member of one
religious sect or another—so
long as you believe in God,
obey his Divine Command-
ments and do as Micah 6:8
said in the Jewish Bible
("What cloth the Lord require
of thee but to do justly and
to love mercy and to walk
humbly with thy God?").?
"The history of the world
has been a very sad one —
caused by "so-called" reli-
gions being unwilling to let
others of a different faith
live and let live — in spite
of the fact that we are all
supposed to be God's children
and should believe in the
Brotherhood of Man under
the Fatherhood of God.
"You believe and practice
the words of Jesus—but how
many others of your coreli-
gionists practice Christianity
honestly by following the
words of Jesus? Not enough
to convince me that your re-
ligion has more to offer me
than mine."
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!conscience-raising, he does
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grandchildren, he provides a
role for every candidate for
the age group to which he
addresses his laconic tests,
the new "Mazel Tov" story
beckons readership involve-
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Of course, to make this
"Mazel Tov" a best seller
Vorspan also has, a few
phrases that are unquotable
in a review like ours for a
family paper many of whose
readers may not be ready for
the whines and laments. But
there are numerous bits of
humor that atone for what-
ever middle-age shortcom-
ings may trouble the difficult-
to-attain-hacking.
While emerging as an ex-
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be an inducement to find out
what the author is aiming
at.
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his hilarious book. — P.S.
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What a kind evaluator! He
begins by asserting that mid-
dle age is not related to •••M
years, that it is a state of
mind. He even provides a =
score board with testing
questions for the querulous
and he proceeds to introduce
the touch of kvetch. What ex-
actly is that Yiddish "tool in
the survival kit of middle
age" as he puts it? Note his
definition:
":It is something like a
whine, a wail, a sigh, a lament
and a complaint all wrapped
together in one sibilant com-
bination. It knows neither
race, religion, geography, age
(indeed, the young are really
the biggest kvetchers except
they call it Protest). The
term derives, of course, from
the specifically Jewish expe-
rience and it is redolent of
centuries of anguish. But the
kvetch is primordial and uni-
versal; Jews have no monop-
oly on it. Lately blacks have
been kvetching even more
than Jews; Italians are dis-
covering its power; Russians,
American Indians and Egyp-
tians have proved themselves
active kvetchers, and WASPS
have more to kvetch about
than anyone else."
Because of his elaboration
on the effects of such sibilant
wailing, the reader must pur-
sue his own research into his
book for an appreciation of
the wit, the inhaling of the
satire that is Vorspan's. Be-
cause he is concerned with
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