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. F R TONE Guide for Widows, `On Being Alone' JEWELRY woresz ditTmoncis"& Jewelry Remounting, Jewelry & Watch Repairing; SUITE 364 ADVANCE BLDG. 23077 Greenfield at 9 Mile -1 0 3l3 FARMINGTON HILLS HAIR REMOVAL CENTER Gentle - Effective permanent 851-9175 for app't. 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READING SPECIALIST 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." Yeshiva U. 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M fact • ). !conscience-raising, he does not ignore children and 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- ment. 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- pert himself, Vorspan draws upon an "interview with an expert" in a chapter on "The M a 1 e Menopause That Re- freshes." That, too, shoula \ be an inducement to find out what the author is aiming at. Those who try Vorspan for relaxation, as rem e d y , as cure, at once earn a Mazel Tov! First they must read his hilarious book. — P.S. 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