JWV

Tay-Sachs Screening
Program Launched

Department of Michigan
announces the following of-
ficers of the board of direc-
tors of the Memorial Home
Association: Charlotte Rosen,
president; Howard Water-
stone, Charles Glass and Her-
bert Benson, vice presidents;
Esther Kaufman, treasurer;
Jack Goyer, Joe Bale, Sarah
Neuron and David Goodstein,
three-year members; Dr.
Samuel Goss, Philip Good-
man, E. Toby Lantz and
William Greenberg, t w o -
year members; Sidney
Lantz, Rosalyn Liner, Ber-
tha Greenberg and Robert
Sontag, one-year members.
The association maintains
the JWV headquarters in
Southfield which houses
meeting r o o m s and the
shrine to the Jewish war
dead of Michigan. The shrine
is open 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
daily. For information, call
the JWV office, 559-5680.

An all-out campaign
against Tay-Sachs disease, a
fatal genetic disorder that af-
flic6 Jewish infants, has
been announced here.
Involvement in the new
program is being encour-
aged among the entire De-
troit Jewish community.
Mrs. Maynard Kalef, presi-
dent of the Bnai Brith Wom-
en's Council of Metropolitan
Detroit, and Harold Jaffa,
president of the Metropolitan
Detroit Bnai Brith Council,
said brochures on Tay-Sachs
are being assembled and
sent to all 13,000 Bnai Brith
members.
Genetic screening clinics,
manned by skilled personnel,
will be available June 23 and
30 .and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at
the United Hebrew Schools
building.
A simple blood test and
completion of a data form
take a few minutes to corn-
plete.

SILVERMAN. DETROIT
AUXILIARY recently p r e -
sented the Wayne County
Youth Home an American
Flag. Edythe Morgano, aux-
iliary president; Tess Kom-
inars, patriotic instructress;
and Frances Hirsch partici-
pated in the ceremony.

Brother 111Ds Read Maimonides
Oath at Special Commencement

Concentration is the secret
of strength in politics, in
war, in trade, in short in all
the management of human
affairs.—Ralph Waldo Emer-
son.

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Two brothers who refused
to violate the Sabbath by at-
tending Saturday commence-
ment exercises were honored
at a special graduation cere-
mony Monday afternoon at
Wayne State University's
medical school.
Drs. Harold and Saul Wein-
garden, sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Irving Weingarden of Temp-
lar Cir., Southfield, read the
Maimonides Oath, and Dr.
Robert Coye, dean of the
medical school, presented
their diplomas.
The young men, both grad-
uates of Yeshivath Beth Ye-
huda, chose the Maimonides
Oath over the traditional Hip-
pocratic Oath, usually ad-
ministered to new doctors.
The former appeals to an in-
creasing number of doctors
because they find the liberal
principles of Moses Ben Mai-
mon, the 12th Century Jewish
physician, more preferable

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Nurses and medical tech-
nicians are being asked to
volunteer their services. For
information, call Barbara
Sokolov, 353-5350; Roberta
Freedman, 557-5871; Arlene
Harris, 357-2607; B a r b a r a
Saltz, 626-4647; or the Bnai
Brith Council office, 354-6100.

`Rayut' Couples Set
Social and Meeting

Rayut (Hebrew for friend-
ship) has been selected as
the name of the new Bnai
Brith couples group, which
will hold its next social 8
p.m. June 2 at Eliot's Res-
taurant, 29556 Orchard Lake.
Jeannie Warren will give a
belly-dancing demonstration.
Couples age 25-35 who are
interested in joining, are in-
vited. For reservations, call
interim president Fran Krav_
itz, 647-0533 or the Bnai
Brith office, 354-6100.

than Hippocrates' resort to
ancient mythology.
Harold, 23, is a resident at
the Ohio State University
hospital; Saul, 26, is an •in-
tern at Sinai Hospital.
Harold said that he and
his brother had planned sim-
ply to pick up their diplomas
because they could not par-
ticipate on Saturday. How-
ever, Dr. Joseph Honet, head
of the department of physical
medicine and rehabilitation
at Sinai Hospital, and Dr.
Arnold Axelrod, chairman of
the SinaLdepartment of med-
icine, intervened in their be-
half.
They wrote letters of pro-
test to the medical school
and also contacted Rabbi
Max Kapustin, director of the
WSU Hillel Foundation. Fol-
lowing contacts with school
officials, the rabbi announced
that while they could ,not
change the date this year,
they pledged not to hold Sat-
urday commencements in the
future.
There were 175 graduates
in the Weingardens' class.
Present at the Monday
ceremony were their par-
ents, Saul's wife Elaine and
other immediate relatives
and friends. Some faculty
members also attended.
The special graduation was
coordinated by Dr. Marilyn
Heins, dean of students at
the WSU medical school.
The Jewish News played a
small part in the Weingard-
ens' graduation. Early Mon-
day afternoon Harold rushed
into the newspaper office,
hoping that he could obtain
a copy of the Maimonides
Oath that he had seen in the
paper "sometime last year."
To locate the copy of the
paper, which actually was
Aug. 27, 1971, the editors and
the new doctor set about
looking through old issues.
As the time drew closer for
the 2 p.m. graduation, the
search grew more frantic.
Just before Harold had to
leave, the publisher located
the issue — only one copy
remaining in the files.
With a photocopy under his
arm, Harold made it down to
the medical school just in
time to read the oath with
his brother.

Dietary Laws

Jewish laws and customs
pertaining to the types of
food permitted for consump-
tion and their preparation
concern themselves with
what animals, birds and
fish may be eaten, the way
in which they must be pre-
pared, and the fact that meat
must not be consumed or
cooked together with milk or
other dairy products.
Throughout the ages, ac-
cording to Encyclopedia Ju-
daica, many attempts have
been made to explain these
laws. The Bible itself does
not explain them, although
they are closely associated
with the concept of "holi-
ness." It has been variously
suggested that the underly-
ing motivation for the dietary
laws are hygienic and sani-
tary, aesthetic and folkloric,
or ethical and psychological.
The prophet Ezekiel ( 33: 25 ),
for instance, equates the eat-
ing of blood with the sins of
idolatry and murder. Accord-
ing to one interpretation of
this verse, the laws are ethi-
cal ill intent since abstention
from
the consumption of
blood tames man's instinct
for violence by instilling in
him a horror of bloodshed.
The rabbis of the Talmud
generally regarded the se
laws as aids to moral con-
duct.
A halakhic Midrash states:
"Let not a man say, 'I do
not like the flesh of swine';
on the contrary, he should
say, 'I like it but must ab-
stain seeing that the Torah
has forbidden it'." The
authoritative Encyclopedia
Judaica states that accord-
ing to some mystics, the for-
bidden foods defile and pol-
lute man's soul and blunt the
intellectual powers.
Maimonides n o t e s that
these laws "accustom us to
restrain both the growth of
desire and disposition to con-
sider the pleasure of eating
as the end of man's exist-
ance." He also maintained
that all forbidden foods
"have some bad and damag-
'ng effect on the body."
Soiling meat in milk seems
o have been part of certain
pagan festivals.
Reform Judaism, first in
Germ an y, considered the
dietary laws as "of a mere
temporary ceremonial char-
acter and not essentially re-
ligious or moral laws." One
of the exponents of the Con-
servative position points out
that the dietary laws achieve
"inner hallowing," demand-
ing sacrifice, self-discipline
and determination as well as
courage to face the powerful
current of conformity, and
"outer separateness," setting
Jews apart from the nations.

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Education Board

VP
Seeks Congress Seat

Patrick A. McDonald, vice
president of the Detroit Board
of Education, announces he
‘vill run as a Democratic
candidate for Congress in the
.7th Congressional District,
o succeed Congresswoman
Martha Griffiths,
McDonald said, "The future
)f 265,000 school children and
ndeed the future of the city
of Detroit must be guaran-
teed by legislation that will
:ompel the teachers and the
board of education to sign a
contract in time for schools
'o open on schedule in the

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38—Friday,
May 24, 1974
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