Birth
Announcements
Sept. 2—To Dr. and Mrs.
Donald Rochen (Phyllis
Been), 554 Coachman, Troy,
a son, Steven Benjamin.
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Aug. 27—To Dr. and Mrs.
Roman Franklin (Elayne
Lipson), 15130 Northfield,
Oak Park, a son, Alexander
Scott.
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Aug 26—To Mr. and Mrs.
Nate Goldberg (Nancy Rob-
erts), 7127 N. Merrybrook,
West Bloomfield, a son Scott
Michael.
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Aug. 26—To Rabbi and
Mrs. Dovid Kuperman (Es-
ther Niselbaum), former De-
troiters of Euclid, 0., a
daughter, Faige Leah.
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Aug. 25—To Dr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Brotman (Joan
Baginski of New Orleans),
farmer Detroiters of Rock-
ville, Md., a daughter, Re-
becca Melanie.
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Aug. 24—To Dr. and Mrs.
David Summer (Betsy
Hecht), 16400 North Park,
Southfield, a son, Daniel
Manes.
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Aug. 16—To Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Lumberg (Pam Sher-
man), 27416 Everett, South-
field, a son, Adam Patrick.
Judaism's Ideals
Dreams Like Roses
Judaism has been repre-
sented both by Jews and
Christians as the most cut-
Expert Mohel,
and-dried scheme of all; but
tiering llovital. and flame-
the truth rather is that half
LI 2-4444
LI 1-9769 the Jews have been engaged
in drying Judaism and the
`=-= ■ =•=-=.=•=.=-X-=•=•4" other' half in cutting it. "Ju-
daism is not a religion, but
Rev. S. Richmond
a misfortune," said Heine;
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and the vulgar comedy of lit-
tle souls who have changed
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"Moses Moses" to "Montmor-
Endorsed by the Supervisor of Mohelim
for the state of Israel.
ency," is paralleled by the
==•=1=4, high tragedy of those great
souls that have found them-
distracted between a
RABBI S. ZACHARIASH selves,
parochial something which
Specialized
they did not understand and
the great free world of ideas
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and institutions and aspira-
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tions' calling them without.
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And yet—here is the irony—
all those ideals and aspira-
tions were already within.
CANTOR SIDNEY Judaism was never the mum-
my that Heine figured it. Be-
neath that yellow parchment
skin the blood beat and tin-
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gled, and in that withered
head bloomed dreams like
358-1426 or 357-5544
roses.—Israel Zangwill.
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A Kissinger Bar Mitzva: Traditions and Morals
LANGuRIE
RADIO STATION
Mr. Kissinger recently, ac-
cording to the press, visited
Boston to attend his son's
bar mitzva.
That makes him the first
secretary of state of the
United States to attend a
bar mitzva. Let the histor-
ians take note of this, please.
The first secretary of state
was Thomas Jefferson. He
believed in all the Mitzvos.
In justice, in honor, in truth.
Also he had a number of
Jewish friends and when he
was secretary of state—the
beginning of Washington's
administration — the capital
was New York City and
Jefferson lived on the East
Side—but he never went to
a bar mitzva.
James Madison was secre-
tary of state when Jefferson
became President. Madison
studied some Hebrew — in
preparation for the ministry
—he later changed his mind
about being a preacher but
he never went • to a bar
mitzva.
Kissinger also attend-
ed some years back his own
bar mitzvah — in Germany.
It was not a happy affair.
It was in the Hitler period.
The Kissingers managed
to escape. When more re-
recently, Kissinger paid
an official visit to Germany,
the press bureau there put
out a release that he would
visit some of his German
elatives and Mr. Kissinger
is said to have exploded:
"What the hell are they
putting out? My relatives are
soap."
So Henry Kissinger's own
bar mitzva was not a happy
one, _ but his bar mitzvah
training has paid off.'Mitzva
means commandment and
the great commandment is
"Thou shalt not kill" and
Mr. Kissinger's career has
been devoted to trying to get
the world to keep it. War is
the greatest violation of this
Mitzva.
If the people of the world
kept this mitzva, "Thou shalt
not murder," we would have
peace in the world.
The bar mitzva is called
to the reading of the Torah
and the prophetical portion
and he generally also makes
a little speech. "Today I am
a man," he says.
The rabbis 2,000 years
back thought highly of being
a man. In the Ethics of the
Fathers, they wrote: "In the
place where there is no man,
try to be a man."
Note the word "try." They
realized that it was not
easy.
What is it to be a man?
Rudyard Kipling tried to
answer it (we are quoting
from memory)
If you can think and not
make thoughts your aim
If you can meet ,with tri-
umph and disaster
And treat those two im-
posters just the same
If all men count with you,
but none too much
If you can fill the unfor-
giving minute
With sixty seconds worth
of distance run
If you can see the things
you gave your life too
broken
And stop building them
up with worn out tools
Yours is the world and all
there's in it
And what is more, you'll
be a man, my son.
The Bible says man is
made in the image of God.
That seems perhaps a too
elevated picture, but maybe
if man held such a picture
of himself, he might become
worthier. As the Bible also
says, "as a man thinketh in
his heart, so he is."
A wonderful true story an-
ent this, is told of an inci-
dent in Jerusalem. A group
of yeshiva students - were
throwing stones .at a repre-
sentative of the opposition.
A wise Jewish policeman
seized one of the ringlead-
ers: "You believe that man is
made in the image of God,
don't you?"
"So what?" said the yeshi-
va student.
"So 'why do you throw
stones and try to deface his
image?"
Jewish Rules on Cremation Practices:
Viewed Abhorrent, Idolatrous Humiliating
Disposal of the dead body ice shall be conducted there however, do not permit the
by burning is not a Jewish at the time of the interment." ashes of cremated persons to
custom, and burial is con- Ultra-Orthodox communities, be buried in their cemeteries.
sidered by traditional Jews
to be obligatory and a re-
ligious commandment. There
are some biblical sayings
which have been advanced as
scriptural proof texts justi-
fying cremation, such as "for
dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return" (Gen.
3:19).
Cremation, says the au-
thoritative Encyclopedia
Judaica, was not unknown
to the ancient Hebrew, and
"burning" was one of the
four death penalties imposed
by the biblical ,code for a
number of offenses (Lev.
20:14; 2':9). But the ancient
rabbis found the execution
of this death sentence so ab-
horrent that they refused to
interpret the injunction lit-
erally. Cremation was obvi-
ously considered such a
humiliation that it should not
even be inflicted on crim-
inals. According to the Ro-
man historian Tacitus, the
Jews "bury rather than burn
their dead."
The Mishnah considers the
burning of a corpse to be an
idolatrous practice. Some
rabbis felt a cremation is a
damning denial of the belief
in bodily resurrection and a
brutal affront to the dignity
of the human body. With ref-
erence to resurrection, most
believiif Jews do not
the doctrine of the resurrec-
tion of the dead in the basic
literal sense. It would cer-
tainly lie within the power of
God to reconstitute a body
that has been decayed after
burial. Are the millions of
Jews whose bodies were cre-
mated during the Holocaust,
denied their place in the
Hereafter because they had
been burnt and not buried?
Modern orthodox authori-
ties insist, says the Encyclo-
pedia Judaica, that burial is
the proper method of disposal
of a corpse. British and
French chief rabbis,— to-
wards the end of the 19th
century, while opposed to
cremation, decided that the
ashes of a person who had
been cremated may be in-
terred in a Jewish cemetery.
American Reform rabbis, in
accordance with a decision
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