THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Nov. 8, 1974-45 Friday, RABBI S. ZACHARIASH Specialized MOHEL In Home or Hospital ''5 57-9666 CANTOR SIDNEY RUBE Certified Mohel 358-1426 or 357-5544 Cantor SAMUEL EENBAUM Certified Annual Leo Baeck Conference Fans Jewish Thought The seventh annual Leo Baeck Memorial Conference on Jewish Social Thought last fall was held against the backdrop of the- shocking Yom Kippur War. Sponsored by the Ameri- can Federation of Jews from Central Europe, the confer- ence honored the 100th birth- day of the late German-Jew- ish liberal. Baeck was one of the most famous leaders of the- German Jewish com- munity during the harrowing rise to power of Adolph Hitler. The conference covered topics besides Baeck's philos- ophies: Israel and the Golah, OHEL glwAs Serving Homes & Hospitals .. 399-7194 — 547-7970 Oct. 29—T,o Mr. and Mrs. Donald Glenn (Elaine Cohen), REV. HERSHI. 21921 Dante, Oak Park, a son, Eric Neal. . • * * Certified Mohel Oct. 29—To. 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Simon, of Hebrew University in Jeru- salem, compared Baeck and Martin Buber, another lead- ing German Jew who helped revive Hasidism, and helped transform Zionism into a cultural, as well as political movement. "Baeck and Buber belonged among the outstanding and courageous leaders of Ger- man Jewry in its most crit- ical hour," Dr. Simon said. But, "There were two sig- nificant differences in their positions: Baeck was forced to take -responsibility for the organized Jewish community at the end of German-Jewish history and thus faced the necessity imposed on men of action to make unavoidable compromises. "Buber taught us the meaning lof spiritual resist- -ance against identification with the aggressor . . He was and remained our teach- er . . . riot a leader of men." Dr. Herbert Straus, of City College of New York, opened the Lerntag, and explained its significance by saying it recaptures "Past experience , in service to the present and the future. "Baeck's approach_ to teaching and writing, Buber's reinterpretation of the hasid- ic tradition, the respect both men instilled in their students for their visions of the good and true life makes them guides and allies in our ef- forts." Another speaker, Joachim Prinz, chairman of the gov- erning council of the World Jewish Congress, spoke pessi- mistically about his hopes for the Golah. His thoughts should lead Jews living outside Israel to ponder the meaning of their personal lives, and those of their fellow Jews. "For this Golah," i Rabbi Prinz said, "a Jewish com- munity which is very weak numerically and weak in terms of Jewish creativity, I do not believe in an assured existence for the next hun- dred years." Rabbi Prinz continued, "This is the first time that Jews live in complete free- dom and are at liberty to be or not to be Jews. "A very large number have made the decision not to be Jews, not by converting . . . They say clearly: 'I am a Jew.' But what consequences do they draw from being racially, biologically, ethnic- ally 'Jews? In reality they are not Jews because they are not actively or creatively involved in their Jewish exis- tence." He -goes on to quote the frightening - intermarriage statistics, reaching the rate of 85 -per cent in Holland, and 40 per cent iri the U.S. Alt ko u g h pessimistic, Rabbi Prinz still sees hope if attitudes will change: "The meaning, the historic- LEO BAECK meaning, the moral meaning, the religious meaning of Jew- ish 'existence in 1973 and the r following decades is to es- tablish a relationship of mu- SOLE SHOES tual love and respect between the Golah and Israel." Combine FUNCTION Dr. Curt C: Silberman, With STYLE for -president of the American Men and Women Federation • of Jews from by Central Europe, summarized HACK the conference: DAWN . . . Tan, -"The Lerntag on Jewish Bone, White Social Thought was an at- tempt to assist in the clarifi- cation- of the interdepen4ence' Black or brown of\ Israel and the Diaspora, a $45.00 totally novel problem in4Jew- .T.m. RIME ish history, and at the same ALSO Sole Corp. OTHER STYLES time to establish guidelines for the Diaspora." "Our problem is not so SHOE COMPANY much the existence of such 235 PIERCE, BIRMINGHAM legal and ethical thoughts 33 East Adams . . ." but "their day-to-day 19360 Livernois • 20901 Kelly Rd. A hope _ for independence is ap•lication." based." In his letter, Yates said that his questioning at the Treasury Department fol- lowered the administration's announcement that it would welcome • investment in the United.States by Arab na- tions of their oil income. - RIPPLE' Congress May Prevent Arab Control of U.S. Oil Property WASHINGTON (JTA) — Legislation to prevent pur- chase or lease of American- owned oil lands by the pe- troleum Koducing c a r t el countries or their associates is being prepared by .Rep. Sidney Yates (D.-Ill.). In a letter to his constitu- ents in Illinois where he is unopposed for re-election to his 13th term in Congress, Yates said he will introduce his legislation when Congress reconvenes in mid-November to block such control by for- eign interests. He said that he has expressed his concern to President Ford, urging him to take steps for the same ends. The "disquieting answer" that he received in question- ing U. S. Treasury officials on the subject Yates declared is,that the Arab nations could sit "on our oil leases" and that "there' are no barriers to their participation." Yates said that he consid- ers "appalling, if not danger- ous, the- prospect that the car- tel nations, whose monopolis- tic price-gauging activities ' had compelled us to speed up the development of our own energy resources, should be given the opportunity to buy conrol of our oil lands upon which, to a great extent, our L N. N. N. • N. N. N N. N. N.. N. N. N. No. N. N. N. N.. N. N. Gur Rejects Offer to Return to Army, TEL AVIV (ZINS)—In re- jecting Gen. Ariel Sharon's- offer to return to \military service, Israeli Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur explained that he did not wish to "disturb the ,harmony which now pre- vails in the leadership of the Israel army." .Gur's decision was ratified by Defense Min- ister. 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