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True Site of First Temple is Sought in Holy Land

By JOSEF GOLDSCHMIDT
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem
It is generally accepted tradi-
tion that the site on which David
and Solomon built the Temple,
at Aravna's threshing floor, is
the same place where AbrahaM
built the altar and "bound"
Isaac, and this is the spot where
Noah built (i.e. an altar) when
he left the ark, and it is this some
altar on which Kain and Hevel
brit their offerings, and on
this (altar) Adam brought his of-
fering when he had been
created — and from the same
spot he'd been created. Our
sages said: Man was created
from the soil, which (later) was
to be the place of atonement.
(Maimonides, Hilchot Beit
Habehira, Chap. 2, hal. 2)

There can hardly be a par-
agraph that sums up as con-
cisely, the central position
of Jerusalem and its heart,
the Temple Mount, in Jew-
ish tradition. That tradition
goes back to the creation of
man, includes the age of the
fathers, and enters recorded
history with the time of
King David and Solomon,
whose activities are told in
the historical books of the
Bible.
For nearly 2,000 years,
Jews in Israel and the world
over. prayed, studied,
dreamed and hoped for the
return of this most holy site
to the Jewish people, and
one day the question of re-

newal of the Temple Service
would become real. Now, in
the Six-Day War, the incre-
dible has happened, the
Temple Mount. is part of
Jewish Jerusalem.
True, today two mosques
stand up there, one, the
Dome of the Rock, the
other, the Al Aksa Mosque.
Yet, more than ever before
believers and scholars have
returned to the study of the
conditions that prevailed
when the Temple alone was
there — about 1,500 years
before Islam came into the
world!

The problems and ques-

tions are many indeed.
Talmudic tradition gives
the site dimensions of 500
cubits by 500 cubits. But
what is a cubit? Is it
42.7cm., 48cm., or
57.6cm.? The present area,
enclosed by a wall of
which the Western Wall
(Hakotel Ha ma'aravi) is a
part, is much larger from
north to south than 500
cubits, however you re-
ckon them. Thus, the next
question arises, which
part of today's area is the
original one, that in the
south, that in the north, or
somewhere in the middle?

Yiddish Theater Revived in NY

with us today because of the
efforts of a Bronx musician
turned lumberman and ar-
During the Golden Age of chitectural draftsman
Yiddish drama, the years named Harry Rothpearl
just before and after World
who fulfilled a life-long
War I, 14 theaters played to dream with the re-establish-
standing-room-only crowd ment of the Yiddish theater.
at least four nights a week He formed Jewish Nostalgic
on New York's Lower East Productions to produce his
Side.
shows.
Second Avenue was the
In its hey-day the Yiddish
home of a threatrical tradi- theater served its commu-
tion that has lasted almost
nity as much more than a
100 years . . . and is-still means of entertainment. It
was the matchmaker, the
teacher, the fund-raiser,
the social hall and the train-
ing ground. The list of stars
who learned their craft at
Physical Application of theaters such as Maurice
Schwartz's Yiddish - Art
Geodesy;
Theater (which is now Roth-
Karlsruhe University is in pearl's Eden Theater) reads
Baden, which in the years of like a list of who's who in
the German empire was the the theater. Paul Muni, Ed --
most liberal of the German ward G. Robinson, Luther
states. The famous Jewish and Stella Adler, Herschel
scientist Heinrich Herz, dis- Bernardi, Joseph
coverer of the wave move- Schildkraut, Molly Picon
ment of electricity, was on and Gertrude Berg.
the physics faculty at Karls-
The race to the suburbs,
ruhe at the turn of the cen- during the 1930s, jeopard-
tury.
ized the Yiddish theater

By JUDY JACKSINA
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)

Jewish Scientist Breaks
School's Tradition
- German
-
, By JOSEPH POLAKOFF

(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)

November 28, 1975 59

Literally for 100 years the
University of Karlsruhe's
Geodetic Institute in Ger-
many had awarded its hon-
orary doctorate in engineer-
ing only twice — both times
to male gentiles.
In its centennial year of
1975, the Institute awarded
the doctoral degree to a Jew,
Mrs. Irene Fischer, an Aus-
trian refugee from Nazism
Mrs. Fischer, born in
who is a deodesist at the De-
fense Mapping Agency in Vienna, is a daughter of the
ti Department of De- late Rabbi Kaminka, who
was a member of the first
Mrs.
Fischer
was Zionist Congress in Basel.
awarded the honor in recog- She and her husband, who
nition of her "outstanding holds a doctorate from the
contributions to the deter- University of Vienna, fled
mination of the figure of the from Austria in 1939 to
earth, especially the astro- what was then Palestine.
geodetic determination of
Two years later, they
the geoid, and their stimu- came to the United States.
lating impact on the investi-
gations of the Geodesic In-
While in Palestine, Mrs.
stitute."
Fischer sought to establish
Prominent in her profes- a method of stenography
sion, Mrs. Fischer for the for Herew. She has taught
past eight years has been Hebrew literacy for adults
chairperson on the Inter- at Temple Israel in Silver
national Committee on the Spring, Md.

tremendously. Thus,
Maurice Schwartz's thea-
ter passed hands from
theater group to theater
group to theater group
until the movies got it.

The theater then housed
third-rate-third-run feature
films until enough courage
and enough political pull
was accumulated in order to
transform it into a porno
house.
In 1972 Rothpearl chased
porno out of the Eden Thea-
te• and mounted his first
production — I. J. Singer's
"Yoshe Kalb." The show
was a classic among classics
and happened to have been
one of Schwartz's favorites.

"Yoshe Kalb" originally
premiered in October 1932,
at this same theater that
was built for Schwartz and
ran for 500 performances.
The three New York dailies
raved with shouts of glow-
ing approval. Rothpearl had
felt the time was right to re-
open the Yiddish theater.

Rothpearl decided that
with the new influx of Yid-
dish-speaking immigrants
combined with the new
surge of interest in Yid-
dish, which he attributes
to the nostalgia craze, that
the time was ripe to begin
the project at the Eden
Theater. He has been in
love with the theater ever
since landing a small part
in a Schwartz play in 1928.

Now president of a lum-
ber company, Rothpearl
was, back in his younger
days, a musician, whose fu-
ture father-in-law decided
he could never make a living
in the theater. He became
an architectural draftsman
and went into the lumber
business in 1937.
When it came time to find
backers for his theatrical
venture, Rothpearl turned
first to his competitor in the
lumber business, Sherry
Enrenfeld. Enrenfeld, for
his trouble and support,
became a co-producer and a
partner in a smash hit.

Rothpearl's next two
projects, "Hard To Be A
Jew" and "Th-e Big Win-
ner," which were both
authored by Sholom Alei-
chem, also were smash
hits.

This year's show is "The
Fifth Season," a new musi-
cal version of the hit comedy
by Sylvia Regan.

A most crucial point is obviCtsly determine where
the true nature of "The our Temple stood.
Rock" (Zakhra) over which
The law of Halakha sev-
the Golden Dome of the erely restricts Jews from
Omar Mosque has been walking on the Temple
erected as a shrine. This Mount, but of course on its
rock is roughly 17 meters historical, hallowed part
long and 6 meters wide, and only. But as long as we
it rises 2.5 meters above have no answer to the
ground. There is one and questions dealt with be-
only one legend in the Ko- fore, no prayers can, be
ran which connects this rock
on the Temple Mount,
Mnt,
with Mohammed by a vi- much as the heart of the
sionary visit of his to Jeru- faithful goes out just for
salem. It is this legend that this, and religiously obser-
is the sole basis for making vant soldiers who are de-
Jerusalem the third in rank tailed for guard duty up
of holy cities in Islam.
there take an immersion in
Now, Jewish tradition a ritual bath before enter-
states (Mishna Yoma 5,2) ing the site.
that in the Second Temple,
There are reports that all
when the Holy Ark had dis- the great men of the past
appeared, a rock about three who visited Jerusalem, Mai-
fingers high served the high monides and later Nach-
priest in the holiest of holies manides in the 12th Cen-
on Yom Kippur instead of tury, Rabbi David Ben
the Holy Ark: Is that low Aimray, Chief Rabbi of
rock of the Jewish tradition Egypt, in the 16th Century,
identical with the huge rock and many others, ap-
under the Mosque of Omar, proached the Temple site as
only exposed much further far as they might, but
than it was in the Second surely never trod on its sa-
Temple — or have the two cred ground. For the time
nothing to with one another, being study and inquiry is
and the out-cropping, natu- our share. The funds and
ral rock that was visible in discoveries of excavations
the Second Temple, was fire the imagination, and
somewhere else on the raise great expectations, but
Mount? The choice between the truth is still sealed in
these two alternatives will the unknown future.

Jewish Exec. Heads Quebec
Youth Homes Investigation

BY MICHAEL SOLOMON

(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)

For almost a year now,
the commission appointed
by the government of Que-
bec to look into the treat-
ment of youth delinquency
and underprivileged chil-
dren has interviewed more
than 1,100 people.
It has spent 8,000 man-
hours in ascertaining the
conditions under which
more than 5,000 children in
75 institutions stretched
across the Quebec province,
live.
When the Canadian press
unveiled the inhuman re-
gime to which some of these
unhappy children are sub-
mitted, the solitary confine-
ment applied to them with
their bodies strapped to
mattresses in windowless
cells with cement floors, a
cry of anguish and revulsion
was heard in Canada and
immediate reform of the
present conditions was de-
manded.
The man the provincial
government found for the
job is the middle-aged, mild-
mannered, self-effacing
executive director of the Al-
lied Jewish Communities in
Montreal — Manuel Bat-
shaw .

Asked how he reacted to
the fact that the chairman-
ship of a commission of
such proportions dealing
with a highly controver-
sial subject was given to a
Jew, Batshaw replied:
"My first comment is ad-
dressed to my fellow. Jews
who feel insecure in Que-
bec: my appointment
should be interpreted as
proof of the government's
responsible action because
they did not let politics or
religious bias interfere
with the selection of a

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chairman based exclu-
sively on the individual's
qualifications."

Among the 75 institu-
tions, 10 are English-speak-
ing. There are no Jewish
institutions but, occasion-
ally, a Jewish child is sent to
an English-speaking institu-
tion but not for long, be-
cause great care is taken
that children from Jewish
broken homes are sent to
Jewish foster homes or to
Jewish families who volun-
teer to take care of their
young charges.
"Jewish
delinquency
among youth is a minor
problem. Other segments of
the community are aware of
this and respect the values
of the Jewish family," Bat-
shaw said.
The voluminous report to
be presented shortly to the
Minister of Social Affairs,
Claude E. Forget, will show
that 45 percent of all per-
sonnel in children's institu-
tions in Quebec have no
training whatever in dealing
With children_and the aver-
age schooling of staff is low.
The report m,ay recom
mend that children now
under care in the institu-
tions be placed in foster
homes, group homes and
day centers or, if possible,
helped to remain in their
own homes. Funds saved
from expensive institutional
care could be allocated to
the training of personnel
and the helping of children
in other more normal facili-
ties.

Let salt food come at the
end of all your meals, and
let water follow all artificial
drinks. In this way your
body will not he exposed to
ill health.
— The Talmud