16 Friday, August 19, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Young Adults Bowling Leagues 20-30 years now forming ARK LANES VIEST for more information call 352-3333 Over 45 Years Of Moving Experience POTTER MOVING & STORAGE CO. Things Not as They Used to Be By DAVID SCHWARTZ ICopyright 1977. JTA. loc.) Daniel Schorr, former Washington television man and also at one time on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency staff, is now writing a book. "Clearing the Air." Almost everyone in Wash- ington seems to be seeking to clear the air in the same way. Anyone connected with politics, either on the inside or outside, has a great advantage approach- ing a publisher. The others will have a hard time get- ting by the receptionist, but if you have been involved in politics, the publishers will embrace you with joy. It wasn't so in earlier days. Thomas Jefferson died almost broke. He wrote a number of books, in- cluding an autobiography, NUMBER 0 ALLIED VAN LINES AGENT IN MICHIGAN 1300 N. 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The star of "Fiddler on the Roof" is now to star in a new Broadway play, "The Merchant," which is a kind of takeoff on Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. We were interested in what Mostel said about how he prepares for his part in a play. He does not, he says, deliberately try to memorize his part. He reads the entire play aloud and gets to knew all parts. There is something to this. That's how the good Jew learns his prayers. He just reads them aloud a number of times—has no intention of trying to remember them—but they remember themselves. Prof. Herbert Guttman in an article in the New York Times, it seems to us. goes a little too far in comparing the recent looting in the blackout in New York to the rioting of some Ortho- dox Jewish women against the kosher meat butchers back in 1903. The Jewish women were protesting the high prices of kosher meat, but they did no looting. Of course, there is the common back- ground of poverty as an im- pelling motive in both cases, but the cases are not really comparable. The riot- ing in the kosher incident was more like that of the Boston Tea Party, protest- ing the British tariffs which made prices high. In that case too, there was no loot- ing, although the British tea was dumped in the harbor. One television program the other day which gave us a good-deal of pleasure was listening to the famous Israeli-born violinist, Yitz- hak Perlman. He was asked why Jews go in so much for violin playing. He omitted one of the reasons some have given—namely- that the violin is one in- strument which is easiest to run away with. If the Nazis come, you can take your violin, but not an organ or a piano. Stamps Depict Ancient Musical Instruments Israel Eases Currency Rules The philatelic services di- vision of the Israel Nlinistry of Communications has is- sued a new series of stamps depicting in- struments from the collec- tions at the Haifa Music N1u- seum and AMLI Library. According to the min- istry, music and musical in- struments have been part of the heritage of the people of Israel from earliest times. The Bible mentions the names of dozens of musical instruments as well as musi- enl expressions and even the names of performers and conductors are record- ed. MI of which goes to prove that music and song occupied an important place in ancient Israel. For a long time research into music in biblical; times confined itself for the most part to philology. It is only in the past couple of dec- ades that, thanks to various archeological finds, new fields of research have opened up to the researcher into the history of ancient music. The varied archeological finds while not numerous. uncovered materialistic cul- ture side by side with evi- dence of ramified artistic creativity. Among the different musi- cal instruments that have been found are : clay rat- tles: trumpet-like seashells; whistles; recorders; bells and cymbals. No less fascinating than the instruments themselves is a study of the different manner in which ancient musical instruments are de- picted in art, sculpture. etc. Among the various finds have been clay figurines and statuettes of male and female musicians, drum- mers and professional mour- ners. Images of musicians and different types of musical instruments have been found on frescoes. on woven cloth, ivories, clay drinking vessels, clay lamps, mo- saics, coins and seals. These finds have enabled us to see what many of the mu- sical instruments men- tioned in the Bible and the Talmud looked like and in certain cases even show us how they were played. The trumpet was a multi- purpose instrument. Like the ram's horn (shofar) it played a prominent role in the Temple services. "Also in the day of your gladness. anci in your solemn days...ye shall blow with the trumpets..." (Numbers JERUSALEM — Israel last week eased foreign cur- rency regulations to allow individuals to maintain, for the first time, bank ac- counts with money received from abroad. According to Finance Min- istry regulations, Israelis may keep one-third of all foreign currency they re- ceive. The rest of the money must be converted to Israeli currency. Previously, all Israelis other than authorized ex- porters had to sell all for- eign currency to the min- istry. TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israeli industry will suffer the most by the IL 1.4 billion cut in the defense budget, according to details on the reductions outlined last week by Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. But Weizman stressed the cuts will not harm the army's development and preparedness program as Chief of Staff Gen. Mor- dehai Gur siad earlier last week. He siad Gur agrees with the cuts. The reduction in the de- fense budget includes a de- The above stamps depict, left, an ancient jingle, lyre and trumpet from the Haifa Music Museum. X, 10). We read of the trumpets used by the army in time of war "...and Moses sent. them to the war...and the trumpets to blow..." (Num- bers XXXI, 61. Similarly we read "and if you go to war in your land...then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets...'• (Numbers X, 9). The trum- pet also played_-a role on state and royal occasions. The most frequently men- tioned stringed instruments mentioned in the Bible are the lyre and the harp. These two instruments, in various shapes and sizes, were to be found through- out the centuries in the hands of the people as well as in the service of the Temple. The biblical lyre was a stringed instrument played by plucking the strings ei- ther by hand or with a plect- rum. The bow was not (mown, and hence not used, by the peoples of the an- cient world such as the Su- merians, Egyptians and Greeks. The most common type of lyre consisted of a sounding box and two arms con- nected by a crossbar. Its three strings were made of sheepgut. The instrument is not decorated. as is usual among other peoples, with the heads of wild animals or birds. Of all the metal per- cussion instruments, the jingle (cymbals) is the best-known to us, although to this very day we do not know the precise identity and design of the musical in- struments referred to as "jingles", "loud jingles" and "high-sounding jing- les". The jingle is also men- tioned in the Talmud and refers apparently to the Roman sistrum—an in- strument consisting of a wooden handle and a metal bow fitted with loosely held jingles. Israel Defense Cuts Hurt Industry crease of IL 622 million military goods bought in Is- rael and a IL 153 million cut in construction costs. The new budget will also re- duce purchases abroad by IL 550 million. Bernstein Honored at Austrian rest NEW YORK—Composer- conductor Leonard Ber- nstien is being honored with a week-long festival of his works at the Carinthian Summer Festival in Aus- tria. which started Tuesday.