nr); Plus Evolution in Jewish Tradition
Creation
Judge Irving Perluss of the California Superior Court, sitting in Sacramento, could
be regarded as having been Solomonic in his decision in a case which was likened to the
192eScopes Case (branded as the Monkey Trial). The judge's ruling averted a conflict.
His verdict stated that the teaching of science, with emphasis on evolution, does not affect
the rights of religious fundamentalists.
The Sacramento ruling in fact echoed Jewish theological opinions and the utter
tolerance towards the scientific and the evolutionary.
Since Creation — Briah — commencing with the Bereshit Barah Elokim in
Genesis dates close to 6,000 years, it is imperative to take into account the
interpretative in Jewish tradition and history as well as the legendary. It is the
emphasis on the Lord's power that a thousand years is the equivalent of a day.
Therefore, the Creation that is recorded as having taken Six Days could well be
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the Six Thousand Years, and in that sense, as Jewish scholars have contended,
there were many worlds preceding this one, that they could have existed mil-
lions, perhaps billions of years; in that aspect there is a recognition of Evolution
while adhering to Creation.
The text is clear regarding the power of the Deity, the emphasis being in Psalm 94:
"For a thousand years in Thy sight is but as yesterday, and as a watch in the night."
Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon), the Eighth Century scholar, always
quoted as among the most authoritative in Jewish history and tradition, had a viewpoint
on the subject. He stated:
We do not reject the eternity of the universe because certain passages in Scripture
confirm the creation; for such passages are not more numerous than those in which God is
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The World Jewish Congress has called on the highest leadership" in the
Polish government for "vigorous and unequivocal condemnation" of ultra-nationalists in Poland who
are fanning anti-Semitism apparently for political end.
A telegram urging "stern measures" against the group was sent to the Polish ambassador in
Washington, Romuald Spasowski, by Rabbi Arthur Schneier, chairman of the WJC-American Sec-
tion, who asked that the message be conveyed to Polish Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski and First
Secretary Stanislaw Kania of the Polish Communist Party.
The message refers to a rally held in Warsaw last Sunday at which speakers denounced
Jews as a "Zionist clique," charged that Jews in the Politburo during the Stalin era were
responsible for the "bloodbath" of Polish patriots and that "the second generation of
Zionists" were attempting to seek power in Poland through the independent labor move-
ment, Solidarity.
The rally was preceded by the appearance of leaflets and posters in Warsaw several days earlier
calling-on Poles to rise up against "Jewish chauvinists" attempting to "usurp power" through the
union.
The anti-Semitic campaign was strongly denounced over the weekend by leaders of Solidarity in
Warsaw. Solidarity sponsored a much larger rally at Warsaw University on Sunday to mark the•
anniversary of the suppression of student
demonstrations in 1968. It was attended
by 3,000 students, professors and trade
unionists who heard speakers denounce
prejudice and the anti-Semitic purges in
the Polish Communist Party in 1968.
Sinai Hospital of Detroit has announced its participa-
The nationalist rally which took place
tion in a plan that will establish ambulatory care services
outside the former ministry of public secu-
on two sites; one near the Jewish Coinmunity Center at
rity building drew about 600 persons, de-
Maple and Drake Roads and one in Detroit near the Uni-
scribed in press accounts from Warsaw as
versity of Detroit campus.
mostly elderly and aged veterans of the
Documents presented to the Comprehensive Health
anti-Communist
Home Army.
Planning Council of Southeastern Michigan (CHPCSEM)
Observers
in
Warsaw attributed the
and the Michigan Department of Public Health (MDPH)
anti-Semitic campaign to a small but
include provisions for Sinai to develop a freestanding
well-organized rightist group that in-
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care in the areas of physical medicine and rehabilitation,
cardiac rehabilitation and psychiatric services. These three
filmmakers, journalists and possibly
services represent an extension of clinical services already
Communist Party officials in the back-
available at Sinai's main building.
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Increased Obligations Stimulate _Campaign Efforts, Phonogift
Simultaneous with planning for the formal commencement of the 1981 Allied
Jewish Campaign, at a dinner meeting March 24 at Temple Israel, the Jewish Welfare
Federation, sponsoring body for the annual drive, felt compelled, at a meeting March 2, to
set the current goal at $19 million.
Spurring efforts to raise the necessary funds also is the annual Women's Division
Phonogift.
Marvin H. Goldman and David S. Mondry, general chairmen of the AJC-IEF, will
preside over the opening dinner March 24, at which chairmen of the nine Campaign
divisions will report on solicitations to date.
Guest speaker
be Minnesota Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz,
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Middle East subcommittee.
Named to that post in December, Senator Boschwitz is considered to be a strong
supporter of Israel. He spoke before the Council of Jewish Federations General
Assembly in Detroit in November.
The March 24 meeting begins an intensive six-week community-wide solicitation
effort to meet this year's Campaign goal of $19,150,000. A pre-Campaign telethon will be
held by the trades and professional divisions 6:45-10 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at
the United Hebrew Schools.
The Board of Governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation has apporved a 1981-82
budget formula, based on the Campaign goal of $19,150,000, that will allow for signific-
antly increased allocations both to domestic and overseas beneficiaries.
At its meeting on March 2, the board allocated an increase
of $475,000 — or up to a total of $6,710,300 ----= for domestic
JE
needs, both local and national. This represents the largest
total designation in Federation history for this purpose.
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For overseas beneficiaries, the formula provides in
excess of $10,700,000 from the regular Campaign and
Jewish Welfare Federation
Israel Emergency Fund. An additional $1,250,000 from
Project Renewal proceeds will also be transmitted to the
United Jewish Appeal.
In his presentation before the board, Martin E. Citrin,
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