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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 1, 1983
Hungary Importing `Loafers' for Budapest Yeshiva
By MOSHE RON
The Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
TEL AVIV — According
to the Talmud, "loafers" are
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men who do not work but
dedicate themselves to
study the whole day in the
synagogue for the spiritual
needs of the community.
In 1956, the last yeshiva
in Hungary was in the town
of Paksz. Then the revolu-
tion against the Communist
regime broke out. The
yeshiva scholars dispersed
all over the country and
many of them came to Is-
rael. Now there are pros-
pects that a new yeshiva
will open in Budapest, with
10 scholars to be "im-
ported." This was the condi-
tion set by Rabbi Ahron
Gedaljahu Hofman, an Is-
raeli citizen and inhabitant
of the Orthodox town Bnei
Brak, when he was offered
the post of Chief Rabbi of
Budapest, which has been
vacant since the death of
former Chief Rabbi Moshe
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It is the first time that a
Jewish community of a
Communist country has
agreed to "import" a rabbi
from Israel. The Hungarian
Communist authorities
even accepted the condi-
tions of the rabbi to open a
yeshiva in Budapest. Rabbi
Hofman lives with his wife
Shoshana and their three
youngest daughters in Bnei
Brak.
They have nine children.
The mediator between
Rabbi Hofman and the
Hungarians was an
American Jew, Laszlo
Keller. He was born in
Hungary, has close com-
mercial ties with the
Hungarian authorities
and spends a few months
every year in Budapest.
When Rabbi Weiss died,
Keller was asked to find a
rabbi who would be ready to
move to Budapest and take
the office of Chief Rabbi.
Keller did not find a suita-
ble candidate in the United
States who was ready to live
in a Communist country.
The Hungarian authorities
offered a monthly salary of
$2,000.
vania, which once belonged
to Hungary, and speaks
Hungarian very well. He
consulted many rabbis,
among them the rabbi from
Satmar, Moshe Telbaum,
who advised him to accept
the office.
Rabbi Hofman went to
Budapest a few weeks ago.
He met the leaders of the
Jewish community, gave a
few lectures in the syna-
gogue and was well re-
ceived. He will be assisted
by a gabai and will receive a
big apartment. Everybody
lauded his Hungarian and
an agreement was signed
with him.
The chairman of the
Jewish community, Zvi
Fiksler, sent a special let-
ter to the chairman of the
Rabbinical Council in Tel
Aviv, Pinhas Sheinman,
and asked him officially
to release Rabbi Hofman
from his post in the Rab-
binical Council for the
period of one year, in
order to prevent Jewish
life in Budapest from
perishing.
The 45-year-old Rabbi
At last Rabbi Hofman
from Bnei Brak was chosen;
he is a Talmud sage, knows
several languages and has
good relations with people.
He has already fulfilled
some missions abroad. The
rabbi was born in Transyl-
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
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warming relations to strive
for a deeper strategic
understanding. He said it
was dangerous for two coun-
tries that needed each other
to have eroller-coaster" re-
lationship of ups and downs.
Kissinger spoke at a
dinner given in his honor by
President Chaim Herzog,
who said the American dip-
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Hofman speaks six lan-
guages. He had studied in
several Hungarian
yeshivot. His wife intends to
teach Hebrew to Jewish
girls in Budapest.
According to a condition
requested by Rabbi Hof-
man, la Jewish youngsters
will be brought from the
U.S. to Budapest to study in
a yeshiva. The youngsters
will pay $500 per month and
in this way foreign currency
will come to Hungary. It is
hoped that the small
yeshiva will in the course of
time attract Jewish
youngsters from all over
Hungary. It will compete
with the Reform Rabbinical
Seminary in Hungary.
The small Orthodox
community in Budapest
produces some products for
religious Jews like wine,
alcoholic drinks and spices,
which are exported and
bring dollars into Hungary.
Today there are 60,000
Jews living in Hungary,
survivors of the million
Jews who lived in Hungary
before the Holocaust.
Kissinger Urges Understanding
Marriage Rate
Worries Rabbis
TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
"Permissiveness among Is-
raeli youth in general and
Tel Aviv youth in particular
are among the reasons for
the decline in the number of
couples getting married,"
Tel Aviv Chief Rabbi
Yedidia Frenkel said re-
cently at a meeting called
by the Religious Council to
discuss the "deteriorating
status of marriage."
Religious Council head
Pinhas Sheinman noted
that the number of couples
registering for marriage is
down 23 percent compared
with five years ago.
Marriage Bureau man-
ager Rabbi Yehuda Landau
said that the alarming de-
crease in marriage was ap-
parent throughout the
country and was caused,
among other things, by the
shortage of jobs. Emigra-
tion, the housing shortage
and the present difficult
economic situation were
other factors cited.
Wins Award
NEW YORK — The
American Jewish Commit-
tee has named Raya Zack as
the first winner of its Dis-
tinguished Service Award.
The award will be given an-
nually to an AJCommittee
employe.
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Salaries of Knesset mem-
bers and leading govern-
ment officials were raised
67 percent April 1, in line
with national wage in-
creases.
Prime
Minister
Menahem Begin has a gross
salary of 121,000 shekels
($3,000) per month. The
Speaker of the Knesset is
paid the same as Begin and
other Knesset members are
paid IS 102,000 ($2,500).
The highest paid public
figure is the president of the
Israel Supreme Court — IS
168,000 ($4,000) per month.
TAU President
TEL AVIV — Moshe
Many, professor of surgery
at Tel Aviv University's
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
and chief of the Urology De-
partment of the Sheba Med-
ical Center, Tel Hashomer,
has been elected president
of Tel Aviv University. He
joined the staff of Tel Aviv
University in 1964 as assis-
tant dean of the faculty,
upon the establishment of
the Sackler Faculty of
Medicine.
Jack L. Cummings of
Canada was re-elected
chairman of the Board of
Governors of the university.
Agriculture Dean
JERUSALEM — Prof.
Raphael Goren has been
elected dean of the Hebrew
University's Faculty of Ag-
riculture in Rehovot for a
three-year period.
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