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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 14, 1986
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Continued from preceding page
Rabbi Fram recently celebrated
his 90th birthday last month
when Temple Israel paid him
special tribute at our Chanukah
Family Service.
At the time of the Weizmann
resolution, Rabbi Fram was
assistant to Rabbi Leo Franklin
at Beth El aid still a year away
from founding Temple Israel,
which he placed squarely in the
corner of the Zionist movement.
In your commentary you ask,
"Why was the Zionist factor ig-
nored in the salute to one of the
world's first Zionists?" I would
strongly suspect that it was de-
liberately omitted because many
of the signers were not yet per-
suaded of the justice of the
Zionist cause. If we realized
then what we know now ... But
hindsight is always easy.
Frank L. Simons
Administrator, Temple Israel
Editor's note: The names of
Lawrence Michelson and Royal
Oppenheim were added with
Rabbi Fram's in a correction
Feb. 7.
Objecting To
Cross Symbol
You probably do not re-
member the movie of Israel
Zangwill's The Melting Pot. The
conclusion of it showed a sort-of
funnel-pot, with a fire under it,
and into it descended a person
with a cross, and another with a
Mogen David to illustrate the
theme of the movie.
Or perhaps closer in time the
stage play of Abie's Irish Rose,
in which Abie Cohen is por-
trayed as falling in love with
Rose Murphy. Old man Cohen is
shown as set against the union,
with vehemence and aplomb.
And finally, so it pleased the
author, Cohen is reconciled, not
only to the Muchtoneschaft, but
he is pictured eating ham, and
saying, "put plenty of mustard
on it."
So you have come to the point
of putting a cross on the front
page, Jan. 17. What is next?
Maybe you can illustrate your
new tendency by copying some-
thing of the foregoing plays'
conclusions. For Shame!
Isaac London
Pulling
Together
It is poignant and reaffirming
as an American citizen to wit-
ness the American public re-
spond in such a sensitive, em-
pathetic manner to the shock-
ing, tragic explosion of the space
shuttle Challenger.
As a grieving nation, we have
publicly reached out to one an-
other and sent out our 'Condo-
lences wholeheartedly to the
families and friends of the as-
tronauts, as well as to console
one another. Unfortunately, it
takes a nationally-publicized
tragedy to illustrate how much
love the American. people have
for one another.
If our cities' tragedies were
televised nationally, the viewers
would be horrified! Wouldn't it
be just as "American" to culti-
vate that sensitivity within our
own communities? Wouldn't it
be just as American to learn
how to empathize with the vic-
tims within our own neighbor-
hoods? Why should it take a na-
tional tragedy to show the
American people that they are
capable of caringand feeling as a
nation undivided?
Beth Goodman
B'nai B'rith Is
Alive And Well
Mimsi Kromer Milton's article
on B'nai B'rith (Jan. 24) was
puzzling and disturbing. The
title of the piece, "Can The Na-
tion's Oldest Jewish Organiza-
tion Survive?" implies that the
very existence of B'nai B'rith is
in doubt. The lead paragraphs
depict an aging, decrepit organ-
ization, hurtling inexorably
toward extinction.
Much of the rest of the article,
however, contradicts these char-
acterizations, As Ms. Milton de-
scribes the components of B'nai
B'rith, each actively involved
with dozens of programs and
projects, the reader begins to
sense B'nai B'rith's vitality and
its incredible productivity in
providing service to thousands
of communities. No other mem-
bership organization — cer-
tainly no other Jewish organiza-
tion — can compare with B'nai
B'rith in the breadth and depth
of its activities. No other Jewish
Organization is truly interna-
tional in scope. No other Jewish
organization attempts to meet so
many of the staggering variety
of needs of Jews throughout the
world. B'nai B'rith is second to
none in educating and training
the young, providing housing for
the elderly, feeding and clothing
the needy, working with Israel.
It is somewhat difficult to
comprehend how such an organ-
ization can at the same time be
ineffectual because of "deter-
ioration and stagnation."
As Ms. Milton accurately
points out, there are signs of
stress within the B'nai B'rith
family. But it could hardly be
otherwise. An organization as
large and as complex as B'nai
B'rith is bound to be affected by
the shifting relationships of the
units within the main structure.
Any major corporation, or uni-
versity, or association will attest
to the inevitability of these
stresses and strains, magnified
and intensified by the changing
needs of contemporary society
and the increasing demands im-
posed by modern technology.
Under these conditions, stress
within an organization need not
be viewed negatively; it is also
clear evidence that the organ-
ization is moving to adapt itself
to new problems and new oppor-
tunities.
Generally speaking, Ms. Mil-
ton did a rather thorough job of
describing the scope of B'nai
B'rith's operations. It is a shame
the facts she gathered did not
support the conclusions she had