Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1973 — Page 19

NAMES IN THE NEWS

Priest Davens In A Tallit

.Father Gershon Goldstein, an ordained Catholic priest, not only carries his Jewish name with pride, but told the Religious News Service that he is continuing as a Jew and that in many ways he is Orthodox. He said he observes kashrut as much as possible and often attends synagogue services wearing a tallit. He preaches during mass at St. John Holy Angels Catholic Church in Newark, Del. He said he was born 42 years ago in Scotland of Orthodox parents and ordained a priest in 1964. At the parish he teaches a course in “The Jewish Bible,” and takes care to point out that “It’s the Jewish Bible — the Tanach,” not only the Old Testament.

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Metzenbaum Takes Aim Again

Millionaire Jewish attorney, business man and publisher Howard Metzenbaum of Cleveland, who was narrowly beaten

for the U.S. Senate in 1970 by Senator Robert Taft Jr., (R-Ohio) is starting a new campaign for the Senate by meeting with congressional and labor leaders to let everyone know the campaign is under way. All but one of Ohio’s six Democratic congressmen attended a cocktail party Jan. 24 at the home of Rep. James V. Stanton of Cleveland. Metzenbaum hopes to oppose Sen. William B. Saxbe (R-Ohio) or whomever the G.O.P. runs. Metzenbaum won the nomination in 1970 with a TV blitz that

Mezenbanm enabled him to nose out former astronaut John Glenn of New Concord, Ohio for the Democratic nomination by 13,000 in the primary. Metzenbaum obtained 47 per cent of the vote in a 4-way election contest in which Taft won

by 50 per cent of the vote.

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Rabbi Heschel's Grandfather Two days before Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel died, Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz took lunch with him to relate that only two weeks previously he had visited the 400-year-old synagogue in Jassi, Romania, where a plaque on a special seat on the eastern wall to the right of the Ark indicated that it had been occupied by the “tsakik and revered teacher, Rabbi Heschel.” The Rabbi Heschel was Rabbi Heschel’s grandfather.' Rabbi Rabinowitz, of Congregation Adas Israel, Washington, DC., had photographed the seat and promised to send a print to Rabbi Heschel. “He recalled the warmth of his yesterdays when Jassi was a thriving and creative Jewish . center,Rabbi Rabinowitz related.

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Room At The Top That she had hoped to appoint more women ambassadors was related by Golda Meir to a luncheon she gave for the five women ambassadors to Israel at the moment, “but apparently they were afraid.” Also present was Esther Berlitz, Israel’s only one-time woman ambassador. The others were Dr. Johanna Nestor, of Austria; Dr. Rosario Castellanos, of Mexico, Dr. Rafaelita Soriano, Phillipines and Carmen Naranjo, Costa Rica. A fifth woman ambassador is Ana Victoria Maidens, who temporarily is in charge of the Columbian embassy. Mrs. Meir who had been Israel’s first ambassador to Russia, expressed the.'hope that her guests would not all get to be Prime Ministers in the end. • One POW, One Missing In Action A Cleveland mother and father are anxiously awaiting the return of their son, POW Air Force Lt. Col. Alan P. Lurie, 39, of University Heights, while Mr. and Mrs. Joe Polster, hope that news will be forthcoming about their son, Air Force Capt. Harmon Polster, who is missing in action. Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Lurie, members of Fairmount Temple, have heard from their son, according to the Cleveland Jewish News. “A mother’s heart tells me he is alive,” said Mrs. Polster. The Polsters belong to the Warrensville Center Congregation. “I’m hysterically happy,” Mrs. Lurie told the press. “I still can’t believe it, we’ve waited so long. Lt. Col. Lurie’s wife and three children are anticipating his arrival in California, • where they reside. • Bob Dylan And The Marranos That Bob Dylan is Jewish has been widely-reported. But it took a letter to Network, the publication of North American Jewish Students, to relate his interest in more profound Jewish subjects. Cheg Salz wrote that he spied Bob Dylan and some friends in the Judaica Section of the New York Library at 42nd and Fifth Ave,, talking to the librarian. His curiosity aroused, he approached the librarian who told him that they were after some books about Marranos. She said they had heard that there were some Marrano families that had settled the American Southwest and were planning to do research on them. They did not ask to check out the books she recommended, but planned to buy them for the purpose of starting a library, they told her. • Board Of [dotation President ; 'Mra. Milton J. Schloss, wife of a Jewish meat packer and lawyer, became the first woman president of the Cincinnati Board of Education a year later than she was supposed to. She was honored along with her husband at a Bonds for Israel dinner recently at Rockdale Temple, an unusual honor for a non-Jew. Mrs. Schloss was vice president of the Board of Education in 1971 and under its rules was supposed to become president last January but three progressives on the board, two of them black, changed the rules and made Rev.

TWO JEWISH LEADERS A study in expression is an apt title for this amazinglyrevealing photo of Rebbe Menachem M. Scheerson, left, who is almost deferential in greeting his visitor, who himself seems to be so touched by his welcome from the leader of the Lubavitch Movement, of which he is a part, that he is almost half crying. The Rebbe, to whose doors the great of the Jewish world come, does not leave his section of Brooklyn, Crown Heights, to visit anyone, and consequently Zalman Shazar, President of Israel, is more than happy to make the trip to Brooklyn.

Tecumseh Graham, a black minister, president. This year the progressives joined in voting for Mrs. Schloss and supported a black member for vice president against a Catholic woman conservative. Mrs. Schloss and her husband are members of Rockdale Temple.

First At Episcopalian Seminary What is believed to be the only course on Judaism being taught at an Episcopal Seminary was launched by Rabbi Randall M. Falk, of Congregation Chabai Sholom, Nashville. The course is being taught at the University of the South School of Theology, Sewanne, Tenn., for about 25 men studying for the Episcopalian ministry, and is under the joint auspices of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School and the Jewish Chatauqua Society. Sermon Of The Week Letter To A Jewish Editor — Rabbi Lawrence J. Goldmark, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles, Calif. Names Joining the stable of columnists of The New York Times is William L. Safire. President Nixon’s special assistant. An author, the 43-year-old former public relations executive, specialized in writing the speeches that dealt with Mr. Nixon’s political philosophy. He is credited with having brought Mr. Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev together in 1959 in their famous “kitchen debate.” . . . Mike Epstein has signed a one-year contract with the Texas Rangers, and showed no signs of resentment at leaving the world champion Oakland A’s. He said that his new contract is the best he had ever been given . . . Although he holds out little hope for success, Nahum Goldmann, the architect of the billion dollar reparations from West Germany, is making the first representations to East Germany for reparations for the Jewish property in that country confiscated from Jews. “Of all the East European states, East Germany is the most extreme in its opposition to and hatred of Israel,” he said . . . N.Y. Congressman Emanuel Celler, 84, dethroned by Sl-year-old Elizabeth Holtzman after serving for more than 50 years, is accepting a teaching post at the new Jewish-sponsored college, N.Y.’s TOUR. In doing so he had to decline a similar offer from Brooklyn College. Quotation Of The Week I have a friend who eats crab mea£ and “ilays” tephillin. I mention this not in criticism, but to indicate the “crazy-quilt” pattern which characterizes Reform Jewish Practice in our generation. I fee! that a Reform halachah (standard of observance) would be advantageous, but am at a loss to know how to get it. There is a wide divergence of opinion among rabbis in our Conference (some do not believe in either a personal God, the divinity of Torah or the chosenness of the Jewish people). Even were it possible to establish consensus, how would be compel observance thereto? Although the alternative seems to be “picking and choosing,” I find from personal experience and that of friends that the more one knows and does, the more one wants to know and do. When Franz Rosenzweig was asked whether he “lay” tephillin, he replied “not yet.” If there is ever to be a pattern of Reform Jewish observance, it will not arise from resolution of any religious body, rather from the behavior of those who have chosen to live by God’s mitzvot, guided by their best insights and maximal capability. Rabbi Jay R. Brick man, Congregation Sinai, Milwaukee.

TORAH THOUGHT By Z. A. Hilsenrad “. . .Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take My offering.” (Ex. 25:2) Instead of . .that they take for Me. . would it not have been more correct to state that they “give” unto Me. . .? According to our Sages ob’m, more than the donor gives to the needy person, does the recipient give his benefactor. Thus Ruth told Naomi “. . .The man’s name with whom I did (good) today is Boaz.” (2:19). She did not say “The name of the man who did (good) for me.” Because while the donor gives alms — a few coins or dollars, h^ receives in return the protective merit of Tzedaka which the wisest of all men, Solomon king of Israel, assures us, saves from a premature or painful death. Consequently,'we see that the needy person who receives is (Continued on Next Page)

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