Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1952 — Page 10

THE NATIONAL JEWISH POST

Friday, September 19, 1952

NAMES IN THE NEWS

It’s A Snap To Be An American Jew-Just Buy Bonds, Go to Temple Now and Then-Halkin

REPORT FROM HOLLYWOOD

DR. HALKIN

Buy Bonds

T IVING AS A JEW in AmerijLj ca is a snap—all one has to do is to buy a bond or go to the Temple occasionally, was this year’s jeremiad of that inveterate Prophet of the Doom of the Jewish Diaspora, Dr. Simon Halkin, poet, novelist and critic, w^ho left the U.S. three years ago to settle in Israel, where he is professor of Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University. Seeing American Jews as shirking the full obligations that go with being a Jew, the leading exponent of the concept of the “negation

of tlje galut’’ asked those attend-

ing the National Summer Hill’d

Institute at Camp High Point, total nearly 2,500 places of West Shokan, N. Y„ recently Jewish interest, presented in a how such Jews could take their state and city breakdown for "Jewishness seriously.” “Israel every one of the 48 states, has

can be lived only in Israel,” he been collected, asserted. “Whether you are re- * * • ligious or not, a complete Jewish The Bequests

life cannot be lived outside of T? 01 * 40 y ears Polish-bom MorIsrael.” At the same time, he J/ ris Engelman, Milwaukee, warned that the million and a Wis., picked old shoes from rubhalf Jews now living in Israel bish heaps, or bought them from are not enough to perpetuate the stores or charity collections at Jewish State and that he was 50 cents a pair. Recently he died “not sure Israel will survive” un- alone at the age of 62, leaving less there is subtantial immigra- $55,000 and a will which carefultion of Jews from the Western ly divided the money among a Hemisphere. large group of charities. The

* * * largest single beneficiary was

Jewish Sights the J ewish National Fund, to JEWISH Tourist’s Guide to which he bequeathed $2,000 . . . A America is getting finishing ° ut ° f an estate of 5 80 - 000 - Abra ; touches from Bernard Postal, ham Cahan - late editor-in-chief of Jewish Welfare Board publicity The Jewish Daily Forward, pro-

vided in his will that 45 percent should be distributed for cultural, educational and charitable

PASADENA INITIATES 5713 BY HONORING JEWISH ARTIST

By SHIMON WINCELBERG

£JOME of the finest examples of contemporary Jewish and Israeli

Propis, rented the entire Colonial art are currently on exhibit at the municipally-sponsored Terrace Hotel, Peekskill, N. Y„ Pasadena Art Institute, where Yehoshua Kovarsky, now living in for the occasion, where the Los Angeles is receiving his first major local showing, guests partook of the three tra- One who tries hard to detect influences, may here and there ditional Sabbath .meals as well as be reminded of Picasso, Braque or El Greco. But Kovarsky is not of the Miava Malka on Saturday only a first-rate and authoritative craftsman, but a profoundly imag-

night, participated in discussions inative end original artist, as well.

on the theme of the weekend and Even his more complex abstractions are, in the sense that filled the air with the joyous Chagall’s are, far closer to being true Jewish folk art, than the work Sabbath music. Rabbi Bernard of the vast majority of professionally Jewish painters in this Mandelbaum, the Propis’ Far country, whose use of traditional Jewish, Biblical or Israeli scenes, Rockaway spiritual leader, offici- figures, symbols, epics, legends, prophecies, allegories and land-

the bar mitzva service, in he was assisted by Rabbi

scapes rarely departs from the sentimental and obvious.

», . ^ „ KOVARSKY, TOO, USES SIMPLE JEWISH themes, particu1 "’. x,’ Y ’’ larly in the work of his Safed period, at a time when Safed was not an u in o in, ays- on jy no ^ y et a p 0 p U ] a r artists colony, but an environment in which

water, N. Y., uncles of the celebrant, and Rabbi Joel Dobin, Cranston, N. J., the celebrant’s

cousin.

the creation of graven imagas was looked upon with deep suspicion. In such canvases as “Malkat Sh’va” (Queen of Sheba), “David,” “Shir Hashirim” (Song of Songs), “Kaparot” (Day of Atonement), “Destruction” and “Bereshis” (In the Beginning), instead of offering a familiar and easily accessible image, he lifts us to the very

much rewarding level of his own interpretation.

If this journal ever develops a rotogravure section I’ll show you

The Cohens Have It

■T*HERE WAS no problem of

X getting rabbis to officiate what I mean, too.

and no problem of learning new

names at the repent marriage in T -A.’S community Relations Committee has come up with a Philadelphia of Selma Cohen to JL/ novel and useful technique this year, in an effort to curb the Bernard Brachya Cohen. Offi- crude commercialism which, in past years, had been given competiciating at the wedding were Rev- tive advertising for High Holy Day ticketbuyers all the unobtrusive erend Meyer Cohen, father of dignity of a battery of slot machines in a coffee shop on the Ne-

ttie bride, and Rabbi Jeremiah vada side of Lake Tahoe.

Cohen, father of the groom. Herman A. Bachrack, chairman of the CRC’s “Mushroom Syna- * • * gogue Committee,” in a statement to The California Jewish Voice,

revealed that his committee had already “censured those whose ex-

srrirnM p- er m• agg era te<l statements on the quality of cantors and choirs were un^AM SIERN, Fargo, N.D., busi- dignifled » He also found praise for the overall quality of most of

kJ nessman^ who recently was the congregational advertising this year.

The Voice itself, with a fine touch of irony, put a full-page rnehitza (separation) last week between ads for daily and weekly

elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent Protective Order

of the Elks, is a scion of a well- synagogues, and ads for yearly ones. The latter have been placed

chief, and Lionel Koppman, member of his staff and NJP cor-

S" Z ’SS, •*«£ iardaysTa Kautaan. Wash.. D. C. . guide, the first of its kind, is a World War I and a member ™ Hottesman is new

known pioneer family of America’s Northwest. His father, Alex Stem, was a founder of the first synagogue in Fargo in territor-

kind, is a

private project for which two publishers are dickering. The authors hope to tag the tourist book sale on the forthcoming celebration of the American Jewish Tercentennary celebration. A

The Roosevelt School SHIPFAS POIJJT — STAMFOHD con w. For Boys and Girls—Elementary, High and College Preparatory School American-Jewish Cultural Home Life DANIEL TROTZKY, Director

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bequest,

the Berl Katznelson Institute of Social and Political Science in Israel, the remaining $11,000 being shared by the N. Y. Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the United Jewish Appeal and the Max Pine Trade School in Is-

rael.

He Stood Not Alone

“T IVING as a Jew in America

of the state legislature. Sam Stern, a member of Temple Beth El and of the B’nai B’rith, was one of the first secretaries of the latter group’s Anti-Defama-tion League. • • • With the Rabbis TJ ABRI Akiva Egozi, St. Louis, Xw. Mo., is new principal of the

—— within a crescent of dignified litA daughter, Sima Lea, was tie announcements for mortuarbom to Rabbi and Mrs. Harry ies, neurotic depressions, leaky

Rabbi r0 ofs, an alligator farm ( L. A.

new spiritual j ews wi ji try anything once),

and personal introductions to Se-

Eli Gottesman is

leader of Sh«arith Israel Congregation, Houston, Tex., and new

civilian chaplain at Foster Field lec ^ People.

Air Force Base, Victoria, Tex. . . . Rabbi Benjamin Kahn, director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel

Foundation at Pennsylvania State ., „ . .

College, was reelected president ^ first two Performances of its of the National Association of new operetta, “The Rich Uncle,” Hillel Directors. for "Rash Hashanah night” and

HE Michalesko troupe rather recklessly advertises

Rabbi Paul Greenman, Chicago, Yom Kippur night,” though is new spiritual leader of Con- what they actually mean, of

Providence, R.I., Hebrew Day

!_-/ Today” was the theme of School .. . Rabbi Israel Duchon is

the weekend religious service, ne w spiritual leader of the West gregation Brith Sholom, Milwau- course, is the night after. seminar and music session at side Jewish Center, Cleveland . .. kee, Wis Rabbi Hyman Chan- — 1

which Richard Propis, Far Rock- Rabbi Eugene Grtcnberger, Al- over, Phil., is new spiritual away, N. Y., recently marked his buquerque, N. M., is new spirit- leader of Temple Israel, Albany, becoming a bar mitzva. Rich- ua ] leader of Shaarey Zedek Con- N. Y., the pulpit formerly occuard’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon gregation, North Hollywood, Cal. pied by the late Rabbi Leo Gei-

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ger . .. Rabbi Maurice Schwartz, Portsmouth, Va., is new spiritual leader of Temple Beth Sholom, Long Beach, Cal. . . . Rabbi Harold Salzman, Cedar Rapids, la., has been assigned to Camp Picket, Va., as U.S. Army chaplain . . . Rabbi Milton Matz has been assigned as UJS. Army chaplain at Chanute Air Force Base, HI. . .. Rabbi Herbert Fred* man has been assigned to Fort Riley, Kan., as U.S. Army chaplain ... A daughter, Barbara Sylvia, was bom to Rabbi and Mrs. Emanuel Kramer, Williamsport,

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Rabbi Joseph Rudavsky is new Hillel director at the University of Georgia and spiritual leader of Congregation Children of Israel, Athens, Ga., replacing Rabbi Samuel Glasner, who resigned these posts to become director of the Department of Reform Jewish Education of the Board of Jewish Education, Baltimore . . « Rabbi Emanuel Feldman, Baltimore, is new spiritual leader of Beth Jacob Congregation, Atlanta . . . Rabbi Myron Weingarten has been named Hillel counselor for the Rochester, N. Y., area . . . Rabbi Jacob Kabakoff, N. Y., has been named dean of the Institute of Jewish Studies^ Cleveland . . . Rabbi Louis Lie-' berworth, Chicago, is new spiritual leader of the Medford, Mass., Jewish Community Center • • •