Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1958 — Page 5

Friday, August S, 1958

The National Jewish POST a*nd OPINION

Here’s A Change: Ben-Gurion Talks Kindly of U.S. Jewry

JERUSALEM (NJP) — This was the week that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion had some kind words, even extravagant ones, to say about the American Jewish community. AT CEREMONIES at the cornerstone laying for the US Con servative move ment’s dormitory here, the prime minister, who has repeatedly asserted that Jewish life out- „ . side of Israel Bcn-Gunon was aisinte . grating, listed the growth of the American Jewish community, “the greatest Jewish center that ever has existed in the diaspora,” as one of three great events of the 20th Century. He also praised the Conservative rabbinical school for having “realized ‘the simple and profound truth that no Jewish rabbi or teacher can faithfully fulfil his task unless he has stayed at least a year in Israel and absorbed the spirit of Jewish independence.” DURING the ceremony, honorary doctorates were presented to Gov. Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin of Maryland and Zalman Shazar, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive in Jerusalem. Representatives of some 40 Conservative synagogues in the United States filed past the hol-lowed-out marble cornerstone of the new center and inserted documents relating to the congregations’ histories.

DEATHS 'Mr. Center' Mourned by San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (NJP) —A man known in this city’s Jewish community as “Mr. Community Center” was mourned this week. Eph Charinsky, 77, San Antonio civic leader and a pillar of Congregation Agudas Achim, died last week here. A former president of the congregation and the San Antonio Jewish community center, he was one of the congregation’s founders. He was active in the United Fund and United Jewish Fund in San Antonio. Meyer silberstein JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (NJP) - Meyer Silberstein, 52, chairman cf the local United Jewish Appeal for the past four years, ' d * e d unexpectedly last week in

Ben-Gurion Gives Views (At his speech at the opening of the U. S. Conservative movement’s dormitory in Jerusalem, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion spoke as follows of responsibilities of the Israeli Jewish community.) “I believe implicitly that now that we are no longer subordinate to strangers and compelled to adapt ourselves to the ways of other countries, we shall indeed become a model people in the moral and intellectual sense, and Israel will be light to the nations . . . “THERE ARE richer, larger and more comfortable countries than Israel, but this is the country in which the Jewish people grew its and its character was molded, the country in which produced its immortal creations, which have become part of the heritage of the majority of the human race. “The concept of the supremacy of the spixdt—the central idea of the Book of Books. It is not blind matter, which can be felt and weighted and measured, but the unknowable, invisible, infinite force, which has no beginning or end, that creates and controls all things and is also the supreme moral force, the source of loving kindness, justice, love and mercy. “THIS IS THE soui'ce of the third principle, which the Bible expresses in the picturesque saying that man was created in the image of God, namely that all men of all nations are brothers and equal in importance—the difference between them lying not in their origins but in what they do . . . The zenith of Jewish creativity is the Messianic vision, the of redemption for the nation and for all humanity, which brings to the world tidings of peace, justice and mercy, on which the the hopes of humanity depend, and without which all scientific and technical achievements may bring misfortune to the human race and destruction to the world. It is not the purpose of the state of Israel merely to add one more state to the many that already exist or may yet be created; Israel is the bearer of the historic and spiritual ideals with which the Jewish people has been imbued since its beginnings, ideals which have been given supreme and eternal expression in the Book of Books, in the immortal message of Israel’s prophets.”

B'nai B'rith Lodge Admits Violations in Car Raffle

NEWARK, N. J. (NJP)—B’nai B’rith, Lodge 1285 of nearby Maplewood received unfavorable front-page publicity in the press here over a raffle of an automobile, after entering a plea of | guilty to six violations of the state’s raffle laws.

Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was vice-president, of Beth Zion Temple here and a life member of the Zionist Organization of America. DR. EDWARD PACHTMANN GENEVA (NJP)—Dr. Edward Pachtmann, an Israel delegate to the World Jewish Congress, died last week here of a heart attack. He was at one time president of the Bar Association of Israel and a member of the General Zionist executive.

NOW CAN CHOOSE DOCTORS Members of Kupat Holim (Israel’s sick fund) now can choose their own family doctors, according to an agreement reached last month between the sick fund’s management and doctors.

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Israel President Also Pictures Disintegrating Diaspora Jewry

JERUSALEM (NJP) — The president of Israel joined the chorus of the negators of the diaspora this week when he pie tured a disintegrating world Jewry before the 350 delegates to the first c o n g r ess of world Jewish

youth.

President Itzhak Ben - Zvi told the young people that the danger of assimilation in the Diaspora had reached

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TED FOGEL, representing an American Zionist group, got in a dig of his own when he told the delegates of his shock when a Bach fugue was played at Friday evening services in a kib-

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In a keynote address, Eliahu Dobkin, chairman of the Jewish Agency, youth and hehalutz department, told the delegates that Israel still needs haiutzim.

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ONE- STORMY session during which speakers had to be instructed to keep to the point and limit themselves to five minutes, was highlighted by a demand by delegates from religious movements for a return to Tora. At the same time haultz groups, both Israeli and diaspora, pressed for more aliya and pioneering, while some non-Zionist delegates, particularly from the United States, referred to a live* and-let-live approach. Dr. Alfred Jospe, of the B’nai B’rith Hillel foundations in the United States, remarked that if every “self-appointed expert on American Jewry had to pay a license fee of $100” Israel would be able to balance its budget. He said the question was not whether the Jewish community in the United States would survive, but would its survival be meaningful.

38,552 SEE ISRAEL Thirty - eight thousand five hundred fifty-two tourists visited Israel during the first six months of 1958.

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