Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1958 — Page 13

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Explaining Jewish Law

Lois Marcia Kazan, is shown explaining to her daddy, Rabbi Fredric Kazan, of the Jewish Community Center at East Paterwon, N. J. a difficult passage in the gemara. This photograph was submitted in the photography contest currently being conducted by The POST and OPINION. The publication will print weekly photographs submitted by readers. At the end of the month, the editorial staff will select the best photo published in that month for the $15.00 award. Photographs should be submitted to Photography Contest, P. O. Box, 1633, Indianapolis, Ind. A stamped self-addressed envelope must accompany the photograph to assure its return.

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JERUSALEM (NJP)—The U. S. delegates to the Israel bond conference here were either touring Israel or en route home following a most successful conference in which they learned that a new $300,000,000 bond issue will be floated in 1959. TIOS WILL be the third bond issue to be floated thus far, with a total of more than $340,000,000 in bonds having been sold of the first two issues. The delegates heard:. • the general outlines of a new 5-year plan that would include an atomic power station in the Negev, ® a secret briefing of Israel’s security problems, • a projected population increase in the next five years of 500,000 and ® completion of a tunnel bringing Jordan river water to the Negev. The bond workers, in a frank question and answer period, learned that $53,000,000 in bonds had been redeemed in Israel thus far with all but $7,000,000 going -either for contributions, investments or tourist expenses. THE QUESTION as to whether the redeemed bonds had been paid for out of bond profits or income, brought the response that they had been paid as part of the regular business of the state, namely from the budget. The delegates got to hear from more of Israel’s top officials than practically any other Visiting groups.

DR. JOSEPH J. Schwartz, executive vice-president of Israel bonds, told newspapers that the overall cost of selling the bonds, would not exceed 6 per cent. This he said was an extremely low selling cost. Dr. Schwartz explained his position in opposition to using the Israel bond organization in the plan which would permit the exchange of Israel bonds for stocks in Israel companies. He said this would involve his organization in the eyes of bond purchasers in the welfare of the Israel companies and might make it seem to be responsible if the stocks failed to return profits. He told newsmen that he thought that about 50,000,000 in bonds could be sold annually.

B-G, GOLDMAN HONEYMOON OVER ’ TEL AVIV (NJP) — The patched-up difficulty between the two leaders of world V Jewry, Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, and Premier David Ben-Gurion, seems already to have broken apart at the seams. Davar, organ of the Mapai party which Ben-Gurion heads, accused Goldmann for a second time in recent days of “tomfoolery” in his proposal that Israel should be integrated into a Middle East federation with the Arab nations.

Says It Must Become Like A University

Synagogue’s Anti-lntellectualism, Supernaturalism Hit By Dr. Kaplan

INDIANAPOLIS (NJP)—The practice of honoring disreputable leaders in the Jewish community was attacked here by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, leader of the Reconstructionist movement when he noted that "wealth and power should not determine those to be honored.” In a speech given at the dedication of the new Temple BethE1 Zedeck, Dr. Kaplan predicted that the synagogue will die if it doesn’t make religion understandable. “Tradition must be transposed from the key of supernaturalism to the key of naturalism” and “the anti-intellectualism of the ghettos must be eliminated,” if the synagogue will be successful in America, he asserted. The white-haired. theologian said the synagogue must clean its house. The dishonest he asserted must not be found on the rolls of our community regardless of how large the gifts they make to appeals for funds. The statement that the American synagogue is not performing its function because “few persons know what to expect from Some Egyptian Jews To Get Compensation LONDON (NJP)—French citizens who are Jews and who were evicted from Egypt following the attempt to free the Suez canal from Egyptian domination will receive compensation under terms of the agreement signed recently by the two countries. Although the agreement does not specifically mention Jews, it states that among those to be compensated are French citizens who “for certain reasons . . . will not be able to return to Egypt,” according to the Jewish Chi'onicle here.

DR. MORDECAI KAPLAN . . . Save the Synagogue it” was made by Dr. Kaplan. He told his audience that the “synagogue must be nothing less than an educational institution,” approximating the function of a university. He said the synagogue was irrelevant and anachronistic and fails to respond to the demands of Jewish life. He urged that the services be made understandable, interesting and beautiful.

JESSEL TO FILM BEN-GURION STORY JERUSALEM (NJP) — A film based on the life of Israel’s Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion will be made with Kirk Douglas, Jewish film star, in the leading role, if . . . George Jessel said this week that the pi'ime minister has given his “permission and the blessing” for a film of the first 30 years of his life. Jessel, who has been active in selling Israel Bonds, believes the movie will be a sure-fire hit.

“If we don’t want intelligent Jews 'siphoned off’, we must make Judaism understandable and credible.” He also decried the function of culture as an escape mechanism. “Culture should re-create us and fill us with zest to meet our responsibilities,” he said. Britain To Sell Arms Jo Israel JERUSALEM (NJP)—Although no one will say it foi'thrightly, it is clear to all that Israel has made arrangements with Great Britain for the purchase of defensive arms. On his retui'n here from a round of visits with British authorities. Minister of Defense Shimon Peres told the press that the trip had been satisfactory. Basic agreement on the sale of arms is believed to have beei? reached during the recent visit to London of Israel’s Foreign Minister Golda Meir. Israel was reported to have sought antisubmarine weapons, anti-tank rockets, heavy artillery and armored equipment.

Laskov Gets Key To Berchtesgaden JERUSALEM (NJP)—The key to Hitler’s famed mountain hideout, Berchtesgaden, is now in possession of Haim Laskov, Israel’s Chief of Staff. Maurice Alous, an Algerian Jew who served with the French army in World War II, secured the key when Allied troops overran the mountain retreat. He recently visited Israel with a group of French ex-servicemen and presented Laskov with the key at the time.

YMl LEISE1 TELLS W WEIE1E1K MSliATEB ITUiJT R»f IK IT

STARLIGHT, Pa. (NJP)—Extinction of Jewish life in America within 50 years unless Jewish education is stepped up, was predicted here by the outgoing president of the Aleph Zadek Aleph, B’nai B’rith youth organization. v NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Yale Rosenberg, of Houston, Tex., told the delegates to the organization’s annual meeting that “we are being assimilated and don’t even realize the fact.” Rosenberg suggested that Jewish youth take the initiative in working with their parents to create a program of Jewish education to emphasize “the flavor,

richness and beauty that is Judaism.” THE PRESIDENT of one of the largest Jewish youth organizations in the world criticized his peers for being “ashamed of their Jewishness.” He scored the attitude among some Jewish youth which “takes pride in the ability to conform to their general environment but lacks pride in being Jewish.” The youth leader said that American rabbis must be impressed with the need for expanding their Jewish educational programs beyond the age of confirmation. “YOUTH SHOULD insist on

a curriculum that is truly meaningful to them,” he said. “They should be taught not simply a rehash of what has been learned in earlier years in Sunday school but the answers to such questions as: 'As a Jew, what are the schools that I cannot attend and why? From which clubs and neighboi’hoods am I barred? What has Judaism given, and what can it still offer mankind? What does it require to be a good Jew?’” Stephen Blank, 19 years old, of Pittsburgh was elected interhational president. He is a Dartmouth College sophomore. (

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