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SHALOM . . . TODAY IS FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1972
611 N. Park Ave.- ME 4-1307
VOLUME XXXIX NO. 20
Ronald Klain Cited
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For Life-Saving Ronald Klain, age 10, the son Brian fell into the pool and of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley H. was unable to swim. Ronald Klain, 9 3 9 0 dived into the pool and made Spring Mill one unsuccessful attempt to Road, was the rescue Brian. Once Brian pulled youngest per- Ronald under the water. On the son honored third attempt Ronald was able by the local to swim with Brian to the edge chapter of the of the pool and safety. American Red Ronald was one of 22 persons Cross during honored at the annual dinner, its annual Hall He was presented with an honor
of Fame Din- certificate,
ner on March Attending the dinner as
23, 1972, at the Indianapolis Ronald’s guests were his mother Area Chapter House which is and father, his brother David, located at 441 East Tenth Street, sister Mario, his grandmother Ronald saved Brian O’Leary Mrs. M.I. Horwitz, Eddie Joseph from drowning in the Klain and Brian O’Leary and his
family pool on July 21, 1972. mother.
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Town Crier By G.M. COHEN
The poor attendance, 13 in all, at the series on Jewish education at the Jewish Community Center is not surprising. This Jewish community just has not really taken up the matter of Jewish education seriously, and there is no vehicle or apparatus where it can be discussed in the terms and in the depth that is warranted. At the final session Sunday, the panel floundered, but nevertheless this was as good an indication as one would care to find of the Indianapolis Jewish community's neglect in this area. Who then is to blame? FOR OUR PART, we blame the leadership. No rabbi was present, nor was any representative whether an officer or the executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation. You might think that Jewish education is so well taken care of here that any additional discussion is merely topping on the cake. The community is ripe for some leadership, not only in the area of Jewish education, but in all the areas of Jewish activity, except fund-raising, which is the one obligation that we do superbly. LEADERSHIP LIKE any other asset of a community must be developed. When Indianapolis held the unenviable reputation of the only Jewish community in the United States with more than 7,500 population without a day school, it took a new rabbi to fill the desideratum. That was an example of leadership, and you know what has happened. Everybody to the very last exception, from the president of the Indianapolis Hebrew Academy on down, is a new person in the leadership element of this community. In other words, the potential was there, it just never had been developed, and the same is true for other leadership needs in the Jewish community.
Rabbi Urges Kosher Catering At Hilton
A letter urging co-operation from the Jewish community in the effort to persuade the Hilton Hotel to introduce kosher catering is being made by Rabbi Ronald Gray. The rabbi announced that he is presently negotiating with the management of the hotel. “In the past,” he said in his
letter addressed to community leaders, “if a Jewish organization wished to sponsor a kosher function, it had to take place within the confines of a synagogue setting. Needless to say, this very often left much to be desired. Now, however, any organization desiring a (Continued on Page 53)
Cast For Solidarity Day Play Is Named
Michael Cancilla, Bernard Wurger and N. William Weinstein head the cast of “If We Forget Thee,” the drama based on the Leningrad “Hijack” trials now in rehearsal for the Soviet Jewry Solidarity DayIsrael Anniversary Celebration. The program will be held on Sunday, April 30, at 2 p.m., at Congregation Beth-El Zedeck. Cancilla, who will portray Eduard Kuznetsov, the alleged ringleader of the “plot,” has played leading roles in Theatre-in-the-Woods, Catholic Theatre Guild, and Christian Theological Seminary Repertory Theatre productions. He is now appearing in “Man of LaMancha” at CTS. He is past chairman of the Drama Department at Cathedral High School where he also taught French. The 30-year-old graduate of Marian College has sung with the Indianapolis
Symphonic Choir and the Festival Music Society. He studied under Cantor Robert Zalkin. Wurger, an instructor in Theatre at Butler University, will appear as the anti-Semitic prosecutor. He recently won acclaim for his performance as Tevye in the Footlite Musicals production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” He directed “South Pacific” for Footlite in 1970-71 and has also worked locally in Civic Theatre and Starlight Musicals productions. His other work includes the Hartford (Conn.) Stage Co., Charles Playhouse (Boston), the Theatre Company of Boston, and the Playhouse in the Park in Cincinnati. Weinstein, chairman of the Soviet Jewry Committee of the Jewish Community Relations Council, will be the narrator.
MICHAEL CANCILLA
Jacqueline Treacy is directing the drama. Soviet Jewry Solidarity Day* Israel Anniversary Celebratioa is a community-wide event coordinated by the Jewish Coia* munity Center Association.
How To Impart It Panelists Perplexed On Jewish Identity
A perplexing insight into the mothers who want to pass on a Jewish identity to their children but are unaware of how to do so was given at the program Sunday in the discussion- series of the Jewish Community Center’s “Crisis in Jewish Education.” The four women panelists found some difficulty in stating their position, but all had the same concerns. Only 17 persons other than the four panelists attended, at least three of above in addition to this reporter might be classified as Jewish professionals, and four of whom were the husbands of the panelists. Despite the poor attendance, the session was interesting. Moderator Mrs. Harvey Feigenbaum conceded that the panelists did not have solutions, but stated that despite the fact that they did not observe the Sabbath and keep kosher, they still wanted to impart Jewish identity to their children. The panelists each admitted that nostalgia for Jewish ceremonies and observance had
played a role in the development of their own Jewish identity, and cited such evidence as preparations and cooking for Jewish holidays and festivals in their parents’ home, which their own children no longer see since most foods come already prepared. Mrs. Morris Green, who said she studied a great deal in Jewish texts, asked if home observances were sufficient Mrs. James Atlas pointed out that the Jewish home ceremonies had an overriding goal over and above the fact of their observance, which was to connect the holidays with the moral and ethical precepts of Judaism. In fact, transmitting the Ten Commandments was often mentioned as one of the goals of the panelists, but it was Dr. Ed Hodes who pointed out that ethics of many religions were pretty much the same, and the goal was to inculcate Jewish values. He suggested that it might be wise to wait until the young people had reached high school (Continued on Next Page)
IHC Students To Tour New York Some 45 members of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation will leave Weir Cook Airport Wednesday morning, April 5, for a five-day tour of New York City. Here the students will view sites and sights of Jewish interest, as well as the regular tourist sights, visiting a variety of synagogues, learning more about national and world-wide Jewish institutions, enjoying some entertainment, eating and shopping in the “big city.” The group will also see three outstanding Broadway plays, “Applause” “Butterflies are Free,” and “Marigolds.” Also included in the tour is a visit with a Chassidic community in Brooklyn and a group of Falashas living among the Chassidic community. This will be the fifteenth year the trip has been taken. The students who have participated find it a most memorable experience of their youth. The 35 Indianapolis youth making the current trip are: Lisa Abel, Kathryn Atlas, Jay Calderon, Tracey . Chalfin, Douglas Druker, Robert Foster, Richard Friman, Beth Goldberg, Randy Gordon, Robert Green, David Grossman, Mathew Herman, Jay Jaffe, Claudia Jamea, (Continued on Back Page)