Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1972 — Page 23

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Friday, March 31, 1972

THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION

Where Rabbi Fembsrg (The Action) Is What's A Rabbi Doing In Church?

By NORMAN MELNICK

Moscow Yesh.va Missionary Ad in Daily Reopens, Report # „r r Angers And Also Offends

here^reportecf after^a tdelone By H0FFMAN , <** ambers are “Hebrew-

nere reported otter a teiepnone PHILADELPHIA — A full- Christians.”

Russian veshiva. which i^s page adverti3ement in The Members of the organization

FART OP THAT thino h» shut dbwn several vears aao Philade| P hia Inquirer on a re- call themselves “Biblical Jews” A tvrr.TGt™ PART OF THAI thing he t down several years ago y cen t Sunday urging Jews to con- and believe that “belief in

SAW TOANdSeo (PO) — does is a weekly radio show as been reopened. vert to Christianity has angered Christ completes a Jew in his

New on the San Francisco scene in which he talks and sings. Source of the report was and offended ^ Jewg and faith „ acc ^ rdi to DeIan —• and already a center of con- In the early 1930s he was a Shulem Royzen, who the Jewish rhri „ ti5in - Aithnncrh

toversy - is Rabbi Abraham radio network star singing weekly said was the new lay 0ne of the m08t ang reac . r etains Jcwish rituals it interFe ' nb , er g. ^ . . “ nder the name of came from a Protestant, prets them in a Christian way. He has been named “rabbi-in- Frome. y ,T- ^ Or. Franklin Littell, professor THE REV. LARRY JaHrey, residence - for no salary - The church is ocated in sMentbo^ could increase to of religion at Temple University a 28-year-old Baptist ministe^ at the Glide Methwhst Church dowmovm San Francisco on the M^ter Plover When the and {ounder and president of who runs the Philadelphia Beth here, regarded by clergymen as fringe of what is known oca ly Soviet officials closed down the christians concerned for Israel. Sar Branch at 7201 Castor Ave., die most radical and most far- as the Tenderloin district yeshiva fney claimed that there s id j h h , ^ J out church in the United States, (inhabited mostly by homo- were no students who were “AFTER THE Holocaust, mi«wina th* trn»

THE PASTOR, the Rev. Cecil- sexuals and transvestites). candidates for the rabbinate, Christianity has no right to ver- mean j ng 0 f Judaism’’

Williams, a black man, said at It has a sizable membership although at the same time bal missions to the Jews,” Dr. Th Amer i can Board of Misthe Sunday (March 12) service — people from all over the Bay students from outside of Littell said. “It had better spend s ^ ns the Jews at 717 ^r alnut in the church: Area who “groove” to the Rev. Moscow were banned from its time and money proving its st • Beth s d another

“We got a revolutionary mes- Williams’life style and religious attending. credibility through actions of name Mr jaf{r e y said,

sage this morning that’s going preachments. A Sunday service good will toward Jewish people : An example of how Beth Sar to Mow your minds. Churches is usually wild - in the strictest t ai !l? rael : ^ u preserves the Jewish part of talk about the ecumenical sense of the word - with rock ISFCtel Athletes ^ The f 1 sho ^ 3 .f ,f hoekm g the religious heritage was seen movement. Well, were going to music, belly dancers, disrobing ^ .degree of msensitivity. last year when the organization show them what it means. ^ an dotiier episodes. Can Get Some Pay advert^ement p aced by sponsored a televised Seder that He then introduced Rabbi THE REV. Williams was the TEL AVIV — An amateur the Beth Sar Shalom Fellowship, Channel 17 finally cance ied beFeinberg, 72 years old, who center of a dispute at the recent athlete in Israel may receive of New York City, shows about cause of com piaints from the

retired m 1901, after 28 years, Atlanta meeting of the 10- financial compensation for 35 sm ™ 1 S P 60 ? 1 ® and states : Jewish community,

as spiritual leader of Holy million-member United hours spent in training and “ So Man y Jews Are Wearing THE THREE PIECES of MatBlossom Temple in Toronto, Methodist Church, and there playing under a conclusion ‘That Smile’Nowadays.” zoh used during the meal were Canada. were many in that group who reached by the public- com- THAT SMILE, the text ex- symbols of the “Father, Son Jabbmg his walking stick In wanted to bar him from attend- mittee entrusted with studying plains, came because “the love and Holy Ghost” in the Beth

same s ^ ck S iVen m g- He attended. amateurism in Israel sports. of Jesus Christ has come into Sar version, so that the Jewish Minh when the Whatever Cecil wants, I’ll Yariv Oren made the report their life.” It claims that Jews observance becomes Christianrabbi went to Hanoi in 1967 — do, Rabbi Feinberg said. “I’m of his committee to Minister of can become Christians without ized.

Femberg praised Angela' Davis old enough to be his father, but Education, Yigal Allon. giving up their Jewishness or - Rabbi Bernard S. Frank,

°“* er ra dicals and said,.! regard him as a great par- The com mittee was without “assimilating.” president of the Board of Rabbis

The older I get, the more radi- S0 J*- u . established after widespread^ Beth Sar now has 33 branches in Philadelphia, said that Beth dJL toTS 6 * • Rabbi .Joseph Asher, president accusations of gambling - and in the United States, North and Sar is “purely a fanatic or HE WAS weawng a turtle ^ Board of Rabbis of payoffs in .Israel sports, South America, Europe and kooky type” of organization, neck sweater, and around his Northern California, showed especially football and Israel and a membersMp of “The possibility of being Jewish neck he bore a huge peace displeasure with Feinberg’s basketball ^fibout 5,000, he said. About half and being Christian is a joke.”

chain. He was roundly ap- appointment to the Methodist . - .

plauded by the congregants, church.

most of them black, aU of them wm iF rnwrFniMT' H ' ^Fe^S moved to San Fran- was Feinberg's. privUege to do All EveOffig 111 151061 cisco last year after the death 3 °’ £ she F. . he W0U I < I

of his wife, to whom he was ques1 ? on ^/Feinberg’s) catemarried for 40 years. ' f? 1 ?. 3 ,- in; ’ l: i' tenc ® . llla J Gllt *e “I wanted to start a new life. Metho<llst Church is the only I felt that Berkeley and San exerciser of the tme faith.”

Francisco are places where a The controversy will probably ®y MAX FRIEDMAN decorated by a combination of appear, some bearded, others man like myself can be in- be short-lived. After all, it was BERKELEY, Calif. (P-O) — pop artist Peter Max and clean shaven, and one or two volved.” x San Francisco wnere the Las t. night or on any other Yiddish storyteller Sholem wearing Israeli knitted yarChurch officials said it was “hippie rabbi” first practiced — Saturday night, one can be A1 • hem 0 » t mulkes. Within a fer/ minutes, hard to say what Feinberg will and where a lot of other move- transported to a small part of of Sunerman chanmne in the audience must rjach outside do at Glide. “He’ll be doing his ments started with minimum Israel by way of Berkeley, a telephone F booth ^ by 8 a its boundaries for space. Over

Ca r Uft • p u, , in menorah! Another wall holds a eighty young people wait for tha Leavmg Berkeley upstairs m proclaimingj .< stop Soviet evemng’s entertainment. 6 16 g ’ black an d Imperialism Now!” A kitchen This eve, Jonathan Lipman,

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New, Jewish and youthful it evemngs ‘ ^ son g s <> f ^ world ^ th e is and move it does. It is the ON THIS typical night, the languages of , , the world. The , Cafe Finjan and like Israel, it Cafe begins to fill at about nine, f 11 ence Y P 1 ^ ^ ie mirrors the multi-faceted ways At first, there is a great abun- em P° os wMl as the foreign: * in which many parts of the dance of women, with females | Qngu ^J* any m .^ e grou %:-.i . world, ancient and modern, can .outnumbering males about two ^ ^ or more laRgua ^ J.|| come together. . and a half to one, very much Rachel Chalfi, an Israeli radih ^i LOCATED IN the basement Bke ’ Isra ^* Soon more males personality noted for dramatic*^!

readings and now a student at Berkeley, tells the group to gather around the stage. She

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KING HUSSEIN DECIDED to make immediate announcement 0 f the Hillel chapter of the of his plan for a Palestine Federation with Jordan, in order University of California at to anticipate and forestall an Israel plan for a federation Berkeley, Cafe Finjan opens its * ,

with the West Bank. Arabs. First report of the Israel plan doors every Saturday evening IIIUrKer was made in this corner October 15th last year. ^ s to the tunes of accordions and - ^ _____ -i-

* * • • ! guitars, clapping hands . and IS WppOSGCt A NEW ISRAEL SETTLEMENT will be established in Gaza dancing feet. One can listen to

within the next several months. It will be faced with highly the voices talking gently in BEIT SHEMESH — Progress Rabbi in a small town in Poland articulate and possibly physical opposition from left wing mem- Hebrew and English and, on a and shoppers both were stymied w ho admonished a villager for

bers of the Mapam party who are against extension of Israel’s typical night, hear singing in as shopkeepers here threatened working so much,

presence in the occupied areas. - Chinese, Yiddish, Japanese, a strike if a supermarket were ‘j have to run after my

* * • . French, German, English and opened in this community. living,’ the man answered. THE ISRAEL MINISTER OF HEALTH has now confirmed Hebrew. The SU p ermar ^ et was planned The t* 1611 asked, ‘Did rewaled intororn^ on October j 5 1971.^ “ Beersheba ’ Like ‘he State of Israel, which by the Histadrut, which is the ^ ev “ hav^run^oTfef’aiid * * * frimf J^nart^nf'thp"wnrHThe Sael F ’ t ° £ La “® U1 y 0ur living is now behind you? JERUSALEM MUMCIPAL AUTHORITIES are making pians ^ resounls with the A „ n You’ll have to stop and wait

to remove the bones of Sir Moses Montefiore from the London polyglot of peoples and Avraham Bimbaum, secre- for it to catch up with you.’ ” cemetery where he is buried, and re-inter thein in a suitable {apanages ^ ^ '• tary of the Jerusalem Mer- The evening ends vigomM^ tocation in Israel’s capital * . ' *' v v ' •' 1 : & & • chants Associatica^ warned that with the sounds mad movements

. 4u ' 1 ; • - L: Operated by Berkeley “there will never^fee a super- of Israel with danemg, boras* ;v THE JNE^W YORK jOAVURAH, th6 religious-oriented com- students, the Cafe Was opened market‘in >Beit l Shemesk, and and the- exuberances iof; tee

mune, has" allied itself with the Jewish Peac^ Fellowship, or two years ago to Serve the charged that the livelihoods of young-sometimes following-tee : <j at least five members of' the ctmimutie have. They will provide Berkeley Jewish community. It 46 local merchants^including 23 steps of the old.< * " w j b4:in t » the financially-strapped^'JPF with a volunteer staff' of yotith consists of a large room whicR grocers were threatened by the . It is: ia Israel iiHiodJ;

and field workers. __ - looks as though it was proposed supermarket. Berkeley.

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