Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1974 — Page 7

NAMES IN THE NEWS

Joan Baez Acceptable To Israel

When a letter-writer to The Jerusalem Post objected to the invitation to Joan Baez to perform in Israel’s annual Music Festival because she was a leading leftwinger who had spouted anti-Israel sentiments, the response came from A.Z. Propes, director of the Israel Festival, and Jacob Quat. Propes related that Ms. Baez’ views on Israel had been brought up by a member of the program committee leading to an inquiry to the Israel Consulate in New York. The response was that “We have no information about anti-Israel appearances in which this singer participated and many competent circles recommend to invite her.” Quat’s letter was more to the point. “Not only does Joan Baez possess one of the purest and most thrilling voices of our time, she is also a warmhearted and gracious person who sings the songs of the workers and the oppressed in the great tradition of Paul Robeson and Harry Belafonte . . . The very fact that she has agreed to sing at the Music Festival is, to my mind, an indication that she is no longer — if she ever was — the rabid anti-Zionist that your reader pictures her to be. Her presence will lend prestige to the Festival and support to the cause of Israel.” • Tales Of Malamud Two one-act operas, based on Bernard's Malamud’s “Idiots First” and “Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party,” will be presented in cantata form Saturday night, Aug. 3 on the Cornell University campus. Entitled “Tales of Malamud,” the operas were written in part by the late Marc Blitzstein and completed by Leonard Lehrman, who is earning his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at Cornell. Blitzstein began “Idiots First” in 1962 and Lehrman completed it and then wrote the companion piece tins year The performance will be presented by The Risley Review in association with the Ithaca Opera Association. • Second Woman Rabbi Same As First

a major party gubernatorial nomination in her own right, there was no overlooking 43-year-old Gloria Schaffer, who was renominated by acclamation as Connecticut’s Secretary of State on the Democratic ticket. In the election four years ago, she was one of two Democrats who survived the Republican tide that swept Gov. Thomas J. Meskill and Sen. Weicker into office. Blond, blue-eyed and slender, she is attractive by any standards and the word is that she is “too pretty to be governor.” She concedes, however, that she may at one time run for Congress. Soviet Bob Dylan Dubbed the Soviet Bob Dylan because both are Jewish, Aleksander A. Galich whose booming melodious voice tape recorded in underground concerts urged his fellow Jews to emigrate, has joined the Norwegian School of Theatre and is performing throughout Norway with the group. He freely satirized institutions and leaders in the Soviet Union and earned the wrath of officialdom. He was expelled from the Writers’ Union in 1971 and a year later from the Union of Soviet Cinematographers.

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Jack Benny And Who? Milton Berle, Phil Silvers and George Burns are being considered to play opposite Jack Benny in the film, “Sunshine Boys,” the Neil Simon comedy about two aging Jewish vaudeville comics. Red Skelton was originally scheduled to do the role but negotiations did not materialize. Jack Albertson who starred in the Broadway production won a supporting Oscar for his role.

To The Rescue

While shmossing at poolside at a party at tiie home of the Milton Manns at Laguna Beach, editor Herb Brin of Heritage heard a scream. A lady had fallen into the pool. Without a second thought, the editor of the Jewish weekly jumped into the water to the rescue. It was not until he was handing her to eager hands that it occurred to him that he could not swim a stroke. He had rescued the mother of his host, and both were none

the worse for wear.

Brin

With The Rabbis

Rabbi Samuel Karff is leaving Chicago Sinai Congregation, is moving next June when he will be affiliated with Temple Beth Israel, Houston, Tex. . . . Rabbi Maxwell Berger, Temple Zamora, has been elected first rabbi of the new Conservative Congregation of Kendale Lakes, South Dade area, Fla. . . . Rabbi David Wucher, who was ordained recently by HUC-JIR has accepted the pulpit of Temple B’nai Abraham, Hagerstown, Md. . . . Temple Israel, New Rochelle, N.Y. has elected Rabbi Ronald D. Gerson, who was ordained in June at HUC-JIR as assistant rabbi . . . Rabbi Nissim Gambash has assumed the pulpit of the Sephardic Jewish Center, North Miami Beach . . . Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz has been elected to the pulpit of

Congregation B’nai Israel, Auburn. N.Y.

Obituary

Rabbi Share Succumbs At 66 NEW ORLEANS — Rabbi Nathaniel S. Share, who served Congregation Gates of Prayer for 40 years, died here at the age of 66. He had only recently participated in the groundbreaking ceremonies for a new edifice for the Reform

congregation.

Gates of Prayer had been the revered spiritual leader’s only pulpit. He was ordained in 1932 and began his long stewardship here two years later. He was widely respected in the com-

munity-at-large.

Joseph P. Loeb LOS ANGELES - Joseph P. Loeb, born ninety years ago in a house on what is now Fourth and Broadway, died July 19 at Cedars Sinai Hospital. A prominent attorney, he served as a member of the Board of Education in the 1940s, and in the 1950s in the Administration of Governor Earl Warren. Sylvan Libson PITTSBURGH - Stricken during a game of golf, Attorney Sylvan Libson who represented many unions, died at the age of 65. His Jewish activities included treasurer of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. He was chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action and helped reorganize the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union in the 1940s. BAN ON CIGARETTE ADS? JERUSALEM — Cigarette advertising may be prohibited in newspapers if a bill before the Knesset is passed. Dov Ben Meir, chairman of the AntiCancer League, pointed out that cigarette advertising already had disappeared from Israel radio. Personals

Sermon Of The Week Whatever Happened To The Fast Day of Ab? Altman, Temple Beth Am, Miami.

RABBI SANDY SASSO The second kmale rabbi in the United States, Rabbi Sandy Sasso, newly ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, found her experiences in seeking a pulpit similar to that of her predecessor, Rabbi Sally Preisand, she said this week. Announcing that she would become spiritual leader of the Manhattan Havurah, she asserted that there was some opposition when she applied to other pulpits. “There is no question that some congregations are not ready. Many places consider it a risk and are not quite sure what it will mean. And of course people make a lot of jokes. They’re not so sure it’s the best thing that could happen.” Rabbi Sasso has a first to her credit which she shares with her husband. She and Rabbi Dennis Sasso, who graduated with her, are the first couple to be ordained as rabbis. • Judaism Not For Her The new sizzling autobiography of Rona Barrett, TV Hollywood Gossip queen, who was bom 38 years ago to a Jewish grocer and his wife in Queens and fought her way from a pitied cripple (she describes it so) to a new image complete with nose job, two lovers, one married and another a “sexual beast,” and just 10 months ago married to a non-Jew, confesses in the book that for solace she sought religion. In a N.Y. Daily News article Rona states “I find a solace in church. Very often I go to a nearby Catholic church and just sit there. But I never go to a synagogue, which I feel is significant." • Too Pretty For Governor Although the headlines were made by Ella Grasso. as the Connecticut Congresswoman became the first woman to win

Quotation Of The Week

Judaism is commonly symbolized by an outline design of the two tablets of stone mi which the Ten Commandments were inscribed. The ark in many synagogues is sculptured in the shape of these tablets. Our military identifies rabbis who are chaplains by having them wear insignia shaped in this way. I had occasion recently to examine the symbols used by Jews during the early centuries of our history. We will find on mosaics, coins and golden glass many familiar objects, the Menorah, the Shofar, the Ethrog and Lulav of Sukkot and the lions of Judah, and some not so familiar, but not a single representation of the tablets of the law. Why not? The Mishnah reveals that the Ten Commandments were for some period recited as part of the daily worship in the Jerusalem Temple, but that this practice had been d&xmtinued. It seems this practice was ended to remind the worshippers that however important the Ten Commandments were they were not the only mitzvot. Apparently, because of the central place of these tablets in the biblical story, some were saying that these were the essential rules while the other commandments were secondary. Incidentally, this was the position taken by the early Church which affirmed the Ten Commandments while denying the binding effect of the hundreds of other biblical laws. The architects and artists of ancient Judaism rejected the symbol of the tablets because Judaism rejected this reductionist attitude. I still hear this spirit: “Rabbi, I obey the Ten Commandments, I do my bit for Jewish Welfare and the United Torch. That’s it, isn’t it?” That’s a good bit, but not all of it. Torah law includes more than obvious rules against theft, murder, adultery and perjury; the mandate to just weights and just measures, to redeem the oppressed and to love one’s neighbor as one’s self. Torah law includes not only the requirements of a Sabbath day of rest, but rules for the holidays and the obligation to study the Torah. I am not advocating that the symbol of the tablets be abandoned. It is a beloved symbol, but let’s look at it as a suggestion of the entire range of our obligations under God’s law, not as a narrow and complete statement of our obligation. — Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver, The Temple. Cleveland.

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