Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1978 — Page 7

Rosh Hashonah Services In The Cathedral

SAMUEL FULLER says the story is tactual, and it is related in his novel, “The Big Red One”, soon to be published by Bantam and written up in I he Jerusalem Post because the movie from the novel will be shot in Israel. Part of the movie depicts the capture of Aachen by the U. S. Army’s First Division in World War II. When the German Commander of the city asked to make a speech to its citizens after he had capitulated, he told them that the war had been lost, and then requested he be able to say “Heil Hitler” and give the Nazi salute. Col. Taylor who led the division refused and then took the mike himself. He said, I his is a holy day tor the Hebrews. We are now going to hold Jewish holy day services in this goddam cathedral. Any man here know how to conduct services? Good. Now, I want every man of the Jewish faith in this battalion to take one step forward." Every First Infantry man took one step forward, 800 men. 90 per cent of them not Jewish. They all walked into the cathedral. Russian Mathematical Genius A past president of the American Mathematical Society calls him “one of the few living mathematicians to whom the word genius may be applied”. He is GRIGORY CHUDNOVSKY, 25, who is confined to a wheelchair suffering from a muscular disease, and who has just arrived in the United States from Russia via France with his brother, David, to become research associates at Columbia University. Grigory had his first mathematical treatise published by the Soviet Academy of Sciences when he was only 14 years old. Despite his illness, Grigory has attained international recognition for his achievements in mathematical logic, functional analysis, number theory and non-linear differential equations of mathematical physics. At Kennedy airport to welcome the family, which included MR. & MRS. WOLF CHUDNOVSKY, were representatives of the Committee of Concerned Scientists, Inc., a New York-based human rights organization which spearheaded efforts to convince the Soviet government to permit the family to emigrate. More On The Mayor Of Cork MAYOR GERALD GOLDBERG, of Cork, (P—O, Mch.17) is making the pages of the news magazines not to mention the daily press. His latest break into the news was an item in The New York Times ..escribing his meeting with HAIM HERZOG, Israel’s United Nations Representative. “Do you know,” he told the envoy, “I was at your bar mitzvah.” Herzog couldn’t recall that part of his consecration as a Jew in Dublin, and the two went off together to continue their talk. When asked what language they were conversing in, Herzog said with a straight face “Gaelic”. But later he confessed that the pair had lapsed into Yiddish.

The Staunch Catholic The 11 per cent return was not all that attracted JAMES DELLIQUADRI, a Venice, Ca. staunch Roman Catholic, to invest in a Jewish National Fund Living Legacy. “After ail at my age (67),” he said, “it brings me a return of more than 11 per cent and for another thing I am delighted with the thought that after I am gone my name will be forever linked with Israel.” With many Jewish friends, he is a member of the Bay Cities Jewish Center in Santa Monica. “I would recommend the Living Legacy to anyone,” he added, “especially people over 65. You make this one-time investment and you know you will get an income for the rest of your life.” • Innovative Services RABBI BERNARD COHEN, who made the Associated Press with an account of his use of a magician on the pulpit, is experimenting with a chemist to incorporate smell and taste into his services at Temple Solael, Canoga Park, Ca. He has been a frequent occupier of newspaper writeups for his innovative methods, especially at weddings, where he features a slide presentation depicting love between couples of all ages and a cappella group called “Songs of the Earth”, which sings about the unity of God, man and woman in 40 languages. His most recent appearance in the national media is a two-page writeup in “US”, a magazine published by the New York Times. • Kissinger Portrait Rejected Because MRS. KISSINGER objected, at least that is what seems to be the case, a portrait of HENRY KISSINGER, commissioned for hanging in the State Department, has been officially rejected. GARDNER COX, Boston portrait painter’s work “didn’t quite capture Mr. Kissinger, didn’t quite capture his personality,” said White House curator CLEMENT E. CONGER.The painter said he refused to make a few “minor changes.” Cox was not deceived. He said he understood that the portrait was actually rejected because Mr. Kissinger objected to it. “I heard his wife didn’t like it either.” The portrait pictured in the new York Times showed the former Secretary of State with a wideeyed innocent mien. • Jews Of America Possibly as a result of the meeting, a series of four con-current regional sessions—Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago and San Fransico—have been set by the JCRAC’s Israel Task Force for Thursday, April, 3. RABBI ISRAEL MILLER, task force chairman, in announcing the projected conferences, said that “grave and difficult challenges immediately confront the American Jewish community” in the early aftermath of the Begin visit and in view of the Administration’s apparent determination to press its proposals to sell.advanced ITS. air- « » < 4 « » t 4 * 4 I » * • <

AID FOR HER HUSBAND SOUGHT — Unrelenting in her campaign to secure freedom for her husband, now the most famous refusnik, Natalia Sharansky brought her case to U.S. United Nation Ambassador Andrew Young, shown with her above, who promised to do all in his power to see that a visa was finally extended to her now famous mate, Anatoly.

craft to Saudi Arabia and Egypt while cutting back on airplanes for Israel. “We must consult together, arm ourselves with facts and concert our efforts to keep the momentum going toward a true, just and durable peace,” he added.

Who Represent U. S. Jewry Any confusion about the possible dominance of such organizations as the American Jewish Congress and the National Council of Jewish Women was dispelled for a House of Representatives committee studying legislation granting tuition tax credits for parents of students attending non-public schools. Rabbi Bernard Goldenberg told the solons that the all-encompassing titles of these two organizations which have opposed the proposed bill does not indicate that they represent the American Jewish community. The associate director of Torah Umesorah, the national society for Hebrew day schools, emphasized in his appearance the need for such legislation.

With The Rabbis Fifty years of service to Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Atlanta, by RABBI AND MRS. HARRY H. EPSTEIN will be marked this week end with RABBI STANLEY RABINOWITZ speaking at Saturday morning services and Dr. Gerson Cohen at the banquet Sunday night...RABBI JACK SIMCHA COHEN has been named to the pulpit of Congregation Shaarei Tefila, Los Angeles...RABBI RONALD D. SHAPIRO has been elected associate rabbi of Congregation Shalom, Milwaukee...A book of short stories by RABBI W. GUNTHER PLAUT has been chosen as the Canadian Alternate for the Book of the Month Club. Rabbi Plaut also has been appointed vice-chairman of the Ontario Human Rights Commission...RABBI RICHARD ADDRESS, Temple Solael, Canoga Park, Calif., has been named regional director of the Pennsylvania Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. • Sermon Of The Week Are Our Jewish Institutions Competing With Family Life? — Rabbi Simon Glustrom, Fair Lawn (N.J.) Jewish Center.

Quotation Of The Week We went to a catered dinner party a few weeks ago and a minor miracle occurred: the band failed to appear. The event was at a midtown hotel and the management was able to find one lone violinist who played lilting melodies throughout the meal. We were seated with friends and were delighted at the unexpected opportunity to be able to engage in liesurely conversation throughout a fine dinner, without being harassed by the earsplitting sounds which go for music nowadays. When birchat hamazon was recited, many of us were tempted to add a special prayer of thanks to whatever powers kept the band from getting to the hotel. I have attended my share of noisy affairs and have worked at refining my skills of lip-reading and hand-motion communication, but I never fail to wonder why many people believe that a tine dinner is incomplete unless it is accompanied by an unceasing din of raucus music. Similarly, one of the more ill-bred and unJewish manifestations of this phenomenon is the circumstance of a Sabbath Bar or Bat Mitzvah service, after which the family and guests leave the synagogue and go off to a catering hall for a boisterous celebration where the Sabbath is ignored and the spirit of Bar-Bat Mitzvah lorgot-

Why do people do these foolish things? Perhaps, because others do it — because they think it is expected — because that's the style — because loud music inhibits conversation and we don’t have much to say to each other, anyway. Whatever the reason, in the end, it is a question of values, standards and taste. Some think it impolite to argue about such matters. I am of another opinion: these are the only

things worth arguing about

It has been said that God asks no one whether he will accept life: that is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is — how. That is where values and taste come in. We should cultivate only those that we are willing should master us. When you plan a celebration, give some thought to the Sabbath spirit, good conversation and the sort of music appropriate to both.—Rabbi Theodore Steinberg, Malverne

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Independence Day Israel- ® style. For years, a major event ^ in Israel's Independence Day ® celebration has been, believe it | or not, an International Bible 5' Contest. ^ Held in Jerusalem as a radio 8 quiz show, it has thousands of Israelis glued to their radios for hours, appraising contestants, betting on favorites. And debating the merits of the questions, which really are difficult. Tough training. Contestants are chosen by stiff exams. Then put through months of rigorous preparation for the big meet in Jerusalem. They compete from as many as 17 countries. Not for money. For the honor. That’s Israel for you. Take a TWA Getaway Israel holiday. You’ll love it. EZ1

Ben Gurion and Begin, Builder, Revoluntionary (Continued from previous page) demonstrations in Jerusalem and threatened to bring down the government by force. Building Israel on “blood money” was the antithesis of hadar. It was a chillul hashem, a desecration of the Name: in religious tradition, the name of God; in the tradition of Betar, the desecration of His people. While Begin lost the reparations battle, he has of course won his struggle. Ben Gurion’s disciples—Dayan, the leaders of the State List faction in Likud—now call the former Irgunist their leader. For Begin, the satisfaction is more than personal. The Prime Minister lets few occasions pass without calling himself “a disciple of Jabotinsky.” No secular Jewish leader was as beloved by his followers as Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Betar. Like the hasidic disciples of Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Betarim refused to appoint a new leader to fill Jabotinsky’s place when he died. Neither was any Jewish leader as despised by his opponents as was Jabotinsky. Ben Gurion once denounced him as the “Jewish Hitler”. His speeches were often interrupted by violence. IN RETROSPECT, opposition to Jabotinsky seems odd. His ideology stressed self-defense and the need for a Jewish army. Alone among Zionist leaders, he saw the approaching Holocaust. Alone among Zionist leaders, he saw the approaching Holocaust. In speeches before Jewish communities across Europe, he warned: liquidate the Exile before the Exile liquidates you. But it was not a utopian message. It offered none of the promises of his labor Zionist and Bundist (Jewish socialist) opponents. The message, ignored, was survival. As helpless as events rendered him, Jabotinsky came closest to saving European Jewry. That awareness must preoccupy the mind of his most outstanding disciple. In Begin’s triumph is Jabotinsky’s vindication. It also represents a final reconciliation with Ben Gurion, the synthesis of Zionsim s two historic strains: the builders and the revolutionaries. >« * « A • A # -. ► *« # • *». »'• » r s 4 *4•<'< «e 4 '4- ? • !*• « >■ * • * •