Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1979 — Page 7

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Connally Has Answer On Arab Oil

Questioned last spring at a session in the New York Office ol the American Jewish Committee, John Connally was asked about his connection with Arab oil interests. “Isn’t it better,” he i esponded, “to have somebody in the White House who knows these people from the inside,” according to Jonathan Braun in The Jewish Week. Linowitz's Opportunity Sol M. Linowitz, who is taking over from Robert Strauss as President Carter’s Ambassador at Large for Middle East Negotiations, is also a leader of the Jewish community, holding down the position of chairman of the governing board of the Jewish Theological Seminary. He comes by his new post legitimately, largely because of his success in the Panama Canal treaty. He first came to national attention as developer of Xerox to its present national stature. His background is replete with other significant diplomauc victories and the hope is that he’ll be able to further the progress Linowitz of the current talks between Israel and Egypt, but none of his past efforts are seen as more complicated than the new challenge he has accepted. Mrs. Robert Strauss Roslynn Carter is not the only wife who plays a big role in the career of her husband. Helen Strauss not only travels with her husband, Robert Strauss, who has just relinquished one government post to take on another for his boss, President Carter, on all his overseas trips and most of the domestic ones, but she sits in on briefing sessions and edits her husband’s speeches. The Strausses have been married 38 years. Born in Columbus, 0., she came with her family to Dallas as a youngster, attended Wellesley and transferred to the University of Texas where she met her future husband.

Mrs. Sulzberger The New York Times’ Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger isn’t afraid to take a stand when it comes to her Jewishness. She refused to serve on the annual dinner committee of the Urban League, according to Vernon Jordan, the League’s top executive, “pending clarification of our position of blacks and Jews.” A regular contributor to the League, Mrs. Sulzberger explained in a recent interview that “one of the black leaders made a statement that the Jews only gave to help blacks when it was to their own benefit to do so”, adding that she didn’t recall who said that “but Vernon was there and he hadn’t spoken up at the time. I thought he should have said something.” She begged off also because “I don’t much care for these public events anyway; for Tm quite deaf and I miss most of what is being said.” After Jordan criticized Jesse Jackson, Mrs. Sulzberger relented: “We’re going to make up she said.” Three More The high percentage of Jews who have been Nobel Prize winners is already on the way to being reinforced as three Jews were named laureates so far this year. They are Sheldon Glashow, Stephen Weinberg, and Herbert C. Brown. Glashow and Weinberg were high school and college classmates and now teach at Harvard. Brown is on the faculty of Purdue University. Brown is a member of the board of academic governors of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Weinberg has delivered the De Shalit Memorial Lecture at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Elected Beverly Minkoff, Rockville Centre, N.Y., has been elected national president of Women’s American ORT ... Herman R. Fiarman, of Chicago, has been re-elected president of the National Jewish Civil Service Employees, Inc., which includes also the National Shomrim Society and the Council of Jewish Organizations in Civil Service in New York City.

Political Fundraisers

Add to Robert Strauss, who is heading the fundraising for President Carter’s re-election campaign, the names of Maxwell M. Rabb and Albert A. Spiegel who will occupy key

positions for Ronald Reagan’s attempt to unseat Mr. Carter. Rabb, who is president of Temple Emanu-El in New York, served as presidential assistant and secretary to the Cabinet from 1953 to 1958. Spiegel is a past president of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles.

Readying For New Season Training has begun seriously at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., for the nation’s top women’s basketball team which, led by Nancy Lieberman, finished 35 and one last year. (J? Nancy, considered the leading woman player in the U.S., won a silver medal with the U.S. jfa team in the 1976 Olympics as the youngest member of the U.S. i Olympic team. Her average of 19.3 points per game with Old I Dominion since her freshman year, totalling 1869 points, is the best in the nation. The five foot, 10 inch star explained [that her full-time concentration on basketball, plus her studies have left her little time to participate in Jewish activities, but this has not been Nancy Lieberman for lack of interest.

With The Rabbis Rabbi Harold Goldberger, who left the rabbinate eight years ago to become a marriage and family counselor, has been elected to the pulpit of the Hebrew Education Alliance, Denver, succeeding Rabbi Manuel Laderman, who was named emeritus ... Rabbi Alan Silverstein was installed as spiritual leader of Congregation Agudath Israel, of West Essex, Caldwell, N.J., succeeding Rabbi Morris R. Werb, who is rabbi emeritus ... Rabbi Albert Lewis was tendered a dinner dance on the occasion of his assuming the position of rabbi emeritus of Temple Isaiah of West Los Angeles, after serving the congregation for 31 years...

Sermon Of The Week To Cohabit Or Not To Cohabit — Rabbi Jack Segal, Congregation Beth Yeshurun, Houston.

Quotation Of The Week American Jews are often ridiculously absurd. It hit me at a house of mourning — the almost carnival atmosphere that prevailed after the family’s return from the cemetery as the trays of noshereye and chazereye (not kosher, of course) were being consumed at this catered affair; not to mention the effusive drinking (to drown out all the sorrow, I guess?!) It seemed more like a Bar Mitzvah smorgasbord than a “shivah” visit. This, on top of the fact that at the cemetery the family was impatient with the traditionally — mandated covering of the casket in the open grave — it was too painful; they may have to cry; it would delay the “shivah” party for five extra minutes. I wondered; a loving parent and spouse had died — if not now, when would be an appropriate occasion to feel the need for cathartic crying! Then it dawned upon me; ihe deep wisdom of American Jewry. Maybe there was something to be said in their favor, after all. Since we celebrate our funerals and “shivah” visits as Bar Mitzvahs, then the converse should be true — Bar Mitzvahs should be celebrated funerally! How true indeed! Properly, the Bar Mitzvah (and the same for a Bat Mitzvah) should mark the occasion when a young lad matures Jewishly — accepting upon himself the future observance of the obligations and responsibilities of Jewish adulthood. It should be the beginning of a lifelong commitment to a proud and full Jewish experience. However, more and more Bar Mitzvahs have become funerals — marking the departure of a celebrant from Religious school (he doesn’t have to study anymore; he’s been “Bar Mitzvahed!”), and from the synagogue (he doesn’t have to put on tefillin or attend services anymore; he’s been “Bar Mitzvahed!”). Indeed, our children have been “Bar Mitzvahed; an event in the past which indicates the end, rather than the beginning. — Rabbi Daniel Z. Kramer, Congregation Agudas Israel, Newburgh, N.Y.

Rabbi S. Sandmel Succumbs; Cancer CINCINNATI — The passing of Rabbi Samuel Sandmel threw a veil of mourning here and throughout the scholarly world. He was long known to be suffering from cancer. He was a leading scholar in his field — the Old and the New Testaments — and his production of books made him recognized as an authority on early Christianity. His findings played an important role in the field of Jewish-Christian relations. Death came at the age of 68. An unassuming person, he was a friend of the students at Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion here, where he was director of graduate studies. He retired recently to become Professor of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School. After being ordained by HUD-JIR, he served as assistant rabbi at Atlanta’s Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, and was Hillel Director at the University of North Carolina and Duke. Rabbi Samuel Peiper NEW YORK - Rabbi Samuel Peiper, who founded the Community Temple Beth Ohr in Brooklyn in 1929 and served it until 18 years ago, died here at the age of 95. Funeral services at the Temple were conducted by Rabbi Herbert H.

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