Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1981 — Page 7

Names In The News

12-Year-Old Prodigy Is UCLA Soph

Twelve-year-old Eugene Volokh is a sophomore at UCLA, having scored 780 out of a possible 800 in the mathematical portion of his Scholastic Aptitude Test, and being admitted as a soohomore instead of as a freshman. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Vladimir Volokh, he was brought to America when he was seven years old. He has scored 205 on his IQ test, when over 140 is considered in genius category, and by the age of nine he was already taking extension courses at UCLA while still enrolled at Beverly Hills High School which he completed in two years. When his skill in computers became obvious at R and B Enterprises where his father was working as a programmer, they realized that he had the unique ability to spot and correct problems. They soon had him on the payroll for 20 hours a week at $7.50 per hour. Part of Eugene’s problem is to adapt to the adult world, and he seems to encompass that difficult feat with the same ease as he does mathematics and his other studies, even though he realizes that his very being is a cause of envy from other students half again as old as he.

77ie Eternal Light When Rabbi Joseph Rosenbloom was in Morocco doing research of the Jewish communities with a grant from the American Philosophy Society, he acquired a number of Torah Scrolls from communities which were either in the process of dying out or had already become extinct. In the seaport of Mogadir on the Atlantic Coast, he admired one of the many eternal lights, and in the all but abandoned synagogue the rabbi graciously presented him with one, which now graces the foyer of the rabbi’s Temple Emanuel in St. Louis. It hangs from a Hamsa, or Head of Fatima, which Rabbi Rosenbloom explained is a good luck symbol of the Middle East, and ironically Fatima was the daughter of Mohammed.

The Pope's Ring Pope John Paul II may be wearing a $420 solid gold ring given to him by Sid Thai, Seattle jeweler who learned that the pontiff had taken off his ring bearing the insignia of his office and given it to the peasants of the shantytown of Videgal in Brazil on his visit there. The ring bearing the papal seal was designed by Thai’s daughter, and weighs three-quarters of an ounce. The Pope received the ring from an interfaith delegation from Seattle including Catholics, Protestants and Jews, who also brought along $100,000 for the poor of Rio de Janeiro.

— Cleveland Jewish News photo FIRST HAIRCUTS FOR TRIPLETS — The traditional haircuts at the age of three were given to Chad Howard, Lee Steven and Neil Mitchell, the first Jewish triplets bom in America in 100 years, the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Aronson of Akron, O. The hair was shorn at the Chabad House in Cleveland and represents the time when youngsters are ready to begin study of Judaism. The Cleveland Jewish News carried the account, and reported that when the triplets were bom six weeks prematurely, two had underdeveloped lungs and all were not expected to live. The grandmother, Mrs. David Wolfe, went to see the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M.Schneerson, at 770 Eastern Parkway, in Brooklyn, asking for a blessing for the children.

Schneier, is enrolled in the rabbinical school of Yeshiva U where he was president of Young Israel of Flatbush, and Rabbi Schneier, of course, is chairman of the American Section of the World Jewish Congress, and president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation.

Sermon Of The Week Am IA Substitute For God? — Rabbi Elliot D. Rosenstock, Temple Beth-El, South Bend, Ind.

Teddy in The Cabinet

Whether or not it was a trial balloon, Mayor Teddy Kollek told The Jerusalem Post that he would only consider accept- > ing a cabinet post in the next Labor govemF; ment if he could play a role in helping to over“t come the growing alienation between the citi|zens and the establishment. He termed the prospect extremely unlikely, however, and insisted that he would at the same time not relinIquish his mayoral post -Teddy was responding I ■ee to a radio report attributed to an unnamed senM ^Bior Labor official that Kollek would be offered I mk ^|a post in the government, assuming that the Kollek Peres forces would be forming it. Kollek’s idea is to decentralize the government by transferring power from it to the local authorities and from them to neighborhoods and then to individuals. “I believe that in a few years this estrangement could be reduced,” he said, “and people would identify once again with the government. I have ideas how this could be done,” he said, and he would experiment first with them in Jerusalem.

Yichus When Israel’s Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi Shlomo Goren and Rabbi Moses Rosen Chief Rabbi of Rumania fly overseas to a wedding, it must be an important occasion, and so it was when the son of Rabbi Arthur Schneier was wed to Elissa Sara Shay, daughter of Dr. Melvin Shay and the late Lucy Bohm Shay at Park East Synagogue where Rabbi Schneier holds sway. Other prominent names who joined in the festivities were Rabbi Norman Lamm, who heads Yeshiva University, and about 27 other rabbis. After the ceremony, the affair repaired to the Waldorf Astoria for dinner. The groom, Marc

Quotation Of The Week Is God a He Or a She? Neither. Let me explain. There has been much publicity recently concerning the desire to change the Bible and our prayers when they refer to God in the male gender. A congregation in New England has re-written an entire prayer service eliminating all sexist references to God. From the Jewish point of view, God is pure spirit and has no physical form whatsoever. It must be understood that our language is limited: God is super human, greater than all His (Its?) creations, and human language cannot express that which is beyond its power of expression. Therefore, we must use words, but with the understanding that our words are limited and necessarily confining. The phrases in the Kaddish prayer puts it well: “Beyond all songs and hymns of exaltation* beyond all praise which man can utter is the glory of the Holy One, praised is He.” Man’s language is hopefully inadequate when we attempt to express the glory of God. But we must use our language; that’s all we have. To make a “big deal” out of eliminating the sexist references, is “much ado about nothing”. I have great confidence that our people understand that the male references in English are merely a language device, and do not eliminate feminine virtues or overtones. I am confident that people understand that when we refer to God as “He” we do not mean a man, and when we refer to “man”, in general, we mean "mankind”. I freely admit that due to the force of feminist objections to our male-oriented language, in my public speaking and even in writing sometimes I will make a conscious effort to eliminate sexist overtones. I try to use “mankind” instead of “man”, and “people” instead of “he”. However, I do not make a fetish out of this. I trust the intelligence of my listeners and readers. I hope the matter will be cleared up when the Messiah comes, may she arrive soon! — Rabbi Sanford Shanblatt, Temple Israel, Swampscott, Ma.

Tennis Stars Win Laurels TEL AVIV — Israel’s young tennis aspirants made more than creditable showings in the foreign tournaments in which they have been competing this winter. Menashe Tsur won the 14-and-under boys single title at the annual Rolex International Junior Tennis Championships in Port Washington, N.Y. In Miami Beach, he took third place in his age group at the Orange Bowl World Junior Tennis Championship, beating Jimmy Williams 6-4, 6-1, in a play-off & between the singles semi- ~

finalists.

Playing in the San Juan International Junior Tennis Championships, Tsur teamed with Amos Mansforf to win the under-16 doubles title, while Gilad Bloom and Max Osheroff duplicated their feat in the under-14 division.

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