Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1981 — Page 7

Names In The News

Student Becomes A Jew For 3 Months

Twenty-year-old Tom Burns, a devout Catholic who attends church regularly, became an Orthodox Jew for three months as part of his class in Buffalo (N.Y.) State College. Although^ he wore the medals of two saints around his neck, and knew only one Jewish person in his home town, he ate only kosher food, replaced the medals with a Star of David, and changed his schedule so that at the bar where he was employed as a parttime bartender so that he would not have to work on the Sabbath. The course was “World Religions”. He attended services regularly at Temple Emanu-El in Buffalo. He told The Buffalo Jewish Review that “I learned that sacrifices are a normal part of a Jewish individual’s life. I can imagine how difficult it must be for a Jewish couple to raise children.” Dr. Allen H. Podet, who is associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at the College is a rfebbi and a chaplain in the U.S. Naval Reserves. • Sadat's Peace Pipe Six months ago Maurice Bloth, of the B’nai B’rith lodge inr University City, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, wrote President Sadat of Egypt that there was a strong relationship between the pipe he smoked and the Indian peace pipe. He forgot about the letter until he received a response from the Egyptian leader, including an Alfred Dunhill pipe. “Your kind letter has been received with great pleasure and appreciation,” Sadat wrote. “Thank you very much for your considerate feelings toward me. In answer to your request, it pleases me to enclose herewith the pipe. ”

Bonanza The bonanza for Jewish affairs in Atlantic City as the result of the casinos has been the profesion of top talent which is now available. At the recent Atlantic County Hebrew Academy banquet, Bob Ewbanks served as master of ceremonies, Tiber Rudas provided the entertainment, and Jerry Lewis stopped by to introduce Frank Sinatra. Sinatra and Danny Thomas were the honorary chairmen of the banquet which honored Paul "Skinny” Gamato, former proprietor of the 500 Club. • Biblical Provision Quoted 1 Deuteronomy 24, V5, was quoted by the chaplain of St. John’s College, Oxford, in the London Times in commenting on the young married British soldiers who have been killed in Northern Ireland. The verse reads: “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any business; he shall go free at home one year, to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.” Commenting on this piece of Biblical legislation, the chaplain pointed out that it provided the newly-married man with the opportunity to securing an heir, thus ensuring both that his name would not die with him and that his wife would have someone to look after her in her old age. • The Name Zara When the name Zara was chosen by Princess Anne and CapUin Mark Phillips for their baby daughter, the British newspapers assumed that it was a version of a Greek Biblical name meaning “Bright as Dawn”. In fact, the name is pure Hebrew, meaning both “shine" and “rise”. It is the name of a son of the partriarch Juda and is mentioned in Genesis 38.20 and 46,12.

- • Elected Theodore R. Mann, Philadelphia, has been named chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry...Rabbi Walter S. Wan burger has been elected president of the Synagogue Council of Am erica...Dr. Muriel Mallin Berman was elected president of the Jewish Publication Society, the first woman to hold the position, succeeding Dr. Edward B. Shib. • Breakdown Of Barriers In connection with the naming of Rabbi Elihu Schagrin, of Tempie Concord (Reform), Binghampton, N.Y. as man of the year of the local Orthodox congregation. Rabbi Leonard Winograd, also Reform, of Temple B’nai Israel, McKeesport, Pa'.,

EVEN THE QUEST OF HONOR—Where would you expect the Dutch Minister of Culture, Mrs. M.H. Gardeniers-Berend-sen, to be seated when she paid a formal visit to services at the first House of Worship to be built in Holland since 1938. She is shown behind the mechitza which divides the seating sections of male and female in Orthodox Congregations. Of the 140,000 Jews who lived in Holland before the Second World War only 30,000 survived the Holocaust. was similarly nominated by Tree of Life — Sfard Congregation, a merger of Orthodox and Conservative congregations, as Citizen of the Year a few years ago.

With The Rabbis Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt, associate rabbi of Temple Beth Am, Miami, has been elected spiritual leader of Temple Solel, Bowie Md...Named assistant rabbi of Temple Aaron, St. Paul, is Rabbi Joel D. Newman. „Rabi Paul Levenson, Temple Beth El, Overland Park, Ks., has announced his forthcoming resignation at the end of this year...Rabbi Stanley Herman has been elected to fill the pulpit of the Tri-City Jewish Center, Rock Island, II. •

Sermon Of The Week Daddy Doesn’t Live Here Anymore — Rabbi Judith S. Lewis, Temple Sinai, Roslyn Heights, N.Y.

Quotation Of The Week Recently, a young lady who was with us for some five years left our office staff. She asked if I would be offended if she commented on the working conditions. Parenthetically, she hereself had very strong religious ties, being a practicing Catholic. However, what she began to address herself to were not the working conditipns but rather the issue of a lack of menschlekeit in our synagogue family. She just could not believe how insensitive and demanding many members of our congregation are to those who work professionally for the synagogue. Her experience certainly soured her on the image of niceness among Jewish people. “Somehow, everybody had to have everything done at the very same moment.” I thanked the young lady for her comments and tried to place them in a proper perspective. For maybe it does take an outsider with a (afferent approach to help us see what is proper and improper in human relationships. Perhaps, being a “Jewish professional,” I have come to expect the lack of respect, honor and pride in the institution. Perhaps I have been so dehumanized by the pettiness and trivialities of our Jewish community life that I take it for granted. One need only attend any kind of Jewish meeting to see the total lack of regard for human dignity. Somehow, personalities become primary, and important issues secondary. I did not apologize to the young lady, for an apology was not really in order. But, dear friends, before we can expect to make Jewish community life vital and dynamic, we had better be prepared to add a touch of menschlekeit to our relationship with all Jewish institutions. For is this not what our Rabbis suggest, in Pirkei Avot? "In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.”—Rabbi Charles Sherman, Temple Adath Yeshurun, Syracuse, N.Y.

Hefusnik's Son Headed For Penn PHILADELPHIA - Will the. USSR permit 28-year-old Leonid Brailovsky, the son of a Soviet Jewish dissident sentenced to five years internal exile, to matriculate at the University of Pennsylvania? Leonid had reportedly been denied entrance .to a Soviet university because of his father, according to uni-

versity sources.

Leonid has studied mathe-1 matics at a Moscow techni- ° cal college, said Lee Stetson, $ Penn’s director of admis- ~

sions.

A Soviet court last week sentenced Viktor Brailovsky on charges of slandering the state. Viktor and his wife, Irina, are computer scientists. The family’s 1972 application to emigrate was denied by the Soviet authorities on grounds their work involved official secrets. At his sentencing, Viktor Brailovsky spoke, passionately for an hour on his efforts to leave the Soviet Union. “I am not so naive as to consider this (speech) will save me, but if even two people in this room can understand this speech, it was worth making — and there are two,” he said, looking at his wife and son. The university’s director of admissions said the State Department was attempting to intercede with Soviet authorities to grant Leonid a student exit visa. While other Soviet students have studied at American universities, Leonid would be the first son of a dissident to be granted a student visa.

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