Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1988 — Page 18

QBITUARIES

1-day conversion rabbi, Emmet Frank, died at 62

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Rabbi Emmet Frank, a virtual Renaissance man in his accomplishments, died Dec. 21 of a massive heart attack, ironically while preparing to preside at a funeral. Rabbi Frank, the founder of All Peoples Liberal Reform Synagogue, was controversial most recently for his one-day conversions. He insisted he accomplished in a 10-hour concentrated seminar format the teaching that other rabbis spread out over months. Rabbi Frank had a unique synagogue, with no dues, no temple bulletin, no organized Hebrew or Sunday school and no sisterhood or brotherhood. He advertised his availability in the Yellow Pages to perform Jewish and interfaith marriages as well as his one-day conversions. He resigned from the Central Conference of American Rabbis after being threatened with suspensions for performing interfaith marriages jointly with priests or pastors, something Rabbi Frank

said he did only for couples who vowed to give their children a Jewish education. Born in New Orleans and reared in Houston in what was then the segregated South, Rabbi Frank became an arch-foe of segregation, outspoken to the point that he and his family were threatened by segregationist whites when he served a congregation at Alexandria, Va., according to his wife, Carole. He served Alexandria's Temple Beth-El for 16 years. His first congregational post was as an assistant rabbi at Houston for two years, followed by posts in Seattle and Harrisburg, Pa. A riveting speaker, he also had a trained operatic voice, which he used cantorially in the synagogue. He played the violin, organ, flute and piccolo and was an accomplished painter, with works displayed in the Corcoran Gallery of Art and in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.

Death Notices

DR. BERN DIBNER

deep sorrow the passing of Dr. Bern Dibner, ol Wilton, Conn., business leader, philanthropist and world renowned scholar in the history of science and technology. He established at the University the Dr. Bern Dibner

Druss Dibner Chair for Research and Teaching in the History of Science at The Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine. To all the members of the family, we extend our profound condolences. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Samuel Rothberg Robert H. Smith Honorary Chairmen Harvey M. Krueger, Chairman Board of governors Amnon Pazy, President American Fnends of the Hebrew Uni-

versity Fred S.

Lafer, President

Stanley M. Bogen, Chairman Executive Committee

Robert A. Pearfman

Executive Vice President NATHAN FINK

of the University's Albert kmstein College of Medicine. The Finks established the Nathan and Vivian Fink Distinguished Professorial Chair in Talmud and the Nathan and Vivian Fink Kollel Fellowship at RIETS, where he was an honorary trustee. We extend heartfelt condolences to all members of the bereaved family. May they be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Dr. Norman Lamm, President Yeshiva University Hon. Herbert Tenzer, Chairman Board of Trustees Judah Feinerman, Chairman Board of Trustees Rabbi Isaac Elchanan, Theological Seminary Burton P. Resnick, Chairperson Board of Overseers Albert Einstein College of Medicine ROBERT I. LIFTIN Temple of Israel of New Rochelle records with sorrow the death of its cherished member and extends its heartfelt sympathy to the family Bernard Wasko, President Amiel Wohl, Flabbi

RABBI ARTHUR NEULANDER

The Yeshiva University Family mourns with sorrow the passing of a beloved We record with profound sorrow the friend and supporter who, with his late passing of our beloved colleague and wife, Vivian, and through the Nathan extend our heartfelt condolences to and Vivian Fink Philanthropic Fund, his family and to all who were blessed was a Guardian of the University and by his fellowship and ministry, its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Flabbi Kassel Abelson. President Theological Seminary and a Founder Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, Exec VP January 13,1988 Page National 14

Dr. Bern Dibner succumbs at 90

WILTON, Cor.n, —- Death at age 90 came to Dr. Bern Dibner. He founded the Burndy Engineering Co. in Norwalk and held 24 patents for electrical conductors. His interest in the history of science led him to assemble two major collections of source material, which are now the Dibner Library on the History of Science and Technology at

the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and the Burndy Library in Norwalk. Last year a consortium of five academic institutions established the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology-

Rabbi Neulander dies in New York NEW YORK — Rabbi Arthur H. Neulander, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Dorchay Noam, Far Rockaway, died. He had served Congregation Shaare Zedek. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Grace Goodfriend Neulander; four daughters, 12 grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, a brother and five sisters. Roswell Messing dies in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS — Roswell (Bud) Messing Jr., board chairman and chief executive officer of the World Color Press, died after a long illness at the age of 72. He had a lifetime appointment to the board of curators of the University of Missouri, and numerous benefactions bore the Messing name. His grandfather was Rabbi Henry J. Messing, who served the United Hebrew Congregation here, where the Messing family was active.

Short takes

A total of 25 Jewish cadets, two women and 23 men, were commissioned as officers at the three U.S. service academies this year.

Israelis visiting Egypt in the first quarter of 1987 rose from 7,100 last year to 9,400.

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Pulpit changes Rabbi Joshua Chasan is serving Congregation Shomrei Emunah, Montclair, N.J....The occupant of the pulpit of Temple Beth Sholom, Park Ridge, N.J., is Rabbi Michael Goldstein...Rabbi Howard Handler is at the Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Ave., New York City...Rabbi Evan Jaffe serves the Flemington Jewish Community Center, Flemington, N.J. ...The pulpit of First Hebrew Congregation, Peekskill, N.Y., is being filled by Rabbi Gary Karlin...Rabbi Kenneth Katz serves the United Synagogue of Hoboken, N.J. Quotation of the week

It is interesting that both governments seem blind to the forces of history. Israel, tragically, will be brought down by its own arrogance if it is not able to understand that it cannot forever live by the sword. It is not heeding the message of its own prophetic tradition. While they did not preach pacifism, they did preach peace. While they understood the necessity for self-defense, they also understood that societies cannot endure if they do not build upon a spiritual foundation. Of all the nations of this earth, it is Israel most of all that will only survive as Israel if it has a soul. Without the soul there is no body, without the spirit there is no people of Israel. What frightens me most when I see young Israeli soldiers fighting in the streets of East Jerusalem and members of the Knesset proclaiming unity against the "Arab mobs," is that Israel is losing its soul. We did not create Israel to live in eternal strife. We did not pour decades of emotional energy into Israel to watch it adopt the values of Saul rather than the values of Isaiah. Those of us who are indeed lovers of Israel, who have done everything within our power to be its steadfast strength and support for so long dare not be silent, else we will have stood silently by and will have witnessed one of the greatest tragedies in our own history if not all of human history. Israel must find a way — not with guns, but with diplomacy, not with power but with vision. In two decades I have not heard one constructive and realistic solution to the refugee problem emanating from the government of Israel. It is time. In fact, it is very late. No more threats, no more bluster, no more ri£id proclamations. It is time for Israel to be Israel — to once again do the impossible, find a permanent and peaceful solution to the Palestinian refugee problem. Unless Israel finds a way to extend a hand rather than a gun, this generation who never knew Joseph will always hate. That hate will consume everyone. There will be no winner. The time is here. The time is now. — Rabbi Alan D. Fuchs, Isaac M. Wise Temple, Cincinnati.

To your health

By ADELYN RAICH Don't waste (Bal Tashit) is one of the 613 mitzvot (commandments) that Jews are supposed to perform. That mitzvah is the basis of the recycling movement in America. There was a time when almost nothing was wasted — our parents saved string in balls, and we returned bottles to get mo vie money. We saved newspapers for the Scouts for the War Effort (World War II, that is). And it wasn't just Jews who observed Bal Tashit. More recently, sadly, one of the ways people try to make themselves feel important is to discard and throw away from their cars everything that they can, and now that we have becomca throw-away society, we are beginning to drown in our own discards and waste.

as the story of the poor garbage ship told usa few months ago. The poor garbage ship (with no toxic waste on it) went from port to port for weeks, and everyone turned it away. It finally found a resting place after all its travails. And now sea birds are found with their bills trapped in the rings of six-pack holders. With a little effort and a little brain power we can advance from a throw-away society into a recycle society. Such a society would save energy and resources and slow down the rate at which we fill our city dumps, our landfills—all of which are fast dwindling in supply for our world. That is, unless we would prefer to drown in our awn waste and trash.