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enee Part la net te he eanridared as daih| the views axpreased by
writers. DEADLINE is S ML, RIDAT, bat material received earlier
will hare a mach better ehanee of psblleatlon.
— Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Gustav Oppenheimer, Sylvia Kletzky, Karen Hurtig,
Kathleen Nease, Jennie Loeb
Member
Press Association
American Jewish
RABBIS AND WIVES
The importance of marriage in the Jewish faith and tl
general prevalence of early marriage in our society was dr^
matically demonstrated by the graduating class of the Jev
ish Theological Seminary of America. In the Rabbinic
School alone, 65% of the 38 new rabbis are married. This]
but one of a number of distinctive factors emanating frc
the Seminary's largest graduating body in its 73 years histoj
Nine of the disproportionate number of married rabf
chose their mates from the institution’s Teachers Institi
All 18 were graduated together. Two of the graduates wl
sisters; another the daughter and a fourth the son of disfi-
guished rabbis. Rabbi Isaac Klein of Buffalo, New York, ‘
self a former graduate of the Seminary, shared graduafcn
honors with .one of his daughters and with the husbancfof
another daughter, by being awarded the honorary degref of
Doctor of Divinity Rabbi Elias Charry of Philadelphia-
other former Seminary graduate, offered the Commace-
ment benediction and later watched his son and daugjer-
in-law receive their degrees. '
Still another example of precedent-setting was thebro-
portionately large number of new rabbis to assume faulty
status. Rabbi Jacob Neusner of Hartford, Conn., for example,
will serve as Instructor of Religion at Columbia Unit
Two other rabbis, Neil Gillman of Quebec and Eugene
er of New York City have joined the Seminary facul
The record breaking 1960 graduating class, morefthan
just a coincidence, reflects the Seminary r s relentless fforts
towards growth.
—GUEST EDITC
•thodox Leader Calls for
evitalization" of Jewish Life
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Challenge to English-Jewish Press
. . . The English-Jewish weekly has a definite opportunfty and,
if it hopes to grow and prosper, a definite responsibility, m pur
pose and mission is to inform and educate the readers—MJ every
age—who constitute what is commonly referred to as its circula
tion’ family. It must work, to the end that the household if reaches
will look forward to it each week ... In a wider field, n<ws from
the far-flung areas of the world, that is, happenings carwing en
lightening information to people of the Jewish faith, hpre scant
treatment in the daily press and far less even from radii or tele
vision commentators . . . Conrynunity-wise, the Jewish wakly . . .
must prove by coverage and sympathetic encouragement that it
plays an outstanding role in the total program of activities . . .
Editorially, it must be fearless critic, counselor, perhaps, a] times . .
JACQUES BACK, The Observer, Nashvile, Tenn.
Sunday Laws
It would seem an axiom that in a 20th-century demotracy com
mitted to freedom of conscience, religious obligations should not be
enforced by agencies of government Certainly, the United States,
whose Bill of Bights begins with the majestic command that Con
gress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion
or prohibiting its free exercise—a command that the U.S. Supreme
Court has held equally binding upon the States—should be the last
place one would expect to find widespread disregard of this axiom.
For the twofold command of the First Amendment is basted upon a
twofold principle, both aspects of which are violated when govern
ment seeks to enforce religious obligations. The first aspect is that
religious affairs are beyond the competence and jurisdiction of the
secular state, and therefore no law may be made respecting the
establishment of a religion. The second, that religion must always
be voluntary; therefore, no law may be made prohibiting its free
exercise or nonexercise ... I submit that a fair, objective considera
tion of all the evidence, contemporary as well as historical, leads
to one answer: Sunday laws are religious laws, and as religious laws
they have no place in a democracy committed to religious freedom
and the separation of church and state.
DR. UO PFKFFKR, Liberty, Washington, D.C.
“Zionists—Halt the Retreat!”
The time is long overdue for Zionists to take the offensive in
hurling back all the slurs, charges and innuendos that are being
levelled Against them from anti-Zionist sources. Even well-mean
ing noo-Zionists have become dupes of the propaganda being dis
seminated about the movement. On the one hand Zionism is being
pronounced as dormant and dead and in the same breath Zionists
are cfcMSQd wjth dominating every phase of Jewish life, of con
trolling the distribution ft all philanthropic funds and Of having
penetrated every nook and earner of our community. Their control
even extends to the U.S. Congress, it is further charged. At the
same tone, tha .bogey Of dual loyalty is being kept alive, with many
pf our people falling for this nonsenses. Instead of Zionists standing
their ground and fighting with all thair might against their ma
ligners, we see Staton on the retreat on all fronts, surrendering
its potations and making compromises in a futile attempt to appear
its detractors . Unless we Zionists call • halt to our retreat and
mount.an offensive . *»'•. we will be forced to beat further retreats
to an extent where we ourselves will be guilty of deluding an ideal
which spells the very survival of our community and the future
■ EENKST B. BAEBAEA8H, The Amariaan Zlesdta
AGATHE DES MONTS.
(JTA) — Rabbi Emanuel
ckman, president of the Rab-
ncal Council of America, told
25th annual convention of
e Orthodox body here Tuesday
at there must be “a revitaliza-
ion of Jewish life in the United
tates and Israel.” He said “It
i highly deplorable that Israel
and American-Jewish youth are
more concerned with the attain
ment of physical happiness and
pleasure than the rendition of
much-needed assistance to the
community in terms of teaching,
chaplaincy service and the set
ting up of schools of learning in
remote areas.”
Rabbi Rackman appealed to
graduates of Yeshivoth, schools
of Jewish education, and rab
binic seminaries to “forsake New
York and Tel Aviv as their first
occupational goal and to gravi
tate to those obscure and out-
of-way citlfes and villages, both
in the United States and in Is
rael, which are in desperate
need of the pioneering zeal of
men of intellectual stature. Their
sacrificial part in the vitally
necessary task of Torah-building
in these Jewishly desolate spots
will be most helpful in assuring
the growth and progress and
development of Jewry through
out the world.”
Rabbi Rackman urged Israeli
youth “to rededicate itself to
the principle of Torah and his-
toric-Judaism. This youth,” he
Boy Scouts Present Jubilee
Plaque to Synagogue Council
BOV SCOUTS (V AMERICA awarded tha Synagogae Council of
America (SCA) lu Cold— JiUee plaque laat we—“for aignificxnt
aerriee to American boyhood through •coating.” The Synagogoo
Council has sponsored for many years tha Ner Xamld Award Program
for Jewish boy scouts in the nation's synagogues. Rabbi Harry Lasker
(left). National Director of Jewish Relationships of Boy Scouts of
America, Is shown above presenting the plaque to Rabbi Max D.
Davidson, SCA President. Participating in award ceremonies were
Rabbi Norm— Sstlh (second from left)T past SCA President and SCA
Boy Scoot Commission Oislnuaa, and (right) Rabbi Mare H. Tancn-
baum, SCA Executive Director. The Synagogue Connell is the national
coordinating agency for Central Conference of American Rabbis,
Rabbinical Assembly of America, Rabbinical Council of America,
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Uni— of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations, and United Synagogue of America.
A.D.L. Urges ‘Frank Discussion 9 on
Bigotry in Election Campaign
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith has urged the nation to undertake “frank discussion of the
injection of bigotry” into the 1960 election campaign. Making pub
lic a study of anti-Catholic extremist utterances in the Presidential
primaries, the ADL noted that there has been a “distressing amount
of bigoted expression about a Catholic in the White House.”
The report was presented by Henry Edward Schulty, national
chairman of the League, to the organization’s national executive
committee meeting at the Hotel Savoy Hilton. The study was made
under the supervision of Arnold Forster, general counsel and
League civil rights director.
Mr. Schultz asserted that “while the discussion so far has turned
on the qualifications of a Catholic for President,” it should instead
be centered on “why religion is an issue at all in face of the Con
stitutional stricture barring religion as a test for office. The League’s
report found that anti-Catholic extremists today were circulating
petitions on a large scale demanding of both Republican and Demo
cratic national conventions that they nominate no Catholics for
President or Vice President.
The League also published last week a companion study on the
history of prejudice in politics written by Charles P. Taft, former
Mayor of Cincinnati and one-time president of the National Council
of Churches, who warned the American people to take steps to
check the growth oi religious bias in the coming election campaigns.
said, “will then be a model for
all other youthful Jewish group
ings in the United States and
elsewhere. We must help to
bring the people of Israel back
to the commitment and program
of Torah.”
Rabbi Rackman said it was
urgent that President Eisen
hower summon a “moral mobil
ization conference of leading
American ’ educatiors, philoso
phers and religious leaders for
the purpose of awakening the
American public to the dangers
confronting the United States
on a universal scale.”
Reform Rabbis Told
Red Disavowal of
Bias Fraud, Lie*
DETROIT, (JTA)—Rabbi Max
Schenk, spiritual leader of Con
gregation Shaarei Zedek of
Brooklyn, charged here this
week that the elimination of
discrimination and anti-Semitism
in the Soviet Union/“so blatantly
proclaimed by the revolution,
and written into the USSR con
stitution, is a fraud and a lie.”
Reporting on his recent* trip
to the Soviet Union, at a special
symposium of the 71st annual
convention of the Central Con
ference of American Rabbis,
here, Rabbi Schenk said that
“anti-Semitic remarks are no
longer punished and anti-Semit
ism is rife.” He told the Reform
rabbis that there was only one
synagogue in Moscow, and three
small prayer rooms, for 500,000
Jews. “Kiev and Leningrad each
have one synagogue for some
300,000 Jews in each city,” Rabbi
Schenik asserted.
Dr. Nelson Glueck, president
of the Hebrew Union College-
Je wish Institute of Religion,
warned the rabbis against per
mitting the “getting and giving
of money” to become the major
premise in community life. Dr.
Glueck said there was a burn
ing desire among Jews “for in-
tellectual reJudaization, to
know why they are and should
remain Jews, and how they and
their children can find In Juda
ism the spiritual strength that
all human beings so elementally
require.’’
The conference reelected Rab
bi Bernard J. Bamberger, of
New York, as president, and
elected Rabbi Albert G. Minda,
of Minneapolis, as vice-presi
dent
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