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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, October 7, |%»
Blumberg Elected
By Underwriters
W A S H I N G TON—David M
Blumberg of Knoxville, Tenn.,
national chairman of the B'nai
B’rith Youth Commission and a
member of its board of gover
nors, has been elected secretary
of the National Association of
Life Underwriters at the organ
ization’s annual meeting here.
A member of the board of
trustees of the Association for
the past three years, Mr. Blum
berg moves to a post which tra
ditionally leads to the presi
dency of the 78,000-member
trade organization, the largest
and oldest life insurance group
in the world.
Mr. Blumberg has been na
tional chairman of the B’nai
B’rith Youth Commission since
1950—succeeding Label A. Katz,
president of B’nai B’rith.
PLAIN TALK-By Alfred Sejral
Couple of Preachers
One of these two was a rabbi
. . . the other a Christian minis
ter (a Congregationalist) . . .
both of Newport, HI., long
ago before the American
Revolution. They have just been
re discovered as a notable pair
of clergymen who respected each
other deeply and walked to
gether. though on their respec
tive Sabbaths they were at dif
ferent altars. Both their hearts
seem to have understood that,
after all, they were of One God,
and as a couple of His sons they
could be as one, you might say,
in the brotherhood
It’s Dr Jacob R. Marcus who
tells me about them; he’s the
one who has found them after
their being buried more than
200 years. He has set them up
memorially in the American
Jewish Archives on the Cincin
nati campus of the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion of which Dr Marcus-
is the director
In the Archives he treasures
a lot of American Jewish history
for which he goes hunting right
along. So. recently, he discover
ed the brotherliness between an
itinerant rabbi, Haim Isaac Cari
gal and the Rev. Ezra Stiles who
was of the Congregati onal
church of Newport, R. I. (He
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was later to be president of
Yale).
As a rabbi who in behalf of
God went here and there, Haim
Isaac Carigal had come to New
port early in the 1770’s. Dr Mar
cus goes on to report the bro
therly goings-on between Cari
gal and Stiles. Rabbi Carigal’s
language was Hebrew and the
Rev. Stiles could also speak it
Dr Marcus goes on to report the
fraternal connection between
Carigal and Stiles.
Says Dr. Marcus: “Sympathe
tic to Jews and Judaism, Stilts
was a frequent visitor to New
port’s elegant little synagogue.
An avid student of the Bible he
was always anxious to improve
his knowledge of Hebrew, and
when he was informed . . .
shortly before Purim in the
year 1773 . . of the arrival of
‘a Hebrew rabbi from the Holy
Land,” he determined to make
•the newcomer’s acquaintance.
Stiles attended the synagogue on
the eve of Purim.”
Yes, there by the synagogue’s
lectern was standing a large
man clad in costume such as no
body in Newport ever had seen
there before . . “He seemed
about 45 years old,” says Dr
Marcus, “wore a high fur cap,
had a long beard, neat and well-
dressed in the Turkish habit
Haim Isaac Carigal had been
born at Hebron, Palestine, had
been traveling extensively in
the Near East, Europe and the
West End ”
Thus began the friendship be
tween the rabbi out of Palestine
and the Congregationalist min
ister of Newport, R.I. Into the
American Jewish Archives, Dr.
Marcus has gathered copies of
the Hebrew correspondence be
tween them and portion of the
Stiles diary in which the Rev.
Stiles tells of his association
with the rabbi
After the services, Stiles re
ports in his diary he and the
rabbi engaged in Hebrew and
Arabic conversation . . “We
conversed much freely. He is
learned and truly modest, far
more than I ever saw a Jew.”
(By reason of Stiles’ latter re
mark, Dr Marcus observes,
“You see, with all his pro-Jew-
ish sympathies, Stiles was not
above condescension ”
Well, the Rev Stiles, was with
Rabbi Carigal in the Newport
synagogue also on Pesach and on
Shevuoth, too In his diary Stiles
reports on the rabbi “behaving
modestly and reverently” . . .
and “with dignity and authority”
on those holiday occasions.
Then on Sunday, June 27,
1773, the rabbi felt he should De
attending service in the Rev.
Stiles' church in appreciation of
the high brotherly courtesy Mr.
Stiles had expressed by attend
ance in the synagogue three
times ... on Purim, on Pesach,
on Shevuoth.”
He addressed the Congrega
tionalist with loving thanks:
"Your love had made such an
indelible impression upon the in
most thoughts and affections of
my heart that volumes of books
are not sufficient to write the
thousandth part of the eternal
love wherewith I love thee.’ And
the Rev. Stiles records in his
diary that Rabbi Carigal also
said “he wished well to others
besides his own nation, be loved
all mankind, and turned me to
Leviticus xix 18 “Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself’ ”
Well, the rabbi went on from
Newport to Surinam in Dutch
Guiana, and from there on to
Barbados'where he died in 1777
The rabbi and the Christian
clergyman kept on correspond
ing . in all the brotherliness o'
Lord Reading Dies;
Was Active in
Jewish Affairs
LONDON, (JTA ) Gerald
Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading, a
former Minister of State and
active in Jewish affairs, died
while on vacation in Rhodes
last week at the age of 71.
The son of the First Marquis
of Reading, who was Viceroy of
India and British Lord Chief
Justice, the Second Lord Read
ing was Undersecretary of State
for Foreign Affairs from 1951
to 1953 when he was named
Minister of State in the Conser
vative Government. He remain
ed in this post until 1957
Lord Reading was a former
president of the Jewish Colon
ization Association and had
served as chairman of the Coun
cil for German Jewry in 1938-
39. He was a member of the
Council of the Weizmann Insti
tute Foundation and a director
of the Palestine Electric Corpo
ration.
a couple of different religionists
who understood that, after all,
they were of the same Father
One letter of Stiles to Carigal
was 29 pages long, in Hebrew
After having been buried,
Rabbi Carigal kept on living, you
might say, at Yale University
The Rev Stiles, who had become
Yale’s president, caused a por
trait of the rabbi to be set up in
the Yale library
And still more: Rabbi Carigal
also is spiritually and intellectu
ally living m the American Jew
ish Archives of the Hebrew
Union College at Cincinnati: That
it to say he is preaching there
the essence of being Jewish in
the sense of knowing that we’re
all brothers, regardless of altai
and of thi- colors of our far es Or,
as Rabbi Carigal quoted from
Leviticus to his friend, the Rev.
Stiles: “Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself."
And thanks to Dr. Marcus lor
showing me into his Archives.
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