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The title of this column is de
ceptive, a semantic illusion, for
what follows is not a story about
a square or squares. The square-
town we have in mind is not in
tended to conjure up idle talk
but learning and piety. Moreover,
the name of the town has noth
ing to do with squares as we un
derstand the word or as any
standard dictionary defines it.
Our square town derives from
hassidic sources or rather from a
hassidic geaa segment — the
Squarer Hassidim.
The Squarer hassidim of our
story for years lived in Williams
burg, Brooklyn', abode of the an
gels without wings, as the resi
dents of that quaint area have
been called. But times change,
and change apparently has now
caught up with Williamsburg
too, or at least with some of the
Squarer hassidim. Williamsburg
once was their bastion against
strange winds. Now they have
come to fear outside contamina
tion and the dehumanizing cli
mate that is wafted in from the
evil environs.
To defeat the impact of mod
ernism on their children, the
Squarer hassidim in 1954 opened
a colony in Ramapo, Rockland
County and named it New
Square. But as time passed the
hassidim realized that the colony
was no panacea and they decided
to change its status to a village,
which would give them wider
latitude in self-rule and adoption
of ordinances designed to main
tain the religious facade of its
residents. But Ramapo’s officials
would inconvenience other resi
dents in the area. The hassidic
colonists claim that they are en
titled to a village status precise
ly because it would enable them
to pass Sabbath laws to protect
the unique character of their
community. Buttressing their
claim to a village status, they
point to precedence in New
Jersey, where two villages be
longing to Methodist groups have
been allowed to ban Sujiday
traffic, entertainment and other
Sunday desecrations. Basically,
it is the contention of the hassi
dim that they have a right to live
as they please individually and
as a communal group without
hindrance from the outside. The
opponents, they say, are throw
ing obstacles in their way for a
variety of reasons, not the least
of which, it is claimed, is the
property motivation.
Several of the opponents,
among them Jews who noted
they could not possibly be ac
cused of anti-Semitism, said for
mation of the village would con
stitute a ghetto in their midst.
But this description of the pro
ject is violently rejected by the
hassidic colonists, who contend
that the motivation behind their
isolation is not ghettoism, but
determination to safeguard their
children from sin, juvenile delin
quency, from the pitfalls of city
BARNEY GLAZER’S
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — What
certain Jewish musical composer
has b e e.n phoning my Los
Angeles publisher to protest my
prediction that Ernest Gold will
win an Oscar, for his “Exodus”
score? He feels he’ll be the win
ner for any one of the three
films he scored during 1960 . . .
Second to the plush Cocoanut
Grove, the best show in town
is at Ben Blue’s Supper Club,
Santa Monica . . Quoting some
Ben Blueisms:
“Next Sunday is Mother’s Day.
Any lady wishing to become a
mother is cordially invited” . . .
“I had a terrible accident on the
freeway. I was watching televi
sion in my car and when the
commercial came on I stepped
out to go to the kitchen” . . “I’ve
been married 20 years and it
seems like yesterday. You know
what a terrible day it was yes
terday” . . . “I’d like to intro
duce Miss Antoinette DuBoisse.
She’s here with her mother, Mrs.
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beautiful, shapely, has an un
usual singing voice, and is lucky,
enough to get some of the most
expensive musical arrangments
for free. Her dad is the famous
arranger, Gerry Dolin, my
friendly Jewish neighbor here in
Sherman Oaks.
Director Joseph Pevney will
play a walkon in his own film,
“Portrait of a Mobster.” He is
also staging a nightclub act for
Mitzi Green, his missus. Joe di
rected Mitzi in the Broadway
musical “Let Freedom Ring.”
Fanny Brice’s daughter, Fran, is
excited about an outside chance
that Mitzi will star in a Broad
way musical based on the life
of her late famous mother. What
ever happened to that movie
Hollywood never made about
Fanny’s career? . . . Jack Krus-
chen, for his medic role in “The
Apartment” is the only male
supporting actor who made all
three of the possibility lists in
the Times, Mirror & Reporter.
Jill St. John will play the role
of “Barbara” in “The Roman
Spring of Mrs. Stone” . . . Mike
Landon is the fastest gun draw
in “Bonanza.” Remember, Mike,
no shooting on the Shabbos! . . .
Leonard Lyons, who wastes no
affection on Walter Winehell,
says that Joan Winehell, of the
L A Times, is the only Winehell
who ever sat on his lap.
Billy Glason defines a stereo
set: "It’s where a man’s wife
hollers at him from one side of
the room and his mother-in-law
hollers the same thing from the
other side.”
Milton Berle was very funny
introducing young Paul Anka,
the Canadian-Syrian, at the Co
coanut Grove. Typical Berllsms:
"George Jessel couldn’t make it
tonight. He had to go to Israel
to explain Sammy Davis, Jr.” . .
“Oscar Levant couldn’t come
either. He was suddenly taken
well.”
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B’rith Shalom
Chattanooga Sisterhood
To Receive Charter
Mrs. Ruth Kahn of our South
ern Israelite staff will present to
the Sisterhood of Congregation
B’rith Shalom of Chattanooga on
life and from the temptations
facing the young in the city who
wish to walk in the religious
path of their elders. If there is a
ghetto, said one of the hassidim,
it is Williamsburg.
What will happen now to the
530 souls, including 250 children,
who left crowded Williamsburg
for the wide open spaces of Rock
land County? Ask the hassidim
and they say their will will, with
God’s help, prevail.
But the matter now is in other
hands — before the New York
State Supreme Court. The pious
have prayed fervently for a fa
vorable decision. But if they are
rebuffed they will prayerfully
knock on the doors of courts of
higher jurisdiction. The hassidim
neither concede nor envision de
feat, but should it come, one has-
sid told this writer, they will,
with God’s help, finish what they
had undertaken, “for there is no
returning to Williamsbjirg, a
ghetto gutted with conflicts.
‘‘What we want,” he added, “is
an environment that harmonizes
with and reflects our religious
outlook, one that is conductive
to the preservation of our way of
living in a community whose
mores we respect but cannot
share.”
March 15 their charter and form
al affiliation with the Woman*#
Branch of the Orthodox Union.
This will be the feature event of
a special luncheon meeting.
In hqr capacity as president of
the Southeast Region of Ortho
dox Women, an office she has
held for the past four years, Mrs.
Kahn will speak on sisterhood
fund raising functions at the
luncheon. She will meet in an
advisory capacity with the exec
utive board of the Sisterhood on
the evening of March 14.
Active in many communal or
ganizations, Mrs. Kahan is a
former president of the Sister
hood of Beth Jacob Congregation
and is the treasurer of the Ladies’
Auxiliary-JWV and a nominee
for the presidency of that organi
zation.
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