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THE
MESSAGE
sed of our people, but also
re-
to
STAFF
WILLIAM S. MALEV
JACK SEGAL
GEORGE WAGNER
DR. JOSHUA WEINSTEIN
BEN L. KATZ
MORRIS I. BELL
Rabbi
Associate Rabbi
Cantor
Ed. Dir.
Exec. Dir.
Message
The MESSAGE
of Congregation Beth Yeshurun
4525 Beechnut
Houston, Texas 77025 — MO 6-1881
President Harold Turboff
Vice President Joel Mandel
Vice President Milton Levit
Vice President Avrohm Wisenberg
Secretary-Treasurer Meyer I. Bell
Israel not only of
our time, of our
our hearts.
We look upon it, not only
EDITORIAL
FOR THE SAKE OF ISRAEL
We, at Beth Yeshurun, look upon the
State of Israel and its life as one of out
most important and deepest concerns.
We believe that we should contribute to
our funds, but also of
effort, and the love of
We set aside this “lechem oni” — this matzoh of oppression — to
remember the three million Jews of the Soviet Union. Most of them
cannot have matzoh on their Seder tables tonight. Conceive of Pass-
over without matzoh — without that visible reminder of our flight
from slavery.
Think of Soviet Jews! They cannot learn of their Jewish past
and hand it down to their children. They cannot learn the language
of their fathers and hand it down to their children. They cannot
teach their children to be their teachers, their rabbis.
They can only sit in silence and become invisible. We shall be
their voice, and our voices shall be joined by thousands of men of
conscience aroused by the injustice imposed on Soviet Jews. Then
shall they know that they have not been forgotten, and they that sit
in darkness shall yet see a great light.
Music Festival >..
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stage, radio, television and record
leases.
Cantor Sanders style of hazzanut
strongly reflects his Orthodox origin as
well as the marked influence of his
teacher, Moshe Ganchoff.
In addition, Pauline Stark, one of the
finest sopranos in this part of the country,
will sing a Hannah Senesch poem called,
“Ashrey Ha Gafrur” (Blessed is the
Match) and another selection from the
Psalms.
Sarah Hoff, leading Mezzo soprano
who has performed throughout the coun-
try in concerts will sing Leonard Bern-
stein’s Jeremiah Symphony.
Cantor Wagner and the Beth Yeshurun
Adult Choirs will introduce to Houston
a new work of compositions by one of
the leading Jewish composers, Abraham
Ellstein. It will be selections from his
Traditional Service.
Our Junior Choir will also sing a
“Shirey M’Gillot,” a song suite of Biblical
prayers.
This is part of the Artists’ Series and
the Annual Cantor’s Concert. Individua1
tickets may be obtained from the Betl
Yeshurun office if you have not pur-
chased the Artists’ Series. Part of the
proceeds will go to the Cantors Institute
of the Jewish Theological Seminary as
well as to further our Youth Activities
here at Beth Yeshurun.
We look upon it, not only as a haven
of refuge for the persecuted and oppres-
sed of our people, but also as a radiating
center of Jewish culture and civilization
for all the world. There the Hebrew
language is the spoken tongue, alive and
vital and dynamic. There Hebrew liter-
ature has had a rebirth, and more books
in Hebrew are being published there
than in all the rest of the world put to
gether. There Jewish music, the Jewish
dance, and the Jewish festivals have at-
tained to an excitement and a vitality
which have revolutionized Jewish life
everywhere in the Diaspora.
More especially, it has effected a re-
naissance in Jewish art. The Jewish artists
of Safed, which we visited on our tour
of Israel last Spring, have become recog-
nized by the world as an authentic ex
pression of the Jewish soul and its striv-
ing for a better world.
It is in order to help this effort, that
the Men’s Club of Beth Yeshurun, wit!
the assistance of the Houston Zionist
District, is sponsoring our Second Annua
Israel Art Exhibit beginning with Satur-
day night, 9pril 23rd through Saturday
night, May 7th.
We are going to get some of the out
standing artists of modern Israel to show
their paintings and their sculpture undei
the leadership of the Greenfield Gal-
leries of Tel Aviv and New York. We
shall also have other paintings by Amer-
ican artists.
There will also be several evenings of
entertainment of music and the dance
and the Houston Chapter of Hadassah is
going to share its regional convention
with us by having one of its most im-
The American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, an association of 24
national American Jewish organizations seeking the elimination of injustices
imposed upon Soviet Jewry, urges that the following statement be read at the
Seders of every American Jewish household:
MATZOH OF OPPRESSION
The leader of the service adds the following comments when distributing
the matzoh after the blessing over the matzoh. He lifts a matzoh, sets it aside
and says:
portant sessions in connection with out
exhibit, on Sunday evening, May 1st
when Eleazer Lipsky, one of the out-
standing Jewish leaders of our time wil
be the speaker and a cantata will be
rendered by the Houston Chapter.
The purposes of the exhibit are:
bring the art of Israel to Houston, to
interest our entire city in its artistic
achievement, and to get our fellow
citizens to bring some of this art into
their homes by purchasing some of these
paintings for their own private collec
tions. Thus, we shall also be giving
financial support to the artists of Israe1
and to the state as a whole.
The chairman of the Art Exhibit is
Dr. Marcus Levinson, who is the Na-
tional Vice President of the Zionist Or
ganization of America and he is assistec
by a committee of wonderful people.
RABBI WILLIAM S. MALEV
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Rabbi Malev to Rabbinical
Assembly Convention
In accordance with tradition, Rabbi
Malev will be attending the Annual
Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly
of America which will take place this
year in May in Toronto, Canada. Here,
the 800 member association of the Con-
servative Rabbis of the world will meet to
discuss their problems and to try to
reach decisions that will benefit Judaism
all over the world.
Rabbi Malev will be leaving for that
convention on Sunday, May 8th and will
be returning on Friday morning, May 20.
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