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Orthodox Say Rabbis Too Busy
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Moscow Sabbath
(Copywrigtit—1966—Jimmy Wisch)
The caretaker was checking the doors before closing the
Main Synagogue in Moscow following Sabbath evening services.
A few worshippers lingered after Chief Rabbi Yehuda Lieb
Levin disappeared. The cantor had vanished quickly. The Gabbai,
who administered the routine of the congregation had left, too.
“You have weddings in Texas?” asked an old Jewish man.
“Yes. We have many weddings. We also have Bar Mitzvah
and Bat Mitzvah. We have Bris (circumcision) services, too.”
He shook his head from side to side as if he was watching
someone from another planet tell him tall stories about unbe-
lievable happenings.
“Do you have many weddings here?”
“Some.”
“And Bar Mitzvah?”
“A few.”
“But where are the youth? Where are your young people?”
Another congregant, about seventy-five, said, “I read about
your America: Where do your young go. I read there’s a lot
of intermarriage in the United States. Is it true?”
“There is some intermarriage. That is true. But we still have
our majority marry in the faith.”
“And where do your young wind up?” asked another. “They
fall into the same assimilationist patterns that we do. It is hap-
pening all over. Even in Israel. Here, maybe it happened faster.”
“Our- young go to Hebrew School. They go to Sunday School
where they learn about their religion and about their people.
They learn much about Judaism besides its customs. Perhaps
some do leave for a while during their college years. But many
return. When the children come they seek to give them a Jewish
education. That is important.”
Two oldsters said nothing. They looked and nodded their
heads slowly.
“What happened in Chicago and Mississippi? Is it true that
they kill the colored people?”
“Some colored people have been killed by fanatics. That
is true. But a very small part. Many colored people have cars
and own their homes.”
“But I read in the paper,” ventured one, “that colored peo-
ple can’t find jobs in Chicago and they catn’t find a place to live.”
Continued on Pace 4
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ETERNAL MONUMENT /A/ THE ETERNAL CITY
(Tb ihe dedication of Hto Truman Confer
for Hie Mmcemont of face injerusHetn)
Overburdened
Rabbinate
Peace Center Honoring Former
Is Weakened
Traditional
Functions Losi
In Array Of Duties
Exclusive WNS Report
FALLS BURG, N. Y. (WNS)—
An appeal to Orthodox synagogue
leaders to revise their views of
the role of the Rabbi in American
Jewish life, or else face the stark
reality of losing many potential,
spiytual leaders to the professions
and business enterprises, was
sounded here at the annual con-
vention of the Rabbinical Council
of America.
ADDRESSING THE convention
after he was elected president of
the organization as successor to
Rabbi Israel Miller, Rabbi Pesach
Z. I.evovitz told the parley that the
current dearth of Rabbis was due
to the fact that many of the or-
dained young men leaving the
veshivoth turn'away from the rab-
binate, becoming either business-
men, professional or government
employees.
HE SAID there were still many
idealistic young ordained men who
President Dedicated Monday
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The news that former Presi-
dent Harry S. Truman has canceled plans to come to
Jerusalem Monday was received here with “deep
regret but with understanding.” The former President
had been scheduled to attend ground-breaking cere-
monies for the Truman Center for Peace at the Hebrew
University.
Although Hebrew University officials were reported
as deeply regretting Mr. Truman’s change of plans,
dictated’by concern over the possible effects of the
lengthy journey on a man of 82, they said the ceremony
would proceed as scheduled.
In New York, Samuel Rothberg, head of the Ameri-
can section of the International Committee for the Cen-
ter, said: “We are deeply the noble structure which
grieved by Mr. Truman’s wm bear his name but we
inability to participate in maist respect his desire
the ground - breaking of that we go ahead.”
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AMERICANS AT DEDICATION
OF ISRAEL'S JFK MEMORIAL
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Chief Justice Earl Warren of the
United States and Prime Minister Levi Eshkol dedicated last
week the John F. Kennedy Memorial in the Judean Hills before
an assemblage of 2,000 persons.
Hundreds of visitors from the United States attended the
ceremony under a broiling sun, as did Israeli Ministers, Chief
Rabbi Iser Yehuda Untermann and many other leading person-
alities. The memdrial and the surrounding John F. Kennedy
Forest are gifts of the American Jewish community and created
by the Jewish National Fund. The idea was conceived by the
late Max Bressler of Chicago, president of the American JNF,
who died last year.
Addressing the audience. Chief Justice Warren said: “We
choose to do this on the American Independence Day but also
in honor of the independence of Israel arid other free nations.
We are all confronted here by history because this is the birth-
place of the world’s three religions on which our own civiliza-
tion is based and which contributed the all-important principle
that all people are God’s children and entitled to live in peace.”
Justice Warren recalled the late President’s conviction that
what Israel wanted above everything else,was to live in peace.
CoatUioMi on Pace
could be blessing to American
Jewry, but that .they have been di-
verted from that path not alone
by the lure of business and pro-
fessions but because of the fact
that the rabbinate in recent years
has taken on a character lacking
in spiritual satisfaction.
THE RABBI today, he said, is
burdened with an array of duties
that have nothing to do with the
traditional functions of a Rabbi.
Apart from serving as spiritual
leader, he said, the Rabbi today is
a fund raiser, a public relations
officer and an administrator, func-
tions which deprive him from pay-
ing the needed atttntion to more
germaine matters.
RABBI LEVOVITZ told the 600
convention delegates that if R|b-
bis are not afforded material Se-
curity and spiritual satisfaction it
could hardly be expected of young
men with excellent opportunities
in other fields to choose the rab-
binate. If this trend continues, he
cautioned, the entire religious
structure of the American Jewish
community may be jeopardized.
A highlight of the convention
was disclosure that the Rabbini-
cal Council of America was to es-
tablish in Israel a $3,000,000 re-
search center for American Rab-
bis, to be called the Rabbinical
Council Center.
3 Jews Barred
By Syria, Jordan
NEW YORK (JTA)—Syria and
Jordan have barred three Amer-
ican Jews scheduled to visit there
as members of a trade union
group.
A spokesman disclosed that the
Arab governments had fefused
visas to the Jewish members.
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