Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1959-03-20

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COLUMBUS EDITION
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COLUMBUS EDITION
VoL 37, No. 12
FRIDAY, MARCH 20,   1959
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Dwottd to Amarlcan and Jawlih   Idaali
United Jewish Fund Opens Drive With Tuesday Affair
Pictured aliove ore the four key persons in the current 1069 United .lewish Fund Campaign. Left to right: Cliaries Ooldsmltii, chaimuui ot 'Trades and Professions; Herbert S. Levy, presi¬
dent of the Fund; Abe L Yenldn,• general oam- paigai oliaimian; and Herman Katz, clialmuui of Advance Gifts.
New Marriage Counseling Service Set By Beth Din
NEW YORK—A new coopero- tive understonding between rab¬ binical scholars ond practicing psychiatrists has led to the estab¬ lishment of a marriage counsel¬ ling service under the auspices of the Beth Din (Jewish court) of The Jewish Theologicoi Seminory of Americo ond the Robbtaicol Assembly of America, it wos an¬ nounced jointly todoy by Dr. Louis Flnkelstein, Seminory chan¬ cellor. Dr. Isoac Klein, president of the Rabbtalcal Assembly and spiritual leader of Temple Eman¬ uel, Buffalo, N.Y., and Dr. Morti¬ mer Ostow, psychiatrist, who heads the department of pastoral psychiatry at the Seminary in Now York.
"The new marriage counselling service," according to Dr. Flnkel¬ stein, "will use the combined skills of the rabbinic scholar and the psychiatrist to resolve marital conflicts. This service, under the auspices of the Beth Din, will protect the Divine element whloh exists ta every true marriage," Dr. Flnkelstein continued, "and through the cooperation of skilled psychiatrists will enable the par¬ ties to the marriage to find ful¬ fillment within the contract they hove entered into before God and mon."
HERALDINO the new service. Dr. Klein asserted that many rab¬ bis in the community today are spending from one-third to one- half of their time giving advice on personol problems to individual members of their congregations.
"All of us believe," he continued, "ta, the sanctity of marriage— unfortunately the resources which we robbls possess to preserve that sanctity all too frequently are those which the troi^bled people involved in marital conflicts are unable to utilize."
Speaking of the psychiatric as pect of the new aervice, Dr. Os¬ tow sold, "The conscientious psy- chlotrlst who Is often called upon to mediate In marital problems will welcome the opportunity tO rdstrict his work to clinical study and recommendations, leaving the ethical Issues to the clergy. Tills will enable the clergyman to con¬ fine his efforts to fields In which he is competent, relying on tlis medical colleague to clarify olin- icol issues and motivational dy¬ namics."
FINALLY, Dr. Ostrow con¬ cluded, "From the completed and organized records of this new project, it will become possible to atudy problems of family discord
as such, and the most effective methods of dealing with them. The findings of such studies may encourage rabbinical scholors to re-evaluate and perhaps reformu¬ late current applications of tradi¬ tional teachings to lake account of our modern understandtag of the sources of some kinds of family difficulties.
"The records will serve also as a rich source of teaching material for the courses In pastoral psy¬ chology given at the Jewish Theo¬ logical Seminary."
IN OUTLINING the develop¬ ment of the new project. Dr. Flnkelstein praised the efforts of Dr. Kleta, a member of the Beth Din since its inception. In obtaln- tag acceptance of the new Ketubah, or marrloge contract adopted In 1964. ,
This change in the traditional marriage ogreement requires both bride ond groom to ocknowledge the authority of the Beth Din or Its representative to counsel them In the light of Jewish tradition. Dr, Ftakelstein characterized It as the flrat step In making pos¬ sible the new marriage counsel- Itag service.
DR. FINKELSTEIN also praised Dr. Ostow, who iioa work¬ ed since 1955 to bring about better understanding by both rabbis and
psychiatrists of the nature of their complementary roles In coses of human conflict. The department of pastoral psychlotry established under Dr. Ostow's direction at the Rabbtalcal School of the Seminary ta 1955, Dr. Flnkelstein hailed as the second decisive step toward the establishment of the new mar¬ riage   counselling   service.
Creating a curriculum for the new deportment required Dr. Os¬ tow ond the psychiotrlsts on his teaching staff to work closely with such rabbtalcal leaders as Rabbi Armond E. (Cohen, of the Park Synagogue, (Cleveland, chair¬ man of the Robbinicol Assembly (Commission on Marriage and the Family, and Rabbl Edward T. Sandrow, of Temple Beth El, (Cedarhurst, N.Y., vice president of the Rabbtalcal Assembly.
Out of this close cooperation grew the mutual respect for each other's functions. Dr. Flnkelstein asserted, which makes it possible for the two professional groups to combine their skills as they will In the marriage counselling service.
DR. FINKELSTEIN explained that the counselimg service which is betag launched at the Seminary is to be regarded as a pilot proj¬ ect.  Both  the  Seminary and  the
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OJF 'PACESETTERS' TO MEET TOESDAY; MAIN SPEAKER IS TOP UJA OFFICIAL
"Ring the Freedom Bell — With Your Gift". With this as their theme, the Pacesetters of the United Jewish Fund Wom¬ en's Division win hold their mini¬ mum affair at the home of Mrs. Aaron Zacks, 140 N. Porkview, on Tuesday at 12:30 p, m.
Mrs. Herbert Schlff, Pacesetter chairman, and her vice-chairman, Mrs. William Gllck, hove plonned a very interesting luncheon ond afternoon.
Speaker for the occasion will be Mrs. Jack A. (3oodman, of In¬ dianapolis, Ind., national choir¬ mon of the Women's Division of the UJA. Mrs. Goodmon, now serving os Natlonol Women's Di¬ vision choirmon of the UJA for tbe third successive year, has long been associated with the nationai campaigna of the UJA and other Jewish causes. She has helped to organize and coordlnote UJA fund-raising campaigns among women's groups In com¬ munities   throughout  the   United
States.
She is a former nationol vice president of Hodossoh, o post president of the Indlonopolls Jewish Welfore Federation and o recipient ot the Honor Award of the Indlanpolls (Community Cheat. In 1956 she was named In- dlanopolis "Woman of the Year" by B'nal B'rith. She has just been named a "Fellow" of Brandeia University.
Serving with Mrs. Sohiff and Mrs. Gllck: on the Luncheon (Committee, Mesdames Moe Glass- man, Leon Friedman, Sam Gure¬ vitz and Joseph Summer. Invita¬ tions and Reservations (Commit¬ tee Includes Mesdames Max Tennenbaum, Alan Topy, Hermon Kotz ond Harold Schiffman.
The Hostess Committee is com¬ prised of Mesdames Emil Wasser¬ strom, Samuel Melton and Her¬ bert Levy. Other members of the general committee are Mesdames Victor Ringer, William Schlff, J. D. Schecter and Ben Yenkin.
On Tueaday, the United Jewish Fund will officially open its 1959 campaign at the Winding Hollow Country (Club. This will be the dinner for the Advance Gifts Di¬ vision of tho l?^ind.
Abe Yenkin, gencrol compaign chairman, and Hermon Katz, Ad¬ vanced Gifts chairman, announce thot the number of reservotlons currently being received point to on outstanding affair. The top leadership in the Men's Division, Mr. Kotz declared, wjiose leoder¬ shlp is responsible for the succes of the offair, are all bending their efforts to obtain maximum attendance.
TWO WELL KNOWN speokera will be present to bring the cam¬ paign message to Columbus lead¬ ership that day; Albert A. ^vln, a national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, and Henry Levy, a country director for the American Jewish Joint Distribu¬ tion Committee.
Mr. Levin is one of America'a current dynamic Jowlsh leaders who has served as national chair¬ man of the United Jewish Appeal (or Regions and has been o mem¬ ber of its Notional Campaign Cabinet for several years. He is widely known throughout the country as a brilliant and forceful speaker, having visited vlrtuolly every leading community once to speak on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal. He has made sev¬ eral trips to larael and is an au¬ thority on the country, Its pepole and its problems.
Mr. Levy is country director for the Joint Distribution (Committee in Algeria. He is a dynamic speaker and brilliant administra¬ tor with a background of two de¬ codes of work of rescue ond re¬ habilitation of Jews in Europe and North Africa. He ployed an important role in helping to free retugeea from the Displaced Persons camps following World War II and directed the Joint Diatribution Committee's humani¬ tarian activities in Bulgaria and later in Czechioalovakia. He has just returned to the United States after an on-the-spot examination of the Rumanion Jewish immi¬ gration.
MB.. YENKIN stated that the 1959 compaign needs are great. Israel la faced with its greatest Immlgtatlon crisis since its found tag as a State a decade ago, he said. Some 8000 Jews are com¬ ing out of Eastern E ropean countries every month, J r. Yen¬ kin revealed, folowing the recent liberalization of emigration pro¬ cedures, by various Eost Euro- peon governments.
The largest Jewish community in Elastern Europe outside the Soviet Union is that of Rumonia, numbering 250,000 Jews. Polond has about 40,000 remaining Jews. The "gollont little democracy in the Near East may have to re¬ ceive and resettle at least 100,000 persons in 1969."
Mr. Levin
Mr.  Levy
He coupled his statements on Israel's new crisis with an an¬ nouncement that the United Jew¬ ish Fund was joining Jewish com¬ munities the nation over in the 1959 United Jewish Appeal to ralae the vast suras neded to save human lives and redeem them for uaefulness.
HE CALLED special attention to the United Jewish Appeal's $100 million Special Fund — an "over and obove" effort—to make possible the transfer and resettle¬ ment of 100,000 immigrants from Eastern Europe pouring into Is¬ rael, and, in addition to make a desperately needed effort to start rehousing thousands of earlier arrivals still living in makeshift huts.
He termed the new, driving pressure of Eastern European im¬ migration and the deploroble housing deloy "highly acute prob¬ lems." Thot, he sold, is why "our community must give obsolutely maximum support both to the UJA Special Fund and to our regular   campoign   in   behalf   of
the UJA."
Through these efforts, Mr. Yen¬ kin stated, American Jews will help meet the "llfe-servtng needs of more than 680,000 Jewish men, women and children In Israel and In 25 other countries. They all look to us — to the men, women and children In American com¬ munities — for the sinews of sal¬ vation!"
THE URGENTLY needed mi¬ gration, resettlement, rehabilita¬ tion, and welfare services carried out by UJA-ftaanced agencies ta¬ clude these major alms for 1959:
• Transfer and resettlement In Israel al Jews who are being al¬ lowed out of East European areas where they have been sealed off for years. They are arriving in Israel at a rate of some 8000 per- month, with a total of 100,000 ex¬ pected in 1959.
• To speed housing construc¬ tion so as to start movtag 110,000 earlier immigrants out of make¬ shift huts in Immigrant shanty towns. Many hove been living In suli-stondord temporory shelters for five ond six yeors.
• Help 130,000 immigront fami¬ lies In Israel's farm areas to achieve self-sufficiency by pro¬ viding farm machinery, irriga¬ tion, livestock ond power. These farmers are among 360,000 prev¬ ious newcomers who must be helped ta Israel, Including scores of thousands not yet fully ab¬ sorbed, and the orphaned, aged and handicapped.
• Help for 220,000 Jews in need in countries other than Israel - including 15,000 Jewish repatria¬ tes to Poland from the Soviet Union; more than 100,0(K) Jews In Moslem lands, the majority of them children, and thousonds of Jewish refugees from North Afrlco, Egypt ond Hungary sUll waiting In European reception points for permajient havens.
• Provide welftu-e ond adjust services for some 43000 new¬ comers expected to settle in the New   York   metropolitan   area.
MR. YENKIN further pointed out that although the dramatic overwhelmtag needs In this year's compolgn are for overseas, our community must also be fully aware of its responsibility to rolae adequate funds for many of Its local and nationai beneficiary agencies which look to us for major support. It Is through these agencies that Columbus Is able to build a strong Jewish community.
The Advanced Gifts Division, which carries the responsibility for raising the bulk of funds ta addition to its chairman, Herman Katz, has ossocioted with it the following ossociate chairmen: Mark D. Feinknopf, Leon Schot¬ tenstein, Allen Schulman, Robert Weiler and Jack Wolman, along with top leodership from the Compaign.
This year's goal is $816,950, for the Regulor Fund and $240,- 000 for the United Jewish Appeal.
INSTITUTE EXTENDED The Institute of Jevirish Stud¬ ies will be extended through Wednesday, March 26, to malio up for clasHes cancelled due to the  recent flood.
NAIHED  DIRECTOR
NEW YORK (JTA) -The Jew¬ ish Agency announced the ap¬ pointment this week of Isadore Hamlin to the newly created post of administrative director.
Shown with the novel theme of "Ringing the Freedom Bell" are Mesdames William Olioli and Herbert Sohiff, headtag up the pacesetters portion of the UJF Women's Division.
I   IN THIS ISSUE I
Amuaenients .,  iQ
Boris Smolar   %
EdlAiriai»     2
Society     7
Sports  11
Synagogues   18
Travel TaUt   8