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THE MESSAGE
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The MESSAGE
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There is
President
Vice-President
Vice-President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer
Editor
Co-Editor
of Congregation Beth Yeshurun
4525 Beechnut
Houston, Texas 77035
MESSAGE STAFF
STANLEY EPSTEIN
MRS. HARRY ABRAMSON
. JOHN S. GOLDBERG
JOSEPH J. HILLER
HERBERT J. LAUFMAN
IRVING POZMANTIER
SAM SPAIN
Rabbi —
Associate Rabbi
Cantor -----------
Exec. Dir.
Ed. Dir.
STAFF
WILLIAM S. MALEV
JACK SEGAL
GEORGE WAGNER
BEN L. KATZ
RAFAEL ARBISSER
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was created for the
sake of music. It is
a fact, that music in
some form is an
of
all
Cantor's Column
Cantor George Wagner
e EDITORIAL
BOOKS
Jewish Book Month
will be celebrated
shroughout the
United States from
November 12 to De-
cember 12, and a
special weekend will
be dedicated to the
theme of “BOOKS”
on Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday, Decem-
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Within recent
rears the Conserva-
ive movement has
been branching out
in its educational pro-
grams. Many years
ago it emphasized the
Hebrew School pro-
gram for youngsters
during the afternoon.
Not too long ago it
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began emphasizing Day School pro-
grams for our youngsters. Now the
Conservative movement is emphasizing
adult education for the adults of our
synagogues.
Almost every congregation has an
adult education program. Some are
good; some are mediocre; some are poor.
However, every congregation realizes
the importance of an educational pro-
gram for adults.
The Conservative movement realizes
that there are many adults who would
like to participate in an educational pro-
gram for adults but do not have the
time or cannot muster the effort to at-
tend classes during the week. Hence, it
has suggested that Conservative rabbis
regularly mail to their congregants some
form of bulletin or article which might
at least stimulate them to involve them-
selves in a home study program.
Beth Yeshurun sponsors an Akiba In-
stitute of Adult Jewish Studies every
Wednesday night and also has five
study groups that meet during the
month. However, there are many mem-
bers who are not exposed to any of
these programs for one reason or an-
other.
It is because of this that the editor of
the “Message” has asked me to pre-
pare a regular Bible column of ques-
tions and answers whereby our mem-
bers might be stimulated to study the
Bible in their homes. Therefore, in each
edition of the “Message” I will present
ten biblical questions with multiple
choice answers. At the end of the list
of questions I will list the correct an-
swers thereby enabling each member
to learn some of the fundamentals of
the Bible and also grade himself.
True, no one is expected to become a
biblical expert through these tests. How-
ever, it is the wish of this author and
your editor that this technique may stim-
ulate our members to open their Bibles
and to read the material covered by
these questions.
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ber 3, 4, and 5, here at Beth Yeshurun.
The celebration will begin on Friday
evening when Professor Irving Roth-
man, of the University of Houston,
chairman of our Beth Yeshurun Library
Committee, will occupy the pulpit and
will speak on the Jewish winners of
the Nobel literature award, S. Y. Agnon
and Millie Sachs. Then, on Sabbath
morning, the students in our school
who have won the four first prizes in
our Book Review Contest will read their
essays.
On Sunday evening, December 5,
we shall have an entire evening dedi-
cated to books. There will be seminars
dedicated to the science of librarian-
ship and to other interesting phases of
the world of books.
Among the participants will be Pro-
fessor Sylvan Karchmer, professor of
English in Creative Writing at the
University of Houston, and a contribu-
tor to more than 400 world-wide maga-
zines including Jewish publications who
will speak on the art of writing and
will answer questions from potential
writers.
Mrs. Ben Friedman, a Librarian Rep-
resentative of the Association of Jewish
ideally suited to prepare the soul of
man to receive the spiritual message
of religion. For western civilization, this
“musical message” has had a profoundly
inspiring and creative cultural history,
and has vitally influenced the entire
scope of musical art.
During earlier centuries when most
musical talents were channeled exclu-
sively into religious expression, there
waged an esthetic conflict, which even
now has not been resolved. Erasmus, in
the Middle Ages, fearing that “elabo-
rate art impinges upon piety,” set ex-
treme restrictions upon all music as
deterimental to worship. Luther, on the
other hand, taught his followers that
“music which emanates from the heart
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Libraries will discuss
rael.”
There will also be filmed interviews
with Philip Roth and Saul Bellow.
Refreshments will follow the pro-
gram.
This celebration should be an op-
portunity for all of us to renew our ac-
quaintance with the books that we al-
ready know and love, and to extend our
familiarity to new books, using both
the facilities of our Beth Yeshurun Can-
tor Rubin Kaplan Library and purchas-
ing, wherever possible, books of our own
to supplement our own home libraries.
The greatest friends we can have,
as well as the least expensive, are books.
They provide us with companionship of
the greatest and noblest minds in all
history. They speak to us whenever we
want their company and are silent when
we don’t. They give us guidance and
inspiration along the paths of life, and
provide us with knowledge and wisdom
to understand the many problems that
face us every day.
Perhaps the finest tribute to the value
of books is the one found in the will
of Judah Ibn Tibbon, who lived some
700 years ago, in Spain and later on
in the Provence. These are the lines
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iBf tesral part of the
ritual of all the
world’s creeds. This
would certainly indi-
cate that music is
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