The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1965 Page: 2 of 16
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The JEWISH HERALD-VOICE
Page TWO
WITH OUR RABBIS
thoughts,"
the
presented by
Wednesday, March 24—8:00 p.m.
Refreshments!
No admission!
YOU MUST NOT MISS THIS!
1719 Caroline
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ralitv
ALL ARE WELCOME!
No solicitation!
hle Faith"—a Purim Sermon.
Saturday morning, 1 1 o'clock
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL
3517 Austin
CONGREGATION EMANU EL
1500 Sunset Blvd.
by Abraham Carmel.
Saturday, Feb. 27, 1 1 a.m.
ight be brought about
Herzl Lodge, B'nai B’rith and Anti-Defamation League
Cong. Beth Yeshurun Lounge
4525 BEECHNUT
Subscription rates: $4.00 per year; 3 years, $10.00
socond Class Postage Paid at Houlton, TaxM__________
to discuss his cur-
Friday. March 19, 8:15 pm. Dr. H. J.
schachtel will speak on: "Our Indestructi
rm; Jewish IIEI.II)-VeICF
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION
3847 Turnberry Circle
Friday: 6 p.m.
Saturday, 8:45 a.m.; Talmud, 5 p.m.;
rent thinking concerning
CONGREGATION BRITH SHALOM
4610 Bellaire Blvd.
Friday evening services, 8:1a p.m.
Saturday —7 a.m.
Jr. Congregation 9:30 a.m
Sunday service. 9:30 a.m
Sunday — Men's Clubs each Sunday for
brunch, 10:00 a.m.
CONGREGATION ADATH EMETH
4221 So. Braeswood
Friday, March 19, 8 p.m. Mrs. Ruth
Fred, Jewish Family Service, will speak:
"Families Who Pray Together. Stay To-
gether." =
Saturdav —9 a.m.; Jr. Congregation, 10
a.m., Shulchan Oruch Class, 4:30 p.m.;
Mincha, Sholosh Seudos, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday-Men’s Club Service Breakfast,
9 a.m.
Daily Services—7 a.m., 6:15 p.m.
Early Sabbath Eve services, 6:15 p.m.
HOUSTON CONG. FOR REFORM JUDAISM
801 Bering Drive _
Friday. March 19, 8:15 P.m. Bev.
Thomas W. Simmers, Rector St. John the
Divine, will preach: "A Purim Message"
CONGREGATION ADATH ISRAEL
2206 Maroneal
Saturdav- 9 a.m.
Sunday: 9:00 a.m.
JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGED
Sabbath Eve: sundown.
Saturday: 9 a.m.
The public is welcome.
CONGREGATION BETH YESHURUN
4525 Beechnut Blvd.
Friday. March 19, 8 p.m. Rabbi Wm.
S. Malet's sermon: "Finished Products.
Saturday —8 a.m.. Orthodox; 10:15 a.m..
Conservative; 3:45 p.m. Talmud; .4:45
p.m. Chumash-Rashi: 5:45 p.m., Mincha.
Seudah Shlisheet Maariv.
perceptively honest, Rabbi
Eisendrath begins each essay
with a reflective quotation from
his earlier tears in the rabbin-
ate, and then goes on, in the
form of tvhat he calls, “after
Friday, March 19, 8:15 p.m. Rabbi
Samuel Weine t will preach: "Lone
Journey to a \ ev Faith" based on a book
Mincha, Sholosh Seudos, 6 p.m.
Daily: 7 a.m.; 6:15 p.m.
Monday and Thursday, 6:50 a.m.
hard
A suffice I' is these men—men of faith and courage
vision, which made the advance of democracy certain
ach our thanks our esteem. May thev be recognized
their accomplishments and then valour—and even
. for their humanity and their confidence that a
"Danger!!
On the Right"
Film Expose of the John Birch Society
among American Jews, and
whether American Jews are
distinctive from other Ameri-
cans in terms of their scale of
tallies. He ponders over the
perpetuation of the uniqueness
of the Jew, and to what extent
the Jews' uniqueness has en-
riched American life. In dis-
cussing these problems, he has
several telling observations to
make.
In effect, Rabbi Eisendrath
feels that we Jews do possess
certain distinctive values which
hate been part of our religious
creed — a creed which speaks of
the Jewish people as being the
moral conscience of mankind.
Out of this tradition comes
such uniquely Jewish values as
a love of learning, an impulse
toward charity and philanthro-
py, and a burning passion for
social justice and the pursuit
of social and political liberal-
ism. In the free and creative at-
mosphere of America, these
Jewish values hate found their
way into the cultural, socio-
economic and political main-
stream of the American people.
However, let me caution you,
Rabbi Eisendrath is too acute
an observer of the American
Jew ish scene, and too much of
a realist, to overlook the danger
topic being considered.
()f ah the essays in his book,
I personally found the one en-
titled "What's Jewish About
Jewish Values?" to be the most
interesting and thought-provok-
ing.
In this essay, Rabbi Eisen-
drath addresses himself to ques-
tions which he feels are vital
for the continued survival and
strengthening of American Ju-
daism. He asks whether or not
Jewish values still operate
to re-discover the inherent
values of our Jewish heritage
which have made us uniquely
Jew ish, and which have in turn,
aided in shapping the origins
and the development of Ameri-
can democracy. Today there is
a danger that there exists a
basic incompatibility between
our historic Jewish traditions,
and the values comprising the
mainstream of our present
American culture. I predict that
the American Jew will not suc-
ceed in becoming a better and
more loyal American, if in the
process, he becomes a more dis-
loyal and faithless Jew. Have
we managed to survive the cal-
amities of yesteryear, only to
be destroyed by the prosperity
of today? Have we so quickly
forgotten in the process of
reaping the harvest of Ameri-
can affluence, that it is also
our mission as Jews and as
citizens of America, to help sow
the seeds and nourish the roots
of that harvest, with the life-
giving waters of our own Jew-
ish value system?
Bv means of the title of his
book, Dr. Eisendrath poses
the fateful question: “Can Faith
Survive?” My answer is that
faith not only can, but must
survive, if we, as Jews, as
Americans, and as citizens of
the world are to survive. For
what kind of a world could we
look forward to, and what
would be the purpose of living
in such a world, where the
values of charity, or learning,
and of justice would be utterly
missing? Rather, with faith in
ourselves, let us go forth to a
brighter world, a world set up-
on eternal values and dedicated
to the goal of which Isaiah
prophesied centuries ago: "Be;
hold, the time cometh, that I
will gather all nations and
tongues, and they shall come,
and they shall come, and shall
see my glory.”
For on that blessed day
"They shall not labor in
v ain.
Nor bring forth terror.
For they are the seed blessed
of the Lord, and their off-
spring w ith them.
Rabbi Samuel W eingart
Assistant Rabbi
Temple Emanu El
in the past few weeks, a
new bwk "( an faith Survive?”,
has appear’d in book shops
throughout America. Ilir an
thor of this book. Dr. Maurice
Eisendrath. was formerly the
rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple
in Toronto, Canada, and since
1944, has served as the presi
dent of the Union of American
Hebrew C ongregations, parent
both for some 660 Reform con-
uregations throughout the
United States and Canada.
"(an faith Survive?” con
-ist, of some sixteen varied and
not necessarily inter related es
savs ranging from the now fa-
miliar question of will the Jew
survive, through a discussion of
religion in the public schools.
Stimulating and above all else.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Houston, Toxas Post Offic• Box 153
Telephone: FAirfax 3-1131 _________
Sunday: 8 a.m. Orthodox Minvan.
Breakfast. Discussion.
Dailv 7 a.m., 6:30 p.m.
Earlv Sabbath Eve, 6:15 p.m.
---- signs now manifesting them-
THE HONOR AND THE GLORY selves within the American-
♦ .ogogle sec- Jewish community • Accultura-
Tradition is a great asse - his tradition some good. tion, the weakening of Jewish
turns, institutions and menseach hasatradtoonniainstream famil, solidarity, increasing
some bad. nev er-the-lessthiscontinuesttobamnsegast conformity to the shallow. over-
in the daily existence, e have se i . the ur skies and 1, materialistic value-standards
several weeks It has been flaunted tothe.verzirgtidn. of the American middle class,
projected outwardly, and inwardly. to the entire nation, as well as a failure Within the
to the entire world. synagogue of America to raise
Let us examine this tradition. First we have t its the Jewish intellectual level of
tion of the basic United States—t e onstitu ionan has its members all these factors
amendments Then we have sectional tradi ion and conditions cloud the con-
rasped the particular locale. When the two are temporary American - Jew ish
flict. it takes more than words. more than appeals to rea- horizon. -
,or. to bring the two in proper perspective, Tecassaht Looking around us, we sense
Alabama and Mississippi aie prime examples. We m * a smug attitude of indefference
throw in Arkansas as we on the part of many Jews to
In each of these states it was the governors Who set U. che vexing dilemmas that con-
tone which brought on the extremisms. n eachaeatne front us. Among our people,
tradition of sectionalism and pettifoggery an C auy nism there is being revealed a creep-
worked hand in hand. The result loss of life. OSS P 65, ing spiritual erosion, a decline
tige. loss of democratic principles. It di t e cou iy. of genuine religious faith, and
section, the tradition no good. an appalling lack of Jewish
Organized religion has shown that universal tint is commitment and knowledge of
not one of its recognized virtues. Here, too. the practice Judaism which threatens to un-
depends’ upon the local attitude, not on the broad dermine the foundations of Ju-
principles of religious understanding. The division among daism.
churchmen has been marked in the past and many aided The summons of the hour is
in the destruction of human souls and human values. But
these are not times of reaction and destruction in matters
of church principles. These are times of approachment and
mutual understanding. Yet. amid all of this, the doors of
the churches were closed to the man of color and the min-
isters abetted and encouraged the hate patterns.
In this connection it must be pointed out that many
ministers of all faiths, of all shades of opinion joined m to
bring true religious principles to bear upon the frighten-
mg Situation in Selma The mere existence of such feel-
m" of such compassion, is to give a boost to religious
understanding, and many who were skeptical of the role
of religion in the life of the modern day will feel a bit
more kindly toward the religions of our times.
I personally know two noblemen who left their homes
in Houston to add their voices to the cry of the anguished.
• i . downtrodden Thev are RABBI MOSHE CAHANA
and REV. JOHN STEVENS. I wish it were my pleasure
•o know the cthers who went to add their strength to the
embattled believers in democracy But Knowing these two
men is to restore a confidence in a profession which is so
essential to our wav of life. Here was the test of true reli-
gion and these men met it with spirit and understanding.
!• is unfortunate that those who hate are not satisfied
with try ing to sell their evil potion it is unfair that these
men must make life miserable for those who stand upon
principle it is unfortunate that they must be the recipi-
ents of abuse and rudeness and threats. Too many of us
silent Too many of us applaud our ministers and rab-
who dare challenge the enemy We do not take the
. nor the energy to tell them how proud we are of
n and what noble work thev performed. If we could
the kevs to the city: the highest honors of our
ntrv the fondest best wishes to each of them it would
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