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reasons for this refusal to distin
guish between legitimate protection
of free speech and the toleration
of license and the threat of vio
lence.
As far as organized communal
life is concerned, the emergence
and consolidation of the Israeli
State led to a far-reaching re
orientation. Traditional party dis
tinctions seemed to have become
obsolete. “Whatever may have been
our attitude to the idea of a Jewish
State in the past,” said Lord Jus
tice Cohen, leading British non-
Zionist, at a banquet in honor of
the Israeli Minister, “there is to
day hardly a Jew who does not re
joice that His Majesty’s Govern
ment has accorded recognition to
the State and who doubts that it
will make a valuable contribution
to the spiritual life of the world.”
However, that reorientation has
not yet overcome in practice cer
tain inveterate divergences and
jealousies. There is still deep re
sentment in some quarters over the
break-up of the former Joint
Foreign Committee of the Board of
Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish As
sociation by what is being de
nounced as the “Zionist caucus”
within the Board of Deputies.
Moreover, the Board has been
weakened — merely temporarily,
it is generally hoped — by the
secession of Liberal, Progressive
and Sephardic congregations. Ef
forts are afoot to set up a rival
body around the Anglo-Jewish As-
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sociation, which recently celebrated
its 75th anniversary.
On the other hand, strenuous ef
forts are being made by the World
Jewish Congress to bring about
Anglo-Jewry’s official affiliation to
that body. Few doubt that any
precipitate action in this direction,
far from reaching its objective of
fostering Jewish unity, would, at
the present juncture, promote rath
er than prevent communal disinte
gration.
The Rev. A. Cohen, outstanding
Anglo-Jewish scholar and himself
a vice-President of the British sec
tion of the World Jewish Congress,
who succeeds Professor Brodetsky,
now President of the Hebrew Uni
versity, as President of the Board
of Deputies, is fully aware of this
danger. He is determined to resist
undue pressure from his own
friends, to oppose perilous tenden
cies towards group hegemony, and
to steer a course of communal
reconciliation.
There is no Jew in England who
would not wish him full success
in this endeavor. For it is clear
to everyone that much remains to
be done, both as regards the future
of Israel and the security of Jews
as citizens of Britain. Anglo-Jewry
is not out of the wood yet. The
enemy will not rest. Only unity of
purpose and extreme watchfulness
can thwart his evil designs.
(Copyright, 1949, J.T.A., Inc.)
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No Chometz Smuggling
The famous Berditichiver Rebbe one Passover called all the important
merchants to his home.
He asked: “Do you think there is much smuggling going on?”
“Oh. yes,” all agreed. “Despite the fact that there are so many of the
Czar’s officers about, the amount of smuggling is still very considerable."
“You see what a fine people the Jews are,” said the Berditichiver
Rebbe. “The Czar has hundreds of policemen and detectives to prevent
smuggling and he doesn’t succeed. The Jews do not have a single officer,
and yet among all the Jews you will find no one smuggling a bit of
Chometz into their homes.”
* * *
Jewish Highwayman
A poor Jew did not have money to buy wine for Passover. He decided
he would go out and be a highwayman in order to ge the necessary funds.
He went out in to the lonely highways waiting for a “customer." He
waited and waited. Suddenly, he realized that the sun was near setting
and he hadn’t “davend mincha” (recited the afternoon prayers). So he
turned to the east and began to intone the prayers.
In the middle of his prayer another Jew passed by. At last, there
was someone to hold up, but he was in the middle of his prayers and it
is stringently forbidden to “mafsig sein,” to interrupt one’s prayers. He
could not, therefore, speak to the stranger. So he merely mumbled um-
um-um-um for the passerby to wait until he had finished.
The passing Jew understood and waited to the end of the service.
When he had ended his prayers, the poor Jew said: “Listen, I am a
highwayman and I want fifty dollars from you or I will cut you to pieces
with this knife.”
“That’s a joke, why should I give you fifty dollars?” said the passer
by.
“Well, give me twenty-five dollars.”
“Don’t be crazy,” said the passer-by.
A dollar, maybe? ’ said the would-be highwayman.
I wouldn t give you five cents,” replied the passer-by.
“Well, at least give me a cigarette.”
Now you are talking like a man,” said the passer-by, handing the
Jewish highwayman a “papyross” (cigarette.)
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The Southern Israelite