Newspaper Page Text
the southern
I s RAELITE
Poqe Eight
Friday, April 16. 10S4
The Southern Israelite
'Publiihod Weekly by Southern Newspaper Enterprises, 62714 Peachtree St., N E.,
Atlanta 3, Georgia. Elgin 8249, Elgin 9240. Entered as second class matter at the post
office, Atlanta, Georgia, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Yearly subscription three dol
lars. The Southern Israelite Invites literary contributions and correspondence but is not
i 4o be considered as sharing the views expressed by writers. DEADLINE is 12:30 P. M„
TUESDAY but material received earlier will have a much better chance of publication.
Member, American Association of Englith-Jtwiih Newspapers
ADOLPH ROSENBERG, Editor and Publisher
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
GUSTAV OPPENHEIMER MARGARET MERRYMAN
MEMBERS OF ADVISORY BOARD
Meyer Balser Hyman Jacobs Berry Rittenbaum
Sol Beoanry Edward Uriels Meyer Rosenberg
Dr. Nathan Blass Sam Levy Phil Schwartz
Dr, Jack Bleich Irving Libowsky Dave Slann
Joe Cohen Thomas Makover Harry Spitzer
Reuben Cohen Ben Massell A. D. Srochi
Trank Garson Barney Medintt Kalman Sunshine
Abe Goldberg Hyman Morris Arthur Weiss
Dr. Irving Goldstein Eugene Oberdarfer Sam Weinberg
Harry Harrison Gustav Oppenheimer Paul Welkin
PANORAMA by David Schwartz
Why is this Night Different
I don’t suppose that the Quiz
program on the radio had its ori
gin in Passover, but it might well
have. The Seder ceremonial starts
with the asking in each household
of the famous four questions, be
ginning with “Why is this night
different?’’
The youngest member of the
household asks the questions in a
few minutes. Then comes the
answers, requiring as many hours.
What wonderful answers. It is not
answered with simple narrative.
There is history, mixed with poet
ry, with fantasy, with song and
even the food is selected sym
bolically to help the queries.
It would be a mistake to assume
that the “four questions’’ by the
child are the only questions asked
about Passover. The rabbis asked
many questions. Some of them
have a child-like simplicity. Con
sider the questions asked by the
child. He wants to know why
they eat particular kinds of food
on this night. Why they take their
meals in a reclining position. The
rabbis, too, asked such questions.
iEXODUS AND LIBERATION
t Seven Arts Features Guest Editorial
The recent tales of terror and death on the borders of Israel
pffer a grim prologue to the ancient Passover story of exodus and
Cfreedom, a story that even in the setting of modern Israel has no
. ending.
The battle for Jewish freedom, as these events point up, goes
’.on today with all the passion and devotion that filled the hearts
• 1 of Jews as they wandered in the Israel's desert wastes centuries
•ago. For freedom is in the traditions of Judaism and in 2000 years
.* it has not lost one iota of its appeal to Jews everywhere.
That is why the United Jewish Appeal, the instrument Ameri
can Jews have fashioned to build, save and bring freedom into Why, for instance .asked Rabbi
, Jewish lives overseas and in Israel, needs and deserves the whole- Bunam, do we eat the Matzos at
1 , hearted support this year of the American Jewish Community. In
jhe crucial year, 1054, when Jewish lives once again stand in the
••breach between dignity and despair, we must continue our whole
hearted support of UJA and the humanitarian programs that it the bondage from which the Is-
ifosters. History demands our continued particit)ation. Jewish lives raelites were delivered. It would
- in distress require it. s u eem ^ sh u ou ( ld p f u rta * e ° f the
In the face of great obstacles, disease, terror, blockade, pover- Wel , what . g the answer ->
ty, destitution and danger, the 475,000 men, women and children The answer, says Rabbi Bunam,
Moho neeed UJA aid in 1954 must not stand alone. i lies in psychology. The Israelites in
To help Israel win its struggle for economic liberation and to j Egypt did not really sense their
<<triy on its vital settlement, welfare and rehabilitation programs piteous sta,e fully until Moses
in other parts of the world, the United Jewish Appeal seeks a, Until we tagte the Matzos of re _
the seder first and the bitter herbs
later?
The Matzos symbolize redemp
tion and the bitter herbs represent
.total of $119,921,150 in 1954.
On this Passover, therefore, let us complete the story of
modern exodus and liberation by marking a renewed and re-
dedteated effort on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal.
ART THEATER - HELD OVER
to ask questions. It has been said
that a Jew answers a question
with a question. The whole Tal-
mudical dialect is essentially
nothing but questions and answers.
The sages of the Talmud found in
every word of the Bible and the
Mishna a complex of innumerable
questions. So many questions
that it even became necessary ap
parently for Elijah the prophet,
inextricably associated with the
Passover ceremonial, to assume as
one of his major problems the un
tying of some of these knotty
problems — the questions an
swered by the Yeshiba bachurim.
A transcendent figure is this
eminent Passover guest. A wine
cup is prepared for him and he
visits every seder on Passover
night. This is made easier for him
by the fact of his unusual powers
of locomotion which, according to
legend, even outclass a jet plane.
In four strides he can go from on-
end of the world to another. H?
must have this swiftness to brir.»
succor and help to the destitu *
and suffering wherever they may
be. He is a man of infinite dis
guises and resources.
Once he disguised himself as i
prostitute to save Rabbi Meyer.
The gendarmes of the Emper >r
Hadrian were pursuing the rabbi
and by walking along with the
rabbi as a woman of the demi
monde, he led the rabbi’s pursuers
off the track. Once Elijah ordered
a poor man to sell him (Elijah)
into slavery in order to provide th*
poor man with much needed
funds. He was sold to a prince and
soon won his freedom as a reward
for a marvelous service. But help
ing the needy and suffering doe.
not exhaust his duties. Much of
the time, he sits in the synagogue
study, bent over the knotty prob
lems agitating the students of the
Talmud — answering questions —
for as I say, Jews, like the little
boy at the Seder, were to ask
questions.
A Joyous Passover
BARTLETT’S FLORIST
920 S. Decatur Rd., Decatur, Ga.
CRescent 3642
W¥¥****¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥*rmu
(greeting A For Pc
i i
•LAND O'LAKES
CREAMERIES, INC.
101 Marietta Street Building
CYpress 1721
.»+♦♦♦♦♦» Minm
demption, we do not really sense
the humiliation of bondage — the
bitter herbs.
If the question of these old rab
bis were child-like, surely there
is wonderful philosophy and sound
•psychology in such an answer.
Again let us consider a question
about Passover asked by the Apter
rebbe. It is prescribed that the
Matzos shall be made of a grain
which is capable of becoming
leavened or “Hametz.”
Is this not a strange rule? It
would appear that they would
have directed instead that the un
leavened Matzos be made of a
grain which is not susceptible of
j leavening, but instead the very
; reverse was ordered. Instead of
leading a man away from tempta-
I tion, they magnified the chances
i of temptation. Why was this?
This, said the Apter rebbe, is to
| teach us that a man must perform
his duties to God in his ordinary
secular vocation. Hametz repre
sents the unclean, the undedicated
of life. The man who separates
himself from all the Hametz or
possibility of contamination of life
to perform God’s will is not pleas
ing God. We must be upright, not
in the forced innocence of isolation
but in the midst of the temptations
and turbulence of workaday liv
ing.
The Jews are a people who like
aAAover
MONTES BEAUTY SALON
1101 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E.
VErnon 6035
«««« a * + + **« + + ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ + ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥■** + + + *
*444 44444 44444444444444444444444444444444-1-444444-4
j-^aSiovgr CjrectincfA
ORANGETEACOCOMPANY
109 Pryor Street, N. E.
(Grand Theatre Building)
ALpine 4177
44444444444444I I 444 444 444444444444444444444-H-
*PASSOVER
April 18, Sunday
(First Day)
April 25, Sunday
(Eighth Day)
June 7, Monday
•SHAVUOT ’
(First Day)
September 28, Monday
•Rosh Hashonah
(First Day)
•Holiday Begiins
Preceding Evening
*¥■* <«« * * + ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ + ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ ****•«•««
PASSOVER GREETINGS
ATLANTA DOMESTIC SERVICE
Help When You Need It
105 Forrest Ave., N. E.
CYpress 5571
(jreetincj, J For Pc
aAAouer
BALDWIN’S DRUG STORES
122 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E. — VErnon 5801
and
136 Merritts Avenue, N.W. — ELgin 2606
PASSOVER GREETINGS
THE LITTLE STUDIOS
114’/2 Alabama St., S. W.
WAlnut 9909