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XXXIII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958
NO. 33
Javits Takes
Flanders to Task
Over Israel
WASHINGTON, (AJP)—Sena
tor Jacob K. Javits took Senator
Ralph E. Flanders to task on
the Senate Floor last week over
the latter’s recent statements
charging that Israel is responsi
ble for the Middle East crisis.
Sen. Javits was particularly
vehement against Flanders’ state
ment to the effect that, if cur
rent U.S. policies in support of
Israel were continued, “such a
wave of anti-Semitism as the
Jewish race has never known
will sweep not only this country,
but the world.”
In reply, Mr. Flanders told
Sen. Javits that, upon relection,
he would not have said what he
said so “forcibly.”
Waksman, Streptomycin
Discoverer, Retires
From Rutgers University
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.,
(JTA)—Dr. Selman Waksman,
Nobel Prize winner, discoverer
of streptomycin and other anti
biotic drugs and long one of
this country’s top microbiologists,
will retire as director of the
Rutgers University Institute of
Microbiology, the university’s
board of governors announced
this week.
Proceeds of the sale of the
streptomycin and other “wonder
drugs” developed by Dr. Waks
man and his associates have
largely supported the Institute
of Microbiology of which Dr.
Waksman was the first director.
After his retirement, Dr. Waks
man, who will be 70 next week,
will maintain an office and lab
oratory at the Institute. He plans
to continue working in a num
ber of fields, including the
search for a cancer cure.
Science Making Little
Impact on Jewish
Education, Fallen
GENEVA, (JTA)—Jewish ed
ucational authorities and parents
appear unconcerned about the
impact of science on Jewish reli
gious education, according to
preliminary findings of a special
World Jewish Congress commis
sion on the role of science in
Jewish education, headed by
Prof. Horace M. Kallen of New
York.
The inquiry began about five
months ago. Dr. Kallen, who was
unable to attend the present
session of the World Jewisn Con
gress executive in Geneva, sub
mitted a written progress report
to the session. In his report, Dr.
Kallen stated that a preliminary
analysis of responses to a ques
tionnaire submitted by the Com
mission to a cross section of
Jewish educators showed:
1. An almost total lack of ap
preciation of the nature of tne
problem and its urgency among
those responsible for educational
program and policy.
2. Jewish education, viewed as
“religious” education, is held by
many to concern itself with an
area untouched by the scientific
spirit.
3. Others regard Jewish edu
cation as a sort of counterforce
to the rising tide of “scientism,”
that should offset the generally
increasing concentration on
scientific studies by means of
intensified plans for religious in
struction.
Dr. Kallen stated that one con-
elusion apparently emerging
with great clarity is that Jewish
education does not greatly con
cern itself with the problems set
by the conflict because Jewish
schools are predominantly ele
mentary schools.
Shearith Israel to Dedicate New
Synagogue on September 7
Congregation Shearith Israel
this week announced prelimin
ary plans for the dedication of
its new House of Worship on
Sunday, September 7.
Edward Krick, president of
the Congregation, is serving as
chairman of the committee in
charge of the formal dedication.
Serving on the committee with
him are: Charles Funk, Mr. and
Mrs. George Alterman, Mrs.
Charles Funk, Louis Geffen, Sid
ney Gulden, Harry Harrison,
Mrs. M. D. Horowitz, Julius
Kornblum, Irving Levy, Mr. and
Mrs. Irving Libowsky, William
Melnick, Mrs. Sidney Rich, Hen
ry Sobelson, Ben Zimmerman
and Dr. Hyman Zimmerman.
Dedication ceremonies for the
ublic will be held at 3 p.m.
unday, Sept. 7, with a dinner
for members of the Congrega
tion and guests at 0:30 p.m. that
evening.
Israel Closely Watching Attempts
To Resolve Mideast Crisis
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JT
A)—Israel waited watchfully
this week for any indications of
action by the emergency session
of the United Nations General
Assembly to resolve the Middle
East situation that might affect
Israel’s vital interests.
That there would be attempts
to widen the approach of the
General Assembly to the Middle
East problem was foreshadowed
in the Security Council sessions
which preceded the Assembly
when Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.,
chairman of the American dele
gation, declared that the troubles
in the Middle East were “deep
seated” and their roots went
“much deeper” than the Leba-
non-Jordan situations which were
the ostensible reasons for the
meeting. He expressed hope that
the emergency session of the
General Assembly would “want
to deal with the broad and fund
amental problems” besetting the
Middle East.
Political and diplomatic circles
continued over tne weekend to
express wonderment over a re
ported concrete, overall plan
for solving the major problems
of the Middle East to be sub
mitted to the Assembly by the
United States. Although Wash
ington sources spoke freely of
the plan and indicated some of
the proposals included in the
plan, there was little to estab
lish that a plan had been worked
out and put down on paper in
black and white.
Abba S. Eban, chairman of the
Israel delegation and Israel am
bassador in Washington, told
correspondents he had heard
nothing about an overall Ameri
can plan for the Middle East
although he had had five meet
ings during the last ten days
with Secretary of State Dulles
and Under-secretary Her ter.
Asked whether he had been
told of the purported American
plan, Mr. Eban said: “I am not
aware of any concrete proposals
whatever which would offer
prospects for finding basic solu
tions in the present situation. In
fact, I know of no proposals at
all.”
According to some reports, the
American “plan” included a pro
ject for final solution of the
Arab refugee problem and also
implementation of the Jordan
River Authority scheme.
Mr. Eban, accompanied by his
new deputy representative here,
Arthur Lourie, Israel Ambassa
dor to Canada, called on Guilla
ume Georges-Picot, president of
the Security Council, last week
end to discuss the Council agen
da.
“Neither we nor anyone else
has raised any problems con
cerning us directly,” Mr. Eban
declared. "There is nothing on
the agenda that is directly in
the context of the Israel-Arab
situation.” The Israel envoy re
peated his country’s view that
“the only way we can foresee
to approach these (Israel-Arab)
problems is through direct, talks
betwen Israel and the Arab Gov
ernments.
Meanwhile a proposal for crea
tion of a United Nations stand
ing commission for the Middle
East, backed by an international
police force to check direct and
indirect aggression in the area
was advanced by Richard G.
Casey, Australian Minister for
External Affairs and wartime
British Minister of State in
Cairo.
Mr. Casey told the Parliament
at Canberra that such UN juris
diction would create a more
favorable atmosphere for solu
tion of the “root causes of the
area’s explosive conditions”—
the Arab-Israel situation and the
absence of final border settle
ment. He further proposed an
international organization for
development of Middle East re
sources and refugee resettlement
in which, he said, Israel could
contribute.
As the nations of the world
prepared to deal with a situa
tion many thought bore the seeds
LOS ANGELES, (JTA) — A
resolution calling on the United
States Government to adopt a
long-range policy for settlement
of the Middle East crisis, guaran
teeing the territorial integrity of
Israel as well as giving both to
Israel and the Arab states a
warranty against direct or in
direct aggression, was adopted
here today at the concluding
session of the 63rd annual con
vention of the Jewish War Vet
erans of the United States.
The resolution, asking the
United States to take the initia
tive toward peace negotiations
between Israel and the Arab
states, urged the Washington Ad
ministration to maintain troops
in the Middle East area when
requested to do so by an ag
grieved nation.
The Jewish War Veterans re
quested that Arab-Israel peace
talks include the resettlement of
of world conflagration, Radio
Moscow last weekend continued
a vitriolic attack on Israel, con
demning the Jewish State as “a
partner in aggression against the
people of Lebanon and Jordan
and other Arab countries.”
Slain Al-Jamali Was
Willing To Make
Israel Peace
UNITEDNATIONS, (AJP) —
Dr. Fadhil Al-Jamali of Iraq,
who was among those announced
as slain by the Iraq rebels,
once proposed a “peace settle
ment” with Israel in an inter
view with the AJP reporter here.
Originally known as one of the
most rabid anti-Israel Arabs Who
togethr with Dr. Malik of Le
banon led the battle against Is
rael statehood in 1947, Dr. Ja-
mali toned down considerably in
later years. When the AJP UN
column on his “peace overtures”
were brought to his attention by
his malcontent Arab colleagues
who charged him with being
pro-Israel, Dr. Jamali did not
fail to let the AJP reporter
know—in a humorous vein—that
the column had gotten him into
trouble with his Arab colleagues.
Little did he know that his pro-
West stand would cost him his
life at the hands of his own peo
ple.
the bulk of the Palestine Arab
refugees in underpopulated Arab
areas. They also called for im
plementation of the Jordan River
Valley Authority plan, and the
establishment or a Middle East
Development Agency under the
auspices of the United Nations.
Governor Goodwin J. Knight,
of California, addressing the con
vention, said the time has come
for the United States to declare
a second “Monroe Doctrine”
which would include the Middle
East. The United States, said the
Governor, has a moral responsi
bility to protect the forces of
democracy in all areas of the
world. If necessary, he stated,
the North Atlantic Treaty Or-
anization should take into mem-
ership Israel and Lebanon.
Sam Shailkewitz, of St. Louis,
was elected national commander
of the Jewish War Veterans or
ganization.
J W V Parley Asks U S Guarantee
Of Israel’s Territorial Integrity
Angoff Says American Jewish
Cites Brandeis and Lewisohn as Starting
Aliy ah to Intellectual Judaism
By DAVID HOROWITZ
Community Hope of World Jewry
WILDACRES, N.C., (AJP) —
Despite the complexities which
make up the general American
Jewish community, U.S. Jewry
holds the answer to and the hope
of world Jewry.
This was the conclusion reach
ed by the noted author and
writer Charles Angoff at the
11th annual B’nai B’rith Insti
tute held here on this beautiful
Wildacres woodland knoll reach
ing into the sky in peaceful em
brace some 3300 feet above sea
level in the heart of the Blue
Ridge Mountains.
Mr. Angoff—one of a faculty
of three who spoke to the North
Carolina Institute of Judaism on
the subject of “Our Enduring
Heritage”—discussed “The Leg
acy of the American Jew.” His
theme was implemented by two
other basic themes: “Biblical
Heritage,” conducted by Dr. Har
ry M. Orlinsky, one of the
world’s most outstanding Bible
scholars, and “Rabbinic Herit
age,” directed by Rabbi Morris
Adler of Congregation Shaarey-
Zedek, Detroit, who is considered
one of the ten leading spiritual
leaders in the nation.
Each theme took up three full-
length lectures which were fol
lowed by a general discussion in
which a group of some seventy-
five representative B’nai B’ritn-
ers from all parts of North Caro
lina and nearby states partici
pated.
Having taken part in the In
stitute as the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. I. D. Blumenthal—the hosts
who are making the facilities of
Wildacres available to scores of
humanitarian and interfaith
groups at less than cost of op
eration—this writer couldn’t
help but feel and sense the spirit
of a great revival within Ameri
can Judaism, especially as he
noted the intense interest shown
by the participant students—
representing a cross-section of
Southern Jewry—in Hcbraica
and basic Judaism.
The Blumenthalian Wildacres
Institute, functioning annually
as a sort of “Har Ha’Bayit”—
Temple Height—for knowledge
and understanding of Hebraic
ideals, testifies gloriously to the
optimistic outlook as expressed
by Mr. Angoff and further serves
to prove that Judaism-Ameri
cana in its pure, healthy, dynam
ic approach, minus fantacism, is
taking on a new momentum and
therefore holds much hope for
the future.
Oratorical Masterpiece
Charles Angoff’s three lectures
on “The Legacy of the American
Jew” touched upon every facet
of American Jewish life and did
not omit any of the many typi
cal yet differently-inclined Jew
ish leaders who had played their
respective roles on the ever-
expanding, multifarious Jewish
scene. Like a surgeon perform
ing an operation, so Angoff—
with his keen, analytical insight
into the depths of Jewish life
here, penetrated deep into the
body-whole of U.S. Jewry, ap
praising it only as an experi
enced master-observer could. His
“symphonic-like” present a t i o n
was a masterpiece; an oratorical
synthesis in which all the com
ponent parts ultimately seemed
to harmonize and which, at the
closing, reached a climatic, vic
torious Hebraic crescendo.
Brandeis and Lewisohn
Angoff omitted no one. Jus
tice Brandies and Ludwig Lewi
sohn—despite the former’s late
entry into Jewish life and the
later’s early Christian back
ground and later ‘fanatical’ orth
odoxy—stood out, he said, “as
the deacons of American Jewish
culture, as the harbingers of
greatness for future history.
They started,” he stressed, “the
alliyah to intellectual Judaism—
a significant revival.”
All In the Pattern
Angoff saw only good evolve
out of the American-Jewish
“seething-pot” — something
wholesome yet to take final
shape. He cited “Mordecai Kap
lan's” critcism of the U.S. Rab
binate. American Rabbis had no
“Judenschwertz.” The “Torah
has become a job. The rabbis
have failed the Jews. They have
become *floorwalkers’; they
should go to Macy’s. He quoted
“Maurice Samuel” as having de
clared that “there is no import
ant American-Jewish literature
worth reading”; “Trube-Weiss
Rosmarin” as sneering at the
whole Jewish community; he
referred to “H. L. Mencken”—
his former boss at The American
Mercury—as a Charlatan-per-
excellence. Also, there were such
Jews ag “Clifton Fadiman, Ar
thur Krock” and “Bennett Cerf”
who object to being listed in a
strictly “Jewish” Who’s Who and
who consider themselves Jews
only “by accident.” There was
“George Jean Nathan” who de
nied his Judaism; there was also
the late Meshumad from Boston,
David Goldstein, who, as Angoff
pointed out, had only made one
convert in sixty years—Lillian
Roth.
Angoff spoke of his friend, the
late “Herbert Bayard Swope” as
a “Baal Teshuva” who had re
turned to his heritage after Hit
ler and Israel’s war of independ
ence and who in his very last
days found comfort in Hassidic
and cantorial music and art.
The American Jewish pattern,
Angoff stressed, included “Jew-
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