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Friday. August 7, 1959
TUB SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pace Sctci
OFF THE RECORD—By Nathan Ziprin
The Right To Wrath
A court in Massachusetts re
cently upset a Jewish woman’s
will because it contained a pro
vision that one of her sons who
married a Catholic woman was
to forfeit his legacy unless he
divorced his wife. The court held
that such a provision was con
trary to public policy since it ad
vocated breaching of marital ties.
It would seem however that
the effect of the court’s ruling
was to deny the right to wrath
of a parent whose child has
abandoned her fold. It was a hurt
woman who excluded her son
and the intent of the provision
was to express hurt, wrath and
humiliation. Had the woman
wanted it she could have cut off
her errant son with a mere
stroke of the pen in the will. If
she was sane of mind—and that
she was—she could merely have
said that the straying younf* man
forfeited his right to inheritance
when he defied her wishes and
went off to marry out of the fold.
No court would have upset that
testament. But she chose insisted
to vent her anger in other words,
in words that made it clear that
her son would lose his inherit
ance forever if he did not return
to her path. The court held that
the disputed provision in the will
was designed to induce a part
ing of the ways between a mar-
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ned couple. But it seems to this
corner that the admisson by a
judicial officer that mere money
can tear asunder what heaven
has bound together is yielding to
a principle that holds greater
hazard to public welfare than
wrathful expression arising from
agony of humiliation A nuptial
knot that can be rented by money
is no knot.
It is universally accepted that
parents have the right to penal
ize children in life. On what
principle can they be denied that
right in death? The woman had
no power to break up the mar
riage—for surely she must have
abjured her son against it with
all the rods at her disposal. All
she did in the end was to penalize
an errant son for bringing shame
upon her while at the same time
keeping her door ajar to his re
turn. She simply refused to
shower bounty upon a son who
did not trod her path
To view such action as an in
ducement to wean her son away
from his wife is an abasement
of the human spirit, a denial of
the right to wrath, of the right
to cry out aloud, of the right to
pen agony in testament.
Shall they who have spurned
parental pasture yet be rewarded
with harvest as those who stood
plowing steadfastly?
REACTING TO CLIMATE
Frank Moraes, in his “Jawharal
Nehru”, a Macmillan book, re
lates that when Nehru studied
at Harrow, England, he met a
number of Jewish students and
detected an undercurrent of anti-
Semitic feeling. Although Nehru
had no feeling on the matter,
Moreas tells, he confessed that he
was sufficiently influenced by
the atmosphere “to think that it
was the proper thing to have this
feeling.” The biographer observes
that Nehru’s “regara for the arti
ficial proprieties which were
part and parcel of his environ
ment overcame his innate sense
of justice.”
NACHES
In the years since Israel’s
emergence this columnist has had
many occasions to write about
the country’s cultural impact on
the Jewries of the world. In fact,
that is a chapter in Israeli history
whose competent assessment is
perhaps not for the men of this
generation. It will take more
than another decade or two be
fore we, who are destined to re
main chutx I'aarrtx, are to absorb
aroma and coloration of the cult
ural forces in Israel. This writer
hasn't the slightest doubt about
the future of American Jewry
nor about the indigenous Jewish
civilization it is bound to develop
within the American pattern. But
he also has no doubt that the
weave of the pattern, its strength
and colorfulness, will be deter
mined by the extent of our hold
ing of fingers with what is the
fact and symbol of Jewish
hemshech, Jewish continuity—
Israel.
There are few Jewish families
in the United States who have
not felt the impact of Israel’s
cultural direction. In our family
the agent was our younger
daughter-in-law Natalie, who
gave several of her evenings de
spite a young child to acquiring
tne Hebrew tongue. Very frank
ly I have no knowledge what,
if any, formal Jewish education
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Natalie received. But under the
impact of Israel she went to
cheder freely, willingly and
cheerfully. Only the cheder was
the Seminary School of Jewish
Studies of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America. Interest
ingly enough her first composi
tion in Hebrew, which brought
her honorable mention, deals
IN A LIGHTER VEIN
By Jacob Richman
AJP
They Were Probably
Indifferent
The Jewish wit, Ephraim
Graidiger, once visited the house
of a friend, who seemed to be
much upset
Inquiring after the cause of
his agitation, he was told by the
host that his wife was prepar
ing to go on a visit to her father,
who had resided in another town,
and who had now been dead
more than two months. He could
not possibly break the bad news
to his spouse, nor could he let
her make the trip and find, upon
her arrival, that her father was
no more. So he besought the in
genious clown to save him from
this vexatious predicament.
Ephraim agreed to be of serv
ice. Coming into the room where
she was packing up her trunk,
the buffoon engagea the lady in
a conversation.
“I see you are preparing for a
trip,” said the m e r r y-w i t.
“May I know where you are go
ing?”
with the fiction that Americans
are intellectually inferior to
Europeans.
KEEP THE BIBLE OUT OF IT . .
A feature writer in one of New
York’s newspapers recently pic
tured Leon Uris’ best selling
novel Exodus, a Doubleday pub
lication, as a modern tale of the
biblical exodus. To which this
corner can only reply that the
writer either did not read the
Bible or the book—for the dis
parity between the two on levels,
art and story, is so wide that it
is sacrilegious to mention them
in one breath. Exodus is better
than a journeyman’s story of the
drama, but as a work of art it is
not even a challenge ... In an
other area of New York, one of
the local churches recently con
ducted what it called a Bible
marathon. The objective presum
ably was to promote Bible read
ing, but it would appear that the
marathon can only serve to de
feat the purpose. There may be
sense perhaps in a dance mara
thon or talkathon as tests of hu
man endurance. But what sense
is there in running through the
Bible rapidly? How much can
one learn or retain from a swift
reading of the Bible. Running
through the Bible in marathon
style is a mockery . . .
WILL 60 SIR—
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MILWAUKEE, (JTA) — The
Albert Adelmans of this city is
a one-family athletic squad.
Lynn Adelman, 19, who plays
golf for Princeton, won the
country-wide tournament spon
sored by the Milwaukee Senti
nel a few weeks ago.
Gary Adelman, 17, took the
State junior singles tennis
championship last week in the
Milwaukee Journal’s station
championships at Wauwatso,
giving him the title for the sec
ond consecutive year.
In the same tourney Craig
Adelman, 15, won the boy’s
championship, a title he missed
in the finals last year.
As a result of their wins, Gary
and Craig were named to com
pete in the national juniors and
boys tournaments at Kalamazoo,
Mich., and in the national Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce
tournaments at Phoenix, Ariz.
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