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THE IODTBIIN IIBAILITI
Friday, September 11, 1969
The Southern Israelite
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Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Gustav Oppenheimer, Sylvia Kletzky, Karen Hurtig,
Kathleen Nease, Jennie Loeb
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING
The Arms Deal Repugnant to Millions
The political crisis which has
developed in Israel in connection
with tne sale of arms to the Ger
man Federal Republic is re
grettable. From the strictly
logical point of view the Israel
Government’s case for selling
arms to Germany is, no doubt,
unassailable . . . But logic is not
everything; and who knows that
better than Premier Ben-Gurion?
The idea of helping to arm a
German army, whatever the jus
tification, is bound to be repug
nant to millions of Jews, in Is
rael and abroad. But whatever
the wisdom of the Government’s
decision, the behavior of its dis
sident left-Wing members is still
harder to justify and appears
to be motivated exclusively by
considerations of party political
ain . . . Israel is a sovereign
tate, and it is not for her well-
wishers abroad, whatever the
special nature of their emotional
links, to proffer solutions of her
internal political crisis. But we
hope that this crisis will be set
tled as quickly, painlessly and
honorably as possible.
THE BOSTON JEWISH ADVOCATE FROM AN EDITORIAL
Glorious Page in Danish History
. . . The Germans were getting
jittery. Danish sabotage was be-
nning to Hurt badly. From the
erman Occupation headquarters
at the Hotel D’Angleterre came
the decree; “All Jews must wear
a yellow arm band with a Star
of David.” That night the Under
ground radio transmitted a mes
sage to all Danes. “From Amal-
ienborg Palace King Christian
has given the following answer
to the German command that
Jews must wear a Star of David.
The King has said that one Dane
is exactly the same as the next
Dane. He himself will wear the
first Star of David and he ex
pects that every loyal Dane will
do the same.” The next day in
Copenhagen almost the entire
population wore armbands show
ing a Star of David. The follow
ing day the Germans rescinded
the order . . .
LEON CRIS, FEOM EXODUS
Suez—Responsibility of UN
. . . Like the Palestine ques
tion in general, the Suez
problem is first and foremost
a responsibility of the United
Nations. The everpresent Soviet
veto on behalf of the Arabs has
virtually destroyed the capacity
of the Security Council to deal
with such questions. Secretary
General Dag Hammarskiold has,
therefore, made Israel-Arab re
lations his special province since
1956. Since a Security Council
debate would merely give the
Soviet Union another opportunity
to picture itself as the protector
of the Arabe, the U.S. has been
using its influence with Israel to
postpone bringing up the issue.
The Secretary General’s conver
sations with Nasser did not shake
the Cairo Leader’s determination
that neither Israeli ships nor
ships chartered by Israel shall
go through the Canal. However,
a public statement by Nasser left
the door op>en for a deal on goods
en route to and from Israel in
ships of other countries . . .
THOMAS J. HAMILTON, N. Y. TIMES
Allen Dulles Sees U.S., USSR Close to War
Khrushchev is in a reckless mood
and has decided the Allies can
be bluffed out of Berlin . . . Ei
senhower . . . could not believe
Krushchev would be foolish
enough to risk a show down that
could plunge the world into war
. . . Eisenhower received a
confidential report from CIA Di
rector Allen Dulles, just before
Herter left (for Geneva), that
the United States and Russia
could be closer to war than at
any time since the Bolshevik re
volution. The warning was based
on the belief that Premier . .
DREW PEAESON. FROM HIS SYNDICATED COLUMN
B.G. Escape
In the midst of the Cabinet bookshops in Jerusalem. He
crisis, Prime Minister Ben-Guri- bought several books in classical
on was seen browsing in the Greek and some English works
Universitas) Wahrmann and Atid of Bible scholarship.
To Appeal Decision Approving
‘Voluntary’ Prayer in School
NEW YORK. (JTA) — A
County Supreme Court ruling
that tne court could not compel
the Herricks, Long Island School
District to discontinue the prac
tice of classroom prayers in its
five schools will be appealed to
the highest State tribunals and,
if necessary, to the United States
Supreme Court, it was announc
ed this week. The prayer recited
is a non-denominational form
recommended by the New York
State Board of Regents.
Justice Bernard S. Meyer held,
however, that the school board
was at fault in making the pray
er mandatory for all 6,000 stu
dents in the schools and said
thatTtttmld'ftot require the chil
dren to pray.
Justice Meyer said that the
First Amendment did not pro
hibit the non compulsory saying
of a non denominational prayer.
The clause provides that “Con-
ss shall make no law respect-
an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercises
thereof.” Justice Meyer held,
however, that the regulation
calling for the opening of each
school day with prayer in the
Herricks School District was
"mandatory in form” and there
fore, "objectionable.”
In nis 46-page opinion, Justice
Meyer noted that the "Free-ex-
ercise” provsion of Federal and
State Constitutions required that
parents be advised of the adop
tion of the prayer, its wording
and the procedure to be followed
when it was said, “so that a con
scious choice can be made wheth
er a child shall or shall not par
ticipate.” Justice Meyer held
that “freedom of religion is not
an absolute right; the state may
1 impose restrictions if reasonable
in relation to the end sought to
be attained.”
Religious tensions and divi
sions over the saying of the pray
er do not constitute a constitu
tional reason for not permitting
it to be said, “Justice Meyer de
clared. He quoted from a deci
sion in 1839 by the Superinten
dent of Common Schools of New
BEHIND UN SCENES—By David Horowitz
to Haunt Summit
Jewish Problem
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) —
There is hardly a single aspect
related to the approaching
Khrushchev-Eisen h o w e r talks
which does not in some way af
fect or emanate from this world
organization—disarmament, nu
clear tests, military alliances,
world trade and, by virtue of
the Declaration of Human
Rights, the issue of Jewry with
in the Soviet Union.
No one is perhaps more acute
ly aware of the international
challenge which the Jewish
problem p>oses for mankind than
the keen, sharp and bluntly
frank Soviet Premier. The man
who, in the Berlin talks, shook
his fist at the revival of Nazi-
ism within the Federal Repub
lic and who used that issue as
his most potent argument for
his stand on Berlin, has a very
keen awareness of the historic
fact that the world’s first suspi
cion of Hitler began with that
tyrant’s anti-Jewish campaign.
It is, therefore, not surprising
that Khrushchev let it be known
that he may welcome a talk with
Jewish leaders while he is in
the United States on a good-will
mission. Though here at the UN
there is a feeling of confidence
that this may not be a purely
empty gesture devoid of poss
ible results, your correspondent
is not too optimistic. Then again
there is a fair chance of an
alleviation of the Jewish prob
lem in the Soviet Union. A great
deal will depond, not on what
the American Jewish leaders
will propose and request, but on
what President Eisenhower will
York State saying schools could
be oponed with prayer if it were
not made a matter of school dis
cipline.
The school board was reported
satisfied with the decision. The
five parents who initiated the
legal action said they were far
from satisfied and planned to ap
peal. “We’ll go to the Supreme
Court before we’re through,”
one said. George E. Rundquist,
executive director of the Civil
Liberties Union, said also that an
appeal would be made to the Ap
pellate Division of the State Su
preme Court. The reason for the
appeal, he explained, was that
the decision “does not clearly
hold that publicly supported
schools and facilities may not be
used for prayer and other religi
ous devotions, and because we
feel that even non-compulsory
regulations pertaining to the sav
ing of a prayer are unconstitu
tional.”
The “regents” prayer reads:
“Almighty God, we acknowledge
our dependence on Thee, and we
beg Thy blessing upon us, our
parents our teachers and our
country.”
or will not say on human rights
affecting Soviet Jews
At the Stockholm Convention
of the World Jewish Congress a
general feeling of hope and
confidence persisted—that Khru
shchev might heed the pleas for
a freer cultural Jewish life in
Russia and the right of Jewish
families to reunite with kin in
Israel.
Actually, these two pleas af
fect different categories of prob
lems. The right to reunite fami
lies involves a humanitarian
issue and may not be too diffi
cult to achieve, unless it is made
part of the general right of Rus
sian Jews to migrate to Israel.
In that case, the involvement of
Soviet policy in the complicated
strands of the Middle East may
confront KhrushcheV with the
wider problem of Arab relation
ships.
As to the cultural-religious
problem, a close examination of
Soviet attitudes through the
years reveals it to be part of the
t eneral relationship of the US-
R to the West on the one hand,
and the Communist- Capitalist
conflict on the other.
Like every country of Chris
tian faith or origin, Russia has
had its share of anti-Semitism,
a prejudice which does not die
even with the transition from a
Capitalist to a Socialist society,
notwithstanding all its vaunted
claims of absolute political and
cultural equality. Soviet states
men proudly boast that they
have brought a cultural equality
among their Republics which
was not dreamt of under the
Czars and their imperialism.
Why then do they not apply this
equality fully to the Jews as
well as to the Ukrainians, the
Georgians, the Uzbeks, etc.?
Russia’s Communist leaders
have always rejected the charge
of anti-Semitism. But under
Stalin and even now they could
never brook any doctrine such
as Zionism which is of an inter
national character and which
crosses the only international
doctrine they espouse — Com
munism. Zionism was to them
especially abhorrent when it be
came partly realized in the
Middle East. For with the real
ization of Israel came also the
fulfillment of the Universal
ideal enunciated in the univer
sal document known as the
Bible and which proclaims a
message of freedom and liberty
—Judaism — to all the inhabit
ants of the earth. It stands in
the way of international atheism
for which Khrushchev is the
spokesman, hence the issue is
far greater than what is noted
on tne political horizon.
These matters are vital in an
appraisal of the current situa
tion as to how far Khrushchev is
prepared to go or can go even
with the best will in the world;
for even this giant of absolute
power is bound like a Promethe
us to the realities of the basic-
issues of survival in the nuclear
world
That is why it is apparent
that much of the results will de
pend on how smoothly and how
successfully the Summit talks
themselves go in reducing inter
national tensions and with them
those fears in the Kremlin which
have resulted in limitations on
the development of Jewish life
in Russia.
The hope does remain that an
easing of the cold war will un
doubtedly result in greater tol
erance in general within the
USSR. We have already wit
nessed certain phases of this de
velopment. There is greater
freedom and there is no reason
why the Jewish peoples should
be singled out as an exception
which in effect becomes dis
crimination and a violation of
the very principles of equality
the Communists themselves
boast of.
BBG 17 Announces
“Fabulous Fry” Sept. 13
The B’nai B’rith Girls Chap
ter No. 176 presents “The Fabul
ous Fry” on Sunday, Sept. 13,
at Broadview Plaza from 5 to
7 p.m. Admission $1.00 per per
son.
The entire family—parents,
grandparents, neighbors, friends
—is invited. There will be prizes
and entertainment for all.
Tickets can be secured by call
ing Anita Schulman, TR. 4-8360.
JEWISH CALENDAR
•ROSH HASHONAH
Saturday, Oct. 3
•YOM KIPPUB
Mon., Oct 12
•SUKKOT
Sat, Oct 17
SIMHAT TORAH
Sun., Oct 25
•HANNUKAH
Sat, Dec 26
♦Holiday begins preceding
evening.
announcing the opening of
Binder s of Lenox Square
You are cordially invited to come see
the South’s most complete art center
• Mirrors and Wall Accessories of unusual design.
• Custom picture framing for each individual need
by craftsmen with 50 years experience.
• Pictures (framed or unframed) to grace every
room of your home.
• Artists’ materials for the amateur and
professional.
binder’s
"Art Center c* the South'
Three Other Location* to Serve You:
74 Broad St., N. W '
(Downtown)
Clairmont and N. Decatur Rd.
Peachtree and East Paces Ferry
(Buckhead)