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THE IODTBIIN ISRAELITE
Friday, November 13, 1959
The Southern Israelite
Published Weekly by Southern Newspaper Enterprises, 390 Court-
land St., N.E., Atlanta 3, Georgia, TR. 6-8249, TB. 6-8240. Entered
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LINE is 5 P.M., FRIDAY, but material received earlier will have
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FOR GERMANS: AN END TO RETICENCE
U.S. Welcomes
Mapai Victory
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A
highly-placed U.S. Government
source last week welcomed the
Mapai party’s election success
as heralding greater stability
for Israel.
This source expressed a view
that the election results might
bring an increased measure of
consolidation of authority that
GUEST EDITORIAL
Knesset—
We are glad to note that the new president of West
Germany, Dr. Heinrich Luebke, has no reticence in talking
about recent history. “A great deal remains to be done to
remove completely the rubble of the wretched past,” he re
cently said in a message to the Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith. He also said that he hopes to deepen relation
ships of “mutual confidence” between himself and Jews the
world over, relationships which are a “precious trust be
queathed me by my predecessor.”
Unfortunately, many other Germans do have reticence
in talking about past history. Dr. Luebke’s message came in
response to a series of suggestions offered by the League’s
national chairman, Henry E. Schultz, for improving the qual
ity of German education as it pertains to the teaching of
history and democratic values. The suggestions were based
on a report by Nathan C. Belth, an ADL official, recently re
turned from Germany.
Mr. Belth explains why Germans in general and teachers
in particular have trouble in talking about the past. Almost
inevitably, when the dark deeds of the Hitler period are
aired, the younger generation must respond with the ques
tion: “Where were you when all this was going on?"
Where, indeed? Older Germans—to retain their status
and respect with the younger generation—tend to seal off
or divert knowledge of the past. If they do have deep guilt
feelings, they bury them. The result, as Mr. Belth reports,
is that “the older generation, in large part, has not yet been
able to come to terms with its past and, therefore, cannot
transmit to German youth a comprehensive evaluation of
the Nazi years.”
We agree that this is a major reason why German
schools shy away from the subject, why German youth to
day barely knows about the Hitler period or — worst yet —
thinks that Hitler did more good than harm. Basic to all
democratic education is knowledge of the past—with all its
lessons, despite all its horrors. An end to reticence about
“the wretched past” is a prerequisite for improving the
democratic health of Germany. We hope that Dr. Luebke
persists in this “end to reticence.”
(Continued from page 1)
for the posts expires on Febru
ary 18.
Four members of the eight-
man committee will be appoint
ed by the Government and four
by the Rabbinate. The 72-man
body which will name the Chief
Rabbis, will be composed of 24
representatives of the country’s
municipalities and 48 appointees
of the Rabbinate. The electors
will vote for a successor to the
late Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Her
zog, while the present Rishon
Le Zion (Sephardi Chief Rabbi),
Yitzhak Nissim, will be up for
re-election.
The principal candiates to suc
ceed Chief Rabbi Herzog are
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik of
Boston, and the Chief Chaplain
of the Armed Forces, Rabbi
Shlomo Goren. Rabbi Soloveit
chik has not yet revealed wheth
er he would be a candidate.
JEWISH CALENDAR
•HANNUKAH
Sat., Dec. 26
•PIJRIM
Sun., Mar. 13
♦PASSOVER
Tues., April 12, First day
Tues., April 19, Last day
♦SHAVOUT
Wed., June 1
•ROSH I1ASHONAH
Thurs., Sept. 22
♦YOM KIPPUR
Sat., Oct. 1
♦Holiday begins
preceding evening
may facilitate Israel’s handling
of difficult problems. In general,
the election was viewed here as
one that would aid the Ben
Gurion Government in coping
more effectively with problems,
both domestic and foreign.
(The victory of the Mapai
part in Parliamentary elections
was received with great satis
faction in British Foreign Office
circles the JTA reported from
London. Sources in the Foreign
Office emphasized that the re
sults were considered a contribu
tion to Middle East regional
stability. The Mapai results,
following on the re-election or
Prime Minister Harold MacMil
lan, indicated that no change
was likely in Anglo-Israel rela
tions which are now considered
harmonious and without any
special problems).
Survey Tells of
Religious Resisters
Among VS. Jews
NEW YORF£, (JTA) — One-
third of the population of the
United States—Jews, Catholics
or Protestants—are r e 1 i g i o us
“resisters,” in the sense that
they do not participate in the
programs of their faiths and “are
virtually unkown to rabbi, priest
or minister,” according to the
results of a survey announced
here by a prominent Christian
church statistician.
The survey, conducted in Nas
sau County, in suburban New
York, was summarized by the
Rev. Leland Gartrell, executive
secretary of the department of
church planning and research of
the Protestant Council of the
City of New York. The "resis
ters,” according to Mr. Gartrell,
donate no monies to the organ
ized religious communities of
their faiths, and rarely attend
synagogue or church except
when necessary, as when there
is a funeral in the family.
Mr. Gartrell’s figures show
that, in Nassau County, there
are now 329,000 Jews — but he
emphasizes that this is “a cul
tural count,” and does not sep
arate practicing Jews from Jews
who are “resisters." Percentage
wise, the figures show, the Nas
sau County “cultural count” of
Jews has increased in the last
seven years, by comparison with
the overall population. The Jews
numbered 15.8 percent of the
total population in 1952, went up
to 26.5 percent last year, and
increased slightly to 26.6 percent
this year.
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