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Par* Eleven
Friday, November 28, 1859
TUB 8O0TBEEN ISRAELITE
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Mrs. Miriam Freund, center,
is shown at the airport where
she was welcomed by Atlanta
Hadassah leaders (1. to r.): Mrs.
Laurel Weiner, Southeastern
Region president; Mrs. Sarah
Levin, former chapter president;
Mrs. Sarah Alterman, present
chapter president, and Mrs.
Louella Shapiro, national vice
president. Mrs. Freund address
ed both the donor dinner and
brunch in Atlanta during which
the chapter announced collec
tion of more than $20,000 for
its Youth Aliyah quota. Mrs. I.
D. Shapiro was later honored
by her husband with a gift of
$600, the amount needed to take
care of a Youth Aliyah child for
a year, as a “Mother in Israel.”
Sam Rothberg also donated a
years care to the fund in honor
of his sister, Mrs. Leonard H.
Gidding, who thus was also
created an IMA. Later Dave
Alterman added the name of his
wife Sarah to the list of IMA’s.
Public Judges Religion by Individual
Behavior, Orthodox Leader Says
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ (JTA)
—The possibility of a “massive
return” by American Jewry to
the “religious treasures of Juda
ism” may depend on the role of
the Jewish homemaker in the
revitalization of the American
Jewish home, Rabbi Immanuel
Jakobovitz, former Chief Rabbi
of Ireland and now of the Fifth
Avenue Synagogue, New York,
told the 36th annual national
convention of the women's
branch of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of Ameri
ca. Some 700 delegates attended
the three-day convention at
Chelsea Hotel here.
"Former generations of Jewish
leaders could, to a large extent,
afford to ignore public opinion,”
the Orthodox leader said. “Peo
ple did not judge the truth of
their teachings by the endorse
ment of popular acclaim.” But
the success of present-day lead
ers, he said, “is altogether de
pendent on carrying the public
with them. These conditions de
mand that Judaism, as taught
and propagated by its teachers,
shall not only be the truth but
appear to be the truth among
the masses of the Jewish peo
ple."
Because the “value of Judaism
today is commonly assessed less
by its teachings than by the
conduct of those who profess to
live a Jewish life,” Rabbi Jako
bovitz said, “it is by such be
havior that religion is measured
in popular Jewish opinion.”
Rabbi Emanuel Rackman,
president of the Rabbinical
Council of America, told the con
vention that “in terms of strength
.and might, we must admit only
a minority of Jews in America
are, in faith and practice, Ortho
dox. We must also admit our in
stitutions do not have glamor,
financial means, public relations
media, or any of the externals
which in modern society are
equated with success. However,
we . have that which makes
those who are questing for final
answers, turn to us.
JWV Auxiliary
Bas Mitzvah
Ladies Auxiliary of the Jew
ish War Veterans will honor
their 12-year members, on No
vember 23rd, 8:30 p.m. at the
Briarchff Hotel.
A Bas Mitzvah program u
planned. Rabbi Sydney is.. Moss-
man will conduct the services.
All husbands of the Auxiliary
membership are invited.
A social and dance will follow
the program.
Those members will be honor
ed are: Mrs. Ida Solomon, Jen
nie Vrono, Shirley Ruskin, Elea
nor Schwartz, Pearl Frankel,
Muriel Gershon, Frances Groont,
Rose Rappaport, Rosalie Gluck,
Rose Chaite, Mildred Bleiberg,
Ruth Unell, Jean Sloan, Sari
Kinsler, Frances Horwitz, Helen
Lips, Bea Blass, Dorothy Rotter,
Mamie Klausman, Jean Arno-
vitz and Miss Saddle Katz.
“However, once they have
had contact with us they can no
longer be satisfied with inter
pretations of Judaism that are
designed principally to make
them feel at home, relieve feel
ings of guilt, or help them to
adjust to modern civilization
with Jewish trappings.”
Participating on the program
Tuesday was Mrs. David Kahn,
Atlanta, president of the South
eastern Region of the Women’s
Branch. She chaired a workshop
on chapter and Sisterhood activi
ties.
Ben-Gurion Warns
Of Gravity of
Arab Threats
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Premier
David Ben-Gurion has warned
members of the United Jewish
Appeal study mission here that
Arab threats to annihilate Is
rael “are more serious than you
or even the Israeli people real
ize.” He expressed confidence
that Israel would break through
the wall of hatred, blockade and
boycott, but declared it would
not be an easy task. “Perhaps,”
he commented, “we will have to
pay as dearly for it as we paid
eleven years ago” when Israel
won its independence by fight
ing off invasion by the Arab
armies.
The Premier’s sober descrip
tion of Israel’s security situation
was offered Sunday at a di»ner
he tendered the 115-man Ameri
can delegation at which he out
lined the major tasks lying ahead
of Israel. He told the delegation
that “I do not have the slightest
doubt that in the next few years
there will be a mass immigration
of many hundreds of thousands
into this country. They will
come,” he emphasized, "and Is
rael will absorb them.”
The Israeli leader declared
there were two million Jews in
Asia, Africa and East Europe
“for whom the only salvation to
live as Jews and human beings
is to come to Israel.” The doors
from those countries are closed,
he said, but the governments
will have to open them sooner
or later.
Mr. Ben-Gurion summarized
Israel’s major tasks during the
coming years as the conquest of
the desert, reception and absorp
tion of hundreds of thousands of
new immigrants, the welding of
immigrants from one hundred
different lands into “a single
great united people,” clearing of
the slums and labor camps,
establishment of peace and se
curity along the frontiers, and
conversion of Israel into one of
the world’s greatest centers of
learning and research.
Among the measures Israel
had to pursue in the conquest
of the desert, Mr. Ben-Gurion
said, was the scheme to use the
waters of the Jordan River,
utilization of solar energy, de
salination of sea water and ex
ploration of the hidden mineral
wealth of the Negev.
BEHIND UN SCENES—by David Horowitz
Another Decade For Hate
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) —
This world organization last
week and this has come face to
face once more—as in all previ
ous years since Israel’s War of
Independence in 1948—with the
Palestine problem, but this time
with the possibility that some
delegates may demand a show
down on the question of peace
in the area.
Representatives of the 82 na
tions on the UN Special Political
Committee last week were
plunged into the Palestine
“quicksand” with the dying man
date of UNRWA and the need to
renew it in I960 at issue. It was
a cold-water plunge in the face
of Secretary General Hammar-
skjold’s declaration that the near
one million Arab refugees must
remain the responsibility of the
UN forever, if necessary. UNR
WA’s chief John H. David’s
plunge into Outer Space was not
as deep. He indicated that the
UN funds may be needed for at
least ten more years. That, for
the UN, is as good as forever.
The other hard fact presented
by Davis is that the refugees
will accept no solution other
than a return “home.”
Thus the nations of the world
are faced with the unpleasant
chore of renewing the UNRWA
mandate with the prospect that
they may have to shell out re
lief funds for an indefinite period
—a prospect which some of
them frankly don’t like. The
UAR delegate has gone further
and stated that future aid must
not be pivoted on the precarious
perch of annual charity hand
outs. He rather arrogantly de
manded that the program be in-
H olid ay Magazine
Features “Israel”
“Israel is the most exciting
country to visit in the modern
world,” says Robert Graves, the
noted poet and novelist, writing
in the December issue of Holi
day Magazine.
The author, recently returned
from an extensive visit to Is
rael, says he went there “be
cause I wanted to see for myself
how the Jews have adapted
themselves to independence af
ter two thousand years of dis
persion among usually hostile
nations—forced to sing low,
smother feelings, pretend the
Gentile was invariably right.”
His 7,500-word article, entitled
“I Discover Israel,” takes read
ers on tour of the new nation,
from Tel Aviv to the Dead Sea
and from Eilat to Galilee. He
examines the cultural and in
tellectual life, the science and
industry, the variety of races and
languages, the collective settle
ments, and the progress and
problems of a people he calls
“the toughest and most vital hu
man beings I have come across
anywhere.”
A supplementary section —-
Notes on Israel—provides useful
information for tourists: entry
requirements; currency regula
tions; climate, by seasons and
area; the Sabbath; and shopping
tips.
The magazine’s cover picture
and twenty other colorful photo
graphs by Arnold Newman com
plete the story of this remark
able nation and of “the fighter-
citizens who do Israel’s work and
guard its freedom.”
Saudi Arabia Seeks
To Close Akaba
To Israeli Shipping
LONDON, (JTA)—King Saud
of Saudi Arabia started a new
drive this week to secure with
drawal of the United Nations
Emergency Forces from Sharm-
el-Sheikah overlooking the Strait
of Tiran, in a move to close the
Gulf of Akaba to Israeli ship
ping and extend the Arab block
ade to the port of Akaba.
Through his political counsel
lor, Jamal al Husseini, a former
Palestinian and relative of the
ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, the King
informed the foreign press at
his capital of Riyadh that he
had written to President Eisen
hower, officially and privately,
calling on him to take action to
secure withdrawal of the Sharm-
el-Sheikh garrison. Saudi Arabia
is one of the four countries abut
ting on the Gulf of Akaba, the
others being Egypt, Jordan and
Israel.
According to the Husseini
statement, President Eisenhower
“promised” in 1957 that no ag
gressor in the Suez campaign
would be allowed to annex any
territory. “We are still waiting
and urging that this promise be
fulfilled,” he said.
corporated as part of the UN
annual budget or that the need
ed funds be drawn from the UN
Capital Fund. With such ac
ceptance, he said, the stigma of
“perpetual charity” may be re
moved from the refugees.
There is no likelihood that
the delegates will challenge the
principle that the UN must
maintain its responsibility for
the refugees resulting from the
negative actions taken by the
Arabs themselves following the
Partition decision. Likewise,
when pinned down after much
bargaining, the delegates will
not deny the necessity of re
newing the UNRWA mandate.
But they will do it unwillingly
and they will certainly balk at
making such commitments “for
ever” or even for another de
cade.
Full discussion of the Ham-
marskjold Report may become a
surprise element in this whole
debate on UNRWA. His Report
provides a solution, and dele-
gates value Hammarskjold’s
ideals too highly to overlook or
pass by a proposal which may
hold the seed for solving the
whole Palestine problem once
and for all. The Arabs, of course,
are presently almost completely
ignoring those aspects of Dag’s
Report which deal with the re
integration of the refugees into
the economic body whole of the
host countries.
The debate on the refugees in
fact on the higher political issues
of the whole Palestine case in
which the refugee issue is mired.
A two-hour blast against Israel
issued forth from the rabid
Ahmad Shukairy whose sepen-
tine ijago “eloquence,” though
derided by some and belittled
by others, was not belittled by
Israel whose dynamic spokes
man Michael Comay rushed to
reply to his hammer-blows in
the Committee even as Arthur
Lourle had rushed to do so in
the general debate of the As
sembly.
In the Committee, as in the
Assembly, Shukairy repeatedly
threw down the challenge with
a thud that Israel accept peace
negotiations with the Arabs on
the basis of the totality of the
UN resolutions — even those
which the majority of delegates
recognize as being altogether
outmoded and therefore unwork
able in the present Middle East
set up.
Shukairy’s “offer” didn’t get
any further than a sharp ex
change with Comay on the
whose-to-blame of the Palestine
story. Israel, of course, as the
UN knows, is prepared at any
time, any place, to enter into
talks with the Arabs. But not on
the basis of the defunct UN reso
lutions as a prior condition. For
Israel this entails, as this column
has so often indicated, a con
cession of territory, the inter
nationalization of Jerusalem, and
the creation of a powerful “fifth
column” within the little state.
In other words—and this Shuk
airy and the other Arabs know—
the destruction of Israel via the
UN resolutions.
Actually, an Israel-Arab con
ference, even without conditions,
could not possibly erase the mul
tiple and sometimes contradic
tory contents of the resolutions.
And a conference organized on
the basis of the resolutions does
not necessarily mean that the
Arab version of them is the
right one. It is on this ground
that delegates, facing another
bill for refugees in a “forever”
series of down-payments, may
try to rear some kind of struc
ture for some kind of negotia
tions.
Whatever may develop, one
thing is certain, the Hammarsk-
jold Report, carrying with it a
seed for the solution of the
whole refugee problem, will be
given priority by most of the
UN member states.
BY HENRY IEONARO
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