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Friday, Her. 34, 1M1
ik foroes for this wot* . ! . Twm of VJX lead-
4Mb and profemtonaM #111, beginning this week,
fUlt i number of Jewish communities to aoek in
creased pledge* for IMS from larger contributor*
They will hold individual talks with each con
tributor, who this year donated $10,000 or more to
the UJ.A. ... Rabbi Herbert Friedman, executive
vice-chairman of the has just returned from
a flying visit" to Israel where he studied on the
■IN the needs there In connection with the in
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Gustav Oppenheimer, Sylvia Kletzky,
Kathleen Nease, Jeanne Loeb, Ruth Kahn
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carry the Harden of making the 1083 campaign
nt#et the increased requirements . ., What toe
Jnrs in. this country will be told by the two UJ-A.
tqpi leaders is that American Jewry is doing very
As compared with toe Jews in Israel in helping
to absorb the new immigrants ... It is true that
t#|. Jews in this country have contributed vast
sums of money for the absorption of newcomers
in Israel, but these sums have not even approxi-
ntated the cost of this vast undertaking ... In the
past 10 years less than one-third of the total cost
of immigration and absorption has been borne by
Jews living outside of Israel . . . The rest has been
borne by the people in Israel themselves, includ
ing the immigrants who have come to the country
in the past decade . . . The people of Israel today
pay for 75 percent of the housing for new immi
grants, for all the schools that their children at
tend, and tor many other public services available
to newcomers . . . Already weighed down by heavy
taxes—surpassing by far the rate which prevails
in the United States—the Israelis must now sub
scribe to a compulsory loan of $14,000,000 to pro
vide additional funds for the absorption of the
new immigrants ... In the light of such sacrifices
by the Jews in Israel for toe new immigrants, it
is felt that the Jews in the United States should
certainly do better in their contributions to the
UJ.A. than in the last two years . . .
The Multi-Facets of Israel Bonds
“Ceme to me for Charity, but don’t tell me how to invest asy
money!"
That’s the answer I received from a friend, when I recently
approached him to buy Israel Bonds.
My friend was wrong, but he had to be taught. By in
vesting in Israel Bonds, he would get a good return, but he
would also be doing a “Mitzvah.” If for no other reason than
to provide housing, Bonds should be bought. Homeless Refu
gees, have come by thousands to this Haven Of Freedom.
Were they to be left to sleep in tents? Certainly struggling
Israel had not sufficient funds to build the many homes need
ed. Bond dollars did help, and did create the necessary hous-
Once housed though, what about jobs? New factories had
to be built. Small and large industries were provided funds
from Bond dollars. Thus jobs were created, and respectable
family livlihoods resulted.
From these factories came the products not only to help
Israel grow, but also to be exported With exports, and im
ports, came the need for expanded port facilities. Bond dollars
helped create these port facilities.
My friend soon learned. Purchase of Israel Bonds is not
only a Mitzvah, but it was also going to bring him a good re
turn. Unfortunately enough Atlantians do not know the good
of Israel Bonds. It can only be hoped though, more Atlantians
will do good by purchasing Israel Bonds. Join those who are
buying. You’ll be glad you did.
—MAX RITTENBA^TM, Atlanta Communal Leader
By DAVID BENARONE
Kennedy—Beware of Trfc&ery
Conrad Adenauer is meeting with President
Kennedy this week.
Before he left Bonn he declared that he will
seek UJ3. consent for NATO — which includes West
Germany — to use atomic weapons without authori
sation from Wellington.
Behind all this is the fantastic story of Dr. Hans
Anton KroU, Adenauer’s envoy to Moscow, who
had been recalled, reprimanded and forgiven for
having made certain “tactless" statements in Krem
lin circles on questions relating to Bann-Moecow
relations and on the Issue of Berlin.
Kroll, a shrewd diplomat, had meek to say when
he met Khrushchev and Gromyko. Certainly some
deals were discussed — possibly not much unlike
those entered Into by Ribbenthrop and Molotov just
before the outbreak of World War EL
The late King Abdullah of Jordan once told a
Jewish writer that “politics are full of trick*.” Kroll
is a German politician who did not view with too
much disfavor an offer made by Mr. Khrushchev
on German unification and Berlin. Ha has served
German diplomacy for 40 years.
That there is a Bonn-Moscow deal afoot there
can be no doubt.
When Adenauer meets with President Kennedy
he will undoubtedly deny any such deal in the mak
ing. But Kroll let the cat out of the bag and The
White House should beware of trickery.
Let’s find out what Moscow has offered Bonn
in return for West German "neutrality."
Off the Record — by Nathan Ziprin
Trouble For Tew
The shocking disclosure that
six Jews had been arrested and
sentenced to long prison terms in
the Soviet Union—three in Len
ingrad and three in Moscow—can
have but one meaning—that the
present rulers of the Kremlin
have weeded out all the evils of
stalanism except its determina
tion to eradicate all forms of
Jewish living in the Soviet
Union, religious, social and cul
tural. In that connection it is
significant to note that while
Khrushchev at the recent inter
national communist parley in
Moscow had gone to toe pain of
enumerating all the sins of
Stalin and hit cohorts, he was
ominously silent about the Jew
ish purge, the death units against
Jewish writers, Jewish artists
and the Jewish word.
The world is too familiar with
the character of Soviet justice
to lend even the slightest cred
ence to the charges against the
six latest victims. Their sole
crime was being Jewish in the
sense of wanting to live as Jews,
of exchanging “ahalom aleichem”
greetings with Jewish visitors
from abroad and of being dedi
cated to Jewish continuity. The
very severity of the sentence im
posed on one of the victims would
seem to indicate that the high
powers in the Soviet Union were
determined to hold him up as an
example of what might happen
to other Jews if they thought
they were free to rejoice with
the Torah—as was toe case in
Leningrad, where some 12,000
Jews were reported to have par
ticipated in synagogue Simchat
Torah festivities.
Soviet apologists may argue
that It is improper to put such
an interpretation upon two iao-
We would be happy to be able
to agree with them, but the stark
facts presage another conclusion.
Label A. Katz, national chair
man of B’nai B’rith, has just re
vealed that Soviet authorities in
Moscow had directed the dis
banding of the governing council
of the only Jewish theological
seminary in Russia. As far as is
known not a single member of
that council has been convicted
of any "crime.” What is the mo
tivation behind the virtual liqui
dation of the only institution in
the country that was hoped to
meet, albeit in the smallest meas
ure, the spiritual needs of religi-
out Jewry in the Soviet Union?
Beyond doubt—as the Jews in
the Soviet Union are said to in
terpret it—it is “an effort to sup
press further what is already a
sadly diminished practice of
Judaism in the Soviet.” Coupled
with the arrests, the liquidation
of the Vaad Yeshiva may well
presage a new anti-Semitic
purge.
Maurice Hindus, in a percep
tive analysis of the Jewish situa
tion in his recently published
book House Without a Roof, ob
served that the Jews in the So
viet Union were skeptical about
improvement of their lot despite
the so-called easing of the cli
mate in the country and that
their sole “hope is that it will
not worsen.” That hope, too, has
now unfortunately been shat
tered.
We Jews are both a hopeful
and gullible people. Although
these new developments point to
critical days for Soviet Jewry, we
cannot yield to the nightmare
that our estimated 3,000,000 peo
ple in the Soviet are doomed to
vanishing. A dialogue with lisa-
cow by responsible Jewish lead
ership may help, but is Moscow
in its present mood prepared to
open its doors to a Jewish pil
grimage?
Comment
“The Devil and the Jews”
1 was happy to find “The Devil and the Jews”
by the late Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg enlisted in
the paperback revolution. It is a work of which I
had heard much and had not previously been able
to find in print and it does not disappoint A per
suasive, excellently-written study, it traces the roots
of modern anti-Semitism to the medieval demon
ology. We see how the smoky, fork-tailed image of
the Jew emerges in the 13th century and pene
trates the collective unconscious of the European
mind, where, to an extent it subsists even to the
present day. The Jew as the Great adversary of
Christian theology seems to have served a purpose
like that of the Antithesis in the Marxian theory of
dialectical materialism: as the opposition principle
in history. As Rabbi Trachtenberg shows, the Jews
was the palpable and visable personification of the
Christian image of evil. The New Testament itself
and the Jew’s peculiar vulnerable position in so
ciety, alike singled him out as the One against
whom the disciples and saints had warned. He
could most easily be charged with collusion with
the Devil (when, indeed, he was not regarded as the
Devil himself) and with black magic, with poison
ing the wells, with sipping Gentile baby’s blood,
with purloining and desecrating the holy water,
and other illegal pastimes ... we should note that
most of these assaults lacked the official sanction
of the highest echelons of the church.
ALBERT FRIEDMAN, American Examiner
When “Friends” Fight
The sounds of discord emanating from those two
erstwhile cronies, Egypt and Syria, are indeed
music to Israel’s ears. Having spent more than a
decade attacking Israel in repeated bursts of fren
zied, violent propaganda, the two Arab nations are
now turning against each other with almost the
same bitterness. Syria has accused the United Arab
Republic of brutality and subversion among its
neighbors, while a clandestine radio station in
Egypt urges Syrians to rise up against their new
regime. Probably the most intriguing charge Egypt
has hurled at its former partner is that Syria dis
played weakness toward Israel, and shortly after
the Syrian coup was accomplished, Israel resumed
work on the diversion of the waters of the River
Jordan. If we, in the U.S., enjoy a rift between
Red China and Russia, think how much the Israelis
must be enjoying the name calling between Egypt
and Syria.
THE JEWISH EXPONENT, from an Editorial
Democracy’s Survival
— WHF —
By AMI RECCA
Yad Vashem
Next month, Americans who have only heard
and read about the Hitlerian holocaust will have
an opportunity to see something that will bring
the unspeakable and horrible calamity closer to
them.
On December 20 an exhibit will open — the first
of its kind in America — at the Jewish Museum of
the Jewish Theological Seminary which will por
tray in documents, momentos, photographs, relics,
etc., the holocaust in which six million Jewish men,
women and children were consumed.
The sponsor is Tad Vashem — the central pub
lic institution, authorized in 1053 by the Knesset
of Israel to foster the eternal remembrance of the
immortal Six Million.
Two representatives of Tad Vashem, Alexander
Gorami and Moshe Kadec, are already here making
the preparations of the unique exhibit — trans
planted directly from the 21 million items at the
“Mount of Remembrance” in Jerusalem.
As Mr. Gorami declared in an interview with
this writer, Tad Vashem “has become a warning
and a witness for the martyred and heroic victims
as well as a perpetual accuser of their tormentors.
It is charged with duty of keeping the Nazi geno
cide crime in the consciousness of humanity and
especially of the Jewish community.”
The term “Tad Vashem" is taken from IsaUh
chapter 56, verse 3, and it means literally “a hand
(monument) and a name.” The reference is to the
proselyte who keeps the Covenant. He will have
recognition in God’s Temple “better than sons and
daughters (of Israel),” The whole chapter, it is well
to remember, stresses universality and speaks of
the final peace on earth when “My house shall be
called a house of prayer for all peoples” (verse 7).
People are prone to forget quickly. Tad Vashem
is not allowing mankind to forget the Six Million
nor the murderers, many of whom are still alive
and flourish.
And we ask: Shall the nation which murdered
almost one third of our people be given the atom
bomb? Especially when Nazism still thrives there?
No, President Kennedy!