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Friday, April 5, 1963
THI SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pace Twenty-Three
| Poet Confesses
I 'Errors' to Red
Writers Union
LONDON, (JTA) — Yevgeny
Yevtushenko, the Russian poet
who was forced under official
Soviet pressures to revise his
poem “Babi Yar,” confessed his
“errors” at a meeting this week
in Moscow of the Soviet Writers
■A Union it was reported here from
■jff, the Soviet capital.
“Babi Yar,” which relates the
tragedy of the Nazi murder of
more than 80,000 Jewish men,
women and children in a ravine
by that name near Kiev during
the German occupation of Rus
sia, was widely interpreted in
the West as a denunciation of
continuing anti-Semitism in the
Soviet Union. On a visit to Paris
last month, the poet admitted
he had made changes in the
Southern
Program
The biennial conference of the
Southern Section of the Nation
al Jewish Welfare Board will be
underway when lay and profes
sional representatives of Jewish
Community Centers and Jewish
communities from eleven South
ern States, comprising the South
ern Section, convene in Dallas,
Texas, on April 26-28.
Mrs. Milton Sirkin of Miami,
conference chairman, indicated
that the work of the Conference
will be carried out through a
series of plenary meetings, gen
eral sessions and highly focused
workshops. The conference will
give particular emphasis to the
specialness of the Jewish Com
munity Center, to help the Jew
ish person and his family main
tain their individuality and per
sonal identity in the face of pre
sent day pressures, to standardize
personal behavior and modes of
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poem He said he had done so
because the West had used the
original version for a propa
ganda effort to “pretend" that
anti-Semitism was still wide
spread in the Soviet Union. The
effect of the changes was to di
minish the centrality of the
Jewish victims in the atrocity
Yevtushenko told the Soviet
writers in Moscow that publica
tion of portions of his autobio
graphy in the French newspaper
“Express,” which contained some
general comments on Russian
life and literature was a “ma
jor error” prompted by “thought
lessness.” He also said that his
aim in writing his autobiogra
phy was to refute “the reputa
tion of an anti-Soviet rebel
which the Western press has as
cribed to me.”
It was recalled that Premier
Khrushchev had publicly criti
cized the poet for his treatment
of the theme of “Babi Yar.” The
Premier claimed that the vic
tims of the tragedy were not all
Jews.
The Value of The Talmud
By BOB BREWER
(Standard Feature Syndicate)
What is the value of the Tal
mud to the modem Jew? Its
greatest service was rendered in
the Middle Ages, when literature
was scant and copies of the few
books in existence were still
rarer. During the centuries when
the Jew was shut out of the
world’s culture and locked be
hind ghetto slums, then the Tal
mud became his recreation and
his consolation, feeding his hun
gry mind and his unswerving
faith, The Talmud largely form
ed the Jewish character, making
him a keert dialectitian tempered
with a thoughtful touch. It fost
ered his patience and his sense
JWB Biennial
Details Announced
living. In addition, participants
will examine the Jewish Com
munity Center’s broad communal
responsibilities in a changing
Jewish sociology.
Meyer Bass, executive director
of the Jewish Community Center
in Milwaukee, and the current
president of the Wisconsin State
Welfare Council, will lead a spec
ial two-part session on “The Fu
ture of American Jewry and the
Place of the Center.” Mr. Bass
was the first recipient of the Is
rael Residence Fellowship given
to a qualified member of the
I N Hears Israel
To Train Troops
For Congo
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
The Republic of the Congo (Leo
poldville) announced here this
week that Israel will form a
paratroop corps for the Congo
lese National Army as part of a
plan for the complete reorgan
ization and retrainmg of all of
the Congo’s armed forces.
At the same time, it became
known that the Congo plan, in
volving bilateral agreements, be
tween the Leopoldville govern
ment and Italy, Norway, Canada,
the United States, Belgium and
Israel has already been laid by
Secretary General U Thant be
fore the UN’s Congo Advisory
Committee.
The Congo Government’s an
nouncement here confirmed re
ports that several NATO powers
plus Israel will aid in the re
organization and retraining of the
country’s armed forces. The an
nouncement stated that the plans
had been formally made public
at Leopoldville bv Maj. Gen.
Joseph Mobutu, commander-tfn-
chief of the Congolese Army.
Under the plan, Italy will or
ganize the Congolese air force,
Norway will train officers for a
Navy, Canada will provide tech
nical instruction, Belgium will be
in charge of establishing and
running military schools, Israel
“will handle formation of a para
trooper corps,” while the United
States, which will not participate
directly in the training program,
will furnish equipment.
Jewish Communal Servcie pro
fession. He is an outstanding
Jewish communal worker in the
Jewish Community Center field,
who has written and lectured ex
tensively on the field of social
work and Jewish community life.
In addition to this two-part pre
sentation, he will also address the
professional Center workers in
the South, during the Southern
Chapter’s meeting of the Nation
al Association of Jewish Center
Workers (NAJCW). The NAJCW
meeting will be held immediately
following the Biennial Confer
ence.
Joe Herman Golman of Dal
las, Conference co-chairman,
announced that Conference ar
rangements in Dallas will be
led by Philip Vogel and Sam
Arcus, president and executive
director, respectively, of the Ju
lius Schepps Community Center.
They will be assisted by the Ar
rangements Committee chaired
by Milton Rubin and include
Mesdames: Minnie Solomon, Bea
Bruneman, Helen Schlesinger and
Elaine Molny. The Hospitality
Committee is co-chaired by Mor
ris Schwiff and Frances Golman,
assisted by Mesdames Shirley
Rubin, Sarah Munves and Mar
ian Richman. The Transportation
Committee which will be assisted
by the Center Women’s Service
Organization, is chaired by Wal
ter Stone and co-chaired by Ruth
Jacobson. The Publicity Commit
tee is headed by Mesdames Rene
Stanley and Thelma Vogel.
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of humor and kept alive his
ideals.
The precepts in the Talmud
are compared to a large lamp,
the law of God to a light. The
lamp, however, gives light only
as long as it contains oil. So the
man who observes the precepts,
receives his reward while per
forming them. The law, however,
is a Ner Tamid — a perpetual
light; it is a protection forever to
the one who studies it, for it is
written: "When thou walkest,
the law will guide thee; when
thou best down, it will watch
over thee; and when thou awak-
enest, it will converse with thee
— in the life to come.” Here is a
typical Talmudic story;
A traveler upon his journey
passed through the forest upon
a dark and gloomy night. He
journeyed in dread; he greatly
feared the robbers who infested
the route he was traveling. He
feared that he might slip and fall
into some unseen ditch or pit-
fall on the way; he feared, too,
the wild beasts which he knew
were about him. By chance, he
discovered a pine torch and
lighted it and its warm gleam af
forded him great relief. No
longer did he fear brambles or
pitfalls, for he could see his way
before him. But the dread of
robbers and wild beasts was still
upon him, nor left him until
morning’s dawn — the rising of
the sun. Still he was uncertain
of his path until he emerged
from the forest and reached the
cross-roads, when peace returned
to his heart.
The darkness in which the
man walked was the lack of re
ligious knowledge. The torch he
discovered, typifies God’s pre
cepts, which aided him on the
way until he saw the sun rise,
which is compared to God’s holy
word — the Bible. Still, while
man is in the forest (symbolizing
the world), he is not entirely At
peace; his heart is weak and he
may lose the right path; but
when he reaches the crow-roads
(death), then may we proclaim
him truly righteous, and ex
claim: “A good name is more
fragrant than rich perfume, and
the day of death is better than
the day of one’s birth.”
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