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IBI SODTBIIN ISRAELITE
Friday, August 9, IMS
Comments . . .
—WUP—
KENNEDY’S HISTORIC MOVE
Five years ago a Senator named Kennedy wrote
a pamphlet the theme of which was summed up
its title, “A Nation of Immigrants.” As so many
others have done before and since, he pointed out
that the post-World War I immigration law was
discriminatory because of its national origins quota
system, whose only test was whether or not an
immigrant was bom in the right place. And then
he concluded: The most serious defect in the pres
en law is not that it is restrictive but that many
of the restrictions are based on false and unjust
premises. President Kennedy strongly supported
his own long-held views on immigration ... in
his message to Congress calling for the abolition
of the quota system within five years . . . The
diversity of America’s population is one of its
strengths. Immigrants from everywhere conquered
this vast country, created its riches, contributed
to its armed forces in war and peace. Today we
know that each immigrant’s worth is best judged
by personal qualities and skills, not by group
Ptereottyt>es(. Adoption of the President’s wise
recommendations would be an act of justice and
wisdom, as well as evidence that we fully under
stand the true nature of the changed world-
now grown so small—in which all humanity lives
New York Times
KHRUSHCHEV ON KENNEDY’S
SPEECH
In conclusion I should like to say that as a
whole President Kennedy’s speech makes a favor
able impression. We have noted with satisfaction
the call for better relations between the U.S.
and the USSR—his pronouncement ‘‘that we must
re-examine our own attitude toward the Soviet
Union.' We agree with the President’s statement
that the peoples of our countries have a mutual
interest in the maintenance of peace. The people
of the Soviet Union respect the gifted and indus
trious people of the United States and want to
have friendly relations with them. We are pro
foundly convinced that President Kennedy’s call
for better relations between countries and an end
to the “cold war,” for better relations between
the peoples of the Soviet Union and the United
States, will have the support of the absolute
majority of the American people, and the peoples
of the Soviet Union have always stood and do
stand on these positions. We strive for the practi
cal application of good relations between countries
but to achieve this it is necessary to stint no
effort in the struggle against those forces that
stand on positions of the “cold war” and a solu
tion of disputes through engineering wars . . .
Nikita S. Khrushchev, Replying
to Newsmen’s Queries
Talmudic Treasures
COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED
By JACOB L. FRIEND - i
Three different types of remedies cure
chills, depending on the individual: fat
roasted meat and strong wine; bathing in
exceedingly hot water; exercise. (In the Old
Country a good schwitzbad (Turkish steam-
bath) was an excellent remedy.
Elisha the prophet resuscitated the Shun-
amite’s son, who had heat prostration and
died, by covering him and then breathing
into his nostrils and administering artificial
respiration. When the lad’s flesh became
warm, he walked him up and down until the
boy sneezed seven times, and then recovered.
(II Kings, xi.)
Spleen should be chewed and then thrown
away, as it is good for the teeth, but bad for
the intestines. Leek should be cooked and
swallowed without chewing, as it is good for
intestines, but bad for the teeth.
Straightening infants’ limbs through chiro
practic methods was known in talmudic times,
as is recorded in Volume Sabbath 147b.
Jewish Law, and its interpretation by the
ancient sages of the Talmud is concerned not
only with the religious or moral aspect of
behavior, but also with the physical, as is
clearly stated by Rabbi Pinchas ben Jair in
Volume Avodah Zarah 20b who declares:
“Physical cleanliness leads to spiritual pur
ity,” and Rabbi Hillel in Va’Yikrah Rabbah
34 says the following: “It is a religious duty
to pay attention to hygiene. For if someone
is paid to clean the statues of kings, how
much more should I, who am created in the
divine image and likeness take care of my
body!” In volume Sabbath 50b it is stated:
“One should wash his face, hands and feet
every day out of respect for his Maker.”
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
and THE SUNCOAST JEWISH NEWS
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The Southern Israelite Invites literary contributions and correspond
enre but la not to be considered as sharing the views expressed by
writers. DEADLINE is 5 P.M., FRIDAY, but material received earlier
will have a much better chance of publication.
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Gustav Oppenheimer, Kathleen Nease, Jeanne Loeb
Georgia Press Association
Jewish
Telegraphic
Agency
7 Arts Features
World Press
Atlanta Center Pioneers With
Outstanding Day Camp Facilities
We’ve grown ecstatic of late years over such recent addi
tions to Southern camping as the Young Judaea camp at
Hendersonville, SEFTY camp at Cleveland, Ga. and the
Barney Medintz camp in the same vicinity.
Now, comes the day of the Atlanta Jewish Community
Center and we’re beside ourselves with praise for the modem
facilities, the spaciousness of its play-study buildings, the
beautiful pool and the expansiveness provided at 40-acre
Zaban Park.
The community owned day camp fills a long-felt need
for Atlanta youngsters and the men and women who guided
its development had an ambitious eye on the future as well
as on contemporary requirements.
Location and facilities offer vision and potential for use
by Center members beyond the summer months. Probably
the most outstanding day camp site in the nation today,
AJCOMCE has an adaptability and scope which can expand
in the decades ahead with an expanding community.
We congratulate AJCC officials for this fine addition to
their city’s communal facilties. It can well serve as a model
for other communities in the south and nation.
McCarran-W alter
Horror Must End
President Kennedy follows in the footsteps of Presidents
Truman and Eisenhower with his proposals for the revision
of the McCarran-Walter Act which has brought much dis
grace upon our country and the provisions of which have been
responsible for many hardships.
The numerous detailed recommendations for the liberal
ization of the measure that was born of a lack of apprecia
tion of human values and possibly of much malice are less
important than the serious intention to put an end to legisla
tion that is so unfair that it distinguishes between peoples of
differing origins, that places obstacles in the path of people
who seek havens of refuge from the most threatening perse
cutions, that makes it difficult for people to defend their
just rights even in the freest countries because of the stigmas
it imposes on people under suspicion.
Because of the injustices that are inherent in the Mc
Carran-Walter Act, this nation has been held in contempt in
many European countries. The medieval ideas incorporated
in this anti-immigrants law militate more to the detriment
of the United States than anything else for which we are
blamed abroad.
The McCarran-Walter Act made it possible for bigots to
raise the Communist bogey against non-citzens whenever
they chose to institute a witch hunt. It created fear and in
stigated terror among immigrants seeking admission to our
shores and in the ranks of non-citizens in this country against
whom all kinds of libels could be instituted under the exist
ing law.
Will President Kennedy succeed in securing the coope
ration of both houses of Congress in his request for changes
in the McCarran-Walter law? His predecessors failed because
the anti-immigration forces embrace both parties and are
especially strong in the South. Let us hope that previous
skepticism regarding the possibilities of assuring liberaliza
tion of the immigration act will vanish as a result of Presi
dent Kennedy’s emphatic request for an abandonment of the
discriminations inherent in the existing law.
—JEWISH NEWS, DETROIT
Moscow Jews, Sentenced for Selling
Matzoh, Appeal; Judge Dodges Newsmen
LONDON, (JTA)—The three Jews who were given prison
.sentences by the Soviet authorities last month, for allegedly selling
home-baked matioh before last Passover, have lodged an appeal
against the sentences in a Moscow court, It was reported here from
Moscow.
The three, appealing the sentences for alleged profiteering in
the sale of matioh, are: Golko Bogomolny, a shochet, who was
given one year in prison; and two women, Mrs. Klavdiya Blyakh-
man and Mrs. Malka Bri, who were sentenced to six months each.
A fourth Jew, Emil Katz, 82, was convicted along with the others,
but was set free because of hLs state of health and his age.
Judge N. A. Ryasky, deputy president of the Moscow court,
declined to reply to inquiries by newsmen over the appeal.
The Jews were compelled to bake matioh at home for last Pasa-
over because of a ban Lssued two years ago by the Soviet authori
ties preventing the public bakeries from producing matioh.
Opinion . . .
ZIM’S DILEMMA
The Zim lines are hardly to be blamed for
wanting to install a non-kosher kitchen in their
newest vessel for the American trade—the Shalom.
Place yourself in the seat of the Zim executives,
and see if you wouldn’t very likely come to the
same conclusion. The non-Jewish trade of course
isn’t interested in kashrut . . There remains the
US. Jewish passengers. 85 per cent have long
abandoned kashrut in their homes . . There you
have it—logic is on the side of the Zim officials.
But logic doesn’t always provide for situations.
And this is the mistake ''f those who are taking
their stand for a dual kitchen . . . The American
Jewish community that is, the official community
—has taken the stand that wherever the com
munity as such is involved, the meals should be
strictly kosher. A community like Indianapolis,
where the Orthodox element has no leadership,
still ignores the feelings of the Orthodox, but
in Chicago or St. Louis and other centers
where the Orthodox leadership is significant,
the meals of the federation, the Bnai Brith
and other agencies, are strictly kosher. From our
viewpoint, then, the mistake Zim may be going
to make is not that they will alienate the Ortho
dox, although of course this their present plans
will do, but that the Jews who don’t keep kosher
at home, will somehow feel that traveling on the
Shalom is no different than the Greek Lines or
the French Line, so why not go the whole hog
and travel in the accomodations offered by the
larger non-Israeli lines.
Gabe Cohen, National Jewish Post
ESHKOL AND THE U.S.
I am convinced that the purpose of U.S. policy
in the Middle Blast is to promote peace and stability
in the area and the maintenance of the territorial
integrity and independence of all the countries in
the area We attach great importance to the state
ments made by President Kennedy and his repre
sentatives on this subject. There may be different
views on how these goals should be achieved but
there is no questions about the goals themselves
We appreciate the aid we have received from the
U.S. and the concern of the U.S. for our security.
I believe that the best contribution the United
States could make would be to take measures in
order to prevent the creation of circumstances
which may make a military attack on Israel poss
ible. It would also be helpful if the U.S. would
perseverse in its efforts to persuade the Arab
countries to abandon their illegal policies of be-
belligerency and war preparations and conduct a
policy in accordance with the Charter of the
United Nations . . .
Levi Eshkol Staement to the Press
ISRAEL AND UNTSO
With the arrival in Jerusalem of the new Chief
of Staff of the UN Truce Supervision Organization
(UNTSO), there may be an opportunity to improve
the strained relations between this Organization
and the Israeli authorities. For the last ten years,
ever since the Belgian Major-General de Ridder
de Bennet was replaced by the Danish General
Bennike, the Organization has fallen foul of the
Israelis. The reasons for this are complex. One is
undoubtedly the fact that whereas Arab attacks
on Israel have tended to be local and desultory,
frequently with their governments’ connivance
but seldom at their direct orders, Israeli reprisals
are massive and undertaken on direct government
responsibility . . . The Israelis are so utterly con
vinced that the right lies with them and that the
Arabs are obviously guilty of aggression, that they
assume UN legalism to be either evasiveness or
politics. They harrangue the UN reprentatives and
soon write them off as hopelessly biased, whereas
the Arabs are more pragmatic in their approach.
With the arrival of General Odd Bull, a new man,
Israel has the chance to make a fresh start. (This
somewhat apologetic editorial seems to indicate
that even the editors of the Jewish Chronicle
have been taken in by the insidious Arab propa
ganda. It also shows how little informed the
Chronicle is of the actual facts of the situation
on Israel’s borders. -—WUP Editor).
JEWISH CALENDAR
•ROSII HASHONAH
Thursday, Sept. 19, 1963
(First Day)
*YOM KIPPUR
Saturday, September 28
•SUCCOT
Thursday, October 3
(First Day)
Friday, October 4
(Second Day)
‘HANNUKAH
Wednesday, December 11
•Holiday begins
preceding evening*