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PASSOVER:
A Masterpiece of Life
A University scholar observed recently
that we are Jews by virtue of three power
fully fundamental causes. First, because we
were bom Jews; second, because we chose
to remain Jews, and third, because we elected
to educate ourselves, as a community as in
dividuals, to the meaning of our birth and
choice. The last is, obviously, the most organ
ic and directional cause.
Nothing so livingly illustrates this funda
mental sequitur of truth as the immemorial
festival we usher in this very evening with
that sacred family banquet we call the Seder.
Passover, far more than any other event on
the Jewish calendar, brings us face to face
with the long and formidable perspective of
our history, for the liberation from Egyptian
bondage constitutes the first rays of light
for us as a nation: it is the dawn of Jewish
history. Passover confronts us with the his
toric fact that we today are the linear heirs
of the most sublime man in all of recorded
history: the great, the towering, the all-but-
ineffable Moses.
Passover imparts to us today a fresh
sense of the everyday vitality and the en
during spiritual insights of Mosaic thought.
The celebration of the festival holds up, for
all humanity as well as for us its celebrants,
the ideal of freedom that is not merely the
absence of slavery, but of a deep, positive,
many-layered concept that permeates all the
levels and highways of life.
And while Passover recounts the story of
a mass exodus—an event which moved mul
titudes—it focuses on the individual and
in fact bathes him in spiritual light. The in
dividual emerges from the mass and becomes
clothed in dignity and new self-awareness.
He accepts a mission and a goal in life. He
comes face to face with majestic, awesome,
imperishable forces and experiences. It is re
vealed to him that human life is sacred—his
own, his neighbor’s, his companion’s, every-
man’s.
The Passover drama, as an attentive read
ing of our Hagada convinces us, is not a
stage piece taking place within the confines
of some proscenuim arch. Passover is a
masterpiece of life—as large as the outer
most, invisible horizons, as timeless as life
stage everlasting.
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD — Minneapolis
Yiddish Sons of Erin, Begorra
Perhaps a committee should be appointed
to investigate what went on last night at
Moskowitz & Lupowitz Restaurant on the
comer of Second Street and Second Avenue.
It wouldn’t have hurt at all if a cop had
looked in on the affair. Indeed, there were
strange happenings afoot. The guests were
speaking in Irish brogues as soft and charm
ing and interesting as a red-haired Irish girl
from County Kerry talking to her favorite
horse leading him to the stable. They were
discussing Tuesday’s St. Patrick’s Day par
ade . , . and making plans for a trip back
to the “old country.” But there wasn’t a
ruddy Irish countenance or a traditional Irish
name in the place. There was a woman named
Mrs. Rosaline Zukor, for example, who was
speaking Gaelic and Hebrew and it sounded
as though she were speaking in both langu
ages at the same time. There was Jacob Saks,
who comes from Bayside, Queens, bragging
that he was the only Jewish-Irish or Irish-
Jewish attorney in all of New York. There
was his daughter, Margot Saks, a student
nurse, who was reigning as Coleen Queen
Esther, and she was telling how James Joyce
had dined at her grandfather’s house in Dub
lin, her grandfather being something of a
Hebrew scholar named Abraham Moses Saks.
There was Larry Lewis, a metallurgical engi
neer from Brooklyn, who once played soccer
for the Talmud Torah school in County
Armagh, telling how Irishmen fleeing from
the Black and Tans during the rebellion
were taken into the synagogues in Ireland
and given prayer shawls and skullcaps to
hide among the worshipping Jews. And
they were serving consomme with green
matzoh balls. And brisket of beef a la Tel
Aviv with Irish potatoes, and sherbet a la
River Shannon. For the occasion, you see,
was the St. Patrick’s dinner of the Loyal
League of Yiddish Sons of Erin—an organiza
tion for Jews bom in Ireland and their im
mediate families that came into being a few
years ago dedicated to the purpose of band
ing together in a “fraternal clan those per
sons who wish to observe and celebrate both
the traditions of their faith and the land of
their birth . . .
FRANCIS SUGRUE, N.Y. Herald Tribaae
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will have a qmcb better chance of publication.
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Kathleen Nease, Jeanne Loeb, Joseph Redlich
Georgia Press Association
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
Telegraphic
Agency
7 Arts Features
World
DISSENTING VOICES
GUEST EDITORIAL
When one considers the fact that States and Municipali
ties, as'well as institutions functioning in the fields of edu
cation and social welfare, seek huge federal subsidies—as
matching gifts or long-term loans—it seems strange that the
granting of civil rights should be construed as giving the
government control over private life, private business and
individual activities.
This, however, is the contention of opponents to the
Civil Rights Bill pending in the 88th Congress.
The average citizen terms the issue “highly controver
sial.” He approves the salutary system of debate, of calm
discussion, of tempered judgment. He understands, too, that
legislatures—and especially the Congress—operating, as they
do, in the interest of the people they represent—must dis
tinguish the nature of controversy . . . whether it is based
on moral or political premises.
In this instance, the impassioned debate stems from
purely political reasons. It disregards and garbles facts. It
ascribes sinister purpose to the proponents of the measure
—citetf dire consequences. If voted into law, they say, it would
create a selfish, malevolent dictatorship.
The disssenting voices warn us that, far from granting
civil rights, the federal government would exercise complete
control and thus change the “American Way of Life.” Fed
eral inspectors would dictate—and we, obey, or else be pen
alized or go to jail. The rights of banks, of industries, of
business and profession—hotels and restaurants, of the press
and all means of communication ... of home and school
and the house of worship . . . yes, of the aged and the babes
in arms—all life would be regulated! The spectre of Com
munism is flashed upon the “dissenting” screen.
Of course, this is election year. This is the age of the
States-Righters, the Birchers, the unyielding South and the
last-ditch fight of the super-racist, the bigot who soils his
own religious heritage. It is, first of all, the desperate few
who reach for power on a platform of exclusion, on the
promise that the “status quo” will be maintained—subject
ing to their caprice the masses of society’s underlings—not
in visible chains, but segregated, as it were, and mentally
enslaved.
The Civil Rights Bill must be passed and made part of
our constitutional safeguards. If faults develop—if enactment
needs change . . . there still is the Judiciary—and the Con
gress . . . and time for controversy!
—JACQUES BACK,
The Jewish Observer, Nashville
Southern Israelite readers are urged to write their Wash
ington Senators and Congressmen in the strongest terms to
support the Civil Rights Bill, thus eliminating the un-Ameri
can forms of racial discrimination and persecution note in
practice.
Anti-Semitic Book—
Continued from page 1
from the leftist Deportees and Re
sistance Volunteers. The left-wing
"Liberation,” normally an apologist
for the Soviet Union, printed a
lengthy editorial citing the long his
tory of anti-Semitism in the Ukraine.
The editorial said that: “Even while
saying we know what the Soviet
Union has done against this—had the
brochure been an individual man
ifestation of anti-Semitism, there
would have been no reason to be
come excited. Uhhappily, this is
not the case ”
“Kitchko's book involves not only
its author,” the editorial declared,
"but numerous other persons who
certainly read it. It received the ap
proval of the authorities, and that
is what we do not understand. We
do not understand either why, until
this day, the only Soviet reaction
to the feelings aroused by this af
fair has been a commentary by a
press agency which, as far as can
be seen, does not deal at all with
the true problem ”
Christina Group* hi Belgium
Protest Soviet AnU-Srmiiir Book
BRUSSELS (JTA) - Protests
against the anti-Semitic book, "Ju
daism Without Embellishment,” and
the Soviet ban on matzoh in Russia
spread in the Belgian press and
among Christian groups
The Independent “Le Soir,”
largest-circulation evening daily in
Belgium, published a severe criti
cism of the publication on its first
page The progressive Catholic
paper, Le Cite, also protested
against “these new manifestations of
anti-Semitism in the USSR.”
A lead article appeared in the of
ficial daily in the Belgian Socialist
party, Le Peuple, by Victor Larock,
former Belgian Foreign and Educa
tion Minister and a leader of the
Socialist International. He asked:
“What is the meaning of this in
sidious anti-Semitism?”
JEWISH CALENDAR
•8HAVUOT
Sunday, May 17, 1964
(firot day)
Monday, May 18, 1964
(second day)
Friday. April S, ISM
Opinion . .
Fickle deGaulle and Israel
Gen. Charles de Gaulle is gradually un
loading his old close alliance with Israel and
is now busily currying favor with the Arab
world. American diplomats in the Middle East
predict that, at the right moment, “Le Grande
Charles” will begin causing trouble for the
U.S. in this vital part of the world just as
he has done in Europe, the Far East, and
now in Latin America. “De Gaulle has in
formed us,” an Arab foreign minister told
me here, “that we have nothing to worry
about from France over the Jordan waters
issue. And he has let us know that he is
eager to develop friendly political, economic
and cultural relations with us.” To the Arabs,
this is welcome news indeed. For years
France has been Israel’s staunchest backer
and supplier of military goods. The Israelis
are the only ones with a permanent mission
connected with the French Ministry of De
fense and Atomic Research Center. During
the Suez crisis the French army, navy, and
air force were in the lines with Israeli forces
in their Sinai battle with President Nasser
. . . But since that time, Gen. de Gaulle’s
cause for defying the Arabs in every way
he could, has disappeared. That is Algeria.
Since the Algerian settlement, Gen. de Gaulle
has seen very little reason for antagonizing
the Arabs for Israel’s sake . . . He’s also
seen good reason to extend French influence
to the area by building friendlier political
ties. Since signing the Evian pact, the Arabs
have also lost interest in open hostility to
France . . . The Arabs are bent on getting
France to cut off or at least cut down mili
tary supplies to Israel . . . American diplo
mats rate Gen. de Gaulle’s chances of be
friending the Arabs very high for cultural
as well as strategic reasons . . .
JAMES PICTON, N.Y. Journal
American, from Cairo
Talmudic Treasures
COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED BY
JACOB L. FRIEND
Dr. Isaac Dembo, a prominent physician
of Kovno, Lithuania, had in 1883 published
a book in German, which was later trans
lated into Hebrew under the name of “Ha-
shechita V’habedika, and at St. Petersburg,
now Leningrad, Russia, before a board of
eminent professors proved conclusively the
superiority and advantage of Shechita above
any other method of animal slaughter from
the points of view of medical science and
humanitarian considerations. He also collect
ed the expert opinion of a vast array of 254
international scientists, particularly physi
ologists, surgeons, veterinarians and presi
dents of universities and veterinary colleges
in support of the Shechita.
In this country, Dr. David I. Macht.
American Physiologist and pharmacologists,
studied the effect of arteriotomy (severing
the vessels of the throat) with that of other
methods of slaughter on toxicity of both,
blood and muscle tissues. He proved that
when animals were killed by bleeding after
arteriotomy, muscle extracts studied by spe
cial pharmacological methods were much less
toxic than those obtained from animals killed
by a blow on the head or other injury to the
brain by general anesthics, by inhalation of
poison gas, or by electrocution. Meat from
shechita remains fresh longer, is more re
sistant to putrefaction, and formation of
ptomaines and other poisonous substances
and forms an unfavourable medium for bac
teria. The only European country where
schechita is prohibited is Switzerland, and
its Jews are forced to get meat from France.
Food remains undigested in the stomach
of the dog for three days, because the Al
mighty knows that its food is scanty.
Dates (fruits) are a good remedy against
a troubled mind, constipation and hemorroids.
This particular fruit is excellent after the
morning and evening meal, but harmful in
the afternoon. They are best at noon.
Fear, travel and sin (evil deeds) weaken
man’s strength.
The following are pleasant in the eyes
of their possessor: the pleasure of a place
in the eyes of its inhabitants, a woman in the
eyes of her husband, and a purchase in the
eyes of its buyer.