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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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How Has Israel Survived
So Far Without Them?
Around our office, the coke is a ritual, truly an essential element
of American life. We do not for the life of us see how mankind
existed without this commodity, promulgated in this very city.
We find it refreshing however that some - of mankind still
manages to stagger along without it—mostly in out-of-the-way spots
and in such pioneer and native countries as Israel. There this ulti
mate measure of status, rights and privileges of modernity has not
become a familiar item.
But some of Israel’s smart economic cookies are now casting a
money-making eye on the possible income from the sale of this
item and have made advances to secure a franchise.
It has, alas for the conformity within the sophisticated world,
been turned down on the basis of economic sagacity. We trust this
is the real case and not as suspected the yielding to Arab pressure.
We hate to downgrade the importance of a product to which
personally, you might say, we are addicted and which is the largest
single advertiser in this publication, but we don’t give a hoot over
the refusal to sell cokes in Israel. As a matter of fact, we would
like to see the Jewish State go its merry way without this sign of
conformity and urbanity.
Aside from pandering to the whims of Americans in Israel for a
visit, we don’t know who in Israel would not be better off if the
sale of cokes were prevented by law altogether.
We know the yielding of large corporations to Arab propaganda
is wrong and that the mere thought of it should send us into a
fighting stance. However, we prefer to get our dander up about
matters we consider of consequence and worthy of our jousting.
Pardon us if we say cokes are not.
But the propaganda mills have begun turning. You wait and see,
the organizational boys may yet make cokes more essential to
Israel’s survival than ceremonial wine—or perhaps ever the
Jordanian border.
JWB Begins 50th Anniversary
THIS POSTER will be displayed all over the country during the
year of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Jewish
Welfare Board (JWB). The Golden Jubilee begins with JWB’s
Biennial national convention, April 27-May 1, 1966, at which Arthur
J. Goldberg, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will deliver a
major address. The poster highlights the theme of the Golden Jubilee:
"Dimensions and Horixons for Jewish Life in America.”
Comment and Opinion
Wanted: Jewish Committee
Against Jewish Defamation
It’s not a Jewish committee against
defamation of Jews that I’m seeking. Good
ness knows we have enough of that—and at
the cost of millions of dollars plucked from
the common American Jewish purse. Nor am
I seeking another American Jewish Commit
tee dedicated to the proposition that back
door diplomacy, “stadlanus,” rather than the
deepening and enriching of Jewish life itself,
likewise warrants the appropriation of still
more substantial sums lured from the pockets
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Extracts from "The Graphic History
of the Jewish Heritage." Edited by
P. Wollman-Tsamlr. Published by
Shengold Publishers and Foundation
For A Graphic History of Jewish
Literature.
_____ A Seven Arts Feature.
Samuel anoints David at
king in the presence of
his »even brother!.
"Samuel took the horn
of oil, and anointed him
in the midst of his breth
ren; and the spirit of the
Lord came mightily upon
David” (I. Sam. 16.13).
Samuel was the son of Elkanah* and the last
judge of Israel. As a child he served in the Tem
ple at Shiloh, where he had been brought by his
mother. There the prophetic spirit came upon him
and he foresaw that the house of Eli would be
destroyed because of the sins of the priest’s sons
(1 Samuel 3). When Samuel reached manhoo?
he attained fame as a prophet throughout the
land. Since Shiloh was destroyed and the nation
lacked a religious center, he circuited the sanc
tuaries of Bethel, Gilgal and Mizpah, guiding the
people in religion and uniting them politically.
The threat that the Philistines and the Ammo
nites presented to Israel led the heads of the peo
pie to ask Samuel to choose a king. The prophet
felt that a monarchical system was tantamount ti
slavery and, moreover, he looked upon the requer?
as an act of rebellion against God, who was th:
sole ruler of Israel and always provided leader
(judges) for the people when the need arose.
Nevertheless, Samuel acquiesced and arointed
Saul. However, when Saul twice failed to ce.rr
out God’s commands (1 Samuel 15), Senui;
despaired of him and secretly anointed Dav.d.
Samuel renewed prophecy in Israel. As a youn;
man, seeing that visions were infrequent amor
the people (1 Samuel 3.1), he established schools
for prophecy in Ramah (19.18-24).
Samuel expressed the view that ritual worship
alone is not valued and that good actions are
more important than ritual worship in the service
of God. “Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in hearkening to the
voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than
sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rar.d'
( 15.22-23). His disdain for gifts and hohes i;
attested to by his challenge to the people: “Wit
ness against me before the Lord . . . whose ox
have I taken?" (12.3). The sages declared that
in some respects Samuel was greater than Moses.
While Moses told the children of Israel: “When
they have a matter, it cometh unto me" (Exodus
18.16), Samuel exerted himself and 'went out to
the people* (Yalkut Shimoni, Samuel, §111.12).
The sages also pointed out that while Moses said:
“I have not taken one ass from them," Samuel
would not hire one, even if its owner was willing
to rent it.
According to Maimonides, Samuel received the
tradition from Eli.
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of frightened Jews. What I am suggesting is
some decent and dignified coordination of our
efforts to live as Jews, in freedom, in a plural
istic society, and to end that altogether in-
decent and disgraceful competition for
“scoops” and “headlines’ which, in the name
of anti-defamation, does more to defame the
designation of Jew than most anti-Semites
have been able to achieve. . . I have in mind
some kind of Jewish self-protection from the
kind of frenzied scramble for organizations
coups such as provided the basis for the recent
repugnant article in Look Magazine How
the Jews Changed Catholic Thinking.” Grant
ed that this creed was grossly exaggerated,
that it rehearsed but one side of the picture
and indulged in misleading and false emphasis.
Still, none can deny that there was at least a
spark of fire beneath all that smoke, that the
American Jewish community—as far as it has
any semblance of solidarity — did authorize
the kind of anarchic, disunited, competitive,
and extravagant lobbying that did take place
in Rome and that prompted such a genuine
friend of the Jews as Cardinal Cushing—
the foremost advocate of squashing the decide
charge—to confess to me personally that the
only danger to the passage of the Schema on
the Jews were, the Jews themselves. These
were the very words which the author of the
Look article did, amazingly enough, dig out
as an authentic comment. I repeat, though his
omissions are patent and his emphasis un
fortunate, nevertheless such details as this are
substantially true. Hence, the repercussions
from this article, the phantasmagorias of
“Elders of Zion” reborn that it will educe,
are beyond calculation. . .
RABBI MAURICE N. EISENDRATH,
from American Judaism
“Justice” In Austria
While Austrian Government officials tell
the world they want to wipe out Nazism and
anti-Semitism, Austrian jurors are thwarting
justice by freeing war criminals or giving
them light sentences, indicating a widespread
state of mind that continues to foster Nazism.
This is the verdict of a recent article by Rich
ard Grunberger, our correspondent in Austria,
which has also been substantiated by a report
on the same subject issued by the European
office of the American Jewish Committee . . .
Mr. Grunberger noted that the Austrians had
a “lethal tradition of anti-Semitism” long be
fore the German “invasion” and that they
were disproportionately represented among
the top administration in the Jewish extermi
nation program. Of course, we must remem
ber that Hitler and Eichmann both learned
!heir Jewish hate during their youth in Aus
tria. . . Although the present Jewish popula
tion in Austria is a fraction of one per cent,
Austrian anti-Semitism is still manifested
during theatre performances and at university
lectures as well as in war crimes proceedings.
JEWISH ADVOCATE, BOSTON
Uncle Sam’s Presents
Details of United States military and
economic aid to the Middle East and similar
areas make chastening reading. So many good
intentions produce such mixed results. It is
no exaggeration to say that the United States
is helping to finance the Middle East arms
race. Military aid to Jordan and Saudi Arabia
is justified by Washington on the grounds that
these Powers need strengthening against pos
sible threats from Egypt. But in that case
why pour massive aid to Egypt, without which
Nasser could not threaten his neighbors so
effectively ? The Egyptian Government is
the avowed inspired and organizer of terror
ism in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian
Gulf. Egyptian forces in Yemen provide the
occasion for the Anglo-American decision to
strengthen the Saudi defences. Needless to
say, U.S.A. military aid to any of Israel’s
neighbors increases the military danger to
Israel. It obliges Israel to divert scarce re
sources, foreign currency and technically
trained personnel, to keeping up with the
Arabs, so as to ensure that at no time in the
foreseeable future will she be at an arms
disadvantage. . .
JEWISH CHRONICLE, LONDON
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