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The Southern Israelite
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1966
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Scattered resolutions, statements, communiques and pro
tests—without any definite forward-moving action—have
featured world news of the past week on the explosive situa
tion now dormant but threatening in Israel and on its borders
with Syria and Jordan.
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Shortage of Rabbis
Critical, He Warns
MONSEY, N.Y. (JTA) — The
shortage of rabbis has reached
crisis proportions across the
United States, especially in
areas outside the metropolitan
centers. Rabbi Herbert C. Dob-
rinsky, director of rabbinic place
ment of Yeshiva University’s
Community Service Division,
warned here last week.
Addressing the 23rd annual
convention of Yeshiva University
Rabbinic Alumni, Rabbi Dobrin-
skv said the “demand for pulpit
rabbis far exceeds the availabil
ity of rabbis to fill these posts,
even though there has been a
small increase in their number
in each of the past four years.”
He said the increase has fallen
far short of the needs that have
arisen, as the Jewish community
flocks in much greater numbers
and frequency to synagogues.
Johnson Will Meet
With Arab Leaders
WASHINGTON (JTA)— Pres
ident Johnson will meet here in
November with King Hassan 2nd
of Morocco and in June with
President Habib Bourguiba of
Tunisia. The United States was
depicted as eager for the two
Arab leaders to continue a mod
erating role in Arab and African
affairs. The Bourguiba trip is
likely to be a full-fledged state
visit.
President Revives
Desalting Plans
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Presi
dent Johnson told a press con
ference here that he had instruct
ed Ellsworth Bunker, the new
ambassador-at-large, to review
proposals for a joint United
States-Israel test of the feasibil
ity of using nuclear energy to de
salinate sea water.
The President said he was “de
termined” to get a “substantial
breakthrough” on the problem
during his administration. He
thus revived a project which had
been dormant for months amid
rumors that the United States
wanted controls over Israel’s nu
clear reactor which Israel op
posed and that there were dif
ferences on how to finance the
$200,000,000 project.
Yiddish Playwright Dies
NEW YORK (JTA)— Funeral
services were held here for Harry
Kalmanowitz, a leading Yiddish
playwright, who died here at the
age of 81. He was the author of
more than 20 Yiddish plays and
musicals. Bom in Russia, Mr.
Kalmanowitz came to this coun
try in 1903. His works were
staged in New York, Philadel
phia, Chicago, Boston and other
American cities.
Some of these developments,
in brief, are as follows:
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Is
rael presented another letter to
Lord Caradon, of Britain, this
month’s president of the Security
Council, complaining against the
continuing terrorist incursion into
Israel. The letter noted that acts
of sabotage have not abated even
while Israel’s charges of Syrian
responsibility for the act of El
Fatah saboteurs are “sub judice”
(under consideration) in the
Council.
• • • •
JERUSALEM— An automobile
was severely damaged when it
ran over a mine in the vicinity
of Dan in northern Galilee, near
the Syrian border. None of the
occupants of the vehicle were in
jured but Israel immediately
lodged a new complaint over the
incident with the Israel-Syrian
Mixed Armistice Commission.
• • • *
NEW DELHI — The heads of
state of the three principal “non-
aligned” nations— India, Yugo
slavia and Egypt — concluded a
meeting here with a communique
expressing support for the Pal
estine Arabs and their aspira
tions. Signers were Prime Min
ister Indira Gandhi, President
Tito and President Nasser.
• • • •
WASHINGTON— A Washing-
Post financial writer, Hobart
Rowan, in a report from Israel
after a survey of economic de
velopments there said in a dis
patch that “Israel is threatened
with a full-fledged recession.’’
He described the Israel govern
ment’s efforts to restrain infla
tionary tendencies and contrast
ed the far greater rise of indus
trial wages than productivity
gains. He cited worries that un
employment in Israel would
grow.
• • • •
LONDON—The Jordanian gov
ernment has banned dealings
with 35 firms for allegedly vio
that a regional office of the Arab
Boycott Committee had opened
in Brazil. Pio Correa, director
general of the ministry, said the
government would take energetic
steps to cope with the situation—
and would not tolerate any cam
paign against a country, such as
Israel, with which Brazil main
tains friendly relations.
• • • •
JERUSALEM— All of Israel’s
institutes of higher learning, par
ticularly the Hebrew Unlventty
of Jerusalem, and Technical, the
institute of technology at Haifa,
are reported- hard hit by Israel’s
current economic retrenchment
program, leading to abandonment
of expansion plans.
Eliahu Elath, Hebrew Univer
sity president, has announced that
the university had decided to
limit its student body increase
to 10 percent because of a short
age of funds and facilities.
• • • •
TEL AVTV — Premier Levi
Eshkol stressed in two speeches
last weekend the themes that the
Arab attitude toward Israel is
changing and that “it takes cour
age not to make war immediately
on being attacked.”
The Premier said that the real
ization that the Arab countries
must learn to live with Israel
“has started to penetrate the
thinking of a number of Arab
NationalHadassah Volunteer
Injured on Ga. Speaking Tour
Suddenly the arena of the
healing hospital has taken on an
entirely personal meaning for one
of Hadassah’s national leaders.
Mrs. Victor Schlessinger of
Boston, who has worked selfless
ly for decades In behalf of Ha
dassah’s vital and vigorous health
program of hospitals and clinics
in Israel, herself lies as a patient
this week in a Georgia hospital.
A cruel twist of fate brought
critical injuries to this volunteer
worker while on Hadassah’s er
rand of mercy through a number
of small Jewish communities in
Georgia.
Her condition is reported as
critical. Doctors have however as
sured her husband who flew
down to Atlanta over the week
end that there is strong hope
for complete recovery.
Mrs. Schlessinger was virtual
ly making a repeat performance
of a touring engagement through
Georgia a decade ago. At the
time in the 1950’s her dynamic
personality and message brought
new vigor to Hadassah members
in scattered Jewish communities
in Georgia. One non-Jewish mill
executive heard Mrs. Schlessinger
and sent her a “trousseau" gift
of towels—enough to outfit a new
home in appreciation.
Mrs. Schlessinger was sched
uled this time for a week of
speaking engagements in Geor
gia through the auspices of
Southeastern Region of Hadas
sah.
She had appeared in Valdosta
the evening of October 16, in
Augusta the evening of October
17, and in Columbus at lunch on
October 17. She had been pick
ed up by Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Chelm of Manchester in Colum
bus on Tuesday, the 18th, and
was being taken to Griffin for
an evening dinner speech when
the accident occured.
The car, being driven by Mr
Chelm, was turning into the
Moose Club where awaited about
ninety Hadassah members and
husbands from Griffin and La-
Grange Chapters.
At the driveway entrance, the
Chelm car bearing Mrs. Schles-
inger was involved in an acci
dent with a truck. The Chelm
automobile was overturned and
the Hadassah official badly in
jured. The Chelms were hospi
talized overnight, but released
with only minor bruises.
The Bostonian was brought to
Atlanta where she was placed
under the care of noted medical
authorities at Emory University
Hospital. It was found that she
had suffered a spinal cord in
jury, leaving an arm and leg
paralyzed.
She was able however to re
ceive company and talk with
them about the accident and mat
ters of Hadassah interest.
Members of the Southeastern
Region of Hadassah and the At
lanta Chapter were constantly at
her side at the Emory University
Hospital until round-the-clock
nurses could be secured.
Mrs. Schlessinger, her husband
indicated, has for decades been
a dedicated Hadassah worker.
She was the national chairman
of the national convention held
recently in Boston.
The couple have two married
daughters and “five and six-
eighth grandchildreen.”
A special hospital room visitor
to Mrs. Schlessinger this week
end will be her close friend, Mrs.
Mortimer Jacobson, the national
president of Hadassah, who will
address the fiftieth anniversary
donor dinner of Atlanta Chapter
on October 30.
lating the Arab League boycott
of Israel, the Times reported
from Amman Eight of the firms
are UHHah. three German, six
teen American, two Swim and
one each Australian, Cypriote,
Nigerian, Canadian, Belgian and
Greek.
• • • •
RIO DE JANERIO—The Bra
zilian Foreign Ministry announc
ed it was investigating a report
issued by the Egyptian Embassy
that,
for
leaders.”
Mr. Eshkol also said
though he was “not eag
to reply immediately x> severe
provocation, bat that Israel could
not tolerate further aggression
from Syria. He said that “though
it is not difficult tor the situa
tion to deteriorate into war, we
have to be strong enough to try
out all other means.”
Teacher Strike
S. Y. Agnon, Nobel Prize Winner | S Averted
In Detroit
S. Y. Agnon’s designation as this year’s re
cipient of the Nobel Prize for literature is an event
of tremendous importance.
It represents much more than the formal
recognition of the stature of Agnon’s writings. It
connotes the overdue, formal acceptance of an
accumulation of renowned Hebrew, and Yiddish,
literature. It brings a whole universe of work onto
the consciousness of the entire world.
There had been rumors for several years that
Agnon had been nominated, but his winning this
coveted prize (which he shares with Nelly Sachs,
the Swedish-Jewish poetess) is like a delicious
surprise. This is largely due to the seeming in
accessibility of his Hebrew nuances in translation,
and, really, the general paucity of modern Hebrew
works in English. But all of this, surely, will
change now.
Agnon’s Two Tales are just “out” in a new
and brilliant format, his Days of Awe is currently
in print, and both of these books are available at
most book stores. The Bridal Canopy is a little
more difficult to find, but several of his well
known short stories are around in Sholom Kahn’s
anthology, A Whole Loaf, in Leo Schwarz’s' anth
ologies, and in Ylsroel, by Leftwich. Undoubtedly,
there will be many other new translations soon.
Samuel Joseph Agnon was bom in Galicia,
Poland, in 1888. He has lived in Palestine and in
Israel since 1907. The years 1913-1924 he spent in
Germany where he became fast friends with
Zalman Shocken who became his patron and
publisher. The head of Shocken Publishers in New
York is a son of this great friend of Agnon and
he has continued in his father’s steps.
Agnon is very well known to the present
generation of Israeli students. He is classic and is
required reading. He represents a link-up with
the modern idiom, though he is exceedingly well
grounded in learning, folk-lore, and in the old
Eastern European faith. He fills in a rich past in
the new. He is a landmark in the development of
the modern Hebrew tongue. And, incidentally, he
is also a physical landmark in Jerusalem. The
mayor of that great city is said to have chained
off the street where Agnon resides and has posted
a sign which reads: “Quiet. Agnon is writing.”
S. Y. Agnon once collaborated with the late
Martin Buber on the Tales Of The Chassidim. He
has a tremendous reputation as a student and
disciple of the pure Jewish piety which prevailed
several centuries ago. In his Bridal Canopy, some
times called the modem Hebrew Don Quixote, he
weaves around the loose plot of gathering a dowry
for a bride many folk tales and arecdotes and em
bellishments of esoteric Judaism. In some of the
later short stories dealing with modem Jerusalem
in mandatory times he writes like Franz Kafka,
crystal clear and yet out-of-focus, suggesting over
lays of parable. His style is steeped with many
gleanings from the Talmud and medieval writings,
and he is very much in love with Hassidism and
all its mannerisms. Shmuel Yosef Agnon was the
winner of the coveted Bialik Prize in 1934.
The Nobel Prize was established by Alfred
Nobel of Sweden. The first prizes were awarded
in 1901. S. Y. Agnon is the first Jewish writer of
specifically Jewish literary work to be so signally
honored.
Agnon’s winning the Nobel Prize comes in
the eighteenth year of the establishment of the
State of Israel.
This is the second time the prize for literature
has been shared. Miss Sachs, 75, is German born
and has been living in Sweden since 1940. She
has received the Swedish Lyric Prize for poetry,
and has written several works on Jewish themes.
JOSEPH GLAZER DD.S.
Oct 23, 1990
DETROIT (JTA)— Bargaining
began here this week between
spokesmen for Shaarey Zedek
Congregation and the Hebrew
Teachers Association on a new
contract, after an all-day meet
ing averted a threatened strike
by the Hebrew teachers in the
synagogue’s religious schooL
A committee of the congrega
tion rejected an overwhelming
vote by the entire congregation
to sustain the board and its edu
cation committee in the firing
of two veteran Hebrew teachers.
The committee negated the dis
missals and restored the teach
ers, Sol Panush and Jacob Gol-
any, to their classes at Shaarey
Zedek one of the largest Con
servative synagogues in the Unit
ed States.
The Hebrew Teachers Associ
ation had filed a complaint! of
unfair labor practices against the
congregation with the State Labor
Mediation Board, the first action
of this kiqd in the history of
Jewish education in Detroit. The
strike had been scheduled for
October 23, and also would have
been a first action of its nature
here.
A statement was issued saying
that the congregation and the
Hebrew Teachers Association had
reached agreement to rescind the
dismissal of the two teachers, and
to reinstate them. The union
agreed to withdraw notice of in
tent to strike and the unfair labor
practices complaint. The state
ment said bargaining would con
tinue “until a satisfactory con
tract has been completed.”