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LETTER TO A POET . . .
How effective are Often letters
to newspapers by public-spirited
citizens What is their impact?
And what is the public response?
Early in November my eye fell
on “An Open Letter to Mr. Yev
geny Yevtushenko” in the New
York Times by a Mr. Charles
Rubinstein, whose name I could
not relate to any of the activities
within my domain. I had long
been curious both about the mo
tivation behind such letters and
the impact they make on those
who read them. Since this open
letter carried Mr. Rubinstein’s
address it was easy to check. The
writer, I found out, is a real es
tate man who is troubled by what
is happening in the world today,
particularly in the Middle East
where the people of Israel in re
cent months have been exposed
to a barrage of Arab terrorism
that is threatening not only the
peace of the area but the tran
quility of the whole world.
In his letter to Yevtushenko,
the writer voiced fear that the
Arab forays and infiltrations into
Israel held the ‘‘threat of another
Babi Yar” and he implored the
Soviet poet to cry out now against
what is happening through the
“mighty power” of his pen since
there are many anti-Semites in
the world today who are not only
not satisfied with the six mil
lion victims of Hitler’s atrocities
but who “would now like to make
the number eight million.”
What attracted me to the lettef
was the fact that here was a
unique appeal to the pen against
the sword. Not knowing Mr. Ru
binstein, I will not call him an
“innocent” even though it re
quires the highest form of gulli
bility to believe in the power of
the artist against the world in
these days of storm.
However, that sort of innocence
holds personal appeal to me.
Despite what is happening in
the world today, this writer is
gullible enough to believe that
the triumph for man and human
ity rests not in the noise of the
trumpeteers but in the silence of
the pen and supplicant. If the
mercy of the pen cannot prevail
against evil, we are doomed.
We agree with Mr. Rubinstein
that “those who disregard com
mon honesty and give aid and
comfort to the enemies of Israel
will be responsible for another
Babi Yar” and that all who do
not protest vigorously will also
be guilty of default if they do
not try to prevent a mass mur
der of Hitler’s survivors.
But is Yevtushenko’s the voice
to stem the tide? Is his pen, any
one pen, that mighty that it can
avert a gzar din? We will need
many and more powerful voices,
though he would no doubt remain
in the book of mercy and poetry
even if he had written nothing
more than Babi Yar.
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censure against Israel was con
sidered an unusually severe one,
highly informed sources both here
and abroad have serious doubts
about its effectiveness since it de
liberately skirted the issue of
cause and effect by failing to re
fer directly to the cause or the
claimed cause of the Israeli raid
on Jordan.
On its face the resolution would
seem to mean that a nation at
tacked or invaded by terrorist
bands from a neighboring state
is powerless to defend itself. This
clearly is an untenable position,
for it creates the dangerous pre
cedent of giving immunity to ag
gression, infiltration, sabotage
and terrorism. In effect it permits
Israel’s Arab neighbors to fire
away behind a wall of immunity
while exposing the Israelites as
sitting ducks to their guns.
It is doubtful the internation
al organization would have dared
put such chains on a powerful
member nation. Moreover, no
powerful nation would abide by
such a curtailment of its sover
eignty.
In our own bailiwick, we re
member the Pershing expedition
into Mexico which, we were then
told and still read in history, had
been caused by forays of Mexican
gangs into American soil. And,
if our recollection serves us right,
our men invaded Mexico in what
was then described as a punitive
expedition designed to convince
the Mexican authorities that if
they didn’t crush the bandit in
filtrators we would.
United Nations or not, we most
likely would do the same thing in
a similar situation, unless the in
ternational community of nations
displayed the moral courage it
must have to survive under the
stresses under which it operates.
Placing chains on the hands of
Israel while permitting its Arab
neighbors to use clandestine
swords with immunity is a mac
abre concept of justice even in
this macabre world of ours.
» * • »
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of housing and medical care in
the desolate wastes left by war
but also had kosher food during
the post-war years. How was
this possible in a post-war
Europe which was virtually des
titute of Jewish communal orga
nizations and during a period
when harassed Jewish welfare
agencies were engaged in a her
culean task of saving the rem
nant with minimum essentials?
The answer is that CARE, the
international welfare agency, pro
vided millions of pounds of kosh- ‘
er food certified by the Kosher
Certifications Service of the
Union of Orthodox Jewish Con
gregations. Moreover, the cooper
ative program is still in effect
and it provides kosher CARE
packages to Jews newly settled in
Israel who have no other means
of getting kosher food.
The facts about the unique co
operative effort to protect one of
traditional Judaism’s principal
commandments was revealed
when the Orthodox Union gave a
special award to CARE, at its
recent convention in Washington,
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award Rabbi Alexander Rosen
berg, the rabbinic administrator
of the Kosher Certification Ser
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one million kosher packages to
needy Jewish families, first in
Europe and lately, to families in
Israel.
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