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On Meeting
An Israeli Beatnick
By RABBI EMANUEL FELDMAN
Beth Jacob Spiritual Leader
(On Sabbatical Leave at Bar Ilan University)
Sit at the Oceanside of Tel Aviv
in the evening towards sunset
time. The horizon shifts from
blue, to azure, to pink, burnish
ed bronze, gray, and then to pur
ple darkness. It is a nice place to
walk, to bring the children to
sit on a bench, to listen to the
ocean and watch the people.
We sat there a few nights ago
and listened and watched. It is
still interesting after eighteen
years of Statehood, to observe the
legendary Jewish policemen,
firemen, Jewish bankers, Jewish
garbage men, and Jewish street
cleaners who have delighted
countless thousands of American
Jewish tourists. And this tourist,
only three months in the land,
has still not learned to take
their presence for granted. (The
old, white-bearded Yemenite in
front of me has a yarmulke on
his head: he is part of a con
struction crew, and he still de
lights the heart.)
But tonight, Israel finally ar
rived: I met an Israeli Jewish
beatnik. He had all the genuine
accoutrements and apparatus:
long hair wavy at the neck and
shoulders: tight, narrow made-in-
USA blue jeans; a casual devil-
may-care strut. We talked. Was
he bom in Israel? Yes. What does
he do? He teaches dancing at
the discotheque on Ben-Yehudab
St. What kind of dancing? Frug,
watussi, cha-cha, all kinds. Who
are his pupils, tourists? No, tour
ists already know the dance. He
teaches Israelis. Does he have
many pupils? Many. We say
goodbye and he walks off, hands
in his rear pockets, cigarette
dangling precariously from his
lips, his head tilted jauntily
against the stiff ocean breeze.
But something is not quite right
about the whole thing. The poor
fellow’s nose is too Jewish, his
eyes too melancholy, and there is
still stamped on his face, young
as it is, the pain of 2000 years of
Jewish suffering. The whole thing
does not quite come off—which
makes it all the more pathetic.
I go home and am rather sad
dened by the encounter.
There are many discotheques in
Tel Aviv, vulgar and noisy, where
the music is loud and the people
louder. Those are Jews gyrating
their lives away, Jews who
should know better. These are the
children of patriarchs and proph
ets: is frug all they can remem
ber? Surely G-d did not give us
Israel after millenia of suffering
and burning so that we could
have discotheques on Ben-Yeh-
udah St.
But perhaps, remembering the
suffering, He will overlook this
vulgarity and rather fix his gaze
upon the Yeshivot which dot the
country, at the young men who
have just built one such Yeshiva
in the Negev desert, at the gen
uine piety of so many ordinary
people, and at the sense of ded
ication and sacrifice for Torah
which permeates so many corn
ers of the land. May He gaze
at these, and may He forgive us
our discotheques. E.F.
JWV Urges Bonn
To Fight Nazism
NEW YORK (JTA)—The na
tional executive committee of the
Jewish War Veterans of the
United States, meeting here,
adopted a resolution calling on
the new West German Govern
ment and its chancellor, Kurt
Georg Kiesinger, to “initiate leg
islative action to ban neo-Nazi
political parties and thereby
show militancy and firmness
against the rebirth of Nazism in
Germany.”
Malcolm A. Tarlov, national
commander of the JWV, cabled
the text of the resolution to Chan
cellor Kiesinger, calling on the
latter to take the action and
thereby “re-assure the world of
West Germany’s sincerity in
facing the challenge posed by the
current resurgence of neo-Naz
ism.”
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