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Friday, ScpUmtor 1, 1M7
THE • •WBBKIfi B*lt*KlLlUQ'K
Carl Alpert
War Had Spiritual
HAIFA — The circumstances
surrounding the winning of the
Six-Day War were responsible
for a profound stirring on the
part of almost
the entire pop
ulation of Israel.
The s p i r
impact of
events was
ormous. L i b
eration of
Jerusalem an
the Temple Wall,
as well as
sensationally mi
raculous nature
of the military Alpert
victory in the South, oould not
easily be explained in any ra
tional manner. Men who had
considered themselves anti-relig
ious shed tears at the old Wall,
and felt themselves enveloped in
an indescribable Shechina. The
very word religion suddenly
took on new meaning. It was no
longer a reference to things anc
ient and obsolete; it had relev
ance to this day and this hour,
to our very lives.
The wide scale participation
by orthodox Jewry m the strug
gle of defence had a share in ele
vating respect for religion as
such. It no longer seemed
strange to see bearded Yeshiva
students, guns in hand, leap onto
their military trucks on the
Shabbat. Rabbi Mordecai Stern
of Meron was acting in Jewish
tradition, like many others in Is
rael, when he led his congrega
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tion from synagogue services Sat
urday morning direct to a de
fence line where they all dug
trenches. Many recalled the now
famous battle of the tractors last
summer, when the devout farm
ers of religious kibbutz Shaalvim
kept their tractors moving all
through Shabbat at the urging of
their Rabbi Meir Slilesinger, lest
the Arabs on the other side of
the line think the Jews were
abandoning a vital post under
Jordanian pressure.
The religious influence was
pervasive. An editor of the Jer
usalem Post, the talented and ar
ticulate Lea Ben Dor, reacted
critically when an Agudath Is
rael member of the Knesseth
arose in that august body to de
fend certain of the orthodox tra
ditions. In time of war she found
much of what he said Irrational
and unreasonable—.but she has
tened to add thoughtfully that
what he spoke was ‘‘the real ir
rational thing, of which victories
and walls and faith arc
made . . . . ”
The noted novelist and drama
tist, Meyer Levin, who has been
a leader in the fight against orth
odox controls in Israel, reported
his feelings when he heard the
Chief Army Chaplain, General
Shlomo Goren, blow the Shofar
from the top of Mt. Sinai on the
Shevuoth holiday. It was an ex
perience, he wrote, “that caused
even the unreligious to draw in
their breath with awe.”
The sounding of the Shofar at
the Wall on the day of its lib
eration, as heard throughout the
nation on the radio sent a great
tingling thrill through the peo
ple. In all likelihood the reac
tion was a passing one. It will not
last, but at the moment it was a
mystical, unexplainable, spiritual
electronic message which struck
to the very heart and soul.
To all this must be added a
footnote^about a fringe reaction.
One of the top leaders of the so-
called League for the Abolish
ment of Religious Coercion, Dr.
Uzi Oman, wrote to the press
deploring that Chaplain Goren
had dared to be the first Israeli
officer to enter the Wailing Wall
area and arrange a prayer serv
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ice there. He dared to broadcast
to the army from Mt. Sinai. Why,
wrote Oman, this might give
some one the wrong impression
—as if religion had something to
do with the war. This is far
from the truth, he said. The Is
rael Army ‘“did not fight for the
Jewish religion, nor would the
people of Israel have gone to bat
tle for such an aim. The Jewish
faith could be observed well be
fore our war, ana not necessarily
in Israel . . . . ”
Oman found ii necessary to
send his provocative words to
more than one paper. It is dif
ficult to understand why some
otherwise reasonable and intelli
gent American Jewish religious
leaders continue to give their ap
proval and support to this kind
of League.
New Land Opening
For Jewish Settlers
NEW YORK (JTA)— Substan
tial stretches of land in the prev
iously demilitarized zones along
Israel’s borders will be open
ed and prepared for Jewish set
tlement, Dr. Milton Aron, execu
tive vice president of the Jew
ish National Fund of America an
nounced following his return
from Israel. A fleet of bulldozers
has already been moved into
these regions, Dr. Aron reported,
in preparation for eventual cul
tivation and terracing of the land
scape to make it fit for settle
ment.
Plan To Excavate
Old City West Wall
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Plans
have been disclosed here for ex
cavation of some lower tiers of
the Western Wall in the Old
City of Jerusalem. The decision
to deepen the most sacred shrine
of Judaism was made at a meet
ing of Cabinet ministers, archeo
logists and architects which was
held near the shrine and ap
proved by Israeli religious offic
ials.
Officials said there was some
evidence that the wall extends
to 20 tiers below the surface but
that digging for the time being
would be for only a few tiers.
The five lowest tiers now above
the ground surface reportedly
date from the Second Temple
built by King Herod. Some of
the lowest tiers underground may
date back -to the First Temple,
which was built by King Sol
omon and razed by the Babylon
ians.
Attacks Continue
In Soviet Press
LONDON (JTA) — A careful
survey here of the Soviet press
since the end of the special ses
sion of the General Assembly on
the Middle East last month has
shown little abatement of the
virulent anti-Israel propaganda
of the Soviet Union, dashing
hopes that the Soviets might be
trying to induce the Arab coun
tries to adopt a more realistic
position about a settlement with
Israel.
The survey showed that com
ments on Israel in some Soviet
newspapers were almost unprint
able in their abuse and others
are plain anti-Semitism. The
hopes had been raised by the fact
that the Soviet Union voted with
the United States on the pro
cedural resolution ending the
special session, a resolution the
Arabs had opposed.
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Criticized in. Russia
LONDON (JTA)—A writer in
Sovetsky Voin, a journal issued
by the Soviet army, received
here, has denounced Anatoly
Kuznetsov for his documentary
novel, “Babi Yar,” in which the
author reported details of the
execution by the Nazis of thous
ands of Jews, during World War
II, in Babi Yar, a ravine in Kiev.
In the work, which has. been
widely acclaimed: not only
throughout the world but even
In the USSR, the author had also
reported that Russians, Ukrain
ians and other Soviet citizens in
Kiev had 1 collaborated with the
Nazi regime during the occupa
tion of the Ukrainian capital; Mr.
Kuznetsov had been a boy of 12,
living in Kiev, at the time the
Babi Yar atrocities were com
mitted.
Aleksei Yegorov, writing in
Sovetsky Voin; gave Mr. Kuznet
sov “credit” for avoiding the
‘'sad error” committed by the
famous Soviet poet, Yevgeny
Yevtushenko who, in his poem
entitled “Babi Yar,” had sug
gested that the lack of a monu
ment to the Jewish victims buried
at Babi Yar reflected lingering
anti-Semitism In the Soviet
Union. However, the author waa
criticized in the army Journal for
reporting eyewitness accounts of
collaboration by citizens of Kiev
with the Nazis, and for not
giving enough details about ihe
Nazi atrocities against non-
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