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Friday, Due. S, 1967
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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Jewish
Telegraphic
Arency
World Union Press
Jewish Law and “The Pill”
According to Newsweek’s issue about the unrestricted
new freedoms in American society, girls and young women
of this ultramodern age ask no religious approval for use of
The Pill in extramarital affairs. The Pill may be a problem,
however, for Orthodox religious married women who have to
contend with the first of the 613 Mitzvahs: “Be Fruitful and
Multiply.”
Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, president of the Planned Parent
hood Federation of America, writing in Judaism magazine,
delves into ancient Jewish history to find a precedent for The
Pill. The famous gynecologist finds that the Talmud has sev
eral mentions of a contraceptive “root potion.” Rabbi Johanan
ben Napaha cited the contents of a cup of roots in Talmudic
literature. It was a mixture of Alexandrian gum, liquid alam,
and garden crocus. Two thirds of a cup of it, mixed with beer,
sterilized a woman permanently. Therefore, a third century
compilation of Torah laws not included in the Mishnah, said
a man must not drink such a fertilizing potion, but a woman
could to remain barren.
Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of Britain,
whose specialty in Torah law is medicine, wrote in Tradition
magazine (Summer 1965 issue) that the modem Pill, “if used
with full sanction and no restriction would rapidly change the
entire pattern of family life and demographic trends. The
spirit as well as the letter of the law must be most carefully
investigated before such a far-reaching innovation can be
evaluated in the light of Jewish teachings.”
Dr. Guttmacher notes that modem Orthodox religious au
thorities are giving approval in cases where childbirth is a
threat to the mother’s health or life, to new intrauterine de
vices. Such devices, he said, are being used by an Orthodox
hospital in Jerusalem in indicated cases.
—Intermountain Jewish News, Denver
Eshkol Wants
Common Mart
For Mideast
JERUSALEM (WUP) — “The
time has come lor the Middle
East to establish its own Com
mon Market. It is the only way
to restore to this region, the
cradle of human culture, its
proper place an the world map.’’
Thus Premier Levi Eshkol de
clared in a speech before the an
nual luncheon of editors in the
Knesset in an apparent offer to
the Arab states to enter into an
economic union with Israel and
thereby transform the Middle
East from a region of “division,
fragmentation with sen seless
hatred” into one of peace and
concord.
Commenting on Charles de
Gaulle’s recent anti-Israel state
ment, Eshkol noted: “We feel
profound sorrow at the distortion
of history and the grave offense
to the feelings of the Jewish peo
ple and the State of Israel” as
expressed by General de Gaulle.
However, the Israeli Premier
said that he was “confident and
convinced that the friendship be
tween Franoe and her people and
ourselves is firm and strong
enough to endure, even despite
the tension of the present mom
ent.”
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Saga To Be Seen
On Eternal Light
NEW YORK (WUP)—The dra
matic saga of Eliezer Ben-Yehu-
daih — the 19th century genius
whose life-long labors were
largely responsible for the res
toration of Hebrew as a living,
spoken language—will be pres
ented on NBC-TV by Eternal
Light on Sunday, Dec. 10, at 1:30
p. m.
Marking the 45th anniversary
of his passing, the half-hour pre
sentation will serve as a tribute
to the great Hebraic idealist who
dedicated his entire life to one
purpose—tiie revival of the He
brew language.
JEWISH
CALENDAR
‘MANUKA
Dec. 27—Jan. 3
Wednesday—Wednesday
*TU BISHEVAT
Feb. 14, Wednesday
•FAST OF ESTHER
March 13, Wednesday
•PURIM
March 14, Thursday
♦PASSOVER
April 13, Saturday
(First Day)
April 20, Saturday
(Eighth Day)
•LAG B’OMER
May 16, Thursday
•SHAVUOT
June 2, Sunday
♦TISHA B’AV
August 4, Sunday
•ROSH HASHANA
Sept. 23-24,
Mon. - Tues.
♦YOM KIPPUR
Oct. 2, Wed.
♦IIOUDAY BEGINS
SUNDOWN PREVIOUS DAY
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
COMMENT and OPINION
Where The Heart Is
We are approaching that time of the year
when we wifi be filling out income tax re
turns. You would be surprised how much this
annual procedure tells about people.
There are two attitudes toward money
that are equally unwholesome. One is to adore
it, to worship it, as if nothing could be more
wonderful or desirable. The other attitude
assumes that it is in bad taste to ever men
tion the subject in company. It is to be avoid
ed as though it does not exist.
Some religions teach that poverty is a
blessing, a sacred calling. Not so Judaism. No
Jewish sage ever closed the gates of heaven
in the face of a wealthy man merely because
he was rich. Judaism is of the opinion that
poverty is no blessing. The denunciation of
our sages was reserved for the abuse of
wealth.
The accountant who prepares an income
tax return can tell quite a bit about his client’s
soul. When he enumerates the expenditures
for household needs, clothing, books, enter
tainment, vacations, insurance, cosmetics,
medical costs, charitable contributions, club
and Temple dues, education—he presents
more than a financial survey. Actually, he is
writing an outline of a human character—the
nature and extent of his appetites, his fears
and plans, the degree of his ostentation, his
need for escapes, his aesthetic, spiritual and
intellectual tastes, his concern for his family,
his fellow human beings, his people, his God.
The man who is so lavish in frills and
pleasure that he must economize on his sup
port of the synagogue, cultural pursuits and
philanthropy will find it nigh impossible to
contend that his heart is really in his Temple,
AJC Issues
Book Exposing
Anti-Semitism
SAN FRANCISCO (WUP) —
An expose of “The Many Faces
of anti-Semitism,” written by
Rose Feitedson and George Sal
omon, has been published by the
American Jewish Committee,
whose national executive com
mittee met here in annual ses
sion.
Appearing in a 40-page illu-
started booklet, the expose sug
gests that the study of anti-Sem
itism, which has been called the
world’s ‘‘classic prejudice,” can
provide insights useful in fighting
bigotry against other groups,
such as Negroes.
The booklet discloses that “not
every anti-Semite is a rabid bigot
or a practicing demagogue, some
are mere fellow travelers. Science
is just beginning to investigate
what makes the bigot’s fellow
traveler act as he does.”
“How was it possible,” the
authors of the expose ask, for
“seemingly responsible people in
Nazi Germany” to be “transform
ed into a frenzied rabble, ready
to perpetrate, or acquiesce in, the
most staggering atrocities?”
“Mass inustiee and violence are
not a German monopoly,” they
note, pointing to the record of
how Americans acted in conflicts
with the American Indians, in
the mistreatment of 100,000 peo
ple of Japanese ancestry on the
West Coast during World War II,
and on countless occasions as
members of “howling lynch
mobs.”
Golda Meir Views
New Relationship
NEW YORK (JTA) — Mrs.
Golda Meir, former Foreign
Minister of Israel, said here that
the crisis and war in the Middle
East last summer had created a
“revolutionary change in Amer
ican Jewry’s relationship to
Israel.”
In a statement prior to her
return to Israel after a month
here for Israel Bonds and other
causes, Mrs. Meir said that “it
has been a source of deep satis
faction to see during the past
several weeks that the all-out
support born in the period of
greatest crisis for Israel has
been adopted as a criterion and
standard for the future."
that it yearns for the finer thing* in life, that
it bleeds for the suffering of humanity.
In the final analysis, man’s purse identi
fies the spot where his heart really is, or,
perhaps where it would be if it was in the
right spot. Within the next month or two, we
will be in an excellent position to see for
ourselves what kind of book we have written
about ourselves-
RABBI ISRAEL J. GERBER
TEMPLE BETH EL BULLETIN
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
Brave Rabbi
Brave Rabbi Perry E. Nussbaum of
Temple Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss. Some de
praved nuts planted a bomb that shattered
Rabbi Nussbaum’s home after 11 p.m. one
night last week. This was the second act of
violence in recent months against Rabbi
Nussbaum, who has been active in the civil
rights movement in his home state. He and
his wife nearly lost their lives in the bomb
ing. This is a threat to his civil rights and the
right to tranquility of the American home
and hearth. Rightly, Governor Paul B. John
son of Mississippi, and Governor-elect John
Bell Williams, denounced the KKK and vio
lent segregationist climate that could produce
such defiance of law and order. Federal in
tervention is both necessary and desirable—
now!—if such crazy anti-social behavior can’t
be locally controlled.
Rabbi Nussbaum’s Temple Beth Israel
was bombed last Sept. 18. It is long overdue
that those responsible for both acts of violence
should be rooted out and punished by the law
and morality which they defy.
—THE JEWISH CHRONICLE, Pittsburgh.
Abram Eulogizes
Cardinal Spellman
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)—The
late Francis Cardinal Spellman,
who died in New York, was eul
ogized by the head of the Amer
ican Jewish Committee as “a gen
tle, unpretentious and friendly
human being” with whom the
AJC enjoyed “a warm and long
friendship.”
In a statement issued during the
annual meeting of the Commit
tee’s national executive board
here, Morris B. Abram, AJC
president, said of Cardinal Spell
man: “The AJC will remember
with appreciation the quiet but
determined and effective personal
leadership of the Cardinal in sup
port of adoption of the Vatican
Council’s declaration on non-
Christian religions which called
for ‘mutual knowledge and res
pect between Christians and
Jews.’ Beneath his complex pub
lic image, we knew him as a gen
tle, unpretentious and friendly
human being, and memories of
our close association with him
will long be cherished. In the
spirit of our ancient tradition, we
pray that “his soul be bound up
with the bonds of eternal life.”
Labor Seeks Unity
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A move
toward the creation of a single
unified labor party in Israel
was made this week when the
council of Achdut Avodah voted
218 to 45 in favor of merging
with Mapai and urged the
Mapam party either to join or
align itself with the united
party.
The Bar Mitzvah
That Made History
NEW YORK (WUP)—The East
Side of this international city was
the scene of a rare event last
month.
A happy and handsome young
ster, Jonathan by name, son of
David and Esther Bibbins of the
Black Jewish community .here
alighted the altar of the Down
town Talmud Torah and Jewish
Center, 142 Broome Street, and
recited the mnftir tor his Bar
Mitzva in such a masterful and
inspiring manner that the con
gregants, black and white, who
jammed the Orthodox synagogue,
were enthralled and spellbound.
The unique occasion was his
toric for another reason. Jona
than’s mother, Esther, active in
the Black and White Tzaad Har-
ishon movement, had played an
active role as a member of the
synagogue in saving the fine
structure from being razed
through a city ruling condemning
the area for reconstruction.
Thanks to Esther’s efforts in get
ting up a petition, the synagogue
was excluded from the condem
nation.
The Black Jewish communities
in Greater New York, some with
their own synagogues and rabbis,
have integrated themselves into
the body whole of Jewish life
within the metropolitan area par
ticipating in every phase of Jew
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