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Indifference or Hostility
That there is a bright side to the alienation from Jewish
life among many young Americans is perceptively seen by
an Israeli prominently involved in the Jewish Agency’s
youth department.
Indifference is far worse, in his opinion, even though
attacks on the Jewish establishment may cause temporary
embarrassment. Expressions of alienation are a challenge
which indicates, at least, interest and possible future in
volvement. Radical youth, many of whom try to do their
“thing" within the Jewish community, or those who seek
to radicalize Jewish education and values, should not be
turned off by hostility or indifference on the part of the
community’s leadership, but listened to and encouraged.
Although there is concern with the Jewish self-hate of
the small minority involved in the New Left movements,
there is also hope in the growing numbers who are turning
to the kibbutz experience in Israel as the answer to an
American life with which they are disillusioned.
—THE JEWISH FLORIDIAN
Who Is A Parent?
Having children does not make one a parent, just like
owning a violin does not make one a musician. By having
children one becomes a father or a mother, but not a parent.
A parent gives himself to the child, while a father and
mother give children to themselves. A youth director re
cently noted that young people yearn for the old advantages
of home life, of involvement with their parents, as much as
for the new privileges of modem living.
Today’s mobility is separating parents from children in
their formative years to a harmful degree. Too often is the
comment heard by youths in prison, in hospitals to break
the drug habit, in alcoholic institutions, “My parents gave
me everything—except themselves.” Mothers and fathers are
frequently taken up with themselves that they raise their
children by remote control.
In the complicated, stressful world that we live, chil
dren are in greatest need of continuous communication with
their parents to be guided by them. As a colleague has said,
“What we put into the thought-stream and sight-stream of
our children today will be evident in their life-stream to
morrow.”
This is no less true of the Jewish rearing of our youth.
When tney see the values of Judaism as part of the family
pattern, when they observe their parents putting Jewish
practices to play at home, these blessings will be part of
their lives in their adult lives.
—RABBI ISRAEL GERBER
Temple Beth Israel Bulletin, Charlotte
Advance Staffers..
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delegates have not had this type
of event and Atlanta will be
no exception.
Perhaps the reason Is the cli
mate of public opinion in which
to pot it mildly the display of
pad i lilt I un is not a kind of man-
Ifestitation to win popular ap
proval. Indeed, It is popular to
publicly move in the opposite
direction. Jewish War Veterans
will have none of this, nor do
they fool they have to stare a
parade to prove anything.
Another reason may simply be
the simple fact thgt convention
comes smack-dab to the middle
of August and the blistering hot
sun is no , place in which to
march up and down any com
munity main-drag, even Peach
tree Street Or particularly
Peachtree Street when the tem
peratures might even bo hover
ing. in the vicinity of 100.
The Regency Hotel will be
convention headquarters and
thftre will take place the break-
lunch and dinner sessions
ts. well as all the in-between
long-dist4*» decries
must travel to atMend a conven
ed in the ease of this conven-
made the event traditionally into
a family vacation-type event
Delegates in most instances
will come with their wives and
sometimes with children. The
wives of course will find a world
of activity all their own during
the convention since they have
their own National Auxiliary
/which will also meet in Atlan
ta.
Many of the Auxiliary events
will be held in conjunction with
the men, but delegates will have
separate events as well at-which
they will discuss projects and
their own special organizational
imperatives and problems.
JEWISH CALENDAR
•TISHA B’AV
' Aug. 11, Tuesday
•BOSH HASHANA
Oct. 1-2,
Thursday-Friday
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•yom sprite h
Oct 10, Saturday
•HOLIDAY
NEW YORK (JTA>—“Pales
tinian and Jordanian Arabs il
legally enter Latin American
countries by the thousands, turn
to peddling for their income and
dispense hatred of Jews and
Israel along with their wares,”
according to a report by
the Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith. Rudy Heis, chair
man of ADL’s Latin American
Affairs committee, charged that
the Palestinians have allied
themselves with both leftist and
rightist extremists in that area
in an attempt to alienate Latins
from Israel. He noted that till
now the Latin lands have been
the only solid pro-Israel bloc in
the UN.
ALBANY, <N, Y. (JTA) — A
group of students at the State
University of New York at Al
bany (SUNYA), is planning to
launch a “Jewish Rediscovery
Project” on the campus next falL
Its motivation is "a common
desire to rediscover Jewish values
relevant to current problems and
to act upon such problems as a
Jewish group’ according to a
prospectus released here. The
youngsters are working with
Rabbi Leonard M. Kaplan of Con
gregation Obav Sholom, the Jew
ish religious advisor at SUNYA.
They estimate the Jewish student
population at 2,370 or 19.5 per
cent of the 12,125 total, and the
Jewish faculty at 200 members,
9.2 percent of the total. Accord
ing to Rabbi Kaplan, Jewish stu
dent activists are already largely
responsible for the creation of
the first full Judaica department
in the entire New York State
University system, which will
open in September under the
chairmanship of Prof. Jerome
Eckstein. They are also responsi
ble for a Free University of Ju
daica, offering courses that would
not normaly come under the Ju-
daioa Department; a kosher food
plan provided by the University,
and a special Passover food plan
administered by the University,
Rabbi Kaplan reported.
“The Jewish Rediscovery Proj
ect” is the tentative name for a
series of programs expected to at
tract large numbers of students
who find traditional Jewish or
ganizational hierachies and pro
grams repellent and irrelevant to
their interests and their intellec
tual -and spiritual needs. The
series eschews, formal leadership
structure in favor of what the
students call sub-cooperatives
in which leadership is expected
to rise spontaneously according to
the project’s needs. The student
most responsible for the program,
according to Rabbi Kaplan, is
Tobi Goldstein a sophomore. The
prospectus calls for four sub-co
operatives—a Study Cooperative,
an Information Cooperative, an
Acction Cooperative and a Re
ligion Cooperative. In the latter,
students will explore Hassidism
as an avenue to mystical experi
ence. "Many college students
turn to drugs and the Eastern
religions searching for a mystic
and deeply spiritual tradition.
Especially relevant to this quest
is Hassidism, which stands
unique as the world’s only pop
ular mystic movement.”
ings were also received from
Israel President S. JZ. Sfiazar
and Prime Minister Golda, Meir.
PARIS (JTA)—An apple a day
may keep the doctor away, but
a bagel a day for more than 10
weeks is only keeping French
President Georges Pompidou ir
ritated. Packages containing
single bagels have arrived by
mail at the Elysee Palace every
day since the French leader re-
tutmed from his visit to the
United States following his
denial, of pre-paid jets to Israel
and nis approval of jet sales to
Libya. Adding to the mystery
is the postmarking of each pack
age from a different part of
Paris and the fact that bagels
are not available in the French
capital.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two-
hundred and fifty Israeli educa
tors, men and women, have ar
rived to join staffs at more than
70 Jewish summer camps
throughout the United States
and Canada.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The 56th
national convention of Hadaasah,
the Women’s Zionist Organiza
tion of America, will be held at
the Washington Hilton Hotel
August 16-19.
CLEVELAND (JTA) — Two
dozen 25-ton self-propelled how
itzers made in the Brook Park
suburb by General Motors were
loaded recently onto the Is
raeli freighter “Etros.” The M-
109s, which fire 155-mm. shells
and carry 50 caliber machine
guns, were said to be part of
the 1969 U. S.-Israeli pact. They
were unofficially valued at $3.4
million. The loading was carried
out under security conditions.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The 100th
anniversary of the Yiddish press
in the United States was cele
brated here by more than 2,000
persons. The celebration was ar
ranged by J. L. Peretz Verein,
the Yiddish writers Union. Presi
dent Nixon, in a message ad
dressed to the gathering, lauded
the role which the Yiddish press
played in the development of
Jewish cultural, social and eco
nomic life in the country and
in bringing Jewish immigrants
closer to American life. Greet-
BQNN (JTA)—A three year-
old Nazi war crimess trial, the
longest on record, ended with
the acquittal of the chief de
fendant on grounds of insanity
and the sentencing of two others
to prison terms of moderate
length. The attorney general had
demanded life imprisonment for
all three for war crimes com
mitted at the notorious Buch-
enwald concentration camp. The
court freed former SS battalion
leader Heldmut Bishop who
was was certified as medically
insane and was dragged scream
ing from the courtroom. An
eight-and-a half year sentence
was imposed on former SS of
ficer Erwin Busta, 64, and a
seven-and-a half year sentence
on Ernst Sander, 56. Both were
convicted of abetting murder in
two separate instances and Bus
ta was also guilty of attempted
murder. The trial began on Nov.
7, 1967. Three hundred witnesses
were heard, among them Hitler’s
former Armaments Minister, Al
bert Speer who was recently
freed from Spandau prison. The
judges and attorneys traveled
to Poland, Russia, France and
Holland during the course of the
trial to hear testimony.
BETWEEN US .... By Boris Smolar (Elditor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA)
JDC IMAGE
Many Jews in this country think of the Joint
Distribution Committee in terms of the American
Red Crass. This is not enough. The Red Cross is
providing mostly urgent relief. It is on the spot
when there is an emergency like a flood, an earth
quake, and of course in war situations.
The JDC does much more than that. Not only
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does it come to the aid of needy Jews m wartime
and in emergency situations, but it conducts a
worldwide relief and rehabilitation program also
in “normal” times in countries where Jews are
in need of various forms of aid. During the, years
of its existence—since 1914—it spent about $940
million not only on feeding and clothing of needy
Jews overseas and of taking care of their chil
dren, but also on reconstructing their lives, meet
ing their medical, cultural and religious needs, re
habilitating many thousands of handicapped, and
taking care of the aged.
A look at the record as presented by Samuel
L. Haber, JDC executive vice chairman, gives an
idea of the gigantic task which the JDC performs.
Its field of activities is global. Last year alone,
which was comparatively a “quiet” year, JDC
served more than 320,000 beneficiaries. More than
a third of its global allocations of about $24,000,-
000 were spent on assisting 173,000 Jews in Eur
ope, both East and West.
The JDC network of relief and rehabilitation
is widespread over Europe and North Africa. It
embraces also such distant lands as Iran and
China, not to speak of Israel, where through the
JDC, its well-known Malben program has Over
the past two decades assisted over 250,000 aged.
*nd handicapped newcomers with
“■“ft. weifare and other services not otherwise
available in the young state.
In Eastern Europe alone, the JDC reaches 85,-
000 persons with assistance through its Relief-in-
Transit program. This does not Include the aid
given to 15,000 Jews in Rumania. Last year it
aided about 6,000 transmigrants who were opm-
' belled to leave their coum&ies-like the Jews in
Poland—and wefe awaiting final resettlement to
Jfrael and othw countries. It- exend* solid aid to .
the impoverished Jewish communities in Moslem
lands, like Morocco, where the Jewish population
* daeada ago is today lessthan
14,000, and Tunisia where there an today lass
H0OO oflthe 60.000 Jew* oi ten yett» aR
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