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Do something!
As the trials of Anatoly Sbcharansky and Alexander Ginsberg
move inexorably toward what appear to be unjust conclusions,
these is a feeling of helplessness that sets in.
???What can I do* is a question often beard.
The realistic answer is probably not much that will truly mean
anything to the Soviets who seem determined to prove to the
United States that detente is a one-way street
But public protest has often moved the Russian leadership to
back off from hard-line positions and we can at least hope that
they might be susceptible now. For this reason, we commend the
rallies and public outcries that have taken place in the last several
days. (For photos of the rally in Atlanta, see page 24.)
And if you want to do something right now, we suggest you
write to the political leaders who might make a difference.
These addresses will be helpful:
President Leonid Brezhnev
The Kremlin
Moscow, RSFSR
USSR
Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin
Embassy of the USSR
1125 16th St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
President Jimmy Carter
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
The Jewish connection
The wandering Jew has scattered the seeds of
Judaism around the world and I often wonder how the
harvest survived.
Cast out of Jerusalem in 68
B.C.E., the Jewish people sought
safe places, settling wherever local
governments seemed receptive,
moving on when the inevitable
pogrom or persecution took place.
And always, as they went, they
carried along the unique vitality of
Judaism.
Better than anything I have read
lately, a book called ???The Jewish
Connection," by M. Hirsch Goldberg, details the
small triumphs of the wandering Jew.
For instance, did you know?
???Discovery of the use of oil was made by a Jew,
Abraham Shreiner, in 1853 at Galicia where he built a
distillation plant. Where would the Arabs be without
him?
??? Manishewitz Wine Company estimates that only
10 percent of its consumers are Jewish and that they
sell more wine at Christmastime than at Passover.
???Pizzas are more Jewish than Italian. According
to historical sources, pizzas were first made over 2000
years ago when Roman soldiers added olive oil and
cheese to matzos.
??????White Christmas" and ???Easter Parade??? were
written by a New York Jew, Irving Berlin.
???Two hundred years before Columbus, Moses de
Leon, a rabbi, wrote: ???The earth revolves like a
ball... Whin it is day on one-half of the globe, night
reigns over the other half.??? He also theorized that
there was life on the ???other half of the globe.???
???The first American scientist awarded the Nobel
Prize was Albert Abraham Michelson, who measured
the speed of light with such accuracy in 1907 that he
inspired his fellow Jew, Albert Einstein, who changed
the world with E=MC J .
???Otto Llienthal, a German Jew, made the first
scries of controlled glider flights in 1892, sparking the
Wright Brothers??? work.
???The zeppelin should have been called the
schwartz, since airships were invented in 1890 by
David Schwartz, an Austrian Jew.
???Whether you enjoy rock music or the symphonies
of Beethoven on home stereo, thank Emile Berliner, a
naturalized American Jew who invented the modern-
day phonograph.
???A sad note: the first of Teddy Roosevelt???s Rough
Riders to be killed in action was a sixteen-year-old
Jew, Jacob Wilbusky.
???Another sad note: a Jew, Lieutenant Jacob Beser,
was on both atomic bomb missions to Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
???We could have had the Reis Telephone
Company. Fifteen years before Bell'i patent, Johann
Philipp Reis, a German Jew, exhibited his telephone
to scientists in Europe.
???The university seals of Yale, Columbia and
Dartmouth have Hebrew inscriptions.
???The first sex symbol in movies, Theda Bara, was
Jewish???as was the great actress Sarah Bernhardt.
???If you enjoy that extra hour of sunlight during
daylight-saving time, thank Marcus M. Marks, who
suggested the idea in 1915.
???The inventor of the one indispensible American
commodity, bluejeans, was Levi Strauss, a twenty-
year-old Jewish immigrant from Bavaria
???Jews were also pioneers in America's expansion
The first white child born in Georgia was Jewish. A
Jew founded Montgomery, Alabama. And two
Virginia Jews, Jacob Cohen and Isaiah Isaacs. 1
employed Daniel Boone to survey western
territories.
The list goes on and on. And one wonders how Jews
seem to excel out of all proportion to their numbers, a
puzzle which has occupied sociologists for centuries.
Somehow Jews possess a peculiar tenacious quality
that has sustained them. The author of ???The Jewish
Connection??? calls it ???staying power.??? Biblical scholars
see us as ???the Chosen." Whatever it is, we???re still here
Stephen Selig is alive
and well in Washington
An Old Russian Tradition
by Helen S. Silver
Among the specialists on the
White House staff is S. Stephen
Selig III, head of business liaison,
who reports to Presidential
Assistant Hamilton Jordan.
Selig, 35, formerly was national
finance director for the Jimmy
Carter presidential primary
campaign.
Born in Columbus, Ga., Selig
grew up in Atlanta. During his
high school and college days, he
was active both in sports and
school government. He majored in
business at the University of
Georgia, graduating in 1965.
After spending a few months in
the Air Force Reserves, he joined
the family real estate business,
Selig Enterprises Inc., in Atlanta.
In 1973, he became president of the
large company, which handles
commercial and industrial real
estate.
He also volunteered his services
to an impressive number of civic
organizations. Just a few of these
are the Kidney Foundation of
Georgia, Atlanta Jaycees, Atlanta
Arts Alliance, Atlanta Touchdown
Club, Georgia Retardation
Association, Atlanta Jewish Home
for the Aged and Jewish Children's
Service, the Temple and ZBT
Fraternity.
He was a member of Leadership
Atlanta, a group which accepts 30-
40 people a year, and also a
member of one of the Young
Presidents Organizations for
young leaders under age 40. In
Stephen Selig
1976, Atlanta Magazine named
him one of Atlanta's ???City
Shapers??????one of ???25 more who
are making Atlanta what it is.???
His most recent honor is his
appointment to the national
executive council of the American
Jewish Committee.
As top fund-raiser for the Carter
campaign for the nomination,
Selig traveled a great deal with
Carter and staged many successful
fund-raisers, particularly in the
Midwest. He met and worked with
many Jewish leaders like
Clevelander Milton Wolf, now
U.S. ambassador to Austria. In
addition, he was finance chairman
for Sen. John Glenn.
After Carter???s nomination, Selig
was in charge of business liaison in
the general presidential campaign,
under the direction of his good
friend, Hamilton Jordan.
Selig*s present position of staff
liaison on the White House staff
was created during the Ford
Administration.
???I try to see that the business
community has a voice in the
White House and that We know
their views," said Selig. ???I
accomplish this in a number of
ways. We have a great many
meetings and briefings with chief
Administration officials and some
of the business leaders, minority
and small business leaders, and
trade associations, such as the
American Retail Federation. We
meet with heads of major
department stores and talk about
issues that are important to them:
urban blight, energy and tax
problems, inner cities. We
sometimes invite a group and talk
about what???s important to us, such
as the consumer protection bill, for
example."
???We seek these people from
various sources???from the
Business Round Table. National
Association of Manufacturers,
and other business organizations,???
Selig continued.
Steve and his wife, Janet, and
their three young children have
made a happy adjustment to living
in the Washington area.