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Soviets sensitive to critics ^
on human rights: Rosenne
HOLLYWOOD, Fla—Israel’s
ambassador to the United States,
Meir Rosenne, told the World Union
of General Zionists last week that
there has been “no change” in the
Soviet attitude toward Israel—hut
that the Kremlin remained “quite
sensitive” to criticism from the
West for its policy on human rights
and Jewish emigration.
As one indication of the Soviet
response to attacks on the U.S.S. R.’s
treatment of Jews, he said, Moscow
was sending a delegation to Paris
including the rabbi of the Chorale
Synagogue in Moscow, Adolph
Shayevich, and two long-time Soviet
apologists, Gen. David Dragunsky
and Samuel Zuis.
I hese three members of the so-
called “Jewish Anti-Zionist Com
mittee of the U.S.S.R., ” he said,
were being dispatched to Paris
because the French capital had
been the scene of strong protects
during the visit there of Mikhail
(iorbachev, the Soviet president,
before the recent Geneva summit.
I he Israeli envoy warned some
200 Zionist leaders from North
and South America, who took part
in the WUGZ convention, not to
be influenced by “rumors spread
by the Soviets" about the imminent
release of thousands of Jewish
refusniks.
“If the Russians want to make a
gesture,” he said, “they don’t have
College interview
Adapted from the works ol Rabbi Menachem M
Schneerson. the I ubavitcher Rebbe. bv Rabbi
Yossi New. C'habad ol Georgia
An interview of a group of college
students with the Lubavitcher
Rebbe:
We here are all American college
students. Do we have any particular
mission to fulfill?
Each rnan is given certain
possibilities. One must adjust these
possibilities to the accomplishment
of his mission. The mission of the
American collegiate is a great
challenge and requires mych cour
age. All of you have one thing in
common. You all go to college and
are observant Jews. You should
use these possibilities to advance
the cause of your mission on the
campus. You should never publicize
that science is a contradiction to
religion. He who says that science
contradicts religion is talking
rubbish. True science is highly
compatible with faith. G-d is the
creator of science and also the
giver of the Torah at Mt. Sinai.
The Torah is truth, and science is
truth; therefore, there can exist no
conflict between the two. In fact,
the findings of the past few years
confirm what is said in the
Torah—ideas which scientists a
generation ago would not have
believed.
The mission of showing that
science and religion do not conflict
with each other, and that true
science can affirm and confirm the
rulings of Torah, is a mission strictly
for college students like yourselves.
You are the people who actively
participate in the fields of science
and therefore you are better
qualified to voice opinion than the
layman. When the layman gives an
opinion in this area he is often
rebuked; a college student’s opinion
on the same matter is usually
respected. It is the duty of the
Orthodox Jewish college student
to dispel the myth of incompa
tibility.
Science has not been perfected
itself, but science has a self
corrective mechanism. A new find-
Rabbi Schneerson
ing today can reverse a belief or
decision of past years. Let me
illustrate this with the following
example:
There are many passages in
Tanach (post-Mosaic Bible), also
many sayings of our sages telling
us that the sun revolves around the
earth. Prior to the 15th century
these passages were accepted
universally. In the 1500s Copernicus
(who incidentally was a monk and
therefore a believer) explained that
the astronomical experiments and
findings proved that the above
notion was an error. He showed
that the sun was the center of our
solar system, and all the planets
including the earth revolved around
it.
Throughout the 17th and 18th
and 19th centuries great libraries
of apologetic literature were written
trying to explain the apparent con
flict between science and Torah.
The explanations that were offered,
were generally that the p'sukim
(verses) of the Torah cannot be
translated literally. However in 1905
Einstein, the great scientist, dis
covered a new theory that has since
resolved the dispute. It is imperative
to note that Einstein’s theory is
accepted in latum by all scientists
today, whereas Copernicus’ theory
in his day never received complete
support.
A basic truth in Einstein’s theory
of relativity is that science will
never be able to tell the truth
between the two systems. The theory
explains a priori that the truth can
never be proven in science, for
everything is relative. The seeming
conflict that existed between science
and religion for 300 years in the
final analysis turned out to be non
existent. For after 1905 it was
again possible to interpret the
scriptures literally.
to announce it. All they need do is
start releasing the 400,000 Jewish
men, women and children who
have applied to emigrate to Israel.”
While the Soviet Union continues
to support Yasir Arafat and Libya
in their terrorist activities and
continues to arm Israel's enemies,
including Syria, Rosenne conceded
that there had been “some change"
in the position of Poland, which
recently announced it would open
an “interest section” in another
country's embassy in Israel. He
noted that this was the “lowest
form" of diplomatic recognition
and expressed the hope that the
Polish government would ultimately
raise the level of its relations with
Israel to that of a resident ambas
sador.
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