Thursday, October 13, 1949 .
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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STRICTLY' CONFIDENTIAL
Egyptian Coup to Seize the Negev Is Foreseen
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
WILL
WILL THE JEWISH position throughout the world
much in the new year?
We've been wondering, and shall venture inte the
risky sea of predictions.
The Israeli government will drop its present
alliance with the religious bloc and form a coalition
with the left wing labor party Ma.
pain. While the Israelis will win
in the UN on the Jerusalem issue,
they will experience great difficul-
ties on the Negev issue.
Egypt will give most of the
trouble. We shall not be surprised
if the Egyptians will launch a mili-
tary coup and try to occupy the
Negev region.
In this new year only a very
small number of new immi- Biron
grants will enter Israel. Even if eastern European
countries will permit Jewish emmigration (Poland
already has) the Israeli government will insist on a
breathing spell before tackling a new immigration
wave.
IN THE U. S. the American Jewish Congress
will lose ground steadily, and should the UJA cut
it off from its present allocation (we don't say that
it will), then the Congress would gradually vanish
into thin air.
Rabbi Abba 'fillet Silver will come back into
international Zionist leadership. Sorry to say but the
"American Jewish Daily" will not survive the year.
Another casualty in the Jewish Fourth Estate will
be the Yiddish Morning Journal.
The membership of the ZOA will decrease. The
American Jewish Committee will revive its anti-
Zionist policy. Daniel Frisch will not rep for re-
election as president of the ZOA.
Don't ask us how we arrived at these startling
revelations. All we can tell you is that they are
based on the scientific methods. Just check do us
as tithe marches on.
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HERE IS A behind-the-scene story that no news-
paperman or columnist told you as yet.
A few months ago "Death of a Salesman," after
its New York triumph, was ready for the London
premiere. Paul Muni had worked very earnestly on
the portrayal of Willy Loman, the central character
OFF THE RECORD
of Arthur Miller's great play.
A few days before the opening, the London pro-
ducers were warned that unless they withdrew Muni
all the London newspapers had agreed to launcit
a boycott against the play. Why? Because Paul
Muni had been the star of Ben Ilecht's Irgunist spec-
table "A Flag Is Born" and that British patriots liad
not forgotten Ben Ilecht's anti-British epigrams which
Muni had recited so eloquently on the New York stage.
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THE PRODUCERS were in a quandary. Muni
was deemed indispensible for the success of the
play. Besides, there was no understudy.
Miller, who was in London at the time, decidA
to string along with Muni. He said that he simp y
did not believe that the British vendetta spirit would
extend against a great actor who had played in a
pageant created by Ben Hecht. And so "Death of 4,1
Salesman" opened with Paul Muni as its star in
London.
The next day the London drama critics published
rave reviews about the play and Muni. Nobody said
or wrote anything about a possible boycott.
Today Miller's klay is the greatest box office hit
England has ever seen.
ment to sell 20th Century Israel's law requires
a waiting period of
Joseph to Egypt. Two men sit six hours between eating meat
in a restaurant over a meatless and dairy products
while Joseph
table discussing religion. One re- requires six days."
marks that Joseph is the most re-
ligious man in Israel. This of
INVESTMENTS RISE
course elicits an expression of
TEL AVIV—Between 1946 and
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
"You can have it for a pound," surprise.
1949, capital investments in Is-
Surprise gives way to laughter rael increased by about $50,000,-
BEFORE Aaron Ranabowitch was the reply.
when
the
other
replies:
"Mosaic
000.
lost his family in the hellpot
As the men were jesting, Rana
of Hitler he was just a simple ' bowitch said he thought so little
Jew. He had received an ordinary l of the world to come that he
• Jewish education, went to Syna- would sell it to his employer for
gogues, gave his children a Jew- lhalf the price he originally quot-
ish education and observed the ed. Buxbaum took the matter ser-
holidays and practices with steady iously, gave him the money and
if not pious regularity.
the men signed an official agree-
But time and harrowing ex- ment.
periences made this simple man
This happened some three
a deep cynic. He lost faith in God months ago. Time passed and
and man. How could there be nothing was said. Buxbaum was
thought of any sanctity in a world happy that he would get a larger
which stood indifferent while the portion of paradise. The seller
monster was slaughtering six mil- was pleased too. In fact he thought
lion of his people, he thought.
a man a fool who would surrend-
He began to brood and in his i er money, for such non-existent
brooding he lost even the small commodity as paradise.
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faith men generally have in their
fellow beings.
HELL ON EARTH
When he got a job as carpenter
LATER, HOWEVER, the ap-
apprentice to one Buxbaum in prentice was seized by regret. His
Tel Aviv he was only happy to conscience troubled him. Bad
the extent that he gained a de- dreams tortured him. He could
gree of financial independence. neither sleep nor eat.
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His ancestors harrowed him in
SIGNS AGREEMENT
dreams. His dead parents pointed
ONE DAY WHILE at work he fingers of disgrace at him.
began criticizing the Israeli gov-
He was troubled by a "per-
ernment, its policies, its conduct.
In bitterness he broke into a tir- haps." But the purchaser had
made a bargain. Buxbaum would
ade against God.
not yield. He had bought a rare
When his employer asked him privilege and he wasn't going
to
it he believed in "paradise" and be done out of it by a man who
in the world to come, his "no" is a confessed unbeliever.
was accompanied by a bitter
When Ranabowitch kept on in-
sneer. His employer, a religious
man asked Ranabowitch wheth- sisting that the contract be brok-
er he would sell his share in en Buxbaum suggested that the
dispute go to a Rabbinical court.
the world to come.
The hearing was held. Buxbaum
had a legal contract. His appren-
tice a moral claim.
The Rabbis could not undo a
contract. But finally they directed
a human plea toward Buxbaum.
And he yielded. Possibly because
he too feared pangs of conscience
NEW YORK—The fourth annual if he persisted in holding on to
ll these years we've been so busy
meeting of the National Council the bargain.
at
tobacco-school,
we never got to
of the Joint Defense Appeal will
Now both men are happy. Not
be held Nov. 11-13 at the Book even a quarrel over such a mat-
medical-school. We learned just one
Cadillac Hotel, it was announced ter as shares in paradise could
thing: how to select, cure and blend
by Charles W. Morris of Louis- break their friendship.
ville, JDA council chairman.
the
world's best tobaccos ... for the
This story was told in more
The Detioit meeting will re- detail in a recent issue of the
world's
most enjoyable cigarette. To-
view the needs of American Forward, Yiddish paper, by its
Jewry which are being met by Tel Aviv correspondent Gal.
day, why don't you try smoking for
the AJC and ADL in the light
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the sheer pleasure of it? Light up
of the current national and inter-
MEAT
FOR
GAGSTERS
national situation, and examine
Old Gold . . • study its smoothness;
ISRAEL'S AUSTERITY pro.
the item-by-item cost of fighting
learn all about its delightful mildness;
bigotry through the agencies of gram is one for the books, Steaks
and other meats ai- e as scarce as
the JDA.
get hep to its million-dollar taste! ...
"The JDA Council meeting ice cream in the Sahara Desert.
Now, don't you feel like the brightest
looms as one of the most im- However, the strict rationing pro-
portant and vital events of the gram introduced by Minister of
scholar in the class?
year in view of the changing Supplies Dov Joseph is good meat
to
the
gagsters.
emphasis in Jewish communal
life," said Morris.
The restaurant menu Is popu-
"The repercussions of that larly described as "Joseph's fairy
a a
new emphasis will be examined tale." Before the holidays the
carefully by the hundreds of jokesters spread a rumor that
Jewish leaders present at De- Joseph was thinking of changing
Sells Right to Paradise,
Suffers Tormeut in Life
Nearly 200 years
of know-how
•makes
Old Gold
JDC Meeting
Set for Detroit
the Treasure
of them all"
A
an
Vic a Neat instead of a Tieatment
troit, and related directly to the the Jewish calendar. He would
cost of maintaining the program have Yom Kippur extended to
of the JDA agencies in com- two days and this have two
munities from coast to 'oast," days.
he added.
Another stay is about a
Smoke OLD GOLDS
220,000 Adult Israelis -
Enrolled in Histadrut
TEL AVIV — (LIIB) — Reuben
Burstein, director of the Histad-
rut's organization department,
has revealed that the most re-
cent census indicates that 220.000
adult citizens of Israel are en-
rolled in the Histadrut.