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Communist Explains
Zionist Opposition

The. Sporting Scene

Bert Ruby Uses Head,
Toes in Career on Mat

`Bible Legend Book' Introduces
New UAHC Series of Youth Volumes

Answers to current press ac-
In "The Bible Legend Book," and Midrash. There are legends
cusations that the communists published by the Union of Amer- about Adam and Eve, Cain and
have switched their position to ican Hebrew Congregations, Lil- Abel, Noah and the Raven, Abra-
an anti-Zionist, anti-Israel line, ian S. Freehof does for the chil- ham and Lot, Igaac and his sons,
are given in an article, "Zionism dren what Prof. Louis Ginsberg Jacob and his children, the rise
By JERRY COHEN
and the State of Israel," by Moses did for adults in his seven-volume to power in Egypt of Joseph.
Jewish News Staff Writer
Miller in the May 1949 issue of "Legends of the Jews."
The able author points out that
As Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, "some of the stories in the Bible ,
To wrestling enthusiasts, Bert liver and were giving a pal ty for Jewish Life, published by the
Morning
Freiheit
Association.
editor of UAHC publications, in- were very short and others were
Ruby is known as the wrestler all their country men in the vi-
"Communist support of Israel,"
with the educated toes. To such cinity:. "Bring me down some," writes Miller, "did not from the dicates in a note addressed to hard to understand. So these old
parents and teachers, Mrs. Free- scholars retold the stories in
mat experts as Strangler Lewis, begged Ruby of his brother.'
outset in any way constitute en- hof's is the first of a' series of their own words, adding their
"If
you
want
any,
go
get
it
he is known as one of the few
dorsement of Zionism. On the
top wrestlers in the country. To yourself," answered his brother. contrary, communists maintain legend books for children. This own thoughts and ideas and im-
first volume contains 19 stories agination to. make them more
Ruby
got
so
mad
over
the
sting-
hundreds of Detroiters,- Ruby is
ing retort, that he forgot his pain, that Zionist ideology is inimical based on the Book of Genesis. understandable. As each teller
just their favorite mat man.
got, out of bed, and pushing a to the interests of, -the Jewish Floyd Berg is the illustrator.
of tales added his stories to
Therefore, it's not surprising chair ahead for support, made people'whether in Israel,_Ameri-
The rabbinic tales, told in ex- others, there grew up a vast
that on first meeting Ruby, One.is his way to the affair—saved by a ca, Poland or any other part of cellent Style for children by Mrs.
amount of story material called
often thrown off guard by his
the world."
Freehof, are from the Aggadah `The Midrash'." ,
goose
liver
-
quiet and intelligent nature. As
Miller quotes statements in the
Toes and 50-lb. Weights
Out of such stories grew the
he himself said, "People are
I had to ask Ruby about his past few years by Alexander
legends. Based on these legends,
usually disappointed when they famous toes. "We were too poor Bittelman, leading Jewish com-
Mrs. Freehof has written her fas-
are first introduced to me. I guess to get shoes in my youth," he munist, to show that the com-
cinating - stories which are incor-
bite
.
they expect wrestlers to
replied, "so I just got in the habit munist position has been consist-
porated in the first of the series
them or twist their arm or some- of picking up twigs and stones. ently anti-Zionism and for an in-
Leave it to the expert
of Bible legend books. The Union
dependent,
democratic
Israel.
thing."
Col. Yigal Yadin of the Israeli of Ame.rican Hebrew Congrega-
Later I practiced lifting 50 pound
The article is the first of a Army was recently asked at a
For Ruby is also a philosopher weights or heavy kitchen chairs
tions 'has done well to make pos-
series giving a Marxist analysis press conference — before , the
and idealist—which can be traced —with his toes of course.
sible the publication of the leg-
of
Zionism.
The
current
article
Egyptian-Israeli
Armistice—what
back to his early boyhood under
"Don't you get tired of wrest-
ends for young readers.
takes
up
the
basic
tenets
of
Zion-
the army proposed to do about the
the red Russians, white Russians, ling four or five times a week,"
ism
and
contrasts
the
Marxist
Egyptian pocket at Faluja. Re-
Hungarians or Romanians, de- we asked.
pending on who happened to be
looked surprised. "Why
"Wr concept of a nation with the plied the colonel: "The Army has
occupying his village at the time. no," he • answered. "Wrestling's Zionist view of the Jews as a rendered the Egyptians immobile
and impotent. It -is for the civil
part of my life. It's second nature "world-wide" nation.
Cure for Anti-Semitism
FOR
government
to' do the rest. I
to
me.
Besides,
it
keeps
me
in
His father was the town in-
Scientific Research Fund might add that Mr. Eliezar Kap-
tellect and made certain that his shape. I'd be lost without it."
the Minister of Finance,
He has two children now.
sons became individuals, dissatis-
Established by Hadassah lan,
knows much' more about 'empty-
SPECIAL DELUXE
fied with the liberty-lacking at-
"Boys of course," he said. "And
the army does."
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A'$100,- ing pockets' than
mosphere in which they lived.
you ought to see the oldest. He's
* *
CREAM COTTAGE
It was here that Ruby- learned three. The two of • us wrestle 000 fund for scientific research
and
An Accommodating Butcher
how
to wrestle—the hard way— round the house. And the kid's and publications to be known as
•
Robert St. John in his very in-
SPECIAL
and with good reason. As Ruby smart too. I've lived a full life, the Judah L. Magnes 'Memorial
FARMER CHEESE
puts it, "We lived in one of the but he'll have a chance to get a Fund has been established in' the teresting book, "Shalom Means
he saw in
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few villages in both Hungary and formal education besides know- name of the late president of the Peace," tells of a sign
MA
5388
Kosher Butch-
Romania in which there was no ing what I learned in the school Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel AviV, reading,
er
Kills
Himself
Once
Weekly.
by the Hadassah.
anti-Semitism. You see. I had five of hard knocks."
brothers all as big and husky as
myself. And in all the bouts I
had with the peasant youths be-
fore I came to Canada, I never
once lost,"
"And the cobblestones were l.
much harder than mats," he add-
•
ed ruefully. "So you see we had
the respect of all the neighboring
people."
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Unhappy with the conditions
existing in Hungary and ROmania,
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Ruby at the age-of 17 jumped at
a chance to come. to Canada. But
he arrived in .1930 in the midst of
the depression and had to be
satisfied with washing dishes and
setting pins in - a bowling alley
to earn enough to keep himself
fed.
Wrestles by Accident
By accident one day two youths
whom he separated in a fight
taunted him, saying "You big
dumb ox. You're so tough! Why
don't you go in the ring and
wrestle." So he did, touring the
Canadian circuits until 1933 when
the famous' promoter Jack Curley
took him in tow and brought
Ruby to New. York.
Since then he's been wrestling
all over the .United States and
says he's never been sorry that
he's made- wrestling his career.
Once Ruby's career was saved
by Hungarian goose liver, a rare
delicacy to those who like it. At
this time, Ruby was laying in bed
paralized from the waist down
and in extreme pain as the result
of a wrestling accident in New
York. The doctors said that all
that could save him was a will
to get well.
One evening he heard that the
Hungarians who lived upstairs
had received some imported goose
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EConomic Treaty Planned
By Israel and Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—The
' Israeli Government has appoint-
ed the Argentine Palestine Eco-
nomic Corporation (ARPAISA)
its representative in all economic
transactions with the Argentine
Government. Negotiations for
conclusion of an economic treaty
between Israel - and Argentina
have already been started with
Dr. Carlos Grunberg, Israeli liai-
son official here, participating in
the talks.
Since the proclamation of
Israeli statehood, more than $5,- -
000,000 worth of goods have been
purchased by the Jewish state
from Argentina, it was revealed
by Dr. Jose Mirelman, • vice-presi-
dent of the ARPALSA.

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Friday, April 22, 1949

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