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Science in Israel

There is nothing new in stories of ac-
complishments by the Weizmann Institute of
Science in Rehoboth, Israel. The record
speaks for itself. Yet, the recent report of
advances made there provides a new thrill.
Sidney Gruson, the New York Times corre-
spondent in the Jewish state, made some
striking comments on the results of visits
at the Weizmann Institute of two distin-
guished Nobel Prize winners, Prof. Harold
Urey, the American nuclear physicist, and .
Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist. Dr.
Chaim Weizmann, "although aged and ail-
ing," was "a student again for a day" to
listen to Prof. Robinson's lectures. It must
have been a great joy for the President of
Israel to hear the British scientist say work
at' the institute bearing Weizmann's name
was of the "utmost fundamental importance."
Prof. Robinson made some interesting
revelations. He stated that scientists in
his country and in the United States are
taking up experiments by Prof. Aaron Kat-
chalsky to transform electrical or chemical
energy into mechanical energy, without in-
termediary machinery. The British chemist
pointed out that only in the living organism
is such transformation made without an in-
termediary step and that Dr. Katchalsky
has succeeded in creating at the Weizmann
laboratories a contractile system—a mole-
cule that alternately expands and contracts,
going a long way to explain what happens in
manipulations of human muscles.
Manifold activities distinguish the work of
scientists at the Weizmann Institute. De-
velopment, together with a group of French
research men, of a nylon-like plastic from
oil extracted from castor beans, which can
be grown abundantly in the Negev, is ex-
pected to be the basis of a large nylon textile
industry. Efforts to desalt the water of the
Negev, which is brackish, are expected, to
result in the transformation of the southern
area into a vast agricultural production cen-
ter. The experiments at the Weizmann In-
stitute in the study of cancer-producing sub-
stances and numerous other activities serve
to focus world attention upon the • great
scientific laboratories in Rehoboth. That's .
Israel's miracle expanding into reality.

Continuing Tensions

Assistant Secretary of State George E.
McGhee expressed the view last week that
tensions between Jews and Arabs are not
lessening. His statement contained the com-
ment that "unfortunately. there are some ex-
pressions of anti-American feeling in the
Middle East." "This," he said, "is true par-
ticularly among the Arab states because of
resentment of our Palestine policies. We
feel, however, that we are regaining their
confidence."
Which poses the question: Are we "re-
gaining" confidence at the expense of Israel?
We have always fplt that a firm policy in
the Middle East would speed, the possibility
of peace between Israel and the Arab states.
It is to be regretted, however, that too many
concessions and a weak-kneed attitude has
harmed rather than helped the cause of
peace. The State Department could have
been more helpful on this score.

Tribute to ORT

A JTA report from Geneva states that a
group of 14 experts from the International
Labor Organization, in the course of a visit
to the ORT Central Institute for the Train-
ing of Vocational Teachers, found ORT's
pedagogical methods "extremely instructive."
This is a deserved tribute to the work
of a most important movement whose tech-
niques have encouraged young Jews to enter
productive pursuits by training them in vari-
ous trades. The vocational program of the
ORT has elevated the position of young Jews
in many lands. The ILO tribute adds to the
recognition so well earned by ORT.

THE JEWISH NEWS

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papers, Michigan Press Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing
Co. 708-10 David Stott Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich., W0.5-1155.
Subscription $4 a year; foreign $5.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office,
Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
SIDNEY SHMARAK, Advertising Manager

Vol. XIX—No. 17

Page 4

July 6, 1951

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the third day of Tammuz, 5711,
the following selections will be read in OM' syna-
gogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Nun'. 16:1-18:32.
Prophetical portion—I Sam. 11:14-12:22.

Kr ED EQUAL

The Catholic Priest Who
Became a Jewish Preacher

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The Struggle for Survival

We would be totally false to our responsibilities if we
failed to take into account the mounting challenges to our
people's cultural autonomy and if we did not consistently
admonish the leaders in our community to consider the
problem of 'education the Number 'One Item on the agenda
of planning our people's needs.
- Last month, tens of thousands of young Jews received
diplomas from high schools and colleges. In our community,
Central High School alone issued diplomas to at -least 400
Jewish boys and girls. Nearly as many more were graduated
from other high schools. Many hundreds were graduated
from universities.
We should pause for a while to consider what the atti-
tudes of these young people are towards Jewish needs, what
their reactions are to Jewish causes, how. many of them can
be expected to affiliate themselves with Jewish movements,
with synagogues, with cultural projects. .
- If we are to judge the future by the past, we are not on
the safest ground. If the very limited amount of training
which serves as a background for Jewish thinking among
these young people is to be a means of measuring their loyal-
ties, we may consider the future rather gloomy.
Nevertheless, experiences have shown that when the
cause is important, our youth stands side by side with the
adult community in sponsoring movements in the best inter-
ests of our people. In Allied Jewish Campaigns we have
learned that our young people not only are eager to cooperate
in community efforts but they are among the first to render
service with hearty responses in giving from their limited
means and in volunteering as workers.
If our position is to be made genuinely secure,- we must
think in terms of enlisting more and more of these young
people for leadership. The graduates of today are the people
who will assume leadership of the community tomorrow, and
they must be guided from the very beginning to think in
terms of affiliation with their communities.
History has taught us that in lands where Jews have en-
joyed freedom withotit hindrance the temptations for assim-
ilation have been great. Many Jewish communities have
disappeared because the education of the youth Was reduced
to a minimum and assimilation was greatly encouraged.
Even in our own time, we are witnesses to a sad situation
in France where, as was reported last week at a three-day
conference of leaders of French Jewry, religion is vanishing.
Judaism, it was reported, is holding its ground in Paris but
is disappearing elsewhere in France at a very alarming rate.
Marc Jarblum, one of the leaders, stating that the formation
of a Paris Kehillah is progressing satisfactorily, declared
that "the formation of such a central body would be of -the
utmost importance if the present anarchy in French Jewish
communal life is to be ended."
What is possible in France also can happen to us. Our
educational standards regrettably have been reduced in the
past two decades. We have more two and three-day a week
`schools, instead of the earlier five-day Jewish schools. There
are more children whose education is limited to Sunday
schools than there are daily students. This can not go on
for long and a way must be found to enroll every child in
a Jewish school, to interest every young adult in study
courses, in congregational activities, in community projects.
Our young people must be guided to judge issues prop-
erly. From time to time, new antagonists are encouraged
against us. Right now, Dorothy Thompson's new so-called
pro-Middle East movement, which actually is an anti-Israel
endeavor; is being fostered. Our youth must understand the
frustrations among our former friends, who have turned
against us, which cause the creation of such organizations.
They must be taught to know the numerous factors which
enter into the struggle for existence.
Our struggle for survival goes on.' To make it an easy
battle, we must extend a welcome hand to our youth and to
share leadership with them. Our task - in seeking the advance-
ment of Jewish learning and the enhancement of ,Jewish
living, will be made easier.

By FRANK SIMONS
An American Jewish Press Feature
A chance visit to a synagogue in his youth
completely altered the destiny of Aime Palliere,
born a Roman Catholic in the French town of
Lyons. Witnessing the Neilah services on Yom
Kippur, young Aime afterward taught himself
Hebrew and began to learn about the Jewish
faith.
Palliere became a Catholic priest, but made
himself a set of Telfillin and attended synagogue
in Nice with regularity. Visiting Rabbi Elijah
Benamozegh of Leghorn, advised him to adopt
"the religion of humanity," Noachism. But Pal-
here considered this "an unsatisfactory half-way
house between Judaism and Christianity.' -
About this time the Liberal Jewish movement
was developing in Paris, and Palliere was given
the opportunity of becoming their leader. He
declined, wondering if their departure from cus-
tomary rites would not interfere with the tradi-.
tional Judaism about which he felt so keenly.
He collaborated with the Chief Rabbi of the
Union of Liberal Synagogues of France in stren-
uously aiming to bring back Jewry to the syna-
gogue. He lectured at the Rabbinical College,
helped edit the rabbibical jounial and wrote a
number of works on Jewry and his mission in
Judaism.
Though Palliere died on Dec. 24, 1949, as ft
Christian, he asked that Kaddish be said for
him in a synagogue.

'Journey to the Dawn'

Angoff's Impressive Novel

Charles Angoff, Harvard-educated, Russian-
born writer, one-time assistant to H. L. Mencken
on the American Mercury, writer for numerous
magazines, already has made his mark as a short
story writer, as playwright and historian. His
stories, "When I Was a Boy in Boston," formed a
collection that was well acclaimed. His "Literary
History of the American People," is another of
his six published books.
His latest, "Journey to the Dawn," (pub-
lished by Beechhurst Pres&, 296 Broadway, N. Y.
7), is his first full-length novel. In it, he reveals
a deep knowledge of Jewish experiences. It is
a sympathetic novel dealing with the life of im-
migrants in this country during the first part
of this century.
The realism of "Journey to the Dawn," the
thoroughly frank approach to the life led by
newcomers to this country nearly half a century
ago, suggest interesting contrast to the Situa-
tion existing today,
This novel helps perpetuate knowledge of
conditions in American Jewry in ,the days of
Taft, in the era of unrestricted immigration, in
the period when Jewish traditions were para-
mount among immigrants.
Among the interesting contrasts suggested by
this novel are the frequent discussions about
Zionism and socialism—Zionism being tabooed
and emphasis being placed on Judaism alone.
How times have changed!
But among the contrasts also is the devotion
that is evidenced among the children in the
novel to this very Judaism, to the Hebrew school,
to religious practices in the home.
It will be profitable for our people to read
Angoff's book and to study it as a comparison
with conditions in our time.
The fact that Angoff possesses knowledge of
Jewish life and knows the history of the Jewish
settlement in this country 50 years ago has
helped make his book more valuable.
"Journey to the Dawn," well-written, backed
up by factual knowledge ; is a story of conditions
implied in the title—the journey by immigrants
to the dawn, to a great appreciation of the
values of America as important adenda to the
values of Judaism.

Struggle Between Generations
Described in Hilda. Abel Novel

"The .Guests of Summer," a new novel by
Hilda Abel (Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis), has
its setting in a resort where Julie, her mother
and her uncle meet numerous people in the cru-
cial month of August, 1939, when clouds of war
were hovering over the .world.
It is a story of a conflict between the young
girl—the first generation American—and her
mother. The Jewish challenges, the Hitlerian
threats, the inner emotions of youth all are set
in play here.
The "differences" between generations spell
tragedy in many of the relationships between
parent and child. The fleeting love affair with
the Nordic-looking Roger and later the affair
with Friedrich Groscz who returns to Europe
upon the outbreak of the war, form an important
aspect in the life of the young girl.
The deeply-moving personal conflicts finally
are diSsOlved and daughter learns that mother
has a warm affection for her. A conflict of gen-
erations is healed. This . inner struggle domin-
ates the interesting novel by the young author.