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Striking Seamen Celebrate End
Of Walkout with Big Hanukah Party

THE JEWISH NEWS - 7

Friday, January 4, 1952

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Freedom of Protest

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — A general
meeting of Israel's striking sea-
men ratified decisions of their
representative group to call off
the strike and return to work
immediately. The vote was
400-3.

Do You Know?

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That Solomon Ibn Gabirol
wrote one of the most beautiful
and sublime philosophical poems
in the "Keter Malkut" ("Royal
Crown"), which is only found in
old editions of Mahazorim and
is now out of print . . .
That in this poem he is the
forerunner of Copernicus by
about 600 years, in giving us the
names and numbers of our plan-
etery system, which he calls
"spheres," the last of them -bee
ing the sphere (planet) of
Saturn . ,
That no one suspected that
Gabirol was the author of the
"Pons Vitae" or "Source of Life,"
until an archdeacon of Segovia,
Dominicus Gundissalvus, trans-
lated it from the Arabic into
Latin. It was Solomon -Munk who
startled the learned world by
announcing that the so-called
Avicebron ( a corruption of Ibn
Gabirol) was Solomon Ibn Gabi-
rol. It was the "Eons Vitae" or
"M"Kor Hayyim," from which I
quote the following passage:
"Light Eternal art Thou and the
eye of the intellect longeth and
yearneth for Thee." _This inspired
Spinoza to the famous expres-
sion "the Intellectual Love of
God"—amor dei intellectualis
That some of Gabirol's con-
temporaries and later schoolmen
thought that he was either a
Christian or a Moslem. He never
quoted a Biblical verse or a
Talmudic dictum in his "Fons
Vitae." None suspected him to be
a Jew—what an irony of fate! ...
That he was not only a litur-
gical poet, but also wrote in a
lighter vein. One of them is
inscribed to one of his hosts for
meanness in not serving him
wine at his meals, viz: "May this
man, his son or daughter, be
forever doomed to water."
—Dr. Noah E. Aronstam

UPA Represented, But-
Browdy Snubs UJA Confab

ATLANTIC CITY (AJP)—A
dispute over direct representa-
tion of the Keren Hayesod (Pal-
estine Foundation Fund) at the
national conference. of the
United Jewish Appeal here
erupted in the shunning by Ben-
jamin 13rowdy, fund president,
of sessions held over the week-
end.
Browdy's decision to bypass
the UJA conference followed the
exchange of letters between the
K.H. president and Dr. Joseph
Schwartz, executive vice chair-
man of the UJA, the .American
Jewish Press learned. Browdy
had contended that it was "most
important for the prestige and
effectiveness" of the Keren
Hayesod that the body "be ac-
corded the same courtesy on the
program as representatives of
constituent bodies of the UJA."
UJA director Schwartz, reply-
ing to Browdy's letter. pointed
out that the Keren Hayesod had
never been individually invited
in the past, but had instead been
represented by the United Pales-
tine Appeal.

Allow Jewish Children
To Enter Hampstead Schools

MONTREAL, (JTA)—The
Hampstead Protestant Board of
School Commissioners has
changed its policy of excluding
Jewish children from its ele-
mentary school, and has agreed
to accept any child resident in
the suburban municipality, sub-
ject to the availability of space
in the school and the geograph-
ical locale of the child's resi-
dence.
The action was taken follow-
ing messages from a delegation
of six representatives of 50 Jew-
ish families of Hampstead. There
are about 100 Jewish families
in the town. The delegation told
the board they were concerned
about the education of their
children, and desired to have
them educated near their homes
rather than at distant Montreal
schools.,

The vote came after agree-
ment between representatives
of the strikers and the . organiz-
ing Committee of the new Hista-
drut-sponsored seamen's union
under which the strikers are to
return to work and the Hista-
drut will press for release from
military service of strikers con-
scripted when they • quit their
jobs. All questions in dispute
will be submitted to the Hista-
drut Council for decision and
the decisions will be accepted
by the seamen.
A total of 120 seamen will re-
turn to work within the next
few days while the remainder
will wait for ships now in for-
eign ports or on the high
s e a s. The first vessel has
left for Trieste to pick up a
cargo of prefabricated houses.
The strikers celebrated the end
of their stoppage with a big
Hanukah party.
Israeli seamen began return-
ing to their ships while the new
Histadrut - sponsored n a t i onal
maritime union began the job
of registering all seamen. It
was learned that with the
quisition of two new ships by
the Israel merchant fleet, jobs
will be found for all strikers
who were replaced by "volun-
teers" recruited by the Hista-
drut to sail the struck vessels.
The strike, which lasted over
40 days, affected over 600 sea-
men and 17 vessels.

German Court Vetoes
Harlan Film Boycott

Thomas Varkas, vocal 18-
months-old DP, exercises his
newly-acquired f r e e do in of
speech on ar-
rival in the
United States
recently, by
loudly protest-
ing the delay in
getting ashore
as he is left
alone while his
parents have
their papers in-
Thomas spected. The
youngster, born in a DP camp,
immigrated with t h e help of
HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant
Aid Society. The Varkas family
is staying at the HIAS Shelter
while permanent quarters are
being prepared for them. HIAS
operates the only shelter of its
kind in the United States.

Israel-Sponsored Oil
Co. Begins Operations

TEL AVIV, (JTA)
The re-
fining of crude oil by an Israel
government-sponsored fuel cor-
poration will begin early next
year. The corporation, known
as the Israel Fuel Corporation,
will produce up to 30 per cent
of Israel's local needs in gaso-
line, kerosene and Diesel fuel
within three years.
The government is subscrib-
ing half of the corporation's
650,000-pound capitalization, the
announcement s a i d. Other
shareholders, in the concern in-
clude: Anglo-Palestine B a n k;
Capital Investment Company;
Noa Transport Company; Ham-
ashbir Hamerkazi, central sup-
plying institution for the co-
operative movement; and Zim
Navigation Company._ Dr. Ger-
shon Meron, director of the For-
eign Ministry's economic de-
partment, is resigning to head
the company, which will have a
managing council of 12 persons.
The announcement also
stressed that Israel has been
paying out some $2,500,000 in
hard currency monthly to ob-
tain the various fuels needed
on the domestic market. It is
estimated that $40,000,000 to
$45,000,000 worth of oil will be
needed in 1952. - The first crude
oil stocks of 120.000 tons, have
been purchased by the new cor-
poration.

HAMBURG, (AJP) — A legal
fight to boycott a new film di-
rected by Nazi Germany's top
movieman, Veit Harlan, lost the
second round here when a Ham-
burg civil court upheld a lower
court decision prohibiting a So-
cialist official from calling for
a move to snub the film.
The civil court, rejecting an
appeal by Erich Lueth, Socialist
city press chief, who was pre-
viously prohibited by a lower
court ruling to call for a boy-
cott against Harlan's postwar
film, was ordered to pay $26,180
trial costs for the year-long le-
gal proceedings. Suing Lueth for
an injunction against his boy-
cott idea were the producer and
distributor of Harlan's film,
"Undying Lover."
Lueth stated that he would
continue the fight to win ap-
proval of his boycott scheme by
appealing the twice-rendered
decisio'n again, this time before Sharett Urges Action
the Feder al Constitutional
Court, post-war Germany's -top On German Payments
judicial body.
Harlan di r e c t e d the anti- 'JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel
Semitic film "The Jew Suess," Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett
one of Nazi propaganda chief arrived at Lydda International
Goebbels' pet, projects.
Airport from Paris, where he
headed the Israeli delegation to
the United Nations, to report to
5712: `Tashiv'
Premier David Ben-Gurion.
The Foreign Minister said
Under the heading "5712: 'She
Will Bring Back'," Hadassah that a special Cabinet meeting
Newslines carried this interest- was being called to hear his re-
port and to formulate instruc-
ing item:
By an interesting semantic tions for Ambassador Abba S.
coincidence, the Hebrew New Eban who will proceed to Paris
Year can be intimately associ- to head the Israeli delegation.
ated with Youth Aliyah. The
"It is time for the Knesset
Hebrew letters tof, shin, yud and the nation to decide wheth-
and bet which spell out the er or not reparations should be
present year 5712 also form a demanded directly from Ger-
word, "tashiv," meaning "she many," sSharett told reporters at
will bring back." It is fitting the airport. Asked about his
to note that in the year 5'712 meeting with Soviet For e i g n
Hadassah will bring back Minister Andrei Vishinsky at
thousands of Youth Aliyah Paris, Sharett said it was a
children to the home of their "routine" meeting and was con-
forefathers—Israel.
cerned with mutual relations.

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