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Dr. Finkelstein Rebuffed
Richards Criticizes His Project
American Jewish Press
Feature
"Current Jewish Thought.," the made clear and definite," the
digest of Jewish views and bulletin states. with reference
opinions. published periodically to the Institute on Israel spon-
sored recently by the Seminary
together with the Jewish Agency.
But while Dr. Finkelstein was
the chief "machutin" at that In-
stitute, Richards recalls the
echoes of the interview with Dr.
Finkelstein by Time Magazine,
picturing
him as having "come
1
to grips with Zionism."
Then comes this pungent con-
cluding paragraph: •
"Perhaps the new ten volume
history of the Jews will be suffi-
ciently complete to note the one
contribution which Dr. Finkel-
stein made to the struggling and
i hard-pressed people of Israel.
That is a proposal for another
., futile interfaith discussion as-
sembly, to be held in Jerusalem,
Finkelstein
and to duplicate the Conference
by the Jewish Information Bu- of Religion, Science and Phil-
reau, which is directed by the osophy, which in six years has
distinguished New York Jewish spent half a million dollars and
leader. Bernard G. Richards, left a mountain of empty words
takes a few digs at the Jewish on Columbia Heights."
Theological Seminary and its
president, Dr. Louis Finkelstein,
week returned from a
who
visit in 1.,,,eL
This digest's comments are
cw•asioned by the Seminary's
announcement of a project for
the publication of a 10-volume
history. It notes the fact
that the name of a Christian
s•li , ilar Prof. William F Al-
bright heads the list of those
who - will prepare the history.
I
reedont Stamps
Payment to Templars
To Follow Reparations
Leonard Lyons Predicts: 'Everything
Will Grow and Ripen' in Jewish State,
BONN, (JTA ► ---The claim of
the German Templars for com-
pensation from Israel for their
property there will be the sub-
ject of negotiations between the
Templars and Israel' after the
German - Israeli reparations
agreement is signed.
According to reports in the
German press, the West German
government has received pro-
tests from the Arab League A. Ben-Gurion D. Ben-Gurion Vera Weizmann Dr. WeizMann
against paying any reparations!
"Everything will grow and ripen" in Israel, Leonard
to Israel.
Lyons, eminent- columnist, predicts in his syndicated column
"The German attitude." the in the New York Post.
protest is quoted as stating,
Writing from Tel Aviv, after touring Israel with his son,
"could lead to marked deteriora- Mr. Lyons describes his impressions of the Jewish state. and
tion of good relations between
some of his reactions are:
Germany and the Arab nations.
young American Zionists. They
"There is a Lard in Heaven,
in view of the fact that pay- I
created a flourishing village out
and over Him is the bus driver,
ments to the Jewish state would
of mountain crag. while stand-
but over both is the cab driv-
enable Israel to continue its ag-
ing guard against the Arabs.
er," is an Israeli axiom. Provi-
gression against Arab neigh-
dence was kind and the bu*
We spent the night at a
bors."
drivers and hackies tolerant,
kibbutz hostel at Ayeleth Ha-
(A spokesman for the Israeli
and so I was able to see the
shenar, on Lake Huleh, and in
reparations delegation in The
new land without much risk
the morning drove to Tiberias,
Hague said that there is no
to limb in traffic. It's not
on the Sea of Galilee, past th..
cause for concern at the report-
much bigger than Rhode Is-
place where Jesus preached
ed Arab protest."o
land, perhaps. and so I saw
the Beatitudes and the mir-
almost all of it. in two days'
acle of the loaves and the
driving,
from
the
northern-
In U.S. and Israel most peak near Lebanon to fishes was performed. At Mik-
an] was the kibbutz of 250
Beersheba in the Negev; from
families and a big plywood
the coastal plains along the
factory. Its turnover is
Mediterranean to the walls of
Jerusalem. David Passow, of
the Weizmann Institute of
Science, was at the wheel. He's
an ex-rabbi. "We need no
Guide Book." he said. "The
Old Testament is enough."
The cars all have a design
painted on the windshields, un-
Dr.
Re•alling
der the new gas-rationing and
"The Jews - which Mr. Richards'
vehicle-conservation law, indi-
(fittest says was "sponsored by
cating which clay the owner se-
the American Jewish C•oininit-
lected to keep
we
are
warned
that.
like
its
-
tee.
the car off the
predecessor, the new project has
road. The Mos-
Safad
Degania
Yad Mordecai
the earmarks of another offering
, lents chose Fri-
Ott the afl-consuming altar of
days, the Jews
good-will and more costly. public
Saturdays a it d
relations."
t h e Christians
Sundays. Even
In hts—rirsay on "Judaism" in
the Chief of
his earlier work, we are fenund-
Staff's car has
ed. Dr. Finkelstein endeavpred to
an Ahlif--"A"--
improve upon the famous dictum
Lyons
on the wind
of Hiliel III I am not for myself,
which means his car
who will be for me? And if I am Valley. Forge Lexington
Brookln
can't be used on Saturdays. A
only for myself, what am I? ,
THE STAMPS OF THE TWO DEMOCRACIES
Lahmid—`1;- --on the rgiar of st
with a new translation which-
car or truck means pat the
reads: If I do.not labor to per-
driver is a learner. a warning to
feet myself, who will perfect me. !
ilewitz, the hero of the battle
By MAX SIMON
keep clear of him.
But if I only perfect myself, what
of the Warsaw Ghetto. On the
tAn AJP Feature ,
am I. 4Page 1386, Vol. IV e The
seventh day of Passover 'April
There were countless men
It, was in 1776 that the em-
word perfections were obviously battled farmers stood their
19. 1943) he led the Jews of
and women in uniform, for
put torward as an appeal to a ground at Concord arid Lexing-
the Warsaw Ghetto in their
Israel's women, from 18 to 26,
majority religion which stresses
•
uprising- against the
are drafted, too—unless they're
- ton,
and fired the shots heard
'
the idea of perfection. Of this
In
the
spirit
of
Mordecai
Ani-
married or their orthodoxy is
t he
ld.
ponderous and pretentious set
Echoes of those few volleys lewitz, the defenders of Yad
so rigid that it does not per-
of four volumes, Dr. Solomon have been heard through the Mordecai, surrounded and
mit association with males. In
Zeldin
said in for
the October.
Jewish Quart-
the Chassidic sector of Jeru-
erly Review
1952, years as peoples everywhere shelled by the Egyptians. held
fought for national indepen- out to the end. when the Israel
salem I heard a shrew berate
that unity
it lacks
vision,
cohesion,
and
and
that Jewish
learn- dense, for the right to govern • Army ordered the settlement . a seven-year-old-boy and girl
for walking down the street
ing was not advanced an iota themselves under a government evacuated.
i "of the people, by the people , These are the modern Minute- • hand in hand. She withdrew
by its publication:
. Men whose deeds are comment-
objections when they informed
and for the people "
In recent years. a new type of orated on the stamps of the na-
her they are twins ...
This is only the beginning of
Richards' "expose." His digest minute-man has emerged. It lion that they fought so hard to
We drove north. on the new
maintains that an identical plan is the Chalutzim (pioneers! of create,
road to Haifa, where the an-
for Jewish history originally was Israel fighting for the indepen-
cient Arab buildings nestle at
put forward two years ago by dence and sovereignty of the 113 Hungarian Jews On Way
the foot of the modernistic co-
To Israel Under 1950 Pact
Dr. Abraham A. Neumann of young Jewish state.
op homes of the municipal
Dropsie College. The Philadel-
JTA The workers. We crossed the Yarkon
And finally, like the colonists NEW YORK.
phia Jewish Exponent published of the American Revolution, the Joint Distribution Committee re- River. the Bible's River of Rocks,
an explanation of Dr. Fink•l- Israelis won their battles, and ported that 113 Jews departed and into the Valley of Sharon.
stein, oil March 14. 1952, stating today the Star of David flies from Hungary to Israel on Aug. the granary of the Kings of
that his project is different from over Judea.
12. This is the tenth transport Egypt. Here Cleopatra once
Dr Neumann's, but an Exponent
Both the United States and of Hungarian Jews since Hun- lived, and brought the croco-
columnist replied with a de- Israel have honored their heroes. gary agreed in 1950 to permit diles.
!nand for a more unified errd•a- Their deeds are celebrated in • 3,000 of the 150.000 Jews in Hun-
We drove through Natanya,
vo• in Jewish scholarship and books. songs and legend.
gary to leave for Israel. It is
whose size has trebled in
culture. Referring to the Expo-
But the most unique way that estimated that some 200 are yet'
three years, now the center of
'tent's charges and demands. the these heroes have been honored to leave under the original
a new diamond-cutting indus-
Current Jewish Thought" bin- is by stamp issues in their agreement.
try created by immigrants
letin states:
memory.
from Belgium. Beyond the
"It he wanted to reminisce a
Lexington Minute - Men on
rich citrus groves converted
Rank
Snubs
Reds;
little further he may have refer-
fire-cent American stamps had
from malarial swamps was
red to a certain report of the . their counterpart in the citi-
Q'Sari, once known as Caes-
Gives Jews 817.726
Union of American Hebrew Con- , zen-soldiers of Haganah who
area, built by Herod in 96 B.C.
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)—
gregations and told a story of
Archaeologists have unearthed
guarded Jewish settlements
The Bank of America pre-
representatives of several lead-
from marauding Arabs.
Herod's temple and the stat-
sented a check for 817,726 to
lug organizations who consider- And American' stamps corn-
ues, but then were halted—for
the San Jose Chapter of Ha-
ed a project of a coordinated and memorating Lexington. Valley
in the new land archaeology is
dassah in following the will
yet a luxury.
generally recognized Jewish Forge and Brooklyn are similar
of the late Alter Kahn that
radio hour. Without waiting for to Israel stamps showing scenes
To Haifa we drove. and the
the residue of his estate be
tribes
further conference and a final of the battles of Degania. Salad,
used "to help the Jewish' hills a Galilee where the
decision, the Jewish Theological and Yad Mordecai — three set-
and
we
Of Usher settled;
peoples."
Seminary of America launched tlements which fought drama-
lunched in old Acre, where
Mr. Kahn, a retired Los
Phoenicians found the first
The Eternal Light leaving itself : tically and heroically in Israel's
Gatos chicken rancher, died
open to considerable criticism, War of Independence.
glass. and drank beer at a tower
in
1949.
Forty
per
cent
of
the
and enabling at least some ob-
built by the Crusaders, the spot
The Yad Mordecai s t am p, estate went to relatives in this
servers to jest about The Stolen shows the settlement's destroyed
where Marco Polo once landed
area. Bequests to a sister and
Light."
Israel needed two million bottles
watchtower, the Degania stamp I her children in Russia who
and bought them from Rup-
Dr. Finkelstein's "The Jews." a tank that was stopped there,
perished during the war were
pert's, which supplied the con-
Richards asserts, was "essential- and the Safad stamp a grave-
claimed by the Soviet govern-
tents, beer, free. Then East,
ly useless and duplicating , . . stone with the inscription, "Fell
ment, but were dismissed by
through
the Canaan valley, to
designed to conciliate the goyim." in battle . ."
the court which approved the
Safad and the Damascus road,
"Dr. Finkelstein's dubious and
Of special interest is the Yad
bank's recommendation to
where David defeated Absolom,
evasive position on Zionism,
Mordecai stamp. Yad Morde-
turn the rest of the estate
and north to the boundary and
which has perplexed American
cai, a kibbutz in the Negev,
over to Hadassah.
the kibbutz of Sassa, founded by
Jews for 20 years, was suddenly
was named for Mordecai An-
Finkelstein's
-
(
-
million a year. "How we did
it?" said Joseph Israeli, the
secretary. He held up his two
hands: "With these." W.
stopped at Nazareth, to visit
the Church of the Annuncia-
tion and the Church of St. Jo-
seph, drove through Balfour
Forest to the land of the Phil-
istines and Samson country
clear into the Negev and the
hills where Abraham and Jr -
cob are buried.
The story of a cigar was the
subject of a second column by
Lyons. He had secured a long
cigar front Winston Churchill
at 10 DOW7Iing Street and took
it with hint to Israel—intend-
ing to present it to Prime Min-
ister Ben-Gunton. 13-G's mili-
tary aide. Lt. Col. Lechemye
Argot', reminded his chief that
Lyons had secured tickets for
him in New York for the play
"The King and I" and B-G re-
membered. Then came the
presentation of the cigar —
from one P. M. to another.
Out of this has developed a
story: B-G made a pact with his
son. Amos. in 1940 to quit smok-
ing. In New York. last year, he
was tempted again. but there
was that pact with his son. The
result : B-G remained an ab-
stainer, but upon his return
home he learned that his son
was smoking again.
Mrs. Vera Weizmann told
Lyons that she, too. had given
up smoking. She related some
anecdotes about Israel's Presi-
dent. her husband, Chaim: When
Prof. S. Sondeck questioned a
quotation, the ailing President
proved correct in ascribing it to
Goethe. Lyons reports that a So-
viet diplomat once tried to com-
pare the kibutzim with the So-
viet farms. "No." she told him,
"ours are voluntary."
B-G urged Lyons' son to stay
in Israel, but he traveled on
with his father, "for his home
and life roots are in America."
As B-G declined the cigar, he
said to Leonard Lyoni' son
George: "Don't you ever
smoke, either. Don't smoke or
drink. Grow big and strong."
Lyons concluded with the story
that the Israel -Prime Minister,
who draws less than $5,000 a
year, has a brother who oper-
ates a soda store where ciga-
rettes are sold. When a visitor
asked: "Your brother the Prime
Minister, and you this store?" he
replied: ."Aw, David always was
meshuga." Comments Lyons:
"Perhaps he'll say it again, if
he hears that B-G refused Chur-
chill's cigar, instead of accepting
it and at least giving it to him
by way of replenishing the pre-
cious stock of Israel's cigars."
Mosad Techiyah, at Petach
Tikvah, formerly a Youth Aliyah
home sponsored by Mizraohi
Women, is now a sleep-in nur-
sery for children from malad-
justed. homes.
20—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 22, 1932