the "Israeli Cabinet Crisis"
which was caused, not long
ago, by one section of the
"Religious Bloc" in connection
with the question as to wheth-
er or not Jewish girls should
participate, in one form or an-
other, in the Israeli military

Jewish Women in Military Service

By DR. SYM X. BLOCH

The mounting economic prob-
lems and foreign-political diffi-
culties in Israel have, now more
than ever, brought home to
every responsible Jewish leader
the necessity for absolute co-
operation between the various

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sections of Israel's growing pop-

ulation, and the need not only
for balanced representation in
the Knesset but a united and
workable Cabinet that, free from
inner crises, will be strong
enough to face the serious issues
confronting our young State of
Israel.
Instead, there seems to be no
end to the inner friction, and
the self - righteousness with
which party bickering and dick-
ering is carried on.
Must be quite alarming to
those who have genuine con-
cern. for Israel's welfare and se-
curity.
Such was the case during

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cipation of women has already
progressed so far that there
is hardly any field, of scienti-
fic or professional activity left
to man alone; when, on the
contrary, women everywhere
are competing with men in or-
der to demonstrate their
equality, one cannot escape
the obvious consequence that,
as man's equal, t h e woman
must also assume the right,
the duty, and the sacrifice,
involved in military service

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service,
The problems. involved, even
from a strictly orthodox point
of view, are neither new nor
undecided. During a recent "at
Home" gathering ih the house
of Dr. and Mrs. Moses Wiser, in
Detroit, we came upon a most
enlightening essay on the sub-
ject, written by Mrs. Wiser's fa-
ther, Rabbi Mayer Horowitz,
M.D., and published in Vienna
under the title: "Der Kriegsdi 7
enst der Frau," in the then well-
known German-Jewish weekly,
"Die Wahrheit," oh March 5,
36 THE JEWISH NEWS
1915—exactly 38 years ago!
Friday, March 27, 1953
Dr. Horowitz is one of the very
••1141••••••••••• few Rabbis in history who, like
Maimonides, practiced medicine.
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in military service both from a
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cal orthodox point of view. What
is said there certainly applies
all the more to the present con-
ditions in the State of Israel.
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"At a time when the eman-

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when the protection and de-
fense of the State is at stake."
"It must be brought to the
knowledge of wider (Jewish)
circles that the military draft
of women in war has long been
considered a norm by the old
Rabbinical lawmakers. It is the
law of the Talmud. Even in the
old Hebrew State, where all
governmental and social life was
organized on a theocratic basis;
where the woman, in the words
of the Psalmist, was supposed to
use her virtues, talents and abil-
ities only within the narrow en-
closures of her home and fami-
ly; even in those days when a
woman could never hold public
office and was seldom permitted

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to appear as a witness in a court
of law; even in that theocratic
State she was bound by law to
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"There were, according to the
Talmud, two types of wars: the
War • for Existence (of the
State) which was a religious
MUST and the Preventive War,
PERMISSIBLE when it served to
strengthen the State and its
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participated. There are even
records of Jewish women who,
in biblical times, have influ-
enced and decided the course of
battle by force of arms al-
though mostly and ordinarily
their duty lay more in the line
of modern Red Cross work, as-
well as in helping to provide
equipment, food and clothes for
the army."
Rabbi Horowitz then goes on
to cite various sources from the
Bible, the Talmud, and from
later Rabbinical literature—all
to the effect that:

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and in the fight for our Holy
Fatherland."
In view of such a learned and
authoritative discussion of the
matter so many years ago, one
cannot help getting the impres-
sion that the present stand
.taken. by some members of the
Religious Bloc does not give due
respect to the duty-conscious

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"Whatever her specific du-
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must be emphatically stressed
that even in the old Hebrew
theocratic State there was a
law which provided for the
participation of the Jewish
women in military services

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