Lack of Rain Destroys
Half of Israel's . Crop
On the Record
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The unsea-
sonable heat and lack of rain in
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
(Copyright, 1955,
Seven Arts Feature Syndicate ►
In My Opinion
The U. S. Supreme Court decision upholding a Massachusetts
state law barring adoptions involving children and foster parents
of different religions points up a situation meriting more atten-
tion than it is being given. by the JewiSh community. The highest
court made the ruling on an appeal by a Jewish childless couple
that was thwarted by lower courts in its efforts to adopt a set of
twins born to a Catholic mother who consented to their adoption
and raising in the Jewish faith. It can be assumed, even in the
absence of more details, that the Jewish couple exhausted all
adoption efforts before deciding on the Christian twins. It is
difficult to the point of despondency to adopt a Jewish 'child, and
many Jewish would-be foster parents are often compelled to
knock at Christian d6ors and institutions with promises to raise
the wards in the faith of their -birth. The. Jewish adoption
difficulties are due to any number of circumstances: more com-
pact community life, family responsibility for children where
marriage breaches occur, lesser divorce incidence among Jews,
the growing skills of our social agencies in handling the problems
of separated or divorced couples and, above all, the comparatively
few cases of illegitimacy. The thwarted couple may try anew to
have the highest court review the case, but it seems to this corner
it might be wiser of them to ponder the wider implications of the
issue than mere legality . . .
Serge Rubinstein, whose inglorious end should hold more in-
terest for police than men of cloth, has suddenly emerged as a
storm of controversy among mere of the pulpit. The draft-dodger
and financial manipulator who in life played the role of a Czarist
descendant was brought back in death to his people by a saddened
mother to the doors of Temple Emanu-El in New York where
Rabbi Julius Mark delivered a eulogy wherein he referred to the
dead man as having been "uttering lacking in wisdom" and an
"unquestioned psychopathic personality." For this he was later
castigated, though not by name, by Rabbi Louis A. Newman of
Temple Rodeph Sholem. It is not judicious for a layman to inter-
fere • in a dispute among rabbis, particularly two such rabbinical
giants as Drs. Marks and Newman. However, we cannot resist
noting that if the controversy leads to rabbinicb.1 revision of the
"hespad making" approach it would be helpful both to the laymen
as well as the clergy. Critical eulogies may not be tactful or
proper at a funeral, but they are preferable to the dishonest dross
that is heaped on such occasion upon the undeserving and • the
unworthy.
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Toynbee Exposed
Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban has rarely so enthralled an
audience as he did recently in a lecture on Arnold Toynbee before
the Israel Institute of the Yeshiva University. There have been
so many requests for . copies of the Ambassador's scathing but
scholarly exposure of Toynbee's distortion of Jewish history and
its mainstreams that Mr. Eban decided to put out the lecture in
brochure form. We hope copies of the lecture will be channelized
to the American colleges and universities where Toynbeeism of
late has been glamorized as a model of historic infallibility. Toyn-
bee's views of Jews and the historic process of Jewry are as
blasphemous as they are historically false. A historian lacking in
objectivity doesn't deserve that accolade.
Seek I ntergovernment Aid
In Bringing Jews to Israel
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GENEVA, (JTA) — Hanan
Cidor, of t h e • Israel Foreign
Ministry has arrived here for
talks with officials of the Inter-'
governmental C o m m i t t ee for
European Migration in an at-
tempt to aid Jewish refugees in
Europe to immigrate to Israel.
rcEm is _expectedto assist in
the movement of some • 1,500
Jews to Israel in 1955. The or-
ganization helped move 4,159
Jews to Israel between 1952 and
1954.
(From Tel Aviv, the arrival of
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Roitman
of . Odessa in the Soviet Union,
was reported. In addition, • 23
immigrants from Hungary and
248 from Morocco and Tunis
ha;ve reached Israel).
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Israel in recent' weeks has al-
ready destroyed half of the win-
ter crop and threatens the re-
mainder, an expert of the Minis-
try of Agriculture revealed,
following a tour of the drouth
areas. •
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Farmers have been hit most
desperately in the Soiithern
Negev, the Jezreel Valley and
the Upper Ephraim. Plateau.
Unless four inches of rain
falls soon, farmers say, the re-
mainder of the crop will be lost
and the summer crop will be in
danger. It is not possible to sow
the new crop now because of the
extreme dryness of the soil.
Manchester University
To Issue Semitic Journal
LONDON, (JTA)—An offer by
Isaac Wolfson, British Jewish
businessman, to underwrite the
publication of a "Manchester
Journal of Semitic Studies" has
been accepted by Manchester
University. Wolfson offered to
underwrite the sum of 2,000
pounds for an initial seven-year
period of publication.
The journal will appear quar-
terly. : under the imprint of the
University's press, and the Isaac
Wolfson Foundation and will
contain scholarly articles cover-
ing the whole field of Semitic
studies.
It will be . edited by Prof. H:
Rowley and P. R. Weis, who is
the Nathan Laski Senior Lec-
turer in Post-Biblical Studies at
Manchester University.
Baltimore Jews to Build
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U.S. ' Seeks to Justify Shipment
Of Arms to Iraq to Fight Communism
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WASHINGTON, (JTA) —Aiming
to counteract arguments against
the United States sending arms
to Iraq, the State Department
made public a, statement lauding
Iraq and justifying American
munitions grants to that Arab
country. -
The statement asserts that
"the United States Government
has maintained a position- of im-
partiality" with regard to arms
purchased commercially by Mid-
dle East governments in this
country, and arms purchased
with Special government dispen-
sation because they were not
commercially available.
It emphasizes that regarding
these two types of arms exports
the American Government did
not discriminate against either
the Arabs or Israel.
The American policy in sup-
plying arms to the Middle East
countries, the statement declares,
is guided by the principles set
forth in the Tripartite Declara-
tion • of May 25, 1950, issued by
the United States, Great Britain
and France.
It says-the considerations out-
lined in the declaration have
been reflected in the decisions
of the United States to issue ex-
port licenses for arms purchased
commercially and to make it
possible for Middle Eastern gov-
ernments to purchase certain
arms not, available on the com-
mercial market.
Because sale of arms,has been
relatively limited, it has been a
matter of growing concern to
the United States that "the area
remains relatively defenseless
against possible outside aggres-
sion." As a result, Mutual -Secu-
rity funds were allocated for
military assistance to countries
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of .this area, the statement ex-
plains.
"Evidence of Iraq's determina-
tion to deal effectively with do-
mestic Communist activities may
be found in recent severe meas-
•ures. taken by the government.
against membership in the Corn-
munist . Party and Communist
activity," the statement de-
clared.
"In addition to these meas-
, ures, the government is attempt-
ing to lessen the appeal of
Communism by raising the gen-
eral living standards through
land , reform and an economic
development program for which
70 per cent' of the country's
considerable oil revenues are
earmarked."
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