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. • 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 . . 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). A TOP SALESMAN Age 30-45 ' X. You have held not more than 3 positions in the last five yeari. 2. You have a good car and ; can travel in Michigan. 3 "You are anxious for a lu- -•• crative future. you can give excellent ref- erences.. WE. CO GUARANTEE: — 1. Lifetime commissions on sales with top first corn- Missions. Z. Guaranteed income. 3. Organized leads. 4. To show you earnings of our men to $30,000 per year. MR. S. J. BERTIN WO. 5-4588 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. • • 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 $18,000,000 Medical Center U.S. ' Seeks to Justify Shipment Of Arms to Iraq to Fight Communism :. • 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 . 0.• 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." WATCH FOR THE GALA BALTIMORE, (JTA)—Formal application for a building per- mit for seven Sinai buildings of a new $18,000,000 "Jewish Medical Center was made here by the Associated Jewish Chari- Thinking of an appropriate gift? TELE-VIEW- ties. 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