30 Jewish Students Take Part in 'Living Arabic' Experiment

On the Record

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

(Copyright, 1955, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)

LET THEM DAVEN . . I am generally reluctant to inject
myself into a religious d,isputation„but it a ems to me the Israeli
rabbinate was trodding an erroneous path when it put its foot
down against Reform "davening" by students in the library of
the jerusalem Archaeological School, sponsored by the Hebrew
Union College—Jewish Institute of America. The way to,
"tshuveh," repentance, it seems, is through "davening" of any
kind rather than alienation from shul. Ideological opposition to
Reform Judaism loses its deeper significance when it sacrifices
the great principle of tolerance.
A CORRECTION . . . Homer Bigart in the New York Times
recently said of Ben-Gurion than he gives the impression of an
Old Testament patriarch who nevertheless refuses to turn cheek
to enemy. Coming from such an excellent journalist as Bigart,
the clearly unintentional mistake was evidently due more to
haste of pen than lack of awareness that the turn-your-other-
cheek-to-your-enemy doctrine, so rarely observed by our Chris-
tian friends, derives from the New Testament.
QUESTION AND ANSWER . . . The understandable effort
of Orthodox synagogues to derive pecuniary gains from bar-
mitzvah observances that have become so colorful a tradition
in the Jewish community of America raises a number of seemingly
unanswerable questions. Since to induce sin is as sinful as sin
itself, the question arises about the religious propriety of Ortho-
dox synagogues in approving Sabbath bar-mitzvah celebrations
whose attendance entails desecration of the Sabbath by guests
who must travel to shul from distant places. One rabbi with
whom I discussed this quandary said the synagogues were acting
on the wholly proper assumption that no Jew desecrated the
Sabbath for a bar-mitzvah. A more realistic and perhaps more
candid reply was recently given by a reader in a Yiddish news-
paper when he declared in a letter to the editor that "the syna-
gogue is not responsible for what the worshippers do on the
outside" since it is a "democratic institution and not a detective
agency."

Israel Bonds Aid
Textile Industry

group of 30 Jewish boys and
girls, all of whom are majoring
in Oriental studies in Israeli
secondary schools, are spending
part of their summer vacation
in purely Arab environments in
northern Israel. The project, in
which the students are "living
Arabic," is sponsored by the
Prime Minister's Office Advisor
on Arab Affairs and is headed
by Y. M. Kister, veteran Arabic
teacher.
Boys in the group are spend-
ing three weeks with their

Scientist Says Coffee
Can Grow in Israel

REHOVOT, (JTA)—Dr. Yaa-

kov Pelleg, director of the Agri-
cultural Research Station here,
told newsmen last week that
coffee can be grown in Israel.
And he proved the point by
serving them a cup of coffee
brewed from local beans. He
added that much remained to
be done in the experimental
stage, , including the determina-
tion of the best growing -areas
and which types of beans best
suited Israel's coffee-drinking
public. But he • said he had no
doubt that enough of the beans
can be grown to satisfy the home
market and underscored the sig-
nificance of that statement by
noting the world market price .
of caffee—$1,300 per ton.
Research on Israel's coffee-
growing potential has been car-
ried out here for ten years by
Dr. Israel Gindel of the station's
staff . He has tried out about
These cotton loom workers 50 different varieties of coffee
adjust a new piece of equip- beans and has narrowed the
ment at Kitan Ltd., a leading range to 16 varieties best suited
Israeli textile mill, which was to local growing. He added that
built and is being enlarged a final decision on where, which
with the financial assistance and how to grow coffee in Israel
of State of Israel Bond funds. will be taken after completion
Kitan is one of 16 textile mills of experiments on the station's
which receive Israel Develop- ten-dunam coffee plot here.

ment Bond capital . Israeli
textiles account for more than
$65,000,000 in total gross pro-
duction • annually, including
$5,000,000 for exports. Much
of the cotton, flax and wool
used by Israel's textile indus-
try is grown and processed
in Israel.

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On Primary Day,
Tuesday, Aug. 7

"A Bible and a newspaper in every
house, a good school in every dis-
trict—all studied and appreciated
as they merit—are the principal
support of virtue, morality, and
civil liberty." — Benjamin Franklin

Voting is the right that guarantees
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`Jewish Consciousness '
Strong iti Red Lands,

LONDON, (JTA) — Four

American rabbis who have just
completed a tour of the Soviet
Union, Poland and Czechoslo-
vakia found that there was
strong "Jewish consciousness"
among Jews in these countries
despite prohibitions or restric-
tions on the teaching of the
Jewish religion in schools or
classes.
The rabbis, members of a
delegation of the New York
Board of Rabbis, said here that
the general facilities for the
promotion of Jewish religion
and cultural life are meagre in
the Communist countries.
They reported that their visit
to the larger Jewish centers had
been greatly appreciated and
that if similar visits from other
Jewish communities could be
arranged the Jews of the Com-
munist countries would un-
doubtedly welcome them.
The four stopped -off in Lon-
don to meet with Barnett Dan-
ner, president of the Board of
Deputies of British Jews, and
other Board leaders as well as
with Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie
and the spiritual leader of the
Sephardic community.
The four are: Rabbis Harold
H. Gordon, Jacob C. Grossman,
Joseph Miller and Israel Mow-
showitz .

Mexico's First Minister
to Work for Trade Increase

TEL, AVIV, . (JTA)—Mexico's
first Minister to Israel, Gustavo
Ortiz Hernan, arrived here by
air. He said that his main task
will be to increase Mexican-
Israel trade. He noted that his
country was in a position to ex-
port raw materials, coffee, sugar
and rice, while Israel could ex-
port chemical fertilizers and
optical instruments.

during the day as office boys
and apprentices in Arab work-
shops and brushing up on their
language studies in the evening.
The girls, under the direction
of Miss Nuzha Darwich, head of

Washingtin, D.C. — Britain's
Queen Mother Elizabeth paid
high tribute to the "generosity,
patience and resolution" of the
Jewish people as she officially
opened a handsome new build-
ing supported and maintained
by the Bnai Brith Women for
the use of Jewish children and
girls.
The institution, located in the
Stepney area of L o n d o n, is
called the Alice Model Nur-
sery and Jewish Girls Residen-
tial Club. The building cost
$140,000, according to word re-
ceived here at Bnai Brith head-
quarters.
During the same week the
centenary of Sigmund Freud's
birth was celebrated in Lodon
at a gathering in Woburn House
sponsored by the First Lodge
of England and the Leo Baeck
Lodge and Chapter. Among
those present were Freud's
daughter, Anna; son, Ernst; and
other members of the Freud
family.

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Department, leave Haifa every
morning for the Druze villages
of Isfiyah and Dalait Hacarmel,
where they help Arab women in
their housework and also teach
Hebrew to the women.

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