Friday, September 14, 19 56—THE DETROIT JEW ISH NE Purely Commentary Shapero Presents Keys to School of Nursing By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Unclean: Self-Hating — Self-Degrading — Jews Every delegate to the recent Republican National Conven- tion, at San Francisco, was handed a copy of the following telegram, signed by Alfred M. Lilienthal, Counsel, National Com- mittee for Security and Justice in the Middle East: "Wanted: one courageous Republican who will place the national interest above votes. The Middle East plank talks im- partiality, but is pro-Israel and must be amended to provide an equal guarantee to the Arabs against aggression. If no Republican will fight on the convention floor for real impartiality there goes , the Middle East." Ben Burdick, a member of the Michigan Republican dele- gation, who provided us with a copy of the telegram, commented: "You can see to what end these fellows went to attempt to ac- complish their purpose. I had a conversation with Jack Javits on the floor, and we were ready to combat any attempt that might be made by them. However, Lilienthal was apparently unable to get a single Republican delegate to carry out his desire." They won't stop at anything, and will stoop to any depth, but these self-hating and self-degrading Jews appear bent not merely upon hurting Israel but even providing Israel's premier with weapons for the destruction of the Jewish State. They must be watched. They are flooding our communities with lying propaganda. They are far more persistent in their attempts to enroll supporters for the anti-Israel Council for Judaism than Zionists are in seeking aid for Israel. They used to be treated with the contemptuous silence they deserve, but they have begun to invade Our homes and our schools and they must be exposed in all their filth and their self-hatred. "Unclean" is the warning to be placed at their collec- tive and individual doors — since no Jew with self-respect can possibly have any truck with them. `7 Wonders' — An Injustice to Israel Cinerama Corporation is a private concern and it can select the topics it pleases for its miraculous screen. Lowell Thomas is a private agent who does not and need not cater to any one's whims. But in their third Cinerama (the poorest, we believe), both had seen fit to include Israel—and we find it necessary to express our resentment over the treatment they gave the subject. It is our conviction that Israel does belong in the realm of the miraculous. But the Cinerama-Thomas approach was so shal- low, bordering on indifference and disinterestedness, that it would have been better unmentioned. Very great accomplishments are in evidence to Israel's credit. You wouldn't think so, however, from Lowell Thomas' report. To top it off, after he had finished with Israel he took us on glam- orous tours of Arabian countries. In view of the existing conflict, he owed equal treatment to both. But the impression one gathers is that Thomas was a mighty good propagandist for Aramco and King Saud. The best performance in the newest Cinerama — "Seven Wonders" — is in Rome. The Vatican scenes are superb. Why did Thomas limit himself to the drabness of the Via Dolorosa when he dealt with the Holy Land? He ignored the New Jerusa- lem, and the charm of Israel's new settlements, limiting himself to a few kind words and to a scene or two of Israeli-developed farmlands in areas that were once sand dunes. "Seven Wonders" is over - rated — and an injustice to Israel. It is little more than a Chatauqua platform for Lowell Thomas. The Perennial Religious . Holyday Solicitations The Holy Days always are accompanied by an avalanche of appeals for funds from religious institutions in Israel, as well as in this country. Are they legitimate?, our readers ask. We don't know. We assume that most of the institutions asking for help deserve our support. Doubt arises only over the methods resorted to by those making their appeals during this season of the year. If the institutions are deserving and are in need of funds, there is no reason for their waiting for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to make their appeals. If they are undeserving, there should be a proper agency to screen them. The late Joseph H. Ehrlich considered this problem so vital— nearly 20 years ago—that he advocated the establishment of a special committee to do such screening. Perhaps it is not too late even now to consider the forma- tion of a non-partisan group, with contacts in Israel, to ascertain the legitimacy of institutions that circularize appeals in this country, and at the same time plan for their support, if appeals in their behalf are justified in this country, so that the present frequent undignified solicitations should be stopped. Trees Planted by Keshenever Society Honor Mr. and Mrs. Bassin PHILIP KAPLAN, executive member of the Keshenever Bessarabier Aid Society (right), presents a certificate for a grove of 1,000 trees planted in Israel through the Jewish Na- tional Fund to LOUIS BASSIN, honorary president. The Kesh- enever Society planted the grove in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Bassin. The presentation was made at a special ceremony, called to celebrate the completion of the grove which the society started in 1952. The certificate was given to the society by Percy Kaplan, JNF executive director. At the dedication, Sunday, of the Shapero School of Practical Nursing, NATE S. SHAPERO, (second from left) presents keys of the new school to SIDNEY J. ALLEN, vice president of Sinai Hospital. Looking on are Dr. FAYE S. ABDELLAH, director, Bureau of Nursing Education, U.S. Public Health Service; Judge THEO- DORE LEVIN, president, Jewish Welfare Federation, and GEORGE STUTZ, pres- ident of the Shapero School. Joseph Alsop, in Post Article, Warns Against Any Betrayal of Israel NEW YORK, (JTA)—Joseph A 1 s o p, nationally syndicated columnist said this week that in "more than two decades as a political reporter at home and abroad, I have never had any other political experience as deeply impressive as (a) visit to Israel." The columnist described his personal reaction to Israel in an article, "Why Israel Will Sur- vive," in the Saturday Evening Post. The writer noted that Israel was small and poor, but that it had not been "dehumanized" and that "in Israel the indivi- dual is not lost in the mass." Because of this sense of in- dividual participation he wrote, "I sr a e l i s feel more or less strongly and consciously what their counterparts in Britain and America do not any longer feel. They feel that they themselves, with their own hands and minds and the sweat of their own brows, are helping to build Israel. They feel, too, that they' can well be heroes if they have to; and many of them think they will have to, for they are almost too touchily ready to de- fend this Israel they are build- ing against all threats and perils." The columnist noted one point of disagreement with most Israelis—the question of the Arab refugees. "I lost friends in Israel, Alsop declared, "because I could not accept the voluble Agudah Protests Police 'Brutality' LONDON, (JTA) — Strong protests against the "brutal" na- ture of police .action in Jeru- salem against religious demon- strators insisting on Sabbath ob- servance were voiced here by the World Executive of Audath Israel and the British section of Agudah. In letters to Israel Ambas- sador Eliahu Elath, both groups condemned the police action. The World Executive demanded that the Jerusalem police chief, Levy Abrahami, be removed from office, declaring that his "anti-religious tendencies have been frequently manifested in the past." The World Executive letter also accused the Mapai Party of having "in some cases" offi- cially organized Sabbath dese- crations" in the Orthodox sec- tion of Jerusalem." Both let- ters insisted that the religious groups had staged peaceful dem- onstrations which had been dis- persed by the police in "brutal" fashion, Israeli arguments" that the problem was entirely to be at- tributed to "the follies and ambitions of the Arab leaders." Turning to the question of Israel as a problem for Western policy makers, the writer says, "I have only three short sen- tences to add the debate." These are: "First, these Israelis are not the sort of peo- ple it pays to betray, if indeed betrayal is ever a paying pro- position. "Second, if it was not excus- able to compound the first in- justice to the Jews with a sec- ond injustice to the Arabs, then it will not be excusable, either, to try to compound this second injustice with still a third in- justice to all the hundreds of thousands of men and women . . who who have now made their lives in Israel and pinned their hopes on Israel. "And third, let the errors of the past always be remembered in present policy-making, but let no one try to repair those errors by the simple and idiotic act of turning them inside out." Israel to Limit Press Statements JERUSALEM, ( JTA ) — Henceforth, only the Premier and the Foreign Minister will be permitted to issue state- ments to the press, it was decided at a cabinet meeting here. This action was taken, It was announced, following an interview given to an Ameri- can reporter by Mordecai Bentov, Minister of Develop- ment in the coalition cabinet. Bentov's interview h a d been severely criticized on the grounds that it did not represent the government's opinion and could be mis- interpreted as being official. Israel UN Delegate Leaves for Seminar in Moscow JERUSALEM (JTA) — Mrs. Zena Harman, a member of Israel's United Nations dele- gation, left for Moscow as an Israeli delegate to participate in a seminar on the status of Soviet women. During her visit she will travel through the USSR as a guest of the Soviet government. On the Record By NATHAN ZIPRIN (Copyright, 1955, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate) Jewish Education . • The .past two decades, we are reminded over and over again, have witnessed an awakened interest in religion and Jewish edu- cation. Yet ironically enough our Jewish educational structure at the moment is facing "grave and complex" strains that must be repaired at once if we are to successfully cope with the problem of upbringing our children Jewishly. There was a time when those concerned with Jewish educa- tion complained of indifference as the core of the educational problem. Attendance in Jewish schools was dwindling and the task was how to reach parents and communicate to them the idea of the indispensability of the school to Jewish survival. Today, with the growth of the Jewish school population and rising Jewish school attendance, we are faced with what in this columnist's opinion is a more serious crisis — lack of teachers. For, if the declining trend in Jewish teacher personnel continues we may well face an insoluble crisis. Recently, it was pointed out by Philip W. Lown, president of the American Association for Jewish Teachers, that the major problem facing the Jewish communities of America in their efforts to develop Jewish education programs is the shortage of qualified teachers. If that is the crux of the problem now, what will happen, say, a decade hence if our teach- ing resources are not adequately replenished? At the moment the various teacher schools supply annually only 25% of the needed educational personnel. In recent years there has been wide awareness in circles of Jewish leadership of the need of tackling the problem of Jewish education through the teacher, a neglected figure of a man who more often than not is looked upon condescendingly by the mem- bers of his community and his school, let alone his pupils. But while it is true that one of the reasons behind the declining interest in the Jewish teaching profession has been the failure of the communities to attach the same status and prestige to Jewish educators that are accorded other professions, the basic motivation behind the teacher shortage is economics and in- security. Young people simply shun a profession where there is no tenure and no security. The problem is beyond tackling by any one single community. If the resources can be mustered to bring to the Jewish teacher bread, dignity and security in old age the teacher colleges will not have to go begging for students.