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Sabbath Rosh Hodesh Heshvan Scriptural Selections
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CAMPAIGN
LITERATURE.
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MAIL. US THIS
STUFF ?
This Sabbath, Rosh Hodesh Heshvan, 5717, the following Scriptural selections Will be read
in our synagogues.
Pentatevehal portion, Noah, Gen. 6:9-11:32, N lt177. . 28:9-15. Prophetical portion, Is. 66:1-24.
Readings of the Torah for first day of Rosh Hodesh Heshvan, Friday: Ntfm. 28:1 - 15
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VOL. XXX. No. -5
October 5, 1956
International Sense of Justice Put to Test
The sense of justice of the Western
powers is being put to the test in the Suez
Canal crisis; in the challenge to the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cul-
tural Organization (UNESCO) involving
discrimination against Jews by all Arab
states, and in matters of defense for Israel
against her neighboring sabre - rattling
enemies.
It is evident that numerous concessions
will be made to Egypt in the negotiations
for assurances of freedom of passage
through the Suez Canal by the ships of the
nations of the world. Will Israel be in-
cluded among the nations whose freedoms
are eventually to be guaranteed by inter-
national agreements? The spokesmen for
the West have. admitted, during the dis-
cussions of the Suez problem, that the
United Nations' resolution of Sept. 1, 1951,
which called on Egypt "to terminate the
restrictions" -imposed on Israel, was ig-
nored and no effort was made to enforce
it. A firm stand on the UN's position of
1951 might have averted the present crisis.
Will our diplomats remain blind to the
situation and unfair to Israel?
ing of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish
leaders. The American Jewish Committee
has asked the. State Department for "im-
mediate and effective action" in connection
with the ninth General Conference of
UNESCO in New Delhi, in November,
and proposed these two specific steps:
That •(1) the Secretary of State in-
struct the U. S. delegation to UNESCO to
strive for the elimination of discrimina-
tory practices restricting travel of Amer-
ican Jews; and (2) that our delegation
should support all UNESCO actions to
reduce barriers that prevent free exchange
of ideas and information.
The American Jewish Congress' mem-
orandum on the subject warned that "any-
thing less than a clear- and unambiguous
indication of UNESCO's policy in this
matter must be construed as an abandon- 10,000 New Thoughts
ment of UNESCO's most cherished ideals."
The Canadian government, at last, has
decided to provide Israel . vith a number
of Sabrejets. This decision, long overdue,
nevertheless reflects t h e traditional
Canadian friendly attitude toward Israel.
Other nations now may follow suit and
offer to sell defensive arms to Israel.
How else is a war to be averted? A
helpless Israel would at once become a
target for Egypt, Jordan and Syria. An
Israel able to defend herself is the best
assurance that an all-out attack on the
small state can be averted and that peace,
therefore will be maintained.
We believe that Secretary of State
Dulles knows these facts. Why doesn't he
act? Why does not Israel's traditional good
friend, the United States, come forth with
defensive weapons for the embattled
Israelis?
Jordan: ". . . _the facilities which the Jordan
government is prepared to give to UNESCO
personnel on educational errands provides they
are neither Jews nor from countries from be-
hind the Iron Countries."
Lebanon: ". . . It has been decided that the
above-mentioned facilities shall not be ex-
tended to persons of the Jewish faith."
Saudi Arabia: ". . • entry to Saudi Arabia
is forbidden to: (a) persons of the Jewish faith:
(b) holders of Israeli passports; (c) . holders of
a passport containing a visa to Israel (even if
the visa is no longer valid), or containing men-
tion of the fact that the passport is valid for
travel to Israel or for transit through Israel."
Syria: "Documents required to obtain visas:
valid passport certificate of baptism. . . ."
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There are moral issues in the struggle
for justice for Israel, and the most serious
one involves the UNESCO. Jordan and
Lebanon have refused to admit personnel
of the Jewish faith who were on UNESCO
educational missions to these countries.
The U. S. National Commission for UN-
ESCO has condemned discriminatory prac-
tices by foreign governments against
American Jews. This Commission's unani-
, mously-adopted resolution had the back-
Treasury of Jewish Quotations
Facts gathered from four of the Arab
nations expose their discriminatory prac-
A great wealth of material is incorporated in "A Treasury
tices. The American Jewish Committee's of Jewish Quotations," edited by Dr. Joseph L. Baron and
brief on the subject reveals the following published by Crown Publishers (419 4th, NY 16).
Presented as "a unique well of wisdom," the volume properly
facts about the Arab nations:
Thus, in a free age, Jews are being
subjected -to a baptism of fire on her
borders, to baptismal discrimination on
the diplomatic scene. The Universal Decla-
ration of Human Rights of the United
Nations is being violated and common
decency abused.
How long will this be tolerated?
This is the showdown—on Israel's bor-
ders, in diplomatic discussions, on UNES-
CO's agenda.
Either we shall soon have enforcement
of fair play on the international scene,
resulting in greater assurances of peace in
the Middle East and in the entire world
or the very ideal of the United Nations
will have been relegated to degradation.
Israel's Pledge for P eace in Middle East
Newspapers throughout the country
have severely rebuked Israel for- the re-
prisal raid on Jordan last week. True,
some of them took into consideration the
dastardly attack on a gathering of archae-
ologists that preceded the vengeful re-
prisal. But little. attention has been given
to the continuous raids upon Israel by the
Jordanese, and to the fact that they in-
spired a loss of patience by the Israelis.
Calling. upon_ UN Secretary General
Dag Hamn-iarskj old to provide him with
the views of their government on the sit-
uation, the Israeli spokesmen, Ambassador
Abba Eban and Mordecai R. Kidron
pointed to the increasing number of mur-
ders of Israelis by JordaneSe and gave the
following pledge, based on reciprocity.:
"Israel deeply deplores the loss of lives on
either side. But the responsibility is Jordan's.
Israel has at no time initiated hostilites nor
will she do so in the future. The Government
of Israel reiterates its pledges given to- the
Secretary-General scrupulously to maintain a
cease-fire on the basis of reciprocity. It re-
quests the Secretary-General and the Chief of
Staff to take the necessary steps to ensure like
observances by Jordan of its cease-fire under-
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is being circulated also as d Jewish Publication Society title. It is
a work well worthy of the dis-
tribution planned and predicted for
it The announcements on the
jacket—"10,000 new thoughts—the
best quotations from Jewish writ-
ings, ancient, classic and modern,"
are not exaggerations.
Dr. Baron's magnificent jab
embraces also the following, re-
ferred to on the jacket:
"The first and only compendium
of thoughts by or about Jews. Coy ,-
ering all aspects of life both secular
and religious and classified ac-
cording to subject. Selected from
the Jewish literature of all tin-
from the Bible, the Talmud, the
Mishna, the Midrashim, the works
of Philo, Saadya Gaon, Maimoni-
Dr. Joseph L. Baron des, to Disraeli, Herzl, Freud,
Einstein, etc. Including thousdnds of items never before published
in English, and from sources never before 'tapped."
The index of authors corroborates these justified claims.
The "10,000 new thoughts" come from hundreds of sources. This
book contains such a wealth of material that if is certain. to be
classed among the best works of its kind' ever produced.
Here are examples of contents: The compendiUm contains
a quotation from the Bilu Manifesto issued in Constantinople in
1882: "Hopeless is your state in the West; the star of your future
gleams in the East." Or, this quotation from I. L. Peretz's
"Hofnung un Shrek" written in 1906, under the title "Regimenta-
tion":
"I fear you. As victors, you •may .become the bureaucracy:
doling out to each his bit as in a poorhouse, assigning to each
his task as in a prison. And you will exterminate the creator
of new world,—the free human will, and stop up the purest
well of human happiness—the power of the one to face thou-
• sands, to stand up to peoples and generations."
There are quotations from Brandeis, Judah HaNasi, the
will secure its maintenance. The re-establish- Eighteen Benedictions, Franz Werfel, Johanan ben Zakkai—the
ment of a sincere cease-fire is an essential modern and the ancient.
There are topics like Refinement, Resurrection, Hope, Hos-
guarantee for the restoration of peaceful con-
ditions in the area. Israel will willingly co- pitality, Slander, Sinai, Futility, Wonder, Worry, Leisure, In-
vention, Communism, Community Behavior.
operate to this end."
It is, indead, an encyclopedic work. It is "the best" and "the
While it is true that Jordan has been first"
of its kind. Its 18,000 quotations on 1,000 subjects cover
condemned on several occasions for mur-
derous infiltrations into Israel, the fact
remains that there is a lack of serious-
ness in efforts to put an end to the war
threats against Israel. But the Israelis
nevertheless are expected to act the saints.
There should be a realization of the in-
evitable: that if Israelis should continue
to hold arms folded, without warning to
her enemies that the embattled state will
fight against aggression, the result will be
a wholesale massacre of Jews in the Jew-
ish State. The UN and its member states
must take this into consideration and must
assist Israel to enforce peace. The UN's
job is to put an end to battle lines on
Israel's borders. But an approach to peace
must be on the basis of reciprocity. It can
not be one-sided, with Jordan claiming a
"berserk" excuse for killing Jews, and the
latter being expected to tie their own
hands and to await death that would ac-
2,500 years of Jewish history and literature.
It is a "treasury" and a "treasure." Every Jewish home
should have this Volume.
Wayne State U. Press to Publish Scholarly
Paperback Series; 2 New Titles This Week
Scholarly readers who find the high price of hardbound
books restricting to their reading will find hope in the announce-
ment that the Wayne State University Press is beginning a series
of paperback books this autumn.
Prof. Harold Basilius, Press director, says the series will be
Originals and scholarly in content, "but broad enough in scope
to insure the interest of many readers."
First off the press in November will be Henry M. Bain's,
"Ballot Position and Voter's Choice" and "Political Party Patterns
in Michigan" by the late Prof. Stephen B. Sarasohn and Vera
Sarasohn. The periodical, "Paperbound Books in Print," will list
the series regularly, according to Prof. Basilius.
Prof. G. Alden Smith will direct art work for the series,
known as Wayne State University Studies.
Wayne State University Press this week issued "Body Meas-
urements and Human Nutrition," edited by. Joseph Brozek, and a
pamphlet, "A Manual for Beginning Debating," by Douglas R.