By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
U. S. Middle East Policy Based on Platining
for Future Peace, State Dept. Aide Tells JDC
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The familiar pattern of confiscation, witness report from Charles H.
internment, expulsion of a help- Jordan, acting director general
present
American policy with less, hapless minority is repeat- for JDC operations overseas, of
Will you try to remember the name of Nikita Khrushchev?
He is the fellow who alternates with other Russians for power in regard to the Middle East was ing itself. Will the world sit by conditions among Hungarian
Moscow. Today he is in the saddle; tomorrow he may be in a outlined by Robert Murphy, and permit this crime to take Jewish refugees in Austria. The
Deputy Under Secretary of place as it did in the past when JDC leader, who had left Aus-
purged list.
He is the fellow who threatened Israel and took it upon him- State, addressing the 42nd an- Hitler sent his SS men among tria only a week earlier, told
the delegates that he could fore-
self to say that "Israel carries no weight in the world:"
nual meeting of the Joint Dis- the Jews of Europe?"'
Let's talk about life, Nikita. Do you think you are luckier tribution Committee. Murphy
Delegates from all parts of see no immediate decline in the
than Nicholas II? The Czar also thought of Jewry as a dying said that the United States the country heard an eye- influx •of Hungarian refugees.
people. Czardom is survived by. Israel, as Israel. has survived Government "is not solely con
Moslem tormentors, and Christian antagonists—and - even self- cerned with the immediate
hating Jews who craved for Jewry's disappearance. -
problem, but looks forward •to
It won't work, Nikita. You may be long forgotten, when the day when, peace and stabil-
Israel will retain its weight. The reason? Our weight is spiritual, ity will be established in the
yours is the political tyrant's. How about reading history, Nikita? -Middle East."
It may stand you in good stead even while you abuse your fel- ,
Newly appointed by Gover-
"We would hope," the State nor Williams - to the Wayne
low-men.'
Department official stated, County Circuit bench is 34-year-
"that a new and more flex- old Victor J. Baum, Detroit at-
From the Borscht Belt—Soup Stories
In his "Trade Winds" column -in the Saturday Review, ible spirit could be developed torney. He will assume the of-
among the countries directly fice on Jan. 2.
Bennett Cerf related this story:
Mr. Lipschitz had lunched at the same restaurant, and involved. If that can be, done,
Receiving his AB from the
his order never varied: a plate of borscht and a package of soda surely there should be nothing University
of Michigan, he
crackers. The -waiter never bothered even to ask what Mr. insoluble in a problem such as studied law at Harvard Univer
Lipschitz wanted: he put the soup and crackers in front .of the Jordan water supply, the
refugee question, or for that sity. While there he was editor
him-, and not_ a word was spoken by either.
Suddenly, one noon Mr. Lipschitz called over the head- matter the question of fron- of the Harvard Law Review,
tiers. This assumes, of course, highest ranking scholastic honor
waiter and announced, "I want you should taste that borscht!"
an honest recognition that the in the school. He graduated with
The headwaiter was nonplussed. "For eighteen years now we've
LLB and cum laude in 1950.
served you that same borscht and never heard a peep out of State of Israel is a fact of life. an -Baum
is a veteran of the
you," he protested. "Nevertheless," ' insisted Mr.. Lipschitz, "to- The United States wants to U.S. Army
infantry, where he
. contribute to that new spirit
day I want you should taste it
of understanding just as it was awarded a purple heart,
The headwaiter, shrugged his shoulders, leaned over to wishes to work for a better bronze star and combat infan-
taste the borscht, then said, "But where's your soup spoon?" standard of living in the area
Mr. Lipschitz smiled triumphantly, lifted a finger, and which will be possible once try citiation.
In 1950-52 he was staff at-
said, "Ah HAH!"
a general settlement is torney for the Ford Motor Co.
Stories about waiters in kosher restaurants in New York
achieved."
Since then, he has been an at-
are endless. Goldie (Mrs. Morris) Adler tells one that tops Cerf's.
Mr Murphy spoke at length torney in general practice.
VICTOR J. BAUM
It is about Boruch and Zorach who came to a Jewish restaurant
An active member of the
and ordered soups. One ordered tomato soup . and got it. The on Soviet discrimination against
other ordered split pea soup but was told they were out of it Jews in the USSR "The Soviet Jewish community, he is affi- Jewish War Veterans, Amvets,
Jew," he said, "has little hope liated with Morgenthau Lodge, the American Jewish Congress
and was given potato soup.
of escaping the discrimination Bnai Brith, "where he is on and the Labor Zionist Organ-
"I don't like potato soup," said Boruch.
and stigma. directed at him the housing committee. He be- ization. He is a member of
Waiter: "You must taste it."
thanks to' the contradictory pol- longs also to Silverman Post, Temple Israel.
"I don't like potato soup," said Boruch.
Waiter: "You MUST taste it. It's good. I'll wait all day if icy of the regime which singles
necessary, but you must taste it. If you don't like it I'll take him out as a Jew while at the
same time trying to assimilate
it back."
What could Boruch do? He didn't have a full day for lunch. him. On the one hand, the
He tasted it and loved it. He smacked his lips, and turning to Soviet Jew is denied his own
Zorach said it was his turn to taste it. Zorach also loved it. Then: cultural institutions on the
Zorach to the Waiter: "It's delicious! Why didn't you bring ground that he is supposedly
not interested in them and is
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me , potato soup?"
being assimilate& Jewish ,chil-
Waiter: "Did YOU order split pea soup?"
are cut off from rel*ious
While on the subject of stbries in lighter vein, our readers dren
instruction and their faith at-
(Copyright 1956,
will surely be interested in this item from -Iry Kupcinet's column tacked. - At the .same tithe, in
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
in the Chicago Sun-Times: -
accordance with the Sbviet
R happened to Israeli Arnbassa.dot Abba Eban the other practice of indicating ethnic
midnight: In a rush to return to_ Washington after his speech groups, individual passports are Food For Thought:
before the UN, Eban flashed his diplomatic passport at La stamped with the word 'Jew.'
The revelation by the Jewish Statistical Bureau that of the
Guardia Airport and was ushered to the head of the ticket line He remains a Jew to be dis- 4,257 rabbis in this country only about 2,500 actually hold rabbi..
ahead of a Washington attorney, Edward Cheyfitz, who rec- criminated against despite the
ognized Eban. *"Mr. Ambassador," said the attorney, "if you denial to him of his culture and ical posts in congregations has given' many Jewish leaders food
take my place in line, I won't purchase any more Israel bonds." history and the assault on his for thought . . . What happened to the others who were trained
. "In that event," replied Eban in his best Alphonse-Gaston religion."
and ordained as rabbis? ... About 1,000 of them have drifted
manner, "I insist you go first."
Edward M. M. Warburg, who into social and organizational work as paid directors of communal
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was re-elected JDC chairman, institutions . . Most of them do not even care to be known
From James Madison to the Present: Vital Lessons
said that. "the European Jewish by the title of rabbi ... In addition, several hundred have drifted
Discussing, editorially, the danger of "Red `Volunteers' m for communities having, been able
Egypt," the New York Times stated: "Washington is being sur- to 4 rebuild on the ruin and de- away from the rabbinate into commerce, industry, law and other
prisingly complacent about this threat."
bris left as a legacy of the secular fields. . . As matters now stand, there are only 2,485
There might have been an entirely different situation if our Hitler regime, tells us funda- rabbis affiliated with the six rabbinical groups in this country
"dipknnats" studied our history and recognized certain traditional mental. things about Jews and . . . About 650 are affiliated with the association of Reform
policies which were resorted to in preventing assailment of our man in general. It tells us that rabbis, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, 530 with
the human personality is in-
prestige as a nation.
For instance, -under Secretary of State Lansing, the Mexicans destructible as long as there is the association of the Conservative rabbis, the Rabbinical Assem-
were stopped from harrassing American citizens. That is what any slight will to survive; that bly of America, and 1,305 with the three associations - of Orthodox
Israel had just done in her battle against the Egyptians.
the human personality is resili- rabbis — the. Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States
Then, there may be, a lesson for us, in the present, trying ent, and will make use of what- and Canada, the Rabbinical Council of America, and the Rabbin-
times in the policies that were pursued by James Madison prior ever is at hand and will adapt ical Alliance of America.
itself to almost any environ-
to arid during the War of 1812.
Why do rabbis cease to be rabbis and drift into non-rabbinical
"James Madison, the President, 1809-1912," the fifth volume ment and circumstance in obed- fields today when there is a great shortage of rabbis in this
.
in the projected six-volume series by Irving Brant, one of the ience to the will to survive."
country? . . Is it the fact that communal work is financially
most monumental and most interesting biographical works on
"The - nature of JDC's aims more rewarding than the rabbinate? .. . Or is it that in many
great Americans, presents the background of the battle.
will not change," Mr. Warburg congregations rabbis cannot get along with the lay leadership? ...
American ships were being seized and burned by France in declared, "although its responsi- All indications are that the latter may be the case, since the
retaliation of our trading with the British. There was a European bilities may. We will continue
of rabbis — plus their income from the performance
struggle which affected our trade and sentiment soon turned to extend the warm hand of salaries
of marriage, bar-mitzvah and other ceremonies provide an income
affection and help to our fellow as good as that of a well-paid social worker.
against the British,
Thomas Jefferson was pio-French and anti-British, and there Jews in whatever part of the
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Dr. H. S. Linfield, executive head of the Jewish Statistical
was a great measure of unity which developed in response to world they may be and what-
Bureau,
points out that about 50 years ago there were only 526
Madison's policies. The British attitudes irked more and more ever the nature of their trou-
rabbis in this country, and 25 years ago only 1,751 rabbis were
and war became inevitable.
ble."
. . . Of the 2,500 rabbis now serving in congregations,
In fact, it became evident during Madison's first term in
A budget of $26,550,000 was recorded
nearly
80
percent have received their rabbinical training in the
office. -
adopted for 1957.
United States and have had a secular education of four years
Jefferson assured Madison, his life-long associate, "political
Moses A. Leavitt, JDC exec- of college or more.
support indispensable to him in case . . overtures to France
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should lead to war with Great Britain." Jefferson was quoted: utive vice-chairman, review-
ing the world-wide activities
"I regard war with England as inevitable."
Accent On Youth :
.
Some viewed Madison as "too weak" to handle the problems. of the JDC, told the gathering
Younger Jewish families seem to have a stronger interest in
Irving Brant proves that he had strength, wisdom and .genuine. that he was in Israel on Oct. Jewish education and in Jewish youth activities than they do in
29, the day the invasion of
ability to face the issue properly.
the
Sinai Peninsula took other types of Jewish communal services, it has been established
There was a firmness in those days that could stand us in
place.
"I left the following by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds . . . The
good' stead today. It would be well, for us to draw upon the
day," he declared, "full of ad- Council .advises local federations to give - greater attention to the
Madison-Jefferson views in dealing with a dictator like Nasser
miration and respect for the "priority needs" of the group that will be in community leader-
who threatens our dignity and the peace of the world.
morale and spirit that the ship tomorrow . . . If these needs are not met adequately by the
"James Madison, The President," published by Bobbs-Mer- people of Israel had demon- federation, the younger Jewish families will seek services from
rill Co., (730 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis 7), is the successor strated. I feel that with such individual institutions at the expense of a total community orien-
volume to Madison "The Virginia Revolutionist," "The National- a spirit one can never be tation, the Council warns . . . The needs seem to be greater in
ist," "Father of the Constitution" and "Secretary of State."
beaten no matter how much newer neighborhoods, whether in suburbs or cities . . . MoSt of-
In preparation is the. sixth and last volume, "James Madison, pain and suffering one must the newer neighborhoods have a preponderance of ybUng
In War and Peace: 1812-1836."
for whom educatibnal and recreational services are a Priinary
In "The President" we have timely lessons On conditions as endure."
interest.. . Thus- far, no definite pattern has emerged for a
Noting
newspaper
reports
that
they affect us today. In previous volumes we learned about
Jewish _federation program of edueatiorial. and group work
Egypt
is
preparing
to
expel
all
Madison's fight for separation of church and state and sound
services . . There has, however, been a good deal, of experi,
constitutional government. The entire .series is one of the most of its 50,000 Jews, the JDC
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leader warned that "-the_ ali too
effective American biographical collections.
Nikita Speaks of Longevity
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Victor Baum Named Circuit Judge;
Will Assume Office After Jan. 2
'Between You
. and Me'
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