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THE JEWISH NEWS

Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20,

1951

Member American Association of English--Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National
Editorial association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co. 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35,
Mich.. VE 8-9364. Subscription 65 a year. Foreign $6.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6. 1942 at Post Office. Detroit, Mich. under act of Congress of March
8, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

SIDNEY SHMARAK

Advertising Manager

CARMI M. .SLOMOVITZ

Circulation Manager

Sabbath Scriphral Selections

This Sabbath, the fourth day of Elul, 5720, the following Scriptural selections will be read in our
synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Shofetim, Deut. 16:18-21:9. Prophetical portion, Is. 51:12-52:12.

.Licht Benshen, Friday, Aug. 26, 6:58 p.m.

VOL. XXXVII. No. 26

Page Four

August 26, 1960

Israel's Friendship with the Afro-Asians

The international conference currently
in session at the Weizmann Institute of
Science in Rehovot is worthy of the
worldwide attention being given it be-
cause of a single development: the gather-
ing at the Israeli sessions of many
distinguished leaders from the Afro-Asian
nations.
Representatives from Nepal, Chad,
Ghana and other countries, who are
among the conference participants, are
not only contributing their views to the
discussions in relation to the status and
needs of new states, but are, at the same
time, evidencing a deep friendship for
Israel.

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It is on this score that the Weizmann
Institute conference assumes historic im-
portance in an era of world strife. While
there are tensions everywhere, and Israel
herself is constantly threatened with ex-
tinction by war-mongering neighbors, the
little state, only 12 years old, has suc-
ceeded in making friends with many
other small nations. She is sending ex-
perts in many fields to assist those na-
tions, and she is cooperative in efforts to
advance the economic and cultural needs
of countries that are just beginning to
find their bearings in the midst of an
international brotherhood.
A typical example of Israel's aid to
underdeveloped nations is the assistance
she is giving to Ghana. When the new
West African nation set out to establish
a fleet, its leaders went not to the great
nations, but to little Israel. There was
formed, as a result, in December of 1957,
the Black Star Line, in which the Zim
Israel Navigation Line had a 40 per cent
interest.
The progress made through this co-
operative effort has been so markedly
fruitful that the Black Star Shipping Line
today is passing exclusively into Ghanaian
ownership, Ghana taking over Israel's
interest. But the Israeli Zim firm will con-
tinue to manage the transaction for five
years. The seven-vessel fleet is certain to
expand and the established cooperation
undoubtedly will redound to the benefit
of b o t h nations, leading toward the
cementing of a friendship that should
influence other nations in the Afro-Asian
bloc.

Another example of Israeli influence
is the manner in which Burma is model-
ing its villages along Israeli lines. Fifty
Burmese families were sent to Israel, to
live in the country's kibbutzim, to study
life there and to return to their homeland
to pattern village life there in accordance
with the lessons they had learned in the
Jewish State. Israel's experts, who had
gone to Burma, likewise provided know-
how in several spheres to the Burmese.
Israel's experts instructed the Burmese
along agricultural lines, in methods of
cultivation in the dry Central Burma zone,
in the raising of chickens, in the manu-
facture of chemical fertilizer, pencils,
glass, automobile tires and other articles.
Liberia, Guinea and other new African
countries likewise are benefiting from
Israel's know-how, and it is no wonder,
therefore, that a Paris newspaperman,
after visiting French Sudan which now
is a part of the Federation of Mali, should
have written:
"Israel! the name rings everywhere
here, and that is not surprising. To the
idea of a land flowing with milk and
honey, there has been joined the reality
of a model economy. Yesterday a barren,
almost abandoned terrain, waterless and
without vegetation, a largely thriving
Israel is today the obvious example for
all countries cursed by penury and a
parched earth".
* * *
As a result of these friendships, trade
is developing between Israel and the
Afro-Asian nations. There is hope also
that when new issues arise at internation-
al meetings, involving Arab threats to
Israel, that the new nations will speak
up against the injustice of the boycott
and Arab war-mongering.
In a constructive way, Israel is showing
the world how nations that are totally
unlike spiritually and economically never-
theless can cooperate, can work for their
common good and can strive for peace.
It is such efforts, so nobly pursued by
Israel, that may prove to be the trump
cards in the totally unnecessary war-like
situation created in the Middle East. It
is because of such earnest efforts for
amity that peace may eventually be at-
tained in the entire Near East. Perhaps
it will serve as an example also in the
East-West quest for peace.

Mrs. Lurie's Book Describes
14 Eminent Jewish Leaders

Pursuing a new policy of introducing great Jewish per-
sonalities to American Jewish school children, the curriculum
committee of the Commission on Jewish Education of the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations undertook the publi-
cation of a new series of books.
Its new project is in line with a decision not to "introduce
the chronological study of history too early."
A new book in the proposed program is "American Jewish
Heroes," by Rose L. Lurie.
In the "interim edition" of this work, multigraphed, in
typewritten form, the author aims "to deepen the essential
religious values of our children".
Mrs. Lurie introduces her young readers to 14 outstand-
ing Jewish personalities. She begins with Asser Levy, the
early American Jewish leader who purchased the site for the
first synagogue established in New York City, and concludes
with former U. S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman, whom she
calls "Statesman for Human Rights".
An interesting account is given of the battle against
slavery, during the Civil War, by David Einhorn, while he
was rabbi in Baltimore.
There is the story of Isaac Leeser, rabbi, educator, leader,
inspirer of interest among Jews in higher spiritual values.
Nathan Straus is evaluated as "The Great Giver". There
are two essays on Louis D. Brandeis, as the great American,
the eminent Zionist, the outstanding jurist, the fighter for
justice.
Louis Marshall's interesting career forms one of the major
chapters in the book.
Two essays are devoted to the life of Stephen S. Wise,
battler for a free pulpit, great Zionist leader, defender of the
right of religious leaders to deal with political issues and to
participate in civic affairs.
Henrietta Szold's life is depicted under the heading "A
Mother of Many Children." The founder of Hadassah, who
remained unmarried, had rescued thousands of children
for settlement in Israel. Her literary efforts, her Zionist
activities, her devotion to Jewry are depicted skillfully in
this essay.
Judah L. Magnes had great courage. He defied opposition
when he was fighting for his convictions. It is understandable,
therefore, why the story of his life should appear under the
heading "Skating on Thin Ice".
Albert Einstein's life and accomplishments are told under
the heading "Discoverer of Universes". Lillian D. Wald receives
great tribute in the article "The Whole World — Her Neigh-
bors". The labor leader Sidney Hillman and the great composer
George Gershwin are the other heroes whose stories are told
in the well-written book by Mrs. Lurie.

New Nasser Threat in Troubled Africa Bentwich's 'Jews in Our Time'

A decision by the United Nations Sec- that Israel had offered to contribute mili-
retary General, Dag Hammarskjold, that tary units to the Congo force, but the
500 troops from the United Arab Republic offer was rejected, so as not to irk the
should participate in enforcing peace in Arabs.
Israel was the first country to send
the trouble areas of the Congo Republic
has aroused serious concern among diplo- physicians, nurses and medical technicians
mats in Washington. to the Congo, yet the antagonists of Israel
are permitted to send military men to
It has been pointed out that the gov- the
area, possibly thereby aggravating a
ernment-owned radio in Cairo consistently critical
situation.
and continuously incites the African peo-
Hammarskjold's action therefore is
ple against the "white colonialists." The subject to scrutiny. While the Cairo broad-
UAR dictator, Gamal Abdel Nasser, has casts are made in Swahili, the most popu-
been making capital of every situation lar and widespread language in Black
affecting the peace of the Afro-Asian Africa, diplomats are justifiably challeng-
countries, and while the UN forces are ing the wisdom of sending troops that
being called stooges of imperialism by hail from the Cairo dictator-ruled country
Nasser it is considered unwise for the to participate in enforcing peace.
democratic nations to utilize his troops
How is it possible to permit incite-
in an explosive situation like the Con- ment to hatred on the one hand and on
golese.
the other hand to permit the use of troops
The Paris newspaper L'Expresse re- that come from the rabble-rousers to
ports that Hammarskjold yielded to Nas- prevent such hatred?
United Nations diplomats often are
ser and sent 500 UAR soldiers to the
Congo "because he feared that, otherwise, called upon to deal with such problems.
Nasser might undertake separate action They now have concrete evidence upon
outside the UN framework. This is fan- which to base suspicion of motives ema-
tastic, in view of the L'Expresse report nating from Nasser's palace.

Prof. Norman Bentwich's "The Jews in Our Time," a
scholarly evaluation of the development of Jewish life in
the modern world, has been issued in a paperback by Penguin
Books (3300 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore 11) and is being ''dis-
tributed by the new Atheneum publishing house (162 E. 38,
N. Y. 16).
Reviewing Jewish contributions to the world—politically,
socially, economically, intellectually, artistically—this book by
the eminent Jewish scholar, who was Attorney General of Pales-
tine, under the British Administration, from 1918 to 1931, and
occupied the chair of international relations from 1932 to 1951,
also reviews the historical background of the Jewish people in
antiquity and in the Middle Ages. Thus he leads up to the
present time and deals with the situation in Israel and the
important developments through Jewish Statehoods.
Dr. Bentwich's book concerns itself also with the geographic
and economic distribution of Jews, and discusses Jewry's atti-
tudes to its neighbors, and the reverse, the differences that
existed and the manner of cooperation between them.
The concluding chapter, dealing with the State of Israel,
is a valuable commentary on the historic developments in the
last decade. He points to the importance of the rebirth of
Hebrew, the significance in the establishment of the Hebrew
University, and the nation's spiritual revival.
In the new Israel, the able author states, "Greater Jewry,
distributed over all parts of the globe, will be linked by a
chain of the spirit with Israel, and will strengthen their attach-
ment to a Judaism revived and reinvigorated by the influences
that come again from Jerusalem."
"The Jews in Our Time" is a valuable addition to modern
Jewish literature.

