THE DETRO IT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, January 6, 1961
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Detroiters Contest Jerusalem Law Forcing
Afternoon Closing of Supermarket
JERUSALEM — The entire
Jerusalem housewives gener- Federation of Labor, which is
Middle- East is reported watch- ally are supporting the mar- interested in protecting the
JERUSALEM — It is no wonder that industrialists from all ing with keenest interest the ket's desire to be open 7 to '7, right of its affiliated members
over the world continue to come here and • to return to Israel tremendously successful intro- and Supersol also has- the sup- to retain jobs under the Super -
periodically to study the country's conditions. This is a land of duction of . the highest type port of Histadrut, the Israel sol's program of operations.
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progress. It is a country of many moods. Its fascination has no
of supermarket program in two
limits. ,
Boris Smolar's
Herzl'referred to it as "Altneuland: It is an appropriate title. Israeli cities — in Tel Aviv,
It is ancient, yet there is so much that is new. Wherever one turns, where the Supersol . Super-
he finds- new roadS, rows upon rows. of new apartment houses, new market has been operating for
two years, and in Jerusalem,
factories, new schools. . .
the second Supersol has
The people. are -interesting. Not all are fully integrated, and where
some retain a lonesomeness for their former homelands.. While just been opened.
Four Detroiters are managing
tens of thousands continue to come to Israel, there still is a frac-
(Copyright 1961,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
tion that leaves. But the "olim"—the immigrants—always by far the operations: Herbert Hordes
is
secretary-treasurer
and
as-
outnumber the "yordim"—the emigrants. . . .
on Washington
Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain would have had a heyday sistant manager. Allen Feinberg Eyes With
Israel Ambassador Avraham Harman now holding
here now. There is as much of -the ludicrous as there is of the is vice president and the man-
in.. Jerusalem with the government there, -a -picture
most earnest. But even the ridiculous, which sterns in part from ager of operations: Moshe Hey- consultations
emerges
of
how
Israel expects the Kennedy Administration • to
man
is
in
charge
of
the
finance
-the- chauvinism that arises when people are constantly on guard
act
on
Arab-Isthel
issues . . . The Israel Government anticipates
department
and
Arthur
Levi
•against enemies who surround them and, in spite of the dangers,
that President Kennedy, in line with his pre-election .pledgeS,
Leibick is the art designer.
emerge victorious, has its fascinating elements • .
Hordes reported this 'week will give high priority to the question of seeking to put an end
It is fortunate for Israel that her best friend is the United
to the state of Arab-Israel.belligerency . . . Also that the United
States and her strongest supporter • is the JeWish community. of that the following additional States will reaffirm the Tripartite Declaration of 1950, guaran-
Supersol
markets
now
are
under
the United States. By the same token, it is fortunate for American
teeing the existing Arab-Israel frontiers .. . Israel also hopes
Jewry that there is an Israel to give it inspiration. It is safe to operation: The next market will that. under President Kennedy, new efforts will be made b_y
say that American aid for Israel -will continue for a long time to be opened in Givataim, a suburb the 'U.S. to carry out the Johnston plan to exploit the waters of
come. Yet, the most disturbing reaction an informed tourist gets of Tel Aviv, in May. In July, the Jordan River on a regional basis .. . Strong hope is held
in Israel is that there is a lack of understanding. between American a market will begin to operate by Israel that the Kennedy Administration will increase Ameri-
Jewry and Israel-. This -Commentator feels- that -Israel is better in Holon, _near Tel Aviv. In can efforts to assure freedom of passage • for Israeli -ships
understood in America than the latter in Israel. Perhaps Ben- 'September, construction will be through the Suez. Canal . . . It is also expected that Kennedy
for the market in the
Gurion'S hammering away at the need for Arrierican olim has _completed
city of Haifa. A second will, as President of the United States, take a personal interest
created blind 5pots among many _Israelis WhQ have come to look port
Supersol market will open in in settling the* Arab refugee problem by integrating the refugees
upon American JeWs only as the money-bags. It's an Unfor-tunate Jerualem
in the countries where they live now -. . . And—last but not
in October.
attitude, because it is based on misrepresentation. Americans have
least—Israel anticipates increased economic aid from the' United
Four
additional
markets
are
displayed great dedication to Israel; those who have settled here
States under the Kennedy Administration . . . Last month it was
-
are devoted to it; those who come here to offer know-how do it planned for 1961.
announced that American technical aid to Israel would cease
Meanwhile, the Supersol Corn- with the end of fiscal 1961-62 . . . It is not yet known whether
with dignity, with earnestness; with unmatchable sincerity.
Ben-Gurion has an idea all his own: - he said . he was not_' so , pany has a law suit on its 'American aid in the form of surplus agricultural products will
sure the press moulds public opinion. P_erhaps he'd better not put hands. It is contesting a city continue . . . This aid has been used recently by the U.S. to put a
ordinance 'which has compelled. brake on Israel's own export efforts in the agricultural field
his opinion to the test.
But when an Israeli critcizes Americans he evinces such ignor- the market to close, -together • • • The most recent act occurred last month when the U. S.
ance of facts, he is so blind to the actual situation, that one must with all other stores in Jerusa- forced Israel to discontinue exportation of eggs to Europe .. .
lem, from 1 to 4 p.m. Hordes Israel has an over-abundance of chickens and eggs and made a '
pity the misled.
When an American visitor suspicions and dislike the Israelis, said his company contends that concentrated and successful effort to win the European market
it is due to an unfortunate trend among, visitors from abroad to the supermarket is a vital for these products . .‘. However,. Holland and Denmark, which
concentrate their attention on the big cities. Let the tourist go into necessity for housewives, espe- are also egg exporters, complained to the United States about
the land, let him visit the new installations, let him see the pipe- cially for the working women this competition, with the result that the U. S. pressured Israel
lines, let him see the Israelis at work, and he'll have a new . who have a 1 to 4 rest period. into stopping its egg export at least for a few months.
A lower court haS ruled against
perspective. He'll then really know and understand Israel. . .
so that the Jerusalem Anti-Jewish Moods
There are Many Congresses here. The World Zionist Congress Supersol,
market
now
only from
More old people in this country than young ones—and more
has drawn hundreds of people from all over the world, and, it has , 7 to 1 and 4 is to open
7. The market more women than men—voice hostility to Jews . . . This has been -
benefited Israel with the vast amount of foreign currency that has wishes to operate from 7 a.m. to established by opinion surveys used to measure the relations
been spent here. But interest in the sessions lagged from the very 7 p.m. It is closed on the Satur- between
anti-Semitic• utterances and such factor _ s as education,
beginning. Everyone wanted a seat for the 'first session,. in the hall day Sabbath, and on Fridays economic status and age . . . These surveys have also established
that seats 4,000. It was a desire to be witness to the oft-exaggerated both markets close two hours the fact that the more education people have, and—up to a
Goldmann-Ben-Gurion conflict. If less attention were paid to' the before sundown — which calls certain point—the more money they imake, the less they expresS
nonsensical polemics and more to the reality of Israel's needs and for closing_ as early -as 3. pm. anti-Semitism . . . The American Jewish Committee has now
the urgency of establishing the best Diaspora-Israel relations, it during some periods of the issued a report based on examination of these correlations . .
Would be so much better for all, Zionism included! . . .
I year.
The examination shows that eduCation is the common factor:
' The so-called Congress of Journalists also attracted considerable
poorer people, older people and women frequently are less
Jerusalem
is
the
only
city
in
attention. Delegates came from 22 countries from all parts of the Israel that has a 1-to-4 closing educated than richer people, -younger peOple and 'men . . . How-
world, except from the Soviet bloc. It was dominated by the ruling and the Tel Aviv market ever., the A.J.C. finds it difficult to explain why anti-Jewish
Yiddish-speaking writers. The English-Jewish press of the United is not affected by the forced prejudice apparently decreaSes in this country as -education in-
States had - only one representative, and he, therefore, was at a ' closing regulation.
- creases . . . It pointS out that in the Germany of the Kaisers
great disadvantage. The Anglo-Jewish press had a couple of spokes-
the contrary was the fact—the more educated elements 'were
The
Jerusalem
Supersol
has
I
men. The other 120-odd participants were either from the Hebrew
the more anti-Semitic . . . A recent study in -this country came "
been
fined
250
Israeli
pounds
press in Israel or the Yiddish press from all over the World.
to the conclusion that it is not education itself that accounts for
(about
$125.)
for
having
opened
. The journalists' •session's had its interesting aspects. While a
market- during the forced the absence 'of prejudice, but a combination of characteristics.
few of the "delegates" insisted that there was only one hope for I the
closing
hours, in order to be common among people who prize education . . : Also personal
Jewish survival and for Jewish cultural advancement — through ' able to contest
the case, and contact. seems to make a difference, according to the .study .
Yiddish — it is to be recorded 'to the credit of the overwhelming Hordes and Feinberg
were fined The interviewers asked people whether they had any kind of
number of writers that they recognized that the, coming generation 1 100 pounds each.
association with Jews, such as .working together, mingling
of young Jews is totally uninterested in Yiddish and that the lan-
socially or living in the same neighborhood . . . Those with some
- guage is doomed under present conditions. Their hope is that out
such associations seemed less anti-Semitic than - those without '-
of a Congress of Journalists will come some new hope for the Goldmann, Sharett
it . . . Childhood friendships in particular seemed important .. . .
language. But—how?
The American Jewish Committee feels, however, that it may well.
Meanwhile, the English writer, who comes from the largest Elected Chairmen of
be possible that it is not association with Jews that reduces
prejudices, but rather the absence of prejudice that induces
community of Jews—the English-speaking Jewry—is a lone and an
association -2_ . . At any rate, the AJC report confirms that
isolated person in such an environment. The overwhelming majority Congress Presidium
has nothing to contribute to his field of endeavor, and he has no
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Dr. education and association are the two factors which go with
way of helping them. What a pitiful state of affairs! ..
Nahum Goldmann and former less -anti-Semitism, especially among middle class Americans
At the Journalists' Congress, Dr. Nahum Goldmann and David Israeli Premier Moshe Sharett . . The AJC does not undertake to say which of • the two is
Ben-Gurion, who look upon themselves as former newspapermen, were elected co-chairmen of the more important, but promises to go into* more research on this •
offered "advice" to the writers. Goldmann punned about editorial presidium of the 25th World subject.
writers and wondered whether they really influence public opinion'. Zionist Congress. _
O. N. Backstage
Ben-Gurion likened the -Diaspora press to a parochial element,
Israeli diplomats were surprised by the comparatively large
Representation on the 25-
because it deals only • with Jewish news, and he said the Israeli member presidium was based - participation, in the . debate on the Palestine Refugee problem'
papers are miniature copies of the New York Times because they .; on the proportional strengths of at the United ,Nations, especially. by the comparatively large
cover non-Jewish as well as Jewish news. Goldmann and Ben- the various parties participating sector of opinion: hostile to. Israel on this issue ... Of 44..riations
Gurion, like many of the Hebrew and Yiddish writers, did not take in the Congress.
which participated in the debate, 13 upheld the - Israel position
into consideration the existence of an important English-Jewish
while
' all the' Arab states, some Asians and. the Cointriunists
The . _presidimh received a supported the Arab line . Many Israelis, although not 'Prime
press — although Goldmann made passing reference to it. LeaderS
cable
from
the
Federation
of
can be as blind as some of their followers.
Minister Ben-Gurion and his aides, are. becoming perturbed by
Israel's Foreign Minister Golda Meir was much more practical Jewish Communities in Yugo- the support which the anti-Israel point of view is gaining .. . With
slavia,
expressing
regr
et
at
than her confreres Goldmann and B-G. She recognized that Yiddish
the number of Afro-Asian countries increasing in United - Nations,'
is rapidly disappearing, that youth is not too close to Zionist and being unable to accept the in- some fear that time is probably no longer, on the Israeli side . .
other Jewish ranks, and she expressed the view that only through vitation to send fraternal dele- They claim that while the Arabs intensified their propagarida by
asserting that the number of refugees now - exceeds • one million,
the inspiration of Israel can the crisis be solved: The advancement, gates to the Congress.
Professor Albert Weiss, presi- Israel has failed to tackle the problem properly frOm a public
of Hebrew, she said, is one of the ways - of accomplishing the task.
She urged' that Jewish periodicals carry a pinah ivrith, 'a Hebrew dent 'of the Yugoslav Jewish relations aspect . . . The Arab states, while dramatizing theproblem -
Corner, to encourage the study pf Hebrew -. Detroit's conscience is Federation, said they could not of the refugees, refuse permission for a -census of thorn. .•. The
clear: just what Golda Meir proposed has been practiced:in these attend "because of ,other urgent Arab.refugee problem comes up perennially for debateat the . United
matters." He extended heartiest Nations, through the annual report of the director of. the. United
columns for many years! . . .
Nations Relief and Works Agency . . . Last year the director recOm-
The, puzzling thing, however, about. Jewish leadership of the greetings to the Congress.
mended that most of the refugees be resettled in the Arab countries
Goldmann and Ben-Gurion type is that they are_ authorities on
. Since he drew the expected•vvrath of the Arab states, this year's
everything. Our President or Secretary of ,State or. Chief Justice or we had another interesting 'ex-
other high officials will welcome and greet a conference and guests perience. The President greeted report offered a solution. based largely. on.- the return' of
to country, without undertaking to evaluate their' objectives. But' us, and when we brought "greet- refugees to their former homes . . ISrael maintains that . the
B-G will analyze the press, he'll discuss art and music, he is the ing kfroni, DetrOiters" to the Fir-A refugee problem can be _solved, either by resettlement 'or com-
Lady, she rebukinglSi admonished pensation, only after _peace is made between Israel and the .Arabs
authority on Aristotle!
us:. "ret Yiddish!" Why didn't ... The. Arabs demand - that the refugees return before any other.
Fantastic!
At the beautiful home of President and Mrs. Itzhak Ben-Zvi she say f`claber Ivritr
•steps are taken .4. There, the matter rests for the time being.
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