Greet 100,000th Youth Aliya Child French Zionist Meets with Reds on Soviet Jewry
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
PARIS — Andre Blumel, a
French Zionist leader who is a
controversial figure on issues o
relations with the Soviet U
vi
left Tuesday on his seco
ua-
to Moscow to discuss •
Soviet
tion of Soviet Jews
officials.
uled to mee
Blumel was sc
with key of ials, includi
Furtzev
Madame Y.
ter of Cult e, with
LYDDA AIRPORT, Israel — Moshe Kol, world head of
Youth Aliyah, is shown welcoming the ' 100,000th child to be
accepted by Youth Aliyah since its inception in 1934. She is
12-year-old, Teheran-born Sharifa Faribash, who said upon
arrival at Lydda Airport that now she is in Israel, "I will be
called Tamara." The event was a high point in Israel's observ-
ance of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Henrietta Szold,
founder of Hadassah and first administrator of Youth Aliyah.
History Records Role of Two
Rabbis During the Civil War
his newspaper, Sinai, Rabbi
Einhorn defended the aboli-
(Copyright, 1961, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
tionist doctrine, bringing all
The words and actions of two
of his considerable powers of
rabbis eminent in their com- argumentation to bear par-
munities in 1861 illustrate the ticularly against Rabbi
American Jew's attitude to the Raphall. Like many Jewish
abolition of slavery.
leaders of the present day,
A pair of Jewish immigrants Rabbi Einhorn Saw in the
came to the forefront. One was philosophy of slavery an
Rabbi Morris J. Raphall, of attack against all peoples,
New York's Congregation Bnai especially against all minority
Jeshurun. The other was Rabbi peoples, Jews included. Just
David Einhorn, of Har Sinai as some Jewish leaders today
Temple in Baltimore, and pub- identify anti-Negro racism
lisher of a Jewish newspaper with anti-Semitism and a
called Sinai. New York was drive to make second-class
largely favorable to the pre- citizens of all "foreigners,"
servation of the Union and, so did Rabbi Einhorn expand
therefore, more amenable to the argument for to
the cause espoused by the aboli- its inevitable
a
tionists. Baltimore, on the other elusion. It
of the aboll-
hand, was a hotbed of pro- tionists
eld, who were
slavery forces. Quite aside from guil
blasp emy. He
the merits of the case in point,
on the
that 1
it is interesting to note that the
ry, includ-
ologists for
two rabbis cited here,. Raphall ing Rabbi Ra
and Einhorn, chose in their se
o recur
ten
Einhorn
arate ways to line up as
ay 1
- to Baltimor
dependents. New York's R
rust s of
all the bo d
was staunchly pro-slaver . Bal- congre
a•ted a res t
urage- tion
timore's Einhorn was
rabbi: "It
ng t
liar in- I uld
ously against that "p
very • esirable for
stitution."
as
0
own afety as w
With an "irrepr sible con- ou of co
eration f
the
he Union, me bers of our cong gation
flict" threatenin
President Buch an had is-
would
• •• the future, the
sued a procla tion, fixing be
• ment in the ulna on
a National the
Jan. 4, 1861,
of our
able issu
Americans time.'
Fast Day, when
their houses
*
would gather
There is an it is footnote
ay for the
of worship to
the battle
to the history
preservation of he Union.
between Rabb' Einhorn and
up that
Rabbi Raphall t
Raphall. In . 61, when Lin-
n way.
challenge, in his
e White House,
n en-
coin was i
He delivered a se
ar was a fact,
and Civ*
of
titled "The Bible
Abe • oln proclaimed
Slavery."
er National Fast Day—
Although a leader of the n
Reform movement, Rabbi similar to the one fixed by
Raphall became for the once President Buchanan which
a fundamentalist. He attacked gave Raphall the occasion for
Christian ministers—aiming his his pro-slavery sermon. It so
shafts specifically at the famous happened that, on that very
Brooklyn abolitionist, preacher, Fast Day proclaimed by Lin-
Henry Ward Beecher, who had coln, Rabbi Raphall appeared
denounced slaveholding as "a at the White House to see
sin." Rabbi Raphall thundered: the President. The rabbi's son
"Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and was then in the Army, and
Job, the men with whom the Raphall asked Lincoln to
A l m i g h t y conversed, were order a promotion for the
slaveholders." Those who call young man.
"As God's minister," Lincoln
slaveholding a sin, like Henry
Ward Beecher, "are guilty of told Raphall, "is it not your
something very little short of first duty .today to pray with
blasphemy," insisted Rabbi your people for the success of
our arms—as is being done in
Raphall.
Many newspapers throughout every loyal church throughout
the country quoted Rabbi the North, East and West?"
"My assistant is doing that
Raphall's sensational sermon;
indeed, many of the papers, duty," replied Raphall.
Lincoln wrote a note order-
North and South, reprinted the
text in full. Pro-slavery forces ing: "The Secretary of War
issued the address in pamphlet will promote Second Lieuten-
form. Anti-abolitionists in Bal- ant Raphall to a First Lieuten-
timore, as elsewhere, were ant." Abe handed the note,
using the Raphall endorsement written on his personal card, to
of slaveholding as something Raphall, and said: "Now doctor,
you can go home and do your
tantamount to a Holy text.
In a series of articles in own praying."
By ALFRED H. PAUL
will try to intercede for im-
provement of the cultural situ-
ation of Soviet Jews. He plan-
cularly to obtain ap-
Madame Furtzeva
proval fr
and distribution
•a
of a we ekl in Yiddish and
est- lishmen f a Yiddish thea-
tour the .Soviet
1 troupe
ion.
terest in the situ-
ewe
ussian Jewry was
of
y a conference in
urred
September, which was
Paris
Sol urok Honor
NEW Y K, (JTA) Mayor
Robert F. agner issue a proc-
lamation h oring impresario
40 years of • ice
Hurok for
al ex-
of cu
in the cau-
change. Desi: e week of
Jan. 22 as "Cultural Exchange
Week," Mayor Wagner said: "Mr.
Hurok's contributions both as im-
presario and as citizen have im-
measurably enriched the cultural
life of New 'York City and the
Nation." He cited Hurok's cul-
tural exchange activities in Israel
and numerous other countries.
reported to have led various
left wing organizations in West-
ern Europe to impress upon
Soviet officials the need to al-
leviate the heavy discrimina-
tion barring the war to Jewish
cultural and religious emanci-
pation.
Danield Mayer, president of
the League for the Rights a
Man, who served as chairman
for the Paris conference, is
scheduled to leave for Moscow
in March.
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