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. 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