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BY ELIAHU SALPETER
(Copyright, 1961,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
JERUSALEM — After five
years of covering events in Is-
rael for the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, this correspondent is
again on his way to the United
States.
The Israel of August 1961 is
quite a different country from
Israel of November 1956—
which, as you will remember,
was the month of the Sinai
Campaign.
What happened in the past
five years can be traced, direct-
ly or indirectly, to- the outcome
of the Sinai Campaign. Israel
learned what has become a car-
dinal principle of its defense
policy: in any combat with the
Arabs, the first 48 hours are of
decisive importance. To stand
up in those 48 hours, Israel
must be at least qualitatively
equal in armament to the
Arabs. Given that qualitative
equality in planes, tanks, rock-
ets and communications, the
higher educational level, the
greater • intelligence and the
better training of the Israeli
officers and soldiers can bal-
ance the quantitative inequality
of armaments.
The Sinai victory opened up
the door for Israel to Asia and
to Africa. This was done both
literally — by opening up the
Gulf of Eilat to Israel naviga-
tion—and politically, by the re-
spect gained by Israel. On the
background of that victory, Is-
rael's increasing efforts to pro-
vide technical assistance to
newly independent nations, par-
ticularly in Africa, gained their
proper perspective.
Five years ago, except for
one or two countries in Asia,
the knowledge of Israel in
any country was largely de,
pendent on the size and effici-
ency of the Jeivish community
in that country: Today, Israel
is known and highly appreci-
ated in scores of countries
which have never seen a Jew
before the first Israeli expert
or adviser arrived there.
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By HAROLD U. RIBALOW
(Copyright, 1961,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Young Sandy Koufax of the
Los Angeles Dodgers made the
National League All-Star squad
and pitched indifferently in the
first game and twirled well in
Quiz Box
BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
(Copyright, 1961,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency; Inc.)
Why is it customary . to col-
lect Charity when .taking•the
deceased out of the house oar
during the funeral procession?
Basically the reason for this
custom is contained in the
phrase which is expressed re-
-peatedly while collecting th
ealms. The collectors exclaim:
.
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the second. Once, again, he is
on the strikeout binge which
made him famous in previous
seasons. He fanned 10 Phillies
some weeks ago to take his
13th_victory and is doing much
to lead the Dodgers to a Na-
tional League flag.
What with Mickey Mantle-
and Roger Maris hitting home
runs and threatening Babe
Ruth's mark of 60 in a season,
there is a good deal of talk of
Hank Greenberg's mark of 58
homers in 1938. Hank; one of-
the . finest Jewish plaYers in
tbe game's annals, hit 58 in
1938 with five games to gO —
and then failed to slam another.
""The funny thing," Hank told
an interviewer lately, "is that
I'm most remembered for the
58 homers and because I never
played a game on Yom Kippu
He would like to see
tle and Maris b
"because it
baseball."
He
d, "I think they help
eac
er by both hitting and
I
k the extra games ill
immeasureably. Th
re, of cour
oth on and
it will be gr or
the field than
there are in
and television - people
now."
Hank is
s homers,
that he is even
prouder of the fact that in 1937
he came within one run of tying
Lou Gehrig for the record for
runs batted, in. He made 180.
Look up the records of Mantle
and Maris for rbi's, and you'll
see how far off they are. They
have a long way to go to match
180.
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"Charity rescues from death.'
This can be taken to mean that
the sight of death should in-
duce the onlookers to give char-
ity as a Means of prolonging
their own lives. It is also under-
stood to mean that the charity
given at the moment will spare
the deceased from dying spirit-
ually, once he has already
passed away physically. tiecau
of the charity given at his
neral, the soul of the dece
is expected to live on in
Garden of Eden, rather tha
pass away into oblivion. Ot
have claimed that the char
indicates the unity of the peo-
ple of Israel and signifies the
fact that the deceased was part
of a great body and a great
people. Still others contend that
the charity indicates that the
death of the righteous brings
penance to the living. Assuming
that the deceased was a right-
eous person, the giving of char-
ity indicates that the living are
repenting by giving charity and
are thus reaping the forgive- Boston Jewish Leader
ness which is rendered unto Is Advisor to Rhodesia
the living after the demise of
BOSTON, (JTA) — Abraham
a righteous .person.
Winer, a prominent industrialist
Why do some people re and active leader in the Jewish
peat the Memorial Prayer community, has been named to
"Kel Mole Rachamim" at the serve as American specialist in
graveside a number of times? small business practices to the
This is usually done in re- Government of the Federation of
sponse to pledges of charity Rhodesia and Nyasaland and to
given by various people for business organizations and small
groups or organizations. Actu- business proprietors throughout
ally this prayer is based upoh that area, for a period of four
a contribution of charity. Many months.
Winer, who is chairman of the
authorities contend that with-
out a definite pledge of charity chemical division of the Combin-
included in the recital of the ed Jewish Philanthropies, will
prayer, the effect is. meaning- leave for his new post next
less, since the whole essence of month.
the prayer is to pronounce the
offering of charity by virtue of
"Those who expect to reap. the
"I am now come forth to give which the ultimate peace and blessings of freedom must under-
thee wisdom and understanding. salvation of the soul is sought go the fatigues of supporting it."
—(Dan. 9:22).
as a reward.
—Thomas Paine.
Five years ago, hundreds of
thousands of new immigrants
lived in makeshift temporary
housing, many of then' still un-
employed or engaged in public
works organized just to give
them some employment. Today,
there is no unemployment and
in many parts of the country
there is even a shortage of la-
bor.
Five years ago, Israelis were
just about emerging from more
than fifteen years of austerity
and rationing of food and
clothing. Today, Israel is a
country of full " shops, well
nourished people and consider-
able earning power. •
An even more fundamental
problem which showed no sig-
nificant progress toward solu-
tion in these past five years is
the Israel-Arab dispute. There
is no change in the fundamental
refusal of the Arabs to recog-
nize the very existence of Is-
rael. They have given up the
hope Of destroying Israel in one
short outburst of aggression, but
they still believe that in the
long run they will manage, by
the combined political, econom-
ic and, ultimately, military
means, to destroy the Jewish
State. Israel believes that the
more Jews immigrate here, the
more the State consolidates ec-
onomically and socially, the
more will the Arabs be com-
pelled to accept their existence.
But the Arabs feel that time
works in their favor. The con-
tinuation of the cold war only
strengthens their belief. And as
long as they believe this, there
is no chance that they will ' e
willing to negotiate a settle-
ment with Israel.
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