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Boris Smolar's
Between You
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Rabbi Fram Defends
His Holiday Theme
and 'Hanukah Bush'
(Copyright, 1961,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
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Editor, The Jewish News:
I gladly acknowledge my au
Jews in Texas
thorship of the statement about
When in Dallas, don't look for a kosher restaurant: you Chanuko that appeared in the
will find none . . . However, you will find a warmhearted Detroit News of Saturday
Jewish community, devoted to Jewish interests and contributing December 2, and which you, in
generously to Jewish causes . . . Although there are about 5,000 your "Purely Commentary'
Jewish families in Dallas, there are more than 8,000 contributors column of December 8 termed
to the local Jewish Welfare Federation . . . There is a great as "nonsense."
number of intermarriages in Dallas; however, you will find
The statement was: "The Jew
many non-Jewish wives of Jewish husbands very active in Jewish ish faith owes a debt to the
communal affairs and eager that their children should get a Church for preserving this
Jewish education and are sending them to Jewish Sunday significant event"—referring to
Schools . . They are eager that their sons should celebrate Chanuko. Except that a more
Bar Mitzvah .. . Affectionately called "shikses," they are mem- accurate phrasing might have
bers of the local Reform Temple and the Conservative Syna- been "for preserving- the record
gogue and are among the active participants in the Women's of this significant event," the
Division of the Federation . . . There are five Jewish congrega- statement
is historically true.
tions in Dallas, of which the Reform congregation, Temple
Mr. Schachern, the Religious
Emanu-El, is the largest, with 1,800 families and 1,500 children Editor
nlypi
of the Detroit News, and
in its religious school .. . The Conservative congregation, Shea-
of the ablest journalists in
rith Israel, has a membership of 1,100 families and 835 children one
in the religious school . . The three Orthodox congregations the field of reporting religion,
are small, the largest of them having 250 families as members did not misquote me. It is a
1
that the only historical
and 125 children in its Sunday School and 50 students in its fact
source
material
for
the
story
51%
Hebrew School . . . About 85 percent of the Jews in Dallas
are American-born and approximately a half of them have lived of Chanuko are the Books of
the Maccabees. These Books are
in Dallas ten years or less.
found in the Vulgate Bible of
_ The Jewish community in Dallas is 90 years old . •. . With the' Catholic Church, but were
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the growth of Dallas—where the population has tripled during never in the Hebrew Bible..This
the last 25 years—the Jewish population has grown to about means that the Rabbis who de-
19,000 residents, including women and children . . . through cided what books shall be in-
the years, Jewish citizens of Dallas have been intimately involved cluded in the Bible did not
in the forefront of every worthwhile community project.
consider the Books of the Mac-
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While enjoying an enviable reputation for their sharing of cabees worthy of a place among
rityni)
common philanthropic challenges in the city, Dallas Jewry is the sacred _ scriptures . of the
also not neglecting its duties to Jewish challenges . . . Its Jewish Jewish faith. As far as the
Federation raises 'about $750,000 dollars a year, which is more Jewish people and-Jewish his- Catholic Organ Points
than the average for a city of 5,000 Jewish families . . . Its Jew- tory are concerned, the Books
ish social welfare institutions are among the best in.the country of the Maccabees might have to 'Injustice' Accorded
. . . Its Jewish Family Service is recognized as one of the top been lost. Fortunately they
social welfare agencies in the Southwest, and is used as a training were preserved in the Bible Jews in Soviet Union
"It is well to remind ex-
center for social workers by the University of Texas . . . Its of the Church.
Schepps Community Center is considered as a symbol of progress
We also know the - reason ploiters of others' misfortunes
for the entire city, and not only of the Jewish community . . . why the Rabbis did not approve that communism numbers many
Incidentally, the Center is named in honor of Julius Schepps, of the Books of the Maccabees. more victims than Nazi-Fascism
the most beloved Jew in Dallas, who is known as "Mr. Federa- The Rabbis of the Talmud dis- and that the Soviet Union to-
tiOn" because of his intense interest in the causes supported by approved of Maccabean mili- day is the only state which of-
the Jewish Welfare Federation . . . -Jimmy Wisch's Texas Jewish tarism. As the authoritative ficially and consciously carries
Post is' a valuable factor in cementing community interest through Jewish Encyclopedia puts it, out an anti-Jewish political pol-
Its news and feature columns.
"In pharisaic (that is, Rabbinic) icy," according to Ulisse Alessio
circles, the political achieve- Floridi, S.J., in Atlas Magazine
ments of the Hasmoneans (Mac- from La Civilta Ca t t a 1 i c a
cabees) were pushed into the (Rome,), considered one of the
background, and the very name most authoritative organs of
of Judas Maccabeus fell into the Catholic world press.
"From 1926 on there were no
oblivion."
The word Maccabee
RIO DE JANEIRO, (JTA) — would need the additional time never appears
in the Talmud. more,publications in the
The Brazilian Cabinet decided to study the matter.
Granting that the Church U.S.S.R. in Hebrew, condemned
The dictionary contained
as a Biblical and Zionist lan-
to postpone for two years action
such definition as: Jew — a owes much to the Jewish peo- guage . . .
ple, and we never tire of point-
on
t__, the adoption of a proposal swindler; rabbi—a devil; syna- ing
it out, it is only the gracious
"The wave of anti-Semitism
to- withdraw from use in Brazil- gogue—a place where Jews do
thing
to do to 'acknowledge flowed from the Soviet_ Union
ian schools a Portuguese diction- business.
also the debt which the Jewish into all its satellites; there as
ary containing a nUmber of anti-
people owes to the Church. In well a sadistic police and a
Foreign-Born Governor
Semitic definitions.
Moses Alexander, Governor preserving for us the Books corrupt magistrature fabricated
Earlier this year, f o r m e r
President Janio Quadros of the State of Idaho from 1915 of the Maccabees, the Church accusations and trials that cost
ordered a special commission to to 1919, was the 'first foreign- did render the Jewish people the lives of thousands of in-
stances of rehabilitation that
study the advisability of with- born Jew to hold gubbernatorial a great service. -
As for the "Chanuko bush" took place after 1956 and the
drawing the dictionary from use office in the United States.
in the schools. The two-year Earlier he had served as Mayor etc., this was, as you guessed, - ridiculous exploration of anti-.
postponement was voted after of Boise, Ida., and of Chilcothe, Mr. Schachern's own contribu- Semitism as an aspect of the
tion to the subject. May I say `cult of the personality' have
the commission reported that it Mo.
that it is incorrect to criticize not concluded this shameful
him for mentioning it. Whether page of history and do not make
one likes it or not, whether up for the injustice accorded
there is any substance to it or the Jews in Communist coun-
BY HENRY LEONARD
not, - the "Chanuko bush" has tries."
become part of American Jew-
ish folklore. As Mr. Schachern Education Assn. Says
SUPER
has' Jewish acquaintances, he
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has heard them speak of it. It Doesn't Take Tours
It -is perfectly good journalism Into Biased Countries
to quote froth, the folklore of
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WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
a group as long as it is done National Education Association
in good humor and without said it does not take any of its
malice.
teacher tour groups into "coun-
I am proud to have given tries which do not permit all
the community this little known the teachers in a group to enter."
historical fact that the source
The head of NEA's travel serv-
book for the Festival of ice, Dr. Paul H. Kinsel, said
Chanuko was preserved for us that the organization's policy has
by the early Church, and I been consistent since 1956.
credit Mr. Schachern for seeing
Dr. Kinsel said that NEA tour
the news value of such a re- groups have gone to Egypt, but
markable fact and building a there has never been any under-
strikingly interesting article standing that Jewish teachers
around it.
would be questioned about their
Very truly . yours,
religion or barred from entering
DR. LEON FRAM
the country. His remarks were
(See Purely Commentary)
made in response to questions
(Column on Page 2)
raised yesterday by the Jewish
Labor Committee.
1,000 Jews in Japan
In a letter to NEA executive
The Jewish community in secretary William G. Carr, the
Japan, which dates back to 1889, JLC said it had been its under-
now numbers nearly 1,000 per- standing that, on occasion, Jew-
sons. The community maintains ish teachers were re-routed so
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a synagogue in Tokyo, as well as not to accompany the full
as a smaller one in Kobe. •
group to an Arab country.
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Brazil Stalls Action on Dictionary
Carrying Anti-Semitic Definitions
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Hebrew Corner
Israeli Ceramic,
Glass Industries
For many years there exists in
Israel a glass industry. In the past
they brought the special necessary
sand from the glass industry from
abroad. But today it is possible to
drink a glass of tea from a glass
that is completely made in the
country. Also the special clay for the
making of ceramics is found in the
country, and it is possible to buy a
nice cup for coffee of Israeli earthen-
ware that is made from day from the
lairs of the Negev, made by expert
workmen and specialists working in
the ceramic industry.
If you will travel today throng!'
the oasts stretches of southern Negev
there will uncover before you beauti
ful scenes of various sands and clays,
and if you will feel with your hands,
you will conceive immediately that
a great treasure is before you.
The company (known as) "Clay and
Clear Sand in the Negev," that was
founded in Israel in the year of 1953,
steadily investigates, the possibility of
the utilization of this great natural
treasure for the ceramic and glass
industries in Israel and also for ex-
port abroad. To the credit of the
activities of this company the import
of raw materials necessary for these
industries has almost completely
ceased. Clay and clear sand of the
Israeli Negev reaches various coun-
tries in Europe and Far East as an
exoprt merchandise of Israel.
The development works of this com-
pany are done with the help of the
government of Israel, that in its
hands are 51 per cent of the shares of
the company, that are showing , a
great interest in the establishment
that promises a lot for the develop-
ment of the Negev.
Translation of Hebrew Column
Published by Brith Ivrith. Olamith
Jerusalem
Clothier Alex Olen,
Owner of Block's, Dies
The owner of Block's'Clothes,
19132 Livernois, Alex E. Olen
died Dec. 12. He was 54.
Mr. Olen, 2 0 7 2 5 Snowden,
was a clothier here for 35
years. He was at the Livernois
location for 11 years. He was
a member of Mosiac Lodge,
F&AM, and the Detroit Chapter
of Bnai Brith.
Surviving are his wife, Sue;
a son, Barry; and a daughter,
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