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THE DETROIT JEWI SH NEWS — Friday, Ju ly 2 0, 1962 —
P urely Commentary
Tributes to Pekarsky
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By Philip Milton J. Miller
Slomovitz Named to Head
t is especially valuable to note that O'Callaghan quotes the following
from the book "Arabian Sands," by Wilfrid Thesiger, written
Our people are irreparably bereaved by the death of Rabbi
about ten years ago:
Milton J. Miller, co-chairman
Maurice_F3. Pekarsky.
"It seemed that the enormous wealth which was pouring into o f the professional division of
He was much more than the "dean" of the Hillel Founda-
the 1962 Allied Jewish Campaign,
tion directors. He was an inspiration to Jewish educators in this
both the demand-for slaves and the price paid for them."
has been named chairman of th e
country and his positive approaches to Jewish cultural needs had
The
perversions
that
result
from
the
slave
trade
become
addi-
Detroit Service Group Israel Sur-
elevated him to a high rank among those who guided our edu-
tionally
apparent
upon
reading
the
age-old
saying
among
desert
vey Tour, Scheduled to leave De-
cators in their quest for maximum values in our schools.
boy
for
a
girl
for
enjoyment,
but
a
Bedouin:
"A
goat
for
use,
troit on Oct. 9, for a stay of three
Maurice Pekarsky was a warm-hearted man, a dedicated
days in Paris and ten in Israel.
Zionist. a lover of Hebrew, an American loyalist who understood ecstasy."
O'Callaghan's
book
is
so
full
of
horrifying
revelations
that
no
how much the enrichment of our culture by the injection of
The Detroit Service Group is
matter how long the review of it justice can be done to the subject
multi-lingual and multi-cultural values meant to our country.
the year-round organization of
Such men are irreplacable. We have suffered a great loss only by a complete reading of the expose.
male workers in the Jewish Wel-
There have been minor revolts against the enslavements, but fare Federation's annual drive
in his death.
anyone, as of this date. who attempts to expose the crime while
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for funds, the Allied Jewish Cam-
within any' area where the abominations are practiced risks his life.
paign.
Another Sad Loss: Death of Louis Rittenberg
Of immense importance to all who strive for justice is this
Max M. Shaye, Service Group
We suffered another sad loss in the death of Louis Ritten- statement by the author in his foreword:
president, was chairman of a
berg. For nearly 40 years, he was a pillar in Jewish journalistic
"I
am
often
asked
what
could
be
done
to
stop
this
traffic
similar tour in 1959. In 1960,
ranks. As editor of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, a revised
' g, while America is paw, Irwin Green was tour chairman,
in human souls. The answer is nothin
edition of which would have been assured had he lived; as the
of
dollars
each
year
into
Saudi
Arabia
in
oil
royal-
ing
and Hy Safran was chairman of
managing editor of the American Hebrew which now is merged
with the American Examiner, and as author of many monographs, ties. Stop that, and the trade would stop. It is a matter of simple
the 1961 survey tour.
he had made important contributions. He befriended many economics. A young virgin girl costs 800 pounds, a boy 600
The stay in Paris is scheduled
people in the course of an active life and devoted participation pounds, a Cadillac 3,500 pounds. Most rich Saudis have three to include a briefing by the
prestige
Sandi
Arabia
in
man's
and
as
a
or
fan'.
Cadillacs,
greatly
missed
by
all
in many Jewish movements, and he will be
depends as the 'umber of slaves he holds, each rich oil sheikh Joint Distribution Committee.
who knew him and who are acquainted with his creative work.
Tour members will visit an
has at least 50 or 60 human beings in bondage. Deny them the
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immigrant reception center, a
money to buy either cars or human beings and the bottom will
feeding center for immigrants
An Anti-Israel Book — 'Worse Than Dung'
fall out of the slave market. It will be argued that slavery has
For some time now, a publishers' advertisement has ap- always existed in Saudi Arabia. I agree. In the old days when and an orphans' home, and will
include a school run by the
peared in the New York Times using both the American and supervision by nations was impossible and the slave trade Organization for Rehabilitation
Israeli terms and offering for sale a book of "truth" about flourished freely, the price of a young girl stood at around 511
Through Training, an Allied
Israel. Those who were misled into sending $3 for this shocking i pounds. Today no slaver would rile his neck or his liberty for
Jewish Campaign beneficiary,
brochure—it is a pamphlet, not a book—have learned that it is such a paltry sum. Destroy the source of income, and the
and the memorial to the Un-
full of vitriolic references to everything about Israel; that it Ethiopian, the Egyptian, Big Mama, The Fat One, and Carl von
known Jewish Martyr.
is packed with misrepresentations.
will equally go out of business. Unfortunately in the
The Israel portion of the tour
The editor of Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, the distinguished greedy 'power-mad world that is ours today, this is not Illiely
will begin with discussions with
writer and columnist, Nathan Ziprin, was so incensed over the
members of the Israel govern-
advertisement that he expressed shock that the paper that boasts to ha.
O'Callaghan has mentioned in this foreword some of the ele- ment and the Jewish Agency.
that it contains copy "fit to print" published the advertisement
ments
involved
in
the
horrible
business.
A
couple
of
times
he
Mission members will meet a
and he found it necessary to write:
"The truth advertised in that piece of trash covered such was challenged, when it became known that he was investigating ship bringing immigrants to
prostitution
and
the
slave
trade,
whether
he
was
a
Jew.
Israel.
Israeli cities included in
filth as 'low morals.' degenerate 'sexual life.'
If it is possible to end the slave trade by stopping the flow the tour are: Tel Aviv, Rehovoth,
'white slavery' in Israel . . We are reluctant to delve further
into this impurity and we are sorry that the Times was luredlof U.S. dollars into the palaces of perversion in Saudi Arabia, isn't Beersheba, Ashkelon, Haifa
into the ablution—hut we cannot end this piece without noting it equally possible that the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish campaigns Acre, and Jerusalem.
Miss Esther R. Prussian, direc-
that the author of the book appears to be a most informed man would end if American support were to be halted to those who
in the lewd sins of Israel. So informed is he that he knows that seek Israel's destruction? This is a question worth posing while tor of the Service Group, will be
the 'average prostitute's fee' in Tel Aviv is ten pounds. That studying O'Callaghan's exposes in the hope that he will succeed tour director. Campaign workers
scrivener, in addition. exhibits such profound knowledge of in his campaign against the nasty business still condoned in can get tour information by call-
ing Miss Prussian at WO 5-3939.
prostitution in Israel that he even knows 'that there is a well the slave trading Arabian and African countries.
known brothel right across the street from the tourist office
in Tel Aviv,' that 'competition is quite keen among the pros-
ADL Leader Hits
titutes,' that 'procuring is a very good business' and that 'most
Boris Smolar's
Israeli sabra boys have their own private girl friends where Social Separatism in
they are taken care of without cost.' This is worse than dung.
It is an insult to the dignity of the truly pions. This is the Address to BBYO
language of the filth-mongers who daily ignore the admonition
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
of the sages not to soil their garbs. He who soils his garments,
of
the
severest
possible
STARLIGHT,
Pa. — Delegates
we know from sacred source, is deserving
to the 17th annual convention
penalty."
One of our readers. who has fallen prey to the Times ad, of Bnai Brith Young Adults were
(Copyright, 1962,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
has shown us the "book" and having read the Times ad, we told here that "American Jews
concur with Nathan Ziprin's excoriation of the "author" of the should feel sufficiently secure in
An interesting estimate on the economic situation of the
"book," while sharing the sense of shock that the Times has been their religion and culture not to Jews in the United States was made by Mortimer May, former
need the crutch of Jewish city president of the Zionist Organization of America, who feels that
lured into accepting advertising for such trash.
and country clubs to preserve American Jews are not contributing enough for Jewish philan-
their identity."
An Irishman Exposes the Slave Trade
Expressing his views in American Zionist,
Butharold Braverman, of New thropic causes . . .
Outraged by the evidences of slavery he had personally wit-
official ZOA organ, May estimated that Jews, constituting three
York,
director
of
the
ADL's
nessed in Khartoum, Sean O'Callaghan, an Irishman who has trav-
per cent of the population in the United States, have 10 per cent
eled through all the major centers of the Middle East and Africa, National Discriminations Depart- of the national income, which is now well over 400 billion dollars,
set out to expose the evils of the trade in human lives. The results ment, said U.S. Jewry apparently and provide 20 per cent of American millionaires . . . What
of his investigations are incorporated in an account included in was far from unanimous agree- support has May for his assertions? . • . He claims that spot
ment on this point and one of
his book, "The Slave Trade Today," published by Crown (419 the biggest questions it faces is checks on millionaires in this country seem to substantiate his
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Park Ave., S., N.Y. 16).
20 per cent figure; however, he emphasizes that this applies to
O'Callaghan's investigations are the most shocking revela- I "whether preservation of Juda- all millionaires ... He explains that the Jewish rating runs high
ism and Jewish identity requires
tions of the continued existence of trading in human lives, of that we sanction separatism in among the "mere" millionaires, while among the "multis" the
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immorality and indifference to human needs.
Jew is scantily represented, and among the 75 or 100 richest the
So horrifying is the slave trade that the one word “ Abov , social clubs."
Jew barely rates his proportion in the population ... May states
(slaves) "strikes terror into the heart of the southern Negro." I Braverman said the result of that Jews have an annual income of about 25 billion • dollars .
this difference of opinion is that
To this day, it strikes terror into the heart of every unfor-
The total of their contributions to Jewish philanthropic purposes
tunate boy and girl in Arabic countries and in Africa—especially there is no clear direction of re- reaches $250,000,000 a year.
in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Ethiopia—the O'Callaghan expose type,
ligious
discrimination
of "the
this
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he described as
reveals.
most extensive currently facing Calendar Problems
In some lands it is now prohibited and slave trading is pun- American Jewry.
There is a good deal of anxiety among Jewish leaders that
ishable by law--especially in Ethiopia. But even there the govern-
"The ADL official said relig-
ment finds it difficult to deal with the frightful problem, this ious requirement for membership the forthcoming Ecumenical Council convoked by Pope John
XXIII
might reconsider the negative attitude of the Vatican
important hook indicates.
in social clubs is responsible for
The major reasons given for slavery in these lands are reli- a vicious cycle with Jews — re- toward the adoption of a universal calendar, to the detriment
gions, economic and sexual. It has become a business, the sex j etted for membership in cer- of the Jewish Sabbath . . . Efforts will be made during the
angle is understandable. and it is religious because Mohammedan- tam clubs — turning to their own Ecumenical Council—which starts meeting in October—to recon-
cile the Roman Catholic and the Greek Catholic holiday dates,
ism encourages the enslavement of fellow men. O'Callaghan exclusively Jewish clubs.
explains:
He said practice "not only indi- and this means calendar reform - . . . The Vatican, like the Jews,
"There is nothing in the Mohammedan religion against the cates serious failure on the part had hitherto strongly opposed the efforts to secure action by the
holding of slaves . . . While the Mohammedan religion teaches of the American community, at United Nations for adoption of a World Calendar calling for a
that all men are strictly equal in the sight of Allah, rich man least at the social level, to accept year of 364 days plus a "blank day" which would not be counted
and poor, Sheikh and beggar, it is interpreted by the Arab as the individual on the basis of in- as a day of any week ... The World Calendar proposal, introduced
meaning that all Arabs are equal. The 'outsider' is therefore the dividual merit and worth, but it to the UN by India, provides that the year will have 52 iweeks,
legitimate prey of every Arab—infidels and outcasts have no other represents a contradiction of the each week beginning on Sunday, with Dec. 31—the 365th day—to
purpose in life but to serve the Mohammedan. Therefore it is a goal of good inter-group rela- become a "blank day" known as Worldsday, a world holiday . .
noble and indeed a holy thing to take the infidel, the Sudanese, tions for which we are striving." The fight against the "blank day" calendar reform goes back to
the Ethiopian or the native of the Belgian Congo or French
Braverman said social club dis- the 1920s when a plan to this effect was proposed at the League
Equitorial Africa as slaves. Although they are sometimes con- crimination typifies the extent to of Nations . . . The plan met with strong Jewish opposition
verted to Mohammedanism this does not place them on a par with which anti-semitism in the U.S. because the blank day device would destroy the fixity of the
the Arab, or give them any more rights than they had before."
has now become "covert and in- Jewish Sabbath ... In 1926, the League of Nations recommended
O'Callaghan did not write without proof. His revealing book stitutionalized," noting that the that religious organizations should be consulted and their views
contains much data to substantiate his charges, and the most American community now rejects obtained on calendar reform ... A campaign in favor of calendar
convincing evidence is contained in the fourth and concluding
overt anti-Semitism of the crude reform, conducted by powerful forces in the United States,
part of the book—"Slavery in Africa and Arabia"—containing
and virulent type manifested by resulted in a resolution moved in 1928 by the chairman of the
the extracts from the debate in the British House of Lords on professional anti-Semites, acts of Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives
July 14, 1960, when Lord Shackleton, Viscount Maugharn, Lord
violence against synagogues and recommending the calling of an international conference to
Birdwood, Lord Amnlree and Lord Faringdon challenged their
the like, but has apparently not consider the reform of the calendar . . Protests against the
government to act, through the United Nations, against the yet been moved to reject anti- "blank day" feature were so effective that resolutions in the
slave trade.
Jewish attitudes with respect to House of Representatives on March 15 and March 29, 1929,
omitted the preamble favoring the "blank day" device,
In view of the role that is now being played by Aramco, it social life."
The Late Maurice B. Pekarsky: Jewry Is Bereaved
DSG Survey Tour
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