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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
selections will be read in
This Sabbath, the fourth day of Ab, 5722, the following scriptural
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our
Isaiah 1:1-27.
Pentateuchal portion, Devarim, Deut. 1:1-3:22. Prophetical portion,

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Vol. XLI No. 23

August 3, 1962

Is Middle East War Inevitable?

Nasser's recently fired four military to Israel's destruction?
Can it be that Germans who must
rockets were developed by Dr. Eugen
Saenger, who had formerly worked for have been in the "Heil Hitler" category
the West German government on rock- are still bent upon the total destruction
etry in Stuttgart. of the Jewish people and are transferring
While Germans are assisting Nasser their center of activity towards that end
in developing missiles, Egypt has signed from Berchtesgaden and Munich to Cairo?
an agreement with Soviet Russia for If these are wild guesses, they should
delivery of anti-aircraft rockets within at least serve as warning to Israel's kins-
weeks. men and to men of good will everywhere
a few
Reporting these facts for the New that another world calamity is being
York Herald Tribune, Warren Rogers hatched, and that if another world holo-
expressed the view that the Arab-Israel cast is to be averted Israel must be pro-
situation is taking a turn for the worse, tected at all costs.
Jewry's responsibilities are clear.
that the balance of power may be upset
by Egypt's acquiring terror weapons and Once again, all roads from lands of
that war may now be inevitable. oppression lead to Israel. Many tens of
Making the situation all the more thousands of Jews have already escaped Three Zionist Pioneers
shocking is the fact that Egypt is using to Israel in recent months from Moslem
foreign aid for the acquisition of destruc- countries and from other areas where
tive arms. From the United States alone, the fate of Jews is at stake.
The Jewish obligations are crystal
Egypt last year received $263,000.000 in
foreign aid, and the diversion of such clear. Unless the United Jewish Appeal
funds towards war-mongering should set receives the necessary funds to carry on
,
the free world thinking about dangers the rescue activities, we will be giving
to
Nasser
and
we
will
be
partners
Recently
formed
as
the
organization
of American Jews who
rt
of
the
comfort
emanating from Cairo as a result
that motivates Nasser's ac- in the crimes a g a ins t Israel whose have been affiliated with the Zionist movement for more than
of the United States has commenced
enemies now include not only the Moslem 25 years, Brith Rishonim
tivities.
of evaluating the importance of historic
a
cultural
project
vis
Nasser
becomes
potentates
but
also
European
collabora
a
The situation vis
figures who played important roles in Zionism in this country.
all the more trying as a result of the tors of Nasser.
The first pamphlet in a series, just issued, under the title
Israel's
burdens
must
be
made
bear
Zionist Rishonim in America," contains sketches of
revelation made by the Abendzeitung of
Munich that about 250 West German able. The Jewish State must be made "Three
Prof. Richard Gottheil, the first president of the Zionist Federa-
through
its name
technicians and rocket experts have been economically self-supportable,
1 tion of American, which later changed
h Zionist
which Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah,
secretly for Nasser; that these Bonds or other investments. And the I Organization of
doubled
if
Germans were employed through Swiss philanthropic support must be
and Dr. Israel Friedlaender.
concerns in Zurich which act as camou- the embattled land is to be made secure.
The Gottheil story, written by Morris Margulies, honorary
There are other ways of helping Israel. secretary
of Brith Rishonim and a former ZOA secretary,
flage for the United Arab Republic's
activities and that the four r o c k e t s There is the political front. Every effort recalls the early days of Zionism and the courageous stand
launched by Egypt were, in fact, made must be made to enlighten American that was taken by the early pioneers in a movement that was
legislators on the truth of the developing taken by the early pioneers in a movement that was far from
by the German experts.
in the beginning. Margulies records the interesting
It has never been a secret that Egypt situation. A threat to Israel also is a popular
fact that when Prof. Gottheil was elected the first president

Brith Rishonim Pays Honor to
Gotthell Szold Friedlaender

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has been guided by Germans in its mill- threat to the peace of the world, and
tary activities, while the country has been menacing war-mongering must be averted
getting its jets and military supplies from We must do all that is possible to prevent

of the American Zionist Federation, in 1898, his father, Dr.
Gustave Gottheil, who was Rabbi Emeritus of Temple
Emanu-El in New York, was elected vice president. Rabbi
Russia. There is, therefore, cause for our tax dollars from becoming means of Gottheil, Dr. B. Felsenthal of Chicago and Dr. Max Heller of
serious concern lest Russians and Ger- providing saber - rattling Nasser with
New Orleans, were among the first Reform rabbis to support
mans emerge as a new and a combined Russian- and German-made weapons.
Zionism, Margulies indicates.
force to threaten Israel's very life. There will be an opportunity to air
Prof. Gottheil had close contacts with Dr. Theodor Herzl.
Is it possible that the Czarist heritage the troubles that face Israel on the inter- Margulies' story traces Gottheil's devotion to Zionism, his
is driving Russians anew into a Black national arena, when the United Nations activities in behalf of the movement, the numerous articles he
Hundreds tradition of pogroms—even if General Assembly opens its next session wrote to propagate it. "The great intellectual qualities he
is is to be by remote action—and is it in mid-September. Let us hope that there possessed, couple with a sterling character and an indomitable
with which he endowed the leadership he gave to American
conceivable that Soviet Russia, which will be no ganging up on Israel at that will
made it possible for the movement to withstand its
took the lead in voting for the establish- time and that liberty-loving delegates will Zionism,
early vicissitudes and misfortunes and to carry on to final
ment of the State of Israel, is now join both in exposing the Nasser menace victory and triumph," Margulies states in his biographical sketch
regretting its act of kindness and is aiming and in demanding that he be prevented of Dr. Gottheil.
at so drastic a reversal of its original from using his acquired new strength to
Tamar de Sola Pool, a former national president of
position that it is willing to be a party destroy Israel.
Hadassah, wrote the "Henrietta Szold" sketch in the Brith
Rishonim brochure. It is an intimate account of her friendship
with the Hadassah founder. Mrs. Pool describes Miss Szold as
"self-disciplined in her social and political activities," adding
Seldom, in the long history of Jewish of panic. Jews are afraid of traveling that she was "an uncompromising adherent of democracy."
Mrs. Pool states that Miss Szold's
suffering at the hands of those who sought at night in taxicabs, not knowing who "place in the Zionist record is well symbolized by the
to destroy us, have there been as many the driver may be and whether he is a
part of the murderous gangs. They fear attitude of the Zionist Congress in Lucerne, Switzerland
areas of danger as there are today.
(in 193'7), which took note of her 75th birthday. On that
Not only in Eastern Europe, behind the night air and, as in the days of the
occasion Henrietta Szold gave her first Congress report of
the Iron Curtain and in Moslem coun- brutal pogroms under the Czars, are her stewardship of Yotith Aliyah. The aisle in the Congress
tries, but on our own continent, in Latin forced to remain in their homes after was strewn and the podium decorated with roses. A runner
American countries, as well as in Algeria, dark. There is even talk of a guest for came from the Land of Israel to announce the establishment
Jewish lives are in danger. The Nazi refuge in Israel on the part of some who of Kfar Szold, a tribute of young Germans to the woman who
ideologies have seeped into these lands can not tolerate the newly-emerging state became the symbol of complete motherhood to thousands.
As Dr. Weizmann rose to introduce Miss Szold amidst the
and Jews either are in flight from dan- of horror in these countries.
acclaim of the audience, he exclaimed: 'This is the first time
Few
Jews
are
left
in
Algeria,
whose
gers—as in the instance of Algeria—or
be strewn with
are panic-stricken by what has happened leaders have formed partnerships with I have known the path of a Zionist leader to
roses'."
anti-Israeli
Arab
countries,
but
the
few
in recent weeks.
Dr. Samuel Margoshes, author of the biographical sketch
The situation in Uruguay and Argen- who remain will eventually have to seek
of Dr. Israel Friedlaender, describes the noted scholar as
tina is truly frightening. Who would haven in Israel or in France.
For the Jews in Latin America every professor, as Zionist, as author, as leader.
have believed that the vilest type of anti-
Dr. Margoshes points out that there were, in the Jewish
Semitism, which has resulted in a murder effort must be made to protect their posi-
Theological Seminary, where Dr. Friedlaender was professor
would
come
to
the
tion
as
citizens
in
the
lands
in
which
and in brutal attacks,
American shores? they reside and to avert another calamity. of Bible and medieval - Jewish philosophy, Zionist sympathizers,
Public opinion has been aroused There will be many who will seek homes but Prof. Friedlaender "alone openly engaged in Zionist work.
Prof. Friedlaender died a martyr's death, at the age of 44,
against the outrages in Latin America, in Israel, and they will surely be wet when he was killed in Poland while on a mission for the JDC.
and there is hope that the culprits will corned there. In the process, the battle
Margoshes states in his fine tribute to Dr. Friedlaender:
be apprehended, that the Nazi-inspired must go on to guarantee the liberty of Dr.
"What persists in my memory as I invoke the image of Israel
gangs will be broken up and that there Jews wherever they may reside, else the Friedlaender
is his kindliness and his deep sincerity. He was a
will be a return to sanity. scourage of Nazism will spread every-
great Jew, a great writer and, above all, a great human being."

Latin American and Algerian Troubles

Meanwhile. however. there is a state where and no one will be secure.

