Excerpts of an Address Given
by Jacob Stein, Chairman of N.E.P.
Israel Denies Entry to West German Mayor Because of Nazi Past
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mayor who had been scheduled Tuesday night for a 10-day visit Countries represented include •
frontier. I believe that the only way this program can be achieved to be a member of a delegation and were received officially France, West Germany, Belgium
is through the facilities of the Jewish Theological Seminary as of 124 municipal officers-from Wednesday by representatives and Austria.
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it exists today and as it must expand over the next few years several European countries was
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disclosed Wednesday to have
to meet the challenge of the quarter-century ahead.
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"Why do I say the Seminary is capable of achieving these canceled his visit when the Is-
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ends? Because as to the first part of my program—our children rael Foreign Ministry told West
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authorities
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retaining their Judaism—the Seminary. through its Rabbinical
denied
entry
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Nazi
School, will train our Rabbis who will preach to our children;
through its Teachers Institute it will train our teachers who will record.
The official was Mayor
teach our children; through its Museum and the peervatio n 0 f
Muench of Schwartzenegg. No
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edging our Judaism—how does the Seminary fit into that? I be- Shtarkes, who was extradited
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lieve that through the Seminary we and our children gain an from Britain to face charges of
ethical identification with our people and that, through the kidnaping and perjury in con-
Seminary's radio and TV Eternal Light programs, millions of nection with the abduction of
non-Jews are learning for the first time of Judaism's rich heritage his nephew, Yos'elle Schumach-
and they are • coming to have a new respect for all things Jewish er, pleaded not guilty Wednes-
Sol Eisenberg says:
and for all Jews. The Seminary can continue to make great day in Jerusalem District Court.
cultural contributions to our civilization and can serve as the He denied involvement in the
voice of Jewish scholarship. Not too long ago two outstanding two-year disappearance of the
rabbis of the Seminary, Rabbi Heschel and Rabbi Mandelbaum, boy who was sought on three
attended the White House conference on Juvenile Delinquency and continents and finally found by
of all the papers given there, theirs were quoted the most widely U.S. secret service men in the
because they represented the most searching study of the problem. home of a Brooklyn rabbi last
"But there is one essential element which we must look to July. The uncle also denied
the Seminary to provide. in order that we may achieve this head- that he had perjured himself
high and shoulder-back attitude, and that is a harmonization of before the Israel Supreme Court
the questing, intellectual minds of our children; a harmonization when he declared before leav-
that will relate the traditions of Judaism with their society of ing Israel to settle in London
Sol Eisenberg, President
• today. This is nothing new in Jewish life. In ancient Greece Philo that he had not seen the boy
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•• synthesized the Hellenic philosophies with the Jewish tradition. after December, 1960. The court
In the 12th Century Maimonides did the same thing for the people postponed the hearing until
of his time and environment and now we look to the Seminary mid-December.
to harmonize for us, to answer our questioning minds as to the
relation of our age-old traditions to our modern society, its scien- Austrian Jews Mark
tific progress and its moral disintegration.
"As to the third part of my program—making the word "Jew" `Crystal Night'
a synonym for an honest person, an intelligent person, a good
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person—there, too, we look to the Seminary. For through the
VIENNA — Austrian Jews
Ramah camps, a series of six camps; scattered throughout the
United States, boys and girls each summer have an opportunity commemorated Tuesday the
to live a life based on the ethical and moral teachings of Judaism. 24th anniversary of the Nazi
Accepted by those who seek the
Not to learn it from textbooks or hear it from the lips of teachers "Crystal Night" when storm
—but. rather, to live it and by so doing, realize that it can indeed troopers attacked and burned
finest. Ask for LAUDER'S . .
be a sweet and pleasurable way of life. Unfortunately, this past hundreds of synagogues, the
summer alone, 2.700 children received letters that they would not first major step in the planned
one of the world's three great light
*- be able to- attend- the Ramah camps because the camps were filled. program of genocide against
European Jewry.
Scotch whiskies.
We must have a radical expansion of this camp. program. . --
Some 500 Jews met in the
"Further, we look to the Seminary for the intellectual leader- cemetery in the lower Austrian
ship in the popularization of Jewish knowledge, in creating a
town of Horn where Jewish
climate in which it seems the thing to do to read about Judaism,
tombstones were desecrated
to talk about it; to discuss it, to relate it to our everyday living. four
times during the past year.
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After all, the Seminary bears the same relationship to American .They included Israeli Ambas-
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the crystalizing point of the great minds of our Jewish civiliza- berg recalled that during the
tion so that they will serve for us as a source of creativity and "Crystal Night" in Austria 78
a source of encouragement. The Seminary's Ethics Institute, its synagogues and 45 cemeteries
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Youth Has Low Level of Jewish Knowledge, BBYO Director Says
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — De- "The serious void in education week summer seminars in Israel
spite evidence of more natural of American Jewish youth," said shows that in virtually every in
identification with Judaism than Baer, "can be closed by volun- stance, they expressed warme
their parents, the Jewish knowl- teer youth agencies. As part of feelings about Israel after thei r
edge level of the current gener- an overall plan to augment Jew- first-hand experiences of visitin g
ation of committed young Amer- ish education of teenagers, youth Israel. x
lean Jews "is not more substan- groups should establish series of David M. Blumberg of Kno
tial than that of uncommitted," informal courses in co-operation vile, re-elected at Monday's ses
Dr. Max F. Baer, national direc- with local public school author- sion to his fourth one-year ter m
for of the Bnai Brith Youth Or- Ades," he suggested. "While it as commission chairman, repo rt
ganizaiton, told the annual meet- is not the function of most youth ed that a comparison of teenag e
ing here of the organization's groups to schedule formal in- attitudes before and after par
youth commission — a national struction in Jewish values, they ticipation in the seminars indi
adult policy-making body compos- have abundant opportunities • for cates a 19 per cent increase i n
ed of 50 members. supplementary learning in a var- the belief that "Jews the work d
Baer ascribed this failure to a iety of informal group settings over should do their best fo r
combination of lack of a direc- because of the large numbers of Israel."
tion in home, plus some serious youth with whom they deal —
There is also strong sentimen t
shortcomings in formal Jewish numbers far greater than are for such beliefs as "every Je w
education. "The concept of Jew- reached by religious schools." should visit Israel," "only _in Is
ish values being handed down Evidence that the experience rael can a Jewish person live
from father to son today has be- 1 of an actual visit helps share Jewishly" and "Israel's affairs
come a case of the blind leading positive attitude towards Israel effect Jews everywhere," Blum-
I d," he said. "When •a- among Jewish teenagers was pre- berg said. "It is clear that among
ther himself is unlearned or con- sented . Monday at . the- annual the young people who participat-
fused, there is not much of Juda- meeting of the Bnai Brith Youth ed in the study, loyalties toward
ism son can learn. The situation
Israel were reinforced, new Lies
The study,• testing'. the semi Israel
further aggravated when
made and old ones strengthened
father's. behavior is inconsistent ments of youngsters who _ have, by these brief visits," he de-
with Jewish values.
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