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BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
Balfour Declaration as

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Oil Anti-Semitism
in Barth's 'Conversations With Bible'

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though it
(Copyright 1964 JTA, Inc.)
"Conversations With the Bible," as stated, the Christian way of in- i
was in the Bible."
When one thinks of Winston
"The Balfour Declaration," re- by Prof. Markus Barth of the Pitts- terpreting the Bible.
Churchill, one runs into a great turned Weizmann, "is not the burgh Theological Seminary, pub-
There is another powerful ex- 1 Harry Thomas has the Finest
deal of Jewish history—from Dis Bible, but our mandate for Zion lished by Holt, Rinehart and Win-
coriation of anti - Semitism in
raeli down to Balfour, Wingate comes from the Bible."
ston (383 Madison, NY17). is a Barth' statement: "Onl in sol- 1 Nationally Advertised Clothes at
and. Wearnann.
theological treatise in which . a idarity
with Israel,
never in anti-'
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Churchill is often compared to
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Christian theolooian reads and in-
that worship . :
Disraeli. Both stand out as prime 20 National Units terprets the Bib from a Christian Semitic division
be offered to which the Bible in-
. ministers who were also literary
point of view. It is a Christological
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vites and urges its readers and
men, and both were members of to Acton Status of work, as is indicated by this pass- interpreters."
the same party. It is interesting to
age:
'
T he interpretations of biblical
speculate how Disraeli would have Russian Jewry
"At all times the Jew had to go
come off had he been prime
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God has sent him. He stumbles, but albeit it is a Christian approach.
Harry Thomas
wouldn't have called him a 'gutter- national Jewish youth grOups is given power to rise again. He Theologians will find great merit
agreed
to
join
forces
to
aid
Soviet
snipe as Churchill did, but no
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a man praises himself, it is a
said, when taunted in the Commons
Daily: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
but
God's
Spirit
to
the
past,
Supday: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
for his Jewishness. "When the 'an- nate inter-organizational activities. keeps him alive and distinguishes s ign that he knows nothing.— .
The
nation-wide
program
is
be-
Zohar
cestors of the right honorable gen-
him as a Jew throughout the cen-
tlemen were savages, mine were ing undertaken as an adjunct to turies. God's promises point out his
priests in the Temple of the Lord." the American Jewish Conference future. To be human means to be
Churchill was a great admirer of I for Soviet Jewry, an ad hoc body aware of the existence and history.
.)ERSONALIZED SERVICE
Balfour, the author of the Balfour composed of 24 major national of the Jews; it means to be called
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the Jewish homeland. Balfour, secure equal cultural and religious cule and persecution, to the glory
ri T g n hts n. for Jews in the Soviet of God. Anti-Semitism is forgetting
who was some years his senior in Lio
age, had taken a liking to Chur-
the words of Jesus, that for all men
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chill, and Churchill reciprocated
Participating in the American
'salvation is for the Jews' (John
the affection. The two, besides be-
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4:22), denies that humanity which
ing members of the same party, Soviet Jewry are Bnai Brith is set forth by the biblical testi-
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had one common characteristic— Youth Organization, National mony of man"
they seldom arose before noon and Hillel Foundations, National
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this spirit that Prof.
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Balfour was more of a recluse. tional Conference of Synagogue Jew
way
of
the
religious
Christian
and.
the aloof philOsophical type, and Youth, United Synagogue Youth, ;
Churchill more the man for the National Council of Young Is-
multitude. Churchill himself rela- rael, Yavne, Atid, Leaders Train-
ted how once someone came ing Fellowship, the American
plunging at Balfour. ready to at- Zionist Youth Council, Betar,
tack him. but Balfour, instead of Bnai Oliva, D r o -o r Hechalutz
resisting. gazed at the man as a Hatzair, Habonim, Hashomer
biologist might look at a strange Hatzair, Junior Hadassah, Miz-
specimen. The vulgar world was rachi Hatzair, Sti_dent Zionist
not for him. Perhaps this accounts Organization, Masada of ZOA
for Weizmann's winning him over and Young Judea.
to Zionism. Weizmann was a scien-
The American Jewish Youth
tist and the world of the laboratory
was the world of ideas which he Conference for Soviet Jewry main-
tains
that the "Jews of the Soviet '
liked, and the idea of the restora-
tion of a nation which had given Union today are denied the exec-
the Bible to the world was also cise of their spiritual and cultural
something to, appeal to a philoso- heritage although guaranteed this
right by the Soviet constitution.
phical mind.
Churchill was friendly to . Zion- ; Insisting that Soviet Jews are
"singled out from all other groups
ism though, of course, he never
for severe limitations beyond
identified himself with it as Bal-
those imposed on other religious
four, nor even as Orde Wingate,
groups." the conference addressed
the man who established the Ha-
itself to youth throughout the
ganah. Wingate, incidentally, was
world.
related to Churchill.
* * *
Wingate once said to Weiz-

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mann: "Go into Churchill's of
lice and say 'We want so and so,
then go out and bang the door.'"
But Weizmann was more like
Balfour. He could not bang
doors. Weizmann did tell Chur-
chill: "Remember, your enemies
and the enemies of my people
are the same."
Yet if Churchill was not a
Wingate, he was friendly. and
Israel recently paid' him special
honors.

Ironically, the Tories. the Con-
servative Party, provided such
friendship as Israel got from Eng-
land. The Labor Party in -its Plat-
form had been very pro-Zionist:
but when it came into power. it
produced Bevin and stabbed Israel
in the back.
Speaking before a parliamentary
committee, Weizmann referred
several times to the authority of
the Balfour Declaration. A Labor
member said: - You speak of the

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Canadian Colle.re Profs
Petition Soviet Envoy
on Policy Toward Jews

TORONTO (JTA)—Concern for
the position of the Jews in the
Soviet Union has been expressed
by a number of faculty members
in various . Canadian universities in
a joint petition to the Soviet Am-
bassador to Canada, it was report-
ed by. Dean Maxwell Cohen of the
1VfcGill University law faculty.
Dr. Cohen said the petition also
included a request to the envoy to
inform his government of the
views of the scholars in the hope
that steps would be taken to rem-
edy the situation. Dean Cohen sent
a covering letter asserting that the
signers of the petition were "deep-
ly disturbed to learn from general-
ly well-documented evidence that
the Jews of the USSR are not ac
corded the same freedom or status
as other religious, ethnic and na-
tional groups" in Russia.
The petition said that the sign-
ers, "in seeking for Russian Jewry
the same freedom as other national
and religious minorities of the
USSR enjoy, "were not motivated"
by opposition to the USSR or its
political and social system.
"What concerned them," the pe-
tition said, was "the mounting evi-
dence of inequalities and restric-
tions" which prevent Russians
Jews "from freely preserving their
group identity and maintaining
their• religious, communal and cul-
tural life and institutions and
which debar them both from estab-
lishing nationwide communal insti-
tutions and from association with
their fellow Jews in other lands in
pursuit of matters of common Jew-
ish concern."

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 25, 1964-9

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