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Extracts from 4 tThe Graphic History
of the Jewish Heritage." Edited by
P. Wollman-Tsamir. Published by
Shengold Publishers and Foundation
For A Graphic History of Jewish
Literature.
A Seven Arts Feature.
LEKH LEKHA
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Abraham, in Transjordan
with his flocks of sheep
and camels, sees Pales-
tine, the Promised Land,
in the distance.
"Lift up now thine eyes,
and look . . . for all the
land which thou seest,
to thee will I give it, and
to thy seed for ever"
(Gen. 13.14-15).
N.Y. Mayor Pledges
Sites for Monuments
NEW YORK (JTA) — N e w
York's Mayor Wagner assured a
delegation representing 34 Jewish
organizations that the city will
provide an "appropriate site" for
the erection of two memorials to
the martyrs of the Nazi holocaust
and the heroes of the Warsaw
Ghetto rebellion.
He made that pledge to the
group, headed by Dr. Joachim
Prinz, president of the American
Jewish Congress. Previously, the
Municipal Art Commission had
ruled that neither of the monu-
ments could be erected in River-
side Park, calling one of the de-
signs too tragic and "distressing"
to be viewed by the children play-
ing in the park.
Wagner did not say where the
new sites would be, but assured
the committee that the location
will be one "readily accessible to
millions of residents and visitors."
Both monuments will be designed
by the famous Jewish sculptor,
Nathan Rappaport, whose monu-
ments commemorating the 6,000,-
000 victis of the holocaust have
been built in Warsaw and in a
number of other cities.
Dr. Prinz thanked the mayor for
"his intercession in this matter
and for his determination to see
to it that a fitting monument in
honor of the Jewish victims of
Nazism" would be erected in New
York.
At the command of God, Abram left Haran
Lek Lekha
and journeyed to Canaan. There God appeared to him and
said: "Unto thy seed will I give this land" (Genesis 12.7).
There was a famine in the land of Canaan, and Abram took
his household to Egypt. On his return, he and his nephew
Lot separated peaceably, Lot choosing to settle in the plain
Abe Segal of South Africa,
of Sodom. In the battles between the northern kings and those winner of the 1957 Maccabi.ah
of the plain of Sodom, Lot was captured. Learning of his Games tennis title, won the South
nephew's plight, Abram armed his followers and pursued African national singles champion-
Lot's captors. He defeated them and rescued his nephew and ship in 1964.
the other captives from Sodom. God made a covenant with
Abram to give him and his seed after him the land of Canaan
("The Covenant between the Parts"). When Abram's wife
Sarai saw that she was barren she gave Hagar, her hand-
maiden, to Abram as wife. Hagar bore Abram a son, who was
called Ishmael. At God's command, Abram changed his name
to Abraham, and his wife's name to Sarah. He was circumcized,
together with all the males of his household.
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Drastic Action Sought to Check Intermarriage
CHICAGO (JTA)—Such drastic
action as public condemnation of
Jews who marry outside the faith
was proposed at an Orthodox-
sponsored conference as a means
of deterring such intermarriages.
The proposal was offered at the
12th annual conference of the
Council of Traditional Synagogues
of Greater Chicago. Rabbi Moses
Mescheloff said one form the
condemnation could take would be
refusal to "extend facilities of the
synagogue or its membership for
death, marriage and other oc-
casions" in the lives of intermar-
ried couples.
He compared the proposal with
Bar and Bat Mitzvah which "are
helping to save our children for
Judaism" and recital of the
kaddish which "has brought many
men back to the synagogues."
Members of a panel on "Assimi-
lation Through Marriage" agreed
that intensive Jewish education
was necessary to prevent such
intermarriage. Rabbi C. David
Regensberg, presiding judge of
the Rabbinical Court of the Chi-
cago Rabbinical Council, proposed
that the sum of $1,000,000 be
raised on Chicago for Jewish ed-
ucation on all levels.
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and electricity problems, the run-
ning toilets, the oversexed porters
and maids.
But . he overcame all obstacles
and just as he had reached the
peak of success he decided, heart-
broken, to go back to New York.
It was the death of Iris, the for-
mer actress for whom he had a
deep love, that caused abandon-
ment of success attained the hard
way.
Meanwhile the reader learns
about "life in Kinja which teetered
always between the dreadful and
the ridiculous."
The title for Wouk's book stems
from the island song marking the
joy of celebration.
"Car-nee-val is very sweet
Please
Don't stop the car-nee-val!"
Even in laughter the heart may
be aching, and the end of joy may
be sorrow. —Proverbs
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18—Friday, March 12, 1965
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The humor is boundless. It is
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by the women and the men and
the sexy experiences of Norman's
friend Iris, who is in love with the
Negro governor, by his wife, his
daughter Hazel, who has a love
affair with the fat gourmond Shel-
don Klug whom the Papermans
brand The Sending because he is
an oushikkeness — so appropriately
described by the Yiddish world.
There is the frogman, Bab Cohn,
who has been to Israel, who plans
to go back there, who emerges
among the book's interesting char-
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Miscegenation, a free sex life,
hilarity, exciting parties — even
political intrigues — enter into the
plot to make "Don't Stop the Carni-
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