Elections:
Israel Humor
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)
As the New Year began, every-
thing seemed to be running except
the water in New York.
Abe Beame, nominated by the
Democrats, is running for mayor
of New York.
In Israel, too, they are busy run-
ning for office. Elections in Israel
are more complicated by the great
multitude of parties. It is very
easy to form a new party in Israel.
The main thing is the name. For
instance there was the Mapai Party
to which both Ben-Gurion and
Eshkol belonged. When the Ben-
Gurion faction seceded, they just
took the name Mapai and changed
it to Tapai or Rapee or Rafi. Now,
in America, you couldn't form a
new party calling the Democrats,
Hemocrats or Remocrats. But the
Hebrew language is more ex-
pansive; and they are very good at
making new names out of the
initial letters.
Eshkol was recently asked why
it was that, in his speeches, he
talks about the issues confronting
the government and says nothing
about the persons waging the cam-
paign against him.
Eshkol answered that it re-
minded him of the story of the
man who came to the rabbi for
a divorce.
The rabbi knew the wife and
thought her a good woman. "Tell
me," he said, "what is the evil
you find in your wife?"
"Rabbi," said the man, "I am
not the kind of man who will talk
ill to other people about his wife."
The rabbi had no alternative.
He gave the man the divorce.
"Now," he said, "you are divorced,
but I'm still curious, what was
wrong in your wife?"
"Rabbi," said the man, "I am
not the kind of man who will tell
stories about women who are
strangers to him."
Israelis go at each other with
hammer and tongs. Only the other
day we read of Abba Eban saying
of a colleague: "What can you
expect of an Oxford man?" Eban
himself is a Cambridge man.
We understand this kind of
bickering. It is like the Harvard-
Yale feeling and, at election time
it comes to the fore with fury.
Coolidge was put forward for the
Presidency by alumni of Amherst
who were tired of the prominence
of Harvard men.
Ben-Gurion is putting up a
formidable battle for a man of his
years, and, if he is defeated, he
will still- be the great man, his
wife Paula says he is, although she
admits she doeSn't like the way
he washes dishes.
"Ben-Gurion says it relaxes him
to wash the dishes," remarked
Paula the other day. "All I know
is that I have to spend an hour
cleaning up after him."
Professianl Status Given
to Vilna Yiddish Theater
LONDON (JTA) — The nine-
year-old Jewish theater in Vilna,
capital of Soviet Lithuania, has
been granted professional status,
the English-language Journal of
the Soviet Embassy here reported.
According to the journal, the
troup consists of 40 actors and
musicians, among them students,
workers, doctors, engineers and
housewives who have taken up
theatrics as a hobby. The journal
reported that the audiences for the
performances of the Yiddish-
language theater total 20,000 per-
sons a year.
Grant to Enable School
to Write Utah Jews' Story
Official Listed as
Re-Elected Vice Premier
of the Soviet Union
Rebus as Aid to Teaching
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LONDON (JTA) — Benjamin
Dymshitz, officially listed by the
Soviet news agency Tass as "a
Jew by nationality," has been re-
elected vice prime minister of the
USSR, according to a dispatch re-
ceived from Moscow.
Dymshitz was reconfirmed in
the vice premiership and, at the
same time, made chairman of the
government committee for raw
materials and technical supplies,
at a meeting of the 1,500-member
Supreme Soviet, the dispatch re-
ported. He is believed to be the
only Jew holding high office in the
Soviet government.
Immediately alter this prayer ("No Limit") you will find a
prayer the first part of which we will call "My Soul."
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Resort to the rebus has helped train children to apply pictures
to their studies. The above rebus is reproduced from "Our Living
Prayer Book—Creative Exercises in the Study of Prayer and the
Siddur," by Azriel Eisenberg and Jessie B. Robinson, published by
Prayer Book Press, Inc., 410 Asylum St., Hartford, Conn., 06013. The
reproductions from "Our Living Prayer Book" appear in The Jewish
News by special arrangement with the authors and publishers.
Berlin Lawyer on Trial
for Linking Globke to
Jewish Deportations
BONN (JTA)—The trial of Max
Merten, a West Berlin lawyer who
was a key German occupation offi-
cial during the war in Greece, is
under way here with the defendant
absent.
He is charged with making false
accusations against Dr. Hans Glob-
ke, who served as state secretary
under former Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer and as a key official in
the Nazi Justice Ministry.
Merten claimed five years ago
that he wanted to save 10,000 Jew-
ish men, women and children in
Greece from deportation and that
he made a trip to Berlin to discuss
the matter with Adolf Eichmann
who was head of the Gestapo's
Jewish affairs department.
Merten also said that Eich-
mann told him to take "20,000 to
Palestine" and that Eichmann
then discussed the matter with
Dr. Globke who, according to
Merten, opposed the idea.
At Dr. Globke's insistence, an in-
vestigation of the Merten report
was started and, according to the
prosecution, it was found alleged-
ly to be a fabrication. Merten was
then indicted for trial.
The state prosecutor asked that
the court call Dr. Robert Servatius,
the attorney who defended Eich-
mann in his trial in Jerusalem,
and who also defended Globke.
Eichmann was hanged in Israel in
1961.
Montreal Hospital Wing
to Rise Eight Stories
MONTREAL (JTA)—Ground -
breaking ceremonies were held
Sunday at the Jewish General Hos-
pital for the construction of an
eight-story wing addition to the
building.
The new wing, part of a $12,-
500,000 program, is to be com-
pleted by 1968. The first phase of
the program was a nurses' resi-
dence, already built. The new
facilities will improve all depart-
ments of the hospital and will add
250 beds to its capacity.
Business Bri efs
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All Israeli Activity Hangs
in Suspenion on Holy Day
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM—Israelis filled the
nation's synagogues Tuesday eve-
ning for Kol Nidre services.
The solemn High Holy Day is
one on which the complete stop-
page of work in Israel affects even
those who carry on during other
religious holidays—with a suspen-
sion of airport, telegraph and other
communications services.
The only cars visible on the
streets on Yom Kippur are ambu-
lances and first-aid vehicles, police
making their rounds on foot. For-
eign diplomats have been advised
by the dean of the diplomatic corps
not to use their cars.
SALT LAKE CITY (JTA) — The
University of Utah announced plans
for the publication of the first
"History of the Jewish People in
Utah and Idaho." The project was
made possible by a grant to the
university by Myrtle H. Friedman
of Halley, Idaho, a descendant of
one of ,the earliest Jewish settlers THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, October 8, 1965
in the mgion
OTTAWA (JTA) — Preliminary
steps have been taken here by the
Jeivish community's Commission on
Assimilation and Intermarriage to
develop a study in depth on these
vital issues, it was announced by
the chairman of the 45-member
body, Dr. Abraham Hurtig.
Thus far, he said, it has been
decided to study carefully and to
identify every one of the underly-
ing causes, including social, cutural,
economic, religious, educational
and psychological factors.
Among suggestions being con-
sidered by the commission, Dr.
Hurtig said, are the appointment
of a social scientist and a psychol-
ogist to work with the commission.
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Memorial to 6 Million
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holocaust- who came to this coun-
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