Revisionist Predicts Defeat of Mapai Muriel Spark's `Mandelbaum Gate' Well-Written Novel Depicts Conflict, Reveals Arab-Israel Border Intrigues Muriel Spark has written a most unusual story. "The Mandelbaum Gate" is a novel, and it is without doubt fiction. Yet, its background, the dialogues relating to Arab- Israel relations, the injection of issues dealing with the boundary line between Israel and Jordan, give it greater importance that a mere story. Miss Spark (whose novel was published by Knopf), a native of ,—}E d i n b u r g h, embraced Roman Catholicism in 1954. Author of eight novels and several books of poetry, criticism and biography, she was the 1962 winner of the Italia Prize. Her new novel deals with the experiences of a half- Jewess who embraced Catholicism, who was in Israel and managed to get to Jordan, who was in danger of being arrested in Jordan because of her Jewish background, and her eventual return to the Israeli side, later to be reunited with her lover. What makes this an especially intriguing tale is the espionage among the British in Israel, first alluded to and then proven. The intrigues, the roles played by a young Arab and his family in getting incomes from both Jews and non-Jews in both countries divided by the Mandelbaum Gate, provide the mysterious elements that cause this novel to hold the reader's attention from start to finish. There is frank discussion about the background of the heroine, Barbara Vaughan, and an Israeli guide, in typical fashion, asks bluntly which half of her is Jew- ish, and when he hears that it is through her mother he says: "Then you are a whole Jew. The Jew in- herits through the mother by Jew- ish Law." It doesn't really matter in the long run. She is still the Catholic. H But the discussion is interesting just as the comments about the travels back and forth of the mem- ber of the British Embassy in Jerusalem, Freddy Hamilton, who plays a major role in trying to protect Barbara in Jordan, are in- teresting. Freddy's experiences in Mea Shearim, his relations with Jews, who teach him Hebrew, and the Arab who teaches him Arabic, are most interesting. The unreality of the conflict between Israel and the Arabs impresses itself upon the reader. Without intrigue, wiping out the boundary line, there would be a single terrain. But with the boundary, and the existing sus- picions, there is that continuing search for suspects, the role of spies, the hiding of Barbara and her resort to clandestine ways of getting out of Jordan back to Israel. And within Arab territory all reference to Israel has to be in terms of "Occupied Palestine!" Oh, yes, all the details of a con- flict are here, and all the unreal elements of a hatred that is man- made. Miss Spark offers many descrip- tions. She does not leave out the one about the title of her book, explaining, in the final words of her story, — "the Mandelbaum Gate, hardly a gate at all, but a piece of street between Jerusalem and Jerusalem, flanked by two huts, and called by that name be- cause a house at the other end once belonged to a Mr. Mandelbaum." It was while the Eichmann trial was in progress that the tale told by Miss Spark is enacted. There is an immense amount of information offered by a writer who proves to have been a good observer, whose studies of Israeli and Arab conditions were in good stead in narrating a_ good tale and in reveal- ing many of the ludicrous elements in an uncessary brotherly war. Well written, with a good plot, Miss Spark's "The Mandelbaum Gate" deserves a high rating. William M. Ellmann New Vice President of Michigan State Bar Elazar to Address William M. Ellmann has been Greenberg School's elected first vice president at the annual meeting of the State Bar Open House Oct. 13 h el d at the Sheraton - Cadillac Hotel Sept. 28. Previously he -m served as second vice president and has been a member of t h e commission o f the State Bar for the past six years. A member of the law firm of Ellmann and Ell- mann, he is serv- ing as a special Ellmann ' assistant attorney general and chairman of a special committee appointed by the attorney general to study the use of state troops in public emergencies. He has represented the State Bar of Michi- gan during the past several years in legislative matters and has acted as liaison between the State Bar of Michigan and director of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington. -- Born in 1921 in Highland Park, he was educated in t h e public schools there and attended Occi- dental College where he played football and baseball. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Wayne State Uni- versity. In World War II he served in the Pacific theater of operations with the U. S. Strategic Air Force. Ellmann is a member of the executive board of the Anti-De- famation League, Men's Club of Temple Beth El and the Jewish National Fund. He is a director of Knollwood Country Club, a mem- ber of the advisory council of the American Arbitration Association and a director of the Institute for Continuing Legal Education. He is married to the former Sheila Frankel. They have three children. Harold Berke, Hayim Greenberg School board chairman, announces that in connection with the 50th jubilee of the school, a joint as- sembly of the entire Labor Zionist movement and school parents, will take place in the form of an open!: house Wednes- day, 8:30 p.m., at the Labor Zion- ist Institute. Albert Elazar, superintendent of the United Heb- rew Schools, will speak on the topic "Educating Our Children For the Modern Age". A question and answer period Elazar will follow. Mrs. Alfred Bricker, PTA chair- man, joined in inviting parents of grade school and nursery to attend this function. School children will participate in the program. Refreshments will be served. The public is invited. International Social Service Parley in Jerusalem in 196'7 Prof. Sol Spiegelman, University of Illinois micro-biologist, heads the five-man scientific team which discovered how to put together a molecular virus that reproduces it- self indefinitely in a test tube. He emphasized that this was not the creation of life, however. The dis- covery has been hailed as "an im- portant break-through" in how complex forms of life reproduce. National Revisionist leader Benesh Epstein, who was here Sun- day night to address the Detroit Revisionist Organization, predicted that the labor movements will lose the election in Israel on Nov. 2. Benesh expressed the view that the trend on a worldwide basis is toward the right. He said the Histadrut elections in Israel proved that Mapai is losing ground. "The gain of 18 per cent in the vote polled by the Herut-Liberal group, this group's 27 per cent vote in Jerusalem, indicates that this new alignment has a good chance to win the election," he said. Asked who he believes will be- come Israel's Prime Minister if the Mapai should lose to Herut-Lib- erals, he said that it would un- questionably be Menahem Begin. The local Revisionist meeting on Sunday, at the JeWish Center, was attended by 300. The program in- cluded the showing of a Jabotinsky film and the evening was a tribute meeting to Vladimir Jabotin- sky. Israel Refuses Entry to Dutch Collaborator TEL AVIV (JTA)—A Dutch col- laborator who was convicted in his native Holland of having worked for the Nazis during the wartime occupation of that coun- try, was refused entry into Israel as a tourist. The collaborator, Cornelius Johaans Verhoof, 44, was returned to Holland. PHOTOGRAPHY by BERNARD H. WINER KE 1-8196 Bar Mitzvahs — Weddings SAM BARNETT Music LI 1 2563 Entertainment - Sukkot Meals By Mildred Grosberg Benin (Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.) Sukkah fruit cup Turkey, chicken, or roast ribs of beef Beets in pineapple sauce Farfel Supreme Salad of green pepper rings stuffed with tole slaw Strudel Mixed pickles Rolls Tea or black coffee SUKKAH FRUIT CUP About 2 and 3/4 cups prepared fruits and melons 12 large pitted dessert dates About I/2 cup mixed candied fruit Select fresh fruits and melons in sea- son. Some dark-skinned grapes, cut in half and pitted; some honeydew melon, and some golden-fleshed melon should be included for color. Peel, pit, and cut the melon and other fruits used into cubes about half-inch in size. Blend them with a little super-fine sugar and just enough lemon or lime juice to moisten. To serve as an ap- petizer, keep the fruit somewhat tart. If you wish to prepare the Sukkah Fruit Cup for dessert, add more sugar to taste. Almost fill 6 half-cup, stemmed des- sert glasses with the prepared fruits and melons. Slice the dates into strips the length of the date and 1/2-inch wide. Arrange the strips lattice fashion over the surface of the fruit in rows a half-inch apart. Cut the candied fruit into pieces about 1/4-inch square and place them in the spaces between the rows of date strips, to represent the open roof and the decorations of the Sukkah. Chil lthe fruit cup thoroughly. To serve, arrange colorful flat autumn leaves on small flat plates, and set the fruit cups on them. This amount makes 6 portions. BEETS IN PINEAPPLE SAUCE 1 1-lb. can sliced beets 3 tablespoons parve margarine 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 81/2-o-z. can crushed pineapple 1 /4 teaspoon salt Drain the beets thoroughly and re- serve 1 cup of the liquid. If there is less than 1 cup of the liquid add water to make the necessary amount. In a 1-quart saucepan over medium heat, melt the margarine. Stir in the flour, then cook until the mixture bubbles. Remove from the heat. Gradually stir in the reserved beet liquid. When the butter-flour mixture and the liquid are completely blended, return the sauce- pan to the heat, add the brown sugar and lemon juice, and stir until the sauce is smooth and thick. Add the pineapple and salt. The pineapple should not be drained. This part of the preparation may be completed slightly in advance and the sauce kept covered until dinner. Just before serving, re- heat, add the beets, and stir gently until very hot. This amount serves 5-6. FARFEL SUPREME 1 cup farfel (egg barley) 3 tablespoons chicken fat 1 medium onion, finely diced 1 stalk celery, finely diced 1 4-oz. can mushroom pieces and stems 1 tablespoon soy sauce Salt and pepper to taste Cook the farfel in a generous quan- tity of boiling, lightly salted water un- til tender. Drain thoroughly. Put the chicken fat in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. When the fat is melted add the onion and celery, and stir until light brown. Add to the far- fel. Be careful to stir in all the fat in the pan. Stir in the mushrooms, the liquid in the can of mushrooms, and the soy sauce. Taste and add salt and pepper as desired. Generously grease a 1-quart casserole. Pour in the farfel mixture. Spread the mixture evenly in the pan. Bake, uncovered, at 350°F., until very hot, about 20 minutes. If you wish to complete most of the preparation in advance, place the cas- serole, covered, in the refrigerator. Un- cover before placing in the oven, and allow 40 minutes for the farfel to heat. This amount serves 5-6. . The first International Confer- ence of Jewish Communal Service will be held in Jerusalem in August 1967, it was announced by Maurice Bernstein, president of the National Conference of Jewish Communal Service. 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