THE DETROIT JEWISH 14—Friday, April 14, 1967 NEWS Chaplain Back From Vietnam Hails 1Ioral Strength of `Mod' Generation NEW YORK — Capt. Alan (:i censpan, 25-year-old Jewish chaplain just back from a year in Vietnam, can't understand home- front talk about "alienated youth." In an interview at Yeshiva Uni. ersity. he urged adults to consider iv, 0 seemingly contradictory points first, that "our boys in Vietnam Catholic College Staffs to Explore Jews' Identity NEW YORK (JTA) — Faculty members of nine Catholic colleges and seminaries will explore "The Making and Identity of the Ameri- can Jew" at the first study insti- tute on the subject undertaken by a regional group of Catholic in- --tititions of higher learning. For three days—Sunday through Tuesday --- representative faculty the nine schools, all in WI ‘Vestchester, will meet under the auspices of the institutions and the Anti•Defamation League of Huai Brith to hear .Jewish and Catholic historians and clergymen probe the American Jew and the explicit backgrounds which have molded him. Mentors of .the litera- ture, philosophy.. economics, his- tory. political science. sociology. religion and Bible faculties are ex- pected to attend. Bus Service Continues Despite Strike in Tel Aviv TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two thou- sand drivers working for the two public bus cooperatives here went , on strike last week when the co- operatives refused to grant the men an 8 per cent wage increase %%hich they had demanded. The strike has not been approved by • the Ilistadrut, Israel's federation of labor. Despite the walk-out, bus service, both in this city an:l on inter-' urban lines, was running smooth- ly. the cooperatives reported. The vehicles were being run by officers and supervisory members of the cooperatives as well as by some pensioned drivers who had been called back to work. All bus schedules on the two lines were maintained. MI11 MIZRACHI TOURS TO ------- ISRAEL Special YOM ATZMAUT TOUR MAYIO—MAY 31, 1967 $875 All inclu.sive pr.c•.ncludet • Round trip night via jet • Strictly kosher meals in first class hotels • Indepenaence Day Celebration grandstand tickets • Guided tours throughout Israel Don't tape chances—Travel w,th the organizat.on that has sent over 15.000 satisfied tourists to Israeli Send for Brochure listing hundreds of group flights to Israel and Europe at $535. For reservations and Information contact: Detroit Mizrachi Office 18033 Wyoming DI 1-0708 Passover Zionist Thoughts, Echoes By WILLIAM R. BLUMENTHAL Zionism and Passover go togeth- er like matzo and Hagada, like springtime and redemption. On Passover, more than on any other holiday, we ask questions. Let us ask a question not in the Hagada even though the answer is there. Who was the first Zionist? Abra- ham? Moses? (take a leap of 3500 years) Pinsker? Herzl? You could even say that God was the first Zionist! For did He not call to Abram to "Get thee out of thy country . . . unto the land that I will show thee." And Ile showed him Moriah, Beersheba—Zion! are behaving magnificently under pressure and under fire:" and sec- ondly, that they are members of the same "mod" generation fre- quently characterized as irrespons- ible, immature and amoral. "It seems clear to me," he said, "that the situation makes the man — in this generation as in any other. When they are faced with a real rather than theoretical sit- uation they respond like the men they are." Describing morale as "excel- lent," Cant. Greenspan said "our soldiers believe they are in Vietnam for good reasons, and those who come to chaplains for guidance usually are depressed by loneliness and family prob- lems, not by political or moral objections to the war as such." The youthful chaplain joined the Army in 1962. not expecting to stay beyond his normal tour of duty. But because of the "gratifi- cations" of the chaplaincy, he has decided to make the military his career. His current assignment is at Ft. Dix, N.J. In Vietnam, he made over 300 flights totaling more than 100 hours as he traveled back and fourth to 14 widely separated posts to service Jewish troops "with as much frequency as possible." There are approximately 2,000 Jewish soldiers there. Moses is mentioned but once in the Hagada, and at that indirectly —Moses, the first great emanci- pator of slaves whom he wrought into a free people. saw the Prom- ised Land from afar but could not enter it. Dr. Judah Loeb Pinsker, nearly a generation before Herzl, in his "Auto-Emancipation," advocated a return to national consciousness and territorial independence for Jewish self-redemption, led the "Lovers of Zion" in the 1880s. Theodor Herzl, father of modern political Zionism, stated that the return of the Jewish people to Judaism was essential to the re- turn to Zion. The word Zionism was not coined until 1886 and only attained cur- rency by 1896 when Herzl wrote "The Jewish State." The obverse of the coin was Jewish cultural Israelis Sentenced peoplehood urged by Ahad Ha-am, in Zambian Sabotage the reverse of the coin was the es- TEL AVIV (.JTA) — Two Is- tablishment of the State of Israel. That is now a reality. The other raelis who were involved in the bizarre international plot to blow side of the Zionist ideal is the up a bridge in Zambia were given awakening of the Jewish people— jail sentences Sunday for failing Jewish peoplehood. Jewish unity to inform the authorities of their in its diversity is still a vision and an even greater task than rebuild- knowledge of the scheme. ing the land. Violet Elliot, the wife of an The oldest parts of our Hagada American. Jay Elliot, who master- minded the plot, was given a one- are biblical and talmudical, the year jail term; and her would-be newest, the Had Gadya, late me- brother-in-law, former Israeli Air dieval. Our Hagada covers nearly Force Major Ephraim Ronen, was 3,000 years of our people's anthol- sentenced to three months impri- ogy. Let us add a few anniversa- sonment. Both Mrs. Elliot and ries for this year: 70 years since Ronen were acquitted along with the first Zionist Congress called another Israeli, Raphael Tzorani, by Herzl; 50 years since the Bal- of actual participation in the plot. four Declaration, pledging Great Last week, another defendant, Britain's assistance in providing a Benjamin Edoth, who admitted the home for the Jewish people in charges, was sentenced to six Palestine; 20 years since the ad- months in jail after testifying for mission of the State of Israel into the prosecution. Edoth was identi- the United Nations. The Hagada is the epic of the fied as the demolition expert in- entire House of Israel. volved in the plot. Jay Elliot himself was arrested in New York as the key figure in Argentine Jews Present the international plot. Tora to Paraguayans The arrests of the Israelis followed the disclosure last No- vember that the Israeli Security Services had tipped off the United States and Zambia about the plot. The bridge is vital to the transport of Zambian cop- per, and its destruction would have seriously affected the world supply of the metal. BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The Argentine Federation of Jewish Communities presented a Tora scroll to the Jewish community of Asuncion, Paraguay, where a fire recently destroyed all the syna- gogue's Tora scrolls. In a solemn ceremony here, Hirsch Triwaks, secretary of the Argentine Jewish Federation, and Rabbi Shlome Benhamu of Buenos Aires, personally handed over the scroll to Dr. Isaac Segla, leader of the Asuncion Jewish commun- Edoth testified at his trial here that "our object was to blow up the bridge with the intention of mak- ing money — in which everybody was interested." Edoth also recounted his meet- ings with Elliott. Elliott, a traveling representative of the Freidrich Zoellner Corp., a New York metals firm associated with a West German company, and Rolf Duenbier, a Zoellner vice pre- sident, were arraigned in New York last year on charges of hav- ing conspired in the United States ity. The Argentine Jewish leaders described the presentation as a symbol of the federation's soli- darity with all other Jewish com- munities in Latin America. ROGER L. STEVENS, chairman of the rational Endowment for the Arts, will present Brandeis Uni- versity's 1967 creative arts awards to injure or destroy property in a at the 11th annual awards cere- mony in New York on Sunday. foreign country. LATL COURTEOUS YOUR SERVICE, ' PL 12.11 P1...., P cf.. EFFICI ENT DEAL WITH A REPUTABLE BROKER MEMBER DETROIT REAL ESTATE BOARD , The BRISTOL OLD VIC, coming plays: "Hamlet" on Wednesday to the Masonic Auditorium for two and "Romeo and Juliet" on Thurs- days, May 3 and 4, will present two of Shakespeare's most famous day. 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