Hawks and Doves of the Bible

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1967, JTA, Inc.)

Whatever one may t hi n k of
doves and hawks today — in the
Bible, the doves seem to come of
better.
It has been said that the first
mention of money in the Bible is
in connection with doves. It was
the dove which Noah sent out from
the Ark which brought the first
"green" back to the Ark. But the
dove brought more than money. It
brought hope to a destroyed world.

The times of Noah

our
a
righteous man in his generation,
says the Bible. The rabbis noted
the qualifying phrase "in his gen.
eration." In another day. perhap.:
he might not have been thought

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own predicaments. Noa h

Was

so highly. He was not a saint. It'e
know that he got drunk once and
even swore; but, all in all, he teas
a good man, but the world around
him was otherwise.
Because of the violence of the
world, says the Bible, God repent-
ed of his creation. All save Noah
and his family and one each of
the creatures were to be destroyed,'
so that a new world might be
created. The windows of Heaven,
says the Bible, were opened and
it rained unceasingly. The moun-
tains were covered with water.
Total destruction today of course
can be achieved much quicker. In'
the space of a few minutes, we are
told, one hundred million people
can be killed. In the case of Noah,
even after 150 days, he was not
sure whether the water had abated.
It was a long cruise, perhaps
a bit boring. I remember in my
childhood, we used to hear a co-
nundrum: "Why couldn't Noah
play cards on the Ark?" The an-
swer was: "Because Mrs. Noah was
sitting on the deck." However, if
there were disadvantages to the
cruise, at least the air was not
contaminated, as would be the case
from the radiation of an atomic
bomb.
To learn whether the flood had
ended, Noah first sent out a raven,
but it evidently found a lot of
carcases from the flood, and feast-
ing on them. did not return to the
ark. Then Noah sent out the peace-
able dove and it returned bearing
an olive leaf, which told Noah in
a language superior to words that
the waters had receded, that the
new world, the new hope, was here.
That is the story of one dove in
the Bible.
Again in the Bible there is the
story of Jonah. The Hebrew Word.
Jonah, means dove. Jonah was told
to go and prophesy the destruction
of sinful Ninevah; but, being a
dove, lie tried to elude the mission
and took a cruise to another land;
in the course of that journey, he

was cast in the deep and a whale
swallon'ed him. Aren't all doves
likely to be east into the deep and
aren't the whales always trying
to swallow them?

However, the story of Jonah
winds up with a dove-like conclu-
sion. The city of Ninevah, which
originally was to have been bom-
barded with fire. was spared. God
planted a gourd around Jonah to
explain the reason. If it is desir-
able to save a gourd from destruc-
tion, how much more important is
it to save Nitievah with all of its
people and cattle from destruction?
Doves are mentioned in many
other connections in the Bible. The
Psalmist cries out. "0 that I had

wings like a dove!"
Solomon. in the Song of Songs,
sings: "Behold thou art fair, my
love; Thine eyes arc as doves."
There are few mentions of
hawks, and never are they men-
tioned for emulation.

The spirit of the Bible is ever
on the side of the peace that the
dove symbolizes. According to the
rabbis, King David was not per,
mitted to build the Temple of God
because he had been a man of war.
That high privilege and distinc-
tion was reserved for Solomon,
who during his reign had shed no
blood. The name Solomon in He-
brew — Shlomo — means peace.
His • relations with foreigners
were always peaceable and cul-

Israeli Woman Finds
Unexpected Resistance
in Young Rats Studied

tural. The Queen of Sheba came
to visit him, as she might in the
present day have gone to Harvard
or Oxford, for instruction.
In the book of Proverbs, Solo-
mon indicated who he thought were
the really great conquerors, the
great generals. Maybe some day a
new kind of Pentagon will have it
inscribed on its doorpost. Solomon
wrote: "He that taketh his spirit is
greater than he that taketh a city. '

German Neo-Nazis Attack Reparations to Jews

JERUSALEM — As part of a
study on helminths (parasitic
worms), scientists of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem have
found that in nature young rats
show a much lower rate of infec-
tion by a certain parasite than
adults — an observation which is
contrary to experimental results
and which may lead to an investi-
gation of parasitic infections in
sheep and cattle. Heading the re-
search project is Dr. Guta Gold-
blat-Wertheim, senior lecturer in
parasitology.
Together with colleagues in the
department of parasitology Dr.
David Silver, chairman of the Goldblat-Wertheim has also been
Jewish National Fund commit- working for the past 10 years on a
tee of the Zionist Organization survey of parasites of wild mam-
of Detroit, an-
mals and birds in Israel, supported
nounces that a
by a grant from the U.S. National
large attendance
Institute of Health. Dr. Goldblat-
has been assured
Wertheim is now writing a Scien-
by advance res-
tific paper to be published next
ervations for
year by the Israel Academy of
the ZOD's JNF
Sciences and Humanities.
brunch to be held
She has examined parasites in
rats from urban areas of Tel
11 a.m. Sunday at
the Zionist Cul- .
Aviv and Haifa (rats are rare in
tural Center in
Jerusalem as they cannot build
Southfield.
their underground burrows in
this rock city) and has estab-
Herman Weis-
lished that the incidence of in-
m a n , national '
fection from a certain parasite
J N F president
may be as much as nine times
and chairman of
higher in older rats than in their
the national exe-
offspring.
cutive committee
Dr. Goldblat-Wertheim believes
of the Zionist/
that one reason for the insuscepti-
Organization of
Silver
bility of the young rats to the para-
America, will be
site is that the resistance acquired
guest speaker at the brunch.
Silver stated that there will be by the mother rat is transferred
no solicitations at the brunch to the offspring either through the
which is being sponsored as part placenta during p r e g n a n c y or
through the nursing mother's milk.
of the JNF educational program.

,JNF Head Speaks
to ZOD Sunday
at Special Brunch

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

BONN (JTA) — Distribution of carrying the article was removed
2,000,000 copies of a publication from all copies before distribution.
of the neo-Nazi National Demo-
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until removal by the party, under
Pressure, of an article containing
a virulent attack on West German
indemnity payments to Jews and
other victims of the Nazi regime.
The article was refuted by the
interior ministry.
The article appeared in a spe-
cial issue of the Deutsche Nach-
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richten which was prepared as a
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parations amounting to 115 marks
(S28) per capita in comparison
with a national per capita average
of 26 marks ($6.50).
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The Association of Hebrew shortcomings that need to be cor-
Produced under strict Rabbinical supervision. Certificate on request
Teachers of Metropolitan Detroit rected, the program of action to be
announces the formation of a Coun- initiated."
cil of Presidents, consisting of
Mandell Berman, Harry Cohen,
Abe Kasle, Robert Marwil, David
Safran and Maurice Zackheim —
all past presidents of the United
Hebrew Schools—to cooperate in
sponsoring the association's dinner
to be held at Cong. Bnai Moshe on
May 8.
Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig,
general dinner chairman, said the
association hopes the Council of
Presidents will develop into a per-
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Beth Shalom Men's Club will
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opening meeting
Hof the men's club
8 p.m. Tuesday in
t h e synagogue.
Men's Club Pres-
Jident Charles
Isackson and his
committee invite
all men who are
interested. Cock-
tails and refresh-
Gordon ments w'i 11 be
served at no charge.
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BNAI MOSHE MEN'S CLUB will
elect officers and board members
at a membership meeting 8 p.m.
Tuesday at the synagogue. A pro-
gress report will be tendered by
Erwin Kepes, president.

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of the Livonia Mall, will discuss
the educational programs of the
International Council of Shopping
Centers, of which he is Michigan
state director, at the next meet-
ing of the Commercial State Ex-
changors 9 a.m. Tuesday, for
breakfast at Harlan House. Goldie
Levinstein, coordinator, will pre-
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