THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 22,1967-47
Notables at Boy's Town Function
Vice President Hubert II. Humphrey (right) and Sam Roth-
berg, leading American Jewish philanthropist at the Boy's Town
Jerusalem Chai Founders dinner held recently at the Hotel Pierre
in New York. Boy's Town combines a technical teacher's college
with Israel's largest academic and technical high school. The school
offers 800 Israeli students training in electronics, precision
mechanics, printing, lithography and carpentry. Plans are now being
completed for a school of computer technology. Boy's Town Jeru-
salem was founded in 1948 immediately after establishment of the
of the State of Israel.
A Rose by Any Other Name?
In Israel, She's Called Yered
By VIVIAN JACOBSON
the name changes. There are in-
Talmudic legend has it that the stances where names, though He-
children of Israel merited redemp- brew originally, had assumed a
lion from Egypt because they had non-Hebrew turn or inflection, and
not changed their names; Reuben the changes are out to effect a re-
had not changed his name to Rufus turn to the Hebrew origin. Thus
nor Simeon to Seymour. The thou- Rafaeloff becomes Rafael; Shmue-
sands of years of Jewish exile, lovitch becomes Shmuel and Cha-
however, have had their effect, and hamov becomes Haham.
non-Jewish names among the new
In choosing a Hebrew name
settlers in Israel are abounding.
some people prefer one of similar
Until about 10 years ago any
sound to their for me r non-
person in Israel was able officially
Hebrew appellation. Thus Gena-
to change his name for the pay-
tovsky becomes Gan-Tov; Ajami
ment of a nominal sum. The law
becomes Agmi. Such changes are
has since limited the changing of often effected by adding or de-
names to once in seven years.
tracting one or more letters to
Thumbing through several back
or from the former name. Gizella
numbers of the Official Gazette,
becomes Gila, Blumenthal be-
where such name changes are pub-
comes Tal and Rogelsky becomes
lished, enables one to find an an-
Rogel. Translations of names are
swer by comparing the previous
also frequent. Stein becomes
and the newly-assumed names.
Even, Rose becomes Vered, Ei-
The marked tendency in the first
del becomes Adina. Many, how-
place is to assume Hebrew or He-
ever, choose not to be bound in
brew-sounding names. This ac-
any way to their former names
counts for the greater majority of
and prefer one or two-syllable
names of musical sound.
Most who change from one He-
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of changing the typically Oriental
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I. F. Stone Expresses His Torment
in New Volume on Major Problems
Tormented by the developing
world events, deeply concerned
over the trends in the social revolu-
tion, I. F. Stone has been writing
critically and challenging and his
views reflect the views of the
libertarians a s
well as the re-
bels. He is not a
conformist,
a s
t h e
selections
from his writ-
ings, in his new
book, "In a Time
of Torment,"
published b y
Random House,
indicates effec-
tively.
Stone
Stone, whose editorial work with
the N.Y. Post, the Nation and other
periodicals, and now with his I. F
Stone's Weekly, are well known,
has included in his collected brief
essays his expressed views on
Vietnam, the race issue, the Mid-
dle East. the Right and the Left,
the Kennedys, and many other
issues.
He is strongly opposed to the
U. S. actions in Vietnam and
is most critical of President
Johnson, but he is equally as
critical of Bobby Kennedy. He
strikes hard at conditions he
found in Israel and he urges
"magnanimity in victory." He
goes along with the leadership
in efforts to assure an end to
racial discrimination.
He even condones some of the
SNCC action, having written:
"There is hardly a city where the
Negroes do not already dominate
the strategic areas through which
the affluent commuter passes on
his way to the inner core. SNCC's
hostility to the war is not disloy-
alty but wisdom. We cannot re-
build that sense of community so
essential to our beloved country's
future by engaging in a white
man's war in Asia while a black
man's revolt rises at home."
And a more recent of his com-
ments is: "Only peace in Vietnam
can reunite the ranks left-of-center
and leave our energies free to close
the racial gulf at home. Only
peace can end the fearful aliena-
tion of so many of our best in-
tellectuals, black and white, men
who could do so much in the ur-
gent tasks of social reconstruction
if once recalled from the wilder-
ness of their own self-exile in re-
vulsion against Johnson's bar-
barous war."
One is compelled to ask why
Stone did not take into account,
in view of his comments on SNCC,
its most recent outburst of anti-
Semitism; and how Johnson alone
can be selected as goat for the
Vietnamese situation when three
previous administrations had con-
tributed to the crisis that had de-
veloped.
Stone had written under the
heading "While Others Dodge
the Draft, Bobby Dodges the
War," declaring: "We do not
mean to imply that Kennedy is
insincere. We only note that the
liberal views he has adopted
also serve his political purposes.
Nor do we mean to say that he
is not troubled by the war. We
believe he is. But he is not trou-
bled enough to risk a confronta-
tion with Johnson . . . Johnson
was for peace, too, before he
won election. What guarantees
that Kennedy would prove any
better, under the enormous pres-
sure of the military bureaucracy,
if his convictions are already so
feeble, his mind so divided?"
Stone hammers away at John-
son and at one point he declares:
"The biggest missing ingredient in
Johnson is magnanimity." _
He is critical of the press, poses
questions like this one: "When the
government lies, must the press
fib?"
He reviews the incident related
to the staging of Hochhuth's "The
Deputy" in a chapter devoted to
Germans, Jews and Arabs. His
views on Israel, during a visit
there before the June war, are in-
teresting and his criticisms valid.
He warned against the elements
in the prosperity in the years
prior to 1965. But his plea for mag-
nanimity falls short of realism and
is not complete. He had not studied
the Golan and Sinai maps or he
would have indicated that anything
like extreme magnanimity would
mean suicide for Israel if strategic
posts which now prevents repeti-
tive attacks from Syria and Egypt
were abandoned.
Out of Stone's torment emerges
a strong volume. It's bitter in
spots but it is thought-provoking.
(Stone's New Left position on
the Middle East conflict was
taken to task in the November
Commentary magazine by Mar-
tin Peretz, a member of the
Harvard social studies staff and
of the board of directors of Ram-
parts magazine.
("One would think, "writes
Peretz, "that a writer's compul-
sion would be to tell the truth".
"But as Marie Syrkin conclusively
demonstrates in the current Mid-
stream, Mr. Stone has, at least
in dealing with the origins of the
refugee problem, already shown
that he is hardly a reliable
guide ..
(" Mr. Stone is widely thought
of as an independent journalist, and
his coverage of the Vietnam war
... has given the peace movement
much of its bearings. Apparently,
however, there is wide distress at
Mr. Stone's inability to weigh the
divergent claims of Arab and Is-
raeli fairly .. .
("A more 'honor bound' I. F.
Stone would not have been in-
clined to lay the entire blame for
the refugee problem on Israel.
At the very least, the cruelty of
the Arab governments should have
n
cost them his sympathies as a
radical.
("Interestingly enough, Mr. Stone
has the temerity to insist that on
these issues he writes, not as a
radical, but as a Jew and he car-
ries this presumption very far.")
("Quite apart from sharing the
peculiar American fixation • with
who fires the first shot, Stone
here entirely ignores what even
U Thant has conceded—that
Egypt set off the events which
led to the present conflagration.
Should Israel not have fought for
its rights? .. .
("By the time the American
Left met as a corporate body in
Chicago over Labor Day, the
orthodoxy was securely entrenched
. Those who in other ages might
have quoted Scripture now had
recourse to I. F. Stone.")
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