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- Happy Hanuka to All brew name to another are desirous of changing the typically Oriental SOL and names to Ashkenazi appellations. Occasionally an outmoded name ti SELMA YAGODA is given a modern turn or tang. Your Budweiser Thus Penina is changed Pninit; Beer Distributor Sarah to Sarit, Vered to Vardit. A WE 3-8512 8800 Lyndon girl with the double name of Ruth and Hannah combined hers into Ruhana. Happy Hantika As for names given at birth, the marked tendency in modern Israel Zeman's is to choose a name of pleasing sound, while now and again par- New York Bakery ents give their children names con- nected with some topical event 12945 W. 7 Mile Rd. such as Sinai, Atzmatit, Golan and UN 2-7980 Eilat. Of course, the custom of =63 El calling children after some depart- ed ancestor is still common, de- spite the fact that names may Hanuka Best Wishes sound "outmoded" in the ears of the present generation. HELEN ZINBERG, Young parents faced with the R.E. problem of finding an attractive name for their offspring are now 8221 Curtis, cor. 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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.") 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