Community Nursing Home Planned for Indigent Elderly Jews in Montreal
MONTREAL (JTA)—The Allied did not need rehabilitative conva - 1 dial care typically provided in a
Jewish Community Services of lescent care and did need custo- I nursing home.
Montreal has acted to fill a gap
exactly, against all those forms of in services to the elderly by set- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 9, 1968-9
power relations and nationalist ting up a community - sponsored
sentiment which compel Israel to nursing home to provide care for
be an armed state and just another Jews who cannot spay for such
nation among nations."
services in a private nursing home.
Israeli nationalism was defended
The AJCS made an initial bud-
by Abraham Avihai of the prime
minister's staff. He said it was a getary allotment of $30,000 for the
cultural, spiritual and religious project which will involve convert-
force, not militaristic or extremist ing the former staff residence of
or one that glorified force and the Jewish Hospital of Hope to
violence but rather the spirit of accommodate 60 patients. No
man. "There is nothing wrong in such community-sponsored facili-
trying to defend oneself and to be ties now exist in Montreal. The
concerned with being part of some- need became evident when the
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ism," he aserted. "But there is the AJCS learned that several el-
stallation on any car.
something terribly mistaken about derly persons had to be subsidized
throwing out the baby with the in private nursing homes and that,
in several cases, patients who had
bath water."
completed hospitalization had to be
An American Orthodox scholar
released with no one to care for
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logue that while synagogues in them. The Jewish Convalescent
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there was a "profound struggle" who applied for admission last year
among American Jews to discover
a genuinely Jewish pattern of com-
munity life.
Prof. Marvin Fox of Ohio State
University also told the parley that
most American Jews and Israelis,
while embarrassed by religion,
carried within themselves a spir-
itual yearning they could neither
identify nor express.
He expressed the view that in
Israel too, the same Jews who
proclaimed irreligion as a prin-
cipal and program nevertheless
lived their lives with remarkable
moral sensitivity. He added that
the Jews of Israel had built a so-
ciety that glorified God by show-
ing what man could do.
Another. American panelist, Prof.
Percival Goodman of Columbia
University said that if Israel had
any mission, it must be in the
words of Micah—"to do justly, to
love mercy and to walk humbly
with thy God."
Rabbi Richard Rubenstein, Hillel
Foundation director at Pittsburgh
University, told the session that
"our motto should be 'Masada
shall not fall again.' " which he
explained meant that defending
Israel was essential because other-
wise there would be another Holo-
caust.

Urban. Unrest Threatens Jews,
Parley Told by Judah Shapiro

TEL AVIV (JTA)—An American
Jewish educator declared here that
the present urban unrest in the
United States posed a great dan-
ger for American Jewry, partic-
ularly with respect to Negro ex-
tremism, because such situations
often adversely affected Jews
more than they did other groups.
The warning was made by Dr.
Judah Shapiro, speaking at a meet-
ing of American Labor Zionist
leaders which was being held at
the same time as the annual "Dia-
logue in Israel" sponsored by the
American Jewish Congress. Dr.
Shapiro added that the American
Negro civil rights movement and
other Negro causes would "soon
forget the aid which Jews extended
to them in their hour of need" as
has happened "in similar cases
throughout Jewish history."
Mordechai Bar-On, head of the
youth and pioneer department of
the Jewish Agency, told the Amer-
ican Labor Zionists that he felt his
principal task was to bring young-
er Israeli Jews closer to the Jews
, in other countries. He also said
• that the number of Israelis prac- I
tieing religion was growing. He
cited as evidence the emotion
which swept Israel after troops
liberated the Wailing Wall in Old
Jerusalem in the Six-Day War.
A totally different view on re-
ligion in Israel was presented at
the AJ Congress dialogue by Prof.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz, a leading
Israeli thinker whose strictures on
Judaism in Israel so stunned the
dialogue participants, particularly
the Americans, that they asked
for a few hours of recess to ponder
and evaluate Prof. Liebowitz' com-
ments. He flatly rejected the wide-
spread description of Israel's 1967
victory as due to a miracle. He
said "there was no miracle." He
said the June victory resulted from
Israel's ability to create a modern
fighting force, which the Arabs
could not do.
Prof. Leibowitz also disputed
the contention that the victory
evoked a "religious eruption"
among the Jews of Israel and
those overseas. He said that what
actually developed was a "patri-
otic emotion" which took on the
image of religiolf:' .
He noted theat Gen. Moshe Day-
. an, the Israeli defense minister,
had hurried to the Wailing Wall
and inserted a request for lasting
peace between stones in the Wall,
but, he added', there was no re
ligious significance to Gen. Day-
an's act. He declared that Gen.
Dayan's children never saw a
synagogue from the inside.
He called worshiping at the
Wailing Wall "nothing but idolatry"
and declared that religion in Israel
was a diverse factor in that it
barred an observant Jew from din-
ing with a non-observant Jew be-
, cause of the problems of the
dietary laws.
A sharp attack on nationalism
in Israel was made by George
Steiner, author and critic, who held
the Albert. Schweitzer chair of
humanities at the City UhiVersity
of New York last year and is cur-
rently critic in residence at
: Churchill College, Cambridge Uni-
versity. "If one believes deeply
that the nation-state is •: an, obsoles-,
cent model for economic, politicAl
and moral association," he said,
"then the state of Israel looks like
a solution which, in part at least,
is irrelevant or even inimical. to
• the obligation of Judaic human-
-. ism.",
The. writer said he believed
in supporting Israel financially
and asserted that "my self-res-
pect, my sense of spiritual iden ,
tity could not endure if the state
of Israel were to be destroyed.
But at the same time," he added,
"someone like myself must work
toward the evolution of political I
concepts and habits• of personal
and social feelings which will
subvert tribalism and the na-
tionalist mystique — the night-
mare of our age."
He affirmed that "a man like
myself must simultaneously labor
..for Israel and against it—or more

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(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV
Israel's determin-
ation to protect its border settle-
ments and to destroy terrorists
And their bases wherever they are
found was voiced here Tuesday by
Prithe Minister Levi Eshkol and
two members of his cabinet.
One of them, Defense Minister
Gen. Moshe Dayan, declared dur-
ing a visit to Kibutz Ein Yahav in
the Negev, that the security of the
border settlements now heads the
list of Israel Army's priorities.
Ein Yahav was attacked Tues-
day by a gang of marauders who
were pursued into Jordan with
five killed and two wounded and
captured by Israeli forces. Gen.
Dayan pledged that the army will
continue to protect life and prop-
erty and to strike against sabo-
teurs.
Prime Minister Eshkol, ad-
'dressing a reunion meeting of
paratroopers here, warned that
Israel will not tolerate a situa-
tion that allows El Fatah and
other sabotage gangs to attack
at will and then enjoy immunity
behind the Jordanian border. He
said the marauders who attacked
Ein Yahav were probably try-
ing to demonstrate that Sunday's
air strike against El Fatah bases
near the Jordanian village of
Salt had not been affective.
Minister of Information Israel
Galili said in Jerusalem Tuesday
that Israel would continue to act
systematically against terrorist
bases.
Otherwise, he said, the terrorist
organizations would be free to
menace civilian life and could es-
calate their forays into another
war. Galili spoke at a meeting of
Laborite members of the Knesset.

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