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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This-Sabbath, the 23rd day of Ay, 5728, the following scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Deut. 7:12-11:25. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 49:14-51:3.
Candle lighting, Friday, Aug. 16, 8:13 p.m.
VOL. MI No. 22
Page Four
August 16, 1962
A Poll With a Moral: Self-Defense for Israel
American public opinion on issues affect-
ing the Middle East is of vital interest, and
the following facts, revealed in a Gallup Poll
conducted among 1,537 people are revealing:
"If a full-scale war
were to start there in the
next year or two, what
should the U.S. do?"
Stay out 61%
Support Israel (gen-
eral, not necessar-
ily military ac-
tion) 10
Act as peace makers 8
Work through the
3
UN
4
Miscellaneous
16
No opinion
(The table acids up to
more than 100 per cent
because of multiple re-
sponses.)
"If a full - scale war
were to start there, do
you think the U.S. should
or should not supply
arms and material to Is.
rael (to the Arabs)?"
To Israel
24%
Should
Should not
59
17
No opinion
To the Arabs
Should
3%
Should not
79
No opinion
18
"If a full - scale war
were to start there, do
you think the U.S.
should or should not
send troops to help Is-
rael (the Arabs)?"
To Israel
Should
9%
'77
Should not
No opinion
14
To the Arabs
Should
2%
Should not
83
No opinion
15
"Do you think another
full-scale war between
the Israelis and the
Arabs is likely to occur
during the next five
years, or not?"
62%
Is likely
13
Is not
25
No opinion
It is possible that six out of 10 Israelis,
faced with the latter question, also might
express the view that another full-scale war
will be inevitable within five years..
The surprising figure appears with regard
to sending American troops to help Israel
in the event of a war. That 9 per cent should
have approved of such help is surprising.
Prior to the Six-Day War, while Israelis
hoped for American aid to prevent Israel's
destruction, which for the Arab extremists
meant their extermination, ' the preference
was for Israelis themselves to defend their
nation. They did not want the American
position jeopardized by the sending of man-
power into the area. What they asked for
was military equipment, not military men.
It is possible that this sentiment still pre-
vails in Israel.
It has been reported that President John-
son was ready to alert the Sixth Fleet in the
Mediterranean in Israel's defense during the
Six-Day War. Even the suggestion of such a
deep interest in Israel's survival is hearten-
ing. There still is serious doubt whether the
resentment over additional foreign involve-
ments among the overwhelming majority of
Americans would not prove effective in pre-
venting acceptance of a new role for this
country in defense of a threatened democracy.
But there is also to be considered the grave
danger of lateness—before the Sixth Fleet
could possibly act, Israel, if it were not
prepared for self-defense, could have been
destroyed by Arab jet planes.
That is why the major obligation is to
assure for Israel the proper weapons for
self-defense. Then there will be no need to
send foreign troops into the area; and then,
because Israel can remain strong against
the overwhelming number of enemies who
surround the country, there can be hope
for peace and for elimination of warfare.
Fulfillment of the American pledge to sell
to Israel 50 Phantom planes this year is a
better way to aid the embattled nation than
the numerous gestures in the Mediterranean
waters where the U. S. now is in competitive
conflict with the USSR. That's how those
who still threaten Israel's destruction can
learn that a friendship between Israel and
the United States can not be destroyed and
that such an understanding is motivated by
a desire for peace.
Era for Principles More Than tanderdates'
One thing proved certain at the Republi-
can convention: that the definition of a poli-
tician offered by James R. Lowell in "Bigelow
Papers" was correct when he wrote:
I ain't a Whig, I ain't a Tory,
I'm jest a canderdate, in short.
It seemed to matter more than anything
else: Who'll be the Vice Presidential candi-
date (and lots of opportunists had only that
in view in stating their preferences for the
higher post).
Indeed, the Vice Presidency is no longer
what it was in the days of the one-time Vice
President Thomas R. Marshall who, in his
"Recollections," wrote: "Once there were two
brothers. One ran away to sea, the other was
elected Vice President, and nothing was ever
heard of either of them again." Marshall, who
became even more famous for his remark
that "what this country needs is a good five-
cent cigar," (perhaps this is still one of our
basic needs), would have had a rude awaken-
ing if he were, today, among us to realize
how important the Vice Presidency is and can
and should be.
But while the second important office in
America was so vital in the selection of candi-
dates at the Republican National Convention,
the emphasis still is on the country's needs,
and neither the keynote speeches, nor the ap-
peals in behalf of the candidates, seemed to
indicate that American politicians have risen
too high above personalities to get at the root
of the nation's problems.
In one of his novels, in which he expressed
his political views, in "Sybil," Benjamin Dis-
raeli (Beaconsfield) wrote: "Principle is ever
my motto, not expediency." There is, thus
far, too much urge for expediency among
politicians. If this can be averted — and it is
not too late for the great political parties to
learn the need for principle as an aim as well
as a motto — this nation can benefit from
dedication to American ideals by office seek-
ers who are not mere "canderdates."
There is much of value in the Republi-
can Platform: there is much yet to be cor-
rected. A statement of principles need not be
aimed at vote getting: it must strive for the
elevation of the standards of our country and
for curina the ills that have created so much
b we have been branded "a sick so-
havoc that
ciety." There was caution in dealing with the
Vietnamese problem and the Middle East dan-
gers, and it is doubtful whether any practical
guidance really has emerged in both areas.
In these as in other factors it is imperative
there should be national unity as well as dip-
lomatic honesty. All citizens pray and strive
for peace as well as for amity on the domestic
scene and security for our people.
Soon, Americans will be faced with the
duty of choosing between the men who will
best be able to direct our affairs of state. In
the two months that will follow the national
political conventions, the American voters will
have a sacred duty of becoming fully ac-
quainted with the issues and of judging the
candidates properly, not in the interest of a
party to be placed in control of the nation's
affairs, but the ablest to supervise the needs.
September and October will be months for
study by the voters, and of their proper edu-
cation by non-partisan and unprejudiced
guides who know and understand this nation's
needs. May the period between conventions
and the election prove the validity of Ameri-
can principles that aim for justice and secur-
ity for the nation and its citizens.
012%,
Eminent Scholar's Writings
in 'Hayim Greenberg Anthology
Hayim Greenberg will be recalled as one of the giants in American
Jewry, as the distinguished essayist, lecturer, labor Zionist leader.
His writings were the guides for the intellectual forces in Zionism
and in world Jewry.
Wayne State University Press has just
issued the "Hayim Greenberg Anthology,"
the collected writings of the eminent
scholar. With an introduction by Dr. Marie
Syrkin in which his philosophical works
and his views are defined, this anthology
contains the major sketches he had penned,
his articles on Zionism, religion, ethics,
socialism and communism.
- Significant among the writings are
Greenberg's famous essays on American
Jewry and its future, his portraits of Lenin
and other world figures, his letter to
Gandhi that attracted widest attention in
his appeal for just consideration of the
Zionist ideology.
"A Day With Bialik" is another of
Hayim Greenberg
the delightful essays reproduced here.
great
tribute
to
Greenberg.
She states:
Dr. Syrkin paid
"Greenberg was a paradoxical, ambivalent figure: a great orator
who disliked the role of public tribune; a great story-teller who
wrote few tales; a meditative scholar who was a political leader; a
religious pacifist whom Hitler transformed into a defender of
war
Publication of the Greenberg anthology was made possible by the
WSU Press' Morris and Emma Schaver Publication Fund for Jewish
Studies.
This work has been issued as a paperback. Another new WS1j
Press paperback just issued is "A Teaching Program in Psychiatry—
Schizophrenia, Paranoid Conditions, Depression," by Dr. Peter G. S.
Beckett of the Lafayette Clinic and Thomas H. Bleakley.. Vast back-
ground material with a number of case histories supplements the text.
'Bridging Two Worlds' Pays
Tribute to Rabbinic Family
"Bridging Two Worlds," published by Jonathan David (131 E. 23rd,
NY10), is the tribute by a son to a great father, containing the life story
of Rabbi Ezekiel Landau (1888-1965) by his son, Rabbi Sol Landau of
Miami, While that subject in itself provides a mass of interesting ma-
terial, there is the added factual information about the Landau family,
its rabbinic antecedents, its creative efforts in behalf of Jewry.
This compilation of facts is supplemented by the selection from
Rabbi Ezekiel Landau's sermons. And the volume has the added merit
of an impressive foreword by the widow of Rabbi Ezekiel Landau and
the mother of Rabbi Sol Laudau. Mrs. Landau's foreword is supple-
mented by the same text in Hebrew as an Hakdama in which the sche*
arly lady tells of a heart "filled with agony" but also of a Memory
a most precious soul."
An interesting family history is recorded in this book, dating
back to Rabbi Ezekiel Landau of Prague (170-93). And the story
of the grandson of that scholar relates the author's father's
experiences in Berlin, his trials and sufferings in the Hitler era, his
escape and settlement in New York where he founded and was for
25 years president of Jewish Friends Society.
Many victims of Nazism were aided by Rabbi Landau and fills
society, and this book is, in large measure, a tribute to such devotion
as well as to an entire rabbinic family.
The role of the Jewish Friends Society and those who aided in Its
founding is reviewed here, and the portion of the book containing es.
cerpts from Dr. Landau's sermons have added importance for the
readers. Festivals, world affairs, ethical values are elaborated upon in
these selections.
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