Purely Commentary (Continued from Page 2) and heritage possess much glory in the legacy they have acquired. The Late Upton Sinclair and Israel It is not to late, more than a month after his death, to recall that Upton Sinclair also was among the libertarians and the friends of the Zionist movement. It is not generally known that Sinclair had written extensively on Jewish subjects, and while he had not visited Palestine at the time he had written about Zionism, he was sympathetic to the political, social and economic aspirations of Jews searching for a homeland and for- an end to their homelessness. An interesting episode in the life of Upton Sinclair is worth re- calling. Sinclair wrote a book, "Our Lady," published by Rodale Press in 1938, in the 162 pages of which he described Virgin Mary at a Notre Dame football game. This commentator reviewed it in his column Aug. 19, 1938, and his re- view's concluding paragraph stated: "It is a great novel. It may be condemned by the Catholic Church —in spite of Upton Sinclair's con- cluding statement: `To me it is a lovely story, and deeply reverent. I hope that it may seem so to oth- ers.' But it will undoubtedly be read by tens of thousands who will enjoy it for its splendid writing as well as for the author's gift of im- agery and his ingenious way of fus- ing the past with the present." Sure enough, on Aug. 30, a little more than a week, after our review was published, a leading Catholic layman wrote us scathingly con- demning "an insult to Catholics." Other Catholics wrote to other papers assailing Upton Sinclair. He defended himself, denying that he was disrespectful to the Catholic faith. We felt that he was mis- judged. In our time of ecumenism, and in an era when Catholic priests are often heard punning about themselves, their people, their cus- toms, it is doubtful whether sim- ilar protests would have been heard. Israel Health Minister Denounces Orthodox Charge in Transplant Case JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's minister of health, Israel Barzilai, clashed with ultra-Orthodox mem- bers of the Knesset over the ques- tion of heart transplant opera- tions. Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz, of the Agudat Israel, charged that the as-yet-unidentified donor in Israel's first heart transplant case was not dead when his heart was removed. Barzilai called the charge an "un- founded libel." The case came up in the Knesset as a result of three agenda mo- tions presented after the death on Dec. 19 of 41-year-old Yitzhak Sul- lam, Israel's first heart transplant patient. Sullam, who was operated on at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva Dec. 5, died of kidney mal- function. His new heart was said to have functioned normally. Barzilai said that doctors per- forming heart transplants were faced with two grave questions: What determines death and who is to be responsible for applying these criteria. He told the Knesset that the doctors who had tried in vain to save the life of the patient whose heart was given to Sullam acted independently of the surgical team, headed by Dr. Maurice Levi, which performed the transplant. He said that Israeli doctors shared the modern medical view that death has occurred when the brain ceases to function. He added that this was a consider- able advance over the halakhic (Jewish religious law) thesis that only cessation of breathing means death. Rabbi Lorincz denounced that view and insisted that both Sullam *t* The Late Morris Weinberg The death of a prominent Jew needs mention. Morris Weinberg, who passed on at the age of 92, was in active Yiddish journalistic enter- prises for more than 50 years. In recent years he kept his newspaper, which was organized as the Tog, which in recent years absorbed the Morning Journal, which in turn had swallowed up the old Tageblatt. There were rumors that the For- ward was negotiating with the Tog- Morning Journal about a merger. Will Morris Weinberg's passing speed the end of the Tog, making the Forward the only surviving Yiddish daily newspaper in Amer- ica? Of interest regarding the merger of Tog and Morning Journal is that because there was the urgent de- mand for the retention of the Sab- bath observance principle for the latter, the joint name appears all the days of the week, except on the Sabbath, (and on Jewish festivals) when the latter is called merely the Tog. 'Land of Book' Wants Books on the Land; Exhibits Organized Israel, the Land of the Book, has decided to collect books written about the land. A special exhibi- tion of "Books on Old Testament Studies and the Archaeolgoy of the Holy Land" will be held in Jeru- salem, from March 19 to 27, dur- ing the fourth Jerusalem Inter- national Book Fair. From the United States, Eng- land, Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland 124 recent titles have been received already four months before the exhibition. and the person whose heart he re- ceived might now be alive if transplant surgery had not been performed. He alleged that doc- tors were keeping the donor's iden- tity secret "so that they can forge the records more easily." Rabbi Ka/man Kahane of the Poalei Agudat Israel claimed that public opinion in Israel was op- posed to transplants, and there- fore the doctors in the Sullam case performed the operation surrepti- tiously. He said Israel was the only country in the world where doctors could extract a heart with- out asking permission. Shlomo Rossen, of Mapam, de- clared that heart transplant sur- gery has come to stay and that Israel's medical profession is qual- ified to stand the test as far as human skills and technical facili- ties are concerned. Magnetic Spectograph to Aid Nuclear Studies at Hebrew University Friday, January 3, 1969-5 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS British Nazi's Appearance on CBC Draws Protests TORONTO (JTA)—Toronto rab- bis have protested strongly against appearance of the former British Nazi leader Sir Oswald Mosley on a Canadian Broadcast- ing Corp. television panel show. CBC is a government-owned enter- prise. Rabbi Gunther Plaut, of Holy Blossom Temple, said "The wilful exhumation of a long forgotten hate monger would be bad at any time. But it came as a special shock at this season when so many people strive earnestly to make good will toward men a greater reality in ther lives." He said he would urge mem- bers of his congregation to write Secretary of State Gerard Pol- letier and CBC president George Davidson objecting to the Mos- ley appearance. 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