Quotations
on Vietnam:
Vital Book
To understand the Vietnamese
situation, it is vital that the de-
clarations of Presidents, generals
and military involved and states-
men should be known.
They are on the record, and Wil-
liam G. Effros has compiled then
in a volume that has been publish.
ed by Random House as a paper-
back.
Effros, a native New Yorker
who now lives in Philadelphia, an
Antioch College graduate, heads
the TIT INC. managament consult-
ing firm, has been in the printing
business and has devised a com-
puter program for mating dogs
while doing work as a free-lance
writer.
In "Quotations Vietnam: 1945-
1970." Effros has gathered the
most important statements relat-
ing to the crucial subject.
He explains in a brief note that
his book's quotes "represent sam-
ples of all published viewpoints en
the Vietnam conflict."
All aspects of the question are
covered: How Did We Get Into It?,
Why Are We There?, Who's Win-
ning?, The Tonkin Incident, The
Geneva Agreement, Ho Chi Mirth,
Plans to End the War, The Silent
Majority and other related sub-
titles.
A genuine service towards under-
standing the issue is rendered in
Effros' book.
Israel Teachers'
Higher Standard
By HAIM SHACHTER
JERUSALEM — In the school
year 1969-70 which has just drawn
to a close. there were 33,815 teach-
ers in Israel: 22,019 in the elemen-
tary school grades, 716 in the inter-
mediate grades. 10,221 in post
primary schools and 857 in teacher
training colleges. These figures are
derived from a Survey of Teaching
Manpower. undertaken by the Cen-
tral Office of Statistics at the re-
quest of the Israel ministry of
education and culture.
A comparison with similar sur-
veys undertaken in former years
(in 1967 for primary schools and
in 1966 for post primary institu-
tions) shows a decided improve-
ment in the educational standards
and pedagogical training of teach-,
ers in the Jewish school network.
During 1967-70 the number of
teachers in the primary school net-
work increased by an average of
less than 1 per cent annum, but the
number of fully certified teachers
(including university graduates)
rose by an average of 7 per cent
annum, from 70 per cent in 1967
to 84 per cent in 1970. The drop in
the number of uncertified teachers
was particularly noticeable in the
primary schools, although less
markedly in schools for problem
children and in schools for work-
ing youth. There were still 3,006
uncertified teachers at work in the
1969-70 school year.
The rise in the percentage of
certified teachers was particularly
marked in schools in the religious
sector as well as in the Agude
trend schools. Whereas in the gen-
eral sector the percentage of fully
certified teachers rose from 80 per
cent in 1967 to 87 per cent in 1970.
in the Aguda trend it rose from 53
per cent in 1967 to 67 in 1970, while
in the religious sector it rose from
63 per cent in 1967 to 83 per cen'
in 1970.
In the 1969-70 school year, 5.5 pet
cent of the teachers in primar'
schools had academic degrees.
while another 9 per cent were at
tending university courses leading
to a degree.
Nearly 6,000 volunteers are in-
volved in the decision-making
process of the United Foundation.
This is the number serving on the
boards of the OF and its nearly
200 Torch Drive services.
Lindsay Remains Mum on Plan to Help
Rebuild Bombed Jewish Council
NEW YORK (JTA) — Despite
Mayor Lindsay's public utterances
that the city would help the Crown
Heights Jewish Community Coun-
cil in Brooklyn rebuild its head-
quarters, burned out when it was
fire bombed July 20, Council lead-
ers said they had no idea of what
the mayor had in mind and neither
did anyone else in city hall.
In his latest statement made at
the opening of the Crown Heights
Urban Task Force office, Mayor
Lindsay- called for the rebuilding
of the Crown Heights area saying.
"It is not going to be done by city
officials, but by the people of the
neighborhood."
And he added, "When the com-
munity center was fire-bombed I
know how I felt, and we are not
going to rest until the community
center is rebuilt."
Abraham Gelb, acting director
of Operation Belfreye, an anti-
poverty agency sponsored by the
community council. told the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency that he had
called the mayor's office "trying
to find out what the mayor meant
by help in rebuilding."
He said he had spoken to Don
Evans and all he was told was
"We are working on it.'
Evans is an executive assistant
to Sidney Davidoff, who is an aide
to Mavqr Lindsay and head of the
Crown Heights Urban Task Force.
"I am not satisfied with the
answer," Gelb said. "and I intend
to pursue the question until I learn
just what the mayor means." The
mayor's press relations office said
the mayor had "no specific plan in
mind" when he spoke.
Council officials said the council
could use city assistance since
most of its records and office
equipment was destroyed by the
fire.
(Ben Itkin 01 Itkin Brothers.
manufacturers and suppliers of of-
fice equipment, offered to make
available to the council any needed
equipment at no charge.)
Dr. Marvin Schick, the mayor's
aid in charge of Jewish community
relations, expressed anger at the
council's attitude.
Dr. Schick said, "We've told
them we would help. We have
helped these people in a million
ways a million times and they
always come back again. The
question is, do they want to co-
operate with us or do they want
to hit us."
Meanwhile, council spokesmen
expressed satisfaction with the co- I
operation they were receiving from
the local police precinct.
There is now a patrolman on
duty at council headquarters 24-
, hours a day and police patrols in
the neighborhood have been "beef-'
ed up.••
No arrests have been made in'
the fire-bombing and police say
they have no leads.
The American Jewish Congress
called Mayor Lindsay to investi-
gate reports that "a small num-
ber of extremists are allegedly en-
, gaged in a conspiracy to drive .
' Jews out of the Crown Heights sec- •
tion of Brooklyn."
In a letter to the Mayor, Theo-
, dore H. Kolish, executive board
chairman of the Congress Metro-
politan Council. said the council
was "shocked and alarmed at the
fire-bombing of the Crown Heights
Jewish Community Council." He
said most residents of the inte-
grated area believed they could
"live together harmoniously . . .
except for the machinations of a
small number of extremists."
He asked the mayor to "give
the highest priority to an investi-
gation of this charge so that it is
either disproved, or if found to be
true, that criminal charges may
be brought against the conspira-
tors."
In conversation, listen to what
To educate the wise man, the
state exists; and with the appear- is being said: in starting an ac-
tivity,
watch what is being done.—
ance of the wise man, the state
Marcus Aurelius
expires.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Copyright 1970. JTA, Inc.)
tain parts of the prayers can on:y I
be accomplished through com-
munal service, this congregational
activity is only a vehicle in which
the individual can fulfill his per-
sonal obligation. In the case of one
who is illiterate, the leader's
coupled with his response of
"Amen" constitutes the fulfillment
of the recital of the prayer on the
part of the individual, since he is
praying as best he can. However,
one who is able to pray by himself
and does not do so, displays the
fact that he is shirking his respon-
sibility and demonstrating his re-
fusal to pray and to serve God as
the faith requests of him. Thus,
each individual is required to pray
for himself, in addition to the re-
petition of the cantor.
The leader of the service repeats
the benedictions of the Shmonch
Esreh after the congregation has
already recited them individually.
One source in the Talmudic liter-
ature claims that this is done to
fulfill the prayer requirements for
those people in the congregation
who may he unable to recite the
prayers by themselves either be-
cause they are illiterate or because
they have made some mistakes in
their recitation. If they listen to the
leader of the service, and answer
"Amen" after each benediction,
they can discharge their obligation
in this fashion. Furthermore, in
order to fulfill the meaning of pub-
lic prayer there has to be some
kind of interaction between the
Expect poison from the standing
congregation's segments. This is
set up by the response which the water—William Blake
congregation recites after hearing
the benedictions of the leader of
the service. Also, it should be not-
ed that certain parts of the pray-
ers can only be accomplished in
public recitation. An example of
this is "Kedusha" which sanctifies I
the name of God like the angels do I
in heaven. This requires an inter-
action between the congregation
and the leader of the service so
that the sanctification is a com-
munal one. Otherwise, no individ-
ual has the right to assume the
prerogative of sanctifying God's
name. For all these reasons the
"Shmoneh Esreh" is repeated
aloud by the leader of the service
after it is recited individually by
the members of the congregation.
Each individual Jew must re-
cite the benedictions of the
Shmoneh Esreh: individually in-
stead of simply responding to the
benedictions recited by the
leader of the service.
Basically, the responsibility of
prayer rests upon every individual.
The Hebrew tradition considers
every person to have his own spe-
cial unique relationship to the Al-
mighty. While it is true that cer-
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