Mrs.Meir Clarifies Israel's Reservations on Negotiations

A 27-Year-Old Tradition Emerges

to Grant Realism to Enrollment

Program of Zionist

History Reconstructed ... When Shaarey Zedek
Established Precedent for Zionism Affiliation

Apparently there is nothing new under the sun. When the newly-
created American Zionist Federation adopted a plank to ask mass en-
rollment of congregations and organizations into the Zionist movement,
there were skeptics who doubted whether it could be done. But it al-
ready has a precedent. It was done as early as 1943.
Here is the proof—in the reproduction of an article that appeared
in The Detroit Jewish News, May 7, 1943:
Friday, May 7, “43

Shaarey Zedek Membership
Pledged to Zionist Cause

600 of Congregation's Members Already Enrolled, Others
Joining; Blumberg Re-Elected as President
At Annual Meeting

Congregation Shaarey Zedek, in a strongly worded reso-
lution adopted at the annual meeting on April 28, definitely
identified itself with the Zionist movement and called upon
all members to join the Zionist Organization of America or
some other Zionist body of their choice.
The resolution, unanimously adopted, was presented by

Lawrence Crohn after Rabbi 1>
Morris Adler made a plea that
the stand proposed should be
taken by Shaarey Zedek. Abra-
ham Cooper, president of the
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
seconded the resolution.
600 Are Zionists
Abraham Srere led a group of
members of the congregation who
urged that the members go fur-
ther and that membership in a
Zionist organization should be a
requisite for membership in
Shaarey Zedek. Such action was
deferred for future consideration
when it was pointed out that
close to 600 of Shaarey Zedek's
812 members already are affili-
ated Zionists and that the rest
are rapidly joining Zionist ranks.
The action taken by Congre-
gation Shaarey Zedek is a con-
tinuation of a new procedure fol-
lowed by many Conservative and
Orthodox congregations to enroll
their memberships en masse in
the Zionist Organization.
The Resolution
The resolution adopted by Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek follows:
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
affirms its adherence to the
principles of Conservative Ju-
daism. For over three-quarters
of a century our synagogue has
maintained its allegiance to a
Judaism which emphasizes re-
ligious beliefs and practices
that stem from a living tradi-
tion. A great love of the Jew-
ish Past has not made for
stagnation, but on the contrary,
Conservative Jews are in the
forefront of the progressive
movements in Jewish life. Of
these, Zionism is foremost.
From the earliest days Much of
the leadership of this great
cause has come from this
branch of the Jewish Syna-
gogue.
New Songs of Hope

MORRIS H. BLUMBERG
in our prayer book have always
had real meaning for us. From
the pulpit the principles of
Modern Zionism have been
preached zealously and ardent-
ly for many years. A large
number of the leaders of the
local Zionist district always
came from this congregation.

Sense of Duty
Be it, therefore, resolved,
that, moved by a sense of duty
and solemn responsibility in
this tragic hour in the life of
our peopl e, Congregation

Shaarey Zedek hereby ex-
presses its wholehearted sup-
port of the Zionist movement,
which aims for the establish-
ment of a Jewish common-
wealth in Palestine.

Federation

lessness and that in the process of its fulfillment it does not seek to
harm anyone. On the contrary, given a chance, it will prove its aim
of welcoming the kinship of our Arab cousins and of assisting in rais-
ing their standards of living as Israel's valuable and respected neigh-
bors (as fellow-citizens in Israel).
The new idea of enrolling congregations and organizations as
members of the American Zionist Federation needs widest support.
It is urgent, therefore, that the example that was set by Shaarey
Zedek in 1943 should be turned into a pattern for action by all our
existing movements and organizations.
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Unjust Proceedings Must End With the Advent of Peace

In our hopes for the coming of peace, and for a lasting better rela-
tionship between individuals and peoples, in the Middle East and every-
where on earth, we also hope there will be an end to injustice in the
UN and its various agencies.
We join in calling attention to the following revelations that have
just been made by the American Physicians Fellowship for the Israel
Medical Association:
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AS A POLITICAL PLATFORM
The World Health Organization, an integral part of the United
Nations, is being used as a political tool. The record is precise and
factual.
Dr. Raphael Gjebin, a delegate to the 23rd annual WHO meet-
ing in May 1970, was most impressive in his annual report, describing
Israel aid to the health activities of the occupied Arab areas.
New drugs and vaccines were introduced and extensively used;
oral polio vaccine introduced in Gaza in 1967 and measles vaccina-
tion accomplished in 1968; improved and additional equipment had
been installed—such as the artificial kidney unit in Ramalla. Mobile
clinics were introduced in the Sinai Desert. The Gaza area demon-
strated a considerable diminution of the TB mortality rate. Patients
from the West Bank and Gaza who required open-heart surgery, chest
surgery and complex medical investigation, unavailable in the past,
received free medical and surgical care in Israeli hospitals. The West
Bank had finally reached a point of effective malaria control. These
costly health improvements by the Israeli government are a generous
contribution to humanity when one realizes the financial plight of the
state of Israel in her 21-year war against tremendous odds.
The reaction to this report was startling. Arab country delegates
accused Israel ("The Zionist authorities") of "torturing babies"—
being "worse than Nazis," "child murderers" as well as "castraters
of prisoners of war." This last complaint was the repetition of a
similar charge made at the Boston meeting in August 1969. Again
the name. of Mohammed Mohammed Dirbas, a native of Gaza, was
mentioned as the war prisoner involved.
This time the phony charge was exposed. A document was pro-
duced by Dr. Gjebin from the University Hospital of Cairo, dated
7-26-66. (101/2 months before Israel occupied the Gaza area.) The
document, describing a hospital visit by Dirbas, read, "We found
that the patient was operated upon and his testicles were removed.
For that reason he came to Cairo with a request that his testicles
be implanted. We see that this request is unrealistic and that it is
impossible to carry out," signed Dr. Zafot Mohammed. Incidentally,
Mohammed Dirbas was never a prisoner of war but an employe of
the Gaza Health Department, and his unfortunate condition was the
result of TB orchitis.
While Israel's "friends" were diplomatically quiet (the result of
orders from their governments), a political resolution was passed at
this World Health meeting, condemning the Israelis by a vote of 40 to
I with 41 absentations. This resolution recommended:—a) "The
refugees be immediately afforded the right to return to their homes,
in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the United Nations."
b) Israel be called upon to safeguard the life and physical and mental
health of the inhabitants of the occupied territories and to abide by
its obligations under the fourth Geneva Convention, relative to the
protection of civilian persons in time of war.
The passing of this political resolution at a health organization
meeting is regarded by the Arab-Communist bloc as an outstanding
victory in its international propaganda war against Israel.
History will record these shameful proceedings with perplexity!
There have been many abuses of Israel in various UN functioning
committees. The above statement reveals one such abuse of truth.
We pray for peace—and for truth and justice. Peace—a lasting
one—also can end such abuses in UN ranks.
The revealed statement pinpoints the exaggerations in Arab
fantasies, the failure by our Arab cousins to recognize the many
benefits that stem from Jewish creativity in Israel and from the
readiness of Jews there to render services and to help people of all
faiths. How else is a society based on our ethical teachings to be
built? That is why there is such great need for peace and an end I
to warfare—so that the realities of a good life should be accepted
by all who live in the ancient areas where religious faiths found
their roots.

BONN — The new emphasis by
Chancellor Willy Brandt's govern-
ment on "normalization" of foreign
relations is not to Israel's advan-
tage, observers agree.
While the center-left coalition is
by no means anti-Israel, it does
hope to improve relations with the
Arab states, 10 of which severed
relations with Germany over its
aid to Israel.
Brandt, himself an early political
refugee from Nazism, does not
have a guilt complex as did some
of his predecessors who had been
members of the Nazi Party and
later felt the need to compensate
for that wartime role.
The man who worries Israelis
the most is Walter Scheel, who
has led the talk about "normal-
ization" of relations with Israel.
Observers suspect that Scheel, a
leader of the Free Democrats, is
trying to lure voters from the
Naticnal Democratic P art y,
which until its last unsuccessful
political try was a haven for the
diehard Nazi vote.
Bonn still classifies Israel as an
underdeveloped country, so she is
eligible for special types of govern-
ment aid; in addition, Bonn has
strongly supported Israel's bid to
get preferential status with the
Common Market.
However, direct economic aid is
down slightly, and secret military
aid ended five years ago. Al-
though individual reparations con-
tinue, the special restitution agree-
ment is over.
Some Israelis feel that "normal-
ization" is not a term to be used
in this generation when memories
of Hitler Germany still haunt
many Jews.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier
Golda Meir told the Knesset Wed-
nesday that the Israeli reserva-
tions over the United States peace
initiative did not include a priori
conditions for negotiations. She
said "some of the positions held
by the • Israeli government" were
deemed by Israel "proper to em-
phasize on the threshold of pos-
sible talks with the Arab states,"
but that those positions "tally with
the government's program and its
resolutions, as approved by the
Knesset." Those positions "will
guide our representatives in the
talks," she said.

Jewish Job Agency Takes Counseling to Teens

— A Jewish job have cooperated in the program
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
agency has been providing voca- to date.
Friday, August 14, 1970-3
The FEGS aims to give supple-
tional counseling for two years to
teen-agers in the only program in mental help in educational and
the area which takes the help to vocational guidance to that provid-
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the youngsters rather than waiting ed—when it is provided—in public
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dividual consultation with FEGS
Some 300 youngsters, 12 to 18, counselors. It is aimed at relating
and most of them Jews, have par- the teen-ager's interests, aptitudes
ticipated in a program to prevent and abilities "in a realistic way"
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Under provisions of a small,
private grant, the FEGS takes
the program to the youngster in
his home area, according to Mel-
vin Freeman, assistant execu-
tive director. The project has
been focused on Jewish centers
and Ys and—during the sum-
mer—day camps in New York
City and in Westchester and
Nassau counties. He reported
that 25 such Jewish agencies

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but we are ready to enter nego-
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from any side."
On other matters, Mrs. Meir
said that she personally is handl-
ing all matters pertaining to the
problems of Soviet Jewry; that
there is no change in the govern-
ment's position that Israel will not
introduce atomic weapons into the
Middle East; and that there is no
plan to annex Hebron or to ex-
propriate any of its land for Jew-
ish settlement.
On the last point she confirmed
that she had stated that there is
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The Jew-
ish Child Care Association of New
York has absorbed Childville, a
residential treatment center for
emotionally disturbed children, it
was announced by Norman Rosow,
president, and Jacob L. Trobe,
executive director of the associa-
tion.
The facility will be known hence.
forth as the Childville Division of
the Jewish Child Care Association,
the announcement said.
The association, a beneficiary of
the Federation of Jewish Philan-
thropies, annually serves about
1,500 New York children and youth
in need of residential care be-
cause of family breakdown or emo-
tional problems.
Childville, a nonsectarian agen-
cy, now serves about 45 severely
disturbed boys and girls from 6
to 14 years old at its new resi-
dence in Manhattan and 13 other
youngsters at its home in Flush-
ing.
Childville's Manhattan r e s
dence, remodeled and furnished
at a cost of $1,000,000, replaces an
old building in the Williamsburg
section of Brooklyn.

It is well to acquire that faith anew as we take note of the 1,900th anniversary of the destructicr.
of the Second Temple.

with American assurances that
there would be no military build-
ups permitted in the cease-fire
area.
In reply to another question,
Mrs. Meir said that "the conflict
between ourselves and our neigh-
bor countries is not over territory
but over our existence."- She add-
ed: "If this were not so, why did
the Arab states refuse to make
peace with us when we were still
using the borders of (June 4)
1967?" In response to a question on
eventual borders, the premier said
her government "has not yet
drawn any peace borders." She
then reiterated that "individual
members of the government might

NEW YORK

Center for Emotionally
Disturbed Joins Agency

Be - if fiiither resolved, at
this annual meeting, that we
call upon the members of this
Congregation to join the Zion-
ist ranks by affiliating with the
Zionist Organization of Amer-
The Jewish •religion is rooted
ica, or some other Zionist body
in the life of the Jewish people.
of their choice;. and thus to
Such a faith cannot forever
pledge themselves to suppOrt
live on the momentum of the
1,900 Years After the Destruction of the Second Temple
to the utmost the sacred project
past. Small wonder, therefore,
for the National Restoration of
Much too little was said in the past couple of weeks about the 1,900th
that from Palestine have come
Israel, in the land of Israel.
tion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, in the year 70 CE—on Tisha b'Av.
new and vigorous ideas to sus-
The First Temple was destroyed by Nebuhadnezzar in the year 586 BCE. Titus destroyed the Second
Blumberg Re-elected .
tain that concept of the Jewish
People which Solomon Schech-
Morris H. Blumberg was re- Temple in the year 70 of the present era.
ter has termed a "Catholic
elected president of Shaarey Zedek
Other sad events occurred on Tisha b'Av:
Israel." The centuries - old
at the annual meeting. Harry
In addition to the two above-mentioned trage dies, three other sad occurrences are recorded in
longing for Zion now could be
Cohen was re-elected vice presi- the Mishna as Tisha b'Av events: the fall of the fortress of Betar, the defeat of Bar Kokhba and the
translated into active support
dent, and David S. Friedman again massacre of his followers and Hadrian's ploughing up of Jerusalem in 135 CE.
for the upbuilding of modern
was chosen treasurer. •
Subsequent historical events contain a long record of sad events that took place on Tisha b'Av:
Palestine. Into the lives of our
The expulsion of the Jews from England was dated in the decree of King Edward I in 1290; one
Charles A. Smith was elected
ancient a n d long-suffering secretary, and the following were of the saddest results was the commencement of the exodus of 300,000 Jews from Spain, under the leader-
people came new songs of Hope elected members of the board of ship of Abarbanel, on Tisha b'Av, in 1492; World War I, which marked the inauguration of a long series
and of Rebirth.
trustees for a three-year term: of terrorism against Jews in Eastern Europe, broke out on Tisha b'Av. Dirges in the Kinot that were
Judge Harry B. Keidan, Abe Kasle, read on Tisha b'Av after the reciting of the Ekha—the Book of Lamentations — on Tisha b'Av — especially
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Abraham Srere and Morris S. Ja- commemorate the destruction of the Temple, and the closest date is that of the year 70-1,900 years ago.
has always been closely identi-
There were scores of other events that made the Tisha b'Av date a sad one on the Jewish calendar.
fied with the work for Pales-
cobs. Jacob H. Sonenklar•was re-
tine. The references to Zion
elected cantor of the congregation. Collectively, there is the consolation to be recited in the Haftara of this Sabbath — Nahamu, Nahamu Ami-
A 27-year-old tradition now emerges as an apparent encourage- Comfort ye, comfort ye, My People .. . from Isaiah.
The month of Av has been designated as Menahem Av—the month of Av the Comforter. There is
ment to the newest effort to enlarge the Zionist community.
For a number of years now, Zionism had been used as a term of a legend that the Messiah will be called Menahem, the Comforter, and that he will be born on the ninth
abuse, as a sort of bogey to frighten people into believing that an incre- of Av.
Thus we have a perpetuation of an ancient tradition—that misery and suffering is always followed
dulous force exists to undermine other peoples' rights. There is need
to re-establish a basic truth: that Zionism is a libertarian movement, by faith in redemption, in the power of being comforted by the positive powers that envision the coming
that it is the inspirational idea that had led to ending Jewry's home- of better days—in Israel's case they are days of reconstruction.

Mrs. Meir made her statement
in answer to a question from
Moshe Sneh, head of the anti-Mos-
cow Maki Communists. She chose
that method to avoid subjecting
her answer to parliamentary de-
bate.
In accepting the U.S. plan on
Aug. 4, the Meir government
said that "on the basis of clari-
fications given by the United
States . . . Israel is prepared to
reply affirmatively to the pro-
posal for a cease fire on the
Egyptian front." The "clarifica-
tions, which were later reported
to be acceptable to Israel, dealt

