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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Farhand Conference Scheduled
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The annual Farband conference
will open 8:30 p.m. Oct. 17 in the
auditorium of the former Sholem
Aleichem Institute.
Guest speaker, Jacob Katzman,
Farband national secretary, is re-
cently returned from Israel, where
he met with Israeli government
leaders.
Movsas Goldoftas, secretary,
will give the annual report, and
Harry Schumer, honorary presi-
dent; will greet the conference.
Vocalist Norma Goldenberg, ac-
companied by Michael Berke, will
participate.
Katzman, president of the
HerzIlya Teachers' Seminary,
and George Zeltzer and Mrs.
Adele Mondry, members of the,
seminary board, will pay honor
to Farband members Moshe and
Sarah Friedman for their contri-
butions to Jewish culture and to
JACOB KATZMAN
the seminary.
The conference will continue with
a breakfast 10 a.m. Sunday in the
auditorium of the Workmen's Cir-
cle Center. Representatives of the
trenches will report on their activ-
ities, and there will be election of
officers for the City Committee and
closing remarks by Katzman. All
TEL AVIV — _ (JTA) — Indica-
sessions are free of charge.
tons that Ceylon's new leftist
government regrets having broken
Melbourne Center Fire off diplomatic relations with Is-
rael last July were brought to
Destroys 6,000 Seeks
light here Wednesday.
MELBOURNE (JTA) — Detec-
Israeli technical experts who had
tives of the arson squad are in- been aiding that country in various
vestigating a fire at the Kadima important development projects
•Library of the Jewish. Cultural have all been withdrawn, and the
Center here that destroyed 6 ,000 Ceylonese government has been
valuable Hebrew and Yiddish unable to get experts from other
books.
nations to replace them.
Most of the volumes were over
According to Dr. Rianan Weitz,
a century old and considered ir- of the settlement's study center
replaceable. The collection had in Rehovot, the predicament was
been assembled from all over the described in a letter he received
world during the 60 years since from R. Donn of the Organization
the Kadima Library was estab- for Economic Cooperation and
lished by Jewish migrants from Development. That agency was in-
Eastern Europe.
strumental in arranging Israeli
Suspicion of arsoni was aroused technical aid for Ceylon.
because of a fire siicimonths ago
Donn wrote that the Ceylonese
that destroyed a new stage being deputy foreign minister told him
built for the Yiddish theater here. his government regretted its de-
At that time arson was suspected. cision to cut ties with Israel, Weitz
said.
The least pain in our little
finger gives us more concern and Essence of Pleasure
uneasiness than the destruction of
The essence of pleasure does not
millions of our fellow-beings.
lie in the thing enjoyed, but in the
Hazlitt. accompanying consciousness. If I
had a humble spirit in my service,
who, when I asked for a glass of
water, brought me the world's cost-
liest wines blended in a chalice, I
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should dismiss him, in order to
teach him that pleasure consists
not in what I enjoy, but in having
my own way.
—Soren Kierkegaard.
Ceylonese Sorry
They Cut Ties
With Israel
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The Goy Novel-in a Climate-of Doubt
Dr. Westrum, the non-Jew in the
story told in "The Goy" by Mark
Harris, is an intellectual, an his-
torian. Does that make him dif-
ferent from, any other non-Jew
who has married a Jewess and
whose children and grandchildren
are therefore Jews?
"The Goy" is the- story of an
intermarriage, of conflicting atti-
tudes, of reactions that are reflect-
ed in Westrum's addressing his
son as "You little Jew."
The roots of the conflict in this
novel published by-Dial Press are
to be found very early in the
story, the question posed being:
"Was he anti-Semitic? Did he
hate foreigners? Did he yearn to
kill Indians, as his grandfather
before him? Was he the seed-
bearer of fascism in America?
But - his wife and his mistress
were Jews. On the surface he'd
say No. Anyone who meant
much to him was more likely
than nct to be a Jew, and his
three sons were Jewish by half."
how beautiful they were, and how
soon they would be well: it was
for this he had married into the
Jews as quick as he could, to
share the warmth of it . . ."
Seeking an answer to the ques-
tion whether he is an anti-Semite,
we are confronted by statements
such as: "The Jews needed all
the decent friends they could get
in a world which, despising itself
for its crimes against itself, de-
spised the Jews as an alternative
to self-contempt - . ."
And when Westrum is confront-
ed by his wife as to his readiness
to join her for a date he says:
"Oh, my prompt Jewish wife, I was
never readier." Is this convincing?
Is there the apologetic in re-
collection about his father and
an experience of his school days:
"Old Indian fighters struck with-
out apology, and anyhow (his
father said) a knuckle In the eye
was good enough for a Jew, and
an oath against a Jew nothing
improper, and Westrum stood
before the table of men unable
to make them see how his view
was different from bin father's."
So our hero differs a bit from
One need not generalize about
this mixed marriage. It is explain-
,
ed in the course of the story that
the Westrum family kissed and
embraced: "It was how the Jews his father's attitude and in the
were,, thought Westrum, they wept novel we read about Westrum's
and kissed and told one another wife: "He stared at Beatrice. His
Dayan Coming
in December
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
will visit the United States in
December. While his official
visit is connected with the Unit-
ed Jewish Appeal, Gen. Dayan
also will discuss Mid East and
Israeli-American problems with
U.S. leaders. He probably will
be interviewed on American
television.
eyes upon her routed her . - - He
had not thought the marriage
would last, but it has lasted 25
years, and that was well, for the
sake of the children. She had not
grown fat. She had borne three
sons, but bow could sons named
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Why is the holiday of Snkot
called the "Festival of Rejoic-
ing? "
The Bible mentions the obliga-
tion of rejoicing' on the Sukot holi-
day (Deut. 16:14,15.) A number
of reasons are given for emphasiz-
ing the requirement of being happy
on Sukot more than on any other
holiday. Some claim that the Su-
kot holiday is especially a holiday
for rejoicing because it follows the
very critical and serious holiday of
Yom Kippur. The tradition thus
emphasizes that every Jew who
observes Yom Kippur properly
should feel relieved and happy that
he passed the test and, therefore,
should celebrate in a happy spirit
on the festival of Sukot. His-
torically, this was a period for re-
joicing for at least two reasons.
Agriculturally, it was the time of
the fall harvest and one felt in-
clined to rejoice over the bounty
of crops which had been provided
for him by the Almighty. Further-
more, in the days of Moses, this
period was the period after Moses
had received the second set of
Commandments which indicated
God's reconciliation with His peo-
ple after the incident of the Golden
Calf had created a strained rela-
tionship.
Westrum be half Jew, two of
whom had married Jews produc-
ing _Westrums now three-quarters
Jew? The name has become a
Jew-name . . ."
In the long run, he is still West-
rum the Goy and the grandchildren
are three-quarters Jew. And as
Westrums, even with Jewish moth-
ers and a Jewish grandmother,
they are undoubtedly more non-
Jew than Jew.
So, we have an interesting story
about a mixed marriage and the
sire may or may not be an anti-
Semite—he is linked to the Jewess
by marriage, yet there is nothing
in it for Jews because a mixed
marriage without conversion re-
mains a non-Jewish marriage.
"The Goy" as a story is interest-
ing. Mark Harris writes well. His
plot solves nothing. Westrum is the
model husband and he also loves
another Jewess—his mistress—but
since there is the constant climate
of doubt, the novel remains just a
good story without solution, if any-
one will indeed seek solution.—P.S.
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Why is it that may palm leaves
can be used to tie the various
species together with the Inlay?
The Bible specifically calls for
four kinds of vegetation, ie. the
lullav and three others. If another
material, other than the palm leaf
of the lullav were to be used to tie
them 'nether, the worshiper on
Sukkot •7ould be holding five spe-
cies, instead of four. Some moral-
ists see in this requirement the
exortation that holding people to-
gether is just as important as
feeding and sustaining them. The
lullav, which represents a spine
and backbone of the species, is
used not only to support the others,
but also to hold them together.
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