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The Detroit Jewish News, 1971-04-09

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Crticize Israel Frely, Rabbi Prinz Urges U.S. Jewry

Rabbi Joachim Prinz, former
"president of the American Jewish
Congress, in an interview in the
current issue of Look magazine,
calls for two "declarations of in-
dependence," on the part of Ameri-
can Jews and Israel and warns
that American Jews must not be
forced to place their stamp of ap-
proval on every action by the
state of Israel.
American Jewry, he said, "must
acknowledge Israel as sovereign
over itself, not governed by U.S.
Jews. And Israel must acknowl-
edge the independence and integ-
rity of - American Jewry." He
added:
"Because we are close to Israel,
we must not be forced to accept
every move of Israel as prudent or
acceptable. Israel must not become
the manager of American Jewry,
but only of its own affairs."
Rabbi Prinz argued that "Ameri-
can-Jewish youth must be permit-
ted free choice regarding the peace
movement." He also denied that
there are a significant number of
Jewish young people who hold
anti-Zionist views.
Although he strongly endorses
cultural and emotional bonds with
Israel, in the Look article Rabbi
Prinz was critical of the spiritual
and religious situation in the Jew-
ish state, *which he termed "catas-
trophic."
"Israel calls for immigrants
from the U.S. They will arrive
with convictions, religious beliefs
not in agreement with the chief
rabbinate," he claimed.
Anti-Semitism in the U.S., he
said, is "a very marginal prob-
lem. That doesn't mean that it
doesn't exist, but it's a major
threat only if it takes a politico-
economic importance."
He contended that despite all
the economic and intellectual
achievements of American Jews,
Jewish culture has lagged.
Citing the achievements by no-
velists, musicians, artists, entre-
preneurs, Rabbi Prinz claimed
that they have occurred outside the
realm of immediate Jewish con-
cern.
Rabbi Prinz had made similar
Statements in an address in Lon-
`.don last November and his at-
, titude on the status of American
Jewry was refuted in the Pure-
ly Commentary column in our
issue of Dec. 11, 1970. "We are
not that bad, Rabbi . . ," was
the title Of the reply.)
Prinz Denies Statements
Attributed to Him in Look
NEW YORK -(JTA) — Dr. Jo-
achim Prinz, :past president of the
American Jewish- Congress, sent
a formal- letter of complaint to
Look. magazine" Tuesday for its
"distortion" • of some of his state-
ments to one of its editors for the
article "The Agonized American
Jews."
The article appears in the April
20 issue, out this week.
In his letter Tuesday, addressed
to "the editors," .the' 68-year-old
Jewish leader wrote that he . was
"deeply troubled by some of the
statements" attributed to him by
senior editor Gerald Astor; who
did not taperecord their recent
three-hour interview. _
Rabbi Prinz made five points
in his letter to Look. He dis-
puted Astor's claim that he was
"a 1937 graduate of solitary con-
finement in a Nazi concentration
camp," advising the editors that
he was "expelled by the Ges-
tapo" that year.
Dr. Prinz complained that the
article stressed his plea for the
political independence of Ameri-
can Jews without noting. his belief
in "cultural and national inter-
dependence" between American
and Israeli Jews and his position
that "the continued existence of
Israel (is) central to Jewish sur-
vival in the world."
Further, the fact that, as the
article points out, he disagrees
with some Israeli leaders over
American Jewish participation in
the peace movement "has nothing
to do" with parallels between Com-
munist efforts in Indochina and
in the Middle East, Dr. Prinz

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stated, explaining: "I do not ac-
cept the analogy between Ameri-
can intervention in Indochina and
the struggle of Israel for survival
within secure borders. I hold that
for an American citizen, Jewish
or non-Jewish, the only acceptable
motivation for taking a stand on
Vietnam is his conscience, not ony
political consideration."
The fourth point made by Dr.
Prinz was that he did not say that
American Jewish aliya to Israel
"has more to do with dissatisfac-
tion with the U.S. than closeness
to Israel," as reported in Look;
on the contrary, " many of them
settle in Israel because of their
love for Israel."
Rabbi Prinz concluded by
charging that the paragraph,
quoted from one of his speeches,
in which he states that "Ameri-
can Jewry is a (cultural) dis-
aster area" actually "makes
little sense if the report does
not add that I (say) so because
of our failure in Jewish educa-
tion, general Jewish apathy and
an alarmingly growing rate of

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

intermarriage."

In his letter to the Look edi-
tors, Dr. Prinz did not refer, as
he did to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, to the magazine's selec-
tion of his remarks on the Jewish
Defense League. Although the
quoted sentences constituted total
condemnation of the JDL, the
rabbi advised the JTA that they
came out "milder than I meant."
'He is quoted as saying: "The
Jewish Defense League is some-
thing Freud would have described
as psychopathology. It is sick,
ludicrously ineffective, trying to
imitate a philosophy of violence
that is not only inimical to Jews
but utterly alien. It grew out of a
sick reaction to the black revolu-
tion. Auschwitz created the slogan
of the JDL, 'Never Again.' It is
based on the asumption that if the
Jews had done something about
Hitler, 6,000,000 wouldn't have
died. The assumption is entirely
false. What Jews did learn from
Auschwitz is that the home of
Beethoven and Bach could kill with
impunity." '

Food Regulations for Passover

By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX

(Copyright 1971, JTA Inc.)

It is forbidden to eat such
things as rice, peas and beans on
Passover.
Several reasons are given for
this. Originally, these things were
not forbidden. Only the five grains
were originally forbidden by the
Torah. Such things as rice, peas
and beans were forbidden later
on because of apparent confusion
that had led to mistakes and inad-
vertent transgressions. One source
of confusion was that some peo-
ple were accustomed to making
some type of bread from these
starchy vegetables. Thus, one
could easily confuse the bread
made from one of the vegetables
with those made from the grains
that are prohibited on Passover.
Another source of confusion re-
corded by the rabbis was that
one of the grains of such vegeta-
bles was similar in appearance to
the wheat grain. Thus, one might
possibly make some food product
out of them, not realizing that it
was really wheat which he was
using by mistake. A third reason
(Tur) is that sometimes, wheat
grains and kernels were mixed in
with these vegetable grains. Gen-
erally speaking, it was the proce-
dure in Jewish law to avoid any
means of confusion, such as mis-
taken identity. Thus, such things
as peas, beans, corn and rice were
forbidden on Passover by spedial
decree of the rabbis.
It is forbidden to eat hametz
after a certain hour of the morn-
ing on the day before Passover.
While it is true that the holi-
day of Passover begins on the
evening, nevertheless, the hour for
the official slaughter of the pas-
chal lamb was at noon on the day
before the Passover so that the
Hebrews would have their lambs
ready and prepared for the eve-
ning of the Passover. The act of
slaughtering the lamb was already
an act which was greeted with
festivity and the Passover spirit.
Since the •lamb was to be used on
Passover, it was a rule that at
the time of its slaughter no one
should be eating any •hometz at
that time. In 'order to be sure that
such would. not be the case, the
rabbis moved the time of the
Prohibition up so that we stop eat-
ing hametz in the morning instead
of waiting until noon.
It is obligatory for the first
born to fast or to attend a feast
where the conclusion of the
study of a tractate of the Tal-
mud is celebrated on the day be-
fore Passover.
It was on Passover eve that the
first born of the Egyptians were
killed while the first born of the
people of Israel were spared this
tragedy. Such an experience, as
being saved from death, is an oc-
casion which should make a per-
son feel thankful and even peni-
tent. One should feel penitent be-
cause, certainly, everyone sins

somehow, and being spare while
others suffer indicates that the
Almighty was grateful to the in-
dividual in spite of his sins. Thus,
he should try to atone for his sins
when remembering such an oc-
casion. Atonement is often ac-
quired by fasting. Atonement,
however, can also be. acquired by
the performance of and the par-
ticipation'in good deeds, especially
where the study of Torah is in-
volved. Furthermore, when a feast
of Celebration is in order, fasting
is prohibited so as not to seem
inconsistent with the mood of the
hour. Thus, the feast of celebrat-
ing the conclusion of the study
of the tractate of the Talmud
was instituted on the morning be-
fore Passover so that the first
born in attendance would have to
participate in the feast and be
absolved from fasting, while still
performing and being involved in
a meritorious deed such as hon-
oring the Torah.

Friday, April 9, '1971-49

PAULA STRAZINSKA, a mem-
ber of the Jewish Social and Cul-
tural Association, is among eight
Polish women honored recently by
the authorities with the medal of
"Liberty and Victory." Mrs. Stra-
zinska is a former inmate of a
German concentration camp. She
is a leading member of Zbowid
(the Society for the Commemora-
tion of the Liberation of Poland
From the Nazis and for the Re-
cording of the Nazi Era.)

Four government sponsored sem-
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here April 19. He said the Egypt-
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exhibiting hostile books at a fair in
Cairo recently.

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