Memorial Erected to 77 Hadassah
Medical Staffers Killed 23 Years Ago
LETTER BOX
. . Of Spinoza
and Judaism
Prof. Eli Davis, who took over the directorship of Hadassah 23
years ago when Dr. Haim Yassky was among the 77 doctors, nurses
and other hospital workers killed in Arab ambush, stands at the site
of the new monument in Sheikh Jarragh. The Memorial was original-
ly erected on the Israel side of the rampart which separated the two
halves of the city in the early months before the Six-Day War in
1967. It has now been moved to the exact site of the ambush in East
Jerusalem.
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JERUSALEM — Seventy-seven
doctors, nurses and other hospital
workers on their way to Hadas-
sah's Mount Scopus Hospital lost
their lives, 23 years ago, when
they were ambushed by Arabs in
Sheikh Jarragh, a suburban of
Jerusalem, on the way to Mount
Scopus.
Despite the fact that Hadassah
Hospital provided healing for Jews
and Arabs alike, the Arabs laid
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ership Parley
„Welfare Reform
The Jewish Community Council
of Metropolitan Detroit is a con-
venor 'cif. a 'Leadership Conference
for Welfare Reform in Michigan,
to be held 1-4 -p,in. Wednesday at
Cobo Hall. T
Council community r e tions
committe chairman - John:H. Shep-
herd said prominent figures in, the
welfare- field -Will" give a compre-
hensiye view of the ,present public
welfare system and natiohal and
state efforts -toward welfare reform
—highlighting the recently released
recommendations of the. Governor's
Michigan Welfare Study 'Commis-
sion.
It is expected that the confer-
ence will generate the develop-
ment of positions on welfare re-
form by organizations throughout
the community.
Other conference- convenors in-
clude the Archdiocese of Detroit,
Detroit Council of Churches, New
Detroit, Inc., United Auto Workers,
Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO
Council and United Community
Services of Metropolitan Detroit.
Past Council activities on the is-
sue of welfare reform have includ-
ed a conference to generate grass-
roots, citizen involvement; a tele-
vision series, "The High Price of
Poverty"; and a welfare reform
statement and followup bulletin ad-
dressed to affiliate organizations.
Council's urban affairs subcom-
mittee, chaired by Lewis S. Gross-
man, was instrumental in the for-
mulation of a position in favor of
welfare reform.
',Individuals and organizations in-
terested in obtaining literature,
speakers and films on welfare may
call the Council office, 962-1880,
ext. 3.
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No evil can happen to a good
man, either in life or after death.
—Socrates (Plato, Apology)
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a mine on the road, and, when the
first vehicle exploded, set fire to
all the rest. Anybody trying to
escape from the burning cars was
subjected to a merciless hail of
bullets.
The memory of the fallen was
commemorated today in a moving
tereitw,„, in the Chagall Syna-
gogue- of the liadassah 7liebrew
Univergly-. Medical center at Ein
Icarem.icMrs. Kaim Yassky,_ the
yodoAttof the then Director-Gen-
- ersiatAk.,
.
Haim Yassky,- who was
killed side in an ambulance
Ott the fateful day, lit the candles.
Prof. Kalman J. Mann, Director--
General of the Hadassah. Medical
Organization, read aloud the
names of the victims. The syna-
gogue was crowded with hospital
staff and relatives of the fallen.
Rabbi J. Rakovsky, the Hospital
chaplain, read appropriate psalms.
Mourners recalled that four
years ago, _less than two months
before the Six-Day War, a memo-
rial to the fallen was erected on
the Israeli side of the wall that
then divided Jerusalem into two
cities, at the point where the road
to Mount Scopus came to a dead-
end in the wall. At the time, Mayor
Teddy Kollek • said that he hoped
that some day the memorial would
have to be moved so that the road
to Mt. Scopus would once more
be open. He never dreamt at the
time that his words were to prove
prophetic in so short a period.
The road to Mount Scopus is
now fully functioning, and the
memorial has been moved to the
side of the road at the site of the
terrible ambush twenty-three years
ago. Hadassah is rebuilding its
Mount Scopus Hospital—and once
again, it will serve Jews and Arab
alike.
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Easter Trees in Israel
Editor, The Jewish News:
The editorial page of March 26
features Dagobert D. Runes' "Phil-
osophy for Everyman—From So-
rates to Sarte," and you include
as one of the "historic Jewish fig-
ures" given space in this book,
Baruch Spinoza.
Well, as the New Testament says
of Jesus, he was a Jew "in the
flesh," hut, unlike Jesus, in spirit
Spinoza was not a Jew, any more
than Karl Marx was. This is rec-
ognized very much in the Soviet
Union where the latter two are
hailed as great materialists and
atheists, but not for the most part
in this country or in Israel.
I understand that Mr. Ben-Gur-
ion wanted to rescind the excom-
munication of Spinoza by the Am-
sterdam Jewish community, and
Heinrich Heine saw Spinoza as
another Jesus.
Prof. Lewis S. Feuer, in "Spin-
oza and the Rise of Liberalism,"
says: "Spinoza had virtually de-
communicated himself from Am-
sterdam Jewry before they ex-
communicated him."
Sir Frederick Pollock in "Spin-
oza, His Life and Philosophy,"
quotes Spinoza himself to similar
effect, and then adds: "Thus it
would seem that he held himself
to have renounced the synagogue
of his own motion rather than to
have been driven . from it." The
Spinozist Beb•
's proposal
flies in the face
the master's
wishes.
A good article on Spinoza's re-
lation to Judaism is the Preface in
the English edition of Leo Strauss'
,Spinoza's Critique of Religion,"
which may also be found in a valu-
able paperback book, edited and
with an introduction by Judah Gol-
din, The Jewish Expression, .Ban=
tam Book, 1970.
SIDNEY KORETZ
751 S. Florida
Arlington, Va.
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`Jerusalem Belongs
to Jewish People'
Editor, The Jewish News:
Pope Paul's remarks regarding
the status of Jerusalem only re-
emphasize the sordid history of
the Vatican concerning the Jewish
capital.
No matter how many holy places
of other faiths exist in Jerusalem,
the city of Jerusalem is Jewish.
The Pope's assertion that proper
consideration and attention would
be given the numerous holy places
if Jerusalem were internationalized
is absurd. Everyone the world over
is welcome to come to Jerusalem
and visit his holy places with com-
plete freedom guaranteed by the
state of Israel. The internationali-
zation of Jerusalem would not
make the accessibility of the holy
places any freer than it is today.
Sincerely yours,
ISADORE APPLEBAUM
Shalom Downtown
Shalom came to Grand Circus
Park Sunday.
In celebration of the Easter holi-
day, members of Central Metho-
dist Church decorated the Adams-
Woodward area with helium-filled
balloons proclaiming Joy and
Peace. Someone affixed a Shalom
sign to one of the balloons.
When the balloon descended, the
Shalom greeting caught on among
the holiday strollers. Someone
picked it up and greeted another
celebrant with a Shalom. Soon,
one onlooker reports, everyone
throughout the Grand Circus Park
area was extending Shalom to
passersby. The observer reported
he had "never seen anything like
it."
In response to an advertisement
by the local office of the Jewish
National Fund, some 75-100 "East-
er trees" were planted in Israel
as a good-will gesture by Chris-
tians, it was reported by Percy
Kaplan, director of the JNF office
here.
The ad pointed out that each
tree contributed "helps in the res-
toration of the Holy Land and will
stand as an eloquent expression of
He approaches the study of man-
the Easter season spirit .. . your kind with great advantages who
personal declaration of faith in is accustomed to the study of
world peace and s brotherhood."
nature. —Henry David Thoreau
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