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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 24th day of Tamuz, 5731, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Num. 25:10-30:1. Prophetical portion, Jeremiah 1:1-2:3.
Torah Reading for Rosh Hodesh Av, Friday, Num. 28:1-15
Candle lighting, Friday, July 16, 7:47 p.m.
VOL. L1X. No. 18
July 16, 1971
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In Israel: Freedom of Movement for Arabs
Israel has been called a land of contrasts.
This applies to the various climatic changes,
to the peoples who inhabit the land, to the
conditions which either make it a battle-
ground or a land of great glory.
Perhaps it is the contrast with the situa-
tion in the Middle East generally that has
turned Israel into an area of immense unique-
ness. In the Moslem world there are either
threats of assassinations or actual murders,
as in the instance now in Morocco. In Israel
there is freedom of movement.
More than 75,000 Arab visitors are ex-
pected to come to Israel and to her adminis-
tered territories in the summer months to
visit relatives and friends. All restrictions on
such movements have been removed. In
spite of the inhuman method of carrying on
a war—like the rocket attack last week on a
Petah Tikva hospital, and the murder of
children—Israel risks such privileged free-
dom for Arabs among whom there may well
be some terrorists.
In fact, two. restrictions—the previously
required IL 5,000 bond that was to have been
posted by local residents for each visiting
reltive and periodic renewal of permits—
have both been removed by the military gov-
ernment in administerd territories.
There in lies the contrast: the freedom of
movement granted by Israed as opposed to
inhumanities marked by terrorism. Perhaps
these freedoms granted by Israed will serve
to convince the antagonistic neighbors of the
great necessity for an immediate peace in
the Middle East.
HIAS-Rescue Movement for Migrants
Current tabulated facts describing migra-
tion trends, issued by United Hias Service,
throw light on resettlement of many Jews and
areas other than Israel where the expatriated
are being provided new homes.
Of the 771 men, women and children who
were resettled in the first three months of
1971, there were 134 from Romania. Of spe-
cial interest are not only the continuing,
migrations from European and Moslem coun-
tries but also the departure of Jews from
Chile, as this table indicates:
FROM:
TOTAL Europe Africa Cuba Chile
& Asia
116
78
98
United States
303
11
Canada
56
34
14
8
Australia
6
19
13
Latin America
11
28
53
10
4
Europe
340
233
107
Total
771
406(a) 210
(a) Includes 399 East Europeans.
15
140
It is to be noted that the people who were
assisted in their movements away from their
motherlands were enabled to go not only to
the United States but also to Australia,
Canada and Latin America.
The fact that 303 of those who were aided
by HAIS were settled in 20 American cities
in 15 states is also indicative of the prepara-
tory planning that needed to be gone into to
Program Planning
The summer should be a time for pro-
gram planning. If our organizations, con-
gregations, fund-raising agencies and the
many women's groups are to gain pragmatic-
ally from past experiences, they must choose
the best informed people as public speakers,
and they must learn not to overburden their
constituents.
Israel's ambassador to the United States,
General Itzhak Rabin, made this interesting
comment in one of his recent speeches at
a dinner in New York:
"When I know I'm scheduled to speak
for a non-Jewish group, I know that I am
their only speaker and can prepare a full
address on the Mid East. But with Jewish
organizational affairs I know that I will be
the _last speaker and that by then they (the
guests) are tired and weary and not in the
mood for a full analysis."
What a wonderful lesson this is for many
of our groups who always feel as if they
have to hand out speaking honors to their
own members: heaven forbid, they may feel
offended! Once they learn that the organiza-
tional, the communal, the idealistic objective
is of the essence, boredom in many move-
ments will be .eliminated.
accomplish these tasks. The American states
that provided hospitality for these newcomers
are listed as follows:
State
California
Dist. of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Texas
Total
Immigrants Refugees
from
from
Cuba
Overseas
26
3
4
24
8
2
17
8
6
7
3
3
16
157
4
1
7
7
292
11
Total
29
4
32
2
17
8
6
7
3
3
16
157
4
1
7
7
303
The exodus described by HIAS assumes
added significance because of the departure
of 98 from Chile, 11 more from Cuba and the
following from Eastern Europe, the Middle
East and Asia, and North Africa:
FROM:
1971 FROM:
1971
EASTERN EUROPE: 116 MIDDLE EAST/ASIA 60
Czechoslovakia
2
Egypt
55
Hungary
15 Lebanon
4
Poland
25
Other
1
Romania
56 NORTH AFRICA
18
U.S.S.R.
17
Libya
5
Other Europe
1
Morocco
13
In these figures are reflected the needs
that have arisen in the critically-developing
situations in Latin America, in the tragedies
that have evolved in Eastern Europe with a
transfer of the needs to Communist countries
and the dangers that exist in Moslem coun-
tries.
The migrations have increased in the past
few years and the vitality of the HIAS efforts
becomes more urgently needed than ever
before in view of the difficulties that con-
front new settlers, wherever they may go,
under the increasingly trying economic con-
ditions. With the aid of Jewish communities
newcomers are being assisted in creating a
new life in many cities„ some of them corn-
ing periodically also to Detroit. But the
groundwork for such relief efforts must be
laid by HAIS.
As the traditional hope-providing agency
for emigres into the United States during
many decades in which the movement be-
came the lifesaving factor for hundreds of
thousands of migrating people who had fled
from persecutions, HIAS now instills new ap-
preciation. This movement retains a place
of immense honor in Jewish life as a distinct
factor in life saving and rehabilitation.
Matila Simon's 'Battle of Louvre
Describes Nazis' Thefts of Art
As a former European director of the International Print Exchanges
and as a consultant for art exhibitions in Europe, Matila Simon is
among the most qualified to describe the thefts of art treasures b
Nazi chiefs during World War II.
In "The Battle of the Louvre—The Struggle to Save French Art
in World War II," published by Hawthorn Books, Mrs. Simon describes
how the cultural treasures of France were threatened by the invaders.
Alerted to the dangers, the curators of the Louvre were prepared
for the dangers of a calamity and they carted off the famous paintings
into safe places of hiding.
By recreating the historical and psychological climate of th
years 1933-1948, Mrs. Simon provides an overview of the theories
and institutions underlying Hitler's vision of a purified, "Aryanized"
Europe, and his vengence for what he termed "degenerate art"—any
art created by or sympathetic to Jews, art advocating pacifism or -
denigrating war, art with Marxist or socialist themes, and all expres-
sionist or abstract art.
"The Battle of the Louvre" describes in detail the activities of
such Nazis as Goering and Rosenberg, who determined to destroy the
great masterpieces, and a small band of French and American art
lovers, who although faced by monumental odds, were victorious in
their fight to preserve and restore the world's priceless art, including
pieces by Picasso, Monet, Klee and Kandinsky.
The initial raids of German art museums, the effects of the Ger-
mans' hard push into France, the difficulties faced in excavatin
artwork from the Jeu de Paume and the dangers posed by the occupa-
tion and the battle of Paris, are all examined in depth.
Mrs. Simon describes the miraculous efforts of Louvre curator
and officials to pack paintings, statutes and even furniture, as the
attack on Paris became inevitable, and move them to secret locaqa,n
outside the city where the works would be safe. The care in mo
such valuables as the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo are dese4,
in detail, and illustrations of the chateaux used as fortresses alscrL::.-ax
included.
Although the war has been over for more than 26 yearS, ,
damage to art -during that time has yet to be totally rectified.: ;. iii
the French ofOlaWWere:.;•..eoneernect,_gbout the safety of pairi
and statues *dd.en in the cellar s -of Felinly-fc4teaut, where tjhe
could not be .prot e cted against nolct
o Cweather,
they at least knew Wriere,,the:,palkingS:040 -.1*70,it
many, as Mrs. Siinon'explaini„,
repositories
';, :thete were
404
:
locations continue
-a mysiiitif;:4
us, the search
for lost art—individual pieces
W110 as $60,000,
continues.
Mrs. Simon , describes the Judenbuesses, the special decree de w-
ing Jews of the right to dispose of their own belongings.
Thefts of all sorts—the collection of gold teeth from Auschwitz
victims, the resort to all means to confiscate property of Jews—these
are forms of terrorism imposed upon Jews reviewed -in the account
by Mrs. Simon, whose book serves as another indictment of the Nazi
terror.
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Shirer's 'The Collapse of Thirclo
Republic' Now a Paperback
Just as "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" remains one of
the great classics a-bout the Holocaust and the Nazi terror, so, 'too
William L. Shirer's "The Collapse of the Third Republk" must be:'
viewed as an indispensable volume in acquiring knowledge about the
tragic events of the Hitler era.
This volume, which like its predecessor was a best seller, serves,
as the subtitle states, as "An Inquiry Into the Fall of Franceln 1940."
It supplements knowledge about the era of terror through its review of
the role of France during World War II.
Published as a Simon and Schuster paperback, this 1,120-pag
account throws light on many issues, including the background of anti-
Semitic activities by rightist groups in France.
Historically, as an addendum to the expose of Nazi terrorism, the
§hiter: book is of ;great signifieance.