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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 20th day of Heshvan, 5733, the following scripturca selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 18:1-22:24. Prophetical portion 11 Kings 4:1-37.
Candle lighting, Friday, Oct. 27, 5:15
VOL. LX11. No. 7
p.m.
October 27, 1972
Page Four
ORT Services: An Argument for Peace
When the complete story of the integration of newcomers to Israel from many lands
will have been written, among the glorious chapters will be the story of how tens of
thousands who had come from underdeveloped countries were trained for productive.pur-
suits. It will be the story of ORT and its chain of schools and training centers in which
many young people were introduced to vocations of higher skills and to the modern engi-
neering, architectural and scientific trades.
ORT's story for 1972 emphasizes the many services that have already been rendered
to emigres from the Soviet Union who needed training for specialized jobs. Russians Jews
needed to be trained in Israel, but the vast sphere of ORT activities includes many lands.
True: the services in Israel represent nearly two-thirds of the student bodies in all the
lands where ORT has its schools. Large numbers, however, are trained elsewhere, as this
chart illustrates:
Statistical
Profile for 1971
TRAINEES I TEACH INC STAFF
COUNTRY •
Argentina
Austria
Brazil
France
Holland
Total
Enrollment
Teachong
staff
Trenton'
units
4,382
91
41
108
2
2
•
STUDENT ENROLLMENT BY TRAINING UNITS
Seltgooldary
bag
Pest-
facers.,
sm.'.
807
Trefoil.'
mut.
04*.
181
adult
CesorsotS
792
26
16
59
272
3
114
2.230
7
298
3,096
753
336
397
1.754
1.000
24
32
10
278
96
S3
1.199
43
Israel
42, 534
1,892
359
26.771
2 . 492
7 . 480
Italy
3,101
88
84
433
31
1,963
674
318
2.443.
Morocco
1,602
54
29
721
78
140
Tunisia
Y67
11
7
108
29
16
Uruguay
1,078
40
18
100
U S A.
376
5
5
Venezuela
519
3
2
Switzerland
Central
Institute
T 0 T A I.
221
64,936
11
2.606
geMIM'
bee Mei
Pr. *PIM
PLIAS
108
410
Iran
r il 4 k
CM
grew,
mensal
Teaming
3,685
India
P,
•
.:-
- 3
.
5,737
124
4
I.
-
423
5.791
345
114
555
1
376
519
8
112
735
32,818
109
4,115
12,519
8,234
7,250
It is the creativity of this nature that provides pride in Jewish efforts and encour-
ages us in the belief that Israel's neighbors can learn from the people they call their enemy
that the first principles in life are to elevate the standards of living. What is being done by
ORT in Israel and elsewhere can also be done in the Arab countries—if and when there is
peace. Perhaps ORT's program as an application to underprivileged is another basic argu-
ment for peace in the Middle East.
For the Jewish communities, ORT's accomplishments add to the appeal for unstint-
ing support of the Allied Jewish Campaign whence comes major support for ORT from our
community. The importance of our major fund-raising effort always grows with the aid we
give to such vital causes.
Quest for 'Creativity and Commitment'
Organized as a "source of creativity and mate, arrived at the general assembly of the
commitment," the Institute for Jewish Life Council of Jewish Federations in 1969, when
formed as a major function of the Council of the undertaking was launched, envisioned
Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds is now funding in an amount exceeding $2,000,000.
probing every available factor in American more
such an
allocation,
and proper
While than
education
alone
may require
much
Jewry's activities with positive aims to estab-
lish priorities for our communities.
consideration of a single aspect of the media
—the
new
gathering newspapers—as
and distribution well
agency
Aiming, in its exploratory stages, to arrive and
the
functiorting
as
at decisions for needs with impacts on life in the numerous other cultural needs will re-
Jewish communities, it is interesting to note quire increasing support, the introductory
that in the initial approaches the national programing is based on a sincere desire to
board dealt with five proposed projects: Edu-
improvements in Jewish communal life
cation, Family Life, Leadership Development, mark
in America.
Israel as an Educational Resource and Arts
and the Media.
At the forthcoming general assembly ses-
There is no doubt about the necessities
sions of the Council of Federations, in Toron-
inherent in all of these themes. It is note-
to, next month, the needs will receive new
worthy that education and Israel seem as-
consideration. It is vital that the Institute for
Jewish Life should already have begun its
sured of
that
the breakdown
in explorations in order that the approaching
family
life priorities;
is not being
ignored;
that the im-
portance of the media is being emphasized. sessions may have an opportunity both to
An ambitious program has been set up for
examine the plans and to give the testing
the Institute for Jewish Life The initial esti- renewed encouragement.
Jewish Literature in All Eras
Analyzed in Creative Anthology
Chicagoan Nathaniel Kravitz, who has held editorial positions on
Yiddish newspapers and had written extensively on Yiddish and He-
brew literature, assumed a very difficult task to write about literary
accomplishments of our people from the earliest times through the
20th century. But he has achieved his aim in the 600-page "3,000
Years of Hebrew Literature," published by Swallow Press of Chicago.
Miriam, Deborah, and the first Heberw, Abraham, and the Law-
student of both the literatures of the Bible and the Talmud as well
as of the writings of Jews through the ages.
In his natural commencement of his treatises on the many
areas he has covered with the Bible, he places emphasis on the
poetic, he deals with the personalities of early history—Noah,
Miriam, Deborah, and the first Hebrew, Abraham, and the Law-
giver Moses—and the reader finds many explanatory items about
Bible prose as well as poetry.
The accompaniment of maps depicting ancient times, as well as
the later periods, proves of some assistance to the reader who through-
out this work, becomes acquainted with Jewish historcial developments
through the analyzed writings of the most eminent in our chronicled
story.
Interestingly, the author deals not only with our poetry but he
also links the personalities and the writings to our traditions and the
illuminating work is both a reconstruction of literary creativity as well
as commentary on the long history under review.
There are impressive chapters on the Prophets—while touching
upon the Two Kingdoms in ancient Jewish history—commencing with
Amos but not ignoring any of the prophetic works. And the author's
resume of the beauty of Psalms, the moving portions of Job, the
poetry of Song of Songs, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, combine to make
the Kravitz evaluations worthy additions to criticisms of the literary
gems in scriptural literature.
Before turning to the Second Commonwealth, to text, dealing
with the Septuagint, Philo, Josephus, among numerous topics,
Kravitz devoted a chapter to "Historical Works: Folklore and
History," and while dealing with Joshua, the Judges, Chronicles,
Kings, he inserted in his work sample stories—about Solomon's
Wisdom and Nathan's Parable..
There is much in this work about the Golden Age, the Geonic era,
the period of the Talmud, and the author deals extensively with the
Cabala with the works that were created In the Franco-German lands.
Babylonian, Spanish, Mishnaic, Midwestern scholarly works are
utilized and the many parables and stories the author shares with his
readers prove enriching.
The works of Mairnonides, Bashi Don Isaac Abravanel, many
Spanish-Jewish scholars are included In these studies of the Middle
Ages. ,
A section dealing with "Liturgical Poetry^ throws additional
light on prayers and the devotional literature.
Modern literature gets considerable attention and the creative
writers in recent times are listed in a chapter dealing with "Modern
Sages." Preceding them is the author's splendid coverage of the era
of transition and the period of enlightenment. These are the ages of
Hasidism and Ilaskala, and also of the period of Cromwellian history,
of the sages of llolland like Menasse ben Israel.
In the chapter devoted to writers of the Enlightenment we have
reviews of works of Moses Mendelssohn, Abraham Geiger, Leopold
Lunz, Heinrich Heine, Abraham Mapu and many others in their time.
Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, Tcernichovaky, Schneur, Agnon, Moses
Hess, Graetz,A.had Ha'am, Huber, Rosenzweig, Klausner, Dutnow are
among the moderns whose works are utilized, and in the section of
"Modern Sages" Kravitz has included Mordecai M. Kaplan.
To complete his collective effort, Kravitz has added two appendixes
—one listing additional Jewish writers and another containing Impor-
tant dates in Jewish history.
Collectively, therefore, Nathaniel Kravitz has made a marked con-
tribution of Jewish literary annotations and to the gathering of ideas
about major works in creative Jewish writings. He has covered a vast
field with much skill in his splendid anthology.