Israel Deities
.11h)it Il•t With
Jordanians
JERUSALEM (J T A) —
Rumors that Deputy Premier
Yigal Alton had contacts with
Jordanian emissaries in Lon-
don last week spread here
despite a vigorous denial by
the Israeli Embassy in Lon-
don and a disclaimer by Al
Ion's office here.
The rumors stemmed from
the fact that Alton left for
the United States last week
but arrived there only Tues.
day.
Ile spent four days incog-
nito in London, where, ac-
cording to the rumors, he
met with representatives of
King Hussein.
Alton is visiting the U.S.
to participate in United Jew-
ish Appeal and Israel Bond
Organization functions.
The embassy in London
said that Allon stopped over
on a purely private visit in
connection with medica I!
treatment for a member of
his family.
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12—friday, Dec. 8, 1972
second-gen- I him. It the complimenter does power of the J e 'A' that the ghetto, but we should get
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-- ft, YOU TURN THE
erasion American Jews who not provide the counter. German word for evil eye re- out as Jews, with our own
laughed off their mothers' magic, the mother will quick- mains Judenblick (Jew's spiritual treasures. We
warnings against the evil eye. ly say •Unbeschrieen.' (with- glance).
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
should interchange, give and
two college professors took out invoking ill luck). If the
If anyone doubts the ex-
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
take. but not beg. Ghetto is
it seriously enough to write , admirer remains suspect, istence of the evil spirits
impotence. Cultural cross-
further prophylaxis might in- that abound in the folklore of
a paper on the subject.
fertilization is the only pos-
Wayne State University an- volve rapping wood or spit- Jews, the Talmud (Zeraim
sibility for human develop-
thropology professor Leonard 1 ting three times. This latter Berachota 6a) tells how to
ment."—Itzhak Leib Peretz
Moss was assisted by col- action is most often surrepti- see them: "Take the after-
(1852-1945), Yiddish writer
Milos Mewled. Detroit, Mick.
league Stephen Canpannari tiously."
birth of a black she-cat, the
and poet.
of the Vanderbilt School of
first-born of a first born
Throughout the history of
Medicine in preparation of
black she-cat, roast it in a
a paper, "The Mediterran- the Jews, the people as a fire, pulverize the ashes, rub
whole "were viewed as the
ean: Mal'occhio, Ayin ha ra. ,
them in your eyes and you
Oculus fascinus, Judenblick. ' Devil 'incarnate and the will see the evil spirits."
the Evil Eye Hovers Over." source of the evil eye,"
However, Jewish doctrine
writes Moss. "Sanitary prac-
The paper was presented
tices of the Jews which aided considers magic the bunk.
at a symposium on "The
Said
Moses Maimonides:
them in escaping many epi-
Evil Eye" last weekend at
"All these are false and
demics helped only to prove
a meeting of the American
they were in league with the fraudulent notions which
Anthopology Association in
Devil. The Council of •Elvira idolators of ancient days used
Toronto.
(Spain, 4th Century) in to mislead the ignorant
The authors examine the
49 forbade Jews masses in order to lead and
culture implications of the Canon Law
from standing among ripen- exploit them. It is unfit for
evil eye belief in Italian, He.
ing crops of Christians lest Jews, who are a wise and in-
braic, Roman and Etruscan
telligent people, to succumb
cultures. According to evi. they cause them to rot and
wither with their malevolent to such superstitions or to
dence, this belief is among
glances. The Jews of En- conceive of any value in
the oldest continuous quasi-
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gland were forbidden to at- such notions." (Yad Hahaza-
religious concepts in the
tend the coronation of Rich- ka, Hilhot Akum, 11.16).
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ard the Lion-Hearted (1189)
Moss quoted from Talmud
"A whale ship was my
for fear that an evil eye
and the Bible with reference
might harm the crown. So Yale College and my Har-
DON'T MAKE A COSTLY MISTAKE CALL US LAST
to"ay'n ha ra," the evil eye.
—Herman Melville
feared was the purported vard."
"The biblical concepts of ayin
ha ra have a twofold mean-
ing — jealousy and hate,"
writes Moss. "Involved in
jealousy is both envy and
greed. Illustrative of this
would be such passages as:
'He that hath an evil eye
hasteth after riches' (Pro-
homeless ... with the determination
It is the "living" Israel ... the "real"
verbs XXVIII, 22) and 'Eat
to set up a democracy for the op-
Israel ... the Israel possessed with
not thou the bread of him
pressed. It is the Israel of hope, of
the courage to carve a garden from
that hath an evil eye' (Pro-
pride, of dedication. It
the desert . .. with the
verbs XXIII. 6).
is the Israel you
compassion to
"When Saul clothed David
will see on
make a home
in his kingly apparel before
the —
for the
the battle with Goliath, Saul's ,
face went white and an evil
eye entered into him after
he saw that his clothing fit
David. (I Samuel XVII, 39). 1
Moss continues: "It is, how- '
ever, the aspect of hate
which gives the evil eye its I
po w e r . Abha
destructi% 12
founthor of the rabbin-
ic academy in Sura (Baby-
lonia, 3rd Century BCE I ;
contended that 99 of 100 peo-
i•e who die do so because
of the evil eve "
So devastating was the
power of the evil eye, writes
Moss, that it required ra:i-
Mille legislation "Though
ork is forbidden on the
Sabbath, it is permissible to
utter a charm against the
evil eye . . Special care
must be taken with first-born
males and bridegrooms: as
objects of envy they are par-
ticularly susceptible.
"It may be argued that the
ritual breaking of a glass
by the bridegroom at the
conclusion of the wedding
ceremony is to chase the evil
which may lurk at the time.
Invocation of the holy name
is powerful In avoiding the
impact of disaster . . ."
Dr. Moss said it is impos-
sible to pinpoint origins in
such a study. "Whether Ju-
daic in origin or not, belief
in.the evil eye exists among
contemporary Jews in Italy,
the United States and else-
where." Ritual to counteract
its force include the use of a
royte baendel (red ribbon)
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NEW YORK iJIM — Six'
hundred elderly Jewish New
York men and women, with
an average annual income •
under $4.000, were scheduled
to leave by air for a two-
week winter vacation in,
Florida sponsored by the,
Associated Camps, a division
of the Associated YM-YWHAs
of Greater New York.
Barnett Lambert. Asso
ciated Camps executive di-
rector, said that the oldest
man in the group is 94 and
the oldest woman 84.
The all-inclusive vacations
range in costs from $250 to
$300, far below the usual
outlay for such a vacation
visit.
Lambert said additional
scholar'ship funds, provided
by Associated Camps and
the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies tr.ole it pas
sible to increase. the number
of elderly vacationers to 600
from 430 who made the trip
in 191't. Ile said the increas-
ed grants were made "to
give as many oldsters as pos-
sible a chance to participate
in the program.
He said the winter vaca-
tion program for low-income
elderly was a new counter-
part of the Associated
Camps' extensive summer
camping programs, particu-
larly designed for low-income
elderly in the New York
Metropolitan area. The sum-
mer camp programs will be
expanded next summer when
a new area will be opened
on a 500-acre Pocono Moun-
tain site. He said that facili-
ty, to cost nearly $2,000,000,
will be the nation's first sum-
mer camp designed for the
specific needs of the aged.
Lambert noted that the
low-cost trips "provide an in-
creasingly rare opportunity
for senior citizens to enjoy
a short period of warmth,
s a f et y and security" in
Florida. "In a relaxed set-
ting, friendships arc formed
which have increasing im-
portance to the elderly and
these relationships are often
maintained during the winter
hack home."
lie added that while the
vacationers are recruited
from members of Associated
Y centers, as well as from
'Si, other federation agencies,
the winter vacation program
an evil eye should not befall
is nonsectarian in nature.
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