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friday, Feb. 16, 1971-39
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ulation, or to establish spe- ' Ashkenazi communities
By MOSIIE RON
FOX
lit I Illei . C:••1^s to1 ' 12,11 t
SAMUEL
J. am
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I c ial Sephardi election lists. There is a heritage from the By R.1BRI
(cop. tient
I•73. JT
Jewish News Special
he hard t,..
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If
/My the Federation of Seph- times of the Turks in Pales
The Jew ish institution of
Israel Correspondent
aid loll thr,i•..li
congressman warned, a
S.
(Sabbatical year)
TEL AVIV—Israel has no ardi Jews„ headed by Elia- tine, based on the system
n
: in the Ptod
that oil interests and the I
,
bar
and
Siton,
is
trying
to
,
enabling
each
religious
group
can
be
defined
as
inflow
luck with its two chief rats- s
"Arab lobby" oct try to le n.1•,- I - It of isolation."
The Book of Levit,c Us
bis. For years there has been build up animosity between to have its own religious
---
and its
law
courts,
and (Chap 251 as well as in other verse America's urrent pro- ;
a struggle between Chief Sephardi and Ashkenazi leaders
h4hfle
own.
personal
Perseverance
Israel pulley hq appealIng to
Rabbis 1sser Yehuda Unter- Jews. They stiktxre tried agM ttf 6
sour ,es n th • Bible explicit
are the_
Accomplishments
wake
President
in
th
e
the
man and Yitzhak Nissim. Flit and again to enter the MCC - , affairs, such as weddings, Iv demands that the land in of a fictilmus energy crisis" direct result of mistakes that
etc.
years they did not greet each lions on : special Sephardi divorce,
It has legacies,
been proposed
that Israel not be worked on the that the U.S. needs Arab oil. have been corrected again
other, did not speak to each l ists, but they have always
Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal and again.
other. This state of affairs failed. Now, they are trying the Knesset alter this law seventh year A number of (D.N.Y.) voiced the warn-
to
influence
Chief
Rabbi
Yo-
and
provide
for
the
election
reasons
are
given.
did not enhance the honor
First, by not working the ing in -a speech to 700 dele-
and prestige of the Israel sef to be the leader of their of only one chief rabbi in soil man relinquishes owner- gates attending the annual f
Chief Rabbinate. It was hop- separatist, ethnic tendencies. Israel. There are already ship as if to admit that the mid-winter conference of the
ed that with the election of Chief Rabbi Goren's parti- many "mixed" couples in Almighty is the true owner National Committee for La-
(Sephardi and Ashke-
Chief Rabbis Shlomo Goren sans argue that as long as Israel
bor Israel here.
Rabbi Yosef does not nazi). Their children serve of the land.
and Ovadia Yosef, the situa- Chief
Rosenthal, who recently
rid himself of the influence in the army, and the old cus-
Second. it shows that it is
tion would improve.
tom of electing two chief not the land which produces visited Israel, said there was
of
this
fanatic
group,
there
But, immediately after the
can be no harmony in the rabbis no longer applies. In by its power, but that the neither peace nor war in the
elections, the extreme group chief rabbinate.
the same way that the Knes- power of the Almighty is the Middle East but a status quo
and that he believed that
of Sephardi Jews in Israel,
Considering the rift be- set came to an agreement to productive spirit.
neither side really wants to
led by Eliahu Eliashar and tween the 'two chief rabbis, choose one chairman of Ori-
displays
the
qual-
Third,
it
change it.
David Siton, took the newly- Israeli public opinion is that ental origin, (Yemenite Is-
Describing U.S. policy "at
elected Sephardi Chief Rabbi an end should be made to rael Yeshayahu), so it could ity of generosity on the part
Ovadia Yosef under their the anachronism of two chief decide on a sole chief rabbi of the human owner who al- the moment" as 'not really
lows
the
poor
to
come
and
bad," he urged vigilance be-
"protection." They supported rabbis for the Sephardi and for Israel.
glean the harvest or what-
him against candidacy of the
JOHNNY TRUDEll ORCHESTRA
ever
grows
on
the
land.
former Sephardi Chief Rabbi
Fourth, because monetary
JOE MILLER
ALL SEATS RESERVED
Yitzhak Nissim, who had put U.S. Law Librarian Gives New
and
debts are cancelled in the
TAX DEDUCTIBLE
an end to the influence of the
ORCHESTRA
HIS
seventh
year,
a
sense
of
com-
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Sephardi federation leaders, Status to Bar-Ilan Collection
passion
is
exhibited
by
the
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HUDSON'S
in handling the funds left by
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the rich Sephardi Belelia
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family. As revenge, the lead- grant from the U.S. has made Now, as a result of her ef- debtor.
Fifth, refraining from work-
ers of the federation per- a marked contribution to Is- forts, the university's law
suaded Rabbi Ovadia Yosef rael's Bar-Ilan University library occupies an entire ing the land reminds one
floor in the Bar-Ilan main that the land of Israel is a
to become a candidate for law library here.
Sephardi chief rabbi against
Esther Mann, an American library. Not including stu- holy land.
dent
help, the library has
Rabbi Nissim, whose candi- native of Israeli parents, is
Sixth, by refraining from
dacy was supported by Maf- Israel's first and only pro- four full time workers.
tilling the soil, a man gives
Miss Mann said she buys credence to the tradition that
dal and electors close to the fessionally trained law li-
Labor Party.
brarian. The other practicing everything related to law for the Almighty created the
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In the new Chief Rabbinate law librarians either study her library. While American world in six days and rested
Council, there is a large ma- law or general librarianship. law, unlike the British, has on the seventh.
jority of rabbis who are par-
Miss Mann, who came to no status in Israel, she ex-
Seventh, since the farmer
tisans of Rabbi Nissim and Israel less than three years pressed the hope that the cannot work the soil on the
growing
collection
of
U.
S.
Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. ago, at Bar-Ilan University's
seventh year, the year is to
Abe Cherow, Says:
Chief Rabbi Yosef, whose par- request that she become the law books will influence be spent in study and reflec-
Artistic Upholsterers
tisans are in a minority on head of its law library, is legal proceedings in Israel. tion.
the council, is unhappy about fluent in .both Hebrew and "We already have lawyers
will be glad to work
Eighth, since all are free to
coming
to
us
to
copy
Ameri-
this situation. The leaders of English. She was recom-
partake of the land in the
with your decorator
the Sephardi federation are mended for the present im- can court proceedings to be seventh year, all are equal—
or directly with you
taking advantage of these portant post by one of her used in their arguments," the poor and the rich—the
circumstances and are insti- professors at Columbia Uni- Miss Mann said.
on your
slave and the free.
gating Rabbi Yosef against versity Library School where
upholstering needs.
Ninth, since man does not
his colleague, Ashkenazi
Israel
Tourism
in
'72
she specialized in legal
till the soil, he shows confi-
We can do more
his colleague, Ashkenazi bibliography.
Hurt by Air Piracy
dence in the Almighty, by
for you, for less.
Chief Rabbi Goren. At a re-
When she first came to
trusting
that
the
Almighty
JERUSALEM (ZINS)—He-
ception of the federation, Bar-Ilan, she shared a tiny
will provide him with susten-
noch
Givaton,
director-gen-
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Chief Rabbi Yosef shed tears
eral of Israel's ministry of ance in some other way.
in public and said he could
fora free
tourism,
has
conceded
in
a
'
Ten,
since
the
farmer
is
Special
Need
of
Aged
no longer cooperate with
home estimate
public statement that tourism always concerned with the
Rabbi Goren, who had estab- Told at Symposium
was adversely affected in soil, the year in which the
lished a dictatorship in the
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TEL AVIV — While the 1972 by the wave of terror soil rests shows him that he
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chief rabbinate. He said: creation of new services and and air piracy.
is
not
dependent
on
the
soil
I
block
Nogth
of fo•d Rd
"Goren says, Goren decides, institutions for the aged by
"There is no doubt," said
should not be, therefore,
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Goren strikes the table with the Association for the Plan- Givaton, "that tourism suf- and
Alt CHIROW, Presisterrt
totally pre-occupied with it.
Open Dody 8 o m to S p
his fist, and all that he wish- ning and Development of fered on this account." Giv-
es is decided upon."
Services for the Aged in Is- aton added that despite the
Chief Rabbi Yosef is an- rael represents a "signifi- problem of terrorism, there Deserters
gryabout the "conspirator- cant first step, much more was an 11 per cent increase
February 16-25
ACRE—The director of the
ial" way in which Chief remains to be done if all of in tourism to Israel in 1972
municipal museum here com-
Rabbi Goren settled the case Israel's old people are to be over the previous year.
plained to the police that
of the "bastards"—the Lan- provided with the kind of
Some 727,000 tourists av- "Eight of our soldiers are
ger brother and sister—with- care they need," Edward eraging 15 days in the coun- missing." The director,
Mor-
out consulting him. He is Ginsberg, chairman of the try, spent some $180,000,000
dechai Yehieli, pointed out
against mobilizing girls into American Joint Distribution in foreign currency.
Presents
that the "soldiers" were
the army, and even opposes Committee, declared at Is-
"We know that there would
figurines de-
their auxiliary service in hos- rael's first symposium on have been a larger tourist plaster-of-paris
The Arthur Stewart Collection
picting
the
army
of
Napoleon
pitals, schools and develop- planning institutional services flow if not for the fear en-
in its ill-fated campaign to
of 18th & 19th Century
ment areas. Rabbi Goren for the aged.
gendered by terrorism," Giv- take Palestine from the Turks
thinks that in times of war
The association was, pt up aton added.
some 170 years ago.
Original Old English
with the Arabs, girls, too. in 1969 with the aid of Mal-
Ychieli said the figures
should give help to Israeli ben, the JDC health, welfare
Oil Paintings
military services. These con- and rehabilitation program in U.S. Mathematiciaas were worth IL 300 ($75).
Teaching at Technion Police have taken up the in•
from S 10 ► -S 1.500
troversial questions disturb Israel.
HAIFA—Two outstanding vestigation.
the harmony between the
mathematicians from the U.S.
two new chief rabbis, and it Allocation for Golan
are teaching at the Technion,
is feared that if there is not
When a nation places a
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an appeasement between
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The Israel Defense Ministry ogy, where they have taken classed as a levy on unim-
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them, the rift could widen.
Before taking part in the announced that it would al- up appointments as Louis proved property.
memorial service for the late locate IL 18,000,000 ($4,500,- Susman Visiting Professors.
The two men, who will
U.S. President, Harry Tru- 000) to improve defense and
man, Israel's President Zal- security facilities at settle- stay at Technion during the
current
academic year, are
man Shazar appealed to the ments on the Golan lieights.
Ignace Kolodner, professor
two chief rabbis to make
of mathematics at Carnegie-
peace, in order not to damage Israel Twin Cities
Deir el-Balah and Ashdod Mellon University in Pitts-
the religions problems of the
country. Minister for Reli- became twin Israel cities re- burgh, and David E. Muller,
gious Affairs Dr. Zorah War- cently, the first time a twin- professor of mathematics at
haftig also met the two chief city pact has been forged be- the University of Illinois.
The Louis Susman Visiting
rabbis and tried to make tween a Gaza Strip town and
a refugee camp and an Is- Professorships have been es-
peace between them.
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general tendency of Sephardi granted municipal status on Louis Susman of Chicago and
are
conferred
annually
upon
Jews and their organiza- the same occasion marking American scientists of dis-
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tions is not to be separated the pact. Deir el-Balah has
tinction.
14.000
residents.
from other parts of the pop-
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