The Jewish News—April 6, 1973-0

Athletes in Many Lands Train for Israel Maccabiah Games

TEL AVIV — Lawn tennis
will be the most popular
event among the 22 countries
participating at the ninth
Maccabiah Games, opening
July 9 in the Ramat Gan
Stadium with 19 countries
registered to compete in the
lawn tennis events.
Next will be track and field
with 17 countries; football
and swimming, 15 each;
table tennis, 13; judo and
fencing, 11 each; basketball
and shooting, 10 each; vol-
leyboll, nine; weightlifting
and golf, eight each — while

The sweetest

gymnastics closes the list
with only four.
Preparations for the Mac-
cabiah Games are in full
swing in most of the Jewish
communities throughout the
world, with Australia being
the first in, already having
selected its team to include
105 athletes composed of 21
athletes, six swimmers, as
well as basketball, cricket,
golf, water polo and table
tennis teams.
Rhodesia has also com-
pleted the composition of its
team, with 25 sports men and

officials. The Rhodesian con-
tingent will include bowlers,
golfers and swimmers.
From Sweden, it has been
reported that the Swedish
government will participate
in financing the dispatch of
the Swedish contingent to the
Maccabiah Games, a step
taken for the first time since
Swedish participation in the
Maccabiah Games from the
time of the Third Maccabiah.
Efforts are also being made
to involve one of the Swedish
Royal Family to attend the
Maccabiah Games.

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Ramat Gan Olympic Sta-
dium is getting a new "face"
ultramodern illumination,
similar to that prepared at
the Munich Olympic Games,
new seating for the presiden-
tial box and VIPs section
and with special arrange-
ments for pressmen and pho-
tographers.
The highlight of the Open-
ing Ceremony, which will be
attended by the president of
Israel, will be a son-et-lum-
iere pageant, the first of its
dimension in Israel — to
demonstrate the heroism of
Israel since the days of Ma-
sada and the resurgence of
the State of Israel to this
very day..
There will be 1,600 partici-
pants in the Games.

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Community Services Help Keep
Israel's Aged Out of Institutions

JERUSALEM The devel-
opment of new community
services for the aged in Is-
rael is helping an increasing
number of elderly persons to
remain at home instead of
seeking admission into insti-
tutions, Harold Trobe, direc-
tor-general of Malben, told
members of the American
Medical Association at an in-
ternational health conference
in Israel earlier this month.
Speaking at the joint dis-
tribution committee, Malben
Neve Avot Geriatric Center
at Pardess Hanna, Trobe
said that "while there was no
alternative to institutional-
Star Praises Israel
izing many of the aged in
Liza Minnelli: "If you the early 1950s when the
think seeing `Cabaret' is fun country was not as advanced
. . . see Israel."
as it is today and massive

immigration was under way,
this is no longer tolerable
in the 1970s.
The emphasis today must
be on the development of
programs and services that
will enable the relatively
healthy aged person to stay
at home. Many of the chron-
ically ill can also remain in
their normal environment if
the proper home care pro-
grams, such as JDC Malben
is developing in Pardess
Katz and Beersheba, are in-
stituted..
"The idea is to keep the
aged and even the chronical-
ly ill out of the institutions
for as long as possible. Even
the best institution robs the
resident of his identity, his
individuality and his indepen-
dence."

Ira Moskowitz's Artistic View of Immortality
of Hasidism and Singer's Religious Analyses

A noted artist and a distinguished author
have combined their skills to produce a
most impressive art work. It combines de-
scriptive literature about a great folkloristic
Jewish element with the pictorial impres-
sions of that religious element. It is in
"The Hasidim," published by Crown, that
Isaac Bashevis Singer tells his story and
Ira Moskowitz illustrates it with drawings
of Hasidic life.
Besides, Moskowitz also writes here
about "Hasidism and the Artist," and the
joint efforts produce a work that will be
prized by its readers and possessors.
Singer's essay, entitled "The Spirit of
Jewishness," is an especially appropriate
text because it traces the Jewish experi-
ences — under oppressive governments and
regulations, on to the Enlightenment, un-
dergoing the process of assimilation, the
new type of Jew under the influence of the
Emancipation, "one who could renounce
the laws of his religion yet remain a Jew."
Thus he describes the determined relig-
ious Jew, the pious one, who must "stick
to his long gabardine ... if the worldly Jew
dresses in short garments."
Of course, there are the religious Zion-
ists, the Mizrachi, but Singer takes into ac-
count the opponents of Jewish nationalism,
the ultra-religious, the Naurei Karta.
Thereupon, Singer turns to the Haskala,
to Jewish Enlightenment, in his discussion,
in a second chapter, of "The Spirit of
Hasidism." Here he touches upon the Ka-
bala, and he outlines the rise of the Hasidic

movement, the Rebbes who headed the var-
ious sects, their mood and their inspiration.
He makes it a point to indicate that
"neither Zionism nor the Jewish trend of
socialism found their reflection in Jewish
art," in order to emphasize that the artist
in this volume, Ira Moskowitz, who stems
from Hasidic generations of fervent Jews
seldom drew Halutzim and drainers of
swamps in Israel, that: "Almost all of his
artistic energy went into portraying the
Mea Shearim, where the extreme Jews lived
and worshiped. He felt by instinct that they
were the only guarantee of immortality."
Moskowitz's essay emphasizes that point.
He asserts that his interest is the area of
the Hasidim in Mea Shearim, his interest is
the Wailing Wall, and Safad. He maintains:
"Viewing the Hasidic Jew in his true en-
virons is an uplifting and fulfilling 'experi-
ence. There he walks. in pride. There he
belongs, as if in the vineyard of his father.
The late John Collier, minister of the Bur-
eau of Indian Affairs, often remarked how
`at one' the American Indian was in his
surroundings. In the same way the Hasidic
Jew in his homeland remains a timeless
phenomenon, clearly transcending both pot
litical and religious barriers that, either
out of habit or apathy, so many of us today
have helped create."
The accompanying photo, of a boy learn-
ing to iput on his Tefilin — his Phylacteries
— gives an idea of form of Moskowitz's art
works that fill this immense work dedicated
to the Hasid and his devotions.

