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Simhat Torah Scriptural Selections, Oct. 19
Pentateuchal portions, Deut. 33:1-34:12, Gen. 1:1-2:3, Num. 29:35-30:1. Prophetical
portion, Joshua 1:1-18.
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 24th day of Tishre, 5734, the following scriptural selections will
be read in our sunagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 1:1-6:8. Prophetical portion Isaiah 42:5-43:10.
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First day Rosh Hodesh Heshvan Torah Reading, Friday, Oct. 26, Num. 28, 1:15.
Candle lighting, Friday, Oct. 19, 6:27 p.m.
VOL. LXIV. No. 6
Page Four
October 19, 1973
Embattled Nation's Enemies and Defenders :
Israel's Agonies and Apprehensions
Infamy is international.
How else is the confusion among diplomats, in the world organization of nations,
to be summarized?
Had there been genuine sincerity, honorable concern over the right of people to
exist as an entity, the unending struggle in the Middle East might never had arisen.
Had it not been for Russian backing of terror and terrorists, of the weapons sent
for the specified purpose of destroying Israel, peace would have been a possibility and
amity among nations a reality.
Had there been a sense of decency rather than a quest for power and for oil-soaked
mentality, the free nations of the world would not be in the dangerous position they are
now being thrown into by threats of Arab refusal to provide the oil needed under mod-
ern conditions for many nations.
The Arabs have no fears from a boycott of their product. They are loaded with
billions.
The immorality and inhumanity of their position must be challenged, and this is a
major task for all freedom-loving people.
Assistance to Israel in the one form that is possible for world Jewry — primarily
American Jewry—philanthropically—must not be halted for a second.
Coupled with that effort is the duty to alert our legislative forces and the Presi-
dent of the United States not to falter in their duties to human kind and not to permit
harm to the People Israel's will and determination to live. And they must join in a con-
certed effort to reject and condemn the threat from the oil interests.
If it were not for the United States, Israel might stand alone against a hostile
world. Not only Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Libya, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Tu-
nisia; not the 18 Arab states as a unit, together with some of the non-aligned nations. It
is primarily Russia that is conducting the war on Israel.
Therefore mobilization of every available means to prevent a calamity is so vital.
Therefore every friend is cherished.
Former U. S. Senator Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota is a responsible American.
His view is that proposals for. American neutrality in the present conflict "offend moral-
ity." He made a statement last week and this is how he defined his position:
From whatever source, calls for American neu- Nations has shown itself to be a particularly un-
trality in the Middle East offend every sense of satisfactory forum for resolving or even considering
justice and international morality. For the clearly and the Arab-Israeli conflict in either its long-standing
oft-stated aims of Arab governments and terrorists or most recent manifestations.
alike confirm that this conflict is no ordinary ter-
I am persuaded that Israel refrained from pre-
ritorial dispute between contending parties respecting emptive response to the tremendous buildup it ob-
each other's sovereignty, no Mideast version of the served on the ceasefire lines largly bcause our
Alsace-Lorraine question. Until the Arabs actually government assured it that the Arabs did not intend
sit and negotiate a direct settlement with Israel, war. This imposes a further moral obligation on the
people will wisely suspect that they still dream of United States to sustain Israel's strength in its ef-
old maps without Israel. forts to reverse the present perils and defend itself
In this regard, it is my view that the United against aggression.
There is an accusation here: that Israel, having refrained to act against an im-
pending attack by the Arabs—everybody, including Israel, the United States and Russia,
seemed to have known about it—had fallen into the present trap out of respect for U. S.
requests to be patient. This patience now demands sustenance of strength to be able to
win the right to live as an entity.
Is the Christian community awakening to a responsibility to prevent another Holo-
caust? Is Eugene McCarthy's humanism symbolic of many other Christians?
There are hasidei umot ha-olam—saints among the nations of the world. Eugene
McCarthy earned a place among such hasidim. Such hasidut has been earned by men like
Robers St. John, Rev. A. Roy Eckardt and many others.
An impressive voice has been added to the appeal to decency, with this letter that
appeared in the New York Times:
To the Editor:
The Arab terrorism, which soaked with blood the
As a Roman Catholic priest, I would urge all my peaceful Olympic games, has now dropped the mask
fellow Christians to lend their total su ➢ ort to Israel of the actions of a few fanatics and revealed itself
in the current war. The aggression of Syria and as the settled policy of the rulers of Damascus. Even
Egypt (ironically on the highest holy day of the our Quaker friends, although they may be absolute
year) deserves the condemnation of every thoughtful pacifists, would not insist that the people of Israel
American. I have been on the Golan Heights, and allow themselves to be slaughtered by the invading
even a nonmilitarist like myself can see what damage armies from east and west.
the guns of the war-mad Syrians have done and can
(Rev.) Joseph Cantillon, S.J.
do to the peaceful inhabitants of northeastern Galilee.
Morristown, N.J., Oct. 7, 1973
These are hectic and tense days, marked by oppressive anxieties and apprehensions
over the fate of our kinsmen and the security of an entire nation. But with friends like Mc-
Carthy, Eckardt, Cantillon, St. John and others, we wish to believe that justice and honor
and the right of human beings to survival will triumph.
"The righteous shall live by his faith."
-- Habakkuk 2:4.
Classics of the Theater
Greatest of Yiddish Stage Plays
Republished in English Volume
SHOLEM ASCH
H. LEIVICK
Plays that had been attractions on the Yiddish stage for many
years are finding impressive revival as literary masterpieces in a
volume containing their translations into English.
In "The Great Yiddish Plays," which he has edited and translated,
and which has just appeared in a 36-page volume by Horizon Press,
Prof. Joseph C. Landis of Brandeis University has included the follow-
ing.
"The Dybbuk" by S. Anski, "God of Vengeance" by Sholem Asch,
"Green Fields" by Peretz Hirshbein, "David and His Wives" by David
Pinski and "The G-olem'i by H. Leivick.
The fame of these plays, the skill with which the translator and
editor of this volume has tackled the revival of theatrical triumphs,
Prof. Landis comments on the importance of the Yiddish theater—these
combine to add significance to a most interesting book.
Dr. Landis' selection of the most noteworthy plays of the Yiddi
stage lends literary importance to his efforts.
Explanatory essays on all of the productions translated for inclusion
in this volume serves as guides for students of the theater, and those
delving into the history of the Yiddish theater. There is historical
merit to Dr. Landis' approach.
Those who were intrigued by the controversial Sholem Asch play,
"God of Vengeance," will find a reconstruction of an interestig period
both in Yiddish literature and staging in Dr. Landis' re-introduction of a
great drama.
Similarly, "Dybbuk" and "Golem" mark a revival of interest in
plays that were subjects of discussion by non-Jews as well as Jews
when the plays were chief attractions on East Broadway.
Dr. Landis' introductory essay touches upon Yiddish as literature
and the theater as a valuable vehicle in Jewish ranks.
The importance of the authors of the plays he selected for his
collctive work is emphasized by Prof. Landis who states, in his com-
ments on the Yiddish literature:
"Of late, the works of Yiddish literature have received increasing
attention. Perhaps the time is rapidly approaching when historians and
critics will accord them more than silence or passing reference in
literary histories of the American people. American-Yiddish literature
is the heritage of the American people. And there are relatively few
heirs left elsewhere."