THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Dec. 14, 1973-17
Understanding of Arab Mind Vital to Gauging Israel Response
By WILLIAM LOEW
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Editor's Note: Prof. Wil-
liam Loew, theoretical physi-
cist at the Hebrew University,
wrote an extensive article,
"We Need to Change Our
Educational and Social
Values," as a comment on
current conditions in Israel.
The following is an exerpt
from his statement.
As a chess player I know
it's difficult to win this
game, as any other game in
fact, without understanding
the mentality of one's part-
ner. My most serious accu-
sation against the govern-
ment is that it does not
understand the mentality of
the Arabs and so the division
into "hawks" and "doves" is
meaningless. Without know-
ing what the Arabs really
want, whether peace or war,
how can you decide whether
you are a hawk or a dove?
We are enveloped by a
shroud of doubt, and that is
in large measure the fault of
the government ...
If we decide that there is
no possibility to understand
the partner, then the whole
of our economy must be put
on a wartime basis, and the
public must be told that -We
must face a long-drawn-out
war lasting for scores of
years, and if we know how
to prepare for it we will be
able to withstand it. This
fact does not necessarily
have to weaken our spiritual-
social fabric. On the con-
trary, it can raise the stand-
ard of our morale.
On the other hand, if it
should transpire that our
First Federal
announces
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partner is prepared to come days of David and Solomon,
to terms with us, we must be not all the territory of Eretz
ready to make territorial Israel was under Jewish con-
concessions. Ever since the trol.
Exodus of the Children of
In a framework of peace,
Israel from Egypt to Canaan, even our generation can al-
the maintenance of Eretz Is- ways set itself a limit and
rael was a matter of military say: Thus far, we have suc-
strength of settlement and ceeded in conquering Eretz
conquest. Israel, from here onwards
In all generations, our peo- it's beyond our power, be-
ple knew that there was a cause in establishing frontiers
limit to our possibilities to we must always take into
conquer the territory of the account also the partner to
Promised Land. Even in the peace.
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two-stamp series, top, issued by the Israel Philatelic
Services. The other stamp in this fifth landscape series
shows Brekhat Ram, the "High Pool" near the Druze village
of Mas'ada in the northern Golan.
The two stamps below were issued in honor of the
International Philatelic Exhibition, "Jerusalem "73," which
was to have been held in December but was postponed
because of the war, to March 25-April 2. The stanmps
humorously depict visitors at a stamp show.
Secularisan Not Missionaries
Called Danger on the Campus
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.)
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A Hillel Foundation rabbi
at a large state university in
New Jersey has concluded
that the Jews for Jesus
movement is less of a threat
to the Jewish community
than is the "long-standing
and growing influence of the
religions of the East" on
Jewish college students but
that neither represents a
really significant problem.
Rabbi Steven Shaw, asso-
ciate director of the Hillel
Foundation at Rutgers-Doug-
lass University, asserted that
"in spite of the periodic
waves of panic at campuses
where the missionaries have
appeared with all their shock
troops, I know of no school
where more than a handful
of Jewish students have ac-
cepted Jesus."
Rabbi Shaw outlined his
experiences in seeking to
deal with the problem at
Rutgers in a report published
in "Jewish Students and the
Jewish Movement," a col-
lection of articles, some pub-
lished previously and some
written for the publication,
issued by the Bnai Brith Hil-
lel Foundations. Rabbi
Shaw's analysis was an ex-
pansion of a report published
last spring in Sh'ma, an in-
dependent journal of Jewish
opinion.
The Hillel director said he
doubted that Jews for Jesus
would, under the most favor-
able circumstances, gain any-
thing more than "token suc-
cess with, at most, a handful
of students." He, like many
Jewish observers, contended
that "secularism, the loss of
Jewish ethnicity, the paucity
of spiritualism within the or-
ganized' Jewish community
—these are the real prob-
lems, not the Jesus people."
Discussing the impact of
Eastern religions, he report-
ed that "Indian gurus and
spiritual masters seem to
speak on our campus almost
weekly. Classes in meditation
and yoga have become insti-
tutionalized in many college
settings, and through the
works of Hesse and others,
the 'wisdom of the East' has
reached a unique position of
influence in many segments
of our culture."
He cited the appeal to
idealistic young Jews of the
"pantheistic message" of
Eastern religions — "all is
ultimately divine — you too
are divine"—along with "a
strong emphasis on inner
spiritual contentment." Those
elements, he said, might be
the source of the strength
of Eastern religions among
moderns turned off by posi-
tivistic, technological society
and the alleged compliance
of the Judeo-Christian tradi-
tion in bringing us to 'where
we are now.' "