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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 15th day of Adar, 5734, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 30:11-34:35. Prophetical portion, I Kings 18:1-39.
Candle lighting, Friday, March 8, 7:12 p.m.
VOL. LXIV. No. 26
Page Four
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ow and
uld be an end'.
True brotherhood c
borliness, and that e
lcnow one another.
Communication and? for
good will that is talked ab
difficult to put into practice.
The experience of United Jewish Appeal
'Ong leaders who strayed into Egypt pro-
es a proper lesson in good relations. There
no anger, no animosity--just curiosity.
e Egyptians performed their duty: they
strangers and they held them captive for
Me hours. They questioned them and they
tivities. They
re curious about the
wanted to know about ZiOns
and the UJA,
displayed a
the views
of Israeli,
. about
..„
,
ural ..desire to lea
March 8, 1974
i s
ago, and the Saudis
. While a Jewish co
Was arted by Saudi Arabia from the
French mission headed by Michel Ja
America could not be snubbed.
Similarly, last week, the Lahore, Pakistan,
conference of Arabs was covered for the New
York Times by a Jew, Bernard Weinraub
If such cooperation was possible, why
the equally human, perhaps the more humanv!
the vitally needed amicable Arab-Israeli-Jew-
ish relations?
Linking the Jewish aspect with the
in the Arab relations is a norm a
to the existing issues. Wh
filled with hatred carry
ra
:us do
Ors
cries w
batred
Jews, the road
Will the le
Meeting of'
dates with
-
mug
asic factsin..
t eves duri.
, °rated
ic consum on
of the hatred that has been instilled
srael. Can a new attitude be antici-
ility of mutual understanding
..:.was in evidence in two areas
elagain, a Jewish correspond-
.:. Dr. Henry A. Kissinger on
.ion to Syria. While Jewish life has
eiess in Syria, there were no oh-
. New York Times correspohdent
ernard Gwertzman on the Kissinger mission
Damascus. There may have been other
es: ndents with Dr. Kissinger, as
t...went to SAgdi Arabia
ere as muc
ligions iri Tsrael.i.:nose . woo o
lished by Israel Ot. all faiths. By permit
the charges to gain an audience the after
noon Detroit newspaper gave courage to high:-
level bigotry.
It is this type of hatred that must be c hin
inated. The need to know and understand*.
vital, If it can be::.achieved, the road to the
Geneva peace.conbtence will be strewn with
roses. An
ord has already. re..
moved some obst a c
the . road to amity..
Let that human sentiment spread and gain:
ground and the Middle East will once again
bo0Oine the depository of mankind's highest
thc#1. ,,c04es.
Orlinsky's Volume of Essays
Honoring His 65th Birthday
Enriches Jewish Scholarship
Dr. Harry M. Orlinsky, Effie Wise Ochs\ Professor of Bible at the
New York school of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion,
keeps enriching scholarly efforts with his outpouring of literary works.
His newest contribution to the growing library of Orlinsky books is
the volume "Essays in Biblical Culture•and Bible Translation" (Ktav).
''
His most popular essays in a 30-.
year period of productive labors are'
included in this volume.
It is no wonder that this volume
commences with "An Appreciation"
by Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, president
of Hebrew Union College-Jewish—In-
stitute of Religion, who asserts:
"Harry Orlinsky hardly needs my
haskama for his reputation_ as a
scholar—one of the leading biblical
scholars of his generation. He is his
own superb haskama."
Because this volume appears on
Dr. Orlinsky's 65th birthday it also
is no wonder that a group of scholars,
his former teachers should have writ-
ten a two-page tribute to him, includ-
ed•in this volume, with glorification
for "Our Teacher." Appended is a
Dr. Marry Orlinsky
list of more than 120 student sponsors.
Attesting to the merits of this noteworthy book is the classifica-
tion of the contents—the essays being subdivided into sections dealing
with biblical culture, Jewish culture and Bible translation.
As editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society's committee
that provided a revised translation of the Torah, his essays on that
subject are of special interest. He had written, and the volume of
his collected works contains them, an explanation of the need for
such translation, and two explanatory articles, "The Septuagint: The
Oldest Translation of the Bible" and "The Septuagint: A Little Known
Fact About the First Translation of the Torah." These are unques-
tionably the most authentic definitive works on the subject.
In the other two departments are essays that serve well in teach-
ing Jewish history, in spreading knowledge about the Prophets, pro-
viding data regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls—he was the purchaser
of the scrolls for the Israelis who sought their acquisition for the
Jewish state—and supplementary facts about archeology and
discoveries as they affected Bible knowledge.
While developing the theme of the importance of Jewish research,
Dr. Orlinsky also added valuably to ideological discussions, in essays
like the one titled "Who Is the Ideal Jew: The Biblical View:"
"He who has first fulfilled the laws of the Covenant with God so far as
his fellow countrymen are concerned. The ideal Israelite in the Bible, worthy of
'receiving blessing from the •ord,' is he• who, innocent of any wrongdoing
against his fellow countryman, comes to the Lord's House to sacrifice and to
pray to Him."
Such essays as "The Canonization of the Hebrew Bible and the
Exclusion of the Apocrypha," "Jewish Biblical Scholarship in Amer-
ica" and "American Stimulus and Jewish Response: A Challenge to
Our Youth," are valuable for teachers and laymen and rabbis will
be especially inspired by them. In the latter there is more than a
challenge: there is an appeal and an adm-onition, since it was a corn-
m.encement address to rabbinical students in which Dr. Orlinsky de-
clared:
"The Babylonian Talmud has it that 'Jerusalem was destroyed because the
education of youth was neglected.' In time to come it will be said that Judaism
in America flourished because you, the Jewish youth, were Jewishly instructed."
It is in this vein that Dr. Orlinsky presents his views and inspires
his readers, and his new book is, indeed, -a renewed inspiration ema-
nating from this distinguished scholar.