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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 12th day of Iyar, 5734, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Leviticus 16:1-20:27. Prophetical portion, Amos 9:7-15.

Candle lighting, Friday, May 3, 8:15 p.m.

VOL. LXV. No. 8

Page Four

May 3, 1974

New Humanitarian Commitments to Israel

When the "energy crisis" first emerged
as a menace to mankind, to this country and
to the rest of the world; when Arab threats
to raise prices on oil and even to choose not
to provide the necessary fuel to the customers
who enriched the sheikdoms, Israel was made
the chief target in an all-out attack. That's
when Jews were blamed, when anti-Semitic
slogans were heard and automobile tags
sought to make Jews thee villains in a shock-
ing situation that had been foreseen but was
not developed into its well known realities.
The truth must emerge, however, as it
did in a summarized report from Washing-
ton, from _ all available news sources, which
revealed the following:

Israel often demonstrates mere verbosity.
Our gratitude to our fellow Americans is
unlimited. Yet, in the interest of justice, it
would have been expected that the policy of
refusing to yield to Arab-Russian hatreds at
the Security Council would be both tempered
and reduced. There was another example of
international bigotry at the UN last week.
It is good that the diplomatic relationship
between the U.S. and Egypt has been re-estab-
lished. American aid to Egypt is practical.
But its practicality will assume true meaning
only when similar relations are established
by Egypt with Israel, when the two countries
have an exchange of emissaries, when they
do business together and when there is an in-
A senior Exxon Corp, oil official admitted terchange of activities mirroring neighborli-
yesterday that the company gave Saudi Arabia
ness. Until that course', only a military force
refinery data that was used as a guide to cut will prevent intrusions to and from Israeli
off oil to U.S. military units during the fuel
and Egyptian territories. What we have today
embargo last fall.
still spells a war condition and warlike threats
He said the company gave the Pentagon
to both.
only 15 minutes - to decide whether it would be
Some responsible spokesmen for our gov-
legal to furnish the information to Saudi Arabia.
ernment have been quoted hurling warnings
The data was a detailed breakdown of how
much Mideast crude oil was used by Exxon re-
to Israel that unless there is submission to
fineries around the world to meet U.S. military her enemies' demands for total withdrawal
needs.
from occupied areas "in the next war, if there
With this information, the Arabs were able is one, and it is seems to be emerging, you
to increase the effectiveness of their embargo
by proportionally trimming the allocations of may not get our help at all." If true, it sounds
crude oil shipped to countries where the re- like a death warrant without trial and with-
out any human consideration.
fineries were located.
Another far cry from optimism over the
Similar data was supplied by Texaco, Mobil
American position was signalized in the posi-
and Standard Oil of California, Exxon's partners
in the Arabian-American Oil Co., which operates
tion taken by the American delegate to the
the vast Saudi oil fields. Of the four, Exxon is United Nations who voted with 12 other
the largest supplier to the American armed states to condemn Israel, without any refer-
forces.
ence to the Kiryat Shemona massacre. The
Now it may well be asked whether level- anti-Israel prejudice in the international or-
headed people will admit the errors of the ganization had been challenged by American
last six months, during which "the hated spokesmen, but the most recent failure to act
Jew" was the object of scorn.
in defense of Israel's position has not added
All that had occurred Was the result of glee to Jewish feelings.
tragic developments. Another war was im-
Meanwhile, the chief Arab potentate, the
posed upon Israel. The Israelis admittedly Egyptian dictator, Anwar el-Sadat, having
triumphed, but an antagonistic world engulfed been given opportunity • during a television
the defenders of Zion into a state of submis- broadcast to the United States, to disassociate
sion. The victors were termed the aggressors. himself from -inhuman brutalities like the
The martyred of the ages who evidenced de- Kiryat Shemona mass murder, gave encourage-
termination to protect their national exist- ment to brutalities while threatening another
ence were forced into submission to political war. It is under such conditions that disen-
wiles.
gagements are being discussed and a secre-
But the energy crisis exists, the true vil- tary of state glorified.
lains are in evidence, the capitalizing monop-
Israel has begun her 27th year in a state
olists have been exposed. Will the blame be of- solemnity. The word "despair" has been
shifted from Jewry to the industrialists and used, but those who have chosen to live do
their partners the sheiks?
not submit either to degration or to- hopeless-
Perhaps the expose of big profits and ness at any time, whatever the cost. Neverthe-
indifference to the plight of a people strug- less the dangers crowd the roads, the terror
gling for its security will lead to humani- has been in evidence again, Israel's cities have
tarian attitudes.
been infiltrated by murderers.
The energy crisis must be solved. Serious
Just as the energy crisis has proven a
issues must be resolved, in the interest o f " fraud, so also must the animosities toward
mankind. Level-headed economists, scientist s Israel at last be shown their indecencies.
and statesmen must work together to elimi
Now it is not Israel alone that is under
nate repetition of the form of bigotry that attack. The Jewish kinspeople everywhere
had engulfed the world.
are being tested. The very existence of a
In the process it is imperative that the reborn state, whose political mandate came
obstacles to Israel's roads to safety and dig - from the United Nations within which the
nity must be removed.
vitriolic forces are now assembled, is at stake.
The battle presently is primarily on the It is inconceivable that the good people on
diplomatic arena. The Russian position con- earth do not sense these dangers. And it is
tinues to cause trouble for all concerned, with unimaginable that the defenders of Israel,
Israel the major sufferer. From the Kremlin Israelis within Israel and Jews in the Di-
stem the hatreds that have inspired Syrian aspora, will ever abandon her. This must be
threats and Egyptian saber-rattling that keeps understood in the most certain realities as
marring the hope for genuine accord.
Israel goes forth for a 27th year to be a time
Uncertainties keep clouding the issues. closer to peace and always protective for the
The friendship between the United States and Jewish state.

4-4TXL

Notable Schocken Paperbacks

`Kafka,' Rabbinic Anthology,
'Zaddik' and 'Marital- Relations'

Schocken Books' newest series of paperbacks include a number
of the most important books of the last decade.
"The Zaddik," dealing with "The Doctrine of the Zaddik Accord.
ing to the Writings of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef of Polnoy," by Rabbi Samuel
H. Dresner is an extensive study of Hasidism in Poland in - the 16th
and 17th centuries.
In a preface to this volume, the late Dr. Abraham J. Heschel
commended the research Rabbi Dresner conducted on the little known
life and writings of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef.
Another valuable work in the series is the volume by Rabbi David
M. Feldman on "Marital Relations, Birth Control and Abortion in
Jewish Law."
Rabbi Feldman's is a thorough study of "rabbinic legal tradition
that underlies Jewish values with respect to marriage, sex and
procreation."
The comparative references to Christian traditions adds im-
measurably to the value of this extensive work on subjects of major
interest.
Adding great merit to the new series of the often referred to
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The 850-page collection of talmudic lore, the wisdom drawn from
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Then there is the new Schocken "Kafka," reproducing "The Cas-
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Appended is a "Homage by Thomas Mann"; and an appendix
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the Opening Paragraphs," "Fragments" and "The Passages Deleted
by the Author."
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me. This little mother has claws."

'Inner World of Qohelet'

"The Inner World of Qohelet" (Ktay) by Prof. Frank Zimmerman,
former chairman of the department of biblical studies at Dropsie
University, has two aims, according to the author:
"To provide the student of Qohelet with an insight into his character
and personality in the light of psychological knowledge, and to show
how the discordant type of book that he wrote is a mirror of the chain
of neuroses that afflicted him, and secondly, to indicate that the lan-
guage in which he wrote the book was Aramaic and not the Hebrew that
we know today."
Providing his own translation with commentary, Prof. Zimmerman
discusses the identification of Qohelet with Solomon, in which he
demolishes the Solomonic image and points to his sexual and other
weaknesses, deals with psychological and other factors in the king's life.
The locale and date and structure of the Book of Qohelet are among
the elements under discussion in the Zimmerman book.

