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'Patching Up' Problems of Language

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

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Jews as foreign ministers, membered more for a few
but Israel's Abba Eban expressions, such as "Any-
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trist should have his head
Differences of accent have examined." Perhaps his most
been almost as divisive. as famous locution was "I will
differences of color. The anti- give you the answer in two
i nvites you and your fam- Semite always sought to pic- words, "Im Possible." By
ture the Jew as speaking making two words out of one
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"It is a yesterday" or "a
nechtiger tag" means it is
not true.
An interesting thing about
languages is that the same
word means different things
in different languages. Take
the word patch. It means one
thing in English and another
in Yiddish. And that reminds
us of a story about "patch"
told by the great Yiddish au-
thority, Max Weinrich.
A Jew asks another, "Please
be so kind as to tell me if
you are Simon Greenfarb."
"Yes," is the reply, where-
upon he gets a good "patch"
across the face and the man
who gets the patch starts
laughing.
"Why are you laughing? I
patched your face."
"I know," says the man,
"but I fooled you. I am not
Simon Greenfarb, I am Ro-
sen."
All of this goes to show that
problems of language prob-
ably will never be entirely
patched up.

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'Between You
. . . and Me/

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 19'74, JTA Inc.)

PROGRESS REPORT. The American Jewish Committee
—which now holds its annual meeting in New York (May
15-19)—was a closed society of a few dozen leading Jews
mostly of German origin when organized 68 years ago.
They viewed themselves the protectors of Jewish rights
and interests. Jewish personalities like Jacob Schiff. Louis
Marshall, Felix Warburg, Julius Rosenwald, considered it
their duty to organize effective intervention on behalf of
Jews wherever and whenever needed.

Years after its formation, the AJCommittee remained
the same closed circle of individuals, aristocratic in nature,
with no East European-born Jews in its ranks; its annual
meetings closed to outsiders and even to the press, and its
activities centered mainly on "quiet diplomacy." In nu-
merous cases this policy brought satisfactory results, but
East European Jews in this country were not satisfied
with it. They advocated not private intervention but- public
action. However, the latter were immigrant elements with
practically no influence on the general American scene. Not
until 1917, when the American Jewish Congress was or-
ganized, did the American Jewish Committee therefore
meet any competition in its activities.

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CINCINNATI — Members
of the faculty and student
body of the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion agreed to communi-
cate and visit this summer
with the families of those
killed by terrorists at Ma'alot
as an expression of sympathy
and kinship.
At an emotion-charged
convocation in the Scheuer
Chapel on the campus of
HUC-JIR, more than 200 as-
sembled to show their soli-
darity with Israel and the
families of the victims mas-
sacred by the terrorists.
Three leaders of the Amer.
ican Jewish Committee's
New York chapter left for
Israel Monday to offer as-
sistance to Ma'alot. The AJC
chapter "adopted" Ma'alot in
1938 and has provided edu-
cational materials for it in
the intervening years.
Before leaving for Israel,
the delegation met with
Mayor Abraham Beame at
city hall. The mayor asked
the group to deliver a mes-
sage to the mayor of Ma'alot,
expressing his "sympathy and
sorrow at the murder of in-
nocent children."
The AJC delegates are also
bringing messages of condo-
lence from Senators Jacob K.
Javits and James Buckley
and New York Attorney Gen-
eral Louis J. Lefkowitz.

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JERUSALEM — Pioneer
Women's Moetzet Hapoalot
program has launched ex-
panded courses in aeronautic
draftsmanship and instru-
mentation to better prepare
Israli girls for work in the
army and in industry.
Mrs. Naomi Goren, direc-
tor of Moetzet Hapoalot in
Tel Aviv said the courses
will provide the girls with a
skill of special importance to
the Israel Defense forces, and
will make their military serv-
ice more rewarding.

Four flags have flown over
Michigan — French, English,
Spanish and United States.

IMPACT OF TIME: As years went by, the character
and structure of the American Jewish Committee have un-
dergone basic changes. From a small group of notables, the
organization developed into a democratic mass-organization
with 83 chapters and units throughout the United States.
No longer are its annual meetings held behind closed doors.
No longer are they attended only by a few charting its pro-
gram; hundreds of delegates from all over the country can
now be seen at the meetings. No longer is "quiet diplom-
acy" the cornerstone of the AJCommittee policy.

When one enters the eight-story building of 'the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee in New York, he gets the eeling
that the organization is actually a "Jewish State Depart-
ment."

The organization also maintains three offices abroad.
One is in Israel, welcomed by the Israel government; the
other is in Paris, watching the situation of the Jews in
European and North African countries and maintaining
contact with the office of the Vatican; the third is in
Buenos Aires, always alert to developments in .Jewish
life in the Latin American countries. A representative is
maintained in Mexico also.

The attitude of the Israel government toward the
American Jewish Committee finds its expression in the
fact that high Israeli officials—whether on brief visits to
this country or on longer missions to Washington—find it
important to address closed meetings of the Foreign Af-
fairs Commission of the AJC. The more nationalistic Jew-
ish groups in this country no longer find fault with the
AJCommittee as they did years ago.

On the other hand, the American Jewish Committee
no longer keeps itself aloof from other Jewish organizations
as was the case in the early years of its existence.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS: A good deal of credit for
the basic changes in the American Jewish Committee is due
to its former executive head Dr. John Slawson. During the
years of his active service, he brought in a new spirit in
the AJCommittee. His successor, Bertram H. Gold, is con-
tinuing the work in this spirit as executive vice president.
The president of the organization now is Elmer L. Winter
of Milwaukee. He is the first president of the organization
who is a midwest resident.

The AJCommittee mobilized all its forces to combat
the insinuations of the oil companies, as well as the allega-
tions of the Arabs. The thoroughly researched background
material supplied by the AJCommittee to American news-
papers, radio and television throughout the country had an
effect. The American oil companies were put on the defen-
sive and the Arab propaganda lost its meaning. In' a short
time, every American became aware who the real elements
behind the oil crisis were.

An important achievement by the AJCommittee reached
during the year was its establishment of "The Academy
for Jewish Studies Without Walls." This latest pioneering
effort will bring Jewish knowledge into thousands of Jewish
homes. It enables American Jews who, through no fault
of their own, have received no Jewish education, to study
Jewish subjects at home by correspondence and receive
academic credits.

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