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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 18th day of Sivan, 5734, the following scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Num. 8:1-12:16. Prophetical portion, Zechariah 2:14-4:7.
Candle lighting, Friday, June 7, 8:47 p.m.
VOL. LXY. No. 13
Page Four
June 7, 074
Kissinger's T riumph and the Road to Peace
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
emerges from the protracted negotiations for
a disengagement agreement with Syria as the
man who earned his first Nobel Peace Prize
and who may be even better qualified for an-
other, even greater award. Perhaps he'll be
the first man in the history of the coveted
award to receive it twice.
He labored to end the state of war, and he
has succeeded in the first stages. If it is to be
accepted as reality that the agreement he had
engineered has led to Syria's acknowledge-
ment of Israel's existence as an independent
state, then the most serious obstacle to peace
in that area has been hurdled.
There are many other obstructions to be
removed. Lybia and Iraq are not amenable
to peace. Other Arab states are antagonistic.
The terrorists remain on the scene as a grave
danger to Israel, to the peace of the Middle
East, to a feeling that the gravest danger to
amity among the nations of the world has
been partially removed. But the road to peace
has-become much easier to traverse.
So much more remains to be covered, so
many aspects are to be considered, that the
obligations for those responsible for the ful-
fillment of the means for an unobtainable
peace are more drastic than ever.
Terrorists continue to threaten Israel's
borders: Russia's quest for power may not
have been fully satisfied, and Dr. Kissinger's
desire for a workable detente again is being
put to the test.
Remaining to be resolved is the so-called
Palestinian question involving the refugees—
those who are genuinely in need of perma-
nent homes and the large numbers who are
being kept in detestable camps as weapons in
the battle against Israel by the die-hards in
their determination to destroy the Jewish
state. The latter element has not been re-
moved from the scene, and if the problem is
solved as part of the over-all solution to the
problem of Israel's neighborliness with the
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Arab states, the determining results will be
historic and revolutionary.
In the procds of attaining the very urgent
amity with the Arab peoples, great responsi-
bilities confront Jews everywhere. Israel's po-
sition has been weakened economically. With
the return of the many thousands from the
war fronts to their normal pursuits, it will be
necessary to provide them with the means of
reconstructing their 'businesses, of fortifying
the industries. Israel's second largest indus-
try, tourism, must be given new impetus. In-
creased immigration must be encouraged.
For these purposes, the United Jewish Ap-
peal becomes an even more vital philanthropic
instrument in Israel's behalf. Investments in
Israel Bonds are great necessities.
For these purposes, too, those who manage
the philanthropic and investment programs
will need the entire Jewish community's sup-
port.
In the process of upholding Israel's hands
in the upbuilding of the state that has been
embattled for so long, another need will be
proper representation in dealing with-the non-
Jewish world and in presenting to the peoples
of the world the facts regarding Israel's needs
and world Jewry's links with the kinsmen in
Israel. So much bitterness reacted against
Jewry and Israel during the conflict with the
Arabs, issues like the oil embargo have been
so thoroughly distorted and had been ex-
ploited to foment anti-Semitism, that a leader-
ship worthy of the great occasion bordering
on peace must speak for Jewry. Jews, espe-
cially the youth, must be knowledgeable, so
that the issues should not be blurred and mis-
understood, so that Israel's needs should be
fully appreciated.
Courage in facing up to the needs will be
fortified by proper understanding of the is-
sues. The needs of the hour must bring proper
leadership to both Israel and to world Jewry.
These are aspirations and hopes to be fulfilled
in the historic days ahead.
Challenges to Israel's New Government
Simultaneously with the historic agree-
ment for disengagement of military forces on
the Syrian-Israeli border, a new government
has assumed power in the Jewish state. Four
noted personalities will be missing from Is-
rael's governing ranks. Other able men have
taken their place. A normal government does
not fear change: it welcomes it. This is how
the new conditions in Israel are to be judged.
As a matter of fact, because some in the
new Israel cabinet are younger than their
predecessors, the developments which have
taken place are viewed as necessary, leading
to new conditions to suit the nation's needs
and to provide the comfort needed for a
people in dire need of youthful approaches.
Many problems are soon to be faced, de-
manding solution. The concessions necessary
for peace will be vital. The relationships with
Arabs within Israel present as many chal-
lenges as those on the outside. The religious
issue is far from resolved.
Not to be overlooked is the need to keep
strengthening the Israel-Diaspora kinships.
Without this partnership, Israel is insecure.
Related to the latter is the unfortunate
stubbornness of the Orthodox in Israel who
,
would alienate the Conservative and Reform
Jews out of an opposition that has no place
in progressive Jewish communities.
Concern is in evidence in English-speak-
ing countries over the omission of Abba Eban
from a responsible position in the new Israeli
cabinet. American Jews are especially dis-
tressed. Eban has been an inspiration and a
guide in many of American Jewry's labors
for Israel and the hope entertained is that he
will not be missing when his voice is so ur-
gently needed in clarifying the issues affect-
ing Israel and in securing the support so
vitally needed for Israel.
Others well known to the American Jew-
ish community, especially, of course, Golda
Meir, will be missing from official Israeli
quarters, but these are internal matters, and
American-Israeli cooperation must go on un-
interrupted, regardless of official personnel
in Israel.
Problems may multiply rather than vanish.
Regardless of their seriousness they can and
should be solved amicably, and in a coopera-
tive fashion Diaspora can be of great help to
Israel. That's how it must operate in the cru-
cial period ahead.
Dahn Ben Amotz's Stirring
Narrative Published by JPS
"To Remember, To Forget" by Dahn Ben Amotz is the only novel
to be published this year by the Jewish Publication Society. Its selection
attests to its being judged among the most stirring narratives.
This haunting, introspective narrative is constructed on the classic
theme of the native's return, a native who discovers that he can't go
home again, especially when "home" is the Germany of 1959;
Eighteen years after he fled Nazi Germany as a child of 10, Uri
Lam, formerly Hirsch Lampel, but now an Israeli architect and city-
planner, returns to his birthplace, Frankfurt, to reclaim family property
and to seek restitution for the suffering of his parents.
This journey into his childhood past forces Uri to relive the horror
of the Nazi years and, almost two decades after the Holocaust, he
encounters in sharp, intimate confrontations the attitude of the con-
temporary German toward the Jew who has dared to come back.
Either in person, or in fever-generated dreams, Uri revisits the
scenes of his childhood and inevitably his deepest feelings surface.
Then his experience is complicated by his romance and marriage to
a very attractive and very German girl.
Uri Lam's bitter dilemma climaxes in a symbolic and bizarre
masked ball in which he appears as a pious Jew clothed in traditional
garb.
When it was originally published in Israel, "To Remember, To
Forget" quickly achieved best-seller status. In its English translation
by Zeva Shapiro, this skillfully-crafted, highly-charged novel will
command wide appeal among American readers.
'Yankel the Fool,' Meritorious
Folk Tale for Young Readers
Shan Ellentuck has caught the spirit of an old Yiddish folk tale
so splendidly that her "Yankel the Fool" emerges as a story that will
fascinate not only the young readers, for whom it is intended, but for
the elders as well.
It is not only her story but the pictures as well that make this
Doubleday-published book so meritorious.
For Yankel Schlimazel everything always seems to go wrong.
He isn't a bad man, but he has his problems. He's an orphan and his
parents, may they rest in peace for eternity, left him nothing but
debts. He has an old grandmother to feed. So isn't it a fact of life that
it's easier for one to steal •than for two to starve? Is it Yankel's faio+
that he was born such a fool?
With humor and a fine irony, Shan Ellentuck draws on a livev
Yiddish oral tradition to relate the story of "Yankel the Fool." Bad
luck dogs him in a series of episodes until finally a small miracle en-
ables him to become a man of consequence and marry the rabbi's
beautiful daughter.
Delights and Masters of Chess
Assiac is the expert who writes about chess, compiles facts about
the game's masters, knows the humor of the game and skillfully de-
lineates its delights.
That's what's accomplished by Assiac's "The Delights of Chess,"
a highly commendable Dover Publications paperback. This volume
contains problems, strategies, favorite games and openings. Here, too,
are Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Bronstein, Reshevsky, Uhlmann and
Lasker—along with Spassky, Petrosian, Larsen, Byrne and Fischer, who
have been specially added to update this Dover edition. There are near-
ly 20 others, complete with selections of their favorite games, analyses
of their styles, and of course, witty and entertaining anecdotes about
them as people.