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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the second day of Tamuz, 5734, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Num. 16:1-18:32. Prophetical portion, I Samuel 11:14-12:22.
Candle lighting, Friday, June 21, 8:53 p.m.
VOL. LXV. No. 15
Page Four
June 21, 1974
Speeding Peace by Ending Hatreds
President Nixon's -sensational tour of Arab
countries, the acclaim he received from the
Arab masses and the subsequent guarantees
to Israel of uninterrupted assistance to assure
the state's security, provide basis for specula-
tion regarding the futures for all who are in-
volved and the conflicts that inevitably re-
main in an area of suspicion and hatred.
The visits of the President, in the com-
pany of the architect of the military disen-
gagements on the two most dangerous Israeli
borders most assuredly emphasize a major
factor in the American relations with the Mid-
dle Eastern countries: that Dr. Henry A. Kis-
singer's road-paving has led to strengthening
this country's diplomatic friendships with the
Arabs, while continuing the long-range
pledges to Israel as an added assurance that
the Jewish state will not be abandoned.
But there are serious questions to , be
posed;
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Will the new political policies lead to
peace? Is the aff ection for the President of
the United States and his secretary. of state
a symbol of a new humanism in an area that
has been poisoned by hatreds? Are partners
in. a military dis engagement to be trusted
when, in the same breath as they acclaim an
American accord,. they keep talking about
ousting Israel fro m many more areas than
are presently and discussion? If, even be-
fore there is the slightest possibility of an
accord between Israel and her neighbors,
there is talk of a continuing terrorism to be
conducted within Israel, and, at the same
time, there is refusal by-the Arabs to conduct
face-to-face negotiations with Israel,- what
hopes are there for amity?
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The Nixon-Kissinger joint visit in Middle
East countries succeeded in arousing mass
demonstrations. American intercession did,
indeed, bring peace to the Arabs. It resulted
in withdrawal of Israeli troops from areas oc-
cupied in the 1973 war. It left the impression
of Arab triumphs. None 'of the efforts has led
to peace.,
The tragedy is that while Arabs deny that
their attitudes are rooted in anti-Semitism,
basing their denials on their own Semitic
origin, they have embraced every available
method of the anti-Semites. Every disputed
libel against Jews has become a tool in the
hands of Israel's antagonists. Even the ugly
ritual murder charge has been utilized in
the Arab campaign against Jews.
Perhaps the most shocking example of
bias resorted of by Arabs against Jews is the
spread of the notoriously repugnant forgeries,
the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. They were
used by the, senior Henry Ford in the Dear-
born Independent and later were reprinted
from his journal in Latin American countries.
They were Adolf Hitler's tools. The Russian
anti-Semites used them and in some Russian-
areas they are still distributed. Now they find
the most lucrative market in Arab countries.
The current aim, hopefully with Amer=
ican support, is 'to end the animosities, to
establish good relations between Israel and
the Arab states, and therefore also between
the Jewish and Arab peoples. But suspicions
lurk because-the evidence points to continuity
in the spread of Arab propaganda against, all
Jews, not Israelis alone.
It will be recalled that when French For-
eign Minister Michel Jobert visited Saudi
Arabia, last year, the French correspondents
who accompanied him were presented with
French editions of the Protocols as gifts from
King Faisal. It was a continuing expression
of hatred which was - in evidence in Arab
lands. In March of 1970 the Beirut daily Al
Ahwar reported that the Protocols topped the
best-selling non-fiction list in Lebanon in 1965
the Institute for the Study of Zionism pub-
lished an English language edition of the
Protocols in Cairo The Islamic Institute pub-
lished for export 200,000 copies of the Proto-
cols in French and 100,000 copies in English,
in Beirut.
It is necessary to call attention to a hate-
fomenting statement by Saudi- Arabian King
Faisal, who is the recognized religious leader
of the Arab world and is called Protector of
Islam, when he said in an interview for Amer-
ican consumption last -November: "The Jews
are accursed by God through the prophets .. .
They have deviated from the teachings of
Moses and have attempted to murder Jesus
Christ . . . They have no connection or right
to have any presence in Jerusalem. The
Wailing Wall is a structure they weep against;
another wall can be 'built for them to weep
against."
It is fortunate that some Christian spokes-
men do not ignore this type of hate-monger-
ing. The Rev. Lester Kinsolving, an Episcopal
priest and syndicated columnist, charactriz-
ing this exegesis of Christian doctrine an "ob-
scene neo-Nazi outburst," pointed out that
"the Protector of Islam" still bars all J.ews
and all Christians from the cities of Mecca
and Medina, and suggested that "the world's
nearly one billion Christians' might do well
to contemplate what would happen- of this
feudalistic Moslem fanatic were to gain con-
trol of Islam's third' holiest city—Jerusalem."
How are such venomous manifestations to
be overcome? The French Catholic periodical
Encounter Today made this important CORI-
ment recently:
This type of propaganda is not new. It has
filled pamphlets and school books for years ...
But here the territorial contest is definitely
placed on theological ground and hate is open-
ly given a religious basis and justification,
feeding the old medieval spirit of holy war
with crudely western anti-Semitic arguments.
That this should be initiated and supported
by scholars, theologians and "men of God,"
vilifying another religion and another people
at a time of ecumenism, not shrinking before
the vilest abuse is surprising, indefensible,
and shocking. Now we know what feeds the
fanaticism and alleged "despair" of the man
in the street and sanctions terrorism of the
most reckless kind.
The misfortune is that in a time of peace
planning it becomes imperative to be even
more vigilant against the repetition of horrors
that stem from bigotry and hatred. At a time
when the Middle East should have been on
the verge of a new era of peace, there are re-
newed doubts and suspicions. The Arab saber-
rattling has not ended. The spread of libels,
the popularizing of forgeries, haVe not been
interrupted. The- time for caution and vigi-
lance is more urgent than ever. Perhaps the
many peace-loving Arabs — they are in the
minority but, hopefully, they exist—will con-
tribute toward an end to such antagonisms.
All people of good will must unite to speed
peace and end hatreds.
Israeli Teen-Ager's Moving
Letters to American. Friend
Many_exchanges of letters, between, Israel and the United States;
expressed the feelings of those who experienced, the agonies of
the Yom- Kippur War and those who sympathized with the agonized.
A most moving brochure has just been published in St. Louis.
by Focus Midwest Publishing Co., containing the letters of Rachel
(Ruhi) Shimoni, containing the letters she had written to her 'American
friend during September-October 1973.
Entitled "Love, Ruhi," the letters in this little book were addressed
to a friend she had met during the American's summer stay in Nir
Galim cooperative agricultural moshay. The American had lived with
Ruhi's family, last summer, during her Israeli visit.
The 13 letters reveal at once a young girl's provocative simplicity
("P.S. I hate the war. I really hate it! ! !) and much concern ("Give
our children a chance to grow without knowing what a tank is and
what war is.") Ruhi writes poignantly of life reduced to its funda-
mentals: survival, love, shalom.
The letters selected for publication start the day before the Yom
Kippur war and end with the cease fire. While the cease fire brought
an end to frontline hostilities, Ruhi knows that the consequence of that
war, like all wars, will be with them for all time. She wrote: "We have
to learn to live without all those people who are gone. It's hard to
get used' to seeing all those widows and orphans that have to build
their lives. Do you know how ,exciting and terrible it is to see an
orphan (7 years old) saying Kadish for his father?"
"Love Ruhi" is 'a 56-page book with a cover design by Daniel
Pearlmutter. The publisher, Focus/Midwest, states that all proceeds
from the sale of the book will go to Israeli causes.
Mrs. Goodman's Worldwide
Tour With Jewish Cooking
For observant Jews who would enjoy a global cuisine and whose
tastes run the spectrum of international cookery, Hanna Goodman has
carefully assembled a tasty collection of gourmet and holiday recipes
all conforming to Jewish tradition and each adapted to dietary laws.
Mrs. Goodman's "Jewish Cooking Around the World" is the perfect
guide book -for the Jewish housewife who wants her dinner table to
fleet a world-wide culinary viewpoint.
Mrs. Goodman, a native of Israel, learned the art of traditional
Jewish cooking from her mother and has been gathering and testing
Jewish recipes for 30 years.
This unqiue kitchen reference is divided' conveniently into three
major sections.
First, there is the global tour in which noted• national dishes are
adapted for the Jewish home. From England; for instance, there is
steak pie; from France, quiche Lorraine; from Germany, sauerbraten;
frOm Italy; risotto and from China, kosher egg foo young.
In a section designed fol. holiday cooking one learns how to make
kreplakh for Purim and kneidlakh for Passover in addition to special
dishes for the Sabbath, Sukkot, Hanulsa and Shavuot.
The final section of the book is a kind of miniature anthology with
entries on dietary law, feeding the hungry and serving guests.
"Jewish Cooking around the World," issued by the Jewish Publica-
tion Society of America, adds new dimension to the art of the kosher
cuisine.