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Annual Leo Baeck Conference Fans Jewish Thought
The seventh annual Leo
Baeck Memorial Conference
on Jewish Social Thought
last fall was held against the
backdrop of the- shocking
Yom Kippur War.
Sponsored by the Ameri-
can Federation of Jews from
Central Europe, the confer-
ence honored the 100th birth-
day of the late German-Jew-
ish liberal. Baeck was one
of the most famous leaders
of the- German Jewish com-
munity during the harrowing
rise to power of Adolph
Hitler.
The conference covered
topics besides Baeck's philos-
ophies: Israel and the Golah,
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Reaction to th6 October War
and Jewish Social Thought—
and Reality.
Prof. Ernst A. Simon, of
Hebrew University in Jeru-
salem, compared Baeck and
Martin Buber, another lead-
ing German Jew who helped
revive Hasidism, and helped
transform Zionism into a
cultural, as well as political
movement.
"Baeck and Buber belonged
among the outstanding and
courageous leaders of Ger-
man Jewry in its most crit-
ical hour," Dr. Simon said.
But, "There were two sig-
nificant differences in their
positions: Baeck was forced
to take -responsibility for the
organized Jewish community
at the end of German-Jewish
history and thus faced the
necessity imposed on men of
action to make unavoidable
compromises.
"Buber taught us the
meaning lof spiritual resist-
-ance against identification
with the aggressor . . He
was and remained our teach-
er . . . riot a leader of men."
Dr. Herbert Straus, of City
College of New York, opened
the Lerntag, and explained
its significance by saying it
recaptures "Past experience
,
in service to the present and
the future.
"Baeck's approach_ to
teaching and writing, Buber's
reinterpretation of the hasid-
ic tradition, the respect both
men instilled in their students
for their visions of the good
and true life makes them
guides and allies in our ef-
forts."
Another speaker, Joachim
Prinz, chairman of the gov-
erning council of the World
Jewish Congress, spoke pessi-
mistically about his hopes for
the Golah.
His thoughts should lead
Jews living outside Israel to
ponder the meaning of their
personal lives, and those of
their fellow Jews.
"For this Golah," i Rabbi
Prinz said, "a Jewish com-
munity which is very weak
numerically and weak in
terms of Jewish creativity,
I do not believe in an assured
existence for the next hun-
dred years."
Rabbi Prinz continued,
"This is the first time that
Jews live in complete free-
dom and are at liberty to
be or not to be Jews.
"A very large number have
made the decision not to be
Jews, not by converting . . .
They say clearly: 'I am a
Jew.' But what consequences
do they draw from being
racially, biologically, ethnic-
ally 'Jews? In reality they
are not Jews because they
are not actively or creatively
involved in their Jewish exis-
tence."
He -goes on to quote the
frightening - intermarriage
statistics, reaching the rate
of 85 -per cent in Holland,
and 40 per cent iri the U.S.
Alt ko u g h pessimistic,
Rabbi Prinz still sees hope
if attitudes will change:
"The meaning, the historic-
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meaning, the moral meaning,
the religious meaning of Jew-
ish 'existence in 1973 and the r
following decades is to es-
tablish a relationship of mu-
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tual love and respect between
the Golah and Israel."
Combine FUNCTION
Dr. Curt C: Silberman,
With
STYLE for
-president of the American
Men and Women
Federation • of Jews from
by
Central Europe, summarized
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the conference:
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-"The Lerntag on Jewish
Bone, White
Social Thought was an at-
tempt to assist in the clarifi-
cation- of the interdepen4ence'
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of\ Israel and the Diaspora, a
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time to establish guidelines
for the Diaspora."
"Our problem is not so
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hope _ for independence is ap•lication."
based."
In his letter, Yates said
that his questioning at the
Treasury Department fol-
lowered the administration's
announcement that it would
welcome • investment in the
United.States by Arab na-
tions of their oil income.
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RIPPLE'
Congress May Prevent Arab
Control of U.S. Oil Property
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Legislation to prevent pur-
chase or lease of American-
owned oil lands by the pe-
troleum Koducing c a r t el
countries or their associates
is being prepared by .Rep.
Sidney Yates (D.-Ill.).
In a letter to his constitu-
ents in Illinois where he is
unopposed for re-election to
his 13th term in Congress,
Yates said he will introduce
his legislation when Congress
reconvenes in mid-November
to block such control by for-
eign interests. He said that
he has expressed his concern
to President Ford, urging
him to take steps for the
same ends.
The "disquieting answer"
that he received in question-
ing U. S. Treasury officials
on the subject Yates declared
is,that the Arab nations could
sit "on our oil leases" and
that "there' are no barriers
to their participation."
Yates said that he consid-
ers "appalling, if not danger-
ous, the- prospect that the car-
tel nations, whose monopolis-
tic price-gauging activities
' had compelled us to speed up
the development of our own
energy resources, should be
given the opportunity to buy
conrol of our oil lands upon
which, to a great extent, our
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Gur Rejects Offer
to Return to Army,
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—In re-
jecting Gen. Ariel Sharon's-
offer to return to \military
service, Israeli Chief of Staff
Mordecai Gur explained that
he did not wish to "disturb
the ,harmony which now pre-
vails in the leadership of the
Israel army." .Gur's decision
was ratified by Defense Min-
ister. Shimon Peres. _--
At the same time, Premier
Yitzhak Rabin declined to
deal with request that Sharon
be named to a high-ranking
post in the military reserve, ,
on grounds that such a nom-
ination can only come from
the chief of staff. Both nega- -
tive replies to Sharon's of-
fers are seen as final and ir-
reversible.
Right down to the brink of
the grave, a man must still
hope and be brave.
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