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38 Friday, April 18, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Torah Study Revival Seen in Israel 'Schools
By ARYEH NEWMAN
There is no doubt that the
sceptical and functional ap-
proach to the sciences which
is characteristic of much
current thinking is helping
to lay the ghost of the theo-
logical and philosophical
dogma which inhabited so
much serious study of To-
rah and made heretics of so
many. Thankfully the ex-
ample of Israel in this re-
spect is literally fulfilling
the prophecy that from Zion
shall go forth the Torah.
The fact that the Bible
was the central literary and
religious text of the school
system in the renascent
Jewish community of Pales-
tine and subsequently the
sovereign state of Igrael set
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in motion a new dialogue
with Torah dictated by
purely pedagogic considera-
tions.
For 12 years for one to
two periods daily the Israeli
pupil and teacher grapple
with the Bible. In the gen-
eral school system literary,
historical and national cri-
teria prevail; in the religious
schools these becbme the
"handmaids" of faith, sub-
ordinate to the traditional
commentaries. Common to
both are the insights of Pa-
lestinography and archeol-
ogy and the immediacy of
the physical contact with
the land of the Bible.
In this context must be
placed the contribution of
Israel's foremost Bible
teacher Nehama Leibowitz
whose Bible studies are
incidentally the best-sell-
ing English publication of
the World Zionist Organi-
zation.
Out of her classroom con-
frontations and experi-
ments with all ages and out-
looks she evolved an
approach and teaching tech-
nique which in breadth and
depth catered to the repre-
sentatives of almost every
nuance of the ideological
spectrum.
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Nehama Leibowitz ran-
sacked the whole treasury
of Jewish comment down
the ages from the earliest
Midrashim to contemporary
commentators, in the proc-
ess resurrecting from obli-
vion many little known
works which have been re-
printed for the first time for
centuries in response to the
demand set up by her quota-
tions from them.
The purpose was not how-
ever dry-as-dust scholarship
but to provide grist for the
living dialogue between
reader and Torah text. Hith-
erto close reading of the
Bible had been regarded as
the privilege of the revival-
ist, the mystic and funda-
mentalist. Nehama made it
the hallmark of any intelli-
gent and self-respecting Bi-
ble study whatever the pri- .
vate views of the reader of
God and religious practice.
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From North America
there were only 155 new-
comers; from South Amer-
ica 174; and from Western
Eur-ope only 201. Thirty-one
percent of Soviet emigrants
who arrived in Vienna dur-
ing the month of February
went on to destinations
other than Israel.
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — Prof.
Hans Morgenthau, told
newsmen Tuesday that he
had suggested to Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger
that the U.S. should estab-
lish a small and unobstru-
sive U.S. Navy presence in
Haifa.
Prof. Morgenthau, here as
a guest lecturer at Haifa
University, said such a base
would have made it clear to
Israel Bonds Set
Emergency Parley
NEW YORK — An all-
day emergency conference
to consider ways of alleviat-
ing the intense economic
pressures bearing down on
Israel at the present time
will be held Sunday in
Washington, under the aus-
She has illustrated the pecies of the Israel Bond
deep critical insight of the
Organization.
traditional commentators
More than 100 members
who in depth of their inter- of the National Campaign
pretation and involvement
Cabinet and community
exhausted almost every chairmen of Israel Bonds in
possible angle of approach the United States and Can-
to the text.
ada will participate in the
The Torah by its very na- sessions which will be ad-
ture demands multiple in- dressed by Ambassador
terpretation. Anything less Simha Dinitz, Economic
does not do justice to its Minister Ze'ev Sher and
terms of reference and tex- other top Israeli officials on
ture. The surface and Israel's current economic,
deeper meanings corre- political, and defense prob-
spond to the body and soul,– lems.
In addition, Sam Roth-
of the narrative. They are
particularly obvious in the berg, general chairman, and
two levels of the Patriarchal Michael Arnon, president of
stories — their individual the Israel Bond Organiza-
lives as the individual Jacob tion, will report on the spe-
and Esau and, respectively, cial conference they had
the archetypal Israel and with Prime Minister Rabin,
Edom.
Finance Minister Yehoshua
Rabinowitz,- Chairman Pin-
has Sapir of the Jewish
and other leaders.
Decline in Olim Agency,
The conference will deal
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — with immediate concrete
During February there were measures to be taken to
only 1,596 new immigrants broaden the scope of public
arriving in Israel, as corn- activity on the part of the Is-
pared • with 3,039 in Febru- rael Bond campaign to in-
ary 1974. There were 891 crease the response not only
new olim from the Soviet from the Jewish commu-
Union in February, as com- nity, but from business, la-
pared with 1,876 in the same bor and professional sectors
of the general population.
period last year.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Rep. Edward I. Koch (D-
N.Y.) has urged that kosher
food be supplied to obser-
vant Jews at the Allenwood
(Pa.) Federal Penitentiary,
the prison where Rabbi
Meir Kahane is scheduled to
serve the rest of a one-year
prison term.
In a letter to Norman
Carlson, director of the Fed-
eral Bureau of, Prisons,
Koch stated that special ar-
rangements were fre-
quently made in the prison
system, as in the case of the
Black Muslim population,
and it would similarly be
reasonable to meet the
needs of the Orthodox Jew-
ish inmate. Some of the
prisons already serve kosher
meals where necessary.
Last week, Kahane had
protested the fact that he
will be unable to observe
kosher dietary laws when he
enters Allenwood Prison
despite an order by Federal
Judge Jack Weinstein.
the Arabs that an attack on
Israel would be an attack on
the United States, and that
such a base would have been
a "real demonstration" of
U.S. support. He refused to
say what reply Kissinger
gave to the suggestion.
Prof. Morgenthau said
Kissinger was outraged at
Israel, which he blamed for
the collapse of the recent
peace effort. Prof. Morgen-
thau said Kissinger
claimed Israel was instiffi-
ciently flexible.
in the U.S. which have
consistently shown over-
whelming public support
for Israel. Prof. Morgen-
thau said such American
opinion can change over-
night.
He said that those in
power in the U.S. are anti--
Israel who would be happy
if a tidal wave from the
Mediterranean would have
inundated Israel. He also
said - the delay in arms sup-
plies from the U.S. to Israel
was a political move.
The American scholar
also said Israelis must not
rely on public opinion polls
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