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This Sabbath, the 22nd day of bar, 5735, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Levit. 25:1-27:34: Prophetical portion, Jeremiah 16:19-17:14.
Candle lighting, Friday, May 2, 8:14 p.m.
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Semites as Spreaders of Anti-Semitism
Forgetting Israel for a passing few mo-
ments, world Jewry must view in all seriousness
an attitude from fellow-Semites that has
emerged into one of the most dastardly propaga-
tions of anti-Semitism ever experienced.
After the defeat of Nazism, which repre-
sented one of the most savage anti-Semitic ac-
tions in all history, the general belief was that
Jew-baiting had declined, that a new liberalism
was embraced by the civilized in mankind, and
that in the United States especially an end was
envisioned to the bias that had degraded human-
kind.
Then came a brief period of Black anti-Sem-
itism, a most deplorable experience in view of
the special interest Jews had taken, natural to
their dedication to justice for all, regardless of
race or creed or color. The Black leadership dis-
approved of the tactics of extreme leftists and
the misled in their ranks, and now there is an
apparent decline in the antagonisms.
A much more vicious occurrence is in evi-
dence and American Jews, who are the chief tar-
gets, would be conceding to the venom that is as
un-American as it is anti-Jewish if the cam-
paign launched against Jews by Arabs were to
be ignored.
The occurrence on the shores of South Caro-
lina is a basic example of what is happening in
the American community. It created suspicion
and protest before the Arab purchase and it ap-
pears to have assumed proportions that chal-
lenge the sense of fairness in this country. The
manner in which the Kuwait purchase of Kia-
wah island affects the American way of life was
described in a column by Jack Anderson who
stated:
It looks as if the oil sheikhs of Kuwait are
bringing the politics of the Middle East to their
investments here in the United States.
They have purchased Kiawah, a pearl of
an island with 10 miles of sparkling sand and
virgin land off the South Carolina coast. They
plan to construct a $250 million resort for rich
Americans on the island.
The Kuwaitis have chosen Sea Pines
Corp., a company accused of subtle prejudice
against Jews, to develop and manage the posh
island resort. Kuwait, of course, is a partner
in the Arab boycott against companies that do
business with Israel.
The president of Sea Pines, George
Fraser, forcefully denied that he or his com-
pany has ever encouraged an anti-Jewish atti-
tude. He named high executives in his organi-
zation who are Jewish.
The company now runs a fashionable,
subdued resort at Hilton Head, S.C. In a taped
interview, a former high-level employe
charged that Sea Pines' salesmen were told by
their bosses: "We don't have any Jews here (at
Hilton Head). We want the Jews to stay in
Miami."
Fraser said Hilton Head has about the
same proportion of Jewish owners that would
be found in the $45,000-a-year population at
large. The first ocean-front lot sold by Sea
Pines, he said, went to a Jew. But Fraser
conceded: "I don't have the slightest doubt
that we have biased people working for us."
Another ex-employe, also on tape, re-
called that a younger employe asked at a sales
meeting: "What should I do? I have this Jew-
ish customer, and he wants to come to the is-
land. What do I tell him?"
One of the older salesmen, according to
the ex-employe, retorted: "You just tell him
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there is no synagogue on the island, and none
is planned." Of the seven or eight houses of
worship at Hilton Head, Fraser acknowl-
edged, none are synagogues.
Dr. Morey Lipton, a leader of the Jewish
community in nearby Charleston, S. C., had
nothing to say about discrimination at Sea
Pines but a good deal of comment on the
Kuwaitis.
"We're fearful of secondary boycotting as
already practiced by the Arabs in the United
States," he said. "We want Kuwait to end the
boycott . . . Otherwise, we don't want them
doing business in South Carolina . . . It's not
a Jewish issue, but an American issue."
Responded the Kuwaitis in Washington:
"There is never going to be any discrimination
(at the Kiawah island resort) against the Jews
as Jews." The world boycotting, said an em-
bassy spokesman, "has nothing to do with
Jews . . . It is only against Israel."
The outrage that has been introduced in
this country is self-evident. It is rooted in lying
and cheating. It is part of the attempt to gain a
financial foothold in this country, and accompa-
nying that task is the introduction of misleading
factors and the shameless spreading of a new
anti-Semitism by people stemming from the
Semitic kinship of the Jewish people.
Only a fool or a knave would be misled by
the denial that the Arab boycott is aimed at all
Jews, not at Israel alone. But the Kuwaiti mag-
nates keep resorting to the canard that it is
Zionists they hate, while the weapons used are
against all Jews and whoever has a feeling of
justice for Jews, against Christians as well as
Jews who do not yield to the prejudices that are
being injected in commercial and financial
ranks out of a desire and apparent determina-
tion to undermine the Jewish position mate-
rially as well as spiritually.
The new Arab tactics, their canards, the re-
sort to the fable of Zionism as an enemy when
all Jews are the targets, represent the Semitic
movement to spread a new form of anti-Semi-
tism. Perhaps these elements that are drunk
with the power provided for them by oil wealth
are even aiming at destroying whatever chances
there are for peace in the Middle East.
Peace in the area affecting Israel would
benefit all the peoples in that part of the world.
Is it possible that the Arab masses will not learn
the lesson provided for them in the destructive
role of their effendi rulers? Is there a way of
awakening their conscience to their own needs?
The warning outlined here as a guide for
Jewish leaders who must stop acting like shtad-
lanim, who must not fall asleep on the job they
had undertaken is offered in a moment of set-
ting aside Israel's needs. Israel cannot and will
not be forgotten or overlooked in the considera-
tion of Jewry's afflictions. If Jews try to forget
Israel the world will remind them of her exist-
ence, the Arabs will taunt them out of indiffer-
ence. In the process of keeping on the alert in
Israel's behalf there emerges also the responsi-
bility to defend the role of America and her Jew-
ish citizens against the spread of canards, lies,
venomous attacks that are anti-Semitic in na-
ture but are being trifled with as if it were just a
Zionist aspect. The new type of anti-Semitism
must be fought by Jews. It must enroll the sup-
port of all fair-minded Americans. Perhaps the
latter are challenged by the new anti-Semitism
even more than the Jews.
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A Splendid Israel Anthology
Its hard cover 1971 edition completely exhausted, reissuance by
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Ethnic American Stories
Americans of many ethnic backgrounds are represented in the
collection of narratives edited by Katharine D. Newman and published
as a Simon and Schuster Pocket Book under the title "Ethnic Ameri-
can Short Stories."
The compiler-editor, whose introductory essay adds consider,
to an appreciation of the ethnic values that make for a collective
American cultural and literary value, selected an essay by Hugh Nis-
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Nissenson's essay was published by Commentary in 1960 under
the title "The Law." It is a story about a lad who suffered from stam-
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In the process of relating the story, the father of the Bar Mitzva,
himself raised under conditions in Germany when Jewish parents
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out. The escapee from Nazism had suffered in a concentration camp
and he keeps relating his horrifying experiences.
"The Law," therefore, is a tale of assimilation — the father had
not been Bar Mitzva and the mother conceded to her son's wish under
protest — while the stammering Bar Mitzva had the strength of will to
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Cuban, Scandinavian, Native, Hawaiian and Puerto Rican origins.
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