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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the sixth day of A dar 1, 5736, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 25:1-27:19; 30:11-16. Prophetical portion, II Kings, 12:1-17.
Candle lighting, Friday, Feb. 6, 5:35 p.m.
VOL. LXVIII, No. 22
Page Four
Friday, February 6, 1976
Israel's Road of Thorns and Dangers
Saved from one of the greatest dangers in
its search for security, by the American veto of a
dastardly resolution at the United Nations Secu-
rity Council, Israel is now confronted by an
equally menacing situation in our nation's capi-
tal. There is an erosion. The all-out American
aid for Israel is in danger of being reduced. The
cutting of allocations by a third in the Presi-
dent's reconsiderations in the foreign aid pro-
gram commences a most serious new era of
challenge to Israel. Now the confrontation is
with the economic problem, with the reduction
in military assistance to Israel, and thetangers
to Israel's security are escalating.
Perhaps much of what is occurring stems
from an approach to so-called even-handedness.
But there is no such thing as even-handed mili-
tary scaling. The Arab states have the means
and Israel is a virtual beggar limited to one area.
The antagonists to Israel can go wherever they
please for aid and they have their own means to
acquire military hardware. Israel has only the
United States to lean upon.
For many months now the concern over an
erosion of American interest in Israel's security
had been a subject of considerable debate. There
were, as there still are, many optimists who still
retained confidence that there could not possi-
bly emerge anything approaching an abandon-
ment of Israel by the good American friends.
But there is setting in a spirit of isolation-
ism and Israel could well emerge the most seri-
ously affected sufferer.
Then there is the desire for a reduction in
American expenses, with both the military and
the foreign aid programs as the targets, and Is-
rael is certain to be a victim in both areas.
* * *
This is not panic. It is realism. With dangers
emerging as seriously as they now become evi-
dent, Israelis and their defenders must view the
situation with earnestness and with a readiness
to visualize the threats that would assume dev-
astating proportions.
It is not the gloating of the Arabs, who keep
saying they do not care about time and even if
they have to gamble on a century they are deter-
mined to destroy Israel. Therefore Israel must
not only keep retaining a defensive position
militarily but must also strengthen its historic
role and its public relations approaches in the
hope of instilling a sense of honor among ene-
mies and a desire for peace among neighbors.
The gratitude to the United States for the
firm stand at the UN Security Council, for as-
sistance given thus far and for its hopeful con-
tinuation, the cordiality with which Israel's
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his asso-
ciates are received in this country — these are
introductory to more serious efforts in the fu-
ture to retain the best relations between the two
countries.
* * *
Now there emerges the great need of educat-
ing the American people anew to the tasks
ahead. Even in the matter of the American ac-
tion at the Security Council it is urgent that the
American people understand the justice of it all.
The antagonistic propagandists do not hesitate
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to resort to the lies in the Hitlerian fashion, of
repeating them for the sake of emphasis. The
need now is to keep telling the truth for the sake
of even more vitally needed emphasis.
Perhaps this will lead to a restoration of the
allocations upon which Israel's security is based.
Perhaps Congress will be firm on the subject of
protecting Israel's present and future. Therefore
there must be no hesitancy in appeals to the
Congressmen and Senators to remain deter-
mined in defense of the very small but exceed-
ingly endangered Israel.
Consideration of firmness must, of course,
apply especially to the kinspeople of Israel, to
world Jewry, with emphasis on American Je-
wry. Our communities are charged not only
with the duty of raising necessary sums for Is-
rael's domestic needs but to carry on the public
relations and educational activities for proper
evaluation of Israel's role as a sovereign nation.
American Jews undoubtedly understand
that whatever money is provided philanthropi-
cally is meager, compared with the needs. The
United Jewish Appeal dollars, never adequate to
the needs, assure continuation of some social
services and educational programs in Israel. But
the vast needs for defense are provided by the
Israeli tax dollars — and the Israelis certainly
carry the brunt of such responsibility — and
whatever aid comes from the United States.
* * *
In meeting the challenges, Israel's defend-
ers must keep in mind the dangers ahead. The
enemies have in view only the aim of Israel's de-
struction. The evidence is vast. Wherever and
whenever they speak, the PLO and their many
supporters emphasize the goal of eliminating Is-
rael. An example: On the recent UN resolution
the Radio Damascus declaration was:
"The Fedayeen take one copy of the
resolutions adopted at the UN, mix them
with TNT and blow up Zion Square!
These resolutions were adopted at the UN
in order to enable each and every inhabit-
ant of the stolen land to carry a copy that
will convince him to join. the Fedayeen,
mix it with dynamite and blow up Zion
Square or one of our other occupied
squares or streets. Now the resolutions of
the UN are turning into deeds, under the
leadership of the Arab people — at whose
head marches the Palestinian people —
the warriors of this people and its Feday-
een."
There is no hesitation in Arab ranks to
speak of Israel's destruction. At the UN the
Third World and the Communist bloc joins in
that aim. European governments often collabor-
ate with the striving for a new holocaust.
Therefore the Jewish people must be firm
in the role of defender. The retention of Ameri-
can support is vital. The road ahead is strewn
with obstacles. The path to security is thorny.
The work ahead is serious and difficult. All the
more reason why the determination to make the
will to live pragmatic devolves upon a people
greatly challenged. Perhaps the greater the
challenge the better the opportunity for even-
tual success in assuring the human solution to a
calamity-infested problem.
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A Unique Hagada Based
on Text by the deSola Pools
Labeling certain aspects of art as Jewish becomes possible
through illustrations for the Passover Hagada and for Purim Megilot.
Most impressive are the many historic Hagadot which have gained
significance in the art world.
A new form of art has just been introduced in "The Hagada of
Passover," published by Thomas Yoseloff and the A. S. Barnes Co. for
the Sara F. Yoseloff Memorial Publications in Judaism and Jewish
Affairs, as one of a series of books to bel)ublished in Mrs. Yoseloff's
memory.
The text of this Hagada first was prepared for the National Jew-
ish Welfare Board by Rabbi David and Mrs. Tamara deSola Pool.
Uniquely, as in the first text by Dr. and Mrs. Pool, there is ap-
pended to this volume the Benshen, the grace after meals, used by the
Sephardim, the community which the Pools had served for many
years.
The illustrations are by Parenzo, and their unusual role is ex-
plained in the following note by the publishers:
This book is perhaps unique in the history of book manufac-
ture. All of the illustrations in this volume represent the direct and
original work of the artist, without the intervention of a camera or
other mechanical device of reproduction. The artist made his
drawings on a special acetate material, and plates were made by
contact negatives from the acetates themselves. All of the color
plates were similarly made from original acetates separated by the
artist, in the same way that an artist might prepare separate
stones for a color lithograph.
Thus each of the illustrations in the book is, in fact, an origi-
nal print. Begun as an experiment more than a decade ago, this
volume has proved the feasibility of utilizing today's most sophisti-
cated printing methods in the production of an original work of
art.
For a complete understanding of the value and importance of this
reproduced Hagada it is important that attention be given to the fol-
lowing rededication in the words of the deSola Pools:
The Passover Hagada expresses Judaism's optimistic faith
that liberty, so often assailed and so often denied, shall yet
triumph and become a precious heritage for all mankind every-
where. The Hagada is indeed a joyous ritual of freedom, celebrat :
ing through instruction, worship and song Israel's liberation fro ' i
bondage. Though the exodus occurred over three thousand year
ago, because of the Passover Hagada no memory is more strongly
imbedded in the Jewish consciousness than the story told herein
and lived and affirmed anew in every generation.
This edition of the time-hallowed Hagada in its familiar tradi-
tional Hebrew text with a new interpretive English translation
was originally prepared for the use of the Jewish men and women
in the armed forces of the United States who were fighting to pre-
serve freedom from the onslqughts of fascism. Over a third of a
million copies of this book brought to them a heightened dedication
to the ideal of liberty doubly theirs as Americans and as Jews.
May that great hope for mankind born at the exodus from
Egypt live on and find consecration ever anew in every Jewish
home with the recital of this Passover Hagada in an era of abiding
peace for all men.
The inspiration that is derived from Passover and the Hagada and
the artistic values of the new work lend themselves to great interest
in a valuable work that gains importance in advance of Passover as the
adherents to basic traditions prepare in advance for the Festival of
Freedom.
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