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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the eighth day of Iyar, 5736, the following scriptural selections will be read in. our synagogues:

Pentateuchal portion, Leviticus 21:1 - 24:23. Prophetical portion, Exekiel 44:15-31.

•Candle lighting, Friday., May 7, 8:19 p.m.

VOL. LXIN., No. 9

Page Four

Friday, May 7, 1976

The Menace from the Far East

A military pact between Peking and Cairo
adds concern to the mounting Middle East ten-
sions. It is cause for new anxieties and the alli-
ance may prove additionally_ menacing to the
troubled conditions of the Middle East.
The new pact, which provides for military
aid by Red China to Egypt, is not necessarily
new to the Middle East experiences. China had
already supplied arms to Syria and Iraq.
Chinese-made weapons were in the military
hardware Israelis found whenever they cap-
tured terrorists on their borders.
But, a formal agreement for Chinese arms
for the Egyptians aggravates an already, highly
charged situation. It does not necessarily in-
crease the dangers and it does not add to war
fears, but it escalates the political conflicts.
The added revelation that an Egyptian ap-
plication for military supplies from India was
rejected because of Russian pressures on its ally
not to produce assistance to the Egyptians indi-
cated that there are continuing rifts affecting
Russia and her satellites like India against the
Chinese with whom the Soviet rift continues un-
abated. But when a Middle East issue arises, the
Arabs who battle among themselves and the
Russians and Chinese who harbor hatred among

themselves combine in a common purpose of
harming Israel.
What's the cause? Why should the Chinese
be so hateful of Israel? Is the Third World alle-
giance, which also created a fiasco like the Mexi-
can whose delegate voted anti-Israel at the
United Nations, so committed to Arab influence
and pressure that any deviation' from justice is
acceptable, without rhyme or reason?
Perhaps the Cl.inese enigma that causes a
great power to be a major supporter of the anti-
Semitic doctrine is unlimited in scope. When the
Jewish scapegoat becomes available for hatred it
emerges as a unifying factor in international di-
plomacy. Russia may prevent India's arms from
going to Egypt, but in the aim to harm Israel she
becomes an Arab-Chinese partner. Anything
anti-Jewish apparently continues to combine
the forces of hatred. The immemorial experience
has not faded. Come what may, that's Jewry's
role. And the ability to overcome fades as little
as the hatred to overcome. Therefore the victory
in the struggle retains its historic role. Once
again it is the indestructible target who survives
and the menacing enemy who never learns that
no matter how victimized the Jews, how injured
or endangered, Jewry retains history's lesson of
indestructibility.

Planned Israeli Settlements

Israel's internal problems are assuming
proportions vastly more serious than the con-
flict with the Arabs and the confusions that
mark attitudes on the international scene. The
economic needs are pressing, there are social
problems involving the youth and the Sephardi-
Ashkenazi controversy, and most pressing of all
is the mattter of new settlements in adminis-
tered territories.
The Gush Emunim have become a central
issue. The religious factions especially are de-
manding the right of settlement anywhere in
the Holy Land as basic and inherited, but the
government is hesitant to permit the establish-
ment of new Jewish settlements in areas under
controversy.
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon favors
planned settlements, and the implication is that
controversial territory will be declared out of

Weidman's Newest Novel
Contains Post-War Theme

- A young Jewish lieutenant returns from Europe with a mysteri-
ous fortune after World War II, and devotes all his time, energy and
new-found wealth to a land development in Westchester County —
land development designed to grow a new race of Jews who could liter-
ally stamp out anti-Semitism, and erase the memories of Buchenwald
and Masada.
Thus, we have the setting for Jerome Weidman's latest novel,
"The Tefriple," published by Simon and Schuster.
"The Temple" marks Weidman's 20th book, and his work also in-
cludes a number of short stories, essays, and plays including "Fior-
ello!" and "I Can Get It for You Wholesale."
"The Temple" is written in the recent
mode: fast-paced, a hint of sex here and there,
and much dialogue, and it is very hard to put
down. Its plot will remind the reader of vege-
table soup that may not have been fully sim-
mered, but the author has a lot to say on a
while placing its head into the wolf's mouth.
wide range of Jewish themes.
A quick reading of "The Temple" is an en-
On the scene are the equivalents — the ex-
joyable ,experience. However, the deeper Jew-
treme doves who advise Israel to abandon defen-
ish themes emerge at brief intervals from the
siveness while placing her head into a wolf's
fast-paced, ever-changing plot. From the hor-
hungry mouth.
rors of anti-Semitism, described at their
worst when a local bully burns a rabbi to
The doves have their place in life, and time
JEROME WEIDMAN death on the day of Dave Dehn's Bar Mitzva in
may prove the reasonableness of their conten-
tions. But even so extreme a dove as Arye Eliav Albany, to the problems of matching a young rabbi to Dehn's new
congregation, Weidman touches upon a number of Amer-
has conceded that every concession also must be Westchester
met by an act of good will from the Arab ranks. ican Jewish problems.
Intertwined with the hustle and bustle of the town, with its hid-
Not only the doves and hawks in Israel but den Jews, the violence and intrigues of anti-Semites and the growth of
Arabs as well should read Dr. Voss' humorous the community, is the ever-present puzzle of David Dehn's sudden
tale from Israel. Let it be a basis for fair play. wealth after the war.
Also mixed in are some beautiful scenes:
"Before it belonged to my son," the old man said, "the Fort-
'gang name it belonged to me. It still belongs to me. I gave it to you
in my house in front of my son. So my name belongs to you too.
What happens in the court between you and your wife over
bounds. Even this mild effort at a solution to a land, this I don't care. That's what I came here to tell Judgc
serious controversy spells danger because the phinstone. In Beechwood here the name Fortgang it means some-
conservative Likud faction under the leadership thing. And you have the Fortgang name to stand on."
Dave had something else. The knowledge came slowly, like a
of Menachem Begin will not yield on any issue
calling for withdrawal of settlers from areas bubble surfacing through an oil slick. Something Dave had
they are determined to occupy and the religious quired during the innocent years on Westerloo Street, someth
had lost on a savage afternoon in Germany. He looked at the
element is bent upon calling all of pre-Israel Pa- he
old man in the brown leather windbreaker. Mr. Fortgang
lestine the rightful territory of the state of little
was staring up at the sanctuary ceiling.
Israel.
"All my life," the little old man said. "All the years I live here
in
Beechwood,"
he said. "Since Ellis Island sixty-three years," he
If serious concessions territorially are, the
"a shut like this, this is my dream."
inevitable price of peace then the government of said, Dave
looked around with a feeling of surprised discovery. As
Israel will be compelled to take drastic steps in though a suit
for which he had suffered through many fittings had
support of such "planned settlements" that will suddenly, now that all the basting stitches were removed, come to
avoid occupation of even an inch of ground in the life for him in front of the tailor's triple mirror. He could see things
Israeli administered West- Bank. The religiously he had not seen while the suit was being worked on.
Weidman's "The Temple" is thoroughly enjoyable fiction, but the
determined may form a minority but there Will
be a bone of contention that will be difficult to reader should give serious thought to the many Jewish aspects pre-
swallow without strife. The role of the governing sented by the author in a story which could be construed as a micro-
cosm of post-World War II American Jewry.
faction in Israel is not enviable.

The Moral in Carl Voss' Parable

Dr. Carl Hermann Voss, the eminent theo-
logian, author, lecturer and a leader in the
ranks of Christian Zionists, narrates an impres-
sive parable as a moral lesson for those who
would ask Israel to abandon administered terri-
tory.
Relating the convincing story as an indica-
tion that Israel is able to resort to humor in time
of crisis, Dr. Voss provides an argument for cau-
tion in the story appearing on the first page of
this issue.
The wolf is ready for his victim, the porcu-
pine exercises logic while the fox seeks to en-
courage the porcupine to draw in its needles

'The Temple'

