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BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
We were talking about
the Fourth of July. I told my
friend, Gideon, that Benja-
min Franklin seemed to
look on it as a kind of Amer-
ican Passover. Franklin
proposed that the seal of the
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engraving of the Israelites
fleeing from Pharaoh.
"Yes," said Gideon, "but it
isn't celebrated right."
"I suppose you would have
Americans eat matza on the
Fourth like Jews on Pas-
sover," I said.
"Why not?" asked Gi-
deon "Matza crackers
would be better than fire-
crackers. No one loses an
arm or leg eating matza.
Besides, historically, they
serve the purpose better.
Jews eat matzas because it
recalls the haste of the
period of the Exodus.
Moses did not want to do
any unnecessary waiting
for the time required to
make bread. There was
the same necessity for
haste after July 4, 1776.
The states had to be mobil-
ized for sudden action.
Matzas would better re-
call that period."
"Anything else we should
do," I said.
"Of course," he said.
"Horse radish. Remember,
the murror, the bitter
herbs. As I said about
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ST. LOUIS (JTA) — The
United Orthodox Jewish
Community of St. Louis has
hailed a new kosher food bill
designed to protect obser-
vant Jews from fraud in the
sale of kosher meat and
other kosher food items.
The measure, introduced by
Sen. Maurice Schechter and
adopted at the 78th General
Assembly of the Missouri
Legislature, was signed by
Gov. Christopher S. Bond
and takes effect Aug. 13.
It provides for a fine of
not less than $25 or more
than $500 or imprisonment
for not less than 30 days or
more than one year for of-
fenders.
matza, the whole idea of the
food is not the food itself
but the history. If people do
not recall their history, San-
tayana said, they are
doomed to repeat it. Jews
eat bitter herbs on Passover
to recall the bitterness of
slavery times."
"If people would recall
Watergate, there would be
no future Watergates. I re-
member my father used to
take a lump of horse radish
as big as a golf ball and eat
it at the Seder and you could
see the tears coming from
his eyes. You would think he
was a slave in Egypt. The
Seder is really an historical
drama, in which every Jew
is an actor."
"I suppose that's it," I
said.
"No," said Gideon.
"You forget the Four
Questions. The great trou-
ble with the world," he
said, "is that it does not
ask enough questions.
Why doesn't the United
Nations for instance ask
why it is racist for Jews to
have one country, but not
racist for Arabs to have
twenty."
"So on the fourth," I said,
"you propose that in every
family they ask Four Ques-
tions?"
"Well, a minimum of
four," said Gideon. "You
know America is bigger
than Israel."
"Well," I said to Gideon,
"you seem -to have novel
ideas of the way of celebrat-
ing the Fourth."
"They are not mine," said
Gideon, "This evidently was
in the back of Franklin's
mind when he proposed the
engraving on the seal of the
United States."
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Boris Smolar's
'Between You
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Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
HONORING A PERSONALITY: No Jewish social
worker in high executive position has ever achieved the dis-
tinction of being highly honored — for a second time — nine
years after his retirement. Dr. John Slawson has now been
the recipient of this outstanding recognition by his organi-
zation, the American Jewish Committee.
The former executive director of Detroit's Jewish N
fare Federation, Dr. Slawson retired in 1967 from his posi-
tion as executive vice president of the AJCommittee — after
34 years of service — and was accorded more than the usual
honors bestowed upon a retired distinguished official of
high position. The event was marked by a very impressive
AJCommittee dinner, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in l'-‘v
York, at which laudatory speeches were given in an in
ing atmosphere. But what put this event on a higher plane
than usual was the announcement that the AJCommittee
had decided to establish a Slawson Fund to be spent by Dr.
Slawson, at his own decision, for any
of the cultural purposes in which he is
interested. This was a rare expression
of appreciation of the execellent direc-
tion given by Dr. Slawson to the work
of the AJCommittee during the years
of his service. More than $270,000 was
contributed to this fund by individual
AJCommittee members.
Now, about nine years later, the
AJCommittee has again deemed it
DR. SLAWSON
important to honor him — this time in
a special way, by presenting him with
the American Liberties Medallion, the highest AJCommit-
tee award given to personalities who made their mark in
American history.
The honoring now of Dr. Slawson was given even
greater emphasis by the fact that the principal speaker at
the festiva affair — which took place in Washington, D.C.
at the AJCommittee 70th Anniversary Dinner — was the
President of the United States, Gerald Ford.
AN ENVIABLE RECORD: During the nine years
since Dr. Slawson became executive vice president emeritus
— functioning in the capacity as consultant — he found
himself busier than ever before.
Dr. Slawson has many great achievements on his rec-
ord, but his greatest achievement is perhaps his transfor-
mation of the American Jewish Committee from a small
group of elitists who considered themselves the "protectors"
of Jewish rights and interests to a democratic mass-mem-
bership body. In this, he made the American Jewish Com-
mittee the "home" of thousands of American-born 'Jews
who would have otherwise been "homeless" as far as Jewish
interests are concerned, since the programs of other Jewish
organizations were alien to their mentality and left them
cold.
Another of his major achievements — which will go
into history of all mankind — is his effort to stimulate and
bring about — with the strong cooperation of Cardinal Bea
at the Vatican — the adoption by the last Ecumenical Coun-
cil of the historic statement, advocated by Pope John XXIII,
absolving the Jewish people from the guilt of the crucifixion
of Jesus. Very few people know of the initiative and action
by Dr. Slawson in this direction.
The AJCommittee Institute of Human Relations is
another major product of Dr. Slawson's vision and efforts.
PILLAR OF JEWISH IDENTITY: A high point in
Dr. Slawson's record is also his deep interest in strengthen-
ing Jewish identity. He was a pioneer in alerting American
Jewish leadership to the great need of strengthening Jewish
identity among the younger generation.
Dr. Slawson is very critical of the manner in
Jewish education is now being conducted in this cou
He feels that American Jewry is now undergoing an i
ity crisis. In his view, the community is failing to cony
especially to the young — the rich and everlasting vitality
of Judaism. He sees Jewish education, as now practiced
being for the most part a verbal indoctrination — a so ..'
catechism — at a time when it has every potentiality of
being intellectually challenging, emotionally satisfying and
esthetically enjoyable. To him, the very quality of Jewish
life depends on a sense of Jewish identity.
Dr. Slawson advocates, among other things, the estab-
lishment of a Jewish secondary educational facility similar
to Groton and Exeter and Andover, with a curriculum of the
highest quality with a Judiac tradition as an important ele-
ment and with Hebrew as a second language.
Ex-ORT Student Named to Post
GENEVA — Dr. Amos
Breskin, a graduate of the
Syngalowski Center in Me-
chanics who later attended
the Central ORT Institute
and the Ecole Technique Su-
perieure of Geneva, has
been appointed to hold the
newly-established Hettie N.
Heineman Research Fellow-
ship at the Weizmann Insti-
tute in Rehovot, Israel.