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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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NEW CADILLAC?
Hutzpa: A Little Nerve Goes a Long Way
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
A number of Yiddish
words have been creeping
into the English
language. Among those
likely to take out their
citizenship papers and
remain is hutzpa.
Hutzpa — the thing
itself — has been in the
world a long time and
practiced everywhere,
but perhaps the Jew,
because of the
desperateness of his
position for 2,000 years,
without a home of his
own, has been forced to
get better acquainted
with it.
We usually speak of
hutzpa disparagingly,
but it has its good side
and it can be a powerful
tool.
Some time back, Sen.
Edmund Muskie (D-
Maine) asked Golda Meir
how she controlled her
party. "By patience, tact
and hutzpa," she
answered. Muskie then.
asked Sen. Jacob Javits
(R-N.' ..) what hutzpa was.
Maybe he could buy a
bottle of it in a grocery
store. "When Governor
Rockefeller the other day
said the Long Island
Railroad (habitually late)
was the best run road in
the country, that was
hutzpa, - replied Javits.
But this illustration is
hardly satisfying. Hutzpa
is not simply gross
exaezeration.
Hutzpa might be
defined as gall, but gall
suggests cruelty and
meanness, and hutzpa is
MEYER WEISGAL
not necessarily mean.
The recent incident in austere terms. Hutzpa is
Entebbe which the often playful, often with a
Israelis pulled off was a
piece of hutzpa, but it strong element of the
was far from mean. It was comic in it.
just the opposite and
Meyer Weisgal, to whom
evoked the admiration of we largely owe the
most of the world.
mammoth
scientific
Hutzpa involves research center in Israel
courage, but courage is tells the story of a young
usually thought of in fellow who was always
JNF Bids Farewell to Tzur
By GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
At the age of "almost 70"
Yaacov Tzur sat among
friends in Jerusalem and
said with a light heart,
"Shalom, it was nice
working with you."
But one of his friends,
Golda Meir, sitting right
next to him at the party
that was to officially end his
16 years as chairman of the
Jewish National Fund,
warned him: "If you live in
the illusion that you are
going on vacation, let me
tell you of the experience of
someone older than ybu."
For 90 minutes, Tzur,
who seems too far away
from retirement age, sat
and heard the stories of the
generation which, in his
words, "is slowly fading."
And at the end of the hour-
and-a-half, he committed
himself to tell the story of
this generation to the
younger generation. "Not
the facts, everyday a new
book is published with new
facts. But rather the spirit
— I want to tell about the
spirit of the generation."
Mrs. Meir praised Tzur's
work in Jewish com-
YAAKOV TSUR
munities throughout the
world alongside his
diplomatic work in Latin
America and France.
He worked with French
Jewry, she said, at the
time when it was "unlike
French Jewry of today." It
was a time when Jews
were primarily
Frenchmen, and it was not
easy to reach them, not to
speak of daring to tell
them they had a certain
commitment toward
Israel. Tzur, she added,
was among those who in-
Hauser Urges U.S. to Stop
Moves for Palestinian State
WASHINGTON (JTA)
— The United States
should abandon its
"creeping toward tacit
recognition - of the Pales-
tine Liberation Organi-
zation and "stop flirting"
with the idea of a Palesti-
nian state, a former U.S.
official told Bnai Brith.
Rita Hauser, U.S. rep-
resentative to the UN
Human Rights Commis-
sion during the Nixon
Administration, also
urged a halt to American
support of UN refugee
camps, contending that
U.S. policy of paying the
bulk of refugee costs,
however humanitarian in
motive, had "substan-
tially contributed" to the
lack of a Middle East
peace solution.
A "hard-nosed insis-
tence" on the Arab world
absorbing the refugees
"would have been the far
wiser policy," she de-
clared.
Mrs. Hauser's views
were in a speech she was to
have delivered at the an-
nual meeting of the Bnai
Brith International Coun-
cil. Unable to attend, she
submitted the text for dis-
tribution at the opening
session of the four-day
meeting.
Mrs. Hauser warned
that creation of a PLO-
dominated West Bank
state between Israel and
Jordan wouli preclude
the stability needed for
peace between Arabs and
Israelis.
itiated the first Israeli
diplomatic contacts with
the developing African
nations.
And Mrs. Meir could not
do without a little
preaching: "It is really a
shame. Everybody who
reaches 70 thinks that's it.
He can go home. Well, I
have news for you — you
will now have the difficult
job of choosing among all
those offers - which waited
until you resigned." One of
the jobs he has already
accepted is as the new chair-
man of the Public Council
for Arab Jewry.
Slain Officer
Was a Convert
WASHINGTON (JTA)
— First Lt. Mark T. Bar-
rett, one of the two
American army officers
killed by North Koreans
in a demilitarized zone
last week was converted
to Judaism in May 1974, a
month before his mar-
riage to Juliane Reiner of
Hollywood, Florida in a
Jewish ceremony in
Gainesville, Fla. -
Barrett and his bride
met while students at the
University of Florida at
Gainesville. He was
graduated in 1973 and as
an ROTC officer was as-
signed to the Army Train-
ing Center at Fort
Jackson, near Columbia,
S.C.
Shortly after his arri-
val there he approached
Rabbi William A.
Greenebaum, the Jewish
chaplain at Fort Jackson,
and expressed his desire
to convert to Judaism.
Eleven months later he
became a convert after
taking instructions from
the chaplain. Barrett and
his fiance invited
Greenebaum to perform
the wedding. Barrett's
family is Catholic.
ORT's central creed is
that man is best aided by
being helped to become
independent, self-sup-
porting and self-
respecting.
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could not have been
possible without some
hutzpa. A little girl in
Israel swallowed a coin.
The doctor could do
nothing. "Send for
Weisgal," someone
suggested, "he can get
money out of anyone. -
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A bashful man could not
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