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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

The National Coffee Boycott:
So How 'Bout a Glass Tea?

BY DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.)

New York's Commis-
sioner of Consumer Af-
-fairs,
Eleanor
Guggenheimer,
has
called for a boycott of cof-
fee to get the price down.
Who can tell? This may be
the beginning of another
revolution, like the time
when the Founding
Fathers boycotted
British tea because of the
tariff they put on tea com-
ing to America. This pre
other teas coming
America and so made
he price of tea high.
' The male historians do
not like to admit it, but it
was the women, the
Founding Mothers, not
the Founding Fathers
who brought America in-
dependence. The British
didn't believe the Ameri-
cans would go so far as to
boycott tea because they
thought that their
women would not go
along with it. But the
boycott went on — and
later there was the Ta
Party which dumped the
British tea in the harbor
That really started the
'Revolution rolling.
Even if no one joins the
boycott against coffee ex-
cept Mrs. Geuggenheimer
herself, it should be a blow
to the coffee industry. Mrs.
Guggenheimer admits to
having drunk regularly 14
cups of coffee daily. No
doubt now she has
switched to tea and
perhaps she should follow
her coffee boycott with an
appeal to people to go back
to tea.
- Jews have been great
lovers of tea.
The other day the pa-
pers carried a story about
Molly Picon lamenting
the passing of the Yiddish
theater. Usually this is
attributed to change of
language. Jews began
speaking English instead
of Yiddish.
But this really is prob-
ably only part of the
story. The decline in
great part was due to the
switch from tea drinking
to coffee.
You visited the Cafe
Royal on Second Ave.
where the Yiddish actors
and lovers of the Yiddish
theater gathered and what
did you see? Continuous
tea drinking. I remember
sitting one day with
Hoffman, the underline of
Maurice Schwartz, of the
Yiddish Art Theater. The
waiter came up — a very
short fellow. Hoffman took
a look at him. "Give me a
lass of tea," he said, "and
row up a little."
The people at the Royal
would sit drinking tea
until about two in the
morning. Their numbers
might not be large, but
linked together, they
were a force which could
be depended on. You don't
drink coffee that way.
You drink one or two cups
and are gone. It doesn't
make for the "together-
ness" the lingering of tea
drinking. The old familiar
song,
Tea for. two
Me for you
And you for me

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tells the story. In coffee
drinking there is none of
that "me for you" feeling.
It is suggestive that
while the Yiddish theater
is no more, an original
Yiddish production is
today the most sensa-
tional success on the
American and perhaps
the world stage. I refer to
"Fiddler on the Roof,"
which Zero Mostel is now
appearing again in.
Shalom Aleichem's
"Tevye" was a tea
drinker, not a coffee
drinker. Tevye is always
pendering, meditating,
"If I were a rich man."
The coffee drinker is not
like that. He doesn't
dream. He is always busy,
hustling.
I think the popularity
of Tevye is a reaction to
the busy-ness and hustle
of our times. We are be-
ginning to realize that
just sitting and thinking
are important too and
maybe we would be better
off if we did more of it.
It was the tea drinkers
who established the fours=
dations of Zionism and the
Jewish state. At the
Zionist convention in At-
lantic City the two chief ac-
tivities were drinking tea
and passing resolutions.
In New York City the
Zionists would gather for
tea at Tip Top Inn on
Broadway. They tell a
story of (Chaim) Weiz-

mann and (Louis) Lipsky
sitting there drinking tea
and watching the other
tea drinkers.
Dr. Weizmann was
especially interested in
one man who was stirring
his glass of tea, but
Weizmann had noted that
he had not put any sugar
in it.
Said Weizmann, "Er iz
a Villner soicher. Er mis-
htber legt nit arein."
(He is a -Vilna busi-
nessman. He manipu-
lates but does not invest.)
Yes, Jews always liked
their tea. That is why,
Jewish News (Page 36) in-
correctly quoted Secre-
tary of State Henry Kis-
singer.

Corrections

The Jewish Telegraphic
Agency story which ap-
peared in last week's
Jewish News (Page 36)
quoted Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger.
He stated that 13 mem-
bers of his family died in
Nazi concentration
camps.
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The caption under one
of the photographs on the
back page of last week's
Jewish News describing
the concept of the "eruv"
should have stated that
the eruv tayshilin per-
mits cooking for the Sab-
bath, not on the Sabbath.

Jewish Students 'Untouched'
by Rev. Moon, Bnai Brith Says

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WASHINGTON
counted publicized esti-
Jewish college students mates of widespread
are "untouched by and Moon conversions, 45 per
indifferent to" the heav- cent of them purportedly
ily financed missionary former Jews. Such claims,
efforts of the Rev. Sun Rabbi Fishman said,
Myung Moon and' his were unsubstantiated
Unification Church, a and in keeping_with the
Bnai- Brith Hillel Found- practice of missionary
ations survey reported.
groups to "exaggerate
The Hillel findings, their successes."
based on a poll of its cam-
Hillel directors who re-
pus directors on 75 major ported Moon activity on
campuses, disputed campus described it as
claims of "extensive sup- generally "low key" fun-
port" among Jewish draising through street
youth for the controver- sales of flowers, candy and
sial Korean evangelist.
trinkets.
Sixty of the Hillel direc-
The study disclosed
tors reported that pro- that the Moon group has
selytizing and other ac- been acquiring properties
tivities by Moon followers near college campuses,
amounted to "absolutely such as a training farm in
nothing" on their respec- the area of the University
tive campuses.
of Oklahoma, a store-
The principal exceptions front center at the Uni-
were a few schools in the versity of Missouri and
New York, Washington, houses near the cam-
Philadelphia and puses of Yale, Ohio State
Berkeley-San Francisco and Arizona State Uni-
urban areas "where the versity. But the presence
Moon people have ex- of such properties has
panded enormous been "without impact" on
amounts of energy and re- campus, Rabbi Fishman
sources," reported Rabbi said.
Samuel Z. Fishman, Hill-
el's assistant national di- WJC Seeks End
rector, who conducted the of S.A. Apartheid
survey.
Despite the more inten-
NEW YORK — Upon
sive Unification Church the urging of David K.
missionizing at these Mann, president of the
schools, the results "have South African Jewish
been marginal," Rabbi Board of Deputies, the
governing board of the
Fishman said.
The Hillel survey, re- World Jewish Congress
leased during the mid- recently adopted, by
winter meeting of Bnai unanimous vote, a state-
Brith's board of gover- ment calling for an end to
nors, the organization's apartheid in South Af-
highest policy body, dis- rica.

Friday, January 21, 1977 39

Israelis Ease Moslem Trek
to Mecca; Saudis Hinder Some

JERUSALEM — A
farewell ceremony held in
Gaza recently for the re-
gion's Mecca pilgrims was
attended by some 200
notables, including the
Israeli commander of the
Gaza Strip, the Mayor of
Gaza and the president of
the Sharia or Moslem re-
ligious court, who ad-
dressed the pilgrims.
This year about 3,000
residents of the district
set out for Mecca. The
military government took
special steps to facilitate
the pilgrims' exit across
the Jordan bridges and
their return to the Gaza
Strip.
Saudi Arabia allows the
Moslems of Gaza, Samaria
and the Old City of
Jerusalem to perform the
pilgrimage to Mecca, but
discriminates against
nearly 400,000 Moslems.
who hold Israeli national-
ity. Since 1948, these Mos-
lems have been denied the
-right to perform the pil-
grimage, one of the cardi-
nal precepts of Islam. Pre-
sumably, Saudi Arabia is
still incensed -against
these Arabs for having
elected to live in Israel
since 1948 and for ignor-
ing the call of the Arab
governments to become
refugees.
Of all the millions of
Moslems across the globe,
only those with Israeli
passports are singled out

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