THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 20, 1978 23
1978 — Maybe Not Just Another Year
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1978. JTA, Inc.)
"Well, it's 1978," said my
friend. Gideon.
"So it's another year, so
what?" I said.
We Jews have so many
new years. We have Rosh
Hashana when we go
around wishing each other
happy new year. In Febru-
ary or March, there is the
Jewish new year for trees.
Mr. Cherry then says happy
new year to Mr. Oak and
Mr. Pine laughs to Mr. Ce-
dar and says. You know
we have to turn over a new
leaf, its new year.•'
Then Jews also have a
new year beginning with the
Jewish month of Nisan and
to add to it all, there is the
secular New Year in Janu-
ary.
"Is that good?" I asked.
"Why not," said Gideon,
"the Jewish mystics of old
said that God creates the
world anew every day, so
every day maybe should be
New Year's Day."
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"But will 1978 be good for
Jews?" I asked.
Listen," said Gideon.
"You know the Talmud says
that after the destruction of
the Temple prophecy was
left for fools."
"Well, in that case. Gi-
deon. - I said. - why
shouldn't you prophesy?"
"I see your point," said
Gideon. -Well. maybe I will
try, but when I prophesy,"
he said, first like to take
a look backward. It helps to
discover the future."
Okay, - I said, "look
back to last year."
"No," said Gideon. "It's
1978 — I want to look back
through a century to 1878.•'
"What's so special about
1878?" I asked.
Well," said Gideon.
"that was the time when
anti-Semitism came into ex-
istence."
"People don't generally
know it, but it was not until
1878 that there was any anti-
Semitism. To be sure, there
was persecution of the Jews
before that, but it was not
until 1878 that a German
coined the term of anti-Sem-
itism and persecution of the
Jews took on a more
heinous form after that. It
was common and still is
KIRYAT GAT, Israel—
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common for some to be
anti-British and anti-Irish or
even anti-American, but
with the coinage of the term
anti-Semitism, Jews were
put into a special category.
"It was not like saying
anti-Jewish. There was per-
secution of the Jews in
Spain long before but one
could not compare it to the
horror that took place in
Germany. The term anti-
Semitism served as a cover
up and excuse for the most
unimaginable horrors.
"Jews were certainly
making their contributions
to civilization. Herz had dis-
covered the waves which
were to bring about the ra-
dio. Freud was revolution-
izing psychology. Einstein
was changing basic science.
Ehrlich had found a cure for
an old human sickness.
Funk had discovered the
vitamins we all talk about
toda,.. All of this was of no
avail.
"But there was one ac-
complishment by the Jew in
this age of atrocity which
presaged a change for the
future. It was the estab-
lishment of Israel.
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12 moshavim and kibutzim
in the neighborhood. -
Moshe B., 55, owes his life
to the skilled care and driv-
ing of one of the station's
four full-time trained ambu-
lance drivers. Stricken with
a severe heart attack, he
was rushed to the nearest
hospital in Ashkelon, almost
20 miles away, in a record-
breaking trip of 15 minutes.
At the hospital doctors
stated that his life had been
saved "both by the efficient
care he had initially re-
ceived and by the speed
with which he had been
brought to the hospital. -
In another incident, 35 la-
borers, traveling to work
from Ashkelon to Kiryat
Gat, were aided by Magen
David Adom whose ambu-
lances and trained first-aid
drivers were on • the spot
minutes after their truck
overturned.
Used to answering emer-
gency calls, the drivers
work without panic. They
are trained to distinguish
between those lightly
wounded who can be cared
for at the station and those
severely wounded who must
be rushed to the hospital.
No less important are the
babies whom the drivers
have delivered. Every am-
bulance has the required in-
struments and equipment:
every driver is able to per-
form an emergency deliv-
ery.
Some 210 agricultural set-
tlements in Israel which
were established with
United Jewish Appeal funds
are still struggling for self-
dependence.
NEW CAMILLA-0
Occupying less than one
percent of the so-called
Arab areas, vastly out-num-
bered, its establishment and
survival is more than a mir-
acle. It is a lesson to the
world for the future, that
savagery need not be toler-
ated. Mere bigness and
numbers no longer count as
they did in the past.
I think," said Gideon,
"all of this portends good
for the future. I do not know
how the current negotia-
tions between Israel and
Egypt will turn out, but I
believe Sadat is serious in
his want of peace. I think he
has come to realize as some
of the early Arab leaders
did that peace and trade
with Israel have much more
to offer than war.
"Did you notice the story
in the papers about King
Hassan of Morocco looking
to hopefully what he calls
the Jewish economic genius
to help revitalize the whole
Middle East.?
"What is going on now
may be just a step, but
there is an old Chinese
saying, 'a thousand mile
journey begins with a single
step."
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