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Purely Commentary
The Remarkable Harry Orlinsky: A Paean on His 70th
Birthday . . . 'Protocols' Continue to Serve as Guide for
USSR Workers in Soviet-Promulgated Anti-Semitism
By Philip
Slomovitz
Silence Can Be Degrading . . . People of Faith Must Speak Fearlessly When Truth Is Abused
An anti-Semitic slur by a PLO-minded actress gave notoriety to a TV show that
marked the presentation of the Oscars for best performers and directors in the movie
industry.
One important lesson must be learned from that occurrence: that people with faith in
truth must be fearless in striving for justice. Paddy Chayefsky, Alan King and others
expressed their resentment over an insult that was directed at Jewry by a woman who
had already given encouragement to the would-be destroyers of Israel. They showed
courage in their refusal to be silent. This is the lesson for other American Jews, for Jewish
academics, for leaders in many fields of endeavor.
Chayefsky had done it before: he condemned Newsweek's anti-Semitic cartoon. Alan
King never permitted a slur at fellow Jews to go unchallenged. What about the thousands
of members of faculties in American universities? How about the prominent people in
Harry Orlinsky at 70: Activist
Who Inspired His Generation
science and literature? A situation has to be very menacing before the handful who do
assert themselves will speak out.
The craving for help in defense of Israel and in opposition to anti-Semitism applies as
well to Christians. There are many in their ranks who are not silent. The National
Conference of Christians and Jews and its Detroit Round Table acts commendably in
support of its program for justice, as the David Hyatt letter in this issue indicates. It is
vitally important that more Jews, prominent authors, movie and stage stars, those whose
names are well known to the American public, should not be silent. The media-have been
unfair to Israel and her leaders. They must not stymie justice for Israel.
Chayefsky, King and others who speak out are offering a slogan: "I shall not be silent."
Let it take root.
The idea of a Jewish national culture does not
come from Soviet Jews, but from foreign subver-
sive anti-Communist centers. The ideological
sources of Zionist gangsterism originate in the
scrolls of the Torah and in the commandments of
the Talmud.
enue penthouse, a psychiatrist urging him on to
ever-greater acts of "creative selfishness," and an
unending stream of beauties to satisfy his infinite
Harry Orlinsky had a 70th birthday and it passed with-
sexual urge. Arnie had everything . . . but. The
out fanfare. He is too busy for festivities.
problem: Arnie was as Jewish as Freud; his im-
As professor of Bible at the New York school of Hebrew
possible dream, his ultimate carnal carnival, was
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion he continues to
a shiksa. The shiksa. The last, perfect, most off-
An expose of the Begun campaign of hate was de-
inspire a new generation of rabbis. Many of American
limits Gentile woman on earth: his psychiatrist's
scribed by Zeev Ben-Shlomo, the East European correspon-
Jewry's leading scholars were his pupils. As a visiting dent of the London Jewish Chronicle, as containing the
wife.
professor in other schools, as a lecturer who had reached charge of treason against the Jews. The Chronicle corres-
"The Last Shiksa" by B.H. Litwack is an- out-
tens of thousands, he is recognized as the guide to Jewish pondent points out that there are less than 150,000 Jews in
rageous, ribald romp through the psyche, libido
learning who enthused his students with his own devotion Byelorussia but that the circulation of the Begun book ex-
and life of Arnie Goff, the most hyperactive
to scholarship, to research, to making teaching a glorious ceeds that number and his scurrilous charges therefore will
Jewish male since Portnoy. While Arnie is busy
role in Jewish life.
slipping into every bed in town, he is also moving
be read by non-Jews, thus spreading the already existing
On his 70th birthday he
into middle age. He always figured he has a
hatred for Jews in uninformed quarters where the popula-
merits more than a col-
"Jewish problem," which Dr. Kummerlos, his
tion is influenced by Russian hate propaganda.
umnist's salute ... A full-
psychiatrist for 19 years, refused to discuss.
By reintroducing the "Protocols" fabrications Begun
length biography is the
But Arnie knows he 'has a seventh sense, "his
merely continues the anti-Semitic propaganda of Czarist
minimum that should be
nose for Jewish." Categorically, all life had to
time's, thus giving credence to the regrettable fact that
produced in appreciation
offer was either Gentile, Jewish, or neutral. "Ita-
anti-Semitism spurred by the Kremlin is an inheritance
of his many gifts to Jewry.
lian was Jewish, Irish was Gentile. Arab was
from Czarism.
Since he is too busy to be
neutral ... Jewish rye had always been Gentile;
The revived Russian anti-Semitism as promulgated by
celebrant at birthday par-
rye bread was Jewish, but not Jewish rye." The
Begun is merely a continuation of the anti-Zionism appa-
ties, his friends and as-
only sense that can compete with Arnie's "nose
rently encouraged officially in Russia. The truth of this
sociates should do it in
for Jewish" is his eye for shiksas, and the more
belief is contained in articles in Pravda, the organ of the
their various forms of ex-
Aryan the better.
aoviet Communist Party, published immediately after the
pressing gratitude to a
World Zionist Congress held in Jerusalem, charging that
If this is the best lesson from psychiatry an author can
scholar for services that
pass on to his readers, then psychiatrists should be the first
nearly two-thirds of the Zionist budget is being spent to
have escalated into a
to condemn this novel. To Jews it is insulting, untrue to fact
undermine the regimes of Communist countries and the
career with an unmatched
Soviet Union.
and deserving of severest condemnations.
record for notable
Such is the nonsense spread by the Kremlin, but only the
achievements.
Armenians and Genocide:
dissidents and those who, like Andrei Sakharov, see
Not to be forgotten is the
Unforgettable Tragedy
through the Russian scheme are able to detect the venom
service he had rendered as
and fantasy of the spreading Russian anti-Semitism. It is a
In the process of portraying the Holocaust, so that the
chairman of the commit-
continuing hate campaign that-forces concern and compels
horrors perpetrated by Germans in the 1930s and 1940s
DR. HARRY M. ORLINSKY
tee that revised the En-
vigilance in dealing with the USSR attitude toward Jews
should not be repeated, and in paying tribute to the martyrs
glish translation of the Torah. It became one of the great and liberals of all faiths in all lands.
who were the victims of Nazism, another horrible tragedy
contributions to Jewry by the Jewish Publication Society of
must be recalled. The massacre of more than a million
America. This effort continues, the revised translation of
Armenians
by the Turks was another genocide never to be
Disgusting Vulgarization
the Nebiim — the Prophets — soon will appear as a con-
forgotten.
tinuation of the JPS tasks, and his role in it again is one of of Jews by Jewish Novelist
Then, as in later horrors affecting millions of innocent
continuity.
Had a non-Jew written the novel he would have been people, the guilt was not Turkey's alone. The nations who
He has been a frequent visiting lecturer here and his branded an anti-Semite.
were silent shared in the guilt.
sense of humor enchanted the thousands who loved to hear
But "The Last Shiksa" is the brain work of a Jewish
The United States played a role in the Turkish persecu-
him. He has many hobbies, his love for sports, especially writer. B.H. Litwack, hailed by his publishers, G.P. Put-
tions of the Christian Armenian community. Henry
baseball, among them. His major love is for his profession, nam's Sons, as sharing literary qualities with his wife, also
Morgenthau, the then American ambassador to Turkey,
his devotion is to teaching. With it he has inspired his
a writer, both laboring on more books, provides ammuni- interceded in behalf of the Armenians.
generation and that inspiration is passed on to another tion for Jew-baiting in this very disgusting story.
While marking the events that accompanied the
generation of young scholars who adore him for his genius
Anti-Semites love to accuse Jews of despoil- Holocaust caused by the Nazis, it is important that note
as teacher and his geniality as friend.
ing non-Jewish women. Litwack wrote as if this were a fact.
should be taken of the Armenian genocide. The Armenian
If he does not celebrate his birthday, his friends do, and
His publishers, of course, hail his "Shiksa" story. Non- community's memorials to the victims of the Turkish mas-
this is one of the birthday greetings which should multiply
sacres, planned for local churches this month, have the
Jewish women are the temptations of the Hero — what a
in the thousands.
interest of the Jewish community and the sympathetic
hero! — Archie Goff, and "The Last" in the title of the novel
concern of Jewry. Working together; peoples of all faiths
is the wife of his psychiatrist. Here is how Putnam's news
must never forget the outrages that had been perpetrated;
Russian Anti-Semitic Legacy:
release describes the despoiler:
the martyrs should not be forgotten and the efforts of all
`Protocols' as Guide for Haters
Arnie Goff had it all — a fabulous career, a
libertarians must be in the direction of averting repetitions
seven-figure bank account, a luxurious Park Av-
of crimes for which terrorists of all climes are responsible.
Hatred has no limitations and it seems especially repul-
sive when it stems from the Kremlin. There is no limit to its
Holocaust on NBC-WWJ TV: An Acclaim for Justice
virulence. An example is the manner in which it keeps
circulating the hatreds that had their roots in Czarist Rus-
For more than three decades it was "the small, still voice" that pleaded for an awareness that the Holocaust must not
sia, in the arch-fakes that have become notorious as "The
be forgotten if the bestialities of the Nazis are never again to be repeated.
Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
Now the voice is loud and clear. Thanks to NBC and the encouragement it received from people of all faiths, the
The outrageous distortions found their way in Father
Holocaust story will be heard and the dramatized scenes of the savagerieswill be
here for four nights starting
Coughlin's "Social Justice," in Henry Ford Sr.'s "Dearborn
Sunday on WWJ-TV. Repetition of this announcement is an obligation because of the seen
efforts that have been exerted by
Independent," in Arab lands where they were and are being
the sponsors and notably by WWJ to broadcast the facts.
used as propaganda against Israel, and in Latin America.
Not only is WWJ-TV devoting four nights to the nine-hour televised story: in a preview of the first night's three-hour
They were exposed soon after their publication in the
introductory portion WWJ gave an opportunity to spokesmen for this community's educational systems, labor groups
land of the Czars in the first decade of this century.
and the churches to speak their minds as expressions of urgency in supporting the programs.
The London Times expose was the result of research that
This is an expression of appreciation to WWJ for its role in an important atonement for the failures of the past. Now
established how the hate documents were compiled for the
the story of the Nazi crimes is being told, and it will be heard by an hitherto uninformed audience that must run into the
purpose of spreading hate for the Jew.
tens of millions.
Vladimir Begun, editor of the Byelorussian newspaper
WWJ's staff, hosting a preview at which a community's obligations were expressed with firmness, marked a red
Voice of the Fatherland, published in Minsk, is spearhead-
letter day for Detroit. In behalf of WWJ, Maryhellen Stepp provided educational material related to the Holocaust
ing the renewed anti-Semitic propaganda in his book "In-
programs to the schools and to study groups, and the devotion with which she represented her TV station earns a
vasion Without Arms," in which he pursues the falsifica-
measure of thanks to her as well.
tions of the "Protocols." In it he wrote:
To Charles Benham, executive director of the Detroit Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews
The Torah is not a foundation for culture, but
goes special gratitude for his organizational skills in assuring community unity in the vigilant tasks of the present and
prison. It is in the last resort an anti-culture, be-
the years ahead. ADL's and the Jewish Community Council's collaboration with the Free Press fora special section and
cause the teaching of the Jewish faith is an anti-
the Detroit Board of Education's curricula plans for Holocaust programs are among the elements in the newly
social and anti-human teaching.
developing libertatrian aims to be remembered and respected.