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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 29th day of Nisan, 5738, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateurhal portion„Leviticus 16:1-18:30. Prophetical portion, 1 Samuel 20:1842.
Sunday and Monday, Rosh Hodesh Iyar, Numbers 28:1-15.
Thursday, Yom HaAtrznaut, Israel Independence Day
Candle lighting. Friday. May &17 P.m.
VOL. LXXIII, No. 9
Page Four
Friday, May 5, 1978
Dunant: Nobelist and Christian Zionist
It will be an occasion for honors to one of the
Jean Henri Dunant is a name written indeli-
bly in human history. He was the founder of the
Red Cross. It was at Solferino in 1859 that Dun- nations
Hasidey of
Umot
HaOlam, the saintly among the
the world.
The that
tribute
to Dunant
Dunant also
will be the
occasion
to
ant, during the tragic warfare that shocked his recall
when
addressed
Jewish
conscience, conceived the idea of forming an communities of France, England and Germany
international body to relieve suffering. It was at in his call for the resettlement of Palestine by
the Geneva Conference in 1863 that the Red
Jews, his plea, like those of many other
Cross idea took root.
forerunners of Herzlian Zionism, fell on deaf
Dunant also had another great dream: the
rehabilitation of Palestine by Jews as their re- ears.
Now there is an amending of the faults that
constituted homeland. For that purpose he
made so many obstacles for Zionist leadership
formed the International Palestine Company in
in Jewish ranks.
1867 and he gained an inerasable page in
Magen David Adorn, the counterpart of the
Jewish
history
as
one
of
the
great
Christian
Red
Cross in Israel, takes the lead, through its
Zionists of all time.
American supporters, to pay honor to Jean
For his great achievement in the founding of Henri Dunant on the 150th anniversary of his
International
Cross,
Dunant
became
birth.
It is an
occasion
for deep
appreciation
of
the first
recipient Red
of the
Nobel
Peace Prize
in the
human
spirit
of a great
Christian
who rec-
1901.
ognized
the
injustices
committed
against
the
Yet, the story of the Red Cross founder is little Jews and sought recompense for them by means
known, and only in the archives of the Red Cross of a re-established Jewish homeland. His dream
and the Red Cross histories which have limited
was fulfilled in the form of the Israeli Zionist
circulation is the name given proper recogni-
triumph. Glory to the memory of that great
tion.
Christian dedications
whose idealism
was
universal
in his
For his role as the pioneer Christian Zionist combined
to the
Red
Cross and
to
he is due for honors at the Herzl Institute in
what had developed as the Zionist ideal.
New York on May 7. -
Do Not Interrupt Holocaust Expose!
Whatever the effectiveness of the Holocaust repetition of the crimes in any form will be met
television programs, they must be judged only with the human reactions that were missing
as an added encouragement to keep exposing during the Nazi era. Had there been the vital
the Nazi crimes. Millions were moved by what humanity of man to man it might not have oc-
may have been revelations to many. At best it curred. Even the libertarian American spirit
was part of the story but not the complete one. was dormant, and the indifference was evident
Because the facts were told dramatically, and time and time again when shiploads of refugees
it was a great-melodrama, much was missed. were turned away from America's shores and
The murder of children was not hidden and the the Nazi victims were returned to their doom.
barbarities of the Nazi savages were shown in
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was one of the
the process of limelighting the horrors. How
many were left with the knowledge that of the great manifestations of courage in the resis-
Six Million Jews who were murdered there were tance that was not always suppressed by the
Hitler hordes. In the televised Holocaust pro-
a million children?
The bestiality of those who spoke for and grams it was clearly shown that the Zionists,
acted for the Master Race was placed on the who were then a minority, were the ones who
record. Now the story must continue to be told inspired the resistance. That's how it is now in
as history, with all the aspects of its inhumanity the defensive efforts for Israel. That is how it
told and retold for this generation and genera- must continue. Never again remains the de-
tions to come, providing the assurance that the termined slogan for all libertarians.
Genocide Convention: U.S. on Trial
Included in the mounting comments on the
effects of the Holocaust TV series on American
public opinion was a declaration addressed to
the New York_Times by U.S. Senator William
Proxmire de&ring the failure of the United
States-to act mile Genocide Convention which
calla_ for international action to outlaw mass
rimer of peoples.
This nation, under President Harry S. Tru-
man, was among the first to advocate adoption
of this convention by the United Nations. But it
needs confirmation by all nations of the world.
Thus far, more than 83 countries, including the
Soviet Union, have adopted the Genocide Con-
vention. The U.S. still stands out in its failure to
act.
Now Senator Proxmire comes with a plea for
the adoption of the important measure. Deeply
moved by the Holocaust revelations, his plea is
that one of the ways of pledging non-repetition
of the Holocaust is by adoption of the regula-
tions outlawing mass murders. Perhaps his
adamant declaration will serve the purpose that
has until now placed this country in an inexcus-
able tole 'ark' the side of the bigots.
Challenge of the Spirit
Noted Dissident Boris Shragin
Exposes- USSR Anti-Semitism
Boris Shragin, Russian dissident, well-known as a writer and
philosopher, accounting for the links between Russia's past and pre-
sent, in "The Challenge of the Spirit" (Knopf), defines the continuing
display of anti-Semitism in Russia, with allusions to the origin of the
prejudice.
This volume offers important analysis of the role of intellectuals in
the development of the Russian people, and the anti-Semitism di-
rected at the intelligentsia as a class.
The book is an impressive historical review of social events as well
as historical events- leading up to the Soviet policies of this day. The
past had its influence on the present, and the anti-Semitic aspect
emerges as a shocking continuity of earlier experiences.
Thus, in the matter involving attitudes towards Jews, the Soviet
prejudice is especially shocking. Here are some excerpts from Shra-
gin's studies that throw light on the Soviet bias:
"The Soviet authorities found an even more expressive and -popular
label to denote the foreignness of intellectuals, by identifying them
with the Jews. This is something even the dullest can understand.
There is of course nothing new in this. Intellectuals and 'Yids' were
synonymous to the beutish Tsarist 'Black Hundred' gangs. The
fathers and educators of 'ordinary Soviet people' were themselves
anti-Semites.
"Since Stalin's campaign against 'cosmopolitanism' there has been
a revival of anti-Jewish agitation whenever relations between the
state and the intelligentsia have been unusually strained. But this
conflict has never been as open as now, when full-fledged state serf-
dom has been exposed to humanism and progress. The intelligentsia,
in any event, has lost its illusions. Since Stalin, the state has prohi-
bited and restricted much intellectual activity, applying the machin-
ery of repression for all it's worth, to keep the intelligentsia, if not in a
state of genuine submission, at least prepared to cynically buckle
under and serve the oppressors. The authorities have resorted to
anti-Semitism, in spite of the disgrace this implies in a post-Hitler
world. To find disciples of Marx, Engels, and Lenin following in
Hitler's footsteps would indeed be scarcely credible, had they not
already shown how little they care for honesty or consistency."
"In this way, our know nothing rulers have managed to consolidate
their position and scramble back onto the 'commanding heights.' If
-
only they could govern with the sole assistance of ignoramuses like
themselves! But unfortunately they need the intellectuals, pernicious
as they are, with their Yid passports or Yid mentality. And so the
Brezhnev leadership twists and turns, gyrating like a merry-go-
round, alternating fits of anger, lies, hypocrisy, and plain thuggery."
"Incidentally there may be a key here to the peculiar nature of
Russian anti-Semitism, which is directed against the intelligentsia as
a class. The intellectual is felt to be alien, and it is natural to label him
a 'Yid,' the embodiment of all that is foreign. It is typical of the
intelligentsia, moreover, that it strives to get out of its national shell
and to develop cosmopolitan ideas; we see this in both Westernizers
and Slavophiles, and in such thinkers, diametrically opposed in many
respects, as Tolstoy and V. Solovyov. In Dostoyevsky s case, too,
nationalism took the form of considering' the RuSsian a' 'universal
man: