Daughter's Biography of Zionist Pioneer
Max Nordau to Appear in Jewish News
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The biography of the chief advocate pf the Zionist movement, Dr. Max Nordau, who was the chief supporter of
Dr. Theodor Herzl in the founding of the World Zionist Organization and in the convening of the First World
Zionist Congress in Basle in 1897, will commence in a series of articles that will be published beginning in next
week's Detroit Jewish News.
The articles are written by his daughter, Maxa Nordau of Paris, the eminent artist. Dr. Max Nordau gained
fame in world literary ranks, and is considered with Herzl among the leading advocates of the Zionist ideal in the
history of the movement.
MAXA NORDAU
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om Kippur
From the Prophecy of
Isaiah, Chapter 58
3 "Why, when we fasted, did You not see;
When we starved our bodies, did You pay no heed?"
Because on your fast day
You see to your business
And oppress all your laborers!
4 Because you fast in strife and contention,
And you strike with a wicked fist!
Your fasting today is not such
As to make your voice heard on high.
'Is such the fast I desire,
A day for men to starve their bodies?
Is it bowing the head like a bulrush
And lying in sackcloth and ashes?
Do you call that a fast,
A day when the Lord is favorable?
'No, this is the fast I desire:
To unlock fetters of wickedness,
And untie the cords of the yoke
To let the oppressed go free;
To break off every yoke.
It is to share your bread with the hungry,
And to take the wretched poor into your home;
When you see the naked, to clothe him,
And not to ignore your own kin.
'Then shall your light burst through like the dawn
And your healing spring up quickly;
Your Vindicator shall march before you,
The Presence of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
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Then, when you call, The Lord will answer;
When you cry, He will say: Here I am.
If you banish the yoke from your midst,
The menacing hand, and evil speech,
"And you offer your compassion to the hungry
And satisfy the famished creature —
Then shall your light shine in darkness,
And your gloom shall be like noonday.
"The Lord will guide you always;
He will slake your thirst in drought
And give strength to your bones.
You shall be like a watered garden,
Like a spring whose waters do not fail."
Oct. 6, 1978
Dayan Heads Israel Peace
Missions 5 Will Address UN
- JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Cabinet will decide Sunday on the composition of the Israeli negotiating
team for the talks with Egypt, due to begin in Washington Thursday.
,
Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan is to head the team. He left for the U.S. this week and will addiess the UN
General Assembly on Monday. From New York he will proceed to Washington to be joined there by the
other negotiators.
National Religious Party leader Dr. Yosef Burg and Deputy Premier and "Democratic Moirement" boss
Yigael Yadin have indicated that they want to be included in the team, and observers expect that they will.
Another possibility is Ariel Sharon.
Meanwhile, an Egyptian defense ministry team of officers and technicians arrived in Israel
Wednesday to set up direct communications between Cairo and Jerusalem.
The two countries seem to be moving quickly towards a peace settlement by the end of the year. A dispute
over the site of the peace talks that surfaced over the weekend apparently was resolved by President
Carter's invitation to hold them in Washington.
President Anwar Sadat, in a major address to the Egyptian parliament on the Camp David summit
conference, announced that President Carter has accepted his invitation to come to Cairo for the signing of
the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty later this year. A White House spokesman said the President wanted to
attend the signing but he did not
know if it would be in Egypt.
Sadat was lavisli . in his praise for
Carter who, he said, had saved the
Camp David talks from collapse. In
his
speech to the parliament he
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A 70-year-old Jewish congregation in Cairo
stressed America's full partnership
was the recipient of Rosh Hashana greetings Trom President Anwar
Sadat of Egypt on Monday. Sadat sent a special representative to
role in the summit talks and in the
convey his message to Chaar Hachami Synagogue celebrating the
Egyptian-Israeli negotiations that
Jewish New Year. The 90-member congregation responded with a
lie ahead. He denounced Arab critics
prayer for success of Egyptian-Israeli peace negotiations and begged
of the Camp David frameworks, in-
God "to end the conflict between the two countries and bless the area
cluding
the Palestine Liberation
with peace."
Organization and urged Syria and
But on Wednesday it was reported that several Israeli newsmen in
Jordan to join in the negotiations
Cairo completed the minyan at the Cairo synagogue .
with Israel based on the Camp David
Three Israelis joined eight elderly men in the prayers, sup-
.formulas.
ported by one American girl who is studying at the American
King Hussein of Jordan dis-
University in Cairo. One Moslem guard and an American TV
crew attended the prayer. "It was one of the saddest and
closed Sunday, on the CBS televi-
strangest prayers I have ever attended," wrote Zeev Shiff,
sion "Face the Nation" program,
Haaretz special correspondent in Cairo.
that he has submitted a long
The newsmen reported that the Jewish cemetery of Cairo was totally
series of written questions to the
neglected. Most of the tombstones were ruined, and only a few of the
U.S. seeking clarification of the
th ousands of tombstones could be recognized.
(Continued on Page 5)
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Conflicting Cairo Reports
on Rosh Hashana Services
Sadness Colors Pioneer Sinai Settlements
By YITZHAK SHARGIL
YAMIT (JTA) — It is difficult to say what feelings fill the hearts of the 4,500 Israelis in this pleasant seaside
township on the northern Sinai coast and in the string of agricultural settlements built further inland on the desert
sands.
For these settlers, some Israel-born, others immigrants from Europe, the Soviet Union, North America and
South Africa who opted for the pioneer life, know today that they will have to leave.
Not immediately, perhaps. But inevitably they will have to abandon their homes, shops, businesses, gardens and
farms. They will be evacuated in accordance with a timetable -to be worked out when Israel and Egypt negotiate a
peace treaty within the Camp David framework that provides for the restoration of Sinai to full Egyptian
sovereignty.
If there is anger and resentment in many hearts, that is understandable. What strikes a visitor,
however, is a deep sadness and resignation mingled with an almost naive clinging to fragile hopes.
The anger is directed mainly against the present Likud-led government of Premier Menahem Begin who signed
the Camp David accords and now says the Sinai settlements must be liquidated in the interests of peace with Egypt.
But there is also bitterness against the previous Labor-led regime that initiated the settlements 10 years ago and
invited settlers to come to establish new homes and a new frontier.
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