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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the 30th day of Kislev, 5739, is the sixth day of Hanuka and Rosh Hodesh Tevet,
and the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 41:1-44:17; Numbers 28:9-15 and 7:42-47. Prophetical portion, Zechariah 2:14-4:7; I Samuel 20:18, 42.

Sunday, Rosh Hodesh Tevet and seventh day of Hanuka,
Numbers 28:1-15 and 7:48-53.
Monday, eighth day of Hanuka,
Numbers 7:54-8:4.

Candle lighting, Friday, Dec. 29, 4:51 p.m.

Page Four

VOL. LXXIV, No 17

Friday, December 29, 1978

On the Eve of Another Crucial Year

A year of tensions and hopes has drawn to 'an
end.
There were many tensions and the hopes for
peace nearly vanished.
The tensions will most certainly continue.
The hopes continually are entertained that one
of these days the decisions for amity and an end
to warfare in the Middle East will somehow
materialize.
With realism staring at the approaching New
Year there is the obligation to recognize a con-
tinuing uncertainty in the agonizing tasks of
striving for at least a minimum of good will and
cooperation between Israel and the dominant
Arab element on her borders, the Egyptian.
It seemed as if the conflict had neared its end,
at Camp David and at the White House, on Nov.
11. But the aspirations for peace dimmed and
now there may be a new ball game.
Again, it is the United States that plays one of
the major roles in a task which should have
borne fruit on Dec. 17. New obstacles arose, and
again it is Israel that gets the blame.
The New Year 1979 is not welcomed with glee
under circumstances burdened with suspicions.
Again, it was Menahem Begin who was being
portrayed as the evil spirit. The Egyptian
Anwar Sadat is the saint. The President of the
United States chooses to pat the Egyptian with
praise while' suggesting aspersions on the Is-
raeli leader.
Thus, the assurances of avoidance of pres-
sures are becoming meaningless•and the friends
of Israel have a right to ask President Jimmy
Carter: if the Camp David decisions were for

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peace, why encourage the Egyptian leader in
his insistence that in the event of war he is free
to take sides with Israel's enemy?
How unfortunate that the issues should have
been distorted! The Egyptian newspaper Al
Ahram of Cairo even "doctored" the text of the
treaty decided upon at Camp David when it
printed it in Arabic, compelling the issuing of
the text in the proper English contents.
There was a time, during the trying periods of
Israel's seeking an understanding in American
relations with the U.S., when there was an im-
pending threat of even-handedness in treat-
ments of both Jews and Arabs. Now even the
even-handedness is missing in the judgments of
the positions of Israel and Egypt. It is on this
score that the protests against the Carter-
Vance attitudes assume a bitter note.
A realization of such conditions make the con-
tinuity of negotiations in a New Year ominous.
The expectancy is that there will be more rather
than less conflicts, that with the passing une-
ventfully of the target date for the signing of a
peace accord between Israel and Egypt there
may be a much longer delay, unless President
Carter makes his involvement in the serious
task one of realism rather than of reverting to
the role of flattering Sadat while alluding to
Begin in tones of suspicion and rebuke.
The general Arab attitude, the unending
animosities in nearly all ranks while tolerably
excluding Egypt from warmongering, marks
the coming months with the same dangers to
Israel as in the past 30 years. This is the pros-
pect for 1979. It is best to be prepared for it.

Council of Jewish Women at 85

An 85-year history of a leading women's
movement earns the widest attention and
merits the respect that is due to the devotion
and social mindedness of a membership that
embraces enrollment in hundreds of com-
munities.
The National Council of Jewish Women had
begun its tasks of aid to new settlers in this
country as a duty that called for Americaniza-
tion and assistance to people who had arrived
here without means and without knowledge of
the language.
In the decades that followed, that experience
was transferred to another sphere, to the es-
capees from oppression who found a haven in
the ancient land of Israel. In that new effort the
National Council of Jewish Women enrolled the
cooperation of its 300,000 members for the ad-
vancement of Jewish learning, in the improve-
ment of education in Israel, in creating initia-
tives for a generation redeemed from the hor-
rors of the 1930s and 1940s.
At the same time, this movement of dedicated
women began to concern itself with the needs of
the elderly. It introduced and continues to spon-
sor the social services needed in providing what
had become known as Meals on Wheels, and if it
were for this pioneering effort alone the move-

ment would deserve commendation and appre-
ciation. --

They did not come into the role of notable
creativity without being tested. When there
was the struggle between Zionism and the an-
tagonists of the Jewish liberation movement,
the NCJW was in the ranks of the assimilated.
NCJW was the opponent of nationalism, a nega-
tion in which it was not alone. It was in the
years when there was a bitter ideological strug-
gle. To the credit of this important movement it
must be recorded that in an age of crisis the
women responded, when there was need to find
new homes for the homeless created by Nazism
they became partners in the movement to pro-
vide dignity for the dispossessed.
The National Council of Jewish Women now
occupies a place of notable creativity for Jews
and for Americans in many social causes. The
women have redeemed themselves in time of
need. They are partners in Israel's upbuilding
and defense. They are the sponsors of educa-
tional programs in Israel, scholarships for the
needy in the United States, comfort for the re-
tarded. For such a role they have earned the
blessings of all their fellow citizens on the occa-
sion of the movement's 85th anniversary.

Farleigh Dickinson Volume

150 Years of Hungarian Jewry
in Tales About Rabbi Eizik

A remarkably impressive account of Hungarian Jewry can be
gleaned from the stories about one of its most famous rabbis.
"Rabbi Eizik: Hasidic Stories About the Zaddik of. Kallo," an im-
pressive collection of true tales, by Andrew Handler (Farleigh Dic-
kinson University), portray the life and work of the eminent scholar
and Hasidic rabbi. At the same time these records of a noble life
describe the history of Hungarian Jewry from 1699 to 1848.
Rabbi Eizik was admired and loved by his people, and Christians
respected him for his learning and his kindnesses.
While the stories border on the miraculous it is Rabbi Eizik the
Zaddik, the saintly man, who emerges as the performer of good deeds,
therefore earning the reputation of a miracle man.
He was not only the teacher and the devoted Jewish leader, but also
possessed the ability to make contacts with Hasidic compatriots in
other lands.
He was, understandably, the devoted adherent to the teachings and
ways of life formulated by the Hasidic founder, the Baal Shem.
Because he had contacts with non-Jews he was confronted with
anti-Semitism. The stories relate how he handled himself with dig-
nity while not permitting prejudice to predominate.
To each story are appended notes explaining the translations from
Hebrew, Yiddish, Hungarian and German phrases. Historical events
are annotated.
Dr. Andrew Handler, a native of Hungary, who taught history at
the University of Miami in Coral Gables, did research foi his stories in
Hungary and did the translations for the text of the Rabbi Eizik
historical episodes.

Knowledge About Holocaust
in New Collected Readings

With the available material about the Holocaust, there is no excuse
for ignorance regarding the great crimes of the Nazis.
The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, in cooperation with the
publisher, Bantam Books, has made possible the publication of a
reader into which have been packed the most impressive data regard-
ing the bestialities and their perpetrators.
Roselle Chartock and Jack Spencer co-authored "The Holocaust
Years — Society on Trial."
Here are the section titles which give an indication of the extent of
the collected material and their value of thoroughly covering the
Holocaust story: What Happened?, Victims and Victimizers, How and
Why, What Does the Holocaust Reveal About the Individual and
Society?, Aftermath, Could It Happen Again?
Stories, poems, memoirs, quotations from testimony and other
material was gathered for this documentary.
partial listing of authors whose writings or testimony are in-
cluded in this paperback will give weight to the contention that a
great service is being rendered with its publication. William Shirer,
Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, Victor Frankl and many others, periodicals,
data from the writings and memoirs of Nazi leaders, serve as evidence
and create the background for knowledge about the Holocaust and an
understanding of its consequences.
World authorities are quoted on the consequences of terrorism
instigated by humans, as in the instance of the Germans. The warn-
ing is for vigilance lest the crime be repeated.