20 Friday, February 2, 1979
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Quakers Checked
JERUSALEM — The Is-
raeli government is inves-
tigating charges that the
Quakers — the American
Association of Friends — is
behind recent Arab appeals
to the Israeli Supreme
Court to block land seizures.
Accordina
to
the
Jerusalem Post,
the Israeli
b
government will seek an
agreement with the Quak-
ers in which they will have
to submit annual plans for
economic activities which
will have to be approved by
the government before
permits are issued.
AL KLINE
•
Labor and Social Affairs
Minister Israel Katz said
the government welcomes
the philanthropic and
humanitarian activities of
the Quakers "but it is our
duty and theirs to see that
they don't deviate from it."
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Some Historic Lessons from Jewish Food
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
NEW YORK — Israel
seems a progressive land
indeed. It not only can gen-
erate new ideas but is quick
to adopt the new ideas of
others. It has recently even
challenged the mighty
McDonald's hamburger
empire. There is no
McDonald's in Israel, but it
has a MacDavid. The
McDonald's people have
tried to block it, but an Is-
raeli court has ruled, as we
understand it, that it can
operate but cannot sell the
same hamburger package
that the McDonald's people
offer.
We approve of the Israeli
court's decision. The Mac-
David store, we think,
should offer some essen-
tially more Jewish food —
blintzes, maybe a little
gefilte fish with bitter
herbs, or borsht or cholent,
maybe.
Heine thought that
Jewish food had done a
great deal to preserve the
Jew., He noted that in his
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
"Drinkers of Moslem blood,
we warn you to leave our
country as soon as you can,
for if not we will kill all of
you Jews."
This passage, and others
like it, appear in a letter re-
cently circulated among
Jews of Teheran and other
cities in Iran. The letter was
read out by Labor Zionist
leader Yehiel Leket at a
press conference. He said it
had been brought back from
Iran by an emissary sent out
by the Israel Labor Party on
a mission to save Jews
there.
The letter was signed:
"The Popular Front of Is-
lamic Youth in Iran." It ac-
cused-Iran's Jews of extort-
ing money by usury and
sending it to the Zionist
state illegally. It stated:
". . every epoch needs its
Hitler who must root out the
Jewish scourge. . ."
Leket reiterated Labor
Party allegations that the
government and Jewish
Agency had failed in
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same food philosophy, the
golden age might soon ar-
rive. Certainly, we wouldn't
be seeing such things as are
now occurring in Iran, if the
people of Iran, for instance,
ate hamantashen.
Hamatashen first arose in
Iran — then called Persia.
What is happening today in
Iran?
The opponents of the
Shah have made clear their
program. First of all, there
is to be anti-Semitism. No
oil is to be sold to Israel.
Also the trend to mod-
ernization, which the
Shah initiated, is to be
brought to an end. No
foreign languages are to
be taught and above all,
the role of women re-
stricted.
If we look back to the time
when the hamantashen
first made its appearance,
there were essentially the
same things. Haman, the
anti-Semite, wanted to de-
stroy the Jews and how did
all the trouble first emerge?
It all came from the desire to
restrict the women. Some of
their policies regarding
Iranian Jewry. He denied
that Labor sought to
make "political capital"
out of the tragic situation.
"After months of soothing
statements, to the effect
that much was being done
that could not be published,
it turns out," Leket said,
"that on the ground very lit-
tle is in fact being done."
Leket is secretary general of
the World Labor Zionist
Movement and a former
Knesseter:
His accusations were re-
futed by Likud Knesseter
Moshe Katzav, who has re-
cently visited Iran, is of Ira-
nian origin, and w'as elected
as chairman of an umbrella
organization of all Iranian
immigrant societies in Is-
rael.
He spoke of the dearth of
Jewish and Zionist educa-
tion in Iran which had
caused the community
there to become distant
from Israel and eroded their
Jewish identity.
Katzav urged other par-
ties not to exploit the situa-
tion for party-political ends
but to work together to seek
ways of saving Iranian
Jewry.
Jewish Agency and
government sources
have said repeatedly in
recent weeks that the
major obstacles that con-
front all "saving efforts"
is the wide-spread indif-
ference to them on the
part of Iranian Jews.
Many Jews seem tcs feel
that their futures in Iran
are not endangered — or
else that they will be able
to get out, if necessary, at
a later stage.
Meanwhile, El Al has
suspended flights to Tehe-
ran pending clarification of
the situation there follow-
ing the announcement by
the Iranian government
that it was closing all air-
ports to civilian traffic.
In Los Angeles,
American-trained rabbi in
Teheran told the 79th an-
nual convention of the Rab-
binical Assembly over the
telephone that everything
is all right in our Jewish
community, Baruch
Hashem (Praise God). No-
thing has happened to any
Jews."
Rabbi David Shofet, a
graduate of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America, as are most of the
500 delegates attending the
convention, was replying to
a call placed to him by Rabbi
Saul Teplitz, president, and
Rabbi Wolfe Kelman,
executive vice president of
the Rabbinical Assembly.
A native of Iran, Rabbi
Shofet declared that the
"situation in Iran is not
clear" but said that "most
of the community be-
lieves things are all
right." The Jews in Tehe-
ran, he said, "consider
themselves part of the
people. They have been
living here for 27 cen-
turies, and have man-
aged to live with these
people, and we hope that
we will manage to live in
peace, in shalom, with
everybody."
"Are the synagogues
functioning?" Teplitz asked.
"They are functioning,"
Shofet replied. "In my shul
every Sabbath evening we
have more than 1,000
people come to pray and are
willing to hear information
about the situation, but as I
told you, the situation is not
clear, not to the country, not
to anybody."
Meanwhile, it was
learned that Israel' is not
threatened by a shortage of
oil, according to Shlomo
Lorincz, chairman of 'the
Knesset Finance Commit-
tee. Israel had been wise
the Persians wanted the
queen to come to a party,
naked, and Vashti, assert-
ing her rights as a woman,
said she wouldn't do any
such thing. She asserted her
independence as a woman.
So then, as today, there
were these two chief ideas
— restrict the Jews and
women.
It all ended up, of course,
nicely. Haman lost out com-
pletely. He didn't get to see
the queen naked. If he
wanted to see a porno show,
he had to go some place els€ -
- and all the Jews ha
hamantashen.
The point I wish to em-
phasize is that if the Per-
sians had continued to
eat hamantashen, they
wouldn't be making the
same mistake again today.
And if the Persians had
eaten bitter herbs, they
would have known better
than to make Haman, who
by profession, was a barber,
into prime minister. No
wonder they- had a close
shave.
Anti-Semitic Letter Making Rounds
in Iran Threatens Jews, Extols Hitler
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way even many of the Ger-
man Jewish apostates
would quietly sneak back to
the ghetto to refresh them-
selves with a Jewish meal.
If Jewish food helped
preserve the Jew, who
knows, it may be a means
to fight anti-Semitism
too. I don't believe a
bagel lover, for instance,
can be a real anti-Semite.
There is another aspect
of the situation — Jewish
food is more than simply
food.
To the Jew, everything
that he eats is educational.
We eat bitter herbs to re-
mind us of the bitterness of
the life of bondage. Blintzes
are very tasty, but do we eat
them on Shavuot because of
that? No. We eat blintzes
because the rabbis tell us
blintzes are the food of chil-
dren and on Shavuot we are
like children to God.
We eat hamantashen to
remind us of the calamity of
prejudice and because of the
message of hope it contains
for its conquest. If the whole
world were to adopt the
enough to diversify its
sources of oil well in ad-
vance of the current distur-
bances in Iran, he
explained.
He took issue with Av-
raham Shavit, chairman of
the Manufacturers Associa-
tion, who had said that Is-
rael had oil stocks available
for "a few months." Lorincz
countered this by stating,
"Thank God the situation is
not as Shavit depicts it." He
could not be specific, he ad-
ded, but the stocks were
much larger than that.
Touro Beginning
Classes in Israel
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Touro College of New York
has announced plans for a
program in Israel for
women undergraduates,
sponsored in cooperation
with the National Council
of Young Israel. The first
term begins this month in
Jerusalem.
Open to high school
graduates and to college
undergraduates who meet
Touro College admission
standards, the program will
give full college credit for all
successfully completed,__
academic work.
Classes will be held in re
nted quarters and dormit
ory facilities are being ar-
ranged. Students may at-
tend for a semester or
longer. Those who enroll for
one semester only will con-
centrate on Jewish studies,
including the Hebrew
Scriptures, Hebrew lan-
guage and literature,
Jewish history and Israeli
geography.
A wide range of field trips
is planned to back up the
study. Students who enroll
for more than one semester
will be expected to take
courses in other areas of the
liberal arts and sciences, in
addition to Jewish studies.