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Tu b'Shevat and The Wandering Jew'
You water it. You feed it.
It thrives. For a while .. .
Sooner or later, it begins to'
(A Seven Arts Feature)
For me, ail. It begins to spread all
NEW YORK
the civil New Year means over, to tangle, to tear off, to
Tu b'Shevat is not far off. forget its source. It can't
And I invariably go to tend stay together as a lovely
my plants. I like to cultivate unit. You have wayward
my green thumb. (Tu breakoffs.
You cut it back, hoping to
b'Shevat, the New Year of
Trees, will be on Monday.) contain and force new
I feel I should tell you that shoots higher on denuded,
after the installation of my abandoned stems, closer to
husband as national the roots, to fill in a scat-
president of Jewish Na- tered look.
You put the cut pieces
tional Fund I went home
with several little plants. in water. Ah ha! The
By FLORENCE
BERKOWITZ
I've nursed and coddled and temperament! Talk of
tended them. Siime are still survival of the fittest!
With me. Others, alas, are a Some sink. Some swim.
lovely memory. . Some don't make the fine
One plant intrigues me. roots you hoped for. You
In fact, it has a scholarly try to root them directly
reaction on me. I'm headed in soil. Some make it.
for research. It's that Some don't.
By that time you may
- ubiquitous runner, The
Wandering Jew. Where did have given up and thrown it
it get such a -name? Of away. I never can. After all,
course, it's not its botanical it's a Wandering Jew, and if
name. But we should have a I don't care, who will? If you
Tu b'Shevat ceremony hon- haven't given in to despair,
oring the genius who gave it you say: "What am I going
its familiar tag. to do? I'll have to relocate
it."
-Every time I water it,
It's time for this unhappy
feed it, look at it, work
with it, I think that mys- Jew to move. He spreads out
terious namer was a nuvi too far and it wasn't
— a prophet! The name healthy. Bad surroundings,
encompasses so many perhaps. Who knows what it
moods and tempers of the came in contact with? You
Jew! It the most exas-
perating plant!
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know how Wandering Jews
are; they get into every-
You take it into your thing. Cut him back to size.
midst and you think it will Squish him together and
be simple. It's lovely. And into a more compact pot.
varied. Different colorings, Take the no-longer useful
sizes. It looks like you'll get ties to non-functioning, un-
along. You put it in a good productive stems, feeders,
spot — not too sunny, not and put it all into a new
too_ cold. A comfortable locale and start afresh.
environment is what it That's what you think!
This crazy plant has a will
seems to need — like its
of its own. It will not be
namesake.
shoved and stuffed. You try
to join all those parts of a
common stalk and they
,snap and break! I'm exasp-
erated.
Solomon Schechter
said, "That which will not
bend will break." Just
like a Jew. Push him, -
force him,, stuff him into a
bind and he rebels.
These crazy stems even
arch like a back when they
are bent. "Eidel gepatch-
ket." Talk of delicate, segsi-
tive!
I became like the goyim! I
say, "Look, I gave you your
freedom to move and grow
as you please. You had sun
and air and food and you
spread all over, got ugly and
spoiled my whole view of
how you should look. You
behaved badly.
"So when I tried to fix you
and contain you for your
own good, you don't cooper-
ate! You revolt. What do you
Jews want? You're never
satisfied! You're ungrateful
and impossible to live with!
I was so tolerant! You'll just
have to try to readjust to
this new spot that I'm put-
tinglyou in.. It's not the first
time. I'm sorry.
"Unfortunately, you'll
lose some. But if I know
you and your kind you'll
gain some."
If you can even find the
right combination, soil,
land, climate, care, love, I'm
sure you'll sink deep -roots
and spread out and thrive
beautifully. You'll find life!
You have what it takes! Be-
fore I go back for the fellow
who gave you your funny
name, I hear there's a place,
a lovely land, where all
kinds of wandering JeWs fi-
nally settle down and grow!
"I hear they do have the
winning, correct combina-
tion of Land and Life!"
I think we Jews should
look into this!
'Oh, yes, a Happy Tu
b'Shevat!
ORT President
Yeshiva College
50th - Birthday
Symposium Set
NEW YORK — The 50th
anniversary of Yeshiva
University's Yeshiva Col-
lege, the nation's first
undergraduate liberal arts
and sciences college under
Jewish sponsorship, will be
celebrated with a two-part
symposium on the interac-
tion of science and ethics,
the ethics in law, Sunday, at
the university's Mendel
Gotteknan Library.
SIDNEY LEIWANT
NEW YORK — Sidney E.
Leiwant of South Orange,
N.J., has been elected
president of the American
ORT Federation.
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