Purim Enigma
in the Image of
`Modernized' Persia

Diplomacy Tested
in Current CrisiS

THE JEWISH NEWS

VOL. LXXV, NO. 1

of Jewish Events

A Weekly Review

Editorials, Page 4

PURIM

Greetings
to Jewish
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Everywhere

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Carter in Knesset on Monday;
President Trekking for Peace

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TEL AVIV (JTA) = President Carter has been invited to address the Israeli
Knesset on Monday, the final day of his visit to Israel. The Knesset Steering
Committee announced that it would permit Premier Menahem Begin and Shimon
Peres, chairman of the opposition Labor Alignment, to respond to the President's
speech in English.
- The news that Carter will visit Egypt and Israel in a dramatic personal effort
to achieve a peace treaty touched off hectic preparations. The President will be
welcomed at Ben-Gurion Airport on Saturday night by a guard of honor, a dress
parade and a 21-gun salute. The last such ceremonials occurred in November 1977
when President Anwar Sadat of Egypt landed at Ben-Gurion Airport, also on \ a
Saturday night.
As with Sadat's -visit, massive security measures will be taken, begin-
ning this afternoon. Israeli air space will be closed to all commercial traffic
several hours before the President is -due. All police leaves have been
cancelled. Some 10,000 policemen are expected to take part in the nation-
wide security operation dur-
ing Carter's stay.
The official U.S. party in-
cludes the top echelon of Ameri-
ca's foreign policy establish-
ment: Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance, National Security Ad-
viser Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Assistant Secretary of State for
Near East and South Asian Af-
fairs Harold Saunders, Special
Ambassador Alfred Atherton;
William Quandt, Middle East
specialist of the National Secu-
rity Council; Samuel Lewis, the
U.S. Ambassador to Israel; and
President Carter's top White
House aides, Press Secretary
Jody Powell and White House
staff chief Hamilton Jordan.
Joseph Polakoff, the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency's Washing:
ton bureau chief, will accom-
pany the Carter party to Cairo
MenahemBegin prepares for the blessing over
and Jerusalem.
the wine at the Sabbath dinner he hosted for
Carter will be driven to President and Mrs. Carter at Blair House last

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Friday night. A waiter stands behind Carter.

Purely Commentary

Albert Einstein's Legacies for All the Generations;
Centenary of Birth Recalls Pride as a Jew, Zionist

BY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)

Mere mention of the name Albert Eins-
tein suffices to command interest. Biog-
raphical data about him becomes a superf-
luous listing. All that needs, to be regis-
. tered as an inducement for thorough study
of his life snd achievements is to give these
prioriti e,
He was born in Ulm, Germany, March
14, 1879.
His "Theory of Relativity," which revo-
lutionized the scientific world, was an-
nounced in 1905. The young scientist later
won the Nobel Prize.
He came to the United States in 1932.
His theory led to the development of
atomic power.

According to the Encyclopedia Ju-
daica, "Einstein, when approached by
his friend (Leo) Szilard, signed a letter
to President Roosevelt pointing out
the feasibility of atomic energy. It was
the letter that
sparked the
Manhattan -
Project and fu-
ture develop-
ments of atomic
energy. How-
ever, Einstein,
opposed to the
use of the
atomic bomb, as
ALBERT EINSTEIN
were many

other scientists, wrote another letter
which, however, arrived only after
Roosevelt's death."
These are highlights in the career of one
of the greatest personalities in. history.
Every encyclopedia, all the Who's Who
volumes in all languages in all spheres of
the world, provided the biographical ac-
count of the eminent scientist., For world
Jewry he was the giant who' . upheld the
banner of justice for the oppressed and
championed the aspirations for freedom for
Jews everywhere, for" their right to retain
their legacies and their just cause for Zion
redeemed.
Albert Einstein was not apologetic as a
JeW. He was staunch in his loyalties, even

when he found it necessary to define his ,
faith, the religious concern, scientifically.
He stated:
"What are the characteristics of the
Jewish group? What, in the first place, is a
Jew? There are no quick answers to this
question. The most obvious answer would
be the following: A Jew is a person profes-
sing the Jewish faith.'The superficial
character of this answer is easily recog-
nized by means of a simple parallel. Let us
ask the question: What is a snail? An an-
swer similar in kind to the one given above
might be: A snail is ail animal inhabiting a
snail shell. This answer is not altogether
incorrect; nor; to be sure, is it exhaustive;
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