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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the sixth day of Av, 5740, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 1:1-27.
Tuesday, Fast of the Ninth of Av
• Lamentations is read Monday evening.
TueSday morning, Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 4:25-40. Prophetical portion, Jeremiah 8:13-9:23.
Tuesday afternoon. Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 32:11-14, 34:1-10. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 55:6-56:8.
Candle lighting, Friday, July 18, 8:46 p.m.
VOL. LXXVII, No. 20
Page Four
Friday, July 18, 1980
MID-CONVENTIONS FOLLIES
One of the political assemblies is now political
history. The second in the two-party system is
due to commence in New York in less than a
month. A Third Party challenger will surely
also seek the limelight. Between conventions is
the opportune time to speculate again about the
nation, the power-seekers, the Voter who will be
King for a Day in November and then will have
to lobby again for the human , aspects of citizen-
ship.
That's how it has been; that's how it may be
again. Yet, because the Citizen has principles
and aspires to the highest ideals, even the
interim between periods of promises and the
aftermath of possible fulfillment is a time for
declaration of aims for the highest goals for
America and the constituents' who must listen'
to all the trappings imbedded in politics. -
Listening is a necessity, speaking up to ex-
press the opinions of the people is an urgency. It
is by talking that the Voter can place on the
record the mind and the will of the people. There
is much to talk about.
Those who attain power must understand
that the people insist on just rights for all, with-
out restrictions as to race or creed.
The duty of the person attaining office is to
utilize the nation's best minds to improve the
economy, to strive for an end to unemployment,
to assure the welfare of the less fortunate, the
elderly, the handicapped.
There is danger to the Separation Principle.
Candidates for office, the highest and the less
important, should be informed that Separation
of Church and State is a basic aspect of
Americanism not to be trifled with.
Seekers of justice for the smaller nations
should be mobilized to demand protection for
the sovereign state of Israel. Prophecy was not
realized for naught, the Jewish aspiration for an
end to homelessness must not be trifled with.
The historic right of Israel and world Jewry to
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel must be
guaranteed.
There are scores of other matters that re-
enter into the obligations to demand adherence
to the highest goals in the American way of life.
Party platforms are splintered more often
than not. There must be an effort to add sanctity
to political pledges. To attain them citizens owe
it to themselves and to history never to be silent.
SUBMISSION TO PLO
There is a great deal that all-too-often dis-
gusts the average persbn in the unraveling
proof of a growing hypocrisy in diplomatic
machinations. None is more disgusting than the
manner in which representatives of many gov-
ernments now submit to the terror that stems
from the ranks of the PLO.
While the American policy is assumed to be
absolute rejection of the group whose chief, if
not the only, aim is to destroy Israel, by in-
nuendo spokesmen for this government often
give the impression they would accept the PLO.
More and more of them now are saying that
PLO is such a congenially affable element that
it could not possibly aim for Israel's destruction.
That is what the British, French and Austrian
leaders now are saying. It was not so long ago
that a U.S. State Department representative,
William C. Harrop, said: The United States
does not consider Yasir Arafat's Palestinian
Liberation Organization a terrorist group."
Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, a long-
time friend of Israel, may or may not have vacil-
lated in response to a question regarding the
U.S. attitude on the PLO. Nevertheless, the ad-
vice is in order for all officials not to resort to
evasiveness but to adhere strictly to the basic
government policies of denying admission of
PLO to civilized society,..,ThOse advocating
:;`genocide have no place amongeivilized nations.
This is so shocking that it is almost unbeliev-
. able. Equally distressing. are the many
endorsements given Arafat and his ,ilk by
pfistateemen who are expected to be reading the
PLO' declarations which keep reasserting that
the basic aspiration is to drive Jews out of the
state of Israel and to destroy the state.
On the public record, American spokesmen
. keep saying the PLO will not be recognized, but
on many occasions there were gestures intimat-
ing that the diplomats are waiting for the time
when they will be able publicly to embrace the
PLO on the ground that Palestinians must be
dealt with.
Palestinians, in fact, are being dealt with,
and the line is drawn when the PLO substitutes
for them. The acceptance of PLO leadership by
Arabs in the designated West Bank areas and
the acclaim for them by Arab students in Israeli
universities is cause for very serious concern.
This does not encourage submission, either by
Jews in the Diaspora or by diplomats in West-
ern countries. The merest gestures of comfort
for the terrorists will give them strength. -
While the two major American political par-
ties are competing in choice of language how to
attract Jewish voters with rejections of the
PLO, the element of caution admonishes all who
are outraged by the terrorist Arabs to wonder
whether, in post-election tests, U.S. spokesmen
will be inclined by pressure from the oil inter-
ests to flirt with PLO on a par with the British
and French, who have yielded to PLO in the
EEC decisions. There is little of either glory or
self-respect in such evidence of submissions to
the worst elements in mankind.
In the coming months in the U.S., in the cam-
paign for the Presidency, ail candidates are cer
thin :to :discount thi.,PLO insurgence into
American ' ranks. Such vote-getting promises
should be taken with a,grain of salt. The politi-
cians g}tist prove by their actions that they will
not ithid encouragement to anything, stemming
from the ranks of Israel's would-beqclestroyers.
There must be a positive adherence to the rejec-
tion of terrorism and to the defense Of Israel.
Anything smacking of „hypocrisy must:be re-
jected if the ,rules offait'Play d. ju6tice are to
abide in this country.
Angel-Edited Volume
David de Sola Pool's Essays
Honor Scholar's Memory
Dr. David de Sola Pool was among the very distinguished Ameri-
can Jewish personalities and the noted leader of the Sephardic Jewish
community in America.
For 63 years the rabbi -of Shearit Israel, one of the oldest
synagogues in America, his messages rang out throughout the land.
He was a factor in organizing Sephardic Jewry.
For a perpetuation of appreciation of his labors, it is necessary to
read his many messages. This has just been made possible by the
publication of "Rabbi David de Sola Pool: Selections From Six De-
cades of Sermons, Addresses and Writings."
The book was published by the Union of Sephardic Congrega-
tions, jointly with Leon Amiel.
Appropriately, the book was edited
by Rabbi Mark D. Angel, Dr. Pool's
successor to the spiritual leadership
of Shearit Israel.
For an appreciation of this volume
and its contents as reminders of the
leadership and scholarly qualities of
Dr. de Sola Pool, it should be noted
that his widow, Tamar de Sola Pool,
assisted Dr. Angel in gathering the
material and in making the selec-
tions from the eminent scholar's vol-
uminous writings. --
The subjects included in this col-
lection indicate the devotions of the
eminent scholar who was a leader in
the rabbinate. Several of the ser-
mons dealt with the festivals and the
Holy Days. There are evidences of
Dr. Pool's interest in Israel, in
Zionism, in the social problems of the
DE SOLA POOL
age.
Jewish ethical messages, the basic codes for Jewish living are
outlined in a number of the essays.
Of interest is the radio message he -delivered on April 1, 1925, or
the occasion of the opening of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem..
Each of the sermons appearing in this volume is preceded by an
explanatory note by Rabbi Angel. The address on "Einstein in Sear
of God" is defined as follows:
"Dr. Pool was always concerned with the synthesis of religiot,
and scientific knowledge. He believed there was no intrinsic conflict
between these two areas of human endeavor. He recognized in Albert
Einstein, the greatest of scientists, a deep spiritual yearning. This
sermon was delivered on Nov. 15, 1930, Heshvan 24, 5691."
Attention was :given by Dr. Pool to the .historic in" American
experiences, as hiS essay in,this volumeion "George Washington and
Religious Liberty_"
De Sola Pool's Zionist devotions are expressed in the sernion, 'A
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Remnant 81-41/.Retui7L" This 'sermon was -delivered Dec. 19,1942,
and was an urgent appeal to his congregation to help inthe building of
Palestine.
His writings, appended to the sermons, similarly contain the De
Sola Pool emphasis on Zionism.
, While these ,sermons serve tO revive an interest in the activities
of a noted rabbi, the messages contained in them have their impact on
the present generation as well.