24 Friday, September 19, 1980
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
By JOEL EPSTEIN
Holy Land Features
NEOT KEDUMIN — The
boblical patriarchs, the
world's first ecologists,
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counted their wealth with Miss Frenkley, director of
carob seeds and air con- Neot Kedumim. For her, the
ditioned their tents with Bible is not only a book of
tamarisk trees, according to morality and history, but
Helen Frenkley, who, as also a practical guide on
part of a unique team of how to plant a field or build
modern day ecologists, is
a terrace.
growing all the plants men-
"Here we are growing
tioned in the Bible and tal-
mudic literature in a garden a vineyard exactly ac-
network halfway between cording to the descrip-
tion of the Prophet
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Isaiah," she says, stand-
At Neot Kedumim, or
"The Gardens of Israel," ing atop one of the hills in
ecologists are growing those the 500-acre garden.
exotic plants people have "First we had to bring in
read about in the Bible but thousands of tons of soil
have never seen — balm and then we were able to
and ladanum, hyssop and follow the words of
caper. The gardens are still Isaiah in Chapter 5 and
being planted and won't be build terraces, plant
open to the public for two grapevine cuttings and
years, but they are already cover the terrace walls
a focus of interest for Jews with small prickly bushes
to keep the gazelles from
and for Christian scholars.
"The Bible is a chronicle entering the vineyard
of the Jews' love and care for and eating the young
the land of Israel," says grape leaves."
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"The Resort" by Sol Stein
(William Morrow and Co.,
Inc.) is a frightening story,
for it fictionalizes the an-
swer to the question, can the
bestialities of the Nazi era
happen here?
In his story, he answers in
the affirmative.
The story is so frighten-
ing that the publisher notes
in publicity for reviewers
that accompanies the book
that in Germany, where
Stein has enjoyed much
publishing success, the book
was refused publication on
the grounds that "the Ger-
man people were not ready
for it."
The book tells the tale
of Cliffhaven, ostensibly
a dream resort, but ulti-
mately a modern-era
concentration camp.
Founded by Merle Clif-
ford, a Texas businessman
with a consuming interest
in genetics, Cliffhaven is
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the cornerstone of Clifford's
master plan to reverse what
he sees as Jewish domi-
nance in many fields. Only
the first in a series of pro-
posed "resorts," Cliffhaven
is a thriving "success" six
months after opening. But it
is far from a resort. Since
when do resorts deal in evil?
Early in the book are the
foreshadowings. The reader
is introduced to the guests'
guide, Clete, blond-haired,
blue-eyed, perhaps the "A-
ryan" image. And then-this
bit of information for new-
comers: "Our guests never
leave us."
The book gets nasty —
drugging, torture and the
like, and those who are light
of heart and stomach would
be wise to tread with cau-
tion.
Stien, the founder and
publisher of Stein and
Day, delivers his tale ex-
pertly and one is grateful
when it ends, when a
leading character, Henry
Brown, is ready to expose
the hateful experiment,
just as the Holocaust sur-
vivors are penning their
memoirs.
Stein writes: "Men who
had come out of the trees
did to each other what no
apes did. He couldn't change
their natures, but he must
tell what he knew, for hope
was the only medicine that
would not become obsolete
in time."
For those brave souls who
read Sol Stein's "The Re-
sort," one word 'of advice,
keep a nightlight on.
—H.P.
Popularity Poll
TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
Prime Minister Menahem
Begin's popularity drooped
to 24 percent in an August
poll conducted by the Public
Opinion Research Institute.
Some 57.7 percent approved
of former Defense Minister
Ezer Weizman.
Weizman was more popu-
lar with Labor Alignment
(39.1 percent of his support)
than he was with those who
identified with Likud (18.5
percent).
W.C.
Trojan
The Neot Kedumim team
of workers had to move tons
of earth to build irrigation
reservoirs and then bring
that soil to the many barren
slopes. "Thousands of years
of neglect and erosion left
these once fertile hills de-
nuded of all plants and with
little or no soil," she says.
"We hauled soil back up the
hills and rebuilt the stone
terraces using the remnants
of 3,000-year-old terraces as
blueprints."
At one point they came
across a deep stone cistern,
perched on the shoulder of a
hill. "The terrain had been
changed by erosion," she
said. "When we recontoured
the land, the water from the
first winter rains funneled
down into the mouth of the
cistern as it had done
thousands of years ago, and
the cistern refilled. We use
it today."
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