18 Friday, October 10, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Begin Critical of Jordan
Support for Iraq in Conflict
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In Vienna, former Israeli
Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan told reporters here
he does not think Israel will
or should get involved in the
Iraq-Iran war.
In New York, Ivan
Novick, president of the
Zionist Organization of
America, said the war be-
tween Iraq and Iran
"demonstrates the errors of
the United States and the
European countries in their
Middle East policies" and
clearly demonstrates "that
the basic problems in the
Middle East are the inher-
ent conflicts among the
Arab states themselves
which have little to do with
Israel or the alleged Pales-
tinian problem."
Novick made these re-
marks in an address to
150 delegates at the
Westchester (N.Y.) region
convention of the ZOA
which was held at Beth-
El Synagogue in New
Rochelle.
He observed that the U.S.
and its European allies "as-
sume that the basic problem
in the Middle East is the
Arab-Israeli conflict and
the question of the Palesti-
nians. They incorrectly be-
lieve that appeasing the
Arab states at the expense
of Israel would stabilize the
Middle East and solidify it
to secure the free flow of oil
and keep the area out of the
Soviet orbit."
Novick stressed that to
keep peace in the Mideast
and secure its role as a
supplier of oil to the U.S.
and its allies, "Israel must
be recognized as the
stabilizing factor in the
area" and as serving "as an
effective base for U.S.
strategic interests."
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Menahem Begin
described Jordan's increas-
ingly high profile support
for Iraq in the current gulf
war Tuesday as "not wise."
Addressing a high school
audience in Bet Shemesh, a
development town near
Jerusalem, Begin compared
King Hussein's decision to
side with Iraq now to his de-
cision in 1967 to come into
the war against Israel on
the side of Egypt. "We all
know what happened
them," Begin observed. ,
Hussein had "jumped on
the bandwagon" in '67 be-
cause Egypt's army had
given misleading reports of
the first hours of the fight-
ing to President Nassar,
and Hussein had relied on
these reports, Begin re-
called.
Referring to Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein's
declaration that the road
from Abadan leads to
Jaffa, Begin said: "Let
him just try that road . . .
we shall show him where
it ends. The same applied
to Jordan's Hussein who
has said that Iraq's vic-
tory will pave the way to
victory in Palestine."
Meanwhile, Israel has
admitted officially for the
first time that it provided
arms and military in-
structors to the Kurds in
their secessionist fight
against Iraq from 1965 to
1975.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Six thousand youths from
overseas took part this year
in the Jewish Agency's
youth and hehalutz de-
partment summer program.
Avraham Katz, depart-
ment head, reporting this to
the World Zionist Organiza-
tion Executive, noted that
the figure represented a 20
percent drop compated to
1979. This was due, he said,
to budgetary considerations
which had forced the de-
partment to cut back its
program.
A number of Executive
members supported Katz
for more funds but trea-
surer Akiva Lewinsky
said he saw no reason
why the WZO should sub-
sidize Jewish organiza-
tions abroad in order to
encourage them to send
their youth to Israel.
He maintained that the
overall figures of youth
group visitors had not drop-
ped this year, since many
had come in different
frameworks — 2,000, for in-
stance, under the auspices
of the Jewish National
Fund.
The best armor is to keep
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Boris Smolar's
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Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)
ADULT EDUCATION: Adult Jewish education —
especially education of parents — is as important for
Jewish continuity in this country as is the education of
children. A very small percentage of American-born
Jewish parents possess fundamental Jewish knowledge.
Their Jewishness is relatively superficial. It finds its P-- --
pression mostly in making philanthropic contributions
Jewish causes. They are strangers to Jewish history and
know very little about their Jewish roots.
Efforts to implant greater knowledge are being made
in Jewish community centers, synagogues and other in-
stitutions, and by national Jewish organizations engaged
in conducting programs for adult education.
Recently something new — very original, very attrac-
tive, and highly educational — has been added in the field
of adult education. It is a project known as "Weekends in
Jewish History." The project is the creation of the Tarbuth
Foundation. Abraham Goodman, the founder and
president of the foundation, is the "father" of the project.
COLORFUL METHODS: The new project is built on
a novel idea. It introduces programs of Jewish history —
ancient and contemporary — in atmosphere settings of the
period of history with which the "weekend" deals. It thus
seeks to bring the audience into the spirit of the period
presented.
The "weekend" programs and method have evoked an
enthusiastic response in the communities where the pro-
grams were given in local community centers and
synagogues. The presentations reflect Jewish history in
various lands and at various times. There is, for instance,
the "Weekend with Judah Halevi" conducted in an atmos-
phere setting of Jewish life in Spain in the time of the
immortal Jewish poet.
The "Weekend with Judah Halevi" starts on Friday
evening with a Shabat service in Sephardic ritual, followed
with a Shabat dinner with Sephardic cuisine. The menus
are printed in Spanish, Ladino and English. There are
Sephardic table songs at the dinner and a recital of Halevi's
poems in Hebrew and English. The after-dinner session is
devoted to a lecture on the great poet's life and work, fol-
lowed by Sephardic folksongs.
Saturday's all-day program includes talks on Halevi,
lunch with Sephardic table songs, a lecture on Halevi's
classical work "The Kuzari," the traditional "third meal" of
Shalosh Seuda with Sephardic Sabbath songs, and the
Havdala — Sephardic style. The evening concludes with
Ladino discotheque and folksongs and dances of the
Spanish Jews. The climax on Sunday includes a recital of
music of Judah Halevi's "Songs of Zion" and a filmstrip "An
Interview with Judah Halevi."
THE IMPACT: The impact of other "weekends" is
similarly strong. There is a weekend program, "Sanhedrin
in Paris." Most impressive is the "Weekend with the Baal
Shem Tov," the founder of the Hasidic movement, given in
a setting showing Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the 18th
Century.
The biography of the Baal Shem Tov, his teachings,
legends about him are presented during the three-day ses-
sions. His philosophy on individualism and existentialism
is analyzed. There are Hasidic songs and dances, and the
dinner menu is printed in Yiddish and English. Those
attending the three-day program leave with a profound
idea of the role played by Hasidism in Jewish life and what
Hasidism meant to many thousands of Jews in Czarist
Russia, Poland, Galicia, Bukovina and other areas in East-
ern Europe where the Hasidic movement was popular.
There is also a series of weekends on the "Roots of
American Jewry" — one in the Sephardic setting of the first
Jewish settlement in this country; one in a setting of the
early German-American settlement; and one in settings of
the mass-immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe. There
is a weekend on Soviet Jews and a three-day program on
Jerusalem designed for joint Christian-Jewish audiences.
The Tarbuth Foundation deserves great commenda-
tion for its "Weekends with Jewish History." They are a
great contribution to adult Jewish education. The spiritual
guide of the project is Dr. Emil Lehman, the foundation's
executive vice president — a great educator and a very able
administrator.
Folk Stories for Shut-ins
FORT COLLINS, Colo. emeritus of English at
(JTA) — A Colorado State Colorado State, says the lit-
University Jewish scholar erature has "survival
has been giving lectures value" for shunned and
and leading discussions of segregated persons.
His Jewish folklore and
Jewish folklore at Colorado
prisons, senior centers, host humor project has been
funded by the Colorado
pitals and a drug center.
Dr. Carl Levine, professor Humanities Program.