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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 24th day of Heshvan. 5742, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion. Genesis 23;1-25:18. Prophetical portion, I Kings 1:1-31.
Nov. 27, Rosh Hodesh Kislev, Numbers 28:1-15.
Candlelighting, Friday, November 20, 4:49 p.m.
VOL. LXXX, No. 12
Page Four
Friday, November 20, 1981
STATUS QUO ANTE
Again, as on so many previous occasions,
there is a revival of threats to Israel. When they
are not menacing, they certainly are contin-
ually embarrassing — often humiliating.
Under President Jimmy Carter, such proce-
dures commenced with the President's em-
phasis on "Palestinians," as if there was a dis-
covery of the mysterious. Then, as now, but then
they were an inaugurative, it was as if only
PLO-inspired Arabs were Palestinians. There
was'an ignoring of the truth that Jevis were also
Palestinians, that they had never left the Land
of Israel — Eretz Yisrael — that they retained
the love and loyalty for the land and were pursu-
ing therein their prophetic roles.
Now there are new deals, new dangers, the
massing of arms, the merging of Arab forces in
an attempt to destroy the single successful at-
tempt at peace, that labeled Camp David, in
which President Carter did play an historic
role. It is the attempt to undermine Camp David
in the name of a tricky Saudi proposal that the
Administration of President Ronald Reagan
must be guided toward proper, just and realistic
policies. It is that road that must not be polluted
with falsehoods, trickery, devilish intentions.
In the process of confronting the developing
conditions, there is the urgent need to avoid
frustrations in Jewish ranks. It is self-negating
to fall prey to threats of anti-Semitism, as if it
did not exist even before AWACS and the de-
structive factors that have invaded the Middle
East deliberations, with effects on the Ameri-
can political situation.
On the domestic side, one factor was not given
proper attention when Israel's antagonists were
flaunting the role of a "Jewish lobby." There
was in action a vastly larger force of lobbyists
stemming from the Arab quarters. Serious stu-
dents of foreign affairs and diplomatic lobbyists
have indicated that while Jews were con-
demned as lobbyists Arabs were flooding the
American government circles with their prop-
aganda and they had the oil interests as bac-
kers. That's how a three-letter word, OIL,
served as the most menacing of influences in a
situation involving the security of an entire na-
tion.
George F. Will indicated it effectively when
he stated in a recent column:
"A lesson of last week is that in spite of all the
talk about the muscle of the 'Israeli lobby,' it is
no match for the Saudi lobby. The latter in-
cludes all those corporations which (prompted
by a passion for the public interest, we_are.in-
vited to suppose) lobbied furiously for the sale.
As Calvin Coolidge would have said had he been
among us last week, the business of American
foreign policy is business."
They are few, very few, who emphasize the
true conditions, who recognize the outrage in a
so-called peace proposal by the Saudis. They
function and their words must outweigh those of
the misled. They are not enemies, newspapers
like Detroit's, when they embrace a shocking
plan as if it had the merit of honesty. They must
be guided toward a realization of errors when
they express sympathy for a proposal that is
filled with poison and would lead to the dis-
mantling of Israel.
This is the guidance that must be offered and
applied to the Presidency, no matter who is in
the White House, so that there should be no
stumbling over truth and therefore an assur-
ance of unhesitant adherence to justice.
Ktav, WSU Press Volumes
What about the Jewish people, the kinsmen of
Israel, the friends of the Jewish state in the
ranks of all faiths and nationalities? Are they
being humbled, and is there to be panic in their
ranks? The answer is in the experience of the
more than three decades of Israel's existence.
There were few years in that era of sovereignty
Two distinguished Jewish scholars, Dr. Alfred Jospe and Dr.
when Israel was out of danger. Only Anwar
Raphael Jospe, father and son, have made notable contributions to
Sadat, now vilified by Arabs even in death, fi-
Jewish literary scholirship with two anthological works they have
nally came forth with sincerity_ in peace-
edited.
"Studies in Jewish Thought: An Anthology of German Jewish
seeking. Otherwise, it has been a repetitive and
Scholarship," edited by Dr. Alfred Jospe, was published by Wayne
continuing attack on Israel and, inter alia, on
State University Press.
Jews. Therefore what is occurring now is a
"Go and Study: Essays and Studies in Honor of Alfred Jospe,"
the same thing over and
status quo ante
published by Ktav, was co-edited by Dr. Raphael Jospe, together with
over and over again. It is the attempt to destroy
Samuel Z. Fishman.
Israel and her friends must retore with a remin-
Thus, two volumes in which the eminent father and his equally-
der to those who fail to see the light and to read
• prominent son have a role, pay honor to the senior Jospe.
history properly that there is a major stupidity
The German Jewish movement of Wissenschaft Judentum is
in the diplomatic, statesmanship, editorial,
thoroughly explored and its major personalities, the noted scholars
Leopold Zunz, Ismer Elbogen, Julius Guttmann, Gershpm G.
me'clia and other ranks when they offer condi-
Scholem, Isaac Z. Heinemann, Fritz Bamberger and several of their
tions for the negOtiations with Israel's enemies:
colleagues are represented in the collection of essays under the book
they should recognize Israel's existence. Why
title "Studies in Jewish Thougkt." The prefatory comments by Dr.
the dishonesty of using such a term about a
Alfred Jospe provide the basic details about the German Jewish
nation whose existence has never been in ques-
spiritual-cultural movement that has left an impact on Jewish
tion, whose sovereignty is the fact of this age?
thought;
"Go and Study," the collected essays in
Therefore the status quo ante, the non-
tribute to Dr. Jospe, edited by his son, Dr.
changing situation of a nation in existence and
Raphael
Jospe, assistant professor of
of warring peoples, themselves registered as the
Judaic studies' at the University of De-
cousins of the people under attack, seeking the
nver,
co-edited
by Samuel Fishman, who
destruction of that state. Therefore the submis-
is associate international director of Bnai
sion to realities that what is happening now is '
Brith Hillel Foundations, is another
only a continuity of threats that have not been
enrichment in the life of the senior Jospe.
reduced for decades.
In "Go and Study" there are essays by
Marver H. Bernstein, Abram L. Sachar,
Therefore the duty to keep striving for an end
David
Jospe, Marvin Fox, Lou H. Silber-
to the conflict but never buckling under to the
man, Isaac Franck, David Polish, Philip
pressures. It's not an easy struggle; therefore
Klutznick and a number of other Ameri-
the need to be calm in firmness.
can Jewish scholars.
"Brethren, be stong and of good courage. If
Alfred Jospe received his rabbinical
ALFRED JOSPE
persecution comes, let it not discomfort you .. .
training and ordination at the Jewish
These events are but the test and proof of your
Theological Seminary of Breslau, Germany, and holds a PhD from the
faith and love" — Moses Maimonides in "Igeret
University of Breslau and a DD from the Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion. Before emigrating to the United States,
Teman," 1172.
he served as rabbi of the "New Synagogue" and as lecturer in Jewish
history and thought at the School of Jewish Social Work in Berlin.
REASON FOR THANKS
Associated with the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations since 1940, he
directed the Hillel progoim at West Virginia and Indiana universities
In this age of many tensions, when appeals to
until 1949, when he joined the Hillel executive staff as director of
the human conscience often fall on deaf ears, the
programs and resources and, from 1971 to 1974, as international
approaching Thanksgiving Day is anticipated
director. He is a member of the Bnai Brith Hillel Commission and of
with appreciation for the blessings provided by
the Leo Baeck Institute.
the basic principles of Americanism.
Dr. Jospe has lectured - before university and community audi-
ences in every part of the North American continent and in Europe,
Here one has the right and the duty to assert
Israel, Australia, and Latin America. He has edited a number of
the citizen's rights, even to criticize the most
Hillel publications and is the author of several books.
powerful. Here the celebrant adheres to the
Among the books he has edited are "Faith and Reason: An Intro-
freedoms in which this democracy is rooted.
duction to Modern Jewish Thought"; "Israel as Idea and Reality";
Here there is cause for thanksgiving, as long as
"Dimensions of Jewish Existence Today'!; and "Tradition and Con-
the fair play that is the synonym for American-
temporary Experience: Essays on Jewish Thought and Life." He has
ism is the guiding principle by which the nation
also published articles in the fields of philosophy, religion, and educa-
lives.
tion, and is among the contributors to the "Encyclopedia Judaica."
Father-Son Jospe Team
Edits Anthological Works
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