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What is charity . . . (at its
belt)? The Octet giNies with-
out knowing to whom he
gives; the recipient receives
without knowing from
whom he takes it.
—Baba Bathra 10a

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Sam -Barnett

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By Don McEvoy

IT DEPENDS ON HOW THIRSTY YOU ARE

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.)U s_::„ . { with an empty
•i.11.•.s. Y:tti fill it to the
hall .-‘,.o. :;• point. • Now, is (1111 glass
half-lull or half-empty?
li all 4,-iwi -itis on how thirsty you
are.
In 1956 Rosa Parks til Mimi-
tgotner ,..-. ..\.lohoma reluSed to go to
1hr back , )1 ;ht . Inis and the modern
CiN..il 14.,:;. , .. . - .,, ,,, wcificut was ignited.
Since tno: time the legal strut ture or
the relationship between the races in
Ameri,• a has. been completely
transIM Ott'(:
• Prejud,( „ :bough diminished, has
. Many blitCk citizens S
not gone ;o .
have III; Vt . ; i ilft0 the American
mainsti.-cao:. but the income gap bet-
ween black, and whites is wider than
ever. A. silks:. iniial black middle-class
has 4.‘rrier;.;ed. but at the saint time
the cirewi -::;ionces of . the under-class
which has i.weti left behind has grown

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more

N•as still a ,,vork on pcoeess old(welop-
went. Since that time, the teaching ,
1)0111 Protestantism and
material
(: a tholicisin have been largely purged
at t t -so! 0 1 i t I) 0 ()mem. Yet anti-
semitism remains.
Many Gentiles think that any hi-
will between (:hristians and Jews is a
part (d• our hismrical past. Anti-
Semitism is no problem hc- re, they
. Nlany Jews despair that it will
ever be eradicated. Many live in dai-
dread that ant it her Holocaust could..
occur, this time in Ani cr i c a._,
HalHull o r hall-empty? Who is
still thirsty?
.A quarter - 0 oh a century ago Betty
Fricdan had not vet published '‘The
Feminine Mystique" and the current
phase of the feminist movement had
not vet begun in earnest.
M any inon look al the changes that
I ave taken place and ‘yonder why so
many women are not satisfied with
the progresS that has already 'taken
place.
Those of . its yhose glasses•are.full
had better listen to those who are still
thirsty.

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•Many white people look at the
glass and say that \it is half-lull. Many
blacks feel illat it is hall-empty. It all
depends. ,.iii who is thirsty.
Twe rn y -tiv i • years ago there had
not been any Vatican II. There had
been m , attempt to purge Catholic
liturgy and catechism of the . ancient
'teaching of contempt - against
J ews . O n th c Protestant side, Ber-
nhard Olson 's study of anti-Judaic
School material
ITIVrCrit:CS 1 11 Sunday
Su

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ior 1, 'ice President
(1)on .ilcEtol
of the .Va tionat Conference •f Christians
and Jew., The I:pinion,- expressed are his

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Seniors Pursue Creative Writing

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continued to meet with
the group every month.

The writers now include
many American born,
but they write on the

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same themes that occupy
the minds of all writers.
The annual Jewish Book
Fair has given us the oc-
casion to sell our journal
and return the money to
the Center so that we can
continue publishing.
Each Book Fair we have
sold out completely. The 10
a.m. meeting on the third
Friday each month is one of
the highlights of my life. I
learn more from the writers
than they do from me.
Since 1945 I have been
teaching English and
classics at Wayne State
University. Because Friday
is my day off, I have been
able to attend the meetings
of the Writers' Club, listen-
ing to blind Mr. Ross de-
scribe his life in Russia,
Mrs. Burchardt her life in a
Shanghai ghetto, Mr.
Joyrich read his transla-
tions of Hebrew and Yiddish
poetry, and Mina Stone her
translations of Pushkin.,
When composition stu-
dents at the university
grope for ideas, I wish they

cOuld listen to my writers
read their works. I guess it
comes from the writers hav-
ing lived such full lives that
they are able to see beauty,
pattern and meaning in a
snowflake or a blade of
grass.

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