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CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
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News Editor
Business Manager
HEIDI PRESS
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 29th day of Heshvan, 5744, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 25:19-28:9.
Prophetical portion, I Samuel 20:18-42.
Sunday and Monday, Rosh Hodesh Kislev, Numbers 28:1-15
Candlelighting, Friday, Nov. 4, 5:02 p.m.
VOL. LXXXIV, No. 10
Page Four
Friday, November 4, 1983
FRAGILE FRIENDSHIPS
Carnage in one land, threats to the peace in
another area of the world, abusive exchanges
among diplomats compiled to cause analysts to
describe existing situations as "fragile democ-
racy." In truth, it is the fragility of friendships
among statesmen that may be more realisti-
cally descriptive.
The U.S. position in Grenada invited so
many condemnations, and distorted attitudes to
such a degree, that there is the compelling ques-
tion whether statesmen can ever work together
on the basis of realistic rapproachements.
The Lebanese situation may be a much bet-
ter point as proof that when there is need for
cooperation in stemming terrorism there is such
a lack of cooperation that it is not only deplora-
ble but also disgusting.
American Marines were victims of a
wholesale massacre and there has been only lip
service in both condemnation of what had oc-
curred as well as the formation of a unified front
to prevent recurrence of such atrocities.
When individual Arabs, as in instances of
news reports locally, choose to imply endorse-
ment of the Beirut carnage, it is something
deeply to be deplored, and may be considered
unavoidable in view of hatreds that travel
widely. When, however, the president of Egypt,
Hosni Mubarak, and many associated with him,
in the diplomatic corps and in the media, choose
to harp on a theme of Israel having a basic
responsibility with her initiation of the
Lebanese operation, it is a shelving of respon-
sibilities. It is a sharing of guilt in what had
occurred because of the indifference — Egyp-
tian included — to the rising terrorism.
Mubarak doesn't find it necessary, neither do
those like him, to keep in view and to keep
reminding the world, that more than 100,000
Lebanese died in the Christian-Muslim con-
flicts in Lebanon in a dozen years. But that
would be admitting the guilt of failing to assist
in preventing these massacres.
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It is not fragile democracy: it is fragile
friendship. Nations have vested interests and
only what benefits them seems to count. There-
fore, the lack of the vitally-needed cooperation
to make this a better world to live in.
Jerusalem's 60,000 Arabs voted in last week's
election. This is in itself a triumph because of
the anti-Israel propaganda urging Arabs not to
vote in a Jewish election. The resultant factor i _ s
to the credit of Teddy Kollek.
At the same time, there was, in that elec-
tion, a cause for Arab liberalism to feel indebted
to Mayor Kollek. Many Arab women cast their
ballots in Jerusalem last week, and that was a
sign of liberalization, also to Mayor Kollek's
credit.
Thus, the popular mayor emerges as a sym-
bol of good will for Arabs as well as Jews.
'INFURIATED' HYPOCRISY
Within the first hours after the tragic
calamity in Beirut, Israel was the first to make
offers of aid to the U.S. The first offer, Within
two hours, was to provide rubble removing
equipment, and an hour later to offer highly-
rated medical equipment for the injured. Both
offers were rejected.
At first, the French accepted hospitaliza-
tion offers but the Lebanese government re-
fused to accede to it unless Israelis came dressed
as civilians, which was an impossibility.
Fear of infuriating the Arabs was given as
the reason for the hypocritical American action.
But on the high level of Congressional reac-
tions there was immediate exposure of the
hypocritical military panic and the condemna-
tions continue.
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What is proved in these experiences is that
there are no true friendships among nations,
that therein lies fragility, that it is the fragile
friendship that is responsible for a lack of coop-
eration. Had there been genuine cooperation in
preventing terrorism, perhaps even the carnage
in Beirut might have been prevented.
KOLLEK AS A SYMBOL,
Triumph in the Jerusalem election of Teddy
Kollek is a heartening symbol to all who are
striving for elimination of religious fanaticism
and the violence that was evidenced in the into-
lerance by an element that would impose re-
strictions bordering on medievalism upon the
Holy City.
The fact that Mayor Kollek has retained
both the Jewish majority as well as the support
of the city's Arab population is cause for great
satisfaction as a contributing factor toward
peace in the City of Peace.
Election reports show that 12,000 of
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The failure to take advantage of the
availability of medical aid in Israel is charged
as an inexcusable inefficiency in the Reagan
Administration and guilt is especially directed
at Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. A
veritable Who's Who in American leadership is
represented in the ranks of the critics of the
inexcusable American act prejudicial to Israel.
The question especially asked, since two of
the evacuated died on their way to the hospital
fours hours away by plane, is whether such los-
ses are creditable to human considerations.
Thus, at a time when the Reagan Ad-
ministration is under attack for press restric-
tions in Grenada, members of both houses of
Congress are courageously demanding expla-
nations for the hypocritically panicked action.
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Six Novellas in Yiddish
Mirror Multiple Experiences .
of Life in the Old World
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Noah Siegalowski holds an important position as a standard-
bearer of the Yiddish language.
An author with a long record in Yiddish ranks, he has to his credit
more than being an essayist and an author of short stories and
novelettes. He has undertaken to contribute toward the perpetuation
of Yiddish and is publishing a Yiddish language magazine, Undzer
Aygn Vort.
This literary magazine appears periodically several times a year,
and the prominent Detroit scholar Wolf Snyder is co-editor.
Siegalowski's collected novellas have just been issued in a vol-
ume entitled "Romanetten." Appended are short
stories based on
experiences in his life in this country.
There are 20 romances and stories of varying length in this
volume. The narratives are as brief as three pages and in varying
lengths.
Drawing from the traditional legacies, applying many of them to
the evolutionary occurrences from life in the Old World, transferring
them to the continuity in this country, Siegalowski provides a
panoramic view of ongoing generations.
"Romanetten" combines memories with realities. They give em-
phasis to the literary qualities which have made Yiddish an inspira-
,
tion for many adherents.
It is the lack of translations for so many who continue to publish
that is cause for regret in literary ranks, while the dedicated carry on
as does this editor of Undzer Aygn Vort and his associates.
Siegalowski has a long record of achievements in his literary
tasks. He already had the acclaim of the most noted of the world's
Hebrew writers, Chaim Nahman Bialik. Others who appraised his
works as Yiddish literary achievements included Mane Leib, I.I.
Schwartz, Moshe Starkman, Yosef Rolnick, Hillel Rogoff, Aleph
Mukdoni, Wolf Snyder and many others. Their salutes to him are
quoted in "Romanetten."