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New York — Tisha b'Av (the
ninth of Av) — the 24-hour fast
day commemorating the destruc-
tion of both the First and Second
Temples, will be observed on Sun-
day in deference to the sanctity of
the Sabbath when public mourn-
ing is prohibited.
In consequence of both these
national catastrophies, the
Jewish people have been driven
out of their homeland and exiled
onto unfriendly, foreign soil. In
relation to the first, the second
banishment was immeasurably
more severe and of an infinitely
longer duration.
This national day of mourning
evokes a double imagery. On the
one hand it serves as a flashback
to the pristine glory of Jewish na-
nantly conjures up and under-
scores the ignominy and fragility
of Diaspora existence so
graphically and incisively de-
scribed in Jeremiah's Book of
Lamentations.
history cannot be dissociated from
the irrefutable fact that it also
fueled the irrepressible hope and
resolve of the Jewish people to re-
gain national independence in
their ancestral homeland.
The religious Jew regards the
renascence of Israel as an inde-
pendent state only as the partial
fulfillment of his hopes and
prayers; he projects into the fu-
ture when the Temple will be re-
built and the priestly service is
This doleful date in
Jewish history
cannot be dissociated
from the irrefutable
race Mat ic atscrfueled
the irrepressible hope
and resolve of the
Jewish people.
.
But now that the Land of Israel
has been reclaimed and Jewish resumed in full regalia. This is
political independence has been what he pleadingly appeals for
re-established, what justifies the the year round and more so on
continuance of Tisha b'Av as a day
b'Av.
of national mourning? And does Tisha
The nationally oriented Jew
not the reunification of realizes
well that more politi-
Jerusalem, its annexation and re- cal and full
military bouts are ines-
storation to its historical status as capable before
a peaceful and se-
the capital of the reborn Jewish cure era for Israel
is finally
state, make weeping for its de- achieved. To him too, Tisha
struction incompatible with is a sobering reminder that b'Av
the
reality?
In the height of exuberance redemptive task is yet incom-
over the establishment of the plete.
And the Talmud sums it up
State of Israel after 19 centuries of best:
"All those who mourn for
a morbid, stateless and vagabond Jerusalem
will merit to witness
existence, such an emotional
reaction is psychologically under- her rejoicing."
standable and on the surface ap- A Seven Arts Feature
pears quite rational. Upon cool re-
flection, however, such approach
reveals a shallow, simplistic
appreciation of Jewish history Jabotinsky
and a myopic evaluation of the Remembered
contemporary Jewish scene in the
Diaspora.
New York (JTA) — In com-
The tragic events that followed memoration of the 45th Yarzheit
the destruction of the Temple in of Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky,
Jerusalem, including the founder of the World Union of
Holocaust in our own time, have Zionist Revisionists in 1925, more
left deep and indelible scars on all than 400 people gathered at the
Jewish communities throughout Roosevelt Hotel in New York last
the world.
week to remember the Zionist
With the emergence of the State pioneer.
of Israel it was logically antici-
Deputy Premier and Foreign
pated that these communities Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Is-
would, in concert with the rael, leader of the Herut move-
phenomenal development of the ment which is based on Jabotins-
state, be infused with a renewed ky's teachings and philosophy,
spiritual and cultural vitality. sent a statement from Jerusalem
But despite the truism that Israel which declared: "On the 45th an-
has undeniably raised the stature niversary of Ze'ev Jabotinsky's
and morale of Jews everywhere, death, we recall his life's work, his
this assumption proved to be a deeds, his teachings, and his
prematurely optimistic piped- achievements which changed the
ream.
character of our people and the
Figures don't lie and they indi- course of our history."
cate that the scourge of assimila-
tion in various shapes and forms
has not only not lessened in the
last several decades in the coun- Rabbis Honored
tries of the free world but is on the
Minneapolis — Dr. Alfred
increase; in the case of the United
States it has made a track record Gottschalk, president of Hebrew
and continues to burgeon to Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, recently honored Rabbi
frightening proportions.
Remotely as it may seem, these Lane B. Steinger of Detroit's
disheartening facts cannot Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi M.
entirely be dissociated from what Robert Syme of Temple Israel and
has transpired on Tisha b'Av Rabbi Harold Loss, also o f Temple
1,900 years ago. By the same Israel for their support of HUC-
token this doleful date in Jewish JIR's Year-in-Israel program.