Mir
Bette!helm's
Reproach on
Non-Resistance
and an Eye-Witness
Report on an
Actual Experience
THE JEWISH NEWS
Commentary
Page 2
A
Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
9 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833
VOL. LXX, No. 17
New Year Eve
on the Sabbath
•
Priorities
for the
Day Schools
Editorials
Page 4
$10.00 Per Year ; This Issue 30 4 December 31, 1976
Labor, Likud Agree on May 17
Date for Israel National Election
State Dept. Sabotage
of Truman Detailed
BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA)
Elements hostile to Is-
rael in the State Department kept both President
Truman and his Secretary of State, George C. Mar-
shall, ignorant of major developments in their "sabot-
age" of presidentialpolicy on Palestine's partition in
1948, former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford said
—
Tuesda y .
Shattering a public silence of almost three de-
cades on the events of the
period when he was Tru-
man's special counsel and
Israel was born, Clifford
said neither Truman nor
Marshall were informed
of the dissidents by the
State Department's own
legal office and Interna-
tional Security Affairs
Division from the anti-
Israel policy pursued in
the United Nations and
elsewhere by department
elements led by Loy Hen-
derson, then chief of its
CLARK CLIFFORD
Office of Near Eastern
and African Affairs (NEA).
"From the outset," Clifford said, the NEA office
"made it its business to block Harry Truman from im-
plementing a policy that was animated by his deepest
human instincts." He said the NEA "did its best to up-
hold the British pro-Arab position and to thwart the
President's intentions."
(Continued on Page-10)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The governing Labor Alignment and the Likud agreed Monday night
that the Knesset election would be May 17. The Alignment had originally planned to introduce a
bill this week to hold the elections May 31 and Likud had recommended May 3.
Meanwhile, President Ephraim Katzir continued meeting with leaders of various political
parties. He met Tuesday with the Independent Liberal Party and Monday with the National
Religious Party in an effort to form a new government. But those efforts will become academic
with the expected dissolution of the Knesset, which would force the Labor Alignment government
to remain in a caretaker role until the elections.
The Labor Party is intensifying efforts to keep Mapam from leaving the Alignment. Mapam is
scheduled to make a decision at its convention Jan. 31. Premier Yitzhak Rabin is expected to meet
soon with. Meir Talmi, Mapam's secretary general, and discuss the list of questions on policy that
Mapam has presented the Labor Party.
Mapam has said it will demand straightforward answers on Labor's position, expecially on the
future of the West Bank.
The Labor leadership is also engaged in- the struggle between Rabin and Defense Minister
Shimon Peres over who-should be the party's candidate for Premier. Supporters of both men are
polling the 600 members of the party center who, if the election will take place May 17, will have to
m ke a decision soon.
ma There have been some
suggestions that former
Premier Golda Meir head the
Labor Alignment candidates
NEW YORK
Five American tourists, who the Soviets appar - list as a unifying force. Mrs.
Meir is- more popular now
ently suspected to be participants in the banned conference on Soviet
than when she was in office.
Jewish culturesjn Moscow last week, were detained for 16 hours with-
out food and sleep in the Moscow Airport and then placed on a Paris-
Electioneering in Israel
bound plane.
has already begun with Rabin
The five were searched 'and interrogated throughout the night
making several speeches last
they spent in Moscow and not permitted to contact the U.S. Embassy.
week and Likud leader
They were identified as Jacob Levitt of Wallingford, Pa., Alan Lucas of
Menachem Beigin challeng-
Cincinnati, Beverly Greibetz of New York and Mr. and Mrs. Michael
ing him to a television debate.
Pelcowits of Silver Spring, Md.
Prof. Yigal Yadin, the
Prof. Edward Alexander, an English professor at Washington State
Hebrew University ar-
University, had a similar experience last week with his wife. The Alexan-
ders were detained for 24 hours before being expelled.
cheologist who heads the
An official, thought to be a KGB officer, interviewed Alexander in
Democratic Movement for
a locked room. After Alexander said he might attend the Jewish sym-
Change and Gen. (res) Ariel
posium the official was abusive about Jews and said he had to protect
Sharon, formerly of Likud,
U.S. Tourists Held in Moscow,
Expelled by Soviet Authorities
a
—
(Continued on Page 8)
(Continued on Page 8)
Solomon Zeitlin, Major Authority on Second Commonwealth
and Challenger of Claims to Dead Sea Scrolls' Antiquity, Dies
Prof. Solomon Zeitlin, the world's outstanding authority on the Second Commonwealth, the recog-
nized historian of that period, died before noon on Tuesday at age 85 in Philadelphia, where he had made
his home for nearly four .decades.
A bachelor, he is survived by a grandnephew, Joel Spektor of Philadelphia.
Dr. Zeitlin, who held the post of Distinguished Professor of Post-Biblical Literature and Institutions
at Dropsie University, was the challenger of the claim that the Dead Sea Scrolls belonged to antiquity. He
wrote extensively, drawing upon philology to disprove that the discovered scrolls which had been hailed
as the great finds of all times were related to the pre-Christian era.
Dropsie University President Abraham Katsh, who was associated with Prof. Zeitlin in scholarly tasks
for many years, paid tribute to Prof. Zeitlin and honored him as one of the very great scholars of this century.
In deference to the wishes of the deceased scholar, Prof. Katsh said there would be no eulogies to him but that
at the end of Shloshim, the tratitional 30-day period of mourning, the eminent scholar's work will be taken into
account at appropriate ceremonies at Dropsie University in Philadelphia.
Scores of the country's leading scholars studied with Dr. Zeitlin to earn their PhD degrees at Dropsie.
Zeitlin was born in 1892 in Russia and studied in Dvinsk and St. Petersburg. He later received
rabbinical ordination and a doctorate in theology from the Ecole Rabbinique in Paris.
Emigrating to the U.S. during World War I, Zeitlin received a PhD degree at Dropsie College in 1917.
He taught first at Yeshiva College, New York, then became professor of rabbinics at Dropsie in 1921.
.
As an outstanding authority on the Second Commonwealth period, he wrote over 400 articles and
books in the fields of rabbinics, Josephus, the Apocrypha and Christianity. He was also instrumental in
organizing the American Academy of Jewish Research in the U.S.
DR. SOLOMON ZEITLIN
MARCH 27, 1992
119