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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 26 NO. 47
PLAIN TALK
By Alfred Segal
MRS. GOLSTEIN AND
MR. ZILCH
As I go around our town, I
have been meeting some stuffy
people, like Mr. Zilch, lately.
They say: "The idea of that!
Was that a thing for a great in
stitution of Jewish learning to
bother itself with?"
These, in fact, were exactly the
words of the citizen I shall char
itably call Mr. Zilch. Mr. Zilch
was burning up. He didn’t like
at all the reception that was giv
en Mrs. Goldstein at our Hebrew
Union College. He wasn’t there
—had absented himself deliber
ately—but he didn’t like it,' any
way.
Do you recall Mrs. Goldstein?
Mrs. Sylvia Goldstein, that is of
Lynn, Mass. In case you need
to be reminded she is the Mrs.
Goldstein who wrote that letter
to the editor of the Lynn News
paper.
Her boy, Larry, age 11, had
been set upon and beaten by a
gang of kids when he was on the
way home from a Boy Scout
meeting. They shouted “Jew” at
him. (“Paste the little Jew.”)
Instead of going to the police
about it, Mrs. Goldstein went
straight to the public conscience
with a letter to the editor of the
Lynn newspaper. He printed it
on the front page. Mrs. Goldstein
asked, was this the kind of thing
her husband, Maurice, had died
for? He died in the Battle of the
Bulge. That was back in 1944 and
she was hoping that time hadn't
been forgotten.
Her idea was that Maurice had
died for the brotherhood of man,
for such a moral education of
children that never again any
thing like Hitler could arise in
the world and be accepted, for
the ethical teaching of all the re
ligions which tell men that the
neighbor is a brother, and what
difference could the neighbor’s
religion or his race matter?
Our Hebrew Union College
thought Mrs. Goldstein's simple
letter to the editor was as elo
quently Jewish, finely human as
“ay book or manuscript in its
9*eat library. Dr. Nelson Glueck,
president of the college, invited
Mrs. Goldstein and her son to be
Sheets of the college on a week
end.
In the college chapel there was
a reception for her and the boy
the other Sunday. The Mayor’s
Friendly Relations Committee
was in on it; the Conference of
Christians and Jews; the Fellow
ship House. There was singing
hy a choir of white people and
colored. There were brief
speeches (including one by Dr.
Glueck) and refreshments.
Larry was presented with a
baseball that was batted over our
National League baseball field
the past season. The Jewish War
Veterans gave him a certificate
that said three trees were being
Planted in Palestine in his name.
But here was this Mr. Zilch —
Md other Zilches protesting:
Was this nice? How does it look
or a great institution of Jewish
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UJA WOMAN'S HEAD TO
SPEAK ON RADIO
SUNDAY
Mrs. S. A. Brailove, Chairman
of the United Jewish Appeal, will
be guest speaker Sunday, De
cember 18th, at 10 A. M. EST on
ABC’s nationally broadcast MES
SAGE OF ISRAEL, for 16 years
the only weekly Jewish religious
service on any major network.
In a tour of Israel last year as
the only woman member of the
first official American delegation
to visit the Jewish State after its
establishment by the UN, Mrs.
Brailove narrowly escaped death
when her party was fired upon
by Arab snipers. Rescued by
Jewish soldiers, she continued
the trip, during which she sur
veyed the work of UJA agencies
throughout Israel and Europe.
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, founder
of the “Message of Israel” and for
eleven years a National Chair
man of the UJA, will present
Mrs. Brailove to the MESSAGE
OF ISRAEL audience. Dr. Jos
eph H. Lookstein of New York
City will deliver the sermon.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1949
NEW YORK (Special)—A boarding school in Israel for American
students—the first of its kind, is to be opened shortly, according to
an announcement this week by Mr. Louis J. Schwegel. The school
will be housed in a set of buildings on a campus situated atop the
highest inhabited mountain in Israel, in the heart of the Galilee
country. Negotiations are now under way to enlist outstanding
American and Israeli educators as the teachers, lecturers, and admin-
istrative staff for the Academy.
Mr. Schwefel, prominent Am
erican Zionist and Honorary Sec
retary of the Board of Overseers
of the Jewish Theological Semin
ary of America, who was recent
ly settled in Israel, is now on a
visit to this country to complete
preparations for the opening of
the school which is to be known
as the Mt. Canaan Academy. He
has had more than 25 years of
practical interest and association
with Jewish education and youth
work in America. For the past
five years he has been a leading
member of the Joint American
Zionist Youth Commission of Ha
dassah and ZOA and Chairman
New School To Open in Israel
For American Youth
of the National Advisory Board
of the Intercollegiate Zionist Fed
eration of America (IZFA).
The institution which Mr.
Schwefel is organizing will be in
dependent of any organization in
this country and completely non
political. Though a private ven
ture it will be entirely non-prof
it. It will be open to young men
and women, high school graduates
of at least eighteen years of age,
who wish to spend a year of
; study in Israel under competent
; guidance. The curriculum will
provide for a comprehensive Jew
■ ish education with emphasis on
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Jerusalem Issue
Stuns World
Jewry
BY NATHAN ZIPRIN
The decision to place Jerus
alem under international aegis is
a greater blow to the United Na
tions than it is to Israel.
By waiting more than two
years before acting on imple
menting an earlier resolution, by
standing by idly while Arab
hordes from countries unaffected
by the partition decision lifted
the sword of annihilation against
Israel, by keeping silent while
United Nations members flaunt
ed, ridiculed and fought to null
ify an international pronounce
ment, by failing to take prompt
and effective measures to pro
tect from destruction the very
city whose holiness was no bar
rier to Arab bombs, and by fail
ing to use its authority in the di
rection of conformity with the
decision to transform Palestine
into two states, the United Na
tions has forfeited the moral right
to adjuticate the issue. By step
ping in after creating a vacuum
in Jerusalem that was filled by
Israel’s arms and by Jewish lives,
the United Nations has abdicated
the long standing judicial rule
that he who seeks equity must do
equity and that he who dispenses
equity must come to the bench
of justice with clean hands.
It is futile now to reassert the
arguments against the interna
tionalization squeeze, for that is
what it is. It is appropriate how
ever to contrast the inaction of
the U. N. following its partition
decision with the sudden firm
ness and speed the international
body is displaying now. While
the Arab armies were invading
Palestine in defiance of the U.N.,
the masters of world destiny sat
with sardonic smiles. Today,
when a decision has been made
against Israel, the fury of im
plementation is burning with a
purpose we never suspected the
international organization of hav
ing.
The battle against internation
alization was lost not because of
lack of argument and justice. It
was lost because the dice were
loaded. The very offspring of a
religious denomination which
fought for centuries against
Christian efforts to dominate the
Holy Land, utilized the “sacred
site” cry as hypocritically as the
man who sells tarnished wares
and as successfully. Intelligent
men fell for it not because they
could not penetrate the truth, but
because to do otherwise might
bring upon them the wrath and
ire of a source whose increasing
influence in international affairs
is the concern of all enlightened
people. One only had to listen
to the tirade of Lebanon’s Malik,
who dangled the theme of Christ
endom with a skill that must
have been as apparent as it was
thin and who utilized the U.N.
forum for the dissemination of
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