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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
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VOL. 27 NO. 3
PLAIN TALK
By Alfred Segal
JUST A STORY
I was sitting with my friend
Leo Lucas at a table in Ike
Sway's restaurant in our town and
my mind was somewhat on what
to write about for the coming
week. When one's mind is on a
column to be written there can't
be a full enjoyment of the filet
mignon that he has ordered.
I could envy the restauranteur,
Mr. Sway, who when he gets an
order for filet mignon is able to
make good. A columnist has to
sweat before he can serve up a
satisfactory column.
He imagines he is some one
upon whom the whole public is
waiting for enlightenment and
he's got to make good. What will
Mr. Zilch think if he's served
a column that he considers only
half-cooked? What will Mr. Glutz
say if he gets a column that's too
hard to digest, and he having
high blood pressure.
As I was waiting for the filet
mignon, Mr. Lucas was waiting
for blintzes with sour cream . . .
“I have a story,” Mr. Lucas said
. . . Good, I said, tell it while you
wait for blintzes and I for filet
mignon! Tnere’s nothing like a
story to whet our appetites. Is it
a good one?”
Mr. Lucas replied that it had
been well laughed at at our Rock
dale Temple when he told it. He
had been called on for some re
marks at a public discussion in
the temple on a recent Friday
evening and that was when he
told the story.
There was a certain great rabbi
in the old Russit. He was such
a rabbi that audiences hung on
every word that came from his
lips. He wasn’t like the modern
rabbis who like to play states
men and give advice on how the
world, with all its international
complications, should be run.
You’d think they were the for
eign ministers of governments,
the way they talk, and what’s
Secretary Acheson doing in the
job he holds when Rabbi Humph
rey Goldberg could do it much
better?
No! This great rabbi of the old
Russia concerned himself with
God and with ways by which
men could behave in accordance
with God's will. He traveled far
and wide in his province giving
sermons on how men could wor
thily reconcile their way of liv
ing with what God required of
them.
Everywhere he went he was
greeted like a spokesman for God
Himself. At the entrance of every
town he visited a delegation of
the people waited to welcome
him. There was everywhere a big
dinner for him and when dinner
was over the people asked him
questions about the matters that
troubled them.
He traveled around in droshky
which is the Russian name for
horse and buggy. The horse loped
leisurely along. The rabbi could
n't think of letting his driver
push the horse toward more speed.
The horse was a creature of God,
too. and mustn't be urged on be
yond his strength.
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Jewish Broadcast
Slated for Sunday
In commemoration of Lincoln’s
Birthday, the Eternal Light will
present “The White Circus Horse”
by. Morton Wishengrad on Sunday
February 12 (NBC network, 12:30
-1:00 P. M., EST), according to
an announcement by the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America
under whose auspices the pro
gram is conducted.
“The White Circus Horse” is
the story of a Negro boy whose
dream comes true when his
grandfather brings home to the
family a sick circus horse. Ten
derly nursed back to health, it be
comes the fastest and handsomest
horse in the county -- and so a
white neighbor shoots it.
Israel Foreign Affairs Official
To Deliver Two Lectures
At The Dropsie College
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. —E
liezer Liebenstein, Vice-chairman
of the Foreign Affairs Committee
of the Israel Parliament and edi
tor of the monthly magazine, “Be
tereim”, will deliver a series of
two lectures on “The Foreign
Policy of Israel” on Tuesday ev
ening, February 14, and Tuesday
evening, February 28, before The
Dropsie College Institute for Is
rael and the Middle East, it was
announced by Dr. Abraham A.
Neuman, President of The Drop
sie College.
Israel and Jordan Sign
Agreement Reducing Number
of Artillery Guns
For Both Sides
JERUSALEM, (JTA) An
other Israel-Jordan agreement
was signed here this week but is
subject to approval by the U. N.
armistice commission. The pact
fixes the number of 48mm artil
lery guns for both sides as fol
lows: eight for Jerusalem, four
in the Hebron-Dead Sea area,
twelve for the southernmost sec
tor of the Negev desert and twen
ty for the “Arab triangle” region.
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DP Arrives To
Be Cowherder
In New York City
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Szymon Wiesenfeld, 51, was a
cowhand in Poland. When he ap
plied to HI AS, the Hebrew Immi
grant Aid Society, to assist him
to come to the United States, he
expressed his concern over the
fact that his only living relative,
a cousin, lived in Brooklyn. How
was he going to be able to live
near him, and yet work at herd
ing cows? HIAS solved the prob
lem by finding him a job on the
Cedar Lane Farm, Borough of
Queens, New York City, one of
the only two farms left within
the metropolitan limits. There he
will supervise the herding of 66
cows on a farm that picks up just
where the subways end.
United Israel
Campaign Concludes
in Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, (JTA) The
United Israel Campaign for 1949
was conculded bnre this week
with a mass m r .ting at which it
was reported that the fund-rais
ing drive raised ten percent less
than in the previous year. Not
withstanding the economic crisis
prevailing in the country, the
Jews of Uruguay contributed to
the United Israel Campaign for
1949 about $600,000.
LOUIS LIPSKY ASKS SPECIAL
UN SESSION TO RECONSIDER
HOLY CITY'S STATUS
Louis Lipsky, chairman of the American Zionist Council, which is
the political spokesman for the entire Zionist movement in the United
States, attacked the Garreau Plan for the internationalizaiton of Jer
usalem, which was made public Monday in Geneva, Switzerland.
Temple Brotherhood
To Meet On
February 26th
Ways and means of increasing
the American Jewish layman’s in
terest in his faith and congrega
tion will be discussed at the 13th
biennial convention of the Nat
ional Federation of Temple Bro
therhoods at the Baker Hotel in
Dallas, Texas, February 26-28,
1950.
Symbolizing the healthy growth
of a revitalized American Re
form Jewry, it will be the first
NFTB convention to be held west
of the Mississippi River. Advance
registrations have been received
from all sections of the United
States and Canada. The NFTB
today has a record affiliation of
213 Brotherhoods, with more than
42,000 members, in 40 states and
Canada.
Dallas Temple Emanu-El Bro
therhood. the host men’s club, has
made detailed arrangements for
the entertainment of the dele
gates, under the leadership of
Lawrence Miller, Jr., National
Convention Chairman, and Jer
ome K. Crossman, president of
the local club.
Second U. S. Ship To Be
Transferred to Israel Flag
BALTIMORE, (JTA) The
Dizengoff Shipping Company of
Israel this week acquired a sec
ond American ship, the 9,500-ton
Montgomery City, which will be
transferred to the Israel flag
about the middle of February.
The ship will be renamed Hen
rietta Szold, in honor of the late
founder of Hadassah.
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LOUIS LIPSKY
While praising M. Roger Gar
reau, president of the United Na
tions Trusteeship Council, for his
efforts to find a suitable solu
tion, the Zionist spokesman as
serted that the UN official was
“laboring under the mistaken no
tion that by reducing the area of
internationalization he will be
able to rid the scheme of its
workability.
"What could not be done in the
whole of Jerusalem becomes in
creasingly difficult in Monsieur
Garreau's amended plan. You
cannot create an international
state with its own taxes, its own
police, its own municipal govern
ment. in a narrow square encir
cled by two sovereign states
whose residents are citizens of
these two states," Mr. Lipsky de
clared'.
The Zionist chairman stated
that “the Trusteeship Council
should realize by now that the
mistake of December will have to
be reconsidered at a special ses
sion of the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly.”
Austria Emerging As
Anti-Semitic Capital
Organized Nazi influence is
operative once again on all levels
of organized social and political
life in Austria, including the par
liament, the labor chambers, the
Diets of the various Austrian
States and City Councils, the
World Jewish Congress charged
in a memorandum submitted to
the State Department and the De
partment of the Army made pub
lic this week. The organization,
speaking for affiliates in 66 coun
ties, asserted that “it seems thor
oughly feasible that an organized
political group, aiming at the con
tinuation of Nazi doctrines, may,
after gaining considerable influ
ence in a central European state,
turn into an international center
for the spreading of racial and re
ligious hatred, of anti-democratic
tendencies and of militaristic and
pan-German propaganda.”
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