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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. 29 NO. 15
PLAIN TALK
By Alfred Segal
FOOTBALL AT BRANDEIS
Let'* go in for some sports to*
day and, in particular, football.
And, since a piece about football
should concern itself about actual
teams, this one is about football at
Brandeis, the Jewishly sponsored
university.
I have been consulting a couple
of rabbis about football at Brand
eis, but what, you may ask, can
rabbis know expertly about foot
ball? Well, this is about football
at Brandeis on the Jewish Sab
bath, and should a Jewish-spon
sored university play football on
the Sabbath?
The question has been raised by
the New York Board of Rabbis
which says football played pub
licly on the Sabbath by a team
which is of a school that is Jewish
in its origin just isn't in the line
of Jewish tradition.
The New York rabbis had Dr.
Abram L. Sachar, president of
Brandeis, before them to explain
it all. He answered straight out:
The American tradition of foot
ball calls for games on Saturday
afternoon; for Brandeis to cut out
football on Saturday would cut
it out of most football schedules,
would eliminate Brandeis from a
mainstream of American life. And
Brandeis wants to stay in the
main stream. It is open to all of
whatever religion or racial origin.
But Dr. Sachar said he would
think about the matter further.
As a sporting guy who never
has connected football with religi
ous inhibitions, I felt I should
consult rabbis about this. They
could give the answer: Is football
kosher, as you might say, on the
Jewish.. Sabbath? .. (Though the
thousands of the American Jewish
t
population answer the question to
their own satisfaction on Satur
days in the autumn. They attend
football games.)
First, I consulted the Conserva
tive in our town, Rabbi Fishel
Goldfeder of the Louis Feinberg
Synagogue. Rabbi Goldfeder
quoted Jewish law as given by
rabbis out of olden times. They
said, in effect, that recreations,
such as sports, are all right, if
practiced on private property,
such as in a backyard; like the
sport of boys kicking a football
around in a backyard on the Sab
bath.
That didn't seem to include
football publicly played for cash
admission charges on the Sabbath.
1 could count Rabbi Goldfeder as
being against public football at
Brandeis on the Sabbath.
Then I called up Rabbi Stanley
Brav who is one of the two rabbis
in our Reform Rockdale Temple.
He said it is the Reform idea that
Sabbath recreation is out of place
only during the time of prayer
which is the morning of the Sab
bath. Reform Jews are not for a
Sabbath strait-laced by blue laws.
The Jewish Sabbath is for medi
tation and recreation, and Reform
interprets recreation to include a
football game ]in the afternoon.
(Continued T on Pago Four)
John Hodiak To
Apear On U. J. A.
Broadcast May 7th
John Hodiak, currently appear
ing on Broadway in “The Chase,”
will star in the special radio play,
“Song of the Negev,” on Wednes
day, May 7th, from 10 to 10:30
P. M. Eastern Daylight Savings
Time, over the Mutual network,
in behalf of the United Jewish
Appeal.
The broadcast, which is the
fourth and final one in the UJA’s
spring radio schedule, is being
produced and directed by Himan
Brown, UJA National Radio
Chairman. It commemorates the
pioneering spirit found in the new
State of Israel as it begins its
fifth year of existence.
REPATRIATED INDIAN
JEWS SEEK RETURN TO
ISRAEL
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) A
group of Indian Jews who used
sitdown tactics to force the Jew
ish Agency to return them from
Israel to their former homes in
India is now making desperate
efforts to return to Israel, a Jew
ish Agency spokesman reported
last week.
Some of the repatriates, he said,
are collecting funds in Indian
synagogues to pay their expenses,
while two of their representatives
have gone to the Agency office
in India to express their regret
over their action and to ask the
Agency to bring them to Israel a
second time. Otherwise, they
threatened they would stage a
hunger strike in the Agency office
in India. However, the Agency
has refused to pay the cost of
their transportation a third time.
“My Boss Was A Jew” anna fred
(Continued from last week)
We were three: Jeanne D’Arc,
with her big, blue eyes always
betraying a trace of fear and with
a slight tremor in her voice.
Louise, skinny, straight and with
short blonde hair that always re
minded me of one of those David
Copperfield brochures in the
World Book Encyclopedia. And
there was I, Fernanda. We left
Quebec, where we had completed
our studies at the University, with
the intention of working on a
farm in Niagara Falls. But when
we arrived in Toronto we dis
covered our funds had run quite
low, so we found our way to the
Employment Office. After, a half
hour a call came in from a Mr.
Brown. He requested three girls
for his summer hotel, to do all the
chores until the opening in the
middle of June. The' wages were
to be seven dollars per week each,
including room and board.
The Tides is a beautiful hotel,
about one and a half hours’ drive
from Toronto on the south shore
of Lake Simcoe. We were greatly
impressed on arrival with the fine
surroundings, spacious grounds, a
dancing pavilion, beautiful trees
and gardens.
Our first meeting with Mr. and
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1952
U. J. A. Speaker
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ISAAC CHIZIK
Isaac Chizik, Administrator of
the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Port Author
ity, and former chairman of the
Negev Development Commission,
will head a list of prominent
speakers who will address the
first Conference of the United
Jewish Appeal National Labor
Council this Sunday, May 4, at
the Hotel Astor in New York,
Rabbi James G. Heller, Chair
man of the Council, announced
this week.
Southeast Z. O.A.
Adm. Council Meets
In Atlanta, May 4th
The Administrative Council of
the Southeastern Region of the
Zionist Organization of America
will meet at the Mayfair Club in
Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday, May
4th at 10:30 A. M.
A “caucus” will be held on
Saturday evening, May 3rd, at the
Hotel Biltmore to determine Re
gion policy for the National Con
vention.
Mrs. Brown is something I shall
never forget. What a charming
couple, we thought. We fell in
love with Mrs. Brown at first
sight. She was an attractive bru
nette, with large brown eyes, a
beautiful face, and she had two
adorable children. They were
both sincere and gracious and we
admired them greatly.
And now we were in our room,
sitting and staring at each other
and wondering. These people
were Jews—and we were here.
Imagine, if you can, three girls
in a strange city, and almost pen
niless—and you may have an idea
of the expressions on our faces.
Getting back to Quebec would be
fine, but it would take money,
and it would also mean the end
of our adventure away from
home. And to stay ... with whom!
We decided, there, the three of
us—to stay: to close our eyes to
all we had heard in the past, and
we decided to find out something
about this condemned race for
ourselves.
Mrs. Brown’s brother was the
manager of the hotel and was
called Irving. He was a congenial,
intelligent young fellow about
twenty-five years of age, always
on tile alert, ready'to do anything
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ISRAEL FINDS NEW MHEBAL
WEALTH
NEW YORK. (JTA) An overall picture of mineral resources
being uncovered in the Negev, Israel's southern desert, was brought
here last week by Isaac Chizik, former chairman of the Negev
Development Commission.
Southern Judaeans
Attending Conclave
Judaeans from 10 to 13 years
years of age throughout the South
are attending for the first time in
Southern Young Judaea history,
Pre-Senior Conclaves, scheduled
for:
Atlanta, Georgia at Camp High
land, May 2, 3 and 4.
Tampa, Florida, May 9, 10 and
11.
Memphis, Tennessee, at Shelby
Forest, May 23, 24 and 25.
Three other such week-end
Conclaves have already been held
in Nashville, Daytona Beach and
Miami.
Designed as a week-end of fun
with sports and educational
events, the Conclaves are guided
and supervised by trained adult
leaders. The events are sponsored
by the Atlanta and Florida offices
of the Southern Zionist Youth
Commission and by the . local
Youth Commission, joint agencies
of Hadassah and the Zionist Or
ganization of America.
Prospective Judaeans interested
in attending the Atlanta event
may obtain an application blank
or additional information by call
ing Lamar 6361.
that was asked of him. There was
also Henry, who was nick-named
“Major Hank.” The major was a
typical Canadian Army man, an
ex-sergeant-major. He apparently
took care of all the carpentry
work and odd-jobs. He had also
won fourteen honors in the war
which he had never forgotten,
nor did he allow anyone else to
forget.
A week had gone by and we
were called into Mr. Brown’s of
fice. Apparently there had been
some mistake in the arrangements
regarding our wages. Immediately
I was on my guard. This was one
of the things we had been im
pressed with all our lives —that
the Jew never pays if he can help
it. We were dealing with a Jew
and the subject was money. I ex
plained that the Employment Of
fice had arranged that we were
to receive seven dollars per week
each —plus our room and board —
which was quite in order. Mr.
Brown looked surprised, then he
laughed and handed us three en
velopes. We opened them and
gaped in astonishment —there was
twenty dollars in each. And we
had been brought up to believe
that the Jew never pays!
(To Be Continued Next Week)
Mr. Chizik, who was educated
at the University of Chicago and
is now administrator of the Tel
Aviv-Jaffa Port Authority, stress
ed the need for colonizing the
Negev, to provide workers for
exploiting the area’s mineral re
sources. He also pointed out the
need of developing a network of
communications stretching from
the port of Elath on the Gulf of
Akaba in the south, to the ports
of Tel Aviv and Haifa in the
north. He stressed the importance
of the United Jewish Appeal in
the attainment of these two con
ditions.
Initial copper ore discoveries in
the Negev, he said, approximated
150,000 tons of medium metallic
concentration, but the possibility
exists that these deposits are more
extensive.
Discovery of manganese depos
its in the Negev, Mr. Chizik said,
open new sources of supply to the
western world which in recent
years has had to face the situa
tion that 90 per cent of the
world’s supply of this key ore was
in countries behind the Iron Cur
tain. He described the manganese
deposits as approaching two mil
lion tons and having a concentra
tion of 35 to 40 percent of magan
ese oxide. Experiments to aug
ment the concentration are now
being made, he said, and would
largely determine the economical
exploitation of the deposits.
Existence of oil deposits in Is
rael has not yet been fully deter
mined. Mr. Chizik said, but three
groups are seeking prospecting
licenses.
In addition to these finds, he
declared researches are now going
forward with respect to iron, sul
phur, mica and feldspar. An initi
al general survey of iron ore de
posits has been concluded and ex
ploration operations at greater
depths have been started using
standard mining methods, he re
ported. The iron ore turned up so
far, he noted is of medium quality
but gives sign of existing in large
quantity.
Mr. Chizik gave highest impor
tance to the discovery of phos
phates, reporting that it has been
found in great quantity. He point
ed out that phosphates are used
chiefly as fertilizer and that "the
discovery on our own soil will
prove a tremendous boon to us,
especially in view of our highly
intensive kind of agriculture.
He reported that the discovery
of phosphates has already enabled
Israel to halt the annual import
of some 150,000 tons of this vital
material at an estimated yearly
savings of more than $1,500,000.
At the same time, he said a com
pany has been formed for the
manufacture of super-phosphates
to meet all of Israel’s needs and
to offer it as a principal item of
export.
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