The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume], February 13, 1953, Page Page Nine, Image 9

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Friday, February 13, 1953
• • • By Ethel "Teddy" Moscovitx '
Bp
. . . “Maybe I shouldn’t dell you
who I am,” said Ginny. And then,
with a little embarrassed laugh—
“l am of Lebonese extraction, you
know.” The Israeli girl who had
served as an underground fighter
in the war for Israel Independ
ence, and had been a heroic nurse
in the war with the Arab states,
smiled engagingly. “I am very
happy to meet you, Miss Atter,”
she said. “Perhaps if more of your
people could meet our people like
this, there would be no more
war.”
Yael expressed this belief later
in an interview with me in the
ante-room of the WMBR station
. . . “There are two Egyptian stu
dents at Washington University
where I am studying,” she said.
"We are the best of'friends . . .
Our relationship is such that I
know when they go back to their
own country as social workers
they will bring back with them
a better understanding of the Is
raeli and his country . . . ” ’
Yael, who came here to do
graduate study in social work,
will return to Israel as a com
petent product of the great Amer
ican education field, and is per
forming for Israel and the Ameri
can Jewry, a fine pi6ce of public
relations work . . .
In St. Louis she lives with six
other girls in a suitable apart
ment ... Her roommates are from
six foreign countries, and all of
them are non-Jews . . . The rela
tionship between the group, Yael
says, is of keen friendship, and
the young women who live with
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Monday morning, over station WMBR
TV, there was a most interesting inter
view between Virginia Atter, local song
bird, and Yael Wind, Israeli graduate
student now studying in this country by
virtue of a Council of Jewish Women
scholarship . . . However, the off-the
screen remarks were as often is the
case—the more engaging ones . . .
Virginia is a striking brunette who
has made a name for herself nationally
as a TV commentator and songstress . . .
She approached the soft-voiced Yael a
little timidly before the TV interview
her share the same interest in
Israel as do the rest of the stu
dent body . . .
“You know, it is amazing,” said
Yael, “t h e wonderful feeling
everyone seems to have for Israel.
Everyplace I go, people ask me
about Israel—Jew and non-Jew,
and the sympathy is so wonderful
to feel. But the American people
are wonderful anyhow. Never
have I met such a friendly peo
ple!”
Yael said that the intimate
friendliness is what impressed
her most about the American peo
ple ... In answer to my question
she said that things were not ex
actly that way in Israel. . .
“It is hard to explain,” she said.
“In Israel when we heard Jews
were coming in through the
underground, everyone and any
one would risk his life to bring
them in . . . The Israeli would go
out in the ocean in the pitch
darkness of the night to bring
these people in . . . We share our
homes with them, and our cloth
ing and our food—but on the
street, when you meet strangers,
(although they are Jews, too)
there is not the same feeling of
cordiality a stranger feels on the
streets of a city in the United
States . . .
“Maybe that is because there
are so many different types of
people who have come to Israel
in such a short period of time . . .
Actually I do not know the an
swer . . . All I do know is that
Americans have made me feel
very much at home here ...”
I started to inquire—Jew or
Gentile? ... but I stopped myself
... By this time I had discovered
that Miss Wind does not differ-
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entiate in her mind or in her
speech between Jews and Gen
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ply people . . . There might be an
answer to that in the fact that
Yael is a Sabra, native bom Is
raeli, and has escaped the bitter
anti-Semitism of Europe . . .
The scholarship which was pro
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ish Women has been, in most
part, that which has made her
stay here such a pleasant one . . .
It is a very generous scholarship,
and one which is a part of a pro
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Jewish students all over the world
for study in the United States . . .
The scholarship offers enough for
Yael not only to extend her edu
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comfortably, and to enjoy the cul
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is enough extra money for con
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of books . . .
In bringing over little Miss
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Jewish life and those who want
to confess to someone of a Jewish
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purely unmapped public relations
job which she is unconsciously
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personification of all American-
Jewish effort in Israel, and per
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dissolve the petty antagonisms
that crop up between Jewish or
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bution Committee when they
went into Aden to help evacuate
the Jews from Yemen . . . Now,
Miss Wind, in this country, is
further equipping herself to serve
her people and all humanity
through the efforts of the Council
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I am sure that if Yael’s back
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