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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH*"
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY JEWISH PUBLICATION IN ~THIS~TERRITORY
VOL 31 —No. 4
PLAIN TALK
BY ALFRED SEGAL
HOW A DEAD MAN
CAN LIVE
In our town recently there wa*
* big celebration for very old
Rabbi Isaac M. Wise who has
been dead more than 50 years.
Nevertheless he had kepi on being
▼ary. much alive in cities and
towns all over the United States.
You can't say a man is dead who
keeps on going the way he does. I
He stays vigorously alive, though
the year of his burial was 1900. |
I myself attended his funeral
and saw him lowered into his
grave, as if he were dead. But to j
this day he remains alive in all,
our Reform temples. He set them
straight on the way of their own
lives. \ |
He can be found in the two
temples of our town and only
some three months ago I found
him living in the grandeur of j
Temple Emanuel on Fifth Avenue i
in New York; alive also across the
street from Emanuel where the
stately building of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
stands. He started all that.
\
He -is Jiving in the Hebrew
Union College which he founded.
He is alive in our temple in Cin
cinnati which has come to be
named the Isaac M. Wise Temple:
To this, our congregations, he
came in the year 1854 and it was
much more than this congrega
tion that he served from his pul
pit.
He stands alive as the founder
of liberal Judaism (called Re
form) in its organised form.
Our temple was celebrating the
100th year since Isaac M. Wise
came to its congregation to be
the rabbi. Even more, it was ob
serving the undisputed fact of his
still being so alive as he is all
around the country.
(But we really aren't all united
in the United Jewish Cemetery.
No. even in death we don't keep
united. Some five miles away
front the "United" there's a group
of six cemeteries on a couple of
hillsides where Jews sleep di
vided.)
The celebration of the 100th
year since he came among us took
place in the temple that was built
some 15 years after he arrived. It
started with a procession of a
group of aging gentlemen who
remembered Dr. Wise in person.
I was one of them, not alone by
grace of my years; I was a stu
dent in Wise’s Hebrew Union Col
lege when he Was president there.
I was hoping then to be a rabbi
some day.
We marched down the center
aisle to Rabbi Wise's old altar
with 101-year-old Dr. Philip Zen
ner on my arm. Dr. Zenner as a
boy in the religious school, took
part in the dedication of Dr.
Wise's temple right after the Civil
War. Dr. Zenner has a vivid mem
ory of Wise as a rabbi then in his
40's; the rest Os us remembered
him as a very old gentleman who
toddled very slowly on his walk
(Continued on Pago t) 1
| Knesset Gets Appeal
to Aid Druze
Community in Syria
JERUSALEM, (JTA) A mo
tion calling for an urgent debate
in the Israel Parliament of the
Syrian Government’s military!
suppression of the Druze people
of that country was referred last
week to the Knesset Foreign Af
fairs Committee, with the consent
of deputy Sheik Jaber el Moadi,
leader of the Israel Druze com
munity who offered the motion.
| Premier Moshe Sharett express
ed the sympathy of his govem
jment for Ihe Druze in Syria and
concern for their fate. (Reports
from Damascus said that Syrian
j Army artillery had levelled three
of 12 Druze villages.) He coun
-1 selled caution in dealing with the
problem in the Knesset.
I Sheik el Moadi, speaking for
'the 20,000 Israeli Druze, vehe
mently condemned the military
attacks on the villages of his
. kinsmen in the Arab state. He
'pointed out that the Druze com
tmunity in Israel had strong reli
gious ties with the community in
Syria. He declared that Israel
could not remain indifferent to
the fate of the Syrian Druze
under dictator Adib Shishakly
and asked the Knesset to investi
| gate the suppression of the Syrian
Druze community.
Former Austrian Minister
Charged With Misuse of
Jewish Assets
VIENNA, (JTA) Dr. Peter
Krauland, who was the Austrian
Cabinet Minister responsible for
confiscated Jewish property after
the liberation of Austria, and is
now being tried on charges of
misuse of his office for personal
gain, has charged that top Aus
trian political leaders advised
him to get out of the country
rather than stand trial.
Dr. Krauland, who is a mem
ber of the Peoples Party, domi
nant group in the coalition gov
ernment, said that former Chan
cellor Leopold Figl, of his party
and Vice Chancellor Adolf
Schaerf, of the Social Democrats,
offered this advice. He further
charged that the Socialists had
made proposals for profiting from
the properties in his chargem but
that he had refused such deals.
Dr. Krauland, who at one time
had responsibility for the opera
tion of 13,000 industrial and com
mercial enterprises, is accused of
having handed over the operation
of businesses worth millions of
schillings to close associates who
operated them for the gain of
the ring. He is on trial with six
other former high government
officials. The prosecution has
stated that as a result of the
manipulations of the defendants,
rightful owners were prevented
from resuming control of their
businesses.
Israel will exhibit at the Inter
national Fair of Machinery and
Industrial products to be held in
Belgium during 1954.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FEBRUARY 12, 1954
Arab League Loosing'
Prestige, Perlzweig
Says
Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig
Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, di
rector of the International Affairs
Department of the World Jewish
Congress, just returned from a
tour of 12 countries on behalf of
the WJCongress, expressed grati
fication over the assurances given
him by French authorities of
North Africa, the Bey of Tunis,
and El Glaoui, the Pashah of
Marakeesh in Morocco, that the
rights and security of Jews, as
well as all other minority groups
“in that uneasy and tension-filled
area of the world” will be pro
tected under all conditions.
Reporting today (Tues., Feb. 2)
at a press conference on his ex
tended tour, at the Stephen Wise
Congress House, Dr. Perlzweig
declared that the Arab League
has suffered a loss of prestige in
North Africa among moderate
nationalist leaders. He added that
the revelation that the League is
being supported and encouraged
by Communist elements has
Hebrew U. Receives Lincoln Collection
I - r'W
Noted Lincoln authority Alfred Whital Stern (left) presents
priceless Lincoln collection to Hebrew University of Jerusalem in
Lincoln's Birthday ceremonies in Chicago Friday, February 12.
Receiving the gift on behalf of the University are Samuel N. Katzin
(right), a national vice president of the American Friends of the
Hebrew University, and Dr. Frederick R. Lachman of the University
faculty, representative in this country of Israel's Ministry of Educa
tion.
Mr. Stern's gift, creating a special Lincoln Library and Lincoln
Room at the University, will expand the special Library on Ameri
can History at the Hebrew University, Israel's only university. Mr.
Stern has provided the Library of Congress in Washington, Me Mas
ter University in Canada and many other institutions with highly
valuable Lincoln collections.
British Concerned Over U. S. Action
On Israeli Complaint to U. N.
LONDON. (JTA) The British Foreign Office is deeply con
cerned over the United States move last week in proposing that the
Egyptian counter-complaint against Israel and Israel's complaint
against the Egyptian blockade of the Suez Canal be made part of
the same agenda item at the United Nations Security Council, It
was learned here this week.
Although the Foreign Office re
fuses to comment on the Ameri
can move, which gave the Arabs
a diplomatic victory early in the
Security Council’s consideration
of the Israeli complaint, it was
learned unofficially that there is
a great deal of high level con
cern on the impossibility of
achieving an identity of views
among the Western Big Three on
what the British consider a mat
ter of great importance.
Britain, it was pointed out,
would have liked to see a com
plete airing of the Suez Canal
question if only because the
matter had not been handled
during the direct Anglo-Egyptian
talks, for fear of further com
plicating them. There is a feeling
here that the Security Council
will soon be faced with the alter
natives of adopting a lukewarm
resolution favoring one or the
other party, or becoming snarled
in a marathon debate which will
widened this estrangement.
He termed encouraging the fact
that the Berbers, a large group
living in Southern Morocco, have
announced their rejection of the
leadership of the extreme nation
alist elements, and have made
clear their determination to fight
the destructive and subversive in
fluences exerted by the Arab
League.
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end up without concrete action of
any sort.
It is expected here that the
British, although they fell in line
with the American “compromise”
at the Security Council, will pur
sue with renewed vigor their de
mand for high level and conclu
sive talks on establishing a mu
tual policy on the Middle East.
Miller Spikes Orlando
U. J.A. Drive-Says Israel
Budget Balanced
w . M I
Rabbi Irving Miller
Rabbi Irving Miller, National
President of the Z. O. A. was the
principal speaker of the Orlando
opening U. J. A. dinner which
was held February 7, in the San
Juan Hotel. Sidney Gluckman
presided over the meeting, and
acted as chairman.
In the course of his address,
during which he appealed for
funds for Israel, the veteran Zion
ist Rabbi claimed that the Israel
budget is balanced. However, he
stated that the development bud
get for new immigrants is still in
the red. This budget, he explain
ed, is the responsibility of the
Jews of America, inasmuch as
had not the state of Israel been'
established at great cost of blood
and tears by the Israelis, it would
have been the responsibility of
world Jewry to resettle the ref
ugees some other place.
Rabbi Miller spoke most elo
quently, and was enthusiastically
received by the assemblage of
over 300 people.
Also appearing on the program
was Harry Hersfield, well known
humorist, and Cantor A. Marton
of the Jacksonville Jewish Center,
who entertained as soloist with
liturgical and folk songs. Marton
was accompanied at the piano by
John F. Mac Enulty of the Jack
sonville College of Music.
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