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HEBREW CALENDAR
FRIDAY; AUGUST 871969. the 24th day of Av 5729. Sidra: Re'e Candlelighting: Toronto 8:15, Montreal 7:56
STAR SEES PHILISTINES
Repoif from C€ttr&
Maarlv,
Shall we have another round of talks T
Last Friday the Toronto Daily Star souhded ari alarrn against some Canadian universities for committing "cultural genocide" because, according to a report prepared by the Robin Mathews Subcommittee, they are "overloaded wi^ staff and(pwluate students from the United StaW' The Star, In a front page stbry and an editorial (Are We Financing U.S. Colleges Here?), names Waterloo University only as the culprit responsible for this calamity. Yet it charjaes other universities with the same crime.
In its editorial conclusion the Star supports the Mathews Subcommittee which suggested a government policy "to curb the inundation smd to aim at two-thirds majority of Canadian citizens on university faculties." It then declares, (this is the considerate opinion of the Star) "it's a situation that screams for action."
In this crusade against the American Philistines "threatening" Canadian tmiversities, the Star forgets that it is very difficult to set a norm of two-thirds or one-third or one-tenth of a certain category of students ^or teachers. This system has a name: it is called Numerus Clau-sus. In^ certain pre-Worid*War II Polish universities, it was applied against Jews; in some American universities, it once was the policy aimed at Negroes. Now it is reportedly the new attitude taken at the universities in Russia where the "foreign" and "unreliable" Jewish students are not admitted because the system now has become Numerous Nullus. Numerus Clausus in general always leads to Numerus Nullus, for one can launch a campaign of xenophobia as did the Toronto Star last Friday when, in its own words, it started "screaming" at American students and teachers. But very few ever succeeded in arresting a drive for xenophobia.
We cannot understand how this Esprit de Clocher has reached the editorial board of Canada's largest newspaper. Have some become so blind in their anti-Americanism, victims of a world war campaign against the United States and its people, that they do not realize how dangerous such propaganda is? Is it possible that the Star's editor , in chief, a New Canadian himself 'whose family escaped Hitler's persecution, would allow such dissemination of the lowest chauvinism in his newspaper? What would he say if some propagated the idea of Numerus Clausus in newspapers, demanding they be run by nath/e bom Canadians not by immigrants or naturalized citizens? Where does one draw the line when such permissiveness prevails in dividing people not according to merit and competence but according to nationality, race, religion or citizenship?
Fortunately for the Star, this Numerus Clausis atmosphere had not permeated its editorial room at the time Ernest Hemingway applied for a job.
Last but not least, how foreign is the United States to^ Canada? What is thf/iBtil different iietween the . peopki'living in Cleveland and Buffalo and those of Toronto? No matter how much talk, the people of Canada still will contlhu^ to watch American movies, television, and to read American magisines, yes, even be treated to Ameribaii Syndicated columns in the Toronto Star. They don't mind reeding those articles picked up from American syndicates, newspapers and news agencies even if the Star does not credit always the United Stat»i brigiri.
From the Star we i^buld expect more responsibility and, yes, more liberalisrn. We should remember that if xenomania is silly, xenophobia is dangerous. It is the bask; ingredient of every racialist movement
London (JCN$).- Resolu* tlons adopted at last week's meeting of the Arab Socialist Union national congress, Egypt's only political assembly, revealed Cairo's c<mtinulng concern over internal opposition to the regime, the JCNS Foreign Staff writes. \
The firstresolutl(madopt-, ed at the congress, dealhig with measures which had to be taken to confront Israel in battle, included a section which declared:
"We must resist the small group opposing the people's aspirations for liberation and Socialism and expose them before the masses; and we must stand by the decisicn adopted by the congress at its extraordipary session.
"This calls for isolating the members of this small groiQ), strikhig at them wherever they are found by procedural and political means, and depriving them of the protection which our society guarantees to the
BOOKS or THE WEEK
by Dr. Arnold Ages
LEPT WING UNDER ATTACK
THE CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE: IDEAS, POWER AND VIOLENCE IN AMERICA by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Houghton Mifflin   313 pp.
This is Arthur Schlesing-er's, most important contribution since his A Thousand Days, the memoirs of the Kennedy years. In his new book. New York's Albert Schweitzer, Professor of history, ranges over the whole spectrum of ccmtemporary American life and finds much that Is lacking. Schlesinger is different, however, from other critics of American society, in that he brings to his reflections a deep understanding of the historical and political background Of current crises.
The main target of Sch-leslnger's study is the New Left and its arrogant posture of infftllibUity. Herbert Marcuse and Noam Chomsky, two leaders of this political grouping, come in for some mordant criticism. Both of these sp(Aesmen for' the New Cefttg^'ihat^elpror^ need iHtf,)je permitted to CO-i exist with truth. Schlesinger poses the obvious questicm when he asks by what criterion one goes about establishing what is truth and what is error. "Not wily do men who claim infallibility in politics," writes the author, "do far more evil than good, but the systematic suppression of supposedly false
Ideas would de^y impoverish human knowledge and understanding. There is no error so crooked. Topper said, but it hath in it some lines of truth."
E(iually disturbing toPro-fessor Schlesinger Is the New Left's advocacy of violence in the furtherhig of pditical aims. "This new creed, with its dismissal of free discussion and its conviction that violence will mystically generate policy and pro-am," argues Schlesinger, "represents an assault OD rati(Hiality in poli^ tics r- an assault based u) the ultimate proposition that rights and wrongs in public af&frs are so absolute and so easily ascertainable that on)ositl(xi can be legitimately forbUden." Those who propose violent revoluticm to remedy society's Ills should remember Tbcque-ville's taiazim: "In a rebel-lira, as in a novel, the most dimcultpartistheeod."
In this series of excellent studies Schlesinger also diobses to do battle with a ncrw kind o( historian that has emerged on tbie American scene. They are called "revisionists" and purport to see America's imperialism behiiKl the major dis^rs of the twentieth century. They deny that America was iso-laticmist during the 30s — this was merdy a covert stan«i« to conceal an even more reprehensible policy of colonialism. The "re-
visionists" argiie that America's economic policies forced tidth Germany aiid Japan into a^ressive postures. AfterHWorld War n, say the advocateis of the new "history/' America's imperialism caused it to initiate the cold war.
In rejecting the theses offered by the "revlsi<nlsts," Professor Schlesinger tries to show that their theories tail completely to take into account tin dynamics pf tin totalitarian regimes which existed in Germany and Japan, and which exist to tills day in Russia. "An analysis of Uie origins of the Cold War," writes tin autiior, ' 'which leaves out these {actors — the Intransigence of Leninist ideology, tin islnls-ter dynamics of a totalitarian society and tin madness of Stalin -- is obviously incomplete."
For a sober and sensitive perspective on America's current problems, Arthur Schlesingier's The Crisis of Confidence is re<iuired reading.:,:' ■!•• -V . ;--.v -^Checkyst' ■■^
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THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURY IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY by Samuel Sandmel Oxford University Press 241 pp.
- Dr. Sandmel, one of Reform Judaism's leading schoUirs, is a specialist in
the New Testament and tin rise of Christianity. His rab^ blnlcal trainhig, moreover^ gives him a special advan-over Cbristianschcdar^ in tiiat he is familiar witii tin literature of Judaism that dates from the same period as tin rise of Chris-
tianity. Consequentty his portrait of the two religions in tin first century is abroad and comprehensive one. In his book he attempts to correct the errmeous image of Talmudic Judaism which has survived among Christian scholars.
people's forces which be^ lieve hi tiie causes of Ubt-eration and Sdcidlst der velopment."
Repeated emiiiaisis in ai|» resolution on' tin- in^ed fot preparing tin people psyr chologlcally for '«« war ahead also iadidjited less tiian solid backing for tiie regime.       , -
"The effectlveinss of ideological sappoti for the battle must be ralsM," tin resoluUcm declared, and steps had to. be taken to "sharpen awareness and deepen understanding of Israeli objectives jjad aims and of the nature oflhe wal* we are foclng, and develop confidence in tin InevitabUi^ of victory."
NASSER PLANS A TOUR OF EASTERN BLOCK COUNTRIES
London(JCNI^;-i>resident Nasser will visit Russia late in August as part jot a tour of Eastern block countries, accordh^ to agency reports.
He wtil also visU Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and, possibly. East Germany.
He is expected tobe^his tour with severaltdays of talks witii Soviet leaders in Moscow and tinn wUl spend two or three weets at tin Tskhaltubo healtii cenfre in Georgia.
a special representative of ttie President arrived in Moscow Uds week to finalize tiie arrangements.
ASKTHERABBi
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. Q. .1 have been told tiiat I should notroarryagfrl whose Jewish name .is tte same as' my mother's. Correct?
a. The origin of Uie custom is in tin medieval Sefer Hasidism of Judah the SaiiU, who states that such a marriage wUl be unsuccessful. Many Jews follow^ this nde but others, including tin editor of this column, consider it tobe sheer superstition and disregard it.
(Jj. Is it pfirmitted to marry..
aI The forbidden degrees' of marriage are listed in LevlUcu^ chapter 18. The rabbis added certain otinr degrees, but the marriage of tirslcousins is permitted according to Jewish law. The Karaites had a very strict rule forbidding cousins to marry^ but the rabbinic law rejects tills entfrely.
Q. Is tt forbidden to mix meat and fish in preparing dishes?
A. The source is a passage in tiie Talmud (Pesahim 76b) in which it is said tiiat Mar, saa of R.Ashi, forbade tiie eating of fish baked together with meat because of the liad odour it leaves in tin moutii andbecauseUmay bring on leprosy! Mamcmides Code make no ioaenUon of the prohibition but tin Shulchan
Aruch (Yoreh Deab 116, 2) records tiiat it is even forbidden to eat meat^and fish t<^tiier, let alra^to cook tinm leather. Very interesting is tin remark of R. Abraham Combiner (c, 1635-C1683) ttiat possiidy nowadays there is less fear of any harm resulthig because : there are many things men- -tioned hi tin Talmud as harmful which are so no longer "because nature has changed."
GOLDMANN BUSY WITH HOLIDAY CONFABS
Dear Editor:
Each year for generati(»Sj interrupted only by world wars, some Jewish leaders have taken August vacations
Tel Aviv.- We visited an apartment of Russian immigrants who have come here a few months ago. We were shown letters fromRiissian Jews — young engineers, stttdents, and doctors — who write frankly and without fear. They plead Uiat we do not forget them, tiiat Uie Israeli Government change Its present policy of not disturbing the world. "We in Uie Soviet Union have no fear anymore, and write frankly that we wish to go so soon as possible to Israel," they write. Many of Uiem are ready to lose their.Russian citizenship to emigrate to Israel.
From these letters we learn that anUsemitism has spread sUenUy in Un Soviet Union. ,Many antisemUic bo<As appear. In one are un-
Jelievable forgeries about ewlsh history as. for example, the Purim feast wiUi pogrom-lllce Ulusirations about tiie murderous actions of Mordecai and Queen Es-Unr and tiie human deeds of Hainan.
Russian Jews live under terrible conditions. They want / tiie world to know it They have given up sUence and suffering. They demand to be allowed to emigrate and to be united wltii Uiefr relativeS/ln Israel and in otinr countries.'ln tinlir letters they rc;duest Uie Israeli Government'to start a campaign '.all oyer Un world, makhig tyibllc Uieir horrible oouditlons. I /
We also met a.group of Jewish tourists who recently have visited tin Soviet^ Union. They told us that tens of tinusands of youogRusslan Jews are ready to go to Is-
REFUGEES FROM RUSSIA
by Moshe Ron
raeL They request Hebrew dictionaries, postcards from Israel with pictures of cities and villages in Uie country, which are considered as "holy" souvenfr^.' Thefr reasons for wanting to emigrate are: the difficult eco-^ nomic situation; disappointment after the hopes of the Kruschev regime UiatUiere will be decisive liberal changes in the country; refusal of the auUiorities to give in to Uie demands of the population for litnrali-zation. All this has created a crisis among the youth, especially Uie Jewish youth, which Is mosUy disappointed and does not see any other way but to go to Israel.
The leaders of the Soviet Union are aware of the situation and feel the "burden"
of the Russian Jews. TogetiiT er with the national awakening of other people hi the Soviet Union, as tin Tartars, etc., Jews have ceased to conceal their national feelings and Uie positive connection with Zionism and Israel notwithstanding Uie anti-Jewish campaign hi the Russian press and radio.
The known expert of Russian affairs in England, Pro-' fessor Lionel Shapira, who recentiy has visited Israel, said: "In decisive problems, lUce tin Russian hivasion of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet leaders did not care much for pubUc opinion in the
Jrorld; but hi mhior prob-ems lUce the relations with the Jews as a mhiority. they ,do care for what is said and / written about it in the world." The Jews who wish to mi-y
Sate to Israel, admits Pro-ssor Shapfra, state this now without l^y fear at any
oi^rtunity as wbenthey talk to tourists and ask them frankly to bring tills calamity to tin attention of world q)lnl(Hi. The stronger tiie plea of the free world, maintains Professor Shaptra, the better wiU be the prospects for letting tiie Russian Jews leave the country.
The Israeli press prhited three articles coocerning the situation of Russian Jewry. The chief editor of YedioUi Aharonot, Or. Herzl Rosen-blum, writes in Us article, A Warning, titat tin Russian Jews face a bitter fate. The antisemltic literature which appears today in Un Soviet Union about Jewish character, Jewish religion, etc., proves U is not accidental. There are signs of Nazi propaganda and talks about a "solution".. iAuUnrlties are not always capable of stoi¥»hig i pogrom by order. The Russian Jews have not forgotten tin,pogroms of tin times of tin Czechs. In tiie Soviet Union tiie Calmicks and Tartaris were liquidated. Therd are only a few Tartars left In »beria. Today the situation of the Jews in tin Soviet union is very similar to tiiat of the Calmicks and Tartars for the hatired agalnat the Jews is stronger than ever. We can-hot accept Un thesis spread hi the Soviet UoioD tiiat tiie fight is only dfrectedagahist tin Zionists and .world imperialism and not against the Jews 4. .We have a certahi experience in such matters and knoifr Now they begin and how tiny end... ; V _TberefOjre, m cannot be stient any longer. We have enongh e^nrience from tin time/of HlUer when at ffrst
no one believed what he was capable of doing to tin Jews. Even American Jewry did not grasp Uie catastrophe focUig European Jewry.
Dr. Rosenblum demands a loud outcry from American Jewry and other Jews all over the world against the danger to which tin, Jews in Russia are exposed; The Israeli Foreign Minlstiry should change its stund on tills question and reveal the tiruUi about Uie situation hi Russia. The policy of Or. Nabum Goldmann6f keeping sUent in order not to cause damage to Russian Jewry must be altered completely.
The editor ofHayom,Ger-sbon Hendel. says in his article, The suenceoftin Jews hi tiie Free World, Uiathe has read some letters frpm Russia and learned tiiat Jewish youth, which has no knowledge of Zionism aOd Jdwish education, has raised tttt bead proudly after Un Israeli victory in the Six Day War. The ant -Jewish campalto in Russia has awakened among its youth a national .Jewish pride, selfconsciousnessand a dose connection wltii the Jewish people and the State of Israel. This youth demands today, frankly and ojpjsnly, to be allowipd to leave Its inoth-erland, toemlfpratetblfiraeU
Ellidiu Salpeter ttrrltes tn Ha'aretz ttiat tin;"quiet policy" which up till now had been adiopted with regard to Russhin Jewry must be changed. There should be a strong appeal to ttie tree world to Uifluence tin Russian leaders not to return to tin policy of Stalin towards the Jews and to avoid tiie spiritual and' physical annihilation of Russian Jewry.
in Switzerland. Recentiy, I most say, themostoutstand-ing and most responsible of tinm, especially shice tin Six Day war, meet htsteadinls-raeU Not so, however, Dr. Nahum Goldmann who never has missed to caU in August a "very important" Jewish world conference. Of course, most persons who participate are on tin staff of one or anotner of tin organizations be beads. Yet tinre also are some who fre hiduced to come to Geneva, Zurich or Luzerne to discuss Jewish or IsraeUproblems.Andwhy not^ The climate Is behign, the lakes are beautifiil; whatever faults Qoe miy ascribe to Jews and Jewish leaders, many of Unm, love stpeeches. . This'year Or. Goldmann ajgaitt hivlted to Geneva a number of Jewish leaderis and prpfessiooal Jews to whom he explahnd why it was necessary to {^r all Unse prominent me'n and women in S^tzerland.
According to one weU hi-formed correspondent. Dr. Goldmann failed "to make a comprehenslye statement on Israel's international sihia-tion." It seems tint he assured tin participants, tinse who do not support him and do not belong to Un so-called World Jewish Congress, that he would desist fromfurUnr activities on behalf of Israel.
Thus ended anotinr summer congress in Switzerland..
AU thlis may seem frrele-vant. But hi my ophiiw U is very importanttotinpresent Jewish situation, for tin position of tin Jewish peqde today Is Ihiked wlUi Israel, its sectti-ity. Also it is timei we remembered ivlorlties and postponed the boldhig of "important .world confer-
ences" and tin spending of public Jewish ftands for such insignificant and superfluous meetings at a period of true emergency concernhig Uie Jewish state. It is time some of our own leading Jewish citizens put an end to these August excursions to Switzerland.
Therei was a time Infore the Jewish shUe was borh when world Jewish organizations had to meet tinre. But now what's wrong with holding conferences, if tiny are so important, hi Jerusalem or is the head of these or-ganizaticns afraid of the hi-dependent IsraeU press which has criticized so vis-lentiy these exercises hi tu-
. :   Martin Hibf ' ' Toronto
KEEP SMflING
JOB DONE-When littiiB Mfrhun said .• „   i^vxiK-*   her nl^htty prayerj she ws
Of course, it could be Uiat   ^ont to Include all inr rela-
tiiis time U especlaUy was Important for Dr. Goldmann to hold aconference In Switzerland for, accordhig to certain Israeli newspapers, he h9d become a Swiss citizen.
, What happened at this con-fbrence was tiiat Dr. Gold-hiann made an effort to"ex-
gahi" why his position on raei — advishig Uie Government of Jerusalem how to act — is correct. Because World Jewy Is tiedtolsrael, he said, a is moraUy respon-sUile tor What Israeidoes and should discuss "tin issues with world Jewish leaders."
in an indirect disavowal :0f Goldmann'^ own peace effort /'on behalf of Israol," Dr.; Yaacov Herzog of Jeru-nalem told tin meeting point ^ank ttiat Jews should not believe Uiat"Un Ideaof isome W6storn cfrcles, that peace l^d been possible aftiar the Six Day War. but.Un pos-slbUlty has sinco receded," has no founUition whatsoever. ^
Uves Uitaraway places; One night, her mother noticed that she omitted her favorite uncle vho had long been interned In Cyprus,
"Area't yOu prayhig for Uncle Benjamin?'' she asked.
"No ncted to pray-for him anymore," repUed lUUe Mfriam. "He's now wlUi us in Israeli" ■
WISHFUL THINKING
. A group of Israeli recruits were valtinl;- for Un psy-chiatrisi to examhn Uiem. When he finally entered, the men c«mt to, titentioa. After receiving the report, he of-('dered tiiem to llneuplnfroot of Ms desk. -
"What is your occupation?" he aiskod Un ffrst draftee. .•
"Pm a humorist, sit," was the reply* ^ ,
"tet me see you mak«:i joke su4g«8ted Un psy-chiatrisU    ;      ; I
i;ho draftee tyrnod around . and\ with a calm expression
. walked, over t9 Uie door. Looking at Un waithig Ihn of conscripts, he said with a smile,
> . "AU of youcan go now. Thejbbistakenl"
ALL'S WELL
|Saul, a member of a reconnaissance unit, received a package from home which hwluded a tasty salami. At night in Uie. barracks, he shared tin gift witii Uii buddies, usUig bis bayonet to slice the sausage.
An hispection Inranks was scheduled for tin foUowhig morning. As Un froop com-rti^Dder came toward him. Saul suddenly remembered thia bayonet he had used to Mice tin salami. He'd lot* gotten to clean it. He presented tin rifle torUispec^ tion — it was hi good shape. ^ Nekt. tiie offlcer reached for tin bayonet, pulled It out, glanced at it and quickly walkfad front and center.
HbldUig It up, he caUed out: "Look bore, lamamai^ ed that there Is just one mia in tills outfit who h9s sense> enough to oU his bayonet ti; prevent rusthigl'^
SERMON FOR THE WEEK
THE TORAH WAY
"No weapon that is formed against thee diall prosper." Iliis prophecy has stood the test of more than three millenia, and still renudns triumphandy true. Hie relentless strug^e has continued fi(»n Fbar-oah to Nasser; from Haman to Hitler; antisemitism has assumed s^obal proportions; yet Israel lives (» unconquerable. Wherein lies the secret of "Samson's" strength, the mystery of the Jew's invincibility? Is it the wb^ of Providence or the inexplicable play of chance?
There is a significant qualification to Israel's con-, tinumg survival. The foe from without may be powerless to destroy us, but the traitor from witldn has come perilously near to forging the weapon capable of striking the fa^ blow. Jewish Uie must be nouiidied by an inner loyalty to Judaism or it perishes.
Tliepatii of ourhist(»7 is strewn with the wreckage of numberless Jewish communities that succumbed throu^ spiritual inanition, or drained die cup of assimilation and died. Hie weapon of treason is fatal even for the Jew. MercifUUy, the assumlationist dainger was always localized; it never became nationwide.
Thus two prophecies - both in our Haphtara - remain interdependent and inseparable; "And all thy children diaU be taught of die Lord" - then, and only then, shall no weapon prosper against us. Our survival is contingent; the vital condition is the spiritucd loyal: ty of our children.
Here we are confronted by the crux of our contemporary Jevnsh problem. The vrorid is enticing our children away from us. Even the rebirth of Jewish statehood ha^ not halted the devastating inroads of defection. Not the least mdancholy aspect of the spiritual erosion that is taking place in tiie Diaspora is that all too often it is our most brilliant sons and dau^ters who leave the fold and sedc pastures hevir. Time and again it is the young Jewish idealist who is toiqet to find selfrexpression in non-Jewish endeavour, in rendering alien service. . '
ils it possible that in the crux of our probl^ lies also its solution? Judaism, except in Israel, remains largely on the defensive. So it has been, no doubt as the result of historic conditioning, for centuries. We are continually defending the ancient bastions; we are forever buttressmg a kind of JewiA "Maghiot line." But it is not our mission merely to repel attack; we aireessentiaUya spiritual "avant-garde" bringing a new message of Divine truth and human fellovruip from across the horizons of civilization. "Ho, every one that thirstetii come yet to tiie waters! " This ii the prophetic/call of Judaism to the world as a vrhole. The last word of salvation is hdtiier vritii capitalism nor Comniunism. Hiere is another way • the Torah.way, which challenges both. It reveals God at the center of the Universe, and righteousness trandated into deeds of lovin^kuidness as tiie unalterable law of human relations.
Too long has Judaism remained archaic; its true role i^ to lew) humanity into a Messianic fiittire. It has t^e^soiution to our spiritual crisis, balm for our idf-/Inflicted wounds, a li^t for the unknown road of the space age. Jud^unn'is universal; let it speak once again to all men.   / j
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