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EG IMAGE BLURRED
ISRAEL'S POLITICAL CRISIS
Though David Ben Gurion has chosen to j^plit his party, reports from Israel's moderate-Socialist Labor Party (Mapai) indicate that at the last moment his closest advisors, including former Deputy Defense Minister Peres, may obtain irom liie old leaders v.-hat they had demanded and have been refused: a national convention. The minority in Mapai called for this .kind of conference in order that it — and not the executive of Mapai — determine the present leader-
the majority opposes him—undoubtedly has diminished this statesman's stature in present-day. Israeli politics and in history as well. Many are beginning to realize that Ben Gurion, after all, was not so great as his party had claimed him to be when he still was its favorite son. For the first time, others are alluding to the Old Man's serious errors: the abandonment of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1948; the persecution of the | former Underground — the Irgun and
NEW SABBATH LAW-WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Erhard started off with the wrong foot
DOSH MAARIV — JERUSALEM POST
By bur JCNS Correspondent
JERUSALE M - The Israeli Cabinet approved a drat t Sabbath and Festivals Rest Law and decided that it should be introduced in the Knesset by Mr. Yiga! Allon, the Minister ol Labour.
All the members of the Cabinet agreed to the draft Bill, which merely legalises the status quo, a Government spokesman said.
Infringements are punishable by a fine of lEl.OOO (about 5330 — Non-Jews are exempt, but alternative rest days are specifi ed for them. Petrol stations, swimming-pools and beaches are permitted to remain open.
The National Religious Part\ sought to introduce a "Law for the Sanctification of the Sabbath." with similar provisions, but Ahdut Avoda succeeded in its stand for the alternative title of the "Sabbath and Festivals Rest La%v."
It did so in order that the Bill should be classified as a j social measure and so come under the jurisdiction of the Ministn- of Labour and not as an item of religious legislation.
Ahdut Avoda backbenchers at a stormy party meeting attacked their Ministers in the coalition for agreeing to the law, particularly the clause banning theatre performances on Friday nights.
These theatre shows are popular in Haifa and the backbenchers complain that the clause disturbs the present compromise iii religious matters. Some members threatened to oppose t h e Bill.
' The enactment of a Sabbath Law was included in the coalition agreement lour years ago, at the insistence of the National Religious Party (Mizrachi). (
The Ministry of Labour, which is responsible for implementing the Bill, has hitherto delayed its presentation, because Ahdut Avoda, the party which controls the Ministn', is more or less content with the present law.
This forbids the employment of labour on the Sabbath with certain exceptions. The new law would extend the ban to sclf-emplovcd persons, a category which includes co-operative groups of workers.
ship and select the candidates for the ' the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel;
new Knesset.
With the national elections still four months away, many things can occur in Israel; Mapai still may reestablish a form of unity despite Mr. Ben Gurion.
However, Ben Gurion's last act—that of breaking up his own party because
THKOLOGIC.AL DISPUTES
his vitriolic attacks against all who disagreed with him; last, but not least, his retreat from Sinai.
These digressions will be reevaluated by historians now that Ben Gurion has revealed his true face as a politician. This politician's front may eclipse the profile of the statesman.
DR. JACOBS AND TORAH JUDAISM
As an independent newspaper. The Canadian Jewish News published last week an essay by the well known Dr. Louis Jacobs of London, England, who for several years has been waging ideological warfare against the established religious leadership of British Jewry. In fact, the reader may recall that Dr. Jacobs had been accu.sed of "heresy" by the f(.rmer Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth following the pubUshing of "We Have Reason to Believe".
As a re.sult, Dr. Jacobs withdrew from the United Synagogue and founded the New Lonjdon Synagogue.
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We have received many inquiries and letters to the editor, including telegrams from Orthodox leaders who protest the publishing of Dr. Jacobs' "Heresy". We do not apologize for printing Dr. Jacobs' views. He has the same right to express his views on theology as have those who disagree with him.
Our imparting Dr. Jacobs' views does not mean that we agree with his Interpretation pf Judaism. In fact, it is our considerate opinion that Dr. Jacobs omits one fundamental fact in his exposition of "fundamentalism": at the same time that he questions the very basic tenets of traditional beliefs, he demands that he be recognized as an Orthodox leader.
However, reviewing now the situation in the light of the rebel's o.wn words, we see that Dr. Brodie merely questioned Jacobs' competency to teach Torah and Judaism in an Orthodox Jewish college.
For can one preach publicly "anti-fundamentalist" ideas yet simultaneously demand the privilege to become the president of Jews* College, an Orthodox institution?
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This newspaper always welcomes various expressions of opinion on Judaism. The Reform theologians, the Conservative, the Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox—all have the right to plead their case before Jewish public opinion. But when a scholar like Dr. Jacobs wishes to present his point of view — a clearly anti-Orthodox attitude — as consonant with traditional Judaism, how can one but not sympathize with those opposing his concepts?
In our day and age, we are up-to-date enough to realize that not all "modem" views really are the last word in Bible criticism or research. Weren't similar theories to those of Rabbi Jacobs expounded in each generation for the last two thousand years — from the days when some teachers were misled by the "modernism" and "truth" of pagan Rome and idol-worshipping, Hellenistic Alexandria?
Today we know that the rabbis of the Middle Ages were more progressive than some of the "scientists" of their time. For isn't it the traditional point of view that scientific values change while the Torah to the believer cannot be altered in order to suit any ladies' atixiliary of a synagogue?
It is surprising to note that the well informed student of Judaism and its present trends should claim that the Jewish scientists of today find it hard
mn„c fo,fu rru    r, -, . ------- t° accept "the fundamentahst" Jewish
gious faith. Then he claims that these views. The fact is that today only Ortho-^ill , attitudes regarding certairi dox Judaism, at least in North America, dogmas make It inipossible for people claims the unquestioned loyalty of the ho-.w^^''"^^^°'^^^^.^^ scientific majority of Jewish scientists. And if D^CRground to accept the traditional there is Jewish religious activity in Har-^^^r^?S,       T    V  ^ vard, Yale, Columbia or any other great
l"^ ■ J^^obs has a right to American university, is it not the Ortho-expose his views. ^BUt aren't these the dox element that nrovides the atmns-views of not the Orthodox but the Reform and non-traditional Conservative theologians? Doesn't he mislead Jewish public opinion when he claims that these views can be reconciled with Jewish traditional and Orthodox principle.':''
_^yhen Dr. Israel Brodie, then the   ... v........... 6x«^«„..o „xxu v.v.v..w.
Chie^ Rabbi of the Commonwealth, re- Torah. In fact, we know that the es-lused ta appoint Dr. Jacobs as head of sence of the Torah has remained un-the London Jews' College, many believed challenged in our days when the entire rnat Dr. Jacobs had been treated - un- world hingdS oh the brink of a nuclear ffirly by the religious establishment, war."
Ed»ca<ion  In Ontario
KOSHER FOOD FOR JEWISH STVOENTS AT WATERLOO LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
ded. "And student support fur Hillcl activities is excellent."
Last October, Daniel Ba-renboim. intcrnatio n a 11 y known Israeli pianist, was featured as guest artist at
Dr. Jacobs' article, as published last week in The Canadian Jewish News, is not the essay of a traditional or orthodox leader. In a veiled, satirical approach, the author questions the fundamentahst. Orthodox Jewish belief that the Torah was handed down on Mount Smai to the Chosen PeOple through Moses—the belief in Revelation.
Also, Dr. Jacobs speaks of some of the "non-rational" aspects of our reli-
By Richard K. Taylor   |    Although the univorsiiv Isi and for encouraginj H'llel".
WATERLOO, Dm. (Spe-; supported by ;Ik I.'jtliera.n ' ■There is a Faith and Life cial). — What is it like to! Churcl in America, it is fa;j Council on campus, which be a Jewish student in a' from parochial oi narrowly arranges many reiisious ac-Lutheran university? | denominational.   Lutherans,  livities, and Hillel repre-
"It's grea.." said FieJ; in fact, are only the fourth scnted on it." the ra'->bi ad-Berg, a senior honors psy- \ largest group among the chology student a' Waterloo; student body of 2.000. Lutheran University. "I've Members of the I'nit-jd come to an even firmei : Church, with 29 per cent ol faith in Judaism during students claimin-: memher-my years at the university." | ship, are the largest group
And his words were echo- on campus. X'xi comes ed by Rabbi Philip Rosens-i Anglicans, with 18 per cent: - the first Alumni Prescnta-weig, rabbi of Beth Jacob] Roman Catholics \vi»h 13 tion Concert, in the univer-Synagogue n Kitchener, | per cent and then Lutherans sity's Theatre - Auditorium, who said, "The university' with 12 per cent. Jewish He performed on a Stein-has alwavs sio\:i a keen - students number 3 nor cent interest in its Jewish siu- and there are ^8 s.'p?.rate dents, encouiagmg ihem in' denominations lis'ed m the their loyaltv "o Judaism." | student roster.
Waterloo Lutheran Univ-i Rabbi Rosensweig. who is ersity is one of two univer-! the official Hillel counsellor sities in the Twin Cities of j at the university, had pra'^e Kitchener and Waterloo, a j for President William J centre of 115,000, midway; Villaume for "going out of between Toronto and   Lon-i his wav to tro-at hi^ Jewish
way concert grand piano, the gift of the Alumni Association.
A few months later the great Jewish folic singer, Theodore Bikel, played to a
crowded campus audience j dan Labor Conqress. spoke in a concert sponsored byon the challenge of racial the Hillel Foundation.
teacher in Kitchener, was president of Hillel during the past year.
Activities sponsored, in addition to the Bikel concert, included a panel discussion on the Christian approach to the supposed Jewish guilt for the cruci-fi.xion of"Christ. Taking part were Rabbi Rosensweig; Rev. Francis K. Wagschal, the Lutheran campus pastor; Rev. Dr. Aarne Sirrala, of the university's theological seminary; and Rev Zachary Ralston of St. Jerome's Roman Catholic College, at the neighboring Universitv of Watet 'oo.
Alan Borovoy, chairr.ian of the labor comir.ittee for human rights of the Cana-
don.
students with great faiiness now   is   a   public school
equality at a campus meet-Student Fred Berg,- who ing, sponsored 'oy Hiliel.
Mr. Berg said many parents of Jewish students often are concerned when
they hear that their children are attending a university with such a definite Christian connection. The university is the onlv one in the province, m fact, that is church sponsored.
"But their fears usually melt away after we have been there for a semester and tell them what the university is realiy like."
Among the factors that put parental fear at rest, in addition to the active Hillel Foundation, is the fact that several Jewish professors are on faculty, and that discussion is free and easy.
"Another factor is the fact that kosher food is available to those that want it every meal and not just during the High Holy Days." Mr. Berg said. Waterloo Lutheran University is the only one in the province providing such daily service. And President Villaume, in
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Dateline: MEW YORK
By Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
dox element that provides the atmosphere and the students who propagate li'-ing Judaism?
We, the Jpws of today, especially those who "belong" to the intelligentsia, pro not: irnr>re<:c:ocl by the outmoded Ha-,ci-r,t9ji.irifo-,>rjfv complex of some vis-avis universitv graduates who doctor the
FURORE OVER BLUE PAPER'
The Conservative rabbis' "blue paper" calling for the replacement of the World Zionist Organisation by a body more attuned to the limes and the needs of Israel and the Jews seventeen years after the rise of the Jewnsh State, continues to be the main topic of discussion wherever Jews foregather in this country.
The pros and cons of the "blue paper" have also been the subject of scores of articles, especially in the Yiddish press, and there are rumours that at least two Zionist academicians are spending the summer at their desks writing a defence of the unchanged actuality of the World Zionist Organisation and its e-xccutive arm,: tb" Jewish Aser.cv.
New Yo'-l; Dr. Nahum Gold-mann did not make any reply to or comment on the "blue paper."
DISAPPROVAL According to reliable in-
letters to the editors
U. S. EOUCATOR VIEWS
PRORLEAi IN QUEREC
, Dear Editor:
The unariiinous approval given June ,3rd by. the Private Bills Commi.ssion of the:, L-jgiSlative Assembly of Quebec, which provides for the inclusion of five "niembers of Ihe Jewish faith" to tile Protestant School. Board of Greater Montreal, raises some pertinent questions on the position of the Jews in Quebec in pchei-al and in Canada, in particular. No -d o.ub t iMontreal Jewry will be very happv witlv this recogiiitipn despite its long poslponement.
. The Hon. Paul Gerin-Laioie. Mixii,slcr of Education, ■ staled that the Jewish community had long showfi its desire "to become integrated; into the English and l-rcncH language milieu". However, toncenis ol. plt'raiisrn in Canad;i  hav^^becn, unclct-going
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rapid changes of late. The new arrangement still fails to provide for the long range solution raised by the identification of the Jews with the Protestant faith. It will not isolve the problem of a truly integrated education for Canadian Jews, in the Canadian culture and in the Jewish culture
thrbugh a Jewish school system supported by the state, nor will it advance the recognition of the Jews also as not only a religious but an ethnic group.
This is a confrontation that Canadian Jewry will not be able to avoid, in view of the new trends  in  Canadian pluralism
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ROME, (JCNS) - The issue of "who should forgive whom" was a Christian dilemma; "the spirit of Christian love should be rfc-decmod,. not us", Professor Abraham Sachar, the dean of Brandeis University,- .told the closing session of the 85tli Ort Gongres.s at, a farewell dinner here last nifeht. He said that the
time had' come for a searching reappraisal of the techniques, o^ good ^vill'^advocated by the Ecumenical CbunciL The Jews should!^ not be yioased, with the Princes of the'Church for their absolution,:he added; criticising thq.se Jews who were acting as jnteiinediaries lor this purpose.
and nationalism, the self-assertion of other minorities, such as the Ukrainians, not to speak of the French Canadians, and in view of the true character of the Jewish people, a cotnbin-ation of religion and ethnicism.
It is to be regretted, that Jewish community relations policy in Quebec continues to follow the general patterniof 19th cent-ur>' emancipationist thought. The Jewish community in Canada has now the opportunity for bold thinking, challenging experimentation and reassertion of its self-identification, in a free and increashigly pluralistic society. It should take advantage of them.. . ! New York, N.Y. Abraham G. Dql^cr,. Phj^i^D, Director o^-Lib(^rie.s .Professor of Hisiforj' arid Social Institutions Y, Uiiiversiiv
formation   from   Jewish; Israel and Europe, have done Agency headquarters in Mew' exceedingly well. York. Dr. Goldmann did not     According to Mr. Joseph at all approve of Dr. Ertia- B. Horwitz, a noted collector nuel Neumann's sharp reply I of Jewish art, who recently' to the Consei-vative rabbis. I gave his large collection to To be sure, he found no fault the Cleveland Jewish c--.)m-with the te.xt and tenor of i munity, "the urge to coun-the'missive, but he held that | terfeit is only matched by j the "blue paper" was a chal-! the eagerness of those who! lenge to be met bv silence, would be fooled." i In'Dr. Goldmann"s opinion,'   Knowledgeable  and non-! arguing with the Conserva- commerciaf collectors depS live  rabbis  would  simply'io;-e  the fact  that Jewish I provide grist for the mills mu^^eums and their experts i of their publicitv. are bvstanders and ido not:
Since: hundreds of Coiiser- establish what is authentic vative i-abbis. have been pre- and what is forged in Jew-paring and delivering Friday- ish ceremonial art. "It is the night sermons on the "blue duty of the Jewish mu-; naner" and scheduling lec- seums," Mr. Hor\yitz writes, j tiires and panel discussions i "to   ensure   that objects! on such toD'cs as "Is Zion-i should not. be represented as 'cm   Obsolete   Now?"   Dr.j old when they are not." Oo'dmann's   silence   seems]       -EXTRAV.-^GANZA' . ^llrhosen.   , the J-cwish Museum in
CTEVE'R FORCERS       vj..,. York has m n i- n t e d | The  manv collectors  of .ar--Uhei- cxhibit-of :J \wish fo-l Je.wi.sh ceremonial art in this pulai" discontent It is James country who have been.vie- Ro.senquit's "F-111," the big-timised by unscrrupuloiis and gest "pop" art painting in
clever forgers presumably take conifort in the thousht that they are not the first collectors to have been duped. To be sure, the fake Jewish, ceremonial objects being. sold here do not involve ver>' large sinris, since their "maniifacturers" seem to be satisfied .with comparatively modest profits.
One of the most widely practised forgeries is turning old church rings, of wich there are many, into "medieval Jewish wed ding rin.2s'„ bv .sub.slituting Jewish svinbols for the cross and other Christian insiania.
the. manufacture of illii-minated .Hebrew manuscripts is another profitable forger\'. The manuscripts are usually; genuine and old. but ;the illustrations ai:e of ^'csterday.: Because of t h e 'viritv and n,reciousness of ii'um-pated Hagadot and Me '•^ilot. forgers, who frequeiitly import   their wares , f^rom
the world.. 85 feet w'de. The "New York'Times" refers to it as a "51-panel extravasanza pn billboard scale, which il-lijstrates products pf bur industrial civilisation ranging from light bulbs and tvres to an atomic explosion cloud; all sunermo.osed on the fuselaee.of an F-lUB jet fighter-bomber". ^ . • Although the: Jt-wish Mu-seuni is part of the Jewish Theological Seminary of A-merica its board and directors have lonti advocated a "non-narochial" policy. As a result, the museurn.is highly .regarded in art circles., but doe.s yen,' I'ttle for nromot-'"n!? .and /nr>d"rsfapdins of Jewish Uf? IhrouTh Jewish neremonial ?rt. Those who Knve sPffn fb^ Ro.senquist "^ex+ravpor-nVa'' on the. se-d floor of the Jewish A<ii<;''MTfi is hinh time
•"or the p^pi'.narv to as.sert ; t cv-1 r ,n n ri rn crp t h e n ol i cy of th'r •.Tc\v'«h MiKjeiim. ;
SERiWN FOR THE WEEK
THE
CHOICE
He who sbyj, Whot it mine is mine and whot is rhine it thine, his is a neutral choroeter: — some say, this is 0 character like that of Sodom.
(Ethics, Chapter V.)
The neutral attitude towards our neighbour is here poised between the pious and wicked approaches of man to his fellow-man.
The pious approach Is that of self-denial, by one who is ready to give everything he possesses to alleviate the distress of others. He is the saint, a rare type of individual. The Chassidim of rabbinic literature were exceptional people who lived a life dedicated to the pursuit pf righteousness even at the expense of self interest.
The wicked approach is the ruthless attitude which despises ethical and moral behaviour, and regards even the most dishonest means of acquiring weolth as excusable in the keen struggle of comnner-eial enterprise.
Here we have two extremes. What of the neutral attitude which nhaintains that it is right for man to say to his neighbour: "You leave me alone and I shall leave you albne^ What is yours is yours artd what is mine is mine"? Two views are expressed about this attitude.
The first declares that this is a neutral attitude suggesting neither virtue nor vice. This man neither benefits nor ha-ms his neighbour. He is the type that does not wish to become involved in another man's affairs. He wishes to live in peace. The rabbi who said that this was a neutral attitude could not moke up his mind about this colourless type of individual.
Another view, however, was also emphatically stated. It declared that the man who shunned commitment as to his neighbour's lot was jike the mentality of Sodom. This rabbi had in nnind the Midrash which told the story of the approach of the men of Sodom to ony stranger who cbmeto live within their terytory They could pretend to welcorrie him warmly but would forbid the sale of food and other neces- ^ sities to hirri so that he either starved or was foi'ced to leave. The Midrash represented them ds having d rich capacity for diploiriatic language but also for callous acts. •
Sodom then stood as the symbol of hypocrisy. , When Isaiah denounced his contemporaries for their pious utterances and their meticulous observance of religious ritual and also for their wicked behaviour in society, he called them"Ye rulers of Sodom." .    We are living in an age when diplomacy is becoming a fine art. The apt word is fast taking the place of the apt deed. Expediency may oust integrity in the affairs of men. It is wrong to regard neutrality as innocuous when moral considerations are in the balance. There must be commitment and involvement when wrongdoing threothens. our ■ neighbour.
Can we reject the cry of the deprived peoples whilst we are surrounded with p'ienty With the reply" "What is thine is thine and what is mine is mine"? This is no mere uncommittied neutrality, but (the worst form of hypocrisy which will inevitably undermine the very fpundatiotSs of civilisation. We must become aW'ted to the cause of righteousness. The worl4 depends upon it.
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