The Canadian Jewish Newi, Friday, December 7, 1962 — Poge 3
ISRAEL'S POSITION
By David Ben Gnrion
The few natural resources in our country are also mainly located in the Negev, in the Dead Sea first and foremost, but' the Negev also has deposits of phosphates, copper, gypsum, flint, natural gas, etc. "Peopling the Negev is the great tast of settlement that has been imposed on us for the next 20 years, and it cannot be accomplished unless we have two things: a great deal of knowledge, and daring and creative pioneering.
Six or seven years ago a great miracle took place in the Negev, yet those who read our newspapers perhaps never even heard of that miracle. They read libellous accusations and trumped up stories of disputes; they are told about burglar-
ies. . embezzlement and so forth.-1 did not read about that miracle in any paper, but I saw it with my own eyes.
Six or seven years ago 30 Jews came to this country from the Jewish ghetto in Morocco, and the y^^were taken to a wilderness where there was not a drop of water, not a tree and not a bush. Within six or seven years that place has developed into a thriving town of 12,000 named Dimona. When I meet the Mayor, he has only one demand: Build another 200 houses for people from the North who want to join us, he says.
But we must build several more Dimonas in the Negev and in the North, and several more agricultural settle-
ments like Eini Geddi, Yot-vata and Ein Yahav.
So these are the three foremost tasks that have been imposed on us in this generation, if by a generation we mean, say, a spanotiiO years:
1. Sectuity, which we cannot have without both ethical and intellectual superiority;
2. A high standard of education for our young generation that will impart to it all the good traits, the knowledge and the nobility of spirit that have come down to us from the best sons of our nation;
3. The settlement of northern Galilee and the Negev.
There is another task which extends beyond the boundaries of the State of Israel. In a way every coun-
ONI YINMIRICA
by HARRY GOLDEN
The History Of The Bagel
The Israeli El Al Airlines will soon publish a history of the ~bagel, ^jrepared by Dr. Frederick L. Fletcher, of Woodland, Calif. Dr. Fletcher is a historian and acknowledged authority on European cooking. Here is a resurrie of Dr. Fletcher's research:
In 1683 the Turks encircled Vienna, but could not take the town. John Sobiesky., King of Poland, having arrived with a strong army, helped defeat the Turks and liberated Vienna. Among the tremendous booty left behind by the fleeing Turks were thousands of sacks of green coffee, believed by the Viennese Council to be camel fodder. A Polish adventurer, who had some knowledge of the Turkish language asked for the umoasted coffee beans as his reward.
He founded the first Vienna coffee house in ''W'hat is now the Domgasse in Vienna. To go with his coffee, he ordered from a Viennese baker what is now known as the kipfel, a half-moon shaped small pastry. Marie Antoinette introduced the kipfel to Paris, where it is known as croissant. When John Sobiesky entered Vienna,
The owner of the coffee house saw another opportunity and ordered from the baker a bread in the shape of a stirrup.
Stirrup, in German is buegel. In middle-high German it was variously spelled: bae-gl, bee-gel, and other variations, depending on various dialectic regions.
After the second partition of Poland, the crowniand Galicia received many Jews from Germany, and the Yiddish they spoke composed mostly of the German of the Nth century, intermingled with words of various languages, including Hebrew words. They pronounced it bye-gel, and since the original, horse-shoe-shaped bread had long since changed its outer form to a closed ring, continued to name it either bae-igl or bye-gel. The bagel was brought to GaMcia by Austrian Jews from Vienna. From GaIiQia.it came to New York.
Lox is a phonetic spelling of the German word LACHS, meaining salmon, specifically Rhine salmon.
There is nothing original — Jewish in either bagel or lox, except affection and understanding. The American "lox" is mostly Alaskan salmon, and German 'lox' from the River Rhine.
the grateful citizens clung to his stirrups.
(COPYRIGHT, THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS & HARRY GOLDEN)
Dateline: NEW YORK
By Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
Jewisli Book
Month
Jewish Book Month began here, and to mark the new Jewish Publication Society translation of the Pentateuch (to be officially launched on January 28,1963) the genera theme of the event has been . entitled "The Bible-Eterna Book."
A first printing of 50,000 copies of '.'The Fjse Books o Mpses" is now. ready and publicity experts are prepar ing for an all-out sales campaign. According to "Publi shers' Weekly," promotion plans call for an mitial distribution of a quarter of million "staffers" xnth dealers imprints and ten thousand copies of a large brochure for the_ trade, clergy and press. Radio and TV scripts are in preparation and there are rumours that a major book club has the new translation under cbh-side^ion.
Raobis and Jewish educators periodically deplore the fact that while American Jewish platforms resound to flowery oratory about "The People of the Book," the Bible is the most neglected book among American Jews. Were it otherwdsei, the Jewish Publication Society would not limit the first printing of the new Pentateuch to 50,000 copies, considering that there are about twenty-thousand libraries and: institutions in the world to which the vplurne-is a "must."
Not iinexpetftedly. Orthodox-groups are vigorously de-nduncihg the new translation. They claim that Dr.
Harry M. Orlinsky and his •staff of co-translators lack the authority both on grounds of piety and traditional scholarship. Rabbi Harry Freedman who devoted rnuch time to the J.P.S. translation, after previously sening on the editorial staffs of the Soncino Bible, Talmud and Midrash Rabba projects has been denounced as a "collaborator" of heretics, and has been adjudged "untrustworthy" by the "truly Orthodox" defenders of the faith.
Why the "Separatist Orthodox" should be so attached to the "Judaised" King James is puzzling." But then, the ways of the ultra-zealous Diefenders of the Faith" are difficult to follow, witness Rabbi Immahnuel Jakobo-vits' recent visit with Cardinal Spellman.
The spiritual leader of Fifth Avenue Synagogue is said to have informed the head of the New York diocese that he and *'his" kin of Orthodox Jews share the Cardinal's views on prayer in the public schools and re-ated matters. Many New York rabbis feel that it is one thing to oppose the Jewish defence organisations in ah intra-Jewish controversy and another matter al-togetheir and not in the authentic Jewish. tradition to denounce the "Noii-Separ-atist Orthodox."
are surgical specialists and the rabbis say, should be admitted to practise under the terms of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the voluntary, non-profit medical insurance scheme. The Chicago Rabbis complain that doctors are increasingly engaged for circumcisions by pjurents who want to save the mohel's fee. If mohalim are "recognised by Blue Cross and Blue iShield for insurzince benefit payments, the birth-will be restored to its r e 1 i gi o u s dignity," the Rabbinical Council of the Windy City
argue.
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Daijan
JSargeons of the CWenant
According to the Chicago labbinical Council, Brith Hila is a surgical operation. Jy the same logic, mohalim
"Hero Sandwiches (triple deckers) have become a fav^-ourite New York lunch repast. Many restaurants name their ^9nt sandwiches after popular figures. On the menu of the Sixth Avenue DelicaTessen,- a "Moshe Dayan—^Jewish Hera—Sandwich" is listed amoiig. Bri-gette Bardot, Danny Kaye, "Red" Buttons, and Perj7 Cpmo triple deckers. With proper respect for Jewish senisitivities, the Moshe sandwich is filled with Nova Scotia Salmon, Lake Stur^ geon, and Cream Cheese. The ultra-Orthodox, to ^6 sure, have long campaigned against Lake Sturgeon, charging that its^fins; and scales are hard to detect with the naked eye. But, then, the ultra-Orthodox in the U.S. are npt distinguished for keenness of vision. "
(Copyright Th« Canadian Jewish News ; : & JCNFS)
try is"unique and does not resemble any other. We want to be like all the other states, peaceful and independent not just politically but economically, whose ^sovereignty is assured and recognized by the whole world. We too want that, but this state does not exist only for the Jews who dwell within its. boundaries — not after the First World War when we were only 56,000 Jews, not at the beginning of the State when we were 650,000, and not today when there are over two million of us. This state exists for the entire Jewish people; and saying the entire Jewish people does not mean that the entire Jewish people will come and settle in this country. I would want that to happen, but the Jewish people does not.
History teaches us that we have almost always had a Diaspora: back in the days of the First Temple there was one in Egypt and Mesopotamia; in those of the Second Temple the diaspora was even greater: before the fall of the Temple there were five million Jews in the Roman Empire outside Judea, more than in Judea itself. The future is not likely to be different; but this does not mean that Israel does not need Diaspora Jewr\' and that Diaspora Jewry-does not need Israel. Israel is almost the only thing that unites all of Diaspora Jewry. But that is not all: Israel stands in need of the Diaspora — its manpower and its moral, political and material support.
Let us take as an exmriple the world's greatest Jewish community, the one in the United States. At the beginning of the 18th century there were only 2,000 Jews there; today there are five and a half million, and it js very unlikety that allv-ot them, or most of them, will come here. But there are Jews there without whom the country could not exist; arid they too need Israel. Not because they are persecuted I or discriminated against. We may hope, though I am .not certain of it, that the Jews of the U.S. will always go on enjoying unrestricted rights, and that anti-Semitism will not rear its head there. All of us want to hope that what happened in Europe will not happen in America, although no one can guarantee it. But there aie young people among Amer-ca's Jews, and many of them are intellectuals, and being intellectuals, like most of the ones in Israel, they feel that higher pay is npt the answer to everj'thing, that material advantages are not the answer to everything. They look, for spiritual and ethical content in their lives; and that is the kind of youth we need. Only in Israel will that yoiith find the spiritual and ethical mieaning-it seeks. The American Jew still lacks an inner feeling of full civic equality. He proclaims night and day that he is an American first and a Jew only afterwards. President Kennedy never declared that he is an American first and an Irishman on} y afterwards. And the American Je\v has a.right to choose to liye in Israel—- if he feels that life in Israel pffers spkitual ad vantages;
We are witnessing a revolution in oiir country, or, to put it ihore mildly, a change, change that is gathering momentum, a change in the land and the people. Our immigrants-are undergping^' change that is econoriiic, social and cultural, and we stand in need of the mtel-lectual arid ethical resources of which we are short and of which there is a wealth in prosperous countries like the U.S., Canada, England/South America and Western Europe. T h ere is also a \yealth pf them in Algeria, but those are now streaming to France. We may hope that they will come here too,- and we must find path to the hearts,'of the educate.di youth- in the prosperous countries.
(COPYRIGHT, DAVAR*
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