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Friday, August 3, 1973—THE BULLETIN—11
GOLDA MEIR SPEAKS OUT
Edited by Marie Syrkin. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. $7.
BY T.R. FYVEL
WHEN I WORKED briefly with Golda.Meir in the late 'thirties, when she was on the executive council of the Histadrut, I thought her a very warm and charming lady.
But, truthfully, I did not see in her a future Prime Minister
GOLDA MEIR
[of Israel - no, more than that, someone who was to become an outstanding, massive popular header of her nation and one of Ithe internationally most admired (women of her age.
What is the mysterious quality lof "weight" in a politician which llay behind Golda Meir's steady |rise from, the kibbutz, via the listadrut executive, to becoming *rime Minister of Israel?
This volume of Golda Meir's speeches, intelligently selected ind edited by Professor Marie
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Syrkin, gives hints of an explanation.
Miss Syrkin says that "Mrs. Meir's simplicity of style corresponds to the clarity with which she perceives the essentials of a problem." This clarity says Miss Syrkin, is not a matter of "oversimplification," with which Mrs. Meir's opponents charge her, but derives from her determination never to be deflected from, what seem, to her evident truths.
For Golda Meir, ever since she became a Zionist in America and left for a kibbutz in the Emek, the Zionist concept of the ingathering of the Jewish exiles has been such an evident, simple truth, proved by the events of history she has lived through.
As shown in these speeches, for het the Jews, wherever they may be, are always a people. On this concept she has based her political life, this is her strengdi.
Harder to pin down but ever present is a womanly quality in these speeches. As she confesses in an ealy piece, Golda Meir at the outset found it hard to be a career woman. True, a working mother can give m.uch to her children, she says, but goes on: "One look of reproach from, the little one when the mother goes away and leaves it with a stranger is enough to throw down the whole structure of vindication. That look, that plea to the mother to stay, can be withstood only by an almost superhuman effort of will."
Or there is the joyous, proud womanly note as she tells how young Sabras in the early days helped illegal Jewish immigrants ashore:
"When the catastrophy descended upon the Jews of the world, and Jews began coming to Palestine in 'illegal' ships, we saw these children of ours go down to the sea and at risk to their lives ford the waves to reach the boats and bear these Jews ashore on their shoulders. . . . We have been blessed in this youth, which makes no account of the degree of danger and self-sacrifice."
In  subtle ways, the fact that Israel's Prime Minister in these crucial years has been an outstanding woman has been of prime importance for the country.
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MISS ISRAEL, Limor Sharir (left) after the recent crowning of Miss Universe in Athens. Miss Sharir came fifth in the contest after Miss Philippines (the winner), Miss United States, Miss Norway and Miss Spain.
FOCUS ON INTER-MARRIAGE
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,zations, far better financed and with far greater recognition, seemed to worry about problems that we felt were quite minor compared to this one.
We are glad to see from, recent news announcements that many of these very same organizations now see the danger of intermarriage and have publicly announced programs to combat it.
For reasons that perhaps only a psychiatrist could explain, American Jews have repressed their opposition to interm.arriage and have become passive about it.
A fellow panelist on the David Susskind show - a rabbi who also functions as a psychological counselor to Jewish youth told of interviewing many young Jewish girls and boys either already intermarried or about to be intermarried. In the majority of the cases, he said, the youth never once knew that their parents opposed interm.arriage - until they had either made the move, or announced their intention, to do so.
Why didn't their parents ever tell them about the dangers of intermarriage? Why did not their grandparents impress on their parents the necessity for communicating this vital point? Why did not their rabbis stress the importance   of   not marrying
outside their religion? Why did not their Jewish educators?
The answers to these questions may never fully be obtained.
As long as we understand now that intermarriage threatens the survival of Judaism: that for every one Jew lost through intermarriage, hundreds of his descendants are also lost; that any single defection weakens the group: that in the decades ahead, intermarriage is the most serious problem faced by Jews in America: that to stop it, we need tremendous effort on all levels, participated in by all major Jewish educational organizations - then something has been accomplished.
Awareness of what a particular problem, is, is the first major step in the problem's solution.
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