BYiday, December 19, 1969
J E W IS H W E S T E R N BULL B TIN
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DR. ARNOLD AGES WRITES:
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^BRING FORTH THE mGUTY MEN: ON VIOLENCE IN THE ! JEWISH CHARACTER ; By HOWAto SINOER JFimk and Tf^ignalls. 255 iip. HOWARD SINGER, a one time
Jun4runnei^ tot the Jewish state ah(i the niah who organized the pr^ign department of. Kpl Zion,
i written an absorbing a;c^^^ jofv psychological factors at play in fthe Middle East cauldron.
From, this highly unusual per-:pective, Singer presents the reader with insights which have not heretofore been mentioned by ^ai^ne.
Tiake his treatment of Levi Eshkol, for example. When the R ujs s i a n; ambassador, Dimitri X^uyakhin came to beaten the : Israeli about al-
leged trboip concentrations on the iSyiHiEUi to tried his
very b^ to persuade the emis«-sary that the story was untrue;
Eshkol went so far as, to invite his Hussiim guest to visit the area in question so that he could determine hiiiiself whether the allegations were true.
-Author Singer suggests that Eshkol was really asking Chuva-khin for a little rachmonis (pity) in the tradition of the ghetto Jew.
"It is an ancieiitdrama,'* writes Singer. "The Jew always asked for rachmonis; he appealed to the other, the goy, on the grounds of their common humanity. But the other always denied their com-
mon humanity and refused rach- | 112,985 Americans- of Japanese
monis. In the old script the Jew always accepted the verdict. The Jews learned to live with the exclusion, the threat, the fine, the warning, the handicap."
ESHKOL, with his balding head, polite manner and patient expression was the ideal Jew. Chuvakhin, the rigid,unsmiling harsh bureaucrat was absolutely perfect as the goy.
'•But now the script ended differently . . .By the end of the week Israel, which had seemed oh the brink of annihilation, suddenly emerged as the strongest power, in the Middle East. Israel no longer had to ask for rachmonis." ^
Singer's main thesis is that after two thousand years the Jews of Israel (and elsewhere) have decided that they will no longer serve as door mats for the goyihi. He traces the new strength of Jews to a re-adaptation of Biblical deeds and teachings and shows that in the days of the Bible the Jews were a highly proud nation which took no offense sitting down.
ONE OF THE BEST features o: his provocative book is an janaly-sis of anti-Israel propaganda es peciaUy with regards to the Arab population of Israel When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor m 1941, it took President Roosevelt only eight weeks to sign an executive order which requirec
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"Most of the Japanese lost everything they had," argues Singer. "They were forced to sell farms, businesses and even personal possessions." It took the Americah goverriment over 20 ^ears even to begin making amends.
Singer uses the Japanese deportation phenomenon to draw some interesting parallels in explaining Israers Arab problems. In America in 1941 one put of every 1,750 Americans was a possible enemy; in Israel every twelfth person is a possible enemy. For America the main Japanese base was 5,000 miles away; for Israel it is within sight. In Ajnerica the possibility of sabotage were minimal; in Israel they are maximal.
Yet despite the lack of real danger the American government acted in a volatile emotional manner; the Israelis acted "in the stoic Anglo-Saxon tradition of icy cahn."
The point here being stressr ed is that the wiestem world exercises an incredibly bold standard when it addresses itself to the Jews. Others may commit flie worst otstrages with impunity. The Jewsj however, af^ not permitted the slightest deviation from some absolute moral standard. ;
: SINGER IS esp^isdly eloquent v/H^' he ifcbrei^ the press for its coverage of the Israel-Arab conflict. "The political correspondent Mten jseemed to miss the point," he writes about his experiences with them in Israel, 'The Arabs ?wiUaI^^ have more resources, more oil,, more land, more vot» in the United Nations, and, consequently more alliesi^The issUe was not whether two and a half million Jews in Israel would survive or not, whether the Arabs would finsh the task that Hitler began."
"The long struggle between the Arabs and Jews," continues Singer, "was not merely a legal issue, or a political one. It cannot even be as one in which rights and wrongs are mixed.
"Whatever is wrong with Israel's case, her people do not deserve to die. Whatever is right with the Arabs, their intention to exterminate the Jews cannot be justified. Once you absorb this fundamental truth, you become weary with even the most brilliant studies of the legal niceties."
B.I. SERVICES ARE SUTED roR WOKEMD
Friday night service at Congregation Beth Israel tonight begins J:15 pjn. with Rabbi Wilfred Solomon and Cantor Murray Nixon officiating assisted by the 3eth Israel Chok under direction of Sol Pelman. Oneg Shab-)at following will be tendered by ^iSxs, M. H. Ginsberg in honor of the Bar-Mitzvah of her grandson, Andrew Stark.
During morning service, to-1 morrow, Andrew Howard, son of and Mrs. Marvin Stark will called to the Torah as a Bar-iilitzvah, 9:15 a.m., with Rabbi Solomon and Cantor Nixon officiating, assisted by . Beth Israel hoir. At conclusion of the service a Kiddush will be tendered by Mr. and Mrs. Stark in honor of their son. Mr. and Mrs. Stark are inviting all participating in he service to join them for the Kiddush. No personal invitations were sent in the city.
The other day a member of the older Jewish community explained the New Breed as a question asked i)y the students to the community. Although not entirely correct, it does open very interesting possibilities. So here, community, is your first question:
WHO'I THE REAL DROPOUT?
A very desperate situation has arisen this year at the campus of the University of British Columbia. The enrollment has increased from 6,000 too many students to 8,000 overstocked. The results are quite obvious. Classes have grown to the size of audiences. The Queenie Playhouse filled to capacity holds 400 people. Some of the courses at U.B.C. have classes upwards of 600 students. Overcrowding is felt everywhere. Seminars are now lectures and discussion groups number into the tens per class. •
The results are interesting and tragic. 3,400 students have dropped out of U.B.C. so far this year and the number will increase after X-mas. That's over ten percent of the student body dropping out of the university. The rest of the students aren't much better off. In a recent survey of students at Hillel house almost 95% knew what they wanted out of the univin'- ; sily and 100% of those said the university could not give that to them.,So there's the question. They say don't demonstrate, don't riot, don't fight. If not that, then what's your answer com-nwmityr I would like to km^
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Saul and His Friend
So it was just one of those days. Those days when not too much is happening anjrwhere, which made Saul's life a lot like the games at Forest Lawn. It all began to happen just as he was passing the Kosher butcher shop. Lord Max the butcher was jUst getting into his Rolls. He was once just Max KasinsI^, the butcher, but with the success of business he adopted his old world title of Lord Kasinski. He had detested Saul ever since the day he called hun Lord of the flies. That is why when he saw Said coming he ran back along the red Carpet hito his butcher shop, grabbed a chicken neck, and threw it xit •SauL Saul ducked the flying chicken neck as it landed at his feet. (Saul was never much of a judge of distance.) Saiiil was incensed (and a little marijuanated too). He picked up the chicken neckband yelled with rage, YEN-» SELLARIA!!! Suddenly, from^ nowhere trumpets souhd-edi lightning flashed, and drmris rolled. "Much too ostentatious," thought Saul, not grabbing the real import of the situation. It was then that he noticed he was wearing a white jump-suit with yelkrw piping down both sides, a red hood and a red and white cape. "I've been drafted," thought Saul as he noticed some funny writing on his chest superimposed on a red leaf. Walking over to the nearest mirror Saul read the words ANADAC NTTPAC. Still wondering what it all meant SaUl did not notice a little girl standing at his feet when he took one step forward and landed on his face. As Saul got up the little girl turned and asked "are you really Captain Canada?" Realizing the tremendoiis repercussions of the question, Saul thought quickly then answered, "Ah, well, um." To which the little girl replied "You are Captain Canada." And yes indeed Saul was Captain Canada"; defender of the meek, protector of the poor, and president of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau fan club Wilton Heights branch. And so the little girl, whose real name is Mary Jane Waslinchuck, became Captain Canada's helper in time of need. Saul cleverly disgiused her name so that her secret identity would remain unknown. He called her Mary-Jana And so the dynamic pair Mary-Jane and Captain Canada was bom. Tune in occasionally as we follow the adventure of Captain Canada aind Mary Jane, his pal.
Some of you may question the results of a chicken neck and the cry of YENSELLARIA not yielding more Jewish results but, you see, it was a very old chicken neck.)
more:
There are t w o possible answers to the letter from DiS' appointed, and without yielding to order of importance they are: that if the majority of students were radical as you claim, then the New Breed would be radical but in fact they are not; also, in the second column we approached the semi-radical "New Community" for a statement or report of some kind and they refused claiming the Jewish Western Bulletin was not their media of expression. If Dis-sappointed wishes to do the radicals I will he happy to print his objective reporting.
Next week we begin a series of articles on "Drugs and the Jewish Yoiith." If there are any questions anyone would
like answered send them to The Bulletin and they'll be answered in print or person-^ ally if you wish. The people writing this series are experts and their opinions are vexy valid in looking at the drug situation. Please respond so that we can help you to un^r-stand.
In weeks to come we will be. looking at different aspects of Jewish Student life. I personally would like students at all levels that have something to say or complain about to caJl
me at 261-9641 anytime and we'll get together. ^The New Breed involves everyone bom in this electronic post-war age and I'd like all of us to get our heads together and groove something solid out of it Can you dig-it!
9 this column is wrtttan by tfi« Jewish students of Vancouver complied antf •ctitMl by Jeffrey Goldbcrs. Any questions, opinions or criticisms should too addressed to The New Breed c/o tha Jewish Western Bulletin . . . see you next week.
