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Clarifies Fifth Century Work
A reconstruction of a fifth-century work of Biblical commentary in its original Aramaic and Hebrew recently completed by a Tal-mudic scholar in the two-volume Pesikta de Rav Kahana (Chapters of Rabbi Kahana, a third-century rabbi), the result of thirteen years of work by Prof. Bernard Mandelbaum, 40-year-old provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in New York.
Details of the project were outlined by RabbJ Mandelbaum in a news conference at the Seminary, which is the principal institution of Conservative Judaism, says the New York Times. The PeBikta consists of commentaries on passages of the Bible prescribed for reading at festivals in synagogues.
In the early nineteenth century a German Biblical scholar. Yom Tov Lipman Zunz, working from sketchy evidence, reconstructed the Pesikta in imagination. For the last thirteen years. Rabbi Mandelbaum has studied seven manuscripts of the Pesikta � which he had microfilmed � including unidentified documents that he obtained from Oxford University.
Among the microfilms were several from New York University, part of a collection of fragments housed originally in the Leningrad Library and recently photographed by Russian scholars for use by researchers in the U.S. Using these materials, Dr. Mandelbaum largely corroborated the imaginative writings of Rabbi Zunz,- the German scholar.
Rabbi Mandelbaum described the Pesikta as belonging to the body of
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"Ashamed" Of "Racists" Who Brand Germany
Premier David .Ben-Gurion at Tel-Aviv condemned as racist those Israelis who consider present-day ' Germany beyond the pale because of Nazism's crimes. Mr. Ben-Gurion asked rhetorically whether it was forbidden to meet a decent man simply because that man is of the German race, reports Alvin Rosenfeld, in the New York Herald Tribune. Because the Germans committed terrible and unforgettable crimes twenty years ago, Mr. Ben-Gurion asked, "Does this mean present-day Germany must be branded?"
The Premier, answering questions at an Israel Journalist Association luncheon marking the fifteenth anniversary of the United Nation's Palestine partition decision, added that he was "ashamed" of the "odor of racialism" in the attitude of some Israelis on this issue.
Declaring that Israel had to live in the future and not in the past, Mr. Ben-Gurion noted that Israel needed political friendships and defense tools.
Mr. Ben-Gurion was asked about Israel-German diplomatic relations, which do not now exist. He replied that it was up to Bonn and not Jerusalem to make the approach but that, if Bonn did so, he would be in favor of diplomatic links.
National Canadian Bank
Condition as at 30th November, 1962
LIABILITIES
To the Public:
Deposits......,
Miscellaneous.
To the Shareholders:
Capital, Rest Account and unallocated Profits....
$795,788,209 5,615,787 $801,403,996
46,209,795 $847,613,791
ASSETS
Cash Assets.................................. $118,633,893
Canadian and Provincial Government securities (at amortized value) and other securities not
exceeding market value................... $241,657,331
Commercial and other Loans.................... $473,756,964
(estimated loss provided for)
Bank premises and Miscellaneous............... 13,565,603
Oess amounts written off)
$847,613,791
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
Net profits for the year ended 30th November, 1962, after contribution to the Staff Pension Fund, depreciation of bank premises, provision for income taxes ana after making transfers to Inner reserves out of which full provision has been made for bad and doubtful debts and depreciation of investments.... $  3,484,085
Dividends.................................... 2,200.000
Amount carried forward....... ............... $   1,284,085
Balance of Profit and Loss Account, 30th No vera-
her. 1961................................ 925,710
^ $  2,209,795
Transferred to Rest Account.................... 2.000,000
Balance of Profit and Loss Account 30th November, 1962................................ $     209,795
Provision for Income taxes $4,575,000
REST ACCOUNT
Balance asat30& Kovember, 1961............ $ 34,000,000
Transferred from Profit and Lass Account........ 2,000,000
Balance as at 30th November, 1962............ $ 36,000.000
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Public Education A5�,iicies Failed To Prepare U.S. On Desegregation, A.J.C. Told
Saudi    Arabia's . ambassador! urged the UN to indorse and adopt: "the  crusade  against  ZIomem" proclaimed by Tacuara, the antU Jewish Fascist-movement in Argentina.* In words such as the UN. has seldom heard in its 17-year l history, Ahmad Shukairy para* j' doxically charged Nazism and ra>r
for using "Israel as an imperial-ist lever" to gain ends in the Mid-die East at the expense of the Arabs. He had bitter words for the United States for "feeding Israel's defiance through economic assistance and fund-raising campaigns."
"The United States," he advised the American delegates, "should
cism to^ Israel, praised the Soviet   not allow ita citJzens> they
Union for not permitting its Jews to emigrate, criticized the West for helping Israel.
He claimed to speak "with the full credentials from the Arab world," but disgusted Arab diplomats privately spread the word that "Shukairy speaks only for. Shukairy," writes Darius S. Jhah-vala, of the New York Herald Tribune. The anti-Jewish and^ antf-Israel tirade came in a nearly two-hour speech before the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, discussing the perennial question of the million Palestine Arab refugees.
With grimaces and a lot of arm. waving, Mr. Shukairy said: "Zionism, and Israel as its spearhead, is a blend of colonialism and imperialism in their ugliest forms. It is a combination of Fascism and Nazism, in the climax of their cruelties. It is the aggregate expression of racialism and segregation in their ghastly practices. ;U-rael's offenses are more heinouV, than that of South "Africa."
He then denounced the British
Founder Of San Joan Book Museum Willed It $100,000
La Casa del Libro in Old San Juan was bequeathed $100,000 by its founder, the late Dr. Elmer Adler, in what is believed to be the largest gift made to a cultural institution in the history of Puerto Rico. La Casa del Libro is a publicly owned, government sponsored typographical library of rare books and fine printing at 256 Cristo Street, says the New York Times. According to the terms of the bequest, $15,000 was designated for immediate book purchases and the remaining $85,000 will constitute a permanent trust fund from whose income further purchases can be made.
La Casa del Libro, which is seven years old, is supervised by Dr. Ricardo Alegria, executive director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. The director of the rare book museum, David Jackson McWilliams, said:
"We plan to reserve the money from Dr. Adler's bequest for the purchase of books of the sort he always wished to have in the collection of La Casa del Libro but was unable to acquire."
Dr. Adler, one of the world's most noted book collectors and typographical experts, came to Puerto Rico in 1956 at the invitation of Teodoro Moscoso, then administrator of the Puerto Rico Development Administration, to organize the Cristo Street book museum. Dr. Adler lived in a small apart, ment above the library until his death last January. After Dr. Adler's arrival at San Juan, the Cristo Street building was rest-ored as Dt< Adler undertook the development of the collection at a salary of $1 a year.
The terms of his will specified that 80 per cent of his estate was to be given to one or more deserving educations! or cultural institutions at the discretion of two executors, Edward Naamborg Jr_ and John If. Crawford Jr., both of New York. Both men are members of the executive council of the Grotte* Club of New York, a lead-in* erganisation of bibliophiles in the United States, says the New York Times. Dr. Adler was one of live honorary members.
are Jews, to act in concert in any undertaking which could lead to the perpetuation of the exile of a million people."
Mr. Shukairy lent full support to Soviet policy that forbids the emigration of Jews. "It is common knowledge," he added, reports the New York Herald Tribune, "that the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe have outlawed Zionism as a subversive and imperialist movement, and consequently have outlawed Jewish emigration. Such a position is a great service to the cause of peace in the Middle East � and deserves our earnest and sincere gratification."
He then urged, that the Arab refugees should "rise to arms to take not the law, but justice in their hands." He offered a "salute" to Argentina for being the home of neo-Nazi organizations.
Argentine Ambassador Lucio pif/Jm<:fy& Softer, apparently em.
barrassed by Mr. Shukairy's snow of support of the Nazi organizations in his country, which the Argentine government has openly denounced, told the Saudi Arabian diplomat that his "salute" was unwelcome.
An Israeli official, asked to comment, said: "The speech was the usual pattern for Shukairy � distortion of facts, cheap phrases � and not unusual from a so-called representative from a so-called country living under medieval conditions."
Prof. Paul A. Freund, Harvard legal scholar and authority on constitutional law. charged that there had been a "failure of the agencies of public education" to prepare the American nation for racial dese-
Segation. reports the New York erald Tribune. "In this failure to create the necessary sense of shared ideals and purposes, the schools, the press, the newspapers, and not least the bar must bear a heavy share of responsibility," Prof. Freund told 200 members of the national governing council of the American Jewish Congress meeting in Boston, Mass.
In an address, Prof. Freund also made these points:
1) "We cannot expect the courts to do our work for us in the field of civil rights and civil liberties." Because of inherent and important limitations on^he court as vindicators of furtthmental rights, he said, "there arMareas .which must be left to the forces of community sentiment and puwc policy."
For this reason, he added, or-
Janizations such as the American ewish Congress "play a key role in maintaining and fostering an open society."
2) The Supreme Court decided the New York Regents' prayer case correctly, but for the wrong reasons. He said the school prayer
should have been, outlawed as an abridgement of religious liberty rather than as a violation of church-state separation.
3) "Reckless criticism" charging members of the Supreme Court with bad motives and usurpation of power carries the risk of "poisoning the springs" of American political life.
Prominently .mentioned as a possible appointee to the Supreme Court when Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter retired during last year, says the New York Herald Tribune, Prof. Freund is Carl M. Loeb professor at Harvard University and editor-in-chief of a projected seven-volume history of the Supreme Court.
Prof. Freund contrasted public support of court rulings on legislative redisricting with problems in enforcing decisions outlawing racial segregation.
"The redistricting cases have been faced by the courts with the aid of a public opinion that is sympathetic, he said. "In the big cities and in the big city press the public has been educated to recognize the inequities of gross disparity of size."
In the case of desegregation, however, he continued, "We are
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