The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1973 Page: 8 of 28
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to the world than to set apart a
day to eat Hamentashen to
memorialize a victory over this
terrible enemy of society.
The M e g i 11 a h tells
everything we
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Cooperation has been
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Ve-aleh Israel organization and
the Israel aliya department of
the Jewish Agency. These two
groups will offer the plan to the
thousands of applicants who are
interested in immigrating to
Israel.
The new units will be known
as “machbesamatik” — a
take-off of “macabesah” which
means “laundry” in Hebrew.
Each operation will be
completely equipped with the
latest washing machines and
dryers and dry-cleaning
automatic service. The concepts
of the automatic laundry’
franchise is to provide a
ready-made business for each
immigrant family. It is planned
that the revenue from each
operation will provide an income
for each family according to
western Anglo-Saxon standards.
REGISTER NOW FOR B.Y.
SISTERHOOD PASSOVER
WORKSHOP
The Beth Yeshurun
Sisterhood urges you to register
now for the Passover Workshop
on March 20, from 10 a.m. to 12
noon, in the Pulaski-Rauch
Auditorium. Included in the
workshop will be the
demonstration, cooking and
tasting of Pesach food; how to
get your home ready for
Passover, and how to set a
BAYOU CITY ORT
In observance of ORT Day,
the Bayou City Chapter ORT
will host the Oneg Shabbat
following the regular Friday
evening service of Cong. Beth
Am, at Tallowood Baptist
Church, on March 16.
Bayou City Chapter will
present a skit for prospective
members on March 19 at 7:30
p.m., at the Electric Living
Center.
A membership tea is planned
for April. For more information
about this new chapter in the
Memorial Area, call 783-6468.
Religion in the Public
Schools Is Discussed
At AJC Meeting Here
The Houston Chapter,
American Jewish Committee, is
conducting a series of meetings
on educational issues in
Houston. The series will be
devoted to the exploration of
the major issues in our
educational system.
The first of the meetings is
being held this Monday, March
19, at 8 p.m., at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Melville M. May, Jr., 9
Legend Lane. Discussing •
“Religion in the Public Schools”
will be Dr. Niels Nielson,
chairman of the Department of
Religion at Rice University, and
Dr. James Harding, Dean of the
Houston Community College,
with Mrs. Malcolm Sher as
moderator.
The planning committee for
the series of meetings is
composed of Barry Margolis,
Mrs. Melville M. May, Jr., and
Stephen Kaufman.
from the barber, by
shave, as it were.
So a woman is the heroine of
Pictured are Mesdames
Raphael Arbisser, Bennett
Kalmans, George Wagner and
Robert Shapiro who are actively
engaged in the Passover
Workshop.
Purim is a holiday offering
mans lessons to help us upwards
and onwards in life.
T here is an old Jewish saying:
It’s hard to be a Jew. Nothing
proves this better than Purim.
On Purim, you have to make a
sacrifice If you are a good Jew,
whether you like it or not, you
are supposed to drink enough to
be unable to distinguish between
the Good Mordecai and the
wicked Haman That means
quite a bit of drinking Drinking
that quantity, you, of course,
cannot drive a car There is no
telling what you would do after
so much drinking You might by
mistake kiss someone else’s wife
or, by mistake, your own.
The saying goes that on
Purim everyone is drunk except
the drunkard The habitual
dnnker spurns the bottle on that
day. He finds no distinction in
drinking when everyone else is
doing it.
Here is a possible clue for the
solution of the problem of
alcoholism. Alcoholics
Anonymous ought to look into
it. If they could persuade their
members that it is always Purim,
their problems would end.
Some make light of Purim on
specious grounds They say,
what is the joy of Purim
compared to that of fasting a
whole day on Yom Kippur and
what joy can be greater than
when Yom Kippur ends? So you
have a double joy But on Purim,
you must have some
Hamentashen, which spoils your
appetite altogether.
Nevertheless, one of the
greatest of the Jewish sages has
said that when the Messiah
comes and all other holidays
disappear — Purim will remain.
Purim really should be a world
holiday - not alone for Jews. It
celebrates triumph over a
universal problem prejudice.
Prejudice is the common cold
of humanity. Sometimes it just
causes fever and sneezing But it
mav develop into fatal
pneumonia. Jews have been the
special victims of the suffering it
entails. Look beneath any great
social disaster, for instance,
America’s own Civil War — and
at the bottom there is this virus
of prejudice. There arc different
kinds. religious, racial,
economic, geographic, but they
are just different forms of the
same virus.
What could be more helpful
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greatest of all the holidays. Was
Esther a Lib? This is the
question.
The answer, it seems to me, is
in the negative. In the first place,
among Jews, women like in
Israel can be anything they
want, soldiers, Prime Ministers.
But there is another reason why
Esther was not a lib. If she had
been one, she would have taken
the matter up with the Persian
Congress and probably the Jews
would have been lost. But what
us
need to know
about prejudice. Let us briefly
consider the story.
It is in the land of Persia. It
has a king named Ahasuerus.
This is a pretty long name for
anyone in politics. Eisenhower
had a long name but he got by
because people called him Ike.
Only rarely does a fellow with a
name like Rutherford Birchard
Hayes get elected President and
he, it will be recalled, wasn’t
re-elected. However, the Jews in
Persia seemed to be getting along
satisfactorily. One time, a Jew
by the name of Mordecai heard
about a plot against the Persian
King and he reported it and he
was given a special honor. This
shows that the Jews of Persia
were patriotic.
But then comes a sudden
change. The King having
accepted the resignation of his
wife, is looking for another
Queen. He advertises a beauty
contest, the winner of the first
prize to become the new Queen.
Mordecai sees the
announcement in the Persian
Daily News and urges his young
cousin and adopted daughter,
Esther, to enter the contest.
“Look at what happened to
Bess Myerson,” he said. “She
wron a beauty contest and now is
head of the Consumers’ Bureau
and is helping keep prices
down.”
Esther is anxious to keep the
prices down, so she enters the
contest. She wins the first prize.
She is the new Queen.
About the same time, the
King appoints a new prime
minister named Haman.
According to the Midrash, he
was a barber by trade. One day,
Mordecai passes him and does
not tip his hat. A barber does
not like it, when he is not
tipped. Haman decides to
destroy the entire Jewish people.
Here we see the real evil of
prejudice. It blurs the vision so
that the whole group is blamed
for one. Among his own, the
man with prejudice is able to
distinguish between the
individual and the group.
So Haman is going along
successfully with a plan for
destroying the Jews but Esther
intervenes and saves the Jews
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laundries which turn out to be
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' " • • •• ■ it was announced on March 8
that the first chain of franchised
automatic coin-operated
laundries will be set up in Israel.
Each store will be a turn-key
operation which will be owned
by a family of settlers from the
Anglo-Saxon countries. The
announcement was made by
Howard E. Katz, president of
the Israel International
Corporation.
Katz explained that it is
contemplated to open a chain of
she did was to invite the King
and Haman to dinner. That was
a stroke of genius. The vote is
powerful but mightiest of all is
the dinner!
And by the way, do you
know what Washington’s
three-cornered hat is modeled
after the three-cornered
hamentash? Well, so I have heard
some say.
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