The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1961 Page: 2 of 10
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With Our Rabbis
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CHRISTMAS
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SEALS
1961
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Synagogue Services
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COMGREGATION ADATH ISRAEL
3815 Live Oak
Friday and Daily Services, sundown and
7:00 a.m.
Sabbath morning, 9 o’clock.
Sunday morning, 7:30 o’clock.
HOUSTON CONGREGATION
FOB REFORM JUDAISM
Sabbath Worship Service every Friday
evening, 8:00 p.m., Chapel of St. John the
Divine Church, River Oaks Blvd. at West-
heimer.
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A Journal Devoted to the Interest of Southwesi Jewry
D. H. WHITE. Editor and Publisher
Continuous Publication Since 1908
CONGREGATION BRITH SHALOM
4810 Bellaire Blvd.
Friday, Dec. 22, 8:15 p.m. Oneg Shab-
bat honoring Rabbi and Mrs. Moshe Ca-
hana.
Saturday, 7 a.m.; Jr. Choir, 9:15; Jr.
Congregation, 10:00; Confirmation Class,
11:15.
GUEST EDITORIAL
By SAUL E. WHITE
Rabbi, Cong. Beth Sholom, San Francisco, Calif.
COMGREGATION ADATH EMETH
4221 S. Braeswood
Friday, Dec. 22, 5:15 p.m. N.C.S.Y. Re-
gional Convention.
Saturday, 9 a.m.; Jr. Cong, and Youth
Service, 10 a.m.; Adult and Youth Study
. Groups, 4:00 p.m.; Mincha, Sholosh Seu-
dos, 5 p.m. (
Sunday, 9 a.m., Men’s Club Breakfast;
Daily, 7 a.m. and 5:15 p.m.
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FRENCH JEWS TO RECEIVE
WAR CLAIMS UNDER FRANCO-
GERMAN AGREEMENT
Washington (JTA) — Thou-
sands of French Jews who sur-
vived the Nazi period will be
among the beneficiaries of a
French-German agreement to
pay war claims to French citi-
zens on a more liberal basis
than before, it was reported
here.
According to the report,
France will pay such claims to
French citizens who were living
in France when a recently pro-
mulgated French-West German
treaty took effect rather than
restricting such claims only to
those who were citizens at the
time of loss. Claimants will be
indemnified from a 400,000,-
000 mark ($100,000,000) fund
provided in the agreement be-
tween the two countries.
The agreement makes France
the eighth nation to provide war
damage payments for present
citizens as well as those who
were citizens at the time of loss.
The others are Britain, Switzer-
man spirit, responding to God’s land, Belgium, Hungary, Po-
love in the daily experiences of land, Czechoslovakia and ugo-
life. People raised with Juda- slavia. The United States policy
ism may not be conscious of still restricts payments to those
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION
3847 Turnberry Circle
Daily—7 a.m., 5:15 p.m.
Friday—5 p.m.
Saturday, 9 a.m.
10:30, Jr. Congregation Services-Lunch-
eon; 3:45 p.m., Rabbi’s Chumash-Rashi
Class; 4:45 p.m. Mincha, Sholosh Seudes
and Maariv.
By Rabbi Louis A. Josephson
The story is told about a
farm boy whose father had
given him a colt. The boy grew
fond of his gift and gave him
the best of care. As the animal
grew, his young owner led him
about with a rope. One day
(neither boy nor animal knew
just when) the boy put a bit in
the colt’s mouth. Later he put
a blanket on his back. Still later
he rested a saddle upon the
blanket, and finally there came
the day when the proud owner
slipped into that saddle and
rode the horse for the first time.
Now there was another colt
on this same farm, who was al-
lowed to run wild. No one pat-
ted him or groomed him or
treated him with tenderness.
This colt also grew to full
stature. One day he was roped
and forced into a stall where
strong men managed to strap a
saddle on his back and placed a
bit between his teeth. The ani-
mal buckled until he was worn
out. Then an expert horseman
mounted him, the bars of the
stall were let down, and the
weary horse came forth, broken
to the saddle.
The story of these two colts
tells us much about how we
human beings come to accept
our religion. Some think that
religion is a matter of crisis.
It comes to us only as some
great event in our life, when a
heavy burden is placed upon us,
and we submit to God only
when our other resources fail.
How well we remember that
day! Its events are fixed firm-
ly in our mind. We are like the
wild horse suddenly saddled.
But the normal way to Juda-
ism is through the gentle teach-
ing of parents, teachers and
rabbis. It is through the im-
perceptible growth of the hu-
—-
their own religious nature. Oft-
en they will say “I am not reli-
gious” for they have no recol-
lection of any great religious
experience of their life. They
do not even recognize the role
of their deep and sure faith
when a crisis arises, for the
crisis itself is accepted with
such grace and confidence that
its harshness is moderated.
Judaism is not a religion of
evangelists, seeking by a single
powerful message to bring peo-
ple to God. It is a way of life,
springing from both synagog
and home, in which holiness
and righteousness, love and re-
verence are so natural and basic
that we may not be aware of
their very real and potent ex-
istence.
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tive director.
“We feel certain that thou-
sands of good citizens need only
to be informed that it’s not too
late, that this vital and essential
cause is facing the New Year
still critically short of its goal,
and that—if you have not help-
ed already — your contribution
is seriously needed, and will be
warmly appreciated now.”
Campaign leaders empha-
sized that—although $3 or so is
a popular-sized Christmas Seal
contribution—each donor is in-
vited to give the amount of his
choice.
Contributions may be mailed
to Christmas Seal Fund, P. O.
Box 2193, Houston.
Bar Hanina, a Palestinian
Jewish scholar who lived in
Bethlehem in the Fourth Cen-
tury C.E., was a teacher of the
church father, Jerome, and was
of assistance to him in the lat-
ter’s Latin translation of the Old
Testament. Jerome would study
with Bar Hanina at night so as
not to publicize his association
with a Jew.
CONGREGATIOM BETH YESHURUN
3501 Southmore
Friday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m. College Stu-
dents’ Sabbath Sermon. Rabbi Wm. S.
Malev’s sermon: “Shall We Emphasize the
Differences Between Judaism and Chris-
tianity?”
Daily services, 7 a.m. and 5:15 p.m.
Early Sabbath Eve services, 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, 8 a.m., Orthodox Service;
10:15 a.m., Conservative Service; 3:30
p.m., Talmud; 4:30 p.m., Rashi, 5:00
p.m., Mincha, Seudah Shlisheet, Maariv.
CONGREGATION EMANU EL
1500 Sunset
Friday, Dec. 22, 8:15 p.m. College
Homecoming Sabbath and Reception.
Saturday morning services, 11 o’clock.
JEWISH HOME FOB THE AGED
Saturday morning service at 9 o’clock.
The public is welcome.
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL
3517 Austin
Friday, Dec. 22, 8:15 p.m. Dr. Hyman
J. Schachtel will speak on: “Teaching Tour
Child About God.”
Saturday, Dec. 23, 11 a.m. Rabbi Ste-
phen S. Goldrich's sermonette: "Of Life
and Death.”
IT IS THE REAL THING!
We have been increasingly concerned by reports of a rising
tide of repressive and discriminatory practices against the Jews
of the Soviet Union. We were loathe to brand it as anti-semitism.
Various explanations have been offered as to why a govern-
ment which in its basic ideology condemns anti-Semitism and in
its early years made its practice a crime against the State—should
in the days of Stalin and now Khrushchev—traffic with it and
at times openly support it.
It has been suggested that when Mrs. Golda Mier, the first
Ambassador of Israel to the Soviet Union—attended High Holiday
services at the Moscow Synagogue, thousands of Jews gathered
to get a glimpse of her and manifested a keen interest in the
State of Israel. Soviet leaders who in their doctrinate approach
towards their national and religious minorities, believed that the
revolutionary time table called for the liquidations of Jewish group
life through complete assimilation, were rudely awakened to the
fact that Jews were not behaving according to the Marx-Lenin
doctrine and continued to harbor feelings of sympathy and interest
for fellow Jews and especially Israel.
In vain were the liquidation of Jewish schools, seminaries,
newspapers—the exile and murder of hundreds of Jewish journal-
ists ,poets, novelists, historians—Jews still were concerned with
the perpetuation of some group existence both in the Soviet Union
and the world at large. In the various trials that took place during
the last days of Stalin, Jewish leaders were first accused of the
crime of cosmopolitanism and finally Jewish doctors of a con-
spiracy to destroy the State—by killing its leaders. The “Doctors
Plot” should have served as a clue to the fact that Stalin and the
leaders of the Soviet Union were embracing on a program of
classical anti-Semitism.
Khrushchev, who embarked on new methods towards socialism,
disassociated himself from so much of that brutality and evil of
the Stalin regime, but he remained loyal to the Communist doc-
trine that Jews as a cultural or religious group in the Soviet Union
must disappear.
We were permitted a glimpse as to what happened to hundreds
of Jewish intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain—they were liqui-
dated. To all requests from the outside world that Jews be per-
mitted some cultural life of their own, the answer was given that
they do not wish for a literature, a theatre, newspapers or school
since they have become completely Russianized. That this was
not true was dramatically manifested in the recent census, con-
ducted by the government, when 500,000 Jews went on record
as using Yiddish as their language at home.
A minor concession was recently granted permitting the ap-
pearance of a Yiddish monthly but limited in circulation, and
mostly for export. The latest reports of the arrest and conviction
of Jewish leaders from Leningrad, Georgia and other commu-
nities on the charge of currency manipulation and in the manner
it was reported, forces us to conclude that the Soviet leaders are
using all the clap-trap of vicious anti-Semitism to discredit and
demoralize its Jewish citizenry. Anti-Semitism has always thriven
on a mystique—that Jews harbor a conspiracy to destroy the
Christian world and society at large, and do so by manipulating
the sinews of government, the press, the currency, the arts, etc.
The reports from the Soviet Union indicate the use of all of the
weird symbols of classical anti-Semitism. A Jewish leader, 52
years old, accused of currency manipulation hints that he cannot
write his name to the statement of indictment because it is a
special day for him (the Sabbath). The money he was to send out
from the country7 is discovered in a Torah book, or a Talmud.
There you have it—hair-raising stuff—spine tingling frightful-
ness.
I say nonsense. It is inconceivable that a Jew in the Soviet
Union forty odd years after the Communist revolution, and faced
with the death penalty should make an issue of writing his name
on the Sabbath. In a country where Hebrew books are almost
extinct he should conveniently hide his crime in a Torah or
Talmud. Besides, how relevant is all this to the so-called crime
of currency smuggling. But if the government wants to embrace
anti-Semitism as a policy, the Sabbath and the Torah are neces-
sary ingredients, in any indictment of wrong doing by a Jew.
Anti-Semitism in its classical, ugly, destructive and murderous
form has made its appearance in Russia and with the blessing
of its government leaders. It is the real thing!
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