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# # • A MAN AND HIS IDEA
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Sometimes a man gets an idea ... an idea that keeps burning
within him until it is harvested, after years of nurturing, into reality.
Such a man is Paul Lewis, of 7044 Royal Lane, Dallas.
But before this idea became reality the world saw a dismal after-
math of World War I, followed by roaring years of boom and bust,
the fabulous twenties, the dismal thirties and finally World War II
which made Herr Hitler’s name feared the world over.
Paul Lewis saw these years—most at first hand. He saw Hitler
scoffed at in his native Germany more than 40 years ago, and then
he saw his rise to power from jail cell to beer hall putsch. And then
the dispossess of the Hindenburg regime and Germany finally thrown
into the throes of dictatorship.
Paul Lewis left Germany and settled in Dallas, where he became
a builder.
Just building houses and industrial areas was not enough for
Paul. He watched the world go up in flames and with it since the
infamous “Crystal Night” of 1938, prior to World War II, he watched
the Germans systematically concentrate and than eradicate more than
six million Jews of Europe.
Paul Lewis thought about it over long sad periods.
Ah, dear friends, one life is a very precious miracle. Can you
imagine what six millions total?
How many heartaches, what great hopes were turned to ashes!
What brains that might have cured the world’s ills were spread into
lime soaked earthen pits!
And so Paul Lewis thought through the years . . . and he won-
dered what to do about it.
Some time ago the idea crystalized into a plant of action. In Mr.
Lewis’ words, “Why not a memorial to the Jews killed and persecuted
by Hitler from 1939 through 1945. If we don’t have memorials and
more of them, I’m afraid that future generations will forget. German
youth of today is kept in ignorance of the years of horror by teachers
who prefer not to teach this ‘delicate’ subject.”
Well, a few weeks ago, right in time for Chanukah, Mr. Lewis’
memorial was unveiled at Shearith Israel Synagogue. It was executed
by Allied Monomer t Works and has six lamps that will burn per-
petually in honor of the six million dead so that “their tragic and
cruel fate is an eternal blemish upon the conscience of mankind” . . .
and “as long as history remains they shall not be forgotten.”
Mr. Lewis has other Chanukah gifts in the offing. Last week,
as reported in the TJPost, he promised Congregation Beth-Israel a
badly needed new synagogue.
Paul Lewis believes in memorials of this type. When interviewed
by a reporter, he said, “I’m not a millionaire, but I would like to help
promote a memorial in any church or public institution that wants
to erect one.
And, so, a man gets an idea . . . and now six eternal lamps burn
in Shearith Israel honoring six million massacred Jews . . . and,
perhaps it will help the world learn that the only answer is for nations
to beat their swords into ploughs . . .
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IN OUR THIRTEENTH YEAR
VOLUME XIII NO. 52 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1959 16 Pages -2 Sections 15c Per Copy
Southwest Convention
Union Orthodox Cong.
Meets In San Antonio
The First Annual Southwest Re-
gional Convention of the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America is expected to be the
“largest convocation of traditional
Jewry ever assembled in the South-
west,” according to an announce-
ment by Dan Levine of San An-
tonio, chairman of the forthcom-
ing convention to be held at the
Hilton Hotel and Congregation
Rodfei Sholom in the Alamo City.
The union is the national body for
the country’s 3,000 traditional syn-
agogues, which serve over three
million Jews.
Delegates to the three-day re-
gional convention will participate
in an intensive program designed
to strengthen religious observances
and solidify mutual cooperation
among Southwest orthodox Jewish
communities in all areas of Jewish
religious and communal endeavor.
Delegates from Tiferet Israel in
addition to Rabbi Shandalov and
Mr. Esir Tobolowsky, are: Messrs,
and Mmes. Sam Kassed, Marcus
Rosenberg, A. Samuelsohn, and
Mrs. Esir Tobolowsky.
Scheduled to be held are a
series of forums and workshops
dealing with such topics as “Israel
and World Jewry,” “New Goals in
Jewish Education,” “T h e Teen-
agers and the Synagogue,” and
“The Role of Southwestern Lay
Leadership.” Special sessions for
Knesset Approves Coalition
JERUSALEM (WNS)—Premier David Ben Guidon’s five-party
coalition, holding 86 of Knesset’s 120 seats, was approved by Israel’s
parliament by a vote of 78 to 33 after an eight-hour debate which
concluded with a statement of regret by Minister of Finance Levi
Eshkol that more parties had not found fitting to join the coalition.
Immediately after the vote, the members of the Cabinet were
sworn in. Mr. Ben Gurion did not participate in the swearing-in-
ceremony because of a cold.
The new coalition provides the Premier with a working majority
that is expected to give him greater mobility in the new parliament.
In the course of the debate, Foreign Minister Golda Meir told
Knesset that no power can halt Israel from going on with its water
project. She said the country’s right to develop her resources was an
elementary one and one which Israel would execute “with all means
at her disposal.” She also defended the government’s Arab refugee
policies, declaring that “there is only one solution—settlement in the
Arab countries” and that “there is nothing wrong to prevent the so-
lution of the problem except the attitude of the Arab rulers who are
indifferent to the fate of the refugees.”
The Coalition
Presentation of the coalition was made by Mr. Ben Gurion the
day before in a brief appearance before Knesset. He left the floor be-
fore initiation of debate because of a heavy cold he had been nursing
for some days.
Earlier it had been reported that the Premier was planning a
narrow coalition comprised of Mapai, the Progressive Party and the
National Religious Front, commanding a total of 71 of the 120 Knesset
seats. Two of the left-wing parties, Mapam and Achdut Avodah, had
balked at joining the government both on the issue of collective re-
sponsibility and Israel-German relations. The collective responsibility
principle means that a member of the Cabinet who votes against the
government must resign. The eleventh-hour switch by Mapam and
Achdut Avodah was the result of a compromise agreement giving
dissenters wider latitude involving “matters of conscience.” Under
this formula a Cabinet member could abstain from voting on a govern-
ment measure if the issue is one involving the exercise of conscience.
Otherwise a dissenter would be forced to resign.
Key portfolios went to Mapai, major political party with 52 seats
in Knesset. Heading the new Cabinet is David Ben Gurion, Premier
and Defense Minister. His Mapai ministers are: Mrs. Golda Meir,
Foreign Minister; Levi Eshkol, Minister of Finance; Zalman Aranne,
Minister of Education; Pinhas Sapir, Commerce and Industry; Behor
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Shitreet, Police; Dr. Giora Josephthal, Labor; General Moshe Dayan,
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