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Page 2 POSTORIAL Texas Jewish Post Thurs., Jan. 9, 1958
POSTORIAL
SPUTNIK AND THE WOMEN
While sputnik dramatized that the world is changing faster
than America is keeping up, the National Council of Jewish
Women is putting its1 whole force behind a fundamental study
program in the belief that human needs in our own back yards
are changing faster than our communities are keeping up with
Studies made by Council Women in the Jewish and genera
communities of 20 cities throughout the country confirm too
clearly for comfort that social and educational services, particu-
larly for the very young and very old, are bursting from their
seams, and that the tremendous growth and shift of the popula-
tion are creating new and unplannrd for problems in every
direction.
The Council intends, through its new Community Leadership
Training Program, to enable its whole membership of 110,000
women to get thorough information about rapidly changing
needs. The program will be launched in 40 “demonstration Sec-
tions” of the NCJW throughout the country, starting in January
with the help of 20 outstanding women who have just been
specially tnadned for this task.
The NCJW started planning the program before anyone ever
healrd of the sputnik, but believes that the U.S. scientific lag
highlighted by the satellite is inextricably related to the quality
of public education, the soundness of community life and the
willingness of the public to face up to both the domestic and
intemationa,! needs of the times. Mrs. Moise S. Cahn of New
Orleans, President of the womens organization, has warned
that if national resources are poured into satellite and rocket
programs, and the country continues to fall behind in commu
nity development, “we will be catching up with the past, not
the future.”
What the Council women will discover in their 240 Commu
nities during the next year-and-a-half should be of intense
interest to the rest of us. In this 64-year old organization trained
volunteers have made a unique and outstanding record of
pioneering Important services in our American Jewish com-
munities—from services to the foreign born to recreational
programs for older people. They are extremely courageous,
as they demonstrated with their freedom campaign, and they
are skilled in unifying the community for needed action.
The women are to be congratulated for having the foresight
and the interest to undertake this ambitious and' carefully
planned new program. It promises to yield important results
for the whole community.
postcolumn
Between You
and Me
. ... by Boris Smolar
(Copyright, 1958, JTA, Inc.)
THE AMERICAN SCENE: Twenty Jewish communities have now
'corppleted studies ’of the movement of Jews from their cities to the
suburbs . . . The picture emerging from these studies is that in the
very near future the Jewish population in the suburbs may become
larger than in the core cities ... In fact, there already are cities
where the core Jewish community is the suburban community . . . .
Cleveland is one of these places, although the divisive geographical
effects are not reflected in Cleveland’s Jewish communal life . . .
Psychological identification with a single Jewish community still re-
mains intact . . . The movement of Jews to the suburbs is spectacular
in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles—particularly to the San Fernando
and San Gabriel Vallies—, Miami, Minneapolis, Buffalo, Paterson,
Toronto’’ and Winnipeg . . . Other communities show a slower move-
ment of Jews to outlying city areas . . . These include Atlanta, Cin-
cinnati, Hartford, Kansas City, San Antonio and San Diegb . . . Not
all the suburban increase is due to the outward movement from the
core city . . . Newcomers also tend to settle in suburbs—as in Los An-
geles, San Francisco, Miami . . . Some cities reported relative depopu-
lation of areas within the older city ... In the Lawndale section of
Chicago, for instance, it is estimated that of the 75,000 Jews who
were in that section in 1930 and 24,300 in 1951 practically rione re-
main today ... In Detrfoit there is a gradual reduction in the Dexter
area . . . Similar reductions are reported from Rochester, Richmond
and Toronto . . . Los Angeles, however, is one community in which
the number of Jewish people living in an older area, on the Westside,
has grown along with the newer suburban areas . . .The reports from
all the 20 cities say that the Jews who move to the suburbs are
usually younger people with young children . . . They are of middle
and upper socio-edonomic status, advancing in their careers, although
many of them have the economic burden of heavily mortgaged homes.
LITERARY NOTES: The New Year marks the 70th anniversary of
the Jewish Publication Society of America . . . There are very few
Jewish institutions in this oTountry that can boast of seventy years of
continued activity . . . Most of the books published by JPS during
its existence are of lasting cultural value to the Jewish home . . . They
are especially important now, when the present generation of Ameri-
can Jewry cannbt get acquainted with Jewish cultural treasures ex-
cept when they are presented in the English language . . . The book
with which the JPS started the new year is “The Exiled and the Re-
deemed”, a volume by Israeli President Itzhak Ben Zvi ... A scholar
of Jewish ethnography, Mr. Ben Zvi collected for years material on
scattered Jewish tribes in remote parts of the world . . . His bbok—
which has also been translated from the Hebrew into French and
Spanish—tells the story of the Crypto-Jews of Persia, the Jewish
tribes of Afghan, the Khasars, the Mountain Jews of the Caucasus, the
Krimchaks, the Karaites, the Samaritans and others ... It is a rare
Continued — See Smolar Page 4
Newsbriefs
LONDON (WNS) A new arms
pact under which the- Soviet Un-
ion is to give at least two and
possibly three submarines to E-
gypt has been reached between
the two countries, according to
press reports here quoting the
Chief of staff of Egypt’s Navy
as having said that Egypt was to
receive new warships soon from a
foreign power.
The Egyptian Navy Chief did
not name the power, but since he
made the statement on his re-
turn from Moscow there can be no
other inference but that he meant
the Soviet Union. In ijact, inform-
ed foreign sources in Cairo indi-
cated that the undersea ships are
on their way to Alexandria, if not
already at that port.
WASHINGTON (WNS) A joint
declaration by the United States,
Great Britain and France that
they would not “permit any modi-
fication of the political status quo
in the Middle East” has been urg-
ed by French Premier Felix Gail-
lard in an interview appearing in
the current issue of U.S. World
News and World Report.
Asked if the proposed tripar-
tite declaration would be invoked
in the event of internal subversion
such as recently took place in Sy-
ria, the French Premier replied
that he believed “that at present
there are only two forms of war-
there is war by internal subver-
sion, and there is the big war of
destruction. There are no others.
To refuse to recognize one of
these forms, that of internal sub-
version, is to leave the field to
our adversary.”
MILWAUKEE (WNS) Sena-
tor William Proxmire has named
Sidney Sayles, prominent Jewish
leader, as a member of his Ad-
visory Committee on Civil Rights
and Civil Service.
Mr Sayles is director of the
the Anti-Defamation League of
Milwaukee Jewish Council and of
the Wisconsin regional office of
B’nai B’rith.
LONDON (JTA) The Afro-As-
ian “People’s Solidarity Confer-
ence” ended in Cairo this week
with an agreement on an anti-
Western stand which included a
strong anti-Israel resolution.
“The conference declares that
the State of Israel is a base of
imperialism which threatens the
progress and security of the Mid-
dle East and condemns its aggres-
sive policy, which is a threat to
world peace,” the resolution said.
The non-governmental confer-
ence of delegates, who asserted
they represent 70 per cent of the
world’s population, ended on the
same note of vitriolic anti-West-
ernism as it began. “Imperialism.”
;ke that of the United States,
Great Britain, France, Hollond
and even Italy, was denounced as
the root of all evil.
NEW YORK (JTA) Year-end
dividend checks totalling about
$400,000 were in the mail this
week to owners of common stock
of the Israel Development Corp.
of New York, an affiliate of
AMPAL, th)e American-Israel
Corp.
Abraham Dickenstein, presi-
dent of the AMPAL, said the
dividend of Vme dollar per share,
was declared on the affiliated
corporation’s earnings from in-
vestments in shipping, citrus, cot-
ton, sugar, fuel refining and dis-
tribution.
Most of the corporation’s as-
sets are invested in oil prospecting
chemicals and plastics, but in
these fields, it was explained,
profitable returns could not be
expected during early develop-
ment stages. AMPAL also an-
nounced that it would pay its 16th
consecutive annual regular divi-
dend early in February.
postcolumn
Capital Spotlight
. ... by Milton Friedman
(Copyright, 1958, Jewish Telegraph Agency,
WASHINGTON—
The National Geographic Society is developing a clearer picture of
Jewish life in Biblical times.
Each year, as archaeologists spade up additional relics from tombs,
temples, and buried cities of the Near East, more is learned about
Jewish history. For spectacular (progress in today’s world, according
to the Geographic Society, “Palestinian archaeology is one of the few
sciences that can challenge the record of nuclear physics.”
In fact, the Bible story of manna being provided ffor the Israelites
is now buttressed by scientific fact. During summer in Sinai, scale
insects secrete white droplets of a sweat and nourishing substance
that seems to appear mysteriously on bushes. This and similar dis-
coveries are being reported in the findings of scientists.
Dr. G. Ernest Wright, a noted scholar of Chicago’s McCormick
Theological Seminary, has revealed how deduction from artifacts and
fragments of history helps corroborate some of the Bible’s most stir-
ring narratives.
“In our time archaeologists have rediscovered the Near East,” said
Dr. Wright. His reports describe how such Biblical sites as Jericho,
Hazor, Tirzah, Shechen, and Gideon are giving up their Old Testa-
ment secrets.
Last summer Dr. Wright directed the Drew University-McCormick
excavations at the remains of the old Canaanite city, Shechem, north
of Jerusalem. This was the largest American expedition to the Holy
Land in 30 years. Its finding may establish a fii'm chr/onology in the
history of a settlement associated with Abraham and Jacob.
But it was at Bethel, under the direction of Dr. William F. Al-
bright of Johns Hopkins University, that Dr. Wright got his first in-
sight into the birth throes of our religious heritage. Information un-
covered at Bethel during the 1930’s, offered a vital clue to a puzzling
phase of Jewish history—the conquests of Joshua.
According to the Bible, Joshua’s next victory after Jericho was at
Ai, a city near Bethel in the hills beyond Jerusalem.
Ai’s remains, however, placed it in the Early Bronze Age (about
3250-2400 B.C.). It would have already been abandoned when the Is-
raelites attacked, as most scholars agree, during the 13th Century B.C.
'Bethel, on the other hand, revealed some provocative facts.
“Stripping away layer after layer of ruins,” said Dr. Wright, “we
encountered evidence of a raging, all-consuming fire . . . Someone
in the 13th Century B.C. had purposefully burned and demolished the
city.”
The excavations showed, moreover, that Bethel was founded about
the time Ai was destroyed. It seemed obvious, concluded Dr. Wright,
that Bethel was the city that Joshua actually did conquer.
“It was only natural,” he said, “that in the oral tradition that un-
derlies the Bible, the scene of the conquest gradually shifted . . . “It
is also significant that in Hebrew the word Ai means ‘the ruin.
Another Biblical question was answered after Bedouin gravedig-
gers uncovered a curious stone statue in eastern Syria. The find led
to French excavations at the spot and the discovery of a major key to
the Old Testament mystery: Who were the patriarchs, the forefath-
ers of the Israelites, and whence did they come?
Under the sands of centuries, workers found the ancient city of
Mari, seat of an empire that had flourished from around 3000 B. C.
until''its conquest by a Babylonian king about 1700 B.C. In the ruins
of a 300-room palace were more than 20,000 cuneiform-inscribed tab-
lets.
Preserved on these were the names of long-vanished north Mesopo-
tamian towns—Nakhur, Til Turakhi, Sarugi, Phaliga. They were
strikingly similar to the names of Abraham’s kinsmen in the Book of
Genesis—Nahor, Terah, Serug, and Peleg. Also prominently men-
tioned was the city of Haran which Genesis treats as the traditional
home of the patriarchs.
From such direct evidence, plus historical accounts, scattered arti-
facts, and scenes and records <on Egyptian tombs and monuments, an
authentic picture emerges of the life of the founding fathers as they
moved south from Haran into Palestine, and eventually (about 1700
B.C.) info Egypt.
Some four centuries later, the descendants of Jacob shook off the
yoke of the Egyptian pharaohs. They fled into Sinai under Moses.
From then on, Modern archaeologists have been able to reconstruct
much of the history of the Exodus, the entry into the Promised Land,
Joshua’s conquests, and the rule of the Hebrew kings, Saul, David, and
Solomon.
One rioted archaeologist, Dr. Nelson Glueck, brought to light an
enterprise of Solomon that is not even mentioned in the Bible. In the
barren valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akaba, Dr.
Glueck found a string of copper mining camps that he dated between
the 10th and 6th Centuries B.C. He fixed its most flourishing period
during and immediately after the time of Solomon.
Dr. Glueck learned about the use of mines’ output a little later,
when he. discovered the site of the Biblical port of Etziongeber. It is
in the area 'of the new Israeli port of Elath, near the head of the Gulf
of Akaba.
Excavators found huge metal refineries of the same period of the
copper mines. So elaborate were the structures and apparent operation
that Dr. Glueck called the site the “Pittsburgh of Palestine.”
Archaeologists lof all faiths and such learned groups as the Nation-
al Geographic Society are fascinated by the emerging discoveries of
the archaeological “break-through” into early Jewish history.
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