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Page 4 Postorial Texas Jewish Post Thurs., July 2, 1959
POSTORIAL
OR T’S Balance Sheet
The annual review of ORT activities recently released is, as al-
ways, far more than an institutional review of a single overseas
agency. Such is the nature bf ORT’s work in our age of rapid
technological change that, as the report puts it, “industrial educa-
tion, especially for the youth, is closely correlated with community
edonomic survival.” The report amounts almost to a compendium
of economic problems of our overseas communities.
The acheivement of ORT has been recognized by governments in
many parts of the world and by United Nations bodies. But it is in
Israel that ORT has made its greatest mark.
Reviewing the first decade of activities there, the report details
the transformation \of the Israel program from a handful of courses
for demobilized soldiers of the War for Independence, situated in
an abandoned Arab factory in Jaffa, intQ today’s country-wide sys-
tem of trade schools in 22 localities, the largest vocational educa-
tion pik)gram in Israel.
Thanks very largely to ORT, Israel now has the most advanced
trade schools in the Middle East. Lest we regard this as grounds
for complacency* the report calls attentibn to the fact that ORT
had to turn away every third Israeli youth applying for admission
to its schools last year for lack of space.
ORT is proud of the substantial sums it receives outside the U.S.
The report shows that half of last year’s budget was raised overseas,
a sizeable proportion coming from governments which recognize
that ORT training promotes the general economic welfare and the
living standards of the community at large.
It is, however, the American Contribution that makes the rest
possible. The allocation to ORT out of United Jewish Appeal funds,
granted by the JDC, is basic. In this very real sense, ORT is one
of the great overseas rehabilitation instruments of ohr American
community - our own “Point Four” to Jews in other lands.
JULY4TH
Continued From Page 1
the Red Sea splitting its waters
it® work a miracle for the Israe-
lites.
But the Fourth or the Ameri-
can Passover and the Mosaic Pass-
over are celebrated differently.
And it is here, it seems to me,
that)^A.merica can take a leaf
from the Jewish experience. Af-
ter all, we are a very old people,
and have had a lot of experience.
It is plain that the Founding
Fathers regarded the Fourth of
July as an American Passover.
The fact of the matter is that
the Fourth of July is inadequate-
ly celebrated. Back in 1776, there
were a lot of fireworks tio mark
the celebration of the signing of
the Declaration of Independence.
John Adams at first had wel-
comed it, but. there was s(o much
din that he was glad it was over.
Fireworks are hazardous, and
the laws of most states now re-
strain their use. Besides, there i
is a better way. When Jews cele-
brate,, they either eat or fast,
that is, refrain from eating. On
Chanukah, Jews eat latkes; on
Shavifoth, milchiges; on Passover,
Matzoth.
It seems to me that the proper
way to celebrate July 4th should
be by the eating of Matzoth. That
would be in harmony with the
concept fof the Fourth as the
Founding Fathers viewed it. Ame-
ricans should eat Matzoth on the
Fourth, and maybe also have a
Seder. If we had an American
Seder, which recounted the story
of the American Resolution as
j the Passover Seder recalls the
story of the Exodus, then there
would not be so much complaint
in America about the igrtbrance
of history. Spinoza noted in his
Theological Tractatus that the
Jews often incorporated their his-
tory in their liturgy. That way
people learned their history
while praying.
I propose an American Seder
for the Fourth of July. Let there
be four cups of wine for evegy-
(bne. Let the family on July 4th
arrange themselves around the
dining room table, and the young-
est inquire of the father: “Where-
fore is this day distinguished from
all other days?”
It would certainly give Pop a
bfc>ost. In these days, whoever
asks father a question?
Wzmm
in the NEWS
SOPHIE TUCKER, asked why
she always sings “My Yiddishe
Mama” last on her programs:
“I could never, never follow it
with anything funny or drama-
tic. I give it everything I’ve got,
it tears my heart out. I’m a sen-
timentalist tolo, you know.” In
Israel, she just opened the So-
phie Tucker Youth Cencer, six
buildings paid for entirely fry
her.
MAX BORN, 1954 Nobel Prize-
winning physicist and Jewish re-
fugee from Germany, refused to
take part in the military develop-
ments of atomic energy. “I am
glad,” he wrote, “not to have
been involved in research work
which has already been used for
the most terrible mass destruc-
tion in history and threatens hu-
manity with even worse disaster.” |
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