Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1954 Page: 4 of 8
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CHALLENGE TO LEADERSHIP
Although the front pages of daily newspapers are being
taken over by reports of the diplomatic defeat suffered by the
United States at Geneva and the tragi-comedy of the Mc-
Carthy hearings in Washington, we must not overlook the
fact that within the last three weeks the Assistant Secretary
of State, Henry A. Byroade, has delivered two major addresses
on United States policy in the Middle East. These addresses
reveal what Philip M. Klufznick has described as the “most
devastating confession of the failure of this policy”.
The reaction of the president of B’nai B’rith was made
clear during the address he delivered in Pittsburg twenty-
four hours after Mr. Byroade’s speech in Philadelphia. In
his analysis Klutznick properly pointed out that one can no
longer deny that the policy of impartial friendship for the
Arab countries and Israel has succeeded only in earning us
the enmity of both. The spirit of defeatism which seems to
p-arvade Mr. Byroade’s statement of policy is especially dis-
heartening. To say that peace in our time is impossible in
the Middle East can be regarded by the Arab leaders only as
an invitation to continue their policy of violence.
Klutznick’s position is that of any American who believes
that our government is sincere in its desire for peace between
Arab and Israeli. The United States cannot ‘afford at this time
to admit that its leadership in the search for peace anywhere
in the world is hopeless. It should recognize the fact that the
struggle in the Middle East is primarily a battle between the
old and the new rather than a struggle over a narrow strip of
coastal land which, together with a desert, constitutes the
State of Israel.
Facts and balanced judgements are important in the de-
termination of any policy. It is regrettable that in arriving at
his fundamental points Mr. Byroade is too often guilty of
errors in fact or over-simplification of facts. Because America
is as strong as the hope which keeps generating in the hearts
of men, it must continue, even against all odds, in an effort
to bring the Arab states to the peace table. Only in that way
can we demonstrate that we are indeed the true friends of all
the states in the Middle East.
Plain Talk
By Alfred Segal
Dallas BBG
By Eunice Harris
DANCE
Sammy’s on Oak Lawn, was
the setting of the Annual
Spring Dinner Dance held by
Reba Wadel chapter on May
9th. The Banquet was open to
chapter members only while
the dance was open to every- (
one. The Best all-around mem-
ber was presented with an
engraved metal disc on a chain.
A secret election was held
during the week before the
meeting to elect the girl who
most deserved the honor and
distinction of best all-rou'nd
member. Beverly Schneider
RABBI LOUIS I. EGELSON,
one of the nation's best-known
rabbis, is recipient of many hon-
ors as he marks the completion
of forty years of association with
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations. Called "the in-
defatigable man” by Dr. Maurice
N. Eisendrath, U.A.H.C. presi-
dent, Rabbi Egelson, the Union’s
administrative secretary, will be
awarded the degree of Doctor
of Divinity at the Cincinnati
Branch of the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion on June 5 and will be
guest of honor at a testimonial
dinner at the Hotel Plaza, New
York, June 19. The dinner will
be tendered by the national
executive board of the Union;
among the speakers will be
Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson, rabbi
emeritus of New York’s Temple
Emanu-El, and Dr. Samuel S.
Hollender, chairman of the
U.A.H.C. executive board.
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BARGAINS
GALORE
was elected. Bev has worked
very hard during the past year
for our chapter and is a very
deserving girl.
Rose Feldman, with the help
of a committee, decorated
Sammy’s walls with gause but-
terflies. Sheila Kaufman ar-
ranged a centerpiece of roses
and dogwood.
Our dance was a terrific
success and drew a large
crowd.
Since our chapter is so small,
we have only one delegate and
no participants to send to Dis-
trict convention in New Or-
leans from June 9-14. Eunice
Harris was elected to represent
Wadel.
If there are any girls who
are interested or think they
may be interested in joining
BBG, please call me, WO-2782.
OUR TOWN
It’s a most fragrant bouquet that has just come to my
desk. A columnist — especially a Jewish one — doesn’t
often get bouquets. Bricks fall on him instead.
For instance, the brick that only day before yesterday
fell on the columnist’s head. He sits at his desk with no other
thought than what a lovely spring day it is. The lilacs are
popping on the lawn and he meditates on how good God is;
so orderly in His ways, never missing even one springtime,
never failing to let lilacs bloom in due season. Yes, it’s
a good world the way God has arranged everything; of only
people wouldn’t mess things up for Him.
Then into these pleasant meditations a letter from a reader
busts in on the columnist. It contains a brick all right, yet
his head doesn’t feel it any too painfully. The columnist’s
head has become innured to brick and he takes ’em all with
the best of humor.
This letter says: “Segal, you pretend to be a Jew and
to teach others how to be Jewish. But what kind of Jew really
are you? My wife told me yesterday that she saw your wife
buying a beef in a grocery store that isn’t exactly kosher. Beef
for you to eat! Who are you, then, to tell other people how to
be Jewish, you who will be eating that beef out of a place
not exactly kosher. I think that for the sake of your own rep-
utation, your wife should buy beef only in kosher butcher
shops. How can you who pretend to teach us all how to be
Jewish, eat that beef with a good conscience?”
Well, yes, I seem to remem-
ber that beef, it was so good.
As I consumed several slices
of it, I had no feeling that
I was in the least not Jewish
its every success, buy Israel
bonds. But, chiefly, I am a Jew
here in my own town, just as
you are in yours. I am writing
u m t T- IT^ this letter not to you alone,
enough. My Judaism snt m * •
beef. It has more to do with
such doctrince at the Ten Com-
mandments. This is not to say
that I meticulously keep all
the Commandments. I make
some awful mistakes, but, any-
way, I do try to live by the
Commandments, and I guess
that’s being Jewish to a full-
ness, even more than taking
the right kind of beef. (Though
I respect the scruples of those
who prefer beef of ritual form.)
Just after that brick, came
the sweet - smelling bouquet
which I started to tell you
about. It was from A.J.C. of
New York who was saying in
his letter, “Segal, you are a
Jew after my own heart, a Jew-
ish columnist who doesn’t con-
tinually write about Jewish life
as if all of it were something
far off from us, as far off, say
as Israel.
but for the eyes of the Ameri-
can Jewish community; that
we may all start coming back
home — to make this Jewish
home here good, to build up
Jewish life here in the image
of Jews who know what Jud-
aism is all about as a good
way by which to live. Yes,
let’s come home to our towns
in America, even while we
keep sentimental eyes on Is-
rael.”
Deeply I breath of the fra-
grance of this bouquet . . .
“Thanks, thanks for this, A.
J.C. It helps after that brick
which, however, did no more
than bounce off my head. You
have caught my meaning, sir.
I feel as you do, that it’s not
to the good of Jewish life here
to put as much emphasis as
we do on Jewish life in distant
places. If there is to be a saving
- I am always feeling let, of Jews for Jewish religion m
down by Jewish writers who, U.S. it Jo jtot he
With Our Rabbis
EMANU-EL SERMON
“AFTER 25 YEARS”
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OPEN MONDAY THRU THURSDxYY — 8 A.M.-6:30 P.M.
OPEN FRIDAY & SATURDAY — 8 A.M.-9 P.M.
Rabbi Levi Olan will preach
on “After Twenty-Five Years
In The Rabbinate” Friday, May
21st, 1954, at 8:15 P.M.
Sabbath Services begin Sat-
urday, May 22nd, 1954 at 11
A.M. and will include the Bar,
Mitzvah of Teddy Carl Stein-
berg.
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“THE TALMUD-WHAT CAN
IT TELL US” AT BETH-EL
Rabbi Milton Rosenbaum
will speak on “The Talmud-
What Can It Tell Us”, this
Friday evening at Services at
Temple Beth-El.
Services begin at 8 P.M.
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Happy BiriJuLr.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Ginsburg,
Waco
Dr. and Mrs. I. Brodsky
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Kaver
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gold-
berg
Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin
S Recant, N. Y.
for the most part, write as if
Judaism were mainly a mat-
ter of the Near East, over the
Atlantic and the Mediterran-
ean; as if there were no Jewish
life Worth mentioning right
here in the USA. Is it good
that our children are brought
up to think of Jewish life as
something far away from their
lives.
“But you, for your part,
write much of Jewish life in
your own town, as you ex-
perience it. Jewish life in your
at home, in our town and your
town; by Jewish religion I
mean the way of the good life
that Judaism teaches.
I wish the best for Israel,
but I am not a citizen there,
and not in Israel will Judaism
be saved for America. I stick
to our town which, as you well
say, sir, is the. image, as far
as Jewish life is concerned, of
all other Jewish towns. Here
is our main job. Let us give to
Israel, but let’s give even more
generously for Jewish life in
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town is exactly in the image of . our town; that is to say, your
Jewish life in my town and j town and my town.
Jewish life in towns all over Only the other day a gentle-
America. Same Jewish troub- man who has been soliciting
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les, same Jewish problems,, pledg,es for Jewish Welfare,
same Jewish loveliness. Isn’t' said to me: “As I was travel
that the Jewish life most of us
would rather hear abouf?
“It is best to know of Jewish
life as it occurs in one’s own
circle. You seem to understand
that Jewish life isn’t to be
made safe in Israel alone; in
fact, by far the larger section
of this life is in the big world
outside Israel. The main prob-
lems of Jews are right here, in
our own towns: What are we
really doing here to hand down
our Jewish inheritance in good
order to our kids? They will
keep on living in the USA and
being Jews here, not in Israel.
“Please, don’t mistake me.
Not that I am one of those
non- or antji-Zionists of the
American Council for Judaism.
ing from door to door, I saw
some kids on tricycles — Jew-
ish kids — and I said to myself
here I am collecting funds
much of, which will go for
relief to far-off places. OK,
OK, I said to myself, that’s all
right with me; our Jewish
hearts shouldn’t know any
boundaries. But I hope the
most of this money I am col-
lecting will be spent for the
Jewish upbringing of kids like
these. Isn’t that the main
thing?”
Well, A.J.C., in conclusion,
I thank you again for the
bouquet and, sure enough, I
must also thank the other gen-
deman who threw the brick.
Bricks faHiny on the head may
^ '^irKs Ta'ung on tne
I wish Israel well, rejoice in be good for the mind
A
JP
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