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$ Texas Jewish Post
WNS—Worldwide News Service
SAF—Seven Arts Features
Dedicated to Truth, Liberty and Justice
THE SOUTHWEST’S LEADING ANGLO-JEWISH WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
UNS—United Nations Service
Volume IX No. 4
IN OUR NINTH YEAR
Thursday, January 27, 1955
DALLAS SECTION
Save A Life
By “BUNNY” MAYERS
Hello Everyone!
Now is the time of year
when we all start planning our
summer vacations, and what'
could be more interesting than
sunny California? This is con-
vention year for the City of
Hope. July 2nd through July
5th is slated for convention
time. You don’t have to be an
official delegate to attend the
convention. All visiting mem-
bers are extended the invita-
tion to attend all the business
and social functions. The con-
vention meets at the famous
Ambassador Hotel in Los An-
geles. The most exciting social
event of the convention is
their banquet and Night of
Stars. At this affair from 15
to 25 famous movie sars at-
tend. How would you like to
be at dinner sitting across
from such stars as Victor Ma-
ture, Ronald Reagan, Caesar
Romero, Jean Peters, or Esth-
er Williams? We frankly don’t
think we would pay much at-
tention to our food.
You also spend a full day
touring the City of Hope.
There you see functioning the
institution you help support.
Just recently, the National
Scientific Council met at the
City of Hope. When these
leaders of medical science re-
turn to their own institutions,
they all felt moved to send let-
ters to the City of Hope at-
testing to their feeling that our
institution is a great medical
center which will lead the na-
tion. They are happy to be able
to work with us toward this
goal. This is not just an ordin-
ary tribute—when three of the
nation’s top medical men ex-
press such thoughts.
We are sorry to say we have
three members on sick call this
week. We want to wish a
speedy recovery to Mrs. H.
Mallett, Mrs. M. Einsohn, and
Mrs. M. Edleman.
Congratulations to the Max
Glazers and I. Wyll’s on mo-
ENG A GEMENT
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Plain Talk
By ALFRED SEGAL
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Mr. and Mrs. Morris Leach, 4001 Centenary Dr., announce
the engagement of their daughter, Clare Rae, to Lt. Rowan
Warren Blatt of Connally Air Force Base, Waco, Sunday.
Miss Leach is a graduate of Highland Park High School and
former student at the University of Texas.
The bridegroom-to-be was graduated from Longview High
School, Kilgore Junior College and UT where he joined Tau
Delta Phi Fraternity. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Blatt,
Longview. A spring wedding is planned.
The engagement was announced at an open house at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Leach.
OF INTERMARRIAGE
I have just been reading in one of the Jewish press about a
parent group in one of our Jewish communities coming out
with a purpose to discourage their teen-age school kids from
mixing socially with their non-Jewish schoolmates. That is to
say, mixing at parties.
(I forgot the name of the city in which Jewish parents have
made this protest; the paper in which the matter is re-
ported has disappeared off my desk. This may suggest that I *
am not the meticulous reporter I have pretended to be all my
adult life. A good reporter should always have the name and
address of his subject at finger-tips.)
Anyway, the fact that Jewish parents are thinking
that seriously and collectively about their kids in such a matt- s
er, suggests the worry concerning intermarriage that goes on
among us. The fear is that if our teen-agers mix freely with
non-Jewish teen-agers, there may be intermarriage and inter-
marriage has become one of the vexing Jewish problems. A
I myself am old enough to remember when intermarriage
was scarce in American Jewish life. When it occured, it was
like some prodigy of nature, such as the sun suddenly stopp-
ing in its timeless course, or, anyway, like papa eloping with
a wicked women. A rare intermarriage was something to make *■
gossip for a long time in any town.
I am thinking of Jewish life Jewish? Maybe it’s betterJhit
ving into new homes. We hope
your new homes are filled
with happiness and good
health.
The Harry Morchowers are
hanging'out diapers. Mazeltov
on the birth of your daughter.
All for now. folks, don’t
forget Save-A-Life meets the
first Monday in February.
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in our own town long ago.
Then the German Jews, as
they were called, were the
social and business leaders.
They had two stately Reform
temples and the Orthodox used
to think of them as being
practically goyim whose Re-
form Judaism could come to
no good. They felt sad for the
Reformers.
Nevertheless, intermarriage
was very seldom among our
Reform Jews in those times,
i except for a flurry of intense
shock when the daughter of
one of the rabbis off and mar-
ried a non-Jew. The Orthodox,
as I have heard, said then that
was what you could expect to
come out of Reform. They
thanked God that their own
children were so well protect-
ed behind the ordinances of
Sinai. They felt sure the Re-
form Jews would be intermar-
rying until they were all as-
similated and only Orthodox
Jews would survive. But that
didn’t happen. Reform boys
and girls kept on marrying
within the Reform circle to
continue their generations in
Reform temples.
But, oh, what changes! To-
day, intermarriages, of which
there has been plenty, has
been occuring mostly in fam-
ilies of Orthodox origin. Some
of our most Orthodox families
have had to take it, though
most of them have rational-
ized to make the best they
could of it.
There was one very Ortho-
dox gentleman who sat shiva,
as if for the dead, when his
daughter married a non-Jew;
though, later, when the grand-
children came, he took the
daughter back to his heart,
though he had mourned her as
one who could no longer be of
his life.
In the main, Orthodox
families who find themselves
we accept her into the family,
so that she may respect Jews. M
Why make an enemy of her,
and, anyway, she is a very
nice girl.”
I know of one family that ^
has its non-Jewish daughter-
in-law for Sabbath dinner ev-
ery Friday evening to partake
of the kiddush and all; though
they were deeply grieved wherrt
that marriage occured. Other
such families manage to feel
comforted by the fact that
the daughter-in-law has been^
converted to Judaism by a Re-
form rabbi. A few of these
girls have become more ac-
tively Jewish than girls born
to Jewish families. V;
(There are very few cases,
though, of Jewish girls marry-
ing non - Jews; it’s our boys
who fall in love in that direct-
ion.) •*
All that brings us back
to the problem that troubles
the Jewish community I ment-
ioned at the beginning of thi^
column: Shouldn’t our teen-
agers in high school be dis--
couraged from attending mix-
ed parties?
In my time of life maybe
shouldn’t be sticking my neck
out to give an answer. I do
so love peace and quiet under
my own vine and fig tree. If £
answered the question one
way, there are those who
would say, That Segal: He's
always writing about ihe
brotherhood of man yet hj«
would separate our children
from mixing in the brother^
hood even when they are
young.
That leaves me speechless,
except to say this: I have
grandchildren, boys and girlsf'
who are going into teen-age.
Doubtless they will have op-
portunity to go mixing social-
ly with kids of other religion^
if they asked me (it’s no use
trying to tell ’em unless you
involved in intermarriage say, are asked, and they don’t ask)
“If we scorn that Qentle girl j j would say: Yes, I think it’s
will it serve to keep our son ! continued to page 7
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