Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1959-12-25

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COLUMBUS EDITION
Vol. 37, No. 53
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1959
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Leadership For '60 UJFC Drive Is Set
(B^ditoni note: This is tbe flnit of two ortlcteg Introducing tbe campaigm leadership for the 1060 UJPC drive.)
Campaign leaderslilp for tlie 1060 United Jewish Fund and Council drive has been announced by Herbert S. Levy, president of the UJFC.
Charles Goldsmith has been designated as campaign chairman for the drive. Goldsmith has been active on the UJFC. He is past trades and professions chairman and past associate chairman of advanced gifts. Goldsmith is a board member of the United Jew. Ish Fund and Council.
HE IS VICE president of the Hart Manufacturing Co. and a board member of the Jewish Center. He is a member of Tem¬ ple Israel, B'nal B'rith and the Jewish War Veterans.
Ralph Rosenthal Is advanced gifts chairman for the 1960 cam¬ paign. He Is a member of the board of the UJFC. In Toledo, Rosenthal worked with the Jewish Welfare Federation, the Jewish Center and was 1958 advanced gifts chairman of the Toledo drive.
He is associated with the Star Furniture Co. and a member of Temple Israel and B'nal B'rith.
BEN A. Yenkin Is trades and profession chairman for the 1960 campaign. He has been active in all phases of the United Jewish Fund and Council. He Is past president of the Jewish Family Service and the HiUel Foundation.
Yenkin is vice-president of the Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corp,, a member of the Agudas A c h 1 m Congregation and Temple Israel. He is also a member of B'nal B'rith.
Mrs. Aaron Zacks and Mrs. Abe I. Yenkin are co-chairmen of the women's division of the 1960 UJFC campaign.
BOTH IaADIES have been ac¬ tive in all phases of the women's division of the UJFC. Mrs. Zacks Is serving as co-chairman of the division for the second year. She Is a member of the board of the UJFC, B'nal B'rith, Hadjassah and many other organl: She is a member of Temple -reth Israel.
Mrs.   Yenkin   is   a  member B'nal B'rith, Hadassah and man; 3ther organizations. She is chair man of the Family Life Education Committee of the Jewish Family Service  and  a  member    of    the board   of  that   organization.   She Is a member of the Agudas Achlm Congregation.
Chanukah Commemorates Judah Maccabeus* Victory
BY IVnLTON FRIEDMAN
(Oopyrlght, 19S9, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON—Chanukah calls to mind the military prowess of Judah Maccabeus' guerrilla army at a time when America, through the novel, "Exodus," is discovering the Jew as a fighting man.
Today the military arts have become hiorojllbly sophisticated. Jews, as nuclear and rocket scientists, take a leading part in the nation's defense. Jewish participation In top-level military science la far out of proportion to the comparatively small number of Jews in the population.
Ben  A.  Yenkin
THE QERMAN scientist, M. J. Sohlelden, In the last century analyzed the Jew as a soldier. "Their valor under the Maccabees, their exploits In the campaign which ended with Titus' destruc¬ tion of Jerusalem, their desperate rebellion under Bar Kochba, and later on, their defense of Naples against Ballsarious, or of the passes of the Pyrenees against the Franks, place the Jew on a par with the greatest heroes known to history."
An exiled and persecuted Jew¬ ish people gloried In the Macca¬ bees and other heroic defenders of the faith. It was only natural that an underprivileged group would Identify vicariously with its strong men.
Arab hostility makes it neces- aarj' for Israel to live as an armed camp today. Jewish teachings are consistent with legitimate self- defense. However, some of the military feats for which our his¬ torians take credit might stand examination.
IT 18 COMMON practice to relate Jewish participation on I both sides in the American Civil War. Jews who served the Union jand the Confederacy are listed I with equal pride. Yet, It is dubious , whether Jewish Confederates were , defending the ideals of Judaism. One finds Gen. Milch, Goer- I Ing's chief of staff, listed among I distinguished    "Jewish"    soldiers.
His name pppeara in an article "The Jew As Soldier, Strategist, Military Adviser." The fact is that the Nazi Milch repudiated his Jewish father to gain honor¬ ary Aryan status from Hitler. Who needs him?
The same article lists another Jewish "hero." He is German Colonel Dusterberg, a leader of the Stahlheim, a veterans group that collaborated with the Nazis.
It is also triumphantly noted that a Jew served Mussolini's fascists with such "outstanding valor under fire" that he was awarded the Gold Medal. He was Bruno Jesi.
THE JEWISH attitude toward military heroism is easy to under¬ stand. The medieval chureh con¬ fined Jews to the ghetto, forbade them from cultivating land or bearing arms. A cruel legend emerged that the Jews were a cowardly and servile people. It is understandable that historians would seek to disprove this myth. As human beings, Jews possess the same capacities' as other in¬ dividuals.
There is no doulat of Jewish military destruction in anoleiit days. Tacitus of Rome recorded Jewish ferocity In battle. Jewish captives were the favored glad¬ iators. Jewish mercenaries served as professional soldiers. Macro- blus, the Roman writer, revealed that many Jews served In Caesar's legions.
MANY JEWS served in Arabic armies during the capture of North Africa and Spain. Indeed, the Moorish Invader, Tarlq Ibn Zeiad, from whom Gibraltar takes Its name, was said to be a Jewish Berber. The 11th Century found Samuel Hanagid, a Jew, serving as defense minister of tbe Mooritlh kingdom of Granada and Malaga. Historians claim that the oppos¬ ing armies of Moslem Seville In¬ clude so many Jews that they mutually agreed not to battle oh Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath.
Ancient Jews emerged from the. Chaldeans, a fighting people. Jews have also been linked with the Spartans as "kinsmen." Jews stood up to such powerful forces aa the Egyptians, Hlttites, Baby¬ lonians, Assyrians, Greeks and Romans. Jewish tactical forma¬ tions were copied by the Romans.
The Hebrew King, Uzziah, be¬ lieved in research and develop¬ ment. His laboratories Invented the first engines of war. This took place 500 years before Philip of Macedon. King Uzziah insti¬ tuted the general staff concept. Integrated campaign strategy, and the use of uniform military equipment.
JOAB'S METHOD of attacking fixed fortifications was imitated much, later when Titus besieged Jerusalem. The Jewish concept was that a good offense makes the best defense. Recent victories of the Israeli army have borne this out —    - ¦
Modem guerrilla warfare has been waged by groups like the Partisans In Yugoslavia and the Fidel Castro movement in Cuba. The basic principles of such cam¬ paigns were anticipated by that guerrilla genius, Judah Macca^ beus, the first commando.
Mrs. Abe I. Yenkin
Mrs. Aaron Zacks
Mapai Coalition Controls Knesset
(Copyright, 1059, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel's Parliament voted into office 78 to 33, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion's new five-party Cabinet and its program. The new coalition controls 86 of the 120 Knesset votes.
The partners in the new coalition are Mapai, Mapam and Achdut Avodah, the Progressives and the National Religious Party. It was made up of the same parties as the coalition Ben-Gurlon pulled down in  his  fight with    Mapam    and
Achdut  Avodah   over   the  Israel arms sale to West Germany.
THE ULTKA-Orthodox Agudas Israel and its labor partner, Poale Agudas Israel, the right-wing Herut and the Communists were the opposition. Those parties Joined with the General Zionists In the futile vote against the new coalition.
Rabbi L. M. Levin, explaining why the Aguda had not Joined the new Government, said that Mapai had rejected two condi¬ tions proposed by Aguda for Join¬ ing the coalition. These were a law banning Christian missionary activities in Israel and a national antl-pig law.,
On behalf of Ben Gurion, home with a cold, Levi Elshkol, the Finance Minister, closed the de¬ bate with an expression of regret that not all the invited parties had responded to the Mapal in Wtation to Join the new coalition.
Columbus Jewish Home For Tlie Aged Campaign Nears Goal Of $650,000
The campaign goal for the new Columbus Jewinh Home for the Aged was Just a final push away after a fund-rEdslng meeting Dec. 15 at the Excelsior Club.
An enthusiastic gathering of approximately 100 civic leaders responded generously to the need for the new home. Their pledges brought the overall total at press time In excess of $530,000. Tbe goal is $650,000.
Ben-Gurion refused to negotiate with the Herut and the Com¬ munists.
THE FIKAT speaker in the de¬ bate was Menachem Belgen, the leader of Herut, who began by assuring the Knesset that his party would be a "constructive" opposition. However, he created a stir by declaring that Herut would introduce a bill soon to abolish military government In Arab- populated  border areas.
Yaacov Hazan, a Mapam depu¬ ty, also created a stir by declar¬ ing that it appeared that a Ma¬ pam vote with the opposition could ensure passage of such a law. This would require that Ma¬ pam resign from the coalition to vote with the opposition, posing the possibility of a fight within the   new   Government.
Three Arab Knesset deputies volcied support during the debate Wrontlnurd nn  paice 4>
AARON ZACKS, chairman, of the campaign committee, was hopeful the drive could be com¬ pleted before the end of the year. "With the magnanimous support this drive has received from the community," he said, "I believe | we should be able to wind up fund-raising before the end of the year. It Is important we do so as quickly as possible so we can turn our attention to detailed planning and construction of the home."
Abe A. Wolman, president of the home and member of the cam¬ paign and building committees: Lazar Brener, administrator of the home; Mark D. Feinknopf, architect and member of the campaign committee, and Rabbi Samuel Rubensteln of Agudas Achlni addressed the meeting, William V. Kahn, vice chairman of the campaign committee, was in charge of the meeting.
WOLMAN REVIEWED events that led to both establishment of the present home at 116 Wood¬ land Ave. and the study of the aged in Columbus on which the need for the new home was based- Problems of the aged were out¬ lined   by   Brener,   who   declared
that though the aged are always referred to as a group, all elderly
people should be treated as  dis-1    BIIENEB   SAID    the   preseii> tlnct  Individuals. home has served 28 residents an
He shattered the false concept average of three years each. The of the aged as rigid people in average age of residents is 83 their thinking who want only the years, Crowded conditions in the security of the "old rocking chair." | home force residents to live two Elderly people, he sild. are re- and three to a room with the lii- sourceful and adaptable and de- evitable, unfortunate mixing of aire activity as much as other people. (Contlnaed od p»ee «)
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The Magic Number
William V. Kahn, third frqm left, vice chair¬ man of the campaign oonunlttee, points to the magic number as total of funds raised for the new Columbus Jewish Home for the Aged soared at the Dec IS meeting at the Excelsior Club. In the background are the lists of remaining me¬
morial opportunities. Looking on left to right are: Jack Besler, Aaron Zacks, chairman of tbe cam- l>aign   committee;   Kahn   and   Abe  A.  Wolroaiit president of the home and member of tbe cam*' paign and building committees.
The Chronicle Extends Best Wishes For A Happy Chanukah