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VOL. 47 NO. 46
NOVEMBER 6,1969 - CHESHVAN 25
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L B. Singer To Speak At Torah Academy Dinner
Famed author- LB. Singer will be the featured speaker during'theNinthArniualScholarshipDinner, accordingtoMrs. Bernard Yenkin and Jerome Sclnttenstein, General Co- Chairmen. Torah Academy's seml^-formal event takes place 6:30 p.ml Sunday November 23 at the Sheraton Columbus.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, gifted writer and lecturer, is in to¬ day's forefiront d Yiddish literature. Several ,d his many novels and volumes of short
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stories have been translated into English. He was recently hmored by the National Aca¬ demy of Arts andLetters,the first authornatusIngEii{^h as Us original medium tobe pcesented that award.
Singer's work is in Yid¬ dish, the expression of "one¬ ness" uniting Jews of all classes and nationalities.To Je wish'masses, Yiddish was, at one time, almost the, sole language of trade, law and political aigumefit, rich in folk lore, anecdote and mo¬ ral sentiment. During the present rebirth of interest in the language, we find it ex¬ tremely expressive and often ~ comicaL And Singer writes "in the idiom" cf his own experiences. ~   •
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' father, a rabbi and scholar,
Jnterpireted Talmudic ' Law
Ben Gurion Says Retura TerrilDries
PARIS (WNS)—Former Is¬ raeli Premier David Ben Gurion said he thought that Israel should return all the occupied territories to th6 Arabs except for East Jeru¬ salem and tbeGoIanHelglds. Mr. Ben Gurion, who stress- ^. he was speaking as a private'/citizen when ih France to address a United Jewish Appeal gathering, B^ that peace was more important than holding on to occupied liand ahd he included the Sharm-el-Sheikh strong- point overlooking the Straits of Tiran as ammg the ter¬ ritory to be returned.
In Ms talk before the UJA. the former premier urged French Jews to emigrate en < masse to Israel. He exhorted them "not to forget actof. sake their heritage of a cIk>- sen people and to fulflll their duty," and said ttie aUyah movement in France "miist still be built uP and con¬ solidated." — Former French President Charles de Gaulle was prais¬ ed by Mr. Ben G^ion for his role as France's leader dur¬ ing World War n and for his help to Israel before tho. Six-cay War, but the former
throi«h his f'Bet Din." The Rabbinical Court interirireted law for the-entire JO wish conununlty - merchants, scholars, proletarians - as an arm of the Polish courts. Isaac.observed his fiither's Bet Din and the serious as well As hilarious problems that besieged the ghetto po¬ pulace. He eventually became Intetested in secular learn¬ ing and writing. Among other works produced during his literary amirentlceshipin Warsaw, he produced a Yid¬ dish version of Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain." Warsaw was alsowherehe wrote his first novel, "Satan in Garay,V about a medieval ¦Jewish village tumedlnto a Gomorrah through false mi¬ nistrations, of the follo\vers of the Sabbatoaii messianic movement.    , ,
Singer came,to America in 1935i Mtlt«Linexfle..6fthe mass murdei' kni other atr tritlohd taking place against his peotde. in Europe. He con¬ tinued to write ih tHe **ma- maloshen," though' his au¬ dience was dwindling. (It is
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said that' when a Yiddish reader (Bos, there is no one bom to replace him.) Even after piibllcaUon inthis coun¬ try of Saul Bellow's cele¬ brated translation of Singer's masterpiece, "Gimple.tbe Fool," Singer continued to write in unmerited obscurity for manyyears,a8the young¬ er brother of the gresit L J. Singer, author of "The Bro¬ thers AshkenazL"
Author Singer has chosen as his topic,"MyPhilos(vh)r as a Jewish Writer." Through his fiction, he at¬ tempts togive us soma tra¬ ditional metaphors fbr mo¬ dem man wrenched from Us anchorage in the Divine. His late works recall what-once- wa?, documentstheloss, and. In the word£of the.Kaddish, ~ "exiolT^Killow,' magnij^ and sancUfr-'-it for ,all'time." -' Completihgthellstaf com¬ mittees woridng ontheScho- larsUp Dinner are: Tickets, Mesdames David Sussman, Hal Tanetibaum, Bernard
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JERUSALEM (WNS) ~ Premier Golda Meir has begun consultations to form a new coalition Government as her Israel Labor Party alignment failed to igrln an absolute majority in national balloting wUch saw Israeli voters liendtptiierig^ in their political ppreference. ^
A'lffojectlbn dt results made by computer witli results ftom armed forces balloting not included indicates that the Labor Paity-Mapam align-    ^ ^ ^
ment. won 58 seats in- the 120rseatKnef3set, afiyes^ dr<9 froih tfas 63 held In ti^ out-going ParlUuneot Atthe same; time, the; right-wing Gahal (Herut-Liberal align¬ ment) iiicreased their mem¬ bersMp tram 22 to 27 seats. A^more extreme right-wing piurty. Free Center, wUdi broke amy from Gahal, lost three seats and now hdds: one.
Hrs. Melr hadifledeedto continue her natioaal unity government and her consul¬ tations are expectedtobe di¬ rected toward tUs hy in¬ cluding tiie parties thatform the presentGovemment.Tlie Labor Party Iud hoped to
riendly^' Gurion's request for a meet¬ ing was declined by Gen. de Gaulle'who asierted he had completdy removed Umself firom public life since here- signed the French Presi¬ dency.
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BASEL (ZINS) — Swiss financial circles, who cpiicKIy called the shot on the recent upgrading of the West Cierman mark, have stated that Israel will most probably devalue its currency by November. They pohit to the critically low level of Israel's gold and foreign currency reserves urtdch; intheirview, makes a devaluation mandatory. At the same timett has be«n noted that Israel eanied a windfall profit dt several tehi3 of millions oif dollars because most of its foreign currency-reserves were held in West German niaiks. ,, BONN, tlTA)--Theright-wingNati6halDemocratic ' Party, overwhelmingly rejected by Wiest German vot¬ ers, in the Sept. 28 electioii, is trying to,erase its neb-Nazi iniajsie.P:u(ty,chainhan Adolf VciiiThadcen said the NPD. woul^ have to malffi it: clear at the next party conference that It is in no way descended firom Hitler's-National Socialist Pariy eitheir Ideologically or in its membersUpw The. NPD will hold its post¬ election conference at Saarbrtiedten Nov, M-16. PARIS (WNS) — Ti» RothscUld Bade andL'Aurore, a French newspaper that has.editorially stipported Israel, ^re attecked 1^ young Arabs aiul Lieft Wing students jsuiiparters of ElFatah, who smashed windows and painted anti-Israel slogans on vfidls.. The 100 demonstrators scattered before police arrived.
TEL AVIV (ZINS) ~ The Mayors of Israel's leacOng urban centers (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haif^ have Issued a caU to all citizens to undertake special security steps in the wake of tte latest terrorist actions in Haifa. An investigation has disclosed that the nuir- derous deeds committed in Haifti, wUch claimed two lives and a large number of wounded, were carried out by IsraeU Arabs. A steady security guard has been organized In a number cf buildings in wUchthe tenants participate vohmtarily on a rotating schedule. Suspects are detained and turned over to the local police.
LOND(»I, (JTA) -.- A Labor Zionist leader charged tills week that huge suips of money are being provided for pro-Arab, anti-Israel proi»ganda in Britain. Sidne^ Goldberg, general secretary ot the JBritish Poale Zion and the Labor Friends ot Israel, said that between $240,000 and $600,000 has been supplied to two pro-Arab Members ot Parliament tor anti-Israel propaganda activities bt^xo.
to rule hy itself; the Align¬ ment group Would .tekve'to depend on the support of the Labor-allied Arab and Druze Party (wUch captured the same four seatsX sometUiig no Government had done be¬ fore; '
Final results are to be annam<^d tMs week by tbe Central Elections Conunit¬ tee. The computer projects Ion showed that the State List teaded by former Pre¬ mier David Ben-pur ion gaihed two seats and now holds three while tte otter parties remained tte same: Agudat Israel, 4; Poalei Agu- dat Israel, 2; Independent Literals, 4; New Comnqm-
seat could not te determin¬ ed tecause ot tte ballots -' not yet counted and tte pror pprfional representation . systeht wMch reioires that an electi(Hi list miist get at least one percent of tte vote toqpOity for Knesset mem^ tersUpi^Two minor groiq^is^ tite Peace List and tte Land of Israel, were approaching thistigure.
A total ot 80.1 percent of Israel's 1.75 ndllfoh regis¬ tered voters cast balloi8.TV~ WhQe tte trend toward tte right was evident, tte mean¬ ing of tte election depends on tte PcUtical views ottte politicians ^(pressing t)|wir (pinion. /
Gahal leader Menatem Beigin declared "ttere Is now a majority'in tte Knes¬ set against tte renewed par-
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gain an absolute majorUy  ist (pro-Moscoi^, Arab)^ 3j. apart from a national unity  Israel Conuikonists, 1; and' 'Government but V> te aide   Haolam Hazeh, 1. Tte 120th
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Frank Tb Head Trades And Professions Div.
Marvin Frank, president of UUversily Shops, Inc., was names^ chairman of the Trades & Professims Division of the 1970 Campaign of the United Jewish Fund and CouncU, according to Sol D. Zell, General Campaign Chairman.
Mr. Frank, who with' Mrs. Frank has been <m several missions to Israel, tes teen a Inig time worker in the annual fund-raising efforts of the UJFC, and for two years served as cp-cteirmanbf tte Trades    ^j ^ Campaign stertly af-
& Professions Division. His co-chairman this year will te Martin Hoffman, wte wlll^ share with'ISih the resplin-' sibility for the largest divi¬ sion in the Campaign.   •
In 1969 tte' Trades & Pro¬ fessions Division, which is cpmprised of 22 sections or¬ ganized aloi^; trade and pro¬ fessional lines, was respon¬ sible for one of its greatest perceiitage and financial in¬ creases, as it covered al- hiost 1500 cards intteCam- paigni tte largest number in any Dlvisian. It is tte hope and iiitraitian of Mr. Frank and Mr. Hoffman, that tUs 'numter and ttese results can te extended and Increased in Oie 1970 effort, so that every maii tn tte city of Coluitites wUi te given an ~ OKwrtiinity to contribute to the 1970 Cannpaign.
'! We will need many, thany workers to do tte Job re¬ quired of us,*' stated Mr. Frank. "We teve already se¬ lected our Section leader¬ ship, and tte response f^om ttese rtien has teen teart- warming and enthusiastic.''' >Vorkers are now teing cho¬ sen, and assignments made, in readiness of tte opening
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ter tte first d the year. I know ttet when tte tesiness and professional men know, tte real story of the needs wUch must te met in tte new Campaign, they will re¬ spond with evengreater con¬ tributions than were made in 1969. Especially will tUs te true, of gifts to the fourth annual Israel Emergency Fund, which will be a part of tte new.Campaign, where gifts must exceed those of last'year, if tiie pei^le of Israel are to te helped. JH Jews continue to leave Eu¬ ropean and Arab countries, where ttey can no longer live in peace and freedom, we, tte Jews of tte firee world, must imovide for ttem trans¬ portation to Israel and to other firee countries; we must see ttet th^ are provided, with temes, jote, and With, training to rebuild tteir shat¬ tered lives in a new country. TMs Isourobligationandour responsibility, as long as Is¬ rael stands tesiegedonevery border by tte Arab foe. I know we will measure up to that responsibility, andlcallupon all leaders, workers and con¬ tributors in tte Trades and Professions pivlsion, to sup¬ port tte 1970 CamfBign to tie tost of ttete5^!?#X/,V A memberCa;^emci,l9-' rael Congre8iaij(on,,-Mr: Frank is also a member ot the Board of Trustees of the United  Jewish  Fu^ and CouncU, and is active bi many other local organizations.
Dr. Haber °
JFS Annual Dinner To Be Nov. 9    .
Jewish Family^Secvice wUl .hold its 61st Annual Dinner Meeting oa Sunday, Nov. 9, 6 p.m., at Beth Jacob Syna¬ gogue. This meeting is open to the total Jewish community and dietary laws wUl te ob¬ served.. Reservations may te secured by phoning 221-6871.
The agency, a teneflciary of tte Uidted Appeal and tte United Jewish Fund and CouncU provides counseling services to all age groups and all segntents of the Je¬ wish community firom infiuits placed for adoption to tte 'aging served in Institutional and hon-histitutional )ieVt-i-- ings.
Robert Shamansky, Ammal Meeting Chairman, wUl in^ troduce tte guest speaker. Dr. WUliam Haber, Advisor to tte Executive Officers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MicMgan. ' Dr. Haber is an economist of international stature, a writer, an educator, and an ooitstandhig Jewish commun- '^McNider, He is president of tiie'^World ORT Union and president of tte American ORT Federation; Chahrman, Academic CouncU, Ameri¬ can Friends of Hebrew Unl-
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