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Insists Jewish Education Must B'e Based on Aliyah Report on 0 I Jewish Historical R. I. Assn. 130 sessions st. providence, R.I. 02906 Support Read .By Jewish More Than Agencies 35,000 With Your People Membership THE ONLY ENG LI SH-J EW /SH W EE KLY IN R. I. AN D SOUTHEAST MASS . VOLUME LVII, NUMBER 51 20¢ PER COPY Sapir At World Jewish Congress M·ethodist Clergyman Urges US Insists Jewish Education To Leave The United Notions PHILADELPHIA: A widely­ kill Israel, they have in fact killed Must B'e Based On Aliyah known Methodist clergyman and the United Nations." JERUSALEM: Unless Jewish devote a set period of service for teacher, who has served on Dr. Littell then asks, "Why 'youth throughout the world are the Jewish people. "Is , it nol numerous co.mmittees of the should the United Nations, which given "a Jewish-Zionist education" conceivable that Jewish young National Council 'of Churches and so shamelessly betrays the terms of w i t h e m p h a s i s o n • • t h e people from California might serve the World Council of Churches, its own charter, which so grossly revolutionary act of aliya" diaspora six months leading a youth group has urged that the United Statef imitates a lynch mob rather than a Jewry is doomed to "self- in Maalot or teaching arithmetic in lea~e the United Nations. rational and responsible assembly." liquidation" through assimilation, a Jewish school in Bagota?" he Dr. Franklin H. Littel, professor Hee notes that the governments, Pinhas Sapir, chairman of the declared. of. religion at Temple University, _which set up the assult on Israel, Jewish Agency and World Zionist Mordechai Bar-On, director of who admits he had strongly . "voted to welcome Yasir Arafat Organization Executives, told the the WZO's youth ·department, ;aid supported the UN since its into their club publicly, as they Sixth Plenary Assembly of the that a central place most be found founding, says that he has reached have been financing and arming World Jewish Congress. '"Jewish for Israel in the lives of young Jews "the painful conviction that the him secretly for years, because his education based on a di.aspera all over the world and that their UN Assembly now resembles a is the political style they ideology is simply no longer ultimate identificaiion with Israel thoughtless mob and no longer understand, and he would run their possible," Sapir declared. must be a Ii ya_ Dr. pa u I conducts its affairs as a reasoned or kind of government. He said that "anybody who still Warszawski, of Argentina, TO SPEAK: Rabbi Jacob Neusner, rational body." The public action was taken now believes that it is possible to assistant director for the alienation professor of · religious studies al Dr. Littell expresses his views in because they feel certain. that by strengthen the Jewish identity of of Jewish youth from the Jewish Brown University since 1968, will an editorial in the current issue of using oil as a weapon and by acting the younger generation without its community is the "extremely high speak ol the Temple, Emanu-EI In­ CCI Notebook, a newsletter while America is badly damaged _ stitute of Jewish Studies Lecture internally they can strangle or mute stressing the revoluti,nary act of degree of intolerance toward new, Series on Sunday,· March 2, al 8 published by Christians Concerned aliya, lives in a very dangerous or merely different ideas by the for Israel, an organization of some any protest. p.m. His subject will be "Jewish '"Unless the present course of illusion." H_e said the greatest Jewish communal establishment Education: Aspirin? Penicillin?''~ 7,000 members in the Unitei! problem facing the continuation of which has set very narrow limits for States, Europe, Canada, South appeasement is rapidly reversed, Jewish existence is education in the dissent." Robbi Heusner was graduated Africa and Australia. Dr. Littell is . there is a logical time for the diaspora. He said it was essential to from Harvard College, magna C!,lm president of the organization. United States to terminate its establish without delay , a 'POTENTIAL TINDERBOX' laude, in 1953. He continued his membership in the United Nations: studies al Oxford University in ·"The recent diplomatic assault July 4, 1976," Dr. Littell said. · movement for Jewish education WASHINGTON: The United on Israel in the United Nations and England in 1953 lo 1954; the Dr. Littell's editorial concludes, that embraces all the organizations States "may be facing a situation Jewish Theological Seminary from UNESCO," the ,editorial reads, "As American citizens we are of the Jewish people. where the Middle East is the 1954 to 1957, and . the Hebrew "reminds us of how few engaged in the painful process of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, potential tinderbox that the University in Jerusalem in•1957 lo governments, there are in the world purging the republic's high offices president of the American Jewish Balkans actually were in 1914," 1958. He was ordained rabbi at that have any concept whatever of of those who sought to betray it Congress, urged the W JC to take Defense Secretary James R . the Jewish Theological Seminary, the dignity and integrity and liberty the lead in formulating programs Schlesinger told the.-Senate- Armed and received his Ph.D. from Co­ from within. Why should we lumbio University in 1960. of the human person, or any idea apologize for standing firmly for aimed at universal free Jewish Services Committee. Testifying on that governments are finally Israel, the only -pluralistic and education for Jewish youths in the Administration's. $92.8 billion He has written many textbooks answerable to the informed will of multi-party state that practices · diaspora countries. He noted that defense budget for fiscal 1976, as well as scholarly volumes in the the governea." republican principles and respects " Jewish education is becoming Schlesinger said further reductions field of Jewish history and · Dr. Littell notes that '"The Judaism. He is the author of a human values in the Middle East? more and more expensive and in American armed forces would Communist bloc and the Arab five volume "History of the Jews "Why should we delay dealing therefore, increasingly not -advance arms control and League bloc and their fellow inaccessible." Rabbi Hertzberg also detente. He said the U.S. had been in Babylonia;" a three volume his­ vigorously with those tyrannies that tory of "The Rabbinic Tradiiions travelers among the new nations are not only mo,unting a fifth attack called for the establishment of a surprised by the ability of the put together an overwhelming vote about the Pharisees before 70;" a on Israel but are also trying to cut Peace Corps type of system Soviet Union to increase its naval two volume work on "Eliezer ben to make a small gang of terrorists off the energy lifeline of our own whereby Jewish youths would forces in the 1973 Middle East war. Hyrcanus," and various a~ticles (12,000 members at high tide) the people?" both in the area of his scholarly spokesmen for some 2,100,000 Dr. Littell,- an internationally PURIM SERVICES field and concerning contemporary Palestinian Arabs." Jewish problems. known scholar and chairman of the CONGREGATION presented by the Youth Choir will "The most cruel aspect of the International Scholars Conference SHAARE ·zEDEK­ be at 6:45 p.m. action was betraying some 375,000 on the Church Struggle and the SONS OF ABRAHAM The evening service and the Smallest Number Of loyal Arab citizens of Israel to the _Holocaust, and is a former Providence reading of the Meqillah will begin · lowest elements of a romantic president of Iowa Wesleyan The Megillah will be read at at 7 p.m. Russian Immigrants myth: the Arab nation .. thinking to College. Congregation Shaare Zedek-Sons ... Work In Agriculture of Abraham on Monday, February TEMPLE BETH DAVID­ Report On 0.cto_ber War 24, at 7 p.m. ANSHEI KOVNO KFAR SILVER: According to The Book of Esther will be re­ Providence - Israel's Ministry of Immigrant read on Tuesday morning, Febru­ Purim services at Temple Beth Absorption, Russian immigrants Leaves Dayan 'Relieved' ary 25, at 6:30 a.m. David-Anshei Kovno will hold comprise the smallest proportion of TEL A VIV: Moshe Dayan, the opponents. A collation will be he ld in the their servi ces on Monday, Febru­ new immigrants working in ' former Defense Minister, was The former Defense Minister, vestry immediately following the ary 24 at 6 p.m. when the Megil­ agriculture. After one year in the reported to be "relieved" by the who was a hero for his leadership read_i ng of the ;gjllah. lah will be read. Children are in­ / !'f country only I% of the total findings of an inquiry into Israel's in the wars of 1956 and 1967, came vited to attend. number of Russian newcomers lack of preparedness for the Arab under sharp criticism after the 1973 CONGREGATIO N Services on Purim morning, work in this field, compared with attack in October, 1973. He had war. SONS OF JACOB Tuesday, February 25, will start at 13% from the Western countries said repeatedly that he was staking Mr. Dayan made no mention of Providence 6 a.m. Cantor Charles Ross will and 20% to 25% from Latin his political future on the the report but a close associate said At Congregation Sons of Jacob officiate. America. Nevertheless, there are conclusions of the commission. Mr. Dayan had known he could Maariv services on Monday, Feb­ ... signs that the young generation of The co·mmission, headed by not expect praise from the ruary 24. will start at 6:30 p.m.
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