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Dr. Steiner Hebrew of the country, and al­ will lecture on "The World of together different in str-ucture, Agnon" for the Bureau of Jewish word order and vocabulary from Ulpa~ Foundationl 8 Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations Education of. ·Greater Providence classical Hebrew, added Pro­ this winter. fessor Steiner, whose first lecture Buys South Side Unite, To 'Escalate' Anti-Israel Raids Although Agnon's Hebrew is at 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 1, . {._ basically Mishnaic and that of the at Temple Emanu-El, will be an Center Building - CAIRO - Eight Palestinian strength, arms or future strate­ Haggada, a Hebrew chat began its introduction to modern Hebrew gy, but he said: "We believe only Ulpan Foundation, a non-profit organizations announced on Sat­ development irr the second century prose. Many people don't know urday that they had formed joint in our guns, and through our guns before our era, he deals with mod­ community service organization, what modern Hebrew literature command to direct guerrilla oper­ we are going to establish an inde­ ern problems. is, where it begins, or what its has bought the Jewl~ Community pendent Palestine." ' He shuns modern expressions Center's South Side building at 45 ations against the Israel authori­ main trends and ideas are, he ties. The news conference, the first even to the extent of refusing to said. At this first lecture he will Hamilton Street, it was announced this week by Sidney Meyer, JCC Making the announcement at a to be held here by Palestinian _ use the Hebrew words for auto­ give out a bibliography of Agnon news conference here, a spokes­ com rnando organizations, follow­ mobile, ash tray and eyeglasses works. translated into English, president • Jarvis Jones, vice-principalof man for the organizations said ed three days of closed meetings (he uses something like "the which will be considered in the six by the representatives. WW Roger WUUams Junior High guerrilla raids would be "esca­ lectures. lated'' but would not be directed The gatherings were part of Agnon does not come through School, ls chairman of Ulpan. The the ferment that has been'_going other Qfficers of the foundation against Israeli civillans. well in his translations, as he is The spokesman, a Palestinian on among militant Palestinians too intrinsically Jewish and too are Dr. Ray L. Heffner, vice­ chairman; Robert L. Thomas, heart surgeon, Dr. Isam Sartawi, since last month, when Ahmed idiomatic, Dr. Steiner said in re­ --said the organizations, inclyding Shukairy was forced to resign as . sponse to a comment on the old­ treasurer; Frank Tabela, as­ head of the best-known Palestin­ sistant treasurer; LeonardRumP­ the Syrian-backed El Falah (Con­ fashioned translations often avail­ quest), seek the "liquidation of ian group, the Palestine Libera­ able. Unless a reader is well­ ler, secretary, and Patrick J. tion Organization. The group is O'Reagan, assistant secretary. the Zionist state" and would re­ versed in Jewish sources - the ject any attempts al a peaceful recognized by Arab governments Bible, the Mishnah, medieval The building will be Jeased to a . as representing all the Arabs of non-profit organization which settlement of the Middle East literature - there will be many problem. Palestine, most. of whom have allusions and references which he would pay a nominal rent, wm .., For "purposes of military ex­ fled their homeland, which ii5 now will not understand, besides the take over the costs of or-: i- ation, pediency," he asserted, Palestin­ largely under Israeli control. language difficulties and the sym­ and wl:11 serve the educational and Palestinian leaders, like the social needs that ex~ t in the ian commandos would henceforth bolism. be divided into three corps, El leaders of the Arab governments, Qr. Steiner, who lectured about community. It may also be used have been left perplexed and em­ as a job training and adult edu­ Asifah (Storm) El Saiqa (Light­ Agnon and Nelly Sachs, a few ning) and Khaled Ibn Wald, after a bittered by the Arabs, swift mlll­ months ago in Seekonk to a Ha- cation center. tary defeat last June and the dip­ By agreement with the founda­ famous Arab commander of me­ dieval times. lomatic stalemate that has fol­ , tion, the center'sSouthSideGolden lowed. Mr. Shukairy's downfall - .~: .s) ~~WW5,.. ~J;;;;,:;:::r,=~~~J;;;u;:lWW~ Age Club programs will be con:.. Addressing reporters in a (\ \ ~ shabby Caiyo apartment, Dr. Sar­ followed widespread criticism of '-~\ !'>. When Agnon wasawarded the Irving and Bertha Newman Literary tinued, with more than 200 persons .. tawi gave ·no details as to corps his failure to unify Arab com man­ Prize of the New l'o'rk University Institute of Hebrew Studies in 1963, meeting weekly at .the building. do activity and to get individual he gave o short Hebrew address entitled, "The 22 Letters." He spoke of commando groups such as the the 22 lette~s of the sacred Hebrew language and of their original use eight that met here this week to only for holy matters. He mentioned the way in whth it became per• Sermon On Better Jewish Relations support the Palestine Liberation missible to write down other things than those contained in the Holy l Organization, which ·has the back­ Scriptures: "As life in Diaspora continued, and troubles and sufferings ing of the Egyptian Government. -l multiplied, and hearts grew weary with the hardships of persecutions, Heard By Brooklyn Diocese Catholics The liberation group did not and redemption of Israel was postponed from generation to generation mittee, the BrooklynChanceryOf­ take part in last week's meetings, and from decree to decree, . and all vision had -ceased - certain sages flce issues each year a list of at which, Dr. Sartawi contended, arose who wanted to give strength to the exile-weary, and wrote good suggested sermon topics with ap­ the majority of milltant Palestin­ words of consolation to give spiritual sustenance, stamina, and comfort pended suggestions. ians were represented. The meet­ to the people, lest they yield to despair." He said that this was the first ings were called by El Fatah, Then he spoke of how each writer is given a certain number of letters time the subject of Christian­ which has generally 11:ad the repu­ to use, and of how the clever writer takes thought with each letter, and Jewish relations had appeared on tation of being the toughest of the others waste all the letters given them on vanities and on follies. He the list and expressed the hope it commando organizations. added: would be an annual occurrence. "I too was fated to be a writer. I am one of ,the people of Israel and Jews are not to be presented ASKED TOCONVERT a true son of those Jews who have always tried to do everything with as "rejected or accused by q<)d" LONDON - Svetlana Stalin's full devotion. And so I accepted my fate, and I do what has been de­ for their involvement in the Bibli­ first two husbands were Jews creed' for me. I have been given just so many le'tters with which to cal recounting of the C rucifixlon of and at one time she wanted to write. Jesus, and Catholics and Jews convert to Judaism, according to "I should not want to indulge in self-praise to the extent 'of saying should increase their mutual the ' 'Jewish VanguarcP' of Lon­ that I have dealt strictly with each and every letter that was given me. knowledge and respect for one don. The Moscow Rabbi, Rabbi I too in critical days have wasted some letters of the sacred tongue by another, "a knowledge and respect Schleifer, whom Svetlana ap­ using them in unnecessary ways. But ... this I can say, and even re­ issuing mainly from Biblical and proached on this matter, became peat before the Judgment Seat on high, I have tried very, very hard to theological studies as well as so petrified that he even refused preserve the heritage of the Lord from destruction." · Jewish Peace Federation· Concerned With· Conscientious Objetlors ;"a i""t ff 'ff""'~ ~ ~- . By CELIA ·zucKERBERG prov i s i on w a s made for "One of its most urgent tasks "While (the issues in the conscientious objectors to do was to establish the right of Jews Vietnam war) are terribly alternative service rather than to be recqgnized as conscienUous complex, it is highly immor_al for fight in the armed forces. For the objectors. To them it attempted our country to become the claim of conscientious objection to relate the whole Jewish re­ predominant factor in a war to be recognized it had to be ligious community, since only on involving the slaughter of tens of based on religious training and religious grounds could - and thousands of innocent bystanders belief.
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