TAMUZ-AV, 5732 /JUNE, 1972 VOLUME VIII, NUMBER 6 THE FIFTY CENTS

TISHA B'AV TEARS

Weep for the Destruction

Weep for the Redemption

The Orthodox as a Social Activist • Jewish Graphic Art -A Review Article • Second Looks / , ! ;er .. THE JEWISH QBSERVER

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WE CAN No LONGER REMAIN SILENT, Shlomo Wolbe 3 THE ORTHODOX JEW AS A SOCIAL ACTIVIST, Y aakov Landynski ...... 5

WHEN THE PENNY VANISHES FROM THE PURSE, A vrolunn C'hailn Feuer ...... 9 THE WALL, a poem by Moshe Sokol ...... 13 TISHA B'Av TEARS, adapted from an essay by Horav Eliyahu Eliezer Dess/er '?''lT ...... 14 JEWISH GRAPHIC ART: A REVIEW ARTICLE ...... 16 A WORLD AT Twn.IGHT (Lionel S. Reiss) Tun y FILMUS-Selected Drawings POLISH : A Pictorial Record hy Roman Vishniac THE HASIDIM: Lubavitch-Chabad (a film) OF A TIME GONE BY, Chaninah Katz ...... 18

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··w·.· . E CAN NO LONGER REMAIN SILENT in face OI The State continues to depei1d upon immigration for •. . . the wholesale. de-Judaizing of the Georgian population growth, and the religious element is the immigrants. Member Shlomo Lo­ principal source for such immigration. Aliya and ab­ rlncz's motion of no-confidence (see Jewish Observer sorption, then, must be based on two principles: March '72) dramatically called attention to this shame­ Religious immigrants-yes; but under no circumstances ful activity, and while as a result Agudath Israel reaped may the nation's majority be religious: This in sum­ angry rebuttals from all side, including the Prime mary is the ideological imperative for the de-Judaizing Minister, the anger in no way refuted Rabbi Lorincz's of the approximately l l/z million Jews who have charges. Indeed, the government machinery is still ef­ already come, and of those that are yet to come. ficiently carrying out its strategy: bringing immigrants Thus the rough treatment of the Georgian imnii- .. under the sole direction of appointees of the Ministry grants, of the children of Youth Aliya from observant of Absorption and scattering them across the country­ homes, of all religious immigrants, is not simply the side without regard for their individual needs-all ac­ caprice of a handful of calloused, irreligious o:fficials­ cording to the old rule of divide et impera-and then as a naive observer might assume. For is confusing the situation by issuing angry denials. .·the very foundation of the State and it is a goal unto This is what had happened to the immigrants from itself. The spiritual fathers of and the State are Morocco and Yemen, to Yaldei Teheran, and to the Gordon, Mapu, Smolenskin, and Brenner. They called children of the Youth Aliya. These painful facts are for the severence of the People from and all known. Rather than review them once more, ]et us emunah; they were consumed by blind hatred for instead pinpoint the ideology behind this policy. Even halacha and rabbinical authority, and they trampled without an exact statistic on the number of children these sacred principles to the ground. At first glance the Youth Aliya had brought, and how many families it might seem that secular Zionism opposed this immigrated to this country, one can say without a ideol-Ogy ... but never did modern-day Zionists disas­ doubt that no less than one-and-a-half million souls sociate themselves from the calumny with which these came-mostly from Arab Lands. Nearly all the en)igrcs free thinkers besmeared us. The poison they injected from the Islamic countries had been raised in homes into the veins of their disciples is still bubbling in the where keeping Torah and Mitzvos was taken for blood of those shaping the State today. They saw the granted. very purpose of the State as the fashioning of a new .· type of Israelite disassociated from emunah in the .. .. If these 1lh mi11ion had not suffered systematic written and oral Torah. In a State with such an aim, brainwashing when they immigrated, they would have there is no place for a population majority that lives remained true to Torah and Mitzvos and an over­ in accordance with halacha-and its purpose would whelming majority of the country would still be main­ ordain the de-Judaizing of immigrants. · taining that loyalty today. Even if subsequently the government would have succeeded in coercing the It would be of great value to educate our immigrants to join secular parties, the majority of youth as to the spiritual roots of the State, and while I observant Jews would have endowed the State with would never advocate bringing Zionist literature­ a religious character- and this the State is not prepared which is blatantly atheistic- into our schools, we have or willing to accept. before us a Jiving text-book in the series of scandals, beginning with Youth AJiyah through the current Georgian episode. By studying this, our yeshiva stu­ This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in tire dents would begin to understand the decisive conflict JEWISH TRJ8UNE. now involving Torah-loyal Jewry.

The Jewish Observer / June, 1972 A Day of Reckoning problem will worsen as the influx of observant Jews from the affluent countries grows. N A FEW LINES we have summarized the principle lying behind the absorption policies of the State. We thus have before us an aliya of Torah-loyal I It should be added that not only is this principle technicians on the one hand, and an aliya of simple but anti-religious, it is also immoral. Those responsible­ precious brethren from Soviet Georgia on the other from the Minister to the lowest official-should realize hand-and with what shall we greet them? The in­ that this is the kind of transgression that Heavenly evitable answer is: we must found another five cities justice does not forgive. like , another ten settlements like Komemiyus and Yesodos, and build Orthodox industry which would In our ]"orah it i.<;J written: "He that steals a nian employ observant technicians and laborers. and sells him shall be put to death." He who turns a The land is wide, the Negev is large and there is man over to a secular settlement both steals him and room for planning and investment. There are among sells him. us honest businessmen of vision, energy, and deter­ Our teachers and Sages say further, "He that causes mination-people with unblemished integrity. Let them one to sin is worse than one who kills him" ( Bamidbar join us and establish an Orthodox office of industry Rabbah 25: I), and he who subverts Jews, ordinary and construction. And let us concentrate our resources Jews, and influences them to desecrate the Shabbos. -within the country and beyond--on this plan. The and to \veaken in their prayers, their customs and the difficulties that we will face will not be few, but with upbringing of their children-he is worse than their the help of the L-rd of the Land, we shall surmount murderer. Our hearts are consumed with inexpressible them. anguish for each and every one of our brethren who has been estranged from our Torah by cunning and A Constructive Program might-not to speak of the attempts at the wholesale E HAVE WITNESSED amazing success in every estrange1nent of complete tribes. W Orthodox building effort-beginning with the Let them also take note: we know that the arrival blessed project of the late Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Moshiach is not far off. On that day, all who arc ?"lT, who was the first to build a complete shikun, to guilty of such subversion will attempt to deny their Sanz and Mattersdorf in , and above all in actions, for they themselves will not understand how the establishment of greater Bnei Brak. they dared commit such terrible crimes. Concerning It is now our duty to plan building programs around them, Yishayahu prophesied a most inglorious end: industrial plants owned by observant Jews. (And "And they shall go out and see the carcasses of the should one question why I do not write "around great men who acted deliberately against Me, for their worm Yeshivos," for they must certainly occupy a central will not die and their fire will not go out. " position, the painful answer is that there is no pos­ sibility of founding new senior . They would be Eloquent Action denied official recognition needed for draft exemption for their students, in accordance with a relatively un­ E HAVE EXHAUSTED parliamentary possibilities publicized administrative freeze on the number of and achieved next to nothing. What now­ Talmudic student exemptions.) W T'lectings and Demonstrations? This would Parliamentary debates and motions of no-confidence hardly meet the demands of the hour.-Provide edu­ will not change the face of things. True, there can cation for children of Georgian immigrants and estab­ be no respite from the parliamentary work of our lish shuls? This is indeed very urgent and it must be spokesmen, but this is only secondary to the construc­ done. But it still falls short of the task of the moment, tive effort that is our prime duty. Only practical results and we must think on a much grander scale. will speak, and to this end we must devote our An aliya of even greater size can be expected. and strength. this will undoubtedly inclnde observant Jews who will Thousands of Georgian Jews will be coming. Let us not succumb to brainwashing or be spiritually an­ reach a level of development whereby we can offer nihilated by dispersal. In greater numbers, Torah true them housing in our shikunim and employment in our immigrants are arriving from affluent countries. They own plants. The path is neither short nor easy. Neither will remain true to their ideology-but many will have tomorrow nor the day after will such shikunim be difficulties in finding work commensurate with their ready to absorb our brethren. But let us at least begin qualifications as engineers and technicians, for they today, for according to the rate we build, so will we are not prepared to work on Shabbos and many posi­ save hundreds and thousands from spiritual oblivion. tions in industry are closed to them. (See "Out of We must act in keeping with the urgency of the matter Bounds for Sabbath Observers"-Hatzafeh, 26 Shevat or we shall be obliged to bring an eglah arufah (the 5732, for the shocking evidence of religious scientists sacrificial calf that atones for not sheltering the way­ and other professionals and technicians who failed to farer who was slain) for the blood that is spilled find employment in keeping with their expertise.) This through our lack of action. May Hashem help us! D

4 The Jewish Observer / June, 1972 Y aakov Landynski The Orthodox Jew as a Social Activist

a ghctto~mentality, of being afraid of our own political ls the Orthodox Jew destined to be a and social shadows. The Torah Ethic silent witness to current political and social IN RESPONDING TO THIS CHARGE, I niight begin by upheavals, or should he assume an active saying that one thing is certain: our lack of activism is not a smokescreen with which to hide a lack of role? Several years ago, Dr. Leo Levi pre­ concern or lack of position. For we believe that the sented his views on this problem in these Torah ethic addresses itself to all our problems, not · merely to "strictly religious," or ceremonial matters. pages. Dr. Landynski offers a somewhat To the Torah-imbued Jew there is no more of a different approach, based on a presentation separation between religion and justice than there is . between Torah Shebiksav and Torah Shebe'al Peh-the he delivered at a symposium at the Agudath · Written Law and the Oral Law. The Commandments ·Israel's 49th Annual Convention in Novem­ Love your neighbor as your self and So your brother ber, 1971. ··may live with you have come to be regarded even among the other nations as the most ethical guides in existence for governing the relations of man ~with his fellow man. The reason, Commentaries tell us, why IN RECENT YEARS, the American Orthodox Jewish the precepts which define personal conduct are spelled .Community has become the object of severe criticism out in the Torah-even those which, like the prohibi- not only by Reform, Conservative and secular Jewish .. tions against murder and robbery, might readily be elements, but even by the exponents of so-called Mod­ ded.uced by reason, and are in fact followed by civilized ern Orthodoxy, for allegedly having an underdeveloped · nat10ns the world over-is to demonstrate the achdus social conscience. ~un~ty) of Torah: that precepts relating to social We are told that we suffer from a narrow vision of Justice are also manfestations of Divine Will rind must Jewish social responsibility, that we stand apart from be obeyed as such, not merely because our self-interest the issues that are critical to society's political and ..·requires it. moral interests. We are castigated for attempting to Actually, our critics know the charge that traditional .function in a vacuum, obsessed only with our own has no position on moral injustice is a false parochial concerns and avoiding meaningful relation­ ?ne. This is evident from the way in which the charge ships with the larger social environment. Jn so acting JS often framed, as they seek to remind us that the (or more correctly, neglecting to act), we are said Torah, the Prophets and the of former times to fail not only on broader, moral grounds but on all spoke out against human wickedness and the in- practical grounds as well; for an encompassing social . ju~tices ~o1!1mitted by man against man, citing appro­ .· mvolvement might provide a point of contact with . pnate B1bhcal verses and Talmudic passages. And in the tens of thousands of misguided and alienated Jewish .·so doing, they attempt to usurp for themselves the youth, some of whom have gone so far as to champion, role of true followers and spiritual heirs, no less, of our ancestral luminaries. an~ eve~ operate as fund-raisers for such profoundly anti-Jewish groups as El Fatah and the Black Panthers. When the critics accuse Orthodox Jewry of having In joining Jewish campus youth in a common effort to no position on inequality and injustice, they tend to achieve social justice, it is argued, we can convince confuse commitment and concern on the one hand !hem of the relevance of Torah values to the burning ·•· with strident polemic and footslogging on the other'. issues of the day, and of its compassion and commit­ Oft-times it seems that in reality we are being accused ment; while by our abstention we fail not only Jewish DR. YAAKOV LANDYNSKI, a professor of Political Science, is a youth, but jn our obligations to America. We are, in member of. the f!raduate faculty of the New Schoof for Social Resea,rch, m N ew York City, He is a m11sn)(lch of the Mirrer short, accused of possessing a golus-psychology and Yes!uva.

The Jewi.vh Observer/ June, 1972 5 not so much of being indifferent to injustice, as of general goals of this group may be, the means adopted being indifferent, and even antagonistic, to current for implementing them might move in idiosyncratic and styles of political behavior and the lust for militant even harmful directions. The ground rules are made action. The thoughtful citizen who prefers his opinion by others, and the individual dances to their tune. to be registered in the polling place rather than on the Equality of opportunity, for example, is a principle to streets or at boisterous public rallies, can scarcely be which Jews of all persuasions readily subscribe, yet impugned for having neglected his political and social some of the means currently employed for achieving responsibilities. this end must be viewed by us with a profound sense of concern. The quota system, that ancient instrument Criteria for Involvement of genteel anti-Semitistn, is now, in the name of equality, LET ME NOW TURN to the question whether Orthodox being revived for the filling of positions in government Jews should become more actively involved than they and university. have been in social causes. This is too broad an issue 3. Related to the question of "whether" are the to be disposed of with a categorical "yes" or "no." I questions of "when" and "how." It is wise to recognize can offer no fixed guidelines, and limitations of space that the term "go/us-mentality," far from being the do not allow for extended treatment of specific social epithet which our critics think they are hurling at us, causes. We deal with a complex situation in which a is more accurately translated as a rule of prudent potential for both good and harm are often inter­ action. It recognizes precisely what our detractors say mingled. But I should like to offer a few criteria which we refuse to recognize: that we don't live in a vacuum, might be helpful to individuals pondering their own that ideas as well as actions have consequences, and future course: that we are responsible for the consequences of our 1. Means and ends must be in unqualified har­ actions, not only to the Jewish community in this mony with halachic principles. The halacha must be country, but to the Jewish world community. Even our gyroscope and beacon. We cannot accept the less than others can Jews afford the luxury of an notion. advanced even in Modern Orthodox circles, inflated political rhetoric and distortion of reality, that each Jew is his own halachic teacher, the inner which seeks to condense the complexities of life into call of conscience being his sufficient guide. Halacha simple formulas. Only fools with both feet firmly requires not only intellectual subtlety and profundity planted in the air give exaggerated vent to their emo­ but. above all else, elemental faith and commitment tions without the strongest concern for the possible to Yiddishkeit. wider consequences of their actions. The inevitable We simply cannot ignore the perils of the kinds feeling of self-satisfaction is no substitute for prudence of activism that have developed which are contrary and responsibility. To say this is not to manifest a to the ethics of Torah. Sexual freedom has come to "go/us-mentality," as our depreciators use the term, be regarded by many as a higher morality (rather but to draw attention to a fact of life. So where there than a resurrection of the old immorality) and has is formal involvement, it must be accompanied by tact now assumed the status of a leading social cause. and concern and a strong sensibility for the integrity Abortion, which in the absence of compelling circum­ of Jewish interests. stances (i.e. when it is necessary in order to save It is, moreover, our critical duty to refrain from the the mother's life) we consider to be akin to murder, types of activities which tend to undermine the stability has even been granted the status of a constitutional of the social order upon which, in the final analysis, right by some federal judges. We can all recall that the integrity of Jewish interests also depends. A promi­ unbelievable photograph on the front page of the nent spokesman for Modern Orthodoxy has taken us New York Times some two years ago, of a Jewish to task for not advocating a right to disobey "unjust" state legislator in tears after having voted for pro­ laws. However, we would do well to heed the admoni­ abortion legislation in New York state in response to tions "Ve be'shlom ha'ir-seek for the welfare pleas from his children. And so we see veneration of of the muncipality" and "Hevey mispalel bi'shlomo shel children by parents, rather than vice versa, as children malchus-Pray for the welfare of the state." It is in become the pacemakers and trendsetters of the family our interest to advocate obedience, not disobedience, and by extension, of society. Intellectual guile and to law. We should seek within the democratic process craft, when they are not subordinated to the ethical such changes in the law as seen desirable, but must principles of Torah, can be bent to justify almost any not condemn in irrational ter1ns the "system" which position as moral. has granted more liberty and equality to more people 2. The political and social unit is the group. The than any other in this world. individual can accomplish very little in the realm of Jn this connection, it is worth observing that Rambam political and social action except insofar as he allies states in Hilchos Melochim that it is the duty of Jews himself with a particular group. And here he must be to propagate the sheva mitzvos b' nai Noach-the Seven extremely wary, for no matter how praiseworthy the Noachide Commands-which deal essentially with in-

6 The Je1vish Obse1'l1e1· / June, 1972 . .· . . - terpersonal relationships-.:..:even to the extent of at-·· .·align ourselves. completely with one or another political tempting to compel their observance on lawless peoples .. group. Today's majority, it scarcely needs repeating, of the world. The very fiber of American society is is tomorrow's minority. Cooperation should be forth­ being challenged by various ideologies and forces whose coming on an ad-hoc, issue-oriented basis only. political, moral and educational goals threaten to erode The charge of indifference to social issues comes the stability of contemporary American democracy. Let with particular ill-grace from those who thereby seek us not, however unwittingly, give them a helping hand to camouflage their own indifference to traditional as they go about polluting the moral environment. Jewish values and for whom social activism fills an In any case, it is easy to exaggerate our influence: aching void in their lives. They preach giving primary the contribution we can make to such causes as seem attention in Jewish education to , while .to merit our involvement is clearly minimal; while the at the same time they commit educational genocide damage that can be caused if we act carelessly or on the.American Jewish scene. Millions of ourbrethren jmprudently is, just as clearly, incalculable. -we may soon be approaching the tragic figure of .. six millions-are now alienated from traditional Jew­ The Legitimate Issues ish values, and for a significant part of the youth the WHAT WAS DISCUSSED THUS FAR relates to aetivisl11 on malady goes beyond alienation into decisive rejection. the part of individuals. With regard to Jewish com­ "It is perhaps symptomatic of the spiritual bank­ munal organizations an additional consideration comes ruptcy of certain American Jewish organizations," . into play: priorities in expenditures of energies and wrote Schick in the article referred to previously, "that resources. It is the war in Vietnam itself, the prime the problems of the Jewish world are unable to fully target of Jewish activists, that provides us with signifi­ . occupy their large staffs and seven-figure budgets and cant instruction in the ordering of priorities. We must they must divert a considerable portion of their re­ dedicate ourselves to the achievement of goals that for sources to ailments of the larger American community." . us are primary, and not siphon off resources to the The Establishment's Discovery · secondary. Dr. Marvin Schick expressed this view with clarity and concision in the pages of this journal: of Jewish Concern The agenda of these [Orthodox communal] YET IT IS NOTEWORTHY that some of our critics are groups is too crowded with unfinished business finally coming to recognize the horrors which their ··.. to permit the luxury of involvement in problems . indifference to our heritage, and particularly their outside the periphery of Jewish life. The meager staffs of these organizations, overburdened as they are, are committed to vital programs such as Chinuch-expansion, youth activities and commun­ ·· Yeshiva ity building, and it is at least a serious ques­ tion whether 's resources will RABBI CHAIM BERLIN .· be equal to the challenges of the coming years. So limited are our resources, that even within announces that .· the sphere of Jewish activity there is a constant REGISTRATION for All Grades · need to establish priorities and, in the process, KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 8th GRADE many worthwhile programs are often scrapped. hi our Yeshiva K'tana ·elementary school The prime yardstick by which Jewish organizations must measure their possible role in social activism is in FLATBUSH the extent to which the areas of involvement affect is now in pro9ress. our abilities to function as Jews. Here our interests TRANSPORTATION provided for outlying areas. are not at all limited to such obvious and urgent .··For frirther information and application contuct our matters as combating anti-Shechita legislation, but may Executive Offices: very well embrace such diverse projects as campaigning 1593 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. for the creation of more middle-class housing, and 253-5600 - 773-4100 striving to obtain the more effective governmental ser­ vices that will prevent the deterioration of neighbor­ We are also happy to notify interested parents that the hoods. Nor should our programs by any means be Well·Known Dynamic Mechanech and M:ashpia . confined to the legislative side of things. There may, HORAV REB SHIMON GRONER, ~"tJ'i,w in certain fields, be need of a collective, community­ Will Continue With a wide effort that demands our participation. 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The Jewish Observer I June, .1972 7 ' .. · .. neglect of Jewish education, have wrought. For decades they actively campaigned against all forms of govern­ ment aid to religious-affiliated schools, arguing that the financing of these schools was a private and comn1unal JuJf PutAJheJ f responsibility, while all the while they lifted not a finger in assistance. Now we hear some reluctant rumbles of admission that our secular philanthropic A BIOGRAPHY agencies have been deficient in their responsibi1ities to the Jewish Day School Movement. Similarly they have helatedly discovered the existence of the Jewish poor, of the many of whom have, for lack of resources, been left behind in such former Jewish neighborhoods as Brownsville, in tragic physical and spiritual isolation l:HAZON ISH from the larger Jewish community. Whether these inuted expressions of concern will be translated into For the first time available in English, the mcaningfu1, no-strings-attached assistance remains to life history of this important Jewish person· be seen. Develop1nents thus far give few grounds for optimism. ality. Originally written in Hebrew by And so we need not feel in the least self-conscious AHARON SoRASKY, now translated into Eng­ about putting first things first, or about being "upstaged" lish under the editorship of RABBI SHLOMO by various Jewish groups that have usurped for them­ selves the roles of ostensible spokesmen for the larger COHEN of Israel. Beautifully illustrated; Jewish community, freely dispensing advice and funds Over 7S photographs, including the im· for many of the ailments afflicting mankind. Our portant Gedolei HaTorah; 300 pp., 6-1/2" agenda, in contrast, is a crowded one, perhaps beyond x9", jacketed and slip case. our meager capacities to meet, but try to meet it we must. Beleagured as we are with problems related to ... Jewish survival, we cannot afford the luxury of dis­ sipating our energies in a perpetual rush to nowhere. PRE-PUBLICATION PRICE, REGULAR Commitment to our traditional heritage and values, until September 30, 1972 LIST PRICE and particularly the study of Torah, is not withdrawal only $6.00 $7.50 or isolation. It is. to the contrary, a quest for identity (Ne"' ;{ ork State Residents, add 7o/o sales tax with check) and authentic selfhood. For commitment to Torah involves not only the acquisition of a body of knowl­ edge, but results in the kind of hewing of personality Exclusive World Distributors which sustains and supports the truly good and moral society. !I ZIONTALIS BOOK DIVISION 48 Eldridge Street New York City, N. Y. 10002 Want to Buy an Apartment J. BIEGELEISEN COMPANY in Israel? 83 Division Street New York City, N. Y. 10002 For information on Apartments-SALE or RENT­ as well as business opportunities in Israel contact: {Order Form) ZIONTALIS BOOK DIVISION 48 Eldridge Street ayeLe-b~ New York City, N. Y. 10002 ---- Please mail us ...... copies of the BIOGRAPHY OF GAVRIEL BEER • JACK KLAUSNER THE CHAZON /SH. Enclosed please find check in full 2 PINES STREET I JERUSALEM / telephone: 234-202 (sales tax added if applicable).

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8 The Jewish Observer / June, 1972 During the summer months of Tatnuz and Av we Avrohom Chaim Feuer painfully review the events which caused the Bais Hamikdosh, the House of G-d, to be destroyed. We are told that the furious flame of senseless hate, sinas chinom, burned our second Sanctuary and turned its . splendor into ashes. One might fail to comprehend When the Petltly · what could have stoked the flames of hatred to such destructive force. Chazal, our Sages who penetrate the surface of events with their Torah vision, offer: "For their love for money, they came to hate Vanishes one another" (Yerushalmi Yoma). This answer touches on man's basic nature--for · man, compared to most lesser creatures, is almost from •· totally lacking in natural defenses and thus desperately craves for a sense of safety and security. Men are powerfully drawn to whatever seems to promise them this protection and insurance. In the time of the First ·the Purse • • ... Bais Hamikdosh pagan forces impressed many Jews as being their guardian angels, and they placed their confidence in avodah zarah. The sun, the moon,. the wind, the trees and other natural phenomena provided The key to the security in a panic-filled present and against the perils •of an unforseeable future. Def/.ected Desire Temples ruin The destrtlcHon of the First Temple and the Baby~ lonian Golus shook the people back to their senses, and they came to recognize that the Creator is the .·and its future supreme and exc1usive protector. Thus, they meritted their return to . But the attraction of avodah zorah continued to taunt them and they felt too weak to retonstructio1i · withstand it. So the leaders of the time, under the · guidance of the Prophet Zachariah, took drastic and extraordinary action: They prayed that this Yetzer Borah be eradicated from their passions and their hearts. Their unusual request was granted (Yoma 69b). But the yetzer horah of avodah zarah could not be removed without a different temptation taking its place, for the balance between the attractions of good and evil must be maintained to present man with free choice. The Ari Hakodosh, Rabbeinu Chaim (the brother of the Maharal), and the Chido, among others, tell us that desire for money took its place. This desire for possessing money proved insatiable-an appetite impossible to still. Even if a man's needs be few, his possessions-no matter how vast-never seem sufficient. "He who loves silver will never be content with silver" (Koheles 5:9). "He who possesses one hundred, desires two. He who possesses two hundred, desires four" (Ko­ .heles Rabba I: 34). An endless, vicious, frustrating cycle. When one owns nothing, he has nothing to lose and nothing to protect. But he who has tasted the sweetness of having one hundred is concerned that his hundred remain

On the l7th of Tamuz. the wall of Jerusalem was broken RABBI FEUER, who is a frequent co11trib11tor to these pages, is through. · member of the Ko/el of the Te/she Yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio.

The Jewish Observer /June, 1972 with him. The only way he can ascertain that is to "On account of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza prove that he can duplicate this amount. Once he has Jerusalem was destroyed.'' demonstrated this ability to his satisfacion, he has also While this tragic tale of intense hatred is well known, experienced the incomparable thrill of possessing two it is interesting to note that Kamtza-or kamtzan­ hundred, and he cannot be secure with perpetuating literally means a miser whose fist is clamped over his this sensation until he duplicates this sum again . . . coins. It was this obsession with money that aroused and again .... men to horrible feuds and bitter vendettas. As a wise and audacious beggar once said to a king: "Your Highness is really needier than I am, for I need The Ultimate Defilement so little to be comfortable and secure, and you need The fate of the Second Bais H amikdosh was irre­ so very much to be at ease." Insecurity is without vocably sealed when the gold rush entered the Temple limits and so is greed. grounds. This was the ultimate defilement. For this House had been set aside as a spiritual haven, a refuge True Security from worldly pursuits and greed: "One may not enter Man's true source of security, his bitachon, should the Har Babayis (the Temple Mount) while wearing be with his Creator. G-d is boundless and so is His his money belt" (Berachos 62b). protection boundless. No security can compare with In the administration of the Sanctuary, a cost­ this. But man, in his foolishness, has transferred his consciousness had no place: "Poverty is not befitting account; he has withdrawn from G-d and has deposited an abode of wealth" (Menachos 89b). his faith with his funds and his finances. It follows that The kohanim themselves were personally divorced to replace a boundless, protective Creator he must from the pursuit of personal profit, for they possessed forever seek endless, unlimited supplies of money. Thus no real estate or farms. The priestly gifts they received did the Sages comment: "Man does not die with even were not even considered "dividends'' or tokens of half of his desires in his grasp." gratitude from the people. "The priests eat from the As long as man seeks his security in tangible pos­ table of G-d." sessions, he will never realize complete security until Jn the this changed. The post of he has every last cent in the world in his grasp. And Kohain -the High Priest-was sold annually to more. As long as his neighbor has any possessions of the highest bidder. The High Priest in turn misused his own he is reduced to a ruthless rival, a competitor his power to enhance his personal standing (Y oma who jeopardizes his security and must be quashed. It 8b-9a). is not difficult to see how "Because they loved money, Rav Yosef said: I discern a conspiracy here. they despised one another." Marsa bas Baysas brought King Yanai three pots of dinarim in order that he appoint her husband, Y ehoshua ben Gamla, Kohain Gadol (Y evamos 61a). YESHIVA TORAH VODAATH Religion became profit-oriented, and the Temple as 206 WILSON STREET BROOKLYN, N. Y. its focal point had to be destroyed. EV 7-0568 - EV 8-5137 Is there any hope for reconstruction? Is there any­ thing we can do to speed its advent? Listen to the prophetic voices of old as they describe a new order We are pleased to announce which will someday reign: that we are now accepting Rabbi Michel of Zlotehov would point to the proph­ etic vision of Parshas Ha'azinu: "And there is no strange god with Him" (Devorim 32:12). "This is an REGISTRATION assurance that there will be no idolators in your midst. A nother explanation: there will be no one for the 1972-73 school year engaged in merchantry in your midst" (Sifre: ibid.).

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10 The Jewish Observer / June, 1972 If one invests all his trust in 111ertharidise and com~ merce, this too can become an object of worship: "As WHAT WILL THE CHILDREN for the merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hands; he loves to extort" (Hoshea 12:8). OF THE RUSSIAN "OLIM" "They rely on dishonest profits for they are dealers in fraud. Therefore do they proclaim: I have waxed DO THIS SUMMER? rich, what need have I for G-d?" (: ibid.) Hang around street corners? Be an easy prey . The very last words of one of the three last prophets, to secularist influences? Zachariah, predict a new era in the Temple. (It was he . ln the few short months since their arrival from who was responsible for eradicating the Yetzer Borah Communist Russia, a painstaking effort has been for A vodah Zorah.) undertaken to implant these impressionable chil­ "And on that day there will no longer be a dren with Torah spirit. With schools closed and merchant in the House of the L-rd of Hosts" the permissive secular street tempting them on (Zachariah 14:21). every street corner, all could be lost ... "No longer will there be traders in the Bais The only solution is to send them fo sum~ · Hamikdosh" (). mer comps whose program is geared to keep .· The Temple will be rebuilt when we beccime like the the flame of Torah alive in their young Kohanim-who depend on G-d's table, rather than on breasts. their own. This need is beinCJ filled by the . . .. . Footfalls of Moshiach RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT RESCUE FUND There ls an cild tzaddik residing today in the Holy the major Orthodox resc;ue a9ency Land, whose words of Mussar discipline thousands for the spiritual absorption of the Russian Jewish immigrants. from far and wide, and whose personal life exemplifies .this trait of utter dependence on G-d's table. He is a OVER 800 CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS gravely serious man, earnest and composed. One day have been provided by the Russian Immigrant his students observed that their master was extra­ Rescue Fund for "olim" children, for camps ordinarily light-hearted, and they who dared inquired: throughout Israel, with special Torah programs and specially trained counsellors. "Rebbe, why the unusual gaiety?" This .national summer camp program is only one of a The tzaddik replied, "All of my years I have de­ broad complex of proects launched for Russian immigra nt pended on a meager income and even this was erratic adults and children by the Russian Immigrant Rescue in coming. I knew full well that I could not depend Fund-whose activities include: • TORAH COMMUNITY CENTERS • CLASSROOMS on those irregular payments for my subsistance, and I • RELIGIOUS ULPANIM • KINDERGARTENS • SPIR­ came to realize that I existed only by the grace and ITUAL TASK FORCES • DISTRIBUTION OF RELIGIOUS .· direct generosity of G--0. I lived from His open hand. ARTICLES • • SPECIAL YOM TOV PROGRAMS • BUSSING TO RELI GIOUS SCHOOLS Some time ago, however, I began to prosper, my • AND MORE ••. AND MORE. income increased and became more regular-I began ANSWER THE CALL OF THE GEDOLEI TORAH ··to count on the constant unfailing payments. This Make a special contributioo for a scholarship to became my security, my support, and I slowly slipped send a Russian Jewish child in Israel to a Torah out of the arms of G-d. But now, Baruch Hashem, I camp this summer. Or, contribute to the general have slipped behind and I have not received any in- rescue program ... but do it NOW. .. .come in months. How wonderful it is to be back at G-d's table-And you wonder why I rejoice?" It is just such men who can hear the ikvesa d'Me­ Russian Immigrant Rescue Fund 5 Beekman frcet, New York City 10038 shicha-the footfalls of Moshiach--drawing near in our time. The rest of us are deaf to these steps, for D YES here is my

The Jewish Observer / lune, 1972 11 on mutual faith and trust. In 1929, there was no faith in G-d is restored, men will eventually regain shortage of money--only a breakdown in the confi­ faith in one another. When men will cease to be an­ dence that businesses and banks ordinarily place in amoured with their money, they will cease to hate one another. This abnormal crisis situation, this hostile one another. climate of suspicion and doubt, was an act of Heaven Rude Awakening for Moshiach's Arrival punishing the world, measure for measure: When men abandon faith in Hashem and place all of their security Ideally, we should recognize our utter depend­ in cash and credit, then G-d eventually destroys this ence on G-d and-whether penniless or endowed false depository of trust. Men questioned the integrity with a generous abundance of resources-we should and endurance of once-sacred contracts. Panic ensued, conceive of every cent we possess as bread from with the Jong, dark depression in its wake. His table. Any measure of affluence should be under­ We witness this in everyday life, Men who put their stood as a Divine trust for us to execute with respon­ lives in G-d's hands know that no other man can do sibility and fealty to His wishes. Failing this, G-d resorts them harm, and so their thoughts and acts are not to tactics of shock to awaken us to the bankruptcy of clouded by fears and suspicion of their neighbors. the faith we have invested in our own powers of self­ Those who lack this belief are bundles of jagged quiv­ support. He then shakes the confidence we have ering nerves, for every man is a potential threat to placed in our bulging coffers and fat bank accounts. their security. Depression ... recession ... infiation ... devalua­ In the time of Moshiach, international peace, under­ tion . , . price freeze ... profit squeeze , , . wage slash standing, cooperation, and trust will be universal. As . . . stock 1narket slips . . . unemployn1ent rise . . . soaring taxes-all of these elements of economic in­ stability have a definite purpose and are part of a Divine plan. Chazal tell us with great emphasis that OF the confusion, the anarchy, and the audacity that BROOKLYN SEMINARY mark the era preceding Moshiach's arrival are designed to shake our self-confidence and to make us realize that OFFERING: " ... we have no one to lean upon except our Father DAY SEMINARY in Heaven" (Sotah 49b). 8 :00 A.M. to 11 :00 A.M. Moshiach himself will come empty-handed, "a pauper riding on a donkey" (Zachariah 9:9). Monday through Thursday, and will offer a two year program leading to a diploma and Hebrew "The Son of David will not come until the penny teaching license. vanishes from the purse" ( 97a). Only then will we hear the footfalls. Only then NIGHT SEMINARY will our mourning turn to joy and will the ruins of the 6:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. Temple will be rebuilt. D Monday and Wednesday, and will offer a two year program leading to a Seminary diploma. LISKER YESHIVA GENERAL SESSION ACH PRI TEVUAH 6:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. 1449 - 50th STREET Wednesday only. Historia, , Dinim, Home Brooklyn, N. Y. 11219 Economics, no diploma offered. Under the Leadership of FACULTY HARAV HERSHEL FRIEDLANDER, Shlita Rabbi Yehoshua Balkany ...... Dean Announces Registration for all post High Rabbi Abroham Blumenkrantz ...... Dinim School bochurim who are truly interested Rabbi Nachman Bulman ...... Sefer Hachinuch and Medrash in furthering their "Limudei Kodesh." Mrs. Miriam Kessler ...... Tanach There is also a in Y oreh Deah Mrs. Gitel Leifer ...... Hom" Economics for qualified students, from one of Dr. Jechiel Lichtenstein . ...Safa onr Roshei Yeshiva Rabbi Zvulun Liebb . ...Hashkafah Rabbi Shlome Rotenberg ...... Historia and HARAV YAAKOV LEBOVITZ, Shlita lnyonai Chumash Kapisher Rav, ~i'l1' m1111.1 o"nl.l~~~ Dr. Alfred Schnell ...... Methods of Education For a private interview and information, call Rabbi Aron Werner ...... Chumash (212) 854-0571, or write above address. n:.,~·';i li7l1Ji1 cw:; For information and registration call 435-7832 YOSEF GRUEN MENDEL SCHWARTZ

12 The Jewish Observer / June, 1972 Moshe ·Sok

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Feathered souIS .. search above for the death of space Dirtygreen tears and the end of time hang ~ hovering from . pores never leaving clogged · •·· · .· ·· ··. hovering with inscribed · .. paperprayers ·· ...... ever knowing sweated by Jews ...... · .·· it lies beneath theif . claws ·Slowly sighing in the wind · and G-d ·saw that all was not good in His eyes and blown He across and across disemboweled earth the grains of time : petrified by time . .. that brick our soul broken history ... ~ .... a year . a grain Beyond seas and earths the :wan -- clouds that .· cemented .· lives the lonely hopes ·· and climbing . eyes to cry and lips to pray cushion prayer . and fingers to beg and ·knees to . bend soaring floating ·. playing .· with angels and shredded patience to wait. (for stakes) wishing doors, hoping gates, begging keys in search of G-d - · hidden behind our chimneys

MOSHE SOKOL, a s111drnt at /TRI in Jerusalem , has been repru­ s1mted by ~·eveml ('.~says in THE JEWISH ORSERVER. . ~· ·.-· : ' ~· -The Jewish Observer / June, 1972 . 13

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..· .·· Tisha B'Av Tears:

Weep for the Destruction .. . Weep for the Redemption

Facing an lJnholy Challenge: Confrontation or Circumvention? avid the King spelled out the formula for a virtuous life in a simple verse in his Psalms: "Turn away from evil and do good .... " When this aphorism D is translated into a modus operandi, however, it becomes amazingly complex. One might assume that to "turn away from evil" one must first identify the threat in a confrontation of sorts-recognizing one's personal shortcomings, labeling them as evil, and defying them by overpowering the uevil inclination." Yet this is not always the reconunended course ..There are times when it is better to flee, to evade identifying the challenge, or to simply postpone dealing with the problem. C'onfrontation may over-tax one's resources. A classic case is a Tanchuma that describes a meeting of Abraham and Isaac, on their way to the Akeidah (the Binding), with a satanic old man. The old man asked: "Where are you going?" Abraham: "To pray." Old man: "And since when does a tnan carry fire and slaughtering knife in his hand and kindlinR wood on his back on his way to prayer?" Abraham: "We may tarry a day or two, and find need to slaughter an anilnal and prepare it as food to eat." Old man: "Ha! Do you think you deceive me? Wasn't I there when G-d told you to take your son, your only son ... and bring him for a sacrifice?" ft seems odd that Abraham should appear to be devious when asked about the nature of Ids mission and not tell the challenger outright where he was going and whv. Yet there are times lvhen a person senses that a challenge may prove too overwhelming if met head on. In Abraham's case, he 1night have found his zeal to perform G-d's command somewhat dampened if he would have been forced to rationalize it to the satisfaction of the "old man." In a case such as this, it is better to sidestep the challenge . ... In fact, even if .untruths are uttered as part of such a tactic, they are spoken for a sacred purpose, and as such can be condoned as servinR a higher truth (Rabbi Simche Zissel Ziv of Kelm). * * * * * rA classic case of the reverse situation, when a confrontation with evil abnost "The Yeitzer hora (the evil proved counterproductive, is Joseph's refusal to consent to the adulterous invitation inclination) is an old and fool­ of Potivhar's wife. Com1nentaries say that rather than utter a terse "no" Joseph ish king." A king-for he is went into lengthy explanations as to why he would not enter a relationship with sovereign over every man. her. In the process of justifying his refusal, he became so involved in the proposi­ Old-for he has amassed tion that he felt weakened in his resolve. and was even prepared to yield-but vast experience. for the sudden envisioning of his .father Jacob's presence . ... It is often better to A fool-because he falls fl.ee a compromising situation than to lock horns with an evil impulse in expectation prey to his own brand of of overpowering it. The would-be victor can become a victini in the process.] deception. Coming to Grips witl1 Spiritual Alienation here is an obstacle to complete service to G-d that man can neither flee, evade nor circunzvent, and that is the condition described as Shechinta T bcgelusa-literally: the Divine Presence in Exile. The term seems to portray a condition of G-d's choosinR rather than a human failing, and as such would leave 1nan little to act upon. But it is a condition that man creates and the onus of response is on hbn.

14 The Jewish Observer / June, 1972 Tl1e fofmal repository of the Divine P;esence is the Mikdash, but the com-·· manding passage in the Torah states: "And build for Me a Mikdash (sanctuary) that I may repose in their midst." The implication is that once the People stretched out their arms to participate in the building of the sanctuary, G-d established His presence in them-within each and every person--and there it continues to repose. In every situation, under all conditions, a spark of Divinity w;/f always smolder within every Jew. In spite of egocentricity, materialism, or hedonism-all of which serve to block out one's awareness of this Divinity-the spark is never smothered and the presence stays on. G-d's vow: "I shall not reject you nor despise you to the point of obliteration," is a reassurance that no matter how numbed a person's spiritual sensitivity may become, and regardless of the extent of his alienation from the Divine, he always has the capacity to come back. The spark is there.

The First Step into Exile

··T"· he first time the Jews erected a barrier of insensitivity betweeti thnnse/ves ..• . and that Divine Presence was on a Tisha B'Av, when Moses' twelve scouts returned from their tour of the Holy Land. Their glowing report of the "Because on the Ninth of Av fertility of the land was exceeded by their pessimistic view of their ability to you wept for nothing (when conquer it. The omnipotence of the G-d Who led them from Egypt diminished the spies returned from Ca­ in the eyes of the People, and a barrier arose between their awareness and G-d's naan) and you listened to their reality. They wept bitter tears of hopelessness, further encrusting the barrier fearful description of the con- they had erected: "The People of Canaan are mightier than us. (Read: Mightier . ditions there. that day will re­ than our Divine Leader.)" And they were further isolated from their awareness main for you as a time of weeping for generations to of the Divine Presence-the prototype golus situation for the Jewish People, the ·come." individual Jew, and the Shechinah. When a person is uninspired in his study or his prayer, feels estranged from hi.~ immediate and lifelong goals or purpose, then there can be no point in side­ sreppim~ the issue or postponing confrontation with it. He must face it fully and immediately: He and the Shechinah are suffering a mutual alienation. By tradition there are many approaches to restoring contact with the Divine. All these approaches were sealed off with the destruction of the Bais Hamikdosh­ all save one: the Gates of Tears. If one so despairs over his spiritual alienation that he finds every means of expressing this despondency inadequate, then tears as the ultimate expression can penetrate the wall of indilference that shuts out the Divine Spark. Barriers that are impervious to all other attempts at entry dissolve in tears. When Tisha B'Av approaches on our yearly calendar cycle, the very season endows the Jew with a lonely realfration of how he has fallen from earlier attain­ ments. Should reminiscence alone prove insufficient to awaken him to awareness ··of his state of spiritual alienation, should recall of past national and personal tragedies fail short of the impetus required to bring him to tears, then G-d supplies him with new reminders: The destruction of the First Bais Hamikdosh ... the destruction of the Second Bais H amikdosh ... the massacre at , . ; the .expulsion from ... the expulsion from Spain ... the outbreak of World War I . . . and many more all befell the Jews on Tisha B'Av. These tragedies came not merely as punishments, but as stimulants to force an agonizing appraisal upon the Jew of his lonely state- an appraisal that brin,;s to weeping, which brings forth those tears that wash away the crusty barriers between the Jew and the Divinity. The Shechinah responds to tears of yearning, and rays of light, warmth and hope, break through the walls of opacity. The tears for the destruction are the tears that bring redemption. O

Based on an essay from Michtav MeEliyahu, Vol. II, by RABBI , n:ii:i'7 i''1l i:ir; adapted by Nisson Wolpin.

The Jewish Observer I June, 1972 15 Jewish Graphic Art -a review article

JEWISH ART has usually been as­ A WORLD AT TWILIGHT sociated with tashmishei kedushah by Lionel S. Reiss text by Milton -ritual decorations and Hindus (New York 1971, The ornamentations-or with artists that Macmillan Company, $17.95) happen to be Jewish. With a few notable exceptions, visual represen­ Reiss, are collected in A World at tations of Jewish life, for adorning Twilight. Everything about the book private homes and galleries, always -the details and overall atmosphere seemed a glittery excess that had of each piece as wel1 as the individ­ no place in the traditional scheme. uality and character of the faces, the This is no longer the case. Jewish quality of the paper, the imagina­ homes today reflect the common ab­ tive binding-all contribute to mak­ horrence for bare walls. Since dip­ ing even a casual perusal a trip to lo1nas and family portraits are no another world. A closer look, how­ longer in mode, the more favored ever, brings one strong objection floral arrangements, landscapes and and several reservations. abstracts that have taken their place The text by Milton Hindus is not in most homes are being displaced only objectionable-it is downright by genuine Jewish art in many obnoxious. His description of life Jewish homes. Beyond aesthetic ap­ in the shtetl are condescending at peal, a scene from the shtetl or the best, defamatory at worst. He lhc impending destruction of World Holy Land can bridge barriers of quotes freely from "satirist" Joel War II. and to some degree to the thousands of miles and many gen­ Linetski, whose words are bitterly inevitable urbanization and 1nod­ erations by evoking places and ex­ ferocious in their ridicule of Jewish ernization of Jewish Poland. But periences beyond our immediate values and mores. The book would was life there a perennial Erev Yorn confines of time and place. still be a worthwhile investment if Kippur? Were there no occasions A search for the most effective of the pictures were snipped out of the for joy or celebration'? The scenes such graphic evocations has brought binding--or better yet if the text in the book give no such indication. several noteworthy books to our were cut out, and .... And-further-has the sun really desk-some of them exceptionally As for the reservations: an over­ set forever on that world, without beautiful. Over a hundred paintings, whelming sense of sadness accumu­ ever rising again in new locales? An dra\vings, and sketches of Europe lates frotn examining the pictures. elegiac air hangs over this book between the Wars, by Lionel S. The "twilight" of the title refers to like some sort of graveyard mist.

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TULLY FILMUS-SELECTED ' POLISH JEWS: THE HASIDIM: LUBAVITCH-CHABAD DRAWINGS A Pictorial Record by a film hy Alvin areene essay by Isaac Bashevis Singer; ROMAN VJSHNJAC produced by Vincent R. Tortora (Philadelphia, Jewish Publication · essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel (distributed by Vedo Films, Society of America, $ J 250) (New York, Schocken Paperback, Port Washington, N. Y.) . . 1965, $2.95) ...... Tully Filmus's sketches are of a · - scenes from the "past" would be ··somewhat happier mood, but his surpass the competition. This bound very much at borne. And whereas subjects appear to be in a perpetual collection of Vishniac's artistry has the attempt to capture these worlds · daze and somewhat overwhelmed . been on the market for a number graphically has yet to be conveyed by the world. Overly simple expres­ of years, but is the object of re­ between covers, .a 30 minute color sions and heavily stylized move­ newed attention as the result of a film (the prime medium of the ments seem to characterize Filmus's recent photographic exhibit in the '70's?) by Alvin Greene called the subjects. The book was put together .. ·Jewish Museum. This exhibit - .·Hasidim: Lubavitch-Clrabad has with loving care and several of his ·described by Chaninah Katz on the - some strong scenes and striking sketches are exceptionally moving. ·following pages-concentrated on a images. It is amazing how much Singer's introduction is a very brief Jewry haunted by wars, depression, ·.. ·- flavor of the movement is captured essay that offers l1is usual blend and anti-Semitism. But an unmis­ .· -· in the half-hour of viewing, and · of grace, precocity, and hyperbole. takable joie de vivre prevailed >except for a few minor points, it Who would expect the photog­ . throughout, as it does in this re­ offers a stimulating trip to Eastern .... _,.·' . ; rapher's objective Jens to compete markable book. , 'Parkwav for those who lack the with the artist's pallet? Roman Today there arc vibrant worlds of ~ opportu.nity or inclination to taste ' Vishniac's pictures do-and they Chassidic Jewry where the exotic the experience first hand. N. W.

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...... Chaninah Katz many cities-Cracow, Slonim, Warsaw, Vilna and others-deafens me. It is the hum of cities going about their business. The cry of the second-hand clothing dealer selling tattered, misshapen pieces of material that pass for jackets and pants, Of a Time mingle with the shouting of the radish seller, holding aloft two radishes, his eyes begging you to buy. There is much going on and much noise. The Gone eternal laughter of sweet-faced children at play, of a father reciting the aleph beis to his son, as they walk to cheder, his voice barely audible over the squelch of snow. And there is the tax col­ lector haranguing an embittered old lady sitting By by her stall, selling nothing because there i5 nothing to sell. And the tax collector trying to pry taxes fron1 her soul. Oh, so much is going on. So much that is familiar and yet painfully distant. Here chas­ sidiln crowd around their Rebbe, their eyes 1vide­ open in awe and adulation. There the sing-song chant of yeshiva bachurin1 reciting the gernora rises above the more mundane noises. No, the roon1 is not empty, nor am l alone. There is much joy and simcha. And misery. Misery predominates. In the faces with the burnt­ out eyes, in the bodies bent under inhuman weights of merchandise. In the cruel, ever­ present snow and mud, and the stoves that re- 1nain unlit because there is no firewood. Firewood is a luxury. A young girl remains home all winter, her feet buried beneath blankets, because her parents can't afford to buy her shoes. She remains inside all winter. On the waU above her bed her father painted pictures of flowers. So this is what it was like, not only in the shtetl, but in the cities too. Roman Vishniac has captured it for us, for posterity. Because it is no more. Is that why I want to weep? It is like being in a graveyard, one wants to be quiet, to revere their memories. And, then a couple intrudes. In their forties, both heavy set, both dressed Long Island modern. He is Jewish, by the bent of his nose. As bent as those of the two bearded Jews from Slonim, discussing some business deal. As The room is stark and bare, tbe walls black. bent as the nose on a caricature of a Jew pictured Dim overhead lights bathe the room in muted shadows. on a German propaganda poster I had once seen Mounted on the walls are enlarged photographs, in a museum. some thirty of them, spaced singly and in groups. But, what else is there to mark him as a Jew? How The room is quiet and empty. Even with three different he looks--educated, wealthy, a child of people at the far end of the room I have privacy. suburbia. Long Island is 5,000 miles from Warsaw­ Their occasional bursts of loud talk, which to me in time it is 5,000 years away. He is the son, the have sacrilegious overtones, cannot penetrate 1ny nephew of many of those people, who wished for sense of so1itudc. hi1n to be a doctor, a lawyer. I cannot but want But truthfully the room is not quiet, nor empty. ------··--- The photographs are not still, they dance and CHANINAH KATZ studied in the Kole! at Bais Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood, and is currently a copy lvriter for !Ja11cer-Fitz­ co1ne alive before my eyes. The noise of oft;es. geraid-San1ple Advertising Agency in New York City.

18 The Jewish Observer / June, 1972 to ask them-now, as they face him--'-'-if they are Suchis life; thephotographs end with deati1. · proud now that their wish has been fulfilled. The A solitary tombstone, a memorial to all. We hear misery showing from every pore on their faces the words of Vishniac himself on tape. "When cannot erase the look of Yiras HaShem (fear of G-d), I came back after the war to see who remained, and somehow I know the answer is no. I found five. Not thousands, but five. They were And, how aloof does he feel from the whole ·trying to make a . And one in a tallis spectrum of life that is nakedly and ashamedly open stood there, his eyes shut, as he said for before him. How pauperish, how boorish they must his wife, for his seven children." appear to a man who moves with ease among the And, one feels, for himself too. goyim who reviled his grandfathers! How estranged .·And so Kaddish is said, and the next generation he must feel from the life in the ghetto. continues on, takes the place of its predecessors. I move along to where three batlanim sit on Is that not the eternal order of the Jews? the steps of the shul where the Vilna Gaon spoke. Three more people enter. An older couple m Jn the courtyard in front of them an old crone, their late sixties, and their son, he without a head bent, sleeps. It is easy to feel revolted at yarmalke. The couple speaks only ; this desecration of such a holy place. But, would the son resorts to it to make things clear. The the Gaon have felt revolted? Or would he have mother-shriveled, with bony hands--cannot see invited them in to share a meal, to share in a clearly from the distance. She walks up to peer portion of the Torah? closely at the photographs and at the information It is 1938 when these photographs were taken. written along side. "Warsaw," she says to her son. One year from eternal happiness. One year from "I was there," she adds triumph:mtly. She moves eternal happiness. One year from when their along. "Vilna, I was there too." It is her history prayers to the Almighty to end their sorrows are pictured on the walls. to be answered. And yet, here are hints of what And the father hurriedly tells the son what it is to come. Poles march down broad avenues, was like. Hurriedly because he knows his son is shouting anti-Semitic slogans, hands raised in not interested, is impatient to it over with-this deification of Hitler, y'mach shmo. visit to a graveyard where he has no ancestors. A man hides behind an iron door, and his T walk over to where a grand/at her and his son a small waif, a child out of Dickens, signals granddaughter are standing. She is of the age .to him to lock the door. The Poles are coming. to be someone's kallah. But, how tattered is her He is young, but not innocent. He has learned .·coat! How embarrassed she must feel before a . at five what many of us never learn in a life-time. voung man! Does she berate her grandfather for And, so we see it all, in this world that has come to !ife. Chassidim and . ever at war with each other, have found peace with each other. Now they stop to chat with each other, to share their cigarettes. In their world all argu- ments have been stilled. Forever. The only boys' Torah school on the Lo~er Ec:ist Side WISHES TO ANNOUNCE THAT BURIAL IN ERETZ ISRAEL REGISTRATION OF NEW TALMIDIM IS NOW TAKING PLACE Chevra Kadisha Perushim.; Ashkenazim for our Bnis Medrash, Mesivtha, High School, Yeshiva OF JERUSALEM Elementary School, Pre·lA and Kindergarten. • RABBAYIM YERAY SHOMAIM, EXPERIENCED Founded 5616 (1856) • LICENSED COMPETENT TEACHERS • CHARTERED HIGH SCHOOL PINCUS MANDEL, sole representative •• • HOT LUNCHES Over 21 years experience • BUS SERVICE to E"st and West Side Manhatt~n - up to the 50's interment in all parts of Eretz Yisrael • CENTRALLY LOCATED Under the Guidonce and Leadersliip of )15 LEE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 11211 HAGAON HORAV , Day and Nite Phone 855-5121 ·For informaticin, applications forms ancl appointmenfs write or call: A dedicated, dependable, expeditious service Principal, Mesivtha Tifereth Je.rusalem A<.iudah Member-over 42 years. 145 East Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10002 Charter Member, Brownsville Branch Tel. WO 4-2830

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20 Th? Jewis,'1 Observer / June, 1972 over their ears. Read I. J. Singer's memoirs and you realize fully the enmity between chassidim and misnagdim, how cruel it could be. But now all that is gone. Now they are at peace with each other, because chassidim from Munkatch and misnagdim from Vilna and Jews from Galicia, Warsaw, Cracow, and Sigit are all buried together. Their bones embracing one another in solace. The smoke from the fire their bodies fueled curls in one long never-ending whisp against a very grey and unheavenly sky. . I sit on a bench and listen like a talmid before .. his teacher, to the words of Vishniac, as the tape .· replays his thoughts over and over. He speaks with an accent, the words are said in a slow measured pace, Jike a reciting a shiyur. The .weight of the suffering he has witnessed, all the sorrow and pain he feels, the tears never shed, are apparent in his halting voice. .· The children in cheder are there too. Taught "For the Jews times were very hard. They are no/ by a robust, smiling melamed. The children, too, allowed to sell their goods on the main street are smiling. Are they aware how miserable their ·where most Polish customers were. So they bribed .. lot is, with their third-generation hand-me-downs the police, but that did not always help. The Jews barely held together by strings and loose buttons? were af'ways fleeing." Or, in the simplicity of childhood are they happy anyway? As happy as we were with our over- .· .. abundance of toys and f!ames and playthings. · It's difficult to leave. So many people under one roof. Munkatcher chassidim their long payos . trailing in tl1e wind, wearing their shtreimlach and · caftans. Poilishe chassidim with their payos curled .·THE BAIS YAAKOV D'RAV MEIR (Formerly Bais Yaakov of Crown Heights} Founded and Guided by RABBI MEIR LEVI ob'm Announces REGISTRATION for the Coming School Year 1972-73 AT ITS NEW LOCATION 550 OCEAN P'KWAY 18th Ave. & O~ean Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y. "Our Reputation Speaks For Itself" COMPETENT AND HIGHLY EXPERIENCED STAFF • OUTSTANDING FACILITIES • Serving the Ffatbush, Crown Hei9hts & Boro Park Communities Bus service provided from these areas. Fer Information and Regislrafion Call: 633-0203 Monday fhrough Friday - 9:00 a.m .. fo 4:00 p.m. ·· We are pleased to announce that due to Popular Demand we are Opening PRE-1A FOR GIRLS 411z TO 5'/i. YRS. OF AGE

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...· gogue Council dinner that was version) to the specific by adding terizes Jewish life in the diaspora honoring "the heads of our three "kehalacha"-in accordance with should he subverted in the Jew· major seminaries, Dr. Samuel Bel­ Torah Law. Since the Conservative ish state by a small minority of kin, Dr. Louis Finkelstein and Dr. and Reform clergy operate outside Jews, nor that the Stale of Israel Nelson Glueck ...." In his acticle, of Torah Law, they take strong should be used as a tool to im· Rabbi Jacobs posed the rhetorical objection to the addition (as we pose the authoritarian will of a question: "In the days to come, noted in "An Epitaph for Conserva­ small minority on the majority when Reform and Conservatism tive Judaism" in the May '72 Ob­ of Jews outside its border..•• " boldly speak out against Orthodoxy, server). They demand that the re­ Beyond speculation, notwith­ when they seek to artificially inject vision not be made, to permit con­ standing denials to the contrary, in their alien ideologies into the Holy tinued acceptance of their non­ spite of assurances of "contain­ Land, can they be met by a united ha1achic "converts" as Jews. n1ent," umbrella agencies do indeed Orthodoxy when they wave in our These two groups joined forces imply recognition, with far reaching faces legitimacy accorded them by and have since published their consequences few could ever divine. their Orthodox 'colleagues' ... ?" "Statement Opposing Revision in "Fortunate is he who is forever Those days have indeed come. the Law of Return" in the June 13 fearful" (Proverbs 28)--that is, he. On the one hand, American Ortho­ edition of . frets over the implications of his doxy has, for all purposes, united Here they say clearly: deeds-that nothing harmful result in calling for a revision of Israel's "In the United States, non­ from them (Rashi) . ... Because of Law of Return, which, as it stands, Orthodox Jews are in the over­ Kamtza and Bar Kamtza was Jeru­ permits converts-an converts, un­ whelming majority. Orthodox, salem destroyed; because of a cock der any guise or claim, no matter Conservative, Reform, secular and a hen was Tur Malka destroyed; how spurious-to enter the Israeli and Zionist organizations work because of a carriage-axle was Betar mainstream as bona-fide Jews, side by side in coordinating u1n.. destroyed. GITTIN 55b bringing havoc to the chain of hrella agencies founded on the Jewisl1 continuity which has re­ principle of J e w i s h unity Can one truly foresee how "little" mained in tact through two millenia through mutual respect for ide.. deeds and misdeeds are actually of go/us. The revision would change ological diversity. It cannot he pregnant with destrnctive forces of the ambiguous phrase "giyur" (con- that tl1e pluralism which charac- vast proportions? -Nisson Wolpin BETH RIVKA SCHOOLS ANNOUNCES RECISTRATION PRIMARY • ELEMENTARY • HIGH SCHOOL • TEACHERS SEMINARY • Highly Qualified Hebrew and English Staff • Highest Educational Standards • Located in the Heart of Brooklyn • Modern Well-Equipped Building

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26 The Jewish Observer I June, 1972 Jewish Christianity: 'o 0 ! Davka, Not Davka, and Davka Not ·~· ~ DAVKA is a popular Yiddish word "Jewish Chnstians . . . ate pre- .· UNITED of Aramaic derivation that under­ dominantly young spiritual refugees scores determination and exclusivity. from secularized Jewish homes, lib­ DAVKA is also the name of a eral synagogues, the drug culture or Chevra Kadisha magazine, identified on its cover as . radical politics. . . . Their most D'chasidim • Har Hamnuchot a "California-based Jewish Student controversial claim is that they are Founded 1856 · Press-Service Affiliate" which is still Jews even though they now ac­ BURIAL·, IN JERUSAL·EM "funded by the Jewish Federation­ cept .. . . the (Christian) Messiah Council of Greater Los Angeles, (us the one) promised by the biblical AND ALL CEMETERIES IN ISRAEL Los Angeles Hillel Council, and prophets. Many reject the label 'con- Hillel Jerusalem." . vert' and sometimes even 'Christian,' • DAVKA (the magazine) is part of preferring to call themselves 'Mes­ the blizzard of underground, above­ sianic' or 'completed' Jews . ... A maal1n sa.koOesh ground, and some times ground­ New Yorker now attending Bible ]evel Jewish student newspapers college in San Francisco (claims) 'I SOCJ€ty that have been blanketing college feel more .Tewish now that I am a 44 CANAL ST. campuses as of late. This writing Christian.' Nf'!W YORK CITY 10002 is prompted by the March-April "The Bible is one of the chief Nr. E. Broadway Sta. "F" Train issue of DAVKA, which is devoted lures to conversion . ... Manhattan to the founder of Christianity. New Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum describes ··that "Freak" fever is sweeping Christian proselytizing of Jews as Day & Nite Phone American youth in epidemic pro­ · 'Christian biblical literalism con­ WA 5-2277 portions, and taking such a tragic­ fronting Jewish biblical illiteracy.' ally heavy toll of Jews in its wake Evengelists often teach that the In Canada: a clearing of the air would be very . return of the Jews to Israel and the Chevra Kadi$hG of United Jewi$h Conl;lregations much in order. The DAVKA pieces founding of a modern state there Montreal Tel.: 273·3211 represent both exhaustive scholar- were foretold by the prophets, and . ship and intuitive writing-most of it muddled, a bit of it surprising clear. This much was expected. The surprise is the inclusion of a Yeshiva Mesivta Zichron Meilech ··blatantly evangalistic piece entitled "Jews Do Believe.... " This nine­ of Eastern Parkway .. ..· .. page article may offer an editorial 418 Ecist 45th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 469-7740 balance of sorts, but can never be Due to Public Demand, We Announce the Opei1ing of a justified by any stretch of ecumenic­ ism--especially when - as TIME BOYS KINDERCARTEN (June 12) reports in a feature ar­ beginning September, 1972 ticle-in an age of noisy evangelism: FOR CHILDREN 3¥2 YRS. AND OLDER "Young Jewish Christians are in­ In order to reserve a place for your son, please register promptly. creasingly conspicious. Their num­ .· . REGISTRATION is also being accepted for our ber . . . is unprecedented among YESHIVA KETANA • ELEMENTARY SCHOOL • MESIVTHA • HIGH SCHOOL U.S. Jews. AND BETH MEDRASH • PRE l·A from 4 1h yr$. of a9e "U.C.L.A . .Campus Rabbi Shlo­ ·•· Intensive and comprehensive learning • Genera I studies program of ou+stand· mo Cumm estimates that young program. ing calibre. J ews are converting to Christianity • Special classes are provided for gifted • Daily Minyan at which the Talmidim students. are trained in the important concept at the rate of 6,000 to 7,000 a • Individual Attention to each Talmid. of Tfilo Betzibur. year. CaUfornia Jewish Christian • Parallel classes on all levels, to insure · ° Curriculum, in addition to the regular Evangelist Abe Schneider says he that every Talmid gets appropriate studies, includes a complete program has noted more converts in the past instruction and attention. of Mishnayos in Seder Moed. nine months than in the previous Free Transportation to: Flatbush, East Flatbush, Boro Park, 23 years combined. . . . Canarsie, Mill Ba$in, Crown Hei9hts .

The Jewish Observer / lune; 1972 27 that the 1967 capture of the Old missionary piece of all the sem­ DICTIONARIES City of Jerusalem began the ful­ blances of reputability and scholar­ WEBSTER fillment of the prediction in LUKE ship that it may appear to possess, Library size, 1971 edition, about his Second Coming. it can only dupe the under-educated brand new, still in box. Under such circumstances it is "young spiritual refugees from secu­ Cost new: $45.00. especially unforgiveable for a Fed­ larized homes, (and) liberal syna­ WILL SELL FOR $15 eration-funded organ to print an gogues" into thinking that Jewish­ Deduct 10j' on orders of 6 or more. article that distorts the Prophets Christianity is some kind of argu­ 0 with mistranslations and quotations abJe vltcrnative to "Old Testament" Moil to out-of-context, showing how Jews Judaism instead of the self-contra­ NORTH AMERICAN "come home" by embracing Chris­ dictory sham it really is. LIQUIDATORS 1450 Niagara Falls Blvd. tianity. Regardless of implied re­ Judaism is absolute and exclusive Dept. futations in other articles, in spite in relation to the religions of the Tonawanda, New York 14150 of a non-davka disclaimer on the world and any intimation to the C.O.D. orders enclose $1.00 good cover, reading "Obviously the ideas contrary is absurd, deceitful, and will deposit. Pay balance plus C.O.D. shipping on delivery. Be satisfied on presented do not necessarily refiect dangerous to the extreme. Authentic inspection or return within 10 days those of the editors or funders," Judaism \vill never emerge fro1n for full refund. No dealers, each vol­ the fatal charm of Judeao-Chris­ cool-headed comparisons. It can ume specifically stamped not for re­ sale. - Please add $1.25 postage & tianity is enhanced rather than de­ only be appreciated by imbibing an handling. New York State residents feated by the inclusion of this piece enriched, full-bodied Jewish experi­ add app!icable sales tax. in a Jewish magazine. Without a ence and education-living and line-by-line refutation, stripping this learning with Torah and Mitzvos. Federations, Hillel Houses, Jew­ Jill. Bus. M'gr. ish Student Press-is there such a Assured Yitzchok Braun shortage of programs of Jewish :!911&iu (212) 6JJ.Jl81 content on which to lavish your Michael Harbater funds that you must purvey the ®rd1rstr11s (212) 327·5526 poisonous fruits of strange vine­ KASH RUTH yards? [l QUALITY TRADITION PERSONNEL AGENCY "At Your Service With All Your Employment Needs" Need A Shomer Shabbos Job? VARIETY Looking For A Shomer Shabbos Person? when you ask for For Fast, Efficient and Courteous Service 18 W. 45th St., New York, N, Y. 10036 • 563-3994 Open Monday night by appointment only

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28 The Jewish Observer / June, 1972 ~ Leffers to tlte Editor great benefit if community · serviCe .·· univers~l a:cceptance by the com­ · organizations would acquaint the munity and courts alike. Orthodox pubUc with names of The ultimate result would be an .rabbis or other religious qualified •· alleviation of personal tragedy for < . . ..~ ... · personnel available to perform this . many who would otherwise suffer ·type of service. Rabbis are not · and an enhancement of kavod ha The Divorce Problem . · · merely ritual functionaries; they are · Torah. our guides and teachers. Those who SAMUEL MILLER ·.can help in such sensitive areas as Brooklyn, N. Y. To the Editor: ·· marriage counseling should be con­ Judah Dick and Shimon Berach sulted by people in trouble before both brought up a painful problem Cheers for !\fay JO they resort to drastic steps. (Letters to the Editor, April '72) ·· that needs much close and thought­ DISSOLUTION AND SETTLEMENT: .· To the Editor: ful attention: the divorce situation When a marriage does end in di­ Cheers for your May issue and its in America and, for that matter, on vorce, the settlement, such as assign­ outstanding articles!-Let me be - the international scene. They were ment of alimony, division of pro­ specific. ·only dealing with the legalistic as­ perty, custody of children, chinuch First, "Religious Tradition and pects of the phenomenon-and, in- and visitation rights, are determined -Social Services": We must be grate­ .· .deed, the halachic phase should be ·· by secular courts--often putting the . ful for people of the caliber of the exclusive province of the rab­ man at undeserved disadvantage. Dr. and Mrs. Paul Weinberger. binate. I would suggest that the . By contrast, halacha lakes a man's ·Perhaps they will encourage others social and religious implications . of ·. . financial obligations to his divorced ·... ·· in the fields of social work and the problem be examined from its . wife into account without "punish­ guidance lo n::-evaluate the readily very beginnings through its ultimate .. ·ing" him, and it recognizes his privi­ ·:accepted heresies of modern psy­ .. Tamifications. ·. lege to have a voice in the up- . chology. Hopefully more people will .· PREPARATION: First, many young bringing of his children. cry out against the warped teachings ·· men and women marry before they If, as Mr. Dick points out, the ·that are being poured out at Jewish are emotionally prepared for-or decisions of botei din can gain rec­ American Youth, who in their even aware of-the responsibilities . ognition from the secular courts, and naivete are willing to accept these they will be facing. Preparation for ·· can even be enforced by them, we teachings as dogma. this new stage of life is highly es­ must explore ways of extending this . As for your inspiring piece on sential, and should become part of jurisdiction to the areas of divorces. "Shabbos in the Sovet Union": our yeshivos' advanced curriculum. This would spare us the indignity, Where were these bretheren of ours It may seem ridiculous to load the halachic violation, and ultimate pain " hiding? Of what rare stuff are they yeshivos with yet another burden­ · .and sorrow of submitting to secular composed that they were able to but who. if not the yeshivos, can courts-as well as the possibility of exist, carry on, and even strengthen . .. ,.· . . · imbue our youth with a Torah egun, as Mr. Dick also points out. .. the links of the chain of heritage? oriented view of marriage?--Social · It will also do away with the ugly It certainly should stir feelings of workers? - High school guidance .. tactics of extortion and blackmail · ..· ahavas Yisroel and emunah in every counselors? While the Bais Yaakov that unfortunately are resorted to, American Jew. Would we but be : . Seminary does conduct "Kal1ah . to secure freedom and security for able to perform equally were we .· . _. . ..: classes," instruction and personal . all parties in a divorce situation. ·· faced with similar threats! guidance for both men and women Accomplishing this requires a And fina1ly, thank you for a "Vic­ should go beyond elementary hala­ three-pronged program: • We lay­ tory Centennial" which focuses on cha to a more comprehensive and men must consult our rabbis first the heritage of Hungarian Jews in intimate orientation. · and early in the game.. • Legal so positive a way. COUNSELING: When marriages experts such as Judah Dick and VERA STEINBERGER seem destined to break up, and a other COPLA members must con­ Flushing, N. Y. · rabbi is consulted, it is usually too tinue to explore ways of harnessing late for his efforts for reconciliation · our judicial system to enhance the A9udath Israel of America is in 11eed of a number of SIFREI to be very effective. status of botei din and enforce thei'° TORAH for its branches. We are As Dr. Paul Weinberger pointed decisions. • Finally, we must seek approachlnCJ all communities who · , out in his article "Religious Tradi­ have spare SIFREI TORAH and ·ways of organizing inter- and would appreciate It very m11ch if tion and Jewish Social Services" ·. rabbinical group cooperation to they co11ld either lend them or (May '72). personal social work institute uniform practices in regard donate them to our branches. must have a Jewish basis to be · to procedures for divorce settle­ Write: 5 Beekman St./ HYC 10038 meaningful to us. It would be of or call: C2121 964-1620 ment, thus endowing them all with . .: : ~ .

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... · •' .. •' . .. ·· ..·. " 60th JERUSALEM CHIEF RABBI IN U.S. RIRF SPONSORS 800 ANNIVERSARY ON BEHALF OF CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS The Russian Immigrant Rescue Fund, The 60th anniversary of the world RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS the major Orthodox rescue agency for movement of Agudath Israel, which was The Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem·, Rabbi the spiritual absorption of the Russian founded in 1912 in Kattowitz, will be Bezalel Zolty, spent three weeks in the in1migrants in Israel, will sponsor sum­ marked at the 50th national convention United States on an urgent mission on n1er vacations in various camps through­ of Agudath Israel of America, according behalf of the Russian immigrants in out Israel for 800 Russian immigrant to a decision adopted at a meeting of Israel. Rabbi Zolty undertook this trip children. These specially designated the organization's executive board this at the request of the leading Torah au­ can1ps will offer the immigrant children week. 1'he conclave of the American thorities in Israel. The Chief Rabbi of a unique Torah educational and recre­ Agudath Israel organization will take Jerusalen1 conducted a lecture tour ational program. place over Thanksgiving weekend, No­ throughout the U.S. to arouse the Amer­ The immense need for the special in1- vember 23-26 at the Sheraton-Dover ican J~wish masses as to the urgent needs migrant camps is manifested in the fact Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. of the Russian olim in Israel. that the immigrant children arc con­ Although Agudath Israel's conventions stantly exposed to the influences of Rabbi Zolty delivered Torah lectures traditionally are held biennially, the ex­ the secular street in IsraeL These camps in such major yeshivos as Yeshivas Ner ecutive board decided to call a conven­ will not only prove as a deterent to the Israel (Baltimore), Yeshivas Torah Vo­ tion this November although a conven­ secularist attempts to win the neshomos daath (Brooklyn), Beth Medrash Ge­ tion had been held in November 1971, of the young children, but will also voha (Lakewood), and "felshe Yeshiva because of the double anniversary oc­ feature a unique educational program (Chicago). "fhe eminent Chief Rabbi casion: 50 years of activity on the which will have a positive effect on the also appeared at mass gatherings in children's year-round Torah education. American scene and 60 years in the Porough Park (Brooklyn), Kew (iardens international arena. In addition to the The camps are staffed by specially Hilb (Queens), Chicago, St. Louis, and trained counsellors who are experienced distinguished Torah scholars of this f\1onsey. country who would normally participate in working with immigrant youths. in the convention, world-renowned Tora~ Rabbi Zolty's inspiring addresses left AGUDJST CAMP EXPANDS scholars from Israel and Europe arc their mark on thousands of American MASMIDJM PROGRAM expected to fly here specia11y to addre!-:s Jews who had the occasion to hear him·. The unique Masm·idim Program in the gathering. Rabbi Zolty undertook his urgent mis· Camp Agudah will be expanded this sion at a time when hundreds of im· A special task force has been appoi··t­ summer with the enlargernent of the migrants continue to arrive daily from ed to stn1cture the major issues on which Tress Masmidim Beth Medrash at Camp Russia. The Russian Immigrant Rescue the convention wilJ deliberate. in order Agudah in Ferndale, New York. The Fund, which is headed by prominent to afford the over 1,000 Orthodox ac­ l\1asmidim Program, where young ye­ Orthodox philanthropists in Israel and tivists who will participate, an oppo•·• shiva students devote their summer va­ the United States, has aided in the tunity to ventilate sensitive areas of cation to enhance their "forah study has spiritual absorption of thousands of Jewish concern and to determine future !!ained recognition amongst the fore· Russian immigrants. The major Orthodox policies. A special session will be de­ ~ost Torah authorities and educators rescue agency is headed in Israel hy voted to a report on tl-ie recent growth alike. The students spend the majority l\fr. Meir Dovid Lewenstein, and in the of the American Agudath Israel move­ of their day immersed in study of United States by Mr. Sander Kolitch, ment and the accelerated development the Torah. Although the "Masmidim" hoth highly respected Orthodox lay~ in the grass roots of American Jewry. are not an integral part of the Camp leaders. 0 Agudah general camping program, the D presence of a large number of outstand­ ing yeshiva students, dedicated to learn­ Weddings ·Bar· ino Torah elevates the entire spiritual SERVICES ARRANGED IN pl;ne of the camp and filters down to YOUR COMMUN/TY U.S.A. / Israel all levels of its activities. The enlargement of the Masmidim Beth Medrash comes on the occasion of Norman L. 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