_hRe__ 2 __ Chu__ u_bh __ F.d_-:-:-ib_on ______-:- ______T_H_E_I_S_R_A_E_·_L_I_T_E __ P_R_E_S_S ______:______~ _ _:__F~n~·day, December 21. 1962 , THE MISSING VOICEl~~!~ ..~~~d~~~~!;i"tl~~~;,;;;• 1 · . rii::tit:1:{:~i,;;;fi:0:~:~::;{~;-rrcontinue to draw from h~ mt'mory. squarely m their own hands.~~-;-~n~~~~ --DOR_ OF ·THE_ JEWISH. P·EOPLE. As the first President of the fmt , Th G f I I . . independent Jewish State after e overnment o srae · 1.800 yea.rs of d. . d . 1 From earl\' ,outh he c:1rr1ed alnft AMBASSA 1 1SperSJon an e:u e, th 'd ·c · h . -• the ~,.. · . . he rcn...... ,nts the f II ,...,.,,_ : e I ea1 o t e RNurn to Zion. S-"- 4l90 a K... Ylarael ,.. Jewish spirit u,..;.. Wnrmum ' By MEYER W. WEISGAL I forty yura away . . . they "'-ere mearungful, filled with: ment ~-the Jewish u es\ em.,.,... : For decades he IN! the struggle fl,r ..,.... rKOrdad • talk wftll - 111 Nor b it litely that a Toke such Chairman of the Executive Council of the I It is the same ,-oice, sort, casti- •anguish and hope: the inarticulate I peoip . the nallonal re,n al of the Jewish ltahor• fOf' a racfie p,roga•ni•• to u ha. ar, Ineffably .Jewish vok:e, an W9hmann Institute of Science Igating, that spoke to ll!lner and l voice of the. rank and file of the j' Mr. David Ben-Gurion , peo~Je i_n its Horneland. culmlnat be nlllkad on the lffltft annhrer• 1accurate and semitive echo of our• . . . ______· IEmtace Percy, to Ballour and : people speaking through their lead-. More thnt all his pred ssors • mg m hlS el<'Ct1on as the fu-,;t Pr.-. ury ., Dr. Web.i•nn'• ••th. Just ; selves u a nation. will be heard . To this Wemnann replied: ."I be- i ~ords with the giants of _Russian Lloyd George, Smuu, ChurclillL to j' er. WPinnann understood th the re- \ sidcnt of Israel. , n the lntwYlew was endlns. the ,.. ! among us again for many • genera- li~~• sir, I speak the uund of, mtellect then at the uru,·ersity; Roosevelt and Tniman and a host In he tured th . snrgence of Israel would need both ! His lifo was bount:1 _up with the :at 1921 porter asked: "'Do ,ov mi. Or./ lion. mt om Jews whom :YOU will stirring . Jewish students out of of others who mO\"ed a<:ross the : roagin ti n 0f ~~ J e ~ strength and power and also the , destiny of his people m one ol th• W•hfflllnn?"' I El-en lbe 't'Oiu ol llne1, pennut- neTer aee and who eannot Et>eak their alle11 thinking and away from stage of history. 1 his ..!. .?ff, ainst thc:an ewryfiin spirit-there is no strength with- : most critical periods in its hl!lory. IOVeteign ou le exception of ca.I ar party leader in the accepted for_ ~t people. ~ .rew: who had words, filled with heartbreak and Dr. Nahum Goldmann most, a great amba..sador for the opinion. N that IUNI and the entire Theodor Herzel, to whom the peo- sense of. the term. His voice rose asslf~ed. ev~::i_!hout him- despair when he told the British It is doubtful if the Stale would IJewish people; neither great o({ice Jewish people mlu him desperately j pie listened with awe and respect. above the din of battle 80 to speak ~~~¥~ ,e nun~ ass . . Royal Commission in 1936 of the exist today if he had not appeared nor the panoply of power were In tMN critical days." and that only for a brief flash of He wu indifferent to the clatter of ,;,i~~ ~e 5l!Oli;e m the ~ where the plight of the six million Jews in on the stage of Jewish history and needed to lend him authority. Alter the reporter left, I began to I time and m a different tense, party and faction group and sect liJ emissanes of the nations had ga!]l- ~rope _ "Six million doomed, for ruminate over the lignificar.ce of W•lzrn•nn'« was the ~bodied He was not 6 Demosthenes or ·a ered to carve out new destinies whom the world is divided into our brief eschange. Why had he voice of the age-long Jewish ex- William Jennings Bryan no Char- ~ter the first World War. Through places they cannot leave and places • LANDMARKS IN HIS LIFE uked the question? I wondered. perlence; it came from wi~ the chill or even a Stephen '•wise or a ~ voice. at the Peace Conference into which they cannot enter." . lt74 Born In Motol, White Ruula, November 27. Wu it becawe o( 1101Dethlng that people, and the, listened to 1t with Jabotinsky. He wu not a public m Versailles the protagonists of Or his anguish in 1lM6, when he ' 1891 Doctor's deg,.. at Frlbourg, Switnrland. Attends 2nd had ooen auggested to him b7 the reverence and affection. I orator in the usual sense. He spoke the new

are other limitations on travel everyone. manages somehow to get to where be wants to go. So why • kick up a fuss? I The result of this indifference is to leave the important work of the League in the hands of sincere and By JACK J, COHEN I its materialism and gripes,· its bu- dream of a eomplete apirituaJ re- security and_ economic• stabilization community organized as a political '-have to follow a logic of its own, , misinformation and misunderstand- decent men and women who, how- Dlnctor of HIiiei foundation, reauc,acy and ·careerism are all evi- turn both impossible and uiidesir- are ·so vast that lt 'cannot afford a unit-or, better, political units- the substance of which cannot be ing to be overcome. It is almost ever, are religiously Illiterate end Unlvonlty of JervHlem dences that Israel has not yet caught able. · · · · Kulturkampf, · This , re a s on hfg, the battle was on. The question foretold at this time. Certainly Impossible for the kibbutznik to whose objectives are to remove in- sight of the new frontier, that it Occasionally, one hears an Ortbo- · which is almost universal here, I now is, how can the struggle be there are many Jews in Israel to- fathom the world of progressive equities and not necessarily to en- Man 11 constantly reaching out i must seek to pass if it is to orient dox Jew in Israel give utterance to believe to he specious. The fact is waged constructively? The answer, day who will respond to ·a syna- religion and certainly not of natur- courage anything, positive In the to new frontlen and dl1apolnted i itself to its success and to the pos- the hope that Israel may yet return that the Jewish Community of Is- I believe, is being given quietly gogue in which there are family alistic religion, to the development remaking of Jew I s b tradition. when he conquen them. It 11 as If' slbilitles. stemming from it. In short, . fully to the rule of Torah, but one . rael was not founded in 1948. All and concretely. pews, -decorum, a creative approach of which he hes, unbeknown to him- Therefore, the importance of the Heh frontier 11 th• lilt one, and / the messianic purpose of the Re• 1 rarely finds the kind of discussion ' during the formative ;vears of the Non-Orthodo Israelis ar fin to prayer and prayer music and an self, contributed. Therefore, the new synagogue development and of having -n-th•t frontier cl-, man 'turn, abo~t which Jews ~i:_ea_med that used.io fill H!!tzofe (the OrU,o- Yishuv the way bad ,lie_en prepared be&i!lning to ._:i,g~ ·tlii/ filf. att!lmP~ to· re.I/It& ,religion to"\lifi!:t dialogue between city rellglo~ and ~e involvement _of the ,kibbutzim In finds that life has Iott Its ult, The for centunes, has to be refc;i~at- 4,px,!l!lllYl:·in ~7-·and-194Q ~;the- .fm'.t_be,Clll'J!lnl.Jjljiow.,g,caI and psf~ ous.~f: es :,.-tJntil ~receif/:. •~8~- Th_!lre:Js·:·needr, t!)O,: strange ea I~. ldbl>Htz sp.ltj~allty 1$ a .task.(~ a -~Ji~ ~1/~l~J.t-~ ,Ol1~~,;q J_!l_,t.o, P_ l.l!~e the futvn appun dull and un)nterelt• ed In the light of present d,Y reiilt- apecltfo ',unpllcations of a Toran cholQgtmiI jiap t(etween the Orthc,.- h 'ob <>;J?, ohl iw·· mv~ 'iiit1 ~ may ,lieeal/1'.foi',~.-·developml!ISt" of; ,im·~uo~ "'•;·, ,",:,,;, ·' ti ·.i ~ s~gle lor..rel~f()UI .t'ree~o,1_11 ~ffh­ ~· 0 lng. Even th• present 11 disappoint:. ties. rule for the judiciary, for industrial· dox-~d the·rest of the' Jewish com: Jiiui!e~n · Is~ael Do'it'~ide' 'OOOd:;;· sm~ll' co~~tles·and fellowiJhfpir· . 1l'lie_·jntinedl~ obie!!.ti~ii of the fn_, :rsrae,•~e'l'.17i:11rua- 'proper-c11n­ lng, for the PromlHd Land beyond I Against this background, I should Irelations, and the like. True, the mun,ty. ranks-scattered religious thinkers . w~cb will brmg Jews together for dialogue, however, can be atated. text ....: the search for 8 spiritual the frontelr turns out to be not as like to react to the current situa- Orthodox maintain tight control In pre-State days, It was often ft-d theoloaians and the kibbutzim.. IOCJal and educational p_urposes, the The main need In Israel today Is way ol Ille' that encourages indlvi- a • ,...n and lux u rlant antlcl-ted.-~ • tion of religion In Israel, Very lit- over marriage and divorce and argued that the cultural and religi- ..,..Th th . .,. . lilt B b way congregati ons d o 1D the Di as- ,or• the Israe 11 s to d emonstrate to enhancementdual and group of Jewishexpression tradition. In the "The SIient Generation" In th• tie has changed In the religious ell- seek to widen the application of ous future of Palestine Jewry bed e eo 1og,ans-men c u er, pora. themselves and to those who dls- Unlhd Stat.. II• It stlll alive?) act• mate since my first visit-to lffael halakhic restrictions to the Shabbat · to await tl:ie settlement of tl:i~ Bergman, Schechter ~d ,Simon7" The aynagogue leaders. recognize agre.;. with them that progressive Jews who approach the rellgioµs eel .. If America_,.. no longer in 1947/8 except that"'.;'a· ®taiii 11.lllldati arid diet. And Prof;,>Ye- -Land, that ~;communfty,which•had h~y~ b~e~ ~ery int;f_fective'. This~ that experiments are necessary in 'f'pnns~of-;J'ewijb reUgioJJ can"eticit problel!I in Israel from such a per­ th an adventure but an acting out of a amount of pcwer, then• sought by: shaia' Leibowitz will persist in try- Inot yet bee1tableao :earn-its)iv!ng no re~ection_ on tbe,'!_iiil1i~ of en- , br_!pging Eastern and Western Jews ~e 11ame 0 ·de~e of commitment, spective will know that patience, comfortable scheme - cartalnly no the Orthodox rabbinate, has been Ing to spell out the meaning of I could not be expected to spend time }hin~g '!ll;ich may 'yet' serye to •together In worship and in enabling self-sacrifice and emotional satlsfac­ tolerance and wisdom must guide frontler demaitdlng ClOUrau• and en- handed over to It. halakhah for the practical running 'on its spiritual needs. Meanwhile, mspu-e rel_ig,ous Jewry when 1~ ~as Ieach group to contribute of its rich tion as Orthodoxy. When the Yi­ their activities in the polftlcal durance. Th• fint genuine brHk What was the religious frontier of an industrial society. Nonethe- both the Orthodox and the so-called co11:1,e to life. ~ut their th.e<>rwng · heritage to the emerging Israel p11t- sbuv becomes aware of what ft Is arena. The struggle for religious in that 1llence 'WAI activated by which traditional Jews in centuries less, the overwhelming majority of secularists were developing hard hu been devoid of a social base : tern. The leaders realize though missing or what it can yet attain equality In 1/lrael-a spiritual prob­ th- 'Who had • genuine frontier past sought to conquer? It was, in .Israelis are convinced that it is a and fast ideologies which were re- and most often so abs~act or te':1'- . that an urban synagogue, patterned spiritually, · it will el[hibit greater lem which · must be resolved by sta tofo conquw-the pnaa,it u-ratlon truth, not a genuine frontier, but a fiction to believe in the possibility inforced in the three-fold religious, ~~~ ~d :: ~ be i~om~IIDl:Z alter the synagogue of the Dias- Interest in overcoming the inequi- democratic decision, could conceiv­ young Neg.--, Spaca, too, hu retlll'II to a familiar setting: It was of applying hala'khah-as a. system labor and general _school-system. Is- a e ~yon en- sma · cy e pora, cannot fully reflect t~e ere- ties and the callousness l.n the pres- ably eventuate in the pain and an­ "' aHrectl- for young America, not the creation of somflthing new, - to the management of a modem rael's religious Immaturity is not" a ft>llow ,~tellectuals. . ative spiritual potential of the YI• ent religious regime. The tru~ Is guish of America's South. Let us but It I• approached •II too fn- but the re-establishment of an old democratic· state. More than one result of its military insecurity, but The kibbu~m. se_arch,~g fo~. val- shuv. They are beginning, there- that the activities of the League for hope that there is enough good will 111uantly a• another opportunity for and cherished way of life, in all its commentator has suggested faceti- of its ideological narrowness and ues an~ exper!Dlentmg with a sec- fore, to look to the kfbbul?Jin, as I - the Prevention of Religious Com­ among Jews to prevent such an out­ • thrill or a career rath<1r than " particulars and methods of' lmple- ously that the best way to destroy obtuseness. · 1 ularist observance of the_ h_olldays, suggested above, and to seek means pulsion have met with indifference come. Meanwhflc non - Orthodox a aplrltvel frontier, j mentations. The dream was ex• Orthodoxy would be to give the . The situation today is compllcat- 1 have actually been prov,dmg the of contact with them. At the pres- ,on the part of the kibbutzim and Jews have their chance to instill a We should have expected a let- pressed as the_ setting. lip of a T!>- religious parties final and political ed by the blunting of the secularist p_ures~ religfo11s thought and prac- , ent, this is a matter of private city intellectuals. Lacking religious new heart into the Ylshuv. The down in l!rael after the establish- 1rahitic state or as rule by balakbab. responsibility ~d let them. see :for Ideology. While · iny unpressicin 'tice m . ~ael. For the pa~t few thought and discussion, but some commitment themselves, they see frontier of statehood has been ment of the State. It would have 1 As long as it was a dream, no one themselves the shambles that would must be taken as an Impression and decades, Niv_ H~tzah, the Journal overt expression can be expected no need to oppose a regime which passed. There awaits. the more ex­ been unusual for a people to con-! had to think about its implement&- be made of a society under balak- no more (there are no studies to o_f ~ud H~bbutzim, hllS been.pub- in the months ahead; •commµnfca• affects them only -in the crises of acting task of reaching the inspir­ ,"tinue to live in the kind of tension tion, Meanwhile, a new reality hes bah. Few, however, see any wisdom support or refute my contention), I lis~ articles. dealing with ml!n's tfon between progressive synagogue life, marriage, divorce, death, etc. ing frontier, described by A. D. that had been built up by the cres- been created. A change has occur- in so radical an experiment. The suggest that the elimination of the place m !,he umver~e and Interpret- and kibbutz will be a long time But If they cannot travel on Sbabat Gordon, of creating "a nation in the cendo of events from 1933 to 1948. red in the mentality of the major- clock, in this instance, cannot be labor-orienwd school system, with- Ing thP. ritual expenments ~at ~ve venture, for there are decades of through Meah Snearlm, or If there image of God."-Jewlsh Frontier. That fifteen-year period called for I ity of Jews, ·who have abandoned turned back. There are new vistas Iout the simultaneous absorption of been undertaken .on the kib~utzim. acts of heroism and self-sacrifice. Itheocracy for democracy; new ·con- 1or the government of the Jewish the religious sc;hools .u:ito the gen- But the blindness of the kib!>utz, There was no other way to live : cepta of human righla have been homeland never envisaged in the era! system, bas resl!lted in a spirit- common to Israel, -~t makes _all AN ANCIENT ART i, -' p~~~~-Sl~q- with oneself. But only the spiritual ! formulated to replace the old dis- tradition. · ! ual Joss. The labor schools had a non-Orthodoxy _irreligious, ha~ pre­ genius can maintain the pace of : tinctions in rabbinical law-as, for If the grea't majority of Israelis i clear ideology and a set of positive vented th~ !rihJ>utz_ theoreticians those years under the arduous condi-i instance, between male Jews, on do not side with Orthodoxy, why, is ! social and moral values which were Ifr 0!1'. identifYlJ]g then- activities as tions of having to absorb new im- i the one hand, and women and non- it asked, do they permit the Rab- I of proven worth in pre-State days. religious. Furthermore, there ~ migrants and, at the same time, : Jews, on the other. Industrializa- , binate to maintain its stranglehold ' It is hard to discern the same clar- ; been a complete lack _of ·commpm• I having to plan .a_ career ~or _one- ; tion h~ made demands UJ!On social J in matters of person'.11.status and in ity of purpose and the same height- '. cation between !he kibbutz t~­ self and to support a family m a. I and legal structure that stretch the lthe conti:ol ·of religious matters ened i d e a 1 f s m In the general ! ~ 8 and the city ~ libei:al I'eliglc>1',!! poor country, Thus Israel's rapid tradition to the breaking point. (such aa~ state 8'.ibsidies for syna- schools. At the same time the mtellectuals, It IS .es if they had 0th Industrialization and capitalistic These and other · changes in . the_ gogues1 payment of salaries for rah- Orthodax schools continue _: and not~g ~ say. to each er, Now, psychology, its rising middle-class modem universe of .cfiscoUDle bive'l bis; arid. the like)? The usual an- with greater pedagogic success _ a hndge 18 bemg established. and pun;uit of middle-class values, rendered the age-old l'()mantic swer · is Uiat )ilrael's problems of to carry on their program of lndoc- ~t is. too early as .;yet even to !les- . trinatioii. . The idea of e1iminating cnbe m detail the. steps that ~e ,: trends was an~ is indispensable; but being taken. Nor Is there any guar.. . TORONTO YOUTH_ MEET ISRAELI ... GUIDE" it was a mistake to do so at the· ex- antee of their success. Yet a new pense of the spirit of halutziut. I breeze hu begun to blow in the have the Impression that the ideol- Yishuv, which offers encouragem~t ogy of labor. Isftlel is not being ade- to. tho~ who are conceJ.'J\e.d ~out_ quatel;y p(esented. in . the; general' the-spiritual welfare «>! the ~try. , schools, any more than are the · The clearest evidence of the new .. , points of view of the various ap- atnlotiphere is the appearance of proaches to Jewish religion and non-Orthodox synagogues, In Ha,:r, religious classics. the' synagogue building of the Mo- From the kindergarten up the riah congregation was' dedicated in children in all Israel's schoois re- , Haifa; and in Jµly the Jerusalem ceive the, impression that re}igion Ibi:anch · of_ the _H~gim L':rahad~ and Orthodoxy are synonymous. If Mitkademet (Societies for Progres.: 1 they are Orthodox-trained; variant i siv': Judaism) held its first ~ versions of traditional Judaism be- , In its own structure•. In addition, come irreligio1;19; if they are given other congregations are in th~ pro­ "general" schooling, they are quite cess of formation in several cities. likely _to reject traditional texts, These are inodest Jw!ginnlng1< ..:...· from the Mishnah on, as being fr. as all such steps must he. But what relevant to their spiritual needs. ill of great interest is the fact that Thereby, one section of the popula- while the new congregations -are tion is trained with dear but par- affiliated with world synagogue· , ocbial values and the other with movements (Moriah with the Con­ h"beral, hut vague, ideals. And servative World Council of Syna­ hoth .heighten one of the dangers gogues, and the Hug with the Ile' in. Jewish education unde· · freedom: , form World UniQn for Progres­ namely that Jew i s h ideologies I sive Judaism), there is a . gen. which divide the Jewish people .'but I era! _recognition. on the part of the .~hich 1!on!!theless form the organiz.. local leaders that Diaspora Reform mg prmc,ples of our educational and Conservatism cannot be trans­ systems, will nltfmately destroy it. ported bodily to Israel. These lead- The problem (!f the spiritual ers are eager to avoid a transfer­ writy of the Jewish people, which ence to Israel of the organizational can be built. in a modern socieJ;y : rivalry which currently pervades only if we ean learn to live with · the relations between -the Reform • th I nd with. I I' · •· · · religious pluralism, cannot be and Conservative movements in the Spy1ng out e a . srae • bnt gu1d• .•. • group of T°""'k! youth.°'! • sum~r fµrther postponed. Indeed, what is United States. And they are fully · Memmih1 sold at Witman'• Centre all Carry the prescribed prayer inserts penned tour of Israel get a few po1nten on deuelapMent of the N•gw from Pnme Minister David i talring place in Israel now, if not a , aware that the development of non­ by 'Sofrin{ in Israel. Here is an Israeli Sofer at this ancient craft, hand-lettering the ~ Guria, . I Kulturbmpf? Once the Orthodox i Orthodox synagogues in Israel will parchlll8ftt scrolls for Mnauuhs. > ' I

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