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Thursday, May 1, 1952
Page 4 - Editorial Section
TEXAS JEWISH POST
EDITORIAL
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ISRAEL’S FOURTH INDEPENDENCE DAY
Israel is celebrating the fourth anniversary of her
independence.
Four years is but a brief time in the life of an individual,
and in the life of a nation it is even less. Yet this youngest
<of all states has much to show for the period.
In these four years, the population of the Jewish
state has more than doubled. Some 300 miles of new
roads have been laid. There are many thousands of new
homes. Some 45 new hotels are either completed, in
process of construction or at least have passed the blue
print stage. (A few of them to suit even the most exquis-
ite modern tastes, with such luxuries as even outdoor
swimming pools.)
The farm area under cultivation has approximately
doubled in the same period. Industrially, the expansion
has been even more striking. Today there are varieties
of businesses and plants in Israel which would have been
thought fantastic for the land four years ago, when inde-
pendence was proclaimed. There are automobile assembly
plants, tire factories, shoe factories which have been
able to reach out even to markets across the sea.
On the basis of what has been accomplished in the
past four years, we may well look with confidence and
optimism to the future.
Despite all the austerities and hardships and growing
pains, when all sides of the Israeli picture are considered,
the development that has taken place in Israel in the space
of four years must look highly impressive. On this, Is-
rael’s fourth birthday, we have every right to toast a happy
1’chaim.
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Jewish Post are their own and not those of this newspaper.
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Dallas Staff Photographer - Hodges.
FORT WORTH PHONES DALLAS PHONES
WAyside-6332 Wilson-7950 PRospect-3719 ELmhurst-4372
Happy Anniversary
1 Mr. and Mrs. Harold Arken
2 Mr. and Mrs. M. Nudleman
4 Dr. and Mrs. Harry Teter
5 Mr. and Mrs. Lou Barnett
10 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Schwartz
10 Mr. and Mrs. Dore Goldstein
11 Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Labovitz
16 Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Schwartz
18 Mr. and Mrs. S. Herzfeld
B’nai B’rith
Briefs
Your L. F. Shanblum Lodge
By ERV. ROVINSKY
50TH ANNIVERSARY
How many of you know the actual
date when your B’nai B’rith Lodge
was organized? This and many other
things about the lodge you will find
out in October, according to Joe
Daiches, who is getting an excellent
anniversary program set up. Joe also
let it slip that there will be a speaker
at this anniversary meeting who is
considered one of the most outstand-
ing speakers in B’nai B’rith. We will
give you more information later.
PLEA TO PAST PRESIDENTS
Would all past presidents of the
L. F. Shamblum Lodge please turn
in any outstanding events since the
beginning of B’nai B’rith in Fort
Worth. Submit all information to
Joe Daiches.
DAN CE-OF-THE-MONTH
Several people have asked for a
program during the intermission of
the Dance-a-Month. Some have sug-
gested Folk Dancing and Square
Dancing. Let’s have your opinion.
Any suggestions would be appre-
ciated. Call Ben Coplin and give him
your suggestions.
SOFTBALL
Don’t forget the father and son
softball game Sunday, May 11th, at
Forest Park. If you can’t play, come
out anyway and cheer for either
team. See if the old men still have
what they used tof
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Happy Birthday
1 Jerry Allen Paul
1 Jerrald Mark Sankary
1 Irvin H. Leva
2 Joseph Weisberg
2 Cal Donsky, San Angelo
2 Nathan Id. Shapiro
3 Pearl Sankary
3 Louis Rosenthal
3 Leah Drescher
4 Mrs. Sam Lichter, Pittsburg, Pa.
5 Mrs. Francis Prinz
5 Mrs. Dore Goldstein
5 Mrs. Ida Novitt
5 J. Weisblatt
5 Michael Allan Archenhold
5 Jerry Wolens
5 Helen Susan Hillman
6 Patricia Miller Gordon, El Paso
7 Scott Russell Gale
7 Raymond H. White
8 Naomi Ruth Sonkin
8 Inez Miller
9 Bruce Stanley Feder, New York
9 Selma Natkin
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UNDERTONES
By ABRAHAM J. BRACHMAN
There will always be some who will ask why bring these
problems up. Why call attention of people and of ordinary
people to such terrifically profound and ultimate and weighty
problems as the divine origin of our laws. Especially when
there is no answer to the problems to be gained immediately
from these discussions.
The answer is that we bring these problems up for
the same reason that we live and the same reason that we die.
We have to. The problems already exist. Everyone knows
of them. Everyone asks them. The mere fact that w© cannot
answer them is no reason that they should not be discussed.
Even if the discussions perturb some people who were
otherwise able to close their eyes and their minds, it is no rea-
son to avoid them. Perhaps those very people will be able to
give us the answers out of the abundance of their faith and ser-
ene knowledge. X would rather have all the people in on a pro®
lem of religion than a few because I think religion concerns
everyone.
I have never been able to find the great distinction bet-
ween the smart and knowing few and the general run of man.
Or if there are distinctions I am never quite sure which group
is on the right side. In matters of religion especially I hold
all individuals start with about the same eighty percent know-
ledge, or ignorance. Who will develop the additional twenty
percent is a question.
Certainly this much is true. Where there is great ignor-
ance on a subject there is not much chance of getting the most
intelligent answers. The possibility for that grows with the
dissemination of knowledge. All people can, think. It is hard
to tell whether new ideas will come from those who were orig-
inally more learned Or less learned.
The original purpose of this series of articles was not
to discuss differences of view between Reform and Orthodoxy.
The purpose was to discuss within the traditional view it-
self the distinction between Biblical Law and Talmudic or
Rabbinic Law. The purpose was further to show that for us
this distinction has no application because Talmudic or Rab-
binic Law has in the process of the centuries absorbed Bib-
lical Law.
What diverted the writer was the realization that for
a period of its history Reform Judaism seemed allied to Bib-
lical Law as against Talmudic or Rabbinic Law, while Or-
thodox Judaism seemed to be Rabbinism as against Biblicism
which it had surmounted for better or for worse. This strict
classification has misled us and arrayed us against ourselves
unwarrantedly.
Reform Judaism neither claims for its own nor rests
its case upon Biblical Law. Orthodox Judaism never admits
that it relegated Biblical pure religion to the background and
imposed a ti^ousafid ^unwarranted minutiae of observance
upon it. The differences must be sought in other directions.
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To have had the privilege of taking
the Scottish Rite in Dallas last week and
becoming a 32nd Degree Mason was a
wonderful experience beyond discripticni.
With me in this 106ih‘ Reunion Class
among hundreds of others were Jack
Siegel, Martin Siegel, Gerry Murad
Reuben Deutch, and Abe Salam.
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