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Page 4 Postorials
Texas Jewish Post
CHANUKAH ISSUE Thursday, November 29, 1956
POSTORIALS
LIGHT AND LIBERATION
The joyous eight-day festival of Hanukah, the festival of
the kindling of lights, is with us again. During the week we
commemorate an important chapter in the history of the world
struggle for religious and national liberty, an event that hap-
pened more than 2,100 years ago. It was the victory of the Jew-
ish Hasmonean army, led by Judas Maccabeus, over the Greek
army of Antiochus who tried to impose an alien rule and a
pagen culture upon ancient Judea. It was a victory that saved
Jewry and Judaism from destruction, that permitted a people
and its faith to rise to new heights in subsequent generations,
to produce a Talmud, to set an example of ethical conduct to
the semi-barbarians of medieval Europe, to make great contri-
butions to religious thinking in modern times.
In the ideological turmoil of the present-day world, in the
era of precarious peace in which we are now living, Hanukah
comes to us as a reminder of the power of religious idealism, of
the victories that it may achieve even when the odds seem to
be overwhelmingly against it. The Hasmoneans were a small,
weak army which, because it was so saturated with the Jewish
religious ideal, nevertheless managed to prevail against the
might of the Greeks. That is the miracle which pure religious
inspiration can achieve, that is the miracle which Hanukah
celebrates even more than the story of the small amount of oil
which miraculously lasted long enough for the eight-day re-
dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Today the modern Maccabeans, the Israelis, are still fight-
ing the battle of Jewish national liberation. Though the Jewish
State has now been in existence for eight-and-a-half years, it
is surrounded by enemies who plot its destruction. But the
Maccabean spirit, the spirit of religious idealism, still lives in
the hearts of present-day Israelis. Their religious dedication to
the cause of Jewish survival will prevail. That spirit which the
Greek armies under Antiochus couldn’t destroy 2,100 years
ago no Arab armies now or in the future will overcome.
A DEDICATION IN DALLAS
At this Chanukah we are especially happy to be able to
present to our readers a complete Dedication Coverage of
Shearith Israel’s new house of worship in Dallas.
The building is one of beauty and it is worthy of your in-
spection.
To the Rabbi and members of Shearith Israel we offer our
heartiest felicitations.
We trust that the happiness you are now experiencing in
your dedication ceremonies will remain with you for all time.
Shalom and mazeltov to you.
CONGRATULATIONS IN FORT WORTH
To be particularly congratulated this week is Abe Herman,
prominent Fort Worth attorney, elected to the board of Carter
Publications.
Mr. Herman demonstrates the panorama o( the American
Opportunity Unlimited.
Abe Herman started to sell newspapers at the age of five.
He had to help support his family. Noteworthy is the fact that
he sold the Star Telegram from one end of Fort Worth to the
other. Abe worked his way through public school and later
through the University of Texas and its Law School.
He has always been on hand, too, to lend his talents, fi-
nances ^nd energies to worthwhile causes. He is the president
of the Fort Worth Jewish Federation.
The Texas Jewish Post is proud to offer Abe Herman its
warmest Postoast.
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Off The Record
By Nathan Ziprin
CHANUKAH THOUGHTS . ..
Disaster In The Middle East i
By Walter Lippmann -
(From November First New York Herald Tribune)
Although this government was not consulted, it knew to-
ward the end of last week that Israel was mobilizing, it believed
that this meant a serious military action, and it had at least an
informed guess that this would1 not be happening without Paris
and London knowing about it. When the Israel army struck on
Monday, the President and his advisors decided, quite rightly,
to take the affair to the U. N. But there were two ways of tak-
ing it to the U. N. and they chose the wrong one.
One was to seize the whole border problem, to recognize
that it is a two-sided problem, and to call for measures to re-
strain the Egyptian raids as well as the Israeli reprisals. The
other way was the one which the President and Secretary
Dulles took. This was to ignore the Egyptian raids, to treat
Israel as the aggressor and Egypt as the innocent victim.
This was a grave mistake of policy, indefensible in prin-
ciple and in fact entirely unrealistic and impracticable.
It was indefensible to ignore, and thus to condone, the ex-
treme provocation of the Egyptian raids. The resolution which
Mr. Lodge submitted to the U. N. would, had it been adopted,
have guaranteed the Egyptians behind their frontier but not the
Israelis behind theirs. It would have made Egyptian territory a
United Nations sanctuary from which the fedayeen raiders
could operate without fear of reprisal.
Almost certainly the explanation of this policy decision is
that those in authority did not realize what it meant, that there
was a little panic in Washington and that there was no cool de-
liberation.
Had there been, how could the makers of this policy have
failed to see that Britain and France, which are in a bitter cold1
war with Nasser, could never conceivably support a policy so
one-sidedly favorable to Nasser? I would have supposed that
anyone could have foreseen what happened — that if we forced
the issue we would get a veto by our allies and support from
the Soviet Union.
What caused the explosion? The sequence of events shows,
I think, that Col. Nasser convinced that he had won his fight
over Suez, moved on promptly to work out another step in his
grandiose plans to become the master of the Arab world. While
the Suez crisis was hot, Nasser suspended his war against Israel
and there were no raids. When the Suez crisis had passed, the
raids began again, accompanied by military measures to bring
Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon within Nasser’s orbit. His be-
havior convinced the Israelis that they could not live with him.
It convinced the British and the French that not only would
they get nowhere with him in a Suez negotiation but that he
was their implacable enemy throughout North Africa and the
Middle East. Had Nasser been reasonable, moderate, and states-
manlike after his victory in the Suez affair, this explosion would
probably not have occurred. But he is the typical aggressor-dic-
tator who will not stop until he is stopped. That is why once
again a policy of appeasement has, failed to preserve the peace.
For the time being this country has no policy in the Middle
East. The policy on which we operated is in ruins. It was to re-
strain Britain, France and Israel from using froce — which was
a most desirable objective. But what this policy has lacked was
any constructive plan — such as might have been developed of
the Indian proposals — which looked towards a settlement in
the Middle East. The result was that we restrained the British,
the French and the Israelis, but not Nasser. This led to the ex-
plosion which has blown our Middle East policy to bits.
President Eisenhower’s formula as a peace-maker has been
to stop the shooting and without working out a settlement to
have both sides accept the status quo. Why has the formula not
worked1 this time? Because this time there was Nasser who does
not and will not accept the status quo, who is so great a dis-
turber of the peace that those who are hurt by him cannot take
it forever.
Usually the Christmas bells
are already pealing when
Chanukah rolls around. This
year, by a quirk of the calen-
dar, the dreidl will be spinning
before the bells hdraldi the
coming of our neighbors’ sea-
son of festivities. Yet no doubt
there will be some in our midst
who will revert to the seasonal
prattle of synthesizing the two
occasions.
There is no denying the spirit
of good will that is generated
by the Christmas holiday, but
it seems to me that the custom
amongst some of us at this
time of year to try to find a
synthesis or a common denom-
inator between Chanukah and
Christmas is not only a denial
but a very profanation of the
difference of the two faiths. It
is of course that Judaism and
Christianity have run parallel
courses through a major part
of history. But there is the
other verity — parallel lines
never meet.
This is no plea for segrega-
tion. But for the life of me I
can’t understand trie striving
to dilute the Chanukah tale —
an epic in the struggle for Jew-
ish survival — with a theme
that is \ completely alien and
contradictory to Jewish think-
ing and doctrine. We are either
to retain our Jewish identity
or abandon it. Very frankly,
we are not going to retain it
much longer if we keep on di-
luting it with Christian religi-
ous atmosphere and practices.
There is and can be no ob-
jection to sharing festive occa-
sions with our Christian neigh-
bors, but the sharing must be
based on the rational premise
that the object of exchange of
religious interests is attainment
of mutual understanding and
not integration or assimilation.
I know of no instance where
Chanukah lights have been lit
in Christian homes. On the
other hand, I know of hun-
dreds of Jewish homes where
Christmas trees are lit. This is
not synthesis but the road to
extinction. Chanukah cannot
be the road in that direction.
EXPERTS IN FABRICATION
The New York Times, whose
editorial dignity is rarely ruf-
fled, last week lashed out with
all its semantic claws against
Dmitri T. S h e p il o v of the
Soviet Union for having at-
tributed to the newspaper a
statement it never made. The
editorial called Shepilov an un-
adulterated liar, but Dmitri, it
seems, doesn’t frighten so easi-
ly. He takes his orders else-
where, where the price of dis-
agreement with order-made
truth is liquidation, and it was
the voice of the Kremlin which
was speaking when he told the
international organization in
unhalting words and without
a trace of shame that “it is
common knowledge that the
Egyntian state had insured in
practice the freedom of pass-
age through” the Suez Canal.
Having unburdened himself of
this “common knowledge ”
without batting an eyelash he
oroceeded to treat the Assem-
bly to an equally untarnished
truth — that the U. N. debate
d “clearly shown” that th
utsch in Hungary was organ-
ized with the complicity of in-
fluential foreign forces.
If the second “truth” is as
true as the first “truth” the
addition of the two truths adds
up to a monstrous falsification
Mrs. J. M. Leipner
of the type which has been the
hallmark of the red and brown
and black totalitarians of ,our
age.
Mrs. J. M. Leipner, past pre-
sident of the Agudas Achim
Ladies Auxiliary, will be hon-
ored at the Dec. 4 noon meet-
ing to be held at Agudas Achim
Congregation. The presentation
to Mrs. Leipner will be made
by Mrs. Simon Goodman. (For
complete story, see Section III
pagd 16.)
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