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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1982 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
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For Rabbi and Roily Schur
Two distinguished leaders of the Fort Worth Jewish
Community will be honored at special Sabbath services
next Friday when Beth-El Congregation recognizes a
quarter century of dedicated and devoted service
unselfishly given by Rabbi and Mrs. Robert J. Schur.
“Rabbi and Roily” are friends to all and ever willing
to over-extend themselves to make certain the life of a
single human being will become more worthwhile.
Their service predates a quarter-century by many
years in the Rabbinate in Houston as well as
Alexandria, Louisiana.
But there’s even more!
As students on campus they each invested their lives
in the greatest good service to others, which, in
essence, means service to humanity.
As a member of several WTiite House Commissions,
Rabbi Schur has had an impressive 25 years in Fort
Worth. His work with the Child Study Center, of which
he was president, set many notable standards. He has
been honored by the presidency of the Kallah of Texas
Rabbis and has done exemplary work with the Reform
movement’s National Federation of Temple Youth.
His participation in Human Relations — and all of his
deeds are a joint effort with Roily by his side include
the Jewish Social Service Agency, Fort Worth Human
Relations Commission, Golden Acres Home for the
Jewish Aged in Dallas and the National Conference of
Christians and Jews which honored him with its
Brotherhood Citation are but a few of the milestone
achievements to his credit.
The greater deeds of service have come [and will
come] in caring for his flock-which spans all people.
He has pursued his province, the pulpit, with a great
and quiet dignity. Roily has been constantly there with
him and for him.
Twenty-five years is a splendid milestone of
recognition and celebration.
It is only a beginning in a greater history of service to
come.
Mazle-Tov Rabbi and Roily.
You wear your laurels well.
May your good deeds continue to grow from strength
to strength.
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monitor Love of The Land Of Israel
BY MOSHE DECTER
There are moments in the
career of every writer whenj
he or she reads something
that someone else wrote and
says, “I wish I had written
that.”
That is how this writer
felt upon reading a letter
from Rabbi Benjamin A.
Kamin, of Bay Shore, N.Y.,
in the Feb. 11 New York
Times. It is a letter of such
surpassing delicacy and
beauty of expression that it
ought to be shared with
everyone who might have
missed it.
Rabbi Kamin’s letter was
occasioned by a Times news
article about Israeli with-
drawal from Sinai, which, he
notes, “touches upon a key
aspect of Israel’s exper-
ience”. He writes:
“The historical pattern of
assumption and return of
places, whether Jerusalem,
Golan or Sinai, tells the
story of the tentative nature
of Israel’s national circum-
stance. Ingrained into Isra-
el’s collective psyche is the
knowledge that nothing, be
it the osprey eggs of Sinai or
the nation’s very existence,
is necessarily for keeps.
“It just so happens that
this situation is unique to
Israel, and blatantly mis-
understood by much of the
world. At best, the nation’s
plea that its survival is an
immediate and real concern
is disdainfully dismissed as a
tiresome cliche’, when it
happens to be the truth.
“But Mr. Shipler (the
Times correspondent) al-
ludes to a specific undercur-
rent in Israel’s troubled
mood as he writes about the
Sinai withdrawal. As one
who has visited and traveled
extensively in the Sinai
desert within the past few
years, I can attest to the
region’s awesome beauty, its
environmental fragility, and
the loving care Israel has
administered to both.
“Whereas Egypt’s interest
in the coral reefs, wadis and
mountain ranges of Sinai has
had little to do with the
region’s natural balance, for
Israel this became a matter
of policy. Undeniably, both
nations have dealt with the
Sinai first in terms of
geopolitcal strategy. But
Israel went far beyond this.
“Israel has loved the
Sinai. Like an unabashed
foster parent, Israel cared
for the crystal waters of
Aqaba, maintained the eco-
logical equilibrium of the
desert birds and fish, explor-
ed and studied the remark-
able wilderness canyons.
When I reached the crest of
Mount Sinai in 1979 and
there performed the bas
mitzvah ceremonies of two
American girls, I saw the
sun rise over a terrestrial
glory which resonated with
both spiritual and physical
transcendance. The Egyp-
tians had risked the desert
child four times with war;
the Israelis had turned it to
peace.
“And so now the melan-
choly which Mr. Shipler
describes among the depart-
ing Israelis. Again, Israel
faces the reality of its
tentative hold on the earth.
Again, the foster parent
must yield its tender attach-
ment to the child it has
nurtured. It just is not that
easy.
“Perhaps it is politically
correct for Israel to return
the Sinai, and even some
other areas it now main-
tains. (Certainly, America
will follow suit and return
Wyoming to the Indians and
Russia will return Poland to
the Poles.)
“But politics notwith-
standing, if the world will
only learn more about
Israel’s poignant connection
to the land, then the world
will at long last have a
healthy insight into that
misunderstood nation’s real
sensibilities.”
Behind The Headlines:
Jews In Mitterand's Cabinet
BY BEN FRANK
PARIS [JTA] - The
background of the Jews
around President Francois
Mitterrand is fascinating
indeed.
Jacques Attali, 38, who
manages to spend part of
almost every day offering
political advice as well as
intellectual stimulations, is
from North Africa. He is one
of the more than 300,000
Jews from that continent
who infused new blood into
the French Jewish commun-
ity which changed from a
majority of Ashkenazic Jews
to a majority of Sephardic
Jews.
The prestigious newspa-
per, Le Monde, described
Attali as “an ebullient
Proteus,” who apparently
has succeeded in cutting
back on the number of hours
he sleeps without noticeable
effect. Otherwise, asks Le
Monde, how would he have
been able at the same time
to take an active role in the
Socialist Party; act as
Mitterand’s economic advis-
er and then staff director —
all without giving up piano,
skiing or tennis?
Prolific, indeed, Attali is
the author of numerous
books, and his articles on
economic problems have
shown an “uncommon orig-
inality,” according to ex-
perts in the field.
Robert Badinter
Robert Badinter is a
member of the Board of The
Fonds Social Juif Unifie and
also has been active on
behalf of Soviet Jewry. He
was born in 1929, into a
family of East European
immigrants and has been a
lawyer at the Paris Court of
Appeals since 1951. Along
with Jean Denis Bredin, he
heads one of the largest law
firms in Paris.
What makes Badinter so
intriguing is that he has led
a public campaign against
capital punishment and his
appointment as Minister of
Justice indicated that the
government intended to
outlaw the death peanalty.
This bill recently became
law. In fact, Badinter was “a
sort of last resort” for those
who faced the death penalty.
(Another Jewish Cabinet
minister, in the former
Administration, Simone
Veil, led the fight to legalize
abortion in France. She
became one of France’s most
popular ministers and sub-
sequently was elected Presi-
dent of the European Parlia-
ment, a post she held until
earlier this month.)
Badinter, who has an
“agregation,” most advanc-
ed law degree in France, is a
member of the steering
committee of the League for
the Rights of Man and is
active in Amnesty Interna-
tional. He still manages to
teach law at the Sorbonne
and is married to the
daughter of advertising ty-
coon, Marcel Bleustein-Blan-
chet.
Pierre Dreyfus
As Minister of Industry,
Pierre Dreyfus will be on
familiar territory. He first
joined the ministry back in
1935 as inspector general of
industury.
Drefus is known to be
particularly sensitive to the
situation of North African
Jews. He himself was raised
in a relatively assimilated
French Jewish family. In
fact, it was reported, at the
age of 13 he was surprised
his family with a request for
a Bar Mitzvah, to which they
agreed.
Since that time he has
firmly identified himself
with the French Jewish
community. He was instru-
mental in negotiations with
French national schools,
such as the L’Ecole Normale
and L’Ecole Nationale d’ Ad-
ministration, which led to
the schools agreeing not to
hold examinations on Jewish
holidays.
Dreyfus holds the honors
of Grand Officer of the
Legion of Honor and Com-
mander of the National
Order of Merit. He began his
career as a member of the
corps of technical advisors in
the French Ministry of
Commerce in Paris before
World War II. During the
war, he served as an
infantry sergeant until the
fall of France and then
joined the Resistance.
Jack Lang
It was to Jack Lang that
Mitterrand gave the task to
organize the inaugural cer-
emonies held at the Pan-
theon on May 21.
All his life Lang has led
parallel lives in the world of
politics, theater and univer-
sity. First active in the
ranks of the young radicals
who supported President
Pierre Mendes-France, he
joined the Socialists in 1965.
It was Lang’s organizational
genius which was responsi-
ble for setting ud the
Festival of Nancy; he was its
guiding force and it became
an important center of
creativity. In 1978, Lang
became an advisor to Mitter-
rand.
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to the U.S.!)
The Government sent in
more troops commanded by
Rifaat Assad, President
Assad’s brother.
Since then the fighting
has escalted. The New York
Times correspondent report-
ed this week that Syrian
tanks “are methodically lev-
eling vast areas of Hama.”
Hama is Syria’s fifth
largest city. Western journ-
alists and diplomats report
that more than 12,000
troops, backed by tanks and
artillery are systematically
reducing the city to rubble.
Baath Party militiamen
and plainclothes intelligence
officers are aiding the troops
and are shooting anything
that moves in the city.
One young man, who was
reported to have escaped
from Hama said bodies were
buried under collapsed
building.
The stench of death was
everywhere. It hung over
the city like a huge rotting
corpse.
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