Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1954 Page: 1 of 8

                                
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■ Volume VIII—No. 27
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ROUNDUP
I't’s not pleasant to read that
Major General Mohammed
Rafiq Arif, Iraqi Chief of Staff
was decorated by our own
Chief of Staff General Matthew
B. Ridgeway. Background:
General Arif held the com-
mand post in the Iraqi army
during the disaster days of
1941. Everything looked bleak
for the Allies then. At a time
which served him best to prove
his worth toward the Axis,
Arif & Co. were in on the pro-
Nazi revolt which teamed his
country with the Axis Powers.
Arif got the award with report-
ed State Department and
White House blessings. In 1948.
Arif led the aggression against
Israel and today his country
is still officially at war with
Israel.
Add this to your collection
of Jewish populations: Toron-
to, Canada: 75,000. Montreal:
85,000. Percentage of non-
Jewish population is 6 and 5
per cent respectively.
Who said Hitler was still
dead? Last week in the shade
of old Heidelberg Castle in the
same city in Germany young-
sters got a bang out of digging
up bodies in the ancient Jewish
cemetery. After the desecra-
tions the youths played games
with the bones of the dead. A
NEW GERMANY. TIME
MARCHES ON!
Desecrations were not con-
fined to Germany. From Pre-
mier Moshe Sharett comes the
parliamentary report that the
ancient Jewish cemetery on
the Mount of Olives has had its
graves desecrated. The cem-
etery is in Jordan held terri-
tory in the old city of Jerusa-
lem.
Ethiopia is ready to give de-
jure recognition to Israel in-
spite of Arab pressures . . .
Dr. Arthur Burns, economic
advisor to President Eisen-
hower, said the Western powers
“will ultimately, in their own
interests, take steps against the
Arab blockade of the State of
Israel” ... In Philadelphia,
The Sam Paleys gifted Albert
Einstein Medical Center to the
tune of $750,000 . . . Mrs. Vera
Weizmann, widow of world
famous Chaim Weizmann, Is-
rael’s first president, was given
Brazil’s highest decoration, the
Cruzeiro da Sol. Even though
Brazil was really founded by a
Jew, Mrs. Weizmann was the
first Jew to receive this award.
IN OUR EIGHTH YEAR Thursday, July 8, 1954
Dr. H. E. Silverman Appointed
To Head Shearith Israel Pulpit
UNS—United Nations Service
8 Pages — 15’c per copy
Announcement has been
made of the appointment of Dr.
Hillel E. Silverman to the pul-
pit of Congregation Shearith
Israel at Park and Eakins St.
in Dallas.
Dr. Silverman was born in
Hartford, Connecticut, in 1924.
He is the son of Rabbi and Mrs.
Morris Silverman, of that
city. His father has been, for
the past thirty years, the spir-
itual leader of one of the largest
Jewish Congregations in the
country, and has achieved na-
tional prominence as the author
and compiler of numerous
prayer books used throughout
the English speaking countries.
His mother is a well known
authoress of plays and child-
rens’ books.
Dr. Silverman was graduated
from Yale University in 1944,
with highest honors. At Yale,
he was a member of the Uni-
versity Debating Team and the
Basketball Squad, and was
active in Inter-College Football
and Baseball.
Dr. Silverman studied at the
Hebrew University in Jerusa-
lem in 1947.
In 1949, Dr. Silverman was
ordained a Rabbi at the Jewish j
Theological Seminary of Amer-
ica, from which his father was (
graduated in 1922. In 1952, Dr. j
Silverman was awarded his
Doctorate by the Seminary in
the field of Bible.
Upon ordination from the
Seminary in 1949, Dr. Silver-
man served on its administra-
tive staff, specializing in Teen-
Age education and working in
the capacity of Field Director
of the Leaders’ Training Fel-
lowship. He was Assistant to
the Director of the Jewish Mu-
seum and occupied pulpits in i
the East during the Jewish
Festivals and Holidays.
In 1951, Dr. Silverman en-
tered the United States Navy
Jerusalem Will Standi Test
Says Sharett As Firing Flares
JERUSALEM (WNS) With
tension mounting over the con-
tinued firing over the border
line of this divided city, Prime
Minister Moshe Sharett issued
a statement that Israeli forces
“will continue to refrain from
any act of provocation and will
resort to no action which is
liable to aggravate the situa-
tion, but it will maintain vigi-
lance and stand ready to repel
any attack and strike back at
the aggressor.”
Declaring that Jerusalem
“will withstand this test just
as it withstood similar and
graver trials in the past,” Mr.
Sharett said “we are faced with
a new and deliberate violation
and repudiation by the Jordan
Government of its obligations
under the armistice agree-
ment,” adding that “it would
appear that in the absence of
any international reaction to
the flouting by Jordan of the
armistice agreement in the
past has served as encourage-
ment to that government to
commit this outrage, which is
an offense almost to the entire
civilized world no less than to
Israel.”
Plain Talk
By Alfred Segal
Hillel E. Silverman
as a Chaplain. He was stationed
at the Marine Corps Recruit
Depot, Parris Island, South
Carolina, and was later trans-
ferred to Naples, Italy, where
he served for fourteen months
as Jewish Chaplain for thg
Mediterranean Sixth Fleet and
NATO Shore Establishments
in the Mediterranean area. His
duties aboard ship and station
took him throughout Europe,
Western Asia and North Afri-
ca. Dr. Silverman has recently
returned to the United States
where he was released from
active duty.
He is the author of the “Jun-
ior Prayer Book for Summer
Camps” and “Selichot Service.”
Dr. Silverman is married to
the former Devora Halaban of
Iserusalem, Israel, and Johan-
nesburg, South Africa. Their
daughter, Gilla, was born in
1951.
Dallas Hadassah
Member Brunch
Next Tuesday
The Dallas Chapter of Hadas-
sah will hold a Membership
Brunch at the home of Mrs.
Harold Oster, 7100 Lakeshore
Drive on Tuesday, July 12 at
11 A.M.
Purpose of the brunch is to
recruit new members for Dal-
las Hadassah which has just
reorganized into three group
units. Hostesses for the meeting
Smiling Faces, Sunshine And Happiness Spell Success
Fort Worth Day Camp Fills
Second Session To Capacity
Topping expectations the sec-
ond session of the Fort Worth
Federation’s Day Camp has
reached its enrollment capacity
and registration for the second
session has definitely closed.
An Open House is planned
for next Wednesday, July 14
from 10:30 to 12 noon. All
parents are invited. It is es-
pecially advisable to bring
Dad out too. Let him see
what a wonderful job the Day
Campers are doing.
Parents who have children
attending this session and who
have not registered them for
the final session would be wise
in making their application as
soon as possible.
Meanwhile the children have
will be Mrs. Harold Oster assis-
ted by Mmes. William Svidlow
and Sol Wald.
Rabbi and Mrs. H. E. Silver-
man will be guests of honor.
Rabbi H. E. Silverman
been living it up at the camp.
They’ve learned arts, crafts,
and games. They go on hikes,
enjoy nature hunts and have
supervised swim instruction.
This week they’ve been in-
troduced to a new swimming
advisor, Elizabeth Hall. Miss
Hall is the swimming instructor
at Paschal High School where
she is a member of the Physical
Education staff. Elizabeth also
holds the highest American Red
Cross qualifications as a swim-
ming director. She will super-
vise group swims and indi-
vidual instruction.
Applications a^e now being
accepted at the Federation Of-
fice, FO-7646 for the third and
final session which begins on
July 19.
Those who have not made
application for the final session
are urged to do so immediately
since there is only room for the
quota of 60 campers. That goal
is fast nearing attainment.
WHO AM I, THEN?
I am having a problem: Am I a Jew or a Hebrew? It’s
really not an awfully distressful problem, because I have
thought of myself as a Jew all the years of my long life, and
have enjoyed it; except momentarily, on occasions when I
hear about people who speak the word Jew as if they were
spitting it out. It’s so much easier to spit “Jew” than it is
“Hebrew”.
So I had been going along most satisfactorily as Jew until
the other day. I was strolling peacefully along the main street
of our suburb when through the big window of Loretta’s
delicatessen and restaurant, I got a beckoning that invited me
to come in.
The invitation was from former neighbors of mine, Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Harris who were dining at Loretta’s. They
wanted to tell me proudly about their son Bobby who is a
corporal in Korea. They told me this and that of Bobby’s mil-
itary career, and thus, all of a sudden they caused this problem
— Jew or Hebrew? — to impinge upon me.
Mr. and Mrs. Harris weren’t feeling any too serious about
the question; they were giving it to me more by way of
laughing, and it’s a good thing to introduce laughter in Jewish
life once in awhile; especially in Jewish columns. (I can say,
though, without fear of successful contradiction that this is
the only Jewish column that gives out laughs or tries to.)
Yes, the Harrises had been saying, Bobby was doing all
right in Korea, had been slightly wounded in the head by
shell fire, had been given a Purple Heart for that, and now
he was a big man in the program for entertaining our troops
in Korea. He had helped to manage Marilyn Monroe when she
was over there.
“But, anyway, Bobby is hav-
ing an awful problem”, Mr.
Harris winked. “He just can’t
be sure who he is in the Army.
You might say he is the only
Jew in the U.S. Army, yet he
can’t feel too sure.”
“What do you tell me, Mr.
Harris? The Army is full of
Jews, just as full in proportion,
as of Catholics and Protes-
tants.”
Mr. Harris replied, “Yes,
that’s very true but I insist:
Bobby is the only Jew. All
the others are Hebrews.”
Mrs. Harris explained: Every
soldier wears around his throat
a dog tag, as it is called, by
which his religion is identified.
A Catholic carries a C on his
dog tag, a Protestant a P and
a Jew an H which means he
is Hebrew. If the soldier falls
in battle they will know from
his dog tag by what religion
to bury him.
Only Corporal Bobby Harris
wears a dog tag with a J on it
that suggests he is not a He-
brew but a Jew. He seems,
indeed, to be the Army’s only
Jew.
The corporal became aware
of his special identity not long
after he was taken into the
Army, and, how come? He
went about asking other boys
who were Hebrews. All these
others had H on their tags --
plainly Hebrews. Only Bobby
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