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The Endless Search for Freedom
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1970
April 21-28
By Mickey Gcrcllck I wonder what the reactions will be to the lonely face of an ancient Jew who dominates the front page of this paper. At a time when moon mission news ' dominates the headlines will an ancient Jew seem irrelevant? As we approach another Pass* over season, which lias more meaning—the memory of the past? The hope for the future? Or can either exist without the other? I know, for instance, that the younger set will not understood my choice of this Passover illustration. Even with his long hair and beard, they will not be able to identify with this ancient Jew. They will tell me that my nostalgia for things past, blind me to what is relevant—here and now. Yet I see In that ancient Jew the eternal Jewish struggle for freedom which has not yet been
.hunger of the Israeli Jew for security and peace. I see the plight of 3. million Jews in Russia. I can even see him with black face in 20tli c e n t u r y America, and he is ever so relevant. • And there is notalgia as well. I see in him the face of my grandfather, and the many generations that preceded him. It gives me a sense of continuity —of being part of a people who will not die. •'• 1190k at this ancient Jew and I know who I am. In my veins flows the blood of hundreds of
generations of heroes who did successful,exploration of the not shrink from the challenges moon. The insidious threats of of life. I am a descendant of slavery transcends • geographithe people of Moses and Isaiah cal and political boundries. . and Maimonides; and the deAnd so I see in that ancient fenders of the Warsaw- Ghetto Jew the misery of those enand the builders of Israel. I am 'slaved by war; tho bewilderan American, fortunate to be ment of those enslaved by drugs living iu the most powerful land and erotic pleasures; the agony the earth has ever known, of those enslaved by the horblessed with the freedom and rors of poverty, disease, illiteropportunity to "do my thing"— acy, hate, fear and all the other here and now, as they did — modern plagues that threaten there and then. ' ' mankind. And I know that just as ray The quest for freedom did not end with e x o d u s from ancestors were able to go forth Egypt nor will it end with the to freedom after 430 years sub-
Inside This Passover Edition The Jewish Census . . . .Page 8
Mouths of Babes . . . . . P a g e 12
A Nice Jewish Family .Page 9
Truth About Zionism . .Page 15
Teenage Drug Addict . Page 10
Israel's Children . . . . . . Page 20
merged in the idegradaHon o£ their slavery, there can be a' new birth of freedom from the ugliness that surrounds my life. * * * Monday evening we will gather once, again for our family Seders. It will be a. familiar scene, and most of us will be sitting at the same places we sat-in years past. But there .will be a difference. We will feel the aching void of loved ones who will be miss-ingirom our tables for the first time this year. At the same time, we will note gratefully . the addition of new f a m i l y 'members. Joy and sadness will /be mingled as each of us view the Seder table, remembering; —the events of the past year that have changed our families in so many ways. Part of the magic of Passover is remembering, for it is our knowledge of the past that helps give us faith for the fu.ture.,,,-cut-,/-/**«,*u.».•/...-.
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