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- ft'fi wets talking about the Fourth of July. I told my friend, Cidocn, that Benjamin Franklin seemed to look on It as a kind of American Passover. Franklin propqsed that the seal of the United States should be an engraving of Ule • Israelites fleeing from Pharaoh. "Yes," said Gideon, "but It isn't celebrated rJgh't." "1 suppose you would have Americans eat matzohs on the Fourth like Jews on Passover," 1 said. "Why not? "asked Gideon. "Matzoh crackers would be better than firecrackers. No one loses an arm or leg eating xnatzob crackers. Besides, historically, they serve the purpose better. Jews eat matzohs because It recalls the haste of the period of the Exodus. Moses did not want to do any 'unnecessary waiting for the time required to make bread. There was the same necessity for hast* after the Fourth of July, 1776. The states had to be mobilized for sudden action. So matzohs would better recall that period." "Then Gideon," I said, "I suppose you think Americans on the Fourth maybe should also eat matzoh ball soup?" ""Of course," said Gideon. "Doesn't It say so In the Declaration of Independence?" "No," I said, "I don't think matzoh ball soup is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence." •.:••.,•.:•' ' "Yea, il "does," sald*Gldeon. '.'It says, 'AU men are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' And when you eat matzoh ball soup, you are surely pursuing
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Israel, with 40 prisoner* on KAMPALA, Uganda-A new war"or liervelTwal in WT Hie""liBiJ" ~as«sa ~iiisi ~\OB force at midweek as passenger list not be made Midlanders and others around public. Both the PLO-and the the worid awaited news of actions taken by authorities In Popular Front denied any the hijacking of an Air France connection with the hijackers, who damanded that the 53 airbus. The airliner, en route from detainees be flown to Ugan'Tel Aviv to Paris with 256 da's Entebbe Airport, where passengers—Including at least the airliner was being held. nine Americans and possibly By Wednesday morning, it as many as 100 Israeli—and was reported that nearly 50 crew, was hijacked by selfpassengers—mostly elderly proclaimed members of the women, children and sick Popular Front for the persons had been released, in Liberation of Palestine. response to the request .of They demanded that 53 so- Ugandan President Idl Amln. ( The Freach, who refused to calied "freedom fighters" imprisoned In Israel and four give i n ' to the hijackers, other countries be released demanded that the Israeli within 48 hours, or by ap- passengers to treated "the p r o x i m a t e l y Thursday same as all other passengers, morning, Omaha time. The including the French," the a i r l i n e r ' s c r e w a n d Jewish Telegraphic Agency ' passengers would be released reported. in the exchange. (Continued on Page 2)
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NEW YORK - In a "so that'the stigma of inmessage' marking' the U.S. feriority shall no longer be Bicentennial, Elmer . L. . attached to anyonehecause of Winter, president of thedifferences of race, creed, sex .. American Jewish Committee, or national origin." called on Americans to imThe AJC president referred plement further in the years to the recent U.S. conahead the goals enunciated in stitutional crisis. Never again, the Declaration of In-he declared, should we permit dependence. "the assumption of arbitrary .White noting that this or presumptuous authority by :l country.-had: stood for 200 elected or appointed oiflcials. w i K - Tblfl rare document, recently made avalla&to* years" for ideals rooted in deep • "In our support of liberty, the west by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, stales that moral, social and cultural the United States should Ludmlla Aleksandrovna Flshman was officially demoted from roots that paralleled those of continue Its steadfast backing h a p p i n e s s . " :'.. ; . . • ' . ' • • .. • •• . • . ;•. s^psrviscr ia sntedustria!eosjplex is Saratov, HSFSR. |t says the Jewish people, Winter for the safety and security of "I see your point," I said. "So on the Fourth, we should she "expressed her disagreement with the Soviet socialist urged Americans to redouble Israel, a beacon light of have matzoh ball soup, too. Anything else?" system" —i.e., applied for an exit visa to Israel. Her husband, their efforts "to give sub- democracy and freedom in the "01 course," he said. "Horseradish. Remember, the Mikhail, a teacher, also was demoted for the same reason. The stance to the Ideals enunciated troubled Middle East. We are maror, the bitter herbs. As I said about matzohs, the document recommends Mrs. Flshman be transferred to other in that historic document convinced that our. country whole idea of the food is not the food itself but the history. work such as toilet attendant, linen manager or yardkeeper. whose birth we celebrate at has a transcendent national If people do not recall their history, Santayana said, they (NCSJPhoto) .•"'".;.., and strategic interest io the thlitime." are doomed to repeat it. Jews eat bitter herbs on Passover Specifically, he urged that ' survival of democracy in that to recall the bitterness of slavery times. Memory Is unincreased steps be taken part of the world,'' he said. derestimated. • I' ComplDod from J«wl«h Pratt Newt E«vlco«. I against, the vestiges of "If people would recall Watergate, there would be no. discrimination In our society future Watergates. I remember my father used to take a Professor Andre Sakharov is to be awarded an honorary lump of horseradish as big as a gold ball and eat it at the doctoral degree by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem this Seder and you could see the tears coming from his eyes. "month. Prof. Daniel Moynlhan, former U.S. Ambassador to the You would think ho was a slave in Egypt. The Seder is OM AH Ar- R e s o l u t i o n s U.N., is among the other honorees.;. Actress Elizabeth Taylor Jewish history In America really anhistorical drama, In which every Jew is an acregarding t h e antiwas recognized by the American Jewish Congress for her work told with medals, Page 5 . . . tor.". Don't like lavish Bar MltiDefamation League of B'nal In founding the Israeli War Victims Fund after the Yom Klppur "Troppose iharaii,"*» »ai<5. vans? You're not alone, Page 7 B'rith, Israel and possibly new War:,.j.. Israel's Finance Minister says that the price index is "No," fcftld Gideon. ''You forget the Four Questions."; .TV bes Molnes plans Insituations arising In Mexico expected to rise another 32 percent this year . . . Harold '.'-The great trouble with the world," he sajd, "is thaHt terfaith Bicentennial,. Page 8 we'retohave been voted upon Dinennan, director of community services of the National 1 does not ask enough questions. Why doesn't the United ;•.-.. . Family camping at Wednesday at the B'nal B'rith Jewish Welfare Board (JWB), died June 20 after a lengthy (Continued on P a g e 2 ) ••••/••--•• Newman, Page n . "• . •District Six Convention here. illness. He was 47..'. ,„ A p p r o x l m a t e J - y "200 delegates,-together with their wives and - families, from across thrlJistrict attended : he began to "delve into the -jByBichardPeajT weekly.^ , • ''"''• didn't lose iheir faith In lh<^ eentratlon camps—tl|e OMAHA-An attempt by a The rabbi, a graduate of Holocaust and that "the kind camps—In thd practice of moral as well as physical the convention, which rah native Omahan to delve into Omaha Central High School, of Heroism displayed by Jews Judaism was as of great an strength" Uieyjexhibited. . , J u n e - 2 6 - 3 0 . I t w a s Before he was finished, he - headquartered at the; Hilton the moral as well as physical discussed the book prior to a in the ghettos, In the co'h- order a s the physical resistance" theymad^-—'-— had—conducted •-strength of the Jews -who- JCC OlderrAduIts' birthday Sunday -••• night's speaker, That has already been well- terviews and done much survived the Holocaust has party honoring his mother, documented. "What Is less manuscript research, In- international B'nai B'rith . resulted in a book published. Mrs, David (Rose) Rosencommonly "known "Is the. cluding Responsa literature— President David Mv Blumby Ktav Company of New baum, this past Monday (June manner In which Jews;at- that which contains the an- berg, .Renounced, allegations 28). 'York. ' " -•-• , tempted to malntairj dignity, . swers of religious authorities, about Jews and Zionists by The book Is "a record of how The book Is "Holocaust and as human beings, their belief to questions put to them by ^former Vice, PresidentHalakhah" and Its author is believing Jews attempted to in God" while faced with laymen. "They were not Just turned-novelist SpiroAgnew. Rabbi Irving Rosenbaum, conform to Judaism In the Assistant Secretary of State "situations that would have, theoretical questions, but spiritual leader of Chicago Holocaust," said Rabbi caused most people t& sink to questions actually as&edcf the -Alfra! L. Atherton Jr. was to-, Loop S y n a g o g u e and Rosenbaum. the level of animals and lose rabbis and the answers address Wednesday night's It was his goal, he said, to columnist for the Chicago final banquet at Peony Park. their faith in any kind of given." confirm the fact that Jews Sentinel, that city's Jewish np>l«w» <««• tat, t p n u i 11 or Bt*o^pi \SK T.
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