Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1960 — Page 5
Friday, September 3, 1960
The National Jewish POST and OPINION
Tucson Rallies To Get Rid Of Anti-iewish Resort Bias
TUCSON (P-O) — The hotel an d restaurant industry in Tucso n struck an unusual bargain recently with the city council an d minority groups crusading for a public accommodations an-ti-bias bill. The bargain was this: If the city council would refrain from passing such an ordinance, the industry would undertake to end discrimination on a voluntary basis. Then if, by December 1, the industry achieves “substantially” 100 per cent compliance from its members, there will be no ordinance. If not, the city council may go ahead and pass the ordinance
without opposition from the industry. TUCSON’S liberals view all this with mixed feeling's, M. B. Goldman reported in the Phoenix Jewish News. Some believe that the voluntary approach has a good chance of succeeding. Others are skeptical. The Phoenix Jewish News reported that there is tremendous interest on the issue. The Tucson newspaper's gave page one banner headlines to the story. The Tucson city council’s public hearing had to be moved to a hotel ballroom to accommodate all who wanted to attend. And then there was standing room only.
UVNEH CLAIMS
Israel's Ideals Have Become Empty Phrases
LONDON (P-O)—Israel’s Angry Middle-Aged Man, Eliezer Livneh, severly indicting Israeli society, said “ideals have become empty phrases.” Livneh, a former power in the Mapai party, said equality in Israel had turned into expense account hypocrisy, which was particularly prevelant among Israel’s ruling classes. Israel’s Government had become an oppressive bureaucracy, he said. Socialism had lost its meaning, and those who opposed it were flogging a dead horse, Livneh said. The kibbutz had degenerated, he said, while the pioneers of the Negev today were moved not by the ideal of conquering the desert, but by economic advantages. PARTY STRIFE, wastage of public funds, as well as widespread corruption, had reached fantastic proportions, Livneh claimed. He warned that the fact that there was hardly anyone truly disgusted with the system was all the more ominous While the cynicism of the older generation was the result of G
disillusionment with the romantic ideals of their youth, the younger generation which had never been romantically inclined, had adopted a “could-not-careless attitude, Livneh said. The Israel Army was the only major State organ which was free from corruption and regarded with the seriousness it deserved, he said. While there could be no security without the Army, the Army alone was not enough. Spiritually one could not live on the sword, he said. A warring nation could lose its soul. LIVNEH MADE his red-hot charges before the Israeli Students’ Association here. After his speech was over, Livneh was taken to task by members of his almost exclusively Israeli audience. One girl student accused him of being a cynic. Another claimed the “dead horse” of Socialist and Zionist ideals was not dead at all and the old pioneering faith was continuing to inspire Israel youth.
Israeli Youth Defended
LONDON (P-O) — Two Israeli intellectuals rejected Eliezer Livneh’s indictment of Israeli society and its youth. Professor Nathan Roten streich, a philosopher, said that it was a strange kind of logic to regard those who refused to follow Livneh as lacking in idealism or in a sense of purpose. “Israel is still a dynamic and exciting country, where many things are changing — ^jmetimes for the. worse, sometimes for the better. But one thing that has not changed is the sense of purpose which still dominates the Israeli atmosphere. As long as this exists young people will be attracted by idealism and higher values. By and large Israeli youth is still devoted, ideal-
istic, and serious, Rotenstreich said. Yizhar Smilansky, member of the Knesset and a leading Hebrew novelist accused Livneh of unwarranted generalizations. He said such generalizations were unjustified when applied to the changing conditions of such a young country as Israel. He had himself criticized Israeli youth before the Mapai conference on Israel’s younger generation a few weeks ago, he said. But he had done so not in a spirit of'dispair; he had tried to find constructive solutions by urging the youth of Israel to avail itself fully of the great opportunities which were in its grasp and of which some did not avail themselves.
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THIS DEGREE of public interest is all the more gratifying because not many years ago few people outside liberal and minority groups even knew there was a public accommodations problem in Arizona. The man on the street would have evinced surprise at being told that Jews were barred from half the resorts and dude ranches, the Phoenix Jewish News reported. Another encouraging development, the paper stated, was the fact that the hotel and restaurant people were willing to meet the pro-public accommodations people half-way. Instead of simply resisting the proposed ordinance, as their collegues have done on a state-wide basis whenever a public accommodations bill is introduced in the legislature, they came up with a plan for solving the problem, the paper noted. THE TUCSON daily newspapers opposed the ordinance. On the question of whether a voluntary approach to the public accommodations problem will work: The answer is simply that nobody can be sure, the Phoenix Jewish News said Such a plan has never been tried before. Two questions remain to be answered: First, what constitutes “substantially” 100 per cent compliance Second, after the program is adopted, what’s to prevent backsliding by hotels, motels and restaurants that have a change of heart or a change of management. The Phoenix Chamber of Commerce on various occasions promised not to distribute discriminatory resort literature and then casually forgot its promise. THE PHOENIX Jewish News stated: “But the Tucson plan, even with its drawbacks, is heartening, because it shows a desire to do something, and our neighboring city to the South deserves our praise and congratulations. Some day Phoenix must evidence the same kind of good will toward its minorities, and we hope that day comes soon.” “Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.” —Artemus Ward.
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TROY, N. Y. (P-O)—Mauretz Blonder wanted to enter rabbinical school so much that he rode his bicycle 165 miles to Brooklyn through pouring rain to make sure he could register. Wet and weary, the 17-year old Troy youth arrived at Yeshiva Torah Vodath late Sunday night He slept in a nearby alley and appeared Monday morning before Rabbi Aaron Braun, director of the Yeshiva. Mauretz, son of Cantor Herman Blonder of Temple Beth Israel here, didn’t make the unusual trip just to be different or set any records. Cantor and Mi’s. Blonder, who came to the United States from Switzerland six months ago, have little money and two sons who both want more than anything else to become rabbis. THEY COULD only afford to send one to the Yeshiva so the cantor and his wife accompanied 13-year-old Ingar to Brooklyn by
bus on Sunday. But this did not stop Mauretz. His parents consented to the bicycle trip in the belief that there just might be a chance for him to go to the Yeshiva. So he left Troy at the crack of dawn. Hardened by nine years of cycling in the Swiss Alps, Maurelz had no trouble completing the journey even though six inches of rain fell on the route in the wake of a hurricane. TELLING HIS story to Rabbi Braun on Monday, Mauretz described his lifelong dream of becoming a rabbi which has followed him from his native Stockholm to Norway, Switzerland and the United States. The dream became reality on Tuesday. Mauretz not only was accepted at the Yeshiva but he will receive an expense-paid education because of his courage and determination amid financial difficulties.
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