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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Nov. 23, 1964
Church, State一
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Dr. Sokal, advisor for the Hillel Foundation, said Hannekah is the celebration of the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrians. Hannekah is known as the festival of lights.
THE FESTIVAL of lights stems from a miracle in one of the ancient Hebrew Temples. The lamps in the temple ran out of oil and still continued to burn for eight days.
Next Sunday, members of the Jewish community will light a candle and will light a candle every day for eight days.
Dr. Sokal said during this time there usually is a party where the traditional songs and blessings are given.
A traditional pancake supper will be held for KU Jewish students at the Jewish Community Center at 5 p.m. Dec. 6.
The 526 foreign students on the KU campus will be celebrating the American holiday. Some of the students will visit homes of Kansas students and others will visit homes in Kansas cities
DEAN COAN SAID several students will go to Burns. Citizens of Burns have been inviting KU foreign students to spend Thanksgiving vacation in their homes since 1954.
Coan said the Junior Chamber of Commerce at Overland Park has made arrangements for several foreign students to spend the holidays there.
Newsman to Speak
Last Kansan
Ewald Osers, the Soviet and Eastern European news editor of the British Broadcasting Corporation, will speak at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
This issue of the Kansan is the last before Thanksgiving recess. Publication will resume with the Dec. 1 issue.
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Thankful Spirit Disappears
By Louis Cassels (United Press International)
Maybe it is time somebody started a drive to "keep the thanks in Thanksgiving."
No religious holiday has suffered a greater erosion of meaning than the one Americans will celebrate next Thursday. It's supposed to be a day for counting blessings. But it has become a day for eating too much and watching football games.
Have we forgotten how to be grateful for the highest living standards the world has ever known?
THE DETERIORATION OF Thanksgiving is one indication that we have. And there are other signs that point in the same direction.
Genuine gratitude is always accompanied by compassionate concern for those who are missing out on the blessings we enjoy. It simply is not possible to be simultaneously thankful to God and indifferent to the plight of your brother.
Yet it is becoming progressively more difficult for religious and charitable organizations to raise money for the relief of the poor. Officials of such organizations are saying privately that they have never known so many Americans to take such a callous and hard-hearted attitude toward human need.
There have always been stingy people in churches and synagogues. But in the past, they were usually ashamed of their selfishness, and tried to make excuses for it. Today it is quite respectable—even fashionable—in some congregations to scoff openly at both public and private efforts to combat poverty.
EACH YEAR, CHURCH leaders troop up to Capitol Hill to urge congressional approval of foreign aid programs. And even while they're testifying, congressmen get sacks of mail from church members who say they don't want any more of their tax money used to raise living standards in distant countries.
If government aid programs were the only targets of this nig-
gardly spirit, it might be interpreted as a reaction against poor administration and waste. But private relief agencies such as Church World Service, Catholic relief services, and CARE run into the same "I've-got-mine-soon-tother-me-about-the - other-guy" attitude.
NOW! ends Friday . . .
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