July 15, 1932
From “Tawongans Leave Monday”
A capacity enrollment of 80 Woodcrafters leave for Camp Tawonga in the Lake Tahoe region on Monday to spend two glorious weeks in the outdoors. Girls’ encampment, under the direction of Emma J. Loewy, follows a very successful boys’ camp with a record-breaking 200 boys. This camp for Jewish youth is sponsored by the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association and B’nai B’rith, with George A. Schlitter acting as camp director.
Self-expression and creative work form the keynote of this girls’ camp. An interesting experiment in self-government is being carried out by the Tawongan Tribe. Purposeful activities under the guidance of a trained staff build strength of body and character.
With “I Will” the Tawongan motto, and “truth, beauty, love and fortitude” for its basic laws, every member of the tribe, from chief woodcrafter down to the little 9-year-old “brave,” all work in a unified effort to make their camp ideal. The personnel includes a staff of college-trained counselors, cooks and camp physician.
July 17, 1981
From “The Editor’s View”
If there are any among you who doubt that anti-Semitism in this great democracy of our is alive and flourishing, that doubt should be shockingly eliminated by the political cartoon that appeared on the editorial page of the San Francisco Chronicle last Saturday.
The cartoon … showed a caricature of Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin, with a beak-like nose and the elongated mouth of a baboon, engaged in a performance of puppetry. Begin is shown manipulating a series of wires from which are suspended President Reagan, Uncle Sam clutching an F-16 warplane in one hand and a scissors in the other hand. The scissors is about to snip the wire connected to an Arab who is holding an AWAC (Airborne Warning and Control System) military jet. The cartoon depicts two tiny … characters exclaiming “It’s called foreign policy” and “I don’t Likud.”
Had the cartoon appeared in a publication of Iraq, Syria or the Palestine Liberation Organization, it would not have been surprising. But in the San Francisco Chronicle it suggests that the infamous anti-Semitic “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” are alive and well right here in San Francisco.
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