American Jewish Periodical 6 rhge cv DETROIT JEWISH . CHRONICLE Center N times Camp Leaders Supervisors for the five sum- mer camps operated by the Jew- ish Community Center were an- nounced this week by Harry L. Jones, chairman of the camping committee. Deena Zemel was named super- visor of Camp Northwest day camp which will meet at the Verner School, Pembroke near SchaefTer. Registrations are ac- cepted at the Northwest Exten- sion. 18677 Livernois, DI. 1-2130. Frank Loewenberg will con- tinue as supervisor of the 12th Street Council Center day camp. Jim Senor will be supervisor at Camp Habonim, day camp at the Woodward Center, and Ted Gold- berg will direct Camp Frelach at the Dexter-Davison Branch. Sam Marcus will serve his sec- ond summer as supervisor of the Center's camp for mothers and children at Camp Chelsea. Registration is now in progress at all four Center buildings. Reg- istrations for mothers' and chil- dren's camps is centralized at the 12th Street Council Center, 8687 12th. TY. 8-6000. All campers must*be Center members. Passover Greetings Sheeton Furs Tricameral Council Urged for Local Jews he was forced to create his own communal setup. • • • IN THE GHETTO, through the that a Jewish homeland will carry on its wings Messianic potentials for a transformed Judaism in America. Many a Zionist preached that with the creation of an independent Jewish state, a revival of Jewish cultural creativity will simultaneously rise for Jewish Communities outside Israel. . After close to three years o Israel's independence, and the characteristics of a Jewish com- disappearance of this Utopian de- munity. lusion, we are thoroughly con- • • • vinced that no way of life, how- THE TERM "COMMUNITY" ever flourishing, outside the was borrowed from the Latin boundaries of our own domain, "community s" which in turn is can do for us what we ourselves derived from the word "corn- are unwilling or unprepared to munis" meaning "common." do. Thus the designation "commu- While it is true, on the other nity" implies a fellowship of like hand, that a thriving Jewish way interests and common creative of life in Israel can, as it has in expression. This connotation is the past, stimulate creative ex- especially significant to Jewish pression in Jewish life beyond its life. Judaism in the past w a s natural boundaries, nonetheless never limited to any one phase the conditions necessary for such of life. influence are not fully met. As important as the study of Israel is an infant state and at Tora was to the Jew of yester- best it should not be expected to year, it merely constituted one extemporize a way of life which phase of his life's program. takes generations to develop. i Charity, though it played no But what is even more impor- small role in the life of our tant to ourselves is the fact that people and tantamount to a RABBI LEHRMAN we have not given too much of passion penetrated the hum- • • • our energies in setting up a com- blest of Jewish houses, exempt- munal structure on the American our co-religionists across the seas. ing no one from this basic so- This is gratifying enough and cial impulse, was never substi- Jewish scene, which could serve as a receiving station to the cul- highly commendable, but to be tuted for the totality of joyous tural and religious transmitting engaged in philanthropic endea- living. vors at the neglect of our own plant developed in Israel. Not even the synagogue was cultural and spiritual vineyard is thought of as a full program, • • WE HAVE DEVOTED and are to invoke the full and thunder- exempting the Jew from partici- pation in the overall pattern of devoting a generous portion of ous wrath of the prophet. The Jewish community is in Jewishness. our time and effort in helping need of reconstruction if Jewish Thus Judaism flourished or at life is to serve us today as ef- least survived, when conditions fectively as it has in the past. hampered its growth, because it While we speak freely of a represented life's all embracing [ A Happy and i Jewish Community in America gamut of activity whether it be the fact remains that such a social, cultural, economic and P rosperous Passover community exists in name only, spiritual. Such was the nature of Juda- We have, to be sure, the frag- ments of a community, but parts ism as it functioned in the Jewish do not make for an organic whole "Kehilla" or community. The he had been forced to identify himself with his own community. He now lived in a community within a community, unable and unwilling to break through.the inner concentric circle into the outer. Consequently a full Jewish life was developed; for to the Jew no other form was available. Then he breathed unadulterated Jewish air in a concentrated Jewish atmosphere. But soon the air-tight Jewish community crumbled. With the birth of the so called "eman- cipation" which approximately a century and a half ago, opened the door. for the Jew, to the general life of his neigh- bors about him, lie was faced with the most crucial test of character. He now was faced with the choice of escaping his own des- Middle Ages and' up until 150 years ago he was bound to depend upon his own social outlets, cul- tural expression and, of course, By RABBI MOSES LEHRMAN his own religious life. 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Too often we fall into the error of referring to a Jewish neighbor- hood is a community, forgetting that more is required of a neigh- borhood than that it be peopled by Jewish residents to give it the Passover Greetings N.Y. CUSTOM SHOE SHOP ...■■•■•••■•••■••■ •••• ■•■■ Shoes Made to Order for All Foot Ailments G reetings and &st Wisles to all MR. HINTZ 219 John R. WO. 2-7989 Passover Greetings ... INDIAN VILLAGE CLEANERS 6925-31 East Lafayette LO. 7-6500 IN ANCIENT JUDEA, the com- munity carried a natural aspect, much the same as does a French community for the Frenchman or an English community for the Englishman. In fact the commu- nity became synonymous with the municipality. There was no conflicting en- vironment to contend with. The Jew had no choice but to remain part of the Jewish communal system into which he was born and raised. A similar condition exists for the Jew in Israel today. Thus when the Shamash runs through the streets of Tel Aviv today on a truck and with the sound of the bugle summons all shopkeepers to close their stores Friday afternoon, it appears a natural phenomenon to the Israeli. There is • nothing strange about it to him. In this natural setup there is no communal problem for the Jew. He has no choice but to maintain asso- ciation with his group. When the Jew, however, had been driven from his soil to for- eign lands the complexion of his communal life underwent a com- plete change. The naturalness of his homeland disappeared. Segregated by his "host" na- tion from the rest of the popula- tion, which at best tolerated him, tiny, by assimilating with his neighbors, or of remaining in his original Jewish community, though the doors were wide open. In the main, the Jew chose the latter, though the former took its toll. • • • AS TIME WENT ON he becaine aware of the need of a third form of Jewish communal life, which will function not in an air- tight concentric circle apart from the general community, but side by side with it, as a complement to the general life of the non- Jewish community. With this problem we are faced today. Concsientious Jews are no longer troubled by the ob- sessions of those who fear that a full Jewish communal life on American soil will create a con- flict in our lives as Americans. They are fully aware of the many contributions which a creative Jewish community can offer our democratic way of life. They know from experience that not alone is there no conflict involved but that one is bound to add to the other. Furthermore, they are con- (Continued on Page 27) PASSOVER GREETINGS CHECKER BAR & GRILL Mr. Rubin 725 Bates WO. 4-8002 Happy Passover MARYGROVE BEAUTYSALON 7517 W. McNichols Rd. 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