Friday, May 23, 1947'
THE 'JEWISH NEWS
Page Four
20 Shevuoth Questions
As the Editor
Views the News
Tesi Your Jewish Knowledge
As part of its program service to Jewish Com-
munity Centers and YM-YWHAs, as well as other
Jewish community agencies, the National Jewish
Hapoe[Comes to Detroit
"T
Welfare Board has published a 40-page illustrated
manual on Shevuoth. From this manual, and from
"The Jewish Holidays, 250 Questions and Answers
on Their ,Significance, Origin and-ObeerVinee," by
Dr. Mordecai Soltes, we have extracted this She-
Palestine's Hapoel soccer ;yam',Col es to
Detroit on June 15 for a game with ate 41.!
star aggregation.
As Hapoel's able manager, Leib Sirkin,
painted out at a conference of sports writers
and radio broadcasters here,, the visit of this ,
team represents: -an. important good will .
gesture. It will serve to,indicate to -this com-
munity that the emphasis, placed in news-
paper headlines upon "terrori.sm" miSrepre-
tents the true character of the "Yisbuv whose
sturdy pionee s are engaAed in the important
tteStrtiq-,_
task of hom 'it TWA
' fr
tive efforts.
The U. of D. Stadium hould be filled to
capacity for the„Harioer
to be hoped that thousands of Christian soc-
cer enthusiasts will be on hand to witness
the athletic prowess of th e P4lestinian Jews.
Jews certainly should come en masse for this
important event.
vuoth quiz.
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regularly were shown to be more prejudiced
than those who attended irregularly."
On the basis of these shocking revelations,
AMG's announcement that it was planning
"a positive and well directed effort to teach
racial tolerance in German schools" proves
ineffective in removing the fears that Ger-
many not only remains violently anti-Semitic
but that the remaining Jews in Germany have
little chance of survival there.
The AMG report serves also to undermine
some of the faith we have hitherto had in the
possibilities of an emergency of decency from
the religiously-minded people.
In effect, the survey conducted among the
Germans acted as an admonition to Jews
everywhere to view seriously the sentiments
of surviving European Jews who refuse to
remain in the lands which have witnessed the
exterr • .ation of more than 6,000,000 of their
kinsmen, and who insist upon going to a land
they can call HOME.
It is the height of folly to ask the remnant
of surviving Jews either to remain in the
places of their birth or to return to the coun-
tries of their origin. It is futile to ask human
beings to remain in these slaughterhouses.
Unfortunately, the Germans are not alone
in their hatred of the Jews. The world that
has ended Nazi rule has become calloused
and refuses to enforce atonement for the
'crimes committed against our people. In a
decent world, the surviving Jews would have
been transported to their Homeland imme-
diately after V-E Day. But in an indecent
world we are compelled to carry on the battle
for the fulfillment of Jewish aspirations in
Ezetz Israel against all odds. This is the
answer the Germany survey already has
received from the Jews who unhappily are
referred to as "displaced." Their battlecry is
beingtaken up by Jews everywhere. The
battle goes on-until the eyes of humanity
are opened to the crimes that are being per-
petuated by the survival of anti-Semitism
and the continuation of Jewish homelessness.
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7. - By what special name, 'suggesting his assochi-
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8. How long did Moses remain on Mt. Sinai be-
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ments?
9. What did the Israelites do during the time that
Moses was preparing the Tablets of the Law?
10. What were the -Israelites doing when Moses
come down from the mountains with the Ten
Commandments?
No End to Nazi Poison
The American Military Government in
germany recently reported ,that a public
opinion survey conducted among 3,415 per-
sons showed that 39 per cent of the Germans
are anti-Semitic, 22 per cent "racists," 19 per
cent nationalists and 20 per cent without bias.
This survey .showed that women are
"markedly more biased" than men against
Jews and that persons "who attended church
- QUESTIONS,
In what Hebrew month, does. Shevueth tall?
. a, Why is _tur _festival, celled Shevuoth, or tip -
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Feast of weeicst
3. What is the agrfetilOrar significance' of 'She.
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11. What did Moses do when he found that the
Israelites had committed the sin of making and
worshipping the golden calf?
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12. By what three other names is Shevuoth
called?
13, Why is Shevuoth called Hag Ha-Katzir?
VOLIROPMet WNW
Is Our Community Drive Failing?
Another week has passed, and we are still far from the
$5,335,000 goal accepted for the 1947 Allied Jewish Campaign.
An analysis of the campaign's progress has convinced
the community's leaders that the objective can be attained
and that we are far from failure-provided all of the prospects
can be reached.
It is true that a great many among the thousands of pros-
pective contributors represent donors in the very low brackets.
But there are very many men and women in good financial
circumstances who have not been reached by our solicitors
and who must be approached immediately if the drive is to
succeed.
Both the volunteer workers and those who have not as
yet made their contributions owe a great debt to themselves
and to our people: the former not to miss a single prospect;
the latter to all in their contributions to the campaign office
-TEmple 3-5250-without waiting to be asked to give to the
sacred causes which are our collective responsibility.
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V14. Why is Shevuoth known as Hag Habikurim?
15. How is Shevuoth observed in the home?
16. What special food is associated with Shev-
uoth?
! 17. What special book is read in the synogogue on
Shevuoth?
18. What ancient Jewish hero, according to tradi-
tion, was born and passed away on Shevuoth?
19. What is Tikkun Shevuoth?
20. What special ceremony is conducted in Reform
Congregations on Shevuoth?
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ANSWERS
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Sivan: which is the third month in the Hebrew
calendar.
Because Shevuoth (literally "Weeks") occurs
seven weeks after the Passover festival.
When our forefathers dwelt in Palestine, She-
vuoth was observed as an agricultural feast
and marked the beginning of the wheat harv-
est.
rt commemorates the proclamation of the - Ten
Commandments.
Mt. Sinai.
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Moses.
Moshe Rabbenu (Mosei, our Teacher).
Forty days and forty nights.
They grew impatient while waiting for Moses,
as.l idppien.da.de a golden calf *high they yvor-
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The UN Is On Trial
10. They were dancing around the golden _calf,
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and worshipping it.
threw the Tablets of the Law to the
The United Nations' first session of the General assembly 11. Moses
ground,
shattering
them
to
pieces.
called to consider the question of Palestine has ended with the 12. Hag Hakotzir (Feast of Harvest), Hag Habi-
expected result: a committee of 11 nations has been chosen to
kurim (Feast of "First Fruits") and S'man
Matan Toratenu (Season of the Giving of our
study the issue and to present a report at the next session,
Law).
scheduled to open on Sept. 1.
The harvest season in ancient Palestine ex-
From this point on, the UN is on, trial. It remains to be 13. tended over a period of seven weeks, begin-
ning with the barley harvest during Passover
seen whether the nations of the world are sufficiently strong
and ending with the harvest of the wheat On
to enforce peace with justice in Palestine. The UN must
prove that it is able to act objectively, in accordance with the
principles enunciated since World War I, that no people is to
be condemned to homelessness and to a status of pariahs. The
'peoples of the earth have an opportunity to indicate that they
can back up the accepted ideals of historic justice which al-
ways have linked Israel with Eretz Israel and that they will
refuse to yield to threats emanating from groups that have be-
come known as fomenters of strife rather than creators of
good will and righteousness.
The UN General Assembly which has just ended was
marked by many unpleasantnesses. We are not frightened by
the indecencies accompanying the introduction by a spokes-
man for the Arab Higher Committee of the crucifixion myth
in relation to the ex-Mufti. On the contrary, we believe that
the resentment that has been expressed against such tactics
will boomerang against the Arabs. But this incident was in-
dicative of an attitude which reflected bad feelings and poor
manners in some quarters.
Nevertheless, we refuse to prejudge the issues and the
results. We are confident that spokesmen for our people will
make a good case for our cause in Palestine and we hold fast
faith that we shall win our battle for justice in the end.
The Shevuoth Festival
the fiftieth day-, the concluding festival of the
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grai nharvest (Shevuoth) was celebrated.
On Shevuoth each male Israelite brought the
first ripe fruits of the wheat harvest to the
Sanctuary, in accordance with the Biblical
injunction that each Israelite bring to the
temple "the first fruits of thy labors which
thou hast sown in the field."
It is customary to decorate the home with
greens, plants, and flowers.
Dairy food (Milchigs). Special cheese cake
(blinffes) are eaten as significant of the Torah.
which is compared in the Bible to milk.
The Scroll or Book of Ruth.
King David.
A book, containing excerpts from the Penta-
teuch, Prophets and Rabbinic literature, which
is read by pious Jews during the first night of
Shevuoth.
Confirmation exercises.
The Magnes Viewpoint
BI-NATIONAL ZIONIST VIEWS
OUTLINED BY 1HUD LEADERS
Three eminent supporters of the idea of a
bi-national state in Palestine-as- advocated by
the Thud-have joined in editing a volume, "To-
wards Union in Palestine: Essays on Zionism and
Jewish-Arab Cooperation," published by thud As-
sociation, P. .0. Box 451, Jerusalem. They are
Prof. Martin Buber, Dr. J. L. Magnes and E. Simon.
' to the memory of Henrietta Szold
Decl
and H. _ :alvaryski, "builders of the Jewish
National home and pioneers of the bi-national
idea," many prominent leaders are included
among the contributors to this volume. Among
them are, in addition to the editors: G. Luft, Moshe
Arnelansky, D. W. Senator, N. Hofshi, ,R. Koebner,
M. Avi-Shaul and others. '
The presentations given in this volume include
the most complete analysis of the Magnes-Buber-
et-al viewpoints and no Zionist who desires to be
fully infornied on the Palestinian situation can af-
ford to miss reading them.
All the participants in this volume are devout
Zionists who desire to see the realization of the
Zionist ideal, but all of them strive for maximum
cooperation with the Arabs on a bi-national basis
as an inevitable need in Jewish redemption work
in Eretz Israel. -
In view of the sensational statements made at
the UN General Assembly by Andrei Gromyko, and
because of the strong endorsement given his plea
for a bi-national Arab-Jewish state by Hashomer
Hatzair, the Mud program as outlined in the
book under review assumes added importance at
Shevuoth, the festival which commemorates the rev-
elation on Mount Sinai and the proclamation of the principles
embodied in the Decalogue, should serve as occasion for re-
affirmation of our faith in the ultimate triumph of the.prin-
ciples of justice.
We would be yielding to despair and to helplessness if
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
we were to submit to those influences of force and power
Philip Slomovitz
Maurice Aronsson
politics which, unfortunately, dominate the world scene today.
Isidore Sobeloff
Fred M. Butzel
Judge Theodore Levin Abraham Srere
It is true that the period of liberation has failed to assure
Maurice H. Schwartz Henry Wineman
freedom for the remnant of surviving Jews in Europe. It is
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ. Editor
equally true that bigotry again has raised its ugly head and
has increased since the end of the. war.
MAY 23, - 1947
VOL. XI-NO. 10
An eternal people, however, does not despair, and the
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
historic
lessons of the indestructibility of Israel must strength-
This Sabbath, the fifth day of Sivan, 5707, the
following Scriptural selections will be read in our en our belief that the ideals which form the background of
Jewish teachings must become the dominant factors in the
synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion-Num. 1:1-4:28.
world.
Prophetical portion-Hos. 2:1-22.
It is in this spirit that we must observe Shevuoth. It is
Shevuoth Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portions-Sunday, Ex. 19:1-20:23, in such faith that we are obligated to greet the confirmands,
Num. 28:26-31; Monday, Deut, 15:28-16:17, Num. consecrants and graduates in our synagogues. and schools on this time and should be studied by all who are
28:26-31.
Prophetical portions-Sunday, Ezek. 1:1-28; 3:12;
Monday, Hab. 3:1-10.
this important festival, and to encourage our young people interested in the_ problem, whether or not they
• agree with the Magnes group.
to believe that justice ever must be the victor.