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. - - 4:MIS 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. THE JEWISH NEWS Member Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Independent Jewish Press Service, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, Religious News Service, Palcor Agency. Member American Association of English-Jewish News- papers and Michigan Press Association. Publlsned every Friday by The Jewish News Publish- ing Co., 2114 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit 26. Mich., RA. 7956. Subscription. $3 a year.; foreign, $4, Club subscription. every fourth Friday of the month, to all subscribers to Allied Jewish Campaign of. Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit. 40 cents pet year. Entered as second-class matter Aug. 6, 1942. at Post Of- fice. Detroit. Mich.. under Act of March 3, 1879. 'great event' in the early. history. of *Ur : es rec the7Isiaeit reoall tain othAid evu t mSokun e hrlrs Peto ear w .5 : INT ive the Ten Commanclinents? - . 1 ,, • „, of,the to the brought the 6, • - Israelites? 7. - By what special name, 'suggesting his assochi- tibn with the promulgations of the Ten Corn- . - . mandinents, is Moses called?. 8. How long did Moses remain on Mt. Sinai be- -Command* down the Ten fore he brought 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 - . Feast of weeicst 3. What is the agrfetilOrar significance' of 'She. 16 11. What did Moses do when he found that the Israelites had committed the sin of making and worshipping the golden calf? 411 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. . 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? 1 ANSWERS 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 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. .• 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- - The UN Is On Trial 10. They were dancing around the golden _calf, • • 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 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 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.