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Bias in Fraternities

Fraternity and sorority circles on the
campuses of the Michigan, Columbia, Wis-
consin and Northwestern universities are
beset with a serious controversy revolving
around restrictive membership clauses which
at pr6sent limit membe'rships to certain ra-
cial and religiou's groups. While restrictive
constitutional clauses have been attacked
for many years, the issue at last is coming
to a head—although those who are fighting
discrimination thus far have not met, with
success. A study of the controversy made
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by the Christian Science Monitor throws in-
teresting light on the issue.
While the University of Michigan and
Columbia University took steps two years
ago to set a time limit . for reaching a solu-
tion, student legislatures have voted to
allot campus fraternities six years in which
to rid themselves of discriminatory clauses.
The issue still is harwinc, fire. The student
legislatures had voted tobar
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their ultimatum, but other legislative com-
mittees must give approval to this verdict
and the "time limit" is not yet campus law.

The Christian Science Monitor points
out that the plan is encountering strong
opposition; that at the University of Michi-
gan the Interfraternity Council, the frater-
nities' semi-official spokesman, labelled the
plan "completely detrimental to t: program
set up by the IFC." IFC's counter-plan is to
refuse recognition to any fraternity not mak-
ing an effort to rid its constitution of dis-
crimination.
Thus, the controversial question is be-
ing ignored. However, the Monitor's study
shows, the proposed six-year breathing pe-
riod was intended to silence fraternities
which claimed no constitutional changes
could be effected without going through
proper national channels.

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UJA's New General Chairman

Facing a critical period during which gift funds for the
settlement of oppressed Jews in Israel must be increased,
the United Jewish Appeal had an auspicious start at the
conference in Atlantic City where the 1951 campaign was
launched.
The selection of Edward M. M. Warburg to succeed
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., as general chairman of the UJA
is especially being hailed with satisfaction because of the
proven ability of the new campaign leader to pursue a vigor-
ous policy in reaching American Jewish communities with
stirring appeals in behalf of Israel.
Mr. Warburg, a former U. S. Army buck private, who
The University of Michigan Daily made rose to the rank of Major by sheer ability, follows a family
this interesting editorial comment: "The tradition in his efforts in behalf of Jewish causes. Grandson
chief targets of time-limit pressure are the of the late Jacob Schiff, son of the late Felix Warbui4g, who
clause-favoring blocs at national conven- played an important role in the American Jewish Joint
tions. Local chapters should welcome the Distribution Committee during the two World Wars, he has,
pressure as a means of. subduing these blocs. in his own rights, an interesting background for service. As
Alone, University of Michigan chapters chairman of JDC, as an able campaigner, as a convincing
would fail. But they will not be alone. More public speaker, he has won the esteem and affection of
schools will follow. Within six years, the American Jewry.
demand for removal of the clauses should
When the delegates to the Atlantic City conference
be so united that few national fraternities acclaimed the move to draft him as UJA's general chairman,
would be able to hold out."
Mr. Warburg said that he did not want to be a showcase
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If this attitude should prevail, we shall ability was desired. Responding to a demonstration by the
soon see the removal of discriminatory delegates which greeted this remark, he commented: "In
clauses from the constitutions of fraternities that case, it isn't a question of accepting the nomination. I
and sororities. Interesting proof of the want it!"
spread of the anti-discrimination idea comes
This is the sort of spirit which is certain to make the
from Asbury Hall, Northwestern Universi- 1951 UJA campaign a success. We congratulate Mr. War-
ty's international male fraternity, whose burg on his selection for the great leadership honor and
residents accused -. IFC of preaching "doc- pledge him our unqualfiied support in behalf of UJA.
trines of discrimination." The Asbury reso-
lution declared: "If reforms are not within
the power of the students, we feel that the
administration should institute them by
barring from student privileges those organ-
It is a New Testament saYing: . "Ye shall know the
izations that feel they must persist in up- truth, and the truth shall make ye free."
holding the doctrines of discrimination."
That is why The Jewish News, responding to urgent
A few more firm declarations like the requests from many readers, 'undertook the task of con-
Michigan Daily's and Asbury Hall's will put densing the great work by Dr. Solomon Zeitlin, "Who Cru-
an end to bias and will force action by the cified Jesus?" and is offering it in the hope that it will
fraternities. Once discrimination is elimin- clarify one of the oldest libels and will free the minds of
ated from fraternal groups, there is greater people in the matter involving the story of the crucifixion
hope that intolerance will be removed from of Jesus.
other areas in college life. The fight against
In Charles Dickens' story "The Life of Our Lord"
the IFC attitude should be carried to a appear the following:
finish, so that discriminatory clauses may
"Finding that He had done no harm, Pilate went out and
not be in evidence anywhere, let alone in
told the Jews so; but they said, 'He has been teaching the
our highest institutions of learning.

'The Truth Shall Make Ye Free'

Facts You Should _Know . .

Is it true that there is a Jewish statement
which claims that no wedding can take place
without discord?

Yes. The Talmud clearly states that "no

marriage' is written wtihout strife."

THE JEWISH NEWS

Member: American Association of English-Jewish News-
papers. Michigan Press Association.
Publishec every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing
Co. 708-10 David Stott Bldg.. Detroit 26, Mich., WO. 5-1155.
Subscription $3 a year: foreign $4.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office,
Detroit. Mich.. under Act of March 8. 1879.

people. what is not true, and what is wrong, and He began to
do so, long ago, in Galilee.'
"As Herod had the right to punish people who offended
against the law in Galilee, Pilate said, 'I find no wrong in Him.
Let Him be taken before Herod.' •
"But they cried out, 'He called himself the Son of God;
and that, by the Jewish law, is death; And He called himself
the King of the Jews; and that is against the Roman law, for
we have no King but Caesar, who is the- Roman Emperor. If
you let Him go, you are not Caesar's friend. Crucify Him! Cru-
cify Him!' "

This is the type of story which threatens to incite to
hatred. It does not evaluate facts. It does not present a true
interpretation of Jewish law.
Prof. Zeitlin, one of the outstanding authorities on the
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
subject, explains the position of the Sanhedrin, the true
SIDNEY SHMARAK, Advertising Manager
Jewish attitude in opposition to capital punishment, the
Vol. XVIII—No. 16 Page 4 December 29, 1950 historical background of an era which has been misin-
terpreted.
. We recommend to our readers that Dr: Zeitlin's book
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
.should be distributed not only among Jews but also among
This Sabbath, the twenty-first day of Tebet,
5711, the - following Scriptural selections will be non-Jews--in the condensed form as published in our col-
umns and by securing the complete unabridged text of
read.
"Who Crucified Jesus?" It is the best—perhaps the only—
Pentateuchai portion-Es. 1:1-6:1.
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way of presenting the true facts and of exposing untruths
Prvplteticctl. _portion,744 :-
in the. best interests of good-will .among all faiths.

Proverbs Revitalized In
Noted Scholar's Book

PROVERBS WITH COMMENTARY. By Julius H. Greenstone.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jewish Publication Society of America.

The use of pithy, balanced, well-turned sen-
tences to express universal truths and judgments
must have been the indoor sport of wise' men
ever since men learned to express their thoughts
in words. The Bible is full of such maxims;
and, in view of the reputation for wisdom attrib-
uted to King Solomon, it is but reasonable that
the ancient biblical book which bears the name
of Proverbs should have been attributed to him.
There seems, in fact, little reason to doubt that
he was responsible for a considerable number of
these wise sayings. To what extent he borrowed
from his predecessors and to what extent his
proverbs were imitated by 'others is less impor-
tant than the fact that many of the sayings
contained in this biblical book have passed into
the thought and speech of the Western world.
Everyone knows that a lazy man should take to
heart the example of the industrious ant, or
that life and death are in the power of the
tongue. Few, however, know that- these were
among the statements of the wisest of kings and
are contained in that well-advertised but little-
known anthology of Jewish writings called the

Bible.

This alone would justify the publication of
the new work by the well-known Jewish scholar,
Dr. Julius H. Greenstone. The small book of
Proverbs alone may attract a _reader when the
ponderous Bible as a whole may not. The mod-
ern Jew will hardly know where to locate. Prov-
erbs in the entire Bible, let alone be attracted
to read the closely-printed page. The book un-
der review is of the usual size; the fourth in the
series of Bible commentaries published by The
Jewish Publication Society; the biblical text in
English is in large, well-spaced type, so that its
reading should prove effortless. Dr. Greenstone,
however, did considerably more than reprint the
text. He added a commentary.

The most famous commentary to the Bible in
Jewish tradition, that of Rashi, is anything but
that. Dr. Greenstone has quite obviously mod-
eled himself upon Ra.shi rather than upon most
of his verbose, humorless successors. Much of
the material in the Book of Proverbs presents
difficulties which make this commentary essential.
Hebrew in general is a compact language, and
maxims require even greater terseness. Besides,
the social conditions presupposed in many of the
maxims are vastly different from ours. Dr.
Greenstone's comments are brief, clear and to
the point. With them before him, the reader
should find the individual proverbs interesting
to the point of being delightful. An introduction
to the book describes the structure and probable
development of the book as well as its influence
throughout the ages.

Adventures in Israel •
Youth Leads the Way

Mrs. Althea 0. Silverman, wife and mother of
rabbis, has made excellent use of her knowledge
of boys—she is the mother of three—and her
studies of short story writing. Her Bloch-pub-
lished "Habibi's Adventures in the Land of Is-
rael" is a fine story about a boy and his dog and
their • adventures in Eretz

A companion volume to her earlier "Habibi
and Yow," the new story takes the reader
through the Israel settlements and introduces
him to the people, their leaders, their institu-
tions, their ways of life. •

The miracle of growth is part Of the book's
revelations. The adventtrers—boy and dog—are
taken to the oldest colony, Petah Tikvah (Door
of Hope), then to the youngest, a one-day-old
settlement. They see how settlements spring up
to fill the needs of newcomers. And they expe-
rience the reactions of the natives who are en-
chanted by the American and his Yow.

The introduction of many Hebrew words rep,
resents an interesting element in the story. The
reader will learn a bit of Hebrew by reading Mrs.
Silverman's latest story about Israel. Those who.
plan to go to Israel will have, through this en,
tertaining book, an introduction to. the most in-
teresting spots in the land and the ways of life
of the Israeli.

The Sabbath in 'Tel Aviv, sports activities, the
celebration of Hanukah in the land of the Mac-
cabees, even the experience of a rain in the land
of Israel—these and scores of other occurences
enliven "Habibi." You are taken to the Dead
Sea, through industrial plants, the farms.

As Habibi's year in Israel comes to an end, •
there comes the news that the United Nations
had decided to Partition, that there was to be
a Jewish state. Then comes the formation of a
Cabinet, the selection of Ben-Gurion and Gold, -
Myerson for important posts. The day is follow-
ed by Arab attacks—and the final words are a
review of the events which led to the admission
of Israel as a mewber of the UN.

Altogether,
.stoyy is a grand experi-
ence which will thrill the reader and will en-
courage him to retrace the steps of the young
hero and:his.

