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As the Editor
Views the Aiews
Act Now to Free the Persecuted
By NOAH E. ARONSTAM, M.D.
Four Vital Questions
The verdure that hath clad the vale,
The mountain peaks and meadow,
And hath enchanted field and dale—
Is but today a shadow.
The deeds we have committed long,
Our labors perpetrated
Have joined the shadows' crowded throng—
We need not feel elated.
The United Jewish Appeal suggests that
during the coming 40 days—through May
31—American Jewry must answer four vital
questions:
Will we, through the UJA, complete the
transfer of 70,000 Jews from Iraq to Israel
by the deadline date of May 31?
Will we continue to move tens of thou-
sands of uprooted Jews from lands of bondage
to lands of freedom?
Will we provide the funds to feed, clothe,
house and care for scores of thousands of im-
poverished immigrants in Israel?
Will we furnish the funds to carry on pro-
grams of relief and rescue for scores of thou- -
sands of Jews, in all parts of the world?
The present harbors tears and joys,
Its pace the future touches;
The ball is thrust, we are but toys
In Fate's benumbing clutches.
So let us steadfast face the chase
With courage never bending;
While smiling at the knotty maze,
The tangle, never ending.
The future is a giant sphinx,
A problem in a query;
A mixture both of lamb and lynx,
A naught—gigantic, dreary.
The web that spreads. before our glance,
Conceals its secret portals; .
Its chasm holds a piercing larice,
To dart at prying mortals. _
. These questions are much more vital
than many may realize. There is a deadline
on life-saving. The Passover we are now
ushering in demands that the principle of
movino. Jews from bondage to freedom
should b made the major obligation of all
Jews. To forge the UJA into an effective in-
strument for life-saving, it is imperative that
its Detroit supporting agency, the Allied
Jewish Campaign, should be made a great
success.
U. of M. Ends Bias
The University of Michigan Student Af-
fairs Committee, composed of seven students
and six faculty members, has voted to re-
quire campus organizations to erase dis-
criminatory clauses from their constitutions
by the fall of 1956. Groups failing to com-
ply with this decision will be denied official
recognition.
This encouraging act is approved by the
Student Legislature and it is expected to be
given the endorsement of the university's
president. Of the 43 campus organizations,
17 still have discriminatory constitutional
clauses which can be changed only by the
national organizations with which they are
affiliated. The hope is expressed in some
quarters that the national tie-up may in-
spire wider action in the removal of bias
in the ranks of college groups.
The action of the U. of M. Student Af-
fairs Committee deserves highest commen-
dations. It is a step in the direction of ob-
serving America's highest ideals of justice
and equality for all.
The Huleh Issue
Syrian troops started the shooting, yet
Israel has been blamed for fighting back in
defense of a strip of malaria-ridden land her
settlers are anxious to drain and make fruit-
ful.
It is most unfortunate that in an area
where peace could have redounded to the
benefit of all concerned there should be ran-
cor and hatred.
Still smarting from the defeats imposed
upon the Arab states by the small Israeli
community, Syria, Egypt and other Arab
states appear to be ganging up to renew
warfare. Israel will undoubtedly be able to
hold her ground.
The tragedy is that unfriendly elements
in the U. S. State Department again are
emerging as comforters of war-mongers, and
that a handful of embittered men and wom-
en, under the sponsorship of the anti-Zionist
Judaism C o u n c i 1, are misleading public
opinion.
It is no wonder that Israel, subjected to
numerous attacks, is able to hold her ground
so well.
THE JEWISH NEWS
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papers, Alichigan Press Association.
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Co. 708-10 David Stott Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich., WO. 5-1155.
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Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office,
Detroit, Mich., under Act of March a, 1879.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
SIDNEY SHMARAK, Advertising Manager
Vol. XIX—No. 6
Page 4
April 20, 1951
Passover Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portions—First Day, Saturday,
Ex. 12-21:51; Num. 28:16-25; Second Day, Sun-
day, Lev. 22:26-23:44; Num. 28:16-25.
Prophetical portions—First Day, Josh. 3:5-7;
5:2-6:1, 27; Second Day, II Kings 23:1-9, 21-25.
Hol Hamoed Passover Scriptural Selections
Monday, Ex. 13:1-16, Num. 29:19-25; Tuesday,
Ex. 22:24-23:9, Num. 28:19-25; Wednesday, Ex.
34:1-26, N11771. 28:19 25; Thursday, Num. 9:1-14,
28:9-15.
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Past, Present and Future
Vanity of Vanities, Saith the Preacher, Vanity
of Vanities, All Is Vanity—(Ecclesiastes 1.2)
Passover's Lesson of Deliverance
So let us cast aside the paSt -
And cling to the occasion;
And hold the moment to the last,
Embrace each new invasion.
And let the future, future be,
Rent not the veil asunder;
For thru the gap perchance .we'll - see
Our own reflecting blunder.
History is repeating itself..The' story of the Exodus from Koestler's `Age of Lonoincf' • •
Egypt, which will be recounted again at the Passover Sedo-
rim, emerges in more vivd colors - as we view the current Good in Spots, Also Boring
movement of Jews from lands of oppression into Israel. From
Arthur Koestler's "The Age of Longing" (Mac-
Iraq and Iran, from Romania, Poland and Hungary, Jews Millan) is much more than a novel. It is another
are trekking Israelward.
expose of the Machinations of the USSR, re-
ferred to in Koestler's latest book as the Corn-
The new journeys are as hazardous as were those of monwealth of Freedomloving People. It is a
3,200 years ago. As of yore, there is an objective: the Land of warning of the impending world conflagration,
Promise. As in the days of old, Jews everywhere will quote emanating from Soviet schemes and intrigues.
Scripture (Exodus 12:42) :
After a number of general and Israeli works,
"This is the night when the Lord kept vigil, to bring them
out from the land of Egypt; This, then, shall be the night of
vigil for the Lord unto all the children of Israel throughout the
generations."
Instead of Egypt, it is a dozen lands; but the vigil again
is being kept, and Jews everywhere watch over their kins-
men. The trek continues towards one goal: Liberty. This is
the chief watchword of Passover.
The main objective, once again, is deliverance. The trav-
elers have a hard road ahead. They must evade vast enemy
forces. They are compelled to leave behind them their pos-
sessions. Unlike their ancestors in Egypt, they are unable to
take with them their belongings. But they have one Chief
we Hope. And their hope is centered in Israel.
The wanderers Israelward have another power to sus-
tain them: the interest that is being taken in them and in
their future by world Jewry. With the aid of Jews every-
where, there is a better chance today than ever before that
the wanderers will find in their new home a greater measure
Of economic security. New- industries are being developed,
agriculture is being revived, natural resources are being ex-
ploited. These developments are made possible by the great-
est effort in our entire history: the $500,000,000 Israel Bond
Issue which will be floated within a few days.
With the funds about to be invested by our people, Israel
will demonstrate her maturity, her readiness to provide
means for self-support for the hundreds of thousands who
are settling in the young state. With borrowed capital, Israel
aims to create a strong economic foundation for the state
and the people. And once again American Jews are the part-
ners in this great venture.
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For those who seek permanent haven in Israel, there
is a new reality in the recitation of this portion incorporated
in the Gadaha (Deuteronomy 6:23) :
"Every man in every generation is bound to look upon
himself as if he. personally had gone forth from Egypt . . . It is
not only our fathers that the Holy One redeemed, but ourselves
also did He redeem with them. For does not the Scripture say:
And He brought US out thence that He might bring US in, to
give US the land which He swore unto our fathers?"
. And among the concluding lines in the Hagadah which
emphasize the importance of the New Exodus are these:
written on the basis of his experiences in Israel,
"The Age of -Longing" is Koestler's first European
novel in nearly a decade. The Commonwealth
proclaims its desire to see peace, while its em-
missaries are functioning to divide sentiments
abroad in order to foment war.
Fedya Nikitin, the USSR agent in Paris, be-
witches Hydie, the daughter of an American
colonel. Hydie, who spent her childhood in a
convent, goes to another extreme, without realiz-
ing that she is in a love affair with a dangerous
agent. She learns—too late—that her father had
offered his resignation in order not to interfere
with his daughter's personal life. The resigna- - -
tion was not accepted. Hydie, learning how her
friends and those who knew her felt in the mat.;
ter, attempted to kill Fedya. She only wounded
him, forcing his recall, her departure for the U. S.
with her father whose resignation at last is ac-
cepted, and the hushing up of what would have
been a scandal had she ended redya's life.
The intrigues, as described by. Koestler, are.
indicative of the dangers that are spreading on
the European horizon. As in "Darkness at Noon,"
Koestler at times rises to great heights in ex-
posing the USSR. But in the main the novel
does not measure up to the earlier one. Too
Verbose in spots, it is often boring. But he proves
the main point—the longing; Hydie's yearning for
a faith which she believed Fedya had. "And the
living—those who were still alive and free to-;.
day, were watching for the appearance of the
Comet, and they were all sick with longing."
There are several references to Jews; one
about a novelist-knight errant who had fought
with the Stern Gang in Jerusalem (apparently
Koestler can't forget Israel) ; another in which
he tells in full the rather stale story about the
Jew who sought admission to a synagogue to see
a friend and the usher - accuses him that in
reality he wishes to pray (the old version is
that the usher said "don't let me catch you pray-
ing") ; and this very nasty comment: "Hydie
thought that Boris was talking of that wife and
girl of his as the Jews about their pogromed
grandfathers—making political capital out of the
dead." This again proves either the inferiority
complex of the eminent writer as a Jew or some
hidden hate he has acquired for the people from
whom he stems.
This is Koestler's "The Age of Longing": bril-
liant in spots, rather boring in many more.
"Emplant the sapling of Thy -vine again!
To Zion lead Thou back this captive train!"
Israel Develops 'Rapid Ice'
A new method of ice production, recently de-
veloped by an Israel engineer, has attracted
widespread attention, and is being adopted in
Europe, Africa, South America and India. The
process, called 'Rapid Ice," cuts the time re-
quired for the preparation of ice from 18 hours
to 2H, hours, and is almost fully automatic. The
application of modern methods and the develop-
ment of new techniques in Israel's industries will
This is the new lesson of Passover, the feast of deliver- be accelerated by the use of funds made avail-
ance. By purchasing bonds we destroy bondage. By building able to the country through the $500,000,000
Israel, we end homelessness.
Israel Government bond issue.
This is the ageless inpiration which is becoming reality.
It is fulfillment of a great dream which has its significant
lesson for American Jews who always have been in the van-
guard of the builders of Zion and who now are called upon to
make their greatest effort for Israel through the Bond Drive.
By making this $500,000,000 investment campaign a success,
in addition to assuming triumph for the United Jewish Appeal
through the Allied Jewish Campaign, the deliverence of Israel
will be completed with honor and with dignity.