THE JEWISH NEWS

Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle
commencing with issue of July 20, 1951

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

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
SIDNEY StINIARAK Advertising Manager

--FRANK SIMONS, City TAIRor

VoL XXII—No. ,3 • Page 4 September 19, 1952

Pentateuch& portions--nrst day, Saturrlay:
Gen. 21, Num. 29:1-6; Second day, Sunday: Gen.
22, Num. 29:1-16.
Prophetical portions—First day, I Sam. 1:1-
2:111; Second day, .ter. 312-30.
Scriptural 'Selections for Fast of Gedaiiah,
Monday.
Pentateuch& portion—Ex. 32:11-14; 34:1-10.
Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-56:8.

Licht denshen, Sept. 20, 6:17 P. m.;
Sept. 21, 7:10 p.m.

A Happy 5713

One of the most, exciting years in
American Jewish.history comes to an end
today and another interesting period be-
gins tomorrow. With the fascination that
accompanies historical developments
goes responsibility, and with the accept-
ance of duties is linked the imperative.
need of retaining dignity for the Jewish
community, of perpetuating our highest
values, of retaining for our people a
cultural status that will give us justified
pride in our existence and will gain for
us the respect we crave from our neigh-
bors. -
This is not intended as a sermon. It
is a plain assertion, from the heart, in-
tended to reach the hearts of our fellow
men, in support of basic principles. We
have certain traditions which must be
retained. We have an ideal to live up to.
We are obligated, as Jews and as Ameri-
cans, to help build a beiter society, and
we welcome the year 5713 with the re-
affirmation that Israel does not shirk
sacred duties, that Jewry has a long tra-
dition rooted in the highest ideals handed
down to us, and through us to mankind,
by our Prophets. We can not and dare
not retreat, even by one step, in adhering
to these principles.
It has taken a rich literature to evaluate
the 'principles we have in view and these can
not be summarized in a brief Rosh Hashanah
editorial. Suffice it to say that justice for all,
regardless of race or creed, fair dealing with
our neighbors, wholesome reaction to public
causes, loyalty to faith and country, are ele-
mentary duties. Quite naturally, these must
be accepted as the duties of all citizens, and
it is rightly so because of the geniuS of
America which, as .a great statesman" has
said, is patterned in Hebraic mortar. It is
because of this mutually related genius that
our responsibilities become greater, that we
must - make ourselves understood as the ad-
herents to the parent religion out of which
have developed other great faiths.
There are internal duties. We speak of
them often during the year. We plead in
their behalf at every turn of a New Year on
our calendar. We do it again now in order to
indicate' to our people that a community of
Jews can not be great and strong if it does
not fulfill obligations to kinsmen. Our com-
munities can not retain the respect of their
neighbors if they are not loyal first to them-
selves. People who have self-loyalty . can be
equally as loyal to others. Those who lack.
such loyalty may be lacking in the power of
loyalty to friends and neighbors and fellow-
citizens, just as a lack of self-respect reacts
on respect to others.
It is our sincere hope, therefore, that in
the New Year 5713 there will be greater. de-
votion to our Allied Jewish Campaign—and
throu'gh it to the numerous causes merged in
it—as well as to the Community Chest and
to other great needs. We hope that the Israel
bond drive will not be neglected, that we
shall not forget our kinsmen. in the state
name-caked Israel, that we shall build a dig-
nified Jewish community patterned after our
own great traditions and steeped in the
knowledge that the ideals of Prophethood
are ''reflected in our cherished Americanism.
May the year 5713 be a year of great
achievements, of peace and prosperity, of
joy that should encourage advancement of
our specific and our American cultural
values. Such fulfipment should most cer-
tainly give us, Happy Year.

U.S.Jewry and NCRAC's Dilemma

In a sense, this heading is a dilemma. The events that
transpired In Atlantic City last week are American Jewry's
dilemma. They are the "tragedy"—to quote a term used
during the debate on the National Community Relations
Advisory Council's decision on the MacIver Report—of a
generation of Jews that has been functioning as a splintered
community.
The Robert Maclver recommendations, which have
caused a new split in Jewish ranks, calls for the sharing of
responsibilities, for the reassignment of duties, for the elim-
ination of overlapping, for the type of economy in Jewish
community planning which . should combine duties now shared
by several organizations while retaining the functions of an
organized community within the NCRAC. -
But two. of the groups most seriously affected by pro-
posals for Coordination—the American Jewish Committee
and the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith—are balking.
They refuse to submit to majority rule. They desire to re-
tain autonomy: They would rather weaken NCRAC by re-
maining independent than strengthen the American Jewish
Community. This is a strong sentence, but it must be ut-
tered. The time has come for a showdown.
We have had many attempts at Unification of Jewish
efforts. Not a single one of them won-kJ have meant author-
itarianism or dictatorship or a move in the direction of
creating a "Centralized . . . nationaiiStic s concept" (Credit
Jaeob Blaustein of the Committee with this -quote). Yet the
American Jewish Conference was dethtroyed. Other attempts
at forming coordinating bodies were- demolished. And now
the guns are in the direction of NCRAC. _
America's Jewish communal leadera have spoken in sup-
port of the MacIver statement by. a . votei of 54 to 17. • They
must be upheld. The policies they haVe adapted may not be
error-proof, but time will correct faults and the community
will not be misguided—so long as it acts on the basis of
cooperation and coordination.

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Activities d College Youth

Our young people are back 'in their schools and the Jewish
communities once againishould .be admonished not to forget their
responsibilities to youth in the • higher institutions of learning.
What we do today through Hillei Foundations and other agen-
cies whose programs call tor inspiring Jewish loyalties among
students will have an important influence on the future of Amer- ,
lean Jewry'. A well trained and well informed youth will Mean
a good and a capable leadership in the years to come.
We iiiust; therefore,Abelude Hillel in our thiaildrig and our
community progrannning. The movement should be supported
and in the instance of the University of Michigan Foundation we
should provide the means of Completing its structure.

A Moral Issue

The a.greement between Israel and or-
ganizations representing world Jewry and
the West German Government has been de-
stribecl as a "reparations" move to idemni-
fy the victims of Nazism. It is a moral issue.
Many concessions were made in the course
of the signing of the pact which obligates
Germany to pay the sum of $822,000,000 in
a period of 12. years. There is an element of
satisfaction in. the knowledge that some
Germans are repentant for all Germans.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Prof. Fritz
Boehm did their best to atone for a great
wrong. But the result of their efforts spells .
only partial atonement. If will take many
decades to assure a modicum of forgiveness:
The wrongs can never be forgotten, just as
the Spanish Inquisition can not be forgotten.,
Israel will be aided to a degree by the
decision. The, monetary compensation and
the flow of goods will be helpful to the • new
state. Jews outside of „Israel who, will be
coinpensated for their losses similarly will
receive only moral reparation.. The spiritual
anguish remains.
The signing of the reparations pad is, in
actuality, the end of a tragedy. May a sim-
ilar experience never again be recorded in
the annals of mankind.

rka B'Shofar Gadol L'Heruthenu

Sound The Great Horn For Our Liberation

By NOAH E. ARONSTAM, M.D.
With saddened hearts
And tear-brimmed eyes, as through a mist
We behold the Past;
But with glorious and abundant hopes we view
the golden Morrow,
Which like a fountain springeth
From the bourne of our destiny.
Sound the great trumpet for our redemption.
For Israel again rejoiceth;
Israel rejoiceth with strength and humility,
Phoenix-like renascent in its new-found freedom,
Whilst welding the sceptre of peace and justice
• To all mankind on earth.
Peace conceived in travail of bitterness, .
And in the throes of agony throughoUt the ages.
SOund the. great trumpet of our triumph;
And _ proclaim aloud: !.
livetb,
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Israel liveth,
And shall live anci:elxlure forever more..

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