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THE JEWISH NEWS

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Kippur Memory

Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing With issue of July 20. 1951

Member: American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers. Michigan Press Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 708-10 David Molt Bldg., D e troit 26, Mi ch.,
Subscription 54 a year, foreign $5. .
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879.

Vol. XXII—No.

SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager

FRANK SIMONS
City Editor

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher

September 26, 1952

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Sabbath Shevah Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the eighth day of Tishri, 5713, the following Scriptural selections will be read
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 31; Prophetical portion—Hos. 14:2-10; Joel 2:15-27.

B ensile'', Sept. 26, 5:05 p. rn.

Yom Kippur (Monday) Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portions--Morninas: Lev. 16, NU 7n. 27:9-11; Afternoon: Lev. 18.
Prophetical portions—Morning: Is. 17:14-58:14; Afternoon: Jonah.

Licht Benshen, Sept. 25, at 5:27 p.m.

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The 1952 Register and Vote Campaign

An interesting campaign is in progress to
encourage immediate registration of all eli-
gible voters in order to assure a maximum
vote in the Nov. 4 election.

It is immaterial at the moment how peo-
ple plan to vote. In due time, as the cam-
paign progresses, Americans can be counted
luo m iotitirto upon to make
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wise decisions
at t h e polls.
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important
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need of the
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hour, however,
82% iry
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is that the
election results
75 %
should not be
decided by ab-
stainers. T h e
impOrtant na-
tional obliga-
tion is to assure that all eligible voters should
cast their ballots.
The accompanying chart provides a re-
buke to those who fail to show an interest
1n an important national test. This chart
shows the voting averages of the nations
listed. Our great democracy is at the bottom
of the list and we call it to the attention of
our fellow citizens with shame.
To this chart should be added the in-

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spiring figure of 72% next to the name
Israel — representing the percentage of
voters in the new state in 1951.

Additional facts will throw light on the
attitudes of Americans during national elec- Yom Kippur Guest Editorial
tions:
In 1880, 78.4 per cent of the eligible
Americans cast their ballots. The percentage
was 73.5 in 1900. In 1920, when women were
By Rabbis MORRIS ADLER and ISAAC STOLLMAN
granted equal suffrage, the total national
The opening in the near future of the Jewish Hospital
vote dropped to 49.3, rising to 53.4 in 1940
but dropping to 51 per cent in 1948, when is an occasion of great celebration and joy on the part of
the Jewish Community of Detroit. The Rabbinate together
48,680,416 people voted.
with all Jews, rejoice in this significant event and pray that
We are at this time engaged in 'an or- the Hospital may become an institution rendering great
ganized effort to get out the vote by first service and bringing healing to many. The hospital marks a
encouraging registrations. On this score we notable contribution by Detroit Jews to the health and
are able to report that the "get out the vote" medical facilities of the city and indeed of the land. It is an-
campaign already has brought the following other outpost in the struggle against disease and suffering
results in Michigan: In our State, the Guber- and yet another instrument for the discovery and develop-
natorial and Senatorial votes, respectively, ment of increased knowledge and skill in safeguarding hu-
were 715,834 and 637,576, but in 1952, the man life and well-being.
respective votes for these two offices were
As a Jewish Hospital it serves as a valuable addition to
1, 436,675 and 1,340,858.
the fine system of agencies for welfare and service which
With great issues at stake, bUt more eS- Detroit Jewry has established. The Hospital is an expression
pecially With the challenge to our national of the traditional compassion and sensitivity of the Jew and
honor, there is hope that the forthcoming his readiness to assume his obligation in serving the needs
Presidential vote will redeem our self-respect ; of his fellow-men. Behind the Jewish Hospital stretches a
and that nearly all eligible Americans will long and honorable history marked by social vision and hu-
cast their ballots. But first they must reg- manitarian concern; a law governed by an overwhelming
ister. The last registration day in Michigan is I sense of the dignity and rights of man; a discipline which
Oct. 6. If YOU have not registered, do . so I has enabled generations to elevate and refine their sensi-
NOW to redeem your honor as an American. bilities and impulses.
The Jewish Hospital thus is the product of the tradi-
tion of the Jew. To this tradition it owes reverence, regard
and responsibility. The institutions of the Jewish faith, its
outward expressions and symbols, its hallowed practices
and observances should be built into the life of the Hospital
Holy Scriptures have something to say as the dramatic indication and testimony of its Jewish spirit
about "gifts"-=the ticklish subject which is and loyalty. One of the major institutions by which the Jew
today working havoc in political ranks. In strove to intensify his sense of personal discipline and purity
and his identification with the group-life of his community
Deuteronomy (16:19-20) we read:
has been the system of Dietary Laws and Practices. In hon-
"Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou
oring them the Jew honored the family of ideals and values
shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou which they represented for him. Thousands of Jews among
take a gift; for a. gift cloth blind the eyes of us observe these laws in their personal and home life. These
the wise, and pervert the words of the right-
observant Jews have the right to feel that an institution
eous, Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that such as a Jewish Hospital representing the entire Jewish
thou mayest live, and inherit the land which I community does not violate their spirit and practice. Nor
the Lord thy God giveth thee."
should a Jewish Hospital without intruding upon the per-
sonal life of its staff, do aught which weakens the total tra-
Jewish law calls bribery immoral. Favor- dition of Jewry by which Jews have lived and by which
itism is shunned and in olden times judges alone, in the belief of many, could Jews hope to survive as
were unsalaried in order to be certain that bearers of a distinct way of life.
even the size of their pay would not influ-
Solemnly and earnestly do the Rabbis of Detroit appeal
ence their actions.
to the Board of Trustees of The Jewish Hospital, to make
In "Rabbinic Anthology," C. G. Monte- the Hospital truly Jewish in form as well as in spirit, in ap-
fiore and H. Loewe quote the following (from pearance as well as in content, in act as well as in principle.
Thus will the Hospital not only contribute to the strength-
Keth. 105b):
ening of the faith of our fathers, but will win the respect of
"The Rabbis say: Thou shalt not take a people of good-will of other faiths for its loyalty to and rev-
bribe: this need not be bribery in money:
erence for Jewish tradition.

Appeal for Kashruth in Hospital

`Take Not Gifts'

Yom Kippur

Jews everywhere will gather once again
In their synagogues on Sunday evening for
twenty-four hours of meditation and prayer,
f o r introspection a n d self - examination
through fasting and solemnity.

There undoubtedly will be reproaches; in
sermons as well as in meditative recollec-
tions of the happenings of. the past year.
There will be admonitions concerning future
actions in rabbinic dissertations. Yom Kip-
pur is the day on which we test ourselves
and listen attentively to the spiritual evalu-
ations incorporated in prayers and sermons.

It is the great day of our calendar, the
Great White Fast and the occasion for pow-
erful challenges which move our souls and.
stir our hearts.
Even more than Rosh Hashanah, it is
a day for resolutions, for inner decisions,
for an urge to advance the standards of
humanity and therefore our own status as
human beings.

Our strivings are great on this day. May
they emerge into reality in the months to
come.

May Israel's, world Jewry's, America's
and humanity's fate be sealed on this day
for the fulfillment of the very highest
aspirations of Mankind.
Gmar Hatima Tova — May you be
inscribed for a very Good Year.

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bribery in deed is also forbidden. Thus R.
Samuel was getting on to a ferry: a m-a.n
came and gave hiM a hand. When R. Samuel
asked him what he was there for, he replied,
`I have a lawsuit.' Then Samuel said, 'I am
forbidden to be your judge.'"

National Newspaper Week

dom" is the slogan that has been adopted for
National Newspaper Week of 1952, which com-
mences on Oct. 1. This is the Week that empha-
sizes the right of our people to know all that is
happening around us, so that we may be guided
in all our actions. The exposes in public life,
the light that our newspapers throw on situa-
tions at home and abroad, help to keep this
country free. In blessing America we may well
bless the newspapers, thanks to whom America

is kept free.

Yom Kippur Historiette

The Matchmaking Custom

An American Jewish Press Feature
What better gUide does one need to pro-
The Mishnaic book Taanit (IV.9) tells about the interesting
tect the country's interest against "the im- custom of matchmaking which was practiced on Yom Kippur, as
well as on the 15th day of the month of Ab, in the days of the
morality of. bribes?"

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"Your Newspaper Lights the Way to Free-

Editor's Note: The above statement has been submitted to is as representing
the strong sentiments of the Detroit Rabbinate and of the committee recently
formed to urge the complete introduction of kashruth in Sinai Hospital.

Second Temple in Jerusalem.
Jerusalemite girls would dance on those days while dressed in
white garments. Poor girls, in order not to be put to shame, would
borrow white dresses for the purpose. Their dancing would be in
the presence of unmarried assembled men and the girls would
exclaim:
"Young man: lift up thine eyes and see what thou choosest
for thyself. Do not set your eyes on beauty but on good family.
A woman that feareth the Lord shall be praised."
Then the young men would reply with these words from Prov-
erbs (31.30-31):
"Give her of the fruit of her hands mid let her works praise
her in the gates."
It is related that the young men on that day ehose their
brides among the young dancing women and the two days on
which this tradition prevailed are said to have been the most

joyous on the Jewish calendar.