• ''''''410101111.1101111111111.110111111111PW* - THE JEWISH NEWS Yorn - 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 Page 4 3 WO, 5-1155. 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. ••••• ■■■- 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 i sg ) L 0 Gcy wise decisions at t h e polls. • 4 „, 01/40 The ITALY • important 89 % need of the BRITAIN immediate hour, however, 82% iry FRANCE • • • • •• • • 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- • +++Airaiii Mittirli ;CP ); t '. 4+ 51% 444* 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. \ - ; 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?" -e "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.