THE JEWISH NEWS
incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
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VOL. XXIV. No. 22
FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
February 5, 1954
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the third day of Adar Rishon, 5714, the following Scriptural selections will be
read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Ex. 25:1-27:19. Prophetical portion, I Kings 5:26-6:13.
Licht Renshen, Friday, Feb. 5, 5:37 p. m.
Allied Jewish Campaign's Important Goal in 1954
The annual meeting of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation traditionally sets into mo-
tion the year's Allied Jewish Campaign.
Facts and figures presented for public
knowledge at the budget-planning sessions
here, last week, indicated once again the
great good that has been achieved with De-
troit's campaign funds and the extent of
assistance our community gives to the state
of Israel.
This year's plans provide for enlarged
allocations to our school systems. There is a
growing realization of the need for expan-
sion of the activities of the agencies that are
charged with responsibility of training our
students and of providing them with the
best possible Jewish education. That should
encourage continuation of liberal giving by
our people.
At the same time, the emphasis on aid
to Israel and the assignment of the largest
proportion of campaign income for the needy
overseas should hearten us in our efforts in
behalf of our fellow men.
Campaign workers will proceed very soon
to solicit the community for the large sums
needed for the continuation of our efforts
for local, national and overseas causes. It
is sincerely to be hoped that the aspiration
to exceed the $5,000,000 goal in income for
the Allied Jewish Campaign will be attained
without difficulty.
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Among the many obligations members
of our community have to the campaign,
these are major: to concentrate on this
major effort, to close ranks, to conclude all
other fund-raising and other drives and to
pool our resources to make the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign a great success.
This is a frightfully 'over-organized com-
munity, with many obligations, with a mul-
tiplicity of organizations, with many fringe
drives. All of them have functions which ap-
peal to the varying elements in our midst.
Many of them are urgent and very impor-
t a n t. B u t the extra-curricular activities
should be conducted before or after the Al-
lied Jewish Campaign. During the great
drive—which aims at raising funds without
which Israel, suffering Jewry overseas and
our local institutions would be harmed—all
hands should be joined for the one major
purpose. We have been able to achieve a
large measure of unity in past years and it
is sincerely to be hoped that this again will
be attained during the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign months of 1954.
`The New Jewish History': First
Volume in Mrs. Garnoran's Series
Mamie G. Gamoran,. who already has distinguished herself
with a number of children's books, has begun the outstanding work
of her writing career: a Jewish history for young readers. The
first volume, already off the press, reads so well, is so attractive,
that it must fascinate and instruct adults as well as young. Thus,
we have a good history book that also can serve as a good text-
book.
Under the title "The New Jewish History," Mrs. Gamoran's
new work was published by the Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations. The first volume covers the eras from Abraham to the
Maccabees.
The author's husband, Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, UAHC's director
of education, who is the editor of the UAHC publications, makes
an important point in his introduction to the new history: that
the author aimed at "creating positive attitudes on the part of
our children." By stressing the dramatic elements in Jewish his.
tory, Judaism's social-religious-cilltural achievements and the
fortitude of Jews who held their ideals aloft despite tragedy, Mrs,
Gamoran has succeeded in this task.
Showing evidence of her knowledge how to tell stories to chi).
dren, Mrs. Gamoran has so glamorized her stories—without devi-
ating from facts—that her history reads like a fairy tale for
youngsters, like a novel for adults. With all of that, she has not
freedom, for the retention within the entity deviated from established historical facts. In her way of telling,
of the new state of more than 100,000 Jews her readers will be thrilled by what they read, and will learn their
who otherwise would have been cut off from history in the meantime.
civilization, from their kinsmen, from a
Bruno Frost illustrated the new history.
Appended to the text of the volume are: a children's reading
chance to enjoy life and liberty and to seek
list, a teacher's bibilography and an index.
the pursuit of happiness.
Celebration of Jerusalem's 3,000th Anniversary
T h e approaching celebration of the
3,000th anniversary of the founding of the
Holy City of Jerusalem, the Hebrew name
of which—Yerushalayim----means the City of
Peace, points to a heartening response and
to wide participation by Detroit Jews.
Sponsored by the Israel bond organiza-
tion, it is expected that this celebration will
result in an encouraging response to the call
for Israel bond purchases by those attending
the celebration on Feb. 14.
It is important that the implications of
the Jerusalem celebration should be under-
stood properly by all the celebrants. It must
be remembered that in Israel's fight for in-
dependence the battle of and for Jerusalem
was Israel's pivotal struggle for justice, for
Church-State Issue
Adoption by the Michigan State Senate
of a bill to legalize release time religious
studies in our public schools represents a
severe blow to the principle of separation of
church and state.
A wedge thus has been driven into a basic
ideal which is at the root of the guarantees
for religious liberty in this country. This
latest concession threatens to pave the way
for intrusions into our school system by
religious proselytizers.
Contrary to reports spread in Lansing
prior to the State Senate's action, the Jewish
community stands unitedly in opposition to
such intrusions upon our liberties. The two
Jewish Senators, the Brothers Blondy, by
casting their ballots to make the Senate's
action unanimous, have displayed a lack of
knowledge on the subject and a lack of
understanding of the Jewish position.
Ali- who are concerned about the per-
petuation of the separation principle—Chris-
tians and Jews—must unite to convince the
State House of Representatives of the danger
to American principles in the proposed law.
Award to Srere
The committee that voted to present the
1954 Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award to
Abraham Srere is to be congratulated on its
choice.
Mr. Srere's accomplishments are prop-
erly outlined in the citation presented to him
at the annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare
Federation. Not the least of his accomplish-
ment-s—of which the committee on awards
failed to take note—was his pioneering in
the Zionist movement, his presidency of the
Zionist Organization of Detroit, his early
chairmanship of the Keren Hayesod.
We join in congratulating Mr. Srere on
the honors accorded him,
Having won the Jerusalem battle—by
retaining that portion of the city—the New
City of Jerusalem that was built by Jews
within the last century — which houses a
large Jewish population, Israel was in posi-
tion to proceed to plan statehood.
The 3,000th anniversary of the City of
Peace, now being celebrated by world Jew-
ry together with the people of Israel, sym-
bolizes the interest that must be shown by
all concerned with the survival of Jewry—
that the nerve centers of the Jewish state
should be protected. It is impossible to think
of Israel without linking it with Jeru-
salem. Holy Land and Holy City are inter-
changeable terms in the Jewish lexicon, and
any attempt to sever the City of Peace from
the state of Israel would spell calamity—for
the state itself and for the 150,000 Jews now
residing in the New City.
The current celebration gives strength to
the Jewish state. It serves as a signal to the
Israelis that they are not alone in their quest
for justice. It symbolizes not only the moral
support that goes with encouragement pro-
vided by mass gatherings of Jews but also
the financial aid that accompanies the in-
vestment dollars represented by the Israel
bonds. The Feb. 14 event is, therefore, an
occasion meriting acclaim from our entire
community.
Dr. Cronbach's 'Judaism for Today'
Prof. Abraham Cronbach of Hebrew Union College, one of
the most distinguished leaders in Reform Judaism, is known for
his pacifism, for his search for justice in social movements. While
e is very objective in his new book, "Ju-
daism for Today: Jewish Thoughts for
Contemporary Jewish Youth," (published
by Bookman Associates, 34 E. 23rd, NY 10),
his ideas for peace crop up.
Thus, he introduces the following n
explaining the existence of "a tiny organ..
ization of Jewish pacifists":
"It is called the Jewish Peace Fellow..i
ship. This society seeks, by means of pacif-
ism, to emphasize the mutualistic strains
in Jewish teaching. Yet, by and large, the
Jewish outlook, like the Christian outlook,
is non-pacifistic. Jews deem it to their
credit and to their advantage that they
Dr. Cronbach
can _point to the extensiveness of Jewish
participation in the wars of our country. Some Jews propound the
argument that Jewish pacifism might furnish grist for anti-Semi..
tism. And this non-pacifism has been strengthened by two re-
cent occurrences. One was the struggle against Hitler; the other
was the strife between the Zionists and the Arabs at the found..
ing of the State of Israel. Because of Hitler or because of the
Israel-Arab conflict or because of both, Jewish attitudes at the
t
present hour tend, as never before, to reject pacifism."
Dr. Cronbach's book, as Dr. John Haynes Holmes, the
eminent Christian theologian, points out in an introduction, need
not be for Jewish youth alone. People of all faiths will find hi*
explanations of Jewish terms and positions interesting, and young
and old will benefit from it. His explanations of religious, of the
"processes of religionizing and dereligionizing"—the latter mean-
ing "the discarding of the old"; his analyses of Judaic ideals, of
Formation of the American-Israel So- war and peace and Christian-Jewish relations, combine to make a
ciety under the chairmanship of Governor most interesting volume, eminently worth reading and possessing.
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American-Israel Society
Theodore R. McKeldin of Maryland warrants
wide attention in Christian as well as Jew-
ish ranks.
While we have had Christian Palestine
Committees throughout the land, this is the
first time that a non-sectarian, non-profit
group has been organized in this country
to cooperate in an inter-cultural exchange
with Israel, to encourage scholarly research
in Israel history and archeology and to pop-
ularize travel in Israel.
Such a society should go a long way in
cementing the historic friendship between
the two countries, in removing misunder-
standings and in refuting libels that are so
frequently leveled at Israel.
Perhaps this group should displace pre-
vious organizations of a similar nature. If
that can be accomplished, we would urge the
establishment of -a chapter of the American-
Israel Society in Detroit,
Jewish Nobel Prize Winners
By
N athan Ziprill
Of the 19 Nobel Prize winners in medicine since 1944 about
seven were Jews or of Jewish extraction. When it is considered
that in the period between 1901 and 1943 there were also seven
Jewish winners in that field out of a total of 42, it becomes evi-
dent the Jewish contribution to medicine in the most recent dee-.
ades has been phenomenal. This development is also interesting
since the general average of Jewish Nobel Prize winners has bee/
somewhat closer to eleven per cent. Of the 48 winners of the Nobel
Prize in Literature two have been Jews or of Jewish origin, and'
only two Jews were honored with the award for peace as against
a total of 46 winners. It is estimated that about 31 Nobel Prize
winners in all fields were Jews or of Jewish descent. But only
about 10 percent could be said to have been Jews eitheZ
in a religious or communal sense. Two of the latest Jewish win-4,
ners, Prof. Hans Adolph Krebs and Prof. Albert Lipman, are defl,4,
nitely not in the category of the 10 percent. Prof. Lipmann wa*
recently' qUoted to have said that although of Jewish origin on
both sides of the family, he was not particularly interested in hiS
JewishnesS. Krebs visited Israel in 1936 at the invitation of tom'
late Dr. weizniann2 He is'tharried to a Christian woman, but Irei
and his three children consider themselves Jews.