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Tribute to Campaign Workers

By ISIDORE SOBELOFF

Executive Director, Jewish Welfare Federation

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PASSOVER'S URGENT MESSAGE

Remember the Hungry, Free the Oppressed

Passover commemorates the first occasion in all history when men sought and ob-
tained freedom from oppression. On this festival we especially observe two important
injunctions: we proclaim to the hungry to come and partake of our food and we say to
the oppressed that we shall battle for their liberation.
We are told by scholars that the custom of breaking a matzo called "the bread of
poverty" or "the bread of affliction" is to prepare us to share it with the needy. At the
very outset, we say, as we start the beautiful Seder ceremony, "Kol dikhfin yethei ve-
yeikhol"—let all who are hungry come and eat. Anticipating it, we have the Mo'os Hitim
fund which we gather before Passover to provide the festival's necessities for the impov-
erished. But we do not limit our generosity to Passover. Rabbi Menachem M. Kasher, in
his famous Passover Haggadah, makes the assertion that Passover is not the only festival
on which we remember the less fortunate; that we must share God's bounties with the
underprivileged on all occasions; that: "He who eats in the company of his children but
fails to offer nourishment to the poor, ignores a divine commandment and merely gratifies
his appetite. Such rejoicing is shameful."
Fortunately, the Passover message has become the rule in _Jewry, and not the excep-
tion. We aid the needy with. our generosity to our public funds. We strive to liberate the
downtrodden by every-day action in defense of those who are being made the targets of
bigots and oppressors. Passover serves as the season for re-dedication to these ideals.
The accompanying holiday cartoon pleads for the two. Passover principles: the feed-
ing of the hungry and the freeing of the enslaved and the oppressed. The Allied Jewish
Campaign symbolizes these objectives. May it meet with success so that its beneficiaries
may have the means to carry on the sacred work of our most important causes.
May .Jewry everywhere be blessed with the attainment of the highest goals, and may
mankind share in them, primarily in our quest for justice for all humanity and peace for
all the nations on the entire globe. A Happy Passover to. All.

The New Bond issue

jildgHe: Kaufman's Promotion

Every tenth adult member of our Detroit Jewish com-
munity is an enrolled worker in the 1954 Allied Jewish
Campaign.
More than four thousand workers have dedicated them-.
selves to the task of securing pledges from prospective con-
tributors.
The workers' army is a large,
well-rounded organization, with
units from every walk of life, the
home, the trades and industries
and from the professional world.
The job of recruiting the army
of solicitors which, in turn, recruits
the larger army of contributors,
involves months of intensive effort.
The year-round Detroit Service
Group, under the presidency of
Milton K. Mahler, has the continu-
ing responsibility of marshalling
the trade and professional forces,
with Irving W. Blatriberg and Har-
vey H. Goldman, directing the
Isidore Sobeloff
campaign army in actual solicitation.
While the extent of individual performance varies with
the time available for service and the level of devotion, on
the average each worker covers some eight or ten assign-
ments. No one person is requii-ed to do more than his interest
or his schedule permits, but all of the individual perform-
ances multiplied constitute a great achievement in volun-
tary association and accomplishment.

Why do workers undertake these assignments? One
merchant who is both leader and solicitor, expressed it
this way: "The Allied Jewish Campaign is the greatest
humanitarian merchandising package in the world. I en-
joy selling as a , vocation and I like it all the more when
I'm selling for humanity." Others, with different back-
grounds, -might express it in other terms, but basically they
are responding to the urge to be helpful. They feel that
large groups working together for the common cause can
achieve more than working separately.

A campaign worker isn't always fluent enough to say
that Israel must be strengthened to aid the people already
there and to be ready for any emergency influx of new im-
migrants. He may not talk about putting shoes on bare feet,
building homes for new arrivals in Israel. But, if you press
him for explanations, he will convey the sincerity of his
general interest, the depth of his feeling for the solidarity
of Jewish life, his eagerness to see the needs here at home
and everywhere else met as effectively as possible.
This, then, is a tribute to the campaign worker. When
he calls on you, treat him with courtesy. Give heed to his
message—for, it is more than a personal request for coop-
eration. The worker is an agent of the organized Jewish
community. He may not submit all the facts and figures, but
backing him up is a world of service. All of us who believe
in the preservation of life, in the extension of service, in the
enrichment of human values, owe him a great debt. The
only repayment he asks from us is un&rstanding and gen-
erosity.

EDITORIAL

Israel's Precarious Position

Israel's precarious position became especially evident last
week-end when Henry Byroade, Assistant Secretary of State for
Middle East Affairs, delivered a controversial address befOre the
Dayton, 0., World Affairs Council. The man in charge of Gov-
ernment policy affecting Israel uttered these strong words:
"To the Israelis I say that you should come to truly look upon
yourselves as a Middle Eastern state—and see your own future in
that context rather than as a headquarters or nucleus so to speak
of world-wide groupings of peoples of particular religious faith.
who must have special rights within and obligations to the Israeli
State." He then advised Israel that "you should drop the attitude
of the conqueror and the conviction that force and a policy of
retaliatory killings is the only policy that your neighbors will
understand. You should make your deeds correspond to your fre-
quent utterance of the desire for peace."
To the Arabs, Sec. Byroade said they should accept Israel "as
an accomplished fact." He charged the Arabs with "deliberately
attempting to maintain a state of affairs." He characterized this
as "a most dangerous policy."
There was a sound of rebuke in his utterance when he re-
jected the prefix "pro-" as applied to either Israel or the Arabs,
and said this country is only pro-American.
The disturbing factor in his address was his criticism of Israel
with reference to Kibya and Na.halin, to Deir Yassin, to the Irgun,
to the Jerusalem issue and the refugee question; without men-
tioning the Scorpion Pass massacre, the hundreds of Israelis who
were murdered by infiltrating Arabs, to Egypt's Suez Canal block-
ade, to the detention of Jews in Arab countries, to the exodus of
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab lands.
Ile in be r American Association of English-Jewish NewspaPars, Michigan Press Association.
The Byroa.de speech sounded a bit one-sided, and somewhat
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prejudicial to Israel. While we concur with him that ttere should
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be no reprisals, that Israel should not act the conqueror and that
every effort should be made to attain peace, we fail to see how
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
• SIDNEY SHMARAK
FRANK SIMONS
Editor and Publisher
Advertising Manager
this can be achieved unless both sides are asked to follow the
City Editor
same policy and to seek and pursue peace.
VOL. XXV, No. 6
Page 4
April 16, 1954
U. S. Supreme Court Justice 'William 0. Douglas, speaking at
the same time in Pittsburgh. wass it seems to us, a bit more real-
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
istic when he asserted that Arab states "are fearful" of Israel
This Sabbath, the fourteenth day of Nisaik, 5714, the following Scriptural, selections will be because the new state "is a symbol of democracy in a part of the
mad in our synagogues:
world that has known mostly dictatorship and oppression. If the •
Pentateuchal portion, Lev. 16:1-18:30. Prophetical portion, Mal. 3:4-24.
ideas that Israel promotes are let loose in the Middle East and
Asia," said the Supreme Court Justice, "old dynasties will totter -
Passover Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portions: First Day, Sunday, Es. 12:21-51, NUM. 28:16-25; Second Dan lilondau and colonial powers will tremble. • For Israel represents a political
a social democracy, and an economic democracy."
Lev. 22:26-23:44. Num. 28:16-25. Prophetical portions: Sunday, Josh. 3:5-7; 5:2-6:1; Monday, 11 democracy,
The State Department's new approach, through Mr. Byroade,
Kings 23:1 for 4)-9.. 21,25.
has not helped the situation. We pray that it should not aggra-
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vate it. We plead for a fair deal for Israel, and for action to
Tuesday, Ex. 13:1-16., Num. 28:19-25; Wednesday, Es. 22:24-23:9, Num. 28:19-25; Thursday, Es. compel the Arabs to discuss peace and amity with Israel—in face
114:1 26, Num. 28:19-25; Friday, Num. 9:1-14, 28:19-25.
to face negotiations with the Jewis:r.k state: That's the only way
of solving the problem.
ktht Bornhom, Friday, April 14, 4154 p.m.

The recent Israel bond conference, held
in Washington, set into motion' machinery
for the supervision of the Development Bond
Issue. Immediately after our great Allied
Jewish Campaign, the local bond organiza-
tion plans to ask Detroit Jewry to follow up
its interest in the last bond drive with coop-
eration in the sale of the new Bond Issue.
An enthusiastic. group of men and women
already has been marshalled to carry on the
next bond drive. They are men and women
who presently are showing deep interest in
the philanthropic campaign and who are con-
vinced, as all of us should be, that supple-
mentary investment dollars are needed to as-
sure economic security for Israel.
It is sincerely to be hoped that the entire
Community will give the new leadership the
backing they ask in promoting the Israel De-
velopment Bond Issue. •

The .,:entire community surely joins in
wishing Judge Nathan J. Kaufman well on
his 'elevation to the. Probate Court.
This recognition given him by Governor
.
Williams attests to the confidence the chief
executive of our state has in the devotion,
sincerity and ability of the yotfng judge.
Judge Kaufman assumes greater respon-
sibilities in his new post. His predecessor,
Judge George Edwards, has made an excel-
lent record in his supervision of the Juvenile
Court. Judge Kaufman will face the task of
following in his footsteps in directing this
important court.
. We wish Judge Kaufman well in his new
duties. A. cooperative corrimunity is in posi-
tion to help him advance the standards of
the Juvenile Court and to help eradicate the
problems the court must deal with.

THE JEWISH NEWS

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