THE JEWISH NEWS A 1.0T OF US MAY MOT GET AMY MORE HELP BECAUSE THERE'S no MORE MONEY LEFT IN incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of Ju420. 1951 Mensoer American Association of English•Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 36, Mich., VE. 4ubscription $4. a year. foreign $5. Entered as second class matter Aug. 6. 1942, at Post Office, Detroit. Mich., under Act of March :I, 1879 siomovirz PHILIP Editor and Publisher SIDNEY SHMARAK Advertising Manager 8-0364 FRANK SIMONS City Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath,' the twenty-second day of Ab, 5714, the following Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Dent. 7:12-11:25. Prop phetical portion, Is. 49:14-51:3. THE MARCH OF DIMES ! 1 YEAH .-THAT'S BECAUSE THOUSANDS OF us cror VACCINE AND GAMMA GLOBULIN SHOTS THIS YEAR Licht Benshen, Friday, Aug. 20, 7:27 p.m.) VOL. XXV, No. 24 Page Four August 20, 1954 Tamarack Important Camping Project Tamarack—the name given our Jewish community's new camping site — currently symbolizes an important development in both camping and Jewish Center programs. Established as a children's camp to sup- plement the facilities at Fresh Air Camp, Tamarack assumes significance because of the place it will hold as a winterized-year- round-meeting place for people of all ages. It will serve as a center for work shops, for conferences and retreats. Prior to the current camping season, Tamarack already served an important pur- pose — by providing camping facilities for older people who thereby had an oppor- tunity for vacations. In the months and years to come, there will be . conferences and study meetings which rebound to the entire community's benefit. This is an indication of the vision, dis- played by our community's leaders who are not narrowing their views in the various fields of communal planning. By combining camping programs with winter study ses- sions, Tamarack becomes a vital communal instrument for future planning and for lead- ership training. Similarly, our Jewish Cen- ter movement, by combining its facilities with the United Hebrew Schools, is render- ing great service to Detroit Jewry. The present planning programs call for the establishment of a series of new Centers whose facilities are to be shared for youth and adult recreatidn programs as well as for classes for the United Hebrew Schools. The new Center-UFIS building on Schaefer, the proposal to build, during the coming months, a Center and Hebrew school in the Oak Park area and the plan extending the facilities of the Davison Jewish Center, augur well for our community program. Tamarack's dedication of three . new buildings, at ceremonies next Wednesday, therefore deserves to be classed among the very important developments for Detroit Jewry. It may well be considered a most significant occasion in - American Jewry's - The publishers of "The Drama of Albert Einstein" by Antonina Tercentenary _Year during which U.S. Jewry is advancing its status and is strengthening Vallentin (Doubleday, 575 Madison, NY22). describe the book as its position as a community that has come "an intimate portrait of the man whose work has changed the world." It is the intimacy of this interesting book, by a woman - of age. who knows the great scientist and has befriended the family in Germany and in this country, that makes her biography stand out as an exceedingly important work. Einstein the Man emerges here as colorful, some scholars and teachers that earlier Jew- courageous, wise, human. His humanity and cour- ish communities in various parts of the world age are his outstanding qualities. This great man, perished because of ignorance and assimila- who helped release knowledge That led to the tion are based on lack of knowledge or faulty possession of atomic power, is presented here by his admiring biographer in all his simplicity and interpretation of the facts. Dr. Baron said in all his genius. that the strong and influential Alexandrian In many respects he is childlikeunassuming, Jewish community of the early Christian era, loyal, devoted and unafraid. so often regarded as an instance of death by He possesses and continues to display an '014- assimilation, was destroyed, by revolutions bounded strength of will which causes him to Within and without, not by Greek or Egyptian tower above all men as a person of very great culture; that, in fact, sympathetic participa- courage. That which he knew to be correct he Einstein tion in the rebellions of the Palestinian Jew- uttered without hesitation. This was as true of his presentation to ish community was the greatest single factor a skeptical world of his Theory of Relativity as it was of la.s• defi- ance of the assimilationist tendencies of his fellow Jews in Ger- in the downfall of Alexandrian Jewry. This may not be as consoling as it sounds. many whom he opposed in his affirmation of Zionism. When he was advised to sever connections with Jewry in order It should serve as warning against "revolu- to secure an appointment at the German University in Prague, he tions within and without"- that may occur in defied the shameful idea by registering: "Religion—Israelite." our own midst. Guided by past experiences, The author relates the famous story about Einstein who, when we should be able to overcome the challenges interviewed about the Relativity Theory, said: "Today, I am considered in Germany as a German scientist that destroyed Alexandrian Jewry. It is con- fidence in the availability of such weapons for and- in England as a Swiss Jew, but if one day I become persona survival, mainly from spiritual sources, that non grata I would be a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German for the English." encourages us to believe that assimilation scientist • Having discovered in Germany "a latent anti-Semitism, espe-. will fail in its attack on American Jewry. cially in the universities, which were and remained, in contrast. GIVE TO THEANEMENCY/MARCH OF DIMES-NOW! Intimate Portrait of Einstein The Jewish Community of the Future Bnai Brith Institute of Judaism, at Star- light, Pa., last week heard differing opinions on the future Jewish community. Dr. Robert Gordis, the distinguished pro- fessor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, envisioned a com- munity steeped in spiritual rather than secu- lar ideas; whereas Dr. Israel Chipkin, of the New York Jewish Education Committee, ex- pressed the belief that the Jewish commu- nity of the future will concern itself with education. It is difficult to understand a position that differentiates the two spheres. The educa- tional aspects of a Jewish community would be diluted without the spiritual influence. There can be no effective educational pro- gram without the Biblical flavor. A secular- ized Jewish life must lead to assimilation and therefore to a speedy death. Perhaps the weaknesses in our community structures are traceable to the failure of educators to understand the value of spiritual emphases In Jewish studies. It is becoming increasingly more clear that American Jewry will overcome assimila- tionist tendencies, in spite of an increase in intermarriage and the need for more effec- tive means of combatting indifference to Jew- ish needs in Jewish ranks, through a spiritual- educational program. We are inclined to agree with Dr. Salo Baron, noted Columbia University Bible scholar, who told the Bnai Brith Institute that American Jewry will sur- vive even if it did not desire it and that the gloomy assimilationist prophecies of 30 years ago will not materialize. Of special interest in Dr. Baron's address was his comment that conclusions drawn by Sad Berlin Report In his report of "A Day in Germany," writing for his syndicated column from Ber- lin, Leonard Lyons told the following: "We attended the Sabbath services in the one large synagogue there. - There are only 6,000 Jews in all of Berlin and 800 are left in the East Sector. The sexton showed us where the SS men rode their horses into the house of worship, firing away as they trampled over the pews and those at prayer. There were only 70 men and women there during our visit, people who had survived one terror and now faced another. "They were elderly people, for the young ones are gone and soon that whiCh Menahem Beigin, as the leader of the once was Hitler's dream German art, Irgun Zvai Leumi, had been a trouble-make•. culture, trade, government and life, with- As leader of the Herut (Freedom) Party, out Jews—will become a reality. Dr. successor to the Irgun, he continues to fo- Hans Hirschfeld, press secretary to the ment unnecessary anger in Israel. Mayor of West Berlin, had received us in the Bathaus whose Liberty Bell peels Last week, Beigin, addressing several its note of hope to those in the East. thousand people in Jerusalem, advocated `There is no more anti-Semitism here,' war on the Arab nations neighboring on he assured us. 'Nor here,' the sexton Israel, as a way to prevent .future wars. now said. 'No more.' " Once again he has gone off on a dangerous This is the simple story of the triumph tangent. The only road to lasting peace is by pro- of anti-Semitism: where there are no more pagating and seeking peace, not by calling Jews, there is no more anti-Semitism. That is how the anti-Semite seeks to achieve his for war. Even if he speaks for all the eight mem- end. That is how Hitlerism may have at- bers of the Herut Party in the Israel Knes- tained its goal in Germany. The anti-Semite's triumph, however, is set, it is certain that they stand alone as limited to Germany—and even there, as in war-mongers. Yet their war cries will harm Israel's status in the world because the Spain where the Inquisition once had similar Arabs are quick to quote his irrational ap- designs, Jewish. life may thrive again in the peals and to ascribe them to _ all. Israel. future under happy circumstances. What the anti-Semite fails to take into account Therefore he must be. repudiated—in and out of Israel—as a person . who speaks only - is the inspiration inherited by Jewry from the Psalmist's declaration: "I shall not die for himself and whose party remains a re- but live, to declare the works of the Lord." pudiated minority in a peace-loving state. Beigin Stands Alone to educational institutions in other countries, the principal fortress of reaction, the hotbeds of prejudice," Prof. Einstein said, ex- plaining his Zionism: "It was when I came to Germany, 15 years ago, that I discovered I was a Jew and I owe this discovery more to non-Jews than to Jews." And he did not hesitate to condemn those Jews whose "pretenseS" caused them to cringe. We learn from his able biographer that he especially resented the slurs by German Jews on their East European brethren. Dr. Einstein's family relationships, his craving for a peaceful I world, his humanitarianism are described by facts, by stories and anecdotes which fill this book. In his youth a University of Cracow professor said about him: "A new Copernicus has been born." The truth of it becomes evident in this fine biography. Vile Attacks on Jewish Leaders in Ben Hecht's 'A Child of the Century' Ben Hecht has written a big book. His latest. "A Child of the Century," published by Simon and Schuster (1230 Sixth Ave.; ,1\TY20), will be read with a great deal of interest for its revelations about many American personalities, for the stories he tells—undoubtedly also for the accumulation of sexual smut. Jews who will read his book may wonder whether our people really are as bad a lot as he paints us. As already indicated in a previous comment in our columns, he has rendered great harm to Jewry with his misrepresentations of the Zionist issue and of the events which marked the rise of Israel. He is insulting to Stephen Wise, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion. He would leave the impression that only he, the Irgun, his pals Berg- son, Merlin and Beigin, really accomplished anything for Israel. Readers must be warned against being misled by Hecht. He has produced a vulgar work in which he acts more brazenly anti- Jewish than an anti-Semite—although he argues that the reason for his having associated with the Irgun was his desire to satisfy his newly-won pride as a Jew. He does not act proudly and his insults to Jewish leaders are appaling. There is no denying the brilliance of his writing. He is a genius at story-telling. But his vulgarity drags him down exactly to the spots which attract him: the gutters. At one point he had us deeply moved--when he spoke of his attachment to his family, his high regard for his uncles and aunts. But he proved nothing at all on the score of dignity in the pages that followed. The family sketches are interesting but his general dealings—his tricky production of a Life of Jesus for the•Baptists, his faked Chicago earthquake, the Florida property hoax—de- stroyed whatever good he may have had in view. His outrageous misrepresentations of the Zionist position nullify his good inten- tions. An able writer has gone wrong.