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- THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating. the Detroit Jewish Chronicle
canymencing with issue of July 20, 1951
Member American Association of English-Je-wish
Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National
Editorial Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News
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'Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3,
1879:
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
SIDNEY SHMARAK
FRANK SIMONS
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Editor and Publisher
Advertiging Manager
City Editor
Rosh Hashanah Scriptural Selections,
Sept. 6-7
The following Scriptural selections are
read on Rosh Hashanah: Pentateuchal por-
tions, Thursday and Friday, Gen. 21:1-34;
NUM 29:1-6. - Prophetical portions, First
Day of Rosh Hashanah, Thursday, I Sam.
1:1-2:10; Second Day of Rosh Hashanah,
Friday, Jer. 31:2-10.
Shabbat Shuvah Scriptural Selections
On Shabbat Shuvah, this Saturday, the
following Scriptural selections will be read
in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Deut. 32:1-52. Pro-
phetical portion, Hosea 14:2-10.
On Sunday, Fast of Gedaliah, the fat/owing
Scriptural selections will be read: Pentateun
chat portion, Ex. 32:11-14, 34:1-10. Propheti-
cal portion., Is. 55:6-56:8. '
Vol. X.X.X. No. 1 Page Four Sept. '7, 1956
The New Year 5717
Calls for Courage
The year 5717, which we are usher-
ing in this week,,will be more challeng-
ing than any twelve-month period in ‘.
the memory of this generation.
It will be a year that will call for r4,1
courage, for fearlessness, for our peo-
ple's determined will to accomplish
many important aims.
In the first place, this is an election
year, and in the coming few weeks there
will be - many rumors, charges, accusa- ,i"4„
tions that will call either for substanti-
ation or repudiation..
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When competing part;
to win an electon, it is inevitable that
there .1 could be false reports and that
issues involving racial and religious
problems should be injected in debates.
We shall have to be 'on guard against
untruths, and. we must be prepared to
challenge them whenever they are
heard.
In the specific case. of American
Jewry's concern over Israel's security,
we shall no doubt hear ridiculous refer-
ences to a "Jewish vote," to its non-
existence and to undue appeals based
upon it. While' there is no such thing as
a Jewish vote—Jews are to be found in
the ranks of all parties—we must be
ready to point out to uninformed and
misinformed people that -our interest in
Israel involves our anxiety for peace,
our hopes and prayers that there should
Many issues will have to be resolved during
be amity in the Middle East in order
the year we are now ushering in with solemnity
that peace there should also insure
and with serious concern over Jewry's status.
peace for • the entire world. Anyone
As in the past, we will no doubt have 'lots
who seeks to inject a different note in
of fund-raising campaigns. There will be scores
that area of world affairs will be mis-
of entertainments and community functions. We
representing truth and will not be serv-
will be entertained, we will be wined and' dined,
ing the cause of justice and peace.
there will be an untold number of cocktail parties,
and an influx of guests—domestic and foreign—
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will be occasions for press conferences, lectures,
The second most significant occur-
public meetings and considerable socializing-
rence of our time that will surely affect
It'll be a busy year. But, will it also be a
thinking and actions is the world crisis
productive year culturally?
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created by Egypt and the other Arab
states. We have a million and a half
This is a good community. It always responds
kinsmen in Israel who must be pro-
to all appeals for funds. We shall no doubt have
tected. These kinsmen of ours have a
a-triumphant Allied Jewish Cainpaigni- Hadassah,
good record for friendship with the
Jewish National Fund, Histadrut, Bnai Brith and
United States. All of us hope that
a score more of Jewish causes will surely get
friendly relations will continue. We
proper responses.
also hope that such -a friendship will
What is equally as important, however, is that
result in comfort to Israel in her stuggle
we should have able leaders, that there shoUld
for existence.
be proper responses to our cultural needs, that
our spiritual values should not be sacrificed to
We have a duty to Israel--to keep
indifference
to and unconcern with basic ideals.
her alive and to give her strength. We
We have made some . progress in recent years
feel that such strength will redound to
in the field of Jewish education. More of our
the benefit of all the nations in that area
children are acquiring knowledge in our com-
under peaceful conditions. If called
munity schools. But they still represent too small
upon to act in defense of this little
a portion of our youth. Too few of our young
State, we should be prepared to do so
people
are planning to enter the Jewish teaching
with courage and with dignity.
profession. Too many of the Jewish parents still
There will be many other challenges
consider the Jewish school , a stepping stone to
Bar Mitzvah, and the poorly trained Bar Mitzvah,
during the coming year. Let us be ready
to face them, and let us join, courage-
the graduate from all Jewish studies.
ously, in contributing towards making
The result of such indifference is ignorance—
'5717'.a Peaceful and a Happy Year.
the emergence of a generation that does not
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The Major Issues for the Coming Year
know how to reply to libels against Jewry, that
does not know the facts about itself and about
Israel, that is unable to refute the falsehoods that
are being spread by our enemies.
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We are an active community. We are doing
a lot of building. Many synagogues are being
erected or are in the architectural planning stage.
In this field, too, there should be greater consider-
ation of the dangers of neighborhood changes,
more serious concern lest there be an overtaxing
of our energies and our available resources.
The more buildings we erect, the more money
is diverted from Israel, whose people are in such
dire need of our help and encouragement. The
more we put into brick and mortar, the more we
detract from the cultural and spiritual causes that
need our help.
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We pray that we should be_ blessed with
leadership that has the vision to plan properly,
to train a thinking and well-informed generation
of Jews; .a leadership that is not drawn merely
from the ranks of those who can give a lot of
money, but also from among those whose back-
ground justifies their speaking with courage and
intelligence in defense of their people.
We pray that this should be a year during
which we shall see greater concern for the higher
values in Jewish life, a lessening of cheap enter-
tainment, an increase of interest in the ideals we
have ,inherited from our -scholars and our saints.
- Above all, we pray that our people should
contribute able leaders to share in the aspirations
for and for good will among all mankind.
May this- be a good, and a happy year, marked
by constructive efforts for Jewry and -humanity.