Election Promises
THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial
Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 3S. Mich.,
VE. 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year Foreign $6.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at Post Office, Detroit Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
FRANK SIMONS
SIDNEY SHMARAK
City Editor
Advertising Manager
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath., the fifteenth day of Heshvan, 5717, the following Scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Kings 4:1-37.
Pentatevchal portion, Vayera, Gen. 18:1-2 2:24. Prophetical portion, It
Licht Benshen, Friday, October 19, 5:30 p.m.
October 19, 1956
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VOL. XXX. No. 7
Annual UN Day: Humanity'sObligations
The United Nations came into being
on Oct. 24, 1945, and the date—Oct. 24—
is being perpetuated as Annual United
Nations Day. It is part of the United
Nations Week, observed by synagogues,
churches and civic-minded organizations.
This year's observance occurs in a
period of grave crisis and of renewed
threats to the peace of the world. In the
11 years of the existence of the interna-
tional organization, the representatives of
the nations of the world have succeeded
in averting wars. The prayers of all peo-
ples who strive for good will is that this
major objective of the UN will triumph.
In behalf of the Church Peace Union,
Arthur J. Brown has written this prayer,
which we endorse heartily:
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"Eternal God, we pray for Thy blessing
as the Sovereign and Father of man. We
thank Thee for the men who, despite- inter-
national jealousies, suspicions and threatened.
war, had a vision of a world in which the
nations would live together in peace and
settle their disputes as friends.
"We pray for those who now have the
high privilege and heavy burden of leader-
ship—the members of the United Nations and
their governments. Endow them with vision,
understanding, wisdom in council, and firm-
ness for the right as Thou givest them. to
see the right. Help us. all to think of other
peoples not as possible enemies but as
felknvm-en, many of them needy, restless and
finding life uphill all the way. We ask for
ourselves not ease but service, not more
power but more conscience, not exemption
from the troubles of our fellowmen, but the
largeness of heart to share them in brother-
hood. Wherein we have failed, we ask Thy
forgive-ness.
"And all the way wilt Thou go with ttit
to inspire to that devotion to duty that gives
dignity and worth to human life. In these
days of tension and tumult, evoke in us a
great hcpe,- a great faith, that underneath the
stormy surface of the world the mighty
current of Thy eternal purpose of righteous-
ness and peace is sweeping on. In the
splendor of this faith, we renew obedience to
Thy call, our Leader and our Lord. Amen."
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We must, however, append to these
hopes, to the acclamations of the inspira-
tions for righteousness and peace and
justice, that a single standard of fairness
must be pursued, if all the triumphs of the
UN are not to be temporary.
Israel's difficulties have proven, unfor-
tunately, that double standards have been
practiced; that while murderers have en-
dangered the position of the young Israeli
State, while the Big Powers have been
sending battleships and ammunition into
the Middle East, Israel has been asked
to be silent in the face of threats to her
very existence. The attackers, while fre-
quently rebuked, nevertheless appeared to
have had a free hand in their murderous
acts; while the attacked constantly are
asked to turn the other cheek.
If the United Nations is to be corn-
Judge Kaufman
Judge Nathan J. Kaufman, candidate
for re-election to the Probate Court, on
November 6, has set so excellent a record
for service to our community th a t he
merits an overwhelming vote of confi-
dence.
Assigned to the Juvenile Division of
the Probate Court, Judge Kaufman has
shown a keen understanding of the prob-
lems of our youth. He is handling delin-
quency issues with vision and kindness.
His approaches in the many factors involv-
ing delinquents have earned the commen-
dations of parents, educators and officials.
Our community usually knows how to
reward conscientious public servants. We
urge that the reward for Judge Kaufman
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pletely successful, it must find a way of
ending strife. It must exert its influence
to prevent the recurrence of bloodshed. It
must demand the cessation of war threats
aimed at Israel.
Also: if there is to be a fair inter-
national organization, it can not acquiesce
to threats to destroy Israel by Arabs,
while Israel is denied the right to self-
defense.
Additionally: if the UN program is to
be accepted as fair and unprejudiced,
actions like Egypt's in singling out Israel
for exclusion from passage through the
Suez Canal must be repudiated with firm-
ness.
A Revival in English
Famous Stories From the
19 Famous
Works of Sholom Aleichem
Shalom Aleichem had came into his own in his own lifetime,
and it is heartening to know that in recent years, although the
master Yiddish humorist and story-teller is being read less and
less in the language in which • he created his ,‘
characters—Yiddish—he is becoming increasing-
ly more popular with English readers.
His stories have appeared in anthologies;
several of his books have been published in
English translations, and the latest very attrac-
tivebook is a Modern Library selection of Ran-'
dam. House, (457 Madison, N.Y. 22), under the
title "Selected Stories of Shalom Aleichem."
Alfred Kazin, in an introduction to this col-
Sholom
lection of Sholom Aleichem's best stories, ex-
Aleichem
plains "the great thing about the Jews in this
paragraph:
"The way to read Sholom Aleichem is to remember front
"United Nations, New York" is the in- the outset that he is writing about a people, a folk, the Yiddish-
ternational address of the UN structure speaking Jews of Eastern Europe. There are a great many
which serves as headquarters for the Gen- Jews and non-Jews who resent the idea that the Jews are a
eral Assembly of the International organ- people, for they think that this requires all Jews to speak
ization along Manhattan's East River. It the same language and to live in the same territory. But the
in this book already are a people. They are a
symbolizes the possibilities for peace, for characters
people not merely because they speak the same language,
justice for all peoples, for an end to strife. Yiddish, nor because they live in the Pale of Settlement that
Acting firmly, with determination, refus- Czarist government kept Jews in. They are a people because
ing to permit a single standard of diplo- they think of themselves as a people. And what is most im-
matic morality by war-seeking nations, portant, they are a people because they enjoy thinking of
the UN can, as it should, emerge as the themselves as a people."
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panacea for many evils in this world.
So that its objectives may triumph, all
What kind of enjoyment can these people derive under
peoples owe the UN unqualified support harassment by the Russians? "The answer," Kazin writes, "is
and adherence to the principles of fair that one enjoys being a member of a people because one shares
play, aspirations for peace and respect in the feast of their common experience." This, then, Kazin
states, "is the fabled strength of 'the old country,' which deprived
for their neighbors and fellow men.
the Jews of Eastern Europe of every decency that we take for
granted, but allowed them to feast unendingly on their own tradi-
tion ... The very pen name, Sholom Aleichem' (its meaning
is the Hebrew greeting 'Peace Be Unto You') is an instance of
Our last week's issue, which was dedi- this."
cated to discussions.of our educational pro-
Sholom Aleichem's real name was Solomon Rabinowitz. He
blems, revealed interesting viewpoints on was born in Kiev in 1859 and died in New York in 1916.
our varied school systems. The symposium
Kazin's introduction to the Sholom Aleichem stories ana-
was important primarily for the concern
the world in which the humorist's characters lived. The
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it showed, among all elements in our com- characters are viewed as "little" people "not in the sense that
munity, in the development of our cul- they are poor little victims, but in the sense that they are un-
tural programs.
armed, defenseless, exiled, not in their kind of world ... Yiddish
Such interest gains status in the fact which is particularly the language of the exile, of the long
that a new Jewish Center, to be dedicated Jewish wandering, is identified by these poor Jews with the
this Sunday in the Oak Park area, is linked contrast between the Jewish situation in the world and the large
with an expanding branch of the United and inextinguishable hope of another world which they profess.
Hebrew Schools. Such fusion of interests They do not 'despise' Yiddish which they themselves call a ver-
lends importance both to the Center move- nacular; they love it; it is theirs ... They embody in it an
historical moment, the present and its desolation, rather than the
ment and to our educational system.
of eternity which is mirrored in Hebrew. Yiddish is the
Those in charge of the two movements world man's
clothes rather than his Sabbath garment."
poor
are to be congratulated on the program
The New Jewish Center
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attained in such a merger. It speaks well
for the cooperation in evidence in our
city in behalf of both the Centers and the
United Hebrew Schools. We extend hearty
greetings to both on the dedication.
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Kazin makes the point that for Tevye—one of Sholom Al-
eicheni's famous characters—and his people "the word is not
the beginning of things; it is a response to the overmastering
reality—to the world and the everlasting creation, the eternal
struggle and the inestimable privilege of being a Jew.
In this 450-page splendid collection of Sholom Aleichem
stories, which conclude with a valuable glossary, are included
The annual dinner of the Detroit 29 of the Yiddish humorist's best tales: On Account of a Hat,
Business Men's Group of the City of Hope, The Pair, The Town of the Little People, The Inheritors, Tevye
to be held Nov. 4, points to an interesting Wins a Fortune, A Page From the Song of Songs, Two Dead Men,
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development in local activities.
From a handful of men who, 10 years
ago, raised approximately $1,500 a year for
the Duarte, Calif., health center, this
Detroit organization has grown to 100—
all prominent in our community's busi-
ness and civic affairs—who raise $100,000
a year.
This growth shows a commendable
interest in an agency whose activities have
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crr I- illations
The Clock That Struck Thirteen, Home for Passover, The En-
chanted Tailor, A Yam Kippur Scandal, In Haste, Eternal Life,
Hannuka Money, Tit for Tat, Modern Children, You Mustn't
Weep—It's Yom-Tev, I'm Lucky—I'm An Orphan, Dreyfus in
Kasrilevka, The Convoy, The Fiddle, The Day Before Yont
Kippur, Three Little Heads, A Country Passover, The Lottery
Ticket, The Miracle of Hashono Rabo, Hodel, A Daughter's
Grave, Cnards.
Those who are familiar with Sholom Aleichem's works
will recognize at once the wisdom displayed in making these
selections. In its totality, this collection offers the best works