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 35, Mich.,
VE, 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year. Foreign $6.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1952, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
SIDNEY SHMARAK
Editor and Publisher
Advertising Manager
CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
Circulation Manager
FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the eighth day of Adar, 5717, the following Scriptural selections will be
read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Tezaveh, Ex. 27:20-30:10. Prophetical portion, Ezekiel 43:10-27.
Licht Benshen, Friday, Feb. 8, 5:37 p.m.
VOL. XXX—No. 23
Page Four
February 8, 1957
Our Good Community's Generosity
For a number of years, Detroit Jewry
has held the unchallenged position of
leadership in generous giving to philan-
thropic causes. Our Allied Jewish Cam-
paign has been a path-blazer for other
communities in setting the pace for gen-
erosity in behalf of our unfortunate kins-
men overseas and in Israel's upbuilding.
The new record set last week, at the
initial meeting of large donors to the 1957
campaign, adds gloriously to our position
as a most generous community. It offers
an assurance that Detroit Jewry will have
an important share in the Life-Saving
Rescue Fund of the United Jewish Appeal.
This is a serious time in world history,
and it is an especially challenging era for
all who are concerned that the tens of
thousands of new exiles from Egypt and
other Moslem countries, and from behind
the Iron Curtain, should not be abandoned
-to a cruel fate.
The $2,048,000 initial response to the
current Allied Jewish Campaign should
serve as a .signal to . the entire community
to rally to a great cause, to be prepared
to meet all the needs in the present hour
of crisis, and to provide the entire mini-
mum goal of $6,500,000 that is asked of us
as our obligation to overseas, national and
local regular needs and our dutiful share
in the Life-Saving Rescue Fund of the
UJA.
We must not forget or !overlook our
previous experiences in fund-raising. The
largest and initial contributions are easiest
to acquire. The subsequent sums, from the
smaller contributors, present the harder
task because they represent the vast num-
bers of participants in the campaign. The
$2,048,000 was pledged by less than a hun-
dred people; the balance must be given
by nearly 30,000 generous donors.
Therefore, there is need for mobiliza-
tion of all our forces—volunteer solicitors
and generous contributor§,—to assure total
success for the 1957 Allied -Jewish Cam-
paign. Let us set our goals high. Let us
aim at exceeding the $6,500,000 minimum
goal. By achieving such an objective, we
will be living up to an established tradi-
tion: of keeping Detroit's Jewish commun-
ity high on the ladder of generosity, as
the trail - blazer for libertarianism and
humanitarianism.
Justice Butzel -1957 Federation Award Winner
There is poetic justice in this year's
selection of the annual Fred M. Butzel
w-inner.:
The Jewish Welfare Federation agen-
cies' presidents and the former award win-
ners have chosen former Michigan Su-
preme Court Justice Henry M. Butzel for
this year's honors. It was a wise and com-
mendable choice.
Justice Butzel worked in association
with his brother, the late Fred M. Butzel,
in whose honor the award has been set
up, not only as a partner in the law firm
that bore their names for more than a
generation, but also in communal activi-
ties.
A leader in the Federation since its
founding, an active worker in and a gen-
erous contributor to the Allied Jewish
Campaigns,. Justice Butzel has been and
remains an important factor in our com-
munity's major affairs. The recognition
that was given him by our state, in elect-
ing and re-electing him to the State Su-
preme Court, indicated the high regard in
which he is held by citizens of all faiths.
The Butzel name continues to rank
The Israeli Quintet
Thanks to the U. S. Committee for
Sports in Israel, and to sponsorship locally
by the Detroit Times, the Israeli Olympic
Basketball Team will play in Detroit on
Feb. 14, at the U. of D. Memorial Building.
Coached by Elmer Ripley, -former
Notre Dame cage mentor, the Israelis come
here equipped with skill in the game ac-
quired from training with Americans. The
recent Israeli military engagements pre-
vented the team from going to Melbourne,
Australia, to participate in the World
Olympics. It was thanks to Col. Harry
Henshel, who was in charge of the U. S.
Olympic Basketball Team, that the Israelis
were provided with good coaching. Col.
Henshel, Ripley and others have taken
a deep interest in Israeli . sports, Ripley
having lived an entire year in Israel train-
ing the team that is coming to Detroit
Feb. 14.
The Israeli basketball players have
earned our hearty welcome as a symbo.1
of the new spirit they have helped inject
in the Middle East—the spirit of sports-
manship which must eventually overcome
the terrorism inspired by Israel's antagon-
ists. We hope for a full house to greet
the Israelis on their appearance here.
among the most honored in American Jew-
ry. The late Fred M. Butzel, whom the
Federation will continue to honor by the
presentation of the annual awards bearing
his name, was one of Jewry's most' hon-
ored personalities. His eminent brother;
the former Supreme Court Justice, has
shared in those honors and now is ,directly
associated with the Butzel Awards by
having his name inscribed on the perma-
nent plaque bearing the names of all
award winners.
We join with the entire community in
heartily congratulating Justice Butzel on
the high honor accorded him.
Eddie Cantor at 65
On Feb. 16, one of American Jewry's
most distinguished and colorful personal-
ities, Eddie Cantor, on the occasion of his
65th birthday, will be honored at a dinner
that will feature the Israel Bond Confer-
ence at the Fontainbleau Hotel in Miami
Beach. -
The entire American Jewish commun-
ity joins in honoring this lovable man. For
more than four decades, he has entertained
us. He was one of thetop figures in the-
ater and the movies and, on television and
in radio. But he did not limit himself to
entertainment. In the last two decades
especially, he devoted himself to com-
munal activities, aiding every worthy
cause, assisting the March of Dimes—a
movement he instituted with the coopera-
tion. and consent of the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt—and the major
Jewish causes.
Tie has been most helpful to the United
Jewish Appeal and to the Israel Bond
drives. On the eve of his 65th birthday,
Eddie Cantor issued "a personal state-
ment" explaining "What Israel Means to
Me," in which he said:
• This is a deeply moving personal testa-
ment. It should inspire all of, us, fellow-
Americans, to strive for the attainment of
the high goal of protecting our democracy,
by defending Israel, and of sharing in the
great work of assuring the security of lib-
ertarians everywhere.
With deep appreciation to Eddie Cantor
for his devotion to humanitarian move-
ments and for his fine personal testament,
we join in greeting him on his 65th birth-
day and in wishing him well for decades
to come.
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The 'Ought' and the 'Good'
Dr. Kohn's 'Moral Life of Man'
Human experiences and theological ideals are employed by
Dr. Jacob Kohn in the development of his themes in his philoso-
phically challenging book, "The Moral Life of Man," published by
the Philosophical Society (15 E. 40th, N Y 16).
At the outset, Dr. Kohn, one of the most disinguished of
our Conservative rabbis, points out that the moral_life of man ,
operates under two—unidentical—categories, "the 'ought' and
the `good'." He thereupon outlines his thesis on obligation or
duty. He describes the obligations of men to each other and to
society.
He takes exception especially to the assumption that religion
is always the opiate and sporific.
Analyzing our ethical ideals, Dr. Kohn asserts that "in the
Biblical tradition, the ideal of the prophets is in the main -
a social ideal and whatever is vivid and virile in the social
idealism of Western civilization derives from this fact."
His chapters "Moral Freedom." and "Is There a Moral World
Order?" have special merit. "So far as we know," he tells us
"man is unique only in being conscious of himself as a free
individual, of exercising his volition in the choice of possible
alternatives. In consequence, he imputes to himself moral re-
nsibility and his acts assume a moral significance charac-
teristic of human behavior."
Dr. Kohn proceeds to point out that "in a society pervaded
.
by the spirit of righteousness - and justice, every individual has
a better opportunity for life and happiness than in one dominated
by cruelty and greed, and therefore every contribution made by
the individual to establish freedom and justice is a possible
contribution td his own happiness and that of the posterity
with which his happiness is intertwined."
What of the future: "Man will, to save himself, learn from
his errors and repent, or blast himself out of God's world with
his bombs and his scientists, so that God's justice will be vin-
dicated in man's extinction."
And then, as a concluding sentiment, admitting that "to
suffer for the sake of righteousness becomes a pathetic gesture,"
Dr. Kohn concludes: "It requires faith in God to sustain a
triumphant humanism."
An Ambassador's Appraisal
'
Israel
and Her Neighbors
'
Eliahu Elath, who was Israel's first Ambassador to the United
States and who now is his country's Ambassador to England, is
known as one of the outstanding authorities on Middle East af-
fairs.
Last year he delivered a series of lectures at Brandeis Uni-
versity on "Israel and Her Neighbors."
Under this title, this series now is pub-
lished in book form and has been issued
by World Publishing Co. (2231 W. 110th,
Cleveland 2).
There is an especially fine lecture —
his concluding one — on "The Bedouin
and Their Problems," in which Ambassa-
dor Elath discusses dispassionately the
position of the Arab nomads and the
rights granted them by Israel to pursue
their tribal traditions, to conduct their
own courts, to carry on normal activi-
ties. The reader becomes acquainted
with the ways of life of the 20,000
Negev bedouin:
Eliahu Elath
On the question of Israel's security,
Ambassador Elath asserts that Israel must be armed for self-
defense, and will fight for its existence. While he does not paint
a rosy picture, he nevertheless says that-"Israel still looks forward
to better understanding and eventual settlement with its neigh-
bors."
Discussing population problems in Israel, Mr. Elath states
that, while a decisive stage has not yet been reached in the ine
tegration of the Arab minority; "every practicable step is being
taken" in- that direction.
His views add considerably to an understanding of the Middle
East situation and the Arab-Jewish prOblem.