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. ALMIJAvi teoufettIEVER MgRaffeRiloctivoThis0 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.