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.,
YE. 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year. Foreign $6.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1952 at Post Office. Detroit Mich., under Aot of March 3, 1879.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager
CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
Circulation Manager
FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the eleventh clay of Elul, 5717, the following Scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Ki Tetze, Deut. 21:10-25:19. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 54:1-10.
Licht Benshen, Friday, Sept. 6, 6:40 P.M.
VOL. XXXII. No. 1
Page Four
September 6, 1957
'Unfair Warfare Methods': UNEF Expose
Infiltrations of Arab fedayeen into Is-
rael to murder and steal at night, to poison
wells, to _blow up kindergartens, in an
attempt to create panic in the Jewish
State, was responsible for Operation
Sinai.
Israel's desire to cooperate with the
United Nations resulted in the formation
of the United Nations Emergency Force.
Now, members of this UNEF are learning
the truth about the. Arabs' "unfair meth-
ods of warfare," and some among them
often express their resentment against the
deceitful and uncivilized tactics pur-
sued by Nasser's hirelings.
One of them, Corporal P. A. Kirsten-
sen, of Skanderborg, Denmark, wrote to
his home town newspaper, Skanderborg
Amtsavis, describing his experiences at
the Israel-Gaza border, as follows:
"During my morning watch I was walking
along with a Coca-Cola in my hand, when
suddenly there was an explosion on the right
flank of the unit, and a • tremendous black
cloud of smoke billowed skyward. I ran into
the tent and got hold of a pair of binoculars
in order to see what had happened. I could
see a big bright spot, which remained sta-
tionary. I also saw several persons running
towards the scene of the explosion, so there
could be no doubt: some vehicle had hit a
heavy mine somewhere between our right
flank and the area patrolled by the Indians.
At this spot there are two dirt-roads, passing
on either side of the demarcation line, and
from the camp it was impossible to see on
which side the explosion had occurred.
"I woke up a sergeant-major and set out
myself, on a bicycle, with a first-aid kit, in
order to see if anybody needed help. On my
way out there, I met one of our men, who
said that there was a badly injured man
lying out there, and that there was ifothing
on the spot with which to treat him. He took
the bike and rode back to camp to get hold
of an ambulance and a doctor. I myself
walked the last 200 metres. I found a car
with Israel plates that had been thrown 4-5
meters to the side when it had hit that mine.
The car was completely mangled, and next
to it was lying the wounded man, who was
about my own age.
"Since I was the only person on the spot
who had bandages, it became my task—
with the aid of another Dane—to bandage
him. My kit contained two slings, a pair of
scissors and 15 simple bandages. With this
I bandaged him as well as I could and tied
up the worst places with some laundry from
the car wreck. All this took me about 20
minutes. But that did not matter much, since
we were waiting for some sort of a car to
come and take him away. The worst of it
was that he began to recover from the shock
and to feel the pains. He began asking for
morphine, of which I had none, though ac-
cording to the list of contents of the first-aid
kit, there should have been five tubes with
attached needle. However, the man was soon
taken to an Israel hospital.
"The mine had, no doubt, been placed
there the same night by an Arab patrol.
This is the second time during thelast week
that we are having bad luck with their
mines. This is a very unfair method of war-
fare; we down here much prefer to meet a
man face to face, out in the open. We are
not very keen on this business of waiting
until we are being shot at ourselves, before
we may fire anything but warning shots.
Incidentally, since then the warning shots
have been stricken out from regulations."
We present this description in full as
an indication of what one may yet expect
from - Israel's • enemies. The mercenary
tools of the Arab effendis are continuing
their villainous activities. If others, like
Kirstensen, in the UNEF, will speak up,
to expose the heinous crimes of the feda-
yeen, perhaps the world powers will step
in more quickly to effect a peace in the
Middle East to obviate the destructive
movements from across Israel's borders.
„Meanwhile Corp. Kirstensen and others
like him, who have the courage to speak
up against the "unfair methods of war-
fare," are rendering a real service in the
interest of truth about Israel and her
neighbors.
An Arab Slogan: to Keep Refugees in Subjection
The chief, propaganda weapon against
Israel is the refugee issue. While Israel
is anxious to see the problem solved for
the benefit of the unfortunate refugees,
who must be rehabilitated if a tragic sore
is to be healed, the Arabs are determined
to keep their homeless kinsmen in sub-
jection so that they may remain a weapon
against Israel.
Here is a sample of the Arab propa-
ganda line:
A transcript of a portion of a recent
"Voice of the Arabs" broadcast over the
government-controlled Cairo radio reads:
"The refugees are the cornerstone of the
Arabs' struggle against Israel; the refugees
are the solid rock upon which all the imperi-
alist plots to thrust Israel in the heart of the
Arab homeland are shattered. The refugees
are the armament of the Arabs and Arab
nationalism. From the refugees there rises
the • spark of their hope for their return to
, their homeland. Hence the Zionist-imperial-
ist plot against refugees, against Arab na-
tionalism, against this torch which guides us.
Who does not wish us honor, dignity, free-
dom, and the restoration of Palestine? Who
but the underlings, the traitors, the slaves,
those who sold themselves and their coun-
tries? Who but your enemies, the underlings,
those who are conspiring with Israel against
the refugees, against Arab nationalism,
against' you and against me."
For all practical purposes, this decla-
ration clearly means to assert that the
Arab refugee problem can not be solved
unless Israel is 'destroyed. But since ,Israel
can not be annihilated—since the people of
Israel will never submit to destruction—it
also means that the Arabs are determined
to keep their kinsmen in a miserable state
so that the only weapon they have against
Israel should be kept intact.
It is a cruel decision, and we doubt
whether the civilized world will tolerate
it for very long.
The New School Year and Advanced Studies
The opening of the new school year
brings with it renewed interest in many
plans for the advancethent of Jewish
studies.
Enlarged enrollments are foreseen by
our Jewish schools, and there are hearten-
ing indications that many more children
will be accommodated in our school sys-
tems during 5718.
There remains the problem of the
shortage of teachers, but there is hope
that the advanced Jewish studies planned
in the newly-created Department of Se-
mitics at Wayne University and the ex-
tension courses planned by the university
will serve to encourage young people to
pursue advanced Jewish studies and will
facilitate their entering the Jewish teach-
ing profession.
The problems facing our community's
educational agencies are not simple ones.
They are beset by many difficulties. But
many of the issues involved are being
solved. That of changing neighborhoods is
closer to solution as a result of an ex-
panded building program. There is a
lessening of ideological differences, and
there is hope that more young people will
become teachers in our schools.
We look forward to good cultural
results in 5718.
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Two Generations in Perspective'
Impressive Book Honors 60th
Birthday. of Israel Goldstein
It is exceptionally appropriate that a volume of essays, dedi-
cated in honor of the 60th birthday of Dr. Israel Goldstein, one
of American Jewry's most distinguished leaders, should have
been given the title "Two Generations
in Perspective." Thus, the contents of
this book deal with the 1896-1956 era
— the years of Rabbi Goldstein's life
up to the time of this dedication.
Edited by Harry Schneiderman and
published by Monde Publishers, Inc.,
(11 W. 42nd; N.Y. 36), this volume ful-
fills the promise of its sponsors. It con-
tains evaluations of all the notable
Jewish events in the past 60 years. It
is a resume of the significant trends
of the past two generations.
A number of Jewry's most disting-
uished scholars participated in the prep-
aration of this book. Dr. Louis Finkel-
stein, who has written the foreward,
pays honor to Dr. Goldstein as "one of
the most dedicated servants of the Jew-
Dr. Goldstein_ ish and general community in our time."
Among the tributes to the- able leader is one from the
President of Israel, Itzhak Ben-Zvi, who wrote that he had
learned to appreciate Dr. Goldstein's personality "as a symbol
of the Jew who knows no boundary between East and West,
between Diaspora Jewry and the Jewry- that has returned
to its homeland and risen again to statehood."
There are special articles by Pierre van Paassen, who calls
Dr. Goldstein "the Big Brother in American Judaism"; Israel's
Finance Minister Levi Eshkol, the world president of the Jewish
National Fund, Abraham Granott, and many others/
A long biographical sketch of Dr. Goldstein is supplemented
with personal tributes by distinguished leaders. The major
portion of the book, however, deals with the eventful develop-
ments of the past 60 years.
The major essay, which occupies nearly a fourth of the
entire volume, is Dr. Solomon Grayzel's "A Chronicle of Our
Generation." It is a review of the happenings in our lifetime, and
it deals with the migrations, the Zionist hopes; the cultural,
religious, economic and social problems, the adjustments of Jews
in America, the effects of the two world wars, the anti-Semitic
trends, the Nazi savageries, the rise of Israel and the new trends
in religion and education.
Honoring Rabbi Goldstein, Dr. Grayzel appends to his
chronicle a concluding note in which he asserts about the man
this book honors: "To interpret Judaism, to realize the Zionist
hope, to defend the Jewish people, to organize for better com-
munity living — to spread knowledge and to inspire hope — he
participated in all these aspects of his generation's struggles, as
an eloquent, far-sighted and constructive leader."
Every aspect in Dr. Goldstein's life is covered in this volume.
The movement he now heads, the American Jewish Congress, is
evaluated by the president of the AJC Women's Division, New
York Justice Justine Wise Polier. His colleagues, `Rabbis Moshe
Davis and Robert Gordis, write about the synagogue and the
rabbinate. Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan is the author of an essay on
"Judaism as a Modern Religious Civilization." Judge Louis E.
Levinthal, Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Dr. Samuel Margoshes au-
thored articles on Zionism and our youth. There is an essay on
our communal organization by Isaiah M. Minkoff.
Equally interesting are the numerous articles that pay
honor to Dr. Goldstein as a participant in the affairs of the
general community. Dr. Everett R. Clinchy evaluates human
relations as represented in the interfaith movement of the
National Conference of Christians and Jews. Channing IL
Tobias writes about the National Association for the Advance-
ment of the Colored People.
There are many more articles and this book includes excerpts
from Dr. Goldstein's major addresses and an annotated list of
his books.
This tribute was well earned and it is a pleasure for the
reviewer to join in hearty greetings to Dr. Goldstein.