Urgently Needed Protection Urgently 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 Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1952 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act 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 twenty-sixth day of Tebet, 5717, the following Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Vaera, Ex. 6:2 - 9:35. Prophetical portion, Ezekiel 28:25-29:21. Rosh Hodesh Shevat occurs on Wednesday. xx.114V-12MV7-444 41.4e82, Licht Benshen, Friday, Jan. 17, 4:48 p.m. VOL. XXXII. No. 20 Page Four January 17, 1958 President Eisenhower's Strongest Message In his impressive address to Con- gress — the best address he has yet delivered on the state of the Nation and our needs for future action — President Eisenhower laid stress on a very signifi- cant point. While urging "greater use of repayable loans, through the Develop- ment Loan Fund, through funds gener- ated by sale of surplus farm products, and through the Export-Import Bank," he also appealed for the reconstruction of impoverished areas in the world as the best means of attaining peace. The President's appeal, addressed to the Soviet Union, whom he challenged to cooperate with us in fighting poverty and disease in backward countries. is a con- structive approach. It parallels the plead- ings of Israeli leaders who have pointed out that what is needed in the Middle East is not to accentuate militarism but rather to improve the lot of oppressed and disease-ridden people, to establish schools and hospitals instead of building up military machines, to fight poverty instead of perpetuating it. * * It is our natural hope that the Pres- ident's declaration that we "must con- tinue to strengthen" the mutual security efforts of our nation includes also Israel. The Jewish State is inseparable from this country's undertakings to improve the lot of struggling small nations. What we hope for especially is that the President's emphasis on the improve- ment of the health of peoples in countries affected by the present world crisis will not fall on deaf ears. It is easy to arouse passions and to create discontent. It will be much easier to attain peace when the major stress is laid upon educating people, upon restoring health to the ail- ing, upon eradicating diseases, upon fighting cancer. * * * It is possible that the need for stronger defense measures, in view of Itzhak Ben-Zvi's Book in English the unfortunate race that has engulfed mankind, was responsible for the Pres- ident's silence on the continuing immigra- tion problem. But the assertions of Sen- ators Jacob K. Javits and Irving M. Ives Itzhak Ben-Zvi, the President of Israel, is known as one of that they will strive for an overhauling Jewry's most distinguished scholars. He is especially qualified to of existing immigration laws offers prom- speak as an authority about the Jewries in Moslem countries. He had written an important volume, "Nidhe YisFael." ise that the subject will not be pigeon- Now we are privileged to have it in. holed, that it will be revived and that an English translation. The Jewish Publication Society of America has some relief measures may be adopted. just issued the translation into Eng- In the meantime, all Americans hope lish, by Isaac A. Abbady, under the title "The Exiled and the Redeemed." for the advancement of our defense plans, The accumulated interesting facts so that we may retain the scientific and abOut the dispersed and regathered technological leadership that is needed communities, in this volume, are es- for our security. All of us naturally hope pecially valuable at this time, when so many Jews from Moslem countries that the President's Program for firm ac- are pouring into Israel. tion for America's defense will bring the The product of continuous research into the fields he has explored, Ben- desired results. 'The Exiled and the Redeemed' Is a Highly Scholarly Work Premier Ben-Gurion's Struggle for Peace Israel Prime Minister David Ben- Gurion's return to leadership of his country does not offer very strong secu- rity for his reconstituted Cabinet. While Aid for 3 Colleges Detroit Jewry this month is evidenc- ing a special interest in higher educa- tional institutions. Supplementing the contributions our community makes to our elementary schools, to the Hebrew University and the Technion in Israel, with Allied Jewish campaign funds, a commendable interest has been shown, at special events spon- sored this month, in the Technion's build- ing program and in the work of Bar-Ilan University: Additionally, Detroit Jews will be aiding substantially the Yeshiva Univer- sity in New York and its Albert Einstein Medical School, by establishing the John E. Lurie Scholarship Fund in these schools. Especially noteworthy is the latter effort, which honors a distinguished De- troit Jewish citizen and at the same time assists in the work of a recognized school that is rendering great service with its secular as well as specifically Jewish educational activities. Our community's interest in educa- tional institutions deserves commenda- tion. We are about to commence a great fund-raising effort, for the annual Allied Jewish Campaign. There is no doubt that the response again will be heartening, that the contributions will be generous and that Detroit Jews will not desert either the local and national agencies or Israel and the overseas causes that are supported in our annual campaign. The assistance given the schools of higher learning must surely be viewed as sup- plementary, thus indicating that there is no limit to our generosity. there was an agreement that security decisions are not to be publicized, the protests that are being heard against the extension of censorship is certain to plague the Prime Minister and his asso- ciates. One major fact must be taken into consideration: that the crisis that was weathered by Prime Minister Ben-Gurion was the result of his insistence upon ad- hering to a policy of close cooperation with the West. Those, however, who, be- cause of their friendly leanings towards Soviet Russia,, are advocating a policy of "neutralism," do not relish his program. Israel's Premier undoubtedly has in view eventual peace for his country and the entire area. He has a difficult task ahead of him. The Western powers, whose friendship he is wooing, are not responding to him as Israel would hope they would. And the Eastern bloc remains antagonistic to the Jewish State. It is a sad state of affairs. It could easily be remedied by stronger friendship on the part of this country and our allies. Per- haps the coming months and the strength- ening of NATO will bring a better atti- tude for Israel. However, the obstacles in Israel's path have not diminished. In fact, efforts to secure the necessary aid from this country are meeting with obstructions, due primarily to the increased need for defense funds on the one hand and the cry for budgetary cuts on the other. Therefore the struggle for aid to Israel goes on. The struggle in Israel is not limited to that nation or that area. It is part of the vaster international conflict, and the Ben-Gurion Cabinet crisis also is part of the West-East controversy. Freedom - and peace - loving peoples hope for a speedy solution to the prob- lem. For Israel, such hopes are linked with that country's superhuman efforts for survival. Zvi's essays describe the positions of the numerous communities under study and their integration into Is- rael's life and activities. It is as a re- suit of his studies that "The Ben-Zvi Itzhak Ben-Zvi Institute" was established at the Hebrew University in order to study conditions of Jewish communities in the Orient and round the Mediterranean basin. Ben-Zvi shows how these communities were motivated by "an _ eagerness for a return to Zion and for a speedy end to their life of degradation under Moslem rule." Only dim echoes were heard by Jews in Moslem countries about Zionism. They were geographically removed from European centers and they kept aloof from Zionism. Only Central and East European Jews at first settled in Palestine. Then came the Arab war on Israel. Entire Jewish communities began to transplant themselves into Israel with the establishment of the Jewish State. Bulgarian Jewry was the first. Then came all the Jews from Yemen, and Jews from other Moslem countries started to pour into Israel. Ben-Zvi evaluates the positions of the various oriental Jew- ries and presents facts and figures about the new settlers in Israel. He makes this touching appeal in behalf of these Jewries: "It is to be regretted that oriental Jewry did not obtain at the hands of the Jewish people that considerate treatment which was once accorded to Polish Jews, and did not have the benefit of national guidance and training for their settlement in Israel. "The time has now come to make good this defect. Much work remains to be done, both in their countries of origin, be- fore they come to Israel, and in their camps of transition in. Israel. Any educative process must, however, proceed along humane lines of sympathy and understanding which will em- phasize the uniting rather than the separating elements. This can be done, not by creating educational 'trends,' where they do not exist, but by a uniform state education system. We must train them to become free citizens of the state, using one language, and adapting themselves to creative effort. 'We must also train them to leadership. We must bring to the fore their hidden and latent cultural potential, on which we may all draw to enrich the common treasure of our people as a whole. When this has been done, there is reason to hope that this Jewry will take its responsible share in the reconstruction of our state. To this end special research institutes for the study of oriental Jewry must undoubtedly be encouraged .. The day is not far off when they will rise to the national re- sponsibility alongside the rest of Israel's tribes. Neglect in this field is unpardonable, and any labor now involved in regaining our lost brethren for the common cause of our people will reward us immeasurably in the enhancement of our national good." Ben-Zvi's essays deal with the Jews in Yemen, the Cau- casus, Georgia, Bukhara, Persia, Khaibar, Khazaria, Surinam, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Himyar, Ethiopia and other centers of Moslem influence. He discusses the Samaritans, Karaites and Sabbateans. It is an enlightening story and his book should be made "must reading" wherever Jewish history is studied.