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THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
FRANK SIMONS
CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
SIDNEY SHMARAK
City Editor
Circulation Manager
Advertising Manager
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the eighteenth day of Shev at, 5718, the following Scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Vitro, Ex, 18:1-2 0-23. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6.
Licht Benshen, Friday, Jan. 31, 5:12 p.m.
VOL. XXXII, No. 23
February 7, 1958
Page Four
A Disjointed Merger Without Borders
A thorough study of the map is
necessary for an understanding of
the fantastically - mythical merger
of Egypt and Syria into a feder-
ated "United Arab State."
Both countries border on Israel
and Syria also borders on Jordan,
but there is not a common border
joining the countries ruled by
Gamal Abdel Nasser and Shukri
al-Kuwatly.
The accompanying map shows
clearly how difficult it will be
for the two nations to coordinate
their activities. The only common
ground on which they stand is their
common hatred for the two coun-
tries separating them.
It is no secret that Syria and
Egypt would like to absorb Jordan
and are aiming at Israel's destruc-
tion. Since Jordan, like Israel, is
the avowed enemy of the two na-
tions that are now united into a
single federation, traffic between
them is possible by air routes or
through whatever deals the two
allied nations may make to use the
land routes through Saudi-Arabia and
Iraq. But here, too, there are threats to
Iraq's existence as a member of the
Bagdad Pact of which both Egypt and
Syria disapprove.
It is clear that the Arab merger
has sinister aims. The impracticability
of cooperation between two countries sep-
arated by areas traffic through which is
prohibited to them reveals the major aims
of the planned merger: the destruction of
neighbors.
All of which emphasizes the respon-
sibilities of the Western powers to put
an end to the destructive plans of two
dictatorial powers whose only security
Honoring Abe Kasle
Abe Kasle is the recipient of deserved
honors from our community.
On Tuesday, at the annual meeting of
the Jewish Welfare Federation, he was
selected to receive this year's Annual
Butzel Award.
On Feb. 23, the Kasle Midrasha and
High School Building will be dedicated
in his honor.
His name is being added to those of a
number of distinguished Detroiters who
had previously been named for the
Butzel Award—the late Julian Krolik, the
late Henry Wineman, Judge William
Friedman, Abraham Srere, Mrs. Joseph
H. Ehrlich, Samuel Rubiner and Justice
Henry M. Butzel.
By naming the Midrasha and high
school building in his honor, the United
Hebrew Schools are giving him due rec-
ognition for the services he has rendered
the schools during the 14 years of his
presidency.
The honors accorded him attest to his
services to our -community, to his - gener-
osity, to the loyal and devoted years he
has devoted to the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, of which he is a former chairman,
and to the many other causes he has
aided.
The most recent honor accorded him
was his selection for the chairmanship of
the Detroit Committee for Israel's Tenth
Anniversary Celebration.
We join with his many friends in
congratulating him on the honors he is
receiving in recognition of his communal
loyalties.
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Runes' 'Philosophy at Work'
SAUDI
ARABIA
at the moment is their flirtation with
Soviet Russia.
Our own Government and the govern-
ments of Great Britain and France are
known to be anxious to protect Jordan's
sovereignty against the attempts by Syria
and Egypt to devour it. Lebanon faces
similar danger.
At the same time, the two countries
whose very existence is endangered by
their own Arab kinsmen and the enemies
of Jordan and Lebanon remain aligned
on only one issue: their common hatred
of Israel.
It is the very hatred and suspicion of
Arab states for each other that causes
them, out of fear for repercussions, to
remain united in their opposition to Is-
rael. Else Jordan and Lebanon might
have negotiated peace with Israel.
How will the West react to these de-
velopments? In addition to being on
guard against Soviet Russia, our Govern-
ment and our allies must also watch out
that this unholy coup will not bring up-
heavals in the Middle East.
Once again, we reiterate the view that
firm action by the -Western Powers can
avert a crisis. Firmness in behalf of Is-
rael, for peace in the area and for guar-
antees of the territorial positions of the
existing states would go a long way to
avert further struggles and to disillusion
.the Communist hate-mongers who seek to
upset the amity of nations and the peace
of the Middle East.
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Book of Contemplation'
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Dr. Dagobert D. Runes calls his new volume, "A Book of
Contemplation," a "philosophy at work." Published by Philo-
sophical Library (15 E. 40th, N. Y. 16), Dr. Runes' new book is,
indeed a study of many topics.
This book of contemplation defines many topics. It explains
many ideas. For instance, it says of Judaism: it is "the story of
a great father popularized by two difficult offsprings." Also:
"Judaism has no sects, only attributes. What does it
matter where one meets God and His Beatitude, be it in one
great principle or in numerous precepts and legends."
He writes of charity that it "is not the effect of faith, it
is faith"
Under the title "Jew" he writes: "What blasphemy is the
theology of crucifixion—to paint the Jews as the destroyer of
religion when the Jew is really its creator!" He also says under
this reading:
"Jews have been stunted in their growth by a hostile
world from the days of Israel, the God fighter. They were
chosen by the Lord to carry the Tablets of the Law, but their
neighbors wanted them to carry the cross, or the banner of
the crescent. They decimated the chosen one, decade after
dectade, century after century, with forced conversion, "rack
and pyre and noxious gases, and what could have been by
now a nation of a hundred million children of Israel, is left
a poor tenth after two millennia without grace and charity.
"Many attribute to the Jews their own failing and then
hate them for it.
"Jews are the heart-people of our era. Could you see
Jesus as a German, Frenchman or Chinese? Or Paul as a
Japanese or Scotchman?"
Many of his definitions are thought-provoking. His book
is a philosophy at work.
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The issue involving the struggle for
power and control in the Middle East
calls for serious study and clarification,
especially in view of the course of a
Congressional debate.
Michigan's Republican Congressman
Alvin M. Bentley went on record be-
lieving that an Egyptian-Syrian merger
would strengthen opposition to Com-
munism in that area. His views were re-
futed by other Congressmen, but much
remains to be done in explanation of the
true facts: that what the two presently
pro-Communist nations aim at through
their merger is to control the area. Their
only supporter is Soviet Russia. Our
Government must not become a party
to a union that threatens to destroy all
the democratic tendencies in that area.
Jewish Life in Colorado
'Pioneers, Peddlers Tzadikim'
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The exciting story of the development of Jewish community
life in Colorado, the record of the first century of Jewish life
in the Rocky Mountain area, is related in "Pioneers, Peddlers
and Tzadikim," by Ida Libert Uchill, published by Sage Books,
2679 S. York St., Denver 10, Colo.
Jews came to Colorado as pioneers, as peddlers. Among
them , were righteous tzadikim to whom this work is dedicated.
People came there for their health, to clear their lungs
in the healthy mountain environment. They remained to build
fine communities, to make great contributions to their, state
and their country.
It was difficult, but Jews on the frontiers nevertheless
adhered to the ideals of Judaism. That is where the tzadikim
enter into this interesting picture.
There were conflicts among the religious Jewish groups,
but these were not especially peculiar in the Colorado
environment: they occurred elsewhere. It is their creative
effort that makes the Jews of Colorado stand out as a forceful
group in American Jewry.
Mrs. Uchill has tried to make her book a complete work
in analyzing the Colorado story. She deals with the development
of Zionism, Colorado Jewry's-- benevolence, the congregational
life, the battle against anti-Semitism and the work of the
Anti-Defamation League, Jewish press and Jews in the services.
Students of American Jewish history will do well to study
this book and to emulate Mrs. Uchill's efforts in writing the
stories of other Jewish communities in America.
. Ethics and U. S. Foreign Policy
Can ethical principles be applied to United States foreign
policy? What moral implications can be linked with international
actions that have disturbed the thinking of statesmen and have
created fears among masses of people?
Prof. Ernest W. Lefever attempts to answer these problems
in his thought-provoking "Ethics and United States Foreign
Policy," published by Meridian Living Age Books for the Church
Peace Union.
There is a hopeful note in Dr. Lefever's analysis which
emphasizes that "many political leaders have been motivated
by the central values and insights of Judaeo-Christian tradition.
He emphasizes the value of religious pronouncements relating
ethics to political necessity in molding "Biblical realism" onto
the problems of political ethics.