Striving for High Goals

THE JEWISH NEWS

Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing, with issue of July 20, 1951

Passover has great fascination for our children. They art
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important element in the Seder service. They ask crucial
an
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They are an integral part of a service during which we re-
appraise historic events and spiritual values.
FRANK SIMONS
SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
We may well ask ourselves some vital questions during the
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Passover observance:
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Are we preparing our youth properly for their participa-
This Sabbath, the first day of Passover, the following scriptural selections will be
tion in Jewish life, to be members of our organized community?
read in our synagogues:
Are we integrating the next generation of Jews into a whole-
Pentateuchal portions, Exodus 12:21-51, Leviticus 28:16-25. Prophetical portion„ Joshua some pattern of Jewish living?
3:5-7; 5:2-6:1; 6:27.
The Seder is a good time to ask these questions. Because
Scriptural selections for second day of Passover, Sunday: Pentateuchal portions, proper answers must be preceded by proper action by the elders
Leviticus 22:26-23:44, Numbers 28:16-25. Prophetical portion, II Kings 23:1-9; 21-25.
who are responsible for training our youth.
Licht Benshen, Friday, April 4, 6.16 p.m.
In recent years, Jewish writers had seen fit to make a
April 4, 1958 mockery of the Seder and other Jewish ceremonials in their
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novels about Jews.
We sincerely believe that the days of mockery and derision
by disrespectful people are gone, that we have attained a re-
newed respect for our traditions, that we are beginning to aim at
Seldom was a libertarian note struck more auspiciously than it will be - sounded highr goals in our experiences as Jews.
By educating ourselves — this is possible through our adult
this Passover.
This is the festival of freedom, commemorating the liberation of the Israelites education programs — and by providing the best Jewish educa-
possible for our children, we can attain the high goals we
from the yoke of Egypt. It was a self-liberating act, and as such it became the sym- tion
aim to reach. It is something to think about at the Passover
bol of all revolts against tyranny, oppression and slavery.
Seder, when our children ask us numerous questions about
By the same token, the festival, as it will be observed this year, introducing our historical background. We should be prepared either to
an important celebration — that of Israel's tenth anniversary will assume added answer them now or to pledge ourselves that we will strive to
secure the right answers in the dignified manner incumbent upon
significance.
The events that occurred approximately 3,300 years ago, as recorded in the self-respecting Jews.

Festival of Freedom and of Rebirth

story of Passover, has its
counterpart in the free-
dom-acquiring elements
of Israel's rebirth a dec-
ade ago.
Both events — the
birth of Passover in an-
cient times and the re-
birth of Israel in our own
days — had the same or-
igin: the quest for free-
dom. The Passover mark-
ed the revolt against en-
slavement: Israel's birth
was a revolt against
homelessness and
oppression.
While Passover sym-
bolizes an ideal that has
been passed on to man-
kind — the idea of equal-
ity among men and the
right of peoples to self-
assertion and to live free
lives as masters of their
own fate and faith—Is-
rael's emergence as an
independent State also
has its significant mes-
sage to the entire world.
It asserts the right of
free men and women to
throw off the yokes of
oppression, to seek hav-
ens in which they can
live according to patterns
of their own choosing, to
develop a culture and an
economy that will sus-
tain them spiritually and
physically.
It is inevitable that
this Passover should be
linked in our thoughts
with the events that have
transpired in the Holy
Land in the past ten
years, with the manner
in which our kinsmen
have emerged as a free
people in the land they
are developing within a
framework of freedom.
We have reason to take
pride in the fact that Is-
rael has developed a well-
functioning government,
a fine educational sys-
tem, a growing chain of
industries and excellent
self-defense mechanisms.
Our greetings on this
festival are not alone to
our immediate commun-
ity, but to our fellow-
Jews in Israel whose
courage first had freed
them, then sustained
them in defiance of dif-
ficulties and now is lead-
ing them towards an-
other decade of progress.
A Happy Passover
to our people every-
where!

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Anniversary of the Exodus and the
10th Anniversary of the Rebirth

