THE JEWISH NEWS

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

Member American A ss ociation of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National
Editorial Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publ4shing 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, 1942 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under act of Congress of March
3, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher

SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager

FRANK SIMONS
City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twenty-eighth day of Elul, 5718, the following Scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Nitzabim, Deuteronomy 29:9-30-20. Prophetical portion, Isaiah
61:10-63:9.
Rosh Hashanah Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portions: First day, Monday, Sept. 15, Gen. 21:1-34, Num. 29:1-6; second
day, Tuesday, Sept. 16, Gen. 22:1-24, Num.. 29:1-6. Prophetical portions, Monday, I Sam.
1:1-2:10; Tuesday, Jer. 31:2-20.

Licht Benshen, Friday. September 12, 6:03 p.m.

VOL. XXXIV. No. 2

Page Four

September 12, 1958

Supplication for Rosh Hashanah 5719

At this time, as we usher in the year 5719 on the Jewish calendar, the
Shofar's blasts resound around the globe with supplications for mankind's welfare
and for a lasting peace.
If it is true, as many aver, that this is a sick world which needs healing and
guidance, then the Rosh Hashanah we are about to observe will be marked by
prayers more solemn than in many decades.
Our generation has witnessed many monstrous occurrences. The first world
war was followed by tensions in some areas and by pogroms in others. But it was
accompanied by a measure of hope for the coming of better 'days. For Jewry
especially it was marked by the promises that Jewish homelessness would end
with the reconstitution of Jewish Statehood. They were followed by trying and
bitter days, when the very people who had pledged themselves to assist in the re-
demption of Israel often reneged on their solemn words.
Then came the second world war, with its horrors, with its mass murders,
with its crimes of genocide. Out of the last world struggle also came the terror
of the atomic bomb — man's great invention that continues to threaten his very
existence, although it should offer hopes of greater human advancement.
Out of the second world conflict also came a new hope for Jewry, with the
establishment of Israel. Yet, Israel still is being begrudged the few crumbs of
freedom and the right of homeless Jews to assure for themselves security in a
place where they can be masters of their own destinies.
The trials and tribulations continue. Israel remains in constant threat from
antagonistic neighbors, and from many nations who have not learned how to make
the hopes for peace a reality for all mankind.
In such a sphere, we now usher in a New Year. Once again, the blasts of
the Shofar will be heard wherever there are Jews, and since there still are Jews
everywhere, even behind
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scribe us in the book of
redemption a n d salva-
tion." It is a prayer not
for Jewry alone but for
the entire world. The
universality of our
prayers is expressed in
the prayer of the Holy
Days: "Penitence, Prayer
and Charity avert the
severe decree." The
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That is why a Tal-
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mudic sage said that "by
benevolence man rises
to a height where he
meets God."
This Jewish ideal is
not aimed at philan-
trophy alone. It is part
of the basic humanitar-
ian goals of searching
for peace, of striving for
amity, of seeking a
better life for all peoples.
In this ailing world,
in which statesmen find
themselves helpless to
solve the problems of
humanity, we pray anew
for the benevolence and
unselfish acting and
thinking of all nations.
We can avert doom by
rising to the heights
"where man meets God."
By achieving such an in-
spiration, we can see an
end to strife, the termin-
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Challenges to Jewry in 5719

A multitude of problems will .challenge our people,
and especially American Jewry in 5719.
In the year that has just ended, we witnessed a
serious backward turn in many Jewish experiences. The
retrogression was • evident in the decline in income in
fund-raising, a reduction in the immigration of Jews to
Israel, a slight rise in anti-Semitic tendencies in many
areas and the slowness of our efforts to increase our
educational and cultural activities.
While Israeli leaders maintain that the decline in
the number of immigrants to Israel is not due to a lack
of funds but rather to external causes — and the ex-
ternal pressures certainly have been severe — there can
be no doubt that drastic reductions in income for Israel's
resettlement programs are certain to affect the young
nation's efforts for the ingathering of the exiles and the
rescue of oppressed Jews.
Our communities therefore must consider in all
seriousness the need of finding new means of increasing
the availability of funds in support of the settlement
programs in Israel. It will be necessary not only to
raise larger sums for the United Jewish Appeal but also
to encourage larger purchases of Israel Bonds.
In spite of contentions to the contrary by organiza-
tions engaged in civic-protective a c t i v i t i e s, there are
evidences of increasing anti-Semitic tendencies. There
are more anti-Jewish manifestations, ascribable espe-
cially to the . battle for integration in the South where
Jews have been challenged by the bigots in the present
civil rights struggle.
Overseas, too, there was more anti-Semitism last
year than in several preceding years, and in Germany
especially neo-Nazism is raising its ugly head with an
arrogance that was hardly to be expected only 13 years
after the destruction of Hitlerism.
The internal problems are equally serious. We have
not as yet discovered the means whereby to encourage
more genuine interest in Jewish learning. Most of our
cultural and educational activities remain superficial.
The year 5719 therefore brings with it increased
challenges. They are the same as in past. years, but a
bit more aggravating and in a sense more irritating. It
will take a great deal of planning, and very serious
efforts, to overcome them.

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