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 57;,r,-",,..); the Iron Curtain and in g)t Moslem countries where :I c; Jewish lives have become almost valueless, these V.. ■ 1•1 • • 4•7 blasts circle the globe. t. Accompanying these 1t=.• blasts is the prayer: "In- 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 prayer to avert calamity . . is in behalf of all • . yei 0. peoples. That is why a Tal- , • • 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- -4, 4) 1 4 4, ation of fears and ten- sions—for Israel and all PfINtit'A.:;:1;; i;4.(;.vf :Atei humanity. This is the prayer for 5719. May the New Year 4 .ft si I: bring us to the realiza- { tion of this sacred hope. A Happy New Year to t): ■ ., all! iaeg.a1 41 6.}. 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. 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