The UN Is the Victim 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 $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 Advertising Manager CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Circulation Manager FRANK SIMONS City Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the ninth day of Tebet, 5720, the following Scriptural selections will be read our synagogues: Pentateuch-al portion, Vayiggash, Gen. 44:18 -47:27. Prophetical portion., Ezekiel 37:15-28. i41 Licht Benshen, Friday, Jan. 8, 5 p. m. VOL. XXXVI. No. 19 Page Four January 8, 1960 An Israeli Arab's Plea for Amity If the views of Rustum Bastuni, the Haifa architect who was one of the Arab members of the second Israel Knesset, are a criterion, there is hope for the happiest relations between Jews and Arabs in Is- rael. Bastuni, who is a member of the edi- torial board of New Outlook, an important magazine published by Jews and Arabs in the interests of peace between the two kindred peoples, is editor of the Arab literary journal, El Fajr. Now visiting in this country, Bastuni said, upon his arrival in New York, that there are elements in Arab states "who sincerely know the value of peace with Israel, but they unfor- tunately do not represent formal policy." He maintained that there are "pro- gressive elements" in the Middle East who understand that their best interests would be served by collaboration with Israel and, speaking as a loyal Israeli, expressed the hope that cultural links will be forged be- tween Jews and Arabs in and outside of Israel. While he was not too optimistic about an early peace, he nevertheless pleaded - for it and advocated it. He deplored the exploitation of the refugee issue by Arab states, who, he said, "have used the refu- gees as a pressure group and have made no real effort to solve the problem or im- prove their situation." Thus, he branded both Nasser and Hussein as totalitarians who are adhering to an anti-Israel policy "to evade solution of internal issues." Bastuni speaks with affection for his Israeli homeland, and he advocates peace like a humanitarian. It is to be hoped that all his Arab fellow-Israelis will speak in Israel and among their kinsmen as he does in this country. That may be one of the ways of showing the world outside the war-infected Middle East that Israel's Arabs stand side by side with the Israeli Jews in striving for peace and in planning for a good future for their entire area. In that fashion, perhaps, the states that are now antagonistic to Israel will soon recog- nize the need for peace, and the hesitant and fearful in the United Nations will strive for amity with the zeal necessary for the attainment of the goal. Hammarskjold: Appeaser, or Too Trusting? United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had scores of opportuni- ties to call the bluffs of Arab potentates when they were defying the UN decisions and were breaking agreements with him, while, at the same time, flaunting inter- national regulations. His errors have become apparent as a result of the latest flagrant pledge- breaking that has resulted from Nasser's halting of a Greek vessel carrying Israeli products to French Somaliland. This was a shipment that was to have been passed by Nasser, by agreement with the UN chief. Hammarskjold was betrayed by the man who has been appeased just a bit too long. It would have been healthier for the Egyptians, and much saner in the inter- ests of world peace, to have insisted upon strict adherence to international law. But Hammarskjold — and our State Depart- ment and the World Bank as well— gambled a bit too much on Nasser and on so-called Arab good will. Now appeasement is paying off tragi- cally. It is not Israel alone who suffers, but the cause of world peace has been given a terrible blow. Major Challenge Facing U.S. Jewry A report submitted to leaders of com- munity-sponsored day camps last month showed that the number of American Jewish children in the 5-to-14-year range has increased by 40 per cent in the last decade. The report stated that the number of American children in this age bracket in- creased from 24,319,000 to 33,901,000 in the last ten years, the number of Jewish children having increased from 746,000 to 1,040,000. These figures give us a better oppor- tunity to realize that too few of our chil- dren are receiving any sort of a Jewish education. Last year's Study of Jewish Education in the United States, which was conducted for the American Association for Jewish Education by Dr. Alexander Dushkin and Dr. Uriah Z. Engelman, contained the national figures of enrollment of Jewish children throughout the country. The study showed a total of 553,600 of our children enrolled in schools subdivided as follows: Weekday Afternoon Schools, 261,295; Sunday Schools, 249,635; Day Schools, 42,651. Thus, only a little more than half of our children are enrolled in all of our schools, leaving nearly a half million of our children without any Jewish training whatever. This represents our major problem in community planning. It also points to the major challenge facing us: that of giving our most earnest attention to the needs for increased facilities for Jewish education, for the training of more teach- ers, and—this being the most important angle of all—the urgency of encouraging parents not to neglect the Jewish educa- tion of their children. Yeshiva Annual Event "It takes leadership to make leaders" is one of the slogans adopted by Yeshiva University of New York in the advance- ment of the programs pursued in 17 schools and divisions at six teaching cen- ters in New York City. By providing thousands of its stu- dents the opportunity to combine a gen- eral ' college education with Jewish learning, Yeshiva University is serving a valuable purpose. Its research in vari- ous fields, its emphasis on Jewish as well as general subjects, give the university a unique position and justify its claim to being a Jewish university. Income for its support is secured in Detroit annually by the sponsorship of a dinner given in honor of a local leader. The man to be honored this year—Al Borman—is gaining a place of eminence in our community by his devotion to a number of important local and national causes, by his interest in and support of Israeli movements and his adherence to traditional Jewish principles. A valuable cause is aided in the course of the extension of honors to Mr. Borman. 15 Stories, Authors Views in Gold's 'Fiction of the Fifties' "Fiction of the Fifties," published by Doubleday, a collection of stories by eminent writers whose works figured prominently in short story writing in the past decade, is more than an anthology of "best narrations." Herbert Gold, the compiler of the stories, has not only written a most enlightening essay on the decade of American writing, on the value of the novel and short story and on the writer as metaphysician, but he has rendered this especially valuable service: He has asked each of the authors of the 15 stories in the book to answer the question: "In what way—if any—do you feel that the problem of writing for the Fifties has differed from the problems of writing in other times? Do you believe that this age makes special demands on you as a writer?" There is a variety of answers. For example, Bernard Mala- mud, who is represented in the book with the story "The Magic Barrel," wrote: "Although the Fifties have a Cold War character, I would say that the problem of writing fiction in this decade is basically no different from writing in the past. One struggles alone to achieve art. The age makes no special demands except as it tends to devalue man; that being so, I work on the assumption that the opposite is true." Thus, the approach in gathering the material and viewpoints of authors and the collector's own scholarly essay make "Fiction of the Fifties" not only a spendid anthology of short stories but also, in a sense, give it the status of a textbook for classes in the study and writing of short stories. In addition to Malamud's story, Herbert Gold has included in his book his own story, "Love and Like," and selections from the stories of Leo E. Litwak, S'aul Bellow, James Baldwin, Anatole Broyard, R. V. Cassill, John Cheever, Evan S. Connell, Jr., William Eastlake, George P. Elliott, Flannery O'Connor, J. F. Powers, Frank Rooney and Harvey Swados. 'Shalom'--NovelAboutJourney of Nazi Survivors to Palestine "Shalom," an impressive novel about escapees from Nazism who are on their way to Israel, published by Little, Brown & Co. (34 Beacon S., Boston 6), is a noteworthy account of the tensions that marked the bitter period of resettlement and the era of rescue. To understand the novel, it is important that the reader should know the background of the 35-year-old author, Dean Brelis. A former Boston reporter and a correspondent for Time- Life, Brelis, who is a Harvard graduate and who earned a Nieman Fellowship, went to Israel in 1948 with displaced persons from a European DR camp he had visited in 1948. Thus, he had knowledge at first hand to write about the people in his novel, about the conflicts among them and their acceptance of the Israeli haven highlighted by the call of peace-,- "shalom." The scars that were made on the minds and bodies of the variety of travelers on the journey described by Brelis at times appear incurable. Even the idea of the tour to Israel creates doubt, frustrations and disillusionment. An American woman who provides the funds for the journey is at times maligned and distrusted. The British interference with boats on the way to Palestine, prior to the rebirth of Israel, is among the obstacles. But there is an element of peace linked with reconciliation with reality, based on acceptance of the only available haven for the rescued—in a Jewish Homeland—that makes the account of the journey, which always emerges as factual, a triumph for those seeking rescue. "Shalom" is a good novel. It portrays ably the pains and frustrations of sufferers from persecution and leads up to a good climax of peace which fits so well as the title of the novel.