Laden with Affectionate Gifts

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,
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Entered as second class matter Aug. 6. 1942 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich. under act of Congress of March
8, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

FRANK SIMONS

SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ

City Editor

Circulation Manager

Advertising Manager

Sabbath Hahodesh Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the twenty-seventh day of Adar, 5720, the following Scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portions, Vayalthel-Pekude, Ex. 35:1-40:38, 12:1-20. Prophetical portion,
Ezekiel 45:16-46:18.

Rosh Hodesh Nisan, Tuesday, March 29

Licht Benshen, Friday, March 25, 6.31 p.m.

VOL. XXXVII.

No. 4

March 25, 1960

Pa ge Four

Abe Kasle's Generous 65th Birthday Gifts

Abe Kasle was one of the group of
national leaders who, in the critical years
of Israel's emergence as an independent
nation, set high standards for giving
to the United Jewish Appeal. Since 1948,
he not only was among the leading spirits
who guided the Allied Jewish Campaigns
in Detroit; he was the prime mover in
efforts to make our educational efforts
the major concerns of our community.
His interest in education and in the
advancement of teaching as a great pro-
fession was indicated again this week by
his generous gifts, totalling $65,000, on
the occasion of his 65th birthday.
These wise and generous gifts, to a
group of worthy civic and Jewish causes,
reveal once again the deep interest of
this honored leader.
Mr. Kasle did not limit himself to

Jewish religious and secular educational
projects in assigning the large fund as his
personal act, on his birthday. He included
in his gifts our city's great university. He
fortified the Midrasha, the college of Jew-
ish studies of the United Hebrew Schools.
He remembered a number of vital cul-
tural movements.
While he has been honored by our
community on numerous occasions, he has Columnist Reviews Conflicts
recorded the finest tribute to himself
with his birthday fund.
We join heartily, with his many
friends, in acclaiming him on his birth-
day, in extending to him best wishes for
many years of good health in which to
continue his services to Jewry and to
Max Lerner, who has held teaching posts on the faculties
America, and in commending him for the
wisdom he has displayed by contributing of Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University and Williams
College, and who presently holds a professorship at Brandeis
$65,000 to so many good causes.

Much Merit in Max Lerner's
Book, 'Unfinished Country'

University, has written on every conceivable subject, in hiS
daily column in the New York Post.
He presently does a lot of research in the field of psychiatry,
he has visited Israel on numerous occasions and has written ex-
"Between Purim and Passover" has the Joint Distribution Committee, one of tensively about the young democracy,
traditionally been a period that has the major beneficiaries of Detroit's Allied and he is considered an authority on
international affairs.
stirred Jewish communities everywhere Jewish Campaign.
His views on many scores of public
During
the
year,
perhaps
the
years,
and has created an exciting interest in the
issues are incorporated in his selec-
to
come,
the
Agadir
and
neighboring
corn-
approach of the Freedom Festival.
tions from the New York Post daily
The "between holidays" spirit was, it munities will need help to reconstruct columns, in his. new book, "The
is true, in evidence because of the prep- their institutions and to assist their people Unfinished Country — A Book of
arations for the Sedorim, the ordering of in re-establishing their lives. The JDC American Symbols," published by
special foods, the house cleaning. must receive all the help that is needed Simon and Schuster.
There will be many differences of
It had, however, added significance • to carry on its work not only in Algeria
which was emphasized by the ideal of but in other communities. Help is needed opinion on the views he expresses on
some issues. He may be challenged
tzedakah—by the motivations created by to assist many thousands of . emigrants on his Freudian interpretations. He
the need that was felt to aid those who, from lands of oppression to reach Israel. has antagonists to his political ideas.
The "between Purim and Passover"
Nevertheless, there is so much meat
being in dire circumstances, must look
period must, therefore be utilized to in this' 733-page book that it will be
for aid to their more fortunate kinsmen.
spur the work of the Allied Jewish found of great value in study circles;
That is why the pre-Passover period
Campaign, to assist in the reconstruc- among Jews who seek 'opinions on
is devoted to Mo'os Hitim appeals, to
Max Lerner
tion
of destroyed communities, to aid anti-Semitism, Israel, the Middle East
give aid to the impoverished.
and Germany; in the ranks of world travelers who will be guided
Israel
in
welcoming
the
newcomers
who
In our own community, the Mo'os
arrive there to begin a new and digni- by his many tours to many lands.
Hitim Committee will no doubt receive
In the current East-West conflict, in issues involving
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lied
life of freedom.
the needed support. There are hundreds
Nazism and Communism, Lerner's essays carry a great deal
The funds that are needed by the De- of weight. A deep student of foreign affairs, as well as of
of families in our midst who must be
supplied with Passover necessities. Aid troit Mo'os Hitim Committee should be internal American conditions, his analyses of world struggles
provided promptly, during the few re- are realistic and are usually based on historical studies.
should be forthcoming unstintingly.
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As in many previous years, we now maining days before Passover. While as-
Of considerable merit also are his frequent opinions on
have the increasing obligation also to sisting this comparatively meager fund, it
come to the aid of the tens of thousands is urgent that the large sums that are religious issues. In his discussion of religion in democracy, for
of Jews in Moslem-ruled and other coun- needed for the. Allied Jewish Campaign example, he admonishes that "the new political religion of the
tries vvho depend upon us for provisions beneficiaries—for overseas needs and for fanatics in the American right wing is a belief in nothing except
and hate." He warns that this will not defeat Communism,
to make their Passover as happy as we the continuation of the activities of all power
he warns of the need for a deepening of the moral imagina-
hope our own will be for us and for our our local educational, social service and and
tion, the belief in man's possibilities and his sensitiveness and
children. There has been added, this year, recreational agencies—should be provided decency. "That belief in man's possibilities may be found both
the added obligation to assist the surviv- with generosity and with promptness. in Christianity and in Judaism," he wrote. "That is what the
ors in Agadir, two-thirds of whose Jewish That is how we will be continuing the early Bible-reading Americans knew, and out of their knowledge
community perished in the recent earth- glorious tradition of kindness and gen- of it came the strength of our democracy."
He had written a review of the Doubleday - published
quake. That community is being aided by erosity "between Purim and Passover."
"Protestant — Catholic — Jew" by Will Herberg, in which he
upheld that author's view that America has become the "Triple
Melting Pot," and the article is one of the especially valued
in his "The Unfinished Country."
As Nasser's critic, as exposer of the fallacies of the Arabs'
Israel's wise Prime Minister displayed mended on the mission he had under- anti Israel position, Lerner renders important services in his
i_ columns, continuing his contributions toward a better under-
genuine diplomatic tact during his short taken in this country.
Nevertheless, in view of Israel's vu standing of Middle Eastern problems in his book.
but very busy stay in this country.

'Between Purim and Passover'—Fine Traditions

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Ben Gurion's Dual Accompl shments

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nerable position, the small nation no
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David Ben-Gurion evidenced to the doubt will have to depend on its own
When he deals with educational problems, Lerner is at
statesmen with whom he conferred, in resources for many years to come.
his best. He will be liked for his travelogues, and he proves
Washington and in New York, that his
Ben - Gurion's confident assurance that a good interviewer, having met and recorded the • opinions of
and his countrymen's aim is peace; that there will be peace in Israel before very many of the statesmen of the world.
Especially delightful are the essays in the second part of
through the aspired peace the entire long was a hearty message for the noted
Middle East would benefit, and that leader. But until there is a peace arrived this enlightening work. It is entitled "The Only Fabulous
and it takes the reader on tours of the important areas
Israel's main objective, upon the attain- at by the Arab states and Israel, the Country,"
of the land. East and West, North and South, Hollywood and
ment of security, is to advance the tech- dangers remain great.
Orleans, and many more places are among those on the
The confidence with w h i c h Ben- New
nological possibilities for improving the
itinerary. And in the course of the depicting of the fabulous
standards of all the peoples in the area. Gurion spoke was heartening. There will country, Lerner writes about music, the drama, important books
There is good cause to believe that be a fuller sense of security when the and many more topics.
McCarthyism, bigotry, intolerance are abhorred and con-
the excellent impression left by Ben - war dangers vanish. Until that time,
demned, and public opinion is rallied here for the good causes
Gurion will go a - long way in assuring Israel must remain armed and on guard as Lerner envisions them. The Rosenberg case and Nasserism,
better relationships between Israel, the for her own defense. And as long as that
Crowism and anti Semitism, and scores of other issues are
United States and the United Nations. condition continues, and all liberty-loving Jim
treated with courage. There is much merit to Max Lerner's
Since that was the aim of the dynamic people must give aid and encouragement
"The Unfinished Country."
Israeli Prime Minister, he is to be com- to the embattled Israelis.

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