THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, July 29, 1960 — 1 0
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BY RABBI SAMUEL J., FOX
(Copyright, 1960,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
The assembly proclaims the
greeting "Baruch Haba" when
the child is brought into the
room to be circumcized.
On the Biblical description of
the circumcisi n of Isaac (Gen.
21:4), the Tosafot commentary
states that it is traditional to
pronounce this expression when
an infant is brought into the
synagogue to be circumcized
because the Hebrew word
"hobo" is made up of three
Hebrew letters (Heh, Beth and
Aleph) whose combined num-
erical equivalent is "eight." The
expression "Baruch Haba" lit-
erally translated, "Blessed be
he who cometh,' could then be
interpreted to mean "Blessed
be he who is eight days old to-
day," or "Blessed is he who is
circumcized on this eighth day
of life."
Candles are lit at a circum-
cision ceremony. The lighting
of candles is a procedure com-
mon to most all happy occasions
in the life of the Jew. In this
sense it represents the light of
Torah and signifies that the
torch of our creed still burns.
Secondly, it is claimed that, in
times of persecutions when cir-
cumcision rites were forbidden,
Jews persisted in carrying them
on in secrecy. To signal other
Jews that the tradition was still
being carried out, candles were
lit, so that fellow Jews would
know that the ritual was being
observed. To remember this in-
sistent spirit of adherence we
still light candles at a circum-
cision.
Hebrew Corner
Jewish Nazareth
Between You
and Me
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(Copyright, 1960,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
The Eichmann Trial
When one leaves the United States for a while and comes
face to face with important Israeli personalities abroad, he gets
a clear view why the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal
Adolf Eichman should take place nowhere else but in Israel . .
There were some Jewish groups in the United States which
argued that the Eichmann trial should be held not in Israel
but in West Germany .. . There were four approaches among
Jews with regard to the Eichmann trial . . . Some Jewish leaders
would have preferred that the trial, be held - in West Germany .. •
There were those, like Dr. Nahum Goldmann, who thought that
the trial- should be held in Israel but with the participation of
lawyers from other countries . . . A third opinion was that the
trial should be conducted before an international tribunal, like
the defunct Nurembeig War Crime Tribunal . . . The strongest
Jewish sentiment, however, was in favor of having the trial held
in Israel by Israeli judges • .. Those who favored the holding
of the trial in Germany argued that it would serve to educate
young Germans — who have already forgotten the Nazi war
crimes — about the horrors committed by the Nazis against
the Jews . . They argued that if the trial was held in Germany,
it would attract much gieater world attention and for a longer
period than if held in Israel . • . They were certain that, if the
trial was held in Germany, many of the Nazis who have avoided
punishment would be discovered despite changed names, and
that a West German court would pronounce a verdict which
would not be less severe than that of a court in Israel.
Jewish Fighter Merits Watching
By HAROLD U. RIBALOW
(Copyright, 1960,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
•
There are'nt many good Jew-
ish prize fighters around, but
there is one who may have the
makin's. His name is • Ronnie
Cohen, a 22-year-old lad who
recently scored his 11th straight
knockout over Al King of Con-
necticut.
Ronnie is a southpaw, along
the style of Lew Tendler and he
can hit. In all, he has lost only
two of 24 fights and has KO'd
17 opponents.
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Convincing Views
The counter-arguments emphasized that the West German
government made no move to request that the Eichmann trial
be held in Germany; that everything pointed to the West
German government's being happy that the trial would not be
held in Germany; that if the trial were held in Germany, it
would take months of preparations, and who could guarantee
that during these months the existing Nazi underground in
Germany would not succeed in smuggling Eichmann out of jail
and out of the country? What would be the situation if Eichmann
was given a life sentence? . . . As long as Chancellor Adenauer
was in office such a sentence would not be commuted, but Dr.
Adenauer is an old man; would his successor be as stern against
a German war criminal as Adenauer is? . . . As to the influence
of the trial in West Germany on young Germans, it is certain
that the German press and public opinion in Germany will not
be able to ignore the trial even it is held in Israel . . . When
the trial is held in Israel, more names of Nazis hiding in Ger-
many and elsewhere will be brought out during the proceedings
than in hearings held in any other country.
Translation of Hebrew column.
Published by the Brit Ivrit Olamit.
In the month of December 1956
thirteen Jewish families went up
to settle on a -hill near the town
of Nazareth. Nazareth is of course
a Christian city, and is (regarded
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as) holy by all Christians in the
world. The new settlement will be
"an immigrants town and develop- Logical Arguments
ment area", in which there will
" The Israelis pointed out that if judges from other countries
only be Jewish inhabitants. Its name
were invited to sit on the bench, they would have to be judges
will be Kiryat Nazareth.
Today the new settlement already from those lands where Eichmann conducted his mass-murder
counts nine hundred families, and
within a short time another nine operations - . . . Thus, judges would have to be invited from
hundred Jewish families will come' the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, East Germany and other
to settle in it. In Kiryat Nazareth
there are already various factories, Communist countries, - also from West Germany, Holland, Bel-
such as for textiles, biscuits and gium, France, the Scandinavian countries and other democratic
chocolate. Soon a synagogue is to
be built, a large rest-house, a cine- lands . .. What would then happen? . . . The Eichmann trial
ma, etc. In all of these enterprises would become a "cold war" forum . .. Could Israel afford to
the new Jewish inhabitants will
become a platform for the cold war between East and West? .. .
work.
The Jews of abroad are helping S'hould she? . . The Israel government says "no" and so say
to establish Kiryat Nazareth.
For example a small community most of the people in Israel . . . They are certain that Eichmann
in New York is sending equipment will be judged by Israeli judges not in a spirit of Jewish revenge,
for the various public institutions
and instruments for a children's but in the spirit of justice .. . As to the holding of the trial
orchestra. The synagogue will be before an international tribunal, the simple answer is that no
erected with the contributions of
such tribunal exists since the Nuremberg Tribunal was dissolved,
Jews of Canada.
The relations between the two and it seems that no world body would go to the trouble of
Nazareths are good, but the inhabi-
tants of the new settlement wish forming such a tribunal merely because of the Eichmann case.
to be independent and separate
from the old city. <I>
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He floored King in the sixth
with a left to the body and
opened_ a cut over King's eye
with a right hook in the next
round: He finished King in the
eighth.
Cohen was born in Brooklyn
and grew up in an orphanage—
which may be a basic reason
he turned to the ring. These
days only the underprivileged
are willing to .fight with their
fists for a living. -
He served in the Army and
saw service in Korea.
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DONALD S.
LEONARD
U.S. SENATOR
REPUBLICAN
A DYNAMIC POPULAR LEADER WITH
30 YEARS OF PROVEN PUBLIC SERVICE
• Native Detroiter
• '1954 Republican Nominee for Governor
•
Mich.
Civil
Defense Director
• Lawyer and Civic Leader
•
Detroit
Police
Commissioner
State
Police
Commissioner
•
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