THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, July 29, 1960 — 1 0 Infants"Baruch Haba' omonsn....socamboa....1auon.wommo ■n■ wriamacsawn ■ wnimoc.mr.w.pro 4. Boris Smolar's 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 ... (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. RE-ELECT THE MAN WHO BELIEVES THE ONLY "SPECIAL INTERESTS" ARE 'YOUR INTERESTS" JIM CLARKSON YOUR DEMOCRATIC STATE REPRESENTATIVE 4th DISTRICT ATTORNEY 25 Years Experience in City Government • Formerly Deputy Commissioner of Building and Safety Engineering — 18 Years • Referee in Traffic Court — 7 Years Well Qualified to Do a Good Job for All the People of the City of Detroit Vole for S. A. Maher on Tues., Aug. 2 Sew l'21,7. 1956 `17•?I. rr-)V -trhtp ritln; Z7 ntp.r);r? nintirr riL2kirr ••ntkyprri nnirr.ri rrnttlirm VETERAN • 11 " 117r;1111 4 , 47i2L?ir • 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 * 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. ntP: 144 . nil 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. ,I.r111 111 1111.7 f., Wryl strItr. ;-1 '7V? .nL0179. voliiv 17-11.p - inn mr.r. 11 rrprp • hr.p in rrr. "1'44 ri .t2i7 . wnyin i6tti -ni- rpinz? '7r4 nriL7itz, •"n1 4-Ir717." nin4 rqin np.4ri - rrn rzi, r1 nintrir.v? nixn vten n't?T.ri rir? -- pir. 111)41 ,riinyI ttp? "nir)14;1" ntg, r►-. 1L? ,.'nit) ro;:i vtrin 1117 nitz*rri nilv? tr4i1 tr).1.pv r-111P41 "Y)4 . 14 hippppt? 1i4 trpthiv /rimy!Inn • •, nniam) .7 1 7i71ter1 rrtrivtrn'? ` ... 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 • • Alumnus Wayne State University and University of Michigan • VOTE TUESDAY, AUGUST 2nd, 1960