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THE JEWISH NEWS
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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 8, 1879.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
CARM1 SLOMOVITZ
Business Manager
SIDNEY SHMARAK HARVEY ZUCKERBERG ,
Advertising Manager -
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
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This Sabbath, the twenty-eighth day of
Elul, .5721, the following Scriptural selec-
tions will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Nitzavim, Deut.
29:9-30:20. Prophetical portion, Isaiah
61:10-63:9:
Licht Benshen, Friday, September "8, 6:36 p.m.
Rosh Hashanah Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portions: Monday, Gen.
21:1-34, ' Nuin. -29:1-6; Tuesday, Gen.
22:1-24, Num. 29:1-6.
Prophetical portions: Monday, I Sam.
1:1-2:10; Tuesday, Jer. 31:2-20.
The Fast of Gedaliah Occurs on Wednesday
Licht Benshen, SUnday, September 10, 6:32 p.m.
VOL. XL. No. 2 Page Four September 8, 1961
Major Prayer for 5722:
Peace for All Mankind
A traditional Jewish supplication
implores for an end to the afflictions
of the year that is ending and the
commencement of a year of blessings.
More than ever before, this hum-
ble petition is applicable to our time.
It is an entreaty for good tidings,
for the betterment of human behav-
iors, for the amelioration of the mal-
adies that have caused so much suf-
fering throughout the globe.
The year that is now ending was
filled with so much tensions, with so
many threats to world peace, with so
many recurring dangers to Jewish
communities, that it will go down on
record as one of the uneasiest periods
since the peace that marked the end
of the Holocaust.
. Now we are commencing another
twelve-month period for which we beg
the granting of calmness, of security,
of an easing of the tensions that haunt
mankind.
World Jewry has cause to pray for
changes that will provide opportunity
for our people to turn their thoughts
in the direction of spiritual and cul-
tural activities that will once again
distinguish us among the nations of
the world as a people dedicated to
principles embodied in our great tra-
ditions. , Whatever happens to -Jewry,
however, is entirely dependent upon ...
the course of human events that will
affect -all mankind. In a world of
peace, there will be peace for Jewry;
in a universe filled with strife, we
-remain on the defensive, struggling to
keep alive the 'communities of Jews
throughout the globe.
On all fronts, in the Middle East,
in the Orient, in Eastern and Central
Europe, there are tensions that em-
broil everyone, and make life miser-
able for the Jewish populations who
live there in insecurity.
While there are retributory ele-
ments that point to Germany's paying
a high penalty for the Hitlerite
crimes, the struggle over Berlin and
the East-West controversies drag all
peoples in the net of international
intrigues.
The first thoughts on the eve of
the New Year 5722 are, therefore,
for peace among nations, for amity
among the peoples of the world, for
humane considerations between men
regardless of their race or creed.
This is our first prayer on the
New Year. May it be a year of peace
and- amity. Then we shall have good
cheer among men and a restoration
of good will everywhere. -
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Shanah Tovah!
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American Jewry's Responsibilities in the Coming Year
Our generation has faced many crises. Tw o world wars have taxed our energies and have
placed serious responsibilities upon us. Several of the most important Jewish communities in the
world have been destroyed, their peoples murdered, their spiritual and literary treasures looted.
Only the new community of Israel has arisen to replace the vanished peoples and to serve
as a new force in the regeneration of our people.
In the course of the nearly 50 years that were packed, full of tragedies—of pogroms after
the First World War, of the Holocaust during the Second World War, of horrors that were vis-
ited upon many Jewries since that time—the free communiities have been taxed with grave duties.
American Jewry is the chief carrier of the banners of succor and hope for the afflicted.
It fell to the lot of the Jews in this great land, whose parents and grandparents were among- the
fortunate to escape the miseries that were visited upon our kinsmen, to come to the aid . of the
needy, to provide them with necessities for life, to assist in nation-building, to struggle for just
rights for the survivors from Nazism.
These responsibilities are far from ended. In a sense, new duties are piling up, and Ameri-
can Jewry must now, once again, commence to chart new programs for rescue and rehabilitation.
The plight of Jews in Moslem countries remains indescribable. At least half a million
already have been rescued from lands under domination of the followers of Islam, and at least
as many more look to Israel as a means of escaping the mounting terror. Their misfortunes cry
to us for relief, and we must view their needs with great seriousness.
Behind the Iron Curtain there are even many more than that number of Jews who pray for
havens and for escape from their present abodes.
During the coming year we shall be compelled to plan for the rehabilitation of these peoples.
We dare not wait until it is too late, and the preparatory activities, through the United Jewish
Appeal, in whatever other fashions may become available, will be essential to effective actions.
While planning rescue activities in behalf of unfortunate Jewries, we shall also be called
upon to strengthen our own footings, to fortify our home positions, to give strength to the -insti-
tutions that provide spiritual strength to Jews. Unless we have strong communities where there still
is freedom, there is no hope for those we seek to rescue and whose plight in their present homeless-
ness we aim to heal.
Thus, at home and abroad, on many fronts, we are faced with many issues and are called
upon to fulfill serious responsibilities.
Once again, we are challenged, on the eve of a New Year,,to plan for the future with devo-
tion and realism, with a readiness to be of service and to be constructive in the tasks for Jewish
survival. We pray that we should not be found wanting in pursuing these objectives in the New
Year 5722.
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