THE JEWISH NEWS
The Eichmann Verdict
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
SIDNEY SHMARAI • CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ HARVEY ZUCKERBERG
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the second of Tevet, 5722, the following Scriptural selections will be read in
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, M•-kez, Gen. 41:1-44:17. Prophetical portion, ZeChariah 2:14-4:7.
Licht Benshen, Friday, Dec. 8, 4:43 p.m.
VOL. XL. No. 15
Page Four
December 8, 1961
Israel—'New Helpmate for New Nations'
United Nations, United States and
Israeli statesmen have found many occa-
sions in the past few years to commend
Israel on the small state's contributions
towards the development of other states
that are in dire need of know-how and
scientific guidance. -
Almost daily, there emerges new evi-
dence of the remarkable manner in which
Israel has become the friend of under-
developed nations. Perhaps the best
analysis of Israel's -role in these areas
appeared in the Rotary International
Magazine, The Rotarian. The author of the
article, - Albert Q. Maisel, relates how the
West African state of Sierra Leone, hav-
ing gained full independence, found itself
without an adequate structure for its
capital in Freetown, and European con-
struction firms maintained they could
not erect one in the time allotted. Where-
upon the new state's Minister for Con-
struction Roger Wright flew to Israel,
returned within a few days with a signed
agreement, and before long a plane-load
of Israeli experts arrived, leveled a hilltop
and a new parliament chamber gleamed in
time for the formal inauguration of Sierra
Leone's independence.
This was one of so many services
rendered by Israel to African nations that
they can not all be enumerated. In The
Rotarian article, entitled "New Helpmate
for New Nations," Israel's aid to Burma
is described, and the article relates how
Israel helped establish the Black Star
Shipping Co. of Ghana and assisted Ethi-
opia's fishing industry, enabling that
country to fill a need created by a lack
of dietary protein.
The best proof of Israel's vision in the
direction of giving aid to new nations is
provided in the following account in
Maisel's article:
"As her contribution toward fostering such
`cross-fertilizing' mutual aid, Israel announced
her decision to provide 1,000. college and post-
r Africans and Asians
graduate scholarships fo
and to expand her programs for shorter-term
technical training. To accommodate students
who have been coming in from more than 20
countries three Israeli institutions of higher
learning have, within the last year, enlarged
their faculties and expanded their plants. The
Weizmann Institute of Science is erecting a
million-dollar dormitory and recreation center
for 150 foreign graduate students. The Hebrew
University-Hadassah Medical School will pro-
vide special medical and nursing courses for
African and Asian students in Jerusalem this
November.
"Israel's aid to other nations .has brought
her an important reward. In 35 countries
Israeli doctors and teachers and engineers have
helped their country to win invaluable friend-
ships with people and governments alike. U.S.
aid planners might draw valuable lessons from
Israel's experience, which offers proof that
'lavish giveaways are not the only way—nor
even the best way—to help or to win the
respect of the new states. Teachers and tech-
nicians who have a pioneering spirit and a
willingness to get dirt on their hands may
accomplish far more.
"The best - proof of the effectiveness of
Israel's aid program is perhaps found in Soviet
broadcasts beamed to –Africa — and in the
African reaction to them. The Russians, who
view Israel's example as a serious threat to
their own penetration into the new nations,
repeatedly denounce Israel's aid program as 'a
new form of colonialism' and 'economic im-
perialism.' African officials listen to these Out-
bursts, then laugh them off and continue to
expand their contracts with Israel."
It has also been revealed that, as a
result of Israel's pioneering efforts in new
countries, members of the Afro - Asian
bloc in the United. Nations have begun to
ask for data on the Arab-Israel issue and
are refusing to swallow whole the tripe
that is being fed into the UN lecture mills
by Arab spokesmen who are out to
destroy Israel.
Israel's contributions to the develop-
ment of the African nations may not only
offset Soviet influence but may, in the
long run, assist in exposing the destruc-
tive efforts of the Arabs. They may assist
in compelling the Arabs to sit at one
negotiating table with Israelis and have
direct peace talks with them. They may,
indeed, be a strong influence for amity
and for the abandonment of unnecessary
strife among nations.
Bnai Moshe Synagogue's 50th Anniversary
Congregation Bnai Moshe is among
the important community functionaries
that is blessed with an important anni-
versary this year.
The congregation's 50th anniversary
is an occasion- for community-wide cele-
bration due to the marked contributions
its membership and its spiritual leaders
have made to our communal life.
Occurring during the year of the 110th
anniversary of Temple Beth El and the
100th anniversary of Shaarey Zedek,
Bnai Moshe's celebration draws added
interest for historians who are provided
with an opportunity of collating the_most
important facts regarding congregational
life in Detroit - Jewry.
Congregation Bnai Moshe shared in
the most significant developments in
Detroit Jewry because the history of our
community, while it is a little more than
110 years old, began to gather greater
momentum shortly after the turn of this
century, during the era of greatest mi-
gration of Jews to this country. Thus,
Bnai Moshe has good reason to regard
itself among the pioneers in our com-
munity's congregational life.
Bnai Moshe has shared in all impor-
tant community activities during the past
few decades. The synagogue's spiritual
leaders have been among the active par-
ticipants in all important movements and
its membership has aided all basic Jewish
causes.
The Jewish News joins in congratu-
lating Bnai Moshe's rabbi, officers and
members on the synagogue's 50th anni-
versary. We wish the congregation added
strength to continue its vigilant spiritual
and cultural activities.
The PCC Report
Commenting on the report submitted
to the United Nations by Dr. Joseph E.
Johnson in behalf of the Palestine Con-
ciliation Commission, the New York
Times stated editorially:
"The Arab states cannot go on forever
pretending there is no such thing as the
State of Israel. Nor would they be better
off if this hive of intense and fervent
energy did not exist."
Seeing hope in the report's minimal
optimism, the New York Times appealed
for "human ,sympathy and a bit of real-
ism." -
Perhaps the pressure upon Dr. John-
son to alter portions of his reports, to
satisfy Arab extermists, indicates a rea-
son for the tragic situation—that great
powers should be yielding to pressure
when a firm policy is needed to end the
plight of refugees by common agreement
between Israel and her antagonists.
Self-Annihilation Protested
'God and H-Bomb' Condemns
Resort to Dangerous Weapons
"It is not enough merely to abolish the weapons of destruction..
It is necessary at the same time to build up concepts and instru-
mentalities of peace, to find ways of settling international disputes
by peaceful means. Thus nations shall not learn war any more."
Dr. Israel Goldstein, distinguished rabbi, member of the Jewish
Agency Executive in Jerusalem, summarizes his proposal for "the
road to sanity," in one of 28 statements. by religious groups and
leaders of all faiths, included in "God and the H-Bomb," published
by Bellmeadows Press with Bernard Geis Associates and distributed
by Random House.
The collective counsel offered in these essays by spiritual
leaders, in response to questions relating to the severest challenge
hurled at present to mankind, includes such distinguished leaders
as Martin Buber, and incorporates the declaration, "The Quest for
Peace," issued by the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
There are statements by Christian religious movements, by Pope
Pius XII, Bishop Sheen, Bishop Pike, and many other distinguished
_leaders.
Edited by Donald Keys, there is a foreword to the book by
Steve Allen. Keys is the program director of the National Commit-
tee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Allen, the- well known TV and
motion picture star, is the author of seven books and is deeply
interested in educational and social services movements. •
Warning that our nation is in "the throes of a moral collapse
of serious dimensions," Allen recalls the calamities of the Nazi age
and the Communist dangers and declares:
"The Nazis are regarded . as animals in human form because
they gassed, shot or burned perhaps as many as six million. Jews.
Today the people of the United States are quite prepared, if pro-
voked, to actually burn alive hundreds of millions of innocent men
and women, young and old. I deliberately put the matter in• such
blunt terms because it is long past time to do so and because
there is apparently no other way to start people thinking of the
moral questions raised by nuclear weapons."
Dr. Buber's is among the briefest statements in the book,
but in it he effectively asserts: "It is high time for men to tell
the politicions: 'We do not want mankind to embark upon
annihilating itself.' "
The Central Conference of American Rabbis' declaration is
firm. It declares: "If we fail to rise to the challenge, it will be the
most tragic failure in man's history, although it can be--and let
us pray will ultimately prove to be—his most glorious triumph."
Collectively, the essays in "God and the H-Bomb" are a power-
ful plea against the use of the dangerous weapon that is now
threatening mankind.
International Map
Compact Atlas of the World
A durable pocket atlas, just issued by Meridian Books and
World Publishing Co. (119 W. 57th St., N.Y. 19), as a first
edition Meridian Original, will be found of great merit, filling
a great need.
Containing 128 pages of maps, some of them appearing in as
many as eight colors, this atlas serves as a very valuable refer-
ence book.
Israel and Israeli cities are among the worldwide countries
and cities that can be easily found by use of the well-prepared
index.
Europe's leading map makers, John Bartholomew and SODS,
of Edinburgh, Scotland, prepared this Meridian Compact Atlas
of the World for the American market.
Included in the collection are 32 continuous double-spread
maps with no gutter breaks.
There are many individual features, showing principal air-
ports, rail lines and stations, ship routes and their mileages
and canals and charts listing the nations of the world, their
areas and populations; as well as mountains, rivers and geo-
physical notes.