THE JEWISH NEWS
He Harms His Kinsmen and WWeeps
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951.
•Merriber 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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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.
SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ HARVEY ZUCKERBERG
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Advertising Manager
Editor and Publisher
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Business Manager
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the sixteenth day of Tevet, 5722, the following Scriptural selections will be read
in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Wa-yehi, Gen. 47:28-50:26. Prophetical portion, I Kings 2:1-12.
Licht Benchen, Friday, Dec. 22, 4:47 pan.
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VOL. XL, No. 17
December 22, 1961
Allied Campaign's 1962 Chairman
Retention of the chairfnanship of the
Allied Jewish Campaign for another year
by Paul Zuckerman deserves the com-
munity's acclaim, in recognition of the
campaign leader's devoted efforts over a
period of years, and his attainments as
last year's general chairman.
During a year that was marked by
difficulties for business enterprises in
Michigan, Zuckerman ably led a large
corps of workers who registered another
five-million-dollar triumph in fund-raising
in Detroit.
This year he f a c,e s an even more
serious task—at a time when the United
Jewish Appeal income from our campaign
must be increased by at least 50 per cent.
The rise in immigration to Israel in 1961
place8 added responsibilities upon the
Jewish Agency, and Detroit Jewry will
be called upon to share in the new duties
that face our people.
The fact that the Joint_ Distribution
Committee, for the first time in its his-
tory, is compelled to go into deficit spend-
ing due to the emergent problems is_ an
indication of the new dire needs on the
overseas fronts.
At the same time, larger sums are
needed to provide for the local and na-
tional agencies' needs, thus adding to the
burdens that must be considered as self-
imposed by a community as responsible
for Jewish needs as ours has proven to
be.
Zuckerman and his associates will be
faced with these problems as they under-
take the tasks of fund-raising.
The new chairman has the good for-
tune of being guided by precedents and
traditions set for him by earlier campaign
chairmen whose names should serve as
an inspiration to him in his tasks ahead.
For historical reasons, it will be inter-
esting for the community to recall that
during the past - 35 years of organized
campaigning, which resulted in the raising
of more than $80,000,000 by Detr oit
Jewry, the chairmen were:
Henry Wineman, 1926; Nathan M. Gross,
1929; Henry Wineman, 1930; Aaron DeRoy,
1931-1933; Henry Wineman, 1934-1935; Fred
M. Butzel, Abraham Srere, 1936; Henry Wine-
man, 193'7; Fred M. Butzel, 1938; Fred M.
Butzel, Henry Wineman, 1939; Fred M. But-
zel, 1940; Henry Wineman, 1941; Fred M.
Butzel, 1942; Nate S. Shapero, 1946; Fred M.
Butzel, 1947; Maurice Aronsson, 1948; Louis
Berry, 1949; Louis Berry, Harvey H. Gold-
man, Julian H. Krolik, 1950; Abe Basle, 1951-
1952; Irving W. Blumberg, Harvey H. Gold-
man, 1953-1954; John E. Lurie, 1955; John
E. Lurie, Max M. Fisher, 1956; Max M. Fisher,
1957-1958; Irwin I. Cohn, Leonard N. Simons,
.1959; Irwin I. Cohn, 1960; Paul Zuckerman,
1961.
The campaigns were not always as
immense as they are today. We began by .
raising sums much lower than the quarter
million mark, and we have gone as high
as the six million mark.
By giving Paul Zuckerman our whole-
hearted cooperation, we may again attain
the highest mark in fund-raising through
the great organization known as the
Allied Jewish, Campaign. We wish him
and his associates great success in this
year's drive.
Eichmann Case: The Human Issue
If, as Israel's Attorney General Gideon
Hausner told the three judges in the
Jerusalem court room, in his demand that
Adolf Eichmann be given the death pen-
alty, such a verdict is necessary as a
:warning against the rising tide of neo-
Nazism, then the concern now is as much
for the future as it is over the past.
If it is true that the bloody era of
Hitler and Eichmann has not ended, that
a new wave of bigotry and terror is "on
the ascent," then the trial. that lasted for
four months in the Holy City must be
considered as having only begun to
awaken humanity to the dangers that
threaten all mankind out of a terrorizing
inhumanity of man to man.
Little is to be gained from putting an
end to Eichmann's life. Death is too easy
and too quick a punishment for so brutal
a criminal who has not been moved even
by the mass of testimony gathered against
him and placed into the public record for
all to hear. By continuing to place blame
on those who "gave orders," Eichmann
again revealed himself as a man without
heart or conscience. The punishment to
be meted out to him must be of a sort
that should keep the memory of his
crimes alive. If the Nazi ideology truly
is regaining ground, then the era of
crimes must not be left in silence or in
forgetfulness.
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" During the entire trial, and in the
days of the handing down of the verdict,
threats were frequently heard, from anti-
Semitic sources, that if Eichmann dies his
death will be avenged with Jewish blood.
Only the cowardly will yield to such
warnings. There is enough Jewish courage
left—in fact, much more has been built up
in recent years—to resist anti-Semitism.
It is doubtful whether a new generation
of Jews even in Germany would again
submit to the terrors that were imposed
upon Jews by the Nazis, in many instances
under Eichmann's direction.
What is needed in the interest of the
preservation of human rights for all peo-
ples is that those who utter such threats
should be exposed, that not a single slur
either against us or our neighbors should
ever be condoned, that every manifesta-
tion of Hitlerism, regardless of whether it
raises its ugly head in. Germany or any-
where else, should be met with the con-
demnation it -deserves. There must be no
faint-heartedness, no hesitation in meeting
the challenges hurled at humanity.
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The Eichmann case has served its
purpose well. Regardless of its length, no
matter what Eichmann's final destiny, it
was the telling of the story that mattered.
It was the re-telling of the crimes, the
sin of all mankind in having failed to act
during the critical years, that are of
historic significance.
Only a few days ago, Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt expressed concern over the
large number of ex-Nazis who function in
the West German government. Too many
of the Nazis who had a share in the
wholes-ale murders are still at large. The
Eichmann case should lead to their being
weeded out of human society.
The Eichmann case will continue to
haunt us for a long time—until the final
steps have been consummated—possibly
leading up to the highest tribunal, which
happens to be the prerogative of Israel's
President Itzhak Ben-Zvi either to grant
mercy or to sustain whatever extreme
sentence may be given the criminal. Dur-
ing the months ahead, the story of the
Nazi crimes, of the world's callousness
and indifference, will again be made
known. Let the facts emerge! Let the
guilty cringe! Let those in whose breasts
there remains a spark of humanity be
guided by the experiences of the past!
Anything resembling Nazism must never
again be in evidence anywhere! .
'Truth and Morals'
'Religion from Tolstoy to
Camus' a Classic Anthology
Prof. Walter Kaufmann, of Princeton University, whose
writings on religion and philosophy have been among the major
philosophic treatises in recent years, has added another work of
magnitude to his collection with the new Harper-published vol-
ume, "Religion from Tolstoy to Camus—Basic Writings on
Religious Truth and Morals."
His selections in this book include essays by Prof. Morris
Raphael Cohen, Dr. Sigmund Freud and Dr. Martin Buber.
- Others whose works—including fiction—are included are
Count Leo Tolstoy, who is represented by four of his famous
articles, including "My Religion," and one of the most noteworthy
stories of the century, "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"; -
and by Albert Camus' "Reflections on the Guillotine."
The other authors chosen for inclusion in Dr. Kaufmann's
book are: Pope Pius IX, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Pope
Leo XIII, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Kingdon Clifford, William
James, Josiah Royce, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde,
Morton Scott Enslin, Martin Niemoeller, Malcolm Vivian Hay,
Karl Barth and Emil Brunner who are represented by an ex-
change of correspondence, Pope Pius XII, "Jacques Maritain,
Paul Johannes Tillich, John Wisdom and Albert Schweitzer.
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Short stories and fables, Papal encyclicals and sermons,
are among the selections in the book. The editor's introduc-
tion adds significance to the anthology, and in a preface Dr.
Kaufmann states that the contents "deal with religion, some
with its truth, some with its relation to morality and society,"
that their collective value is "not to win friends for religion,
or enemies, but to provoke greater thoughtfulness," and "a
deeper understanding of religion."
Emphasis is placed by Prof. Kaufmann on the moral that the
development of religion "cannot rid us of the onus of making
our own choices."
"If a demon came to me and offered me, without exacting
any price, that all of mankind might accept my faith, my views,
my standards, I should not even be tempted," Dr. Kaufmann
adds. "Demon, I might say, I have no wish for mankind to con-
form to any single- faith or set of views or standards; but if you
are intent on granting me such a great favor, make men's dis-
agreements more responsible and more humane. Cure their
brutal want of intellectual imagination; give them more curiosity
about the feelings, thoughts, and sufferings of their fellow men.
Increase their humbition (the rare fusion of ambition with
humility and humor) and their courage, love, and honesty. Then,
instead of accepting my views, they will point out my mistakes
to me, while also learning from me about some of their errors,
and we shall all become better men."
In the "much talk of a revival of religion" Dr. Kaufmann
contends that there is "conspicuously absent" the prophetic
note in Isaiah I, and he adds: "One cannot imagine that he or
Amos, Kierkegaar or Tolstoy would have liked 20th-century
religion any better than the religion they attacked with so
much passion." He declares: "To speak of religion without
disturbing men is to be a false prophet. To deal at length with
the history of the past hundred years without disturbing men
is also to be a false prophet. In a book on 'Religion from
Tolstoy to Camus' one must • beware doubly 'of crying peace,
peace, when there is no peace."
Among the very vital essays in the book is a selection from
Malcolm Hay's "Europe and the Jews," in which the Catholic
author accuses_ the Western governments of having known of
the chances of stopping Hitler's *wholesale liquidation of Jews,
but Britain and the United States suppressed facts, the former
to avoid dumping "a million Jews on us."
Among those deserving fame for their active and open
resistance to Hitler, Prof. Kaufmann mentions Pastor Niemoeller
and Pastor Paul Schneider.
His "Religion from Tolstoy to Camus" is a great collection
that does, indeed, help understand religion and guides the read-
ers towards a better evaluation of humane values.