THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 The Bigots' Test Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Associations, 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 This SIDNEY SHMARAK Advertising Manager CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ HARVEY ZUCKERBERG Business Manager City Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections Sabbath, the twenty-ninth day of Shevat, 5722, the following Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Mishpatim, Exodus 21:1-24:18. Prophetical portion, I Samuel 20:18-42. Licht Benchen, Friday, Feb. 2, 5:30 p.m. Vol. XL No. 23 Page Four February 2, 1962 Serious Challenges. in Year of Crisis While the official opening of the Jewish Campaign will not take place until March, pre-campaign activities already are producing encouraging re- sults, and the community's fund-raisers are gearing all their efforts towards secur- ing the additional large sums that will be needed so vitally this year in view of the new crises facing our people. In the interests of effective planning, it is vital that we should have a complete understanding of the community's poten- tialities and that we should mobilize our forces to the end that all the available forces should be drawn into the 1962 campaign. The Allied Jewish Campaign has grown from very small beginnings in 1926 to the present high standards of giving. For a three-year period, 36 years ago, 3,185 contributors provided a sum of $738,242. There was .a decline in 1929, when only 1,599 gave a total of $130,473. The gifts and the givers rose in 1930 — 5,047 having given $326,017 in that year — and the sums dropped again for a number of years, until. 1939, when the contributing force rose to 19,080 cam- paign participants who gave $651,889. From that year until the present, the number of donors was always about the 20,000 mark. In 1940 there were 20,440 who gave $735,870. Their number rose year after year, reaching the peak in the number of contributors in 1948—the year of Israel's emergence as an independent Jewish State—when 30,734 people gave $5,756,133. This number of contributors has never again been equalled, although the largest sum was raised in 1957, when $5,918,268 was contributed by 25,960 donors. Last year there were 24,000 contribu- tors and their gifts totalled $4,615,000. It was a year of economic recession, and the drop in income was understandable. Under no circumstances, however, is last year's result to serve as a guide for the current year. At the budgeting conference of community leaders held in December, there was unanimous agreement that a minimum of $5,904,429 must be secured this year if our obligations are to be ful- filled towards the sadly afflicted Jewish communities in the world most of whose residents must look to Israel for an im- mediate haven, and if our local and na- tional duties are not to be abandoned in the education, health and recreational areas. As in past years, the beginning . is an excellent one. In fact, the early contribu- tions announced on Tuesday evening, at the inspiring meeting held at the home of the dynamic campaign chairman, Paul Zuckerman, exceed those of earlier years. The total announced on Tuesday indi cated a recognition of the dire need for JPS Holiday Series the extra funds to meet the current crucial overseas obligations. The results of the Zuckerman meet- ing should serve to inspire the campaign leaders and workers to seek comparable increases from the many thousands of contributors who are to be contacted "The Passover Anthology" by Philip Goodman, just issued by during the coming weeks. Unless the standard of current increased giving is the Jewish Publication Society of America, is the result of such such a vast amount of informative upheld, it may become difficult to secure thorough search and incorporates material about the festival, that this the vast sums that are needed, approach- addition to the JPS series of holiday ing the six million dollar mark. books must be acclaimed as one of Under all circumstances, we must the most impressive of the society's make certain that there should not creep products. Goodman, executive director of in unwise complacency, that the efforts the Jewish Book Council of America, during the coming weeks should be even sponsored by ,the Jewish Welfare Board, more extensive and more determined has compiled historical data, short than heretofore. The community must stories, music, poetry and other mate- be alerted to the needs, and it certainly rial relating to the Festival of Freedom. is to be hoped that a well informed com- Essays, poems and data by noted munity also will be a most generous one. scholars are included in this anthol- Philip Goodman Compiles 'The Passover Anthology' It is clear that in the coming months there must be concerted efforts to in- crease the number of contributors and to raise the standards of giving. There must be vast increases in order that a new high May be established in our great Allied Jewish Campaign efforts. This is the time, therefore, as we mobilize our forces for the current drive, to enlist all who are available for the campaign, to make certain that every man and woman who is able to give should be among the participants in the 1962 relief and rehabilitation and community plan- ning effort. We are faced by serious chal- lenges and we must meet them with cour- age and dignity and generosity. We must go•forward in our planning. This is a time for re-dedication. May we be found equal to the great tasks ahead of us! Gertrude Wineman-Butzel Award Winner As the most coveted community containing the list of Fred M. Butzel honor of the year, awarded by the Jewish Award winners. Welfare Federation in recognition of Mrs. Wineman had worked tirelessly distinguished service, the Fred M. Butzel with her late husband, Mr. Henry Wine- Memorial Award winner is selected by man, who was the second Butzel Award heads of Federation agencies and previ- winner, in 1952, in the tasks of creating ous award winners. The Jewish News is a wholesome community for Detroit pleased to learn that, this year, Mrs. Ger- Jewry. She now shares deserved honors trude Wineman is the unanimous choice also with the late Julian H. Krolik, who of the community's leaders who appre- was the first winner of the Butzel Award ciate her tireless and meritorious services in 1951, with the late Sidney J. Allen, to many Jewish and civic causes and the 1959 winner, and with Judge William primarily to the major Jewish welfare Friedman, Abraham Srere, Samuel H. movements. Rubiner, Justice Henry M. Butzel, Abe The only other woman to win this Kasle, Judge Theodore Levin and Irwin award — Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, who I. Cohn, the other winners of the awards. received it in 1955 — has worked with There can be no dissent from the Mrs. Wineman through the years in the numerous causes which now give the unanimous choice of Mrs. Wineman as 1962 winner of the honor the recognition this year's awardee for this great honor. she has earned by her devotion and Her deep interest in Hadassah's medical dedication. It is right, because they had and Youth Aliyah programs, her partici- worked as a team for so many years— pation in the Community Chest, her in behalf of the Allied Jewish Campaign, leadership in Travelers Aid and a score the Community Chest, Hadassah and of other movements, make her highly other causes — that the names of Dora deserving of the honors accorded her. Ehrlich and Gertrude Wineman should An entire community will undoubtedly again appear side by side on the plaque acclaim the choice. ogy. Among them are several articles specially written for this volume, in- cluding Judith K. Eisenstein's "The Music of Passover," Dvora Lapson's "Dances for Passover" and Rachel Philip Goodman Wischnitzer's "Passover in Art." The significance of this anthology becomes apparent in the list of eminent scholars who have written analyses of Passover themes. "The Origins of Passover" are explained in two essays— Prof. Harry M. Orlinsky's "The Bondage and Exodus of Israel" and "Israel in Egypt: The Historical Problems," by the late Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz of the British Empire. The Christian aspects are not overlooked, as is indicated in Prof. Solomon Zeitlin's "Passover and the Last Supper." Then there is the valuable article, "Passover and the Ritual Murder Libel," by Dr. Solomon Grayzel who traces the sources of the blood lie that has been a source of so much misery for Jews during the Passover season. The late Dr. Shmarya Levin is. represented in the series of essays on "Passover in Many Lands." Essays in this section are by Theodor H. Gaster, Jacques Faitlovitch, Zvi Kasdai, Hayyim Schauss, Solomon ibn Verga, Soma Morgenstern, Joseph A. Joel, Wladyslaw Pawlak, Moshe Mosenson and Sybil Rogow Langer. A number of essays describe the development of the Hagga- dah and the baking of Matzot. The festival's evaluations in litera- ture, art and music and in post-Biblical writings, and Midrashic and Talmudic notes, will enlighten the reader and provide a source of information that has not been available hitherto in a single volume. Judah Halevi, Mosen ben Maimon, Saadia Gaon and the Zohar are quoted in the section on Passover in medieval literature, and the festival in Jewish law, by noted scholars of all ages, is especially meritorious. Israel Zankill, Heinrich Heine, Henry George, Theodor Herzl, Sholom Aleichem, Martin Buber, S. J. Agnon, Berl Katznelson„ Kaufmann Kohler, Moritz Lazarus, Ahad Ha-am, Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Isaac Loeb Peretz,Philip M. Raskin and many others are includ- ed in selections of prose and poetry, in short stories and parables. Folklore, programs and projects, suggested dances for the festival by Dvora Lapson, menus and recipes by Hanna Goodman and a section on curiosities are among the additional features which give this. volume a thorough completeness in dealing with Passover. In the over-all portion entitled "Passover Rejoicing" there are included many curiosities—such as names, calendrical formulations, local hymns and customs, and parodies. There are many illustrations and rare drawings and the musical scores for a number of Passover songs. Rabbi Goodman has rendered a real service with this compila- tion. It is an informative, instructive and entertaining book.