THE JEWISH NEWS
To Heroes of Warsatv Ghetto
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspapers. Michigan Press Association, National
Editorial Associ a Lion.
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 U.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich. under act of Congress of March
8, 1879.
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ HARVEY ZUCKERBERG
Editor and Publisher
Advertising Manager
Business Manager
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath — Shabat ha-Godal — the tenth day of Nisan, 5722, the following Scriptural selec-
tions will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Mezora, Leviticus 14:1-15:33. Prophetical portion, Malachi 3:4 — 24
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Passover Scriptural Selections
On the first two days of Passover, the following Scriptural selections will be read in our syna-
gogues:
Pentateuchal portions: Thursday. Ex. 12:21-51, Num. 28:16-25. Friday, Lev. 22:26-23:24, Nurn.
28:16-25. Prophetical portions, Thursday. Josh. 5:2-6:1. Friday, II Kings 23:1-9, 21-25.
Licht Benchen, Friday, April 13, 6:53 p.m.
April 13, 1962
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Vol. XII No. 7
Passover Spells Such Wonders
Passover is here again—and on this
great Festival of Freedom we rejoice, we
express our pride in the glory of a sacred
occasion that marked the beginning of
humankind's battle for liberty, against
slavery, and for justice for the oppressed.
This is only one aspect of the holiday
we have just ushered in. There is even
greater value to Passover in the fact that
it is a festival of reunion, that it is an
occasion to inspire the young and to
bring them very close to their people and
to their traditions, that it is a time for
the cementing of families into loyal
groups that are held together by com-
mon bonds of faith.
The Seder has a great enchantment.
It draws families from all quarters into
the unity of the home. Children come
from afar to be with their parents, and
parents give substance to their homes by
continuing a tradition of reciting the story
of old that remains ever young, assuring
an undying faith and _an unconquerable
adhesion to a heritage that teaches us
the values of libertarianism.
And while the spirit of the Seder pre-
dominates and brings together families
into unities, it is for the children that the
Passover holds so much significance. One
of our distinguished poets, the late Elma
Ehrlich Levinger, in a poem entitled "Why
Myer Likes Pesach," impressively describ-
ed the attraction that the Seder has for
children. It delineates the Passover spirit
so beautifully that it becomes an inspira-
tion for adults as well as for the children,
and we now share it with our readers:
My, I'm glad the winter's over,
And that Pesach, is so near;
'Cause I think the night of Seder
Is the best time of the year.
I can stay up long that evening;
All the silver's polished bright;
And the dishes are all shining,
And the cloth is clean and white.
And my brothers and big sister,
Who've moved to some other place,
All are gathered 'round the table,
When my papa says the grace.
Then I ask him why that evening
Isn't like another night;
And my mama smiles at grandma
'Cause I read the Hebrew right.
Afterwards I find the matzah-
Sister says it isn't fair,
'Cause I know that papa hides it
In the cushions of his chair.
'Bout that time I'm kinda sleepy;
But I just hold up my head:
How could I say the Had Gadya,
If I had to go to bed?
When I wake up it is morning
And the sun is shining bright:
And I wish that it was next year,
And another Seder night!
These and similar sentiments—espe-
cially the wisdom that comes from the
mouths of babes who are so delighted
with proper observance of religious cere-
monies—suggest to us the solution we
often seek to the Problem of indifference
to Jewish traditions. It provides the an-
swer to the challenge that comes to us
from those who wonder how we can best
provide the means for wholesome and
positive survivalism of our faith, our
peoplehood, our religious and cultural
heritage.
When we give the best that is in our
traditions, we receive the best response.
Passover provides the means for proper
approach to our children—to the entire
family, in fact. This spirit can be made
more extensive on all occasions on the
Jewish calendar year.
It is in this spirit of inspiration that
comes to all of us who so eagerly await
the coming of the Festival of Freedom
and the approach of the Sedorim, that
we exchange Happy Passover greetings
with our community.
Mankind Depends on Universal Freedom
There can be no complete freedom for
anyone anywhere, unless there is freedom
for all everywhere.
That is why the Bible — Leviticus
xxv:10—was resorted to for the declara-
tion, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the
land unto all the inhabitants thereof,"
as an inscription on the Liberty Bell that
is still preserved, since July 4, 1776, in
Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
This principle must be kept in view
at this time, when we are engaged in a
great campaign to aid our kinsmen in
countries that deny them their security
and their rights as human beings.
It is a principal again to take account
of on the eve of Passover.
We are engaged in a great effort to
assure eventual liberty for many tens of
thousands of our fellow Jews who must
find havens from oppression. There can
be no relief for them outside of Jewish
ranks, and the free Jewish communities
of the world—especially American Jewry
—remain their only hope for survival.
Therefore this reminder: that there
can not be free Jewish communities any-
where unless all others who must seek
freedom and who crave for it are provided
opportunities to acquire the liberties that
are so sacred to mankind.
The Allied Jewish Campaign has as its
major beneficiary the United Jewish
Appeal, whose funds assist in the rehabil-
itation of exiles, in the settlement of im-
poverished expellees and emigrants from
many lands in Israel, in their transporta-
tion and in the care provided for them
enroute to Israel and during their periods
of integration into the economy of Israel.
The people who are less fortunate than
we are have no one to look to other than
their kinsmen, and as their coreligionists
who share with them affiliation in the
peoplehood of Israel who owe them a
great measure of relief. If we fail them,
they are lost, and if ever we were to aban-
don our fellow men we would be in an
inexcusable position that would even
cause us to be questioned whether we,
ourselves, have earned the right to the
freedoms we deny to others.
This may be a harsh way of appealing
in behalf of the great fund-raising drive
now in progress, but there is an inevitable
principle involved—that of the unreality
of freedom to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness unless all peoples enjoy it.
It is based on this human obligation that
we must dedicate ourselves on the eve
of Passover to work for the total triumph
of the great undertaking represented in
the Allied Jewish Campaign.
•
The annual Warsaw Ghetto Commemoration, arranged by
the Jewish Community Council, will take place on Sunday, 8
p.m., at Temple Beth El, with Boma Shenker, former Warsaw
editor, as guest sneaker, and Cantor J. H. Sonenklar participat-
ing, under the chairmanship of Sidney Shevitz.
'Within Thy Hand'--Ilo Orleans'
50 Prayer Poems for Children
Ilo Orleans, who has practiced law in New York for more
than 40 years, has written many poems, most of them for children,
and they have been published in Young Judaean and World Over
magazines and other periodicals. He has made his mark as an
author of inspiring verses.
His latest book, "Within Thy Hand," published by the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations, contains a series of prayer
poems based on traditional texts.
They were intended, the able author states. "to serve as a
pleasant gateway for young people to the formal book of prayer."
He succeeds in his intentions. as is indicated by the fact that
each of the 50 prayer poems has a specific Hebrew text.
The first poem, "Within Thy Hand," is predicated upon the
Hebrew "B'Yodkho Nafshi Rukhi,"
"With Thy Hand,
0 gracious God
My soul, my spirit I entrust . . .
For Thou art true and right and just."
The others include such traditional prayers as "Mode Ani",
"Ashrei Ha-Ish," the Shema, "Hashkivenu," and similar well
known basic themes.
A splendid set of illustrations and woodcuts accompanies the
prayer poems. They were drawn by Siegmund Forst, whose works
have been widely exhibited and who has illustrated a number of
previously published books for Jewish children.
'Book About Submarines' Tells
Story of 'Davids' in Civil War
Samuel Epstein and Beryl Williams are the co-authors of
a splendid book for young readers. Under the title "The Real
Book About Submarines," published by Doubleday, this remark-
able story is about submarines from the time a Dutchman made
a leather-covered rowboat 300 years ago.
The evolution of the modern submarine is traced from its
beginnings to the high point of the present underwater ship.
The authors write also about the submarines of the future
and they give an account of the American submarines in the
Pacific.
Among the interesting stories in this fine book is that of
the "David" that was used in the War Between the States.
During the bloody Civil War conflict, they relate, "the South
was badly equipped to meet the Federal navy, which was
blockading her ports and cutting off her European supply
sources ... The Confederacy made and used several novel kinds
of torpedoes, setting them adrift in harbors and laying them
across river channels, an she constructed several little torpedo-
carrying boats_ These boats were named `Davids,' because the
South hoped they would prove a match for the big powerful
Federal ships, just as the little David of the Bible story proved
a match for the giant Goliath. It was one of these `Davids'-
the one sometimes called the llundley,' in honor of her designer,
H. L. Hundley—that made submarine history."
The story then is told of the Hundley's several trips, her
blockade of Union ships, before this submarine's final sinking.
The Hundley attacked the giant U.S.S. Housatonic and "the
`David's' watery grave, and that of her sixth and last crew,
was beside the grave of her Goliath-like victim."
The "Davids" stirred the imagination of "inventive minds
all over the world," as the world just then was learning "to
substitute machine power for hand power." While it marked the
end of one era, it introduced another in the development of
submarines.
Epstein and Williams have written a fascinating book about
man's inventive genius. It is a good contribution to the literature
for young people, and those with inventive minds will be
especially thrilled by it.