THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with ism of July 20, 1951
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 $6 a year. Foreign $7.
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ CARM1 M. SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
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Business Manager
SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager
A Letter to Khrushchev
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HARVEY ZUCKERBERG
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbatji, the twenty-second day of Shevat, 5723, the following Scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Yitro; Exod. 18:1-20:2-3. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 6:1-7:6;9:5 ; 6.
Licht henshen, Friday, Feb. 15, 5:47 p.m.
VOL. XLII. No. 25
Page Four
February 15, 1963
Brotherhood ... Believe It ... Live It
Another Brotherhood Week is upon us, and when we begin to observe it
on Sunday we will be challenged anew to prove that we are sincere in our
affirmations of American principles of justice for all, of humanitarian principles for
our fellow men, of • fairness in education, in housing, in accepting the rights of our
fellow citizens to their religious beliefs, in striving for the perpetuation of the ideals
inherent in the formulated rules for democratic government as they were enunciated
by the founders of this great Republic.
Brotherhood Week is merely a symbol, heralding the need for brotherliness
and humanitarianism through the years, in all lands, among all faiths, among all
races. And it must be lived. It must be practiced, it must be made a reality.
The noted editor, Ralph McGill was right when he said that "falure to practice
.Brotherhood created the news behind all the many headlines."
-Indeed, it is practice that counts,
and practice develops from experience,
"OUCH"
from the lessons of life, from human
relationships.
A famous Chinese saying is that a
single good picture can express more
than could possibly be uttered in a
thousand words. That is why we are
presenting, with this perennial rever-
beration, a series of pictorial 'inter-
pretations of Brotherhood. In these
impressions of noted cartoonists are
elaborated the truths relating to a
lack of Brotherhood and the vital
needs for a common understanding
of the basic principles of justice in
enforcing true brotherliness among
peoples.
President John F. Kennedy, as -
honorary chairman of 1963 Brother-
hood - Week, has issued a statement
in which he said:
"Human brotherhood is not just a
goal. It is a condition on which our
way of life depends. The question for
our time is not whether all men are
brothers. That question has been
answered - by the God who placed us
on this earth together. The question
is whether we have the strength and
the will to make the brotherhood of
man the guiding principle of our —Courtesy Robert D. Palmer, Springfield Leader and Press
daily lives. Can we match our actions
to our words?
"We look for support and brother-
hood to millions, hundreds of millions
It Takes All Three for Proper Support
of Americans of different creeds, of
different colors, who share our aspira-
tions but sometimes are not convinced
that we believe strongly in the doc-
trines that we preach. I believe as a
nation we must be committed to
these goals.
"The Brotherhood of Man under
the Fatherhood of God is a basic
principle which has directed this
nation through many years and I am
confident will direct it with increasing
vigor in the years to come. I urge all
Americans to join a nationwide ob-
servance of Brotherhood Week."
In Hebraic as well as in American
traditions, Brotherhood is an elemen-
tary obligation, yet it assumes a pri-
mary role in human relationS. Long
ago, the Psalmist declared: "Behold,
how good and how pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity!"
(Ps. 133:1)
This states Brotherhood Week's
.
aims in their simplest terms. When
the National Conference of Christians
and Jews decided upon the 1963
slogan—"Brotherhood Is Democracy
at Wotk—Believe It! Live It! Support
It!"—it undoubtedly meant the appeal
to practice it to carry the major
emphasis. May genuine adherence to
justice through practice prove a real-
— Courtesy Edward D. Kuckes, Cleveland Plain Dealer
ity through the observance that has
become known as Brotherhood Week.
`Palestine Before the Hebrews'
Outlined in-Anati's Research
Setting out "to retrace the prehistoric cultural evolution of
the peoples in a 'small corner of the world called Palestine,"
Emmanuel Anati, Israeli archaeologist, a graduate of the Hebrew
University who has earned a Doctorate at the Sorbonne, has
written a 6,000-year panoramic historic account of the earliest
arrival of man to the conquest of Canaan in "Palestine Before
the Hebrew," published by Knopf.
Anati states that in broad lines, "before culture became com-
plex, the evolution of mankind was rather homogeneous through-
out the world. Until 30,000 years ago, the culture evolving in
Palestine was distributed over other, very large areas. When
culture became more specialized and localized, Palestine started
on its own way and gradually acquired its distinctive cultural
traits, first as part of the Eurasian continent, as a part of the
Near East, and then as part of the Mediterranean Levant, and
finally_ as a region with several cultural divisions of its own.
After the Hebrew conquest late in the second millenium BCE,
the full historical record of Palestine begins, and from then on
we know the names of leaders and kings, the dates of battles,
and the details of political and military actions . . . "
Offering new interpretations, based on latest archaeological
discoveries, Anati develops his theme by analyzing the geo-
graphical settings, geological changes, cultural evolutions and
the various early ages of hunting, farming and other aspects
of the pre-Hebrew Palestinian ages.
Born in Italy in 1930,.Anati emigrated to Palestine in 1945,
fought in the Israel army for the establishment of an independent
nation,. directed projects for the Israel Department of Antiquities
after studying at the Hebrew University and later studied in
France. He participated in many expeditions and in excavations
in the Negev and elsewhere, and has authored his work on the
basis of personal knowledge gathered in anthropological studies.
Numerous maps and many scores of illustrations enhance
this work and assist the reader in an understanding of the subject
as outlined by Anati.
The face of Palestine and its borders become better known
through this book which outlines the topography, the Jordan
Valley, the mountains, the men and materials of the golden age
and their discovered remains.
Earliest traces of man in the area, the local chronology, burial
and other customs are reviewed. Transitional cultures are traced
from the Mesolithic interlude through succeeding developments,
leading up to the Hyksos and the Hebrew Patriarchs. Findings
by Yigael Yadin and other Hebrew University archaeologists are
referred to in describing the arrival of the Hyksos with their
new weapons, with their military tactics, their architecture. Enor-
mous defenses were built by the Hyksos rulers and Anati points
out that "the term for battering ram already existed in Meso-
potamia during the third milenium BCE."
Dealing with "The Late Urban Period," Anati describes the
identity of the Cannanites who were not necessarily Semites, who
are described in the Bible "sometimes as one people among the
other inhabitants of the country; at other times the term is used
as a collective name for all the sedentary dwellers in Palestine
before the Hebrew conquest."
The interlude of Egyptian rule is reviewed before describing
the background of the Hebrew conquest. Groups of nomads are
referred in ancient texts as Habiru or Apiru, thus arousing
interest in the scientific world "because some scholars believed
that it referred to the Biblical Hebrews." Landless Habiru be
came a threat to city dwellers and by the 15th century BCE the
landless had multiplied.
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Palestine's conauest is described as. "the clash of two
cultural worlds"—the autocratic system of a decadent feudal
noble class and the tribal democratic system of the nomads.
Anati states;
"In Jordan and the Negev, large areas appear. to have tradi-
tionally belonged to the Hebrews . . . Jordan and the Negev
were also populated by tribes related to the Hebrews," but the
coastal plains were the last to fall into the hands of the Hebrews_
Biblical references to the Hebrew conquest are quoted to
point to the time when "Israel was already a powerful political
unit in Palestine." Thus Anati outlines "the story of Palestine
before the Hebrews, some 3,200 years ago, when the Hebrews
entered history as a political and cultural entity."
Utilizing the various archaeological findings, pottery, recovered
structures and other discoveries, Anati has outlined an interest-
ing background to the Hebraic Holy Land history.