THE JEWISH NEWS
lncorpora4ing the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue 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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PHIUP 'SLOMOV1TZ
Editor and PUblisher
SIDNEY STIMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOV/17 HARVEY ZUCKERBERG
Advertising Manager
Business Manager
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twentieth day of Adar, the following Scriptural selections will be read
in our synagogues:
Pentateitcha/ portion, Ki tissa, Parah; Exod. 30:11-34:35, Num. 19:1-22. Prophetical portion,
Ezekiel 36:16-38, Ezekiel 36:16-36.
Licht beashen, Friday, March la, 620 p.m.
VOL XLIII. NO. 3
Page Four. •
March 15, 1963
Allied Jewish Campaign Funds Distribution
Communal obligations to the combined
appeal for more than 55 local, national
and overseas causes, incorporated in the
Allied Jewish Campaign's budget, are so
vast, that all public spirited citizens owe
it to . themselves, to their families and to
their kinsmen to become fully acquainted
with the areas covered by the funds we
are about to provide for the many agen-
cies' upkeep through our contributions.
In the report of the Jewish Welfare
Federation for 1962, submitted at the
recent annual meeting, there is an inter-
esting breakdown of the dollars we pro-
vide to the Allied Jewish Campaign. The
manner in 'which each $100 of Allied
Jewish Campaign funds is made available
is outlined as follows:
The beneficiaries that are grouped to-
gether and not listed in the above break-
down also should be known. They include
the following national agencies: America-
Israel Cultural Foundation, Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency, American Academy for
Jewish Research, American Association
for Jewish Education, American Jewish
Historical Society, Conference on Jewish
Social Studies, Congress for Jewish Cul-
ture, Council of Jewish Welfare Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds, Dropsie College,
Histadruth Ivrith, Jewish Labor Commit-
tee, Jewish Occupational Council, Jewish
Publication Society of America, National
Community Relations Advisory Council,
National Conference of Jewish Communal
Service, National Foundation for Jewish
From each $190
Culture and YIVO-Institute for Jewish
Beneficiary •
Contributed
Research.
American Jewish Congress
$ .60
Local agencies not listed separately
Beth Yehudah Afternoon •Schonls,-'
' .90
Bnai Brith National Youth Services
in the appended schedule of fund distri-
Appeal
.50 bution include: Abraham Reisen School,
Capital Improvement and Building
Community Workshop, Hayim Greenberg
Construction (Local)
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5.90
Hebrew-Yiddish School, Hebrew Free
Fresh Air Society
Loan Association, Tamarack Hills Author-
Hebrew University-Technion Joint
ity and United Jewish High School.
Maintenance Appeal
.70
Jewish Community Center
4.40
So many important causes are in-
JeWish Community Council
2.40
cluded in these lists, we fulfill through
Jewish Family & Children's Service
2.00
them so many functions, that the mere
Jewish Home for Aged
3.40 listing of them ought to be sufficient to
Jewish Vocational Service .
2.10
Jewish War Veterans
.20 impress the contributors; and an analysis
Joint Defense Appeal
1.60 of the accomplishments should serve to
encourage every Detroit Jew either to
American Jewish Committee
increase his pledge — because the corn-
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
National Jewish Welfare Board
biped efforts of all of us are needed to
.80
.80
Resettlement Service
make available the vitally needed sums-
Sinai HOspital
3.20
and those who are not as yet enrolled as
Twelve national cultural &
Allied
Jewish Campaign contributors
.60
educational organizations
should at once become participants in
8.40
United Hebrew Schools
.90 this great drive.
United IlLkS Service
53.10
United Jewish Appeal
This is the time to act—for volunteers
United Israel Appeal—Jewish Agency
to enroll in the campaign organization,
Joint Distribution Committee
for contributors to take their obligations
New York Association for New Americans
to it. seriously. Let •there be a great out-
Jewish National Fund .
pouring of interest and generosity, so
ORT
that
the great movements we support
6.90
19 other beneficiaries
should not suffer for lack of the neces-
TOTAL $100.00 sary means for their sustenance.
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Significance of Jewish Music Month
Jewish Music Month, currently being
observed in this country under the super-
vision of the National Jewish Welfare
Board, is rooted in long established Jew-
ish traditions.
Deborah sang of the glories of her
followers in the triumph over Sisera.
King David composed melodies, and
wrote Psiams, in praise of the Lord.
Then, throughout the generations,
Jews were composers and musicians.
author of hymns and the interpreters of
musical scores.
In this country the popular hymns of
the past four decades have been written -
by young American Jews who were in-
spired by the people of this country and
the land and its traditions in expressing
their innermost feelings as paeans of
jubilation to their American environment.
In the position of priority in the field
of Jewish music is the cantorial art. It is
the synagogue music that has gained first
rank in spiritual songs, and it has had
great influence upon music in general.
The music of the synagogue has carried
over into church hymns, many of which
are based on Jewish traditional hymns,
and has had its effects upon the popular
music of many Jewish composers.
• Jewish Music Month, now being ob-
served again, is an occasion for the revival
of interest in Jewish hymns, in the com-
positions and the musical creativity of
many noted Jewish musicians. It should
especially inspire an interest in the music
of the synagogue and in the creative
efforts of our cantors.
It is encouraging, therefore, that
many synagogues have sponsored special
Jewish Music Month events, that rabbis
are devoting their sermons to evaluations
of the traditional Jewish music and that
our cantors are in the limelight during
this month's observance. It is an emi-
nently worthwhile cultural community
project.
Mo'os Hitim Fund
The report for the past year issued
by the Mo'os Hitim Committee points to
the need for a serious effort to continue
the established tradition of aiding needy
with Passover necessities.
With 2,000 on last year's rolls of those
who needed aid properly to celebrate
Passover in accordarK-c: with Jewish tra-
ditions, and with the possibility of in-
creased demands this year, it is urgent
that the committee's appeal for funds
should be fully honored.
A great and an honored tradition is
pursued by the local committee in making
available the -Mo'os Hitim assistance
funds to the less affluent in our toMmun-
ity." It deserves the support we give it.
HOW CAN A SABBATH OBSERVER
ESE A SABBATH VIOLATOR?
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Waiter Kaufmann's 'Faith of a
Heretic' Appears as Paperback
"The Faith of a Heretic," by Dr. Walter Kaufmann, already
reviewed in these columns, has been made available in a paper-
back by Doubleday.
This important philosophic study, in which the eminent author
deals with the questions "What Can I Believer, "How Should I
Live?", "What Do I Hope?", covers many areas relating to
philosophy and religion, the Old Testament, Organized Religion,
Suffering and the Bible, Freud, Jesus vis-a-vis Paul, Luther and
Schweitzer and other topics basic to modern approaches to issues
relating to our time.
As the author asserts, "criticism is subordinated to a con-
structive attempt." He exposes "false prophets that cry 'peace;
peace,' when there is no peace."
Dr. Kaufmann asserts that "philosophy is always academic
or upsetting. There is no middle ground. But it can rationalize,
give reasons for what the audience wants to believe. It can give
pleasure instead of upsetting. Are false prophets, prophets?"
While a philosopher is no prophet, he "only tries to disturb
a few people a little," Dr. Kaufmann states. Addressing himself
to Jeremiah, "dOn't you realize you are upsetting people? Many
of them are nice people, too, sir. But his problem was that too
few were disturbed too little," he declares:
"False prophets, said Jeremiah, cry peace, peace, when there
is no peace. The philosopher who tells his audience what. they
want to hear, and proves to them in startling ways that they
are right, cries peace, peace, when there is no peace. For most
people aren't right. Most people are confused. One does not
have to upset them, though. One could write lyrically, musically,
pleasingly. Why not? But if one pretends that in doing this one
is still a philosopher, one is a false philosopher." ,
Dr. Kaufmann, who received his PhD. from Harvard and is
now professor of philosophy at Princeton, was on a 1962-1963
Fulbright grant in Jerusalem, in addition to having received other
high academic honors. He was awarded the international Leo
Baeck Prize in 1961. He is an authority on German poets and
philosophers and has written many books, including works on
Shakespeare and Goethe.
Albright's Survey: 'Biblical
Period from Abraham to Ezra
Dr. Louis Finkelstein's two-volume compilation "The Jews:
Their History, Culture and Religion," contained an essay, "The
Biblical Period," by the eminent Semitics professor and dean of
biblical Archaeologists, Dr. William Foxwell Albright. That essay
has been expanded and has just been published as a Cloister
Library Harper Torchbook by Harper & Row,
(49 E. 33rd, NY 16), under the title "The Biblical
Period from Abraham to Ezra—An Historical
Survey."
'Conceding that his essay is "only a sketch,"
Prof. Albright says that important figures in
Israel's history are not even mentioned, and he
adds that he hopes his two-volume history of the
religion of Israel will appear in a few years.
In this essay, briefly sketched, he describes
the Hebrew national beginnings. He starts with
Abraham and declares that "there is not the Dr. Albright
slightest real basis for recent attempts to reduce the date of
Abraham to the Late Bronze Age." He states .: "That Abraham
(Abram) was an important figure in his day was probable, since
the traditions about him appear to have been handed down orally
for many centuries with little change."
The age of Moses, the conquest of Palestine, the period of
tribal rule, the united monarchy and its disruption, captivity and
restoration and the era from Nehemiah to the fall of the Persian
empire follow the initial analyses of early Hebrew history.
Dr. Albright shows that the fourth century is almost wholly
without dated Jewish documents. He adds that "the material
culture of Jewish Palestine was saturated with greek influence."
Extensive notes and a chronological table supplement his
study of the Biblical period.