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. Second Class Postage Paid At Detroit; Michlgan 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) - 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. . - 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? . 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.