THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 Nasser's Magic Gates Merbber American Association of English—Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Association. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 48235 Mich., VE 8-9364. Subscription $6 a year. Foreign $7. Second Class Postage Paid at Detroit, Michigan PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ SIDNEY SHMARAK Business Manager Advertising Manager CHARLOTTE HYAMS • • 1:*,*; ;.tog..?.?". • City Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the eighteenth day of Heshvan, 5725, the following scriptural selec- tions will be read in our synogogues: Pentateuchal portion: Gen. 18:1-22:24; Prophetical portion: II Kings 4:1-37. Licht benshen, Friday, October 23, 5:20 p.m. VOL. XLVI, No. 9 Page 4 October 23, 1964 Damaging 'Mission' of Arab Student Propogandists Arab propaganda against Israel has be- evidence in a brazen letter to the New York come so extensive, the attempts to mobilize Times which evoked the following comment, the Afro-Asian nations in plans to undermine written to the Times by Edward S. Vance, Israel's role in the world have recently been Jr., of Cambridge, Mass., published on Oct. 8: attempted so brazenly, that those who seek I read with great interest the letter of Adly peace in the Middle East—thereby aiming M. Derhally in your Sept. 30 issue. to avert a conflagration that could spread He stated that the mission of the Arab stu- dents in the United States is to "give a sincere worldwide—have cause for increasing con- and undistorted presentation of the Palestine cern over the war threats and the saber- question to American students." I doubt that this rattling that stems from Cairo. was the motive stated in their visa applications. New *nit Aggravating the situation and adding to Would it be too much to ask the Arab students to r ask ftlr US. make suns men the tensions are the attitudes of some Mos- concentrate on what, presumably, they came here i5=e does* misuse our hdpi for—their studies? lem countries toward all Jews, as indicated We all appreciate, I am sure, their wish to in the report of the frightening situation in enlighten us with the undistorted truth about which Jews who are serving in the U.S. Air ■ 1115t Palestine. But I, for one, intend to consult more Force find themselves at the Wheelus Base objective sources. in Tripoli, Libya. This letter appropriately appeared under Noted Scholar's Classic The question may well be asked again heading " 'Mission' of Arab Students." It why our government sanctions such discrim- the deserves much more serious study than its ination. Under similar conditions Jews were 'brevity and politeness dictates. The fact is Klausner's 'Jesus': Timely Again kept from service in Saudi Arabia, in order that Arab not only have to prevent discriminatory practices. The anti- harmed the propagandists Jewish position but have under- During Debates on Deicide Issue Jewish acts in Saudi-Arabia were extreme, but taken to divide the American community on in Libya they reached a stage in which basic issues. They have stepped into the Current ecumenical discussions of problems created over the children of Jewish servicemen are being political campaign with innuendos and with d'eicide issue revive interest in one of the most important books about humiliated, and such conditions must not be arrogant accusations against Jews. They dared Jesus by one of Jewry's most distinguished scholars of this century. tolerated. Beacon Press has just reissued as a paperback "Jesus of Nazareth— to inject into the current political discussions One of the serious development in the the so-called "Jewish vote" issue which would His Life, Times and Teaching." by Prof. Joseph Klausner. The late professor of the Hebrew University had this book pub- Arab propaganda campaign is the apparent be relevant for discussion by Jews and their use of the hundreds of Arab students in non-Jewish fellow-citizens but not by inter- lished by Macmillan in 1925. The translator from the Hebrew was another eminent scholar, Great Britain's Christian theologian Dean American colleges as a prnpaganda force loping propagandists from abroad. Danby who had lived in pre-Israel Palestine for a number of years. against Israel and the Jewish people. Some A lifetime of study went into this work, the first introduction to Part of the trouble evidenced by this of the tactics of the Arab students have been "mission" which is dated Eve of Sukkot, 1907—Jerusalem. of Arab students is due to the ex- most damaging. It was knowin that members trKme lenity with which they are being Professor of Divinity James Luther Adams of Harvard University of that student body had instigated the Negro wrote about this great work: "Here is a classic of scholarship and treated here. It also is due to the complacen- looting of Jewish stores in Brooklyn. Their cy about them in university circles. in gov- insight, and also a controversial book of high order. Written a genera- tnethods of hate-spreading in the universities ernment, among churchmen who are so easily tion ago by an eminent Jewish scholar in Jerusalem, it makes impres- sive use of Jewish literature to expose the milieu in which Jesus lived have been so brazen that the intentions of by crocodile tears, especially when and thought. The interpretation has aroused strong opposition from those who had come here to study now are misled these students speak about refugees whom exposed as having an outright aim of harm- they help the least. It is the type of pro- other Jewish scholars. For the Christian scholar, the book poses radical ing Israel and of spreading anti-Jewish paganda on American soil against Americans questions regarding the extremism, the lopsidedness, the impracticality of Jesus' ethics. The Christian will not easily dispose of these questions, venom. that does not contribute towards good will if, indeed, he' can do so at all." A sample of the Arabs' intentions was in and amity among students of all nations. The late Dr. Klausner had undertaken to "give Hebrew readers a A Russian Jew's Plea to His Government If The Jewish News editor had not seen the original of the appeal that was brought here by a prominent Jewish woman from Kiev, with the deeply moving rebuke to the Russian government for its failure to permit the emigration of Jews from Russia and for the antagonistic Communist attitude toward Israel. he might have been skeptical about its origin. BLit he did see the Russian-typed state- ment; he knows the Detroit woman who was asked to bring the appeal to American Jewry, and the pleadings that will be found in this issue must be viewed as one of the most effective bits of evidence both about Russian antagonism to Jews and the desire of Jews to settle in Israel and to escape from the humiliations that are a heritage in Russia from Czarist times. The statement we are publishing is an indication that not all in Russia have fallen prey to the false propaganda spread by the Soviet government. It proves that there is a desire on the part of Jews to retain their Jewish identity. that there is a kinship with Israel, that many would emigrate if they could get out of the unfriendly environment that has been perpetuated even under com- munism. It was by mere chance that this statement came to us. It took courage on the part of the pleader to approach an American Jewish woman and to ask her to make it public. She has brought it to her community's newspaper and we offer it as evidence of existing condi- tions in Russia and as part of the urgent ap- peals all of us join in addressing to the Soviet regime to change its antagonistic anti- Jewish and anti-Israel policies. Dr. King's Selection for Nobel Peace Prize As the new Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Martin Luther King adds greatly to the gains that have been made for human rights every- where and especially in support of the civil rights movement in this country. The judges who selected the Rev. Dr. King did not have to make a single comment to explain their selectee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. King has become a symbol for decency and justice in this country. While fighting for the rights of his people, while joining in the demonstrations for equality for the Negroes, he has nevertheless remained among the major proponents of non-violence. By selecting him for the award, the Nobel Committee has expressed the hopes of the peace-loving and justice-seeking peoples ev- erywhere that there will be an end to racial intolerance, that human beings will not be judged by the color of their skins—just as they must not be judged by their religious beliefs—but will be accepted on their merits, as law-abiding, peace-loving, non-aggressive elements. The selection of Dr. King for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize should serve as a warning to bigots that their prejudices are not toler- ated. It should be a signal to all mankind to end discriminations and to accept fellow- humans as part of the great American credo that "all men are created equal." truer idea of the historic Jesus," and he emphasized in his introduction that the sole object of his book was to show "simply how Judaism differs and remains distinct from Christianity or Christianity from Judaism." Dr. Klausner pointed to inconsistencies between Luke and Mark or Matthew in their descriptions of the trial of Jesus, and be points to the "impossible supposition that the Sanhedrin examined Jesus during the night of a festival or (according to Luke) on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.". The Hebrew scholar asserted that "the words 'Son of God' from the mouth of a Jewish high priest, and particularly from a Sadducee, are inconceivable." He stated that "Jesus was convinced of his mes- siahship," but he showed throughout that Jesus was a Jew and lived and practiced as such. On the question of guilt, he made this assertions "Through fear of the Roman tyrant, those who were then the chief men among the Jews delivered up Jesus to this tyrant. Na Jews took any further part in the actual trial and crucifixion: Pilate, the 'man of blood,' was responsible for the rest. The Jews, as a nation, we're less guilty of the death of Jesus than the Greeks, as a nation, were guilty of the death of Socrates; but who now would think of avenging the blood of Socrates the Greek upon his countrymen, the present Greek race? Yet these 1900 years past the world has gone on avenging the blood of Jesus the Jew upon his countrymen, the Jews, who have already paid the penalty, and still go on paying the' penalty in rivers and torrents of blood." Prof. Klausner devoted a chapter to the description of the cruci- fixion, "a penalty characteristic of the Romans." He proceeded to show that the Romans crucified Jesus, that Romans frequently crucified Jews, that this terrible and cruel method of exacting death was imposed on "many Jewish captives and fugitives during the siege of Jerusalem," and he added: "To say that the Jews crucified Jesus or that they were even responsible for his death by crucifixion, is grossly untrue." Dr. Klausner reviewed at great length the Jewishness and the ethical teachings of Jesus. He emphasized that: "To the Jewish nation he can be neither God nor the Son of God, in the sense conveyed by belief in the Trinity. Either conception is to the Jew not only impious and blasphemous, but incomprehensible." But he accepted Jesus as "a great teacher of morality and an artist in parable", as "the moralist for whom, in the religious life, morality counts as — everything," and he concluded: "In his ethical code there is a sliblimity, distinctiveness and or- iginality in form unparalleled in any other Hebrew ethical code; neither is there any parallel to the remarkable art of his parables. The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular pos- session. If ever the' day should come and this ethical code be stripped of its wrappings of miracles and mysticism, the Book of Ethics of Jesus will be one of the choicest treasures in the literature of Israel for all time."