THE JEWISH NEWS

Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951

Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ

Business Manager

CHARLOTTE RYAMS

SIDNEY SHMARAK

City Editor

Advertising Manager

Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the sixteenth day of Kislev, 5725, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 32:4-36:43; prophetical portion, Hosea 11:7-12:12.

Licht benshen, Friday, November 20, 4:49 p.m.

VOL. LXVI, No. 13

November 20, 1964

Page 4

Dr. Schwartz's Well-Earned Honors

In the tragic era of the Nazi holocaust and
of the years when those who survived the
Hitler terror were kept in concentration
camps, there were many activities in behalf
of the sufferers. At the helm of the. relief
movement was a man whose name will not
be forgotten.
The name of Joseph J. Schwartz will re-
main indelibly engraved among the most
dedicated humanitarians who aided the en-
slaved while they were under Nazi rule, in-
credibly finding means of providing those
whose lives could be saved with food and

medicaments. When the survivors were sent

to concentration camps, Dr. Schwartz or-
ganized an army of men and women who
restored them to health, provided them with
means for their sustenance, created syna-
gogues and schools for them and their chil-
dren and uplifted them so that they could
once again regain a place in civilized society.

It was primarily thanks to the direction

Dis-
tribution Committee rescue operations. that

of Dr. Schwartz. who headed the Joint

115,000 Jews were able to get to the Jewish
Homeland even before Israel's statehood, and
the numbers of escapees who found refuge
in Israel thereupon swelled to great propor-
tions.
Later, as the executive head of the United
Jewish Appeal, and now as the executive
vice president of the Israel Bond Organiza-
tion, Dr. Schwartz continued his life's work,
remaining among the Jewish leaders who
rose to great heights when their services
were needed to assure rescue for the op-
pressed aand survival for those who came
out alive from the holocaust.
Seldom has an honor been as well de-
served as the conferring upon Dr. Schwartz
of the Scopus Award of the Hebrew Univer-
sity, at the dinner in New York on Dec. 1.
He is already the possessor of many evi-
dences of recognition of his services. The
Hebrew University award acclaims him as
an humanitarian and also as a distinguished
scholar. It is a fitting honor for the man who
retains the deanship among the social service
leaders of our time.

Israel's Serious Internal Crisis

Israel's new internal crisis could develop

into a series of unfortunate embarrassments
for a government that is doing its utmost
to retain a high level of statesmanship. Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol has given dignity to his
office. His moderation, as contrasted with a
measure of .partisanship that preceded his
a 'ministration. resulted in the establishment
f better relations with the Herut, of friend-k•
er attitudes towards the parties in the cen-
ter,, and of what may well be viewed of a
closer-knit cooperation with the United States.
But the Ben-Gurion spirit still hovers
over some of the Israeli areas, and the
younger eleme-nt that is closely attached to
the former prime minister seems determined
eventually to assume control of the govern-
ment. Since such an aspiration is within
legal means in a democratically-governed
land like Israel. there is nothing objection-
able in such ambitions. Yet. the revival of
the Lavon Affair and the insistence of the
Ben-Gurion group upon an exacting of ven-
geance is cause for concern.
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The withdrawal of the Lavon group from
the Eshkol government adds to the consterna-
tion. Occasioned by the Prime Minister's hesi-
tancy to include Lavon's name on the next
ballot as a :Mapai Knesset candidate is the
major cause for the split, but there must be
many other reasons.
Formation of the new "Min Hayesod"
("From the Roots") party by the Lavon fac-'
tion is an indication of the revolt as well as
the readiness by Israelis to attach themselves
to a multi-party program which is in itself a
confusing element in Israel's super-demo-
cratic structure.
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It is regrettable that the Israel crisis has
become a matter of international discussion.
Perhaps it will give comfort to Israel's nu-
merous enemies, and that is a special reason
for concern. It is evident that the Israeli
political rifts have assumed a controversial
role, as evidenced by the following editorial,
under the heading "Ben-Gurion and Eshkol,"
in the Christian Science Monitor:

Former Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion

is a big man and Israel is a small country. Mr.

Ben-Gurion is also a "scrapper" who enjoys con-
troversy. And he has the Inestimable advantage
of being in Israeli eyes "the father of the nation."
Thus despite his retirement from office nearly
18 months ago. his actions and pronouncements

are almost bound to continue to have a bearing
on the course of Israeli politics.
Paradoxically, his role as elder statesman

these days does not prevent him from being
identified with the young Turks in Premier Levi
Eshkol's Cabinet and in Mapai. the party which
has filled the most important offices in Israel
since the state emerged from the debris of former
Palestine. Mr. Ben-Gurion and these younger men
are not always in step with Mr. Eshkol, who is
representative of a more conventional and perhaps
more conciliatory political approach than are they.
Minister of Agriculture Moshe Dayan, who has
just resigned from the Cabinet, shares much of
Mr. Ben-Gurion's thinking.
Mr. Eshkol has thrown his support to those in
Mapai who would join Israel's other labor party,
Achdut Avodah, in putting forward a common list
of candidates in the next general election. (Achdut
Avodah is already represented in the present
coalition Cabinet.) Mr. Ben-Gurion believes that
this kind of coalition harks back too much to the
approach that was needed in the difficult days of
establishing Israel. Now, he feels. the country can
best go forward by relying more on hardheaded
application of technology, rather than of ideology,
to present problems.
It is perhaps no coincidence that Mr. Ben-

Gurion has chosen this moment to try to prove
before the law • that he was right in holding one-
time Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon responsible

for a security fiasco in 1954. Mr. Eshkol, it should
be noted, was a member of a ministerial commit-
tee which cleared Mr. Lavon.
Simultaneously another security case has got-
ten headlines in the press — this one going back
to 1948. It concerns the case of a man tortured
by the security chief in an attempt' to secure a
confession. The chief is now deceased. But names
associated with him include those of Mapai leaders
favoring the common front with Achdut Avodah,
Understandably many Israelis wonder whether
this is not a case of an inspired leak.

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This type of analyzing Israel's position
may well be considered detrimental to the
Jewish State's splendid record of internal
tranquility. It could be used as an excoriation
of those who resort to public linen washing
—something that happens only too often in
all diplomatic relations in many lands.
But in another sense, this type of dis-
cussion is part of the evidence that Israel
has risen to high status diplomacy: so much
so that its internal affairs are subjects of
curiosity in editorial discussion.
Nevertheless, personality rifts, struggles
for power and resentments over past occur-
rences that should long ago have been for-
gotten do not leave a very good taste. It is
to be hoped that Prime Minister Eshkol, who
is an able conciliator who seeks unity in his
country, will be able to hurdle the latest crisis

Ben Shakil's Lettered 'Maximus ,'
'Images' and a Child's Classic

Ben Shahn has reached - such great heights as an artist that his
works have won greatest acclaim. He has become noted in many areas,
and presently he deserves particular attention with a lettered work.
Enthused by the message on the freedom of worship, written in
the second century of this era by the Greek philosopher Maximus of
Tyre, Shahn lettered the text for the very attractive work, "Maximus
of Tyre On the Dispute About Images," which has been produced by
Pantheon Books (22 E. 51st. N.Y. 22), a division of Random House.
Shahn begins his lettered work with a brief essay about Maximus,
the eclectic Platonist whom he "found deeply moving, significant beyond
the matter of mere argument. revealing not so much the case for images
as the soul and the true meaning of images." '
In his admonition to men to worship God according to their
images, Maximus had written:
"I have no anger for their divergencies; only let them know,
let them love, let them remember."
This is how Maximus' "dispute about images" ends. and in Shahn's.
artistic reproduction . it emerges as a classic and as a superbly produced
little book.
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Another Pantheon Books classic of note is a children's book, 'How
the World Began. by Dorothy."
Copyrighted by Dorothy and Michael Straight, the publishers ex-
plain: "Dorothy Straight lives with her family on a farm in Fairfax
County, Virginia. She was four years old and. in pre-kindergarten at
Potomac School when she created this book."
It was her mother who asked "Who made the world?" Dorothy
pointed upward, grinned. Her mother insisted, "No, tell me." The same
evening, Dorothy told this story and illustrated it.
It's a remarkable result: the black ball with which she began, the
different colors she introduced to show how "God painted the ball,"
the many objects that subsequently emerged — animals, inanimate
objects, clouds, rains, storms, dolls, bells, buttons, cars. bicycles, sugar,
hills, fishes, trees, schools, riding, skiing, geese, etc.. etc. All are
illustrated — exactly as Dorothy did.
Dorothy's tale relates how God went tci sleep, to rest from his work,
"and slept for one whole day while the angel worked for him."
Such is the genius of this child — which resulted in a work of art.
Pantheon has truly made available a noteworthy little book for children,

Dorothy's "How the World Began."

'Guide for Jewish, Homemaker'
Now Available as a Paperback

In 1959, Farrar, Straus & Co. published "Across the Threshold: A
Guide for the Jewish Homemaker," by Shonie B. Levi and Sylvia R.

Kaplan. It attracted wide attention and was then reviewed at length
in these columns.
This interesting book now appears as a paperback under the tide
"The Guide for the Jewish Homemaker," by Shonie B. Levi and Sylvia
R. Kaplan. published by Schocken Books, 67 Park, NY 16).
The two authors have packed into this book a mass of information
about Jewish customs and ceremonials, our festivals, the laws regulating

Jewish life, the kashruth idea and its observance.
The husband of one of the authors, Rabbi S. Gershon Levi, a
former Detroiter, pays honor to the many-sided role of the Jewish
woman who "must be wife, nurse, mother, cook, confidant, teacher,
diplomat, economist, companion, hostess, interior decorator," and
he commends the two women for their admiral selection of material-

for this book.
This guide is based on tradition. The housewife is advised about
the dietary laws and the need for separate dishes for milk and meat
products. Obligations to children are dealt with in the chapter "From
Cradle to Canopy" and suggestions are offered for announcements to
be printed for the many occasions to be celebrated by the family.
There is. advice for varied family milestones, including weddings
and Bar Mitzvahs, and there is a chapter as a guide for the period of

mourning.
Then come the descriptions of Sabbath and holiday observances and
the suggestions for observances. Adding to the soundness of offered
advice also are recipes in the preparation of the festive meals.
There is even budgetary advice, and the authors guide their readers

in the preparation of wills, calling attention to historic ethical wills.

Prayers for various occasions in Hebrew and in English and a
with as much courage and success as he has
valuable glossary complete the impressive contents of this book-
handled other matters.

