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
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.
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
Business Manager
SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager
CHARLOTTE RYAMS
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 27th day of Tishre, 5726, the following scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion: Gen: 1:1-6:8; Prophetical portion: Isa. 42:5-43:10.
Licht benshen, Friday, Oct. 22, 5:22 p.m.
VOL. XLVIII, No. 9
Page 4
Oct. 22, 1965
A 'Third Generation' Perpetuates Tragedy
A "third generation" is growing up in the
Arab refugee camps, and the situation involv-
ing these unfortunates who have been misled
by hatreds has become a world tragedy.
It has been established that more than
half the 1,280,823 refugees in Arab camps are
under the age of 18. This means that in a
very few years nearly all of the internees in
these camps will have been born outside of
what was once Palestine and is now Israel.
We refer to them as "internees" because
they are kept in such a stage of internment
by the "refugee states" in order to perpetuate
a hatred for Israel and to continue the war
threat against the Jewish State.
The "host governments" also are per-
petuating a state of laziness. a refusal on the
part of many who are receiving United Na-
tions' aid to find productive work because it
is so easy to sit idly in card-playing moods.
But such idleness has been encouraged not
by an innate desire to be pariahs but on en-
couragement from the "hosts" who are their
jailers.
Meanwhile the United States carries the
brunt of responsibility for these unfortunate
people, whose parents had fled from Israel
senselessly, by being forced to bear the
financial responsibility for the refugees'
upkeep. Since 1950, towards the expenditure
of $534,397,505 for the refugees' upkeep,
the United States contributed $364,468,069.
Thus, the self-made plight of these people
and the misfortunes they imposed on their
children has become our responsibility—and
the outlook is that this uncalled-for tragedy
will be perpetuated.
Such perpetuation is to be ascribed to
a lack of vision on the part of the member
states of the United Nations who sit by help-
lessly while a gang of war-threatening poten-
tates taunts the peaceful, afflicted State of
Israel while keeping the over-all world organi-
zation in a sort of bondage in a power-vise of
political chicanery.
The status of the Arab refugees is deplor-
able, but it is due to the panic that hovers
over the United Nations and primarily the
United States lest the Arab states should ally
themselves with the Soviet Union and against
the democracies. It has been proven to be a
worthless fear and a shallow view of world
conditions, while those who have encouraged
such fears have become responsible for the
perpetuation of an inexcusable situation that
could be solved by the absorption of the refu-
gees into creative efforts and productive pur-
suits. Because of the feats and attitudes of
our representatives in the world organization,
this tragic situation remains unsolvable.
Biracial Appeal for Nov. 2 Election
An appeal for biracial voting at the Nov.
2 election demands the serious attention of a
community that should be concerned about
the need for proper representation for all
elements in our midst.
The appeal by the committee headed by
Bishop Emrich is intended to assure represen-
tation for all elements in our midst. It seeks
an active share in our city government by
the Negroes who are perhaps more than 40
per cent of the population of Detroit.
But the aim has a higher purpose. It seeks
to avert prejudice, to prevent voting by blocs
of whites or Negroes, of one against the other.
There are serious responsibilities involved
in the choice of our city administrators and
also of the judiciary. We must select candi-
dates on their merits. And we must avoid
discrimination. Once there is a feeling of
preference on the basis of color or creed, and
the moment we permit the injection of
hatreds, we will be on,,the road to destroying
our basic American fO'In.dations.
It is the duty of all citizens to vote on Nov.
2, and it is their responsibility to labor to-
ward the elimination of hatreds and bigotries.
Torch Drive—All-Inclusive Philanthropy
Aiming at a total goal of $21,800,000, the
current Torch Drive, representing the most
representative appeal for funds in our corn-
munity, once again emerges as the major
responsibility of a hoped-for united com-
munity.
The tens of thousands of volunteers will be
soliciting for the balance of this month in be-
half of causes that merge all elements—all
faiths, all races.
The United Foundation, which distributes
the funds gathered in the Torch Drive, in-
eludes the basic agencies in our midst: the
social service groups, the community centers,
camping facilities and other agencies—medi-
cal, youth and other purposes.
Thus the Torch Drive is perhaps the most
unifying force in our midst, with white and
Negro, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant in-
stitutions among those supported through
this drive.
As the major communal philanthropy, the
Torch Drive must receive the wholehearted
support of all groups.
Symbolism of America's Chief Sports Events
The World Series, which concluded last
week with a victory for the Dodgers, once
again has an important moral lesson for
Americans. In our sports arenas we have
proven that it is
possible for peo-
ple of all faiths,
of all races, to
meet - on equal
ground.
It is not be-
cause Sandy Kou-
fax is an observ-
ant Jew that there
is so much inter-
est in the events
that marked the
contest between
the Minnesota
and Calif ornia
teams. It is be-
cause w orici .
side by side with Koufax, and facing them in
opposition, were ball players who were black
and white, who worship in synagogues and
in churches.
This is the great lesson on the baseball
diamond, as it will henceforth be on the foot-
ball fields, in basketball, in hockey and in
other sports.
This accounts for the American spirit of
good will, for our demand for fair play and
mutual respect in dealing with our neighbors
and fellow citizens.
'Dynamics of Emancipation' by
Glatzer Helps in Elimination of
Immaturity in Jewish Discussions
Beacon Press, by continuing to issue the scholarly selections of
important writings on Jewish subjects, edited by Dr. Nahum Glatzer,
has rendered a distinct service to English-reading Jewry.
Completing his trilogy—his earlier two works were entitled "The
Rest is Commentary" and "Faith and Knowledge"—Dr. Glatzer's
newest work, "The Dynamics of Emancipa-
tion: The Jew in the Modern Age," provides
its readers with a wealth of material to face
the world's challenges and to be assured, as
Dr. Glatzer emphasizes, that "there is no con-
tradiction" between the two forces repre-
sented in Judaism and "the world."
Dr. Glatzer realistically acknowledges
that "to some, the dilemma between being
a Jew and being a Western man appears to
be beyond repair, and the abnegation of
Judaism, or its reduction to a bare minimum
of ethnic descent or cultural background, the
only possible solution." And he mentions the
others, and especially those who determined-
ly aim "to perpetuate the pre-modern isola-
tion of Judaism in order to be able to lead
a life guided entirely by the Law (halakha)
. . . He thereupon makes the important
Dr. Glatzer
comment:
"The 'modern age' in Judaism is in its initial stage (especially
on this continent)—which explains the uncertainties, the contradic-
toriness, the immaturity one often encounters in Jewish discussions.
These are but the growing pains of a group which is undergoing
a transformation from a community of faith, withdrawn from the
scene of active history, to a community- conscious of these roots
and of this past, yet squarely facing 'the world'. Only a future
generation will be in a position to define this synthesis and to give
it a name."
Dr. Glatzer assists in formulating such a synthesis by providing
food for thought in his new work. Compiling noteworthy assertions
on the subject of his new work, Dr. Glatzer has subdivided them into
these subtitles: In the Perspective of Emancipation, Rethinking Jewish
Faith, Religious Movements in Modern Judaism, The Dark Yew'
Zionism and the Land of Israel, The American Scene, Allowing
Heart to Speak. • ,
Illustrative of the latter section is the opening statement, a quota-
tion from Heinrich Heine's "The Reawakening of My Religious Feel-
ings," in which the great German-Jewish poet described the decline
of his "prejudice in favor of Hellas."
In that section, Sholem Asch is represented with "What I Believe,"
and there are essays by Aime Palliere, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Jakob
Wasserman, Saul Tchernichovsky, Bernard Lazare, Albert Einstein,
Edmond Fleg, Franz Kafka, Franz Rosenzweig, Marc Chagall, Abraham
Isaac Kook, Harry Friedenwald, Nathan Birnbaum.
The section dealing with the American scene commences with
Louis D. Brandeis' "Call to the Educated Jew" and contains the
Louis Marshall letter to Henry Ford. It includes articles by Abram
L. Sachar, Ludwig Lewissohn, Salo Baron, Waldo Frank, Arthur A,
Cohen and Joachim Prinz. The fairness of Dr. Glatzer's approach
is indicated by the inclusion of the Council for Judaism statement
by Elmer Berger.
The selections for the Zionist and Israel section are interesting.
They begin with articles by Moses Montefiore and Henry Pereira
Mendes and continue with selections from the writings of Theodor
Herzl, A. D. Gordon, Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann, David BM.
Gurion, Martin Buber and Karl Shapiro. The Zionist Declaration
of Independence, issued April 12, 1948, by the General Council of
the World Zionist Organization, is part of this section.
Commencing the volume with Moses Mendelsohn's "A Definition
of Judaism," Dr. Glatzer's cumulative work includes articles by Hein-
rich Graetz, Leopold Zunz, Moses Hess, Leo .Pinsker, Simon Dubnow,
Samuel Raphael Hirsch, Yitzhak Lamdan, Abraham Geiger. Leo Baeck,
Samuel Belkin, Louis Finkelstein. Mordecai M. Kaplan, Isaac Mayer
Wise, Alexander Kohut, Robert Weltsch, Abraham Joshua Heschel,
Elie Wiesel, and many other scholars.
Important historic documents also are included to illustrate the
significance of the modern era and the elements that entered into
the emancipation period.
"The Dynamics of Emancipation" is a significant work, and it
does, indeed, fulfill the important purpose for which it is intended:
It is heartening to know that Jews are not
limiting themselves to book lore — much as
we would like to see many more become
knowledgeable — but are also devoting them-
selves to wholesome sports. And because of it
we are proud that Sandy Koufax stems from,
our ranks and is so respectful in relation to
the elimination of immaturity that accompanies Jewish .discussionSt
his ,ancestry.