When tears cloud my eyes and darken the world And my heart is heavy within me; Shall I blot from the mind; the love I have known and in which I have rejoiced When a fate beyond my understanding takes from me Friends and kin whom have cherished, and leaves me Bereft of shining presences that have lit my way Through years of companionship and affection. Cease blessing Thee for the peace of Those I have loved, though now beyond former days, my view Shall the time of darkness put out forever Have given form and quality to my being Thou Takest Not Away' The glow of the light in which I once And they live on, unfailingly feeding walked? My heart and mind and imagination, By Rabbi Morris Adler They have led me into the wide universe Written for the Shaarey Zedek Give me the vision 0 God to see and feel I continue to inhabit, and their presence Recorder three weeks before That imbedded deep in each of Thy gifts, Is more vital to me than their absence. * * * dementia afflicted our community Is a core of eternity, undiminished and bright, What Thou givest 0 Lord An eternity that survives the dread hours Thou takest not away of affliction and misery. And bounties once granted Shall I cry out in anger, 0 God The youth that once was mine Shed their radiance evermore. Because Thy gifts are mine but for a Continues to course in memory and Within me your love ad vision while, Shall I grieve for a youth that has gone thought Now woven deep into the texture Shall I forget the blessing of health Once my hair is grey and my shoulders And remains unspent even in age, Live and will be mine, till Thou tallest The moment it gives way to illness and bent; It lingers in the brightness still cast me hence pain, , And forget days of vibrancy and power. Upon the dimmer landscape age unfolds, To another realm, where these moments Shall I be ungrateful for the moments of Shall I in days of adversity fail to iecall It gives vitality to the compassion, of eternity laughter The hours of joy and glory Thou once hast And strength to the greater understanding Shall be joined together it The seasons of joy, the days of gladness granted me; Which many years of living and feeling In unbroken sequence . and festivity. Shall I in turmoil of need and anxiety Have brought as their enriching gifts. To form eternal life. 'What Thou Givest O'Lord Heinrich Heine: His Jewish Nostalgia, Descendant's 'Return' to Judaism Tchernichovsky Hebrew 'Hellenist' • Nasser's Contradictions • Community Colleges Project HE JEWISH NE r=• –1- 1=Z CD 1 7" A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 N f Jewish • Events MICHI GA Editorials Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle _Vol. XLIX, No. 3 27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit—VE 8-9364—March 11, 1966 Page 4 $6.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Renewed Anti-Semitic Activities Cause Disquiet in Jewish Ranks U. S. Delegate Asks UN Act on Outlawing Religious Intolerance UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) — The United States government called on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to give highest pri- ority to the adoption of a long-pending draft decla- ration and draft international convention on the elimination of all forms of religious intolerance. That request was voiced on the first day of the commission's three-week session, which opened Tuesday, by Morris B. Abram, American representa- tive on the Commission. Abram is president of the American Jewish Committee. Addressing the commission as it was about to consider a long 20-point agenda, Abram told the body that it was high time that an effort be made to close the gap between practice and the high principles of the 18-year-old Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That declaration was adopted in 1948. Abram proposed 'that, in view of the heavy agenda, the current session give priorities first to the draft instruments outlawing religious intoler- ance, then to a proposal banning statutes of limita- tions for the trial and punishment of war criminals. He also called for action on the plan to observe the International Year for Human Rights in 1968, and implementation of a previous decision to name -a, United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightS. Abram's insistence on foremost prio-rity to the religious freedomS issue was considered by most delegates on the 21-member commission as a de- and that the Soviet -Union halt its campaign, under way since 1960, to keep the UN from speaking out against religicius intolerance. (Continued on Page 8) PARIS (JTA) Grave disquiet over the recently renewed manifestations of anti-Semitic activities in a number of countries, particularly in West Germany and Austria, was voiced here at the conference of the European executive of the World Jewish Congress, which concluded its sessions here Sunday. Attending the parley were representatives from WJC sections in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Britain and other West European countries. Lord Sieff of Britain, chairman of the European executive, declared there has been a great increase recently in anti-Semitic activities, and said: "There is reason to believe that this trend is being fomented by agents of President Nasser, of Egypt, in furtherance of a campaign against Israel in which he does not hesitate to jeopardize the security and tranquility of Jewish communities throughout the world." In a special report to the conference, Dr. Stephen Roth, of London, executive director of the European division of the WJC, cited numerous instances of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany and Austria and of Arab-incited, anti-Jewish agitation in Latin America. "The real danger," he said, "is that the German mood is changing. There is a lessening awareness there of the past and of respect for the moral obligations resulting from the Hitler period." Reports were delivered to the conference by Dr. Hendrick van Dam, secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and Dr. Heinz Galinski, president of the Berlin Jewish Community. Special reports were delivered on the situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union and on recent anti-Jewish developments in Austria. Resolutions condemning all these developments, including those in the Soviet Union, Austria and Germany, were adopted by the conference at its final session today. — Victorious Party in Austria Disassociates Itself from Anti-Semitism VIENNA (JTA)—An official of the conservative Austrian People's Party, which scored a major victory in the country's national elections Sunday, said on Monday that his party had nothing to do with pamphlets showing "anti-Semitic tendencies" distributed during the election campaign. The Peoples Party has won a narrow parliamentary majority as a result of the elections. Hermann Withalm, the party's general secretary, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he sharply condemned anti-Semitism. He made his statement in commenting on leaflets attributed to the People's Party which contained anti-Semitic remarks. He said that any such material had been "smug- gled" into the party propaganda by "unknown adversaries" of the party. Charges of anti-Semitism had also been made during the election campaign against the new Demo- cratic Progressive Party. However, this faction received only 148,541 votes among the 4,800,000 ballots cast in the elections. New Ruler of Syria Calls for 'Immediate War' Against Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) — Syria's new chief of state, Nureddin Atassi, Thursday called for an immediate "liberation war" against Israel as "the best way of achieving Arab unity." Speaking at a military parade on the 10th anniversary of the Baath Socialist Party's seizure of power, he attacked the Western powers, especially the United States, and underlined Syria's intention to cooperate more closely with the Coin- munistic bloc. Israel Ambassador Harman to Address Rally Here March 23 Marking Formal Opening of the 1966 Allied Jewish Campaign A citywide rally Wednesday evening, March 23, will mark the official opening of the 1966 Allied Jewish Campaign. The rally, which will include participation by all segments of the Jewish community, will be held at 8:15 p.m. at Temple Israel. Featured speaker will be Avraham Harman, Israel ambassador to the United States Sol Eisenberg and Irwin Green, campaign general chairmen, will be presented at the rally with Abraham Borman, honorary campaign chairman, and Alfred L. Deutsch, pre-campaign chairman, by Hyman Safran, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation. A program highlight will be a performance by the Jewish Community Center Golden Age Chorus directed by Cantor Nicholas Fenakel of Congregation Adas Shalom. Harman was appointed Israel ambassador to the United States in 1959, succeeding Abba S. Eban. He came to the post of ambassador after a notable career as a member of Israel's diplomatic corps and as an executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Before becoming ambassador he served for three years as a member of the policy-snaking body of the Jewish Agency. Previously, he had served as consul general of Israel in New York, as director of the Tsrael Office of Tn formation in the United States and counselor to the Israel United Nations delegation, and as Israel's first consul general in Montreal. Avraham Harman Born in London, England, Harman received his law degree at Oxford University. After a period of duty with the Zionist Federation of South Africa, he came to Israel where he joined the staff of the Jewish Age ,,,v. Later he was appointed deputy director of the Israel Government Press Office. (Continued on Page 6)