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16—Friday, September 9, 1966

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

New Life With Aid of UJA

On Warring of the Sects

By ISRAEL ZANGWILL - a Madonna for reverent kisses. The the intellectual mountain flourish-
Excerpt from - "Italian Fantasies" Madonna herself, overgrown with es rank and gorgeous vegetation,
Why, indeed, quarrel over rel- the roses on a wayside shrine, per- a tropic luxuriance; higher up, in
igions when all men agree; all petuates the worship of Flora. On the zone of mediocrity; there are
men, that is, at the same grade of the very gates of St. Peter's, Euro- ; cultivated temperate slopes and
intellect! The learned busy them- pa, Ganymede, and Leda show pruned gardens, pleasant pastures
selves classifying religions—there their brazen faces. Not Confucius and ordered bowers; at the snowy
are reviews at Paris and Tuebin- nor Christ can really expel devils. summits. in the rarefied ether,
gen—but in the crude working \That grosser idolatry than the flash white the glacial impersonal
world religion depends less on the worship of those dressed wax dolls truths, barely a tuft of moss or
belief than on the believer. All the which make many an I t a li a n lichen. Hark! peak is crying unto
simplest minds believe alike, be church like a theological Madame peak: "Thy will be done."
they Confucians or Christians, Tossau -l's! The church has its
Jews or Fantees. The elemental hu- Chamber of Horrors too, its blood 1*** "DEXTER***
man heart will have its thaumatur- and nails and saintly skulls; the
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processional priests, its prompt essentially morbid. At the base of
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Israel's Oil Sources
reintroduce them. Mohammed and
In 1965, about $1,200,000 in Israel *
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the Koran forbade the worship of Bond funds was used for drilling
saints, yet the miracles and medi- for new sources of oil in Israel.
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tations of the walks and the pil- Israel now produces 10% of all ■T
grimages to their tombs — with domestic oil requirements, while
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are inseparable from Islam. The • by pipeline from tankers in Eilat
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Buddha who came to teach a holy to the refineries at Haifa by _a
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atheism was made a god, the pre- pipeline constructed with- the aid
claimer of natural law a miracle- ' 1 of Israel Bonds.
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on idols became itself an idol,
swathed in purple, adorned with '
golden bells, and borne round like

Rosh Hashana 5727 will start another year in which more thousands
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and dignity. Whether they are young or old, able-bodied or ill, all
who need help in adjusting to their new home will receive assistance
from funds raised in the 1966 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal.
The national goal of $73,420,000 will aid more_than 800,000 men,
women and children throughout the world.

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Israel's History, Re ligion Viewed
Inseparable in New 0.7rendon Text

Oxford University Press' Claren-
The summary of the eminent
don Bible Series has been enri'hed sc'holar's evaluation of the faith of
by an impressive work. "The His- Israel asserts:
tory and Religion of Israel," by
"The teaeling.of Israel's sages
Dr. G. W. Anderson, professor of abont God's dealings with man
Old Testament literature and as man, distinctive though it is,
theology at the University of Edin- is not fundamentally at variance
burgh. It is an impressive work
with tl, e ce Aral tradition of
that emerges in classic style ex- Israel's reilgion. That religion is,
tending beyond the original similar indeed. intimtely bound up with
work in the series by Dr. W. L. the historical experience of the
Wardle. The latter's, a correspond-
ing volume to the Clarendon Bible, people Israel; but it is also re-
ended with Ezra. Dr. Anderson ex- lated to the purpose of God for
tends his work beyond the Mecca- mankind as a whole. Moreover,
bean Revolt, taking into account in all its main phases it tells of
new sources and archaeological a God with whom men may have
personal communion: in the
discoveries.
stories of the patriarchs who
Extensively illustrated, contain- received His promises and fol-
ing valuable maps, Dr. Anderson's lowed His leading; in the ex-
work covers the periods of the perience of Moses, '10 whom He
Patriarchs, the Exodus and the revealed Himself before the
conquest of the Land of Israel, the deliverance from Egypt; in the
division of the Kingdom and the call of the prophets who heard
exile, and the post-exilic period.
his word in the crises of their
own times; and in the promise of
The emphasis placed by Dr.
a time when 'they shall all
Anderson is that "in the Old
know Me, from the least of them
Testament history and religion
to the greatest . . .; for I will
are related in a particularly inti-
forgive their iniquity and I will
mate way. The nature of Israel's
remember their sin no more'
religion cannot be satisfactorily
(Jer. 31)."
understood apart from the com-
plex story of Israel's national
For so valuable a subject, this
life and its relations with Other is a brief work of less than 100
peoples."
pages. Yet its completeness is
Supplementing this evaluation is evidenced even in its brevity. Dr.
a declaration on the aspects of Anderson's thoroughness_ in re-
Israel's faith. Prof. Anderson de- viewing Israel's story gives special
scribes the Yahweh of Israel as the merit to this excellent work. It can
"Lord of nature," declaring: "God well serve as. a guide for Bible
is other than nature . . . Creator students.
of nature. God the Creator is not
The chronological tables add
only the guide of Israel's history, much m e r i t to the meritorious
but Lord of all mankind,"
Study.
While defining this role, Dr.
Anderson also discusses Wisdom A Rabbi and His Salary
A rabbi who went before the
Literature, stating that "the Wis-
dom writings have been called the board of directors of his shul to
documents of Hebrew humanism.' " ask for an increase in his salary
He points out that "the multifari- was asked to present his case. The
ous character of Wisdom is re- old-timer began with an analogy:
flected in the teachings of the book
"Once upon a time there was
of Proverbs": that "in Job the
an old Rabbi who made his
traditional orthodoxy is assailed on
rounds in a small European com-
a broader front and with a more
munity with a horse and wag.m.
intense passion. Job, the paragon
One day a youth stopped him
of piety .. . gathers together much
and asked, 'Rabbi, how come
that is said elsewhere in the Old
your horse's coat always looks
Testament about the problems of
so much better than yours?' "
innocent suffering. . . . Underlying
The old rabbi smiled and ex-
all of Job's protests is the longing,
not simply for an explanation of plained, "You see, I take care of
his suffering, but for communion my horse but my congregation
with God."
takes care of me !"

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