Ties With Israel . . . Emotions and Ideologies They Made the Grade

The concluding article in the series on Israel's meaning to
American teen-agers represents the views of four Detroit young
people: Ricky Koret:. an eighth grader at Roeper City and Country
School who belongs to the Jewish Parents Institute Teen Club;
Ben Schiff. an 11th grader at Berkley High School, member of
Habonim and a Hebrew high, school senior; Michele Sinkoff, Oak
Park High School senior, who is president of the Greater Detroit
Council of Bnai Brith Girls and a Midrasha student; and Baruch
Fischhoff. a Wayne State University student, member of Hashomer
Hatzair and head counselor at Camp Shomria.

Ricky: Israel has a profound of- '
feet on me and my life. For one
thin4. I am thinking about living
there. Israel has been in existence
for 19 years. vet there is still a
lot to build. The idea of helping
to shape a country. when the shap-
ing of it will affect generations to
come, inspires me to help in the
building.
Even if I don't go to Israel to
live, I think I can feel a part of it.
I am sure that I am going to visit
Israel. to see what they are doing
there and to bring back some of
their ideas and pioneer spirit. This
new country has made me proud.
They built this country against
almost unconquerable odds. Many
of the people who came to Israel
were poor and uneducated, yet the
Israelis opened their doors to them.
Israel has been surrounded by
hostile countries all of her exist-
ence, yet she has not only survived
but built a great nation. And that
great nation has giVen me a sense
of great trust. in myself. my people
and the world.
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Ren: The American Jewish teen
is looking for a challenge to give
meaning and direction to his life.
Through Israel and his ancient
Jewish heritage, I believe that the
contemporary adolescent can find
a release for his peculiar emotions
that are associated with the proc-
ess of growing up to take his place
in society.
Israel and Judaism have a spe-
cial relevance to us, the products
of the times. They offer• us an
• alternative way of life—or rather.
a chance to be part of the building
of a New Society.
Israel has more significance to
us than just a rallying point. It
is more than an organizational
headquarters. For many of us,
it can offer the means to a
dream. As youth usually do, we
fall into ideological dreams of
a utopia and a cure-all plan. We
dream of the same harmony
that Isaiah hoped for when he

martyrs held us to a solemn
pledge: that we may live so that
they shall not have died in vain.

With these dark memories be-
hind us, we must work together
to bring light to the future. Jewish
communities throughout the globe
look to us for guidance and we
must step forward as leaders.
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Baruch: If we look around, if
we look at the path we've run
dreamt about the wolf and the
(and been run on), the place of
lamb lying down in peace to-
Israel in it is all too clear. Cen-
gether. We hope for the day
turies of oppression and massacre,
when men can live harmoniously,
the price of assimilation, imper-
cooperating with each other,
sonal compromise and hyprocrisy.
when we don't have to compete
adherence to codes for the preser-
with our neighbor for our food
vation of Jewish identity, prayers
at night.
for return to Zion, rootlessness,
Israel is a place that can be
suffocated aspiration and creativ-
molded by Jewish morality. There
ity all point bony fingers weary
we do not have to compromise
of leaning toward Israel.
with pseudo Judeo-Christo values.
In the present, this melan-
As a Labor Zionist, I see special
choly, bitter-sweet past has led
relevance in the kibutz movement
that is combining modern social
to the lessons which are not
vague. From Jews unashamedly
theories with the prophetic ideals
Jewish, from refugees finding a
as well as with the prophetic ideas
place to lay their head, from
of society.
youth walking again in the steps
Israel can have a great impact
of the Prophets and feeling the
on individual lives as well as on
full weight of their conflicts,
the Jewish community as a whole.
from holidays celebrated as they
Because there is a truly halutzic
have not been for millenia, from
spirit, and a true prophetic spirit
signs and songs in the homes of
in Israel.
•
the Diaspora a clear enough
melody flows through the Jewish
Michele: Because the longing for
heart.
the Return to Zion has been an
integral part of Judaism through-
Looking backward, we are a
out the ages, our first ties to Israel tired people. The relation of the
are religious ones. Regardless of Jewish people to Israel, their need
the degree of observance which we for each other, is hardly matter
as American Jewish youth main- for dispute. Our personal relation.
tain, we cannot deny our strong though , is more a matter of "soul."
emotional bonds to the land which
How much we are sons and
cradled the beginnings of the Jew-
daughters of our people; how sin-
ish people. Nurtured in childhood
cerely we join ourselves to their
Bible tales, an unmistakable pride
fate; how deeply we share their
has developed within us toward
joys and sorrows; how full our
our modern, yet ancient, home-
own lives must be; how important
land.
it is to ask all the questions about
Our pride, however, does not
being a man and a Jew; how
confine itself to Israel as a re-
strong is our feeling for the future;
ligious homeland. We, as Ameri-
how much we must realize our
can Jewish youth, have literally
ideals. On these rest our relation
"grown up" with Israel and are
to Israel. In the end we follow the
naturally attracted to its youth-
dictates of our heart and con-
ful spirit. In our minds idealism
science.
and Israel often become synony-
mous.
Nathan Lazarus Benmohel, a lan-
Beyond our emotional, patriotic guage scholar who lived in Dublin
and religious ties, we as American in the early part of the 19th
Jews share with Israel the respon- Century, was the first observant
sibility for determining the fate Jew to earn a degree in a British
of Judaism and the Jewish people. university when he received his
Less than 50 years ago 6,000,000 BA degree from the University
of Dublin.

Sheryl Silver, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. I. Walter Silver, of Fair-
field Ave., has the leading role of
Rosemary in the musical "How to
Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying," to ir
be performed at
Cass Technical
High School Jurise
1, 2 and 3.
Other leads in
this play are
George Jacobs,
Steve Krupa,
Ron Otulakowski,
Gloria Goldman,
Francine Drause,
Sheryl
Kenneth Reeves,
Paul Davis and Richard Hemstreet.
Sheryl, 16. is an 11th grader in
the accelerated science and arts
curriculum at Cass, and is an all
A-student, at the top of a class of
1,000. She has been a member
of Temple Israel Junior Theater
Guild, Detroit Civic Center Play-
ers and Will-O-Way Apprentice
Theater; participated in various
Cass Tech plays and musical re-
vue. She has received "superior"
ratings at the 1966 and 1967 For-
ensics Festival and was the win-
ner of the Phillip Dresser Award
at Temple Israel in 1965. She -has
appeared on WJBK-TV "High-
lights" program, and was a semi-
finalist in the "Miss Teenage De-
troit" contest in 1965. Proceeds
for the performances will help
bring foreign students to study at
Cass on an exchange basis. For
tickets. contact Mrs. Silver, UN
1-7072.

The department of chemistry of
the University of Michigan an-
nounces that RANDALL ZUSMAN,
a junior, has been awarded the
Gomberg Prize in Chemistry in
recognition of his outstanding work
in this field. The prizes are made
possible through the generosity of
the late Prof. Moses Gomberg,
noted Michigan chemist. Randall,
an honors student, was awarded
the Branstrom Prize as an out-
standing freshman last year. The
son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Zus-'
man, 24375 Lafayette Circle, South-
field, Randall is former Jewish
News school columnist from South-
field High.

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