THE JEWISH NEWS

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

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Business Manager

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Advertising Manager

CHARLOTTE DUBIN

City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Seltctions

This Sabbath, the 30th day of Sit-an, first day of Rosh Hodesh Tamuz the
following Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portions, Num. 19:1-22:1, 28:9-15. Prophetical portion, Is. 66:1-24.
Pentateuchal reading on second day of Rosh Hodesh Tamuz, Monday Num.
28:1-15.

Candle lighting, Friday, July 7, 8:52 p.m.

VOL. LI.tio. 16

Page Four

July 7, 1967

The Farce: Rome, Kremlin, Washington

There • is a farce on the international
scene!
If the situation were not so serious it
would be ludicrous!
If the issue revolving around Israel's
position and the status of the Holy City of
Jerusalem had not been dragged into the
over-all picture, the attendant debates would
approach comic proportions !
Is it possible that the diplomats are act-
ing, tongue in cheek, in search again of ex-
pediency, groping for concessions to provide
a happy mood for the vanquished who aimed
at genocide and are now posing as the sancti-
monious?
It is difficult to understand the positions
both of Washington and Rome, yet neither
is inconsistent. Both are acting in their
previous roles of appeasement. Yet, the roles
are different.
The most farcial of the attitudes is that
of our government and our President. Both
are on record of not having recognized the
New City of Jerusalem, which is the logical
capital of the People of Israel and the Faith
of Israel. Now, assuming that the status
of the New City is firmly established, we are
told that the Old City's union into its natural
form as part of the New City is unrecog-
nized! Isn't this what the spokesmen for
the American people said in 1948 and 1949
when there was that hue and cry for the in-
ternationalization of all of Jerusalem? There
is something hypocritical about the entire
issue—all based on efforts again to provide
arms to a defeated little king who has not
been such a success in handling the human
problem of refugees who became a third of
his population.
Then there is the attitude of the Pope.
He was silent when all basic rules and regu-
lations of international agreements were
flaunted, when Hussein denied to Jews access
to the Holy Places in Jerusalem and to the
buildings they erected for human develop-
ment on Mount Scopus. There was silence
in Rome when, at the holy site in Hebron,
there was a massacre of Jewish theological
students, when their mass grave was defiled.
Now the Pope wants the internationaliza-
tion of the Holy Places—at a time when
Israel alone gives assurance of complete
freedom of religion for all faiths!
Adding insult to injury, the ungodly
Kremlin has become a party to the demands
upon Israel to abandon Jerusalem, and none
of the parties involved took into considera-
tion the established facts that Jordan had
desecrated synagogues and had failed to in-
sure total freedom for all religions.
Indeed, what a farce!

And the farce grows in huge dimensions
when we take into consideration the status
of refugees whose sustenance was financed
by a 72 per cent degree by the United States
while not a penny came from any Arab
source for that serious human need!
And in the meantime billions—many
billions!—of dollars were poured in by our
government to provide military aid to Jor-
dan! Billions of dollars in oil incomes—
most of these funds coming from us, the
United States!—were derived by Arab poten- 'The Best of Recall'
tates who kept threatening Israel's destruc-
tion. But not a penny to aid the refugees,
their flesh and blood! Only our dollars were
Rich Literary Collection
demanded for that purpose! And now Hus-
sein asks—and he'll probably receive—addi-
As director of the Jewish Heritage Foundation and as editor of
tional military aid from our government.
its magazine, Recall, Joseph Gaer has rendered a distinct service by
Israel has taken possession of tanks the encouraging Jewish literary activities. The second volume of "The
Jordanians have secured from the United Best of Recall," published by Thomas Yoseloff, edited by Gaer. con-
States. They could have had peace but in- tains such a vast variety of informative material that the JHF's
sisted on starting the war on their border services emerge anew as a creative force in American Jewry.
with Israel and commenced the shelling of
It is only a 300-page book, but packed into it is such a variety of
Jerusalem. resulting in damage to the Dormi- material that it serves a very important purpose. It contains essays
tian Church on Mt. Zion—the only Holy Place on social services, historical material, poetry, a play, short stories—
struck in the war—by Arab mortars secured and there are interesting illustrations. It is a compilation of the works
30 contributors, including such prominent names as Norman Corwin,
from the United States. They damaged three of
Hebrew University buildings and a section Charles Angoff, James A. Pike, Joseph L. Blau.
The compilation starts with a symposium on "Is Law Justice?"
of Hadassah Hospital. Are we to provide
more weapons to a monarch and a people and the participants, Dr. Foster H. Sherwood, Melville B. Nimmer and
Bruce
L. Hochman, deal respectively with the jurist's, lawyer's and
seeking destruction?
A period of worldwide admiration for talmudic points of view.
There is an illustrated essay on "Jewish Integration in Art" and
Israel and general satisfaction that the small
nation was able temporarily to end the domi- the essays on Max Weber (by Sheldon Clyde Schoneberg) and "The
New
Art of the New Synagogue" also are accompanied by interesting
nation and threat to the democracies by illustrations.
Nasser may come to an end if the new,
Gaer himself is the author of an essay on "The Lamed Vovnicks."
the hypocritical, warnings to Israel should
materialize.
Dr. Blau's essay poses the question "What Is Jewish About
It is urgent that Jews and Christians
Jewish Philosophy?", and be defines the term as follows: "Its
distinctive flavor is what it seeks to understand, and why. Jewish
should stand firm in defense of embattled
philosophy strives to understand the nature of God and the
Israel.
nature of man, so that men can better carry out their share of
It is especially pressing that Christians
the
ethical responsibility for bringing about a world in which
everywhere should let their voices be heard,
truth, justice and truth are not alien."
wherever diplomats are scheming to weaken
Another informative essay by Dr. Alfred Sendrey and Mildred
Israel's status, against another plot to drive
deals with the subject "Musical Instruments of Ancient Israel."
the survivors from Nazism and from Moslem Norton
Then there is a second symposium on "The Beliefs of the Family
lands of oppression—who form the over- of Man"
which concerns itself with exploration of all faiths and the
whelming majority of Israel's position—into discussants
on the variety of related subjects include Dr. Judd Mar-
new crematoria.
mor, Dr. Frank Sullivan, Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman, Swami Van-
We must retain faith that a just world dananda and the Rev. Dr. James A. Pike.
with a sense of fair play will not permit the
Name-choosing and the emergence of new trends are emphasized
transformation of a serious world situation in "Name,
Please?" by Menahem G. Glenn.
into a farce. We especially hope that the
Ruth Rubin's "Yiddish Folksongs of Immigration and the
American people will join in protesting
Melting Pot" points to the "deep yearning" of newcomers "for
against the staggering of new betrayals
America as a land of freedom." "The Jews in American Street
against the Jewish people.
Rhymes' is an equally revealing essay about hostile attitudes to
This is a time for action and neither Rome
ethnic groups.
nor Washington—and certainly not Cairo
Early American interest in Hebrew learning and in the Hebrew
and Damascus and Amman—should be per- language,
this country's cultural biblical origins and Hebraic patterns
mitted to change a victory for justice on in Puritanism
are outlined in "American Roots in the Bible" by Dr.
Israel's borders into a violation of all human Ben Siegel.
decencies.
Ben Dokair's "Gambling, Chance and Luck" describes chance

Hadassah's Role in Crisis

Jordanian legionnaires who had shelled
the New City of Jerusalem and were fight-
ing—"valiantly," the Israelis said—to pre-
vent Israel from gaining control of important
sections from which Jews were barred, are
now receiving the most courteous treatment,
and the wounded are getting the same at-
tention as the Jews who are among the war
casualties.
This is a natural role for Hadassah in
whose hospitals wounded Arabs are accorded
equal attention with all others. That's how
it was in pre-Israel years when trachoma-
afflicted and tuberculosis-suffering Arabs
were treated by Hadassah doctors and nurses.
That's how it is now. If it were otherwise,
Israel's modern Maccabees would lose the
affections of their kinsmen.
On Mt. Scopus, where the old Hebrew

University buildings again will be used as an
added facility for the great university in the
New City of Jerusalem, and in the recovered
Hadassah Hospital whence Jews were driven
in the war of independence, there will be
new activities. Hadassah will not need to
introduce new methods in the functioning of
its health-protecting structure. The women
Zionists' facility will continue and retain an
established policy of aiding the afflicted, re-
gardless of their faith, racial or nationality
backgrounds.
This is true also of the Hebrew Uni-
versity which is open to all qualified appli-
cants.
We need not despair: we have good rea-
son to retain confidence in the humanitarian
role of the Israelis responsible for the man-
agement of their important institutions. '

and gambling in Jewish law and tradition.
Dealing with "Polarity of Jewish Traits" Felix Pollax asserts that
"the fact that the Jews figure actively in the capitalist as well as the
communist theory and practice is undeniable" "grist for anti-Semitic
mills on either side of the iron fence."

"Music of the Holocaust Period" by Irene Heskes is an addi-
tionally informative article.
The poems by a number of noted writers adds merit to this inter-
esting collection of literary material, serving to create new interest in
the sponsoring organization—the Jewish Heritage Foundation.

Jewish Press of the World

Under the editorship of Josef Fraenkel, the cultural department
of the London office of the World Jewish Congress has issued a
revised, sixth edition of "The Jewish Press of the World."
An informative introductory essay by Fraenkel analyzes the

status of the world Jewish press.
Facts contained in this volume point to the existance of Jewish
newspapers, even when they appear only once a month, in the remotest
part of the globe.

