THE JEWISH NEWS

HOPE OF HUMAN

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

Member American Jewish Press Association

Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Association

Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co.,. 17100 West Seven Mile
Road, Detroit 48235, Michigan, VE 8-9364. Subscription $7 per year. Foreign $8.
Eentered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under
act of Congress of March 8, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ

Business Manager

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Rosh Hashana Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portions: Monday, Sept. 23: Gen. 21:1-34, Nuin. 29: 1.6;
Tuesday, Gen. 22:1-24, Num. 29:1-6.
Prophetical portions: Monday, I Sam. 1:1-2:10, Tuesday, Jer. 31:2-20.

Fast of Gedalia
Scriptural S@ections, Wednesday -
Pentateuchal portions: Exod. 32:11.14, 34:1-10; Prophetical
Isaiah 55:6-58:8.

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September 20, 1968

Faith in a Happy 5729

Roads to the synagogues everywhere, in this country, in
Israel, in Eastern Europe, in Moslem countries, are strewn with
dynamite. We live in an age of terror, of threats to human values,
marked by fears and uncertainties.

It is a sad way to commence a sacred period on our calen-
dar. Yet, we must have faith, and there are enough reasons for
encouragement to give us confidence that not all is lost, that man-
kind is basically decent, that humanity has not succumbed to
bestiality.

Rosh Hashana is rooted in the high idealism that seeks to
elevate man above beast, in the principles that make all man-
kind linked in a kinship.

We are engaged today in great struggles, in conflicts among
nations and in a lack of amity even among people who are re-
lated to each other by families and in citizenship. But this does
not denigrate the human factor, and man's role is not to per- .
petuate but to delimit the jungle.

This nation has suffered from a threat to divide it. The
divisive factors still are on the horizon. Hatreds have not been
erased from hearts and minds.

But we are on the road towards new approaches to the great
need to make the American ideal workable, to eliminate pas-
sions, to establish the indestructible rule that a people can not
and must not be split into elements based on race or color or
creed.

Within a few weeks we will be equalized into a common
denominator — into the ranks of citizenship,. each American
having a single and an equal voice at the polls. We will have the
great opportunity, on Nov. 4, to reaffirm the determined will of
the American people that we can rise above prejudices, that we
can emphasize with pride the great rules inherent in our democ-
, racy with an aim of assuring equality for all and of recognizing
the honor and sincerity of deserving leadership in the choices
we make of the men who are to guide our destinies in the years
ahead.

For the Jews of America, for our kinsmen everywhere,
there will be a continuing process of providing succor to the
needy, havens for the homeless, assurance of our interest in the
needs of those who are being subjected to humiliations.

It is an endless battle for justice, but in this sphere, too, we
enter the struggle with confidence that not all is lost, that better
judgments will predominate.

The hatred stemming from Arab ranks has grown to vast
proportions ; embracing not only Israel but all Jewry and our
friends. Yet here, too, we must not abandon hope that one day
there will be an assumption of sanity that will erase the ill
feelings.
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The problems are many, they have grown, they afflict us
everywhere. But they are not insoluble.

We welcome the New Year 5729 with faith and confidence
that there must eventually be an end to intolerance, injustice,
criminality.

There is no other way of facing life, and any other ap-
proach would negate our Jewish heritage.

Our welcoming words to the New Year, as we are about to
mark another Roah Hashana, is in a spirit of faith, confidence
.and hope. May 5729 indeed be a verY good year for all-

Impending Dangers and the Duties
Ahead in the Corning Year

Inauguration of a spiritually significant year carries with it serious obligations
to our fellow men of all faiths and it is not an improper time to gather strength for
the duties ahead and for the fulfillment of the needs of our Jewish communities and
the causes and the human beings who must look to us for sustenance and for en-
couragement.

In the months ahead we shall be engaged in many battles. There is the war
on poverty in which we must play a vital role as Americans striving for the elimi-
nation of inequities and for the establishment of a secure society.
The inner city's battle is our battle on a collective scale, and we shall be
called upon to render service on a vast scale.
And we shalklae faced with problems affecting our honor as Jews'and as kins-
men of Israel.
On the domestic front, especially in view of developing situations which are
giving rise to racism, there is danger of an increase in anti-Semitism. Irrational, wild-
ly inhuman and echoing the Cries of bigotries of the Middle Ages, it is a matter not
to be shunned by complacency and indifference.
Serious aspeets are evolving out of an anti-Semitism that has embraced an
unholy alliance between blacks—the misguided in our own land and those who are
considered as their brothers in Moslem countries where hatred for Jewry is at-
tached to the venomous dislike of Israel—and unless we look at the issue realistically
we may be faced with dangers that become insoluble.
Out of this merger of hatreds has developed a threat to American citizens who
strive for a status of being a nation indivisible but who are encountering splits
in our ranks. We have domestic duties to prevent the rise of bigotry in our own
midst and at the same time we must protect Israel against impending dangers.
It is with regard to Israel that we must be prepared NOW, far in advance
of all inevitable calls to action, to be ready to serve a great humanitarian need.
We have already been warned that the Israel Emergency Campaign must be
renewed, continued, strengthened. People with vision need not wait for calamities to
respond to needs on a scale comparable to the May - June - July actions of 1967 by
world Jewry, and by those among our non-Jewish neighbors who realized that unless
an embattled small nation is helped an entire area could go up in smoke.
It isn't easy or simple, on the eve of a great spiritual season, to speak. of
fund-raising or protection against bias and discrimination. Yet, if we are to plan for
the year's work ahead pragmatically, we dare not overlook either the dangers or the
needs or the obstacles that may be placed on the road of humanitarian efforts.
Such are the tragedies of our time that we must be ready to face many
eventualities. We must battle against injustice, and we must protect the unjustly
afflicted. We must think in terms of justice in this land, and we must assure secur-
ity, as well as amity, for our kinsmen wherever they reside. And in Israel we
have a responsibility to the most seriously endangered by impending world crisis.
Let us be prepared for action in this year of uncertainty and of ensuing
trials and tribulations. May we witness an emergence of a common ground for
humanitarianism for all mankind as we welcome the year 5729. .

