Superb Classical Hagada Aids
Preparations for the Sedorim
Schocken's Goldschmidt-Glatzer Text
Features Traditional Commentaries
Passover this year will com-
mence with the first Seder on
April 2. There still are a few weeks
left for preparations for the great
Festival of Freedom which serves
to solidify families, to link all of
our communities together in the
worldwide observance of a major
event in the annals of our people.
The time at our disposal between
now and the Pesah enables us to
study the Hagada, to perfect our
knowledge and to make it possible
for those who lead in the Seder
ceremony to instruct and to learn
from historic experiences.
In contemporary fiction, Jewish
authors, who in large measure pre-
dominate in the literary world,
have dealt with the Passover—
often in derogatory fashion, derid-
ing, placing emphasis on the Four
Cups of Wine rather than on the
principle of liberation. How very
necessary, therefore, that there
should be proper alerting and con-
structive study of the Passover
Hagada, so that the derisive should
be prevented.
There are many Hagadas, anci-
ent and modern, abbreviated and
revised. In most Jewish homes it
will be the traditional Hagada that
will be used.
Fortunately for the oncoming
festival, Schocken Books has issu-
ed a new Hagada that should
serve as a powerful educational
medium to instruct, to make pos-
sible Sedorim that will be enlight-
ening, containing material that
should enable Seder performers to
study while reciting and to link
the Passover of today with the
vast experiences of the past.
Schocken's "The Passover Ha-
gada" based on Hagada studies
by E. D. Goldschmidt, edited by
Prof. Nahum N. Glatzer of Bran-
deis University, re-introduces
the classical commentary by the
eminent Berlin Jewish scholar.
It contains supplementary es-
says, serving as material to be
read and discussed.
Containing the complete Hagada
text, with an excellent English
translation, the introduction and
commentaries are of superb value.
Indeed, as the publishers indicate,
a parent who has never presided
at a Seder before will be able with
this text to acquire confidence in
directing an evening of great
merit, marked by knowledge and
sanctity.
Jacob Sloan translated this text
from Hebrew Yiddish works have
enriched English literature, is sup-
plemented by a variety of wood-
cuts from the first illuminated
Hagada published in Prague in
1526.
The instructive introduction is
most valuable for an understand-
ing of the Hagada, the various
terms used at the Seder, the corn=
mentaries of previous works.
And the commentaries include
some of the most valuable scholar-
ly explanations about the festival,
historic experiences related to it,
the ancient and the modern appli-
cations to the Pesah theme.
Based on Goldschmidt's "Die
Pesah Hagada," Berlin 1937, and
"Seder Hagada shed Pesah,"
Jerusalem 1947, both published
by Schocken, the Hebrew text in
the present Hagada is a tradi-
tional version except for a few
minor changes based on the an-
notation by Elijah Gaon of
Vilna and on ancient sources.
The introduction explains the
basic Passover lessons, the terms
of Hagada and the items on the
Passover Plate, the Mishnaic ex-
planations of the dinner of anti-
quity, the course followed at the
Seder, Seder customs, and evalu-
ates the Hagada as a book, pro-
viding definitions related to it and
reviewing commentaries of signi-
ficance.
Major attention should be given
to the supplementary readings in
this Hagada.
In the specially assigned read-
ings for the Seder there is a selec-
tion from the Mishna, a quotation
on leavened bread from Philo
Judaeus, brief excerpts from the
Talmud and the Mishna on "Moses
and the Exodus," two ideal quotes
from_Martin Buber's "Tales of the
Hasidim," Fr a n z Rosenzweig's
"The Feast of Delixerance" and
the essay by Prof. Solomon Zeitlin
"Jesus and the Last Supper."
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... and Me
(Copyright 1969, JTA Inc.)
From the historical point of
view the latter is significant be-
cause it enlightens Jews on a
basic historic facts, presenting
an authoritative Jewish inter-
pretation, on a matter so fre-
quently referred to by Christians.
Then there is the brief prayer,
"Passover, Bergen-Belsen, 1944,"
with an explanation that Jews in
the Nazi concentration camps did
not have matzos and were permit-
ted to eat leavened bread. It was
for such repast that this prayer
was composed.
A guide to names, works and
terms used in this Schocken Ha-
gada must also be considered as
most valuable for students and for
those desiring to be fully aware of
what they are celebrating.
This Schocken Hagada thus is
highly recommended by this re-
viewer as a gem, worthy of widest
use on the approaching Sedorim.
—P. S.
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Hagada for Students
Merits Due Attention
Meriting special attention is "The
Student's Hagada" by Alvin I.
Schiff, fully illustrated by Ezekiel
Schloss.
Ktav Publishing House has pro-
duced this work from a 1948 mim-
eographed text of "Hagada La-
Talmid" which appeared on the
occasion of the first anniversary
of the State of Israel.
The five parts of this Hagada
explain its value. They are: Learn-
ing about Passover, Preparing for
Pesah, Celebrating Pesah, Seder
Sidelights and Glossary of Seder
Terms.
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moval of hametz are explained and
there is an expose of the atrocious
ritual murder lie.
There are additional notes on
Passover as the Holiday of Spring,
Counting the Omer, the Song of
Songs and the background of Jew-
ish traditional adherence to the
precepts of freedom.
So — we have two splendid
Illuminated Megila, from the Hebrew Union College collection
Hagadas, the Schocken and the
in Cincinnati.
Ktav, enriching the Seder litera-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ture for young and old.
48—Friday, February 28, 1969
,
Allan Urges Unity . . . Mrs. Meir May Be Interim Premier
Boris Smolar's
JDC ACTION: Mental health in community services was fun-
damentally discussed at a three-day international conference convened
by the Joint Distribution Committee. Held in Geneva, the conference
was attended by 120 specialists from 13 countries, representing more
than 60 national and international organizations.
The high incidence of mental disorders among victims of the Nazi
holocaust, Jewish refugees and migrants was one of the major subjects
deliberated at the parley. Dr. A. Gonik, director of the JDC medical
services; who presided, told the experts in psychiatry, psychology,
sociology, anthropology, social work, public health, and nursing assem-
bled there that the fate of the Jewish communities with which the JDC
is concerned is only part of the total picture. "It is an example of what
can happen and an illustration of what can be accomplished in a diffi-
cult situation," he pointed out.
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PROGRESS IN ISRAEL: The attention of the delegates was cen-
tered to a great extent on community mental health centers programs
in Israel. There are about 30 mental health centers in the Jewish state.
The delegates learned that the number of mental patients requiring
hospital treatment is somewhat lower in Israel than in Western coun-
tries. Social adjustment there of the survivors of Nazi persecution was
more successful than in most other countries, especially in Europe.
Most interesting was the contents of a report by the Israeli Ministry
of Health showing that depressive psychoses are twice as frequent
among European-born Jews as among Jews of Oriental origin, whereas
neurotic—especially hysterical—reactions are ten times more frequent
among Oriental Jews. Suicidal risk is five times higher for European
than for Oriental Jews once a depressive illness has developed.
Until recently, the lack of psychiatrists was most serious in Israel.
But the Israel government, has, with the help of the JDC, instituted a
series of fellowships for the training of psychiatrists. This has attracted
young physicians in the field. In addition, psychiatric social workers of
high standard are now being trained at the Paul Baerwarld School for
Social Work established by the JDC at the Hebrew University, and they
do much of their supervised field work in mental hospital settings.
A Notable Nixon Woman Appointee
By JACK SIEGEL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
Rita Hauser is young (34), is
pretty, is smart. And was ust ap-
pointed by President Nixon as the
United States Representative to the
Human Rights Commission of the
United Nations. In addition, she is
the mother of two children and is
a partner in a New York law firm.
Her husband is a corporation ex-
ecutive.
One of her first statements on
her appointment was she intend-
ed to take up the matter of the
Iraqi Jews at the forthcoming
meeting of the commission in
Geneva. The agenda, of course,
includes other matters of world
concern and importance.
She was one of the New York
chairmen for Nixon campaign dur-
RITA A. HAUSER
ing the past election. But her ap-
pointment is not a payoff. Mrs.
Hauser come to the job with the
,following qualifications: bachelors
degree from Hunter, a law degree
from Harvard, graduate studies in
the University of Strassbourg and
Paris, economics in the first and
law in the second. She is fluent in
French and Spanish and while
studying in Paris met many of the
Arab students, from the then
French colonies like Morocco and
Tunisia. She has since travelled
even more widely, with particular
interests in Africa and the Carib-
bean.
As a lawyer, she was interested
and involved in civil rights, repre-
senting people who needed defense.
She worked for John Lindsay and
defined herself as a kind of "Javitz
Republican." With such interest in
that kind of problem, it was sug-
gested that, according to the com-
mon image, she would more likely
be a Democrat. She has, she said,
faith in her Party and its potential
for doing important things., Her •
concern for human rights is gen-
eral but she believes that the rise
and fall of the United States . and
its relations worldwide depends on
what is done in Africa and with
blacks at home.
Regarding the agenda in Gen-
eva, she said there were treaties
which required ratification: on
genocide, on slavery, and on
political rights for woinen.
Are there many areas in the
world where women are deprived
of their political rights
Many, she said in Africa and
Asia. Likewise on this side of the
world. Slavery, to most Americans
_associated with the times before
the Civil War, still exists in many
parts of the world. Saudi Arabia?
she was asked. She didn't specify
any one area but wherever it exist-
ed, it had to be attacked as a prob-
lem.
She introduced the interviewer
to her partner, a young man very
active in the New York Chapter
of the American Jewish Commit-
tee.
Mrs. Hauser will be filling the
shoes, among others, of Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. That's a big
,job but she seemed able and con-
fident. And certainly eager.
Labor Zionists Urged:
Give Week's Pay to Israel
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
NEW YORK — The American
Labor Zionist movement has call-
ed on its 90,000 members to con-
tribute at least one week's income
to the 1969 United Jewish Appeal-
Israel Emergency Fund, in addi-
tion to their contributions to the
regular UJA campaign. The or-
ganizations comprising the move-
ment are the Poale Zion, United
Labor Zionist Organization of
America, the Farband Labor Zion-
ist Order. Pioneer Women and th•
Habonim Youth Organization. The
members were asked to give a
week's wages or household expen-
ses because of the increased bur-
dens_and.dangsavr,faabigaisas.
Golda Meir
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Acting Prime Minister Yigal Allon said that his interim "caretaker" government would act as a unified body in ,
the aftermath of the death of Premier Eshkol and would continue to assume collective responsibility for the nation's policies, even though,
according to Israeli law, coalition discipline is no longer binding. Allon spoke at the first cabinet meeting since Mr. Eshkol's death. His words
appeared to be more of a plea for unity than a statement of fact, observers said.
It appeared virtually certain, as a result of a near unanimous coalition vote Tuesday, that reins of government until next Octo-
ber's national election would be placed in the hands of Mrs. Golda Meir, 70, former foreign minister, former labor minister and Israel's
one-time ambassador to Moscow. Mrs. Meir, though out of active political life for several years, is still regarded as a major power in the dom-
inant United Labor Party. She was reportedly under heavy pressure from friends and Labor Party leaders to accept the interim premiership
in the interests of unity within the party and the nation.
Mrs. Meir is the choice of Labor Party Secretary General Pinhas Sapir, former finance minister and minister-without-portfolio in
the Eshkol coalition who was lobbying strenuously on her behalf with other coalition partners. Her influence was believed capable of
preventing a bitter showdown struggle for Mr. Eshkol's mantle between Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and acting Prime Minister Allon.
Mrs. Meir was openly opposed to the appointment of Gen. Dayan as defense minister by Mr. Eshkol on the eve of the June 1967 war.
(Detailed Stories on Page 40)
JEWISH NEWS
Debate Over
Christians'
Attitudes on
Developing
Jewish Issues
Commentary
Page 2
Vol. LIV, No. 25
DETROIT
A Weekly Review
NI I C I—I I GA f ■ I
1 :1 V of Jewish Events
El Fatah Terror:
Nasser, Hussein
and Factual
Record of
Campaign
Against Israel
Editorial
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Israel Phase-Out Reportedly
Favored by Nixon; Predicts
Possible Mid East Peace Talks
Eban Brands Statements
by Nasser as Inimical
to Middle East Peace
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Foreign Minister Abba Eban re-
acted angrily to Egyptian President Nasser's New York
Times interview in which Col. Nasser predicted a new
war unless Israel withdrew from every inch of territory
occupied in the 1967 war and repatriated all Palestinian
refugees who left since 1948.
Eban called Col. Nasser's remarks to correspondent
C. L. Sulzberger " a startling rejection of political truths
and human values," and said he would "discuss the im-
plications of the statements with other governments and
with Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring," the UN special
peace envoy.
reported that Col. Nasser spoke to him
for two hours at the presidential residence in Cairo on
Feb. 26 in the presence of his close friend, Mohammed
Hassanein Heykal, editor of the Cairo daily Al Ahram.
"Mr. Nasser estimates that there are more than one
million Palestanian Arab refugees," Sulzberger reported.
"He gives the impression that does not expect Israel
to accept a political solution on the terms he suggests
and that therefore a solution must be found by other
meanEsb
."an, whose comments were published Sunday in
the daily Haaretz, declared that it was "evident among
Other things that Nasser effectively rejects the Security
Council's resolution of November 1967 for the establish-
ment of permanent peace with Israel in secure and rec-
(Continued on Page 6)
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
JTA Jewish News Washington Correspondent
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Nixon reportedly told Congressional leaders Tuesday
that he envisions a plan for a "phased" withdrawal of Israeli troops from occupied territories as
part of a possible move toward a settlement of the Mid East crisis, it was learned.
According to a reliable source, Mr. Nix on told nearly 20 leaders in a White House brief-
ing that the withdrawal would be gradual and would involve backward movement toward a series
of so called "series of security belts" and "security points."
The phase-out, he reportedly said, would be accompanied by Israel-Arab negotiations
ing to a peace settlement and Arab recognition of Israel. Mr. Nixon did rY .
not cite this envisioned plan at his press conference.
Sources said that the President hoped that the Big Four would
help persuade both sides to accept the "phased" formula.
President Nixon made clear his firm belief Tuesday that
Mid East peace depends upon a Soviet manifestation of sincere interest
in a settlement. Whether it will be forthcoming will be made clear,
he indicated, in coming days.
The President told a nationally-televised press conference devoted
exclusively to foreign affairs that he was "cautiously hopeful" about prog-
ress toward a Mid East solution and that there had been "considerable
progress" in this connection in the past week.
' Mr. Nixon said that he and Secretary of State William P. Rogers
had had "encouraging talks" with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin
on the Mid East. These bilateral discussions will go on," he said, "and if
they continue at their present rate of progress, it seems likely that there will be Four Power dis-
cussion in the United Nations on the Mid East."
He declared that any Four-Power talks cannot lead to an imposed settlement. "The time
has passed in which great nations can dictate to small nations their future, where their vital inter-
ests are involved," he declared.
Local Clergymen Express Revulsion
as New Hangings Feared in Iraq
Amid conflicting reports over the fate of seven Iraqis following a new mock spy trial, Christians and
Jews here and abroad protested the continuing mass hangings in Baghdad.
Their occurrence at a time when Jews have been celebrating the festival of Purim was noted in many quar-
Council, pointed out that
ters. Rabbi Leon Fram, chairman of the rabbinical commission of the Jewish Community
Purim commemorates the foiling of a plot to exterminate the Jews of Persia 2,300 years ago. "Today," he said,
"the joy of the Purim festival is impaired by the fact that in the same area of the world a conspiracy to destroy
human lives, Jewish and others, is again being perpetrated.
"All the Jewish people will be praying . .. that all the decent people of the world will finally awaken
these repeated crimes against all human life and all human dignity and that the governments of the decent
to
free world will act decisively to condemn the" crimesand take appropriate measures against the criminals."
At a press conference Tuesday, Christian and Jewish leaders in Detroit issued statements of con-
' - demnation of the Iraqi executions. Said the Rev. James E. Garrison of the Danish Lutheran Church: "The
Danish people and religious community helped rescue Jewish people from the Nazi executions in 1944 and
sense a similar need to reach out today to prevent executions of people, some because they are Jews."
The NAACP Detroit branch president, Tom Turner, expressed "horror that this kind of barbarism continues
to be displayed in Iraq. As a minority group in American society, black people are always sensitive to injustice
perpetrated upon any minority group anywhere in the world.
"The disgusting history of lynching in this country," said Turner, "makes us keenly aware of exterminations
elsewhere in the world, and we join with our Jewish brethren in protesting this outrage and in appealing to the con-
Sciences and decency of the Iraqi government to put an end to this evil."
Other statements were issued by officers of the Wayne County AFL-CIO, Council of Catholic Women Arch-
Henry
diocese of Detroit, Council of Churches of Metropolitan Detroit and the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. Dr.
Hitt Crane, minister emeritus of Central Methodist Church; Dr. Ralph Reed, former minister and now professor
of sociology at Lawrence Institute of Technology; and Brig. General S.L.A. Marshall, military analyst, added their
names to the list of protestors. (Continued on Page 10)
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Cuba Training El Fatah?
Israelis C6cking Report
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
The foreign ministry an-
nounced Tuesday that the Israeli legation in
Havana has been instructed to investigate reports
that El Fatah members were being trained by
Cuban army officers on Cuban soil.
The report appeared Monday in the newspaper
Yediot Ahronot. _ Cuban diplomats here could
neither confirm nor deny it and said they were
awaiting word from Havana.
JERUSALEM —
The foreign ministry said that if the report turned out
to be correct, Israel would regard it as a hostile action
and would consider a proper counter action.
Israel and Cuba maintain diploma* relations but these
cooled considerably when Cuban leaders made anti-Israel
statements during the Six-Day War.
According to sources here, certain leftist circles in Is-
rael supported Fidel Castro with money and material in
the initial stages of the Cuban revolution 10 years ago.
Israeli experts were sent to Cuba to help in recon-
struction, but that aid was suspended as a result of Anti-
Israel remarks by Cuban leaders.