THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating The Detroit Joutish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20,
1951
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Editor and Publisher
CHARLOTTE DORM
CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
City Editor
Business Manager
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
• This Sabbath, the sixth day of Attar II, 5730, the following scriptural selections
wilt be read in our. synagogues-
Pentateuchal portion, 38:21-40:38. Prophetical portion, I Kings 7:51-8:21.
Candle lighting, Friday, Marcia 13, 6:17
VOL. LVI. No. 25
March 13, 1970
Page Four
We Protest Bias of Our 'Detractors
American-Israel relations have such a strong tradition for friendship, from the very
moment of the rebirth of Jewish statehood 22 years ago; the support for the Zionist idea
is so deeply rooted in our government's policies of support for homeless people who needed
rehabilitation and acquired it through sweat and blood; and the acknowledgment of Jewish
interests in the Holy Land is so strongly cemented in the religious fervor of millions of our
fellow citizens who have given us comfort in the struggle to end the homelessness of Jews
which found its peak in tragedy during the recent Holocaust, that anything tending_ to
mar such kinships is detrimental to good will in strengthening the idealism and Americanism
of the peoples who comprise this nation.
Inherent in friendship is the right to differ—and to criticize if necessary. That applies
to both members of the partnership that •s inherent in the brotherhood and the friendship
related to Jewish experiences in America and to the relationships with Israel. Such toler-
ance even permits protests—as long as they are orderly and are not related to a Kristall-
nacht of the Nazis.
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Involved in such an ideology is the basis for loyalty—loyalty to truth and human
relations and to mutual respect.
When, therefore, a responsible newspaper injects the deplorable issue of dual alle- I 1 New
glance into the debate, the organ respousible for it has rendered a great disservice and must'
be called to task for an act that is tantamount to criminality.
Israel is in great trouble. Its very existence is being challenged. Within the past
From Doubleday and Company comes one of the most impressive,
few days there were concessions from Amman and from Cairo and there are threats of an- i
dealing with Bible geography, related matters involving Ian-
other war—as if what is taking place now is not war, even in its minuteness! Israel is ; guage,
cultural backgrounds, transition between Old and New Testa-
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threatened with extinction, and in the process there is a revival of anti Semitism. There is ments, and shaping of Christian traditions.
no longer denial that when Arab antagonists sneak of "Zionists" they mean Jews, and when i
"New Atlas of the Bible," printed in the Netherlands, originally
they threaten extinction they speak of a war against all Jews.
, published as "DeBakermat van de Bijbel," is an immense work trans-
Only one human element remains to protect Israel: America and especially its Jew- ' lated from the Hebrew and Greek.
Authored by Jan H. Negenman, edited by Dr. Harold H. Rowley,
ish citizens. Upon them rests the obligation to prevent another Holocaust and the repetition i
emeritus professor of Hebrew language and literature at the 'Oliver-
of the experiences in Auschwitz and Dachau and Treblinka.
When, under such critical conditions, the dual allegiance charge is hurled at Ameri- sity of Manchester, this thorough study has immense value for Jews
can Jewry, the person and the paper for which he writes such drivel is as responsible for and Christians, for students of the Bible and for theologians in general.
by Hubert Hospins and Richard Beckley, the foreword is by
Holocaust as are the terrorists who planted bombs in a Swissair plane taking the lives of 'Translated
i Prof. Rowley, and there is an epilogue by Dr. Lucas H. Grollenberg.
47 innocent people: as guilty as the murderers who attacked a busload of Christians at 1
In addition to 34 maps, 21 of which are four-color relief maps,
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Hebron; as guilty as those who threw bombs into supermarkets.
this volume contains 53 four-color photographs; a series of draw-
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We protest against indignities and condemn any attempt to question our loyalties. i
Ings diagrams and town plans and 104 monochromes
Our charge is that any one who makes accusations against us is himself guilty of the most I
. outline the
Prof.
Ro explains that his work traces "in broad
P wley
growth of the Bible in the setting of the history out of which each of its
atrocious un American acts.
American principles defy silence when there is injustice. We hold fast to that ideal, parts came," and he comments in relation to Israel that "her faith was
and we retain hope that Americans of good faith and good sense with the passion for justice born in a historical setting and it had meaning for history."At the
will reject the accusers who have risen in our community to create prejudices against us. same time, to indicate the totality of his effort in a book about the
We pray that what occurred last week, in the atrocious editorial insults hurled at us, Bible that embraces both the Old and the New Testaments, Dr. Rowley
adds: "For the writers of the New Testament, the life and death and
will never again be repeated!
resurrection of Jesus at a particular time of history are fraught ;with
Atlas of Biblec--Immense
'Research Into the Scriptures
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Let Youth Create New Establishment
One thing is certain: the "revolt"—if it is
There isn't a segment in the American
really that—can not be ignored; the "rebels"
community that is immune from the chal-
lenges hurled at us by the younger genera- can not be shunned; the demands must be
tion whose acts are described as "rebellious," met; youth must have a role in our life and
whose demands for a share in the Establish- a share in creating a new Establishment with
ment do not affect the thinking in our midst them as having voting power.
and the planning for the future.
Youth must have the vote. Youth must
To overlook the realities of life would be listened to. Youth's demands must not
be sheer blindness, and to stick our heads be ignored. If the equivalents in the previ-
in the sand, ostrich-like, could well spell ous generations were not properly confront-
suicide for a society that needs mending and ed, then the duty of the present generation
drastic change.
is not to be blind to realities. The revolt
The Jewish community is not less af- need not be destructive: not if elders say to
fected. In fact, the flight from the religi- youth that they are welcome and needed in
ous life of our people, the indifference to operating a society that needs correcting and
the needs that are so urgent and the involve- may not be as sick as portrayed. And if the
ment of youth in the New Left—all spell out
society really is sick, then the physicians are
a situation that is at the same time disturb- to be found in both generations—the dying
ing and puzzling.
and the one that must take over control of
Since the Establishment is the target in the destinies of man.
the battle between the generations, the need
for understanding must .become a basis for
immediate study of the demands and the
means to meet them, with a determination
Kremlin officials are known for their
to put into effect all the corrective ap- bluffs,
and among the major ones of the
proaches that can be developed in order to
past couple of weeks are the attacks on
assure an understanding-leading to amity.
It is the synagogue in our life—like the Israel by Chief Rabbi Levin, scientists, uni-
church in the problem involving our Chris- versity professors, writers.
All of which reveal anew the tragedy of
tian neighbors—that must be re-established
as the center of Jewish life. And because people who must submit to the existing rulers
and
issue statements that are contrary to
the synagogue and the rabbinate are chal-
lenged more often than any other groups in their beliefs and to truth.
These bluffs have not cowed Jewry into
our communal setting we must go to the
sources to seek solutions to disruptions that silence. The_ protests against Soviet dis-
criminations are mounting. The march and
affect the current revolutionary trends.
Our youth have let themselves be heard demonstration by Jewish students at the Uni-
in Zionist ranks, and their primary objections versity of Michigan, planned for March 23,
are to perpetuated leaderships and to a lack is one of the indications of a refusal to re-
of youth influences. If the participation of main blind to realities.
- If the Russian people will be aware of
youth is the matter at stake, then their im-
mediate involvement will revert the chal- the sentiments of peoples everywhere, per-
haps they will exert some influence to end
lenge from old to young, providing the lat-
the USSR fiasco in
dealings
with
Israel and
tOr with the ctpgortunity of offerin4 the solv-
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significance for all men of every age."
In the course of the definitive work there is an important .chap-
ter on the shaping of the Christian tradition, offered here as part of
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the d scriptiv e po
rti ons
e g with the Ne Testament's growth
and completion.
While it is called "New Atlas of the Bible," this Doubleday
book is much more than that. It goes into detail to describe the
processes of translation. It takes into account the newly found
Dead Sea Scrolls, the Greek and other editions are explained, and
as a guide to students of Bible lore this "New Atlas" serves an
important purpose.
While the authors approach their work from the viewpoint of their
faith—as Christians—there is so much of value and merit for all de-
. nominations, and for Jews as well as Christians, that theologians will
;accept the "New Atlas of the Bible" as a distinct contribution to Bible
and generally religious studies.
Rabbi's . Book Gives -Answers
to the Generation's Dilemma*
Rabbi Gilbert S. Rosenthal of Oceanside, N.Y., contends thai his
book, "Generations in Crisis," published by Bloch, provides "Judaism's
answers to the dilemmas of our time." _ -
What are the challenges of our time that agitate mankind andlupon
which a rabbi can look through the lens of Judaism? Rabbi Rosenthal
deals with such subjects as peace, capital punishment, ecumenism;raco
relations, juvenile delinquency, birth control.
As a rabbi, he does not approach his subjects ex WWI*, out of noth-
ing, and he asserts that his convictions shape the texts and rAnehisions
in his hook
Fallings in religion are exposed, and the author empbashig the
significance of the teachings contained in Jewish traditions.
He makes this interesting comment on religion's status: -
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"Irrelevancy is a failing of religion. Religion has been for tea long
the tail of the dog. It has, unfortunately, too often told the people what
they wanted to hear, speaking 'smooth words' and avoiding ‘edntreirers-
ial issues.' Religion has joined the people rather than demanding that
the people join it with heart and soul. But now modern man cries out
not for sacerdotal officials, not for ritual directors, not for esoteric,
archaic, chanting priests. He yearns, instead, for a dynamic, singitetie
faith—a faith that speaks to all in the idiom of our time, liblat deals
forthrightly with the issues of day-to-day life, and that is
courageously and intrepidly to rock the boats of our ease and
ment and complacency and egoism. If the message of r a s g fle
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pierce the shell of man's intransigence, it must be.relevant, rae
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and pertinent."
It is to meet such needs that Rabbi Rosenthal has outlined Ids Irak
in scholarly fashion, drawing extensively on Jewish teachingt, utigxiieg
traditional and accepted principles ag guides to outline the crises *of a
generation for whose dilemmas haihasaraeatad.tbalaarowamiajasaw.
lite'his thesis:–
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