THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 Member American Associnton of Englsh-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Association Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075. Phone 356-8400 Subscription 57 a year. Foreign 58. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Business Manager CHARLOTTE DUBIN City Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the sixth day of Av, 5730, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion Deut. 1:1.3:22. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 1:1-27. Tish b'Av Scriptural Selections, Tuesday Pentateuchal portion: Morning, Deut. 4:25-40, afternoon, Exod. 32:11-14. 34:1-10. Lamen- Prophetical portions: Morning, Jeremiah 8:13-9:23, afternoon, Isaiah 55:6-56:8. tations will be read Monday night. Candle lighting. Friday, Aug. 7, 7:26 p.m. VOL. LVII. No. 21 Page Four August 7, 1970 Awaiting Messianic Time for Middle East Peace-seeking and peace-making are not always complementary and are never too easy to hope for and to attain. In the Middle East we are confronted by an ancient caul- dron that has never been without difficulties or bloodshed, all of which have reached their peak in the past two decades. Now that area has assumed a challenging role that beckons mankind for solution of a problem which is too seriously affected by dangers to the peace of the entire world. Unless the disputes are settled promptly there is the menacing dan- ger of another world war out of which none of the great powers can possibly emerge safe from utter destruction. All the talk of peace, and of negotiations between Arabs and Jews—we need not be fooled: Jewry is as involved in it as the Israelis—is related to the peace of the world. The Middle East, a battleground for many centuries in the periods of the• Crusaders and the struggles between Moslem and Christian forces, once again assumes an aspect of Jew- ish participation, of the presence of the Peo- ple Israel in the Land of Israel. Inerasable from history, this fact is undeniable, and the sooner Israel's neighbors acknowledge it the better for all concerned. It has been too easy for Israel's and Jewry's antagonists to charge a Zionist pres- ence with guilt for what has happened and what is transpiring now. The fact is that Jew- ish presence in the Middle East is historically factual and that Israel the people can not be separated from Israel the land. Therefore whatever peace moves are made must be rooted in this basic fact and the moment it is ascertained and acknowledged there will be an end to war there and hopefully an end to warfare in the entire world. We may now be closer to peace than at any other time in the history of mankind. Dreamers spoke of Jerusalem as the center for planning the peace of the world. It is the City of Peace—Ir Shalom—and it need not be otherwise, whether for Jew, Moslem or Christian. There is no chauvinism in the consistent claim that Jews and Israelis have been clam- oring for peace and have emphasized it un- selfishly. Whatever steps had been taken by means of the sword—militarily on land and sea and in the air—was for the defense of a people now firmly established as a nation reborn in its ancient homeland. To attempt to destroy it would be an invitation to a con- tinuing conflict that can well drag in all the peoples of the earth. If Russia sensibly and sincerely cooperated in the American plan for peace there will be hope for negotiations on other fronts—per- haps also in Southeast Asia. The spokesmen for the world's powers who must have a share in efforts to attain peace in the Middle East dare not overlook the fact that another power, Red China, supplies weapons to ter- rorists who are undermining the peace aims. If and when we have cooperative labors on the part of the world's powers to end the conflict in the Middle East through the pro- posed negotiations, there will enter a new hope of ending also the role of an Asian power that gives comfort and military aid to guerrillas who undermine amity. Perhaps we shall then attain the hope that the Red Chi- nese Asian intercession will be halted and in the course of it there will be a closer rela- tionship of amity between the powers that are now divided in the world struggle, through an understanding with the extreme Commu nists in Asia. Any approach to peace is in the experi- ence of mankind initially in a stage of dream- ing. But the great accomplishments of Man always begin as a dream. Our duty is to transform it into reality. President Nixon has assumed an import- ant role for peace in the Middle East. It is true that American interests are seriously in- volved in the entire crisis. The East-West con- flict, the American-Russian differences in the Mediterranean and that entire area, the strug- gle between powers, must, as it can, be re- solved peacefully. An end to the Arab-Israel war can and should lead to that end. Confidence expressed in President Nixon's approaches by many of his advisers, notably Max M. Fisher of Detroit, are beginning to prove realistic and practical. Now we await hopefully some firm action that will direct heads of nations who have been motivated by hatreds to abandon animosities in the best in- terests of their peoples. There is need in the Middle East—as Israel Foreign Minister Abba Eban has stated time and again—for free ways between Israel and her neighbors, for cooperative commercial ventures, for inter- change of visitors to travel freely from coun- try to country. One of the miracles of Israel is that tourism to that country has increased in spite of threats from her neighbors. At the same time all of the Arab states have wit- nessed a total cessation of tourism. This can end, just as all strife can end, just as commer- cial and other relations can make Israel the friend of Egypt and Jordan and Lebanon and even Syria and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. These are the good tidings in the offing with peace. The sooner that is a reality, the better for all the peoples involved, the quick- er the standards of living among the oppress- ed in many of the lands that are Israel's enemies now can be uplifted. We await hopefully, prayerfully, the com- ing of that good day for Israel, for her neigh- bors and for mankind. American Jewry on the Alert A crisis anywhere on earth that affects any Jewish community inevitably—tradition- ally—affects all other Jewish communities. This has been the case in our entire his- tory. When there was a fire in one little village in Russia, neighboring villages and Jews in other lands collected funds to re- establish the homeless. When there was a pogrom in one city Jews elsewhere gathered means of relieving want. During the world wars, vast relief funds were collected to assist the sufferers. The situation involving Israel is akin to tradition. Israelis are self-sustaining but they need our cooperation politically, sentimen- tally as well as philanthropically. We must provide • for newcomers to Israel, to relieve that nation's pressures for military needs. But wherever Jews are we must also exert influence to secure justice for the embattled people that needs aid as an assurance that its hegemony will not be destroyed. As the clouds disappear and peace be- comes a possibility, there will be greater need than ever for America's interest in Israel's welfare, and this is where we, the Jews of America, must be on the alert, never to let our kinsmen down in time of need. This is the time to alert Jewish communi- ties everywhere that we must be readied for extraordinary action; that to protect a com- munity in search of peace and of harmony with its neighbors it is essential that our gifts to the United Jewish Appeal should be in- creased enormously and that our investments, in Israel Bonds and through other methods should be on a vast scale. Then we shall have the unity in support of amity for Israel, her neighbors and the entire free world. —093. Moral Teachings Analyzed Dr. Silver's 'Judaism and Ethics' Attitudes of Jewish and non-Jewish scholars on the ethical codes applied to our time are presented in the collection of essays that appear in a volume edited by Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver of Cleveland. Publishd by Ktav, this volume, entitled "Judaism and Ethics," reviews ethical teachings contrasted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, social actions and their Jewish backgrounds, the mission of Israel and related topics. In his introductory essay Dr. Silver makes the frank admission of Reform Judaism having freed itself of the con- cept of halakha and his contention is: "Modern man may be groping toward a new awareness of revelation, one not based on a static, once upon a time, con- versation on Sinai, but on the claim of these commandments upon his genera- tion." Thus the Reform approach is in evidence. Dr. Silver, in addition to having written the introduction, also is author of an essay, "Beyond the Apologetics of Mission," which concludes the volume's 20 articles. The Cleveland rabbi, son of the eminent Dr. Dr. Silver Abba Hillel Silver, expresses confidence in positive responses from Jewish youth. Calling for an awakening of the communities, he offers this personal note: "I am a Jew because my home was palpably Jewish. I am a Jew because as a child I visited the threatened communities of Europe with my parents, and shivered in the cold light of impaneing martyrdom; and because I was taken to visit grandparents who were part of the beleagured yishuv, and took my first lesson in courage from the daring of a people willing to lay siege to history . .." Many Jewish issues are reviewed in the course of the analyses offered here of the ethical codes. Jewry's will to live, Israel's role, Zionism's aspects are among the matters incidentally accounted for. Current trends as well as numerous historical backgrounds are viewed realistically by the prominent writers included in this work. Noted scholars—Dr. Samuel Sandmel, Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, Dr. Arthur Gilbert—are in the list of authoritative discussants who are included in this notable work. 'Judaism and Community' Cover Variety of Current Jewish Topics How does Judaism relate to the community? What is the role of philanthropy in Jewish life? Is there an answer to the problem of inter- marriage? These and many other questions are tackled in "Judaism and the Community" by Dr. Jacob Freid of the Jewish Braille Institute of America, published by Thomas Yoseloff. The volume contains a series of essays by eminent personalities and authoroties on the various fields covered by them. Intermarriage is dealt with in analytical essays by Dr. Ira Eisensteln, Werner J. Cahnman and Solomon Z. Weiss. Rabbis Edward T. Sandrow and Isaac N. Trainin and Dr. Isadore Twersky are authors of essays evaluating Judaism and philanthropy related to the synagogue, defining Tzedaka and the attitude toward the welfare state. There are two symposia—one on Judaism and mental health and another on residential treatment of emotionally disturbed and the Jew- ish component in-residential treatment. The Black Jewish community and aspects of family desertion are among the other topics under discussion. These and other essays dealing with the role of Hasidim and their use of the Jewish centers, the "Y" and the synagogue and other topics are interestingly analyzed.