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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
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CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
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CHARLOTTE DUBIN
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 11th day of Elul, 5730, the following scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Peracteuchal portion. Deut. 21:10-25:19. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 54:1-10.
Candle lighting, Friday, Sept. 11, 6:31 p.m.
VOL. LVII. No. 26
September 11, 1970
Page Four
A Chance to Save the Honor of the UN
Mankind's hopes rested in the formation
of a world organization whose aim is the
effective launching of peace efforts and the
outlawing of wars. This was the aspiration
for the United Nations whose 25th anniver-
sary is to be observed next month. Unfortu-
nately. the celebration will be marked by
suspicion and doubt due to the manner in
which the statesmen of the world operated
during the past two decades. Instead of seek-
ing peace there were installed cliques who
sought power. There are blocs in the UN
whose objective is not the search for amity
and for friendly relations between nations
but the striving for domination.
Unless these selfish motivations are elimi-
nated there will be little hope for effective
functions from a strong and valid world
organization. If the blocs — the Communist
and the Afro-Asian and the anti-Israel —
continue to dominate in the UN, its role will
be further diminished as the years continue.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary
of the United Nations there is a serious obli-
gation on the part of all the nations who
form the important world movement to adopt
policies aimed at creating unity and harmony,
an understanding of each other's needs and
an approach to world problems on the basis
of respect for each other's right to existence.
The manner in which enemy nations
ganged up in an attempt to destroy Israel is
an indication of the weakness of the United
Nations as it functions today. No matter how
valid Israel's claims to the right to defend
herself; regardless of the seriousness of a
situation in which a member of the UN —
Israel — faced extinction unless its fellow-
members stayed the hands of the would-be
executioners, the atmosphere at the UN was
charged with dynamite, there was hatred
and a desire to destroy the small state, and
all too often Israel stood alone in her insis-
tence on survival.
If such a state of affairs continues, the
UN will lose the status of a great interna-
tional body established to assure peace in
the world and the rights of minorities to
survive threats from unfriendly neighbors.
The 25th anniversary presents a major
challenge to the United Nations. Can it over-
come hatred in its own domain? Will it be
able to defy prejudice? Is there hope for a
spirit of good will in which enemies can be Freud Was 'Very Much a Jew
brought to a peace table to adjust differences
instead of being encouraged by suspicions
and enmities to carry on destructive and Dr. Roazen's Analyses Indicate
unnecessary wars?
Paul Roazen, in "Freud: Political and Social Thought," a Ran-
These are questions that must be an- dom Dr.
House Vintage Paperback, poses vital questions relating to Sig-
swered in the present period of crisis. The mund Freud's Jewish attitudes.
cease fire in the Middle East is the work not
"While godless," Prof. Roazen asserts, "Freud was very much a
of U Thant but of President Nixon; not of
the UN but of the U.S. And if the UN is to Jew. He was brought up as a Jew, and throughout his life his associ-
ates
were primarily Jewish. Freud was so conscious of psychoanaly-
become an effective force for the entire
sis's support among Jews that one of his main reasons for choosing
world, in advancing the standards of living Dr.
Carl G. Jung as his successor to lead the movement was that Jung
of small nations, in eliminating disease and was Gentile; Freud was fearful that his movement would succumb to
hunger, in establishing good relations and the label that the Nazis eventually hurled at it, 'the Jewish science.'
in assuring the peace of the world, there Although from our experience with Nazism it is possible to exaggerate
must be change in tactics. There must be the quality of 12th-Century Viennese anti-Semitism, Freud's academic
an end to cliques. There must be amity on a career was certainly not helped by his Jewishness. On several occa-
high level. It can be attained, and for that sions he went so far as to attribute some of the resistance to his
purpose the selfishness of great powers must doctrines to a veiled form of anti-Semitism."
vanish and the lion in diplomacy must learn
The author of this impressive work on Freud and his religious,
to lie down with the lamb for the benefit of political,
social and utopian ideas points to Freud's humor as being
a truly free world.
"characteristically Jewish." He states that "it is the humor of the
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Time for Proper Program Planning
Rosh Hashana occurs a bit late this year that are needed for the upkeep of the major
—due to our Leap Year and the interven- Jewish institutions.
This will surely be a crucial year. The
ing period prior to the formal commence-
ment of educational and spiritual program- inflationary trends will call for increased
allocations
to Jewish agencies, and Israel's
ing and organizational arrangements for struggle for survival
will necessitate such vast
what may be a very busy year on our calen- increases in financial aid both philanthrop-
dar sli,uld provide an opportunity for proper ically and as investments that staggering
sums will be the goals both of the United
planning for the months ahead.
Jewish Appeal and of the Israel Bond Orga-
In spite of the complaints that are often nization. To attain the goals there will be
heard about the failure of synagogues and need of an understanding of the challenges
rabbis to provide necessary study groups and of our time, and for that purpose there must
informative events, the fact is that the lead- be vaster educational efforts in the philan-
ing congregations in all denominations — thropic sphere.
Conservative, Orthodox, Reform—have made
At the same time it is essential that our
and continue to make serious attempts to
interest the community in Jewish cultural community be made aware of the major
issues that confront Jewry everywhere, unin-
projects.
terruptedly. There is need to know the back-
If there are shortcomings, they are due to ground of Jewish experiences in order that
the poor response from the community to they should be effectively applied to the
calls for participation in very vital events present.
that are planned for all who wish to partici-
pate in them. Able speakers have been
We are never without dangers and chal-
provided, noteworthy musical functions have lenges. There is always the threat to Jewish
been planned and there has not been a dearth survival emanating from enemies whose anti-
of programs for those seeking enjoyment Semitic venom keeps plaguing our genera-
and enlightenment.
tions. To combat dangers while primarily
the blessings that stem from our
There are indications of serious planning enjoying
we must have no interruption in
along established lines by Detroit's leading heritage,
educational
planning, for adults as well as
temples and synagogues, and it will be inter-
esting to study the responses in the year the youth.
ahead. We shall no doubt again hear the
For the proper advancement of such
charge that there is too much emphasis on cultural-spiritual programs in our congrega-
fund raising, and it will be necessary again tional and organizational activities, we must
to indicate, that if we sacrifice the philan- encourage rabbis and laymen in efforts to
thropic we shall be unable to carry on the upgrade our communal programing. If we
cultural-spiritual. Yet it must also be recog- do not support it, if the community does not
nized that if the charitable is to succeed there respond, all efforts will prove vain. We must
must be an understanding of the needs that encourage them towards positive goals, in the
make necessary the raising of the large funds best interests of our wholesome community.
downtrodden and can be found among Negroes as well; its essential
character is to snatch an ironic victory from the blackest defeat."
We are advised that "Freud was proud of his Jewishness, that he
attributed a good deal of his own intellectual independence to his
Jewish origins."
Dr. Roazen goes into great detail discussing Freud's view that
Moses was an Egyptian, that Moses, "an Egyptian aristocrat, chose
the Jewish people in order to perpetuate an earlier Egyptian mono-
theism." Dr. Roazen poses the question: "By making Moses an Egyp-
tian was not Freud saying that he could retain Moses as a model only
if Moses was not Jewish?" He comments: "For the truth of the matter
was that Freud's Jewishness, which had been used against his career
and his science, was not unstained by shame and guilt in his own eyes.
Making Moses an Egyptian was one way of accomplishing a fantasied
conversion."
This is related by Dr. Roazen to Freud's reactions upon the emer-
gence of Nazism, his affirmation of his Jewishness in preference to his
German status, and Dr. Roazen applies it to Central European Jewry,
stating that "having lost their religious faith, they lost their protective
shield against anti-Semitism."
"The sources for Freud's ambivalance about his Jewishness."
Dr. Roazen writes, "are no doubt multiple; it would be only in
Freud's tradition if we glanced merely at his relation to his father.
Freud describes his father as a kindly man; but as a child Freud
was deeply disappointed by his father's unheroic passivity in the
face of an anti-Semitic insult. There was of course nothing of this
passivity in Freud himself when he grew up; his son Martin
records an incident in which Freud bravely charged into a hostile
crowd which had been shouting anti-Semitic abuse, an uncanny
reversal of Freud's own father's behavior. But there was a willed
quality to Freud's identity as a Jew, a strained denial of the shame
his society expected from him .. ."
The references to Jung, Freud's selection of him as his successor
(because he "could lead psychoanalysis in a world which Freud
considered at bottom anti-Semitic"), his disappointment: "There were
hints of anti-Semitism in -Jung even before he split with Freud; by the
'30's Jung was actually collaborating with the Nazis. (He justified
his actions as designed to protect psychotherapy in Germany, which
may actually have been the case; but it was still collaboration)."
Freud's role is defined in Dr. Roazen's study in its application to
history as well as religion. The author notes that "in the course of
developing his theory of the rise of Jewish monotheism, Freud gives
his most sustained treatment of the place of tradition in maintaining
the continuity of culture."
Crediting Freud with the great accomplishments in the develop-
ment of his science, Dr. Roazen assigns to him the great compliment:
"The study of genius can come close to being the study of man."