THE JEWISH NEWS incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 of Englsti-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Presa Association, National Editorial Association Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co, 17515 W. Nine Mlle, Suite 865„ Southfield, Mich. 48075. Phone 356-5400 Yernber American Associaton Subscription RI a year Foreign SS. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ SualneseMariagar 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 - - 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."