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CHARLOTTE DUBIN
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 25th day of Elul, 5730, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Deut. 29:931:30. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 61:10-63:9.
Candle lighting, Friday, Sept. 25, 6:06 p.m.
Rosh Hashana Scriptural Selections, Oct. 1 and 2
Pentateuchol portioni: Thursday, Oct. 1, Gen. 21:1-34, Num. 29:1-6: Friday, Oct. 2,
Gen. 22:1-24, Num. 29:1-6.
Prophetical portions: Oct. 1, I Samuel 1:1-2:10; Oct. 2, Jeremiah 11:2-20.
Candle lighting, Wednesday, Erev Rosh Hashana, 5:57 p.m.
VOL. LVIII. No. 2
Page Four
September 25, 1970
For The First Time: Sacrifice Giving
American Jewry has earned recognition
for its philanthropic spirit. There have been
occasional appeals to "Give until it hurts,"
and once in a while there is reference to
"sacrifice giving." These definitions have
never been taken too seriously. Actually
there is seldom self-subjection to sacrifice in
giving to charity, or suffering from giving.
But in the coming months, in the year
ahead, it will be imperative for all of us to
give toward Israel's protection to such a de-
gree that for many it may represent a sac-
rifice.
A nation is pressed to the wall, and we
have reached such a stage in the inhumanity
of man to man that breathing space is denied
to the People Israel that has returned to
the Land of Israel by a brutal element that
goes to such extremes as to advocate the de-
struction of a sovereign state.
There have been few, if any, incidents
of an organized effort by a group of nations
to deny the right to existence to a neighbor
that occupies a few thousand square miles of
territory in comparison with the destructive
elements' millions of miles of areas occupied
by 15 nations, nearly all of whom were cre-
ated after the last world war. The small
country that is fighting for its existence sym-
bolizes the kinship that commands us to be
deeply concerned with the fate that confronts
our fellow men, and the obligation that rests
upon us is to exert all our efforts, to give
of our means in the extreme generosity, in
order that anything resembling an Auschwitz
or a Biafra should be prevented.
The hijackers' victims, the innocent people
who are being held captives of terrorists
under inhuman conditions; the destruction of
property and the rejection of public senti-
ments; the defiance of international law and
the rejection of basic decencies — these re-
sorts to medievalism serve as warnings to
world Jewry to be on guard lest the Genocide
of Nazism should be put into practice again
against that segment of our people whose
courage has led most of the 2,500,000 Israelis
to emerge with dignity from Hitler-made con-
centration camps and from the crematoria.
The self-respect of the Jewish people is
threatened in the current crisis, and the
major obligation is to assure that the recreat-
ed citadels of Israel should not again be
threatened with destruction. Should anything
occur to harm the Israeli nation, it will spell
humiliation bordering on doom for the entire
Jewish people.
Especially vital is the responsibility of the
American Jew. As the major partners in the
rebuilding of Israel, it is our sacred duty to
strive for the state's safety. As citizens of
this great land which has been so helpful in
providing economic, military and political aid
to Israel, it is our duty to be in the forefront
in demanding that this friendship should not
be harmed in any sense, to any degree.
We must not still our voices in demanding
the fullest American support for Israel.
At the same time, it is our obligation to
give to Israel of our means and our spport in
the state's economic development. Overbur-
dened with military obligations to defend the
state, Israel must be relieved of the respon-
sibility of providing for new settlers — and
they are coming again in the thousands !-
and to give all possible aid in the state's wel-
fare and educational financing.
A billion-dollar goal for 1971 becomes a
great obligation to world Jewry—$200,000 of
it to come from Keren Hayesod income in
world Jewish communities, $400,000 to be
raised as United Jewish Appeal gifts in this
country and an additional $400,000 to be
subscribed in Israel Bond purchases. Perhaps
the supply of this fund may become "sacrifice
giving." But sacrifices of this nature repre-
sent the minimal that we can do at a time
when the very life of the state of Israel is at
stake. To assure survival of Israel's statehood
we must stop worrying about giving until it
hurts. We must make sure that we should
not be hurt even more severely if Israel
should ever be abandoned.
Jewish Studies in Universities
Many of the fears that have been expreised
about the New Left's intrusions into the
affairs of our universities and its influence
upon college youth are in large measure dissi-
pated by the reports of hearty responses to
the many Jewish courses that have been intro-
duced in several of Michigan's universities.
What is happening in this state is part of a
national pattern that refutes the spread of
panic over the reactions of youth to Jewish
interests and to dedication to our heritage.
While these courses do not in their entirety
indicate that the negative attitudes among
many young Jews are vanishing, they never-
theless point to the existence of a cultural
force that rejects negativism and places em-
phasis on positive approaches and a sincere
desire to gain knowledge about Jews, Juda- .
ism, Israel, and our history—past and present
—as well as the urge to learn Hebrew.
Wayne State University and the Univer-
sity of Michigan are expanding their efforts
in the sponsorship of important courses that
are attracting the interest of many students,
and Michigan State University, Oakland Uni-
versity and the University of Detroit have
drawn upon, Jewish scholarship to teach his-
tory, religion, language in courses that are
creating deep interest among Jews, attracting
also non-Jews as registrants.
These are not unique by any means. Old
universities like Yale and Harvard, in their
earliest periods, included courses' in clas-
sical Hebrew and the Bible in their curricula.
But the new trends are the results of special
'As Good as Golda' Quotations
Denote Great Woman's Traits
Golda Meir has done a lot of speaking. She has been on the Zionist
platform from early girlhood. She was 23 when, with her husband,
she settled in Palestine—after a teaching career in Milwaukee.
Much of what she had uttered during the
more than 50 years of Zionist propagandiz-
ing serves as a guide to Jewish leadership
and to adherence to a great movement.
The gems from her speeches and writ-
ings have been collected by Israel Shenker,
a member of the editorial staff of the New
York Times, in collaboration with his wife,
Mary Shenker.
The two co-editors of this work provide
a brief but ample biographical sketch of the
great woman they quote, and then proceed
with the numerous quotations which make
Mrs. Meir is shown
up a delightful book, entitled "As Good as here addressing the Is-
Golda: The Warmth and Wisdom of Israel's reel Bond conference in
Prime Minister," which has been published Jerusalem, in August.
by the McCall Publishing Co.
Mrs. Moir is the constant Zionist, and in her consistency she
once said: "Zionism and Pessimism are not compatible."
There are, as there always were, admonitions to American Jewry
in her statements. Thus, she is quoted: "In Russia the authorities are
trying to root out Judaism, so there is no danger of assimilation. In
America, where you are free to be Jewish, the danger of assimilation
is great."
An indication of the form the Shenkers' collection has assumed
is offered in the titles of chapters into which the Golda Meir sayings
are broken down. They are:
"Such a Woman," "The Desert of Hate," "Even When We Win,"
"The Only Road to Peace," "We Count Each One," "Citizens of the
World," "These People Belonged" and "Seventy Is Not a Sin."
It is evident that every era in the great woman's life as well as all
experiences of the country she administers as prime minister are
delineated here.
"Being 70 is not a sin. It's not a joy, either," Golda philoso-
phized. And she expressed her determined will to carry on her labors
for Israel when she asserted: "I do not intend to retire to a
political nunnery."
Much of what she said to assuage fears, her encouragement to
her people in the serious battles for defense and for life, her appeals
to fellow Jews throughout the world, especially to American Jews,
are among the classics quoted by the Shenkers.
"Even when we win," she kept saying, there will be justice, and
she asserted:
"I am convinced that peace will come to Israel and its neighbors
because the tens of millions of Arabs need peace as much as we do.
An Arab mother who loses a son in battle weeps as bitterly as any
Israeli mother."
And she made this telling point: "Peace will come when Nasser
loves his own children more than he hates the Israelis."
The authors' concluding quote is in the form of a reportorial note:
"Just before Israel won its independence, Golda, dressed as an Arab
woman, went to see King Abdullah. He asked her not to hurry procla-
mation of the state. She rejoined: 'We have been waiting for 2,000
years. Is that hurrying?' "
There are puns and anecdotes, but in the main this is a serious
book.
It is "As Good as Golda"--and that's the best recommendation
for a book.
dedication, of an earnest desire for involve-
ment in Jewish ranks by young Jews, and in
many instances the current developments
are direct results of the reactions of young
Jeffs to the charges of assimilation, indif-
ference, a desire to escape.
In the confrontation with the negative
actions in some Jewish ranks it has always
been our plea for knowledge, for the training
of youth who will be informed of what had
occurred in their people's history, the chal-
lenges that face them today, the future needs
which demand as much involvement in Jewish
protectiire efforts as can possibly be mus-
tered. This is what will hopefully be attained
through the new courses that have become
part of the curricula of great universities.
Hillel directors at the University of Michi-
gan, Wayne State University and Michigan
State University have become valuable guides
in the direction of the new programs, and
local educators, from the ranks of the United
Hebrew Schools and others, are participants
in significant efforts that provide the encour-
agement so urgently needed in the present
time of crisis to hearten the creative forces
in Jewish life.
There is justified cause for gratification
A pamphlet published by the Jewish National Fund of England
that the destructiveness of a New Left that
aligns itself with the anti-Israel elements under the title "A Page From . . . the Torah, the Talmud, the Mid-
rash,
the Mishna Torah, the Shulhan Arukh" is being distributed as
whose activities border on anti-Semitism is
thus being properly counteracted by a strong a special brochure by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
It
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element that emphasizes identifications that
Rashi, Rambam, Rashbam, Shulhan Arukh, Alfasi, Mishna Torah
must redound to the benefit and glory of of
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