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Let me demonstrate the NEW DIAL-A-MATIC short wove method on any part of the body. FASTER THAN OLD METHODS USED Leaves the skin soft and smooth. DOROTHY STOFIR -Noorruumo snompoo CENTER Crwme•roiry Ce•cours• la 7-2262 1/- * * * * * * David and Esther. David. 23, a graduate student and instructor of philosophy at a university, is a brilliant student but has "joined" the New Left. He considers himself a rebel Jew, like Spinoza. His younger sister, Esther, is a mem- ber of a commune, replete with sex, drugs and apathy, and all of the other stereotypes of freaks (Falk calls them hippies), that come into mind. David and Esther have been away from home and haven't talked with their parents or friends for some time. But during the course of one year. from one Yom Kippur, to the next, the two live a whole set of wild and implaus- ible experiences which eventually lead them back home. There is nothing about this book which is good. Its simple writing style and sentence struc- ture would embarrass a high school student, and the dialogue and descriptive writing is just as bad. The characters are one dimen- sional and unreal. The rabbi and his wife aren't ordinary people, but super-Jews. The rabbi is from a poor home. His parents want him to enter a profession, but even though he has no money he wants to go to Europe to study to become a rabbi. He goes to Poland, studies hard, wins honors, joins the Polish resistance and saves his best friend's life while simul- taneously under attack from the Nazis and sabotaging a troop train. He conies home to New York, builds up a congregation from nothing, and is able to walk into a bank president's office and secure a loan for a near bank- rupt plumber in a matter of minutes. Miriam received a degree in education, while studying Talmud on the side. She is an excellent musician, bookkeeper, organizer of a bikur cholem society, honorary PTA president, editor of a biweek- ly newspaper, teacher of sister- hood classes and maker of chicken soup and kreplach. The plot, or lack of it, is even more implausible. Unable to think of an original idea, Falk borrows every cliche about the New Left and counter-culture and calls it a story. 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Many Prisoners of Nazis Still Unaccounted For ALL • Dresses • Pant Suits • Sweaters. r..- aches a new low point in taste in American literature when he uses an incident that is patterned after the Kent State tragedy. Falk pictures David and Esther as children who have lost their way and have no real commitment to the life they lead. As David and Esther live their experiences they recall passages from the Talmud and Torah that sort of act as their own personal Jiminy Crickett. Falk is supposedly offering the reader an objective look at the generation gap and how a good Jewish background can close it . But with his biases and ignorance of the hows and whys of the alter- native life styles. he has only widened it. For example, "The Students for Democratic Action (Student for Democratic Society) lean toward Socialism." From this statement, Falk lumps all social- ists with Marx and Lenin and finally to the godless commie countries. He writes, "did anyone know of a Marxist society with a strong religious background?" Not only is the Left godless to Falk, but anti-American. "Leftist as he had become, David couldn't help but admire the basic freedoms guaranteed by th. American Constitution." The aut•or apparently doesn't know that Israel is a democratic socialist state. Esther and her friends are dealt with in the game fashion. "Days of Judgment" is a poor book, and one that doesn't bother to explain or understand why young people believe and act as they do. Falk gives us the sim- plistic answers, but is incapable of asking the right complex ques• Lions. The book is Falk's first novel, (the book jacket tells us he is active in the field of education and has written for various jour- nals and periodicals), does succeed in destroying one old axiom, "there is at least one good hook in all of us." —STEVE RAPHAEL , THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS The Power of a Language Friday, June 9, 1972 - 39 The power of a language can scarcely be gauged. Within Ian- i • . . . . . . guage lie concealed magic forces . .. s...... , ,-,i..-,'CiarleAhlitill -• GENEVA (JTA) — A large num- ber of prisoners of the Nazis re- main unaccounted for 27 years after the end of World War II, according to the just-published an- nual report of the International Tracing Service at Arolsen. The ITS, which identifies and traces such victims, said that in 1971 it received 127.872 appeals and issued 187,007 certificates confirm- ing concentration camp detentions or deaths. 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