THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

46—Friday, July 7, 1972

57 —FOR SALE—HOUSEHOLD
GOODS & FURNISHINGS

Several \eliocken , Author Sees Westernization of M. E.
Classic s Issued
as Cause for Anti-Israel Infuriation
,
Georgie Anne Geyer introduces
Polk, the knowledgeable dirge'
as Paperbacks

herself as neither pro-Israel nor
. Another series of important etas-
, pro-Arab, and in "The New 100
sins has been reissued by Scho- j Years War: The Arab-Israeli Con-
. cken as paperbacks
flint," published by Doubleday,
Order fine contemporary turn'
tore from Denmark. Sweden at
Included in the new group is ' she deals with what the reader
ia• in, of 23.".
"Judaism — A Portrait" by Leon could view as "paradoxes."
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351 47 ,01
Roth. It is a widely acclaimed,
A veteran correspondent, Miss
analysis
of the dogmas and mir- Geyer visited the important ,areas
TEAKWOOD ECHNITt FIE Seam
stele ',sing rm . bed-
acles, the codification and the spir• I in the countries of conflict. Her
mg room ('all 5..-
itual background, and it defines
views are eminently worth study-
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ing because there are conclusiOns
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both sides. Yet, there are elements
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of realism in her account of a
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pointing to a 100-year war is re-
The late Rabbi Morris Adler
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jected—and some conclusions are
5954
and former Detroiter Rabbi Her
certain to arouse interest and de-
bert Parzen are quoted exten-
bate.
sively in the annotations to his

SCANDINAVIAN

I:Emotional Aid
in Eurch Guide

Problems of emotionally
is`
bed are. receivine more
atteruion Experts in
!Adds of too•hiairy anti
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to

text. "Conservative Judaism,"
by Marshall Sklare. This new
paperback deals at great length
with the transitions in Conserva-
tive Judaism. The paperback is
a new and augmented text of
the earlier work published in

'
by Martin fluber
wiled by Nahum N Glat7er. als•
reissued as a paperback by Scho-
ken. contains the arr-'!t nhilo, ,
Ph el' S addresses of 1919 1918 and
1939-1951.

She states, for example. that
"the Arab states are all troubled,
in varying manners and degrees,
by the conflict 'between the an-
client traditions and the demands
cf the modern world." Yet she
adds: "Israel has exactly the
opposite problem: it suffers
from a lack of tradition, and an
apparent fading of the idealistic
fervor that marked its birth."
some Jews hold similar views,
set the. are subject to scrutiny.
Mi-s Geyer also beliescs:

Lori Ellen Weinberg, 14;
Dies After Riding Mishap

for of the Adlai Stevenson In-
stitute in Chicago, fear that the
growing trends would eventually
lead to total and anti-American
militarization of the Arab world
and to societies which "will be
politicized and revolutionized
along the Algerian if not along
the Vietnamese or Cuban mod-
els."

Why the Arab "consuming hatred
for this tiny state of Israel in their
midst?" What about "the Arab
absurdities that turned the civil-
ized world off to the Arab world?"
She came slowly, "with surprise,"
to these conclusions:

It is not Israel that the Arabs

Lori Ellen Weinberg, a 14-year-
old student at Lederle Junior High
School, died July 1 as a result of
injuries sustained in a fall from
a horse.

Lori, daughter of the late Jerome
and Phyllis Weinberg, resided at
23888 Merrill, Southfield, with her
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence (Shirley) Klein. She at-
tended Temple Israel's religious
school.

Surviving besides her aunt and
uncle are two sisters, Sheryl and
Karen: and grandmothers Mrs.
Sally Tushman and Mrs. Ida Wein-
berg.

Studying Torah
on the Sabbath

hate so much, and far less the
Jews because they are "Jews,'
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
but the fact that the Arabs be
(Copyright 1972, JTA, Inc.)
lieve the West, acting on its own
The Torah is read on Saturday
guilt, "imposed" Israel on them
afternoon in addition to the reading
a
and
then abandoned them in ad - already accomplished on Saturday
nitration for Israel. What the morning.
Jews brought to Israel that was
The usual explanation for this
offensive In the Arabs was not custom is that it serves as an ex-
their ability to succeed, and it tra reading for one who may not
is this that affronts and in-
he able to get to hear the Torah
furiates and drives the Arabs.
reading in the synagogue on Mon-
Their pride has been destroyed, day and Thursday mornings. The
and the webs of their pride are • accepted practice is to read the
as thin as those that spiders full portion of the week on Satur-
weave. Pride dominates Arab day morning and then to read the
culture.
first section from the following par-

- The historic antagonism be-
tween Arab and Jew never really '
eaisted: the two peoples had co-
Unless we understand all this, '. Lion on Saturday afternoon, Mon-
eeiated harmoniously right up to
we miss the entire core of the day morning and Thursday morn-
the eve of the 1943 war which re-
reality of the conflict. We have : ing. The rabbis realized that many
suited fr'om the rivalry among
not a collision of two peoples people are engaged in a 111111ti-
:a1 , 0 published as a Sehocken Arab leader,. Many Palestinian
and certainly not - two religions, : tude of occupations which may
pa perback is the voluminous study refaieees have actually benefited
or even—though this is closer not allow them ample time to at-
if the Fundamental Institutiuns" from their displacement: economic
—two rights: we have a conflict ! tend the synagogue on Monday and
W Robertson Smith, under the and educational opportunities are
of two epochs, of two dialectics, Thursday mornings. To serve these
titre 'The Religion of the Semites." now better than they were before
of two ways of looking at man. people with a reminder that the
Considerable impartance
they left their homeland."
•
As they grapple in their blind- Torah is read at other times be-
attaches to the author's
These are partially true Arabs
■
ness, they comprehend even less sides Saturday mornings. the Torah
analysis of the mans prob-
under Israel's administration cer-
is read on Saturday at the after-
of each other. This is why every-
lems affecting retarded
,
Ise.,-p benefiting from a new
noon service. Some contend that
thing in the Middle East is so
With
children. ttith a future of
order of social justice imposed
s e
on
a or_ ay
oblique and apparently unfath-
more than 5.000.100 re-
by a conqueror, but it is not al-
afternoon
to impress the Sabbath
NEW YORK (.1TA i—W. Averell
'
omable; that is why, so much of
tarded to be dealt with in
together true that Jew' and Arab
s:nagogue worshipper that cur
H
Harriman
said
that
in
the
current
the ti
time, so little
littl of what goes
this country, and addition-
has lived together in peace and
reading of the Torah is a task
election year. aid to Israel should
on in this tinderbox makes any
al large numbers of slight.
.
..,
in harmony. There were always
which is never completed. We must
I
national q .
,
not
sense.
Is retarded, the challenge
i conflicts, even in Theodor Herzns
be ever anxious to continue this
a
olitical.
partisan
"p
one
.
He
,
involving their needs is so
Miss Geyer's observations are holy pursuit and ever developing
• spoke to 200 key volunteers at the , time the founder of political Zion- ,
great that Mrs. Burch's
ism was warned of a possible worthy of serious 'consideration.
our interest and knowledge of the
C'ndcd Jevcia
ppea n
Grease,
treatment of the subject
There is an objectivity in her opin-
antagonism, and the hitter strug-
Holy Torah.
New York headquarters here par- i
is of immense importance.
ions
that
may
be
disliked
in
all
ale commenced as early - as the
It has been a practice to as.
ticipating in a summer-long per-
Pic king a school for re..
of the Middle East areas, but they
a
semble study circles to be en-
, son-to•person telephone drive to
tarde.I is viewed as of im-
Geyer':, analysis of the Rus- ' are mingled with many realities gaged in the study and reading
reach 100.000 members of the New s
mense
sian
ign involvement is especially in- that need to be considered in deal-
importance, and the
of our holy literature on Sall-
Ytok Jewish community
ototacles are taken into a•-
Nixon ad- *cresting, and the resentment she trig with a problem as serious as bath afternoon.
Ile applauded
the
malt "The overall effective
Generally speaking, the Sabbath
ministration for making it possible , had heard of American support the danger-laden between Arabs
nes. of a nuhilc schodl
1 and Jews. If there is too much was set aside as a day of study
for Israel is reiterated by her.
for Israel to buy weapons in the •
rail
for
51,111
re . t.11 (led
The position of the Arab youth i skepticism in Miss Geyer's con- and contemplation, a pursuit which
U S fan asked "Why not lend.
rs
!lurch writes .
such arms to Israel? "by is stated by iier as being "Cuban- ' elusions. it is offset by the pus- cannot always be engaged in dor
lease ..
• depcuds
• an Fl factors
ic ed." Miss GeYer also wrote about sible authcritativeness of some of
die the busy week One pasaage
a .
debt " b ec ause of -
as suftwient 1,:rids. creative
de-
'
the 'desert-bloom complex" and - the experts and diplomats, as well in the talmudic literature
wea polls sales policies. •Ot. does : she states:
moor:minor sensitive and
, as the men on the streets of Cairo scribes the complaint of the Torah
seem to me we are not fulfilling
well trained teachers for the
Arabs
cannot
bear
to
hear
;
to
whom
she
had
turned
for
in-
I
that
its
lore
might
be
forgotten
The
our obligations.
knack' of expiorine the fall
about how- Israel "made the I formation regarding the war- ; when the Israelis would enter
lie said that the volunteers were
lo.ter1.131
of the •hild. - She
; the Promised Land and engage
threatening Mid East situation.
desert
bloom," because it touches
doing Was ea bsolutely essential . '
p o inis
pr sitie c
e
roidis
, in their busy, every day occupa-
deep chords of insecurity con-
because 33 hat the U. S. was doing
from si hook thro-,iglim„ t the
titans. To this, the Almighty an-
cerning Arab technological in. i
'is only a plus In no sense do I •
swered that a day had been pro-
feriority. The idea that those
suggest
that
it
will
relieve
Ameri-
!
vises
once a week, the Sabbath.
The Burch guide •- an ap-
who "made the desert bloom"
can Jews of the responsibilities
In the Will
section of , during which they would be free
peal for Justice fur the on],
somehow have a greater right i
which
they
have
throughout
the
Brooklyn lives ties unassimilatedfrom their daily occupational ac-
tionally disturbed . and in his
years so ftaly met."
to the land—that with advanced eroup 'Of Jewish immigrants and tivities and would have time fcr
areface Dr Walter E. Bar-
technology there accrues also a!
Herbert Tenzer, N. Y UJA
their American-born children, the study of the Torah. Obvious-
ton. medic-al director of the
moral right--is abhorrent and
+airman, reported that. since the
Hasidim. Surrounded by a plural-1 ly, the morning of the Sabbath is
American. Psychiatric Asso-
absolutely unacceptable to them.
ist American society,
they hold taken with prayer and the Torah
elation. pointing to
-Mrs. , 1972 drive began on Feb. 1. more
Much of this feeling was ex- fiercely to an almost insular reading in the synagogue. This
hae
558.000.000
had
been
raised
in
!lurch s fervent plea with the
t
pressed in the words of a Syrian existence. leaves the afternoon for study.
troubled fa roily "never to • t rade and community division
chauffeur in Damascus, who
- unctions in New York City Lone
cm:stares,
give
up hope. -
This is the story related in "Sat- Some claim that the Torah was
lamented, "There are 90.000,000
Island and W •stchester.
en to the people of Israel on
' Her poetic. and heartfelt
mar," the book, about the Hasidic t
of us and we have oil. Why do
the
e
and its study displays
plea is a simple one ad-
community in Williamsburg.
you stand behind 1,000,000
fact that the people of Israel
dresse.i to all human,: name-
Israel
Rubin,
a
sociologist,
Jews?' Implicit in that complaint
still
are
interested
in it as if it
ly, that they consciously as-
was the feeling that even 90 to author of "Satmar: An Island in I we- , the very day they received it.
pire to ever greater toter- '
one, with fountains of bubbling the City," lived with the Satmarer
once of those who are 'dif-
NEW YORK— Leek, Listen. •
Hasidim over a period of years
oil thrown in, the West did not
ferent' in an effort to ies-
Touch. the Jewish Museum's spc-
and observed their Patterns of life.
think the .'crabs were worth any-
sell the gulf that exists be-
Val Judaica exhibition ror young
thought
and culture. Written in
Sehocken has produced a most
thing.
tween them and us so tha
people, and Ancient Time-Ancient
popular style, this fascinating book unu. sat book. "Seven Tales" by
But if these traumatized at-
the 'different ones' who can
1 'lace, color photographs by Erich
about an extraordinary community I Edgar Allen Poe is made a Val:.
titudes dominated the thinking
function outside of a protect-
Lessing based on the biblical his
describes in detail tv.w children I able in English and a French
of the middle generation, I was
et setting can be free to live
t ors of the Jewish people, will
are raised in Satmar, what they • translation, and as a bilingual
soon to find that they clearly
ai our World, accepted on
t a, exhibited throimh Sept. 4
study in school, what they are led
it provides a wonderful
did not dominate the thinking of
heir own terms, as people
the two exhiletions. w Mel. °pence;
to believe about sex, has, they • study of t - ie works of one of
the younger ones. This genera-
different but equal.' "
u 'April , w••re •iii: mall} ached
become adults and esirn a living, Amerii.L's greatest writers.
tion was - fulianized.•' It was
!ell
clo_d• '-iandav
why they marry, now they pray,
The French transi,t:on is by
t e l in a total, cold rejection
GENIUS AT WORK
On .dily:tom
a m. to 2
mil the almost Mind faith they Charles Paudelaira, who has pop-
of the West and all it stood for.
'lost of iis would enjoe
m , Prof Gerard R. Wolfe of
toe•- in their spiritual leader, the ulariz•d Poe's works. The Baud , .
Floe the - alibi?.a ton ea:re sym- lair
, tieing the man who Invented
ew York University
will
con-
Few who have really studied
essay was translated into
hol
tne budget system on a va • tuct the third in a settee of Lower
the area were optimistic. Some
religious strength and sta- Engash by tne editor of this
..ation trip.
bility-
F. ...a Side Ha:king Tours.
Arne, ican .arabists like William
volume, W. 0 Bandy

,

co Alec ,en of the
problems ,rivoa
• tO
':le
offered as "a guide to
Ile Ina with the emotionally
dist u r b e d. published by
Bold,. Merrill Co . links
many approai he.
and i•specialle the einergin_7
farm!. (Li•t•i - lances

Noteworthy among the Schm
aim classic's reissued as a pa-
per back is the collection of short
stories, "Taints-One Stories."
by S. V. :Xenon • the Nobel Prize
winner in literature.

!wild-Lease Deal
rged

Satmar' Hasidim :

Jewish Museum Exhibits
Extended Through Sept. 4

Bilingual 'Seven Tales'

