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Rosh Ilashana Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portions: Saturday, Sept. 9, Gen. 21.1 34, ?V ion. 29.1-6,
.Sunday, Gen 22:1 24, NUM. 29.1 6 .
Prophetical portions: Saturday. I Sam. 1.1-2:10. Sunday. ler. 31.2.20.
Fast of Gedalia Scriptural Selections
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Pentateuchal portions, F.:rod. 32 11 14, 34 1 10; Prophetical por-
tion, Isaiah 5.5 6.56.8.
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Vol. LXI. No. 26
Page Four
p.m.
September 8, 1972
An American Goal for 5733
A new year calls for review of conditions affecting not
only ourselves but also our neighbors.
In 5733 we shall be faced anew with many problems.
There will be a new national administration—it will be new
whether or not the President is re-elected, because there un-
doubtedly will be a revised cabinet, new approaches to na-
tional needs, continuous struggles with the fight against pov-
erty as well as against discrimination in employment, and
an unending struggle with the obstacles to educational aims.
Perhaps the year ahead will see a solution to the busing
challenges and the beginning of more dedicated aims in seek-
ing solutions to issues that affect our schools.
Universities also are troubled. Opportunities for place-
ment of scientists and teachers have lessened. There is an
academic unemployment. There are difficulties to be over-
come and needs to be fulfilled.
Within a matter of weeks, the passions that are created
during Presidential campaigns will have subsided. There
will be need for national cooperation among all elements in
the task of achieving unity to solve all ills that affect our
lives—in the solution of economic, political, social, racial
problems.
We are a wholesome people seeking accord among our-
selves before we can attain it internationally. Recognizing this
basic factor in our existence, we should reach the sort of
unity on basic issues that leads toward dignity in the life
of all Americans.
American Jewry is a vital factor in these aims. We
have much at stake—in the battle for security, in the attain-
ment of economic stability, in the elimination of racial strife.
Let the attainment of these aims become the goal of all
of us, Americans of all faiths and racial and national back-
grounds, for an assurance of the dignity that makes our life
as Americans a superb aspiration in life.
Principles versus Materialism
Speculative minds have arrived at astronomical figures
that may be required to provide rescue funds for Jews who.
wish to emigrate from the Soviet Union. The world keeps
figuring the responsibilities people owe to their fellow men
in terms of money. What about the basic principles that are
involved? Must we concern ourselves only with the hundreds
of millions the USSR demands for visas to be granted to the
Russian Jewish intellectuals? Won't the world protest against
such indignities and instead demand honor and respect for
humankind?
Not all are influenced by the cruelties that accompany
the restrictions that have been imposed on human beings.
At an international colloquium at Uppsala University in
Sweden, in which 70 international experts on law partici-
pated—and in which the American Jewish Committee's
Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human
Rights and the International Institute of Human Rights (Rene
Cassin Foundation) of Strassbourg participated—there was
a reaffirmation of the basic human right of any person "to
leave any country, including his own, and to return to his
country." It was asserted that:
"Any person who wishes to leave a country should be
Opportunities for Service to Humanity
The year 5733 we usher in this evening may not differ from most in our recent ex-
perience. It is certain to continue the needs and the obligations, the hopes and aspira-
tions, of a people praying for peace, seeking amity with neighbors, hoping for commitment
to the Jewish heritage from the youth.
The quest for peace may be the major aim and hoped-for attainment in the coming
month. President Nixon's administration promises peace in Southeast Asia in the very
near future. Moshe Dayan leads in encouraging predictions that peace may be at hand in
the Middle East. People of good will every where hope that these visions and predictions
will come to fruition.
To attain peaceful ends we shall have to be prepared for sacrifices. The United
States will have to support many refugees and war sufferers. In the Middle East, the Is-
raeli duties will grow. As a matter of fact, peace will not decrease our vigilance, and at
the same time it will add to the burdens of rehabilitating many who had chosen self-im-
posed exile when Israel emerged into renewed statehood.
There is this absolute certainty: migrations won't stop and we may not see an end to
persecutions in our time. Therefore, the philanthropic aspect of sharing with our fellow
men will continue for a long time to come, and the major world Jewish relief agency, the
United Jewish Appeal, will continue to make demands upon our time, our leadership
qualities, our gifts. There will continue the duties that go with human obligations not
to abandon kinsmen, to come to the aid of fellow men in periods of need.
The coming year will increase the obligations to Soviet Jewry. More and more
immigrants will stem out of Russia on the road to Zion, and that wave of humankind
will call for assistance unprecedented since the years when we emptied the displaced per-
sons camps with our charitable deeds.
In the process of providing assistance for those who seek haven in Israel and escape
from the humiliations suffered under the Communist rulers, hope is being entertained
that there will be an end to oppressions, that the Russian rulers will recognize the need
to grant the right to emigrate to those of her citizens who seek citizenship in the land of
their ancestors. But every delay in the acknowledgement of such rights must serve as an
encouragement to the freedom-searching protesters against bias that they will not be
abandoned by their kinsmen and by those who support the just cause of rebels against
tyranny.
permitted to take his personal property with him, subject
to general controls imposed to safeguard the national econ-
omy . . . No special fees, taxes or other exactions should
be imposed for leaving a country or for returning to it .
A person who believes he is being denied the right to leave
should be free to contact the United Nations or other or-
ganizations to seek help. He should not be Penalized for
C0171171UlliCating with foreign consular or diplorhatic offici-
als in order to obtain travel documents . . . The procedure
for obtaining travel documents or permits should be pro-
vided by law or regulations readily accessible to the public.
These procedures should not be unreasonable, or lengthy.
or overly expensive."
It will be a year for great effort in defense of Russian Jewry, while striving for
justice for the oppressed everywhere.
These should be the guiding lines for human actions.
World public opinion must demand strict adherence to the
regulations that have been approved by the international
gathering- of experts to the exclusion of materialism dealing
with human rights.
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Recognizing these obligations, we can look forward to the year ahead as one of
great opportunities to render service, to retain our traditions for defense of justice for
all, as a year to speed the end to tyrannical forces and one of comfort to the strivers for
human decency. In such a spirit we can wish each a Good and Happy Year with a feeling
of confidence
that •.- human
values_shall
never- be tramped in the dust.
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The coming year will place a greater obligation upon the Jewish people to keep
the UJA on a high plane of service to the needy, to those seeking refuge from oppres-
sion and to the seekers of affiliation with the legacies of their people.