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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 20th day of Adar II, 5733, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagoguges:
Pentateuchal portions, Levit. 6:1-7:16, Num. 19:1-22. Prophetical portion, Ezekiel
36:16-38.
Candle lighting, Friday, March 23, 1973, 6:29 p.m.
VOL. LXIII. No. 2
P age Four
March 23, 1973
A Drive That Tests Our Community
Our community is again being put to the
test—only more seriously than ever at this
time.
While Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel
Emergency Fund activities have been pro-
gressing for some weeks, with impressive
marks of generosity by the pre-campaign con-
tributors who traditionally set the pace for
the great philanthropic effort, it is the second
half of the drive, in which the tens of thou-
sands of donors are enlisted, that counts more
significantly.
The advance gifts of $8,000,000 have come
from a comparative handful of people, those
in the higher brackets. An equal amount must
be raised from approximately • 25,000 more
Detroiters of all ages. It is to the masses that
the community must now look earnestly for
increased generosity to the fund that provides
our major gifts toward Israel's development.
And when the objective is development in-
cluded in which is care for new immigrants
and provision for the welfare, educational
and social needs of the Jewish state, it also
means security. A state that is not assured the
basic needs, a nation that does not provide
for the cultural and welfare needs of its cit-
izens, is not secure.
not permit tragedies to stand in the way of
just solutions for people who have as much
right to a homeland as their bitterest enemies.
To confirm that right, we must assure un-
questioned support for the project that are
aimed in defense and support of people bat-
tling for the safety and comfort of their fam-
ilies •and the state that provides proper cit-
izenship for them.
It is doubtful whether any one would ques-
tion the logic of such a position. How else
will humanity have justification for survival,
unless even the smallest segments of that
humanity will be assured the means for sur-
vival? The current task therefore emerges as
perhaps the most humanitarian in mankind's
history—because the people most vulnerable
to destruction has resisted dangers to its ex-
istence and its determination serves as a sym-
bol for mankind's dedication to the highest
principles in life.
—
Therefore, our major responsibility is
to provide for the basic needs. The vast sums
Israel needs for military purposes are borne
by the citizens of the small and ever-embat-
tled land. Their own burdens are immense,
yet they carry a great portion of the respon-
sibilities toward which we contribute, as
kinsmen of the Israelis and as partners in the
great project of building the homeland for
the liberated masses of Jews who escaped
persecutions and indignities, as well as those
who have chosen a return to a Jewish identity
as citizens of the redeemed Eretz Israel.
In the process of preparing to meet the
responsibilities inherent in the great philan-
thropic effort, we must bear in mind the ob-
stacles in Israel's path, the difficulties that
are confronted by a sovereign state, the ob-
structions to be hurdled. There are inevitable
losses in the process. A state can and usually
is blamed for tragedies like that of a plane
crashing in ruins with innocent passengers.
We can mourn and weep and feel depressed
by such accidents, by incidents no one in a
position of trust would ever tolerate. We must
Survival must be defined not merely as a
road toward assuring a person's or a nation's
life but also the manner in which such a life
is to be uplifted. Communal Jewish objectives
are to give life the dignity that is consonant
with ennobled traditions, rooted in an historic
heritage. While giving emphasis to the need
to provide for Israel's security, we also must
think in terms of our own communal secu-
rities—the continuity of our social and edu-
cational services, the uninterrupted function-
ing of agencies without which many obliga-
tions might remain unfulfilled and the needs
of less fortunate in our midst would become
more oppressive.
It is the totality of Jewish life that is vital
to our continuity as a community, and it is
this continuity that it at the root of whatever
appeals we may be making for the success of
the fund-raising duties we are asked to ful-
fill at this time.
The Allied Jewish Campaign's beginning
was an exceptionally good one. A comparative
handful of people have already contributed
approximately half of the expected total of
the immense fund. Now an additional 25,000
men, women and youths must provide $8,000
more to measure up to the overall participa-
tion in the drive. Now we are put to the test
—whether the total community will be as
responsive as a fraction of it. Let the answer
be in the affirmative.
Proselytizing a Christian Problem
So much stir has been created over the
Key 73 campaign that there emerges evi-
dence of panic over the •tactics used by pros-
elytizers and evangelists in the ranks of the
searchers for Jewish souls more than in our
own.
Our view has been expressed consistently
that the entire issue is exaggerated and that
our chief duty is the traditional one: to teach
our youth in accordance with the injunction
"ve'limadtekha le'vinkha"—teach they son—
so that there should be a knowledgeable gen-
eration.
But when there is a persistent effort to
reduce Jewish ranks it spells, as Dr. Emil
Fackenheim asserted in a lecture here, that
those pursuing the proselytization schemes
aim to reduce Jewish ranks and that was the
Nazi aim.
The Jewish response
hat we do not
reduce our ranks, that we multiply, that we
do not add comfort to the possibility of a
"posthumous victory" for Hitler, as Dr. Fa-
ckenheim phrased it.
Of course, proselytizers are not now in
our ranks. They have existed, they'll keep
molesting some of our gullible. That panic
should develop in their ranks, resulting from
distortions, or from fanatic search for lost
souls when the misguided among themselves
really need salvation, is a natural outcome
of an unnatural campaign. So be it!
UNITED
NOLA
sERVIcE
Voss' Quotations of Courage
and Vision' Covers Vast Field
Dr. Carl Hermann Voss has established such an excellent record
as an author, lecturer, man of research—and as an authority on liturgi-
cal matters involving all faiths—that the excellence of his new work,
his "source book for speaking, writing and 'meditation," published by
Association Press under the title "Quotations of Courage and Vision"
will not surprise its readers. The more than 1,500 "vital quotations"
not only represent "a fresh and highly useful compilation;" they enrich
the anthological works of this nature and give quotational literature a
new aspect.
As a friend and biographer of both Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Dr.
John Hanes Holmes; as a leader in the Christian Zionist movement
for many years who has befriended David Ben-Gurion, Martin Buber,
Abraham Joshua Heschel; as a Christian minister who has studied
with and under Reinhold Niebuhr and other great thinkers, he has
earned the role of 'an authority on scores of subjects. This authoritative-
ness becomes evident in his new book.
He draws effectively on the Bible. In the 117 categories in this
book he has utilized every conceivable subject that can assist speakers,
that will serve to encourage acquisition of additional knowledge and
will inspire those who will acquire his compilation, being asured that
they will 'prize it immensely.
Dr. Voss commenced collecting wise and important sayings 50
years ago, during his school days in his native Pittsburgh. It grew
into a vast collection which he reduced to the 1,500 in this volume.
He has drawn not only upon the classics, turning to Ralph Waldo
Emerson, George Gordca Byron, the Huxleys, Henry George, Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe—scholars, statesmen, theologians of all nations
but also to ancient lore. For example, he 'found much to quote from
the wisdom of Solomon lbn-Gabirol and many other Hebrew writers,
the Midrash and the Mishna; as well as Marcus Aurelius, Cicero,
Epicteras, Socrates and others in these categories.
Dr. Voss treats his readers to humor as well as philosophy, history
and theology. For examcie, he quotes Will Rogers:
"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot
to the town gossip."
He has turned wisely to Mark Twain, for a saying like: "Few of
us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean."
He utilizes a Yiddish proverb: "Old age, to the unlearned, is winter;
to the learned, it is harvest time."
Proof of the universality of the selections in this splendid book will
be found on this sample page, in the section devoted to the Bible:
"From century to century, even to this day, throughout the fairest
regions of civilization, the Bible dominates existence. Its vision of life
moulds states and societies. Its Psalms are more popular in every
country than the poems of the nation's own. poets. Beside this one
book with its infinite editions all other literature seems "trifles light-
as air."
ISRAEL ZANGWIL
Nothing can surpass the Bible as lighting up the manifold prob/em
of our life. There can by no worthwhile political or military education'
about Israel without profound knowledge of the Bible.
The Book of Books, written by the hand of the people of Israel in
this Land, is the most widely read in the world, and more than any
other has influenced human thought. Most religions have their origin
in this Land, and many a nation owns an attachment of spirit and soul
to it and to the events that have occurred in it during the last three
thousand years. Of everything that happens here the echo resounds
throughout the wide world.
DAVID BEN-GURION
Far from being a mere relic of ancient literature, a book on the
shelf gathering dust, the Bible in our lives is living power, radiating
anticipations, throwing illuminations.
More than two thousand years of reading and research have not
succeeded in exploring its full meaning. Today it is as if it had never
been touched, never been seen, as if we had not even begun to read
it. What would be missing in the world, what would be the condition
and faith of man, had the Bible not been preserved?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
Many of the pages in this book are of that caliber. That is why
Dr. Voss' "Quotations of Courage and Vision" merits the interest
this book is certain to evoke.