THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1.951 Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Association. Published every Friday by The Jew- ish News Publishing Co., 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075. Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Offices. Subscription $8 a year. Foreign $9. t 4.11M is ft.\ • • • ." PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher CHARLOTTE DUBIN City Editor CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Business Manager DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Slections This Sabbath, the 12th day of Nisan, 5733, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Levit. 14:1-15:33. Prophetical portion, Mala- chi 3:4-24. Candle lighting, Friday, 'April 13, 6:53 p.m. Passover Scriptural Selections Scriptural portions: Tuesday, Exod. 13:17-15:26. Num. 28:16-25; Wednesday, Levit. 22:26-23:44, Num. 28:16-25. Prophetical portions: Tuesday, Joshua 5:2-6:1, 27; Wednesday, II Kings 23:1-9, 21-25. Hol Hamoed Passover Torah readings: Thursday, Exod. 13:1-16, Num. 28:19-25; Friday, Exod. 22:24-23:19. Num. 28:19-25. VOL. LXIII. No. 5 Page Four Anril 13, 1973 Kinship With Partisans This Passover, as we mark the 30th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt, and as we rejoice in our own free- doms, we are reminded of an era during which oppressions failed to stem the hopes of our terrorized fellow Jews. It was hope and the determined will to live that kept many alive. The declarations of faith accompanied many acts of resistance. It is the will to live that has sustained the victims of Nazism, just as that will causes us to hold fast to our traditions and to cherish our sacred legacies. During the darkest hours of the Hitler terror, Jews prayed and hoped. They sang songs of faith that inspired courage in many who were doomed to destruction. There was a famous song: "Zog Nit Keinmol"—"The Song of the Partisans"—which was composed and set to music by Hirsh Glik, which was sung in Yiddish and has been ascribed also in Hebrew and in English. As an inspiration, it is well that we repeat this song on Passover. In the words of the partisans: Oh never say that you have reached the end, that clouds block out your very light of clay, For the hour we longed for yet will appear Our marching feet will thunder, "We are here!" From snowy plains to lands of palms, "We are here!" with all our pain and woe, wherever a drop of our blood was spilled, There shall our spirits strongly rise again. Tomorrow's sun will pierce the dark Past bitterness and foes will fade away The day for which we yearn will soon appear When marching feet will thunder, "We are here!" This song we wrote in bullets and in blood Sings not of birds swiftly flying free It is the song our people sang—as one Amidst the ruined crumbling walls they sang Their weavons in their hands. So do not say that you have reached the end That clouds block out your very light of day The hour for which you yearn will yet appear Your footsteps will proclaim, "We are here!" The Psalmist first uttered the words: "I shall not die but live, to declare the words of the Lord." That's what the partisans said. That's what we repeat this Passover as a mark of faith: as long as there is the will to live, Israel and Jewry are indestructible. That's the motto on this and all Passovers in the history of our people. Perhaps there is need for another message — more to ourselves than to the world at large whence came the grave dangers to our existence. There is the frequently repeating concern over indifference in Jewish ranks and some symp- toms of abandonment of loyalties by youth. It is to them more than to outsiders that Passover, its theme, those who fully imbibed its lessons, turn again. "Thou shalt say it to your son , . . " is the admonition in the Hagada, and we say it to our sons: History teaches us that there is no escaping our heri- tage. Under tyrants it pursues us, our legacies lend dignity and honor in the atmosphere of freedom. In time of danger, when we are under attack, we must be able proudly to bear the weapons of defense. There is one major weapon: knowl- edgeability and acquaintance with our history and our tradi- tions. Possessing that knowledge, nothing can destroy us. Linking the knowledge with the will to live, we are indestruc- tible. Let that remain the major message of freedom on Passover! I* loffra bolos out (f Ewt a9 outstretched am/ vat yea terror Wit slaps With WoOers ll its a stieob PASSOVER 1973 ‘..7t4A, Passover: Time to Act for Oppressed A festive atmosphere in Jewish communities everywhere will mark the the great Festival of Freedom in the coming week. Not only in free America and the Western countries, and in liberty-inspired Is- rael, but behind the Iron Curtain and in Moslem countries as well, Passover again gives courage to those who live in freedom and to our kinsmen who hope for its advent in the not-too-distant future. Those of us who are preparing for the joyous sedorim, for family reunions to mark the observance of the important event on our calender, will be sharing a common link with others in distant lands who are not as fortunate as we are. Once again, the addendum to the Hagada—the Matzo of Hope—is dedicated to the Jews of the Soviet Union whose fate may be partly in our hands as protesters against persecutions and as the pleaders for justice in their behalf. There will be a special matzo assigned as part of that prayer as a symbol of our kinship with our fellow Jews. This prayer, the special matzo, is not limited to the Jews in Soviet Russia. They are dedicated also to our fellow Jews in Moslem countries whose fate still hangs in th balance. As we mark the occasion with a determination not to abandon the less fortunate, the duty of Jewish communities in the free lands—and particularly in this country—is to let our voices be heard in their behalf, and at the same time to provide the means that are so vital in the efforts we exert for the liberation of the unliberated. We are now engaged in a great effort to be generous, to assure the means nec- essary for the migrants who seek ways of settling in Israel where freedom awaits them. It is imperative that prayers be accompanied by action, that we share with our unfortunate fellow Jews the blessings that are ours materially. • Passover will be recorded as a festival observed with the greatest of dignity when we supply V. means necessary for the liberties of the oppressed. None of us is free unless our fellow men are free. This is true on the home front, and the need is especially great for the masses who live under oppressive regimes. This is a time for action, and Passover is an occasion to emphasize our concern for the terrorized of our people. Let this Passover again be a time for heroic acts and generous deeds. It is with our generosity—to the Allied Jewish Campaign and its major beneficiary, the United Jewish Appeal—that we can emerge as truly free men and women whose concern is for all who must enjoy liberties on a par with us. It is in this spirit that we must treat the hope for a Happy Passover.