THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
52—Friday, Sept. 28, 1973
Book Explains Russians' Trial
Pyotr I. Yakir and Viktor
A. Krasin, the two Russian
dissidents now on trial in
Russia on charges of having
published an underground
newsletter and having paid
agents for NTS, and anti-
Soviet Russian emigre group,
are discused in a new book,
"Fat Sasha and the Urban
Guerrilla: Protest and Con-
forism in the Soviet Union"
by David Bonavia, to be pub-
lished this month by Ath-
eneum.
Bonavia, as a newspaper
correspondent in Moscow
from 1969 to 1972, met those
Russians who had begun to
raise their voices against
Soviet police state before the
KGB crackdown on their ac-
tivities, and his own expul-
sion by the authorities in
May 1972.
He offers a vivid portrait
of this group—the personali-
ties involved, their motives,
weaknesses and ideals. Some
of them, such as Yakir and
Krasin, were awaiting trial
as the book went to press;
others have left the Soviet
Union.
In his book, Bonavia an-
alyzes the importance of the
Jewish movement in the gen-
eral Russian protest move-
ment.
Bonavia joined The Times
of London as a staff cor-
respondent for Vietnam and
after a year and a half in
Saigon was sent to Moscow.
He studied Russian as a hob-
by while at school and with
his wife, he spent three years
investigating the social order
of the Soviet Union, but they
were expelled in 1972.
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Dietary Laws Defined by Maimonides
I maintain that food which
is forbidden by the Torah is
unwholesome . . . The prin-
cipal reason why the Torah
forbids swine's flesh is to be
found in the circumstance
that the swine's habits and
food are very dirty and loath-
some. It has already been
pointed out how emphatically
the Torah enjoins the removal
of the sight of loathsome ob-
jects, even in the field and
in the camp; how much more
objectionable is such a sight
in towns. But if the eating of
swine's flesh were permitted,
the streets and houses would
be dirtier than any cesspool,
as may be seen at present in
the country of the Franks.
A saying of our Sages de-
clares, "The mouth of a
swine is as dirty as dung it-
self."
The fat of the intestines
makes us full, interrupts our
digestion, and produces cold
and thick blood; it is more fit
for fuel than for human food.
Blood (Lev. 17:12) and also
the flesh of a diseased ani-
mal (Exod. 22:30), or of an
animal that died of itself
(Deut. 14:21), are indigesti-
ble and injurious as food.
The characteristics given in
the Torah (Lev. 11 and Deut.
14) of the permitted animals
—viz., cud-chewing and di-
vided hoofs for cattle, fins
and scales for fish—are in
themselves neither the cause
of the permission when they
are present, nor of the pro-
hibition when they are ab-
sent. They are merely signs
by which the recommended
species of animals can be
discerned from those that are
forbidden. . . .
It is prohibited to cut off
a limb of a living animal and
eat it, because such an act
would be cruel and would
encourage cruelty. Besides,
the heathens used to do that,
People
Make News
Rabbi ISAAC MAYEFSKY,
member of the supervisory
Free Busing, Too!
staff of the Associated Tal-
mud Torahs of Chicago, has
been named Midwest coordi-
nator for the Educators Coun-
cil of America and the
National Commission on
Torah Education.
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Sen. JEAN MANDE L,
president of ORT Germany
and a member of the World
ORT Union executive com-
mittee was honored by the
incere wi34e3 for
government of Bavaria with
the Order of Merit, the high-
est decoration offered by this
a new Year,
German state. He was cited
in recognition of his serv-
ices over the. past 10 years
eah4, 4appine33 and peace
as the representative of the
Bavarian Jewish community
in the Bavarian Senate.
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The Shema
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
(Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.)
The "Shema" is the pro-
clamation of the Jewish faith.
It is basically made up of the
verse in the Book of Deuter-
onomy (6:4) which says
"Hear 0 Israel, the Lord
Our God, the Lord Is One,"
plus other paragraphs from
Scripture (taken from the
Book of Deuteronomy and
the Book of Numbers) which
spell out the obligation of
having faith in the Almighty,
being committed to obey His
commandments and having
in mind His constant graci-
ous act of salvation charac-
terized by the Exodus from
Egypt. This scriptural con-
tent is considered to be the
basic commitment of the
Jewish faith.. It stresses our
belief in the Almighty both
as the God of Omnipotence
and the God of Concern. It
is for this reason that it was
ordained by the Bible to re-
cite the "Shema" every
morning and evening. Thus,
the Jew starts his day and
finishes it with a declaration
of faith which gives him
courage to proceed with his
activities during the day and
confidence to fall asleep with
security at night.
Keating Remembers
JERUSALEM — U.S. Am-
for it was a form of idola- bassador Kenneth Keating
trous worship to cut a certain paid tribute to the memory
limb off a living animal and of the Six Million by laying
a wreath at the Yad Vashem
eat it.
memorial Monday as Holy
Meat boiled in milk is un- Days approached.
doubtedly gross food and
He said he came because
makes overfull; but I think
that most probably it is also the coming holiday is a "day
prohibited because it is some- of remembrance for Jews
how connected with idolatry, and non-Jews alike:"
forming perhaps part of the
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that animals should be put
to death as mercifully as pos-
sible. It is forbidden to tor-
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When reciting the last
word of the first sentence of
the "Shema" the "D" sound
is emphasized at the end of
the last syllable.
The last word of the first
verse of the "Shema" is the
word "Ehad" which means
"one" and signifies the
basic belief of the Jewish
tradition which claims that
there is only one God. In
Hebrew, the letter "daled"
and "resh" are very similar,
there being only a slight
extension on the top of the
letter which makes the dif-
ference. Thus, one could
easily mistake the reading
and thus say, "not that God
is one" 'but that "God is
different," possibly implying
that there is more than one
G o d . Therefore, the "D"
sound at the end of the pro-
clamation is heavily stressed
so that there is no question
as to the meaning and intent
of the proclamation. Appar-
ently, Jews were sometimes
in conflict with sects which
believed in a duality or mul-
tiplicity of Gods. Therefore,
the Jewish tradition of strict
monotheism w a s constantly
stressed.
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The Jewish Community
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is cordially invited to attend
A PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
to be held on
"ASERETH Y'MEY T'SHUVAH
"Ten Days of Penitence"
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1973, 6 P.M.
at the
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH
15751 W. 10-i Mile Rd., Southfield, Michigan
A Special Tribute Will Be Paid to the Memory
of the Late Hagoan Rabbi Joseph Henkin, of
Blessed Memory.
Rabbi Moshe A. Margolin of New York, will
address this assembly.
COUNCIL OF ORTHODOX RABBIS OF GREATER DETROIT