800 'Mein Kampf'
Reprints Taken by
Dutch Authorities

Letters to Editor

AMSTERDAM (JTA)—Po-
lice authorities have seized
800 reprints of Hitler's "Mein
Kampf" in Dutch about to be
distributed in the Nether-
lands.
The copies were confiscat-
ed from the small Dutch pub-
lishing house, "De Ridder-
hof," on the basis of a Dutch
law prohibiting the stocking
of works that incite racism.
The publishers have prom-
ised to recall the 3,000 copies
of the book already distribut-
ed in Belgium..
'‘e West German state of
I Ha which claims to be
the legal heir to publication
rights is opposing Dutch pub-
lication of the book.

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Then Joseph said to his
brothers, "I am about to die;
but God will be sure to take
note of you, and take you up
out of this land to the land
which he promised on oath
to Abraham, Isaac and Ja-
cob."—Gen. 50:24.

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Editor, The Jewish News:
Permit me to register a
protest against glorification
of Isaac Bashevis Singer and
his works, and especially to
express resentment that
synagogues' cultural - com-
missions give him a plat-
form.
There is no question but
that he is a master writer.
He knows the art of writing
and the techniques, but as to
the contents, that is another
matter.
He specializes in three
subjects: sex, pornography
and the picture of Jews in
the worst color possible. In
the latter category, his writ-
ings can be compared to
those of Streicher and Kich-
ko, who delight in causing
the Christians to hate the
Jews. -
I shall give • you a few
excerpts from Singer's works:
The story called "A Pair"
is dedicated, •(and I quote)
"To the Holy Memory of My
Friend, Aaron Zeitlin, Bless-
ed Be His Memory." It is
about Getzele, a little-bit of
a man, with a little beard,
a crooked nose, crooked eyes,
dressed in an outlandish
fashion, and nobody could
understand his speech nor
his writing. But our author
finds one redeeming feature
in him. He was married
three times to beautiful
women and had 'many har-
lots.
Another story is titled:
"Three In A Room." In this I
one, a wife invites her
woman friend into her bed
and makes her own husband
to conjugate with the friend,
in her presence. This makes

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the wife very happy; how-
ever, I don't know if she
was as happy as the one
who wrote it with such vivid
descriptions.
Another story is about a
shoihet having affairs with a
woman on the bloody floor
of the slaughter house.
Another example is a story
about men and women who
deal in white slavery.
To top it all, during Feb-
ruary, The Forward printed
in four installments another
story called: "Not For Sab-
bath." I don't think any anti-
Semite ever portrayed Jews
worse than Mr. Singer does
in this story.
I might add, that when our
speaker describes all the evil
his characters do, and can-
not think of other crimes
they can commit, he kills
them.
Now, I understand that our
women are great admirers
of our speaker because they
read or heard that English
critics praised his writings.
They don't realize that the
reason these critics praised
his works is because they
want to read how a Jew,
writing about his own people,
portrays them as though they
are the scum of the earth.

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But let the women please
note how he writes about
you, as women. He depicts
women in a most unfavora-
ble light; for invariably in
his stories, as soon as a man
and woman meet, it is the
woman who invites the man
to go to bed with her.
Certainly it is not an hon-
est portrayal of the consid-
eration and respect accorded
our women in Jewish life.
I would go so far as to say
that it is a "betrayal" in
every sense of the word, of
our Jewish womanhood.
Singer writes for a Yiddish
paper, but a newspaper is
like a department store, cat-
ering to all kinds of people.
The fact that synagogues in-
vite him can only mean to
hini that his writings have
their approval.
I would recommend that
our Cultural Commission
read what the late Jacob
Glatstein, Mordecai Strigler
and Elie Wiesel, three out-
standing Jewish writers,
wrote about Singer's stories.
Maybe our synagogues
then will realize the harm
they do to the Jewish people
by condoning the writings of
this author.
BENJAMIN M. LAIKIN

'More to Conversion Than Mikva Dip'

Editor, The Jewish News:
When Rabbi Robert I.
Kahn, president of the Re-
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However, the Reform
leader makes it abundantly
clear that his stand is ex-
tremely inflexible, and he
and his movement are not
prepared to make the
slightest overture of com•
promise.
Rabbi Kahn states as one
Call Our
of his preconditions that he
would insist upon the recog-
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"without halakhic - require-
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Rabbi Kahn does not seem
to understand that there is
much more to conversion to
Judaism than circumcision
or a dip in the mikva.
Rabbi Kahn's Jews who
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I have "lived as Jews and
raised families as Jews" for
decades are probably all fine
people, but for the decades
that he speaks of, they have
been swine-consuming Sab-
bath violators. How can they
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possibly be recognized as
Jews?
INTIMATE APPAREL/.
The essentials of their life-
styles have not changed from
I when they were church-going
Christians. It was never sug-
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Isaac Singer's Writing Is Assailed

But the Gentile convert has
other hurdles to overcome.
He seeks to alter the status
of his birth. This cannot be
done "with halakhic require-
ments."
Those who are committed
to Torah welcome every Jew
who wants to come tachat
kanfei haShekhina — under
Divine Guidance. The Ha-
lakha welcomes the sincere
convert too, but his sincerity
must be measured by his
willingness to embrace the
Torah and the Halakha as
his own life-style.
RABBI JACK GOLDMAN
Jewish Chaplain
Macomb County
Community. College

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 22, 1974-43

Pig in a Poke

WASHINGTON (ZINS) —
The United States Embassy
in Tel Aviv has notified
Washington that pork has
risen to a "rather astonish-
ing" 30 per cent of Israeli
meat production.
The agricultural attache,
in a report on livestock, noted
that pork is forbidden food
for Jews and Moslems, who
constitute most of the popu-
lation, and cannot be sold in
major metropolitan areas.
Officially, the report noted,
the pork is destined for the
Christian communities. "If
this were true, the per capita
consumption of pork alone
would be around 175 pounds
for every Christian during
19'73," the report said.

Africa Jews Happy
at Israel Embassy

JOHANNESBURG (JTA)
—News that the Israel Fore-
ign Minstry is raising the
status of its representation in
South Africa to that of an
embassy and is appointing
Yitzhak Unna as the first am-
bassador has been warmly
welcomed here.
Unna served with great
success as Israel's consul
general in South Africa for
three years, returning to Is-
rael 18 months ago to take
up a high post in the foreign
ministry.
Reform Chief Minister
Rabbi Arthur Super said:
"Unna did a tremendous job
in explaining Israel to South
Africa, and that fact that he
will return as ambassador in-
Kissinger, Disraeli
dicates that Israel officially
Similarity Is Noted
recognizes the tremendous
WASHINGTON (ZINS) — friendship Aich South Africa
A coincidence centered on has always shown Israel in
Suez Canal disputes has been good times and in bad."
discovered involving Ben-
j a m i n Disraeli, Britain's
Jewish prime minister and
U. S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger.
Disraeli helped avert a
threatened closure of the
Suez Canal to English ship-
ping about 100 years ago,
thereby giving Quenn Vic-
toria a paSsage to India and
the expansion of the British
empire.
ExaCtly 100 years later, an-
other famous international
Jewish statesman, Kissinger,
has reopened the Suez for
navigation.

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`Invite a Stranger
for Pesah Dinner'

Editor, The Jewish News:
Passover is just about upon
us. It is one of the nicest hol-
idays of the year. Each of us
only thinks of who to invite
and what to serve. I. have
often wondered if we thinl
of the quotation from the ser-
vice, "Let he who is hungry
come and take Passover with
us." What it does not say is
"Let he who is lonely take
Passover with us."
Yes, in the Jewish com-
munity there are loads of
people young and old that do
not have anyone to visit for
the holiday. You, the Jewish
community can help. Open
your homes to those who
have no one to visit.
Check the Home for the
Aged or contact any univers-
ity. To have a Jewish student
at your home for the Pass-
over holiday, contact the
dean of student affairs, dean
of religious affairs or the
rabbi of the school's Hillel
Foundation. If you want en-
couragement and to hear of
others' experiences, call me,
Mrs. Louis Landau, LI 1-6884.
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