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Editor and Publisher

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Business Manager

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City Editor

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Advertising Manager

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 25th day of Sivan, 5734, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Num. 13:1-15:41. Prophetical portion, Joshua 2:1-24.
Torah reading for Rosh Hodesh Tamuz, Thursday and Friday, Num. 28:1-15.

Candle lighting, Friday, June 14, 8:51 p.m.

VOL. LXV. No. 14

June 14, 1974

Page Four

World Jewry's Duties to Kinsmen in Distress

President Nixon's current -visit to Israel,
as part of his Middle East tour, is 'a good will
trip. Hopefully, it will help cement better
relations between the Arabs and the Israelis.
The President's meetings with the heads of
Arab states are part of the United States ef-
fort to cement diplomatic affinities with the
Arabs. This, too, must be viewed as a con-
tributing factor toward better attitudes to the
Israeli neighbor who, until now, has been
under threat of destruction.

If this can be achieved by the President,
together with Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger who is with him on the current
good will mission, the entire world will
breathe more easily.

Pursuant to the Middle East mission, the
Nixon errand to the Soviet Union will be of
an equally serious nature. In recent weeks, the
status of Jews desiring to leave Russia for
Israel seems to have worsened. Threats to
disconnect contacts between the Russian Jews
and Americans who seek contact with them,
warnings that Russian Jews will be deprived
of use of telephones for overseas communica-
tions and other admonitions have been more
drastic in nature than ever before.

That is why the National Conference on
Soviet Jewry, pledging "continued solidarity"
with Soviet Jewry, issued a deClaration calling
upon the government of the USSR to fulfill
these needs:

Release the Jewish Prisoners of Con-
science who languish in Soviet labor camps,
and whcise only real crime was their wish
to emigrate to Israel.

2. Allow those Soviet Jews who have
been waiting, for many years, to immedi-
ately emigrate.

3. Permit all Soviet Jews who wish to
do so to leave for Israel, or any country of
their choice, to rejoin family and to live as
Jews, and to cease all forms of police, juri-
dical and bureaucratic harassment by those
who wish to leave.

4. Remove vague and arbitrary emigra-
tion procedures, by regularizing and stand-
ardizing the process, in an open form.

5. Make available the institutions,
schools, textbooks and materials necessary
to teach the religious traditions and beliefs,
the languages, the history, the practices,
the culture and the aspirations of the Jew-
,- ish people.

6. Halt all anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish
propaganda in the media and in books, in-
cluding so called "anti-Zionist" material.

In the name of humanity and justice,
we voice our hope that the government of
the USSR will respond to this call.

These are human needs. They spell out a
program for action that is represented in the
commitments to mankind in the International
Declaration on Human Rights.

Perhaps the Nixon mission to Russia, after
the important visits with Arabs and Israelis,
will be additionally affected by the attitudes

of the U.S. Congress. Senator Henry Jackson
remains skeptical about the USSR position.
Negotiations he is to conduct with Dr. Kis-
singer may seriously affect both the detente
claims and the forthcoming plans on Amer-
ican- Soviet relations. Surely, the Jewish posi-
tion, the status of Russian Jews who wish to
emigrate, is intimately related to all of the
negotiations to be conducted by American
spokesmen.

The results of both the Middle East and
the USSR talks are of vital importance to
the peace of the world and to international
relations. The Arab-Israel conflict affects the
peace of the entire world. Amity on the
shores of the Mediterranean will signal aban-
donment of war threats everywhere. The
quest for strong footholds in that area by the
world's major powers have .never been min-
imized. Perhaps the road to peace is becom-
ing safer for all concerned. But there can be
no safe roads for anyone as long as the Jew-
ish people is isolated and selected for threats
in power struggles.

President Nixon's address at the U. S.
Naval Academy causes serious concern. He
referred to "intervention in other countries'
domestic affairs" as if it were a crime to 'ex-
press protests against inhumane acts, wher-
ever they may occur.

Europeans protested against the occur-
rences in Boston during the Sacco-Vanzetti
Case. Americans condemned the shocking
events in Paris during Affaire Dreyfus. Amer-
icans condemned the Kishinev pogroms and
massacres wherever they had taken place. The
U. S. broke relations with Czarist Russia be-
cause of discriminations against Russian born
U. S. citizens.

It is the human policy, and therefore it is
the American tradition, to intercede wherever
there is injustice.

during
When this nation was hesitant
the early years of the Nazi regime and during
the World War II era—to act firmly against
the holocaustian brutalities of Hitlerism,
members of the U. S. administration of that
time thereby shared guilt in many of the hor-
rors that were perpetrated resulting in the
death of the Six Million Jews and 20,000,000
more victims of Nazism.

.

Senator Henry M. Jackson often expressed
his resentment- over remarks similar to Presi-
dent Nixon's regarding "intervention in other
countries' domestic affairs" by indicating that
this is an attitude similar to the one that con-
dones and permitted the rise of Nazism. We
share this view while expressing the hope
that the President will amend his statement
and will not let it influence him while he has
a role to play in defending the rights of the
oppressed in the USSR.

President Nixon and Secretary of State
Kissinger have great roles to play in effect-
ing good relations and amity among nations.
And in the process world Jewry must remain
on guard, ever ready to protect oppressed
kinsmen. The needs are evident. The obliga
tions are serious. The process of attaining
justice makes American Jewry an especially
vital factor in the dedication to fairness for
our kinsmen.

'Sing for Fun' Notable UAHC
Collection for Religious Schools

Union of American Hebrew Congregations' publications department
adds importantly and creatively to its tasks with the appearance of
the latest of its works, "Sing for Fun," a collection of original Jewish
melodies and lyrics.
Compiled by Ray M. Cook, edited by Rabbi SamUel Cook, this
collection prepared for and accompanied by a spiral cover, is intended
for all Jewish school grades. It is Mrs. Cook's third song book, and the
166 included in this collection have been gathered by her during her
activities as music teacher in religious schools and as a director of
choirs in camps.
Because most of these songs are new, the "Sing for Fun"—"Shiru
Lanu Shir"—yolume gains added importance.
There are two sections. The categories in the first are: Story of
Creation, Ten Commandments in Song, Hanuka, Purim, Flavor of
Sabbath and other hymns.
In the second section, intended for intermediates and high school
students, are the texts for Archeologists, Bible-in-Song, Yohanan ben
Zakkai, Golden Age of Spain and Make Your Books Your Companions.
Holiday material in this work is the type that adds inspiration for
teachers and students alike. It is enthusiasm-rousing.
Of interest is the comment in an introduction by Rabbi Abraham
Segal, director of the UAHC-Central Conference of American Rabbis
commission on Jewish education:
"The songs on social obligation are thought-starters with quotations
from Jewish source literature, for class discussions of Judaism's empha-
sis on faith in action." This is an interesting point about emphasis on
vital factors in Jewish educational approaches.
A real need is fulfilled with "Sing for Fun" and compiler ,editor
and publisher earn commendations for a genuine contribution to Jewish
educational material_

'The History of Anti-Semitism
Notably Defined by Poliakov

A monumental history of anti-Semitism by Dr. Leon Poliakov, a
member of the faculty of the Sorbonne, Paris, is offered in paperback
editions in a series published by Schocken Books.
The first of the four volumes of "The History of Anti-Semitism" is
devoted to the era described as "From the Time of Christ to the
Court Jews." In this work, the concern in it is with the history of the
Ashkenazim who lived in Christian territories. It leads up to the period
of the emancipation.
_ ill be devoted to the history of Sephardic
The succeeding volumes w
Jews who lived primarily in Moslem countries, and also in Christian
lands; to the phenomenon of assimiliation and finally to anthropol
sociology and genetics.
First published in 1965, in a translation from the French by F
and Howard, thiS definitive work traces the origins of anti-Semitisrn
several European countries and touches unon many prejudices which
affected Jewish existence in England, France, Germany, Poland and
Russia.
The charges that were leveled at Jews, the accusations of the
Black Plague, witchcraft and other myths are traced in describing
the trends which endangered Jewish life and which were part of the
persecutions that lasted through the centuries.
Many of the aspects of Jewish life are described, and the noted
author points to such Jewish actions as shtadlanut—intercessions in be-
half of Jews by individuals—and organized efforts for defense. The
Court Jew is under delineation, and the indignities under Luther, as
well as the German era after Luther, are reviewed in the first of the
four volumes.
The cases of Poland and Russia cover introductory periods preced-
ing the modern outbursts of mass pogroms.
As an introductory volume, the first of the series provides notable
introductions to the later events which affected Jewish life in modern
times.

