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Sabbath Nahamu Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 15th day of Av, 5734, the following scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion Deitt._ 3:23-7:11. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 40:1-26.
Candle lighting, Friday, Aug. 2, 8:32 p.m.
VOL.
LXV. No. 21
Page Four
August 2, 1974
Communal Planning for the Bicentennial
Advance planning for Jewry's active par-
ticipation in the 1976 American Bicentennial
celebration places responsibility for a share
in the forthcoming observances by every Jew-
ish community in the land.
Advance planning for
bicentennial celebrations
by the American Jewish
Historical S o c i e t y, re-
search conducted by the
American Jewish Archives,
new works on American
Jewish history being con-
sidered by the Jewish Pub-
lication Society of Amer-
ica--the combined efforts of the major Jew-
ish organizations are indicative of concern
that the Jewish role in America would be in-
terpreted for proper communal understand-
ing and appreciation.
From the earliest days of Jewish settle-
ment in this country, there has been in evi-
dence leadership in every aspect of Ameri-
can life. In government, the judiciary, com-
merce, literature, the academic sphere, Jews
have made important contributions to this
great nation.
This applies with equal emphasis on the
local scenes. In Detroit, in the state of Mich-
igan, as in cities large and small in all states
of the Union, our people have labored nobly
for the elevation of American standards.
The stylized "76" with the map of Michi-
gan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas inside the
bottom of the "6" portrayed in the Michigan
Bicentennial Commission's emblem serves as
a call to action to all Michiganders. For the
Jewish community it has an especially urgent
call not to ignore the forthcoming celebra-
tion, to plan emphasis on the community's
history during the important 1976 celebra-
tions and to share in the glory of recollec-
tions about the past that give impetus to a
wholesome future.
Many of Detroit's communal agencies can
and should share, in planning the approaching
historic anniversary. The Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration, the Jewish Community Council, the
Zionist organizations, the historical - society,
the schools, social and welfare agencies—all
the factors that make up the Jewish com-
munity—should be linked in a joint effort to_
make the "76" symbol most notable in the
continuity of pride of a great nation that has
emerged significant in universality and in
benefiting from the contributions to its great-
ness by all, peoples and all faiths.
Palestinians: Threats Negate Realities
Shahar Writes Fascinating
'News From Jerusalem' Tales
David Shahar, winner of numerous literary awards, a leader it
the ranks of Israel's writers, has so effectively defined the statth
of the generations and the evolutionary processes of state building
that his stories assume an historical character.
That's how one must describe "News From Jerusalem," the col
lection of Shahar stories published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
He is a fifth generation Israeli-born member of a family o.
pioneers, and the knowledge of people, events, conflicts, struggles
administrative changes inferred in these stories are the results
his intimate acquaintances with the history of his country and it
people.
"2. The PLO will struggle by every means, the
On the zgenda for a long time to come,
of which is armed struggle, to liberate
until some sense can be chiseled into a situ- foremost
He deals with unusual skill with the religious factors, and botl
Palestinian land and to establish the people's na-
ation that keeps the 'Middle East on the brink tional, independent and fighting authority on every the realism of 'his descriptions as well as the presentation of the fre
of war, often threatening another world con- part of Palestinian land to be liberated. This re- quent jealousies among faiths emphasize how a native who can dea
flict, the problem related to the Palestinians quires making more changes in the balance of power objectively with his observations can so well describe the subjective
is major on the global agenda and demands in favor of our people and their struggle.
This applies with equal effectiveness to the internal Jewish c_
speedy consideration.
"3. The PLO will struggle against any plan for periences in pre-Israel Palestine, the influences of the Zionist leaders
It is doubtful if the issue can be resolved, the establishment of a Palestinian entity the price the manner in which the role of Vladimir Jabotinsky was a way c
unless Jordan's involvement is treated with of which is recognition (of Israel), conciliation (with guiding some youths and to direct their devotions.
earnestness and until such time as the United it), secure borders, renunciation of the national right,
So varied are the characters in these Jerusalem-based stories
States officially steps in to induce acceptance and our people's deprivation of their right to return so many
aspects of life in Israel are injected in these narratives
of a Jordanian territorial role. Russia's ac- and their right to determine their fate on their that Shahar's
stories form a veritable mirror of events.
national
soil.
cession may again be vital to the issue.
While the figures dealt with could be implanted into other sphere
The situation will be much more serious
"4. Any liberation step that is achieved consti-
if the Palestinian extremists continue to re- tutes a step for continuing (the efforts) to achieve perhaps with equal power, it is the events surrounding them, the fac
these lessons interpreted by the able narrator are linked wit
ject Hussein as a partner in integrating refu- the PLO strategy for the establishment of the Pales- that
Jewish and Zionist events in many instances, that make the storie
gees into statehood under Jordanian hege- tinian Democratic State that is stipulated in the the
a form of histories.
mony. Then it may become inevitable to resolution of the previous national councils.
A new image of the Holy City could be fashioned out of thes,
"A recommendation has been added to the polit-
establish some sort of corridor with ,adminis-
trative rights for the Palestinians. But such ical programmes. The recommendation stipulates stories, whether it is about the cuckolded husband, or his wife, abou,
a decision could well disrupt the confidence that the Executive Committee implement this pro- the conscience-troubled lawyer, about archeology, or about the varic
that is needed for whatever solutions are ar- gramme. Should a fateful situation connected with faiths that compose the religious sectors in the Holy City.
future of the Palestinian people arise, the council
rived at on Israel's borders. The threats from the
Were there prejudices among the Jews he described? Certainly
the Palestinians are real and continuing, and will be called to hold a special session to decide And when he defines an enmity toward Polish Jews he traces a sod: ,
on it."
condition.
they keep plaguing the Israelis.
Is Israel to be expected to submit to a
Nothing has changed since the recent
Many of the social aspects of a developing Jewish society are
Voice of Palestine program monitored from Palestinian 'state, or to negotiations with evidence in this volume.
spokesmen
who
have
uttered
sentiments
like
Cairo by the BBC in London. Quoting that
the above quoted, without suspicion, concern
In a single brief paragraph in one of his impressive stories
Voice of Palestine:
".`Moses and the Negress,'.' Shahar sets forth a social thought whe•
"Proceeding from the Palestinian National and serious doubt?
Charter and the PLO's political program which
Yet, there are leading Israelis, among he states:
was approved during the 11th session held from 3rd
them Arye (Lyova) Eliav, a responsible labor
"When a man was -called a renegade, or a goy, by a religion
to 12th January 1973, believing in the impossibility
leader and a member of the Knesset, who Jew, or a woman a whore, I had never thought of that man as
of the establishment of a durable and just peace in believe that even the creation of a Palestin-
real goy, or attributed the action of a whore to that woman. Passin
the area without the restoration to our Palestinian
through Mea Shearim without a hat, I had several times been calif.
ian
state
becomes
an
urgent
necessity
and
people of all their national rights, foremost of which
such a goy, and my sister had been called a whore because of he
is their right to return to and determine their fate could be a workable possibility.
summer frock. Such terms don't carry any private weight, an
The situation is grave, the changes are light
on all their national soil, and in the light of the
I took them for what they were, as a general designation for anyon
study of the political circumstances which arose
immense, the time ' to reach a decision is not religious."
during the period between the Council's previous and short. The U.S., now reportedly opposing a
current session, the Council decides the following:
Such philosophic exercises are multipliable in "News From Jeri
new Palestinian state, will play the most
"1. The assertion of the PLO position regarding serious role in arriving at solutions. American
salem" by David Shahar, winner of the 1967 Prime Minister's Awai
Resolution 242 is that it obliterates the patriotic and
Literature, chairman of the Society of Hebrew Writers in Israt
Jewry will inevitably be forced into the situ- for
national rights of our people and deals with our
in 1972 and the 1973 winner of the Agnon Literary Prize.
ation
and
will
have
to
be
opinionated
on
the
people's cause as a refugee problem. Therefore,
The translators of his stories from the Hebrew, in this volumf
dealing with this resolution on this basis is rejected subject. The weeks and months ahead are
certain to be charged with tension's while the include Dalya Bilu, Yehuda Hanegbi, Dennis Silk, Zvi Jagendor
at. any level of Arab and international dealings in-
H. M. Daleski and the author himself.
issues await solutions.
cluding the Geneva Conference.