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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
44—Friday, October 18, 1974
Despotic Colonial Governor Fomented Religious Intolerance
The freedoms North Am- and other sects not recog- Whether times and attitudes .ghettoes and 'prohibit busin-
erica
has espoused for more nized by his superiors," Zuid- do indeed change: Amster- ess for Jews before real free-
JNF Finishes Road
dam described the director- dom existed in New Nether-
tln 200 years originated ema wrote.
to Scroll of Fire
But the winds of change general's attitude as 'incon- lands.
-from the religious persecu-
KESALON — A road to the tions of the ,Old World, and were blowing in the New sistent with reason and jus-
An English fleet arrived
Scrol of Fire monument, near from those carried over to Netherlands, as they were tice.'
the settlement of Kesalon, in the New.
"The consciences of men off New Amsterdam in' 1664,
throughout the world. Jewish
and Stuyvesant's public car-
the hills of Judea, will be
Detroiter Henry P. Zuid- settlers in Brazil were driven ought to be free and un-
completed by the Jewish Na- ema, writing in the Septem- out when the Portugese re- shackled, so long as they eer ended. He retired to his
tional Fund within a month. ber-October issue of Liberty turned in the 1650s, and the continue moderate, peace- home along the East River,
MAX SCHRUT
The monument, sculptured magazine, describes how the homeless Jews petitioned to able, inoffensive,and not hos- and as Zuidema says, "There
for quality photographs
by Nathan Peled, was set up one-legged Peter Stuyvesant live in the New Netherlands. tile to government. Such have he died at the age of 80, a
in 1971 by the JNF in con- in the 1650s ruled New Am-
and fast service
Theirs was one of many been the maxims of prudence symbol of one of the first and
junction with Bnai Brith. It sterdam (New York) "by the subsequent appeals of peg- and toleration by which the most significant failures of
call me at
is of cast bronze and shows book," uncompromising on leg Stuyvesant's rule. Al- magistrates of this city have arbitrary conduct of govern-
a 'half-opened tora scroll go- the rules laid down by the though the colony needed been governed, and the con- ment in North America. The
BLAIR-KEITH
ing up in fire. Its bold relief Dutch West India Company. more p e o p 1 e, Stuyvesant sequences have been that the seeds of political and - relig-
STUDIO
figUres symbolize Jewish his-
oppressed and persecuted ious freedom had already
In 1654 Stuyvesant vetoed Nev rote for permision to expel from
Weddings, Bar Mitzvas
been
planted
in
the
colonies
tory.
every
country
have
We come to your borne with samples
a request that Jews be per- "any of the Jewish nation." found asylum from distress. in his time and were ready
Many of the Jews went to
mitted
to
enter
the
colony
to
sprout
within
another
cen-
398-9111 or 895-8805
Whoever prays on behalf
New Haven where they were Follow in the same steps and
tury." —Alan Hitsky
of a fellowman, while himseli s a y i n g' these outlanders granted refuge, while others you will be 'blest."
being in need of the same should not be permitted to awaited the reply from Am-
The company was follow-
thing, will be answered first. "infest" the colony. After sterdam, baSing their appeal ing the policy of the Dutch
minorities were permitted
—Talmud Stuyvesant continued to stir on their loyalty and defense government, which had ruled
bigotry by following company of the Dutch colony in South a century earlier that Jews
were "neither Papists nor
rules explicitly, including America.
Catholics,"
and could live in
MUSIC BY
"An
expression
of
toleranCe
one permitting only the
1 = 1 1 I _
came back from overseas the Netherlands. However, it
Dutch Reformed Church. •
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that must, have caused the took many years of petitions
Pr5bibati)
Tfaetb
Stuyvesant was an em- tough administrator of Man- and protests against Stuy-
Pkubab zrabe0 35Z 675'
ploye of the company, and hattan Island to , wonder vesant's edicts to live in
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
ISRAEL, U.S.A.,
Plane, Bus, Car and Hotel
did not answer to the people
Reservations
968-2563
and EVERYWHERE
he governed. Separated from*
superiors by 3,000 miles of
ocean, teamed with an over-
creative Party Planning
zealous church pastor who
tried to enforce compulsory
including
church attendance, he could
JERUSALEM (JTA) — through police barricades
Candy Centerpieces
be devastating. "An oppor- Foreign Minister Yigal Allon outside the King David Hotel.
tunity for religious tolerance disclosed that the questions
Massive security precau-
Personalized Party
in a new land was thus of Russian and Syrian Jewry tions were taken outside Pre-
.
Favors •
threatened by a zealous were raised with Secretary of mier Yitzhak Rabin's resi-
invitationi and Party
churchman . . . and a soldier State Henry A. Kissinger dur- dence while the secretary of
The Modern Sound of Distinctton
Accessories for all occasions.,
who was trained to follow ing his talks with Israeli state was in conference with
regulations to the letter."
leaders here.
Israeli leaders but the dem-
From Solo Piano to Large Orchestra
It is no comfort that Stuy-
MARCIA MASSERMAN vesant
Another subject - was Is- onstrations were, not re-
was impartial in his rael's continuing efforts to peated.
646-613R
persecution: "He was equaly get the Egyptian authorities
MARTIN KOSINS
546-7558
They began with a mass
hostile to Quakers, Baptists, to agree to a resumption of
rally organized by the "Gush
• the search for the 'bodies of Emunim," the movement for
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• • Israeli soldiers missing on unrestricted Jewish settle-
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• the Sinai front since the Yom ment on the West Bank. A
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• Kippur War, Allon said.
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crowd of about 7,000, accord-
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"for your next affair"
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Allon said Kissinger was ing to police, massed on a
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While you relax Tom Newby will create
• asked to bring up the matter parking lot near the premier's
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. • the MAGIC for your Bar Mitzvas, Weddings, • of Soviet Jews during his office, waving banners and
•, visit to Moscow later this chanting "Kissinger Go
Showers and Parties .
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5. month and to use American Home."
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•. influence to convince the
At the time, however, Kis-
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of Southfield
• Russians to permit Jews to singer and Rabin were meet-
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Flowers, Gifts
• emigrate without delay.
Furniture Items & Accessories
ing at the premier's official
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Allon *stated that Israeli residence in the Rehavia sec-
Distinctive Party Creations
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• leaders also stressed to Kis- tion. When the demonstrators
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ious plight of Jews in Syria. bers headed for Rehavia, but
"We told him we understood were blocked by 'barricades
Under Our Tent in
the difficulty of raising this and riot police.
subject as a political ques-
tion, but we thought it should
Pillar
be raised as a top priority Muhammad
Excerpted from Jewish -
humanitarian question," the Publication Society's "Legends of
Jerusalem" by Zvi Vilnay.
foreign minister said.
at Factory
In the east wall of Jeru-
He said Kissinger also was salem, - which encompasses
informed of the dismay in Is- Mount Moriah and the
Our New Fall Goods Are
rael over Egypt's refusal to Temple site, a round pillar
Already
in Our Beautiful Showroom
permit the continuation of the
is set, overlooking the Valley
battlefield search for missing of Jehoshaphat, opposite the
men and was asked to raise Mount of Olives. This pillar
that matter in his next round faces the Moslem cemetery
of talks with Egyptian Presi-
which covers the slope of
dent Anwar Sadat.
JUNIORS
Mount Moriah. It is named
The Egyptians called a halt after Muhammad, the
3-13
to the body search several prophet of Islam.
months ago although at least
According to an Arab
MISSES
58 bodies remain undiscov- legend, when the Arab dead
6 to 20
ered.
are resurrected at the end
The secretary also was of days, Muhammad will sit
I HALF SIZES
petitioned by a group of re- on top of this pillar, and the
141/2 -241
cent emigres from the USSR Moslems will pass before
to ask Soviet authorities to him.
permit the emigration of the
On the day of resurrection,
children of 'Russian-Jewish a bridge will appear between
activists who are refused Mount Moriah and the Mount
• Pantsuits • Sportswear • Coats
of Olives, spanning • the
visas.
Israeli Demonstrators Yell
Valley of Jehoshaphat. This
• Dresses • Lingerie
`Kissinger Go Home'
bridge, called in Arabic A-
During Jerusalem Talks
Sirat, will be as thin as a
JERUSALEM '(.JTA) -- hair and as sharp as a
Noisy but non-violent anti- sword. The righteous Mos-
Kissinger demonstrations oc- lems will cross the bridge
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