THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with the issue of July 20, 1951 Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Association. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075. Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Offices. Subscription $10 a year. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ DREW LIEBERWITZ Business Manager Advertising Manager Alan Hitsky, News Editor . . . Heidi Press, Assistant News Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the 23rd day of Kislev, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 37:1-40:23. Prophetical portion, Amos 2:6-3:8. Pentateuchal selections for the first five days of Hanuka: Monday, Num. 7:1-17; Tuesday, Num. 7:18-23; Wednesday, Num. 7:24-35; Thursday, NUM. 7:30-41; Friday, Num. 7:36-47. Candle lighting, Friday, Dec. 6, 4:43 VOL. LXVI No. 13 Page Four D.M. December 6, 1974 A Cruse More Powerful Than Millions of Barrels Commencing Sunday evening, little can- dles that give the impression of weakness will be _ lit in millions of Jewish homes throughout the world. Starting with a single little candle, grow- ing into eight on the final night of the Hanu- ka festival, the mere flicker of lights will send forth a unified message to mankind: you tried to extinguish us; the aim was the de- struction of the people lighting them; you have failed; you have been defied; the defi- ance is resolved anew on the Feast of Lights in the year 5735. This is not boasting. It is a declaration of faith and a reminder to the enemies of the Jewish people that the target of attack re- mains indestructible. It is not boasting. -It is a reaffirmation of the will and the determination to live. This is not the first Hanuka during whose celebration it becomes necessary to resist the butcher's knife, the deitroyer's weapons, the enmities that stemmed from religious bigo- tries and the canards of beasts who betrayed the basic idea that man was made in the im- age of God. Having been revived brutally, with the approval of misnamed civilized na- tions, the defiance takes on new forms, and the Jew who refuses to be damned into a role of wanderer convicted to homelessness reiterates Arcefully: that Israel lives! This is an unusual Hanuka. Twenty Arab nations have united to destroy Israel; oil hun- gry mankind shouts an amen to new geno- cidal trAnds, and little Israel replies: even if all mankind combines to destroy the little land and its heritage, it won't accomplish its intentions. The people Israel remains undy- ing in spirit and resolve! It' is the shame of mankind, the pooling of brutal forces in an effort to re-create the Holocaust, that is contrasted with Israel's role in an age that threatens the decencies of hu- manity. The occurrences at the United Nations have stamped the current era with shameful- ness and disgrace. The spirit of Hanuka points the accusing finger at the brutalities that have emerged from the cesspool into which the international society has been transformed. As one of the five surviving members of the Mossad -le Aliyah Bet, In Jewish homes the small cruse of oil the organization of the so called illegal immigrants who escaped defies the barrels of- liquid filled with wealth British restrictions to settle in the Jewish -homeland, Ruth Kluger that threatens the security of all the peoples reconstructs the message of the great rescue movement in her ad-. of the earth who are endangered as much as dresses on her current speaking tour in this country. Her message the handful of the world's Jewish people. The was heard here agaiii during the Jewish Book Fair. little candle flickers alone in defiance of the Ruth Kluger's story was written with the aid of Peggy Mann in brutalities, out of its meager light must again a sensational bodk, "The Last Escape". It became a best seller when emerge a world restored to decency with a published in hard cover by Doubleday. . regained sense of justice. A living Israel's It first promises to be a best seller again hi its destiny must lead to all mankind being res- paperbacked edition just published by Pin- cued from bestiality. That's Hanuka's message nacle Books. to mankind today. President of Israel Commends Ruth Kluger's 'Last Escape' UN's Future Hangs in the Balance A reconvened Congress may take into serious consideration the support this govern- ment gives to the United Nations under exist- ing circumstances. If hijackers are to be the influential force behind the new statesmanship that dominates the world organizations, there will be just cause to question the justification of continu- ing to back a force that is motivated by de- structive aspirations. When the so-called international parlia- ment condoned legislation aimed at the obli- teration of one of its members, a civilized society must wash its hands of the proposed cruelties. - A great ideal has been besmirched and a noble forum has become a cause for derision It is no wonder that the New York Daily News should have written editorially: "Isn't it about time we told the UN to pack up and take its circus elsewhere? It is nothing but an obnoxious public nuis- ance. And it is an increasingly expensive one now that the Assembly is providing a forum for terrorists and murderers who add millions to the security bill American taxpayers must foot." The tragedy is that the UN has ceased being a forum for discussion of the world's needs. It has been turned into a mockery and in the process men who have turned into beasts have proclaimed a right to destroy their partners in the world organization. The ugly situation has even created a mood so gloomy that a columnist as friendly to Is- rael as Joseph Alsop should have warned that "the destruction of Israel is quite imag- inable." The threats to Israel stem in large meas- ure from the stench at the United Nations. Nevertheless,- there is an aleiting of forces in truly liberal ranks to prevent calamity and to -assure retention of decency. The resent- ments that have arisen over the perversions both at the UN in New York and the UN meetings in Paris have indicated that the in- tended destruction of Israel will prove to be another desert mirage in spite of the Arabs' oil wealth and energy threats. Meanwhile, there is the Jewish people to contend with. "I shall not die but live," re- mains the indestructible slogan of the un-' dying people. Synagogue Council Intact Unity in American Jewry's religious ranks remains intact thanks to the good judgement of level headed leadership. At the convention of Orthodox rabbis in Florida last week, an effort by some of the participants to withdraw from the Synagogue Council of America was defeated in response to appeals that cooperative activities with Conservative and Reform congregations should not be abandoned. There are, indeed, many differences of opinion. TheSe, however, do not justify break- ing the ranks at any time, let alone in the present critical period in Jewish life. A Sanhedrin could solve all existing prob- lems, but on that score, too, there is Orthodox obstruction. American Jewry can be grateful for the wisdom of those who prevented a split in Jewish ranks. In 1939, Ruth Kluger, a beautiful 25- year-old redhead, went to Romania as the only woman in a secret network of 10 Palestinian Jews whose goal was to smuggle _ Jews out of Europe, through the British blockade, and into Palestine. Few people believed in the fateful power" of Hitler at that time. Ruth, one of those who feared for the Jews, did everything she could possibly do to awaken them. With incredible courage and ingenuity, Ruth Kluger Ruth succeeded in a mission composed of impossibilities; a secret mission of saving lives, yet a mission re- garded as illegal by every government in the world. Under the daily threat of imprisonment, even death, Ruth helped launch the most extraordinary and the largest secret rescue movement of all time. She dealt with a fascinating assortment of characters ranging from drunken knife-wielding "pirates," to a lascivious 300-pound Greek shop owner, to the famous and infamous King Carol II of Romania . . . and she sacrificed the one passionate love of her lifetime for the sake of her mission. "The Last Escape" is the result of 1,000 hours of taped memories of Ruth Kluger, plus numerous interviews with Israeli leaders who contributed information and verified Ruth's memories. Israeli leaders have declared that the state of Israel would never have existed with- out the illegal immigration movement. When the state was declared in 1948, there were only 600,000 Jewish men, women and children in Israel. They had to defend their new homeland against the cc bined armies of seven Arab nations. Of these 600,000 people, 2C' of them were "illegals" 'brought into the country through the ei of the Mossad. Receiving widest attention from readers of all faiths, the Ruth Kluger story as related by Peggy Mann in "The Last Escape" was given highest commendation by President Ephraim Katzir of Israel who wrote to Miss Kluger as follows: "From the moment I started reading it I couldn't put it aside • . . You were right in transmitting to our young generation a document of historic value which throws into relief the dedication, the enter- prising spirit and the judiciousness of the members of the `Mossad.' No less than that, your book shows the harshness of heart of the nations toward the fate of the European Jews at the time of the Second World War, during the Holocaust and afterwards, and it clearly reveals the weakness of many Zionist leaders in those fright- ful days that came over us. Even from this point of view the book should be read by all those who are interested in the history of the Jewish people—its past and its future destiny."