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Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with the issue of July 20, 1951
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Advertising Manager
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 17th day of Nisan, the Allowing scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Exod. 33:12-34:26: NU m. 28:19-25. Prophetical portion, Ezekiel 3711-15.
Passover Scriptural Selections
Readings for Hol Hamoed Pesah: Sunday, Exod. 13:1-16 and Num. 28:19-25.
Monday, Elrod. 22:4 23:19 and Num. 28:19 25. Tuesday, Num. 9:1 - 14 and Num. 28:19 25.
Last two days of Passover: Wednesday, Exod. 13:17-15:26: Num. 28:19-2.5. Prophetical portion, II Sam. 22:1-51..
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Thursday, Deut. 15:19-16:17; Num. 28:19-25. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 10:32-12:6.
Candle lighting Friday. Mareh 2}1. 6:35 p.m.
()I,. LXVII, No. 3
Page Four
Friday, \larch 28. 1975
Volunteers: Campaign's Backbone
On the eve of the commencement of one of
the most urgent philanthropic campaigns, the
person who symbolizes its strength and its ma-
jor need is the volunteer worker.
Some 3,000 men and women must be en-
rolled in the army of volunteer workers who will
solicit the 25,000 potential contributors to the
Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency
Fund.
Every volunteer is in himself or herself an
advance giver to the funds that are so vital to the
functions of the Jewish community. One can not
be solicitor without first being a contributor;
and to secure generous gifts one must himself or
herself be generous.
Therefore the big task now, a mere few
days before the commencement of the 1975 drive
for funds for overseas needs, for Israel, for local
and national causes, is to enroll the volunteer for
an immense task that will require dedication,
devotion to a great collective cause and a deter-
mination to hurdle whatever barriers there may
be in the path attaining the needed goals.
While this community has some 25,000 po-
tential contributors, there are the thousands of
others yet to be reached and to be enlisted as
partners in a great undertaking that assures en-
couragement to Israel in her struggle to retain a
high-standard society, the educational, health
and social services of Detroit Jewry and the na-
tional American Jewish agencies.
The serious task ahead is the enrollment of
the few thousand volunteers for the big job
ahead of enlisting the many thousands of contri-
butors to the Allied Jewish Campaign. It is a
duty for those able to assist in this urgent, in a
sense, emergency effort to enroll as workers and
to assist in retaining the high standards for gen-
erosity established by Detroit Jewry.
Lebanon: Sufferer from PLO Guests
Israel has retained a majority of favoritism in
public opinion polls for a very good reason: every
time the PLO, the terrorists in the name of Yas-
sir Arafat and his El Fatah or barbarians or un-
der any other name embark upon terrorism,
their inhumanity and stupidity shocks the hu-
man mind.
Yet, when Israelis retaliate with action
against the El Fatah the naive revert again to
criticism of Israel. The Israelis are expected to
be holier than the saints of all faiths. Of course,
Lebanon is the sufferer from the interactions
because retaliations are in Lebanese territory,
where El Fatah is headquartered. Are they help-
less and unable to cooperate in efforts to uproot
the terrorists?
In the best interests of Lebanon herself, and
possibly in the hope that an understanding of
the true issues can be attained in relation to the
Lebanese-Israel aspects of the tragic Middle
East situation, it is necessary to pinpoint the
basic facts regarding the issue, with emphasis
on what has been labeled the "Syrian-Lebanese
unity of destiny" as an excuse for Lebanon's
submission to Syrian pressures that she con-
done the PLO and the terrorist invasions of Is-
rael. A noted authority on the Middle East de-
fined the Lebanese and Syrian roles as follows:
which are being nourished by the activity of
the nearly 400,000 Syrian workers living in Le-
banon today.
What is the scenario for Lebanon's political
future, as forecast by the Arab States?
A. Greater involvement- in the Arab-Israeli
conflict. (In actual fact, Lebanon alone is
being required to carry on the fight from
within its own borders, since all the other
States are adhering to the cease-fire.)
B. Loss of Lebanese sovereignty, by inviting
Arab military forces to "protect" its independ-
ence.
C. A constant military confrontation with
the P.L.O. In an interview in the Lebanese
newspaper Al-Sayyad on 30 January 1974,
Zuheir Muhsen—head of the P.L.O.'s military
section and secretary-general of the Syrian-
Palestinian terrorist organization Al-Sayi-
ka—stated that "the existence of the terrorists
is a challenge to Lebanon".
D. Even a peaceful solution to the "Pales-
tinian problem" within Lebanon would leave
the country confronting the Syrian Trojan
horse (the 400,000 Syrian workers) which is
upsetting the delicate balance between the.
Christian and Muslim communities.
E. In view of all this, the Syrian Minister of
Information believes that Lebanon will not be
able to escape the "Syrian-Lebanese Unity of
Destiny", mentioned in the joint communique
issued following Assad's visit to Lebanon.
Lebanon has been able to flourish economi-
cally, socially and politically, since gaining in-
dependence, because of the neutral and inde-
It is repeatedly stated that Lebanon is await-
pendent stand it has maintained vis-a-vis the
ing
the opportunity to be "the second Arab
Arab-Israeli conflict. Since the October War
Lebanon has been influenced to a greater de- state" to make peace with Israel. The reason?
gree by inter-Arab pressures, and it is becom- Because all the Arab states fear the consequ-
ing increasingly involved in inter-Arab politi- ences of being the first in such a move to benefit
cal activity.
all, Arabs as well as Jews. But even in a state of
Lebanon today is being led by its leaders, status quo of avoiding an outright conflict with
Franjieh and el-Sulh, into political activism Israel, it is to Lebanon's benefit to resist Yassir
which may undermine its status as a sovereign Arafat and his terrorists and not to permit inva-
State. President Franjieh's term of office ex- sions of Israel with murderous objectives. But
pires in several months, while el-Sulh, the
Lebanese officials, like their counterparts in all
Prime Minister, is known for his leftist tend-
Arab
lands, apparently fear repercussions and
encies. This situation has heightened external
pressure on Lebanon to improve its relations death threats. That's what's causing most of the
with the U.S.S.R. and to purchase Soviet trouble on the Lebanese-Israeli border; that's
weapons. It is also strenghtening leftist tend- what accounts for the terrorist activities and the
encies in Lebanese political life, tendencies unfortunate loss of life.
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Christian Anti-Semitism Roots
Traced in Re-Printed Volume
The growth of Christian anti-Semitism during the first eight centuries of the
Christian movement, was catalogued in detail in James Parkes' definitive volume
"The Conflict of the Church and Synagogue."
First published in 1934, this major work has been re-issued by Sepher-Her-
mon Press. A compilation of years of research by hundreds of scholars, Parkes'
volume has a bibliography for each chapter, and ends with five appendices.
Beginning with the Jews in the Roman world, Parkes takes the reader
through the initial break with Christianity, the developing anti-Jewish codes and
Jewish persecution, the Byzantine Empire, and concludes with Visigothic Spain.
Parkes says that, "In 1096 there were wild outbreaks against the Jews in all
the citiesof northern and central Europe. What made this possible? The answer
could only be found by a study of the earlier period, a period incidentally which
is little known, by either Jewish -or Christian scholars . . ."
He said he became convinced that the real roots of the problem of anti-Semi-
tism lay in the conflict between Church and Synagogue, and in his volume he
presents as much of the material on the subject as possible.
Parkes' introduction bridges the gap between the last nine centuriesof Chris-
tian-Jewish conflict and the first 1,000 years covered in his volume.
Parkes says, "We are concerned with the clash of two religious organizations,
and only indirectly with the conflict of theological conceptions which was involved.
"It is not the Christian doctrine which has been the main external influence in
the Jewish_ life of the last 1,500 years, but the Christian Church. -
"The Jewish problem today expresses itself primarily in economic and politi-
cal phraseology. False racial theories have been substituted for false readings of
the Old Testament.
"Jewish observances are perhaps more colored by Roman influences than by
Christianity. Sepharadic Judaism owes much to its contact with Arab civilization.
But the whole of the Jewish world even today bears the marks of the environment,
friendly or hostile, created by the Christian Church.
"For throughout all those centuries a large portion of the Jewish people have
lived under the domination of a Christian majority. The Jews of today are the
direct inheritors of the life of medieval Jewry, and the life of medieval Jewry was
built upon foundations laid in the earliest centuries of its daughter religion."
Parkes continues by giving an example of the difficulty scholars have in trac-
ing the early differences between Church and Synagogue:
"Both the historical development of the event and the historical development
of the literature describing it have to be traced."
He relates how in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus' efforts with a certain grou
of Jews is described. In succeeding gospels, the group is referred to as the Phari-
sees, then the scribes, and finally another party. "In the fourth gospel all are
included together under the general term the Jews', and all are considered to be,
and always have been, the enemies of the new teaching."
Parkes "Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue" easily remains standard
reference for reviewing the literature on the roots of anti-Semitism, and its re-
printing is a valuable addition to currently available volumes.
Family Traditions, Ritual Traced
The Jewish family from Biblical times to today is traced in Chaim
Bermant's "The Walled Garden," which has just been'published by Mac-
millan and Co.
"Almost every Jewish ritual revolves around the family, and almost
every family occasion has its own ritual," Bermant says.
He describes traditional ceremonies, foods and the celebration of Jew-
ish holidays, from brit mila (circumcision) to funerals, and the gaiety of
Purim to the feasting of Passover and the solemnity of Yom KippUr.
Included are 32 full color pages and 100 black and white photographs
illustrating customs both past and present.