THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 4 Friday, April 4, 1975 THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle mmmencing 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. -18075. Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Offices. Subscription $10 a y6ar. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ DREW LIEBERWITZ Editor and Publisher Business Manager Advertising Manager Man Ilitsky. News Editor . . . Heidi Press, %ssist an \el% s Editor • Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the 23rd day of Nisan, 5735, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: , Pentateuchal portion, Levit. 9:1-11:!7. Prophetical portion, I Sam. 10:32-12:6. April 11, Rosh Hodesh Iyar, Num. 28:1-15. Candle lighting, Friday, April 4, 6:43 p.m. VOL. LXVII, No. 4 Page Four Friday, April 4, 1975 Campaign: Communal Reaffirmations Greater Detroit's communal obligations are being reaffirmed in the mobilization of forces for one of the most crucial philanthropic under- takings which will be inaugurated officially on Wednesday evening. Pre-campaign activities give an assurance of the widest recognition of the responsibilities towards the current Allied Jewish Campaign. Trades, professional, women's, youth and met- ropolitan divisions have already assured impres- sive beginnings for another commendable effort to provide the needs for overseas, local and na- tional causes. The coming three weeks are ex- pected to testify anew that this confmunity will adhere to its established record for generosity and unbroken links with Jews everywhere. Conducted during a critical economic period for the country at large, the Jewish contributor to the major causes is being as seriously affected as all other citizens, the compelling needs nev- ertheless demand greater devotion to duty even under most challenging conditions. Israel continues in the role of the major beneficiary of the important campaign already in progress. These are critical times for Israel. With the United States as the only great power supporting the embattled Israelis militarily and economically, the incontrovertible fact is that the kinsmen of the Israelis are their fellow Jews, and it is primarily on the encouragement to be secured from world Jewry, primarily the large American Jewish community, that Israel looks to for aid and comfort. The philanthropic dollar is vital to Israel's' social needs. The new settlers — and they keep coming from the Soviet Union and from Moslem and other countries — can not be properly pro- vided for with housing, schooling and health services without the funds from the United Jew- ish Appeal, the major beneficiary -of the Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign. Unless Israel retains the status of a great cultural society it can not continue a life of spir- itual dignity, and the UJA support for that na- tion's schools, universities and other cultural functions is vital to a people with an historic leg- acy for learning. - The aged must be cared for and the hospi- tals must function. These are the needs that depend in large measure upon the UJA. That is why the Allied Jewish Campaign and the Israel Emergency Fund are- so important to Israel and to world Jewry. Israel's military needs are unrelated to the philanthropic. Therefore the dollars for human causes must come from the world's Jewish com- munities. Therefore the obligation of Greater Detroit Jewry is so immense. The campaign's obligations to the educa- tional, health and welfare agencies in the Greater Detroit community and on the national level must not be overlooked. The campaign pro- vides for them, and the 50 or more causes sup- ported by the Allied Jewish Campaign depend on them. The needs are outlined here in the simplest terms. The obligations are great. The time to fulfill them is brief. The community that is tra- ditionally so devoted is expected to increase the effort toward even increased generosity. The time for action has arrived. Detroit Jewry will surely emerge the benevolent, the human, the dedicated that does not ignore duty and fulfills it in the spirit of a people of with a conscience towards fellow men. Terrorism at Large ; Mankind's Shame An expose in U. S. News & World Report, "Terror Takes a New Turn in the U. S.," sounds this warning: An FBI expert makes these points: "Terrorist revolutionaries in this coun try are more sophisticated now than ever before, better trained in handling explo- sives, more dedicated to violence. Trying to collar them is a frustrating job. They have a protective network of 'safe houses' and false identities.' The FBI believes that terrorists in the U. S. hope to exploit the current economic stress by fomenting disorder in areas of high unemployment. The terror that has spread on a worldwide scale began with the Arab barbarities against Israel and Jews everywhere. It has assumed aspects affecting every nation. It is traceable to the shocking conditions in the United Nations where inhuthanities were given free reign by failure to act against international banditry. Until and unless the conscience of mankind is awakened to action, there may not be security for anyone, anywhere. * * * The tragedies inherent in the spread of ter- rorism have had a special impact on Israel. Out of the Jewish experiences have emerged the shameful reactions of their neighbors and the - continuing indifference of the "Great Powers" which are becoming allies of the barbarians in a shocking reversion to the jungle. Israel's enemy neighbors might have kept silent when innocent people, guests in Israel from foreign lands, were murdered in Tel Aviv, and the old Savoy Hotel was destroyed. But there was gloating. As on all/previous instances of savagery by terrorists there was more of con- doning than regret that the El Fatah gangsters had committed murders in the state they seek to destroy. During the negotiations with Secretary of .State Henry , A. Kissinger, Egypt's President Anwar. el Sadat might have expressed a senti- ment of humaneness towards the innocent suf- ferers. He might have said a word of kindness to the Christian girl who lost a leg in the Arab at- tack-near the Christian holy places she was about to visit with other pilgrims. Not a word of sympathy or humaneness! This is what makes the situation so much worse. This is the addition to a tragedy that should make civilized people squirm in shame. They fail to react compassionately, and that has given terror respectability. But it shames man- kind. Schiff's History of Jewish Army and Defense Tasks As chief military writer of the Israel daily Ha'aretz and as a student of the current situation which has involved Israel in the most serious defensive efforts in the state's history, Zeev Schiff has, emerged as one of the most authoritative interpreters of the Jewish state's military role. His work, "A History- of the Jewish Army 1870-1974" (Straight Arrow BookS) is evidence of the important re- search work he has conducted on the subject. Of the many cumulative works issued on the subject of Israel's defense forces, this is unquestionably the most thorough. It covers every aspect of Jewish defense activities, in the first settlements in Palestine, in the struggles with Arabs during the several riotous years during the years of the British Mandate, before and during the several wars in which Israel became involved. It is significant that the author, whose work was translated from the Hebrew by Raphael Rothstein, begins with the year 1870. It is a reference to the years of pogroms in Russia and the defense organizations that were formed by Jews who mobilized to protect the threatened Jewish communities. Schiff is, therefore, not only the military analyst, the compiler of facts about Jews in defense of their families and possessions, and in Israel as protectors of the ,state, but also an historian. He is also the biographer and geographer. The maps, the impressive photographs, the accounts of hero- ism by leaders in defense efforts — these combine in the Schiff book to provide a history of the struggles and biographical accounts of the leaders in the defensive tasks. • Students of military tactics will be intrigued by the factual accounts of struggles by the few against the many — all devel- oping from the initial efforts which developed into the Zahal — Israel's Defense Force. Women played their roles as effectively as men In -the protec- tive aims to prevent Israel's destruction when the state emerged, after many courageous experiences under The British, when Jews were often virtually defenseless in the battles with Arabs on sev- eral fronts. Young and old are enrolled in Israel's defense, and the Gadna Youth Battalion certainly is among the important elements that gain respect and admiration for-courage and devotion to their peo ple's needs. As an historic chronicle, pictorially superior, demographically Well selected to augment the information needed for an under- dstancling of Israel's position,in the Middle East, Schiff's "A History of the Jewish Army" gains top ranks in studies of Jewish defense tactics and organization forces for the protection of the Jewish state and its people. Examining Schiff's review of the history of the Israel Defense Force, Rothstein, the books' translator and editor, commended the work and its author, stating in the foreword: "The uniqueness of the IDF has struck many foreign observ- ers: the women's army, the relaxed dicipline, the tradition of offi- cers who lead in battle, the easy-going esprit and the remarkable successes on the battlefield against enormous- odds, Schiff de- scribes these notable features and also provides the background for understanding that the IDF is a true people's army which faith- fully reflects Israeli attitudes. It is an army in which the senior commanders are known by childhood nicknames, an army that teaches immigrant soldiers Hebrew and even how to use a knife and fork . A complex relationship exists between civilians and their army in both political and cultural terms — hardly a corner of Israeli life is untouched by the IDF. Schiff examines.all this, look- ing closely at causes and results." .