THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating The Detroit Jewish. Chronicle corn mowing with the issue ()J'Aly 20, 1951 -YOU'RE A OK CIVt4Itli1/41.! 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 Business Manager Alan Hitsky, News Editor . . . Heidi Press, Assistant New. .)0 c39-4'74 gov‘04' 4::)4 DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager –BUT YOURHAND IS FULL OF BLooDi itOr Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the fourth day of Adar 1;5736, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 38:21 -40:38; 12:1 - 20. Prophetical portion, Ezekiel ► 5:16-46:18. Candle lighting, Friday, March 5, 6:09 p.m. 411. VOL. LXVIII, No. 26 Page Four Friday, March 5, 1976 Merited Honor for Jewish Center Honors for the Detroit Jewish Community Center included on the agenda of the forthcom- ing annual assembly of the National Jewish Welfare Board are well earned and serve as an example for related movements in American Jewish communities. Marking the Metropolitan Detroit Jewish Center's 50th anniversary, recognition will be given the administrators and the sponsoring community for tasks that have elevated the standards of social and cultural services and have given admirable status to a dedicated cause. In the early years of the Jewish Center movement it was necessary for this type of func tion to serve as a sort of settlement task, as an Americanization agency. In the beginning of this century, when there was a large Jewish im- migration, the center introduced those who ben- efited from its programs into the American way of life, and that was vital. At the same time the Center had the obligation of providing for chil- dren and youths who needed facilities to take them from the streets, where formation of gangs was a danger, into a social environment with provisions for sports. Young Jews then de- veloped athletically, they were outstanding in basketball and in other sports. The immigrant population found comfort in a wholesome envi- ronment that had its social service connotations. Time changed the needs. A new affluence developed and there was need for services for the native born. The immigrant became an Ameri- can, and for the American Jew there arose the need for a Jewishly-motivated environment in addition to the pride in American citizenship. In the evolutionary period the Detroit Jew- ish Center unquestionably played a leading role as a formulator of cultural programming. Espe- cially in the past two decades, under the direc- tion of Irwin Shaw, this community Jewish Cen- ter pioneered in many valued services. The annual Book Fair symbolizes and encourages reading, acquisition of books and establishment of home libraries, as well as participation with noted evaluators of the creative literary achieve- ments. It was at the Jewish Center in Detroit that Hebrew studies attained a high goal and the progress in that educational sphere served to ce- ment loyalties with the people of Israel and with the Jewish state's great historic accomplish- ment of reviving the language of the Bible unto the people's living tongue. In the early years of the Detroit Jewish Center, the movement that was known as the Mothers Clubs was a factor for added dignity in strengthening the Jewish home. The fact that the Jewish Center serves as a center for Jewish sociability, as an aid to the elderly and to the retarded, combines to add to the glory of a movement soon to be honored nationally. When that honor is accorded the Detroit Jewish Center it will be an occasion for justified pride for a community that made such attai- ments possible. Military Mergers and M.E. Puzzles Middle East speculations contain so many puzzling aspects that it is difficult to reach con- clusions assuring pragmatism and rationalism. How can any one take seriously the talk about the Syrian merger with Jordan. Would Hussein give up kingship or Assad abandon con- trol of a government in which he has reached new power as a result of the influence his coun- try now exerts in Lebanon? A parliamentary . fusion in that area is as inconceivable now as the earlier Egyptian and Syrian fusion, which was temporarily called the United Arab Republic, but proved unworkable. But the military pacts emerge as possibili- ties and therefore as added dangers to the condi- tions in an already embattled sphere. In such an instance, unfortunately, Saudi Arabia would be counted upon by Jordan and Syria to provide financial aid and military sup- plies. The latter would come from an arsenal provided by the munitions merchants, in whose ranks the U.S. plays a major role. Out of this stems the growing danger to Is- rael and the compulsion for the Jewish state, the kinsmen of the Israelis and the supporters of Is- rael's sovereignty to remain on guard lest threats to the security of Israel should multiply and a speculated new war should materialize. In the meantime there is continuing talk about the effects of a U.S. presidential year on the developing situation. Fortunately, not a sin- gle candidate for President has expressed doubt as to the American role and the responsibility of the U.S. to assure Israel's survival. Such assur- ances also affect the congressional attitudes. As long as the American position is on the friendly side of Israel, the war threats will be less men- acing. * * * Newly-developing attitudes in the U. S. Congress, which are affected by a trend towards slashing of appropriations, adds to the concerns that have emerged over the Middle East situa- tion. The hope therefore remains that U.S. allo- cations will not be decreased drastically and that the aid that must come from the Diaspora, especially from world Jewry, will be sufficient to assure continuation of the educational and so- cial service programs. The challenge in behalf of Israel remains immense and this is a fact that will surely be considered by those who are now called upon to participate in the local Allied Jewish Campaign and in all efforts in Israel's behalf. 'Anger' Over 'Leaks' Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is an- gered over leaks about differences of opinion he has with his defense minister, Shimon Peres in- volving Israel's shopping list. It was a sample of animosities that can occur in government ranks when some secrets become common knowledge. It is also a sample of the discord that created momentary tensions recently between Israel and the United States. Each such experience should be a lesson for the two otherwise friendly nations. What's sauce for one also is sauce for the other. New Feuchtwanger Biography Reviews the Author and Man "Studious sage or man of action, skeptic or believer, democrat or communist, epicurean or stoic" — these are but some of the mystify- ing paradoxes in the life and work of Lion Feuchtwanger . . . "Feuchtwanger was all of these things, and not necessarily in suc- cession but often at the same time. For he was no more successful in synthesizing the conflicting directions of his age (he lived from 1884 to 1958) than was the age itself. Perhaps more than most authors, he was a mirror of his times." Thus begins a remarkable biography of Lion Feuchtwanger by Lothar Kahn entitled "Insight and Action," (Fairleigh Dickinson Uni- versity Press). Kahn's clean language and style does a fine job of highlighting a complex author who lived during a complex time; who more than many other authors was affected by the swirling world events and politics of his age. Feuchtwanger completed more than 25 major works of history, drama and social commentary between 1927 and 1963, and was in turn ostracized by the Nazis, the Soviets and anti-Communist circles in Eu- rope and the United States. Interned by the Nazis, Feuchtwanger fled the Germans in daring escapes through the help of his wife. Kahn also deftly describes the sometimes strained relationship between Lion and his wife Marta, and the tolerance that developed for Lion's ego-building liaisons. Feuchtwanger's early works "fell victim to the funeral pyre of officially condemned books" and Feuchtwanger's name appeared sixth on the Naxi list of banned authors. According to Kahn, Feuchtwanger's "Power", which was "the story of the court-Jew Joseph Suss, was also to be sure, a major triumph in his native land, as was his next novel, 'Success.' "But the latter, which mercilessly dissected Bavarian justice and laid bare the conditions fertile for Hitler, revealed his basic conflict with the- German soul — the source of the Germans' reluctance to accept him as one of their own .. . "Feuchtwanger stood for a patriotism of German language and Kultur, but for a rejection of the authoritatian, militarist, and nation- alist aspects of German life and institutions." In later years, expecially after World War II, Lion's thoughts were no more politically acceptable to Western countries: "While in exile, expecially in the United States, Feuchtwanger's growing sympathy for the Soviet experiment made him widely accept- able to the Communist world, which often preferred the sympathetic expressions of a bourgeois writer like Feuchtwanger to the "heresies" of actual Communist writers. "But acceptance and applause in the East signified a measure distrust in the West, especially pronounced in critiques during ti McCarthy era. In the Federal Republic Feuchtwanger's resounding successes in the Eastern world, above all in the German Democratic Republic, automatically resulted in his rejection by German booksell- ers. "Partly a product and wholly a victim of the passions of his day, Feuchtwanger's reputation thus suffered first because of the timing of his rise in Germany and later because of his sandwiched position in the post-World War II ideological and power conflicts. The reception or rejection of Feuchtwanger's work was a barometer of political weather in various parts of the world." The deep interest in Feuchtwanger's work by Detroiter Leonard N. Simons was a factor in making "Insight and Action" possible. Si- mons has been in close association with Marta Feuchtwanger for a number of years and he encouraged her in the posthumous publication of her husband's works.