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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..-1M75.
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ

DREW LIEBERWITZ

Editor and Publisher

Business Manager

Advertising Manager

Alan Ilitskv. News Editor . . . Heidi Press, Assistant News Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath the 18th day of Adar 14.5736, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:

Pentateuchal portion Leviticus 6:1-8:36: Numbers 19. Prophetical portiwi Ezekiel 36:16-38.

Candle lighting, Friday, March 19, 6:25 p.m.

N'OL. LXIX, No. 2

Page Four

Friday, .%larch 19, 1976

AJCampaign and Communal Honor

Detroit Jewry has such a noteworthy record
for philanthropy and responsiveness to com-
munal duties that it is seldom necessary to ap-
peal for vital causes as if it were necessary to
rise to new heights. Impressive achievements
have already given this community a very high
status as a dignified participant in major activi-
ties that are so vital for the continuation of the
numerous causes that are included in the major
fund-raising task, that of the Allied Jewish
Campaign. Nevertheless the current drive calls
for renewed emphasis on the needs which are
the duties of the constituents of the movement
sponsoring the appeal for aid to overseas move-
ments as well as the national and local agencies
that serve Jewish needs.
, Whatever the approach to the current Al-
lied Jewish Campaign, it is necessary to recog-
nize the existence of a crisis in the area for
which the major portion of funds to be raised is
to be/allocated.
The past year was marked by many uncer-
tainties in the political arena affecting Israel.
United Nations obscenities created many con-
cerns over the status of the Jewish state interna-
tionally. Israel's economy suffered from the
pressures that were exerted upon that nation
and the compulsion ever to be on guard militar-
ily contributed toward the tensions of the small
country already embattled in the Middle East
cauldron. Taxed to the limit for the nation's de-
fensive needs, its social services and educational
institutions have been seriously affected and the
needs of incoming immigrants as well as the set-
tled population have been affected in large mea-
sure.
The obligations of the Israelis' kinsmen
throughout the world, especially American Je-
wry's, have multiplied as a result of the develop-
ing crises.
Taxed to the limit, bearing unprecedented
burdens, the people of Israel have become more
dependent for support of their health and wel-
fare services and the retention of the highest lev-
els of teaching and research in the schools of
higher learning.
Jews everywhere, therefore, have a serious
duty not to abandon their kinspeople. The
emergence in Israel of a great democracy, of a
developing cultural society, of a prospered in-
dustrialism, have all added so much glory to the
Jew as a creative force that any decline must
militate to the detriment and despair of all
Jews.

The funds so vitally needed for the upkeep
of the social and educational services are pro-
vided by the United Jewish Appeal, the major
beneficiary of the Greater Detroit campaign.
Any reduction in funds for that cause would dis-
grice those serving the great humanitarian ef-
fort.
Properly informed constituents of this com-
munity are well aware of the local needs which
responsible citizens dare not abandon. The great
aim is to retain the dignity of the community in
all its aspects and the overseas needs are inse-
parable from the domestic. Collectively, the
many causes supported by the Detroit campaign
represent fulfillment of honorable identifica-
tions with those dependent upon the contribu-
tors to the great campaign now in progress.

This community is blessed to have as chief
pleader for UJA, and incidentally of the many
other causes included in the drive, one of the
outstanding Jewish personalities. The presence
here next week, as pleader for Israel and for
Jewry's needs, of Israel's Ambassador to the
United Nations, General Chaim Herzog, lends
special significance to the inauguration of an-
other great effort in Jewish ranks. General Her-
zog conducted the battle for justice, in the UN
and wherever he found it necessary to defend
just rights for his people, with courage and with
a voice that was heard in this country and be-
yond. This community will surely welcome him
with pride and with appreciation of his wisdom
and fearlessness.

A good beginning has been made in the 1976
Allied Jewish Campaign and the Israel Emer-
gency Fund which is included in the drive. But
the success of the campaign depends upon the
many thousands to be reached in the coming
weeks, the vast majority of people who must
share in the duties to their fellow men. To as-
sure the success of the great campaign it is ur-
gent that volunteer workers should be in abund-
ance and the people they reach should be
generous to the extreme. The next two months
will provide a test of Greater Detroit Jewry's de-
termination to adhere to traditions which have
elevated this community to the highest rank of
generosity. Surely, a community that has been
well tested will live up to traditions which have
made the people compassionate and responsive
to the most serious needs confronted by this
generation.

Politicians and the Postal Travesty

Every presidential campaign is marked by a
variety of crucial issues. This year's is especially
compelling. The busing problem is forcing the
attention of most of the candidates. The prayers
in the school controversy has been revived by
both President Gerald Ford and George Wal-
lace. Foreign and domestic responsibilities are
certain to be debated.

One issue not to be ignored is the postal sit-
uation. The postal services and the costs have be-
come so aggravating that responsible candidates
dare not ignore them.
That a nation as stong and as great as ours
should be subjected to so many discrepancies in

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postal services is a matter for concern and
humiliation.
The postal costs have already forced impor-
tant publications out of business. Many maga-
zines face a grave future as a result of the
mounting 'costs. And the reduced deliveries of
mail as well as the threat of its reduction to
three days a week is shocking and an insult to
the American boast of an efficiency in the peo-
ple's bloodstream.
Candidates for the presidency who have a
sense of duty to their country, who are con-
cerned with their constituents' needs, will not
ignore the. issue. It may become one of the most
vital in the 1976 presidential campaign.

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Festivals of Freedom

Passover and Bicentennial
Interlinked in New Hagada

All available opportunities for rejoicing over this nation's birth-
day are linked to the American Revolution Bicentennial.
Passover lends itself especially, as the Festival of Freedom, to
commemoration of the Bicentennial.
Therefore "The Bicentennial Passover Hagada" published by
Emanuel Press of Yonkers, N. Y. is a most appropriately timed addi-
tion to the vast library of Hagadot.
Retaining its traditional merits, this Hagada emphasizes many of
the aspects of the Bicentennial.
An example of the approach to the freedom theme linking Pas-
sover with the Bicentennial is the following inserted for chanting be-
fore the drinking of the second cup of wine at the Seder:
We tell
And there are those who remember
The cruelty and oppression
Suffered in lands suffused with tyranny
Where lives would have been broken
And wasted
Had not the promise gone forth
Telling that a new land had been reared up
A land different from all others
Dedicated to the proposition
That all men are created equal.
For more than two hundred years
The oppressed and the weary
Made their way to America
Sweet land of liberty
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Drawn by a vision of freedom
Born in the very act of creation.
Participants
Said the Lord
We shall create man
In our image
Is he to be created.
Leader
And he will go forth
Proclaiming liberty
From land to land.
Participants
Justice, above all
Justice shall he pursue.
Leader
And he will come to love
His neighbor as himself.
Participants
And hold these truths
To be self evident
That all men are created equal
Endowed by God with inalienable rights
To life, liberty, and
The pursuit of happiness.
The Bicentennial Passover Hagada is the work of Dr. Abraham J.
Klausner, who authored a Hagada for the U.S. Third Army in Ger-
many after World War II which was used by concentration camp
survivors.
His Bicentennial Passover Hagada reflects the spirit of a letter
addressed by George Washington to the synagogue community of
Newport, Rhode Island, upon his ascendancy_to the presidency of the
United States and in which Washington compares the exodus of the
Children of Israel from Egypt to the Revolution of 1776.

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