12 Friday, July 2, 1976 • ". 4 a '• 'a ' 4 "a . II THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS It. la - ::4• -.. 14% -s : FOR SALE Matza, Horseradish, Questions, Suggestions For a Jewish 4th !..' 19 4.-.: successful business established 23 years — must sell on account of health southfield area BY DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.) We were talking about the Fourth of July. I told my friend, Gideon, that Benja- min Franklin seemed to look on it as a kind of Amer- ican Passover. Franklin proposed that the seal of the Write The Jewish News Box 2045 17515 W. 9 Mile Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075 . • :9 :019 NEW CADILLAC? BUY OR LEASE FROM ANDY BLAU in BIRMINGHAM at WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC RES. 642-6836 CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM so0141.1 We Can't Advertise Our Prices BUT see our Nik-Ni k Missouri Kosher Food Bill Passed Christian Dior M e n's 84The/ Name suits Plus Much More rubino of Italy tailor on premises 17117 W. 9 Mile, North Park Plaza Bldg. (Rusty Bldg.) United States should be an engraving of the Israelites fleeing from Pharaoh. "Yes," said Gideon, "but it isn't celebrated right." "I suppose you would have Americans eat matza on the Fourth like Jews on Pas- sover," I said. "Why not?" asked Gi- deon "Matza crackers would be better than fire- crackers. No one loses an arm or leg eating matza. Besides, historically, they serve the purpose better. Jews eat matzas because it recalls the haste of the period of the Exodus. Moses did not want to do any unnecessary waiting for the time required to make bread. There was the same necessity for haste after July 4, 1776. The states had to be mobil- ized for sudden action. Matzas would better re- call that period." "Anything else we should do," I said. "Of course," he said. "Horse radish. Remember, the murror, the bitter herbs. As I said about Mon-Sat 9-6 Commercial 559-2549 Industrial Burglar fire ST. LOUIS (JTA) — The United Orthodox Jewish Community of St. Louis has hailed a new kosher food bill designed to protect obser- vant Jews from fraud in the sale of kosher meat and other kosher food items. The measure, introduced by Sen. Maurice Schechter and adopted at the 78th General Assembly of the Missouri Legislature, was signed by Gov. Christopher S. Bond and takes effect Aug. 13. It provides for a fine of not less than $25 or more than $500 or imprisonment for not less than 30 days or more than one year for of- fenders. matza, the whole idea of the food is not the food itself but the history. If people do not recall their history, San- tayana said, they are doomed to repeat it. Jews eat bitter herbs on Passover to recall the bitterness of slavery times." "If people would recall Watergate, there would be no future Watergates. I re- member my father used to take a lump of horse radish as big as a golf ball and eat it at the Seder and you could see the tears coming from his eyes. You would think he was a slave in Egypt. The Seder is really an historical drama, in which every Jew is an actor." "I suppose that's it," I said. "No," said Gideon. "You forget the Four Questions. The great trou- ble with the world," he said, "is that it does not ask enough questions. Why doesn't the United Nations for instance ask why it is racist for Jews to have one country, but not racist for Arabs to have twenty." "So on the fourth," I said, "you propose that in every family they ask Four Ques- tions?" "Well, a minimum of four," said Gideon. "You know America is bigger than Israel." "Well," I said to Gideon, "you seem -to have novel ideas of the way of celebrat- ing the Fourth." "They are not mine," said Gideon, "This evidently was in the back of Franklin's mind when he proposed the engraving on the seal of the United States." 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The probation depart- ment of the Federal Parole Board, with which he has had numerous legal dis- putes over the years, used what was called "discre- tionary powers" to free So- bell from having to report to a probation officer at stated times until 1980. Boris Smolar's 'Between You . and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.) HONORING A PERSONALITY: No Jewish social worker in high executive position has ever achieved the dis- tinction of being highly honored — for a second time — nine years after his retirement. Dr. John Slawson has now been the recipient of this outstanding recognition by his organi- zation, the American Jewish Committee. The former executive director of Detroit's Jewish N fare Federation, Dr. Slawson retired in 1967 from his posi- tion as executive vice president of the AJCommittee — after 34 years of service — and was accorded more than the usual honors bestowed upon a retired distinguished official of high position. The event was marked by a very impressive AJCommittee dinner, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in l'-‘v York, at which laudatory speeches were given in an in ing atmosphere. But what put this event on a higher plane than usual was the announcement that the AJCommittee had decided to establish a Slawson Fund to be spent by Dr. Slawson, at his own decision, for any of the cultural purposes in which he is interested. This was a rare expression of appreciation of the execellent direc- tion given by Dr. Slawson to the work of the AJCommittee during the years of his service. More than $270,000 was contributed to this fund by individual AJCommittee members. Now, about nine years later, the AJCommittee has again deemed it DR. SLAWSON important to honor him — this time in a special way, by presenting him with the American Liberties Medallion, the highest AJCommit- tee award given to personalities who made their mark in American history. The honoring now of Dr. Slawson was given even greater emphasis by the fact that the principal speaker at the festiva affair — which took place in Washington, D.C. at the AJCommittee 70th Anniversary Dinner — was the President of the United States, Gerald Ford. AN ENVIABLE RECORD: During the nine years since Dr. Slawson became executive vice president emeritus — functioning in the capacity as consultant — he found himself busier than ever before. Dr. Slawson has many great achievements on his rec- ord, but his greatest achievement is perhaps his transfor- mation of the American Jewish Committee from a small group of elitists who considered themselves the "protectors" of Jewish rights and interests to a democratic mass-mem- bership body. In this, he made the American Jewish Com- mittee the "home" of thousands of American-born 'Jews who would have otherwise been "homeless" as far as Jewish interests are concerned, since the programs of other Jewish organizations were alien to their mentality and left them cold. Another of his major achievements — which will go into history of all mankind — is his effort to stimulate and bring about — with the strong cooperation of Cardinal Bea at the Vatican — the adoption by the last Ecumenical Coun- cil of the historic statement, advocated by Pope John XXIII, absolving the Jewish people from the guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus. Very few people know of the initiative and action by Dr. Slawson in this direction. The AJCommittee Institute of Human Relations is another major product of Dr. Slawson's vision and efforts. PILLAR OF JEWISH IDENTITY: A high point in Dr. Slawson's record is also his deep interest in strengthen- ing Jewish identity. He was a pioneer in alerting American Jewish leadership to the great need of strengthening Jewish identity among the younger generation. Dr. Slawson is very critical of the manner in Jewish education is now being conducted in this cou He feels that American Jewry is now undergoing an i ity crisis. In his view, the community is failing to cony especially to the young — the rich and everlasting vitality of Judaism. He sees Jewish education, as now practiced being for the most part a verbal indoctrination — a so ..' catechism — at a time when it has every potentiality of being intellectually challenging, emotionally satisfying and esthetically enjoyable. To him, the very quality of Jewish life depends on a sense of Jewish identity. Dr. Slawson advocates, among other things, the estab- lishment of a Jewish secondary educational facility similar to Groton and Exeter and Andover, with a curriculum of the highest quality with a Judiac tradition as an important ele- ment and with Hebrew as a second language. Ex-ORT Student Named to Post GENEVA — Dr. Amos Breskin, a graduate of the Syngalowski Center in Me- chanics who later attended the Central ORT Institute and the Ecole Technique Su- perieure of Geneva, has been appointed to hold the newly-established Hettie N. Heineman Research Fellow- ship at the Weizmann Insti- tute in Rehovot, Israel.