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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the fifth day of Tammuz, 5736, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Numbers 16:1-18:32. Prophetical portion, I Samuel 11:14-12:22.
Candle lighting, Friday, July 2. 8:53 p.m.
VOL. LXIX, No. 17
Page Four
Friday, July 2, 1976
Basics in Bicentennial Theme
All Americans are in a happy mood. At age 200, this nation has cause to rejoice over the great
achievements that have overcome prejudices and inhumanities and have risen to new heights in the
quest for the ideals inherent in the traditions and roots of democratic aspirations and their
fulfillment.
Indeed, there have been trying times. The nation was not without bigotries. There were many
years of oppressions and discriminations. But even in the darkest periods, when
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whites subjected. blacks to slavery, when religious freedom was endangered,
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when immigrants from many lands were in distress, in defiance of all these
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obstacles to freedom there were always those who fought for liberty and justice.
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The libertarians may not always be triumphant but they are never defeated. The
right to speak out, the ideals of the First Amendment, the scrupulousness of
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American democratic freedoms most often reign triumphantly.
The special section devoted to the American Revolution Bicentennial in this issue understanda-
bly limits the extent of the Jewish role in the Bicentennial and in the history of this Republic.
Volumes have been written on the subject, and many more are due to deal with the great event
marked by the Bicentennial celebration.
There is a unity of purpose in the current celebration. It links all Americans, of all faiths, all
races, into a wholesome unit that upholds the ideals of this land with pride and with dignity. They
are ideals serving as guidelines for other nations to emulate, in the hope that they will be pursued as
hopes for a better and more peaceful world.
The Bicentennial celebration is occasion for American Jews to emphasize the good fortune of
being an integral part of a great society of free men.
This is a glorious time for all Americans to celebrate together, to rejoice in the legacies of this
great republic, to exchange the greeting: Happy Birthday, America and Americans!
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This Year in Jerusalem' Theme
A call to American Jews to make "This Year
in Jerusalem" the objective of every one who can
manage to visit during the months ahead merits
the serious consideration that is requested for it.
Thousands are already enrolling for partici-
pation in the United Jewish Appeal conference
in Jerusalem in October and indications are that
all American Jewish communities will be listed
in a roll of honor of participants in the impor-
tant functions.
While this specific call is intended for the
UJA and its aims to guarantee the success of the
great philanthropic efforts in the months
ahead, there is another aim in the call under the
slogan "This Year in Jerusalem." It is the need
to assure the success of one of Israel's major in-
dustries — tourism — and the compelling ur-
gency of visiting with the embattled Israelis and
assuring them with the presence of American
Jews that they will not be abandoned, that the
loyalties of -kinship can not be obliterated, that
the unity of the Jewish people in defense of just
rights and a secure existence for a nation threat-
ened will be adhered to diligently.
Therefore, a call like "This Year in Jerusa-
lem" is not limited to a UJA or any other confer-
ence. It is a slogan that must be repetitive, to
remain in effect year in and year out. It is by
being with kinsmen and sharing with them the
mutual interests that the required comfort can
be given to those seeking justice in their deter-
mination that their freedoms will not be sacri-
ficed on an altar of international greed and
jealousies. •
"This Year in Jerusalem" is especially vital
this year, as an assurance of uninterrupted sup-
port for the United Jewish Appeal. Then it be-
comes a reiterated call to all Jews to retain Jeru-
salem as the center of their thoughts and
interests and thereby, through the link with the
capital of Israel, to give added strength to the
totality of Jewish statehood called Israel.
Tragic Recollections of Olympics
Anticipation of the Olympic Games to open
soon in Montreal is accompanied by a renewed
sense of horror over the experience of earlier
games held in Germany.
The terror that marked the events in
Munich in 1972 will always oppress the
memories of those who were subjected to the
bestial cries from Arab murderers who snuffed
out the lives of the Israeli athletes. There
remains the recollection of the dispute over the
continuation of the Games and the Brundage
Theory that the Games must go on in spite of
the inhumanities that cast a shadow of shame
upon the continuity of the events under tragic
circumstances.
Now the Games are on the agenda again,
and the views of those who believe the events
should have been cancelled remain a challenging
issue.
Strict security has been imposed in all of
Canada, on all roads leading to the 1976 Games.
But the disgraceful occurences of four years ago
will never be wiped out.
Neither will the role of Adolph Hitler in the
1936 Games, ever be forgotten. Those who sought
to transform honorable athletic competitions
into bestialities must ever be remembered as in-
stigators of a terrorism that puts the jungle to
shame.
The authoritative sports writer Jimmy
Breslin believes, as he stated in Sports maga-
zine, that the Olympics abuses call for abandon-
ment of the Games as an indication of self-re-
spect for all lovers of athletics; agreed!
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Volume Cites Professor
Festschrift Honors Historian
Marcus on 80th Birthday
Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, director of the American Jewish Archives at
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, is so
eminent as a popular American Jewish historian, that a volume in his
honor on the occasion of his 80th birthday should appear at this time.
It is appropriate that the tribute to this eminent octogenarian
should be in the form of a Festschrift — a mark of honor by means of
publishing a compendium of notable essays in honor of a person so
selected that has become a tradition in scholarly ranks.
"A Bicentennial Festschrift
for Jacob R. Marcus," edited by
Bertram W. Korn (Ktav) is the ap-
propriate and well-earned collec-
tion of essays in a volume dedi-
cated to the eminent archivist and
historian. The collected works
appearing in this volume, repre-
sent so much scholarship, such a
variety of topics and so many
noted authors, that both the trib-
ute and the occasion, and the hon-
oree, are collectively noteworthy.
The introductory essay by Dr.
Korn is an especially forceful ele-
ment aimed at evaluating the life
work of Dr. Marcus, paying him
honor and introducing the valua-
ble material in the book.
DR. JACOB R. MARCUS
The subjects of the essays
include biographical and historical, educational and traditional, ana-
lyses of Zionist and Israeli experiences and historical developments,
religious and language questions. Much emphasis is given to data re-
lating to the Bicentennial.
The authors of the nearly 40 essays in this volume include StP ley
Chyet, Selig Adler, Naomi W. Cohen, Oscar Kanowsky, Raphae'
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ler, Michael A. Muer, Norman B. Mersky, Herbert Parzen, W. C- Ch-
er Plaut, Marc C. Raphael, Ellis Rivkin, Louis Ruchaames, S el
Sandmel, Robert M. Seltzer, Malcolm H. Stern. Allan Tashhis, and a
number of other noted scholars.
In his tribute to Dr. Marcus, Dr. Korn obsery
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devotion to scholarly research and his keen understai.–nig
of Jewish historical values and states:
"It is especially meaningful that a Jewish Bicenten-
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nial Festschrift be dedicated to Prof. Marcus, because he
above all others has mastered the wide-flung materials re-
lating to colonial American Jewry, their life during the American Rev-
olution, and their flowering during the early National period.
"His achievement has been as monumental as his knowledge is
encyclopedic. More data can always be found, of course, expecially
detailed biographical information about one or another Jew who lived
during the colonial, revolutionary, or federal periods, but it seems as-
sured that nothing fundamental or primary has escaped the wide
net of his searching, which stretches now over a period of 40 years.
"In his two-volume 'Early American Jewry,' his 'American Jewry:
Documents — Eighteenth Century' and especially his three-volume
masterpiece„ 'Colonial American Jewry,' Marcus has provided the ba-
sis for an understanding of the "rise and destiny" of the American
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Jew.