THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle ccintmencing with the issue of July .20. 195/ 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 St -6, Southfield, Mich. 48075. Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Offices. Subscription $10 a year. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher Alan CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ DREW LIEBERWITZ Business Manager Advertising Manager Hitsky, News Editor . . . Heidi Press. Assistant New's Editor " This Sabbath, the 18th day of Av, 5736, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 49:14-51:3. Candle lighting, Friday, Aug. 13, 8:18 p.m. VOL. LXIX, No. 23 Page Four Friday, August 13, 1976 Reckoning Communally Mid-August always serves as an ad- monition that a new year is dawning for the Jewish community, that classrooms will be re-opening in the schools and the children's educational needs are to be accounted for, and that a score of obligations again will challenge all who have a sense of duty to the community. There is never a time for procrastina- tion, just as there is never a lull in demands for action. Yet there are always shortcom- ings to be obliterated and faults to be av- oided. The approach of the year 5737 again is certain to have the never-to-be-avoided symptom of the repetitive take-it-for- granted attitudes. Religiously it may again be a three- or two-day per year association with the synagogue and the lay and clerical leaderships may again be grateful that parishioners at least do not forget the house of worship on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kip- pur. More distressing, however, is the threat of indifference to the school. If edu- cational processes are not to be given prior- ity in Jewish action and thought then the community will really be in danger. • Priority for the Jewish school is not li- mited to the afternoon classes. The Day School program must be encouraged to an unprecedented degree. The old opposition to' this full-time program of teaching the youth is no longer valid and the obligation on the part of parents, the community at large and the culturally-dedicated is to give to the all-day school program all the help it needs. Communal reckoning and planning for the future, for the year ahead and for the decades to come, must take into account the need to train young men and women for the Jewish teaching profession. It is one of the most vital duties because there is the grow- ing evidence that the teaching profession is not attracting Jewish ybuth who qualify for it. This is a problem not to be ignored and unless it is solved it will plague the next generation and will ruin whatever chances there are to encourage Outh identification with the community. Problems galore are here to distress the communally-minded. Mixed marriages are increasing. Indifference to Jewish needs is menacing. Progressive schooling is a major way of overcoming the undeniable threats, and the chief aspect of the problem relates to the home. A traditionally- oriented family encourages study and iden- tification and is therefore the most effective means of overcoming menacing situations. Philanthropy seldom falters in Jewish ranks, yet fund-raising also depends greatly upon a properly educated Jewish community. These are factors not to be ignored in reckoning, in preparation for the future. Lay leadership is seriously challenged by these issues. Hatreds Have No Limitations It was to have -been imagined that the Lebanese tragedy which exposes the incon- sistencies in Arab political thinking, the Is- raeli triumph over terrorist hijackers, the Open Fence Policy on the Israel-Lebanese border and the effectiveness of the Jewish will to live manifested by Israel's refusal to be subjected to a suicidal position would combine to influence those who would de- stroy the Jewish state to abandon their tac- tics. But to no avail. Reason has no place in the diplomacy of the Third World and the Communist blocs. Uppermost in the minds of the haters is the aim to undermine Is- rael's existence and the plotting continues despite the determination of Israelis and their few friends not to permit the lights to be extinguished for the civilized society they protect in the Middle East. Already, in advance of the next United Nations General Assembly, Israel's enemies are gathering forces to renew the schemes aimed at deny- ing basic rights of statehood to Jews. These efforts- always fail, yet they are repeated time and time and time again. Supplementing the combination of anti-Israeli forces at the UN is the miscon- ception about Palestinians and the delu- sions about a so-called Palestinian state. Every amateur politician, posing as a dear friend of Israel but misled by the falsehood inherent in the Palestinian state mirage, will pose as a great humanitarian defending the rights of those who are granted martyr- dom and for whom a new state is proposed. The facts are ignored. The truth about an already existing state in Jordan is over- shadowed by misleading tear-jerking for re- fugees .whose numbers are constantly exaggerated and whose desires are seldom properly evaluated. There has, in fact, never been a Palesti- nian state, and the talk about millions of refugees is an escalation from the no more than 500,000 who actually left the area now operating as the Jewish state of Israel. When polled, refugees seldom, except in instances of politicians, submit to the pres- sures to claim a wish to settle in what is truly the autonomous state of Israel, and cheap political capital is bandied everywhere. The menacing symptoms of new attacks on Israel at the UN — the statesmen's plot- ting that never succeeds — has more dis- tressing counterparts on the American political horizon. The cheap politicians, and the serious-minded who are dreadfully mis- led, may be grasping for an issue by embrac- ing the Palestinian issue. It is something to be on guard against. The would-be states- men must be properly briefed to understand the truth of a distorted issue. Meanwhile, the bigots are paving their way into notorious hatemongering that has no limits. It has gained a place at the UN and it seems to influence the political scene. They challenge the vigilant never to permit the political lies to gain an upper role in the ranks of decent people. American Zionist Leader Lipsky's 'Memoirs in Profile' Enrich Biog raphic, Zionist Files Louis Lipsky was among the giants in American Zionist leader- ship. He had risen from the ranks to become the president of the Zion- ist Organization of America. In his early years, as a lover of the thea- ter, he was recognized as an able critic of stage and movies. As editor of Zionist publications he was a master interpreter of the movement and a recognized Zionist ideologist. Thus, his name attained national fame and the recognition he gained was as a Zionist political leader as well as a writer of note. The Jewish Publication Society again renders a marked service by publishing his collected writings that had accumulated in the final years of his life. "Memoirs in Profile," the new JPS volume, includes many of his interpretive works and the biographies he had written of the eminent personalities with whom he had served in Zionist ranks and with whose records of service he became fully acquainted. Most of the data recorded by the late Mr. Lipsky relates to Zionist memoirs and becomes a vital part of American Jewish history. Surely, the Zionist activities in this country attain authoritative and definitive commentaries from the eminent lead- er's interpretations. In fact, since his bi- ographies are of world'Jewish leaders as well as American Jewish personalities, there is a global significance in Mr. Lip- sky's works. The importance of this volume be- comes apparent when the reader takes into account the fact that Mr. Lipsky had described personalities with whom he had worked closely. Louis D. Bran- deis, Julian Mack, Menahem Ussishkin, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, Max Nordau and other notables are in- cluded. Mr. Lipsky was deeply devoted to LOUIS LIPSKY associates he had drawn into the Zionist movement. Meyer Weisgal is noteworthy among them. While dealing with the giants who had guided Zionism into inter- national recognition and eventual success through the emergence of the state of Israel, Mr. Lipsky also delighted in dealing with the hu- man interest experiences. Thus, he took into account a character like China who was the clown of Zionism, but nevertheless was a symbol of popular devotion to Zionism, who attended all of the Zionist conven- tions in his lifetime as well as World Zionist Congresses and spent his final years as a resident of Israel. Differences over Zionist policies were rampant in the ranks of the movement and often Lipsky was a stormy petrel. He was often at odds with Mr. Justice Brandeis. The biographical sketches critically allude to the interesting experiences between leaders in the Jewish national movement. Many of the vignettes in the new JPS volume also allude to signifi- cant occurrences in Zionist developments. To provide the biographical data regarding the author of this his- torically important book the reader is additionally enriched with a descriptive foreword by Ben Halpern who impressively and informa- tively defines the Lipsky role in Zionist history. The parents and grandparents of present-day American Jews, as Prof. Halpern writes in his foreword to "Memoirs in Profile," contin- ually marked (Lipsky's) words and followed, or violently opposed, his views. He experienced, in terms of a direct, personal responsibility, all the Jewish trials of half a century of fathomless sorrows and unima- ginable triumphs.