THE JEWISH NEWS
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Sabbath Scriptual Selections
This Sabbath, the second day of Elul, 5736, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 51-12-52:12.
Candle lighting, Friday, August 27, 7:56 p.m.
VOL. LXIX, No. 25
Page Four
Friday, August 27, 1976
Bipartisanship for Israel
Another link has been added to the
traditional friendship between Israel and
the United States in the strong plank
included in the foreign policy statement of
the Republican Party.
The plank affirmed by the convention in
Kansas City last week has the positive merit
of dealing with the integrity of Israel whose
very existence through the years was
assured by the support that came from this
country, much of it during the
administrations of Republican Presidents.
But the recognition of Israel was the
prompt act of a Democratic President and
two subsequent Democratic chief
executives added strength to the policy of
assuring Israel's security. Thus, the
bipartisanship fortifying Israel-U.S.
policies is an irrevocable American
principle.
There are, however, other factors of
importance that may justify calling the
plank in the Republican Party platform the
strongest ever adopted by either political
party on Israel and the Middle East. It is the
condemnation of politicization of the United
Nations and rejection of the prejudices
stemming from the world organization
whose principles have been abused in the
process of Third World — Arab and Soviet —
attempts to harm, with an aim to destroy,
Israel. Combined with the firm stand taken
in the GOP program in calls for action
against terrorism, there are grounds for
believing that the Republican stand will
add firmness to aspirations for justice in the
international arena.
While it is true that few party platforms
are always fully adhered to, the friendly
Four of the very great Jewish personalities who have made
attitude in Congress on Israel in her notable
contributions to American history are among the selections of
struggle for security and the traditions Alberta Eiseman
in her notable book, "Rebels and Reformers."
Presidents inherit from predecessors in
Published as part of the Zenith Series of Doubleday Anchor
strengthening Israel - U.S. ties keep giving Books, this volume describes the lives and contributions of Uriah P.
assurances that the American tradition for Levy, Ernestine L. Rose, Louis D. Brandeis and Lillian Wald. Briefly
fair play will not be abandoned in the biographed, the four eminent American Jews were:
bipartisan approaches to Israel's needs in
Uriah Phillips Levy, 1792-1862; first Jewish commodore in the
the embattled Middle East.
U. S. Navy, who conducted the battle against corporal punishment in
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the Navy.
a-ok.rm
Four Great Personalities
in U. S. Jewish History
.
End Crime: Restore Pride in Detroit
The glory that is Detroit's can not be
dimmed by a crime wave that may really
involve a handful of youths bent on a
murderous spree and in fights, muggings
and vandalism that have scared decent
people off the streets of a great city.
The growth of the suburban areas has
not overshadowed the role of Detroit as the
central factor in a vast American area of
industrial progress. The reference"Still is
to Greater Detroit and the city's influence
upon the thinking of all who speak of this
area remains intact.
Not to be ignored, however, is the panic
that has set in, the fright that drives people
away from the Downtown Detroit sector,
the horror that has been injected into
human hearts by youthful purse snatchers,
knife-wielders and gun-toters.
What is involved here is a serious
demand for action to end a state of terror, to
return to normalcy, for all communities
involved — Greater Detroit, the central
inner city and the suburbs — to achieve a
return to security and to confidence in rule
of law.
What has happened has affected public
gatherings and may harm the cultural
programming, the theaters, the libraries
and the art centers if people will be scared
off the streets of a great city.
Who is responsible? Who is at fault? Are
the culprits truly youngsters in their teens
and even younger? Has enforcement of the
law been neglected?
There is little doubt that a reduction in
standards of education and the lack of
discipline in the public school system are
responsible in some measure for the
permissibilities that have given mere
children the arrogance to attack their
elders for mer,e pittances in the loot they
aspire to; and the failure of the elders, in
their homes, to impress upon the children
the duty of being law-abiding attribute to
responsibilities for the crimes. The
availability of guns and knives also traces
guilt to definite quarters — the home that
bars usage of such weapons, the law that
fails to punish for it.
The crimes have spread, the duty to end
'the terror is upor. all responsible citizens.
The wisdom in propagating toughness in
dealing with children who need the
punishment rod is indisputable.
The current call to action is to restore to
Greater Detroit a sense of security that will
give the great city and its suburbs a
renewed feeling of pride that crime,
vandalism and delinquency are
not permissible in a civilized society.
Neo-Nazism emerges menacingly so
often in many areas of the world that the
danger of the rebirth of the Hitler terror
remains a reality not to be shunned.
True, in the present-day Germany and
in a world that no longer permits a blackout
on truth the resurgence of genocides may
well be viewed as remote if not nigh impos-
sible. Yet, the neo-Nazi terror becomes evi-
dent all-too-often in Germany and in many
parts of the world where hatreds find ready
ears.
There are frequent occurrences of
anti-Semitic outbursts in South Africa and
France as well as in German provinces, and
while there is a lessening of anti-Semitic
propaganda in the United States this coun-
try also is an occasional witness of reiter-
ated hatreds.
The search for witnesses against Nazi
criminals residing in the U.S., by the Im-
migration and Naturalization Service, in
Israel as well as in this country, is encourag-
ing probf that a determination by American
authorities not to permit those responsible
for bestialities in the last war to go scot free.
Ernestine L. Rose, humanitarian and orator; crusaded for
abolitionism and women's suffrage and promoted the passage of the
Fifth Amendment.
Louis D. Brandeis, lawyer and Supreme Court Justice; defended
the individual's rights and championed the cause of the working
person.
Lillian Wald, nurse and social worker; pioneered the field of
health service to the poor and established the Henry Street settlement
which is still actively dedicated to serving the poor.
As advocates of military reforms, civil rights, women's rights,
workers' rights and adequate health facilities for the poor, these
`rebels and reformers' could be radicals of the 1960's and 1970's.
They're not. The War of 1812, the Civil War, the industrial movement,
and the mass immigration of the early 1900's were among the events
highlighting their careers.
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URIAH LEVY
LOUIS BRANDEIS
Neo-Nazism a Ma ' or Menace
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ERNESTINE ROSE
LILLIAN WALD