2 Friday, Decembel%17, 1976 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS . Purely Commentary The Sins of the Fathers .. . Atonement of the Children Are the Sins of the Fathers Continually Visited Upon Chil- dren and Grandchildren? . . . Aspects of Penitence in Many Ranks . . . Lib Movement and Almighty's Identity involvements being visited upon children and grand- children has a kinship in the Maria Iandolo and Jimmy Carter remote family experiences. Must the sins of the fathers be visited upon the children? When 'He' Becomes a Person Are the grandchildren responsible for the evils of Under the Imprimatur of grandparents? Can Dachau and Auschwitz be erased from mem- Religion and God is Sexless ory if the children of Holocaust culprits are to be ab- solved from guilt? `Tis time for some fun at the expense of Man, It is less ironic than it is an element in historic under the imprimatur of a major Jewish religious justice that the limelight should be focused upon a movement; and if the reaction is via WoMan, all descendant in Israel of one of the leading prop- glory to the high cost of Lib(erty). apagators of Nazism during World War II. There is a new aspect in this sensationalized Wo- Nineteen-year-old Maria Iandolo, granddaughter men's lib movement and it is given credence in Scrip- of the infamous Lord Haw-Haw, the Irishman whose tural revisions and their application to the downgrad- real name was William Joyce, is now volunteering her ing of Man. efforts in Kibutz Shamir. A "non-sexist" glossary proposed as a substitute Her grandfather was executed in 1946 for treason. for masculine terms in the Reform Jewish prayerbook His voice had been heard as a pleader for Nazism over has been issued by "an official task force of the New the German-supervised radios and he was convicted York Federation of Reform Synagogues." for his crimes after the war. "Lord," "Master," "His," "King," even the Al- The granddaughter makes no apologies. She is a mighty and similar terms are to be eliminated with free agent and she made this statement when her substitutes. involvement in Israel's behalf became known last It must have taken fully four years to create the week: new glossary because the fashioners of the transfor- "So what?" she said. "I don't believe I have to make mation were organized in 1972 with the formation of good for what my grandfather did. I don't believe in the New York Federation's Task Force on Equality for the biblical phrase that the sins of the fathers are Women in Judaism. visited upon the children. I think my grandfather be- Without begging the issue, it's worth going to the lieved in what he was doing, but I don't condone what source to get the actual intent of the new reforms he did. I don't like to talk about it." "from the horse's mouth," as a freedom that may be Perhaps this serves the purpose of the German permissible in liberated masculinity. The official youth of today who resent being linked to the past of Union of American Hebrew Congregations press re- their immediate ancestors, who say they were born lease had this to say in the sensational revelation after Hitler and are guiltless. about the new tasks in feminizing prayers: Not all Germans are so calloused. Many are study- Ms. Cecile Fallon, chairperson of the task ing their history, are examining the causes and effects force, said, "We ask for the development of prayers of the Holocaust and the guilt for it. and liturgy that allows full participation. We ask not for charity, but righteousness." Perhaps the background of President-Elect She stressed that women in Judaism "will not Jimmy Carter has some link to this matter of links with the past. The grandparents of the President-to- work for a Jewish community and pray, using a be, perhaps also his parents, were dear friends of Tom liturgy that systematically excludes them." Watson, the vilest of American anti-Semites, whose Ms. Annette Daum, coordinator of the task vicious campaign against a Jew, in the second decade force, viewed these changes taking place "within of this century, may have been primarily responsible our own lifetime." She is the Federation's religion for the lynching of the innocent Leo Frank. Carter was action coordinator. born after the Frank lynching, but during the decade "The language of prayer has a profound emo- when it became firmly established that there was a tional impact on people. The proposed substitute cruel negation of justice and a horrible appeal to language requires a reorientation away from a anti-Jewish feelings which incited a mob of insane male-dominated tradition and a change in men's at- Georgians to commit the brutal crime against an inno- titudes toward women and women's attitude toward cent Jew. Perhaps President-Elect Carter has some themselves." vague reflections on the tragic episode in history. This commentator was unable to secure an opinion from The true intent of the UAHC branch will Candidate Carter prior to the November, 1976 elec- never be understood or appreciated without reading tion. Perhaps his aides failed to share the request with the actual transformation. So., put on the yarmulke him. Even if remotely, however, the matter of parents' (or sheitel), don Talis and Tefilin, and read: By Philip Slomovitz Glossary of Substitute Terminology Masculine Terms Lord: Substitutes God, Almighty, Blessed One, Eternal, Divine, Guardian, Creator, Re- deemer, Ruler, Protec- tor, Heavenly One, Maker, Holy One, Most High, Exalted. Father: One, God, Parent, Maker, Creator, Heavenly (Father!) One! man, fellowman: humanity, people, us. children of men: men and women, thy children, people. sons of men: human beings, genera tions. God and Father: Our God (In Heaven) fathers: ancestors, forebears, patriarchs and mat- riarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob add: Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel. King: ruler, sovereign. Kingdom: rule, reign, realm brotherhood or fellowship: kinship, community, un- ity. He: third person pronoun — Thou (You) God. His: Thy, God's, Your. brethren: brothers and sisters, one. Master: Ruler. House of Jacob: House of Israel. God of Jacob: God or our ancestors, God of Israel. Shield of Abraham: Shield of our ancestors. * * * Barkhu — Call to Worship Praise ye (the Lord our) God, to whom all praise is due. Praised be (the Lord) to whom all praise is due forever and ever. the Eternal Shema — The Watchword of the Faith. Hear, 0 Israel: the (Lord) our God, the (Lord) is one Eternal Eternal Praised be (His) name whose glorious (kingdom) is forever and ever. realm God's name rule the name of God Your Thy The Celestial Woman may be known as Rebitzin (Heaven forbid that she should wear pants when she officiates as the counterpart of manly Rabbi!). What- ever the verdict of history, she (may the female person thus be called?) radiates from pulpit and illumines the New Scriptures. But if God were really a Man, would He thus find Himself deposed? Elon and Schary's Play About Theodor Herzl Opens in New York By DAVID FRIEDMAN (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.) Theodor Herzl was the founder of modern _Zionism, the man who made the existing idea of a return to Zion and the establishment of the Jewish state into a viable political movement for the Jewish people. Yet even for ardent Zionists, Herzl has not been in re- cent years a flesh-and- blood figure in the same sense as are Chaim Weizmann, David Ben- Gurion and others who followed him. The Israeli journalist Amos Elon did a great deal to improve this situ- ation in his excellent re- cent biography of Herzl. AMOS ELON Now Elon and playwright Dore Schary, author of "Sunrise at Campobello," have used this biography as the basis for a play "Herzl" which opened at New York's Palace Thea- ter Nov. 30. At a press conference following a preview per- formance, the American and Israeli co-authors stressed that making Herzl a living presence was an important reason for their joint effort. Schary, who is also the play's producer, said that he wanted. to make Jews, including Israelis, aware of the importance of Herzl in the founding of Israel. Elon said that he wanted to change the view of Herzl from a "two dimensional" person whose picture is on post- age stamps and the walls of Israeli schools to a real flesh-and-blood person. They have succeeded well, if not perfectly. Herzl does come alive on the stage of the Palace, not the least because of a superb performance by Paul Hecht in the lead role. Herzl, who died in 1904 at the .age of 44, left numerous letters and diaries and Elon thoroughly researched these and other sources when he wrote his biog- raphy. The play deals only with the years 1891 to 1897, perhaps the most productive in Herzl's life. It opens with the 31- year-old Herzl, a success- ful journalist and playw- right in Vienna, a Jew thoroughly assimilated in a non-Jewish society. Herzl is shown gradually realizing that he lives in Franklin D. Roosevelt about to address the Dem- ocratic Convention). Schary and Elon at- tempt to explain Herzl as a man who had no Jewish religion, knew little of Jewish culture, who did not have a Bar Mitzva and who did not have his son circumcised — as a psychological Jew. "I DORE SCHARY sense it, I feel -it," Herzl is made to say, calling him- necessary in any play about a real person. self a psychological Jew. Yet, despite some flaws, Those familiar with Herzl's life may be disap- this is a play that is surely pointed by the omissions worth seeing. the "invisible walls of the ghetto," ignoring the anti-Semitism around him. His realization comes first from a friend who commits suicide in despair over the impend- ing doom that he sees for the Jews and culminates in the Dreyfuss Trial. The play ends with Herzl about to address the first World Zionist Congress in Basle, in August, 1897. 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