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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 25th day of Tevet, 5737, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 1:1-6:1. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 27:6-28:13; 29:22-23.
Thursday, Rosh Hodesh Shevat, Numbers 28:1-15
Candle lighting, Friday, Jan. 14, 5:06 p.m.
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VOL. LXX, No. 1'9
Friday, January 14, 1977
Carter on Road to White House
Scriptural Anointment
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-First Samuel 16:13
President-Elect Jimmy Carter is on - the road to the White House. Next Thursday he
will reach his destination and he will be PreSident Carter of this great nation of many
peoples of many faiths and from many nations.
In the tradition of the American people he has risen to the helm of the most important
of the official posts in the land, and as_ one of the great leaders in international affairs.
Jimmy Carter's, rise to power is an American continuity. The people elect, and those
honored by the electorate carry on the tasks that had been sketched for them by their
predecessors and by traditional policies. In another sense, the new President comes to his
great office with responsibilities perhaps greater than those of his predecessors.
The new Administration under the leadership and guidance of the new President has
many issues to tackle. The President himself considers the reduction of the ranks of the
unemployed a top priority in dealing with the nation's needs. There are scores of other
problems — economic, racial, social, educational. There are the needs of the elder elements
and those of the less fortunate in many ranks, primarily the retarded.
And there are the serious issues involving American foreign relations, those of detente
with Russia, the uncertainties revolving around the Chinese problem, the Middle East
tensions.
Like his predecessors, President Carter must show strength, must have vision, in his
confrontations with Israelis and Arabs., with Jews who are concerned about Israel's future
and an existing antagonism to the Jewish state.
A believer in Prophecy, a faith acquired from his religious loyalties and his love for the
Scriptures, President Carter's avowed friendship for Israel out of which has grown his
assurance that Israel's security will be one of his major concerns has become an acknow-
ledged fact in the .platform upon which President Carter has built his credo for justice.
No one could have spoken more firmly against the immorality of the Arab boycott of
Israel and of American Jews and Christians who are friendly with Israel and do business
with the Jewish state. The effects of that firmness against injustice are yet to be tested, and
President Carter has a serious duty to perform in that respect.
He does not come to administer the affairs of the nation with ease and in an atmos-
phere of calmness. There are many tensions to be overcome and he has the right to expect
the cooperation, the support of all citizens and their fullest respect as he assumes his
serious obligations.
There must, therefore, be an accompaniment to Jimmy Carter's oath of office, on
Inauguration Day next Thursday, from the citizens of this land. The President is not alone
in assuming new duties. His constituents share the responsibilities. Theirs is the duty to
uphold the hands of the Chief Executive and to say to him that loyal citizens will never
abandon him in the tasks of keeping this land secure, prosperous, wholesome and.free of
bigotry and hatred.
N.eo-Nazis Mock the Victims
• deny the truth of the Nazi inhumanities.
What this revived anti-Semitism repre-
cents is a denial of the public German re-
Democratic Party Congress, 1898.
cords which were the first to affirm the hor-
Bigotry has a special- symbolism: it ror of the Nazi crimes and the death of the
lacks in compassion for all its victims and its Six Million.
hatred for the objects of its bias are always
The anti-Semites are mocking the dead
the major sufferers.
and are aiming to destroy the records of the
This is evident in the new neo- or pro- brutalities and the aim to exterminate an
Nazi campaign which is rooted especially in entire people.
an organized effort to defile the Holocaust,
Their attempt is to fool people into be-
to deny that Jews had suffered under Hitler,
to maintain that the Six Million are a myth. lieving that the evidence of an Adolf
Distribution of a pamphlet entitled "Did Six Eichmann was manufactured, and the duty
Million Really Die?" has been issued in of the honorable in the communications
many thouSands of copies and have been spheres is to expose the new , crime of neo-
placed in libraries and in schools. The dis- Nazism's resurgence.
tribution of the shocking denial of the hor- Hatred has not diminished and the
rendous crime among children adds im- anti-Semitic virus remains the most poison-
mensely to the disgust that must embrace ous. Therefore, the need to be on the alert in
all decent people who learn of this aim to battling against it.
"The last anti-Semite will
die only with the last Jew."
-v. Adler, at Austrian Social
Elon's 'Understanding Israel
Instructive for Young and Old
"Understanding Israel: a Social Studies Approach" by
Amos Elon (Behrman) is presented as a textbook. It is more
than that: it is instructive for the elders as well
as the youth.
The eminent author, who has tackled Israeli
issues challengingly and whose' biography of
Theodor Herzl was a best seller, covers the vast
field relating to the redemption of Israel in this
interesting outline of a long history, dating back
to the earliest times in Zionist aspirations to the
present.
Noteworthy about this Elon work is that it
Noteworthy
not only traces history and deals with the geo-,
AMOS ELON graphic and educational and related subjects,
but is primarily valuable for the questions posed by the author,
and in discussion when the book is used as textbook for an
understanding of Israel.
The challenges confronting Israel, the tests for the future,
are combined in a testing in which Elon asks the reader and
perhaps himself as well, "What Does the Future Hold?" and he
makes these comments:
"Everything is still flukrThe belief in progress is still very
much alive among Israelis; it remains the early setters' main
bequest to the young. Had Israel been established in quieter
times, had it been able to develop more slowly in the calm and
sunny peace of its green plains arild rugged mountains, perhaps
its people might sooner have come to share with other, happier
nations the traditions of manners and ease. Perhaps it could
speak in soothing tones, instead of the tense, S.aut voice it now
strains so often in trying to capture the world's attention.
"But this harassed people built its state under troubled
circumstances that had not been imagined by anyone. What was
planned as an orderly migration became a desperate escape. A
people who tried above all to change their historic image and
fate — utter dependence on other people's tolerance — were
denied their aim. Instead of finding calm and rest, they live in
unending and unnerving conflict. Instead of peace, there is war
with no end in sight.
"Little wonde'r r then, that issues which might have been
more satisfactorily resolved in calmer times continue to fester.
In their fight for physical survival, the Israelis remain deter-
mined to endure. But as the Israelis come of age as a nation they
are torn by conflicting forces, contending for their character as
a people.
"Let us close by quoting three famous slogans that have
inspired the return of the Jews to their ancient home-
land:
If I am not for myself, who then is for me?
We came to build the land and to be rebuilt by it . .
If you will it, it is no legend.
"The first is an ancient rabbinic saying; it requires no
_further explanation. The second, a song of the early pioneers,
reflects their lofty vision of the ability of the Jewish people to
create a new life for themselves in a society of freedom and
equality. The third was coined by Theodor Herzl; it gives an
indication that the story of Israel is not yet done."
An important supplement to Elon's work are the seven
photo units and the educatonal material prepared by Morris J.
Sugarman. The combination of literary and photographic ta-
lents gives special status to "Understanding Israel."