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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the third day of Shevat, 5737, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:

Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 6:2 9:35. Prophetical portion, Ezekiel 28:25 29:21.

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Candle lighting, Friday, Jan. 21, 5:15 p.m.

Page Four

VOL. LXX, No. 20

Friday, January 21, 1977

Realism and Campaign Obligations

Israel's emissaries who have come here to address various functions relating to their
nation's status have been commendably realistic. They did not appear here with exagger-
ated descriptions of triumphs. They are proud of their military and confident that Israel is
in a position to defend herself against the massive enemy forces. But they concede the
economic handicaps and frankly speak about the effects of inflation and the shocks that
come with the frequent devaluation of the Pound.
This frankness was in evidence when Gen. Shaul Rosolio spoke to Allied Jewish Cam-
paign workers and when Shaul Horev addressed the Detroit Technion Society. They
indicated that there is grave danger in permitting Israel's economy to slip and asked for a
continuing American Jewry-Israel devotion towards a strengthengd Israeli economy.
The accompanying portrayal of Israel's indebtedness speaks as loudly as the words of
the messengers who appeared here with frankness to describe Israel's current status
economically.

ISraelf $

Debt (in billions)

$8.4
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1973

1974

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These figures represent the major challenge to world Jewry, particularly the Jews of
America. It is not enough to worry about Israel's security. The Israeli forces are constantly
on the alert to protect the country and its people. It is necessary, as an equally vital duty,
also to protect and defend Israel economically. An economic stability is as important to the
state of Israel as a secure border. That is why Israel's burden must be eased by Diaspora
Jewry by removing the welfare and educational burdens from the embattled state and by
assuring the continuity of rescue work in settling tens of thousands of newcomers securely
in Israel.

This is the duty of the Allied Jewish Campaign. This is a responsibility to be fulfilled
now as the drive gets into high gear with solicitations community-wide.
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The Allied Jewish Campaign, as the all-inclusive fund-raising effort for major over-
seas, national and local causes, has the added distinction of emphasizing the unity of
Jewish life. Israel can be stronger when the Diaspora communities are securely identified
with Jewish life everywhere. The emphasis on education, on social welfare, on services for
the elderly and the youth, symbolized in the scores of causes supported by the Campaign,
gives strength to the Jewish endeavors aimed at the oneness of world Jewry. These are
factors never to be forgotten when the Allied Jewish Campaign reaches out into the
general community, with an aim at enrolling every identified Jewish citizen into the
greatest philanthropic effort of the year.

Letters of Peter Schwiefert,
Hero of Resistance to Nazism

Peter Schwiefert was a symbol of the resistance to Nazism whose
identification as a Jew adds a glorious chapter to the determination to
defy the threat to Jewish survival. Peter was a young German Jew
who, at 21, left Germany, went to France, was forced by the war to go
to Portugal, then to Greece. He joined the Free French armed forces
and died in the war at the age of 27.
His letters to his mother, the disputes that ensued in his adamant
adherence to the Jewish faith and his consistency in battling to defend
his heritage, published in France, became a best seller and received
wide acclaim.
In an English translation by Barbara Lucas, the letters emerge
from the classic work, "The Bird Has No Wings" (St. Martin's Press)
gains a place of glory in the vast literature that has been accumulated
about the Holocaust.
The letters were edited by Peter's brother-in-law, Claude Lanz-
mann, who had the cooperation of Jean Paul Sartre.
Few works relate to the struggle against Nazism, and-especial-
ly in the tasks by the dedicated and determined Jewish loyalists to
retain identification with Judaism.
, - Peter's was a debate with his family, with his mother. He
recognized the dangers inherent in the Nazi threat, in the crucial year
of the Kristallnacht when the Germans were burning the
synagogues and destroying Jewish business establishments,
when the book burnings were rampant.
Peter Schwiefert was a martyr in a cause he embraced, in a vision
he possessed but which was not shared by a mother who could not
understand the agonies that led her son to loyalties to his faith.
"The Bird Has No Wings" is a fortunate retention of a glorious
record of one young Jew whose place in the ranks of those who resisted
the destroyers of his people is retained in a volume of letters that earn
a place of honor in the chronicles of the fighfers against Nazism.

Commendable Random House
Jewish Heritage Calendar

"A Jewish Heritage Calendar for Young People" earns high
commendations for Random House. Intended for the civic year
it is nevertheless a notable Jewish calendar.
Replete with photographs and facts about Jewish events
and personalities, this calendar for 1977 is like a miniatu'
history.
The Jewish dates are interlinked with the civic on each
calendar page, with facts about events that occurred during the
period dated and in relation to festivals and major historic
events.
Commencing with a pictorial account of Albert Einstein,
other pages are devoted to the Liberty Bell and the proclama-
tion of freedom quoted from the Bible, the Ten Tribes and their

symbolisms, Moses and the Giving of the Law on Sinai, Hanuka
and other themes.
_ Especially impresive is the two-page spread devoted to
explanations of all the 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
On each page are superimposed photographs and legends of
people and events, including Chaim Weizmann, President Ep-
hraim Katzir of Israel, George Washington with a reference to
his visit in the historic Touro Synagogue and other events.
The richness of this calendar gives it an historic unique-
ness.