THE JET 1SH NEA S hicril'iniruti ?if! The 1)rf•icirish (,) . .1 , 11!1 21). 1.9.51 rtmiclu cHm incr/clufl with thy• Member American Association of English-JV,Vish Newspapers. Nlichigan Press Associ;it ion. N:ition:d EditocI• Published every Friday bY The Jewish News Publishing Co., 1;7)15 W. Nine Mil. Suit, Second-('lass Postagc Paid at livtithfit.lti. Michigan and Additional Niailin Southfield. NI, • lit,' ■ 01: S _ PHILIP SLOMOVITZ CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ DREW LIEBERWITZ Editor and Publisher Business Manager Advertising Manager 11. 1 \ Editor...11E11)l I'll F.Ss. Ne.s• Lditor Q Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the 27th day of Elul, 5737, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20. Prophet ical portion, Isaiah 61:10-63:9. Rosh Ilashana Scriptural Seleetions Tuesday, Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 21:1-34, Numbers 29:1-6. Prophetical portion, 1 Samuel 1:1-2:10. Wednesday, Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 22:1-24, Numbers 20:1-6. Prophetical portion, Jeremiah 31:2-20. Thursday. Fast of Gedaliah Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 32:11 - 14, 34:1 - 10. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 5.5:6 - 56:8 (afternoon only). Candle lighting. Friday. Sept. 9. 7:35 p.m. VOL. LXXII, No. 1 Page Four Friday, September 9, 1977 For the Year Ahead The Faith That Sustains Experience providing the best teaching, 5738 may not be vastly differ- ent from other years on the history-laden Jewish calendar. Perhaps the challenges will be greater because the tensions that are anticipated may be so oppressive. Yet the historically repetitive aspects of even the most serious expectations offer the same inevitable cure for all illnesses: reten- tion of faith in the ultimate triumph of that which is just. In nearly every aspect of Jewish life there are symptoms both of clouded spheres as well as assurances that whatever obstacles there are there will be Jewish continuity and the obstacles will be hurdled with dig- nity. The two major matters of Jewish concern involving the global consid- erations relate to security, to a term often used but meriting resentment: that of survival. For those who have fears of survivalism there is only the designation of defeatism. There is an indestructibility in Jewish existence that defies the fear of disappearance. The form Jewish life assumes in the people's attitudes is the element of importance. It is always in a spirit - of life everlasting. Rejecting fears of survivalism, the Jew, wherever he may be, is con- fronted by the threats that stem from hatreds, from anti-Semitism, and that security of Israel makes very great demands upon the Jewish people. It would be like burying one's head in the sand if the resurgence of ha- tred were not to be taken into serious consideration. Anti-Semitism is in- creasing. It is in evidence wherever there are Jews. It is rampant in the Soviet Union, it has retained a foothold in Islamic countries. It is the source of bigotry even among the Jew's fellow Semites, the Arabs. It often raises its ugly head in free countries like the United States, Great Britain, France and the Scandinavian lands. How else is one to judge the reappearance of the notorious forgeries, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as machinations of Arabs, Commun- ists, the bigoted in the ranks of those who would revive the Jew as a ghost and as a scapegoat? How else is one to explain the occasional re- version by the viciously prejudiced to such libelous accusations as the rit- ual murder lie ? Why, are such assumptions incorrect, in view of the beat- ings of Jews in public places in England? The questions can be carried much farther. Why is there such an exten- sive anti-Jewish feeling among the students in British universities? Why - have the British university students yielded to Arab pressures to mobilize anti-Israel seminars which inevitably transform themselves into anti- Semitic cells? Perhaps the answer is a simple one : bigotry is not easily erased from the minds and hearts of people; crackpots, once they gain a platform, find their way into the minds of many who so easily yield to hatred and suspicion. Could it be that the jealousies engendered by the triumphs of Israel .and the venom inspired by oil and the panic caused by fears over an energy crisis be ascribable to the anti-Semitism that is now rampant? It is in- deed, possible, and because of it the obligation to give all the necessary support to Israel grows with time. It is as applied to Israel that the term survival has relevance. One who has faith must retain an assurance that Israel, like Jewry, is not destructible. In the most tragic years of Jewish homelessness, during the-centuries of Exile, there were always Jews in the Land of Israel, there were always Jews in Jerusalem and in Safed. Now there is a danger that is linked with an unfortunate greed on the part of Islam which would banish Judaism from its homeland. It can't materialize, it won't work and those who would not sacrifice justice will not condemn Israel to the gallows or to the statelessness that would make pariahs of Jews. Both aspects of Jewish concern are matters that will surely have the fate of the centuries. The Jewish aspiration for national redemption will never be negated again. The threat of the anti-Semite can not, by the very nature of anything smacking of the genocidal, succeed. Therefore, the Jew carries on and says when confronting the two most menacing ele- ments that are linked with hatred that he has faith and in faith he lives on with pride, with dignity, with courage. Can there be a more heartening message on the New Year? - • ". # cl •10..1111-11111•4 Wide-Open Arms to New Generation The Youth and Identification Youth is not conscripted into Jewish communal life: it must identify. This is a process of confrontation, perhaps the most serious to be concerned with in the stock-taking that is on the New Year agenda. An accepted dogma about "vie es christelt sich... ", that as Christians react so do Jews, is, of course, applicable to the youth of all faiths. The minds of young people are affected by environment as well as by heredity, and while the home is the very vital factor in planting the most ideal' desires in human relations there is no denying the effects that the street and the school have onyoung people. Yet, the Jewish demands are different. The hope for inalienable identifications by the elders as well as youth with the Jewish community embrace many interests. There is the urgency of not forgetting the kinfolk everywhere. When there were pogr- oms in Russia, attacks on Jews in Poland and other lands, public opinion needed to be aroused in protests and in demands for succor, and it these had not beglin with Jews making the appeals for justice the interest in the oppressed might never have been aroused. Even during the Holocaust, and in the era of Nazi bestialities, the Jewish voice was needed to arouse public opinion. When Great Britain shut the doors of Palestine to Jews and boatloads of escapees from Nazism perished on the high seas, it was the voice of the Jew that was needed in exposing the wrongs of Perfidious Albion. This is only one example of the diffi!rences that exist between Jewish duties and those of their neighbors. All peoples have a responsibility to avoid the immorality of crimes and violence and to strive for the raising of the cultural and spiritual stand- ards of the nation. In the instance of the Jew it also involves protection for a legacy that is incomparable in drawing contrasts with other people. Indeed, the legacy is vital in the consideration of the goals to which Jewv -must aspire, and therein lies the great need for devoted identification by the yout 'his is where home :and school step in to assure that the treasures that have been handed down from a sanctified past shall not be abandoned. Perhaps the young people are less to be blamed when indifference becomes evi- dent because they are not alone in such transgres4ag. Are - their elders better in- formed and more dedicated? Is it possible that Cie response of youth is com- mensurate with that of their elders ? The concerns about youth reactions can not be delimited when the growing rate of mixed marriages is taken into consideration, when the decline in their participation in synagogue life is considered, when the abandonment of Jewish studies after Bar and Bat Mitzva is viewed realistically. These are problems never to be ignored. They are lessened when the growing measure of responsiveness is taken into account. Israel attracts many youths, even if only for summers of sharing life with the cooperative settlements in the Jewish state. The religious factor often regains priorities. Courses in higher learning in Jew- ish-oriented departments in universities now are marked by enlarged enrollments. There are problems, and there are many consoling evidences. The negatives must not be ignored while the positive achievements must be given greater consideration in the efforts to multiply the labors for an assurance of identifications by youth. The obstacles are many, the inspirations that stern from the spiritual legacies are their match. With a new year comes the great obligation to give special consideration to the latter. WIRIZOCIV i WWWWW uax ,..asradm lit A IV 73