THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with the issue QI-Inly 20. 1951 Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial AssociatiOn. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield. Mich. 48075. Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Offices. Subscription S12 a year. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher DREW LIEBERWITZ CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Advertising Manager Business Manager ALAN HITSKY, News Editor—I-1E1M PRESS, Assistant News Editor Sabbath ScrinturarSeIections This Sabbath, the 12th day of Tishri, 5738, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal Portion, Deuteronomy 32:1-52. Prophetical portion, II Samuel 22:1-51. Sukkot Scriptural Selections " Tuesday: Pentateuchal portion, Leviticus 22:26-23:44, Numbers 29:1 ?-16. Prophetical portion, Zechariah 14:1-21. Wednesday: Pentateuchal portion, Leviticus 22:26-23:44, Numbers 29:12-16. Prophetical portion, 1 Kings 8:2-21. Hol Hamoed Sukkot Thursday: Numbers 29:17-25. Friday, Sept. 30: Numbers 29:20-28. Candle lighting, Friday, Sept. 23, 7:10 p.m. VOL. LXXII, No. 3 Page Four Friday, September 23, 1977 Sinai Anniversary in Focus Sinai Hospital's approaching 25th anniver- sary focuses on community achievements marked by notable advancements contributing to the elimination of health hazards, advances in medical treatments and encouragement for protective aims to assure wholesomeness in tackling human ailments. Having started from scratch, from a min- iscule movement that was propagated by a long-functioning movement of the Jewish Hospi- tal Association, the progress attained is so phe- nomenal that in its 25 years Sinai Hopsital of Detroit has gained a national reputation for ef- fectiveness in tackling medical needs. No institution the size of Sinai is without errors or faults. Sinai is not an exception in the medical field. What ails Sinai also is the prob- lem of all hospitals, involving nursing care, phy- sicians, and administrators' problems. Yet it must be recorded to the credit of Sinai Hospital that its governing board is concerned with the needs and its medical chief, Dr. Julien Priver, has never ignored a problem when he was con- fronted by it. There Will be much of communal interest to recall when the Sinai history is reconstructed on the 25th anniversary. The hospital's builders are to be credited with devotion to the responsi- bilities they assumed, and these can not be ig- nored by the citizenry that has benefited from the availability of an import&it Jewishly-ad- ministerred institution. It is heartening to know that the endowment funds now credited to Sinai have been en- hanced by the generous gife of $1,000,000 re- ceived from Mr. and Mrs. Harold Soble. Their gift is of unusual interest because 10 years ago they had given a similar $1,000,000 contribution which was distributed among Bar-Ilan Univer- sity, Yeshiva University, Wayne State Univer- sity's colleges of medicine and pharmacy, Sinai Hospital and the Jewish Home for the Aged. Such gifts are an encouragement for sharing one's possessions with causes that benefit all in a given community. Sinai Hopsital's uniqueness is yet to be ex- plored in many ways during the years of the an- niversary celebration. Preparatory to that ob- servance, the community has cause to feel elat- ed that its needs are well-served by responsible spokesmen. Shocking Distortion of Truth America's lawyers owe a great debt to the cause of truth, to expose and repudiate a shock- ing set of lies that have been attributed to a group in their midst. The National Lawyers Guild has become a tool in the hands of Arab propagandists who are bent upon destroying Is- rael, and the outrageous lie about an official Is- rael endorsement of torture for Arab prisoners and Arab residents in Israel administered terri- tories became the test of an Arab full-page ad- vertisement in the New York Times. The lie is challenged by the national Jewish magazine Moment in its October issue, and Moment also has inserted a reply advertisement in the Times in which the National Lawyers Guild's guilt is exposed. Proof now is provided that the National Lawyers Guild has become a tool in the Arab anti-Israel propaganda, that this group of law- yers, claiming to have studied conditions in Is- rael, actually had already entered upon a pol- icy of anti-Israelism prior to its alleged in- vestigation. Moment correctly charges that the guilty lawyers are serving a devilish cause which Moment exposes, declaring that "Ameri- can public opinion is not for sale," exposing the main culprits as follows: "This ad was paid for by friends of Mo- ment Magazine, not by countries with swollen bank accounts where slavery is still practiced, women are still oppressed, Jews are still per- secuted, and where torture is a daily event. If Saudi Arabia really cares about the Palesti- nians, let is spend just the interest (over $2 bil- lion last year alone) on its bank accounts to solve the refugee problem." The entire legal profession is maligned in the nefarious actions of the National Lawyers Guild. It is for the lawyers of America to act and to expose the trickery of a group among them that knows not respect for truth and de- cency. Diplomacy Globally Fumbled An Argentinian government official, who joined in the cermony of the signing of the Pan- ama Canal treaty, at the White House, found it necessary in inject a ticklish foreign issue with a condemnation of Israel for her policy of en- couraging the establishment of additional settle- ments in Judea and Samaria. The President of the United States took the cue and made anoth- er of his critical statements with an affirma- tion of his policy, which he referred to as a long-standing American viewpoint, with a scath- ing criticsm of Israel. The criticism was based on a report that there were arrangements con- cocted secretly by Israel to expand the settle- ment plans. Almost simultaneously, the secrecy was ex- posed as being mere rumor and in knowl- edgeable quarters it was reasserted that what the President called an established American policy really was never given in the emphasis of the present White House occupant. That diplomacy should have been so bungled as to permit another rash of rumors which gen- erate suspicion of Israel's motives is a cause for deep regret that diplomacy should thus be dragged through suspicion, distortions and bun- gling. To paraphrase a famous phrase: diplo- macy, oh diplomacy, what nonsense often gen- erates in your name! Historic Effects on Jewish Life in New Dawidowicz Volume All aspects of Jewish life and the experiences of most recent years are echoes in a scholarly collection of essays by Lucy Davidow- itz. In "The Jewish Presence: Essays on Identity and History" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston),• Mrs. Dawidowicz touches upon every aspect of Jewish life. the experiences of recent times as related to the ages. the religious debates that have marked clashing differen- ces between Orthodox and Reform, the Holocaust and the liber- tarianism of the Zionist ideal. An eminent scholar whose research on the Holocaust gives her the unquestioned rank of one of the best informed historians on the Hitler era, Mrs. Dawidowicz has included valuable data on these ex- periences in "The Jewish Presence." In her interpretive work, Mrs. Dawidowicz gives new meaning to the call for identification by Jews in the face of the many problems that have accumulated in the modem period of a world stirred by stirring challenges. Mrs. Dawidowicz's own definition of her approach to the totality of her work provides the most perfect guide for an understanding of her ideology. She declares in her introductory chapter: "By 'Jewish Presence' I mean the preoccupation of Jews with them- selves and with the nature of their Jewishness. By 'Jewish Presence' I also mean the space that Jews occupy in the minds of non-Jews and the am- biance that Jews have created in the non-Jewish world. In my lifetime the `Jewish Presence' in its several senses has been especially visible in the world. Indeed. many times Jews desperately wished to be less visible, to be offstage and unstarred in the drama of human events. The Jews have always, for better or worse, lived in the vortex of history. The 'Jewish Presence' is the outcome of LUCY DAWIDOWICZ that turbulence." A series of definitive essays on the most pressing Jewish issues by so eminent a scholar—Mrs. Dawidowicz teaches history at Ye- shiva University—could not possibly be complete without discussinc , the anti-Semitic aspects of Jewish experience. The anti-Jewish ft tors. their effects, the manner of approach to tackling them. have not been ignored in "The Jewish Presence." Naturally, the question involving Jewish resistance plays a part of the discussions inherent to the anti-Semitic issue as well as the struggle for justice and liberation. The role of the Nazi barbarians is under scrutiny and in the instance of the British obstructions in Pa- lestine the famous charge of "Perfidy" by Ben Hecht receives due attention. Especially noteworthy is the attention given by Mrs. Dawidowicz to the status of the Yiddish language and literature. the efforts that have been made by lexicographers for the preservation of Yiddish and the scholarship imbedded in Yiddish. In its totality. "The Jewish Presence" is one of the most impres- sive anthologies of historical date for all who need guidance in under- standing the Jewish experiences of and the challenges facing Jews. Mrs. Dawidowicz is the author of "A Holocaust Reader," and "The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Eu- rope." Her last book, "The War Against, The ,Jews.,,,193a-1945.: was awarded an Anisfield-Wolf prize in 1976. and was widely praised. ••