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THE JEWISH NEWS

Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with the issue of July 20, 1951

BY HENRY LEONARD

Member American Association of English - Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association. National Editorial Association.

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CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

ALAN HITSKY
News Editor

HEIDI PRESS
Assistant News Editor

Business Manager
DREW LIEBERWITZ
Advertising Manager

Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the 11th day of Heshvan, 5739, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 12:1-17:27. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 40:2741:16.

Candle lighting, Friday, Nov. 10, 4:58 p.m.

VOL. LXXIV, No. 10

Page Four

Friday, November 10, 1978

Book Fair: Proud Achievement

Another notable cultural achievement can be
anticipated by Greater Detroit Jewry as the an-
nual Jewish Book Fair is readied for com-
mencement Saturday evening.
To the Jewish Community Center and to the
many cooperating organizations goes credit for
arrangements for the annual project which
promises to be among the most successful in the
record of notable attainments in these efforts
during the past 27 years.
The Book Fair has many objectives. It is
primarily a cultural program, an ingathering of
authors who come here with the cooperation of
publishers introducing their books. It em-
phasizes the urgency of the book selling with
the exhibition of the most important books on
Jewish topics and by Jewish authors. It includes
Hebrew and-Yiddish in programming the public
meetings. It brings to the community a number
of the best known Jewish writers who join par-
ticipants in the Book Fair programs in dis-
cussions of literary subjects.

This year's Book Fair sponsors have suc-
ceeded in bringing to the community so many
able writers who have attained popularity with
their books in recent months that unusual op-
portunities thus are provided for interested
readers to meet with the authors.
The opportunity is at hand by way of the Book
Fair to prove that Jews not only are honored by
being called the People of the Book but are pre-
pared to live up to this coveted title. Book Fair
offers the opportunity to those glorying in this
appellation also to become possessors of good
books. There is careful selection of the books on
display and the volumes that will be available
for children as well as adults offer objects to
enrich personal libraries.
The Book Fair achievement this year once
again provides cause for pride in communal cul-
tural progress coordinated by the Jewish Com-
munity Center, the synagogues and their sis-
terhoods, the social service, civic protective and
Zionist groups of Greater Detroit.

Glory to the Peace Makers

Nobel awards were never known to be marred
by prejudices. They represented accom-
plishments.
Therefore, the large percentage ofJews ih the
record of Nobel Prize winners could mot have
been a special privilege. Some call it the result
of the Jewish gene.
Whatever the reason, the fact that in a period
of a month there were five Jewish Nobel Prize
winners, three in the sciences and economics,
one for literature and a fifth in the pursuit of
peace, gives the Jew cause for pride that the
handicaps of the ages, the bigotries that were
the result of so much suffering and so many
humiliations, did not subject the Jew to total
despair.
The Nobel Peace Prize for Menahem Begin,
shared with Anwar Sadat, is cause for contem-
plation.
Here is a case in point admonishing the skep-
tical not to turn to cynicism. The two recipients
of the coveted award had been at war. In their
behalf, ignoring what they themselves may
have said, there had been name-calling. A Jew
was looked upon. with suspicion in Cairo. The
Egyptian Jewish community numbered 75,000
in 1950 — 90 percent of them were native-born
Egyptians — only a few hundred remain in that
country today. An Egyptian would have been a
curiosity in Jerusalem, although many
thousands of the Egyptian Jews settled in Is-
rael.
Out of such a situation of enmities and hat-
reds there now emerge two great personalities
who are recognized universally as having aimed
for and attained -peace between the two lands
and their peoples.
The gene matters less. The humanity of it is
immense.
Because President Sadat stood firm in his de-
sire for peace with Israel, because his hand-
shake with Prime Minister Begin was an honest
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on Nov. 19, 1977, with the Egyptian leader's
visit in Jerusalem will be recorded among the
important in all history.
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize of
1978 to Menahem Begin and Anwar Sadat
serves as a clarion call to mankind to abandon
warfare, to strive for peace, for people of good
will to meet face-to-face, to seek peace and to
achieve it.
In the attainment of the Nobel Peace Prize,
both Menahem Begin and Anwar Sadat, and the
peoples of Israel and Egypt, owe a debt of
gratitude to President Jimmy - Carter. He did
not share in the award, but he shares in its
glory. It is thanks to his determined will to
make a success of the Camp David summit and
the subsequent Washington deliberations that
are the roots of the great historic achievement
for peace. The Jewish people and the Egyptians,
and the world at large, owe deepest appreciation
to President Carter for his firmness and sincer-
ity in linking the two award-winners in a hand-
shake of friendship. Blessed be these leaders
and blessed the era they have glorified.

"On that testimonial plaque the temple is giving
me next week, couldn't you squeeze in after that
line about my benevolence, a little something
about my modesty . . .?"
Leonard PrItikin
Copr.

Immense Work: Levine
Photos, Golda Meir's Text

Gemma Levine, a distinguished London, England, photographer, a
frequent visitor to Israel, was commissioned to photograph famous
personalities in Israel. She proceeded to photograph not only noted
persons but also the people of all ages and of historic places. Her work
is featured in a most fascinating book, "Israel: Faces and Places" (G.P.
Putnam's Sons).
Ms. Levine's commission included the photographing of former
Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir. In the process of taking the Golda
Meir photo, Ms. Levine was asked who was to write the text of the
book and she suggested that her famous subject undertake it. Mrs.
Meir agreed. The result is not only a collection of noteworthy pictures
but also an impressive story accompanying them.
There are 112 monochromes and 32 full-color plates. They repre-
sent the people and the moods of the ancient land turned into a
superbly socialized society.
Every aspect of Israel is incorporat,ed into this volume. There are
the Jews and the Bedouins, ancient places on the Jerusalem scene and
the modernized Israel. Kaleidoscopically, portraying- the old and the
new, capturing the spirit of a nation redeemed, the combined efforts of
photographer and stateswoman make this a work that will be
cherished by its possessors:
geicribing how she fell in love with Israel and her affection for the
land, Ms. Levine states in a brief introductory comment:
"The people and the land have endured the torment and desecration
of many wars down through the centuries. Standing in the stillness of
valleys and deserts that have witnessed battles both ancient and
modern, I sensed the awesomeness of the covenant with God which
has sustained the Jewish people and reunited them with their home-
land. Meeting many Israelis of different backgrounds, races and reli-
gions, I discovered a common quality — a spirit and a rare strength
which they seem to draw from the ancient, crusted soil. Young people
have a surging desire to enjoy life, not to waste it, and wherever I went
there was a feeling of togetherness, of warmth and unity."
The Golda Meir text is an essay of historic significance, as an
evaluation of a thorough review of great subjects done in pictures.
The former prime minister commences with a compliment to Ms.
Levine: "Gemma Levine's 'Israel,' is an Israel seen through the eyes of
a young and sensitive artist and the result is a book that stresses,
tenderly and with much talent, Israel's physical loveliness, its human
warmth, its basic tolerance and its steadfast belief in a better future
for itself and its neighbors, as well as its unbroken involvement with
the past.
Then she gives an account of the progress attained out of what h.
been a desert and states:
"Israel is the land of immigrants par excellence. In 1948, when the
country won its independence, its population was 650,000. Now, it is
over 3,000,000. The task of absorbing these people has been formida-
ble for a country so small. It was compounded by the fact that most of
the immigrants were penniless refugees from the Middle East coun-
tries, or survivors of World War II Nazi concentration camps.
"When the massive influx was at its height in the early fifties,
virtually the whole of Israel was a single refugee camp. Wherever one
looked one saw tents and shacks. These have gradually been replaced
by suburban apartment estates.
"Today's immigrants, refugees mainly from the Soviet Union who
had to struggle for the right to get out, are provided with temporary
dwellings in special absorption centers. Here they learn Hebrew in
crash courses, look for work, and generally become acquainted with
the country before moving into their permanent honies."
It is in this spirit that Golda Meir comments on every subject
produced by photographer Gemma Levine, making the work a combi-
nation_of two noteworthy skills.

omen a Power in ORT

Women's role in philanthropic and social
services is as much fact as tradition. It was
proven in Hadassah, National Council of
Jewish Women, Pioneer Women and numerous
other distaff activities. They proved their met-
tle here last week at the national conference of
women ORT leaders which drew an attendance
of several hundred from many scores of Ameri-
can cities.
The event was especially notable because it
marked the 50th anniversary of the formation
of the Women's American ORT movement. The
Michigan ORT Region played had a commenda-
ble share in the celebration and the women in
this state have a well-earned role of honor in a

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