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Editor and Publisher
ALAN HITSKY
News Editor
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HEIDI PRESS
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath is the second day of Rosh Hodesh and the first day of Iyar, 5739,
and the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Leviticus 12:11-15:33, Numbers 28:9-15. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 66:1-23
Wednesday, Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Israel Independence Day
Candle lighting Friday, April 27, 7:08 p.m.
VOL. LXXV, No. 8
Page Four
Friday, April 27, 1979
COMMUNITY'S GENEROSITY
This community has cause for genuine pride
in -the interest it displays in the vital causes
which call both for identification and for finan-
cial assistance.
Greater Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign,
whose concluding workers' session was held last
night, has an excellent record of very wide par-
ticipation.
It is safe to assume that more than a majority
of the Jewish citizenry of the area, counting the
young as well as the adult population, will be
enrolled as contributors. This is in itself a good
sign of interest in the community's needs and
the obligations to overseas causes. The fact that
the generous giving of previous years already is
being surpassed and Project Renewal has re-
ceived the support solicited for it, add to the
satisfaction the many hundreds of volunteers
must have in the work they have undertaken.
While there are these encouraging factors in
the 1979 Allied Jewish Campaign, the need, for
domestic causes and to meet the overseas obli-
gations, is so great that overconfidence in re-
sults must be obviated. The vital need for extra
funds especially as an assurance of support for
the educational and social services in Israel,
demand increased devotion in the final days of
the Campaign.
With thousands yet to be reached, with the
necessity of assuring support for Project Re-
newal and of providing the extra funds for the
60 causes, the generosity of the contributors
must match the devotion of the volunteer work-
ers.
Indeed, there are obligations to Israel. It is
not enough to shout approbation for peace ef-
forts. The hands of the builders of Zion must be
upheld and all the aid given to the universities
and the agencies that provide for the elderly,
the financing of projects for new settlers, with
funds coming primarily from American Jewry,
relieve the pressures under which the Israelis
are laboring now.
Suffering from excessive inflationary trends,
the Israelis need assistance in all efforts involv-
ing the settling of new_ immigrants and the up-
keep of the agencies that are vital to the cul-
tural and social needs of the land. This aid must
come from the Diaspora. In Detroit it is the
Allied Jewish Campaign that provides the
necessary funds for the major philanthropic
task represented by the United Jewish Appeal.
The next few days should stimulate even
greater interest in the Allied Jewish Campaign,
hopefully producing increased giving and as-
suring that the largest enrollment in con-
tributors' ranks will be registered for the 1979
Campaign.
Yom HA'ATZMAUT 31
Yom Ha'Atzmaut is a holiday on the Jewish
calendar, and in the records of the free nations
on the globe it is a day of great historic signifi-
cance.
It is the day that marked the redemption of
Israel, the acquisition of sovereignty by the re-
born Jewish state, Jewry's resumption of dig-
nity among the nations of the world.
Yom H'a'Atzmaut marks the triumph of the
Zionist ideal. It is the day of supreme liberta-
rian acclaim for the right of a people exiled from
its homeland for 2,000 years now building anew
and as a rebuke to the persecutors who had held
the people in subjection and imposed upon it
degradations.
An the new spirit that dominates the re-
deemed state of Israel, there is an admonition
that never again will there be anything resem-
bling the Holocaust, as long as the surviving
generations labor to make liberty the dominant
aim for all generations to come.
Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Israel's Day of Indepen-
dence, assumes new significance on the 31st
anniversary of the state of Israel to be observed
next week. After 30 years of agonized struggles
to guarantee the freedoms of the reborn state,
the chief adversary, Egypt, is establishing free
borders with Israel. For the first time, after
many decades of struggling for an understand-
ing with her neighbors, Israel has achieved a
handshake with the Egyptian neighbor and
there is the mutual accord for no more wars on
these borders.
This makes the 31st anniversary of Israel's
freedom historically notable. A great day is re-
corded in a long history of pleading for a com-
mon ground with neighbors.
It is, therefore, an occasion for reasserting the
dedication to the need for solidarity with Israel.
The achievement of a peace pact with one
neighbor does not end the conflict with the
others, and only the unity of Israel with the
Jewries of the world can assure the protection so
urgently needed for a nation embattled for three
decades-.
The road to total freedom, to security, to eco-
nomic solidity, still is strewn with obstacles.
There are many obstructions to be hurdled. For
the hurdling there is need not only of Jewish
solidarity but also the good will of the free na-
tions of the world. This is vital in the struggle to
attain the peaceful neighborliness hoped for
with all the Arab nations.
Especially vital is the friendship with the
United States. To that end, the current Yom
Ha'Atzmaut is especially dedicated. That
friendship must remain intact, and its attain-
ment with the help of a friendly government
elicits gratitude.
A new spirit greets Israel's 31st anniversary.
A people determined to live in peace with her
neighbors has a great goal to pursue and to
protect, that of undiminished cultural and
spiritual progress, of economic security, of an
open door for all Jews who wish to settle in the
land of the ancestors and the prophets. For that
goal Israel has the kinship and support of Dias-
pora Jews. To that end it now receives the
acclaim of all well-wishers on this historic an-
niversary.
Jewish Role in America
Defined by Dr. Hertzberg
In a timely and most incisive style, Dr. Arthur Hertzberg dissects
the problems involved in modern Jewish experiences and offers some
solutions while conceding the problems in "Being Jewish in America"
(Schocken Books).
Every aspect of Jewish involvement, as Jews, as devotees of
Zionism, as supporters of the cause of Israel's security, as well as the
Negro and other problems, are covered in the more-than-a-score of
essays appearing in this thought-provoking and action-inciting book.
The turbulent times, as they affect this generation, inspired Dr.
Hertzberg's analyses. He makes the initial and effective assertion
that:
"Jews have survived in history best by accommodation and not by
confrontation, unless circumstances were so dire that there was no
alternative . . . Jews require alliances that are reknit again and again
and a continuing restudy of the Jewish self-interest.
"In relationship to the Arabs, I have argued in a variety of ways
and in many-forums, long before the Yom Kippur War of 1973, that
time was not on our side, that it could not be bought endlessly, and
that accommodations were possible at political prices that reasonable
men ought to be willing to pay. I have always known that Arabs,
having pride and feeling and injured dignity like all other men and
women, would not simply go away and forget about the woes they
think that Jews have caused them.
"In the arena of American domestic affairs, I have fought for
racial integration . . . On the most difficult continuing issue, that of
`merit,' I hay,: taken the view that society does indeed owe some
generous, and thus unequal, recompense, to all who begin life as the
heirs of past deprivations."
The admonitions that stem from the essays by Dr. Hertzberg, who
has held the responsible positions of the presidency of the American
Jewish Congress as well as membership on the World Zionist Organ-
ization Executive, the traditional Actions Committee, are certain to
make his work most provocative. He declares:
"We keep re-enacting in the freedom of the 1970s what we think
we should have done in the 1930s, but we are different and so is the
world. We have ceased being the "have-nots" of the Depression era
and are not quite at home with our status as "haves." For that matter,
the major figures in the world with whom we are dealing now are alsr
different. Leonid I. Brezhnev is not Stalin, Anwar el-Sadat is not tY
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and President Carter is not Franklii,
Delano Roosevelt.
"Jews in the 20th Century have lived through more than enough
tragedy and high drama. No people can continue to live indefinitely at
such a pitch. A new era must soon begin, when Jews wrestle less with
others than with themselves, in search of a redefinition of what
tradition means in contemporary terms."
Acknowledging the difficulties now being confronted by Ameri-
can Jewry, the losses sustained in many ways, in the assimilatory
trends, and the defections in the ranks of the youth, draw from this
eminent scholar the conclusion that only the traditional and religious
way of life offers the solution to these prdblems.
He urges that the Jewish school "again assume its real function,
that of speaking in mature accents of mature things." He cautions
against "the winds of fashionable doctrines." He declares:
"Under the circumstances, about the 'best we can do — it is the
least we ought , to do — is to sit doggedly by the embers of Jewish
teaching, by the open Bible (in Hebrew!) above all, and prepare
ourselves for the miraculous moment when the words inflame our
spirit. Then we — adults and children alike — will know what we only
can guess at now: what it means to be children, mothers, fathers and
covenanted to God."