THE JEWISH NEWS (USPS 275-5201 Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with the issue of July 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 Postmaster: Send address changes to The Jewish News, 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Offices. Subscription $12 a year. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor CARMI M.. SLOMOVITZ Business Manager HEIDI PRESS Assistant News Editor DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager 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."