THE JEWISH NEWS (LISPS 275-520) 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: CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Business Manager PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher ALAN- HITSKY News Editor HEIDI PRESS Assistant News Editor DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the 29th day of Iyar, 5739, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Numbers 1:1-4:20. Prophetical portion, I Samuel 20:18-42. Sunday, Rosh Hodesh Sivan, Numbers 28:1-15. June 1, first day of Shavuot Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 19:1-20:23, Numbers 28:26-31. Prophetical portion, Ezekiel 1:1-28, 3:12. Candle lighting, Friday, May 25, 8:37 p.m. VOL. LXXV, No. 12 Page Four Friday, May 25, 1979 SADAT IN ISOLATION With only four of the Arab states in the ranks of the Arab League still on speaking terms with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat — Sudan, Oman, Northern Yemen and Somalia — Egypt may well be considered in isolation in the Arab world. Sadat is under constant threat from his coreligionists who seem bent upon applying every conceivable political and economic pres- sure to crush the man who dared to choose a road of peace with Israel. It is inconceivable, however, that world pub- lic opinion should fail to encourage efforts for peace. Only the Communist bloc gives comfort to the incorrigible among the Arabs, and if it had not been for the military aid provided to Israel's and Egypt's enemies by France as well as Russia, an entirely different picture would have been viewed in the international arena. Sadat emerges as visionary as well as the devotee to peace, with a determination not to be hindered in his efforts, even by his former allies in the warring spirit of Arabs seeking Israel's destruction. Unable to secure the assistance that had been pledged to him- by the Saudis to buy U.S. aircraft, he now suggests a public fund from Americans, comparable to the United Jewish Appeal, to supplement the financial as- sistance he so urgently needs to assure Egyp- tian stability and morale. It should be noted that Israel's Prime Minis- ter Menahem Begin, upon the signing of a peace pact with Sadat, urged economic assistance by Americans, and others in the free world, to Egypt. Urging cooperation with Israel in creat- ing new standards in trading as well as in cul- tural pursuits, Begin asked similar support for Egypt. This is the way to pursue peace aims, and it is to be hoped that the Arab world will aban- don its animosities and will recognize the validity of peace aims for all in the Middle East. An original contention was that either Jor- dan or Lebanon could be the second state in the Middle East to make peace with Israel. This was a view that stemmed from the belief that not a single Arab nation would dare make peace with the Jewish state. One dared. Therefore the dis- appointment in the position of war-mongering pursued by Jordan's King Hussein. Therfore also the realism in Prime Minister Begin's as- sertion that Israel could make peace with Leba- non in a single day. Would that there were fewer saber-rattlers in Lebanon! That dream could be realized. The isolation of Sadat is a source of regret and of great concern. Even more agonizing is the anti-peace position of the Soviet Union. Now the greed in France's pursuit of military merchan- dising is even more disconcerting. These are problems that make the situation tense in a Middle East that could be a blessing for the millions residing there if good will could take root among those who prefer to hate. PREJUDICE AND FEAR Failure to resolve a firm stand in support of the recognition of Israel's Magen David Adorn, at the convention of the American Red Cross, in Kansas City, last week, should be considered as postponement and not as rejection. The fact remains that in American ranks there is friendship, a desire to cooperate and a recognition of the Magen David Adorn qualifi- cations as part of the world movement providing relief in time of crisis, protecting the health of people suffering in crises and stepping in with comfort for those who may be affected by calamities. It is the prejudice that stemmed from Arab, Third World and Communist haters of Israel that prevents admission of Magen David Adorn into the ranks of the International League of Red Cross Societies. Therefore, the hesitation even on the part of those who recognize the justice of the demands in support of a Magen David Adorn role in the International Red Cross ranks must be viewed as submission to fear which then emerges as a continuity of prejudice. The American Red Cross leaders could well have resisted the prejudicial that negates the humanitarian in a great movement. The ear- nestness with which many in the Red Cross movement, especially the Detroit leadership, react in support of Magen David Adorn is an assurance that failure to act this year must be viewed only as a delay in what must eventually be a decisive and positive action in justice to Israel and to a great humanitarian cause. In viewing the future prospects for the recog- nition of the Israel humanitarian agency by the world organization, the activities of the last few years should be taken into account. To Mark Powers of Harrisburg, Pa., goes the credit of having pressed for resolutions favorable to Magen David Adorn. He now has the attention of the leadership of the American Red Cross and the chances for an amicable agreement and for the elimination of prejudice now looms high on International Red Cross activities. JERUSALEM DAY This is Jerusalem Day. Let it be observed with devotion and enthusiasm. This is a day of acclaim for the reunited city from whose Holy Places Jews were barred only 12 years ago, and where now all religions are enabled and encouraged to function freely, without discrimination or handicaps. This is a time also to declare that Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel, that it must not ever be abandoned. It is under the administration of a freedom- loving government where all people enjoy the rights of citizenship and comradeship. Let it remain so! May this new holiday on the Israel calendar, similarly observed by world Jewry, serve as a clarion call for freedom, for good will among all peoples who respect the glories of the Holy City. Hill and Wang Publication Martin Gilbert's 'Holocaust': Jewish Experience in Maps Martin Gilbert has made notable contributions to Jewish histori- cal research with the material he has gathered on a variety of impor- tant subjects relating to issues affecting world Jewry, Jews in Moslem countries and related subjects. Utilizing maps as means of portraying the experiences of Jewish communities, he has made brevity in such approaches a distinct value in providing information and in protect- ing the record of events to which he has devoted his skills. "The Holocaust," subtitled "a record of the destruction of Jewish life in Europe during the dark years of Nazi rule," his latest work, published by Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, contains valuable studies in the maps he has prepared as collective exposes of the tragic occurrences and numerous descriptive photo- graphs. So dedicated and effective is the Gilbert approach to his creative efforts that his preface merits quotation: - "The fate of the Jews of Europe in the Nazi era was one of the greatest horrors of human history. It has re- cently become subject of dispute and controversy. Tragically, for those mil- lions of innocent men, women and children who were murdered, the dis- pute is an insult to their memory. Their lives are gone. So too is the life of which they were part: the Jewish cul- tural, religious and communal heri- tage which spanned 2,000 years of European history. "In this atlas, I have tried to tell something of the story of those whose lives were destroyed. No map, ,and no MARTIN GILBERT photograph, can convey more than the tiniest fragment of the torment and tortures which so many pee suffered, some of them so young, some old and frail, all of them non_ human beings, who had committed no crime.They perished solely because they were Jews; because they were the children of their parents; because evil men triumphed over sanity and civilized human feelings. "The terrible story outlined in these pages took place within the last 40 years. It cannot be denied, or ignored, unless we wish to deny our own past." Perhaps most appropriately, for a full understanding of what had occurred, the introductory map, "Two Thousands of Years of Jewish Life in Europe" was necessary as a prefatory description of what had been destroyed, as the subsequent maps and photos portray. This map shows the age of principal Jewish communities as of 1939. Thus, what follows is the indictment of the murderers, the expose of the terrors. Gilbert also indicates in a map the 2,000 years of Jewish cultural and communal life. It is a confirmation of what had been as it relates to what was annihilated. For the historian and the student the map that shows persecu- tion, expulsion and refuge during the years 1000 to 1600 is most impressive. Massacres, pogroms, emigration are among the aspects of the study given consideration. This is, indeed, one of the great works provided as historical gems by Martin Gilbert.