Friday, June 29, 1979 -19
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Tribute to an Editor Who Is 'Without Malice'
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
Editors are always writ-
ing about other people, but
who- ever writes about
editors?
In Detroit, happily, there
has been recently a bit of a
change. Those Michigan
folk have been paying a bit
of tribute to Phil Slomovitz,
editor of the Detroit Jewish
News. Selections from his
writings under the caption
"Without Malice" have been
issued by the Wayne Uni-
versity Press. Phil is a mod-
est fellow, and I guess he
will just have to take it.
Jews, I believe, are a little
more interested in the press
than most people.- I think
this is necessarily so with
any minority, any small
people. The small fellow has
to look out m _ ore than the
big one. -
_ Sometimes I think the
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reason the Jew is more know about as much about Ford publicly apologizing to
interested _in the press is love as one can expect a the Jews. It is fortunate, it
that the press
is some- rabbi to know," she replied. seems to me, that Philip
p
Slomovitz was editor of the
The Jewish press in
thing like a shofar. It
Jewish
paper there.,
America
began
to
flourish
sounds out loudly above
The episode, however, re-
the din. What Jew does following the great tide of
not go to shul at least to Russian Jewish immigra- veals the great truth that
hear the shofar blowing? tion. Nowadays, any dity of while technologically man
Incidentally, one man any importance has its has made great advances, in
the realm of the human
who was a very impor- Jewish paper and the
being there has not been
Jewish
press
is
no
small
tant molder of American
Jewish thinking, espe- force, -serving to erase the similar progress. Slomovitz
cially as regards the distances and make possible in his writings often refers
to like outbreaks of the
Jewish state, and who, as Jewish unity.
same disease of prejudice —
I happen to know, had a
Slomovitz has played the case of the Know Noth-
very good opinion of an espeCially important
Slomovitz, was the late role because of the loca- ing Movement before the
Louis Lipsky, America's tion of his paper. Detroit Civil War and the various
foremost Zionist leader. is the great automobile outbreaks of Ku Klux
At one time, Lipsky was center of the world, the Klanism — or the present
ran, for that
the editor of a Jewish machine which more situation in I
-
matter.
weekly called The than any other has revo-
The only antidote still
Shofar. It was gotten out lutionized American life.
by Lipsky in his home It might perhaps be said available is the press. The
one thing that the forces of
town of Rochester, N.Y.
that the automobile has
Not so many years back, done as much as Con- evil cannot stand is light
one of the men on the staff of gress and the President and the press can offer that.
Slomovitz has helped
the -Tiddish paper, The Tag, to mold the course of to Phil
bring light. In his credo,
visited his home town of American life. Yet oddly
always
Bialystok, iti Russia. A Jew enough, Detroit was also he writes he has
there asked him what his the center of an anti- sought strenously to ascer-
tain the truth and to present
occupation was. -
progress force. From it it — without malice. I like
"I write," he replied.
radiated for a time the those two last words.
"Und von vas macht ihr a
poisonous fumes of anti- Slomovitz is a gutsy fighter,
leben?" asked the Jew.
Semitism of Ford and but he is also a warm
_ (From what do you make a Father Coughlin.
human being,friendly to all
living?) -
humanity.
It
ended,
of
course,
with
He could understand a
man writing. But -lie could
not understand how one
could make a living -at it.
It hasn't always been
easy. One of the first
keynote address at the
NEW YORK —
editors of a Jewish
Henry Kissinger will re- annual Conference of the
weekly in America was
ceive an honorary degree of Leonard Davis Institute
Rabbi Isaac M. Wise.
Doctor of Philosophy hon- of International Rela-
There was no JTA then
oris causa from the Hebrew tions on the subject of
even to supply news re-
University of Jerusalem on "Changing Patterns in
ports. Rabbi Wise filled
Monday, it was announced International Relations."
the void with a serial love
by the International
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