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., 17.515 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 Associate News Editor DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the fourth day of Av, 5739, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 1:1-27. Thursday, Fast of the Ninth of Ay Pentateuchal portion. (morning), Deuteronomy 4:25-30, (afternoon) Exodus 32:11-14, 34:1-10. Prophetical portion ( morning), Jeremiah 8:13-9:23; (afternoon) Isaiah 55:6-56:8. (Lamentations is read Wednesday -evening). Candle lighting, Friday, July 27, 8:38 p.m. VOL. LXXV, No. 21 Page Four Friday, July 27, .1979 REPETITIVE DISTORTIONS A study of media communications tactics and experts would be interesting and perhaps reve- aling. It is a fact: when settlements are men- public reactions, concerned with the Middle East and their effects on Israel, might produce tioned they are immediately branded as "il- findings applicable to scores of other issues of legal." This justifies protest and resentment. Some basic principles have been advanced by _ human interest. During the trying days of the spreading the representative Conference of Presidents of anti-Semitism, which involved Father Major American Jewish Organizations. The Coughlin, Gerald L.K. Smith and their many need for settlements in Israel is endorsed, the associates, scholars directed their attention to right to Jerusalem as Israel's capital is affirmed the study of propaganda techniques. Several and other basic principles are outlined, as fol- books were published on the subject, including lows: "1. Israel's settlements on the West Bank are one by Wayne State University academicians. Now it would be well to go deeper into the study legal, Jimmy Carter to the contrary not- of reactions to the propaganda that relates to withstanding. - "2. There must be no Palestinian state' on the Middle East. Sociologists and psychologists might delve the West Bank. Such a state would be a dagger into the interesting aspect of a bitterness that pointed at the heart of Israel. "3. There must be no dealings with the PLO, seems to have been injected into the media, the spoken as well as the printed word, regarding the terrorist gang that seeks to destroy the settlements. The setting up of such residential Jewish state. Here is Yasir Arafat, quoted by projects in all remote parts of Israel were taken the Associated Press (Beirut, May 8, 1979): 1 for granted until shortly after Menahem Begin am confident that we shall eventually overrun won a victory in the Israel election of 1977. Prior Begin's own offices in both Jerusalem and Tel to that time under the aegis of the Labor Align- Aviv . . . even if only one guerrilla cub survives ment that held power politically in Israel for the prolonged struggle.' "4. Jerusalem' is indivisible. As the spiritual decades, more than 60 settlements were estab- lished. Then, suddenly, when several settle- capital of the Jewish people, it must remain the ments were set up in areas bordering on Jordan, political capital of Israel, a united 'city under - Israeli sovereignty. they were branded as "illegal." "5. Israel is committed to carrying out both There is no doubt about the lack of wisdom in the letter and spirit of the Camp David accords. the choice of some of the areas for such settle- "This consensus has long been the unstated ments. That's where the internal disputes arose understanding of American Jewish friends of with the Gush Emunim. But there also are the Israel. But it is well to publish them lest there areas that call for strict security. As in the in- be any miscalculation of the unity of American stance of Alon Moreh, the military who differ on Jews and the strength of their commitment to the security needs must be called in for serious the security and dignity of Israel and its consideration of the needs. This is where the people." Israeli high court plays an important role, and If and when there will be another study of the best judgment of .a nation distinguished for propaganda techniques, these ideas, officially its democratic principlesn'rnust be relied upon. formulated, may serve to brand the "illegal" appendage to settlements as a prejudicial ele- But there is another aspect of great serious- ness.- Because of the prejudices that have ment in confrontations with Israel, and the ensued, every time the term settlements is used Jewish and other supporters of Israel. In the there is the tendency to append to it the descrip- interim, the fact is unique: an appendage of "illegal" to an Israel policy seems, to stem from a tive "illegal." Could this happen consciously, unconsciously, subconsciously, prejudicially, developing bias. This may prOve unquestiona- deliberately, viciously? This is where study by ble. 'CONFIDENCE' AND PATRIOTISM Grace Aguilar, the 19th Century young writer, whose essays, poetry and historic novels were the remarkable results of Jewish inspira- tion when she was a very young girl ā€” she was born in 1816 and died in 1847 ā€” wrote the following in one of her noteworthy works about Spanish Jewry, in the book entitled "The Song of the Spanish Jews": Oh, dark is the spirit that loves not the land Whose breezes his brow have in infancy fanned; That feels not his bosom responsively thrill To the voice of her forest, the gush of her rill. When President Carter, in one of his speeches defining the energy crisis, appealed for a revival of patriotism, he reopened a page that seemed to be blotted: It's a long time since the mere term "patriotism" was heard from public platforms. The President's appeal for a solution of the "Crisis of Confidence" receives a measure of strength from the just quoted Aguilar poetry. Does the episode of the President's appeal to Faith and inclination to Cohfidence inspire Pa- triotism? One thing is certain: there has been a lack of confidence and any linkage of these qual- ities of citizenship with politics can be counter- productive. The non-political patriotism may have been dormant. It is difficult to believe it is dead. v, i, v, v. a vā–  ā€¢ New Schribner's Volume Sholom Aleichem 's Genius Depicted in Holiday Stories Sholom Aleichem was much more than a humorist. He was the best interpreter of Jewish holiday observances. This is emphasized in "Holiday Tales of Sholom Aleichem" (Scribner's), translated by Aliza Shevrin of Ann Arbor. Mrs. Shevrin, who is the wife of a University of Michigan profes- sor of psychology, adds immensely to her translations with an intro- ductory note in which she shows how effective Sholom Aleichem was as a writer of stories for children and at the same time inspired the elders with his fascinating tales. Applicable pictures based on the stories, by Thomas di Grazia, illustrate the Shevrin translations. Two of the seven stories in the book, "The First Commune" and "The Goldspinners," have not previously been published in English. The other five titles, which serve as reminders to Yiddish readers, are "Really a Sukka," "Benny's Luck," "A Ruined Passover," "The Es- srog" and "The Passover Exiles." The translator notes interestingly about her approach to her work as a translator of Sholom Aleichem, stating: "About once a month a group of us meet to enjoy an evening of Yiddish. We are college professors, townspeople, housewives, some from the old country and others born in America. We shares lc ve for a language fashioned over the centuries to express the longings, passions, delights, and humor of a people who once lived in the small villages, of shtetls, of Eastern Europe. At our meetings, we take turns reading stories. When a Jewish holiday approaches. c,ur favorite author be- comes Shol,m Aleichem, the humorist, satirist, awl the most beloved of \ Yiddish writers.!" - SHOLOM Mrs. Shevrin is more than translator. She ALEICHEM is also the interpreter of the values inherent in the humor of Sholom Aleichem whi,ch also emerges as definitive in treating Jewish experiences and the observances of the holidays. As in the topic she treats, Mrs. Shevrin, in the introduction that war- approaches Jewish traditional observances, expresses her love fo writings of the man who told tales to and about children with inspiration for the elders. "Not only was Sholom Aleichem a master of Yiddish literature and a great storyteller, he had an intuitive grasp of human nature. He knew exactly how children and their parents would behave .. . "Although six of the stories, are written in the first person from the point of view of a young boy, it is obvious that the boy differs from story to story. In some he has both mother and father, in others only a widowed mother. In some, he is very poor; in others, his family is rather well-off. Sometimes he is an only child and sometimes he has a brother or sister." Mrs. Shevrin, daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, thus renders a service with excellent translations and the presentation of two stories never before offered to English readers. She traces the life of Sholom Aleichem while expressing regret that more of the youth, including her own children, have not learned Yiddish to read Sholom Aleichem in the original. Her Scribner-published book renders a service to lovers of the works of Sholom Aleichem.