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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the 23rd day of Elul, 5739, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 61:10-63:9.

Candle lighting, Friday, Sept. 14, 7:26 p.m.

VOL. LXXVI,-No. 2

Page Four

Friday, September 14, 1979

THREAT TO AMERICAN UNITY

Enemies of Israel, those who would destroy
the Jewish state, have injected their venom in
American society.
Even the bestialities of the PLO could be dis-
cussed dispassionately by commentators who
wish to differ with Israel's defenders. Even the
most prejudiced would, on a plea of freedom of
expression, insist on a partisan attitude
towards the barbarians who have no respect for
an embatteld nation's refusal to negotiate with
those who would demolish it.
When, however, the prejudice revives an old
canard of accusing Jews of double allegiance,
they align themselves with the unscrupulous,
the irresponsible who would divide the Ameri-
can people and destroy their unity.
This has become part of an experience, among
some elements in the media, who sink so low as
to charge those who insist on protecting Israel's
right to life and liberty with disloyalty.

The basic principle, the American ideal of fair
play, is undermined when there is even a hint
that people have no right to defend the security
of fellow- human beings, regardless of their ori-
gin or of the area where they seek to implant
decency and justice.
How much more obligatory is the role of the
kinfolk of the people threatened with extinction
to come to their aid, to challenge the enemies of
that people, to argue for them and to assist them
in all respects!
Yet there is an element that would dare to
speak of double loyalties in the hatred ex-
pressed towards Jews and Israel in the task of
performing the most ideal American duty of
protecting those threatened with their very
existence!
Surely, decent Americans will never condone
the outrage of such sentiments.

AMERICAN SPIRIT PREVAILS

It is as simple as all that: the American spirit to be "cool, calm," originating in Detroit, is a
prevails, and the outbursts of suspicions and necessity to follow. It is not sermonizing but
hatreds that marked a U.S. foreign policy inci- realism that should bring those who have fan-
dent proved temporary. The basic principle of ned dispute to rationalize and to cement
fair play and common sense had to-come to the cooperative tasks among all citizens.
fore and will surely predominate.
A platform seems to have been accorded to
The reaction to the charge that "Jewish enemies of justice who charge Jews with dictat-
power" was responsible for the resignation of ing American policies, who would give the im-
the admired black leader from his responsible pression that four million Israelis, who are
U.S. post at the UN was even stronger than the Jews, are domineering over a hundred million
flare up of irrational thinking from the resig- Arabs. Only the insane would so denigrate
nee's friends. Facts are facts and are not to be majority opinion as to impress the uninformed
trifled with. Had the President spoken, to affirm with an idea that a ghost people is frightening
that the resignation was his and no one else's mankind. Such claims are insults to the Arab
doing, the matter might have been treated on a peoples and to the hundreds of millions of
par with other resignations from the Cabinet. Americans.
The rhetorical conflagration was tragic and un-
The Jewish position is for justice to an embat-
called for. Now comes the reaction, and out of it
tled
nation, and the American foreign policy
the- basic principle of fairness hopefully will
supports it. In the Middle East, the minute
predominate.
Jewish state, confronted by the enmities of 22
There is an American community and it has powerful Arab nations, struggles to retain its
black, -. Jewish, Spanish, French, German identity and sovereignty. If this is not justice,
origined citizens. They -have interests in the democratically clothed, then justice will have
homelands they stem from and they have dif- vanished from the earth. And this is the impos-
ferences of opinion on matters relating to sibility that only the bigoted would advocate.
American policies. What would this democratic
Therefore, the emphasis of to bigotry no
society amount to if there weren't differing sanction.
opinions among citizens? But differences can
and must be adjusted in rational approaches
and if they are retained there is always a ballot
The mere visit of Anwar Sadat in Haifa was
box to avert hatred.
sufficient to lend great significance to the occa-
Not only Bayard Rustin, but many others in sion.
the ranks of the blacks come to the debating and
Topping it were numerous impressive factors.
conference tables with a sense of justice, aiming
The congeniality of the Anwar Sadat dis-
for fair discussion, for human approaches.
There is no other way to back up the prevailing cussions with Menahem Begin and other Israeli
leaders added confidence to the hopes that the
American ideology.
peace accord between Israel and Egypt will be
Out of the conglomerated confusiveness may workable.
well emanate a basic understanding of the ills
The hope extended by the Egyptian leader of
that could make people mad but which, when
clothed in truth, will eliminate the sins that an eventual participation in the negotiations by
other Arab states was additionally heartening.
lead to poisonous venom.
The enthusiasm with which Sadat's wife and
President Carter's comments in Atlanta last
week on the unfortunate occurrences had a daughter joined in the mission was thrilling.
major flaw. He spoke as if Jews had helped
It was, indeed, a continuation of notable his-
engineer a rift. Whatever there was of dispute toric developments leading to amity among na-
was generated by blacks and the Jewish appeal tions.

SAI3AT IN HAIFA

15-Year Research Study

Anti-Semitism in America'
Is Statistically Analyzed

Some 643 incidents in 1960 involving the desecration of
synagogues, cemeteries, shops and homes, and in some instances
physical attacks on Jews, led the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith to commission a scientific study of anti-Semitism in America.

The massive, multi-volume study produced by the Survey Re-
search Center of the University of California at Berkeley has now
been summarized in a 237-page volume, "Anti-Semitism in America"
(Free Press, Macmillan). The authors are Harold E. Quinley and
Charles Y. Glock.
Based on nearly 15 years of nation-wide research, the authors
draw their conclusions from extensive, specially designed surveys
that tell about the nature of bigotry in general, and about the role of
American schools, churches, and mass media in fostering — and
fighting — prejudice.
Their investigations give emphasis to anti-Semitism as it exists
in the black community, among adolescents, and in the political
process. They explore certain interpretations of Christianity which
foster hostility toward Jews, the relationship of anti-Semitism and
racism and the ways in which the manifestations of anti-Semitism
have changed over the- years.
The interviewers went into school systems and Catholic and
Protestant churches and talked to members of congregations and
their ministers. They interviewed samples of the black population in
urban centers and rural areas and studied the working class as well as
the middle class. A sample study of the effect of the Eichmann trial
was done. -
The authors present evidence-concerning changes in the level
and form of anti-Semitic prejudice. Among the many questions con-
sidered: What kinds of people are disposed to be anti-Semitic, and
what kinds are not? Why are the uneducated more inclined to anti-
Semitism than the educated? How does the black community regard
the Jews? Is there a relationship between black militance and anti-
Semitism? What is the extent and the source of prejudice among
America's youth? Is anti-Semitism racial prejudice? What is the rela-
tionship between political extremism and anti-Semitism? Is there a
clear correlation between religion and anti-Semitism?

"Anti-Semitism in America" is divided into 10 chapters and iii-
cludes footnotes and an extensive index. The chapters cover anti-
Semitism in contemporary America, the social location of anti-
Semitism, education and anti-Semitism, anti-Semitism among
blacks and among the young, Christian sources of anti-Semitism,
anti-Semitism in the news, in politics, and its links with racial prej-
udice.
In the final chapter, the authors attempt to answer two basic
questions: What new information has been gained from the studies,
and what do the findings imply for future efforts to combat anti-
Semitism?
In general, the authors conclude that a lessening of anti-
Semitism will only occur when individuals become more informed
and actively work to influence their churches, school; and institu-
tions to actively promote brotherhood and knowledge of one's fellow
man.