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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the 22nd day of Tishri, 5740, is Shemini Azeret, and the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17; Numbers 29:35-30:1. Prophetical portion, I Kings 8:54-66.

Sunday, Simhat Torah°
Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12; Genesis 1:1-2:3; Numbers 29:35-30:1. Prophetical portion, Joshua 1:1-18.

Candle lighting, Friday, Oct. 12, 6:38 p.m.

VOL. LXXVI, No. 6

Page Four

Friday, October 12, 1979

KNOWLEDGE AND VIGILANCE

In a turbulent period in history, when suspi-
cions mar the paths to good will among indi-
viduals and nations and untruth threatens the
understandings that are necessary for peaceful
neighborliness, the necessity for educational
programs to provide for truth and knowl-
edgeability becomes a compelling need.
For the Jewish people and the friends of Israel
among all faiths and nations it is especially
urgent that the facts should not be polluted by
hatreds that are creeping in on civilized society.
The distortion of facts has become a way of life
for many, and the need to diffuse the menacing
propaganda and the poisonous spread of
animosities demands action on many fronts.
It is not the non-Jewish element alone that
needs to be better informed. There is need for
knowledge in Jewish ranks. Too many of the
Jewish youth have become indifferent, and
some may have been poisoned by the sen-
sationalism of bigoted propagandists. Some ac-
tually believe the distortions about Palesti-
nians and other issues that have become major
in handling the issues revolving around the
peace negotiations and the hopes for an end to
discord between Israel and her neighbors.
Many areas have been invaded with evalua-
tions, some bordering on declarations of war on
Israel, in articles by columnists, on college cam-
puses, including the most recent assault on the
president of Wayne State University for having
participated in an international cultural event,
the World Book Fair in Jerusalem. Such are the
demonstrations of ill will that require vigilance,
and for that purpose there is the need for a
well-informed American society. For that pur-
pose Jews must especially be prepared to meet
any onslaught head on — by being well-
informed.
Because there is such a vital need for the
truth, for the facts unpolluted by the poisons of
prejudice, acclaim should be given to every ef-
fort to introduce educational programs vital for
knowledgeability, important in the effort to
keep Jews and non-Jews informed about the
past, aware of what is occurring and affecting

Israel and the international developments that
may affect the future.
Acclaim must therefore be given to the educa-
tional programs introduced by the Conservative
and Reform congregations in the introduction of
study courses for the current season, and the
emphasis that is given in the Orthodox ranks to
adult education programming.
Both the Conservative Intercongregational
Adult Education Institute and the Reform
synagogues' College of Jewish Studies are filled
with courses on Jewish history and religious
values and an understanding of what is occur-
ring presently. Drawing upon the past, students
of all ages are thus enabled to apply their
knowledge to the present. The guidance pro-
vided in the courses thus offered should stand
the learners in good stead in an enforcement of
vigilance which is so vitally needed at a time
when Israel is brutally attacked.
The opening lecture of the Conservative con-
gregations' courses by Israel's former Foreign
Minister Abba Eban surely serves an important
purpose in an anticipation of an informative
introduction to the discussions of the issues that
need evaluation about the entire Middle East.
Similar leadership participation encourages
the knowledgeability that is vital for vigilance
in protective measures on all issues involving
international, interfaith and other matters af-
fecting Jews and their neighbors.
Orthodox spokesmen certainly are not in-
different to the needs, and the approaches to
general educational and especially adult educa-
tion efforts are heartening. ‘`
Vital to the needs also is a task like the one
introduced by a group of young Zionists under
the clarion call of "American Jewish Action,"
aimed at arousing interest in Israel's needs and
in refuting the unfounded charges now being
made by anti-Israel propagandists.
There is need for education and a duty to be
vigilant. Both combine to encourage the new
trends to inspire knowledgeability. These ef-
forts have earned acclaim and must be given
fullest encouragement.

UF - THE UNIFYING FORCE

A kinship cemented by the noblest in
neighborliness is symbolized in the United
Foundation campaign now on the agenda of
Metropolitan Detroit, continuing services for
the betterment of more than two million citi-
zens.
The 131 agencies in 112 areas of this impor-
tant community represent a totality of interests
for many people.
The social services benefiting from the UF,
the provisions for health agencies, the aim to
raise the standards of living of the less fortunate
and to guide them towards highest goals in life
give the United Foundation the status it has
earned during the decades of its emergence as
the dominant factor in the social services of this
important area in the land.
Every group in the community is represented
in the UF. There are five Jewish agencies bene-
fiting from the drive — Jewish Community'

Center, Fresh Air Society, Jewish Family Serv-
ice, Jewish Vocational Service-Community
Workshop and Shiffman Clinic. These are ex-
pressive of the entire cause, of the medical,
vocational assistance, family needs, camping
and other needs benefiting from a great cam-
paign.
The fact to remember is that these efforts help
to unify the community. They cement good rela-
tions. They emphasize that ,there is no excuse
for divisiveness.
They are a lesson to those who may seek to
solicit religious and racial groups through bi-
goted approaches. This is what is being chal-
lenged by the UF — the divisiveness that is
damaging to the American image. Because it is
such a unifying force and provides such im-
mense services, the United Foundation should
have no difficulty approaching a $50 million
goal for the current year.

'Summoned to Jerusalem'

Henrietta Szold: Her Role
as Founder of Hadassah

Henrietta Szold had many roles, and chief among them was her
fame as founder of Hadassah, the women's Zionist movement.
She had a pioneering role as an editor of the Jewish Publication
Society of America, and with the establishment of the Hadassah
nursing and health services, which led to the creation of the Hadassah
hospitals in Palestine, she served notably in the Holy Land. There-
fore, the realistic title of her biography, "Summoned to Jerusalem"
(Harper and Row), in which Joan Dash gives a thorough account of the
eminent lady's activities, first in this country and then in the Yishuv
in Palestine.
The Henrietta Szold story is an important chapter in Zionist and
Jewish history. The Dash volume is encyclopedic in the sense that it
covers such vast areas of interest embracing the American Zionist
activities as they related to the world scene; and the biographical data
about one of the most eminent women of this century is at the same
time a Who's Who in Jewish leadership as it related to the heroine in
the Dash volume.
Miss Szold was 52 when she founded
Hadassah, and had not gone to Pales-
tine to assist in advancing the medical
Work of the organization until 1921,
when she was 61. By that time, how-
ever, she had already gained wide
recognition as an essayist, a con-
tributor to Jewish magazines and,
from 1893 to 1916 she was executive
secretary of the Jewish Publication
Society of America.
As a matter of fact, she assisted in
doing notable translations for the JPS -
and she put to use her ability as a
linguist.
Born in Baltimore in 1860, she
was
influenced by her father, Rabbi
HENRIETTA SZOLD
Benjamin Szold, and served as his sec-
retary. Biographer Joan Dash states in "Summoned to Jerusalem,"
the Henrietta Szold biography:
"From infancy on she spoke German as readily as English, but
she learned Hebrew during long hours in her father's study, the only
one of his children to do so. Whatever was precious to him he trans
mitted to Henrietta: Jewish literature and history, Jewish jokE
weaknesses of the Jews as well as their grandeur always held for hei
the glamor of her father's presence."
The importance of the Dash biography becomes evident in many
fashions. Her association with the notables of her time and the leaders
in Zionism is significant. As a matter of fact, Supreme Court Justice
Louis D. Brandeis asked her to serve as intermediary in restoring
harmony among feuding American and Russian Zionists.
Then there was her rift with associates in Palestine.
Miss Dash related all these incidents. That makes her story
superbly natural and true, in that all aspects of Henrietta Szold's life
are related in this interesting biography.
"Summoned to Jerusalem" is more than the life story of Hen-
rietta Szold. It is a history of Hadassah and the early years of Zionism;
all of the important leaders in the movement during her lifetime pass'
through the pages of this book. All the combined factors serve to make
this a notable work for Zionists, historians and lovers of biographical
Writings.

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