Friday, December 28, 1919 35 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Readers Forum Materials submitted to the Readers Forum must be brief. The writer's name will be withheld from publication upon request. No unsigned letters will be published. Materials will not be returned unless a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. UAHC Proposals Criticized Editor, The Jewish News: On Dec. 14, you featured an article dealing with the proceedings of the recent convention of the Union of American Hebrew Congre- gations. There were two seem- ingly unrelated resolutions that caught my attention. The proposal to allow Judaism to "permit" Jewish descent to come from the father, and the efforts to acclimatize Russian Jewish immigrants to American Jewish life. The implica- tions of . these two enterprises are devastating. From any point of view, allowing the Jewish iden- tity to come from the father, as well as the mother is re- trogressive. In an age when women are just beginning to assert their rightful role in society, the very movement that purports to champion the equality of women now wishes to take the right of exclusive right of descent from them. Only in Jewish Law, does a person's descent c aste FOR YOUR manomma PREEN/US JEWELS siee,fitaK adate .Soots A Editor, The Jewish News: I am writing to you about the Dec. 9 memorial and Mazel Toy On Your Engagement .. . Photography by LARAINE MOGILL KNOPPOW anniversaries, bar/bat mitzvas, weddings sweet sixteens, other mitzvas & free lance (313) 855-9848 , M ga9a -4,etty y our Persona/ 2 irets anti C 944,3101r1 Snit 21 e3igner G • argottoth Sra.l W. jest flew Illateria4 • ,RE5o, zt gown,. • Etzenin9 owns • Slat-4 • &pc tt and Judaism in particu- lar. This is readily under- standable considering the society that educated them. To allow the same sort of assimilatory trend to which they were exposed to in the Soviet Union is not going to resolve their unique prob- lems. an is hardly It encouragement to someone who has been taught all his life that "being Jewish" was undesirable, to know that "being American" is a far better option than being an active, participating Jew. There are far too many problems weighing on Soviet Jews arriving on these shores that take greater priority. Rabbi Schindler assumes that these people need both reli- gious and material assis- tance, above and beyond the aid they are now receiving. It takes a great deal of re- sourcefulness to leave the Soviet Union and this qual- ity will hold them in good stead. Once Russian Jews mas- ter English, they are bound to succeed in spite of Rabbi Schindler. They too, will be- come part of the American Jewish community, without tampering with Jewish law and custom. Zev Davis Trifa Protest in New York 755111.1ft Sewer Rd. (B Mile at I-75) Tray,Mithigon Phanck313-362-4500 fr as a Jew come from the woman; all other major religions carry descent from the father. As long as child rearing practices remain the same, the major influence on a child's early develop- ment is the mother, rather than the father; Jewish Law recognizes this fact. The proposal to acclimatize recently arrived Russian Jews to American Jewish life puts Russian Jews, Jewishly, right back where they came from. In the Soviet Union, one of the ways young people attempt to secure a more "normal" life for themselves is to marry non-Jews. Their children, at least in theory, can have the option of choos- ing the non-Jewish nation- ality when they have to de- clare their "nationality" on their identity cards. As a re- sult, the children may have a better life with the Soviet system, but we, as a people, are poorer. Changing the rules in Judaism will not solve the problems of Russian Jews either here or in the Soviet Union. They may adjust to American life, but will they adjust to Jewish life? Many Jewish immig- rants from Russia today have ambivalent atti- tudes towards religion, Sta,hi tation on _tactics 5-gattnintl CALL FOR APPOINTMENT 358-3516 protest demonstration in front of St. Dumnirin's Church in Manhattan, where Rev. Florian Galdau is in charge. Rev. Galdau is a most active co-worker of "Archbishop" Valerian Trifa. The gathering was called by the Committee to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice in U.S.A., Inc. for three pur- poses: • As a memorial to the late Rabbi Friedman of Ploesti, Romania, who was killed with other Jews in the January, 1941 pogroms; • To expose Galdau and his church for collaboration with "Archbishop" Trifa and to protest the continu- ous postponements of Tri- fa's trial; • And to demand an in- quiry at Radio Free Europe and Liberty Radio's Roma- nian desk in Munich, where Iron Guardists have infil- trated. Trifa and his comrade Vasile Hategan have re- ceived radio exposure re- peatedly while Dr. Simon Wiesenthal and myself are denied equal time. Dr. Charles Kremer New York Conscience, though ever so small a worm while we live, grows suddenly into a serpent on our deathbed. — Jerrold Iranian Volunteers Reported Infiltrating into S. Lebanon JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Christian radio station on the Lebanese border claimed that Iranian volun- teers have crossed into south Lebanon from Syria and are stationed in Nabatiya, a village under the control of Palestinian terrorists. There was no official con- firmation in Israel but Is- raeli sources said that it was possible that a few of the Iranians who landed in Syria last week may have infiltrated into south Leba- non, but not in any substan- tial numbers. The report was broadcast by "The Voice of Hope," a small radio station north of Metullah which is operated by American volunteers who support Maj. Saad Haddad's Christian militia in south Lebanon. Im- mediately after the broad- cast, Haddad's forces began shelling Nabatiya. Haddad reportedly met with officers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to warn them that he would shell any village that harbored volunteers from Iran. Haddad also urged President Elias Sarkiss of Lebanon to unify all "true" Lebanese forces for the sake of the country. The Chris- tian militia commander, who is supported by Israel, is not recognized by the gov- ernment in Beirut and has been branded a "renegade." Meanwhile, Radio Monte Carlo reported that Syrian authorities said that they would not allow the Ira- nians to enter Lebanon un- less the Lebanese governe- ment agreed. 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