THE JEWISH NEWS ,USPS 275520 1 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., 17515 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 $15 a year. WANTED CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ PHILIP SLOMOVITZ ES4 lat Business Manager Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor 111152151 HEIDI PRESS Associate News Editor WANTED DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the ninth day of Teuet, 5740. the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 44:18-47:27. Prophetical portion. Ezekiel 37:15-28. Sunday, Fast of the 10th of Tevet wfmg.t„k‹ 'n7i'&45 . 74TE499WraTKPRIAPil Candle lighting, Friday, Dec. 28, 4:50 p.m. Page Four Z1171501 —Li S Friday, December 28, 1979 man 1111111Mali INTRODUCING THE 1980S Prophets and soothsayers will be aplenty in the days and weeks to come. They will have a common subject: the 1980s. Many messages of doom can be awaited. In the judgment of many we could well stretch out and expect the world to collapse. How else? Islam is on our trail, Russia is in the background ready to impose her power on a troubled world, inflation is eating us up, every conceivable evil foreboding will be spelled out for mankind. In anticipation, it is conceded: inflation may lead to recession which some already see among the calamities for America, although there is an element that denies its existence but predicts its being on our heels. The Middle East is in tur- moil, inflation being much more deadly for Is- rael, for example, than it is for the United States. While Egypt is struggling to emerge from economic and social challenges, there are even the auguries that Anwar Sadat may not survive the transitional period of peace- making. If one were to go deeply into the problematic of the Middle East, it would be impossible to avoid taking into account the rifts that exist among the Arab nations. For decades their unity stemmed from a common hatred for Is- rael. Now there is an attempt at unifying the haters on the basis of opposition to Sadat and the peace with Israel that is an object of renewed animosities to Israel. In the process of striving for Israel's security, for the economic solvency of the Jewish state, the Jewish communities in countries where they share social and political freedoms will be confronted with a serious duty — that of always being available as defenders of the just rights of Jews everywhere. A news item that was published in the New York Times as an analytical summary of the conflict between Libya's Qaddafi, the PLO and Arafat succintly depicts a condition not to be overlooked in the Middle East. That item stated: "Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and his Asian and African brothers don't get along all that well. Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt has called him 'the lunatic of Libya.' Julius K. Nyerere of Tanzania accused him of threatening war and retaliated by presenting Libya with Idi Amin as a perma- nent house guest. Col. Qaddafi boasted of train- ing Moslem revolutionaries who triumphed in Iran, but soon he was being denounced there in connection with the mysterious disappearance of the Shiite Imam of Lebanon. "Last week, it became clear that the Libyan leader had taken on another adversary. In a post-midnight interview with the New York Times conducted as he relaxed in a tent under the stars, he charged the Yasir Arafat was lead- ing the Palestine Liberation Organization down the 'road to treason.' The PLO, he added is 'a collection of storefronts peddling differing views, which is not the way to liberate Pales- tine.' 'Palestinian militants, in turn, charged that Libya was trying to force 40,000 Palestinians FOR ARSON & TEMOlk IDNAPPtN4 &THRFAT5 Pentateuchal portion. Exodus 32:11-14. 34:1-10. Prophetical portion (afternoon only), Isaiah 55:6-56:8. VOL. LXXVI, No. 17 SADDAFI 1(1401413141 FOR. working there into state-controlled revolution- ary committees. They noted that Libya's $50 million-plus share of the PLO budget has gone unpaid. The chief Palestinian representative in Tripoli, Suleiman al-Shurafa, was expelled 10 days ago. "On other subjects, the colonel promised that the United States embassy in Tripoli would re- ceive 'added protection' to prevent a recurrence of the mob attack and burning of Dec. 2. He also claimed to have received 'assurances in the last few days through unofficial channels' indicat- ing that President Carter plans 'a more sym- pathetic attitude toward the Palestinian people,' if he is re-elected. The White House said it did not envisage 'a fundamental change in policy.' " This is history repeating itself, demagogues and dictators feuding, the search for power serv- ing as a divisive factor in an area where the oil-rich would like to swallow up the equally rich but less military and therefore vulnerable to absorption. It is in the midst of these uncertainties, influ- enced by the fundamentalism and fanaticism that affects Iran and draws into the tragedy many nations, that the problematic 1980s ap- pear on the scene. It would be sheer blindness to realities to fail to realize that tough times are approaching, that the problems for mankind will be global, that they may bring with them renewed hat- reds, prejudices that could be repetitions of the inhumanities of the 1930s and 1940s. Increased inflationary trends may result in the traditional revivals of the hoary anti- Semitic practices. There is always the danger under such conditions that racial hatreds again may become the expressions of the bigoted. These are matters to keep people on the alert, to make them realize that the 1980s may not be the pleasantest of years to be welcomed by mankind. Had it not been for the worst of plagues, the energy crisis, the outlook would not be so bad. Perhaps the challenges and the needs will awaken this nation and its allies to such actions that will make it possible for the civilized world to find solutions to threats from the oil rich against the oil hungry. In Israel, the situation is grave. Inflation has risen to such an extent that the nation's eco- nomic problems have overshadowed all other problems, the vital need for security and every- thing associated with it. What is the answer to these gloomy pros- pects? It is a simple one. It is human experience. This nation has experienced great depressions and always emerged from them with renewed strength. The Jewish people trace a history chronicled in many trials and depressions. The right and desire to live in defiance of all obstacles remains the rule for Israel, the state and the people. Applying it to mankind, the answer to all the prophecies of gloom is similar: that having ex- perienced difficulties, mankind must emerge in greater strength. With this as an augury, let there be less to fear as the 1980s arrive. WANTED WIDE4:if v•—• 16! - OWerZ Ti AKAFAT FOR CEtOS MURPER„&fitl..ACKMAIL 77 21. t- Volume's Third Edition Noted Personalities Share Glory in Oxford Quotations Scholarship and research of the highest rank are incorporated in "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" (Oxford University Press), the third edition of which has just come off the press. The labors for this compilation began in the 1930s and the first edition was published in 1941. In the current one, two-thirds of the second edition have been retained and the omissions as well as the additions were compiled by scholars, editors and authoritative re- searchers. Every conceivable subject is covered. in the opinions used as quotations in a volume that retains its significance for all time. The manner in which the work commenced is explained in a preface which goes into great detail and which states in part: "The first edition was compiled within the Oxford University Press in the decade of the 1930s by men and women imbued with the history and politics, the culture whether educated or popular, of the first quarter of the Twentieth Century in Britain, and especially the literature of the ancient and the English-speaking worlds that was then read and studied at home, school and university. They had mostly been to Oxford or Cambridge and before that to schools where learning (poetry and even prose) by heart for repetition was regular." It stands to reason that many quotations are from Shakespeare and the Bible. The notables of many lands are represented. More than 300 of the 1,000 pages in the third edition are devoted to an extensive index, thus indicating the many subjects covered in this volume. Exemplary is a single and brief quote from Albert Einstein: "God does not play dice." Benjamin Disraeli is widely quoted and so is his father, Isaac D'Israeli. George Eliot is another of the famous authors who is quoted exten- sively. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) is re- presented with this portion of her famous poem "The New Colossus": Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) is quoted in the following: "Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled." , "America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re- ISRAEL ZANGWILL fOrming!" Prof. Isaiah Berlin is quoted with: "Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance — these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible." The wealth of views in the "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" truly makes it a treasure house for scholars, for the home and the school.