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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher

ALAN HITSKY
News Editor

CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
Business Manager

HEIDI PRESS
Associate News Editor

DREW LIEBERWITZ
Advertising Manager

Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the 10th day of lyar, 5740, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Leviticus 16:1-20:27. Prophetical portion, Amos 9:7-15.

Candle lighting, Friday, April 25, 7:06 p.m.

VOL. LXXVII, No. 8

Page Four

Friday, April 25, 1980

A NOBEL PRIZE FOR RAOUL

Raoul Wallenberg: Holy Man, Saint, Hero,
Fearless Libertarian!
These are some of the titles that have been
appended to the name of the Swedish Christian
emissary to Hungary, in the final years of World
War II, by those who knew of the heroic tasks
performed by him, in the process of which he
rescued tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi
crematoria.
In 1949, Dr. Albert Einstein nominated Wal-
lenberg for the Nobel Peace Prize. It was an
unsuccessful presentation of the name of one of
the greatest heroes of the cruel war.
Now, therefore, let the nomination be re-
newed. In the present tasks, conducted interna-
tionally to secure Wallenberg's release from
Russian imprisonment, the most appropriate
means of inspiring these efforts would be recog-
nition accorded him in the form of the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Perhaps there is not sufficient knowledge of
the magnitude of the Wallenberg heroism in his
defiance of the Nazis while he was preventing
Jews from being taken to the ovens in Au-
schwitz and other death camps in which the Six
Million perished. While much is now being
written about Wallenberg, there was one early
article about him which pinpointed the fear-
lessness ofi this rescuer of Jews in Hungary.
In the 1961 issue of Papers of the Michigan
Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, G.B.
Freed authored a 25-page article entitled
"Humanitarianism versus Totalitarianism:
The Strange Case of Raoul Wallenberg." It is a
revealing statement in which Freed told in
some detail how Wallenberg operated, stating
in part:

"Wallenberg exploited the confusion of the
authorities with great diplomatic skill.
Courageous and calm, he did not refrain from
using intimidation, bluff, and bribery in the
interest of his proteges. Alerted in time by his
co-workers who patroled the roads leading out
from the Hungarian capital, he personally
saved many deportees in railway stations and
along the highways at the last minute, when the
transports were about to leave. Occasionally,
his co-workers — dressed in SS or Hungarian
uniforms and armed with guns — succeeded in
bringing out arrested persons from jail.
"Small wonder that Wallenber'g name soon
became legendary. The Nazis tried to entrap
and kill him several times, yet Wallenberg
managed to escape all ambushes. He kept his
organization together even after Oct. 15, 1944,
when the most extreme group of Hungarian fas-
cists, Szalasi's 'Arrow Cross' band, succeeded in
taking over the government by coup d'etat."
Thanks to the efforts of many of the survivors
who owe their lives to Raoul Wallenberg, and
especially to Dr. Thomas and Annette Lantos of
San Francisco, the Wallenberg cause has been
revived. It is to be hoped that the conference to
be convened in early May in Stockholm will
additionally spearhead the labors being exerted
to rescue the hero who was imprisoned by the
Russian liberators of Hungary for unexplain-
able reasons.
The least that can be done to honor the name
of the man who truly acted as a Saint as well as
Hero is to award him the Nobel Peace Prize. Let
this become a major undertaking for all lovers of
justice.

DR. BONNER'S MESSAGE

Amidst disputes over autonomy for Arabs in
Israel's administered territories and the ques-
tion of settlements, the president of Wayne
State University, Dr. Thomas Bonner, deliv-
ered a message which emphasized the posotive
aspects of neighborliness.
At a most impressive celebation of the first
anniversary of the signing of the peace pact by
Egypt and Israel, sponsored by the Jewish Na-
tional Fund Council of Detroit, Dr. Bonner de-
scribed the progress in what had been an under-

developed country that has now grown into a
cultural paradise. It was in this fashion that Dr.
Bonner, whose informative and inspiring ad-
dress is reprinted in some measure in this issue,
pointed to the value of cooperative efforts which
can advance all peoples working together in
harmony.
By emphasizing the creative and the positive,
Dr. Bonner has brought a message to be emu-
lated in efforts to avoid conflicts between
peoples and nations.

SUPERB POLITICAL GUIDE

America Israel Public Affairs Committee,
recognized on a national scale as the interpreter
of political developments relating to Israel, and
its official organ, Near East Report, are earning
- additional merit with the publication of a spe-
cial supplement to its weekly news analysis of
an eight-page "1980 Presidential Candidate
Survey. ,,

This collection of authoritative data assumes
importance for all who are concerned that the
foreign affairs policies should be treated with
seriousness and candidates seeking high official
posts should be judged by their attitudes on the
issues that will have significance in the oncom-
ing Presidential election.

In the same sense that Motherhood and Pa-
triotism are customarily treated by candidates
for the Presidency, the Middle East issues will
be utilized to gain voting strength:The sincer-
ity of candidates must be judged by the state-
ments of the candidates themselves, and in this
sense the Near East Report and its new supple-
ment on the candidates emerges as a valuable
study of the roles played by the candidates of
both political parties.
For the voter seeking the facts, wishing to
learn about the candidates' abilities at policy-
inaking, the AIPAC-Near East Report survey is
a blessing. The surveyers have earned apprecia-
tion for their contribution to the American
political scene.

The Sabbath as the Bulwark
of Strength for the Jews

Without the Sabbath the power of resisting the threat of a col-
lapse for the Jewish spirit would vanish.
It is the Sabbath that gives sustenance and dignity to the Jew.
The values of the Sabbath spirit are recounted in a most impres-
sive book for the youth which has equal value for the elders.
In "The Seventh Day: the Story of the Jewish Sabbath" (Double-
day) Miriam Chaikin brings the message of the most sacred day on the
Jewish calendar to her readers with a spirit of devotion. Only Yom
Kippur, the Sabbath of Sabbaths, is more sacred.
Her splendidly narrated story of the Sabbath is impressively
illustrated by David Frampton.
As a dedicatory message, Miriam Chaikin introduces her subject
as follows:
`Rather than being a time of deprivation, of doing without, the
Sabbath is for observant Jews the most joyous holiday of all and a time
for celebration. The cares of daily life are set aside and a new, spiritual
life is entered into as they keep this covenant with the Lord and praise
creation. For them, the Sabbath is the queen of days and they, rich
and poor alike, are king."
Ms. Chaikin is traditional in her text in which she incorporates
the legendary and the factual.
She concludes with emphasis on the covenant embodied in the
Sabbath theme, thus:
"The Sabbath . . . has been kept as a sign between the Israelites
and the Lord for thousands of years. And the words of the Lord,
saying, 'Whosoever keeps the covenant shall be My treasure, for all
the world is Mine,' those words are lived by the men and women who
keep the covenant, for as they rest on the Sabbath, their senses
quicken to the marvels that the earth puts forth, which are good to
eat, and fragrant, and pleasing to behold, and to the sun that warms
from above, and to the bird that offers up its song, and they experience
a portion of the delights of the garden of long ago.
"As Moses had instructed, the Sabbath has been taught, and the
covenant is kept as a sign between the Israelites and the Lord."

The Children of Helm'

Helm is a town in Poland whose people have been used as symbols
of foolishness. In actuality this is not so. The Jews there were, h-
the Holocaust, annihilated and their town-didn't mind being u.
media for humor.
The memory of Helm is kept alive in stories for children. In "The
Children of Helm (Bonim Books of Hebrew Publishing Co.), David A.
Adler relates some of the foolishness.
He tells about the desire to keep the snow beautiful and prevent
school children from stepping into it. Instead parents carried the
children home, only to discover their own footsteps.
The building of a new school required carrying stones from a hill.
When an easier way, that of rolling them down was suggested, the
Helmer carried the stones back to the hill to roll them down.
Then there was the problem of washing without being chilled by
cold water. It was decided to do it the dry way. But how can you then
wipe yourself, the question was posed.
Such was the foolishness that provided means of laughing at
oneself and it became a symbol of Helm humor.
"The Children of Helm" is appropriately and well illustrated by
Arthur Friedman.