THE JEWISH NEWS (USPS 275-5201 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. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor Business Manager HEIDI PRESS Associate News Editor DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the sixth day of Av, 5740, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 1:1-27. Tuesday, Fast of the Ninth of Av • Lamentations is read Monday evening. TueSday morning, Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 4:25-40. Prophetical portion, Jeremiah 8:13-9:23. Tuesday afternoon. Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 32:11-14, 34:1-10. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 55:6-56:8. Candle lighting, Friday, July 18, 8:46 p.m. VOL. LXXVII, No. 20 Page Four Friday, July 18, 1980 MID-CONVENTIONS FOLLIES One of the political assemblies is now political history. The second in the two-party system is due to commence in New York in less than a month. A Third Party challenger will surely also seek the limelight. Between conventions is the opportune time to speculate again about the nation, the power-seekers, the Voter who will be King for a Day in November and then will have to lobby again for the human , aspects of citizen- ship. That's how it has been; that's how it may be again. Yet, because the Citizen has principles and aspires to the highest ideals, even the interim between periods of promises and the aftermath of possible fulfillment is a time for declaration of aims for the highest goals for America and the constituents' who must listen' to all the trappings imbedded in politics. - Listening is a necessity, speaking up to ex- press the opinions of the people is an urgency. It is by talking that the Voter can place on the record the mind and the will of the people. There is much to talk about. Those who attain power must understand that the people insist on just rights for all, with- out restrictions as to race or creed. The duty of the person attaining office is to utilize the nation's best minds to improve the economy, to strive for an end to unemployment, to assure the welfare of the less fortunate, the elderly, the handicapped. There is danger to the Separation Principle. Candidates for office, the highest and the less important, should be informed that Separation of Church and State is a basic aspect of Americanism not to be trifled with. Seekers of justice for the smaller nations should be mobilized to demand protection for the sovereign state of Israel. Prophecy was not realized for naught, the Jewish aspiration for an end to homelessness must not be trifled with. The historic right of Israel and world Jewry to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel must be guaranteed. There are scores of other matters that re- enter into the obligations to demand adherence to the highest goals in the American way of life. Party platforms are splintered more often than not. There must be an effort to add sanctity to political pledges. To attain them citizens owe it to themselves and to history never to be silent. SUBMISSION TO PLO There is a great deal that all-too-often dis- gusts the average persbn in the unraveling proof of a growing hypocrisy in diplomatic machinations. None is more disgusting than the manner in which representatives of many gov- ernments now submit to the terror that stems from the ranks of the PLO. While the American policy is assumed to be absolute rejection of the group whose chief, if not the only, aim is to destroy Israel, by in- nuendo spokesmen for this government often give the impression they would accept the PLO. More and more of them now are saying that PLO is such a congenially affable element that it could not possibly aim for Israel's destruction. That is what the British, French and Austrian leaders now are saying. It was not so long ago that a U.S. State Department representative, William C. Harrop, said: The United States does not consider Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Liberation Organization a terrorist group." Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, a long- time friend of Israel, may or may not have vacil- lated in response to a question regarding the U.S. attitude on the PLO. Nevertheless, the ad- vice is in order for all officials not to resort to evasiveness but to adhere strictly to the basic government policies of denying admission of PLO to civilized society,..,ThOse advocating :;`genocide have no place amongeivilized nations. This is so shocking that it is almost unbeliev- . able. Equally distressing. are the many endorsements given Arafat and his ,ilk by pfistateemen who are expected to be reading the PLO' declarations which keep reasserting that the basic aspiration is to drive Jews out of the state of Israel and to destroy the state. On the public record, American spokesmen . keep saying the PLO will not be recognized, but on many occasions there were gestures intimat- ing that the diplomats are waiting for the time when they will be able publicly to embrace the PLO on the ground that Palestinians must be dealt with. Palestinians, in fact, are being dealt with, and the line is drawn when the PLO substitutes for them. The acceptance of PLO leadership by Arabs in the designated West Bank areas and the acclaim for them by Arab students in Israeli universities is cause for very serious concern. This does not encourage submission, either by Jews in the Diaspora or by diplomats in West- ern countries. The merest gestures of comfort for the terrorists will give them strength. - While the two major American political par- ties are competing in choice of language how to attract Jewish voters with rejections of the PLO, the element of caution admonishes all who are outraged by the terrorist Arabs to wonder whether, in post-election tests, U.S. spokesmen will be inclined by pressure from the oil inter- ests to flirt with PLO on a par with the British and French, who have yielded to PLO in the EEC decisions. There is little of either glory or self-respect in such evidence of submissions to the worst elements in mankind. In the coming months in the U.S., in the cam- paign for the Presidency, ail candidates are cer thin :to :discount thi.,PLO insurgence into American ' ranks. Such vote-getting promises should be taken with a,grain of salt. The politi- cians g}tist prove by their actions that they will not ithid encouragement to anything, stemming from the ranks of Israel's would-beqclestroyers. There must be a positive adherence to the rejec- tion of terrorism and to the defense Of Israel. Anything smacking of „hypocrisy must:be re- jected if the ,rules offait'Play d. ju6tice are to abide in this country. Angel-Edited Volume David de Sola Pool's Essays Honor Scholar's Memory Dr. David de Sola Pool was among the very distinguished Ameri- can Jewish personalities and the noted leader of the Sephardic Jewish community in America. For 63 years the rabbi -of Shearit Israel, one of the oldest synagogues in America, his messages rang out throughout the land. He was a factor in organizing Sephardic Jewry. For a perpetuation of appreciation of his labors, it is necessary to read his many messages. This has just been made possible by the publication of "Rabbi David de Sola Pool: Selections From Six De- cades of Sermons, Addresses and Writings." The book was published by the Union of Sephardic Congrega- tions, jointly with Leon Amiel. Appropriately, the book was edited by Rabbi Mark D. Angel, Dr. Pool's successor to the spiritual leadership of Shearit Israel. For an appreciation of this volume and its contents as reminders of the leadership and scholarly qualities of Dr. de Sola Pool, it should be noted that his widow, Tamar de Sola Pool, assisted Dr. Angel in gathering the material and in making the selec- tions from the eminent scholar's vol- uminous writings. -- The subjects included in this col- lection indicate the devotions of the eminent scholar who was a leader in the rabbinate. Several of the ser- mons dealt with the festivals and the Holy Days. There are evidences of Dr. Pool's interest in Israel, in Zionism, in the social problems of the DE SOLA POOL age. Jewish ethical messages, the basic codes for Jewish living are outlined in a number of the essays. Of interest is the radio message he -delivered on April 1, 1925, or the occasion of the opening of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.. Each of the sermons appearing in this volume is preceded by an explanatory note by Rabbi Angel. The address on "Einstein in Sear of God" is defined as follows: "Dr. Pool was always concerned with the synthesis of religiot, and scientific knowledge. He believed there was no intrinsic conflict between these two areas of human endeavor. He recognized in Albert Einstein, the greatest of scientists, a deep spiritual yearning. This sermon was delivered on Nov. 15, 1930, Heshvan 24, 5691." Attention was :given by Dr. Pool to the .historic in" American experiences, as hiS essay in,this volumeion "George Washington and Religious Liberty_" De Sola Pool's Zionist devotions are expressed in the sernion, 'A . . Remnant 81-41/.Retui7L" This 'sermon was -delivered Dec. 19,1942, and was an urgent appeal to his congregation to help inthe building of Palestine. His writings, appended to the sermons, similarly contain the De Sola Pool emphasis on Zionism. , While these ,sermons serve tO revive an interest in the activities of a noted rabbi, the messages contained in them have their impact on the present generation as well.