THE JEWISH NEWS .5. NWIlen King DaWo' /owed capitrd 10( 7er:4a/el eivdisediP/othl had Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with the issue of July 20, 1951 his 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. HEIDI PRESS Associate News Editor - - — Sabbath Scriptural Selections h \e#Y 941 1141 0 /11 CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Business Manager PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor not *art I go* DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager This Sabbath, the 27th day of Au, 5740, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 54:11-55:5. Tuesday and Wednesday, Rosh Hodesh Elul, Numbers 28:9-15. Candle lighting, Friday, Aug. 8, 8:24 p.m. Page Four VOL. LXXVII, No. 23 Friday, August 8, 1980 PRESIDENT-MAKING:, PHASE II A second phase in the President-Making Process commences with the dramatic deliberations awaiting the Democratic Party Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The challenges may be the same, the personalities are different. Now it is an incumbency that is challenged, and seriously affecting it are the same issues, the same agonies, the social ills and the political aspirations. Dramatizing the approaching events will be the personality contest. Influencing the motiva- tions are the economic problems, the manner in which foreign policies have been pursued and the accusations of betrayals and failures. At the Detroit GOP sessions it was simpler for politicians. The main objectives were the attacks, the challenges, the accusations of failures. The Democrats need defense. Therefore the drama to be enacted is certain to be more tense, not as simple, undoubtedly being much more difficult to reach agreement. - There is a Presidency at stake and a President to be defended. Will party and its chief be able to lend credence_to the economic needs that are affected by growing unemployment and industrial bankruptcies, failure in dealing with foreign affairs, inability to assure freedom for hostages, an ineptness in treating the fate of one of the nation's best friends in the Middle East, where Israel's security remains in danger? There is danger of a social and economic collapse, and the party presently in power, readying to select a candidate for President, confronted with the candidacy of the incumbent, must offer solutions. It must retain the confidence of the nation with a practical approach to all the issues at hand. The second phase in President-Making must be pursued with a sense of responsibility to the people of this nation. There is need for a regaining of confidence in elected officials. Pledges, those made to Israel are exemplary, must be honored. The need for an idealism that restores the loyalties that spell patriotism, thus devoiding anything that could spell `°Billygate-ism" must be, or should be, aspired to. It is because of these emerging issues that the Democratic Party convention arouses so much concern. It also entertains the hope that the desired dignity and respect for a great party will be retained, with the blessings of a nation that aspires to and needs the comfort of dedication to the highest goals of Americanism and humanism. Jonathan David Publishers `Junior Encyclopedia of Israel' Marked by Its Thoroughness Harriet Sirof, author of three novels for young people, who is now working on a children's novel based on the Second Century Bar Kokhba Revolt, has produced a much-needed encyclopedia for young people of terms about Israel and her history, the Jewish state's back- ground, the ancient historical records and other matters relating to Israeli statehood. In "The Junior Encyclopedia of Israel" (Jonathan David Pub- lishers), Miss Sirof has compiled history and tradition, personalities and geographical data. Maintaining that this encyclopedia can be used with ease and profitable results in search for information about the vast subject. Miss Sirof points out that her aim was to keep the entries "simple and concise." The reader soon learns that she attained this goal to such a degree that this well-assembled work is as suitable for adults as it is for children. Adding to the texts themselves are the valuable photographs, more than 200 of them, which were taken in Israel by the author's "In the days that followed, I toured the West Neil Tepper. The Hawaiian-based photographer photo- Bank, talked extensively with partisans, in= collaborator, graphed his themes in Israel in 1979. Some of the photos were cluding Arabs, holding a variety of views. supplied by Zionist and Israeli organizations and agencies. "I still oppose Begin's 'declaratory' settle- An effort to achieve thoroughness is evident in the cross refer- ment policy. However, I am now convinced that ences which encourage complete knowledge of the subjects research- ed: Antonia, Babylon, Biblical Zoo, David, Dome of the Rock, El Aqsa nothing Israel does will cause the Arab world as Mosque, Hadassah, Hasmoneans, Hebrew University, Holy Sepul- a whole, or the world as represented in the chre, Israel Museum, Jesus, Judah, Judean Hills, Knesset, Siloam, United Nations, to accept the fact of Israel. If the objection is not to the settlements, it's Six-Day War, Solomon, Tower of David, Western Wall, War of Inde- pendence, and others. going to be to Jerusalem.' It is evident from these that the "See also . . ." references must If not Jerusalem, it's going to be the occupa- inspire the reader to such intensive reading that nothing is left to the tion of the Golan HeightS (from which Israeli imagination. Since the themes dealt with in this encyclopedia deal not only kibutzim were shelled for 20 years). "If it isn't Golan, the drumbeat will concen- with the Jewish themes but also with the Christian and Moslem trate on the 'racist' nature of the state (Zionism, terms, there is the added factor of a totality that is highly commenda- which is the Israeli form of Americanism, has ble. Here is another example of the "See also . ." aid in the term been declared by the United Nations General. Palestine: Canaan, Geography, Great Britain, Rome, Turkey. - Describing the life and achievements of Theodor lierzl, there are Assembly to be racism, a crime under existing added references to Bale Program, Mount Herzl, World Zionist international law). Organization, Zionism. Perhap this is not at all a matter for won- It is clear that the methods pursues by Miss Sirof assur€ thoroughness aimed at in this impressive encyclopedia. It would serve derment or surprise. When the British were as a guide for every classroom, properly applied it can be a textbook. administering Palestine as a mandated terri- An excellent purpose is served by it in providing means of acquiring tory which was pledged to become the Jewish National Home, those who sought to undermine knowledge about Israel, her current•status and history. ANTI-SEMITICIZED MIDEAST Morris Abram is a responsible American Jew always been reckoned with. A whose views past president of the American Jewish Commit- tee, a Georgian who was among Jimmy Carter's chief backers for President in 1976, his record is filled with references to responsible positions in this country. He was among the major participants in last month's dialogue sponsored by the American Jewish Congress in Jerusalem. He spoke out against the extremists' settlement policies in Israel. But he was not abusive, as some of the signers of the peace statement were. He refused to join the 56 American Jews who signed the statement that drew resentment from Prime Minister Menahem Begin. He was critical of Menaham Begin, but not insulting. He searched for a practical approach to the issues. Then he searched for facts and went to the Arabs and to Jewish authorities to ascertain realities. He described his findings in a letter which was given impressive space in the New York Times under the heading "Anti-Semitism, the Principal Foe of Israel." In it he told of his approach to the issues, his criticisms, and then he related the following: "I reserved and exercised the right, as an American Jew, to speak out publicly against those Israeli policies that go to the core of the United States-Israeli alliance. This alliance I termed 'transcendent matter,' and as such Is- rael's actions should not necessarily be gov- erned by its rights under international law but by 'prudence.' " To much is at stake,' I concluded, to be squandered; too much is at stake to remain si- lent.' . . the promise were motivated primarily by anti- Semitism. In the United Nations, that which is labeled anti-Zionism is in effect anti-Semitism. Now we have the evidence of the spreading anti-Semitism that is poisoning the atmosphere in the Middle East. These are the enemies Israel's friends and world Jewry must contend with in the striving for a free and secure Israel. The millenial ex- periences which always resisted anti-Semitism once again cry out with disgust whenever the hatreds arise and defy them with courage to their utter distrust. The Sinai's Fascination A year's living in the Negev and in the Sinai insp.' ired a very fascinating account by Lesley Hazelton in "Where Mountains Roar: A Personal Account From the Sinai and Negev Desert" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston). The ageless Sinai is depicted here with love and recognition of the miraculous existence of the Sinai. Falling under the spell of the area's beauty, Miss Hazelton passes on to her readers a story of charm. Her book is a superb portrayal of an area sacred to all religions. Bedouins and Israeli scientists pass in review under Miss Hazel- ton's spell. That's what helps make "Where Mountains Roar" a great book.