THE JEWISH NEWS iUSPS 275 520) Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with the issue of July 20, 1951 ,[ember American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Association ' ublished 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 Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Business Manager HEIDI PRESS DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Associate News - Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the 25th day of Elul, 5740, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 61:10-63:9. Rosh Hashana Scriptural Selections Thursday, Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 21:1-34, Numbers 29:1-6. Prophetical portion,1 Samuel 1:1-2:10. Sept. 12, Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 22:1-24. Numbers 29:1-6. Prophetical portion, Jeremiah 31:1-19. Candle lighting, Friday, Sept. 5, 7:41 p.m. OL. LXXVIII, No. 1 Friday, Sept. 5, 1980 Page Four JERUSALEM BESIEGED Failure by the United States to veto a UN ecurity Council resolution that is now judged immoral and outrageously prejudicial has laced on the international ledger a memo that 'adorses blackmail. It is a sad state of affairs that only a handful of American countries have chosen to retain eir embassies in Jerusalem. ,For Israel, it is another challenge demanding rm decisions. For Jews everywhere who share interest in Jerusalem the Golden, it is an aditional cause for concern and a time to 1 prengthen the loyalties that provide Israel 4h strength to overcome the menacing blows irected at her. The major contestants in the race for resident are committed to an undivided erusalem. They are hesitant to totally endorse le Holy City's status as Israel's seat of gov- nment. They say they will await the result of egotiations. The hesitancy could lead to hypoc- Isy: The established fact is that Israel will not bandon her spiritual crown. The lack of good 1 .dgment that motivated the recent Knesset esolution re-affirming an extablished fact bout Jerusalem's status Alould not have led to 4 a blackmail act by the UN Security Council, as long as the U.S. had the power to avert it. But it has happened and now Israel again is on the defensive, and when she is in such an unfor- tunate position she must depend in the main on Diaspora Jewry for encouragement. Congressional leaders had the courage to speak out in rebuke against the U.S. failure to veto the anti-Israel Jerusalem resolution. The Jewish organizations have acted unanimously in their expression of outrage over the most recent anti-Jewish occurrence at the UN and the U.S. failure to be consistent in friendship with Israel. The voice that should have been heard more resolutely was that of the Christian community. Jewish administrators of Jerusalem provide absolute religious freedom for all in the Holy City and their hands should have been strengthened. Christian opinion should be on the side of Israel in this matter. Most adamantly, the voice of Jewry must be loud and clear and unhesitant. There can be no submission to blackmail. Furthermore, conces- sions on Jerusalem will be followed by demands to abandon portions of Israel. This must not happen: This must be prevented. Dover Publications Collection Rembrandt Bible Drawings Emphasize SixtyThernes THE THIRD WORLD DILEMMA J Third World influence has affected Israel's Itatus in the international community and con- istently hampers peace for Israel. The Arab nd Soviet blocs keep fomenting hatred for the ewish state. Presidential candidate John Anderson is the nly contender for the highest political post in his country to have touched on the subject. In n interview for the New York Times, Anderson vas asked whether he would "continue the amp David process or some other approach in he Middle East," and his reply was: "I do not take the view that the Camp David rocess is suffering a terminal illness, which, rankly, is the conclusion of many people. I don't ihink the process is in a very healthy state right row. Let's not try to pretend that the great af- erglow of Camp David, which resulted in arch of last year in the Israeli-Egyptian r eaty, has not now been replaced by a very lulled feeling of optimism about the success of he process. It's at the lowest point right now hat it's been since the accords were reached in eptember of 1978. But I'm not yet, you know, pronouncing a nal benediction on the process. What we have o do, I think, is to redouble our efforts to nlarge the talks and get the Saudis and Jorda- iians and anyone else in the Middle East who epresents anything resembling moderate Arab pinion, to try to get them into those talks. I rankly think that, you know, to continue on the lual track alone between Israel and Egypt is not ming to eventually produce what we want, ob.- ' iously, and that is an over-arching, overall set- lement in the Middle East. "I would dare to hope — and I'm going to watch very closely what happens at this 11th tr l M . special session Of the UN General Assembly, which is concerned ; as you know, with trying to work out some of the economic problems of the developing countries — that out of the session could come the kind of agreements with respect to what the developed world is prepared to do vis-a-vis the developing world, that maybe we could, out of the results of this current session of the UN General Assembly, kind of establish the basis for rebuilding some confidence in the Third World that there is some advantage in cooperating with the West. "You see, right now, despite the fact that they have every reason to be angry with OPEC — because it is OPEC that is plundering their economies and has left them with a $60 billion deficit on current account in trying to pay for their oil — their anger is still against the West, the industrialized nations of the West. And it will be the degree to which we can turn this feeling around in the current session of the General Assembly, I think, and then maybe build on that a more secure supply relationship with the oil-producing countries in exchange for some feeling on our part that we are going to reciprocate by making sure that they continue to enjoy some political stability — speaking now of the Middle Eastern countries — maybe out of that can come, you know, a new round of talks in the Middle East that would tend to settle the outstanding questions there." There is a special interest in this comment in the daring to touch upon an issue involving the hitherto untouchable Third World. It raises the question whether the Arab and Soviet blocs can ever be moved away from a hate pattern and whether there is hope for an accord with ele- ments supporting aims to annihilate Israel. Rembrandt van Rijn was influenced by the Bible. The great draftsman left a legacy of scores of Bible drawings. Of his" more than 1,400 sketches the largest number was based on Bible themes. Dover Publications has issued a very impressive collection of these drawings. There are 60 such drawings chronologically included in "Rembrandt Bible Drawings." Themes from both the Old and New Testaments are part of this notable book of reproductions of the Rembrandt drawings made any- where from 1630 to 1660. The many themes in this volume are too numerous to be listed in their entirety. Among the interesting drawings is this accompanying one, entitled, "Jacob and Rachel Listening to the Accounts of Joseph's Dreams." It is dated circa 1638. It is described as a "pen and wash in bistre, touched with white body color." It is in the original 180 by 163 millimeters, and is in the British Museum in London. - Art and Bible students will be intrigued by this Dover volume.