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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Poems of Our People
IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN TO ME.
(Famous Last Words).
By DR. MARTIN ROBBINS
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The shofar has sounded
its great golden echo" and
the New Year of 5741 has
begun. The poem "Shofar,"
by Carol Adler, echoes the
words of the synagogue
service and deepens their
meaning. We stand alone,
repentent, undone."
The poet's lines then ex-
press a paradox of prayer:
we feel our imperfection, yet
are given no choice but to
try again." Aware of our
"readiness," we can then
feel the words we recited
just after hearing the
shofar, that "Today the
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TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Representatives of the Is-
raeli Air Force joined
thousands of residents of
Yokneam attending funeral
services last week for Malka
Mando, 44, who was killed
when an Air Force
Skyhawk jet interceptor
crashed in the center of that
Jezreel Valley town Sept.
14.
The woman, the only fat-
ality caused by the accident,
was the mother of four chil-
dren who have been placed
under the care of the munic-
ipality. Meanwhile, a' team
of Defense Ministry experts
were in Yokneam last week
to assess the property dam-
age. The ministry will cover
the cost of repairs.
world is born."
Carol Adler's concerns
with Jewish subjects are
expressed in her first book
of poems, "Arioso." This
book includes a long poem
based on a painting by Marc
Chagall, "Return from the
Synagogue."
The poem, We are the
Echoes," was used as part of
cantata written by her hus-
band, Samuel Adler.
"Shofar" first appeared in
the Jewish Spectator and is
reprinted with permission.
Shofar
By CAROL ADLER
In the blast of the New Year
we make promises
we stand before the throne
shining repentent undone
we stand alone
in the blast of the New Year
a new world opens
and into it as if by the
strength
of a single utterance
the walls crumble
readiness appears
an ensign newly charged
charging us to hear the call
Teki'a
could we not run
Shevorim
syllables too smooth
to imitate
the harshness
of the horn
Teru'a
readiness too willing
and then repeated
Teki'a ge-do-lah
the largeness stretching
forth from a single breath
until the breath breaks
and the note dies
as if it too had been bound
to its own imperfection
yet given no choice
but to try again
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• Los Angeles Jews
• on Lookout
• After
Vandalism
•
• LOS ANGELES (JTA) —
• Recent incidents of van-
• dalism and neo-Nazi ac-
• tivity in the Los Angeles
• area have put the Jewish
on guard during
• community
Jewish holidays.
• the Community
leaders in
• the Eastern Region
of the
• Jewish Federation-Council
• of Greater Los Angeles have
• called for "calm but contin-
• ued vigilance" following the
• vandalization of Temple
• Beth Torah of Alhambra
• just before Rosh Hashana.
• Indications are that the
• incidents were the work of
• neo-Nazi groups in the area.
• A swastika was burned into
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OSCAR BRAUN'S
this orb turning helplessly
in the hollowness of its
throat
as it sends forth
its great golden echo
Hashana services began.
Three glass doors and win-
dows in the synagogue were
broken Sept. 6.
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Boris Smolar's
`Between You
. . . and Me
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
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BIGOTRY IN CLUBS: Jewish organizations protect-
ing the civil rights of Jews in this country have been fight-
ing for years against clubs which do not admit Jews into
their membership. To a certain extent the fight has pro-
duced results, but not to a full extent. There are still clubs
which practice discrimination against Jews as welt
against blacks. This pracilice occurs especially in coun ___0
clubs across the country.
It aptears that the current anti-discrimination laws do
not clearly define the status of private country clubs. Re-
cently a dentist who was denied admission to the Salisbury
Club in Virginia sued the club. He charged that the denial
was racially motivated and a violation of federal civil rights
laws. He lost the case on the grounds that, since the club is
private, there can be no unwarranted governmental intru-
sion with respect to its membership policy.
The applicant then filed an appeal with a higher fed-
eral court, and is determined to take the case all the way to
the U.S. Supreme Court. The outcome is expected to have
an impact on the right of all private clubs with regard to
their membership policies.
There is a bill now before the New York City Council
which might establish a precedent. The bill would deny
private status to a club which cannot prove that at least 80
percent of its members do not deduct their dues as a busi-
ness expense from their income tax, or are reimbursed by
the firms which employ them. If the bill is passed, the New
York City Commission on Human Rights would have the
power to order clubs to admit applicants as members and to
pay damages to those not admitted by discriminatory
policies.
A KEY QUESTION: The question of the dues —
whether the club member pays for himself, whether he
deducts dues from his taxes as a business expense, or
whether the firm in which he is employed covers his dues —
is of major importance.
It is considered good business to have top employees
mingle with important and influential business people who
comprise the club membership. Industrialists, bankers,
people high in the business world, usually talk big business
among themselves when they are among themselves in
their club atmosphere. Connections with them through
club membership often bring good contracts, or influence,
to secure such contracts. No top employee of any large
business enterprise has any chance of being promoted if he
is refused acceptance in these clubs. The rejection is held
against him as an indication that he has no avenue for
securing big business for the firm.
Jews and the blacks who are not being admitted into
membership to these clubs — under the pretext that the
clubs are private and exclusive — are thus in a way pre-
vented from reaching executive positions in big industrial
firms, banks, or other big business enterprises. Many
affluent Jews have their own country clubs, although some
of them would also like to be admitted into the clubs which
practice discrimination.
There are, of course, many in Jewish country clubs who
look upon the discriminating club with disgust. "Why
should we push ourselves there where we are not wanted?"
they ask.
This attitude is understandable. However, it also has
an element of naivete since the Jewish organizations are
fighting bigotry.
NON-JEWS IN JEWISH CLUBS: Members of the
discriminating clubs, when they seek to defend the anti-
Jewish policy of their clubs, argue that Jews also have their
exclusive clubs, and that non-Jewish members are not
found there.
"Why can a non-Jew not belong to the exclusive Jewish
Harmonie Club in New York, or to similar Jewish clubs in
Chicago, San Francisco and other cities?" they ask.
The answer is that non-Jews have no interest in be-
longing to a specifically Jewish club. There are some non-
Jewish professionals — like lawyers, accountants, ins•- ,--
ance brokers — who seek wide business connections. r_
would not be refused admission only because they are
Jews. One can find today in the Jewish clubs quite a
number of intermarried men. They meet with no difficul-
ties in being admitted when they are recommended for
membership by old-standing members.
Gush Settlement Claims Denied
JERUSALEM (JTA) — following claims by the
The Premier's office an- Gush Emunim that "senior
nounced it was sticking to government officials" had
the figure of 10 more set- promised them the govern-
tlements to be built on the ment would continue to es-
West Bank. tablish new settlements on
The office issued the the West Bank, even after
satement in the name of the 10 settlements are com-
Premier Menahem Begin pleted.