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News Editor
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 15th day of Adar II, 5741. the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Leviticus 6:1-8:36. Prophetical portion, Jeremiah 7:21-8:3; 9:22-23.
Candle lighting, March 20, 6:26 p.m.
VOL. LXXIX, No. 3
Page Four
Friday, March 20, 1981
SOLIDARITY ON AGENDA
Formal commencement of the Allied Jewish
Campaign, set for next Tuesday, has special
meaning in this epoch in world and Jewish his-
tory.
It would be calamitous if the Campaign were
treated as a routine occasion on the calendar.
These are crucial times. In an era in which ter-
ror has gripped mankind, by threats of conflicts
motivated by hatreds, there is an increasing
need for solidarity in the ranks of all who crave
for a measure of solace.
For the Jew, a time of challenge caused by
political enmities and social greed is more seri-
ous than for any other group. The defensive
factors are more limited. The need for unity is
more pressing. That is why the obligation for
solidarity is urgent.
It stands to reason that for survival com-
munities need dedication and generous support.
Such assistance to the Allied Jewish Campaign
is emphasized by the inclusion in its more than
55 supported causes of the United Jewish Ap-
peal, its chief beneficiary, whose funds provide
assistance to new settlers in Israel, aid for the
social services in behalf of the indigent and the
elderly, allocations to assure continued educa-
tional services, especially the universities
which are advancing the cultural aspects of the
country and the many research programs for
the advancement of scientific studies. The
schools and the social agencies in the commu-
nity depend upon the income from the oncoming
Campaign. TheSe must not be abandoned.
There is an even more important factor to be
considered in responding to the Allied Jewish
Campaign. It is the forcefulness that is vital in
the image of the Jewish people that must
emerge in dealing with the world's crises and
with the dangers threatening Israel.
Threats to Israel's very existence are so seri-
ous that they cannot be ignored. They are
mounting. Whatever encouragement given the
Israelis will be helpful. Whatever the sources
for the nation's defense must be encouraged.
American government aid, friendly, attitudes
of other countries, few as they may be in the
record of Israel's defenders, are vital. Most im-
portant, however, is the Jewish response, the
loyalty and the kinship_ that creates family
strength. Without it the defensive is weakened
and the resistance to tyranny hampered.
The unity in Jewish ranks is especially vital
for a major reason: that of signaling to friends
that the People Israel will be solidly in defense ,
of the state of Israel, which is the last rampart in
the battle for survival.
A new administration in Washington is now
judging the Middle East issues. There is com-
mitment to adhere to the American pledge to
keep Israel strong and secure. That commit-
ment will remain and will be adhered to as long
as the Jewish people nourishes it. The moment
there is an abandonment of such a duty, the
friendships may also disappear.
Therefore, the major task is to retain solidar-
ity in Jewish ranks, to strengthen it, to demon-
strate it as a basis for Jewish unity. The new
U.S. Administration will be expected to be loyal
to pledges for a secure Israel in an area of
friendship for this country in the Middle East —
as long as that partnership is based on a sol-
idified Jewish front. It must not be weakened.
The Allied Jewish Campaign symbolizes the
unity of the Jewish people. It is more than a
philanthropy. It is a people's dedication to the
needs of its kin. With loyalty to it there will be
the symbolizing for the American people and for
the world that Jews will not abandon their kin.
Such devotions spell assurance that there will
be respect for the great partnership between the
United States and Israel, of friendship for the
Jewish people. The response with generosity to
the Allied Jewish Campaign will emphasize
these obligations and effect them into realism.
CITIZENS • • UNITE!
Emergence of reactionary forces in the
American society is cause for grave concern.
Ku Klux Klan activities can no longer be
treated with the derision the hatemongers in-
vited for themselves during the decades of
threats by white-robed gangs to innocent
people.
They who were a menace to the South have
now intruded the peaceful areas of the nation
with their reborn inanities.
A KKK candidate is on the Michigan ballot.
KKK gangs have burned crosses on the lawns
of peaceful people in many cities and have
threatened the security of synagogues and
churches.
Now one of their 'gangs has shown its venom
in a local high school.
This is intolerable.
What is needed, therefore, is the determina-
tion of all honorable citizens — and the citizenry
of this land is basically honorable! — to be
united against any, recurrence of the cross-
burning, mind-demented acts that are disgrac-
ing American life.
There is an urgency for citizens to be united
against such outrages.
KKK is a threat not to blacks alone, nor to
Jews and Catholics, but to all Americans.
Unity against such manifestations calls for a
sense of justice on a national scale. It demands
that citizens should not be split among them-
selves, that there should be no internal rancor.
It demands that there shall never again be divi-
siveness between blacks and whites, between
blacks and Jews. In the latter sphere especially
anything like corruption of truth and disunity
should be discouraged.
The unspeakable horrors in Atlanta add im-
mensely to the concerns that motivate the need
for caution prepatory to action both to avert as
well as to outlaw every semblance of inhuman-
ity in these social spheres. The brutalities call
for concerted movements to damn bestialities.
There is a common enemy, and against it
there must be united action. In the interest of
American fair play, the plea to be supported by
all is: Citizens of this nation, unite!
Elon's 'Flight Into Egypt'
Pinpoints Confrontations
Amos Elon frequently emerges as chief interpreter of the con-
troversial issues affecting the Israel-Egyptian confrontations. In
"Flight Into Egypt" (Doubleday), the prominent Israeli journalist
provocatively analyzes the events that marked the end of the 30-year
conflict between the two nations, culminating in the Camp David
decisions.
Interviews with the most prominent leaders, with Egyptian
spokesmen and impressions gathered among the people he
encountered in Egypt, reveal the fears of Islamic fundamentalism.
This document is a revealing account of a
people that was oppressed by the war at-
mosphere and had an urgent desire for an ;
end to the sufferings that were
encountered, with cravings for a new life.
Elon deals with the sentiments both of
Israelis as well as the Egyptians. Return-
ing from a study tour of Egypt into Israel,
he comments on the aftereffects of the
Camp David experiences: "The ink has
hardly dried on the signatures and already
they are expostulating upon the military
and economic ramifications of failures!
AMOS ELON
Why wonder about such nervousness? If
the peace treaty failed, it would be unfortunate for Egypt, perhaps
very unfortunate, but for Israel it would be downright disastrous."
Critical of Menahem Begin, the Elon account delves into the
major political aspects of the long conflict with Egypt. Primarily, the
hope for an end to warfare dominates his theme which is based on
results of studies in the major Egyptian communities and the im-
pressions gathered from the war-afflicted nation.
In his analyses of the events and of the reactions gathered from
chief spokesmen involved in peace searching, "Flight Into Egypt"
induces concern for all the threatening problems evolving from an
accord yet to be realized. It adds invaluably to a search for realism
an era filled with a desire for peace yet never without the contini
war threats. This is a volume filled with grave admonitions for boLn
Israel and Egypt.
Concise Halakhic Studies
of Healing in Judaism
Healing is more than a science. It is rooted in Halakhic studies
and impressive analyses are presented in "Judaism and Healing:
Halakhic Perspectives" by Rabbi J. David Bleich.
The author, recognized as an authority in the field of bioethics
and conductor of a seminar in medicine and Jewish law at the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, deals with such subjects as abortion, sex
change surgery, test tube babies, circumcision, population control,
contraception, sterilization, homosexuality and a score of related
topics.
He discusses artificial insemination and defines the Halakhic
rules on the obligation to heal, the role of the physician and the
preservation of life and health.
Dr. Bleich's is the most informative book available on the topics
outlined. "Judaism and Healing" is must reading for all who seek
information on the vital health subjects and the book makes an
excellent textbook for physicians as well as lay people.