THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Volume on Searching the Prophets for Values'

Friday, July 11, 1981

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By ALEN A. WARSEN
stress, justice is a cardinal may slay the murderer with divinity of Jesus. Instead,
that modern scholars "agree
"There is a midrash (an principle, best expressed by the assent of an Islamic He chose the Christians as
that the servant about
early rabbinic comment on the Eighth Century BCE judge or his representative. His children and Jesus as
whom the prophet wrote
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a biblical text) that tells us prophet Micah:
The crime need be estab- the Messiah. They base was not an individual . . .
that all people really have
It hath been told thee, 0 lished only by testimony of their belief of Jesus' cho- but the Jewish people" who
three names. One our par- man, what is good, And two male witnesses and the senness on certain biblical
ents give us. One our friends what the Lord doth require sentence is to be carried out passages, mainly on the "had a special mission to
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call us. And one we earn of thee: Only to do justly, immediately. The code prophecies of the Second perform."
Jewelers
"Searching
the
Prophets
ourselves. It's that last and to love mercy, And to reinstates the 'lex talionis.' Isaiah who lived in the
of BLOOMFIELD HILLS
for Values" is a welcome
name, our moral reputation walk humbly with thy God. It states: If an injury short Sixth Century BCE.
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The above passage is from been able to add anything of the vengeful wound must tic figures of speech as 'ser-
While You Wa I t
Balfour Brickner's and Al- (to Micah) either of gran- be equal."
vant' and 'mission' took on
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bert Vorspan's "Searching deur or tenderness."
The above quotations are in Christian writings mean-
the Prophets for Values"
It would be instructive to only two examples of Kho- ings totally different from
(Union of American Hebrew compare Micah's idea ofjus- meini's Code of Vengeance. those originally intended."
Congregations).
tice with Iranian Ayatollah
A theme the authors con- The servant in Isaiah refers
What is a value? "The Khomeini's Code of Ven- sider at great length is the to Israel and not Jesus. For
BODY SERI74'E
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nary of the English Lan- among others, that "pre- ness.
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How do we acquire
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Isaiah 44:21
values? We acquire them
Max Fleischer
It is well to remember
in several ways: through
learning and personal
experience; by following
KEREN DOROT
role models, such as the
By HERBERT LUFT
(with Carlo Ponti) of Vit-
prophets, spiritual and
(Copyright 4981, JTA, Inc.)
torio De Sica's "Yesterday,
lay leaders; by observing
HOLLYWOOD
—
The
Today
and Tomorrow" and
religious and moral conclusion of the 1981 Los
standards, like respect- Angeles Film Exposition "Marriage Italian Style" —
both starring Ms. Loren and
ing parents and the aged;
brings to mind a previous Marcello Mastroianni;
keeping the Shabat; not film
stealing, lying and 1960s. festival in the early Pietro Germi's "The Rail-
way Man," and Federico
double-dealing.
As chairman of the Inter- Fellini's "Juliet of the
These values are Jewish national
Film Committee Spirit."
since "they are most closely
and
later
president of the
Among the creative film
associated with Jews and
Hollywood
Foreign Press makers answering ques-
Judaism because our ances-
tors first gathered them to- Association, I initiated tions was France's Serge
gether and wrote them screenings of foreign-made Bourguignon whose "Sun-
motion pictures in Hol- days and Cybelle" was an-
down in what we call a reli- lywood.
other exclusive. We also ob-
gious code."
During a visit to tained world press premiers
The authors differentiate Copenhagen
in the spring of of both Hal Bartlett's "The
between literary and non-
literary prophets. To the 1960, I contacted Danish Caretakers," and Samuel
latter belong, inter alia, film maker Mogens Scot- Fuller's "Shock Corridor,"
Nathan, Elijah, Elisha and Hansen who owned an with both directors and
the prophetess Deborah. unique cinematic-historical principal casts attending.
The best known of the liter- collection. After viewing "David and Lisa" started its
ary prophets are Amos, the assorted items, artifcats road to success at our initial
Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, and paraphernalia, laterna opening arranged by us
Jeremiah and Ezekiel. The y magica, slides, shadow with Keir Dullea, then a
began prophesying at abou t boxes, turn tables, drawings complete unknown.
and medieval folia dealing
"Naked Among the
750 BCE and continued
with the moving image, I Wolves," the strongly-
516 BCE. Malachi was th to
e
last of the literary prophets • reported back to Hollywood phrased anti-Nazi film
to producer Sol Lesser and from East Germany
The prophets, the autho rs together we brought the (dealing with a small boy
There is no better way to show your affection than through Keren
declare, had certain distin - rare collection to the atten- hidden in a concentra-
Dorot. There is also no better way to help the JNF in its epic task of
guishing features in co m
transforming the land of Israel.
tion of banker philan- tion camp) was shown by
mon: they were "solitary
thropist Bart Lytton, who
in 1965 and caused a
For your contribution to the JNF right now, your child will be sent a
individuals, were regarded immediately recognized its us
heated
debate. It was
yearly gift on his birthday or other occasions, Bar Mitzvah,
as "God's mouthpieces,
cinematic value and pur-
released publicly.
marriages, etc. Specifically, depending whether you give the
prophesied at times of crisi 1 chased the complete unit of never
Dev
Avnow,
the star-
JNF $1,000 or $2,000
and national peril, wer e several thousand large and producer from Bombay,
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tional and internationa 1 contribution to the Hol- English-language ver-
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happenings; predicte d lywood Museum.
sion of "The Guide" (by
"what would happen to th e
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When the crates ar- Pearl Buck).
people if they followed a cer - rived, the museum had
"Sallah," the Hebrew-
10 or 20 Years!
tain course of action," wer e not yet been built and a language classic, was ini-
the first in man's history to home was needed for a tially screened by us at the
realize "the power of th e fitting display of the coi- Lytton Center. Sub-
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Intriguing is the authors' ly's "Boccaccio 70", with
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discussion of justice. They producer Carlo Ponti and
define it as "fair dealing film star Sophia Loren
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among people." Without it, attending.
they write, human beings
Joe Levine became the
would "consume each other main supplier of Italian and
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