30 Friday, September 25, 1911 THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS BURGLAR ALARMS ALLSTATE ALARM SYSTEMS INC NEW COMPUTERIZED SECURITY EQUIPMENT Central Station Monitoring Thousands of satisfied customers R ° CALL BT H R E s MARTY CY SHEL or AL RUSSMAN 255-1540 17534 W. 7 MILE, DETROIT LICENSED BY MICH. DEPT. OF STATE POUCE Intellectuals Address French Anti-Semitism By ARNOLD AGES University of Waterloo The events of 1980 have not been for- gotten. French Jews are very much aware that the spectre of anti-Semitism still hovers on the periphery of t.heir society. As long as it remains on the periphery, however, France's Jews do not permit the lunatic fringe to influence their lives unduly. The bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris in 1980 has receded into the background but some of its reverberations are undoubtedly behind what some have called a re- surgence of Jewish con- sciousness, even militancy, in the corporate life of the TORONTO — The Farmington Hills Inn A new supervised residential care community in Farmington Hills For the elderly who need assistance, but don't want the environment or expense of a nursing home. Call 851-9640 for information community. Last May, more than 20,000 Paris Jews cele- brated Israel's Indepen- dence Day in a display of solidarity that had rarely been seen heretofore. Those in attendance at the huge outdoor affair were entertained by musical groups, instructed by speakers and asked for sup- port of Israel. According to news- paper reports the re- sponse was tumultous. One of..the interesting sidelights of the rally was the enthusiastic partici- pation of Chief Rabbi Rene Sirat, pictured at the rally showing a young man how to put-on tefilin. Another example of the renewed fervor of French Jews can be seen monthly in L'Arche, a magazine con- taining some of the best writing on French Jewish themes today. In a recent issue philosopher Shmuel Trigano, a recent recipient of the prestigious "doctorat d'etat," the highest aca- demic honor awarded in France, called for a re- examination of the condi- tions under which French MAY THE NEW YEAR BRING NEW INSPIRATION AND HAPPINESS TO YOU Jews had accepted emanci- The intrepid Levy wrote pation from Napoleon in another book last year in 1806. which he analyzed France's Trigano argued in his major political currents and perceptive piece that those dropped a bombshell on the who spoke on behalf of Paris cultural elite by in- French Jewry at that time forming them that had violated the principles mainstream French of Judaism in acquiescing thought, primarily its to the idea that it was socialist aspects, was not possible to separate the only totalitarian in nature religious from the national but anti-Semitic to boot. cultural aspects of Judaism. The response to Levy's He advocated in his article a return to a definition of book was predictable. The Judaism which avoided author was physically at- these artificial distinctions. tacked and his nose injured Not all of French Jewry's by a fascist. Critical re- intellectual elite adopt such sponses to the book focused a knowledgeable or positive on .specific factual errors stance on Jewish questions. which Levy had apparently A number of the writers and allowed to slip into his book. editors associated with the Most reviewers declined to Nouvel Observateur and rebut Levy's main thesis other journals go out of their about the anti-Semitic cur- way either to avoid those rents in French culture. entanglements or adopt This summer, Bernard mildly anti-Israel positions. Henry Levy was invited Daniel-Henry Levy is to Israel and interviewed not among this latter by a number of Israeli group. This -young journalists. Although de- Jewish philosopher, clining to identify himself whose meteoric rise has as a Zionist, Levy ex- been chronicled in both pressed warm admira- the Jewish and general tion for the Jewish state. He warned of the dangers press, is the author of three major books in flowing froth a new form of which he has espoused a anti-Semitism which he had kind of neo-conservatism identified particularly in that is unique in France. France — the use of Israel Levy, still in his 30s, has as a surrogate for anti- been deeply influenced by Jewish sentiments. the writings of Alexander Shmuel Trigano, Bernard Solzhenitsyn and has come Henry Levy and Annie to the conclusion that the Kriegel, a third member of Gulag is not a violation of Jewish intellectual elite socialist philosophy; it is an who teaches politics and expression of it. Repression philosophy in Paris, are and persecution, Levy providing French Jewry argues, is the natural ac- with a critical and moral companiment of leftist apparatus with which they _ideas, and he has blasted can gauge their true posi- those who hive preferred tion in France. The not to recognize the "in- emergence of this kind of humanities of the %Viet leadership in France is system. unique — and welcome. - - V olitme Defends' Pius XITs Silence Concerning Nazis FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHP CLINTON TOWNSHIP 16673 E IS Mde Rood 50650 0 ,050, Avenue 792.1470 919-54950 REDFORD TOWNSHW STEALING HEIGHTS 41500 Van Dyke 25719 Grand RN*/ Ave 536-4 ■ 05 739-0300 CLINTON TOWNSHIP 41801 GarINKI 263-4000 WATERFORD TOWNSHIP 4396 Kirland Road 6811830 HAMTRAMCK 9301 Joseph Cunha. 871-9400 WEST SLOP/FIELD 6705 Orchard Labs Rood 626-3970 Hours For Your Convenience member FDIC Lobby Monday-Thursday Friday Saturday 9:30-4:30 Drive-in Monday-Friday 8:00-8:00' 9:30-7:30 Saturday 9'30-4:30' 9:30-4:30 'Suburban Only LONDON = This failure "Judging from the Pope's of Pope. Pius XII to criticize correspondence with the Nazi atrocities during German bishops, fears of World War II has been at- reprisals would seem to tributed to his wish not to have dominated his attitude jeopardize the lives of toward the fate of the Jews thousands ofJews who were in Germany. He was cer- being concealed by the Vat- tainly well-informed and ican according to a newly- there is a suggestion of total published book by a Roman helplessness in his letters in Catholic historian. the face of such incredible . . -In "The Papacy in the evil." Modern World" (Burns and More than half the Jews Oates), -Rev. J. Derek in Rome were being shel- Holmes writes that Pius's tered in ecclesiastical build- "own work on behalf of the ings that had been opened to Jews might have been them by order of the Pope, endangered by a public de- Father Holmes claims. nunciation of the Nazis, "The Papacy in the Mod- even though such a denun- ern World" is scheduled to ciation might have justified be published in the U.S. this his moral reputation in the fall by Crossroads. eyes of mankind." The failure of the Pope to speak out against the Nazis Counter-Point in more than general terms PARIS — The appoint- has prompted attacks over ment this year of Jean- the years that he had lacked Marie Lustiger, who was born a Jew as Archbishop of moral courage. Pope Pius XII had been Paris, spawned. a number of faced with a "simple jokes. One said that an choice," according to the book, which has just been "Ashkenazi" had been ap- released in England. pointed to balance the elec- "Was his own moral tion the previous week of reputation more impor- Rene Sirat as the first tant than - the life of a Sephardi to. become Chief single Jew?" Rabbi of France.