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SLOMOVITZ Business Manager HEIDI PRESS Associate News Editor - DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sahhoth. the 12th day of Tishri. 5742• the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateurhal portion, Deuteronomy 32.- 1-52. Prophetical portion. 11 Samuel 22:1-15. Sukkot Scriptural Selections Tuesday. Pentateuchal portion, Leviticus 22:26-23:44; Numbers 29:12-16. Prophetical portion. Zechariah 14:1-21. Wednesday. Leviticus 22:26-23:44; Numbers 29:12-16. Prophetical portion, I Kings 8:2-21. Hol Hamoed Sukkot Thursday. Pentateiphol imirtion. Numbers 29.17-25. Prophetical portion, Ezekiel 38:18-39:16. Oct 16. Penna.-who( portion. Numbers 29:20-28. Prophetical portion. Ezekiel 38:18-39:16. Candle lighting. Friday. October 9, 6:41 p.m. VOL. LXXX, No. 6 Page Four Friday, October 9,1981 FRAIL STJKKA'S MESSAGE A frail Sukka will be on the scene again, sym- bolizing its inhabitants' strength. It withstood the sands of time, the imperiling dangers from all of its exposed portions. Every- thing surrounding it envisioned collapse. It never vanished. It keeps reappearing, as it will again next week, wherever the Jew may reside. It would be sheer folly to say that it does not need protection. It is in constant need of vigi- lance. This is the very basis for survival, for continuity, for indestructibility. Therefore, in the symbol that is inherent in the Sukka there is also the related historic les- son: that for indestructibility there is the duty to be vigilant. It is the spirit that dominates, the devotion, the memory of the historic, the respect for and pride in the legacies that are imbedded in every piece of wood that serves as a Sukka wall, every branch that covers it. The protection may appear ineffective, the fragility overwhelming. The spirit within it is its power. This is evident in every generation. So it is in the present period of apparent distress. No mat- ter where the Jew turns, there emerges a danger. It may be insignificant in spots; it grows in immensity in some — perhaps too many — areas of the world. The suspicions and bigotries, the animosities and the jealousies, the religious antagonisms, all frequently reappear in some form or other. These recurrences are to the discredit of the haters. They seldom realize that those who are their targets for destruction are given added strength for survival and continuity by their hatreds. This is where the Jewish spirit enters: the never-yielding to threats and terrors, to fears and to whatever dangers there may appear on an horizon that could be glorious for all but is blemished by venom. The Sukka may well be judged also as a sym- bol of humanism for all mankind. When the Jews succeeds in resisting bigotry, he also con- quers hatred for all peoples surrounding him. With the Jew's continuity in spirit there is also the continuity of devotion to the sacred princi- ples that are imbedded in the teachings which have been absorbed by all faiths. Therefore, the Sukka's strength and the devo- tion of those who utter the many blessings within it. No matter what the challenges in the people's experience, the Sukka also is a source of joy for all who embrace its symbolism. So the tradition and the people's experience continues. WHITE HO USE ANGER Tht• chief resident of the White House a couple of weeks ago exchanged pleasantries earth the chief of state of the friendly nation I-rael A few days later he expressed dis- ph•asuer over his friend's viewpoint on a mat- ter of seriousness to Israel. Thereupon. the New York Ti mes, in its editorial last Sunday, undertook to set straight the President of the forted States, under the title - Mr. Reagan blames Nit-. Begin, - indicating that the AWACS is a greater threat to the U.S. than to Israel, declaring: The President did not quite say "Choose Begin or Reagan," or accuse the opponents of his AWACS deal of putting Israel's interests ahead of America's. But those are the repugnant implications of his prepared statement Thursday that "It is not the business of other nations to make American foreign policy." Of course it isn't. But it's Congress's business, as much as the President's. And it's absurd to contend that large majorities of the House and Senate are ready to vote against the President merely to please Israel and its friends. It is even more ridiculous to suggest that a few complaints by Prime Minister Begin could have destroyed a cogent case for AWACS by such a persuasive President. No, this ill-tempered, premeditated re- mark was a crude effort to blame the "Is- raeli lobby" for the likely defeat of a mismanaged venture. But the strongest arguments against the deal actually have little to do with Israel. They question the wisdom of letting Saudi Arabia dip ever deeper into America's arsenal, in viola- tion of previous commitments to Con- gress. They challenge entrusting the most secret weapons to an obviously insecure monarchy ... And if foreign voices are unwanted in this discussion, why did Mr. Reagan per- sonally invite a Saudi prince to promote the sale all over Washington — and hint at reprisals that would adversely affect American commerce with Saudi Arabia? The fact is that Israel's concerns will not decide this struggle. Dozens of senators want to rescue Mr. Reagan from international embarrassment. Although uneasy about the reliability of the Saudi-American connection, they are prepared to change sides and let the deal go through if only the Saudis agree to let Americans help manage the AWACS. To suggest that Congress is under foreign influence merely makes a bad predicament worse. To raise the specter of undue Israeli influence, with all the ugly echoes that this theme can have in American society, risks turning a bad deal into a disaster. Janusz Korczak Diary: Martyrdom and Heroism Janusz Korczak is a name that will remain indelibly in the- history of the Jewish people In the records of the Holocaust and its tragedies, the name of the famous physician and author, the man who was beloved by the chil- dren in the homes he administered as well as the adults, will be revered in memory. • In the Holocuast Lubrary published by Shocken, the Korczak story will be among the most impressive, both in the records of martyrdom as well as heroism. "Janusz Korczak: Ghetto Diary" is so moving, so replete with the unyield- ing to the horrors, despite the road to his death together with the children s he cared for with great love. It is a tribute commensurate with the humanism of a very great personality. Igor Newerly, in the preface to this Schocken volume, reveals that this is the first time the text of the Korczak diary is being released from the typewritten copy of the martyr's story, the only one saved as a manuscript from his will written just before his deportation to the Treblinka death camp. Newerly was himself arrested but he managed to hand the manuscript JANUSZ KORCZAK for hiding to Maryna Falska. He re- covered the typewritten copy after he returned from the concentration camp. Korczak began to write the diary on Jan. 1, 1940, sensing the accumulating dangers. The text of the diary gives the details of the suffering as de- scribed by the 64-year-old Dr. Korczak, the latter's intercessions with the Nazis for the children aged 7 to 17 in theliome he directed, the children he would not abandon when he led them to the death camp determined to share their fate. The final insertion in the dairy is dated Aug_ 4,1942. The signifi- cance of the entire text is defined in these concluding comments in the Newrly preface: "Piotr Zalewski, a former grenadier in the Tsarist army, has been janitor and in charge of central heating in the Children's Home for 20 years. When the order for removal came, Zalewski wanted to go to the ghetto, too. Wolanska, who for many years had run the laundry in the Home, went with a similar application to the Nazi police. Her they merely kicked out, but to Zalewski they administered a bestial re- minder that he was an Aryan. (During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, 'Zalewski met his death in the courtyard of the Children's Home.) "So Korczak recalled Zalewski with an obvious though unformu- lated reproach — 'You see, a janitor would not leave the children because he was attached to them, and you propose that I, their tutor, their father . . .1s it thinkable that ! should leave the children alone to suffocate in a gas chamber? How could I live after that?' He could not. He did not. "He kept his word — as always. Shortly after the 5th of August, I received the diary." The Korzcak diary gains added historic significance with an appended lengthy tribute by the distinguished Yiddish author, Aaron Zeitlin. The poem is entitled "The Last Walk of Janusz Korczak." It is in itself a great tribute and an evaluative epic. Combined with the diary, this volume emerges as one of the most moving in the Holocaust Library.