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Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the 16th day of Kislev, 5742, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 32:4-36:43. Prophetical portion, Hosea 11:7-12:12. Candlelighting, Friday, Dec. 11, 4:43 p.m.. VOL. LXXX, No. 15 Page Four Friday, December 11, 1981 YAD VASHEM'S EMPHASIS Yad Vashem in Jerusalem is the symbol of unforgetfulness, of honor to the memory of vic- tims of the most inhuman crimes in history. It keeps alive the spirit of a people resisting an effort at the finality of an entire people. It is to the honor of the Metropolitan Detroit Jewish community that a replica of the Holocaust memorial known as Yad Vashem is to be built here, that the records of the mass murders are not to be obliterated and that the reminders of what had occurred during the Nazi era are to have the emphasis to be recorded here under the declaration of "Never Again." The memorials to the victims of Nazism are numerous. They have been established as mini- ature museums and in some minute forms as Holocaust centers. The massive program plan- ned for this community will make the Holocaust Memorial Center, groundbreaking having taken place last Sunday, the most important duplication of what has been established in Jerusalem. The historic Israel memorial has served a purpose, the significance of which does not need explaining. It contains the records of the suffer- ers. It emphasizes the destruction of many communities, the threat to the cultural and spiritual values of the destroyed cities and vil- lages, the extinction of the Shtetl. The Yad Vashem's urgent needs become evi- dent when inheritors of the bestialities of the Nazis seek to deny that there had been a Holocaust. There has been an effort to reduce the tragedy at Auschwitz by portraying it as a genocide of Poles, with some Jewish losses. This has been a policy of the Kremlin in the Soviet attempt to reduce the horror at Babi Yar and to describe it as a Russian loss. Whatever the mo- tives in denying to Jews even the memory of the horrors, they exist, and the Holocaust centers serve the purpose of being reminders of the tragedies — reminders that serve as weapons to prevent their repetition. The historic fact is that more than 11 million people were massacred by the Nazis, half of them Jews. Jews were murdered for being Jews, , the others for being nationals of governments with which the Hitler regime was at war. The Jewish tragedy thus symbolizes the inhuman- ity never to be overlooked, the inhumanities which must serve as weapons against anything of its kind that threaten to be repeated for any and all people on earth. The duplication of the Jerusalem symbol of giving inerasable spiritual strength to Jewish resistance to any effort to destroy the people, lends glory to a community that recognizes the duty to remember. There is the obligation to emphasize it in the spirit of "Never Again" to all enemies of Jewry and the People Israel. In this spirit the groundbreaking of the Holocaust Memorial Center here is an occasion providing' pride in the response that spells dignity of which a proud people can never be denied. MERIT OF PATIENCE Patience has all the merits of the human spirit and the courage that sustains people. Yet, it is very difficult to acquire. There is a lesson for the impatient in the latest American - Israel agreements. They do not solve all the problems. They do, however, emphasize that what has been affirmed as a friendship need not be damaged. It keeps recurring. that whenever there is a dispute the media pick it up and make an issue of it, treating it as if there were a crisis, as if the relationship between the two nations is about to break up. It always ends with a good measure of cordiality, and if patience has been exercised there would be less fear of impending tragedies. In the most recent experience there is the acme of admonition that patience is valuable, even in diplomacy; that statesmanship has much to learn, especially in averting panic. There were differences of opinion over the proposed peacekeeping force in Sinai. The am- munition resorted to by the media, in newspap- ers and on the air, gave the impression that something was about to collapse. It did not. As the matter materialized, such could not occur. The representatives of the two governments treated the matter with dignity, in a spirit of friendly negotiations. It was resolved. Many more issues are certain to arise. There will be similar reactions. There will be panic generating anger. With patience they will be resolved. Therefore, the lesson for the future: let there be patience and justice will justify adherence to it. TESTING CAMP DAVID Only in Washington and Jerusalem is the Camp David Egyptian - U.S. - Israel peace document treated with the hoped-for respect. Elsewhere there is skepticism, and it has begun to creep into the three areas whence came the paving of the road to amity. The testing of the validity of the peace accord is not of the Israelis and Egyptians and of the American partner to the document and the his- toric decision. It is a continuity of Arab animosities, escalating into. an Islamic war on Israel, that is under scrutiny. Realistic judges of the existing quandaries recognize that if there is to be peace for the area and security for Israel, there is no substitute for the Camp David decision. To sustain it will re- quire brilliant statesmanship as well as deci- siveness in an adherence to the basic ideals emanating from Camp David. Hoepfully the weight of the U.S. will be in the direction of fulfillment of hopes and aspiration for genui- neness in peace aims. Hopefully there will never be concessions to the opposites which can only spell warfare and massive loss of loves and destruction of available peaceful aims. ..JTA ilintel Brief' in Forward Inaugurated Advice COlumns Long before Ann Landers, Emily Post, Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby"), Llewellyn Miller, Helen Latner and several others had begun to write advice columns, there was a pioneer in the American press. She was Mrs. Annie Louise Brown Leslie, a member of the women's reportorial department of the Detroit News. She proposed such a column in 1919 to then managing editor of the Detroit News, Malcolm Bingay (who later became the editorial chief of the Detroit Free "Press). Bingay's associates in the Detroit News editorial department laughed at the idea. Not "Bing." He not only accepted it: he introduced it. The column began to appear under the title "Experience," and later under the name of Nancy Brown, Mrs. Leslie's pseudonym. Credit, therefore, where credit is due. "Experience" continues to this day, bylined. Jane Lee. A current columnist who writes on "Etiquette," taking into ac- count the Jewish ethical principle of "Derekh Eretz," is Helen Latner, author of "The Book of Modern Jewish Etiquette" (Schocken). Bingay's pioneering was not the beginning of advice columns. It all started long ago in 1906 — in the Yiddish-language daily, the Jewish Daily Forward. • The Jewish Daily Forward pioneered as an adviser to immigrants settling in this country, as an Americanization force, as a guide to etiquette, as peace-maker in homes threatened by discord, and scores more of problems that distressed Jews who came here as strangers striving to build wholesome homes. Its role is described in an explan- tory volume, "A Bintel Brief' (Viking). It is the second volume in a series, anthologically compiled. This volume of letters to the Jewish Daily Forward is from the years 1950 to 1980. They were compiled by Isaac Metzker, a Forward staff writer for 40 years. The letters selected by. Metzker for this and his earlier volume cover every conceivable problem affecting the lives of Jews in a free society. There are the religious queries, those involving kashrut, marriage difficulties, children and their rebellious tendencies. The serious is often tinged with the humorous, and both queries and answers will provide the sense of guidance for which "Bintel Brief' replies are intended, and much of the hilarious, thus making this volume entertaining. trl "Yralirnr TY'2"lrg =Mtn"? 11'12 rim torn `nort wir AC Dill 1"it 9.7 4•10.1•11•14 Interestingly, the questions and the answers from generation to generation hardly vary. The problems are repetitive: the Jewish aspects, an occasional conversion, intermarriage, the nagging wife, a back-seat driver who annoys the husband causing threat of a split after many years of marriage. The Bintel Brief counselor comes to the rescue to repair the damage. ( _ Metzker performs excellently as translator from the Yiddish and as anthologist of the letters. His explantory introduction traces the history of Jewish immigration to this country and the agonies that confronted those who came to Ellis Island, under difficult conditions, creating the questions and inspiring the answers. - "A Bintel Brief' belongs to contemporary literature that reveals the problematic and adds to the studies of how immigrants integrate and the manner in which their problems are tackled. Metzger's is a delightful book.