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CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
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News Editor
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HEIDI PRESS
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 25th day of Adar, 5742, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:Pentateuchal portion, Exodus
35:1-40:38, 12:1-20
Prophetical portion, Ezekiel 45:16-46:18.
Thursday, Rosh Hodesh Nisan, Numbers 28:1-15
Candlelighting, Friday, March 19, 6:25 p.m.
VOL. =CI, No. 3
Page Four
Friday, March 19, 1982
AJCAMPAIGN CHALLENGES
REVITALIZED DUTIES
After several weeks of pre-Campaign ac-
tivities, the major fund-raising philanthropic
appeal now is directed at the thousands whose
responses must spell adherence to established
tradition signifying identification which de-
fines a dedicated community.
The designated annual meeting of the Allied
Jewish Campaign, set for the coming Wednes-
day evening, is not a Campaign opened. In this
year of crises and uncertainties, of economic ills,
the date of March 24 must be viewed as a re-
vitalizer. It is a time for recognition of duties not
to be shirked, of challenges that involve the
ability of indispensable causes to carry on with-
out hindrance. It is a test of a community
glorified by high standards to assert its ability
to resist all obstacles in a continuity of function-
ing.
Metropolitan Detroit Jewry's participating
force in the major philanthropic efforts numbers
some 24,000. Half of this force has already been
accounted for in the initial sums raised towards
the 60 causes provided for by Allied Jewish
Campaign dollars. Now comes the pursuant
test: for those yet to be reached to guarantee
that the generosity of previous years will be
matched in responses to appeals for the current
drive during the coming few weeks of campaign-
ing.
Never to be forgotten is the fact that the
Campaign aids national agencies, those that
are devoted to the civic protective needs, to the
defense of the good name of the Jewish people,
in this country and whereever there is need for
protective and defensive tasks.
The local causes included in the allocations to
be made from Allied Jewish Campaign income
provide for educational needs, for the elderly
and the sick, for hospitality to newcomers to this
country fleeing from persecution.
A major recipient of the funds raised under
the name of the Allied Jewish Campaign as
soliciting agency are the social-service and edu-
cational agencies in Israel, the agencies which
are vital to the upbuilding of the Jewish state, to
its protection and the assurance that the high
standards of statehood and national rebirth will
be adhered to.
The current Campaign is being processed in a
period of great difficulties. Israel is challenged
from many quarters. Her neighbors are con-
tinually saber-rattling. The peace with the only
Arab state that has emerged above hatreds, to
be on speaking terms with Jews and Israelis, is
considered shaky in spite of reassertions of
adherence to the Camp David decisions by Cairo
as well as Jerusalem. The Washington angle in
this sought-for partnership has suffered several
setbacks.
Therefore, the increasing seriousness of the
challenge that confronts all who have a duty to
give whatever substance is necessary to make
peace realistic and realizable.
Whatever the issues, no matter how threaten-
ing the obstacles, there must always be the
knowledge that without a strong and defensible
Israel the entire Jewish structure, including the
smallest of Jewish cities anywhere on earth,
will be under threat. It is now a serious matter
of self-respect, of recognition of the great oc-
currence in Israel, that which has been defined
as the miracle of Israel's rebirth, that must be
treated with dignity, with dedication.
For every Jew wherever he may be, there is
the obligation to assure Israel's security. No
matter what the obstacles, even those which
involve conflict with our government, even as
challenges to Jews who must stand firm in their
rights as American citizens to assure the valid-
ity of the American - Israel friendship, there
must never be deviation from this basic duty.
The economic problems are not to be over-
looked. Taking them into account, the duty to a
Campaign that reckons with so many problems
as well as obligations must be treated with in-
creased courage.
The reason for greater needs in hours of in-
creased obligations, towards the philanthropic
appeal of the hour, are obvious. They must be
adhered to. A community's self-respect is at
stake. It has always been adhered to. Surely, the
greater the obstacles the more spontaneous the
generous responses. This is the anticipation for
the Campaign. that commences several weeks of
seriousness in a confrontation for a community
with a glorious record in judging Jewish needs
and human'svalues.
THE TRAGED Y OF THE UN
Threats by the gang-up groups in the United
Nations General Assembly to oust Israel from
the world organization inspired Michigan's Wil-
liam Broomfield and several associates in the
U.S. House of Representatives to propose a re-
solution providing for:
"Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That if any democratic
state is illegally expelled, suspended, denied its
credentials, or in any other manner denied its
rights and privileges in the General Assembly
of the United Nations, the United States will:
(1) suspend its participation in the General
Assembly; and
(2) withhold its assessed contributions to the
United Nations until this illegal action is re-
ctified."
Similar resolutions are on the Congressional
docket introduced by other members of Con-
gress, under sponsorship of Congressman Tom
Lantos and associates.
This is the unfortunate verdict of responsible
Americans in condemnation of the horrors per-
petrated in the UN against Israel.
How tragic that a world organization, or-
ganized for peace, should inspire such condem-
nations! Perhaps the pending resolutions will
lead the antagonists of Israel to their senses.
From Washington Square Press
`Best of Sholom Aleichem':
Classics in Translations
Sholom Aleichem is ever the name to fascinate his readers, to
assure best-seller status for his works.
They predominated in the Yiddish originals. They continue to
enthrall and entertain in the English translations.
"The Fiddler" served to give Sholom Aleichem the universal
appeal. The great play nevertheless was mainly the supplement to the
entire Sholom Aleichem Library. The vast collection of Sholom
Aleichem humor, its inspirational role as interpreter of Jewish life
and as commentary on the traditional, gives the author's name -the
stamp of immortality in literature.
A vast library of Sholom Aleichem's stories, in English transla-
tions, is enriched by the newest, "The Best of Sholom Aleichem"
(Washington Square Press). This paperback was edited by Irving
Howe, who had a role in numerous previous translations, together
with Prof. Ruth R. Wisse of McGill University. Dr. Wisse has been
among the ablest interpreters of and commentators on Yiddish litera-
ture on the American and Canadian platforms.
Especially noteworthy about the
newest of the Sholom Aleichem col-
lected stories are the titles selected in
the Howe-Wisse paperback as well as
the translators.
Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow
translated "Eternal Life."
Other translators of stories in this
volume are Ruben Bercovitch, Sacvan
Bercovitch, Etta Blum, Frances and
Julius Butwin, Gershon Friedman,
Hillel Halkin, Nathan Halper,
Seymour Levitan, the late Isaac
Rosenfeld, Miriam Waddington,
Leonard Wolf and Seth Wolitz.
SHOLOM ALEICHEM
Many of the stories in this volume
will be recognized by the admirers of Sholom Aleichem and those
knowledgeable about Yiddish literature among the very popular in
the humorist's works.
Timely for consideration in the current season is the popular
"Home for Passover" and "A Passover Expropriation."
Shtetl experiences as well as tales of the holidays are among the
tests. Then there are some that referred to historical occurrences,
such as "Dreyfus and Kasrel Kasrilevke."
The latter is a typical Sholom Alerichem resort to irony which he
transforms into jocularity and even more impressively into the
people's interest in world affairs. They had no aspect to news but in
some fashion it reached them, and the humor that marks this one
emphasizes the human factor in the craving for knowledge about the
world outside the shtetl.
There are 22 stories in this volume, including, in addition to the
above mentioned, "The Haunted Tailor," "A Yom Kippur Scandal,"
"Station Baranovich," "The Pot," "The Clock That Struck Thirteen,"
"On Account of a Hat," "Two Anti-Semites," "If I Were Rothschild,"
"Tevye Strikes It Rich," "The Bubble Burst," "Chava," "Get Thee
Out," "From Motel the Cantor's Son," "Bandits," "The Guest," "The
Kushniker Delegation," "One in a Million," "Once There Were Four."