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SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor Business Manager HEIDI PRESS Associate News Editor DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager 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."