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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath is Rosh Hashancz, 5743 , and the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 21:1-34, Numbers 29:1-6.
Prophetical portion, I Samuel 1:1-2:10.
Sunday,, second day of Rosh Hashana
Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 22:1-24, Numbers 29:1-6.
Prophetical portion, Jeremiah 31:2-20.
Monday, Fast of Gedaliah
Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 32:11-14, 34:1-10.
Prophetical portion (afternoon only) Isaiah 55:6-56:8.
Candlelighting, Friday, Sept. 17, 7:19 p.m.
VOL. LXXXII, No. 3
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INTRODUCING 5734
A new year does not deviate from the shana tova greeting. The good is
always anticipated no matter how evil what is left behind.
Especially in the Jewish experience, the always happy in any 12
months has seldom been recorded. Therefore the welcome to another year is
always spelled out in hope. The hopefulness equates with the realism that
pursues the generations.
Stock-taking being inevitable, thoughts about the year about to end
take into account the gains attained, the obstacles hurdled, the obstructions
left to be removed in years to come as legacies of the passing year.
The year now ending was filled with so many anxieties that it has left
many sad marks in American, world and Jewish records.
The economic difficulties in this country continue to cause havoc in
many spheres. The unemployment figure is on so vast a scale that it de-
presses the average American.
The effects of the resultant cutbacks in government aid for the needy
and for the cultural institutions that are the backbone of a great nation
continue to harm the educational functions, they create difficulties for the
elderly and they reduce the assistance given to the handicapped. Hopefully,
there will be a speedy resolution of this problem.
For the world at large, the passing year was an especially sad one.
Unceasing warfare was again highlighted by the conflict in the Middle East.
Israel's initiation of the military operation for peace in the Galilee and for an
end to terrorism is beginning to serve as another invitation to a mobilized
interference with the sovereignty of the Jewish state instead of providing
the confidence expressed by Israel's heads of state and army that the end of
the Lebanese tasks will mean the beginning of increased Arab-Israel collab-
oration. To Israel's leaders it seemed that Lebanon now will be second to
Egypt as a peacemaker and that the terrorists will have been properly
dispersed. Neither of the two optimisms may materialize. -
It may well be that the latest Reaganism, his ideas for a Jordanianized
Palestinianism and restrictions on Jewish settlements, and additionally his
proposal for Jerusalem which in itself represents encouragement to those
seeking to deny Israel the right to choose her own capital, combine to incite
to further divisiveness rather than to unity and an accord with the Arabs.
Whatever challenges there were until now to Jewish leadership, to be
prepared to meet such issues with a realistic approach to the need for a
continuing American-Israel friendship, now multiplies. American Jewry
can not let Israel down, and will not deflate the friendly realism that
motivates the American role. Proper study with an aim to firmness steeped
in justice is the newly revived challenge.
A growing anti-Semitism, evidenced in the passing months, adds dis-
tressingly to the recorded history of a year filled with tensions.
These'are the fashions of the time that introduce a new year. With them
come the determining attitudes of a community that has been tried by many
fires.
The all-American spirit does not abandon faith that times will change
and conditions will improve. The nation blessed with world leadership will
retain it and will cherish it unto fulfillment of the highest democratic ideals.
The Jewish people, the kehillot everywhere, will never abandon Israel
and will strive to retain the friendship that is to the glory of cooperation
between Israel and the United States.
There can never be a dimunition of vigilance in the battle to overcome
the hatred that is anti-Semitic.
If what is past is prologue has any meaning at all, it is an especially
compelling guideline for the Jewish communities. The lessons of a year
filled with so many forceful demands on Jewish needs, on the people's
patience, now adds to it all the admonitions for confidence that an indestruc-
tibility fortified by the ages cannot collapse. New forms of anti-Semitism
became evident in the year under study, and the confronting of it with an
undiminished faithfulness remains on the agenda of a new year.
Such commitments lend a purpose to the welcome that is to be given a
new year. In welcoming it there is a retention of confidence that the dedica-
tion to the people's legacies is never sacrificed. This is what makes shana
tova a' salutation for a Happy New Year.
ALL-E MB RACING AGENDA
American Jewish communities traditionally dedicated to the duties which
embrace the needy on a domestic scale as well as the national and overseas causes
serving Jews everywhere, are now in the process of re-dedication to the multiple
appeals for uninterrupted support.
On the eve of a new year it is necessary to reassert these duties, especially in
view of the difficulties that arise from the multiplicity of such needs and the
difficulties encountered by economic declines.
Days of Awe, commencement of a period of sanctity as the beginning of a new
year, demand emphasis on the spiritual, on the high ideals that are rooted in Jewish
history and traditions. The assurance of such continuity demands protection for the
functioning Jewish institutions, for the synagogue and the school, for the univer-
sities and for the agencies that care for the aged. Therefore the injection of the
philanthropic at this time for the elderly and the handicapped.
Immediate concerns are always with the home, the domestic interests and
conditions, and the Metropolitan Detroit Jewish approaches to- the various needs
merit special consideration. It is to the credit of this community that the elderly are
not ignored, that the handicapped receive proper care, that the educational systems
have the facilities and support urgently needed.
The new provisions being made for the senior citizens in the new Home for the
Aged project, the additional Federation Apartments units, construction having
begun for both these expanded projects; the new facility for the handicapped pro-
vided by the Jewish Association for Retarded Citizens; the support provided here for
schools of high learning, specifically at this time the Bar-Ilan University in Israel,
as well as the Israel Red Magen David, the Red Cross equivalent which has been
provided with three additional ambulances in the current month, all show unstinted
generosity.
It is on the larger scale, in the matter of the major funds for Israel's needs and
the security, that special concern must be shown. Israel is in a difficult position. The
war's losses are immense. More serious are the pressures exerted to secure Conces-
sions from the Israelis. Hopefully there will soon be an easing of the pressures. In the
meantime there is a serious obligation not to forget the historic value of Jewish
statehood reborn after centuries of travail. The fulfillment of the prophetic to which
the Jewish people remains dedicated — the redemption attained by attainment of
the Zionist ideals — are not subject to sacrifice.
The Jewish state did not arise out of the agonies of the centuries either to submit
to suicide because of international pressures or to submit to the threat of terrorism.
Therefore the urgent need for Jewish unity which symbolizes the message to Israel
that her kinfolk will not abandon her.
Israel's social services, universities and provisions for the elderly are seriously
affected by reductions in government allocations occasioned by the war costs, and
the Israel Emergency Campaign now in progress, as well as the advance needs for
the Allied Jewish Campaign-United Jewish Appeal serve as means of upholding
Israel's hands in time of crisis. This is the major obligation in support of Israel and it
must be fulfilled.
The needs in time of crisis are apparent. They have always been met by a
concerned community. The concern must now be expressed in traditional responses.