THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
High Holy Day Appeals
for Bonds Are Planned
Synagogues in Michigan
will take part in the ex-
panded 1983-5744 Israel
Bond High Holy Day Appe-
als this Rosh Hashana and
Yom Kippur to mobilize
funds for Israel's continued
economic development.
Members of 19 Orthodox,
Conservative and Reform
congregations will be asked
to purchase Israel Bonds
"for Israel and the young" in
Israel's 35th Anniversary
Year, it was announced by
Max Sosin, Detroit
synagogue activities
chairman for Israel Bonds.
To ensure the identifica-
tion of the younger North
American Jewish genera-
tion with Israel, each par-
ticipating congregation is
being asked to form a corps
of young ushers, preferably
those who recently cele-
brated their Bar or Bat
Mitzva, to collect tab cards
during the appeal.
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Congregants will be
encouraged to make their
own Bond purchases and
additional purchases for
children or
grandchildren.
D. Dan Kahn, Israel
Bonds general chairman for
Michigan, said "To continue
the tradition of economic
support for Israel, we must
encourage the younger gen-
eration, the future leaders
of our communities, to iden-
tify with Israel and its
young people's future."
The tab card which will be
used in this year's appeal
bears the slogan, "For Israel
and the Young."
By buying $1,000 or more
in Bonds, participants in
the appeal can enroll as
"Shomrei Yisrael" (Guard-
ians of Israel). By purchas-
ing a $1,000 Bond for a child
or grandchild, congregants
can enroll the young per-
sons as a "Shomer Yisrael."
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Acropolis Books has
signed former Wayne State
University prof. Erhard
Dabringer to write a book
on Nazi war criminal Klaus
Barbie, the Detroit News
reported.
Dabringer's association
with Barbie stems from his
stint as a U.S. Army in-
telligence officer in Europe
following World War II.
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Friday, July 22, 1983 21
Tisha b'Av Is Not an Outdated Holiday
When the Evils It Laments Still Exist
By RABBI JACK
GOLDMAN
I have known Rabbi
Yitzchok Greenberg for
some 35 years. Since he be-
came spokesman for the Na-
tional Jewish Resource
Center, I have enjoyed read-
ing his well-informed and
elucidating articles in The
Jewish News.
His last article, however,
on the inner conflicts that
he perceives in the obser-
vance of Tisha b'Av (The
Jewish News, July 15) is
one with which I must take
exception.
Rabbi Greenberg argues
that there already is a state
of Israel; there already is a
land in which the language
of the prophets is the ver-
nacular; there is a home for
Jewish refugees from
around the world; and the
Israeli rabbinate has re-
ffered to the Jewish state as
"the beginning growth of
our redemption."
What need is there for
mourning the destroyed
Jewish state of 1,900 years
ago, asks Rabbi Greenberg.
I cannot agree. Our
sages tell us that the
Temple of Solomon was
destroyed because of
three reasons: idolatry,
bloodshed and moral
profligacy; the second
Temple of Jerusalem,
however, was destroyed
because of internecine
hatred of one Jew for an-
other — the very opposite
of brotherly love.
When we read the Book of
Lamentations on the night
of Tisha b'Av, we sit in
mourning not only over the
destruction of the Temples,
we not only bemoan our
exile these two millenia, but
we deplore the conditions
that brought about that Di-
vine retribution which, to
our great chagrin, still exist
in our own day!
In the past few weeks, the
Jewish world was shocked
by the merciless and brutal
assault of one Hasidic sect
upon another. In the holy
city of Jerusalem, youthful
fanatics are taught to throw
stones on the Sabbath, even
causing serious injury or
loss of life.
More than ever before,
one reads in the press of
quasi-religious Jews who
engage in murder, - theft,
and gross immorality, and
then reject kosher OU food
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version of the Encyclopedia
Judaica, recently published
in their native tongue, and
smuggled into the Soviet
Union.
The first two volumes of
the six-volume set were
completed by the society for
research of Jewish com-
munities and the Hebrew
University, with contribu-
tions from U.S. and Euro-
pean Jewry. The project is to
be completed by 1987.
in favor of meals under
Here we may savor the in the lifetime of our chil-
Chasidic supervision.
wisdom of Jeremiah. Al- dren the true redemption
The Israeli press is fil- though he lived more than will be at hand, but not to-
led with reports on 2,000 years ago, his words day. We have only begun,
Jewish self-hatred in the are as fresh and as crucial
and we are not yet worthy!.
theater, rifts between for us today as ever they
Ashkenazic and Sephar- were. He knew his people
YOUR WEDDING—
dic Jews, and the general well. We must still mourn,
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rise in Jewish crime, on a bewail, lament our deeds
level without precedent because we are still in exile.
in the annals of Jewish
Too soon, Rabbi
WILL BE
history, and the Israeli Greenberg; we're not yet
mafia in Los Angeles has -ready to abandon Tisha
brought shame to the b'Av. Sure, the redemp-
whole Jewish commu- tion has begun, and we
WHEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY
nity.
have come a long way
from the darkness of our
Do we have a right to be
bitter exile, but we have a
equivocal about observing long way to go.
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Tisha b'Av? If you read
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Maybe in our lifetime, or
Rabbi Greenberg, it seems
that the whole message of
Tisha b'Av is archaic, obso-
lete, passe. The British have
gone home! There is a vib-
rant Israeli press. The
dream of Eliezer Ben-
Membership being accepted for
Yehudah has come true!
Herzl's 1897 prophecy, that
in 50 years there would be a
Jewish state, has been
realized. Are we ready to get
Special family membership rate
up from our fasting and our
of 950 available
mourning and make Tisha
b'Av a day of celebration?
Hardly!
Join the finest — Join Bnai David
Our sages wrote into the
musaf service, "Because of
Free children's activities and
our sins, we have been
High Holiday Services
exiled from our land!" But
we're still sinning; and we
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are committing the same
sins! Oh, how great is our
need for Tisha b'Av.
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