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The Detroit Jewish News, 1983-08-26

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THE JEWISH NEWS

(11SPS 275-5201

Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with the issue of July 20, 1951

Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co.

Member of American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, National Editorial Association and
National Newspaper Association and its Capital Club.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075
Postmaster: Send address changes to The Jewish News, 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075
Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Offices. Subscription $18 a year.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

CARMI M. 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 18th day of Elul, 5743,
the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:

Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8.
Prophetical portion, Isaiah 60:1-22.

Candlelighting, Friday, Aug. 26, 7:56 p.m.

VOL. LXXXIII, No. 26

Page Four

Friday, August 26, 1983

JUSTICE DELAYED

A U.S. apology to the French government ascribed to a State Department "working
for irresponsible military inadequacies in shel- group," with Secretary of State George Shultz
tering the French collaborator with the Nazis,
denying that it was • his brainchild. Instead of
Klaus Barbie, is much more of a case than jus- laboring for Arabs to show compassion for their
tice delayed. It is like a reductio ad absur- coreligionists in advancing a solution to a seri-
dum, a shortcoming that fails to take into ac- ous problem, and of resolving whatever may be
count a much vaster element — the fact that the involved in homelessness, a lack of realism was
Jewish people has been hurt and continues to be permitted in injection into the American
maligned. It is to humanity and to world Jewry
foreign policy procedures.
that apologies should be addressed, that every
It is all related — the failure to rescue
effort be made to redress,the wrongs, that there Jewish sufferers from the Nazi barbarities, the
be a mobilization of humanism to assure that kowtowing to Nazi criminals because army offi-
what had occurred, with the Barbies as the in- cials, with Barbie as an exemplar, could serve as
struments for human destruction, must never spies in the East-West war, and a possible indif-
again be repeated.
ference which still abides in U.S. official ranks.
The guilt extends more drastically than the
Indeed, it is not merely "justice delayed." It
single case of a French collaborator's involve- was injustice perpetuated. Now the absolution
ment in the mass murder of Jews. It has a rela- is an apology to the French, when it is necessary
tionship to the rescuing of the victims of de- to atone for the misjudgments in assurances to
rangement. It is as difficult to ignore the Ameri- Jewry and to mankind that there will be a
can failure to provide havens for the Hitler vic- never again policy in that regard in this coun-
tims as it would be to forget and to bury the try.
memory of a horror that can be repeated if warn-
The guilt is on the record. Ships carrying
ings of the inhumanities are abandoned.
escapees from Nazism were sunk because the
Indeed, the guilt is on the record. The sick British would not admit them to what was.then
minds in a generation that compelled Arthur the pre-Israel Palestine, the U.S. kowtowed to
Morse to expose the criminality of a case against
Nazi murderers, the reactions which generated
Americans in "While 6 Million Died"; the mem-
an anti-Semitism amidst war contributed
ory of a tragic record that impelled Ruth Gruber
toward hesitancy to provide havens for sur-
to recall it in "Haven," the story of the limited
vivors from the Hitler terror in this country.
right to live by those who were permitted to
When the 982 were granted temporary haven in
come to Oswego, N.Y., in 1944 — these provide
Oswego, N.Y., in a specially compassioned
detailed proof not only of justice delayed but Franklin D. Roosevelt act, it was on condition
mainly of injustice that has stamRed a blot of that the Jews and Christians in that group
inhuman irresponsibility into the record of would return to their "homelands." There were
great nations. The U.S. shared in that guilt.
no homelands — there were only mass graves!
Allan A. Ryan, Jr., special assistant to the And it fell to the lot of Harry S. Truman to grant
U.S. Attorney General, in his investigated re- permanent residence to those who were only to
port on the U.S. involvement in the Barbie case,
have a "haven."
in which he recommended the apology to the
These facts relate to the Barbie case and to
French government, mostly absolved the State
the U.S. apology. They are an admonition that
Department. Yet, there is a measure of guilt in
injustice must not be perpetuated. They are
that department. Even now, in the midst of an- warning that if there is a danger of "happening
other tragic crisis, with the handicaps for the again" the Jews will not be the only victims.
United States and for Israel in arriving at a
With "apology" also should go the admoni-
solution of the Lebanese situation, a shocking
tion "beware!" Indeed, with it must go the assis-
proposal has been advanced for the settlement tance from humanism of an acceptance of the
of "Palestinians" in this country. The plan is
slogan "Never Again!"

FROM DREAM TO REALITY

Martin Luther King had a dream. It has
been, and continues to be, acclaimed as an aspi-
ration for the attainment of the highest goals in
humanism and in just rights for all peoples.
That dream also echoes an ethical code and
a hope that the best relations will be established
among all Americans, with a total rejection of
the bigotries that have hitherto dragged man-
kind into the gutter.
Emergence of the Great Dream in the Mar-
tin Luther King genius retains more than the
domestic significance. It has the imprint of uni-
versality. It continues in the notable contribu-
tions of Coretta King who carries on the labors
of her distinguished husband.
It calls for the cooperative spirit of all

peoples, of the black and the white com-
munities, of Jews and their fellow citizens.
A continuing endorsement of the Martin
Luther King idealism will be in evidence at the
march in Washington this Sabbath day. Thanks
to the level-headed and truly-idealistic organiz-
ers of the march, prejudicial references affect-
ing the Jewish role have been eliminated from a
planned declaration of principles. While it is
regrettable that the march is to be held on the
Jewish Sabbath, the many religious services in
Jewish congregations will supplement the val-
ues of the organized acclaim in reference to Dr.
King and to his ideals.
The basic ideals remain in force — and
must lead from dream to reality.

Many Selections for the Young

New Year Greeted With
Spate of Youth Books

For young readers, there is good news for the approaching New
Year 5744.
The variety of new books is so impressive that children can look
forward to fascinating narratives, parents will have the satisfaction
of knowing that the children will have much of value to choose from,
educators will be delighted to know that the Jewish themes are not
ignored and that there are thrills in store in relating tales about the
Holy Days and holidays.
"Holiday Adventures of Achbar" is an especially intriguing set of
stories and is a credit to author, illustrator and publisher (Kar-Ben
Copies, Inc.)
Barbara Sofer gains new acclaim as a storyteller in this collection
of holiday tales in which Achbar, the amateur sleuth in the image of a
mouse, relates to Rosh Hashana, Sukkot and Hanuka. The author is a
native of Connecticut who now lives in Jerusalem with their four
children. Nina Gaelen is the able illustrator of a series that lends
itself to her skill. The Sofer stories are about Achbar (the mouse), who
provides missing clues to many mysterious occurrences. There is
imagination and excitement in the telling of the stories and the young
readers will wish to read and re-read them to share in the excitement
provided.
The Jewish Publication Society carried on a program of publish-
ing children's books with emphasis on holidays. The newest in the
series is a Hanuka tale with a delightful theme. In "Potato Pancakes
All Around," Marilyn Hirsh introduces Samuel the Peddler who was
invited into a Jewish home on a cold winter night. He offered to make
the pancakes for that Hanuka night and he intrigues the hosts and
the children by assuring them he would make the latkes out of a crust
of bread. He did, because in the process other foodstuffs accumulated.
It was, indeed, out of a crust of bread, and out of it emerged a recipe,
with which the book concludes, that emerged as a thriller in the
making — the making of a latke and a thrilling. story.
Union of American Hebrew Congregations continues to produce
educational material that makes excellent reading for the youth.
While the major writings for children and those approaching the
teenage stage is entertaining and jolly, the serious is not eluded by the
UAHC producers of books for the younger readers. The latest work, in
which Rabbi Daniel B. Syme, the former Detroiter, has an editorial
role, is "Bubby, Me, and Memories." It deals with a sad note, prepar-
ing the reader for loss of a member of the immediate family and
treating it in a traditional Jewish fashion.
Thus, in "Bubby, Me and Memories" life and the unavoidable
occurrences of losing one that is very close to the family assumes a
highly ethical note in a book that instructs and has a high level of
humanism. That's how the subject is treated by Barbara Pomerantz.
Her book is splendidly illustrated by Leon Lurie.
Such is the variety of books for the young Jewish readers. They
are introductory to what is anticipated as another year of splendid
works that will be both entertaining and instructive.
For the teenagers, the older readers, and, indeed, also their par-
ents, a noteworthy biography about one of the great pietists, the
eminent Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan who gained fame as the Chofetz
Chaim, merits special attention. Under the title "The Story of the
Chofetz Chaim" (Mesorah Publications), Rabbis Nosson Scherman
and Eliezer Gervitz relate the fascinating story of a great scholar, a
story which must receive wider attention at an early date.

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