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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the third day of Tishri, 5744,
the following scriptural selection will be read in our synagogues:
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Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 32:1-52.
Prophetical portion, Hosea 14:2-10, Micah 17:18-20, Joel 2:15-27.
Sunday, Fast of Gedaliah
Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 32:11-14,-34:1-10.
Prophetical portion, (afternoon only) Isaiah 55:6-56:8.
Candlelighting, Friday, Sept. 9, 7:31 p.m.
VOL. LXXXIV, No. 2
Page Four
Friday, September 9, 1983
MARCH OF TIME
Social scientists and historians have no difficulty proving that there is
nothing new under the sun.
No one can prove it with greater accuracy than the Jewish chronicler
of time.
Seldom does a Jewish New Year commence without anxiety. There
are always the concerns about the continuing prejudices, the indifference
to developing challenges in Jewish ranks, the dangers that confront the
Jewish state of Israel, the declining youth identifications with their elders.
Yet, in the course of time, the inner strength of the Jewish people abounds,
and whatever the difficulties in life's struggles, they are overcome with a
power that is engendered by the pride in the legacies of what has been
termed The Eternal People.
This is not a boasting. It is a reality in a people's experience. It is what
is called continuity in striving for progress in the march of time. It is an
indestructibility in a. people's will to live.
This Rosh Hashana of 5744 provides an emphasis in realism. It is even
more than the will to live. It is the inevitability of a dedication by the
people marking the advent of a New Year recognizing the seriousness of a
role in humankind that has its stamp of spiritual involvenient that cannot
shirk leadership in the cultural aspects of human endeavors. There is an
indoctrination that gives it the pioneering obligation of setting examples
or the highest ethical codes, that makes it akin to the sages in Jewish
iistory and the saintly in humankind who aim for the attainment of the
nost ethical even in an era of low standards which demand revitalization
)f moral codes.
There will be much to contend with by Jews everywhere in the year
ihead. Perhaps there is the admonishment that it is time to be less fearful
)f destructive occurrences. They, too, are inevitable, and like the horrors of
the past they will be resolved.
There is this to be taken into consideration: Jewry has never been
without enemies, and .it is too much to expect that Jew-baiting will ever
lisappear. It continues as a legacy from a past that is tinged with the
iatreds of the early centuries, the religious bigotries of the ages, the
Timinal minds of the Middle Ages, the vileness that invaded modern
society with the brutalities that led to the Holocaust. There are elements in
Jewry who belittle the anti-Semitic, who believe there is a declining
animosity. When it becomes evident in university circles, on campuses as
yell as in the business world, it does not give evidence of being a declining
'enom.
Therefore, it must be confronted with the realism which has tested
uch hatreds in the past. If they do not subside, they will surely be disputed
with the dignity that keeps Jewry in the active role of a world factor.
Fears regarding Israel's position in the world still abound. There are
infortunate occurrences in Israel herself and in the entire Middle East.
'he New Year 5744 commences with the hope that Israel's forces will be
ut of Lebanon, that the internal conflicts will be resolved, that economic
onditions will improve. It is the reality of a Jewish state and the solidarity
n her defense by world Jewry that must remain both an acknowledgement
f an historic truth and of a people's duty to make matters livable for a
.eople under duress.
In thus evaluating the experiences of a people and the challenges
onfronting it, the next turn is toward the self-evaluation. Here, too, there
s nothing new. Here, too, there is the admission that there are shortcom-
ngs, that when there is an ignorance of Jewish historical experiences
among the masses of Jews and especially the youth, it is cause for regret.
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It is on the latter score that the concerns are greatest, that the worries
ire justified. But as in all other matters, they are not new. They are
•epetitive. They call for the strengthening of Jewish devotions and sub-
fission to the obligations truly to make the Jewish march of time a
)rogressive one.
Indeed, there is a pragmatism not to be ignored in welcoming the New
Year 5744. The experiences are as of old. The duties remain the same and
are obligatory in the preparations for another twelve months of challenges
to all Jews. They must be met, in the social sence, philanthropically, in the
devotion that spells identification. A people sustained by the will to live
will surely know how to make the New Year a bright and hopeful one.
RESISTANCE REMEMBERED
Libertarian principles gain new emphases with a gathering, planned on an
international scale, that must arouse the interest and support of freedom lovers
everywhere. .
In the year now closing, there were recollections of experiences that marked the
tragedies imposed on mankind by Nazism. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was on the
agenda of tributes to the heroes who would not bend their backs and submit to
tyrants. Other anniversaries were similarly marked.
Recalling the horrors of 1943, libertarians will pay honor, on the 50th anniver-
sary, to the rejections of the brutalities by the courageous of that era as a Tribute to -
Resistance. It is an approach that merits the respect and the dignity of all who must,
by this time, understand and appreciate the lesson taught by those who resisted and
therefore sacrificed and risked for liberty on the highest level.
It is on the occasion of this 50th anniversary that the World Assefnbly to
Commemorate Resistance and Combat During World War II will be held in
Jerusalem. Organized by the office of. Israel Prime Minister Menahem Begin, this
gathering, which is expected to enroll 10,000 participants, will have the impressive-
ness of assembling non-Jews as well as Jews, people of all faiths, those who resisted
Hitlerism and tyranny and the admirers of the resisters.
Sharing highly-earned admiration will be the participation of the Righteous
in Mankind. They were, as many continue to be, the sanctified who risked their very
lives so that injustice should not be imposed on innocent people.
Such is the significance of the
assembly which is to convene in
Jerusalem from Oct. 2 to 6, that
the most eminent in Christendom
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have joined forces with the Jewish
communities throughout the
world to have such a gathering.
So important is such planning
that it emerges as the most
sanctified in humanism, the high-
light in ecumenism, a noteworthy
approach to a New Year during
which there will not only be a
dedication to resistance to tyranny
but also to fear and to submission
to all forms of degradation.
Rosh Hashana 5744 will thus
begin with a sanctified assembly,
hopefully symbolizing a drastic
reduction in all forms of bigotry.
The crimes must not be forgotten.
The courageous must always be
admired with gratitude well
earned.