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SLOMOVITZ , Business Manager PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor HEIDI PRESS • Associate News Editor DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the third day of Tishri, 5744, the following scriptural selection will be read in our synagogues: ,1 11) 77 3 1 )31)51 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. , 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 411 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.