—• ■ •••.. • THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS During the recent TWA hijack- ing crisis, when the terrorists made similar demands on Israel, the media put intensive pressure on Israel through its one-sided coverage which implied that Is- rael (a) was to blame for the hijacking and (b) that it should release its prisoners. Not only that, the media ig- nored the fact that Israel had previously planned to release the prisoners and that the terrorists had made similar demands of other countries — Kuwait being one — but were similarly ignored. Following the statement by the Rev. Weir, given the Israeli ex- perience, one should have ex- pected major coverage with live interviews of Kuwait officials, asking them why they did not re- lease the 17. What happened in the media? Absolutely nothing. It was a one- day story. If the media expect to increase their credibility and reverse the suspicion with which such audi- ences as Jews judge the media — and other sectors of society feel similarly mistreated in the news — than they need to re-evaluate their apparent double-standard in defining news. The issue is not whether this double-standard is intentional or not. The definition of news — given deadlines, speed and other factors — always has been arbit- rary. The issue is whether the media want to fulfill their respon- sibility to the public in presenting a balanced picture — in this case on the Middle East — which is so crucial to peace in not just that region but the world. Friday, October 11, 1985 Baby Emporium • creative gifts • custom made clothing • hand knit sweaters' and dresses • original dolls from Arienes coach house • unique children's apparel 32800 Franklin Road • Franklin • 626-0602 • CLOSED MONDAYS To Frame or not to Frame.. That is the Question. At the Joseph Hur Gallery, we've got the answer... BOOKS with coupon expires 10-30-85 Poems Recall Holocaust Echoes of the tragic years of flight from the Nazi terror, loss of family in the mass murders, the minimal help from non-Jews and incarceration in the Nazi camps — these experiences are recorded in poems bilingually (Polish and the English transla- tion) in Painful Echoes which is reproduced from the diary of Luba Krugman Gurdus (Schoc- ken Books). The introduction to the poems is in itself a tragic account of agonies, describing love for fam- ily, the author's flight with her son who was among the perished, the manner in which she was aided in her commenc- ing flight by non-Jews and abandoned by one family of peasants after another, always left to her own whims to find re- scue and survival. There is a great tribute to the escaped poet-author in an intro- duction to this bilingual book by Dr. Martin Gilbert, who is an eminent Oxford historian and one of world Jewry's most dis- tinguished scholars. Dr. Gilbert pays honor to Mrs. Gurdus' ear- lier book, The Death Train, and the manner in which she de- picted in it the horror of watch- ing the destruction of the War- saw Ghetto. It was in hiding that time that she began to write her . poems and a diary whence now comes the deeply moving recol- lection of a tragic period that ended with the death of her family. Dr. Gilbert declares in the in- troductibn that the events re- CUSTOM FRAMING corded by. Mrs. Gurdus "should not be forgotten by the genera- tions that follow, for whom they will serve both as a personal contact with evil events, and as a warning that such events must never happen again." 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