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Cantor Louis Klein and former Israeli military and the legal
Detroiter Rabbi Louis Finkel- guidelines that determine how
man. Then Mr. Wanetik became its army should govern such a di-
chairman of B'nai Moshe's ritu- verse population.
Who, he asks, really com-
al committee, as well as continu-
ing his membership at Young mands the Israel Defense Forces,
Israel of West Bloomfield, and he and why is military control over
began to give a weekly d'var a population in a democracy even
necessary?
Torah.
Mr. Ben-Meir now serves as a
These events planted the seeds
senior research associate at the
AZPS PHOTO, COURTESY BEIT HATEFUSOT for Mr. Wanetik's
book, just published, Jaffee Center for Strategic Stud-
called Sedrah Study ies at Tel Aviv University.
for Everybody.
here are three new books
The work, which
for the spiritually oriented
the author describes
members of the family, be- c--\
as "Torah commen-
ginning with Wrestling
tary by a layperson for
laypeople" comprises with Angels (Delacorte) by Nao-
both a brief outline of mi Rosenblatt and Joshua Hor-
the sedrah and Mr. witz.
Wanetik's questions
and observations. In
The entrance to the Warsaw Ghetto after its
his chapter on
destruction in 1945.
Bereshit, for example,
Their images, however, were he considers Adam's sin, then
forever captured by photograph- asks, "Are we to judge Adam
er Roman Vishniac and are now harshly? Or, to quote the saying
contained in a new collection, To and the song, 'Don't it always
Give Them Light: The Lega- seem to go that you don't know
cy of Roman Vishniac (Touch- what you've got till it's gone?'
Don't we all understand tempta-
stone).
The late Mr. Vishniac Was tion?"
Later, he responds: "God for-
born in 1897 in Russia. During
World War II, he traveled gives, but He does not forget. If
throughout Poland, Holland, we continue to drift to the side of
France, Romania, Czechoslova- sin and evil, there will be a point
kia and Austria, capturing on at which we cannot recover. Our
film the vanishing Jewish corn- sins will outweigh our good deeds
by far too much.
munities.
Simon Jacobson: What did the Rebbe say?
"This is why doing good deeds
Edited by Marion Wiesel, To
The work is a retelling and
Give Them Light features Mr. is so important, even little ones.
reinterpretation
of the Book of
one
sin
led
Bereshit,
As
we
see
in
Vishniac's photos not only from
\
discussing
the issues it
Genesis,
Warsaw but from Bratislava, to an entire humankind of sinful
raises
—
greed,
social
responsi-
people.
So,
one
mitzvah,
one
good
Carpathian Ruthenia, Lodz,
bility, faith, fidelity and lust —
Lublin, Slonim, Galicia and Vil- deed, leads to others."
and their relevance to contem-
Sedrah
Study
For
Everybody,
na. They show a printer in
Bratislava and war veterans in edited by Dr. Joe Lewis and cov- porary society.
Considering the story of Jacob
Lodz, a family of eight living in a er illustration by Lynn Avaden-
basement room in Warsaw, and ka, is available at Borenstein's, and Esau (when Esau is pre-
two boys leading a blind man at the local office of the Jewish pared to trade his birthright for
Theological Seminary, or contact food), Ms. Rosenblatt writes, "(Ja-
down a street in Lublin.
cob) understands that his broth-
In his introduction to the book, Leonard Wanetik, 737-4838.
er is the slave, not the master, of
Elie Wiesel writes that, "to listen
his appetites — and he doesn't
former
Knesset
member
to (Vishniac) discuss one of his
and deputy minister of for- hesitate to exploit this weakness.
photographs was an experience:
eign affairs under Men- As the physically weaker younger
every picture had its story, every
achem Begin has a new brother, Jacob has to press what-
story was an adventure, every ad-
book
that
examines the complex ever strategic advantage he has,
venture had its moral, philo-
relationship between a nation's be it through guile or oppor-
sophical message...
"For him, words and images military and its general popula- tunism. Unlike his brother, Ja-
cob is clearly a man who thinks (--\
coincided. He made us see the tion.
about and plans for the future.
Military
Relations
Civil
In
scene not only as it was pho-
tographed but as it had revealed in Israel (Columbia University Jacob knows that if he patiently
itself to him before he captured Press), Yehuda Ben-Meir dis- bides his time, he can find a way
cusses how the country's military to supplant his other brother.
it with his camera."
has evolved since the state's es- What he doesn't yet grasp is the
or the past several years, tablishment, from a fledgling high emotional cost of such a
Leonard Wanetik of Detroit group of committed Zionists to gambit."
As compelling as her book is
has been, he says, "con- possibly the finest army in the
Ms.
Rosenblatt's own background c--\
world.
sumed."
and
current profession. A native
He also takes into considera-
It all started six years ago
of
Haifa,
she served in the Israeli
tion
the
way
politics
affects
the
when he began learning with

ne photograph shows three
girls, each about 2 years
old, holding hands. Two
have light hair, curly. The
third has a dress dotted with
flowers.
Who knows what became of
these three tiny souls, some of the
youngest residents of the War-
saw Ghetto?

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