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Best Wishes for A Happy and Healthy Hanuka to All
JeSS jaa’mHanuka's Special Meaning
Hanuka is a freedom celebration. This year, Hanuka has special signi-
ficance for many reasons. Again, Jews have had to defend themselves
against Syrian aggression. Hanuka marks the traditional celebration of
the heroic story of the Maccabees. Judah Maccabee and his sons were
able, in 168 B. C. E., to strike out against intolerance and relieve the
oppression that was being waged against them by the Asyrians.
Following the late spring episode, in which Syria was the most fla-
grant violator, .Tews in Israel have again protected their rights-to-live
and worship as individuals with dignity.
This brings up another point which we have professed for years: The
Soviet Union’s organized campaign to contract and assimilate Judaism
in the U. S. S. R.
Those who have read this corner over the past decades know the back-
ground. Moreover, we’ve brought you first hand information two year%
ago and thought the entire story was important enough to front page
for nearly a year.
Now at Hanukatime we still think it’s especially important. That’s
why we’re directing this space to the efforts of the “From Darkness to
Light” theme of protest rallies which will be conducted in 16 major
American cities starting sundown, Tuesday, December 26. the first
night of Hanuka.
The rallies are being staged to again call attention to Soviet authori-
ties to grant the same rights to Jews which they accord to other minori-
ties.
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the American Conference on Soviet
Jewry stated: “The American Jewish community has demonstrated its
determination to persist in publicly exposing the slow strangulation of
Jewish spiritual and cultural life in the Soviet Union — until Soviet
policy is changed. Hanuka. as a festival commemorating resistance to >
forced assimilation, gives special emphasis to our demand of the Soviet
Union that it grant full equality to Russian Jews.”
New York City will kick off the major demonstration when over 2,000
people will march in a torchlight parade through mid-town Manhattan.
Other cities participating in Eke forms of protest, will include: Essex
County, N. .T.: San Jose, Calif.; Baltimore, Md.; Camden, N. J.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Nor-
folk, Va.; Milwaukee, Wise.: Philadelphia, Pa.; Boston, Mass.; St. Louis,
Mo.; Trenton, N. J. and Waterbury, Conn.
Basically the rallies will demand that the Soviet. Union remove in-
equities which prevent the flourishing of Russian .Tews as a religious
group with all the equality it entails; to permit reunification of Jewish
families who have been kept apart by war, circumstance or edict; to
halt the vicious anti-Semitic campaign that has been increased since the
Six Day War.
There is a chance for family participation here, too. The American
Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry is asking that the following prayer
he read after the traditional Hanuka Blessing:
As we kindle these Hanuka lights celebrating the Maccabeean victory
of faith and freedom over the forces of tyranny and bigotry, let the
leaders of the Soviet Government see reflected in them what is cannot
see in the darkness of its decrees: the history of failure — the failure
of oppression to erase the Jew and to eradicate his distinctive heritage
and tradition.
Let the Soviet Government see illuminated in these lights what every
oppressor of the Jews has seen at long last — from Egypt to Spain to
Kishinev to Auschwitz: that the spirit of the Maccabees lives on and,
as that spirit triumphed over Hellenism, so it will triumph over every
oppressor who seeks to trample it into extinction.
In the name of justice and mercy — we call out as we rekindle our
faith in their ultimate Deliverance:
Let our People Live.
Let them sanctify His Commandments.
Let them celebrate His Name.
Let them raise up their generations in His .Service.
Let them drink from the springs of their tradition.
Let them touch hands with their fellow Jews.
Let their families be restored.
Let them kindle the Hanuka Lights.
Amen!
Have a Happy Hanuka!
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VOLUME XXI, NO. 51
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1967
36 PAGES — 50c PER COPY
VISITED JEWISH APPEAL
Massive No Limit'
Campaign for 1968
jVTEW YORK (JTA)—A massive, “no limit” fund-raising
-L’l drive will be conducted by the United Jewish Appeal in
1968 to meet the “crucial human needs in Israel and 30 other
countries throughout thd” world,” it was announced here.
bin, chief of staff of Israel’s de-
Edward Ginsberg, Cleveland, an-
nounced the plans for the "no lim-
it” campaign at the closing session
of the UJAs national conference.
Ginsberg had just been elected gen-
eral chairman of the UJA, succeed-
ing Max M. Fisher. Detroit. Other
principal officers chosen, with 2.-
500 Jewish leaders frbrfi all over
the United States and Canada in at-
tendance. were Mrs. Jennie Jones;
Detroit, who was reelected national
chairman of the UJ As women's
division: and Herbert J. Garon.
New' Orleans, elected chairman of
the Young Leadership Cabinet.
The conference heard an ad-
dress by Maj. Gen. Itzhak Ra-
fense forces, who asserted that,
while Israel was “pursuing peace
with all its might,” the war with
the Arabs is not over, hut Israel
is confident it can meet a new
test of arms “if only our most
faithful ally, the Jewish people,
will be a full partner and will
accept the significance of this
responsibility.”
Rabbi Herbert Friedman, execu-
tive vice-chairman, announced that
the Israel Emergency Fund,
launched by the UJA last June to'
underwrite the costs o'f Israel’s hu
manitarian programs, which Israelis
could not meet because of the enor-
mous costs of the Six-Day War. will
be continued during 1968.
No Fixed Goal
THE UJA CAMPAIGN in
1968, Ginsberg said wiill be the
first in the UJA's 30-year history
without a fixed goal “for the reason
that the needs are too great to be
circumscribed by any goal.”
Since its inception, the UJA has
raised $2 billion for Jewish rescue,
relief and reconstruction programs
in Israel and 30 other countries
around the world. The funds to be
raised in 1968, he said, will be de-
voted to these two high-priority
areas of Jewish needs:
1) The crucial human needs that
must be met on behalf of more
than 400,000 Jewish immigrants
now living in Israel, as well as for
the 25,000 other newcomers whose
arrival is anticipated in 1968:
2) To carry on existing programs
outside of Israel, on behalf of
more than 400,000 Jews, princi-
pally in Europe. North Africa and
the Middle East.
Ervin Donsky, Community Leader, Renamed
To Head 1968 Dallas Welfare Federation Campaign
Ervin Donsky, President of Sterl-
ing Wholesale Jewelry, has been
named Chairman of the Jewish
Welfare Federation Annual Cam-
paign for the second consecutive
year.
Named as Vice Chairmen of the
Campaign are Henry Cohn, Jacob
Feldman, Nolan Glazer, Murray
Munves, Bernard Schaenen, Ted
Shanbaum and Howard B. Wolf.
Donsky has been a member of
two overseas Study Missions to
Israel and the Middle East during
the past years.
A long time veteran of the Fed-
eration and other communal work,
Donsky was a Vice Chairman
of the overall campaign in 1966
and has held leadership positions
in the past dozen campaigns. In
1956, he was named Federation
Campaigner of the Year. He has
been active in many phases of
Federation work including Chair-
pan of the Capital Fund Cam-
paign which made it possible to
build the Julius Schepps Commun-
ity Center, President of the Julius
Schepps Community Center, and
Chairman of the Federation Col-
lection Committee. He was recent-
ly named outstanding man of the
year by the JSCC.
Donsky is married to the former
Frances Cohen and they have four
children, Gail, Howard, Michael
and Mrs. Harrell Pailet.
The Jewish Welfare Federation
raises funds for more than 50
health, welfare, and service agen-
cies in Dallas, the Nation and
throughout the World.
Hanuka Candles To Brighten Homes Starling Tuesday, Dec. 26
Hanuka, the Festival of Freedom
which predates the common era,
will begin Tuesday evening, Dec-
ember 26, when thousands of fam-
ilies in the Dallas-Fort Worth
Metropolitan area kindle the first
Hanuka candle.
Jews around the world will join
in the celebration which marks the
victory of the Maccabees in their
struggle for freedom waged against
the tyranny of Antiochus Epip-
hanes, Greco-Syrian dictator and
emneror.
For the Jewish People, Hanu-
ka symbolizes the victory of a
spiritual ideal oveT military and
political despotism. A handful
©1 Jews, determined to ureserve
their Faith and their culture,
openly defied the overwhelming
power of the Syrian king, Anti-
ochus, who was determined to
suppress Jewish monotheism and
its proper observance.
When in the year 168 BCE,
Antiochus ordered that the Tem-
ple in Jerusalem be used for pa-
gan practices and that sacrifices
he offered there to the Greek
god Zeus Alympus, the Jews,
under the leadership of Judas
Maccabeus (also known as Ju-
dah fch|e iHasmonean rebelled
and achieved military victories
which culminated in the recon-
quering of Jerusalem, the ex-
pulsion of the Syrians, and the
purification of the Temple.
According to legend, all the oil
for the holy lamps of the Tem-
ple had been defiled by pagan
worshipers. Only one untouched
cruse of oil was found, sealed
and hidden away. The oil, which
was enough to last only for one
day, lasted, miraculously, for
* eight days. Hanuka is cele-
brated by Jews everywhere by
lighting candles every night of
the holiday, beginning with one
the first night, two on the sec-
ond, etc., until finally on the
eighth night eight candles blaze
in the Hanuka1 menorah, or
candelabrum. This progression is
also a symbol of Judaism’s be-
lief in the gradual, constant in-
crease of intellectual light and
the slow', steady victory of spiri-
tual enlightenment over dark-
The holiday is observed with
special services, prayers and
hymns in synagogues, homes and
religious schools. It is a holiday
of particular gaiety for children;
games are played, a special- Ha-
nuka top called a "dreidel” is
spun, and traditionally children
receive presents of Hanuka
“gelt” (coins or money) on the
fourth day of the holiday. Spec-
ial pancakes called “latkes” are
traditional food for this holi-
day.
The Hebrew word “ Hanuka ”
means ‘‘rededication,” and the
holiday is also known as “The
Days of Rededication.” During
these eight days, Jews through-
out the world remember their
ancient struggle for freedom and
rededicate themselves to the
ideal of freedom for all m<?n^
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