PACE TWO
11-1E DETROIT JEWISH CHItONICLI.
A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE.
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BY DR. K. KOHLER,
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THE KNICKERBOCKER SHOP
Judaism is a religion of optimism,
of hope. This is voiced in our reck-
oning of the days and years, and
especially in our New Year's celebra-
tion.
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As we begin the day with the even-
= ing and end it with the setting sun of
the following day, so do we celebrate
=a' the New Year, not in midwinter when
Realization:—
That the wonderful values we have
given you in the past have not been
forgotten.
withering vegetation tell that out of
decay and desolation the new life is
to sprout forth, since all cosmic exit,
I tence is a constant regeneration.
1 So when God appeared to Moses in
the thornbush which burned but was
not consumed—the pielure of Israel's
destiny—Ile reveals Himself not in
the attributes of power and wisdom,
of justice and goodness, but in the
mysterious words: "F.hyek Asher
Ellyeh" (I shall he wherever I amto
lie—ever ready to help). Those
words are interpreted by the Rabbis:
"I shall be with you in the imminent
trial (in Egypt) and I shall be with
you in any coming trial."
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Thus Israel at the very start was
told of the successive trials he was to
undergo in all the lands and ages, and
at the same time assured of God's
continual protection and help.
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the fall of frost and snow covers the
earth, nor in spring when the seeds of
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At no. time dill we need this divine
assufance•as much as in these days of
sad disappointment and woeful per-
plexity. What a fall from the top-
most heights of hopeful human civi-
lization to the abyss of misery and
barbarism And above all, what ter-
rible change in the lot of the Jew
Do we not believe the millennium to
be near, and Judaism and Jews every-1
where to be recognized as the equal
to all creeds and all fellow-citizens?
And today we have been plunged into
the darkest middle ages with all their
fanaticism and brutality. Hence so
many have lapsed into despair. aban-
doning all faith and turning Judaism
into a godless secularism. Therefore
the message of the New Year should
be: "1 shall ever be there to redeem
and to help." God reigns forever in
the Heavens, and all will be well on
earth for the Jew and for humanity if
we only keep firm in our faith and our
hope. D. K. K0111.4,12.
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Glendale 5240
TWO JEWISH MARTYRS.
CONSISTING OF
By DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
Coats, Suits,
Dresses,Waists
T HE
days of martyrdom in Israel
are not ended, On July 5, 1920,
I rofessor Israel Friedlander of the
Jewish Theological Seminary and
Rabbi Bernard Cantor of the Free
S •nagogue. New York, were together
with an old man of seventy-five, slain
b • Bolsevist soldiers in Ukrainian
ti 00 of Yarmolinc, which the latter
II id just entered.
l'rofessor Friedlander was one of
tl e outstanding scholars of Jewish
li e, the historian of Polish Jewry.
Rabbi Cantor was less than thirty,
one of the younger associates in the
rabbinate of the Free Synagogue.
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grave. Ile was to return to Lemberg
to claim a fair bride he had W011, and
to bring her home, Like a thief in
the night came tire Bolshevist soldiers
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and slew Professor
Friedlander, gen-
tleman and scholar, Rabbi Cantor,
generous and high-hearted, and their
aged comrade. The chauffeur alone)
survived to tell that Rabbi Cantor
jumped from the motor car smiling'
and facing the soldiers without fear
and shadow of flinching. He had said
a day or two earlier while ill:
"1
would not want to die in bed now,
but I would like to die in such a way
as would help the cause 1 serve."
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PROF. ISRAEL FRIEDLANDER
DR. BERNARD CANTOR
Both men had gone to East Euro- A
nut he added: "But men cann/
pean Jewry to serve with the Over-
iot kill
le, for I love them and
seas Unit of the Joint Distribution eel it." So he met th
mey must
Committee, the American agency of
im, smiling into the)
m who slew
O relief to the Jaws of war-wracked
hot him dead, star
faces as they
Europe.
, (ling defenceless
efore them.
Professor Friedlander, leaving wife
and six little ones behind him, had
Profesor
rendered important Service in connec-
'antor weer' rirdlander and Rabbi
tion with the wide-ranging in activi- Vhat
rabbis and teachers.
lies of the Unit in the old Poland, the
1'haj •-;
ey taught they wrought.
Ukraine and Galicia. Rabbi Cantor
their Iv, rilmtnemird their
had by his singular charm of matinv,,, "cc, obeyed and
Verily the
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and the grace of his spirit won/,r stricken and
of Eastern
hearts of all with whom he r the Europe,
air t
,•ery
army,
O ' to contact. He was on hit• ,,,me in- scourged hi
inment, may
ney. He had made a 1,1e , ;,,11 last jour- cry: ilous I! •
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to visit otter again .our in order And the
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the town of Pros' , tie suffering of puts astute thi
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ham, so hardly.'
:throw which had ness, until the world heeds the com-
soldiery,—one
,t the hands of the mand of him, ffic c Id, r brother in the
Jews slain,
„ thousand and more spirit of Jesus, who emu:minded "And
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A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT.
Melrose 1920
BY RABBI TOBIAS SCHANFARBER
Wuhington Boulevard
at Grand River
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tau How beautiful upon the moun-
eill us are the feet of Him that bring-
.1 I good tid,ngs that announceth ,
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ace." (Nahum 11. I.)
It must have been with some
ch thought as this of the Prophet
ahum's that you have called upon
, iur contributors fur a few ward, of
couragement in these unsettled
nes.
•Th, world is sick and tired of the
irk things that it has been hearing
Id the inhuman filings it has been
•eing It is eager to hear of world
care and world harmony. It is not
lily eager to hear of them, but it is
esirous of seeing them fully realized
the actions of men and in the ten-
encies of governments. And yet it
far from easy to write in an opti-
Aistic vein in the face of the con-
:sued beligerency of the world. You
re right in speaking of the times as
'unsettled." They are worse than
hat. They are topsy turvy. We are
ustified in speaking of the present
•onditions in the language of Levi
urn Sissi of Talmudic days who said.
•I see a world turned upside down."
\oone knows what is going to hap-
pen next. There is not a single de-
partment of human life and endeavor
.n which this restlessness and dis-
satisfaction does not obtain. Verily
the "times are out of joint" and well
might we exclaim with Hamlet, "0
cursed spite that I was ever born to
set it right."
NVe all had hoped with the cessa-
tion of the world war a new era would
dawn for humanity but the era has
not vet dawned. New wars have come
to plague us and the end is far from
in sight. The industrial world is in
the worst plight that it has ever been.
The spirit of bolshevism is spreading
like a wild fire.
This Bolshevistic
, spirit is invading the home of rtlig.
I ion. The beautiful spirit manifested
by all religions toward one another
during the great world conflagration
has been all but dissipated. Racial
antipathies, religious prejudices, na-
tional jealousies are rampant. Anti-
Semitism is On th e incoase. Judo-
phobia is beginning
show itself
vven
in this countr • su • 2 we
thought such a thing impossible. And
yet looking these ronduion, squarely
in the face we dare not bps, , ollr hope.
A pessimistic attitude 1.,11 gel us no-
whither. It will only make things
worse. We must have faith in the
ultimate triumph of illy good and the
true. We must lase faith in the san-
ity and the rationality of the uni-
verse. 1Ve must believe that God
rules and that Ile. in Ills own time
and in His own way,in
w. .ring about
the better day and the better time.
It is always the darkest hour that
is the hour before the dawn. The
period through which we are now
pass.ng may simply indicate the
growing pains of ;he bitter civiliza-
tion that is about to come It was
common belief with the rabbis of old
that tremendous portents in heaven
and earth would precrilt. the
conung
of the millen4I dawn. Surely we
have had such tremendous portents.
Perhaps they presage the tow era for
humanity. The better day must
come. The world would amt he worth
preserving If the prevent disastrous
conditions were to continue. Out of
the hellfire through which use have
been pasing. humanity will come
forth cleansed and purified. In look-
ing forward to the future, let us turn
with our faces toward the Easy After
the night the morning is sure to come
May the New Year he the harbing, r
of these good tidings. May it at
nounce peace In all the world.
TOBIAS SCHANFARBER .
Rabbi Kehilath Anshr Mayriv.
Chicago, III
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