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DETROIT HADASSAH

Local Chapter to Co-Operate
In 1928 United Pales-
tine Appeal.

Despite the had weather, there
was an excellent attendance at the
Hadassah monthly meeting, which
was held Wednesday evening, Feb.
22, at the Detroit Federation of
Women's Clubs. The growing ten-
dency of members to bring their
husbands to these meetings is not-
ed with approval. Mrs. Joseph II.
Ehrlich, president, who has recent-
ly recoverej from a serious illness,
presided.
After a beautiful group of songs,
rendered by .Ctrs. Howard Salzen.

stein, accompanied by Mrs. Emery
Monash, an interesting address was
made by Rabbi Adolph Fink, direc-
t ,r of the !fillet Foundation at Ann
Arbor, who described some of the
problems facing Jewish college stu-
dants, and explained how the Billet
Foundatirn is endeavoring to help
!wive these problems for the youth.
An open discussion followed.

Upon Cr mpletion of the program,
refreshments were amt.,' in the
club dining room, which was appr.
priately decorated for Washing.
ton's birthday by Mrs. Herman
Wetsman, chairman of the social
hour committee. Mrs. Jennie Blum-
rosen and Mrs. Ssii.mon presided
over the coffee cups.
As usual, Hadassah will lend its
assistance during the annual cam-
paign of the United Palestine Ap-
p.-al, which opens April 22. De-
troit Hadassah's quota is $17,500.
All those wishing to participate in
this campaign either as captains or
individual workers are requested to

register with either Sirs. Henry N.
Weinstein, Garfield 7210, or Mrs.
Philip H. Broudo, Empire 0505.

The following letter of thanks
from Nathan Straus, to Detroit
Hadassah, for the latter's greeting
The following article was written by Alexander Hoyra for
on his eightieth birthday, was re- I
the Jewish World (Mundo Israelital of Buenos Aires, Argon-
ceived by Mrs. Ehrlich:
'tins, and translated from the Spanish by Phillip L. Rosenthal,
"Permit me to thank your chap-
instructor in Spanish at the College of the City of Detroit.
ter of Hadassah for your kind
greetings to me in the New Pales-
This is an analysis of the prob. really French! And what does i about the Redskins, about the Ne-
tine on the occasion of my eightieth lem-or the tragedy-of the na-I mean to be a Jew? What is Juda grew," but not a book about the
birthday. As one who has from the tional conscience of a French Jew, ism? Does real Judaism-that o J ews .
very start felt the fine idealism of as profoundly Jewish as he is today and not that of two' thou
One day a school mate says to
the Hadassah movement, and who French, - and as conscientiously; sand years ago nor that of one' him, "A Jew, that is not a religion.
has tried to share in the labors of French as he is Jewish. And i n or-' dreams-possess a spiritual lif. it is a country, Jerusalem, Pales-
your great leader, Henrietta Szold, der to consider this question I sufficiently rich to nourish the as tine." But ('laude is incredulous.
your words Of greeting come to me could not take a better guide than pirations of ?outh anxious for an Palestine a fatherland? . . . "I
with special appeal. I am thank- Edmond Fleg, who offers us in a I ideal? Does it offer yet a possi looked about me: here, they, is
ful that my life's work has brought recent book, "The Child-Prophet," bility of a religious life or is i where I was born. My great-grand-
me close tg, Hadassah,and all 1 the image of a young soul in which , now. no more than a petrified hod) father sold clothes in Turbigo
would ask from the women .01 is awakened, step by step, the con-lof traditional rites, a corpse from street at the time of Louis Philipe.
America is to remember that their science of his inward duality, the which life has flown, a dead an My grandfather was a friend of
task will not be done until every feeling of his double origin and, external tradition which more and Gambetta. And my father fought
American Jewish woman rallies to
like a hero during four years . .
, of his two-fold loyalty, national,; more is falling to pieces!
the standards and the work of Ha- spiritual and ethical.
! Such are the problems stated by And all this that my fatherland
dassah."
•
"The Child -prop
h"
df i it d
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et an
oes s hould be J erusa I ern
k s
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b
tif
uI talent
ent of Flegi
has b6011 consecrated, almost en-. not bring us a solution, at least it of his friend du not make him
tirely, to the glorification of the' makes us feel them and live them enthusiastic. The resurrection of
His', in all their profundity and in all the ancient land, the abnegation
values -of Judaism.
I eternal
,
and the devotion of the chalutzim
vibrating
o n . their acuteness,
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but in his father's house "there
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mountains, about fire andabout
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scie e and the national pride to Much has been said of Fleg's all this! To have a fatherland?
most noble and most ancient last book.
I believe that even To be a nation equal to the others?
lace in the world, was one of the more will be said of it, for it is, And Claude is not far from the
first manifestos-and one of the certainly, one of the finest books thought that to make Judaism
first manifestataans-of the re- of the year. It is at the same equal to the other nations would
birth of French Judaism.
"Re-. time, in my opinion at least, Fleg's be to make it smaller. As for the
rest, "a country, that I have. What
member," said Fleg to the repre- masterpiece.
sentative of that Judaism some-
Flog has been reproached, es- I need is a God." Is not Israel the
what ashamed of itself, "that you pecially in regard to "The Pope's people chosen by God?
"The Prophets, What Ciente!"
are the descendants of the patri. Jew," for permitting himself to be
archs, that your ancestors brought swayed by the magic of words; for
And the powerful and rugged
light to the world."
accumulating too freely large so- poetry of the Biblical texts which
norous words and selected epi- he gets to know, the grandiose epic
Spiritual Grandeur.
This censure will not be of Jewish history work upon his
"Remember," repeats Flog i n theta.
iw ,, the Thc:sbo
eo ok f. n
; The intChild- adolescent imagination. "The
m ra od peitn
his admirable "Jewish Anthology," p
prophets, what giants!" and the
that you are not poor descendants;
descendants;,
that if the millenary history of diary of the young Claude Levy, Psalms, and that magnificent idea
is
simple
and
true;
simple
with
of a people selected by God, of a
Judaism is one of misery, of perse•
cutions and of humiliations, that at that perfect simplicity which only people which has consecrated it-
the same time it is one of incom-I a great artist is capable of realiz- self to God, to the mission which
parable spiritual grandeuaand that ing, with that simplicity which is God has conferred upon it . . .
Judaism has given to the world, the distinctive sign of the crafts- "He has chosen a people to pro-
much
much more than it has received man; and true with a profound claim His glory! I am a son of
from it. Be loyal to yourselves, to truth, with a truth that is more that people, chosen by the Eter-
d.uhaelrerelaitlti ltey
nal! And I did not know it! No
the tradition of your people, to true t i t t ha in n pinadrii svi,,
*Claude one had ever told me!" To be n
the past made by God with your
ancestors, to your mission in the Levy was born; when a child he Jew, then, is to be invested with a
world, to that mission which con- Played in a small garden hidden mission, with a prophetic mission,
sista in maintaining bravely, i n behind Notre Dame; there also was since the Jewish people is a pro-
spite of and against everybody, a where came to him little by little phetic people; to be a Jew is to
loyalty to that personal and good the revelation of a world, of a announce to the world the coming
God whom the people of Israel world which is not hostile, but of the :Messiah, the Kingdom of
has revealed to the world, and that which is different; of a Christian justice and peace; it is even more:
ideal of justice and of goodness, world whicassis strange to him; of it is the duty of training and work-
whose realization on earth is be- a world to which he does not be- ing for his coming. And Fleg,
ing awaited by the people of long. It was there where, for the again taking a thesis which is dear
Israel. first time in his life, he learned to him, makes to respond in the
young man-let us not doubt it,
"Do not forget," insists Fleg,' that he was a Jew.
The small Levy did not even he is the same-the shout of the
"that the ideal to which the people
of Israel has consecrated itself is know what that mean. How was Wandering Jew, "Make Him
that of all humanity. It is all hu- he to know it? In his family, a come, make Him come."
manity you represent; in this con family well-off and refined, free
If that is the mission and the
silt your titles of nobility; keep and without faith, nobody ever historic finality of Judaism, what
s
yourselves, then, from forgetting spoke
to him of the Jews; neither can one say, then, of its rea l
it, from renouncing Jewish soli- did any one ever speak to him of state? The synagogue and the
darity by confining yourselves to God. Only his Breton nurse who reading of the sacred texts, ves-
the narrow limits of the nations, explains to him that in the cathe- tiges of a great past that has dis-
which have welcomed you; keep dral, God's house, is little Jesus, appeared, living expressions of a
yourselves from renouncing your who looks like him and that Ile is burning faith at one time, and
birthright selling it for a mess good to children; only his little now a dead letter whose soul has
: Christian friend, the little girl with fled; the complicated ritual of the
of
"The Pope's Jew." 'whom he plays in the garden and Jewish life, the 613 precepts, what
It is certain that there was a who is preparing her first com- is all that? And among the Jews,
moment, immediately after the munion.
even among the most pious, especi-
Little Claude does not know the ally among the most pious, who
war, when, under the influence of
the national sentiment whose ar., word "Jew:" But 'one good day dreams yet of the future glory of
dor had united and fashioned into, he hears his nurse say to an old the people of Israel, of its mission?
one impulse the representatives of priest who stops and smiles at the The Chosen People has abandoned
the various spiritual families of boy, "He is a little Jew." The its God.
France, the Jewish problem an- priest replies, "What a pity!"
With sadness and at the same
So He Is ■ Jew!
peared to Fleg under a very differ-
time with melancholy an old rabbi
ent aspect. Judaism appeared to So he is a Jew; and to be a Jew
says to him, "In the time of Moses
him only a religion, and the prob. is something not at all good.
one could be a prophet at the age
km of the French Jew entirely Claude asks for information from
of 80. In our days in order to be
comparable to that of the French his nurse; and from Marieta, his
a
prophet one most be 15."
Protestant or Catholic; in both little friend. A little Jew is a very
Fleg does not tell us what
cases, indeed, the religious corn- unfortunate child on whom one
Judaism is. Of course, he is right;
munity goes beyond the more nor. must take pity. He is punished by
it is a too difficult problem; per-
row borders of the nation, and in the good God, for at Christmas
haps it even cannot be solved;
both cases the national unity is time, when the other children re-
how might we define a living real-
seen to be stronger and even deep- ceive presents from the little
ity? But Fleg tells us enough so
er than the unity-or the diverg- Jesus, he does not receive any.
that we can draw some conclu-
once-of religious beliefs. Hence And it is because the Jews cruel-
sions which impose themselves and
might not one conceive of a peace. fled Christ.
Little Claude grows. Ile is now elude certain premature defini-
ful co-existence of the three
tions which do not take into ac-
churches in the bosom of one and in high school. And yet: "Jew!
the same national organism? B-e What does it mean? I know no
more
about
it
than
when
I
was
five
sides, what do doctrinary diverges-
cks represent considering the im- years old." He does not know what
pulse of life? On the other hand, it is, and nevertheless, down in the
is there not a place for everybody bottom of his heart. there is a tor-
in the house of the Lord? And is ture. The torture if being a Jew.
it not the some goodness which "I am constantly afraid that some-
Jews and Christians pursue? And one may call me Jew." Yes, in
in his "House of the Lord." Fleg school he learned it: the Jews are
presents this idyllic union of the the descendants of the Hebrews, a
churches, showing us a priest and small nomadic people who lived a
a rabbi who bless the marriage of ling time ago in an oriental coun-
a Jew with a Christian woman. A try.. "They had patriarchs who
conception too idyllic, a concep- made an alliance with God." And
tion rejected by the fact that Judo- also phophets who said that their
ism is not a church, a conception God was the only God, Creator of
too quickly belied by life. And in heaven and earth . . . and that
his "The Pope's Jew," where we there would be a Messiah who
see the Jewish physician, Molco, would cause justice to reign in the
and the Pope Clement VII fester- world."
But where are those Hebrews?
natty joined in the common aspira-

the original and unique led the mythical idea of their
eponymous ancestors. And it is on
character of this reality.
We do not know what Judaism j that account that, not being a na-
is; but we do know that it is and I tion. they form a family in the
in the same way we know what it world; a family whose members
may indeed belong to different na-
is not.
In the first place, it is not a na- j lions, and still form part of the
tion. A nation, indeed, demands a family; and belonging to different
territory and a language, in order nations they do not conserve the
to exist; to develop itself normally- setiment of unity any less; and it
it also needs a political organiza- is also for that reason that the
tion. Nothing of all this exists people of Israel, nationally di-
among the Jews. The various na- cited, may and ought to be cosmo-
tionalities exclude each other, as politan ; may and ought to be in
the various countries exclude each the world a ferment of fraternity
other; but Jew and French do not and of unity.
exclude each other.
And it is for that reason that,
Judaism is not a religion; it is
liberating itself more and more
profounder, narrower and stronger
from the psychology of the ghetto,
than the unity of the Protestants,
returning to find the pride and the
of the Catholics tin spite of the
nobility of their ancient origins
unity of the church) or of the Mo-
(the oldest aristocracy in the
hammedans. It includes, on the
world), refining itself in contact
other hand, the believers as well a. ,
with the eternal values-for they
the disbelievers.
are the values of the spirit-con
The Jews' Common Origin.
ceived and expressed by their an-
But not on that account will the cestors, the people of Israel-un-
unity of Judaism be broken. But der pain of decaying and disap-
the Jewish people is not "like the pearing-ought to resume its mis-
nation." In the modern world jt is sion,s and, conceerating itself for a
yet the only people in the strong second time to the service of the
sense of this term, in the old sense god if truth nit of justice, ought
of a group which has the con- to be in this world a worker for
science of a parentage, of a com- peace. This is the spiritual re-
mon origin. The people of Israel, naissance to which Fleg calls the
or rather, the sons of Israel, are Jewish youth. We hope that his
the only ones who have consecrat- noble call will be heard.

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lion for justice" and peace; where And what does he, Claude Levy,
we see the Wandering Jew, the have to do with that small people
First Mortgage Loans on
Policy Reserves , . . $69,307,337.35
surprising symbol of unfortunate that have disappeared? They do
Real Estate . . . . $35,739,387.29 Policy Claims in Process
hiNianity, as he extends his bony' not have anything in common;
Real Estate, Home Mee
hands towards the Jewish prophet neither country, nor language, nor
1,244,937.86
of Adjustment not Due
644,453.89
and the Christian Pope, towards beliefs. On the other hand, does
Real Estate, Other . .
2,765,975.24
tracts 504,152.09 Premiums and Interest
the one who expects the Messiah he even have any beliefs? In his
Real Estate Sales Con-
of peace to come, and towards the environment, religion is a pro-
Paid in Advance . .
623,557.94
one who expects him to come . scribed thinfi, non-existent. We
Collateral Loans . . .
1,190,000,00 Dividends Left on Depos-
again, as he exclaims, "Let Him are no more in the Middle Ages.
it with Company . .
1,117,403.46
come or come again, but let Him "Now there are no Jews, there
Loans to Policyholders . 16,237,346.81
come"; and there also we see Flea are no Christians," his father tells
397,011.32
Bonds
14,287,560.61 Reserved for Taxes . .
lash those "Roman Jews," weak him, "there are only men." Re-
Stocks
84,680.00 Contingency Reserve for
and egoistic, who refusing all soli- ligion is only a few traditional
Premium Notes . .
357,062.33
darity "with those other Jews," practices, very rare and without
Investments . . . .
200,000.00
proclaim themselves "Romans," importance. One gets married in
Cash in Banks on Inter-
All Other Liabilities . .
716,243.98
"Iiirst of all, Romans, more Roman the synagogue; but that is only not
est
3,101,813.21 Apportioned for
than the Romans themselves." to displease the grandfather.
Cash in Banks and Home
, And yet, it is not true. Re.
"A Roman who is a Roman,
Policy
Attlee not on Interest
135,698.48
ligion exists; among the Chris.
Because he is a Roman,
Dividends . $1,227,868.20
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Accrued Interest on n-
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Than a Roman Jew. who is a Ro- it erects itself, hostile. before the
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. . . .
1,845,728.07
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From
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again, the terrible truth; Jews and
His "House of the Lord."
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Nevertheless, just as the idyll , Christians are, as in the Middle
54,720.84
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$80,262,887.84
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Market Value of Assets over Book Values shows an excess of $640,000.00
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Clement, utilizing power with of a God. Will it be the God of
clever strategy, finally comes out Marieta, that kind Jesus whose
victorious in his struggle with the gospel she reads? Nothing ties
mundane and re
rebellious cardinals,; him to Judaism; the poety nod
it remains a fact that each in turn beauty of the gospel conquer thi-
has been conquered. In fact the I poor, little, unprotected soul, and
generous attempt of the Pope to perchance it may be necessary
impose peace on Christianity b y that Claude become a Christian.
uniting forces against the enemy But the oun
y g Jew s reason p ro-
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up only by reviving the internal it possible? They did not believe
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the same ideal ends, only with a worship, what God is there that
more rigorous closing of the gates can be eaten' . . . What God is .--
with the practical victory of the there that one can drink?
"Roman Jew.
Clade won't be a Christian. lie
The "Roman Jew," the adver. will continue to be a Jew. "Ives
The Shop Where Courtesy
But how is one • Jew!
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But is he really Jewish and is he Jew?"
Claude looks for the
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