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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1935
Council President's
Rosh Hashonah 5696
! New Year's Message
Per Year, $3.00; Per Copy, 10 Cents
The President's Greeting
"The Heart of the Gentile
World Goes Out to Jewry"
By RABBI MOSES FISCHER
By MRS. ARTHUR BRIN
President of the National Council
of Jewish Women
A New Year's Message Written Exclusively for
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
The heart of World Jewry will
at this Rosh Ilashonah be attuned
to even more serious reflections;
'and thoughts than at any other
Bosh Ilashonah.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
How little we thought when we
were children that Jews would
August 29, 1935
again in our own life time live
through a major tragedy. We had
On the occasion of the
a rather comfortable feeling of
security. The horror of the Inqui-
celebration of Rosh H4
sition and other periods of perse-
cution belonged to a remote and
shonah I wish to extend
less civilized past. Our times were
to all our citizens of tha
different. Our world recognized the
principle of equality before the
Jewish faith my sincere
law, freedom of conscience, the
rights Of all to pursuit of happi-
greetings and best wishes
ness. Ours was the age of democ-
for the New Year.
racy. Popular education was
spreading. Before that vast force
prejudice and ignorance could not
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
but give way to understanding and
good will. We could look into the
not too distant future and say
with the psalmist, "Behold how
good and pleasant it is for breth-
ren to dwell together in unity."
thy God." We suffer when these
Alas, we have gone through a
ideals are eclipsed. We ourselves
baptism of fire. Persecution is pos.
symbolize their struggle for ascend-
sible in our own day. Equality be-
ancy. We fare well only when they
fore the law and the right of all
prevail. We cannot conceive of a
to pursuit of happiness are no
civilization which is based on a de-
longer considered inalienable
nial of these ideals. They must sur-
rights. The tragedy of the migra-
vive, and with their survival ours
tions of the Middle Ages; the
is bound up.
search fur refuge are repeated in
But we are determined to sur-
our own time.
Humiliation, degradation, dissa- vive—not as a miserable remnant
bilities, mental and physical an- from whom has fled all dignity.
guish—how do we face them? With
The will to live is strong within us.
resentment, sorrow, despair, but
not defeat. For to acknowledge de- It is reasserting itself magnific-
feat is to acknowledge defeat of ently in Palestine. In this country,
all we have come to associate with too, we see signs of it in the smal-
j human progress—justice--equality lest and humblest communities. It
—liberty—brotherhood. The day shows itself in a fresh resolve to
of greater sanity must return. understand ourselves as Jews, to
! Fascist Italy's ideal that to live know our origins, our history, our
gloriously one day as a lion is bet- place in world civilization. There
; ter than a life time as a lamb, is a growing number who want to
and Nazi Germany's ideal of iron live as affirmative Jews. To them
and blood must eventually give Judaism is not a burden not some-
way to those ideals which through- thing to be borne with resignation;
out the ages have expressed to men not something which has outlived
the highest possibilities of the hu- its meaning and beauty. It is a
man spirit: "To do justice, to love proud heritage. Its message to a
mercy and to walk humbly with world struggling for social amelior-
By REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
Minister of The Community Church of New York
The heart of all the Gentile world goes out to
Jewry at this hour, for the. New Year opens with
clouds of persecution and terror blacker than ever
over Germany. But brighter than ever is the com-
passion of mankind for a people betrayed by their
own countrymen, and determination that this peo-
ple shall be saved.
We are beginning at last to understand what
this Hitler policy against the Jews in Germany
really means. It is not merely a hot passion of pre-
judice, leaping up like flame in occasional rioting
and bloodshed. Rather is it a hard, cold, fixed pro-
gram of extermination, to be carried on relentlessly
until Jews are either dead, in exile, or imprisoned
in new ghettos. Nor are Jews alone in their heroic
martyrdom. On the contrary, they are but one of
many minority groups which stagger beneath the
yoke of tyranny. In Germany, in other words,
there is a common fate, shared by myriads of miser-
able people.
If Jews were never joined to mankind before,
they are joined now in one fellowship of suffering.
They share with all the rest of us the danger with
which the,Nazi rule threatens the security and hap-
piness of our civilization. 'Therefore, dear friends,
be of good cheer! If Germany is against you, the
world is for you. We face this day a common enemy,
and against him must hold a united front. Let
Jews and Gentiles now clasp hands together in one
great work of liberation for Israel and for
humanity.
Our souls shall scan with amt.
ious perplexity the horizon of the
near future and upon our lips shall
tremble the question which at crit-
ical periods our ancestors were
wont to add ress to the inspired
men who were supposed to pene-
trate the divine Counsel: "Watch-
man what of the night, what of
the night?" "what events shall
proceed, deciding the weal and woe
of Israel, from the dark womb of
Time?"
AMERICA'S DESTIN Y. •
Senator Vandenberg Says It Is to Keep Torch of
Freedom Lighted in a Dark and Dreary World
By ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG
United States Senator from Michigan
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for the Rep tittle. nomination
for Pretittlent.
The importance and incalculable value of relig-
ious freedom becomes more and more apparent in
proportion as the forces of bigotry and tyranny, all
around the world, attack and stifle it. Man's spiri-
tual life is his own priceless possession; and any
government which robs him of it is guilty of liberty's
rape. Racial or religious intolerance is the deadli-
est of all curses. In its grip, human society sinks to
the status of a shambles, The American idea and
the American ideal are utterly at war with these
cancerous repressions. We cannot control the mo-
tives and the activities of other governments, in
these respects; but we can — and must — con-
stantly reassert our own free aspirations al d vigil-
antly defend our own system against destructive
trends.
How happy would we he, if we
could but hope and expect to re-
ceive to our anxious inquiry the
same answer, which the prophets
of Isreal gave to those, whose
minds were bent to unveil the se-
crets of the future: "Says the
watchman: the morning shall sure-
shall surely rise, dark as
the night be which covers the
ation and peace is as significant elYarctoh7
today as in ancient times.
Alas, if we could just feel our-
The approaching High Holy self save and assured that the sun
Days stir within us ancestral mem- of a happy tomorrow shall yet rise
ories. We feel again that we are for our Brethren in Germany, if
a people of destiny, deathless and we could but possess the certainty
unconquerable. On these Holy that the storm clouds which are
Days we sense the significance of gathered with fierce and anger
new tragedies, the new problems, over the horizon of German Jewry
the new triumphs which face us. shall soon disappear, that the sun
One thing above all else we must of justice and righteousness shall
Some of the frightful thing! which have hap-
do to measure up—find an inner again shine there and send its
meaning for our lives as Jews healing rays over all Israel: indeed
pened in other lands in recent history leave me
born of knowledge and faith.
such consciousness and confidence
numb in contemplation of them. One is driven to
alone, how conductive would it be
wonder what our vaunted modern "civilization"
lift the terrible load of woe and
agony from the heart of Israel!
really is. We do not know what exigencies -- what
Th e Jews banished from their
hidden purposes — may have driven other govern-
be loved Spain, having brought the
su preme sacrifice "Al Kidush
ments into some of these excesses. But we know
II ashen" for the "Sanctification
that our traditional American institutions would be
NEW YORK (WNS)—Courses of the Name of the Lord" were
in the study of Hebrew language su bsequently richly compensated
dead if any such process were communicated to
and literature open to all adults by Divine Providence through the
our shores. Thus it seems to be our destiny to keep
will be given by the division of di scovery of America. In the hour
general education of New York of the greatest need and plight of
the torch of racial and religious freedom lighted
University beginning with this Je wry, this continent was discov.
and aloft in a dark and dreary world. It is not only
semester. Abraham I. Katsh, grad- er ed, which was destined to become
our destiny; it is our duty to mankind.
uate of the Vilna Hebrew College, th e cradle of a new order in he-
will be the instructor. The Man- ma n society, in the rule and go;
hattan Chapter of Avukah is pro- er nment of which religious liberty
viding three scholarships for these and the equality of all men
were
courses to students regularly ma- to become the precious and inpreg. Will it learn become wise and dis-
triculated at t h e Washington nable foundation stones, upon the cover or rather rediscover its own
Square College of N. Y. U.
blessed soil under the smiling sky soul, its Jewish soul? Such dis-
of which millions of the descend. covery, if made, would be of even
ants of Abraham were to find a higher value and of vaster impor-
PALESTINE AND NAZI
NEW YORK (IS% S) — The
safe refuge from the storms of tance for Jewry than the explor-
PICTURES WIN PRIZES time and the persecution of their
ation and conquest of whole con- Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Yeshiva, the
enemies. _
tinents and globes!
oldest Orthodox rabbinical semi-
VENICE (WNS1 — "Land of
Will the present fierce trials and
Will the Jew under the impact nary in America and a division of
Promise" a film on pioneer life in
tribulations of Israel be rewarded of recent events search for and
Palestine, made by the Koren Ha- by a blessing of equal magnitude find his own historical personality, the Yeshiva College, is In danger
yesod, shared honors with a Nazi and importance for the future of
his mission amidst the nations of of closing its doors unless the syna-
picture called "The Triumph of Jewry? Will Jewry, the whole and
earth, the integrity of his religion gogues of America come to its
Will" at the International Film not only certain sections of Jewry and nationhood, and the union and rescue. A warning to this effect
Exhibition here. Both films were learn from the terrible experiences oneness of God, the Torah, Israel was mounded by Dr. Bernard Revel,
president of the Institution, in an
accorded first prize. and visitations of German Israel? and Palestine!
appeal to all synagogues and Jews
Will the Jew, guided and goaded o contribute funds to the Yeshiva
by the deep laid counsel of Provi-
wring the coming Jewish high
dence, passing through the wilder- hilidays. It Is understood that
ness of chastising and chastening many of the
teachers in the rab-
suffering, find himself, his God binical seminary have not been
A New Year's Greeting
and Eretz Israel?
paid for several months
May God grant it!
By KURT PEISER
May it be the blessed fruit of
No man is so poor as he who has
Executive Director, Jewish Welfar e Federation
the coming year!
nothing but money.
Leshonoh Toys Tikosevuh! May !they the ruthless efforts of the
God inscribe your name in the Nazis to deprive our German-Jew-
book of life!
' ish brothers of their livelihood?
On Rosh Ilashonah all Jews, Did they dictate the eviction of
conscious of their brotherhood, ex- Jewish students from the German
tend the hand of friendship to each universities; or do they enter into
Extends To You All Best Wishes for a
fellow-Jew they meet and say, "A the latest decree that Jewish chil-
Happy and Prosperous New Year!
Happy New Year!" And, there is dren between the ages of G and 14
more to the intonation of the must vacate German public schools?
Could "human relations" possib-
familiar phrase than a pleasantry.
Forcing the conventional bonds set ly control the governmental poli-
by the trite words, bursts the un- cies of Poland that deliberately
spoken prayer, "May we, as Jews , sentence one million Jews to death
by starvation and condemn mill-
have a happy New Year!„
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But will we continue to think as ions more to abject poverty?
And
are
we,
we
different
Jews,
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Jews once the holiday spirit of
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succor and helpfulness has van- just a trifle uneasy about those
THE FAMILY ROADHOUSE
ished from the air? Or will we, as "human relations" that have so
in years past, wrap ourselves in long been established here at home?
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cotton wool and say,"' This intol- Isn't it true that many who have
erance, this persecution, these enjoyed the privileges of this great
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taunts and jibes do not apply to country are worried and afraid?
us. Some Jews are different—and Isn't there a lurking fear that the
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we are the differetnt ones. We inspired Constitution that permits
have hyphenated ourJudaism be- all to worship freely, to think with-
out
limitation,
to
express
them-
cause of the place of our birth. We
are not considered as Jews because selves as decent human beings, will
of the degree of our belief. With be forgotten? Do we suspect that
us, the world has established his- intolerance may play havoc with
these "human relations": that our
man relations."
security may be valuable? Even
Just what are these "human re- such "different Jews" as we, may
lations" to which we refer? Are be brought misery!
Hebrew Courses
To Be Given At
N. Y. University
Yeshiva College In
anger of Closing
"Let Us Cast Off Our Petty Prejudices"
JOE WEYER ...
The Chalet
We extend to our friends and patrons
THE SEASON'S GREETINGS
and all good wishes for
THE NEW YEAR
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was established in Detroit,
a
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During those twenty-five years it has been our privi-
lege and our pleasure to enjoy pleasant relationship and
friendly dealing with YOU—your children and, in many
instances, your children's children. You have helped us
to grow'and you are, in no small part, responsible for
any measure of success which we may have achieved.
It is those years between, which we recognize today,
when we greet you on this, your Holiday! Our thoughts
go back to earlier days when YOUR confidence, placed
in us so wholeheartedly, was our inspiration—YOUR
patronage and good-will a practical aid in reaching the
goal we hoped to occupy. With deep appreciation, there-
fore, of the important part you have played in the build-
ing up of this institution, we express to you our sincere
gratitude and extend to you and yours THE SEASON'S
GREETINGS.
CROWLEY-MILNEWS
The Mayor's New Year Greeting
Addressed to the Jewish Community of Detroit
Through the Editor of The Detroit
Jewish Chronicle
By FRANK COUZENS
Mayor of th• City of Detroit
I want to express to you my sincere thanks for
the opportunity you have afforded me, as Mayor
of Detroit, to convey a message of greeting to your
readers on the occasion of the celebration of Rosh
Hashonah.
The Jewish people, the first race in the world
have, through all the centuries, maintained a de-
vout obedience tp the simple tenets of their faith.
The sacredness with which they hold their family
relationships and the regard for their elders, has
always been an outstanding characteristic of their
people.
On Rosh Ilashonah, the Jewish people renew
the obligations which have helped to guide the
world's history throughout the ages, and I am
privileged to express, through the columns of The
Detroit Jewish Chronicle, my warm appreciation
for the part which these people have played in the
community over which I preside.
To the Jewish people of Detroit, I extend
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Rosh
Hashonah
Greetings!
We take this occasion to extent
to you all best wishes for a
happy and prosperous
New Year .. .
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