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May 29, 1936

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

FOIOCND AGAINST THE CONGRESS

ly no uniform method ,of treat-
ment could be formulated or ap-
ZIONISM IS TOPIC
plied, which would be equally ap-
OF CONSECRATION
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plicable to all sections of Jewry.
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You will agree with me that the
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problem of the Jews of Western phic and historical grounds, for-
No More Vacillation
World Congress Dangero us Europe is unlike that of the Jews ever with the orthodox, with the
Florine Disner, Vivian Ellenson,
of Eastern Europe. Jews who live believers, with those who affirm
Shirley Herzberg, Lois Linden,
ish masses; to cultivate a Jewish by the propagandists in Jew ish in really civilized countries ap-
life.
parently manage to live in har- the tremendous experience record- Natalie Lightstone, Ethel Winston,
body politic.
Your sudden and precipita
words,
and Sylvia Schlossberg will depict
The second purpose is: The change of heart about the Wo te mony with their neighbors. You ed in imperishable
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rld will further agree with me that
present day Zionist activities in
creation of permanency and con- Jewish Congress is a great I 055 the problem of the 5,000,000 Jews
But there is, sober fact, another Palestine. Ruth Nagler will con-
tinuity. This is the essence of in the realm of sober and ration al in America is so different that it
way
of
regarding
the
entire
mat-
clude
the theme with an epilogue.
that famous slogan which is be- thinking on Jewish matters. It requires a special method of treat-
ter which has always been un-
is a personal loss to me, for
The Guest Speaker
kir proclaimed from the house has removed from my horizon o it ment.
Mrs. Leo M. Abrahams of East
ne
Granting that a separatist consciously latent within- the or-
tops , of Israel—Unity!
with whom I always felt a me n-
Orange, New Jersey, will be the
movement on the part of the Jews thodox or literalistic point of view. principal speaker of the consecra-
Unity is impossible unless there tal kinship.
Now, as a physician with a of Rumania or Poland may be That is to say: belief is no hard or tion service, in the main audi-
is cohesion! Unity is a myth where
frozen thing. Intuition and pres-
there is no basic program! Unity scientific background and expe ri- justified and even logical for the age constitute more than half of torium of the synagogue. Mrs.
ence, I, also, realize how ill a
Abrahams is prominently known
is merely a phrase when there ex- famished the Jewish organism nd time being, but here in America it and many believers have always in the east as a leader in various
is,
ists no force which shall mold both physically and spiritual ly. I am sure such a movement on known that their affirmation, cre- Jewish movements, She is the na-
and shape the Jewish political and Nevertheless, I cannot lend in y- the part of the Jews m. y prove— dal or ,dogmatic or controversial , tional vice-president of the Wom-
historic and outer fact has often
national thought. and. embody it self to the employment of qua ck and is very likely to become—so
en League of the United Syna-
in action! What do Jews demand remedies and ill-considered pa n - dangerous that it eventually may been merely the only vehicle at gogue of America and is honorary
their disposal for the expression
from. the world?
acres. Such remedies, as a ru le, undermine the Jewish position of
their loyalty to a much deeper
Peace! Peace means guarantee are dangerous, for they oft en here. If that happens, It certain-
them a Law, a principle of cohe-
of I status of full-fledged citizens mask the symptoms and create a ly will have its unfdvorable reper- and a far subtler truth.
Is there anything here that is sion among themselves and of dif-
in the community of men!
false sense of security and n of cussions and weaken the position
ferentiation
from the other pea
indisputable?
Yes,
it
is
this:
that
Justice! Justice means recogni- infrepently materially aggrava te of World Jewry, and it will also
tion of the inalienable rights vest- the underlying pathological pr o- stimulate anti-Semitism every- every one of those human groups pies round about them and that by
ed in the union of fellowship!
whom we call peoples, whateve r obedience to this Law they were to
rens.
where.
survive and that idolatry and
Equality! As individuals within
The modern scientific Repro' ch
It is on this score that many In- their origin or whatever the prin-
the frame of society. As a group. is not to treat the body as a telligent Jews in America, repre- ciple of their cohesion, produced in magic and bestial rites made for
death
and that the Law made for
As a nation within the frame of whole, but rather to study the i n- senting all shades of opinion, Zion- that age in which it assumed or
the nationally differentiated, his- dividual parts and organs, the le ists and non-Zionists, envisage the developend those characteristics life. And they conceived the notion
of a priestly people, made so by
torically constituted community, susceptibilities, structures, imm
danger of participating in the that made it differ throughout its
and as granted to on in the 13a1- nities, and their interplay and i n- World Jewish Congress at this history from its fellow-peoples, strict obedience to an ethical com-
rcia Declaration. •
ter-actions, singularly and colic c - time. ,
even as one human personality dif- mand, made so by austere avoid-
These are the three fundamen- tively, and their relation to t he
fers from another—that every such ance of the idolatries and licences
Now, my friend, do you think group produced in that age of its of the surrounding pagan world,
tal demands we put before the body as a whole. In that w ay
we
have
a
right
to
inject
into
the
Tribune of the world. We pro- only can a conclusion be reach ed
becoming a vision and a myth and made so by sanctifying, by render-
pose to go before the League of as to the true status of the enti re political life of our democracy a a record of central experience con- ing metaphysically significant,
Nations, or whatever the form of organism. What is true in bio 1- point of view or a doctrine which formable to its character and ex- every act of life: eating and drink-
collective representation there ogy and physiology is equally tr ue runs counter to the fundamental. pressive thereof. And, the record ing and besotting and the care of
may be, and plead our cause and in sociology and human relatio p- principles upon which the Amer- of this experience, by virtue of the poor and strangers and the
ican commonwealth has been built? which a people became this people, bereft and seeding and harvesting
demand redress, adjustment and ship in general.
guarantees for the future. This
Therefore, you can readi ly The Jews should be the last na- is precipitated in a scripture, a and buying and selling and rule
is surely not an exorbitant pro- judge how impractical and unsc i- tional group in this country to in- writing, a record, which bears the and obedience and war and peace.
gram. We_ are not chasing a entitle it is to generalize also ut troduce an ideology, which has an same relation to that people which They became a people by the vision
rainbow or building fanciful cas- the Jewish organism in its to element of fascism. As Jews in a high work of art bears to the of being a holy people, a non-pagan
tles in the air. We have noth- tality.
Jewish history clearl Y America we must'be in the van- artist from whose total being that people, a merciful and just and
ing to conceal and no escret ends. demonstrates that point and it guard to wage war against such work arose. Not everything in the austere people. They are a people
Just the reverse. By appearing requires no further elaboration t doctrines, for, as you well know, poem of a great poet has factual still.
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openly, in full light of modern you who is so fully converse nt the Jews will be made the scape- existence in the outer world. But
Millions throughout the ages
publicity' before the world, bar- with it.
goats if or when our democracy, everything in the poem is a for-
ing our wounds, offering our co-
for
whatever
reason,
will
be
un-
have
sinned
and
fallen away from
ever valid symbol of the poet's
Our imperative ant immedia te
operation to establish a modes task therefore is clear. We mu st dermined.
mind and character. Not every- this vision and this concept; mil-
vivendi; to eliminate- the Jewish make a careful survey of the d d-
I have so far indicated to you thing in the scripture of a great lions are sinning and falling away
question. as a disturbing element ferent sections of Jewry and a a - some major positive dangers of people need to have had factual even in this age. Only the name
in the Life of the nations,. we are certain their specific wants an d the projected World Jewish Con- existence in the outer, world. But changes. The psychological facts
performing a meritorioua act of needs, before we attempt to in gress. A congress, which is organ- everything in that scripture is the are absolutely constant. Once the
conciliation and sanction. And we etitute appropriate remedi al ized in a precipitate manners rep- forever valid symbol of that pea name was. renegade; today, upon
hope that the world will listen to agents. Concretely, the Jewis h resenting no constructive program, pie's character and therefore of its the whole, it would be die-hard as-
us; will accede to our demands.
problem resolves itself into thi B: eliminating democratic election by fate. For character and fate are similationist. But the strong core
But before winning the ear of Jewry is scattered throughout th the Jewish masses, and leaving one.
of Israel remains and strives and
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the nations, we must first of all world. Its limbs And branches ar some of the important sections of
suffers and survives and is cruci-
win the heart and attention, the found everywhere. Some are fun c - Jewry unrepresented, pushed for-
Rude clans of common origin or fied and struggles on by making of
confidence and the mandate of au- tioning fairly normally, some ar e ward only by the vociferous "Yam- of supposedly common origin wan- this age, of every age an age of
thority of the Jewish people. Only badly diseased, some are passin mers" in Jewish life, is bound to dered, loosely cohesive, in the des- the giving and of the accepting of
a strong nation united in purpose through a gangrenous process g respond with lamentations and erts between the valleys of the the Law and never wholly, never
and pian can hope to get a re- some are completely paralyzed.
will only establish a new "wailing Nile and the Jordan. They were hopelessly. yielding up its soul and
spectful hearing from the world!
Under such conditions, certai n - wall." I am sure that such a con- idolaters amid idolaters. Why did will to the idolatries of a pagan
world,
cocted embryo will result in a still. they not remain so and perish so
Such meditations during Shevuot
birth. This certainly would be tra- with the other Arabic and Canaan.
are
not vain or theoretical. They
itish tribes? We do not know, We
gic.
should
issue in action: re-dedica-
There are many negative as- do know that there glimmered in
pects, which also may prove to be the souls the vision of their god tion to the Law and cause of Isra-
el
by
support
of synagogue and
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being God, the "I am that I am"
orations from Great Britain and dangerous and should not be ig- of the "I am thit I shall be," the school, of Palestine funds and the
nored. Think for a moment of the
Belgium.
At
the
battle
of
the
World
Congress.
huge equestrian statue le .being
danger of demonstrating to the Eternal, and that this God gave
(Copyright. 11311. a. A. P. 8)
erected to the man who wgs the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Ypres he world at large our impotence, our
•
highest ranking Jewish officer in won enduring fame. Major-Gen- inability to cope with some of the
eral Benedict Sommer was one
the British army.
of the outstanding military heroes problems confronting Jewry. Think
To name one man as the great- of the Austrian army. At the for a moment how a Hitler will
est Jewish military figure In the outbreak of the war he was a lose no time to capitalize the "in-
Americen Expeditionary Force private but by sheer merit he won ternationalism" of the Jews and
use it as a weapon against them.
would be unfair since the A. E. Ft rapid promotion and a personal Do you really think that now is
numbered at least 250,000 Jews, commendation from the emperor. the proper time for such an under-
many. of whom won, decorations Colonel Leopold Wiener, now taking?
trill high rank. But Abraham chief of the Belgian Military
You and I as Zionists must also
Krotoahinsky, a Russian-born pri- Academy, was One of the defen- realize the dangers of a World
vate, has a unique claim to dis- ders of Liege and Brussels dur- Jewish Congress to Palestine. For
tinction as the rescuer of the fam- ing the German invasion at the in sociology, as in physics, every
ous Lost Battalion of the 77th Di- outset of the war. The , Jewish action begets a reaction. Don't you
vision. An emigrant. who fled heroes in the British army were think that the very idea of a
from Resale in 1912 to escape innumerable. The Victoria Cross, World Jewish Congress will stim-
milituy service, Krotoshin.skp en- the highest honor for personal ulate and precipitate a Pan-Arabic
listed in 1917 and went overseas bravery, was won by Captain Rob- Congress. (Read the newspapers
with the „77th Division. fi e ert Gee, Lieutenant F. A. DePass, of today, and you will see the seeds
fought at Chateau Thierry and the Private Jack White, Sergeant Isi- are already being sown with the
Argonne. It was during the lat- dore Smith and Corporal Louis help of Italian liras and German
ter battle that he became a world Keyser. Colonel J. II. Levey, who marks). One does not require much
famous hero. Lured into the Ger- commanded a battalion In F ranee, wisdom to visualize that such a
man lines, his battalion of 700 and Major Brunel Cohen, who lost congress will tend to create great-
men had been reduced to 180 men both legs at the front, enlisted as er friction between the two pea
by the murderous enemy fire. The privates.
On the Italian front the chief plea in Palestine and that it will
survivors were doomed to cer-
greatly disturb and undermine the
tain death until Krotoshinaky suc- Jewish military figure was Gen- fountain head of Jewry. It will
e
ceeded in crawling through No eral Rudolfe Graziani. One of the further help to negate the hopes
Man's ',Mid to theeitmerican lines. most popular officers in the Ital- and aspirations of the Jewish pea
Gamed and wounded, he went ian army, General Graziani was ple.
back to his company at the head on the staff of General Diaz, the
You will agree that as Zioniste
of a relief party. For this ex- Italian commander, throughout we must not do anything that will
ploit he we awarded the Distin- the War. lie won decorations divert Jewish energy into other
guished Service Cross and the from every Allied Power. After the channels, or help to create another
Victory Medal. After the War the War he was sent to Cyrenaica to world Jewish organization during
late Nathan Strain\ bought him put down a native revolt. During such a critical period in the build-
a farm in Palestine, where Kroto- the Italo-Ethiopian War he cont- ing of the National Homeland.
shinsky's two children were born. mended the southern army which
In science this would be labelled
Today he Is working in the New encircled the Ethiopian forces and a dangerous experiment. Similarly,
made possible the complete rout
York City Post Office.
it
seems to me that the World
of Emporer Haile Selassie's
The Jewish Legion
Jewish Congress experiment may
One of the most thrilling mili- troops. In recognition of his prove to be dangerous, if held dur-
tary adventures in recent Jewish achievements in Ethiopa, Gres- ing the present confused and chao-
history was the organization of iani was recently made a Field tic state of affairs here and
the Jewish Legion, that regiment Marshall by King Victor Emen- abroad.
of Jews that fought with the late d, the first Jew to be given that
It is my firm conviction, my dear
Field Marshall Allenby to free title.
friend, that no matter from what
In Far Off China
Palestine from Turkish rule. In
aspect you view and study the
1915 some of the Palestinian re-
In any estimate of military problems associated with the con-
fugees in Egypt had organized the prowess by Jews in recent years, vening of a World Jewish Con-
Zion Mule Corps under the lead- mention must be made of General gress, and what such • congress
ership of the heroic Joseph Trum- Robert Briscoe and General Co- may engender in the very near fu-
peldor, a one-armed veteran of hen Moishe. A Lithuanian by ture, nolens volens, you must come
the Russo-Japsneee War. These birth, Briscoe was the chief mili- to the Inevitable conclusion that
referees fought throughout the tary aide of Eamon de Valera such an undertaking at this time
ill-fated Gallipoli campaign. Trum- during the Irish rebellion against will be productive of more harm
peldor'e scheme for organizing England in 1916 and 1916. than good.
100,000 Russian Jews to march Without any previous military ex-
We should not permit ourselves
through Caucasia and deliver Pal-, p encore, Briscoe organized the to gamble with the destinies of an
estine became the nucleus of the. Ir ish irregulars and led them in anguished nation.
Jewish Legion, which he founded I go erilla warfare. Briscoe is now
with Vladimir Jabotineky. Settling th e only Jewish member of the Oakland Mothers' Club to
in Palestine after the war, Trum- Ir ish parliament. General Moishe,
peldor was killed during the de- w hose real name is Morris Cohen, Celebrate 16th Anniversary
fence of Tel Hai in 1920.
as born in Manchester, ,England.
The Oakland Mothers' Club of
The exile of Leon Trotzky from A round 1905, Cohen settled in
Soviet Russia has made many pea V ancouver, Canada. During the the Jewish Community Center of
which
Mrs. Hyman Drapkin is
pie forget that he was the fa- W orld War he served with a Can-
Hier of the Red Army, now the a dian regiment in France. Given president, will hold its annual
mother
and daughter banquet at
world's greatest fighting machine. c ommand of a Chinese labor
When the new-born Soviet Union ga ng, he made friends with ■ the Center on Monday evening,
June
1,
at 7 o'clock. The affair
was fighting enemies abroad and gr cup of Chinese patriots. On his
civil war at home, it was Trotsky, re turn to Canada he joined the will be • celebration of the club's
the literatteur and historian, who C hinese Nationalist League. In 16th anniversary. Mrs. Sarah 11.
took the shattered remains of the 1 922 he went to China with • Selmin, social director of the Cen-
Czarist armies and welded them Ch Mese merchant who introduced ter will act as toastmistress; Belle
into a formidable force that pre- hi m to the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Drapkin, will .peak for the daugh-
vented Russia from being die- fi rat president of the Chinese Re- ters, Mary Caplan, Mothers' Club
membered. -In Germany, where p ebbe as "two -gun Cohen." director, will talk on "Mother-
no • Jews could be officers before C ohen became Dr. Sen's personal hood In the Modern Scene," ant.
the -World War, there were 100,- b odyguard and was entrusted with Judge Charles Rubiner, president
000 Jews in the Kaiser's armies. th a reorganization of the Chinese of the Center's board of directors,
itilreet 35,000 ware decorated. 23,- army. It was he who drilled thou- will be the principal speaker.
000 were preimoted to noa-eoni- sands of raw Chinese recruits into
Mischa Auer is reported respon-
miasIoned rank and over 2,000, the formidable Cantonese army
excluding medical officers, re- that was later commanded by sible for Hollywood's latest craze,
ceived commiaaions for meritor- General Cluing Kal-Chek. In the crawfishing. It is reported that,
ious services. Although Baron heroic defense of Shanghai against armed with a piece of string and
Manfred von Richthofem comman- the Japanese in 1932, General 10 cents worth of liver, Auer was
able to catch 300 of the tiny shell-
der of the German air tonsil, is Moishe was the hero.
fish in four hours.
now a Nazi hero, he was half.
To this list could be added
Jewish.
many other names but enough
the Italia. Fr at
have been cited to offer a dra-
There was hardly a single belli- matic refutation to th• canard
gerent In the World War that did that Jews cannot fight. On this
not produce at least one great
emorial Day, when our thoughts
Jewish military figure. Brigadier- to rn to the heroes of the past, let
FURNACE OIL
General Andre Weiller of France e s give some thought to these
fought at the front for four years. h e roes, most of WIIRTE are still
LA 4soo
lie was wounded eight times and st ive and ready to fight for their
won the Croix de Guerre and dee- co untry again if need be.
O 1931, bum • Mum Teasers C.

The World's Window

president of the New Jersey
branch of the League which she
helped to organize in 1929. Mrs.
Abrahams is also a member of the
national board bf the National
Council of Jewish Women. She is
a vice-president of the New Jersey
conference of the Council and the
past president of the Newark sec-
tion of the Council.
Active in Hadassah, Mrs. Abra-
hams is at present serving as vice-

president of the Newark chapter. postgraduate work in Montclair
She also holds membership in a State College and in
Menoruh
number of other community move-
meets and in the Essex County claT les
e
'
Consecration Committee in
College Women's Club.
Born in Philadelp
in 1891, charge of the exercises consists of
Mrs. Abrahams, whose maiden Mrs. Sol Q. Kesler, chairman, and
name was Fay Burger, was edu- Messrs. Philip Rosenthal and Theo-
cated in the Philadelphia High
School for girls and received her dore Baruch, Sunday School Super-
A 13 degree in 1912 from Swarth- intereffint and 10th grade instruc.
more College in 1912. She also did tor, respectively, members.

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