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EXPERIENCES OF A PIONEER

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Sabbath Reading s o f the Lass
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 21:1-24:18.
Prophetical portion—lets 34:8-22; 93:25, 26.
Rosh Chodes Ada, Rishon Readings of the Torah
Tuesday and Wednesday—Numbers 28:1-15.

January 28, 1938

Shevat 26, 5698

The Palestine Scene

January 28, 1938

to him to find solution to the problem, how
he was preventing the spread of anti-Se- U. M. SPRINTER
Emanuel to Observe
mitic literature. And in the same breath
ON THE SCREEN
Sesquicentennial
he spoke in large figures: anti-Semitic lit-
erature is being published in the millions
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
Member of Hashomer Hatzair Collective
Announcement is made by Rabbi
of copies; the anti-democratic forces in Seven Arts Motion Picture Editor
in Palestine Relates How Chalutzim
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
J. Wohlgelernter, spiritual leader
America number 7,000,000, etc. As he
Live and Conquer Fears
of Congregation Beth Tefilo Eman-
The University of Michigan
waved his right hand he told how he was track star, Sam Stoller of Detroit,
uel, Taylor at Woodrow Wilson, of
The Louis • Schmeling Fight
defeating the efforts of the anti-Semites; who is in Hollywood trying to The complete story of the pioneering effort plans now under way for the ob-
of the 150th anniversary
as he waved his left hand he launched carve a movie career, is besieged in Palestine has not yet been written. It is th e • servance
The
Louis-Schmeling
fight, which may be held
of
the
United
States
Constitution
studio photographers and pub- tragic record of a people that has set out to fre
into augury, warning his audience that by
e at the synagogue on the Sabbath in Detroit in June, will undoubtedly revive talk
writers every time he visits itself; that has had—and still has—innumerabl
e of Feb. 11 and 12. Special services about the advisability of conducting a boycott
there are 200 anti-Semitic groups in Amer- licity
a set. To date he has had his Pic- obstacles to conquer; that has had to battle withi
ica and frightening them with the possi- ture taken with such luminaries and without its own ranks for an opportunity t n o and sermons will mark the event, against the Nazi, Max Schmeling, who is challeng -
Rabbi Wohlgelernter, who was ex- ing the Negro title-holder, Joe Louis. Which leads
bilities of grave danger for our people as Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, build for itself a home and a haven.
ecutive director of the Orthodox us to turn back the pages in our files to our issue
Errol Flynn, Frederic March and
here.
But individual chapters describing this task
Union before coming to Detroit, of July 2, in which the leading comment in our
many others. Stoller has onl
the collectives and co-operatives have al- has been named regional vice- column was under the heading "Schmeling:
Aside from the fact that there was bad played extra and "bit" parts in y within
Boy-
ready been published and will one day form the
for the midwestern cott or Defeat?" At that time we wrote:
taste in the method of approach by this pictures thus far, earning a few beginning for the complete story of Jewish self- chairman
states
of
a
national
committee
re-
Joe Luis' victory In the heal ys eight title bout at
spokesman for a very responsible body, dollars a day now and then, yet emancipation. Avraham Ben-Shalom's "Deep Fur- cently formed under the chairman-
of his old pals in Detroit rows: Pioneer Life in the Collective of Palestine,"
once created • possibility of a fight In Detroit bets,n
who could not even refrain from insulting some
ship of Frederick Margaraten,
are trying to borrow a few hun- just published by the Hashomer llatzair Organiza-
the
new eltamplon and the favorite of the Natio, Ma,
orthodox leader, to ar-
the chairman of the meeting, there is a dred dollars from him. Such is tion, New York, ($1.35), in translation by Fran- prominent
fichmelIng. Iminesliately sports millers raised the eNee-
range the 40th anniversary con-
great deal to be criticized in the efforts fame!
lion
of the possibility of a boycott on the port of the
ces Burnce, Ph. D., is one such chapter in the en-
vention of the organization next
antl-Nenl+.
of practically every anti-defamation body
cyclopedic work on Jewish pioneering. It is the
TN,* s Mere take It for granted OW
May In New. York City.
record .of an experience by a pioneer who throws
such a bout %wild certainly he boycotted In New 14,r1.
in America. Each of the three major Come to Synagogue
All Detroit orthodox synagogues
light on the life of the Chalutzim, their struggles, will be invited to participate in the
City, primarily, se take It, because Stlantlinee Income
groups has a constructive program; each Campaign
‘‘oold he used for Nati atilt hies In Germany. These
their despair and their eventual conquest of fear celebration which is to begin Fri-
Organized and
can build up a case for itself before a pub-
complexes.
tartlets fall to lake into eonsIdenallon another senli-
day evening, Feb. 11, at the con-
It is fortunate for the author that his book was
lic tribunal; each has justified its exist-
mebt that ,till surely Play • intrt. It I, the desire of
cluding lecture of a series spon-
A "Come to Synagogue" cam-
by a Zionist who had been won over
onti-Nails to We the No. I Nati Inner recehe a de-
ence—nevertheless spokesmen for each of paign has been organized by the translated
sored by Young Israel at Congre-
by the Ilashomer Hatzair movement and who be - gation Beth Tefilo Emanuel, by an
cimal e
the !HMIs of the Detroit Negro. From
these groups invariably resort to abuse Student Council of the Shaarey came inspired by the work of this youth organize
an anti-Noel Point of slew a defeat fur Schmeling
address on "Jewish Influences in
Religious School. The com-
against the leaders of the other bodies as Zedek
tion. Dr. Eunice explains her transformation as a
mop be a much greater moral victory 111161 the boycott
the Constitution.' A special prayer
mittee that is in charge of ar-
a means of making capital for themselves. ranging details of encouraging Zionist in a translator's note.
of such a light, shirt, most also latelye a boycott or
for the U. S. Government will be
The volume is appropriately dedicated to our chanted by Cantor Rubin Boyar-
the Detroit champlon—In the event that Louie decided
Aside from the deplorable fact that we do Parente and children to attend first
American Kibbutz in Palestine upon the oc-
to fight Schmeling.
sky
at
the
Saturday
morning
serv-
not have a united front in the fight against Sabbath services regularly in- casion of its settlement in Jiara, the gateway be- ices, at the Taylor-Wilson Syna-
cludes the following: Sylvia Fire-
anti-Semitism, it is pathetic how tactless stone, Betty Vineberg, Jerome tween Emek Jezreel and Samaria." It is a book gogue. Rabbi Wohlgelernter will
Conditions have not changed no radically in the
those in the lead can be, and how harm- Krause, Norton Ossopow, Rita that tells the story of the founding of the kibbutz deliver a sermon in English on past
six months to alter the situation or to cause
beginning to its stages of prosperity and "Hebrew ideals in American Dem-
ful their methods can become to the entire A ronoff, Shirley Simons Dorothy from
a change in the viewpoint we expressed at that
the approach of security. It is the story of one ocracy," with particular reference
Dunitz, Marilyn Kaufman, Edward
people.
time. It is generally admitted that Detroit was
of the early Shomrim who began his activities in
to Abraham Lincoln's birthday. chosen for the proposed heavyweight champion-
Katz, Jerome Ash, Franklin
Is it happening here? The truth of the Siden,
the movement in Poland 20 years ago. It is the
The Sabbath services will be spon- ship fight because it is the one city in the United
Robert Korn, William Zol-
matter is that it is not, that there is a hewer, Gloria Allender, Frances story of a young intellectual who left the uni- sored by the Men's Club of Beth States where a boycott is certain to fail. If this is
to settle in .Palestine. At Ain Hachoresh, Tefilo Emanuel. On Saturday af-
great deal of inherent decency in the Saulson, Joseph Roth, Harriet versity
true, then it would be better not even to com-
in the swamps of Wadi Ilawareth, on. lands of
ternoon, at 4 :30, Rabbi Wohlge-
heart of every American, that the passion Cooper, Ilene Schiller: Mignon the Jewish National Fund, the young people, all lernter will preach in Yiddish on mence retaliatory action. A defeat for Schmeling
Hamburger and Shirley Barhal.
would be much more compensatory. In any event,
for democratic government is supreme in
intellectuals, struggle to make their ideal for a
The Hand of Providence In Hu-
caution should be exercised in whatever steps may
man History."
rejuvenated and regenrated Palestine real to them-
this land. But it can happen here, and if
be taken by anti-Nazi groups to prevent large
Barnett
Weinberg
selves and their people.
Willia m Wise, national presi-
the European menace is ever transported
sums of money to accrue to the Hitler government
Avraham Ben-Shalom does not minimize the
dent of the Union of Ortho.
To Speak Sunday difficulties. In fact, he paints them in brutally dox Congregations, will be the through its carpet idol, Max Schmeling,
to this country our case will not be helped
realistic colors. It was a difficult struggle. Delicate
by men who revile workers in another
guest speake r on Feb. 11. On
London Arbeiter Ring Leade r to hands unused to hard labor found themselves blis-
Feb. 13 he will confer with
camp and resort to vituperative language
Addren the Shaarey Zedek
Breakfasts for Starving Children
tered, despairing, at times without food. But they
spokesme n for local orthodox
which does not help the common cause for
Adult Educatio n Group
did not give up the struggle. They carried on a
synagogues in preparatio n for
democracy or their own organization.
The Society for the Protection of the Health of
fight for existence, and for the defense of their
the annual convention of the
the Jewish Population of Poland, known through-
Barnett Weinberg, for 28 years ideals, which finally brings a paean of joy to the
unio n in May.
Madison once said that "Liberty may
out the world as TOZ, provides breakfasts for
of the Arbeiter Ring young author who concludes his book with a poetic
be endangered by the abuses of liberty, president
25,000 Jewish school children daily and makes it
(Workmen's Circle) of England, exclamation:
as well as by the abuses of power." It will discuss Jewish conditions in
Possible
for an additional 2,000 children to receive
Mme Leon Blum Dies their lunches.
•Our dreams are the distant horizons. And It le
would be well for our leaders to remem- England in an address before the Nosily
The Joint Distribution Committee
se alas). hu,e looked toward distant horinons
provides part of the funds for this work, and it is
ber this. It is high time that Jewish efforts adult discussion group of Con- and were Inspired by far-reaching Ideals that we were
PARIS. — lime. Leon Blum,
gregation
Shaarey
Zedek
this
pointed
out
that
in many instances this is the only
able to <wok new reolilics, to become the prsetlest
were placed on a high plane, and that prin-
wife of the former Premier of prospect children have for securing nourishing
morning, Jan. 30, at
element for the creation of the new Palestine. What
France, died last Saturday night food, and they must otherwise go hungry.
ciple were made to dominate the scene Sunday
10:45 o'clock. A question and
Anemic
more posielte force Is there within the 'shay than
after an illness of several days. and rachitic children are also provided with cod
rather than personalities. If the efforts of answer period will follow his ad- that
stitch brings forth bread from the soli? It Is
A militant socialist in her own
liver oil by TOZ.
the three existing groups that are fighting dress. The public is Invited.
becatow we are w, ,holly bound op with the hit.'
right, she had served as the hard-
Mr. Weinberg is here on a visit
But it is not to be inferred from this report
realities of our Land that or are so tleel , 4 t'oaat'eriat'll
anti-Semitism cannot be united, then the
working secretary and constant
his brother, Samuel D. Wein-
that tragedy among the Jewish children in Po-
With Its future.
least that can be done is to avert exchanges with
companion of her husband during
berg, editor of the Detroit section
land is being averted. We are informed that be-
nor rye. ore fixed on distant hor1.111%, for
the six years of their marriage.
of insults and to guard against exaggera- of the Jewish Daily Forward.
cause of a shortage of funds there is a decrease of
our feet viand fist In deep furrows."
She was M. Blum's second wife.
The Shaarey Zedek adult dis-
tions. The danger is serious enough. If
9,000 in the number of children being fed this
She took an active interest in her
cussion
group
meets
every
Sun-
year.
Hunger stalks among the Jewish masses in
we are to avert it we must be tactful and day from 10:45 a. m. to 12:16 Here is a splendid story that will enlighten the husband's work and had been his
Poland.
With it comes increased despair. Com-
uniformed
on
what
is
transpiring
in
Palestine
and
calm, not hot-headed and panicky.
close collaborator. While he was
D. Ills to discuss current events
pared with conditions in Poland the recession in

PURELY COMMENTARY

Three important declarations were trade
last week with regard to Palestine:
1. The Board of Deputies of British
Jews went on record, by an almost unani-
mous vote, urging that the proposed new
Jewish state in Palestine be made a do-
minion in the British commonwealth of na-
tions.
2. The Zionist Organization of Amer
ica, by a similarly overwhelming majority,
reaffirmed its program in favor of a Jewish
state and condemned those who becloud
the issue that arose as a result of the pro-
posal for the partition of Palestine because
of their opposition to the creation of a
Jewish state.
3. The American Jewish Committee
went on record against the partition plan
and reiterated its faith in the Balfour
Declaration.
These actions serve to indicate that the
issue is becoming clearer and that the di-
vision
in Jewish ranks is definitely emerg-
.
mg between two groups: those who favor
a Jewish state and those who oppose it.
The situation would be different if there
were another way out of the present di-
lemma. But the fact is becoming estab-
lished more clearly every day that with-
out partition the situation will be far worse
because of the restrictions that are being
placed in the path of Jewish entrance into
Palestine. Furthermore, it is apparent that
upon the creation of an independent Jew-
ish state the method of approach to Arab-
Jewish unity will be less difficult than it
has been heretofore.
will serve to encourage the Zionists themselves
and Jewish problems, under the i nto a reaffirmation of their faith in the future premier she attended every par- this country may still be termed paradise. Our
The stand of the American Jewish Com-
liamentary debate in which M.
l eadership of Philip Slomovitz.
people must not fail to share a bit of this para-
of the Jewish National Home.
Blum took part.
Punishing a Boycott Violator
mittee, although not surprising is never-
dise with their less fortunate kinsmen.
theless regrettable. To state at this time,
When moral persuasion fails in an ef-
when everything is being done in Arab fort to secure the wholehearted support of
Australia Opposes
and Jewish ranks to destroy whatever Jews for the boycott of German-made
benefits still remain from the Balfour Dec- goods, then some other sort of punish- «'ONCLUDED FROM radio OM
Mass Immigration
Prime Ministers have been toler-
laration, that what is necessary today is ment must be resorted to in order to as-
ant
and
others
not.
One
in
1936,
MELBOURNE.
— (WNS)—
to reaffirm support of the Baulfour Dec- sure an united front in the economic bat- no positions are received by abso-
h e Australian government
laration, is equivalent to the futility of tle against Nazism. This was the case lute merit, but obtained by the Yassin-al-Hashimi, is known to T does
not
approve
of a mass
appealing to anti-Semites to drop their when it became necessary for the Joint influence one can exert on a de- Jima as Haman, for under his rule Immigration of Jews w h o
six
'Jews
were
assassinated
in
anti-Jewish program because they ought Boycott Council of the American Jewish partment minister or the Prime
would be settled in racially
(CONCLUDED YAW( PAGE ONE)
to reaffirm their faith in the Ten Com- Congress and the Jewish Labor Commit- Minister himself. The result is Bagdad and several more Basra. segregated colonies in the un-
tional Fund, alongside the names
populated areas of the com-
mandments. There are certain limitations tee, through an arbitration board, to im- this—the encumbent Jews from The present government seems) monwealth,
the British Colonial Office to pro- of President Roosevelt, Lord Bal-
federal
officials
de-
in human relations, wrought by time, pose a heavy fine upon three fur dealers the days of the Mandate are gra- disinclined to such foolishness but clared in commenting on pro- vide "immigration certificates war- four, Thomas Masaryk and other
Jewish and non-Jew-
which make an appeal to justice impos- who violated the boycott. Similar action dually being ousted, and all new the fickleness of politics in this posals for large scale Jewish ranted by the economic develop- outstanding
precludes any prognosis..
ment of Palestine and made es- ish personalities, it was announc-
immigration. Government
' sible—and the only resort to justice in Pal- was taken by the Brooklyn Jewish Center positions are filled by Arabs whose country
ed
at
the
luncheon
session at
sential
by
the
increasing
horrors
So the Jews can't help but allow
spokesmen said they opposed
estine today is the creation of an indepen- which expelled from membership David relatives are department heads or the political instability to color settling
visited upon the masses of Jews which Secrethry
. Ickes spoke, by
Australian citizens in
dent Jewish' center which should be .able Jacoby, owner of the Mills Sales Co., for can master greater influence upon all their activities with a certain national or racial groups and by anti-Semitic governments in Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of
the Jewish National Fund.
European lands."
to absorb as large a Jewish immigration his persistent violation of the anti-Nazi the department heads than any anxiety.
explained that the govern-
The resolution pledging the Detroiter. Among Officers of the
ment's policy was to investi-
is able to. Those still In gov-
as possible.
Nationalism is as rampant in
boycott. Albert A. Weinstein, chairman Jew
United Palestine Appeal
Jews
of
America
to
raise
$4,500,-
merits of prospective im-
Dr. Bernard Joseph, legal •adviser of of the grievance committee of the Brook- ernment emrfloy work with the un- Iraq as in the other Arabia coun- 1 gate
000 during 1938 for the United
The officers of the United Pal-
knowledge of not tries and here we find a strong migrants on their individual
the Jewish Agency for Palestine, who came lyn Jewish Center, .informed the Joint comfortable
merits.
Palestine Appeal asserted that estine Appeal who are to raise
knowing when they will be dis- Pan-Arabic party. They are anti-
Palestine represents the major $4,500,000 during 1938 include
to this country from Jerusalem to address Boycott Council that Mr. Jacoby contin- missed, and Jews soon to graduate Jewish for many reasons but use
solution of the problem of hun- the following Detroiter!:
the Palestine conference held in Washing- ued to violate the boycott after he had from the secondary schools and Zionism as the big stick to wield
dreds
of thousands of Jews in
have nothing to look for- over Iraqi Jewry. They assume
Among the honorary vice-chair-
ton last week-end, expressed the belief been warned and several times agreed to colleges
Rumania, Poland and Germany.
men are: Fred Butzel, Detroit;
ward to in a country where the the vindictive attitude in wishing
, that the proposed Jewish state can absorb discontinue selling German goods. It be- goal of education is a government to avenge their Palestinian breth- Jr. Congregation
During a series of sessions in Herman Gessne r, Escanaba.
• between two and three million Jews. If came necessary for anti-Nazi pickets to lob. And in education itself there ren through the innocent Jews of Of Shaarey Zedek the morning, at lunch, in the af- Mich.; Henry Wincman, Detroit.
ternoon and at a concluding ban-
this country. That appears to be
; his estimate is true, then it is the best ar- demonstrate before Jacoby's place of busi- is an active effort to restrict the one
e Mandel/ Is
Honors Sonenklar quet Sunday night, the delegates Denies Palestin
of the chief reasons for the
The Royal Medical College
Unworkable
gument in favor of partition, which we ness and his home. Now comes his de- Jew.
to the conference heard, in addi-
admits only a couple of Jews in assassinations of last year. They
previously felt impelled to oppose in prin- served punishment. Let it be a lesson to every class and it is a rarity to I have, through the government, Will Conduct Services in Main tion to Secretary of the Interior Reviewing events in Palestine
ciple. The important problem for world others who have not learned the meaning find a Jewish young man among (many times they are the govern- Auditoriu m Feb. 5, in Honor Harold L. Ickes, Dr. Stephen S. since the beginning of the Arab
Wise, Dr. Bernard Joseph, legal disorders in April, 1936, Dr. Ber-
the 60 or 70 sent yearly by the meat) forbidden Jews to send
of His Son's Bar Mitzvah
Jewry today is to find avenues of escape of self-respect as Jews.
adviser of the Jewish Agency nard Joseph legal adviser of the
Education Mission to universities money to, or have any direct af-
for the Jewish masses. Territories must
for
Palestine, who came from Jer- Jewish Agency for Palestine said
in Europe and America. In the filiation with, Palestine. At the be-
The Junior Congregation of usalem especially to attend the that the Jewish Agency for Pal-
be found for the settlement of large num-
military where there is a compul- ginning of the recent uprising in
Expressions
of
Sympathy
sory service for a period of two the Holy Land they demanded a Shaarey Zedek will conduct serv- conference; Louis Lipsky, Dr. Is- estine has "categorically refuted"
bers of Jews. If even a skeleton of Pales-
and one half years, one can be ex- written denial of Zionism by the ices in the main auditorium on rael Goldstein, Judge Morris Roth. the conclusion of the British Royal
The Stand-Up Sympathy Month observ- empted
tine can be secured for unhindered Jew-
for a certain sum of money Bagdad Jewish community. A
Wiens, Dr. Maurice J. Kare, Commission report that the Man-
ish immigration, then it should be accept- ed at the call of the American Jewish but which has to be paid many document was directly drawn up the Sabbath morning of Feb. 5, Federal Housing Administrator date Is unworkable.
ed and the Jewish state made a reality as Congress has been called stupid. Was it? fold by a Jewish recruit. In gen- by the Jewish Council disapprov- as a means of honoring Cantor Nathan Straus, Judge Louis E. Senator Bulkley, Lewis Speak
as told to me by a member ing of political Zionism to satisfy J. H. Sonenklar whose son, Sol Levinthal of Pholidelphia, former
speedily as possible. Once such a center
A conservative estimate has it that ap- eral,
United States Senators Bulkley
Parliament, a Jew has to exert the Nationalist party, but which Israel, will become Bar Mitzvah Attorney General David T. Wil-
and Lewis added their voices ,Sun-
is established, we shall have a representa- proximately 8,000 to 10,000 Detroit Jews, of
five times as much energy as an did not alter the favorable Jewish
entz of New Jersey, Congressman day night to that of Secretary of
that
morning.
The
speaker
at
tive body sufficiently strong and officially through many organizations, including Arab to obtain anything from the attitude toward any of the Zionist
Herman P. Koppleman, Rabbi the Interior Harold L. Ickes in a
organizations working in Pales these services will be David Phil ip Bernstein of Rocheste
authorized to deal with other governments several large public gatherings — among government,
r, condemnation of new outbreaks of
The forces of persecution as ex- tine. I recently saw a demonstra . Crohn, vice-president of the Ju- Senator Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio
anti-Semitism in Europe and an
for the opening of additional colonization them Hadassah's, the Zionist Organiza- pressed in Nazism has found a tion of anti-Zionist procedure my
Harold Jacobi, chairman of th e appeal to American Jewry to make
-
nior
Congregation.
The
resume
of
centers for Jews.
tion's, that of Pisgah Lodge of Bnai Brith, fertile field in Iraq. There seems self. The summary execution o
finance committee of the U. P a heroic effort to accelerate Pales-
f
the
portion
of
the
week
will
be
The time has come for action rather and others—stood up for a brief period to be no doubt among the Jews Shaikh FarhanSa'adi by the Brit - given by Dorothy Dunitz. Harvey A.; Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, wh , tine settlement as a means of find-
Nazi agents in various guises ish authorities in Haifa was an oc
was installed as the new national in g a haven of refuge, as the Na-
than words and quibbling. We must not as an expression of sympathy with the that
have brought the weight of their casion for a mass demonstratio - Weisberg will be the - Baal Koreh. chairman of the United Pales-
tional Conference for Palestine
permit anything to stand in the way of Jewish students in Poland who refuse to cash
and their example in Ger-14 all the schoolboys of Bagdad " A special invitation is extended tine Appeal, and Supreme Court closed its
Sessions with a pledge by

the realization of the historic opportunity occupy ghetto benches in universities and many to influence the ready ears Someone had instigated them int to all members, their households Justice Joseph B. Perskie of New 1600 delegates
to raise $4,500,000
and
friends
to
attend
these
serv-
of
ministries
looking
for
seape•
quitting
their
classrooms
and
ti
that is ou rs.
remain standing in order to retain their goats. The
Jersey,
who
served
as
chairman
for
the
United
Palestine Appeal
s
e
leaders look abroad and up traffic in their surge throu g ices. The Junior Congregation has
of the resolutions committee.
self-respect as Jew and as human beings. see what is
for the rebuilding of the Jewish
happening in Ger- the streets shouting, "Down wit " been conducting services in the Dr.
Weizmann and Professor VT'. homeland,
Were these people moved by stupidity?
many, Poland, Rumania, et al., and Zionism. Down with the Balfou main synagogue of Shaarey Zedek
Is It Happening Here?
stein Send Mess•ges
Calling upon the Jews of Ameri-
Periodically during the past seven
In their helplessness, Jews have prev- realize they have the power to do Declaration."
The conference heard messages ca to make a supreme effort to en-
In ancient Athenian mythology, the god iously resorted to shouting their protests the some with their own masses One would think that the guilt years.
able
many thousands of homeless
of greeting sent by Dr. Chaim
of the forests and their wild life, Pan, was at mass meetings. The major Jewish or- which are ignorant and easily in- less suffering of the Jews becaus
Inflated with his own emi- of Palestine would tend to malt
Weizmann, president of the Jew- Jews to settle in Palestine, Dr.
regarded as a wanderer through the pas- ganizations now recognize the futility of cited.
nence the Arab is an unpredictable
Abbe
Hillel Silver of Cleveland,
ish Agency for Palestine; Prof.
them hate the country. This is no
tures who was accompanied by nymphs such gatherings and have abandoned this tem, and a definitelydangerous
nite
Albert Einstein; Dr. Cyrus Adler newly elected national chairman of
the case as most feel in their
and Menahem Ussishkin, world the United Palestine Appeal, de-
and caused groundless fear which we now method of appeal to reason. Leftists still one because of this weapon of hearts the same love for it as has
F
pr u en sd ident of the Jewish National clared that although the Jews are
mass hatred, Therefore each new stirred Jewry around the world.
refer to as the panic.
convene at protest meetings—and in justice change
fighting "a battle for survival on
of government (which is They can express it in no way and
In Jewish life there is a new type of to their feelings in behalf of their suffer- frequent and often violent) is re- by all outward appearances are
many fronts, Jewry is not doomed."
Among the other resolutions
Dr, Silver said that regardless of
Pan. It is not enough that anti-Semitism ing brethren their expression of anguish garded with apprehension by the officially anti-Zionists. But there
Address Annual Joint adopted by the conference were the outcome of the present dis-
is on the increase; that there are dangers must be sympathized with rather than Jewish community because some are many who wish to share the Will
condolences on the death of Felix
Meeting of League of M.
turbed situation in Palestine, the
worse type of Jew-baiting ministry development of Eretz Israel; and,
Warburg; greetings to the
for the Jew on many fronts; that xenopho- condemned. They thus get personal relief might
Jews of the United States and the
come into power. Some although only 100 visas a year are
Women's
Organizations
Jewish
community of Palestine Jews
bia, the dislike of the unlike, is a serious for their feelings of resentment against
of the rest of the world will
granted to Iraq by the Jewish
and a pledge of support from not cease their effort to rebuild the
threat to Jews everywhere. In addition to the persecutors. Orthodox Jews resort to
Agency, several times that num-
American Jewry; • resolution Jewish National Home.
Officers
Chosen
by
The
annual
joint
meeting
of
the
her of' Jewish young men enter
that we have in our midst a group of pro- fast days as a means of expressing sym-
pledging support for the creation
Increased Immigration Urged
the country disguised as Arabs, League of Jewish Women's Or- of a Palestine pavilion at the
Emanuel Men's Club which
fessional alarmists who so inflate the dan- pathy with the unfortunates, and pray to
1939
is practically no trick at all, ganizations will be held on Mon- New York Weld's Fair; a resolu-
Speakers at the opening session
gers that they actually help create an ex- the Almighty for succor. These are also
for they all look alike in the Near day, Feb. 7, at 2:15, at Temple tion emphasizing to all American on Saturday night said that recent
Men's Club of Congrega- Eaat.
Beth El, A compliMentary dessert
tremely dangerous sense of fear in the futile methods, but they offer a means of tion The
events in Rumania, Germany and
Beth Tefilo Emanuel elected the
luncheon will be served at 1 o'clock Jewish communities that the Uni-
heart of everyone who hears them prate relief for those who fast, who at the same following
It would be unfair to mention preceding the meeting. All mem- ted Palestine Appeal is the only Poland have made it clear that the
officers at t he
g the daily unpleasantries experi-
meetin
only major solution of the problem
authorized
central
fund
of
the
bombastically and pompously about their time, in their own way, express sympathy on Jan. 20: Samuel W. Leib, presi - enced by the Jews here
bers of the League's constituent
of finding new home for Jews being
achievements in fighting the great menace for the persecuted.
den; Sidney M.Schevitz, vice-presi- seems to be our heritag for that organizations are invited to attend. Jewish Agency for Palestine and driven out these lands by oppres-
e all over The president, Mrs. Herbert H. calling upon Jewish communities
to Jewry.
Gerard N. Nakelsky, sacra- the world and not considered
Perhaps it is more stupid to criticize a dent;
not to conduct any other Pales- sion is to launch, an unprecedented
Warner, will preside.
nary; Nathan Lee, treasurer;
scal e, a colonization program in
consequential anti-Semitism. On
We had a sample of inflated egoism with method of showing sympathy, then to fol- Asher
Berlin, Manuel Merzon and
The guest speaker of the after- tine fund-raising efforts until af-
which one such professional fighter of low the method which may at first thought Alvin Levin, members of the the whole it can be said that ex- noon, will be Dr. Josef Dunner, ter the maximum obligation to Palestine which would permit the
traneous
subversive
influences,
and
admission
of hundreds of thou-
United Palestine Appeal shall
anti-Semitism presented his case to a De- appear unwise. The thousands who stood board; Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelern- internal suppression in most situa- foreign correspondent, lecturer and the
sands of persecuted Jews of Euro-
ter, advisor and member of the
novelist His subject will be "What have been fulfilled.
troit audience. Ile set up an imaginary up during the sympathy month at least board.
pean lands.
tions that are not prohibited by a
The conference elected a group
definite law, has made the Jew You Should Know of the World
Golem, the so-called protest meeting, and gave some thought to the horrible tragedy.
Dr. Wise introduced as chairman
The Men's Club aims to attract
Today." Ile is fully qualified to of officers for the United Pales-
then started to hammar away at it in typi. Perhaps — as the critic suggested—the con- members of the Jewish communit more than aware of anti-Semitism speak
on his topic, having spent tine Appeal representing Ameri- of the evening, Simon Shetzer,
in
Iraq.
It
is
difficult
to
evaluate
cal Don Quixote fashion. Of course, he tributions of these people to relief causes to a program of traditional Judo- the effect of this upon the Jewish much time in Europe and Asia. can Jewish leaders in every sec- chairman of the Jewish Community
was called to hetp maintain tion of the United States, together Council of Detroit.
would not state in justice to actual facts will be increased. But it is hardly possible ism and to promote for them cul- community as a group, for the in- t Ile
he g e o f . ationa Government
Harold Jacobi of New York,
tural and social activities. Any dividual circumstances and his
th a national council for Pales-
that there is not a responsible body in
in
Saar
in November, 1934, As tin e composed of
that those who did not give thought to the
over the age of 21 is eligible personal perspective is the de-
representatives chairman of the finance committee
Jewry today that favors the convening of problem will be as amenable to reasonable man
of the United Palestine Appeal,
to membership. Meetings are herd termining factor, Most everyone present he is associated with the in every community.
mass protest meetings. But such a Golem and liberal giving as those who stood up eery first and third Thursday of carries on in his normal cycle, but Brooklyn Institute in Washington. Se cretary Ickes Inscribed in the presented a report showing that
during the year 1937 the Jews of
served his purpose. Then he proceeded to and relieved their overloaded hearts of the month at Congregation Eman- I have heard of a few who are ac- His most recent work is the
Golden Book
uel, at 8:30 p. m. An elaborate
novel "If I Forget thee."
America had contributed the sum
tell how he had all facts on his finger the hurt and the anguish that is caused by program
The name of Secretary Ickes
for the formal installa- tua ly arranging their interests so
Dr.
Danner
was
born
in
Bavaria
as
of
$2,325,212.76 to the United Pal-
is to establish themselves in some
a friend of the movement to
tips, how professors and clergymen came bigotry and hatred.
tion of the officers will take place
and graduated with honors from re
estine Appeal, which is the sole

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THE JEWS IN IRAQ

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I SECRETARY ICKES, U. S. SENATORS
BULKLEY AND LEWIS, CONDEMN NEW
OPPRESSIONS AT PALESTINE PARLEY



DR. JOSEF DUNNER
TO SPEAK ON FEB. 7

in the scar future.

foreign country In the next few
build the Jewish National Home fund-raising instrument
Universities of Berlin and in
of Ameri-
years, or earlier in case of trouble. the
Switherland• Go Palestine was Inscribed in the can Jewry for the national upbuild-
Idea Book of the Jewish Na- ing program in Palestine.

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