1 America 'with P erla ee CLIFTON AVINU1 • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 11- EbETROIT LWIRI RRONICII 'Not IIlifilmi vf tip era5an 'rtiii,trtgattuf and The Legal Chronicle Per Year, $3.00; Per Copy. 10 Cents DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1938 VOL. XL NO. 18 Rosh Hashonah Greetings to HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MICHIGAN LITHOGRAPH CO. F. A. VEIT, Pres. Main Office and Plant: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Branch Offices: CHICAGO, ILL. . FINDLAY, 0. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. A HAPPY NEW YEAR AND BEST WISHES TO OUR GUESTS. FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. WE TRUST THAT WITH THE USHERING IN OF THE NEW YEAR YOU WILL. HAVE A FULL MEASURE OF HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY • PANTLIND HOTEL THE BEST IN THE SERVICE OF LIVING "An Entire City Block of Hospitality" GRAND RAPIDS, M ICII. P. T. RAUSCHENBERGER FUNERAL DIRECTOR PHONE 8.7142 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Greetings of the Season and Best Wishes JACK STEPHAN MOVING AND FURNITURE New and Wed Furniture and Appliances PHONE 5.2621 441 BURTON, S. W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Rosh Hashanah Greetings and Best Wishes HEKMAN FURNITURE CO. MANUFACTURERS OF FINE FURNITURE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 1400 BUCHANAN, S. W. Jewish Communities in Michigan The Detroit Jewish Chronicle extends! Jackson, Adrian, Port Huron, Ann Ar- to the Jews of Michigan best wishes for bor, Lansing, Kalamazoo, and scores of a very Happy New Year! other cities–attest to the faith of the May the year 5699 bring with it peace, people of this state in the opportunities justice and security for all peoples! for continued development of our vast May it inaugurate a new era of good resources. • • • will and inter-faith co-operation, and may it mark the end of bigotry and This confidence is r e f 1 e c t e d in the hatred. greetings to be found in this issue, on • • • Michigan's variety of industrial activ- the occasion of the Jewish New Year,' ) ities, its health resorts and manufactur- from m e r c h a n t s and industrialists ing centers continue so to enhance the through the state. state's reputation that the prosperity of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, a Mich- this commonwealth stands out among igan institution for the past 21 years, the most romantic achievements in the wishes to extend its greetings to the entire land during the past two decades. people of this state on this holiday occa- The growth of this state industrially, sion. As the organ of Michigan Jewry– educationally and agriculturally carries which finds it the best source of in- with it a glamor that reflects the confi- formation regarding the Jews in this dence of the people in the opportunities country as well as throughout the world offered by this great country. Every —The Chronicle is pleased on this occa- community — Pontiac, Flint, Grand sion once again to dedicate itself to the Rapids, Muskegon, Bay City, Saginaw, service of the people of the state of Mt. Clemens, Wyandotte, Battle Creek, Michigan. formerly any doubt on this point, human freedom rests is religious the tragic events in Germany dur- faith—the conviction that there ing the last five years must make is a Divine Reality which is above the fact as plain as noonday. In all earthly powers. If there is that unhappy land the National So- no Divine Sovereignty to which cialist regime began by proclaim- a man owes supreme allegiance, By DR. SAMUEL McCREA CAVERT, D.D. Christ ing itself the friend of what is then he is at the mercy of what- General Secretary, Federal Council of the Churches of called "positive Christianity" and ever human sovereignty nets itself in America the enemy of the Jews. But up in the place of God. When men everything which has happened no longer feel a loyalty to an The Jewish New Year in 1938 are left with a profound dis- since shows that what started as Absolute that transcends all earth- comes at a time of such suffering belief in life itself and they is a movement against the Jews ly claims, they become victims no real bulwark against syniclism turns out to be a movement of new absolutes of nation, race for the Jewish people in ninny and despair. But over against aganst Christianity also. or class such as are bidding for parts of the world that I ant prompted to send a message of such disillusionment Christian and Today in Germany the whole the support of mankind today. If Ilebrew stand together in their sympathy and fellowship. I am future of Christianity as well as men are to be free from earthly confident that in doing so I voice belief in the one Holy God Who of the Jews is at stake. The new dictators they must know, in the the deep feelings of countless Is the Creator of all and whose religious trend known as the "Ger- depths of. their souls, that there righteous will gives meaning and other Christians in America. manic faith movement," under is a divine will above all human direction to life. The divine sum- A Christian who on such a n mons to the Ilebrew people is a the leadership of anti-Semites wills and that in the final choice occasion as this has the privilege summons with which Christians like Alfred Rosenberg and Bal- they "must obey God rather than of speaking to Jewish friends also identify themselves as some- dur von Shirach, denounces Chris- men." It is that faith which through- must, first of all, acknowledge his thing of transcendent importance tianity as well as Judaism and out the centuries has been nur- indebtedness to the spiritual her- would substitute for both a new to the world: tured by the Ilebrew and the itage of the Hebrews. We Chris- religion based on German blood. 'Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord This new German creed asserts a Christian Scriptures. Upon that tians have inherited the ethical faith, whatever our other dif- and religious insights of Israel, our God is one God; and thou doctrine of narrow racialism and hold them in common with shalt love the Lord thy God which scorns Christianity as being ferences, we can take our stand you. We hold them with a dif- with all thy heart and with of Jewish origin and tries to "Ar- together as we look out upon the ference, it is true—at one point all thy soul and with ■ all thy yanize" the Church. Indeed the tragic state of the modern world. Sets!. el with a momentous difference— might." whole Nazi ideology discloses the 0 . opyt Ight. 1VIX, Rellglou• New. but we always remember that A Christian who knows any- fact that an attempt to de-Judaize the historic roots of our faith are thing of history must also speak a nation leads to de-Christianizing Do not, good air, judge the dead in the Hebrew people. by his monument. The stone ts a word of confession. For he it also. From Israel we inherit the Ten cannot help recalling how griev- In the face of the present situ- senseless and can cover a foul Commandments, which are still ously the Jewish people have suf- ation we see more clearly that corpse as well as any other. —Crinagoras. the basic moral standards of fered at the hands of men who the ultimate foundation on which Christendom. From Israel we in- have called themselves Christians herit the priceless treasure of the The historical record of the treat- Psalms, which are an essential went of Jews in Europe through Our Jewish Friends part of Christian worship around long centuries is one which C hris- A Happy New Year to the world. From Israel we in- tians of today view with peni- herit the vision of social justice tence and sorrow. One has also which has come to us through regretfully to admit that the day Amos and Isaiah and Micah. From of cruel treatment of the Jews Israel we inherit even our own by many who are called Chris- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FISH unique Christian classic, the New' tians is not yet a thing of the Testament, which from the Gos- past. The news which comes Phone 9-3569 1046 Ottawa, N. W. pel of St. Matthew through the from Germany and Poland and GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Epistles of St. Paul to the Revel- Rumania shows how persistent ation of St. John was written by the spirit of anti.Semitism is. Jews. The best that a Christian can Any thoughtful Christian must say is that such treatment of the also be conscious of a present Jews is inherently un-Christian, A Happy New Year to All Oar Jewish Friends spiritual kinship with his Jewish contrary to the plain teaching of neighbors to whom their religious Jesus Christ. It must also be heritage is still a vital force. confessed that even in our own That kinship is grounded in our country there are small misguided common faith in the ultimate groups who circulate statements FLOUR AND FEED moral and spiritual foundations that spread a poison of mistrust of the universe. Over against and hate which is antithetical to those who adhere to a material- the true genius both of America Phone 9.4133 115 Bostwick, N. E. istic philosophy of life and a me- and of the Christian religion. 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