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July 14, 1939

and THE LEGAL CHRONICIF

TIFENEFROTFJEWISH etRON 104

A Hero Is Brute to Nazis

and THF. LEGAL CHRONICLE

The story of a true heroine, which was
completely distorted by the Nazis to suit
their own purposes, a few days ago pro-
vided new proof that the liberty-loving
elements in countries dominated by bar-
barians have not yielded completely to
the whipping rod.
This story was described in a splendid
editorial entitled "Tribute to a Heroine"
in the New York Post. It reads:

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 30:2-36:13
Prophetical portion—Jer. 2:4-28; 8:4
Rosh Chodesh Ab Readings of the Torah,
Monday, July 17
Num. 28:1-15

July 14, 1939

Tammuz 27, 5699

Truth Must Triumph

A 30-year-old precedent of action for
social justice and truth, established in
May, 1909, is receiving renewed impetus
as a result of the anti-social actions of
the Coughlinites.
The Unitarian Fellowship for Social
Justice is inaugurating a new program to
call the attention of the country to the
injustices perpetrated under the slogan
of a "new kind of alleged social justice
created by and for the benefit of Father
Charles E. Coughlin."
It is natural and proper that this new
program should be introduced in the com-
munity from which the leading American
anti-Semite operates and whence comes
the worst type of hate-inspiring literature.
"Designed to expose the propaganda tech-
nique of self-seeking demagogues," the
Rev. Dr. Walton E. Cole of Toledo, act-
ing in behalf of the Unitarian Fellowship
of Social Justice, will deliver two impor-
tant addresses during the coming ten
days. On Thursday, July 20, he will speak
over Station WJR on the subject "Defend-
ing Ourselves Against Propaganda." On
Monday evening, July 24, he will address
a public meeting at the Naval Armory on
the subject "Hitler Over America" and
will reveal how Father Coughlin conforms
to the Hitler propaganda pattern.
The Unitarian Church has earned the
gratitude of all true Americans for hav-
ing launched this program to unmask the
hate-mongers and to expose the Hitlerian
program of Father Coughlin. Representa-
tives of other churches have already
spoken, and the Rev. Coughlin stands in
the eyes of all faiths as a man who is
bent upon a program of destroying good
will and of spreading religious and ra-
cial hatred. But this is the first effective
program undertaken by any church to
fight for true social justice and to pre-
vent the undermining of our democratic
structure by the Royal Oak rabble-rouser.
In justice to the church whom Cough-
lin misrepresents it must be said that
Catholics have spoken on numerous oc-
casions in condemnation of this radio
priest's appeals to hate. One of the most
effective addresses was delivered a short
time ago by Father James R. Cox of St.
Patrick's Church, Pittsburgh, before the
Rotary Club in the Methodist Church of
Dormont, Pa. In this address, the Catho-
lic priest, speaking in a Protestant church
against the persecution of Jews, declared:
"If Coughlin is right, then the Ku Klux
Klan is right; and if the Ku Klux Klan
is right about the Jews, it is also right
about the Catholics and colored people
and Father Coughlin thereby condemns
himself and all that he represents."
These are plain-spoken words. Even the
Coughlinites should understand them.
Certainly, the Catholics should disavow
any affiliation with his rabble-rousing.
The inauguration of an anti-Coughlin
program by the Unitarians should
strengthen the pro-democratic forces and
should lead to the repudiation of the man
about whom Father Cox said: "A Catho-
lic priest become a Storm Trooper! A
Coughlin became a Hitler hatchet man!"

To that great and immortal company of
heroic women—women such Joan of Arc
and Molly Pitcher—we nominate Anna Ko-
peck*, a Czech nurse.
Hitler's men called her a liar.
She was.
She confessed, falsely of course, to that
murder of • German sergeant which brought
Hitler's wrath and vengeance upon the whole
Czech people. She confessed to spare from
persecution and suffering the people of the
village of Kladno, where the sergeant was
killed.

Amid the international repercussions of
the Czech incident and the "counter murder"
of ■ Czech policeman, the role of Anna Ko•

pecks was insufficiently understood in Amer-
ica. Yet it is just such unquenchable courage
and martyrdom which all the might of Hit-

ler is powerless to combat, just •s Gandhi, in
India, by his very physical helplessness could
successfully challenge the might of the British
Empire.

Anna Kopecka, in the tradition of other
heroic women, was willing to pay with her
life to save her village from the terror she
knew could be expected from Hitler. It was
not her fault she made the sacrifice in vain;
that the fearsome Gestapo is in control not
only of Kladno but all Csechia, while she is
either dead or in a dungeon. In the years
to come, however, beneath the surface of
Nazi domination, the name of Anna ■ Kopecks
who fought centuries for their last libera-
tion and who never have been known to stop
will be an inspiration to the Czech people
fighting for that goal:

Official release of this story by the Ger-
man Propaganda Ministry—as "evidence of
the untrustworthiness of the Czech;'—con•
stitutes an amazing monument to the stupidity
of the Nazis, A confession of their utter
inability to and nd the distinction be.
tween • hero and a brute.

This is more than a tribute. It is a reve-
lation of existing sentiments among the
Czechs which can not be uprooted so
easily by Nazism. It carries with it the
encouragement that the freedom-striving
peoples will soon refuse to submit fur-
ther to humiliations and will exercise
their natural rights of rebelling against
cruelties,

Action Alone Counts

PURELY COMMENTARY

Hebrew Schools
Have Outing Day

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Wednesday, July 12, was out-
ing day for the pupils of the
United Hebrew Schools. All the
pupils of the schools were taken
out by city buses to the East-
wood Park where they spent a
day in the fresh air and, through
the courtesy of the management
of Eastwood Park, they were
admitted to many of the con-
cessions, which added an addi-
tional joy to the pleasant day.
The expenses of the outing
were covered by contributions
made by Sidney J. Allen and
Nate S. Shapero. Refreshments
were served through the cour-
tesy of II. C. Broder.

tical field and who should have refrained from
acting the historian.
Commonweal, one of the outstanding Catholic
In any event, Prof. Freud rendered a disservice
weeklies in America, in a recent issue discussed • to the Jewish people.
the anti-Semitic outbursts of General Moseley

In an editorial entitled "General Moseley's Num
The Bnai Brith and Palestine
her Called," Commonweal stated:
Bnai Brith has a powerful stronghold in Pelts.
A few weeks ago the Nation published •
tine. Its lodges in Eretz Israel, as this Com-
long editorial called "Dies in • New Role"
mentator already had occasion to point out on
which ended by supplying the Texas Repre-
the recent 50th anniversary
ar celebration of the
sentative with the telephone number of Gen-
formation of Bnai lirith in the Jewish homeland,
eral George Van Horn Moseley. It is to be
have
been
influential
factors
in reconstruction and
doubted whether he took the hint, but in any•
cultural work in Zion.
case he acted as though he had, and called
Nevertheless, until very recently Bnai Brith
the General to testify. Once again one is
was looked upon in some quarters as not, too
forced to question the Dies Committee's meth-
friendly to the Zionist cause. That is why the
od, even to wonder whether there is here
singing of llatikvah at the banquet of the con-
any real desire or ability to investigate the
vention of District Grand Lodge in Detroit was
current crop of movements which are funda-
accompanied by considerable surprise.
mentally opposed to the essence of our tradi•
It is true that a quarter of a century. ago Zion-
tional form of government. There are other,
ism was anathema to Bnai Brith. So much so that
more dangerous, persons than General Mose-
the Yiddish pro-Zionist press retaliated in kind
ley about, and we could do worse than tats
and spoke in most uncomplimentary terms about
a leaf out of the Nation's book, offering Mr.
the order. S. B. Komaiko, member of one of the
Dies a few hints of our own. Who is organis-
pl ' mntnent orthodox families in America ,
mg the street-riot technique which almost
one-time newspaper man associated with the fa-
daily
b the
in New

:nous Tageblatt, was a delegate to the Detroit con-
delphia and other American cities, sometimes
vention from Chicago. Bernard Postal, publicity
under the style and title of the "Christian
. .
direct or of linai Brith q
, uot
'M.
r K om
aiko as
Front "es
? It '
relating
the following story: About 25 years ago,
penings not as many years ago in German
during
a
convention
of
this
district
in
Grand
cities. When all this activity finds • co-
Rapids, Mr. Komaiko was anxious' to make front
ordinator, the time for more investigation

"Hush-Hush" Policy Condemned

Sisters of Zion
Moonlight Aug.

The Sisters of Zion Mizrachi
are sponsoring a moonlight on
Tuesday, Aug. 1. Organizations
and friends are asked to keep
the date open for this affair.
For tickets call the chairman,
Sirs. Ethel Abrams, Tr. 2-7445.
At the last 'meeting of the
chapter, on June 28, at Lacher's
Hall, a large assembly of Miz-
rachi women, and many guests
from the Kvutzah Ivrith, the
president of the Mizrachi, Daniel
Temchin, bade farewell to Sam-
uel Shnitz, who is leaving with
his family to reside in Cali-
fornia. There were Palestinian
songs and dancing. Refreshments
were served.

will have passed. Let us hope that that day
will not come, but meanwhile, why does the
daily press consider • "hush-hush" policy to
be wise in this matter? A lot of Germans
thought so, too, nine or ten years ago. We
confess that we don't know who is org•nis•
ins all this, or for exactly what ends, but
we suggest that here is • real field for in•
vestig•tion,

Women's Auxiliary
of Home for Aged

Mrs. Joseph Rose of the Wo-
men's Auxiliary of the Jewish
Home for Aged, and her sun-
shine committee were responsible
for a delightful afternoon spent
by the aged residents of the
home on June 6 at, Belle Isle.
Besides the bus that was pro-
vided to transport the old folks
from the home to the Island,
many of the officers of the or-
ganization provided their cars
for the purpose. Refreshments
were served. Harry Morris and
his orchestra provided the music.
The auxiliary thanks Mr. Morris
and his orchestra.

Credit Hadassah with determination Members of Detroit Auxil-
that speaks volumes for the courage with
iary No. 122 of Bnai
which the women's Zionist Organization
Brith Honored at Conven-
carries on its colonization work in Pal-
tion by Being Elected to
estine.
Offices
A current report states that through
At the 7th annual Convention
Hadassah a total of 1,400 Jewish refugee of Bnai Brith Auxiliaries at the
children will be permitted to enter Pal- Book-Cadillac Hotel over the 4th
estine before October under the care of of July week-end, members of
the Detroit Women's Auxiliary
the Youth Aliyah.
No. 122 acted as hostesses and
This is effective action. It defies ob- extended a warm welcome to
stacles. It is adherence to Zionist princi- the delegates and their friends.
ple of removing the oppressed from lands The Detroit Auxiliary was hon-
of persecution and of colonizing them in ored in that Mrs'. Harry Tanner,
past president, was elected as
Palestine.
sentinel and Mrs. Chas. Solovich
Action alone counts. In the Diaspora, was elected to the general corn-
it necessarily demands that Jews speak mittee of the Women's District
loudly in defense of their rights. In Pal- Grand Lodge No. 6.
bronze plaque was presented
estine, in addition to speech, there is to A the
auxiliary by the district
necessity for tireless action. Youth Ali- for its distinctive and outstand-
yah is the most important instrument for ing achievement in the last mem-
the saving of children, and is therefore bership drive, bringing in over
200 new members under the
an important element for action.
chairmanship of Mrs. Charles
In the Diaspora, too, there is need for Solovich.
practical work, including fund-raising for Contributions to the philan-
relief. Eventually such a program will thropies by the Detroit Auxili-
have to include the creation of media to ary were also commended upon
inasmuch as more money was
provide an outlet for Jewish youth who contributed
in the past fiscal year
find it difficult to secure employment, than ever before.
and for an adult Jewish population that Anyone interested in joining
is being declassed in some portions of the the auxiliary, call Miss Charlotte
globe as a result of economic discrimina- Gant, president, Northlawn 4175.
tion.
Hebrew Schools
Palestine paves the way for action, both United
Thank United Dairies
in words and works.
for "Treat"

Tel Aviv — 3o Years Old

The United Hebrew Schools
acknowledge with thanks the
"treat" of the United Dairies.
All pupils of the schools were
treated by the United Dairies
with ice cream.

Camp of Haboturn
Will Open Sunday

Habonim Camp Kvutza of the
Detroit district will open thi s
Sunday, July 16, on a 40-acre
plot of rolling countryside Is.
cated near the Farband-Poole
Zion Camp at Chelsea, Mich.
The camp facilities have been
entirely constructed by the Ha.
bonim youth and will amnion,.
date about 40 boys and girls be-
tween the ages of 14 and 19.
The camp staff is under the
leadership of Chasers Edi Stern-
berg of Philadelphia who has
been instrumental in the organi•
cation and leadership of several
of the older camps of Ilaboph o
in the country.
There are six camps of this
type in this country. This sum-
mer Kvutza is closely patterned
after the Palestinian collective
colony and is unique in that it
is carried out in the same spirit
and on the some principles as
the Eretz Israel settlements. The
camp program stresses Hebrew
language and literature and a
healthy social and physical ar.
tivities schedule.

YIDDISH THEATER'S
FOUNDER IS DEAD

Zionist flag brought in and placed on the plat-
crlinN To IciliToriTAL pmts.
f orm, an thereupon he rushed to the telegrap h
office and wired his paper a story to the effect edies, farce, romantic pics•es, but
.
.
0; at
al Btta conven- his great love was for the classics
tion." That was front page news at that time. His sine made his rather a strange
But by the same token, because of the changed appearing Hamlet, despite the
attitude of Bnai Brith during the past decade, an rigid diet he imposed upon himself
anti-Zionist episode at a Bnai Brith meeting in before essaying this role.
Ile appeared in all sorts of plays
Seattle only about five years ago was also front
We call attention of our readers to the fact page news. A Reform rabbi arose at a meeting until he had made enough looney
to build his own theater on Second
that the "street-riot technique" to which refer- of the lodge on the Pacific Coast and, noticing
ence is made in this editorial was marked by at the Blue and White banner next to the Stars Ave., where he added to his in-
least two recorded stabbings of Jews by Cough- and Stripes, shouted: "Take down that rag." The come by selling cigarettes embossisl
with his signature until one day,
linites; that these demonstrations are assuming rabbi walked out of the meeting; the flag re-
seeing them as butts on the lobby
a serious nature; that Jews in New York are mained.
compelled to place salesmen on street corners
The story of Bnai Brith's new attitude towards floor, he discontinued this practice,
to sell anti-Coughlin literature to counter-balance Palestine would be incomplete without relating saying: "Nobody's going to step
the activities of the followers of the anti-Semitic this Order's important contributions to Palestine's on me."
A Dashing Figure
Royal Oak radio priest. reconstruction. Bnai Brith is building a colony
On the East Side Thomashefsky
But the newspapers are silent on the occur- in Palestine in honor of the former international
was
almost
as well known, when in
retires and the stabbings. Such silence only helps president, Alfred M. Cohen. It has participated
his prime, for his wardrobe its for
the gangsters who incite to riot and to stabbings. in other Jewish National Fund activities, espe-
hie acting. Ile imported his clothes
The press does not hesitate to play up a pogrom cially the tree•planting program. Its latest mani-
and shoes from Europe, and cut a
overseas. But it is apparently afraid to reveal festation of devotion to the cause of Palestine's
dashing figure on Second Ave..
the truth about anti-Semitism in this country. reconstruction is its participation in the $1,000,.
where for years he was the idol
Only when the situation becomes exceedingly 000 loan of the Jewish National Fund, to the tune
of members of his race.
serious, the columnists and the feature writers of $25,000.
For years he lived in Brighton
Who will deny that Bnai Brith is now a pro-,
begin to capitalize on a said situation for Jewry.
Beach. Many of his better known
Commonweal is right in suggesting that the Zionist movement?
Yiddish operettas and sketches

anti-Semitic outbursts in this country be investi-
were composed in his lavishly fur-
On the Question of Food
gated. We have already urged upon Congressman
nished home there. Last November,
Martin Dies and his committee to investigate
Maurice Samuel, who knows how to be critical his theater long since sold, he filed
Father Coughlin .
repeat
request and we of people he dislikes, found a new scapegoat at
present the editorial from Commonweal Maga- the banquet of the convention of the Zionist Or- a voluntary
bankruptcy,
pleading petition
debts of in
$9,765
and no as-
zinc
zinc as Catholic Exhibit Number One in support ganization of America in the food served.
of our proposal.
Ile sold the Thomashefsky The-
Another occasion at which "Noe was an issue sets.
a t. Second
S
Ave. and Houston
was a recent press conference arranged by the
was

Jewish Agency in London. We are told that S L in 1924, but at that time had
an interest in others, including t it
bacon and pork sausages were served and that
Prof. Sigmund Freud and the Jews
the only offended person was the correspondent Rialto in Brooklyn,
Thomashefsky's last professional
Prof. Sigmund Freud has started a controversy of an Arab daily who is a Moslem-Irishman.
with his "Moses and Monotheism" which was re-
These incidents give the cue to relating an
w
hen
. he and Regina Zuckenberg
cently published by Knopf. It is natural that interesting anecdote that was the result of the appearance
was in December, 1937,
p uodce
bluic tT
I h̀e'laloteria
r. an
citihi erBespolaay,,", an
there should be objections at this time to the serving of a non-kosher meal at a banquet of pi
creation of a new myth that Moses was an Egyp- a national Jewish convention held here recently.
tian, that, he was murdered by the Jews, that An Iowa delegate, outraged by the fact that the autobiographical sketch, at the
monotheism is of Egyptian origin. The "old meal consisted of cold cuts and cheese, served on which he appeared that are remem-
ratthio:iinti
abenrdeil Tbhyet jhoe lipyreTsae inkt rge
B, nebo
man" certainly has not rendered a service to
one plate, turned to a Detroiter who was dude "Land of Israel,' an operetta,
the people he now claims as his own. Furthermore, seated at his table and remarked: "You Detroiters
it is clear that he has not made a complete study don't believe in serving ham on rye, do you?" ten
by the author-actor and pro-
of the subject, that he has failed to delve into "What makes you say that?" asked the Detroiter, duced
at his own theater in the
the legends of the Mishnah about Moses, or to who happened to be an observing Jew. "Because, 1920's.
read Prof. Louis Ginzburg'it "Legends" for fur- you serve only Chazerei," was the retort.
Beauty
ther light on a subject he now claims to have
e,"Bu e s s i e,
y t'sallw
e ifB
i afseheafskS
mastered. He is apparently unacquainted with
The
"Old"
Men
at
the
Helm
whom he married when lie was 23
Ahad Ha-Am's masterful essay on Moses. His
old,
ld
separated
from
him in
Dr.
r. Solomon Goldman, able president of the
thesis is far from complete in the light of re-
s. She had never been on the
cently authenticated information, and his failure Zionist Organization of America, went on record stage until induced to do so about
to gather necessary facts from established theo- in his brilliant address delivered at the opening 1922
session of the recent convention in New York as the time of their marriage, and she
logical sources is to his discredit.
favoring the replacement of the "old" men on scored an instant East Side hit for
Of particular interest in this connection is Dr. the executive and administrative committees with her talent and her beauty. It was
sdaied
ir i . at the Beth Israel Hospital
Freud's attitude on Judaism. Recently, personal new and more aggressive spokesmen.
papers of an autobiographical character were pub-
that she was in his room
oo when he
But the incumbents on the executive committee
fished, and among them was a letter by Prof.
were re-elected, and the revolutionary idea of the
Freud in which he spoke of the persecution of
In recent years Thomashefsky
brilliant leader of the movement remains an essay.
the Jews. According to an article in the New
had been living again on the East
Who is to blame for failure to reinvigorate
York Times of Feb. 12, 1939, by Philip Brooks
Side—at 10 Monroe St. It WAS
existing movements in this country, and to place
thaeyreevtehnaitngh.e was stricken with a
d
this letter was "of great dignity and restraint."
young men at the helm of Jewish community
According to Mr. Brooks another letter signed work?
heart attack about 9 o'clock Satur-
day
by Prof. Freud at Berchtesgaden in 1929 con-
The trend is in the direction outlined by Dr.
are three sons, Dr.
tained the following statement: "I am just as
Goldman, whose sincerity on this proposal is un- Milton Thomashefsky, who for
little an adherent of the Jewish religion as of
questioned. But the only cause in American many years was his father's mana-
any other."
Jewish life which has seen fit to elevate the
This declaration throws light on the new Freu- younger men to positions of importance is the ger, and Theodore Thomas, a Holly-
wood script writer. At one time the
dian theory regarding Moses. The father of Bnai Brith.
Yiddish actor estimated that 46
psychoanalyais apparently was little concerned
Of course, important movements would be com- of his
were connect-
about the reactions to his conclusions on the part mitting suicide if they were to eliminate from
ed with the stage. Paul Muni 9
of Je•a.
He is quite evidently less concerned
leadership the older men. Their experience is bin
about the people from whom he sprung then is needed. Their guidance is extremely valuable.
to be expected.. Therefore a slur, even though But what is needed is new blood, new energy, un-
. The Youth of a Nation are the
it may have been unintentional, was made by a limited devotion and the elimination of that tired
trustees of Posterity.
man who should have stuck to the psychoanaly- spirit which is fatiguing the veterans.
—Benjamin Disraeli.



Y9

Tel Aviv is 30 years old.
The end of the first generation in the
life of this all-Jewish city is by no means
the end of a great romance which is un
paralleled in the history of city building.
Junior Hadassah Raises
Tel Aviv began as a sand dune. It did
Religion and Magic
$92,000 for Palestine
not have a single resident in what is to-
day a landmark in civilization. But Jews (CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)
NEW YORK.—The sum of
All In One Cauldron
I ones used at the dawn of re-
had to build a home, and they created
$92,000 for education, social
, corded history as well as today
The following cable epitomizes the a miracle.
for certain prayers, rites and by other peoples is obvious. The
service, youth settlement and
tragedy which has become known as the
Today Tel Aviv has close to 200,000 devices to be used when the Jew same could be said for the even land purchase in Palestine was
(CONCLUDED FrtiO1 PAGE ONE)
most horrible plight of modern times:
people. It has a port. It has industries. It travels between his synagogue more general observance of the raised during the past year
refugees who, during the period,
Junior Hadassah, the
thrives with life. It pleads for an oppor- and his home or between one Kapparah rite, modern Jewry's by
sought rescue by boarding 15
immigration. The Buenos Aires
Young Women's Zionist Or-
obeisance to the ancient scape-
SOFIA, Bulgaria, July 8 — Two Danubian
different "stray" boats in an el .
town and another. There would
tunity to live and to expand.
Committee secured 1,242 per-
ganization of America, ac-
goat offering.
steamers have arrived at Ruscuk with 982
fort to find entry at some hos-
seem
to
be
a
likelihood
that
not
Today
Tel
Aviv
is
still
surrounded
by
mits, enabling 2,407 immigrants
cording
to
a
report
issued
refugees
of
Czech,
Slovak
and
Aus-
Subtitled "A Study in Folk
Jewish
pitable shore. 726 of these tale'
demon but a barbarous Chris-
to enter Argentine.
here by Miss Ernestine
enemies. It is threatened by British be- the
trian origin, intending to go to Palestine.
sengers were enabled by MIA S"
tian whose wrath was to be Religion," Trachtenberg's richly
Kirschner, national treasurer.
trayals. It is attacked by wild Arabs. It assuaged was involved.
anointed volume, covers virtually
Those aboard one ship era all apparently
ICA to land in several South
6431 Rescued
Miss Kirschner also announced
every phase of the fears, in-
well-to-do professional persons. On the other
is compelled to continue to battle against
A considerable number of the American countries; 200 were
But this seeming contradiction
stincts, foibles, dreams, aspira- that during the game period
ship most of the passenger. s are virtually des-
emigrants were admitted to the compelled to return to Hamburg
many obstacles.
is not relevant to the subject
the organization gained 3500
ob-
tions
and
prejudices
which
are
titute.
United States in accordance for whom assurance was
Tel Aviv lives as a symbol of Jewish matter of the book. Any one who the compound of masa religion new members, increasing the with
be
the quotas of the respective tained that they would not
The Bulgarian authorities permitted the
has the slightest interest in the
total
to
18,000
in
250
units.
determination
not
to
yield
to
terrorism,
for Jews as for every other peo-
countries of origin, and on the taken to concentration came,•
steamers to moor at a small island pending
composition of Jewish ideas, in
ple.
Trachtenberg
has
actually
and
1,076
refugees,
including
but
to
carry
on
its
great
tradition
of
per-
strength
of
affidavits
of
support
arrangements to take the refugees by train
the elementals of revealed faith,
additional evidence of
sworn to by the American rela- those on the tragically famous
to Varna, whence they will take ■ ship for
petuating the creative genius of the Jew- in the religious practices domi- provided
the fact that the Jews are not L. A. Sanatonum
tives of the refugees and mi- "St. Louis" were the object of
Palestine.
nant for the bulk of the Jews of
ish people.
as disparate from their neigh-
grants.
special negotiations and endear
Bulgarian Jews are collecting funds to
Greetings to Tel Aviv! Greetings to the America an elsewhere, must con- bors—even in religion— as their
iiiits-lcA in
sider "Jewish Magic and Super-
The "Rescue Through Emigra- ors on the part of
Moonlight
Aug.
13
assist the destitute. Apparently the passen-
enemies would make them ap-
all-Jewish
city's
Mayor
Israel
Rokach!
cooperation
with other organi -
atittition" an indispensable vol-
tion" activities were continued
gers do not have permits for landing in
zations.
Greetings to the people of Tel Aviv whose ume. Trachtenberg's chapters, pear.
Palestine.
The Detroit Auxiliary of 'the on a growing scale through the
battle is the struggle of all Israel for written in classicly precise prose, Running through the volume LOB Angeles Sanatorium and the first five months of 1939, the re-
is the labyrinth of ideas which
although
occasionally
turgid
be-
This cable merely tells that part of the freedom and for life.
Youth Chapter announce that port shows. Since Jan. 1 of the
cause of that precision, offer a has its milestones in angels, de- pthlaeneanonnualsum
ndoao ynligA
htugsvi1 1 3,takaet current year, the assistance of Trees Planted In
story which shows the existence of two
fascinating tour of the Jewish mono, the golem, amulet., divi-
the HIAS-ICA has made it pen-
nation,
astrology
and
Jewish
more storm-tossed groups of migrants in
mass
mind.
All
the
vaunted
ra-
eible to rescue 6,431 refugees
No Minonty Status
8:30 p. m.
The Butzel Forest
tionality and scientific stance of magic. One of the most inter-
search of a home. It does not state that
and guide them on their way to
Mike
Falk
and
his
dance
Under no circumstances will the Jewish the Jewish people find little con- esting points made by the au-
or- new homes. Of this number 1,492
they may be rejected in Palestine by an
chestra and a girls' vocal trio were
to a minority status in firmation in these excerpts from thor is that Jews never invoked have been engaged for the oc-
direct emigrants from Ger-
The Jewish National Fund
administration that is betraying its trust; people consent
a six hundred year history of "black magic." That is to say,
many. A substantial number of Council acknowledges the Plan t "
it does not say that the world is shutting Palestine.
all their incantations called upon casion. The ticketa in advance the latter category were re-
the
development
of
a
folk.
There
ing of the following trees in the
This is the firm decision of our people,
are priced at 50 cents. At the
its eyes to the sight of people wandering and based upon this uncompromising stand were very few—the name of the forces of God and never upon dock, these tickets will coat
75 leased from concentration camps Butte] Forest in Palestine:
the
adjutants
of
Satan.
Maimonides
stands
out
on
condition
that
the
cost
of
with
sin-
aimlessly on the high seas and that na- the battle goes on for recognition of Jew-
cents. Organizations and indi-
One tree in memory of Mrs'
gular force—who, cote(' with-
Trachtenberg has written • viduals are asked to take advan- their transportation would be
tions who call themselves civilized refuse ish historic rights.
connection with the work in be- Ida Siegel by Mr. and Mrs, Louis
stand the seepage of the ideas of work of scholarship. But it is no tage of the advanced sale price. paid outside Germany in foreign Tobin.
to hear the call for help from these
currency.
less absorbing for the fascinating
Jews want peace. We bid for it. We the times.
A check for $1,500 was re-
. and • • re ,
refugees.
have made advances to the Arabs who The "tefillin" and especially Picture it draws of the Jewish cently forwarded to the sana- All administrative expenses In Abraham Davidson in memory e'
people.
It
ix
not
the
history
of
In the long run, the well-to-do and the have benefited from Jewish efforts as much the "mezuzot" were essentially
torium as a result of the suc-
Mrs
T
-wollen
lmaMnr
t
re
Stillman.
ily
ry"Stb
anti-demoic devices originally. It the history books but of reality. cessful picnic which was attended alf of the refugees and immi-
destitute, who make up the cargoes on as the Jews.
Two trees In memory of Mrs.
goes without saying that those Read it.
by approximately 10,000 persons. grants, in Europe as well as over-
Herr,
the two boats at the Bulgarian port, are
Postponement of peace is not our fault. who wind the phylacteries about
a
(C.ryr'pht if
I'
have been covered by the Jennie liershberg by
This make ■
This
total
of
$6,700
re-
HIAS-ICA
out
of
their
Hershberg.
arm and forehead today are
in the same sad plight. They are inter-
It is the fault of the Arabs.
,
mated since Jan. 1. There are while the expenses resources
iv
l argely unaware of the history
One tree in memory of Mr
mingled in the boiling cauldron of hu-
It is the fault of the British.
ed in
Jr. Berditchever Moonlight now 13 Detroit p sties is in the the transportation of nvol
the Ger- Ida Siegel by Dr. and Mrs. Jo'.
sanatorium. A middle aged man
manity's barbaric treatment of human
It is the result of "appeasement" which of the practice. There are still
aeph
J. Fineman. • of
tens of thousands of yountsters.
on July 16
was sent about a week ago. Sam- man refugees have been borne
beings. Well-to-do and destitute alike does not appease.
by the
Two trees on the occasion
and also oldsters, who nightly
Colonization Asso-
It is tragic to think that there may be recite the prayer appealing for The Junior Berditchever Or- uel J. Leve, director of the Bu- elation, Jewish
have been refused admittance by the na-
the Joint Distribution the Bar Mitzvah of Richard Kes
of Investigation for Wayne Committee and the Council for
low by Mr. and Mrs. Willisrn
tions of the world, whose heartlessness is more tragedy as a result of such fruitless t he protection of the angels: "at ganization will have its annual reau
County, was instrumental In pro-
Hordes.
aggravating the plight of the floating hu- negotiations. But at least it must never be my right Michael, at my left moonlight on July 16, at 8 p. rn. vidine transportation and in fur- G ermany Jewry.
the
.
For information regar din
Gabriel,
before
me
Uriel,
behind
g
Tickets can be had from the mem- nishing an attendant for this pa-
man cargo for whom the only home ap- said that Jews have submitted to a "Munich
Fate of Storm-Tossed
t . •
planting
of trees in Pale:din:
me
Raphael."
The
similarity
of
bers,
or
can
be
purchased
at
the
tient. The auxiliary thanks Mr. The HIAS-ICA report also
pact" in Palestine.
pears to be "but the grave."
please call Mrs. Philip Slomevi
the intercessory

REPORT 81,736 JEWS LEFT CENTRAL
AND EASTERN EUROPE DURING 1938

prayer to the

dock.

Leve for his help.

throws light on the fate of 1,800 17417 Stoepel, Un. 1-6972.

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