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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal

Chronicle

and in brotherhood. There are historic
precedents for a common bond of friend-
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
ship between the two. Those who strive
Tidbits from Everywhere
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., for a rebuilt Jewish homeland and for
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
peaceful relations with the Arabs feel
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3. 187i.
justified in emphasizing this historic
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realization
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Puzzling news items include the
We did tell you, in a .ecent
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one about the Italian gold medal column, about that famous ;stint-
There is a much more important report brevet, a high military decora- ing by Max Band depictii..: the
JACOB MARGOLIS
Publisher
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
of this approach to friendship which de- tion, being awarded to Lieutenant Nazi pogroms of 1938 . . . I
Editor
MAURICE M. SAFIR
Advertising Manager
serves a wide and emphatic press. It comes Bruno Jesi, counsellor of the interest you to know th: may
the
ro insure publication, all correspondence and news matter in the form of a cable to the New York Union of Jewish Communities of French Art Gallery, where , , t. is
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. Times from Cairo, Egypt, from its eminent
Italy, and the announcement that having a one-man show ,..ring
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only.
correspondent, Joseph M. Levy. His cable Hitler has awarded the Grand the first three weeks of NI:ach,
describes the significant reception given Cross of Distinguished Service of has prohibited the exhibit:, 7 , of
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi-
in Cairo to the Palestine Orchestra, which the German Eagle to Explorer this painting . . . This soli. .mde
bility for an indorsement of the %news expressed by the writers.
is composed entirely of Jewish refugees Sven Hedin, who is frankly proud for Nazi susceptibilities
a
from
Central and Eastern Europe, when it of his 25 per cent of Jewish blood French gallery is beyond us.
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 35:1-38-20.
appeared in concert there for the benefit . . . Rumor hereabouts has it Leon Bloom, who is no ra, tion
Prophetical portion—II Kings 7:13-26.
of the Red Crescent of Egypt (the coun- that General Werner von Blom- to the former French prime min-
MARCH I, 1940
I ADAR 21, 5700 terpart of the Red Cross) under the di- berg, former German war minis- ister, but one of our finest pian-
ists and musical pedagogues, is
rection of the eminent violinist and foun- ter, has shared the fate of the opening
a school in New York
late
General
on
Fritsch,
together
der of the orchestra, Bronisla• Huber-
Happy Birthday, Dr. Franklin man.
with whom he was demoted a . . . He will give 10 scholarliips
couple of years ago because of each year to the most ta Imited
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle joins the
There have been reports and rumors to opposition to some of Hitler's pupils who study with him . .
host of friends of Dr. Leo M. Franklin, the effect that Egypt is demanding the policies . . . Neal O'Hara claims This reminds us that Fried rich
Schoor, the German cantor's son
Rabbi of Temple Beth El, in greeting him enforcement of the White Paper. To coun- that an inmate of an American who
is now with the Metropolitan
jail
gets
more
to
eat
than
a
on his 70th birthday which he will ob- teract these reports we see a great all-
"free" German citizen nowadays Opera Company, is planning to
serve next Tuesday, March 5.
Jewish orchestra appear in concert in an . . . Subscribers to Punch are branch out as a teacher of fut.
It is not Temple Beth El alone that Arabic environment, for the benefit of an still chuckling over that Low car- ure opera stars.
takes notice of this important day in Arabic cause, and we hear the orchestra toon which shows Hitler and Sta- Actor Curt Bois, who has re-
lin playing poker, with Hitler turned to Hollywood after a hrief
the life of one of Detroit's outstanding cheered. The New York Times correspon- saying:
"I'll raise you a neutral" excursion to New York, is pre-
citizens. For more than 40 years, since dent states that Mr. Huberman cancelled . . . So hard up are the Nazis paring to delight Coast play-goers
his coming to Detroit, Rabbi Franklin has other planned concerts to appear with for "evidence," for home-front with a piece called "Thank You,
interested himself in every important so- "his" orchestra in Cairo; that "the annual consumption, that America likes Columbus".
that recently they cited the
cial and religious movement in Detroit. visit of the Palestine Orchestra to Egypt them
Pittsburgh Tribune as favoring • INFORMATION PLAYS
Gentile as well as Jew knows him as a is the musical event of the season here"; their side .. . Their error being
Things about the Bible which
that this paper doesn't like Naz-
man motivated by the highest principles and he adds:
ism
and
has
said
so
editorially,
you
should know and which you
jn his devotion to causes involving the
"An enthusiastic reception was accorded and in 'any case couldn't by any
betterment of all groups, irrespective of to this orchestra . . . This was more than stretch of the imagination be ex- can learn from the Universal
Jewish Encyclopedia include:
their religious or national affiliations.
a mere appreciation of the excellent per- pected to be pro-Nazi, being an That a number of ostraca, or
organ
of
those
ultra-non-Aryans,
As the founder of the Good-Will move- formance of this first-class orchestra, how-
the Pittsburgh Negro commun- potsherds bearing writing, which
ment between Jew and Christian in De- ever. It was indicative of a change of ity.
were recently discovered at Lach-
troit, Dr. Franklin's forthcoming natal day heart on the part of Egypt. Less than six
ish shed an interesting light on
will without doubt call forth an interest months ago a concert under these cir- • LITERARY NEWS
the historical accounts in the
in the ranks of the non-Jews equal to that cumstances would have been thought im-
Dr. Emanuel Lasker, for 30 Books of Kings and Jeremiah
in the Jewish camp. Catholic will honor possible, for Egypt today is the leading years world's chess champion, is . . . That valuable light is thrown
him for the sincere fight he put up against Moslem country of the world and played very happy these days . . . His on the literary form of the Bibli-
books by the Ras Shamra in-
the vicious school amendment 18 years one of the most important roles in support book, "The Community of the cal
Future," is going to be published scriptions, which are written in
ago. Protestant will honor him for his of the Palestine Arabs in their nationalist this spring . . . It deals not with an alphabet new to the savants.
sincerity and for his tolerant spirit which rebellion."
chess, but with the great prob- . . . That recent archeological
of unemployment and mass excavations have zrought the dis-
knows no religious prejudices.
Here, briefly, is the story of a return to lems
education
. Talking of books covery of pieces of ivory decora-
And Jews will rejoice that Dr. Frank- peace, of the re-establishment of broth- be it known . . that
it will be futile tion from the palace of King
lin has retained his vigor and is as active erhood among two inter-related peoples, for you to try to entice Pierre Ahab of Samaria, who lived 2800
ago . . . That the Perizzites
on his 70th birthday as on the day he of a change of heart that must lead to van Paassen to any social func- years
mentioned in the Bible as one of
tion
.
.
.
He
is
in
retirement
first came to Detroit. The Detroit Jewish good for millions.
from now on, working on his new the seven Canaanite nations were
Chronicle is happy to be among the thou-
Why speak of liquor when music is book, which will deal with a sub- probably Hittite iron-workers ...
sands who wish him continued health and playing upon the hearts of men, and when ject that any intelligent man is That documents from Arrapkha,
interested in, but concerning describing the institutions of the
happiness on this occasion.
true brotherhood is finding an outlet which
we are pledged to secrecy Horites of about 1500 B. C. E.,
through reason and not through drunk- . • The third volume of Reu- a people who lived in Palestine
Historic Friendship
enness?
ben Brainin's collected works, before the Israelites entered that
Promised Land, show some re-
A front-page story in one of Detroit's
The return to friendship among Arabs containing his memoirs, will be out markable similarities to the ac-
by Purim, when the late Hebrew
daily newspapers last week aroused con- and Jews is one of the bright spots on an author
would have been '78 years counts given in the Book of Gene-
siderable interest and discussion. It was a otherwise most gloomy horizon.
old . . . It includes excerpts from sis . . . That practically every
his diaries that contain some line of the New Testament was
report from Jerusalem to the effect that
strong words on a number of written by Jews . . . That the
Jews and Arabs were fraternizing, that
The General Jewish Council
well known literary celebrities ... reading of the Five Books of
they were visiting each other's quarters,
Agreeing unanimously to remain in the The one-volume Columbia Encyclo- Moses in the synagogue is a cus-
that they resumed business relations, that General Jewish Council, the American pedia, published by the Columbia tom of over two thousand years'
standing . . . And that Zedekiah,
Arab youth were buying alcoholic drinks Jewish Congress, at its session in Wash- University Press, has a strange generally
regarded as the last
conception
of
values
..
.
It
gives
for Jewish girls while they themselves ad- ington on Feb. 12, adopted a program of Shalom Asch twice as much space king of Judah, is now known to
hered to Islamic precepts and drank fruit action which deserves serious considera- as it devotes to Bialik, three times have been merely a regent acting
in behalf of nephew Jehoiachim.
juices.
tion by American Jewry. The Congress as much as to Herzl, and four
(Copyright, 1940, S. A. F. S.)
For those who read the Jewish news- resolution outlined the following as es- times as much as to Weizmann.
papers and follow the news from Pales- sential first steps in the implementation
tine regularly, these reports, save the last of the agreement originally reached in
TRUE IN WASHINGTON'S TIME; TRUE TODAY
drinking episode, are not new. For sev- Pittsburgh for the creation of a unified
eral months now, since the Nazi spies and Jewish body to speak for American
propagandists were ousted from Palestine Jewry :
upon the outbreak of the war, the old 1. The extension of the membership of
friendships were restored, almost imme- the Council to include adequate represen-
ambit
Ovi* \ e sv‘p
kas of European
diately. Unfortunately, such encouraging tation of other American Jewish groups
00,
reSt, Urnouro,reah- periy
reports have, until now, had a rather bad in order that the General Jewish Coun-
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presss, and it is regrettable that good cil may become a body representative of
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news, indicating that Arab-Jewish friend- all classes and groups in American Jew-
ship is not beyond possibility, should be ish life.
2. The pooling of the fund-raising en-
tinged with insignificant references to
deavors of all four agencies and the
drinking.
Some months ago we commentated upon fixing of their budgets.
3. The creation and recognition of local
a report in a religious journal to the ef-
fect that there is an increase in the sale county councils organized upon a repre-
of alcoholic beverages in Palestine, and sentative basis under the exclusive super-
therefore also to intoxication. Because Pal- vision of the General Jewish Council.
4. The effective co-ordination of the ex-
estine is so closely linked with Jewry, it
isting
diverse activities of the four agen-
was easy to reach the conclusion that Jews
cies
by
placing all such activities under
are turning drunkards. Anyone who knows
Jews and their habits realizes at once the Council's direct supervision.
These proposals are reasonable. They
the absurdity of such a charge. It is pos-
are
timely, since they aspire for the per-
sible that the influx of soldiers is re-
sponsible for the rise in the sales of al- fection of a plan of action that would
duplication of effort and the
cohol. To place emphasis upon the heavy eliminate
overlapping
of fund-raising activities
sale of alcoholic drinks and their use by
There
has
been considerable debate on
Jews is therefore ridiculous compared with the question involving
the General Jewish
some of the actual great accomplishments Congress, and it is to the credit of the
in the land in efforts to establish peace leadership in the American Jewish Con-
among the two inter-related peoples.
gress that they have moved towards the
But it is well that the report from Jeru- retention of unity. But unity must also
salem received a good press and that it imply joint effort for action and not for
discredits earlier beliefs that Jews and silence and for the mere creation of con-
l breviler &Mortal Carico
Arabs can not live together in harmony sultative bodies.

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