May 24, 1940
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and
p urely Commentary
You Must Not Become Jittery
p
The Legal
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Detroit—A Convention City
Club House of
Women's Council
Has Been Sold
dent, this week made this appeal:
"May we suggest at this time
that you honor confirmants by
sending a contribution to Council's
worthy funds? Your gift will thus
s
a two-fold purpose—alto-
The Council
Detroit section
of the
Nu- serve
tional
of Jewish
Women
, g.e:ther fitting in these times.
. ease specify any of the fol-
announces that the Council club- lowin funds: Camp
Camp Vacation,
house at 89 Mack Ave. has been Refugee
Refugee
Citizenship,
zenship,
sold, and that offices will be lo- C
Adult Refugee, Ida E.
cated, until further notice, in the (1, , insburg. and Elsie F. Welling
at
WoodwardCommunity Center,
unds. Confirmants will be noti-
Wood wa I'd and Holbrook, tele- ,nfiee sds.,p , romptly of your thoughtful-
phone Madison 6970.
Mrs. Douglas I. Brown, presi-
It WirS" not so long ago that interpreters of
Detroit has become a convention city for the
international events told the world that Germany Jews of America. Beginning with the national
was playing for Britain's friendship; that she gathering of the Jewish National Workers' Alli-
at eliminating France and thus assure a ance (Farband), opening here next Thursday,
a imed
de ar field for her program of conquest. Today, there will be a number of conclaves here. Next
the m ajor cry is against Englnd. Even the month, the Rabbinical Assembly will meet at the
Cougnite
salesman of "Social Justice," stand-
Shaarey Zedek. The Union of American Hebrew
hl
ing on the corner of State and Woodward in
Congregations will hold its 1941 convention in
Detroit, has gotten the signal from somewhere to Detroit, The Women's League of the United
shout, "France will soon drop out of the war; it Synagogue of America will also meet in Detroit
a fight against England . . . " It has not next year.
is helped
him sell more copies of this hate-breeding
These are great honors for Detroit which has
magazine. Neither have the newppape rs increased served as convention city for the Zionist Organiza-
their stles by continually boosting the Nazis tion of America, the Council of Federations and
nearer to Paris—in their screaming headlines.
Welfare Funds, the National Conference of Jew-
There are very few people who can guess far
ish Social Workers and other groups.
en ough in advance to know exactly what will
Delegates are always assured a pleasant wel-
happen. Furthermore, there are not enough peo-
come in Detroit. Of great help to the national
p le w h o know the exact truth about the present movements is the e1/400peration the local people
situation to be in position to state with certainty
what the `tatus of either side in the war is to- give in planning the conventions. That's what
makes 'Detroit so attractive to the national
day. The only ones who seem to hold the upper
leaders.
hand are those who succeed in creating a state
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of panic among the people at lrge.
The Revisionists and "Malshinim"
It is this that we must all strive to prevent.
There must be no jitters, and we must avoid a
In his weekly syndicated column "Telling It
state of panic. What is necessary today is confi- in Gath" Rabbi Louis I. Newman of New York,
dence that right will triumph in the end. It is who is Vladimir Jabotinsky's chief supporter in
inconceivable that a single destructive force will
this country, warns against bearers of false tales
be able to conquer the world. This evil force —"Malshinim"—and reminds the General Zion-
will, sooner or later, defeat itself.
ists of the dictum "Thou shalt not bear false
People must learn to hold their heads high. witness." The occasion for his prefiching is a
Might - WILL be crushed. More horrifying than statement issued by Avukah, student Zionist or-
the war may be the peace that will follow it. The
ganization, in which the Revisionists are charged
flower of the youth of every people will either be with being strike-breakers and with being a near-
destroyed or crippled. The best that civilization
fascist minority. Rabbi Newman charges that this
has created will be uprooted. There will be need
statement was made in a letter to Gentiles.
for courage and faith in facing the problems
If it is true that such a message was addressed
that conic with a period of reconstruction. We to non-Jews, then Avukah deserves the rebuke.
must begin building this faith and courage NOW.
But the Revisionists ought to be the last to com-
Don't become panicky!
plain, since they are not immune from blame.
Retain your courage!
There are "Malshinim" among them. The Revi-
That which is represented by the beutality of
sionists disrupted unity when they asked British
Nazism must and will be destroyed, 'and a better authorities to intervene in the internal affairs of
(lay will come for all!
the Yisnub when the recent labor controversy
arose. Nothing more damaging could possibly have
been attempted by a Jewish group. It is needless
The Dutch and Their Tulips °
The spirit of The Netherlands, transported to to speak again of the frequent destruction of
Holland in 'the state of Michigan, provides an discipline, in times of crises, by the Revisionists
encouraging note in this „period of stress for all in Palestine. They have sound planks in their
Platform, but they abuse, the right to argue for
mankind. It offers a rebuke to the 100-per-centers
Who are so narrow in their view that they would them by the tactics they pursue.
uproot everything which,.. to. them, sounds foreign,
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and would confine themselves to a viewpoint that
A
Revisionist
Campaign
for Funds
is so isolationist that it would exclude everything
An
excellent
example
of
Revisionist
methods
which in their opinion is strange.
is offered this week by the Revisionists' new
. Holland's tulips were not yet in full bloom last
fund-raising effort. The announcement has just
Saturday. But their spirit dominated the scene
for 200,000 people who came to the community of been made of the launching of a drive for
15,000 to witness the transplantation of a cere- $500,000 by "the United States headquarters of
mony from the old world into the new. And our Tel Hai Fund Inc., 1123 Broadway (New York)
community is none the -worse for it. On the con- of which Vladimir Jabotinsky is world president"
trary, we gain by the spirit that has been trans- for the purpose of financing "the large-scale im-
migration of approximately 60,000 Jewish refu-
ported here. We are enriched by the culture that
gees from several Danubian ports to Palestine."
has been added to ours.
Anyone who is at all familiar with the difficult
There was a spirit of sadness in the Holland
of our state, due to the barbarism that has been task of conducting Aliyah Beth work and of set-
brought to The Netherlands by the Nazi terror. tling refugees in Palestine will at once recognize
in this statement an act of irresponsibility.
But the Dutch spirit carries on. It can not be
In the first place, the settlement of 60,000'
downed. The tulips seem to carry with them a
warning to Nazism that barbarism can not survive, refugees at a cost of $500,000 would mean a per
and that nature must triumph. Holland will be capita transportation cost of $8. Granted that
all colonization costs will be covered by other
her natural self again when the crisis is over.
For the isolationists and the assimilationists. existing funds, this is a fantastic figure, unless
the sum asked for is to be used as an operat-
the tulip has another lesson. It seems to say .thal
all people can learn from one another; that ing fund 'to negotiate with people for whom
America has been enriched by her varying groups transportation arrangements are to be made. In
and cultures, and can be further enriched by that case, this becomes not a national Jewish
drawing upon the best of all groups: Those who effort but a business venture, and the Revision-
hate aliens merely hate a part Of mankind. It is ists owe it to the Jewish people to give an ac-
counting of • themselVes and their plans. .
one thing to dislike the destroyers of living things
It is quite , plain that the Revisionists, who
and • to disapprove of fifth columns ; it is another
thing to encourage the creative and the living refuse to share responsibility for fund-raising in
regular national activities, like the Keren Hayesod
things.
Holland, Mich., offers a splendid argument for and Keren Kayemeth, nevertheless aim to acquire
the benefits that come from these funds. Also,
Zionism through the annual tulip festival. There
it is clear that instead of co-operating in the
is no reason why all peoples should not have the
established efforts for the colonization of Pales-
opportunity to strengthen the things that are
natural to them and to share them with the world tine through the usual Channels, they seek to
at large. We are now sharing. the Bible with all create a t,dissident effort in order to strengthen
mankind; we believe that another. Bible is in the their own party. •
If some one were to organize a new land-
making in the New Judea.
But we know what some of our own people redemption fund to compete with the Keren
would say if a Jewish community were to re-enact, Kayemeth—the Jewish National Fund—:it is nat-
a Palestine ceremony in this country. They would ural to expect that Jewry would be up in arms.
There is reason for resentment also in the crea-
ask us tohush matters up, to hide our ceremonies.
not to display our spiritual wares. Of course, their tion of a separatist fund for colonization pur-
poses. This is not the time to split Jewish rank.- . .
attitude is wrong. It stifles natural action. It stills
This is a time for unity. And yet, the Revision-
the conscience of a people. It crushes a nation's
spirit. This group has something to learn in Hol- ists speak of "Malshinim", and complain of in
land, Mich., from the Dutch in this country, from justice in Zionist ranks! They had better look
into their own records and search their own
their ceremonies and their tulips.
.hearts. All they have done is criticize and disrupt.
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They have failed to cooperate in the every-day
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was a human dynamo. She activities in behalf of a Jewish Palestine. They
proved wrong in judgment on many issues, but have no share in the material aid given in the
she battled for her ideas
and ideals
with
courage,
of Eretz
Israel. help
Recognizing
need
Whatever
else
may
be for upbuilding
criticism which
should
improve the
Zionist
and
with
self-sacrifice.
said about her, there was never any doubt about work programmatically and methodologically, it is
one thing: she was honest. She meant what she nevertheless
true—and
most at
regretably
the Revisionists
have been
their best so—that
in mud-
said,
believed
in her
what
she did. was provided slinging. Instead of starting drives for new funds,
The and
best
proof of
sincerity
by her rejection of Communism. When she was motivated by petty party pride, they should do
deported to Russia by the United States, she. penance and seek their way back into Zionist
shouted at the pier that she and the Bolshevilii ranks, under the discipline of the World Zionist
ga ization.
Y.,,111 come back one (lay to claim America foNL., Or n
' ..°Tilmanisin. But when she learned of the horrible.
THE JEWISH CALENDAR
hesitate methods of the Soviets, she did not
5700-1940
to denounce the Bolsheyiki; She could
Sunday, May 26
.
have been a national Soviet heroine had she con-
Lag B'Omer
Friday, June 7
lormed% She refused to do that. She was too hon-
Rosh Chodesh Sivan
Wednesday. June 12-13
est for self-betrayal.
Shevouth
Tuesday, July 23
Another interesting fact about Emma Goldman
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
Monday, August 5
is .that she loved America, in spite of all her
Rosh Chodesh Ab
agitations among trouble-makers. She longed to
Wednesday, September 4
Rosh Chodesh Ellul
return to this country, and her lecture tour here
5701-1940
In . 1934 was a labor of love.
Thursday, October 3
Rosh Hashonah
.,,n$a Goldman played an important part in a
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Saturday, October 12
Yom Kippur
significant era in American history. Her program
All holidays begin at sundown of the preceding
could not be accepted, but her personality will
secular day
not t be forgotten.
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