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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
SECTION ONE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940
VOL. 42, NO. 24
Jewish Unit
Is Declined
By Britain
Speaks at Shaarey
Rabbis Hershman, Adler to Speak
Zedek Graduation
At Rabbinical Assembly Parley
Fortieth Annual Meeting of Conservative Rabbis to Be
Held in Detroit June 25-27; Sessions
to Be at Shaarey Zedek
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Hardship Is
Increased by
Italy's Act
evening of the assembly. Dr.
Hershman is also serving on the
convention committee which is
Two-Thirds of World
planning the program for the
Palestine's Best Contri-
meeting.
Jewry Affected
Rabbi Morris Adler of the
bution Called Its
Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, who is
by War
Resources
also serving on the convention
committee for the Assembly, will
Benito Mussolini's shock-
read a paper on "The Relation-
LONDON. -- (Palcor Agency)
ing declaration of war has
ship of the Rabbi to National Or-
—The British Government will
ganizations."
not yield in its decision not to
immeasurably increased suf-
accept the offer of the Jewish
This will be the fortieth an-
fering for world Jewry.
Agency to create a Jewish force
nual meeting of the Rabbinical
for the Allies it was stated in
Assembly of America, which in-
The stab in the back giv-
cludes 300 conservative rabbis
the House of Commons by Sir
en
France by the Italian
Edward Grigg speaking on be-
in the United States and Canada.
Duce places more than two-
The purpose of the convention
half of the War Office.
this year will be to forward and
Geoffrey Mander had asked
thirds
of world Jewry, in-
what action the government was
intensify democratic institutions.
cluding the Jews of Pales-
proposing to take on the Jewish Federation at Disposal The sessions of the convention
will be devoted to discussions of
Agency's offer and whether the
tine, under the shadow of
problems of importance to rabbis
DR. MAX ARZT
industrial and scientific resources
of United States
the Nazi and Fascist threats
in the American community and
of the Jews of Palestine for sup-
The annual graduation of the
in Defense
plying bases in the Middle East
will include a consideration of
to humanity.
their relationship to national or- high school department of the
would be mobilized.
There are approximately
ASBURY PARK, N. J. — The ganizations, the interfaith move- Shaarey Zedek will be held on
Utilize Resources
reconstitution of a "free, just ment, the Jewish Center move- the Sabbath, June 22, in the main 4,000,000 Jews in belliger-
and democratic Poland" was urged ment, local congregations and synagogue immediately following
In reply Sir Edward referred in a message from Stanislaw Kot, Jewish learning. At the session the services. The address will be ent countries, 3,000,000 in
the questioner to the answer that vice premier of the Polish Gov- devoted to the Jewish Theological given by Dr. Max Arzt, president neutral lands, all dependent
had been given to Col. Josiah C. ernment in exile, at Angers, Seminary of America, of which of the Rabbinical Assembly of upon the Americas for sus-
Wedgwood when he made a sim- France, that was read to dele- most of the members of the As- America, and at present instruc- tenance and large numbers
ilar inquiry on May 23.
gates attending the 32nd annual sembly are graduates, Dr. Louis
in Asia and Africa who are
The government, Sir Edward convention of the Federation of Finkelstein will deliver a special
See GRADUATION—Page 12
threatened with hardships
stated, had received valuable as- Polish Jews in America at the address on the life of Dr. Cyrus
sistance from the Palestine Cor- Hotel Clarendon-Brunswick here Adler. Dr. Finkelstein has suc-
as a result of the spread of
poration (headed by Sir Robert Sunday.
the conflagration.
ceeded the late Dr. Adler as
Waley-Cohen) when it had sur-
Mr. Kot said he was "confident president of the Jewish Theologi-
veyed the economic and indus- that Polish Jews in America would cal Seminary. He has also been
Jewish Doctors Released from
trial resources of Palestine which fulfill" their duty toward Poland. recently appointed by President
Concentration Camps as
might be utilized in a war effort.
The 400 delegates unanimously Franklin D. Roosevelt as repre-
Nazi Losses Mount
It had been decided that the best adopted a resolution placing the sentative of the Jewish people
contribution that could be made federation at the disposal of the in negotiations for world peace Internal Difficulties to
LONDON. (WNS) — An indi-
by Palestine in the• utilization of national defense program of the with other religious leaders.
that the losses suffered by
Face Convention in cation
its existing resources was to pro- United States.
the Nazi Army since its invasion
Dr. Max Arzt of the Jewish
A second resolution' expressed
vide general stores and equip-
Pittsburgh
of the . Low Countries must be
ment for the troops in the Mid- the hope that "a reconstituted Theological Seminary of America,
enormous was furnished by two
Polish
Republic
would
emerge
as
president
of
the
Rabbinical
dle East.
In a statement to The Detroit reports reaching here.
from the European conflict, in Assembly, will present his presi-
One report stated that the
which true democracy would reign dential message at the opening Jewish Chronicle, Hyman A.
Firm Decision
and in which vigorous measures session of the convention. The Schulson, who is directing the Nazis had ordered the release of
Col. Wedgwood recalled that would be taken to prevent the Morris D. Levine Memorial Lec- forces that are backing the pro- all Jewish doctors imprisoned in
it had been stated on May 23 discrimination and persecution of ture in Hebrew will be delivered gram of Dr. Solomon Goldman concentration camps throughout
that no offer had been received Jews which prevailed in Poland by Rabbi Herman Hailperin of and his supporters for the reor- Greater Germany and recently
from a Jewish organization.
preceding the war." The organiza- Pittsburgh on "Intellectual Rela- ganization of the Zionist Organ- acquired Nazi territories. Ger-
Sir Edward Grigg answered tion also voted to change its name tions Between Christian and Jew ization of America, and who are man doctors are unable to cope
that he believed that it had been to the American Federation for in Europe with Special Reference seeking the election to the presi- with the number of wounded sol-
stated that a particular form of Aid to Polish Jews," "more ade- to Rashi and Nicolas de Lyra." dency of a man who will be diers, the report said, and Nazi
an offer had not been received quately to express its purposes."
Among the other speakers will pledged to the Goldman plan, this authorities found it necessary to
but that the utilization of Jewish
County Jerzy Potocki, Polish be Rabbi David Aronson of Min- week denied the allegations pub- call upon Jewish doctors for
troops had been fully discussed. Ambassador at Washington, wired neapolis, Rabbi Armond E. Co- lished last week in Phineas Bi- service.
Sir Edward answered affirma- the convention his greetings: "I hen of Cleveland, Prof. Israel ron's "Strictly Confidential" col-
All Jewish doctors in Austria,
tively when Col. Wedgwood asked am fully convinced that the close Efros of Buffalo, Rabbi Ira Eis- umn, that he is not a member of Polan d, Czechoslovakia, the
if the decision had been made. ties of love and remembrance that , enstein of New York City, Rabbi the Zionist Organization. Mr. Scandinavian and Low Countries,
binds us to our heroic Poland, Israel M. Goldman of Providence, Schulson, who directs the pro- in addition to those in Germany
now in such deep distress, and
committee work from of- itself, have been ordered to re-
Tel Aviv to Build Air Raid Shel- our hope for a better future for Rabbi David A. Goldstein of Goldman
Omaha, Rabbi William P. Green- fices at 49 Chambers St., N, Y., port to Nazi military hospitals.
ters. for 15,000
both our peoples, will serve as a field of Waterbury, Prof. Morde- informs The Chronicle that he is Jewish physicians in concentra-
TEL AVIV.—(Palcor Agency) beacon that will guide the dele- cai M. Kaplan of New York City, a member of the New York Zion-
tion camps have been released
—The seriousness with which the gates in all their deliberations." Rabbi Max J. Routtenberg of ish Society, that he holds a mem- for war duty. Severe penalties
Palestine Jewish Community is
Benjamin Winter of New York Reading and Rabbi Morris Sil- bership card in the Zionist Or- have been announced, the report
making preparations to meet any City was re-elected president of verman of Hartford.
ganization that shows he has paid said, for Jewish doctors who re-
emergency that might occur for the Federation, and M. Mald-
his dues as of May 17, 1940, and fuse to work in military hospi-
this country was reflected in the win Fertig, transit commissioner
that the membership card is num-
decision of the Tel Aviv Muni- of New York, was elected chair-
bered A41552 and is signed by tals.
The second report said that
cipality to construct air raid shel- man of the executive council.
Dr. Solomon Goldman.
Other officers elected include
Mr. Schulson was born in Pal- Nazi authorities, alarmed at the
ters to accommodate 15,000 peo-
Harry J. Rubenstein, Dr. Samuel
ple.
estine, and is second generation extent of the German losses, are
Palestinian. His father is Rabbi considering drafting Jews for ac-
It has recently been estimated Margoshes, Jacob Brown, Abra-
Solomon Schulson of Wilmington, tive military service, a reversal
that the population of the all- ham Goldberg, Abraham Werman
Jewish city of Tel Aviv may ap- and Mrs. A. P. Kaplan, all of Rabbis Franklin, Fram Del. He is 28 years old, is an of the Nazi decree of 1938
New York, as vice presidents; and
proximate 200,000.
Abraham I. Kandel of New York,
See WAR—Page 2
See ZIONISM—Page 12
to Participate in
treasurer.
See PALESTINE—Page 9
Two Detroit rabbis will take
part in the national convention
of the Rabbinical Assembly of
America which will be held here
on June 25, 26 and 27. The
headquarters of the convention
will be at the Shaarey Zedek
Synagogue and the Book-Cadillac
Hotel.
Dr. Abraham M. Hershman of
the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue
will be chairman of the seminary
POLISH JEWS
PLEDGE AID
CONTROVERSY
IN U. S. ZIONISM
RABBIS' PARLEY
IN CHARLEVOIX
Program
Council Favors Defense Program
Endorses Palestine Investments
Action Follows Public Relations Symposium; Loan
Proposed by Jewish National Fund Is
Given Unanimous Approval
Participants in the sympos lum
After a lively discussion at
the symposium of the Jewish
Community Council held last
Sunday afternoon in the Jewish
Community Center, the dele-
gates in attendance passed a
unanimous •resolution 'urging the
executive committee of the Coun-
cil at its next meeting to con-
sider ways. and means of ade-
quately financing the public rela-
tions program. The resolution
climaxed remarks by representa-
tives of various organizations
who strongly voiced their aware-
ness of the urgent need for
intensifying the defense activi-
ties.
Simon Shetzer, president of
the Council, presided.
entitled "In Defense of Human
Rights" were Harold Silver,
chairman of a sub-committee of
the committee on economic prob-
lems, who discussed "Anti-Dis-
crimination Work"; James I.
Ellmann, chairman of the public
relations committee, and Louis
Rosenzweig, a member of the
executive committee, both of
whom dealt with the "Public Re-
lations Program". The object of
this symposium was to present
a composite picture of the de-
fense activities of the Council
and to project a program for the
future.
Remarks of the speakers were
See CONFLICT—Page 12
The practice of previous years
of holding a preliminary meeting
for the discussion of experiments
in Jewish education will again be
repeated prior to the convention
of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis.
Preceding the sessions to open
in Charlevoix on June 18, the
meeting on Jewish education will
be conducted by Dr. Emanuel
Gamoran, director of education of
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations. The principal dis-
cussion will be on a paper on
"Experiments on Adult Jewish
Education" to be delivered by
Rabbi Leon Fram. This paper
will deal with the work of the
Beth El College of Jewish Stu-
dies of Detroit and will include
also results of investigations made
into similar institutions of adult
education in other cities. Rabbi
Fram will address the meeting at
The Inn, in Charlevoix, at 2 p. m.,
on Tuesday, June 18.
Dr. Leo M. Franklin will par-
ticipate in the program and will
report for the Tracts Commission.
Modern Guide to Perplexed
Irving Edman Offers "Candle in the Dark" as Encourage-
ment to Despairing i n Hour of Distress
"The worst war can not go on of resource can we find in a dark-
forever." Therefore, what about ness which we are first prepared
"the world after the war?" Will to accept as absolute?" But Mr.
the horrors of the present time Edman is not discouraged and
cause us to lose faith in man? disillusioned. He offers hope:
"The first ray of hope, per-
Will we permit ,"faith in the per-
fectibility of human nature and, haps, lies in the discovery that
through human nature, of human darkness may not be so absolute
institutions" to suffer a setback? as we had supposed. Nihilism is
These questions, which have a form of hysteria, and hysteria
disturbed the equilibrium of men, occurs where the patient, having
have caused Irving Edman to no possible solution, moans in-
write one of the most fascin- coherently in confused defeat.
ating little books produced in Bad as the present is, it seems
years. Through Viking Press he worse than any past only by vir-
has given us "Candle in the tue of the fact that it has its
Dark," the reading of which in- sharp edge of being here and
deed restores courage in man now. This is, of course, not the
and helps instill faith and con- first time in the history of civili-
fidence among those who have zation that sensitive spirits, bred
in a familiar culture, have de-
begun to despair.
"What can we do to keep sane clared, because that culture was
in a world gone mad?" he asks.
See PERPLEXED—Page 8
"What brief candles of hope or