A merica Ads* Periskesil eater 0 October 4, 1940 CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 19 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle Lc Shono Tovo Tikosevu PEGGY ANN Exclusive Frocks 9116 GRAND RIVER AVE. TYLER 6.1827 Sincere New Year's Greetings RELIANCE ALARM CO. EXTENDS GREETINGS OF THE SEASON to their many friends and patrons 228 CUSTER Trinity 2-2801 ROSH HASHONAH FRED M. BUTZEL DECRIES LETHARGY AND SENSE OF FUTILITY AMONG By RABBI MOSES FISCHER JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES With heave tremulous heart Jewry approaches the coming Rosh Hashanah, which in the true sense of the word may become "Yom Hadin," a "Day of Judg- ment," not alone for the indiv- idual but also for Israel, yea, for mankind at large, determining the bloom and doom of whole peoples and nations. The puerile and inquisitive question of other years as to what the entering year shall bring to us? becomes in the light of the catastrophical events of recent days one of tremend- ous importance and significance for the welfare of humanity. Little did we dream on Rosh Hashonah a year ago, while as- sembled in our Synagogues and Houses of Worship, listening there to the blast of the Shofar, that in the short space of twelve months many peoples and na- tions, hitherto considered and revered as the outposts of human civilization, as the very sanctuar- ies of human Liberty, as the cra- dles and laboratories of a new and more righteous social order —that before another New Year shall dawn upon mankind these vanguards and strongholds of human progress and civilization shall become prey and victim of the most ruthless, cruel regime that ever disgraced the pages of history! Little has the brooding genius of mankind conceived and apprehended the last Rosh Has- hona, that before the year shall run to its end, of all the power- ful and flourishing democracies of Europe, who guided and ruled the destiny of Humanity, only one shall be left unscathed and unconquered and that this one surviving democracy shall be en- THE LADIES OF THE YESHIVA BETH JUDAH Extend to all their members and to the entire Jewish community best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. MRS. M. ROTTENBERG, President BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR MILES L. WYMAN RANDOLPH 5240 Service Station HI-SPEED Gasoline—Oils Expert Lubrication Tire and Battery Service The extent of the Jewish world tragedy has not yet disclosed itself and it is impossible at this moment to forese the forms of Jewish life in the various countries of enemy domination. Even the role of Palestine is far from clear. Of immediate concern, how- ever, is the obvious lethargy in American Jewry and the prevalence of a sense of futility, with the consequent let-down in activity in contribution for our people in its distress. A large section of Jewry indulges in the rationalization that in the world catastrophy the Jewish situation is only incidental and therefore unimportant. Although Jewish interests coincide with those of decency, democracy and civilization, there is no gainsaying the fact that the Jews form a minority group with special problems, irrespective of the economic and political organization of the lands of their residence. Common decency demands that the Jews fortunate enough to be in America either through their own immigration or that of their ancestors should use their utmost efforts to prevent from degrada- tion and annihilation the Jews suffering oppression in other coun- tries and the Jews escaping from oppression to America. Let us hope that in the coining year American Jewry will more nearly realize its responsibilities. gaged in a terrific life and death struggle for its preservation! And little has Jewry imagined, while it poured out its soul in fervent silent prayer before the Throne of Mercy, and nothing was further from its thought and concepts than that while 600,000 Jews lived at that time in the Nazi controlled countries, at the mercy or rather at the hatred of their arch-enemies, at this New Year many millions of our brethren will be helpless and prostrate under the heel of our ruthless foes, subject to all op- pression and indignities which perverted minds could conceive! How vast and unsurmountable is the distance and difference be- tween this sad blood-drenched actuality and the exalted objec- tives for the realization of which Israel prays on its great Holy Days, in the most solemn season of the year! We shall quote only a few re- verberations and echoes from our sacred Holy Day lithurgy: "May Thou, 0 Lord, rule alone in Thy glorious splendor over mankind." "May each being know that Thou hast formed it and each creature, that Thou hast created it and may all of them establish a covenant of Brotherhood to serve Thee with perfect heart." "May the Kingdom of wicked- ness pass and perish away like smoke." Will indeed the agonized God- intoxicated prayers of Israel, the most fervent hopes of enlighten- ed mankind, the welter of blood which change into crimson riv- ers the battlefield; will the tears, afflictions, suffering and torture of the elect, will the dispair and anguish of fathers and mothers, will they be able and powerful to fill the gaps between the Di- vine visions of our prayer book and the savage brutality and bar- barism which mar the face of the earth and disgrace God's most noble creature— Man —in our days? Will impenetrable and unfath- omable Divine Omnipotence and Justice exact a new era of Right- eousness, of Morality, an era of Messianic Brotherhoon, Love and Peace from the present tribula- tions and sufferings of Mankind? "Watchman, what is with the night, what shall bring forth the night?" Let us approach the golden gates of Prayer at our Holy Days with implicit Faith and Trust that it will be so! Let us lift our hearts and hands to the Lord of all Life and Being that it shall be so! 2900 W. WARREN AT LAWTON TYLER 4-9536 Harold E. Stoll REGISTER OF DEEDS for Wayne County Extends Best Wishes to the Entire Jewish Community for a Happy, Prosperous New Year! Let brotherly love continue. —Hebrews 13:1. GREETINGS TO OUR MANY JEWISH FRIENDS We Wish for Everyone of You .. . GOOD HEALTH . . . HAPPINESS . . . PROSPERITY SALES SERVICE For Economical Transportation SEE THE NEW 1941 STYLE LEADER DEXTER CHEVROLET CO. Rosh Hashonah Greetings 1476 NATIONAL BANK BLDG. JOHN E. RAPP By FRED M. 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