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October II, 1940

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Opportunity Guild
By Philip Slomovitz Displays Its Articles
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larity in the community. The
number of members registered in
the department is greater than
ever before. Membership is $60
per year.

American Zionist organ. The "enriched editorial"
The Beginning of a Better World
Unusual and attractive mer-
participants (listed on the editorial board now in
In one of his Rosh Hashonah sermons, Dr. A.
Solomon chandise, made by members of
Dr.
formation
are
Rabbi
I.
Eisenstein,
M. Hershman called the attention of his congre-
the Oppo•unity Guild of the Re-
gation, at the Shaarey Zedek, to a prophecy in Goldman, Prof. Oscar Janowsky, Rabbi Israel H. settlement Service, is on display
Levinthal,
Rabbi
David
deSola
Pool
and
Dr.
Stephen
the Zohar, the Cabbalistic book of the 13th cen-
at the Jewish Community Center,
tury, which predicted that the year 5700 would S. Wise) had better be on guard that this pledge every day from Monday through
is
carried
into
effect.
The
first
issue
shows
the
mark the end of the existing civilized order and
Friday, from 10 a. m. through
that its aftermath would introduce the beginning New Palestine to be at least a score of degrees 2 p. m.
below
the
standard
of
its
predecessor.
Perhaps
of the foundation for a new and better world.
Many articles that proved fa-
Rabbi Hershman rightfully pointed out that the the "enriched editorial" board had better call back vorites last year, including travel-
to
editorial
service
the
genius
of
Louis
Lipsky
first half of this prophecy has come true, and ex-
ing accessories and items for a
pressed confidence that the other half would also whose pungent editorials made the New Palestine baby's wardrobe, as well as new
an organ to be reckoned with.
prove true.
(Judge "The 'New' New Palestine" side by side types of merchandise, are being
We concur with Rabbi Hershman in his con-
with the Hadassah News Letter and you will catch shown. The public is invited to in-
fidence and we believe with him not only that
we mean. The latter is well dressed, well spect the displays.
we shall soon see the rise of a better world, but what
written, dignified and a worthy organ of a great
that the great ethical and moral values which movement. This can not be said for the revised
Jewry has given to the world, both through Juda- organ of the Z.
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ism and her offspring, Christianity, will be vin-
Construction at the
(The special Rosh Hashonah issue of The De-
dicated. There is especially no ground for despair troit Jewish Chronicle contained more than 25
Jewish Center
with regard to Jewish survival. We have suffered, columns of Zionist and Palestine news and fea-
our people are suffering today, many communities
tures. At this rate, again making comparisons
To accommodate the needs of
will be destroyed, but Israel will survive. All the with "The 'New' New Palestine", we could easily
the
enlarged Health Club mem-•
evidence that is necessary in proof of this con-
replace the revised Z. 0. A. organ as spokesman bership of the Jewish Commu-
tention is the presentation of the salient facts for the Zionists of America.)
nity Center, Woodward at Hol-
regarding the changes in Jewish population. It
Speaking of Jewish journalism in America, we brook, two new squash courts
is believed that in 538 BCE the Jews of the
wish to take this means to welcome to our fold
world numbered approximately 100,000. In 600 the Jewish Digest, the first number of which just and a sun deck are being built.
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ond Temple, there were 4,500,000 Jews. This to the Reader's Digest, this periodical, edited by above the original handball
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many Jews will remain after the present con- Digest should fill an important need for American
flagration, we have learned sufficiently from his-
Jewry.
tory to be certain that the present era of de-
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struction and terrorism will be followed by a re-
Russia—Largest Jewish Population Center
turn to sanity and the survival of justice and
Advantages
of
righteousness. The righting of the wrongs done
Russia again vies with the United States as
Erman's
to the Jewish people will be not the least but the largest center of Jewish population in the
one of the most important symbols of this triumph world. If it is true as the London Jewish Chron-
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Russia with the acquisition of Bessarabia and the
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Baltic. States; or 5,500,000 Jews according to the
• EYE-APPEAL
The Italians Blame—the Falashas
even larger estimate reached by Eliahu Dobkin,
• COOLER LIGHT
The London Jewish Chronicle reports:
head of the immigration department of the Jew-
• ENGINEERED LIGHT
The Fascists in Italy now concede that all
ish Agency for Palestine, then Russia must be
is not well in Abyssinia, and that trouble is
• QUALITY OF LIGHT
conceded first place as Jewish population center
brewing among the subjects of the Negus.
in the world.
• MANY TIMES MORE LIGHT
But the reason they give for the unrest is a
Under the rule of the last Tzar, there were
novel one. It is not the Fascist regime of
nearly 7,000,000 Jews in Russia. After the World
suppression, nor the natural desire of the
War I, and upon the dissolution of the Russian
Abyssinians for their independence; for the
empire, the United States had the largest number
Italians can hardly admit such facts. Instead,
of Jews in the world, with the newly-created
they have looked round for a scapegoat, and
Poland ranking second. Russia then dropped to
have found one in--believe it or not—the
third place.
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The latest geographical changes and the jug-
Abyssinia contains a tribe known as the
gling with populations has suddenly thrown addi-
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Black Jews, or Falashas, who claim Pales-
tional millions of Jews under Russian domination,
tinian descent, and it is these unfortunates
and the land that controlled the destiny of half
whom the Italians are parading, in Goebbels'
the Jewish population in the world again "shel-
style, as the real fomentors of Abyssinian
ters" the largest single group of our people,
unrest. And so the Falashas are now being
Unfortunately, these millions under Russian
denounced as the agents of Great Britain
ONE OF THE MOST MODERN IN THE STATE
domination are returning to a status not much
and the Negus.
NEW PUPILS NOW BEING ENROLLED
different from that of the Tzars. Until the last
It makes little difference where you go—to war, Jews were herded together in a Pale of
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Germany or to Italy, to Japan or to Abyssinia: Settlement where they were at least permitted
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the scape goat is there in the person of the Jew. to live as Jews but where they were limited in
And yet, we refuse to believe that the people their economic sphere and where they were com-
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at large believe this nonsense. The Italian press pletely deprived of right as citizens. Today, under
Traseportation furnished for children who live at •
is anti-Semitic ; it could not be otherwise — by the Soviets, Jews are regimented there economi-
distance from the school.
order of the Fascist government. But do the peo-
cally with the rest of the population and are
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pie accept what they read—especially when their not singled out for persecution, politically, but are
government tries to blind them into believing hounded for adhering to their faith, for aspirations
that a handful of Jews can upset the plans of to retain their Hebraic cultural values and the He-
mighty II Duce? We doubt it. Surely there are brew language and for aiding their less fortunate
enough sensible Italians who have it figured out,
people in the upbuilding of the Jewish National
who realize that there is a limit to inhumanity Home.
and who are prepared for the end of the regime
Whatever was constructive that was hoped for
whose acts disgrace the history of their land and
after the last war has been destroyed. It is to be
people.
hoped that the aftermath of the present terrible
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ations on the part of the peoples of the world.
Jewish Journalism in America
The Jewish press in America has not made the
Alla Nazimova—From Jewess to Catholic
progress it should have in the past decade. In a
sense, it has retrogressed. While the Yiddish daily
to Jewess Again
newspapers continue to pursue the same path as
"Hamabit," columnist for the South African
they have in the last 20 years and are at least Zionist Record, is authority for the following:
adhering to an established policy, the English-
"I remember how fascinated we all were
Jewish weeklies and monthlies have not done so
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years ago, in the days of the silent film, by the
well.
brilliant acting of Madame Alla Nazimova. At the
National Jewish Monthly of Bnai Brith has only time many of us were under the impression that
slightly improved itself with the new style this gifted artist was a Jewess, until it was an-
Wyandotte
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adopted two years ago. In fact, some prefer the nounced that she was a Roman Catholic. Now I
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earlier style. Opinion retains normal status. The hear that Alla Nazimova, who is 61 years old,
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Menorah Journal, the Jewish Frontier, Jewish was actually a Jewess who had herself baptized
Social Studies and Contemporary Jewish Record as a Roman Catholic at the age of 17. Recently
Wyandotte, Mich.
2400 Biddle Avenue
remain the best Jewish publications available.
she stated: 'Of course I consider myself a Jewess
But the best example of a come-down is "The and a full-blooded one. Both my parents were
'New' New Palestine", as the official organ of the Jews. They were not religious and never cared
Zionist Organization of America styles itself edi-
for the ceremonial rites of the Jewish faith. I
torially in the issue which marks the change in am sorry that I embraced Catholicism. It was a
format. The new format of the New Palestine foolish gesture of a bacitfiecii (flapper), who was
is to be preferred to its predecessor, but with it too young to understand the implications of such
its readers had a right to expect improved con- a step. Today I feel that my Jewishness is so
tents, better arrangement of news and feature much a part of myself and of my art, that 1
articles, an effort to produce an attractive pub- look upon the Catholic interlude of my life as
lication.. We are sorry that we must pass uncom- something that never really happened.'"
plimentary judgment on the revised New Pales
This is merely another example of the mingled
tine. It is poor in content, it is amateurish in
emotions which have been aroused by Hitlerism
make-up, it displays poor judgment in selecting and its various brands of hatreds and prejudices.
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the news. Zionists have a right to expect that In most instances Jews have been brought back
their official organ will enlighten Zionists and will to their people in a spirit of greater loyalties.
It will receive our careful considera-
make an effort at intelligent interpretation of In some instances there have been resentments
tion from inception to completion.
the movement's problems. But when this official which have accentuated what we have come to
term self-hatred marked by an extreme desire to
publication devotes its first page to a rehash of
news that appeared in Jewish periodicals more disappear as Jews. In Nazimova's case, it ap-
than a month earlier and then proceeds to give pears to be a matter of revived loyalties.
Apropos of this we are prompted to tell the
greater emphasis to advertisements than it does
to literary material, it insults the intelligence of story of the evolution of a name: It began a
its readers. "Improved in form, broadened in generation back as Levy. Every five years it
scope, enriched with editorial participation of underwent a change—to Levi, Leavi, Leavey,
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prominent members of the movement, the New LeVey, LaVous, LaRose, until 1940—when it
Palestine enters upon its 31st year of service to became Levy again.
Time and its human reactions have much .to. do
American Jewry," concludes the editorial in the
with loyalties—their fading and revival.
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