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divided the American Jewish community
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country as to efforts in Palestine.
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"Blitz-Greek" i what Broa.:-
American correspondents in
Is it pomible that a friendship of many
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ti era
Berlin don't like to attend the way calls Italy's experience .•
years: can be destroyed in time of crisis? Goebbels gab-fests, even thougn Hellas . . • Mussolini, it seen.
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Sewell Oftras
Is it conceivable that today, when we
Itra food ration cards are expected his own and Hitler
laved to all present at the press Fifth Column to do the trick
need
unity
more
than
ever,
there
may
be
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a break in the cooperative efforts of the conferences . . One reporter, him in Greece . . . Which shoa
time—on that II Duce doesn't know it:-
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vari(Jui elements in the Jewish population however, goes every
the theory that it y extra f000 Iliad . . . Because if he did h.
wouldn't have expected a Troja-
of America?
he at means so much less: for Horse to fool the Greeks. wr.
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the
German
army
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In
Ger-
The Jews of this country should rise
err; ra.ws
comments a wag after invented the beast some 3.(‘'..
up as one and demand that the friendly many,
reading about the new edict le- years ago.
f t et.L
relationships among the various national galizing dog meat for human During the last world war
seoe
rt
ife,
agences should not be broken. Naturally, consumption, it now a case of "sauerkraut" became "liberty
yt,s8 srt
cabbage"—and this time the ey-
Palestirlle's interests are not 1.0 be sacri- dog eat dog . . . Sign reported clarnation "Gesundheit!",
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the
marquee
of
a
bombed
ficed on such an altar of unity; and, of on
rry
London movie house: "Smash which one ,g - reet.s a sneeze.
1:e t.T. tleteliteNtl'l T oae-,
course, a false front based on unreal Hit Great Gigantic Goering" ... gradually giving way to "G
friendship is not always desired. But And from London too comes the Bless America!"
.5.al,Latle Scriptural Selactivas
based on the needs of the hour and on story of the old Jewi} woman BRAZILIAN INFORMATION
Per.:tata-1;tz.al portion.--Gen. 25
after spending the night in
the current demands for unified efforts who,
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an air-raid shelter, finally went
in relieving the sorrow of millions of out to look for her home in the Did you know that the pi:(..t
litea44; of tie Law f•:a. Rods Claode-sh
Sunday, Dec. I.
Jews and in providing homes for as many Whitechapel district . . . As she and interpreter for Pedro Al-
de Cabral, who discoverei
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of them as possible, division in our ranks walked through st reets strewn vares
with the wreckage of Nazi- Brazil in 1500, was a Polish Jew
CHESHVAN 2K, 5701 would be criminal.
NOVEMBER 29, 1944
blasted tenements she was seen who had been forcibly baptized
Having learned the value of unity, we to shake her head slowly from by explorer Fasco da Gama and
the name Gaspar da Ganta?
must riot sacrifice it. We must plead and side to side . . . "Ai-ai-ai", she given
The Annual Education Issue
muttered to i.rself, "it's just . . . That Brazilian island Nor-
strive for its retention. Those who will like in Egypt."
onha was named after Fernando
de Noronha, a Portuguese Mar-
This issue of The Detroit Jewish Chron- be responsible for breaking the united
rano who with six shiploads of
Jewish
front
in
America
may
find
in
the
POT-POURRI
icle marks the petpetuation of a whole-
his coreligionists settled in Brazil
future that they are guilty of an irrepar-
s/me community precedent.
Rene Kraus, Austrian biog- three or four years later? . . .
able
wrong
not
only
to
the
Jews
of
Amer-
For a period of five years, we have
arpher of Winston Churchill, is That it was Jews and Marranos
first brought sugar and to.
been setting aside a complete edition a ica but to the Jews of the entire world. leaving these shores for England, who
where he expects to write a book bacco to Portugal from Brazil?
year in the interest of Jewish education,
. . And that when the Dutch.
on the RAF.
in 1630, captured Recife Inow
on the occasion of Education Month of
The Palestine Incidents
In case you want to know Pernambuco 1, the M arra nos
the United Hebrew Schools.
happened to the auto- stopped pretending and lived
Great Britain's cause has been harmed whatever
graphed Mussolini photo that
This year, we continue this practice, in
as Jews? . . . The main
mogul Walter Wanger openly.
street of Recife at that time was
the hope that the movement to increase during the past week by the blunderings movie
used to prize in other days, it's popularly known as Rua des
devotion to learning may be strengthened. of her colonial officials.
now hanging in an unoccupied
which means "port of the
For the first time since the war broke office, with its face to the wall. Judies,
The cause of Jewish education looms
Jews" . . . When the Portuguese
If
you're
wintering
at
one
of
recaptured the city, however.
more important today than at any time out, the friendly attitude towards the
popular Florida resorts, look most of the Jews left Recife for
in our history. The Jewish tradition for Jewish immigrants was again abandoned the
out for Axis Fifth Columners,
while a handful found
study, for knowledge, for information. when two boatloads of immigrants were who are expected to be quite ac- Holland,
their way to New York in 1654
tive there . . . And Uncle Sam
aids us in acquiring faith, in gaining con-
. These Jews who remained
us that one of the Fifth in • Recife as Marranos eventually
fidence that the justice of our position refused admittance on the grounds that tells
Column's
pet
disguises
is
still
the
true Catholics, but man.;
in the world will also guarantee survival the refugees were illegal immigrants. It guise of refugees from Nazism became
old Brazilian families still hay...
was
a
staggering
blow
to
decency
and
for the ideals inherent in Judaism.
. . . So many American news- typical Spanish and Portuguese
are controlled by Nazi Jewish names . . . A curious in-
This is a cause to which we should give (lid not help Britain's position which papers
interests that U. S. advertisers
occurred some centuries
most of our strength. May it be given the should be one of uncompromising adher- in those papers have adopted the cident
later, when, in 1887, a commit-
support it deserves from the entire Jew- ence to justice.
plan of doing some private detec- tee of Alsatian Jews visited Em-
tive work to discover whether
Dorn Pedro II . . . As a
ish community.
Then, as the so-called "illegal" immi- such control exists before they peror
compliment to his visitors the
grants were to be deported, there oc- place their contracts for space. Emperor, who was quite a
scholar, started to address them
Unity in Relief Efforts
curred the explosion which caused the ABOUT PEOPLE
in Hebrew—but not a single one
of the Jews could understand
death
of
22
and
prevented
the
deporta-
Edmund I. Kaufmann, president of the
Gotham's Republicans frankly what he said . . . And, lest you
hope that Park Commissioner think that we've been engagiig
Zionist Organization Of America, in the tion of the 1,771 refugees.
Moses will be New York an army of sleuths to unearth this
course of the addresses he delivered dur-
In the latter incident, many will see the Robert
City's
next
Mayor.
interesting information, let u-
ing his visit in Detroit last week, took hand of Providence. It was fate's rebuke
Among the prominent non- confess right here and now that
occasion to emphasize the importance of
Aryans who didn't make good we've garnered all this knowl-
unified effort for relief and reconstruction to the British for stupid action in dealing their threats to close up shop in edge from the recently published
with homeless wanderers fleeing the Nazi the event of President Rooesvelt's second volume of the Universal
in the present crisis. Of particular sig-
re-election is banker Jules Bache. Jewish Encyclopedia, of which
nificance, in view of the importance of his terror.
Anne Kaufman is only 15 Louis Rittenberg is the editor.
position as president. of the American
years old, but she already has
Zionists, was the emphasis he placed on
The Dies White Paper
seen her name signed to an ar- SCHOLASTIC NOTES
ticle published in "Fashion." It
the need for encouraging colonization
Rep. Martin Dies' White Paper charg- comes natural to Anne, though— Prof. Erwin R. Goodenough of
movements like the Santo Domingo and
has dedicated his new book,
other recent undertakings. While these ing attempts by foreign consular corps her father, playwright George S. Yale
Kaufman, and her mother, play- "An Introduction to Philo Juda-
and
other
foreign
agents
to
undermine
are not new occurrences in official Zionist
wright Beatrice Kaufman, are eus", to the staff of the Jewidi
circles, Mr. Kaufmann's declaration is sig- the security of this land will be welcomed both adopts at the literary game. Theological Seminary of Amer-
by the country at large as part of the
nificant at the present time.
Hoping to appear on Broadway ica, "who in person demonstrate
great nationwide effort to destroy the fifth in a straight dramatic role be- that Christian ethic has its source
Detroiters, who have been accustomed column activities here and to put an end fore long is dancer Dagmar in Judaism."
At Indiana University, we learn
to working in harmony in relief efforts, to sabotage and un-Americanism.
Godowsky, daughter of the late
master musician Leopold Godow- from Dean C. E. Edmondson's
through the Allied Jewish Campaign, rec-
It is regrettable that Rep. Dies and sky.
report, the highest scholastic rec-
ognize the importance of unity in carry-
Louis Nizer, whose recently ord during this year's Spring
his
committee
should
have
delayed
action
ing on relief activities and therefore
published "Thinking On Your Session was piled up by the Sig-
strictly adhere to such practice. It would in issuing their report. The Non-Sectarian Feet" is proving a boon to toast- ma Alpha Mu fraternity, while
be unthinkable for Detroit Jewry sud- Anti-Nazi League, liberal Jewish and masters throughout the land, second place went to Phi Beta
Delta . . . These two are the only
denly to be rent by divisive opinions Christian groups, anti-defamation commit- worked his way through college Jewish
fraternities on the cam-
teaching English to immi-
which would call for a split in the Fed- tees knew about the destructive activities by
grants in a night school.
pus.
exposed
by
the
Dies
Committee.
In
fact,
eration set-up - and for sponsoring several this Congressional Committee had been
relief drives instead of one unified effort.
A tradition of nearly 15 years can not warned for many months against the de-
be broken too easily, and we feel rather structive efforts of foreign agents who
secure here in the feeling that the spirit have been hiding under the cloak of con-
sular immunity.
of unity will prevail.
But it is better late than never, and it
The fact is that most American Jews
generally feel as we do. In communities is to be hoped that a good beginning has
like Cleveland, Philadelphia and other been made to destroy the elements who
cities, there is a situation analogous to are boring from within and who seek to
ours. Nevertheless, there are individuals undermine the peace and security of
and groups who do not support this view- A merica.
At the same time, a warning must be
point. There is perennial revival of ru-
issued
against internecine wrangling. The
mors that the unity in Jewish ranks may
be broken; that the United Jewish Appeal differences between the FBI and the Dies
—which includes the Joint Distribution Committee must be eradicated if the ob-
Committee, the United Palestine Appeal jective of destroying subversive un-Amer-
and the National Refugee Service—will ican forces is to be achieved. These are
be dissolved ; that before long it will be- not matters to be trifled with or to be
'come necessary to hold separate cam- used as media for playing politics. This
is a question of national safety, and all
paigns for these causes.
Those who know the history of Jewish differences must be eradicated to guar-
relief and reconstruction efforts in this antee unified effort; else we may experi-
country will recognize momentarily in ence in this country situations similar to
Month!),
"Courtesy, The Nat;onel Jewish
these rumors the revival of old prejudices those which brought about the collapse
THE 'NEW ORDER" IN EUROPE
and differences of opinion which have of France.
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