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Special Supplement Issued on Occasion of Zionist Membership Mouth
Reviewing Jewish Achievements in Palestine
Detroit Jewish Chro nicle
SECTION TWO
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 43, NO. 3
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1941
THIS PAPER PRINTED IN 3 SECTIONS
10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Year
A Call to Detroit Jews to Stand Up and Be Counted Among
Builders and Protectors of Jewish National Home
1, •
In a world dominated by terror and despair,
an oasis from which emanates light and hope
becomes the source of new inspiration and the
beginning of a new civilization.
This is the position of the United States in
the present world crisis. For the same reason,
this is the position of Palestine on the Jewish
horizon.
Except for this continent, and for little Pales-
tine, the entire world brings news only of misery
for the Jewish people. There is nakedness and
want; degradation and hopelessness.
Little Palestine holds out great hope to the
millions of Jews who are subjected to the horrors
of the middle ages and their even graver conse-
quences in the 20th century setting. Only Eretz
Israel holds out a beckoning hand to the many
wanderers in search of a home; all other avenues
of escape are closed to unfortunate Jews.
Since 1932, 230,000 Jews—refugees from Ger-
many and victims of persecution in Rumania and
Poland—have found a home in Palestine. In the
same period, 130,000 Jews came to the United
States. The priority of Palestine as a haven of
refuge has thus been established.
Palestine's value lies primarily, of course, in
the realm of the spiritual and traditional. If
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Jewry's cultural heritage is not to be abused;
if Jewish values and the Prophetic teachings are
not to be discarded, Jews who choose to live in a
Jewish environment, under the aegis of a Jewish
commonwealth, must have the right and the free-
dom to live in a center which they can rightfully
call their National Home. Palestine, with a popu-
lation of more than 500,000 Jews, is already that
National Home.
This Home has the equivalent of a governing
council—in the Vaad Leumi. It has its own school
and hospital systems, a University of high rank,
political, economic and social service departments
that function on a par with the best governmental
agencies anywhere in the world.
These are the fruits of Zionist labors of less
than 20 years. But they are merely the introduc-
tion to greater action, to even more important
efforts which are certain not only to provide a
home for additional hundreds of thousands of
Jews, from lands of oppression, but also to provide
a better future for the Jewish spirit, and to give
courage to Jews in the Diaspora.
Palestine's upbuilding is important to Jews
everywhere because it is the symbol of Jewish
creativeness, of Jewish survival on a high plane,
of Jewish dignity and the ability of Jews to build
a new life in villages and in towns.
The growth of Palestine depends upon the
strength of the organization which gave birth to the
modern national redemption movement. A numeric-
ally strong Zionism will give added strength to the
Jewish settlement, and will exert the influence
that is necessary among Jews—who must share
in the building of the National Home—and among
non-Jews—who must provide the legal inter-
governmental assurance for this Homeland.
It is to this end that Zionists are today inviting
the cooperation of those who are not as yet affil-
iated with the Jewish national cause. Every Jew
who stands up today to be counted in Zionist
ranks will be a factor in impressing the powers
in whose hands will be placed, at the forthcoming
peace conference, at the conclusion of this war,
the political fate of Palestine.
Stand up and be counted! This is the call to
all Jews of Detroit in the present Zionist member-
ship campaign. That which we do here, today,
will have great importance for Palestine's future.
Let us do it well. Let is be done through a strong
Zionist movement. Let it be said that every De-
troit Jew desires to be counted among the build-
ers of Zion and the protectors of Eretz Israel's
future.
—P. S.
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Geological Age
`WHY ZIONISM?'—JAMES I. ELLMANN,
Of Palestine Is
CHAIRMAN OF MEMBERSHIP DRIVE,
GIVES VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT 500,000,000 Years
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HOW CAN WE HELP PALESTINE?
By RABBI MORRIS ADLER
President, Zionist Organization of Detroit
The huge and ominous goes-present or admit its probability
in the future. No patriotic Czech
tion mark which some people see has made or can make complete
By JAMES I. ELLMANN
JERUSALEM (Palcor Agen-
hovering over Palestine is one peace with his country's present
our enemies have not been able cy)—Palestine origins were which darkens the whole horizon status. Its desolation, its op-
Every possible phase of the to dwarf our endeavors. Here in traced back about 500,000,000
of civilized society. When people pression, will not be accepted thby
e
movement has been explored a spite of every sort of obstacle, years by Dr. M. Avnimelech,
him as final. In his heart
hundred times by writers of our physical and economic, a small professor of Geology at the He- ask "What of Palestine?" "What light • of hope has not been ex-
•
Shall we thousands
faith and sometimes much better group of pioneers—a bare half brew University, at a lecture does the future hold for it?" tinguished.
million now—are performing daily
they do not mean to imply, I of miles from the field of actual
by men of other faiths. Yet many bits of heroic work which will he delivered in this city under hope, that a unique type of combat despair? Shall we for a
of us well meaning prefer to re- offset the darkest contemporaneous the auspices of the Eig Na- danger threatens the Homeland. moment yield to a sense of futil-
For Palestine is in no greater ity and fear? Shall we begin to
main cold and unconvinced, dis- chapters elsewhere. This new
danger than the British Empire. tremble lest our accomplishments
chapter may well become the ture Society.
tant and unaffiliated.
and sacrifices have been for
-
Why? Because for many of us
naught?
our emotions have been churned
full of tears for us to grasp the
The Yishuv itself stands firm
up at a different period, and under
full meaning of this remarkable
and resolute. Fear or uncertainty
different conditions.
miracle in the life of a people
have made no breach in the
after 2,000 years of aimless wan-
For at the very moment when
spirit of Palestinian Jewry. Aware
the darkest pages in the world
derings.
of the dangers, having itself
in general and of Democracy in
Yet there are some who are
been the target of attacks from
particular, are being engraved,
afraid of what has been done
the air, the Yishuv is deter-
one small niche in that same
here. Some even show deep resent-
minedly pushing forward. The
world has been writing history
ment. What shall we say about
first year of the war has elapsed.
of our people of a different sort.
the Irish people in America who
It has left its mark, to be sure,
In the Homeland in the last 50
feel a bond of kinship with their
upon the economy of the land.
years our men and women have
Homeland? What shall we think
It has not dampened nor weak-
rediscovered that we can take on
of the Czechoslovaks, the Poles,
ened the will, the courage, the
the semblance of a united people;
the Norwegians, the Hollanders
self-assurance of the half-million
that we can assert human rights;
in our country who would refuse
Jews in the Homeland.
can take on human obligations;
Nor have new accomplishments
to contribute to the redemption
that we can rebuild terraces and
of their native lands from the
been lacking even during this
forests on the hill tops; green
hands of the present oppressors?
crucial period. 24,000 immi-
grants entered Palestine during
fields and fruitful valleys; that
Shall we be afraid of the half
we can be hewers of wood and
the first year of the war. Taking
million of our people in Palestine
drawers of water; that we have a
advantage of the elimination of
of whom a hundred thousand
colorful history and enviable back-
both Japan and Germany from
stand ready to defend Palestine,
the Near East market, the Yishuv
ground; and given a bare chance
to defend Britain, to defend De-
can develop untapped potencies in
has undertaken new projects and
mocracy? Is our support of them
has pioneered in new fields.
all pursuits of civilized existence
a danger to us as Americans?
Sixty-three new industrial enter-
—labor, culture, discipline, self-
Oh, yes, I appreciate there
prises have been launched and
defense.
might be some sort of reasons
JAMES I. ELLMANN
ADLER
RABBI MORRIS
250 new companies have been
To the scoffers in our own midst,
why one should hide ones iden-
worldly
golden
period
of
the
renaissance
tity,
but
if
one
is
conscious
of
The
defeat
of
Britain,
God
for-
formed.
Nine new colonies have
the doubters, those whom
goods make independent of their of this strangest, most baffling one's faith and forbears he can- bid, will give rise to conse- been established during the year
not fail to see the improvement quences which will extend be- ending September 30, 1940, and
own fellow men as well as the
• men and of our status everywhere by what yond Palestine and which will 40,000 additional dunams of land
Why? Because here
Nihilists and anti-Semites in
eek to
same token we are strengthening affect the whole world. In a time have been purchased. The Jewish
ish life, to those who seek
in hide
Jew- p
their identity in shame, them I women just before on the verge Palestine is doing for us. By the when civilization and barbarism; Agency has allocated funds for
-
urge asa means of re-establish of total annihilation have been it by giving it all the support society and nihilism; order and sick and unemployment insur-
revolution, are waging a life and ante. Experts have testified to
ing their own self-respect to tra- able 6 take the one open road
vel, as I have traveled, to see to the old home. Here amidst re- possible
for its own
practical
pur- death struggle, it is true that no the resiliency and vitality of the
poses—political,
social,
economic
special immunity protects the economic life of the Yishuv in
with their own eyes what our forested hills, and malaria drain-
own people have wrought in the ed valleys, colonies have been and psychological.
That is why it is a bit diffi- Homeland. But likewise must it adjusting itself to the new
con-
by the war. Thee
briefest historic period, not only plants
rebuilt,
water
ways cut,
power
and
industrial
centers
cult
to
understand
why
so
many
be
remembered
that
no
special
lied
is
createdd
being
clod,
se
n
M
for themselves and Palestine, but opened; here flashy and dignified of us are quite willing to spend peril threatens its safety.
To surrender to a spirit of Italy's entry into the war, Pales-
for all of us without.
art
and
culture
much
to
maintain
stop-gap
insti-
sis
playgrounds
raters,
plg and houses tutions which are necessary, of defeatism would be to betray tinian Jewry has been success-
One can wax rh apso dical here business
ri g
u
ce
of
the
greatest
peril
and
its
ensuing
difficulties
of
worship,
and a thousand other course, but fail to r ecognize the civilization itself—for he very flly sure
stvin
attain a gr e ater
even in the midst
and
of to self-sufficiency
which still hover over Palestine places have been set up in what remarkable dividends available to sense of despair and t paralysis
mea
m di
o
ermay
to
roduc
at
hme
comoties
p
il
t
as over all of Europe. For was nothing but waste land; and all of us in he investment for of wl which
i engenrinse ivili- for whiche until recently it was
itself become at factor
More
it does all our past efforts to a half million erstwhile hounded the recreation of Jewish life and
collapse. No depend ent on other lands. g reater
's
complve
the
zationBriton
elsewhere
inte nsive farm ing and
survive and retain our normal people and their children are re- dignity, and the redemption of
of
face
ete
in
the
even
land which would make our own loyal
identity if have
belittled,
im-
a normal
a happy
paired
not been
destroyed.
But
in building
environment.
We life
are and
a little
too world status more decent and se- the bombs
that drop from the
See ADLER—Page 8
skies will concede defeat in the
this historically indestructible spot, close and the whole world too cure.