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SECTION ONE
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 43, NO. 31
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Heifetz Gives Up
Williamstown Institute to Unite
Aluminum Violin
Americans on Peace Principles
LONDON. (JPS)—Ten thou-
sand Jews of Lituania and Lat-
via have been conscripted in a
special labor gang to dismantle
the fortifications previously erect-
ed on the Russian-German border,
according to the Koenigsberger
Zeitung.
The paper cites the incident as
an evidence of Nazi "justice," on
the ground that since "Jewish
Bolsheviks" built the pill-boxes
last year with 10,000 "Aryans,"
it is only fitting that 10,000 Jews
should now destroy them.
A Stockholm daily, commenting
on the wide use by Nazis of Jew
slave-labor, reports that not less
than 250,000 Jews in all parts of
Eastern Europe have been pressed
into service since the war on the
Eastern front began.
Rebuilding of railways and
roads is one of the chief occu-
pations of the Jewish workers,
who are in a specially exposed
position since Soviet attacking
airplanes continue to pound away
at the transportation facilities
being used to move Nazi troops up.
NEW YORK. (JPS) — The
aluminum violin made for
Jascha •Ieifetz to use as a prac-
tice violin in moist climates
has joined the pile of aluminum
gathered in this city for gov-
ernment use. Heifetz turned
over the instrument in person
to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia,
national defense director.
Rome and Israel
By MORTIMER J. COHEN, Ph.D.
For more than 2,000 years Jews
have lived in Rome. Strange and
pathetic that the first notice of
the Jews in Rome tells of their
banishment from Rome and Italy,
while recent dispatches from the
Italian capital proclaims the Jews
an alien race to be excluded from
the common life! So the story
goes—full of color and excite-
ment, rich in achievement and
contribution to Italian and Jewish
civilization, the whole woven into
a pageant through which runs
the bloddy thread of persecution,
This symbolic drawing of the world of the future is being
used by the National Conference of Christians and Jews as an
emblem for the 1941 Williamstown Institute of Human Relations
at Williams College, Aug. 24 to 29. The Institute will discuss the
principles for which Americans should stand in the r econstruction
of the post-war world order under the theme, "The World We
Want to Live In." Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders from
every section of the country will attend. The Institute will repre-
sent the first national educational forum on the problems of
peace planning.
No Damages for Air Raids
on Jews
GENEVA (JPS)—Jews in Ger- Enlarged Activities Program Is
man territory whose homes are
Announced by Temple Beth El
bombed by enemy raiders are
prohibited from sharing in the
compensation provisions for all Joseph M. Welt Elected President; School Year to Begin
other citizens, according to a de-
with Institute for Teachers and Parents,
cree published in the Official Ga-
Directed by Prof. Franzblau
zette in Berlin under the signa-
ture of Wilhelm Frick, interior
At the 91st annual meeting of ate plans for an enlargement of
minister, notorious as the Prus-
Temple
Beth El, which was held the Temple's activities, especially
sian Education Minister who, in
along educational lines, was an-
the days before Hitler's accession in the Brown Memorial Chapel nounced.
to power, separated Jewish from Sunday evening, July 27, elabor-
Reports submitted by the var-
Christian pupils.
ious officers of the congregation
and its affiliated organizations,
320 Jewish Groups Dissolved
spoke enthusiastically of the pres-
GENEVA (JPS)—The attempts
ent status of the congregation and
of the Vichy government to stem
of its plans for the immediate
the rising tide of resentment
future. These include the selection
against it have provoked the ban-
within a short time of a succes-
ning of 320 associations and or-
sor to Dr. Leo M. Franklin, who
ganizations suspected of Jewish
after 42 years of continuous serv-
or Communist affiliations, it is
ice as rabbi of Beth El. is about
reported here.
Italy Links Roosevelt to Jews
Again
GENEVA (JPS) — America's
decision to tighten her defenses
by extending the term of military
service for draftees has been in-
terpreted in Italy as an expression
of President Roosevelt's determin-
ation to attain "revenge for the
Jews," according to the Regime
Fascista.
Other Italian newspapers re-
iterate the charge that Roosevelt
is the "world's No. 1 gangster."
See WAR—Page 8
Naz; Target in Bnai Brith
NEW YORK. (JPS)—It will
be a surprise to its membership
department --- but President
Roosevelt is virtually a member
of the Bnai Brith, which con-
trols the international Freemason
movement, according to a short-
wave radio broadcast to America
from Berlin by Dr. Otto Koisch-
witz, who used to teach at Hun-
ter College for girls.
In one of the most virulent
attacks on the President that has
ever emanated from the Nazis,
who have been consistently vi-
cious in a double-barreled cam-
naign during the past few weeks
directed at the President and
the Jews, 0. K., as the broad-
caster is known, linked F.D.R.
with Lenin, Vinoviev, Trotsky,
Kerensky and Bela Kun. All Ma-
sons consider themselves broth-
ers. he said. "According to de-
1 ailed analysis . . . all interna-
tional lodges are virtually un-
der the control of the Bnai
Brith."
Normally New York commen-
ta'ors on Nazi short-wave out-
nut contemptuously dismiss the
rantirgs, but the current attack
was regarded as so infamous
that one radio editor described
it as it "smelly stew of malice,
untruth and distortion."
humiliation and suffering and the
golden thread of devotion, learn-
ing and courage.
In his "History of Jews in
Rome," the seventh volume in
the Jewish Communities Series
published by The Jewish Publica-
tion Society of America, Dr. Her-
mann Vogelstein has written an
interesting, and at times a fas-
cinating account of this remark-
able Jewish community. He was
faced with the danger of mul-
titudinuous details which might in-
terest the student but overwhelms
the layman. The author fortun-
ately overcame this handicap by
relating the past to the present,
so that one reads with one eye
on today, with its trials and
tribulations, and the other on the
unrolling scroll of past ages. Thus,
this history is not dry as dust,
but rather throbs with life and
significance made relevant to our
own times.
Deny Religious Clash in U.S.O.
Eternal Israel
WASHINGTON. (JPS) — A
No better statement of the in-
tention of this "History of the statement appearing in the syn-
See ANTI-SEMITES—Page 13
Holy Day Services to Be Held in Art Institute; Miss
Anna Oxenhandler Joins Staff of New
Congregation
By HENRY MONTOR
See ROGOFF—Page 9
BROOKLYN. (JPS)—"A man
who made public speeches advo-
cating that Jews should be wiped
out is not fit to be a lawyer,"
according to Joseph Goldstein in
a hearing ,before the Character
and Fitness Committee of the
Brooklyn Bar Association on the
application of John F. Cassidy
for admission.
Formerly national director of
the Christian Front, Cassidy was
arrested by the F. B. I. in Janu-
ary. 1940, with a group of others
on charges, subsequently dis-
missed, of conspiring to over-
throw the government. Christian
Front leaders like Editor Pat-
rick Scanlan of The Tablet and
the Reverend Curran, reputedly
Father Coughlin's eastern repre-
sentative, appeared on behalf of
Cassidy's character, while Sam-
of the Jewish War
uel
Veterans, introduced transcripts
of Cassidy's street corner speech-
es during the last three years.
Name "Temple Israel" Choren
By New Reform Congregation
An Interview with Hillel Rogoff
be swifty cleared front the blood
stream of the world. No one who
believes that the democracies will
win the war can possibly, with any
rationality, contend that anti-
Semitism will be as strong as it
once was."
In Re Discrimination
I was stirred by Rogoff's re-
sponse. Not because he spoke in
terms of glib optimism, but be-
cause here was a man sincerely
contemptuous of the professional
propagandists against anti-Semit-
ism.
"But what about the talk of
discrimination in defense indus-
tries, the reports of increased
difficulty for Jews in obtaining
employment in certain utilities?"
One might have expected that
the managing editor of a paper
preoccupied with problems of Jews
Interesting Ruling in
Brooklyn Against
"Frontist"
See ROME—Page 12
JOSEPH M. WELT
The Mirage of Anti-Semitism
Hillel Rogoff's shy smile wid-
ened into a grin and emerged a
guffaw.
"A ghetto in this country?
You're crazy," he said.
I had epitomized the fear of
some Jews that war, diverting the
passions of war-resisters to the
traditional scapegoats, might build
up an anti-Semitism so vigorous
as to compel an inbred Jewish
life in America.
We were sitting in the narrow
office of the Managing Editor of
The Jewish Daily Forward, most
powerful Yiddish daily in the
world, which has a circulation as
great as that of most important
general newspapers and more re-
sponsive to editorial discipline
than most.
"The war is being fought to
destroy Hitler and all for which
he stands. Once he is conquered,
the poisons which he brewed will
DR. HERMANN VOGELSTEIN
Jew•Baiter Is
Called Unfit
To Be Lawyer
PROF. A. N. FRANZBLAU
to retire from the active ministry
in the coming fall, and also the
early choice of an outstanding
authority in the field of religious
education, who will take over the
supervision of the entire educa-
tional program of the Temple, to-
gether with the duties of a junior
rabbi.
Welt Chosen President
The election of officers, all of
whom were unanimously chosen.
resulted as follows: Joseph M.
Welt, president; Leonard T. Lewis,
vice-president; Harry N. Berger,
treasurer; trustees, Harry S.
Grant, Dr. Herbert I. Kallet, Leo
Siegel, Nate Shapero, Dr. Nathan
See BETH EL—Page 8
At an enthusiastic rally of the
founding members of the New
Reform Jewish Congregation
held Monday night, July 28, at
Hotel Stotler, the congregation
decided to adopt the name "Tem-
ple Israel".
The name was proposed by a
committee consisting of Mrs.
Milford Stern, Roy Sarason, Al-
exander Freeman, Rabbi Leon
Fram and Benjamin E. Jaffe,
chairman.
In a solemn ritual Rabbi Fram
dedicated the congregation to its
new name. The congregation re-
cited the classic Jewish credo,
"Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord Our
God the Lord Is One," and the
Rabbi pronounced the priestly
blessing.
Plan Holy Day Services
Morris Garvett, who presided
over the meeting, announced that
the Rosh Hashonah and Yom
Kippur services of the new Tem-
ple Israel would be held in the
auditorium of the Detroit Insti-
tute of Arts, at John R. and
Farnsworth. The Succoth serv-
ices will be held in the smaller
lecture ball of the Institute of
Arts. In response to several in-
quiries the chairman stated that
there will be a special service for
the children on Wednesday af-
ternoon, Oct. 1. and Rabbi Fram
would follow his practice of the
past 16 years, and tell the chil-
dren a Yom Kippur story.
It was announced that Miss
See NEW TEMPLE—Page 9