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September 19, 1941
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
Everybody's Job!
Rejoice not over thy greatest
enemy being dead.—Apocrypha.
Love your Enemies, for they Our Responsibilities in the
tell you your Faults.
New Year
—Benjamin Franklin.
By HENRY MONSKY
President of Bnai Brith
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We approach the High IJoli-
days with aching hearts, but with
resolute wills to (10 our part in
the titanic struggle to preserve
the values of our civilization.
One-half of the total Jewish
population has been subjected to
inconceivable suffering and mis-
ery. So tragic has been the ex-
perience of our people, so over-
whelming the problems of relief
and rehabilitation, and so appar-
ently hopeless the plight of mil-
lions of these innocent victims
of the would-be destroyers of
the whole structure of our pres-
ent (lay civilization, that we are
prone to become insensible to
their appeals, and discouraged if
not despairing, and, as a conse-
quence, less able to meet the
challenges of the crisis that con-
fronts us.
One nation after another has
been conquered and destroyed
in the diabolical attempt of
Nazi regime to dominate the
world. Many millions of free
men and women have been
caught in the maelstrom of hu-
man hate and ruthless conquest,
loosed upon the world by the
fiendish tyrants of Europe, whose
insatiable lust for power and
plunder has no precedent in all
of human history.
That so many peoples are in-
volved in the spectre that stalks
the European scene, only serves
to emphasize what, unfortunate-
ly, too many failed to recognize
earlier, that the crisis is not one
which concerns only the Jewish
people; it is the problem of all
humanity ; it is the problem of
the whole world; it involves the
question of the survival of that
civilization, which we have come
to identify with the freedom we
enjoy. Shall those freedoms be
preserved for the generations to
come, or shall they be destroyed
by the so-called "new order"
built upon a philosophy devoid
of all religious, moral and eth-
ical values, and stripped of every
semblance of decency, righteous=
ness and justice?
In this struggle, America re-
mains as the symbol and cham-
pion of democracy and individ-
ual liberty. In America, the Jew-
ish community has, therefore, a
grave and sacred responsibility,
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SAM GRANADIER
Another year has passed with the
march of progress. I always at this
time pause for a moment to ex-
change felicitations. Stepping a little
further than merely wishing you a
Happy New Year, I wish you all
to continue in good health, lots of
happiness and prosperity!
S. A. GRANADIER
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at whatever cost, at whatever
sacrifice, in collaboration with
all of our citizenship, to make
America strong. America must
build its defenses. They must he
built strong and unconquerable.
America will not—it must not—
be vulnerable to invasion or con-
quest, either by means of mili-
tary activity or by means of
propaganda technique. We will
defend against the enemy from
without. We must protect against
the enemy within.
As a part of that defense, the
nation must remain steadfast in
its determination to preserve na-
tional unity. Any activity cal-
culated to detract from such
unity is a disservice to any na-
tion. These are times when na-
tional solidarity is a paramount
and indispensable requirement.
Class and group hatreds, racial
dissension and religious intoler-
ance must find no quarter in
this, one of the last bulwarks
of human freedom.
There must be a reconsecra-
tion of the whole of our collec-
tive and .individual resources to
the cause of preserving the prin-
ciples and institutions of democ-
racy. Many are or will be at-
tached to the military service,
but there will be opportunity for
patriotic service by every man,
woman and child in America.
We can and will participate in
the nationwide civilian defense
program in its many phases. We
can and will cheerfully accept
the added burdens and the great-
er responsibilities produced by
the present emergency. We can
and will assist in movements to
guard against profiteering and
econoimc upheaval. We can and
will assist in the maintenance of
civilian morale. We must give of
our time, our talents and our
treasure for the common good
and to protect our common se-
curity. There is great need in
this crisis to recapture some of
the idealism and some of the
spirit and devotion of the found-
ing fathers of this nation, who,
inspired by the ideal of democ-
racy, translated ;t into objective
and eternal reality.
Apart from our responsibility
in common with all other Amer-
ican citizens to serve the nation
in this crisis, there must be a
re-appraisal of our responsibility
in respect to those problems
which peculiarly concern the peo-
ple of Israel. However poignant
the physical suffering, the dis-
tress and the dislocation of our
victimized co-religionists, t h e
spirit of Israel must ever be and
remain unbroken. The day of
the dictators cannot be perma-
nent. We cannot accept the the-
sis of permanent subjugation to
oppression and slavery. Man's
fierce and unquenchable passion
for freedom must and will ulti-
mately prevail. Sanity and good
will shall again be restored. We
must reaffirm our faith in the
ultimate victory of right over
might, of righteousness over evil,
of freedom over human slavery.
While we continue with ever
increasing generosity to give aid
and succor to the afflicted, and
while there continues, as a mat-
ter of national service, the neces-
sity for even more intensified
good will activity, there must be
an awareness that the American
Jewish community has, in t'.)e
light of present day conditions,
a special task to perform,—the
task of preserving those positive
values so essential to the normal
growth and progress of the Jew-
ish people. We are the possessors
of a great and noble heritage.
That heritage and all that it im-
plies, have survived the trials
and tribulations which have af-
flicted our people down through
the centuries. Whether the pro-
phetic heritage of Israel shall be
preserved for the future genera-
tions of Israel and for the great-
er glory and benefit of mankind,
will depend upon the American
Jewish community. Its future lies
with us.
The challenge then is for a
more sympathetic understanding
of the spirit, the hopes and as-
pirations of the Jewish people;
for a more intimate knowledge
of Jewish history, literature and
ideals,—in short, for a proper
appreciation of Jewish values.
The challenge is for a more pro-
found interest in the lessons of
Jewish history and in the great
contemporary Jewish movements.
The challenge is for the dissipa-
tion of the historical, pathologic-
al defeatism, which has taken
hold of so many–of our people,
and for the establishment of a
courageous and dignified Jewish
community, which has a pro-
found respect for the destiny of
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Israel as an everlasting people.
As President of Bnai Brith,
whose comprehensive program of
Americanism, good will and bet-
ter understanding, youth service
and education, wholly apart from
its extensive philanthropic activi-
ties, has ministered to the psy-
chological and spiritual needs of
our people, I extend to you, my
fellow Jews, the traditional
greeting, "La Shono Tovo Tiko-
sevu", in the hope that the com-
ing year shall bring surcease
from the terrifying conditions
that now prevail.
Smuggled Pictures Show Nor-
wegians Fight Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (JPS) — The
violent uprisings in Norway
which have resulted in the estab-
lishment of martial law by the
Nazis, are dramatically illustrated
by pictures recently smuggled out
of Norway and published in PM,
New York daily.
A photograph of a Quisling
sign reading "Palestine calling—
Jews are not wanted in Norway"
is shown with the remains of the
egg spatterings still fresh on the
sign. Norwegian children were re-
sponsible for the silent defy. Other
pictures eloquently tell the story
of the intense fight by Norwegian
democrats against Nazi Germany
and anti-Semitism.
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