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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

SECTION ONE

and The Legal .Chronicle

VOL. 43, NO. 39

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1941

Migration and
Army the Issues,
Says Ben Gurion

Honor Patria Refugees
Who Join the Eng-
lish Forces

THIS PAPER PRINTED IN TWO SECTIONS

We Shall Not Surrender Our Rights

A Statement on Where American Jewry Stands

By DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER

The first isolationist of history
was Cain. He it was who first
proclaimed the doctrine "Am I
my brother's keeper?" The very
essence of religion is the concept
of the shared moral responsibil-
ity of all men.
The terms "isolationist" and
"interventionist" are not really
true antonyms. The opposite of
isolation is not intervention, but
cooperation. Cooperation alone
can insure an international or-
der of justice and law and the
promise of peace.
It is not the so-called "inter-
ventionist" who is the warmon-
ger, but the isolationist. Every
nation in Europe which in the
last few years sought peace for
itself through neutrality and iso-
lation succeeded only in bringing
war and destruction upon itself,
and in increasing the might and
aggressiveness of the Nazi-Fas-
cist warmakers of Europe.
Every successive moral failure
on the part of nations to "inter-
vene," that is to say to cooper-
ate in checking acts of interna-
tional aggression and banditry,
has led them in recent years
step by step down to the fright-
ful abyss of war in which the
world now finds itself.
War cannot be isolated. Perse-
cution cannot be isolated. Propa-
ganda cannot be isolated. Not in
the kind of an ever narrowing
world in which we live!
Moral Sense Dulled
The moral sense of mankind
had been dulled. Monstrous
crimes were committed against
small nations and minorities and
the top-lofty chancelleries of the
world stood idly by. It was none

Editor's Note: When great
moral issues arise in Ameri-

can-Jewish life, Dr. Abba Hil-
lel Silver may always be count-
ed upon to deal with them
forthrightly. Great champion
of the dignity and self-respect

of the Jewish people, he here
gives courage and solace to
American Jews bewildered, on
the one hand, by the charges
of warmongering, and con-
fused, on the other, as to how
they can properly discharge
the responsibilities of their
American citizenship.

LONDON , (JPS - Palcor) — The
two chief tasks facing the Zion-
ist movement are the creation of
a strong Jewish army now and
the planning of a vast Jewish mi-
gration after the war, David ben
Gurion, chairman of the Jewish
Agency Executive, told a Zionist
youth rally at an agricultural
training farm in the country.
of their business. It is only now
that they themselves are engaged
Representatives of various Zion-
in a life and death struggle
ist youth groups had gathered to
against the self-same criminal
consider their wartime tasks in
relation to Palestine. The Pales-
that they have rediscovered the
tine labor leader was the prin-
heretofore discarded principles of
cipal speaker at the sessions, re-
freedom for all, the rights of all
viewing all aspects of the politi-
men, the protection of religion,
cal and economic tasks facing the
and the calling for united action
Yishuv. The Jewish labor move-
to defend them. They have final-
ment has a specially onerous re-
ly abandoned their moral detach-
sponsibility, he told the young
ment and unconcern.
people, in laying the foundations
As far as we Jews are con-
for an economically just structure
cerned, we were not and never
in Palestine that will warrant the
have been isolationists. We are
expenditure of sacrifice by the
not for war. Unlike the Nazis,
youth of the Jewish people.
we have never glorified war.
Fate in Hands of Youth
Our whole tradition and reli-
gious culture are violently op-
The Jewish youth in England
posed to it. Our people was the
and America, as well as through-
out Europe, was urged by Ben
first among the nations of the
Gurion to prepare itself for the
earth to project the vision of a
upbuilding of Palestine. It is
warless society. We suffer doubly
necessary for Jews to rely on
and trebly .from every war and
themselves for their salvation, he
from every civil dislocation.
warned. The fate of the Jewish
In the past we were frequently
people after the war is in the
accused of pacifism. But we
hands of its youth, which must
Jews also know that isolation-
not confuse victory in this war
ism in peace time leads to in-
with emancipation for the Jews
unless the channel of emancipa-
tion in terms of the rebuilding
of the Jewish National Home is
thoroughly prepared.
During the conference, which
was also addressed by Manya
Shochat, Palestine woman labor Unanimously Elected Rabbi of Temple Beth El; Dr. Franklin
leader who was subsequently hurt
Will Retire October 31 and Will Become
in an automobile accident, it was
Rabbi Emeritus
decided to form a single Zionist
youth movement in England to
include Hashomer Hatzair, Nez-
ach, Maccabi, Ilatair Continental
and Habonim.
Polish Zionists
Although there has been news
from Moscow from Herich Ehr-
lich and Victor Alter, prominent

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terventionism in war and that
cooperation in peace time obvi-
ates the necessity for v ar. We
maintain that whenever and
wherever a free people is at-
tacked it is part of the moral
obligation as well as of the en-
lightened self-interest of all free
peoples to conic to its rescue.
Free peoples must either unite
and stand, or divide and fall.
Calls for Unity
We Jews believe in the unity
of mankind. Our religion allows
for no moral insularity for in-
dividuals or nations. We can-
not concede the spiritual dis-
memberment of mankind. De-
cidedly, therefore, we approve
the present foreign policy of our
government, which is committed
to give all possible aid to all
peoples which are fighting for
their freedom and their survival.
Decidedly, we advocate inter-
national action to uphold inter-
national morality. We applaud
the great President of the United
States for the courageous lead-
ership which ho has given our
nation in this direction. He has
made us sharply aware of the
dangers of our political isola-
tionism, of how our destiny as
a free people is inextricably in-
tertwined with those of other
free peoples, and of the urgency
to strike for freedom before the
shackles of slavery are riveted
upon us.
Decidedly we approve of all
the channels of American public
opinion—the press, the radio, the
moving picture, the intelligent

See NO SURRENDER—Pi. 12

Dr. B. Benedict Glazer Named
Sen. Barkley
Successor to Rabbi Franklin Here Nov. 16

See PALESTINE—Page 13

German Bishop
Attacks Nazis
"Amazingly Bold" Ser-
mons Delivered in
Westphalia

NEW YORK. (Religious News
Service)—A new name has re-
cently come to prominence as a
leader of church opposition to
Nazi policies — that of Count
Galen, Roman Catholic Bishop
of Munster, whose attacks on
the Nazi regime have created as-
tonishment throughout West-
phalia and other parts of the
Third Reich where the Bishop's
actions have become known.
During August of this year
Bishop Galen preached three
"amazingly bold" sermons di-
rected against the Nazi regime,
according to authoritative reli-
gious sources.
The first sermon was preached
a few days after bombardment
of the city of Munster, one of
the heaviest that has yet taken
place in any German city. Fol-
lowing the Bishop's attack, all
Roman Catholic orders in the
province of Westphalia were said
to have been dissolved and a
number of prominent Roman
Catholics were imprisoned.
Attacks Secret Police
Because of these arrests, the
Bishop said he could no longer

See ANTI-NAZIS—Page 9

DR. B. BENEDICT GLAZER

Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, asso-
ciate rabbi of Temple Emanu-El
of New York, the world's largest
Jewish congregation, was unani-
mously elected to succeed Dr. Leo
M. Franklin at Temple Beth El,
at a special meeting held at the
Temple Sunday night.

After 50 years as an active
rabbi, the last 43 at Temple Beth
El, Dr. Franklin recently an-
nounced his retirement from active
ministry. His. resignation will be
effective Oct. 31, or as soon there-

See GLAZER—Page 12

Will Address Farband
Colony Dinner; Lai-
kin Is Chairman

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Register Wide
Opposition to
Yellow Badge

Anti-Nazi Demonstra-
tions in Occupied
Territorities

LONDON. (JPS) — The Ger-
man order that all Jews must
wear a yellow Magen David on
their clothing has evoked wide-
spread opposition to the Nazi
measure and has been met by
the Jews themselves with dignity
and honor, reports from various
parts of German-occupied Eu-
rope indicate.
Many Berlin Jews are report-
ed to have been greatly de-
pressed by the recent order, and
there were suicides in the city
on the first day the Nazi measure
went into effect. An appeal to
the Jews of Berlin not to despair
over the introduction of the
badge decree was issued by the
Berlin Jewish community. "Wear
the yellow Magen David with
pride and do not despair," said
the appeal, which emphasized
that there is nothing tragic in
being obliged to admit that one
is a Jew.
Wear It with Honor
According to the London
Times, the German edict pro-
duced repercussions throughout
the continent. Most Jews, par-
ticularly the more Orthodox, al-
ways aware of their Judaism,
have borne the Magen David
with honor. Non-Jews in Ger-
many, the Times said, do not
like the new measure and many
have protested by going out of
their way to greet Jets and
shake hands with the wearers of
the yellow badge. There have
even been cases, the Times com-
mented, where some Aryans
have put on the Magen David,
although such action subjected
them to severe punishment.
'A nto-Jewish laws in Germany
have been observed more strin-
gently since the edict has been
instituted, said the Times, Jews
are not allowed to use public ve-
hicles, including street cars, sub-
ways, buses, taxis and even am-
bulances. Jews are not admitted
into public or semi-public insti-
tutions like libraries, museums,

The Detroit City Committee
of the Jewish National Workers
Alliance announces that majority
leader of the United States Sen-
ate, the Hon. Alben W. Barkley,
will be the guest speaker at a
dinner to be held at the Book-
Cadillac Hotel on Sunday, Nov.
16.
At the national convention of
the Jewish National Workers Al-
liance it was unanimously de-
cided to establish in Palestine a
colony in honor of the 30th an-
niversary of the organization
which will be celebrated in 1943.
This colony, on Jewish National
Fund soil, which will bear the
name of the organization, will be
the work of the Jewish National
Workers' Alliance for land re-
demption and the upbuilding of
the Jewish National Home.
Laikin Heads Committee
Benjamin M. Laikin, leader in
the labor Zionist movement in
Detroit, has been elected chair-
man of the Farband Colony Com-
mittee which will be in charge
of the arrangements for the din-
ner. Other officers of the com-
mittee, which is now being
formed, are: N. Linden, treas-
urer; M. S. Kramer, secretary;
M. Lieberman, co-secretary.
In announcing the dinner with
Senator Barkley as guest of
honor, Mr. Laikin said:
"We are glad to bring to De-
troit Jewry an outstanding
statesman, liberal leader, and
a man who on numerous occa-
sions has raised his voice in de-
fense of all those who are the
victims of Nazi persecutions.
Senator Barkley has shown his
deep interest in the upbuilding
of Jewish Palestine by joining
the pro-Palestine Committee and
presiding at its first function.
"I am happy to announce
that Rabbi Morris Adler, Law-

Tears of joy and religious emo-
tion were in the eyes of Mrs.
Beila Simon, as she placed the
cornerstone of the new structure
of the Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
last Sunday afternoon at the con-
clusion of impressive ceremonies,
attended by a thousand men and
women representing the cross-
section of Detroit Jewry. A con-
tribution of $1000 by her chil-
dren of the Simms' Cut Rate of
Pontiac was announced in memory
of their father, the late Jacob
Joseph Simon, formerly a member .
of Congregation Mishkan Israel
of Detroit.
Participating in the gift are
the sons: Calvin, Reuben, Meyer
and Morris Simon; and the
daughters: Mrs. Sam Broder, Mrs.
Dan Mendelsohn, Mrs. Meyer Sil-
verman, and Miss Bessie Simon.
Other large donations announc-
ed during the afternoon were:
A room donated by Morris Le-
vine in memory of his parents.
Harry Schumer and brothers
donated a room in memory of
their parents and sisters.
Sam Hecht-ran in honor of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius
Hechtman, now recuperating from

See FARBAND—Page 8

See YESHIVAH—Page 8

See NAZISM—Page 16

Yeshivah Event
Attracts 1.000
Enthusiastic Audience
Participates in Cor-
nerstone Laying