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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 12 :1-17:27.
Prophetical portion—Is. 40 :27-41:16.
OCTOBER 31, 1941
CHESHVAN 10, 5702
Balfour Day
This Sunday, Nov. 2, will mark the
24th anniversary of the issuance of the
Balfour Declaration.
For some time, a tendency was in evi-
dence in Zionist ranks to speak less of
the Balfour Declaration because of the
whittling down of Jewish rights in Pales-
tine by the British authorities.
But there is a revival of interest i and
concern over the Balfour statemen , and
the change is to be commended as a
natural reaction to a great and h storic
document.
Neither the late Arthur James Balfour
nor the Declaration he issued are Ito be
held responsible for the betrayals we have
experienced. On the contrary they should
be invoked from time to time as means
of forcing reconsideration of Great Brit-
ain's obligations under the Palestine Man-
date, even though the League of Nations
which issued it is no longer a functioning
body, and the British pledge should be re-
called whenever we fight for our rights
in the Jewish National Home.
The 24th anniversary of the Balfour
Declaration, which will be observed at
Zionist gatherings throughout the land,
should be an occasion for renewal of Jew-
ish claims, and it should be utilized to
remind British authorities that the home-
less Jewish people must be restored to its
ancient land. Millions of Jews have no
other place to turn to, and Jewry will not
abandon the hope of Zion or the guaran-
tees on the basis of which a great com-
munity has been established in Eretz Is-
rael.
The public gathering at the Shaarey
Zedek this Sunday, which will be utilized
also as a memorial for the late Mr. Justice
Louis D. Brandeis, with U. S. Senator
Prentiss M. Brown as principal speaker,
should draw an overflow audience.
May the Balfour Day celebrations be
signals for renewed strength in Jewry in
behalf of Palestine's redemption.
The Late Edward L. Israel
Dr. Edward L. Israel's death came as
a severe shock. He was one of the most
dynamic of the younger men in the Re-
form Rabbinate. He was an ardent Zion-
ist, a leader in the Jewish Congress, the
president of the Synagogue Council of
America and was about to assume the
post of national executive director of the
Union of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions. In all these posts he combined the
vision that was necessary in Jewish lead-
ership to appreciate the vital factors in
Jewish life. His death is a severe loss to
American Israel.
An Unusual Achievement
The Jewish National Fund Council of
Detroit has an unusual achievement to
its credit.
During the past year—from Rosh Hash-
onah 5701 to Rosh Hashonah 5702—the
sum of $23,000 was collected in Detroit,
through this Council, for land-redemption
in Palestine. To accomplish this end, this
Council incurred an expense of $400.
This seems to be an all-time low in
fund-raising expenses.
Other organizations would do well to
consult with the Jewish National Fund
Council and to learn how it harnesses vol-
unteer efforts to reduce operating ex-
penses to so insignificant a total.
The Farband Colony
Detroit's branches of the Jewish Na-
tional Workers' Alliance (Farband) are
engaged in a fund-raising effort to secure
the sum of $10,000 assigned to this city
towards the creation of the proposed Far-
band Colony in Palestine on Jewish Na-
tional Fund land, honoring the approach-
ing 30th anniversary of the Farband.
It is encouraging to note that spokes-
men for all parties in Zionism are partici-
pating in this project. The 1 ■ arband oc-
cupies an important place in the Ameri-
can Jewish community, and the organiza-
tion has earned a sufficient amount of af-
fection from American Jewry to receive
support in this project.
At the same time, this effort will serve
to advance the cause of land-reclamation
in Palestine and will establish new media
for the settlement of large numbers of
Jews in the Homeland.
Farband's effort should be given the
community's wholehearted support.
Welcome to "Free World"
"There will be a better day . . . " is
the editorial introduction to Free World
Magazine written by Secretary of State
Cordell Hull.
It is a fitting encouragement in pre-
senting to the English-speaking world
the first issue of a great magazine which
is to serve as a universal mouthpiece in
opposition to aggression and in helping
create a better world order.
The editorial in the first issue fittingly
proclaims the following, among the other
enunciated principles:
"It should be almost unnecessary
to affirm our opposition to and our
repugnance for any kind of racial dis-
crimination. The Hitlerian theory of
the racial superiority of so-called
Aryan peoples goes beyond all limits
of infamy and absurdity and is itself
the very antithesis of democracy. The
world of tomorrow will not know the
shame of anti-Semitic persecution.
The defamation of an entire people
is an insult to democracy and an
offense to common sense."
May the sentiment expressed in this
paragraph prove to be the ideal of the
better world order for which all free
peoples aspire!
Free World's first issue has many im-
portant essays on the present world situ-
ation, and a significant poem by the Li-
brarian of Congress, Archibald MacLeash.
Under the title "The Western Sky," one
of Mr. MacLeish's five beautiful stanzas
reads:
"Be proud America to bear
The endless labor of the free—
To strike for freedom everywhere
And everywhere bear liberty."
The ablest men in the literary world
are included on the international editorial
board of Free World, and it is a tribute
to the genius of Louis Lipsky that he has
been invited to serve as one of this group.
We greet the appearance of Free World
as another demonstration for freedom in
a sick world. May it prove to be a suc-
cessful symbol in the battle for a decent
world order.
October 31,
•••Heard in the Lobbies••
By DAVID DEUTSCH
WoNDEit Wily:
The Department of Justice
doesn't publicly announce that
the internment camp built re-
cently at Camp Upton on Long
Island is not intended for Jewish
refugees but merely for Axis
prisoners brought to this hemis-
phere? . . . So many people who
had only a bowing acquaintance
with the late Louis D. Brandeis
are suddenly sprouting forth
with claims of intimacy and so
many others who disagreed com-
pletely with the famous Judge
are now stressing how close to
his views they were? . . .The
president of Hadassah is said
to be playing down fundamental
Zionism in order to win over
non-Zionists—and this includes a
willingness to refer to Palestine
as "Jewish homeland" and never
again as 'Jewish National Home?'
. . . The president of the He-
brew Union College in Cincinnati
is reported to have exacted a
promise from his local backers
that he remain in his post until
retirement before -agreeing to
the merger between the College
and Stephen Wise's Institute of
Religion? . . . Representatives of
a certain civic-protective agency
flit about the country alleging
that a poll was taken by experts
to show that 21 per cent of the
American people are anti-Semitic,
28 per cent pro-Semitic and the
balance "don't know?" . . . Mor-
decai Ezekiel, economic expert,
was virtually howled down when
he suggested at a recent refugee
conference that it might be a
good idea to spend some time
and money selling some of the
refugees the American conception
of democracy? . . . It's consid-
ered impolite to tell that Louis
B. Mayer, highest-salaried execu-
tive in America, gave a measly
$7,500 to his Los Angeles Jewish
drive when he was giving tens
of thousands in Bundles for
Bioff? . . . The Associated Press
is conspicuously free of Jewish
correspondents in key spots and
reports at length on Nazi efforts
to eliminate Jews from all walks
of life? . . . Certain obtuse Jew-
ish publications buy pro-Zionist
articles from yellow-mustached
Albeit Viton when he sells such
vicious anti-Zionist stuff to Pal-
estine-baiting papers like Chris-
tian Century? . . . That congre-
gation in Detroit did it and any
self-respecting rabbi permitted
the circulation of a questionnaire
to applicants for the succession
to Leo Franklin with questions
asked on the most minute details
of their social and political be-
liefs? . . . Advocates of a Wel-
fare Fund as the cure-all for
competitive Jewish drives see no
paradox in permitting special
drives among frightened biggies
for additional money outside but
protest the selling of tickets for
a ladies' auxiliary 25-cent cake
sale?
WILLKIE IN TIIE
Moms?
There's a lot of schmus about
Wendell Willkie crashing the
movies. If he does, it will be on
the business side of the kleig
lights. It all ties up with his
election as a director of the
Lehman Corporation and rumors
that are flying thick and heavy
that the banking organization is
planning to buy a big pile of
Warner Brothers' stock. If if
pan out, Mr. Willkie will become
a movie mogul.
To prove that you can't do
business with Hitler in any sphere
of life, the Office of Emergenc,.
Management is now preparing a
series of weekly broadcasts dra-
matizing the best seller, "you
Can't Do Business with Hitler",
which will be heard over more
than 100 radio stations.
Comic Milton Berle says : If
a picture is a failure the pro_
ducer blames it on the director;
the director blames it on the
star; the star blames it on the
writer and the writer blames it
on the fellow he stole the idea
from."
The largest number of new
tunes ever to be written for a
single motion picture has just
been completed by Irving Berlin.
Berlin has composed all of 11
new songs for the new Paramount
picture entitled "Holiday Inn."
The police are still looking for
the hoodlums who wrecked the
Warner Brothers' Belmar Thea-
ter in Pittsburgh and painted
the word "Jew" in red, white and
blue all over the movie-house
walls. There's reason to believe
this organized piece of vandalism
is directly linked with KKK agi-
tation.
EDITORS, PLEASE S-T-R-E-T-C-It
There's a bit of a minor panic
in the ranks of the Jewish press
agents these days as a result of
the growing shortage in memeo-
graph paper. Some of the pub-
licity men are now busy work-
ing out a code that will save
space without sacrificing any
part of the story. For example,
the mention of Hitler in any news
release will be followed by a
parenthetical note to the editor
to fill in a modest paragraph on
the plight of the Jews in Ger-
many. The editors will no longer
be required to cut items. Now
they will have to fill in and
stretch skeletonized stories.
LORD RUSSELL CHANGES HIS MINI)
Lord Bertrand Russell, the
world-famous mathematician and
educator, was until a short time
ago uncompromisingly opposed to
any form of nationalism, includ-
ing Zionism. But today in his
quiet Pennsylvania farm retreat
he is no longer so sure that he
was right. World events in the
past two years have changed his
outlook. Jewish nationalism is no
longer taboo with him.
Congratulations to George Jes-
se] on becoming a papa. Now
Georgie has only four daughters
more to go to catch up with
Eddie Cantor, his friendly rival
on Broadway this season.
Good Luck to Meyer W. Weis-
gal, who will assume the job of
general factotum for the World
Jewish Congress on the day this
column appears.
Lavy Bakstansky, secretary of
the Zionist Federation ill Eng-
land, returned last week to Lon-
don aboard the Clipper after a
short visit here. While in New
York he polished up on his bridge
so that he would be better pre-
pared for the nights he would
have to spend in air-raid shel-
ters during the blitz over Britain.
Friends for Zion
One of the most thrilling stories of the
war comes from Mishmar Haemek in
Palestine. This Emek Jezreel collective
settlement has been presented with a
piano as a gift from ?, Australian officers
and privates who did agricultural work
there during recent furloughs. The Aus-
tralians made their presentation by ex-
pressing admiration for "the wonderful
work done by the Jewish youth in build-
ing up their Homeland," and they made
a promise : to take word of Jewish
achievements in Palestine to their com-
rades and superior officers and to support
the Zionist movement after the war.
Is there a more impressive incident to
indicate genuine good will resulting from
admiration by Christians for Jewish ac-
complishments? More constructive work
in Palestine will create increased self-re-
spect among Jews and multiplication of
reasons for an increase of respect for our
people in non-Jewish quarters.
1941
C)The National Jewish Monthly, B'nal
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