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struggle against the common foe is of
great significance."
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Indeed, this IS of great significance,
since it marks the drawing closer of the
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two large Jewish communities which had
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
been rent asunder by conflicting ideolo-
"intered as Second-class matter March 3. 1916, at the Post-
gies, by American Jewry's opposition to
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3. 1879
Communism, by Russian Jewry's isolation-
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present the hope that former boundaries
Editor
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
in friendships will be obliterated and that
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the Jewries of the world, like the peoples
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of the world, will be drawn closer in
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friendship and in human cooperation.
Nhen mailing notices, kindly u,r; one side of paper only.
At the important •rally held in New
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle it %tes correspondence on sub-
York, speakers included men like Czech
vacts of interest to the Jewish ',Boole, but disclaims respon-
.ibility for an endorsement of ‘•'ews expressed by the writers.
Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, the noted
Zionist Abraham Goldberg, the eminent
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
writers Pierre Van Paassen and Sholem
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 44:18-47:27
Asch and Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, who has
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 47:15-28.
Feast of Tebet Reading of the Law,
long been associated with the Joint Dis-
Tuesday, Dec. 20
tribution
Committee. A portion of Dr.
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 47:28-50:26.
Rosen's
remarks
is worth quoting. Dr.
Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-56:8.
Rosen
said:
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

DECEMBER 26, 1941

TEBET 6,

Give to the Red Cross

In the campaign for the Red Cross, it
is hoped that not a single home will be
without the symbol of mercy and hope
represented by the emblem of the great
movement for aid to the needy in the
war.
This is a time for utmost liberality and
for unfailing loyalty to the causes which
aim to reduce suffering and want and to
serve as messengers of mercy and kind-
ness in the horrible world struggle.
The Red Cross stands in the forefront
of the mercy-giving causes of all time.
This is a period of major responsibility
to the Red Cross, and it is essential that
every person should participate in its
work by giving liberally to its funds.
Give to the Red Cross NOW !

Defense and Prejudice

The hoary head of race and religious
prejudice continues to show itself, even in
the present hour of national crisis.
A number of Jews who have completed
courses in national defense work, in our
public school system, have had their
applications for jobs in a certain factory
in Detroit rejected when they stated that
they were Jewish. Fellow-students who
are not Jews were employed immediately
thereafter.
The Jews are now advised to become
modern Marranos, to avoid mentioning
their Jewishness, else their position is
hopeless.
But the self-respecting ones, conscious
of the fact that American principles re-
ject such an attitude of putting on false
cloaks in order to secure jobs, insist that
this is as much a war to eradicate preju-
dice in this country as it is a battle to
establish decency throughout the world,
and they demand action to uproot discrim-
ination in employment.
Their demand for action should be
heeded.
In some states, the legislatures pro-
scribed discrimination in employment.
It is time it were done here.
This is a time for national unity—and
an united nation must reject prejudice
and discrimination, whether it is against
Jews or Negroes or any other group of
law-abiding citizens.

December 26,

1941

•'Heard in the Lobbies•••

By DAVID DEUTSCH
HOW TIMES CHANGE
ECHOES OF THE WAR

Penns y lvania's Congressman Louis Fischer must be kicking
Samuel A. Weiss paid $500 for himself for having abandoned So-
the privilege of voting war viet Russia after many years of
against the Axis powers. Strand- being her chief journalistic chain-
ed in Pittsburgh on the eve of pion in the U. S. A. What a
Congressional action and unable cleanup he would have made now
to get transportation on the reg- that Red is a fashionable color
ular commercial airlines, Weiss . . . And talking of Russia, did
and Congressman Scarlong, a fel- you know that Laurence Stein-
low Kea/stoner, chartered a pri- hardt used to be a member of
vate plane and reached the House the Zionist Organization of Amer-
in time to vote "aye" on the flee- ica? That was in the days of
laration of war. As a !limbo of Branders, when other members
Congress and of the Bnai Brith included such now famous "non-
Defense Committee, Weiss showed Zionists" as Maurice Wertheim,
patriotism and efficiency. president of the American Jew-
They say it was exciting to ish Committee, Louis Kirstein,
watch German waiters in Mil- chairman of its executive com-
waukee who only two days pre. mittee, and Eugene Meyer, Wash-
.
viously were wearing Bavarian ington
publisher.
Ben Post
Hecht
used to delight in
shorts and singing "Horst Wes-
. three
sal" and now were lustily bel- smacking the Zionists
down sts",-
"chauvini
lowing Irving Berlin's "God Bless times a week asthe most a rdent
America." Frequently called a and
now he
advocate
of is a Jewish army in
"German" town. Milwaukee has Palestine.
seen such places as Mader's Ger-
Abraham Goldberg, who never
man restaurant brush over "Ger-
had
cuss words to apply
man" to replace it with the same to the enough
Hebrew-proscribing Soviets,
number of syllables, "famous."
"The Soviet Union presents a classic ex-
was a leading'speaker at the Mad-
ample of how with an enlightened govern.
One big civic-protective agency ison Square Garden rally arrang-
policy
scores
of
different
nationalities
planned a huge fund-raising din- ed by the Committee of Jewish
ment
ner in New York for the week Writers and Artists A number
can he made to live peacefully side by side
and how the cancer of anti-Semitism can
following Pearl Harbor and two of those invited failed to show
be successfully eradicated. I regret to say
nights before the affair a notice up when some of their Jewish
that among our own people in this country
went out to all invitees that the friends pointed out that the com-
shindig was cancelled . . . The mittee was directed by American
there are still quite a number who are re-
long-range planners of the civic- Communists.
luctant to express openly their sympathy
with the Soviet people for fear that they
protective groups are trying to
warn Jews against smugness LEV INTH AL ALLERGY
may be accused of being Bolsheviks, Com-
merely because FBI agents are
munists and God knows what not, for fear
One of the patriarchal men of
rounding up all known Nazi big-
that by expressing this sympathy they are
Israel is Rabbi B. L.
wigs and other peace disturbers. American
giving ammunition to the anti-Semites in
Levinthal, that small, white-
.
But
their
pleas
of
"remember
the
their fight against our people.
bearded sage who is the pride o
postwar
relapse"
are
falling
Orthodox Jewry and of Philadel-
"It is about time for us to realize that
de af ears.
_ phia. Once, when someone got
no matter what we do our anti-Semitic
Mrs. Martin Gang, Los An talking to him on the subject of
'friends' will always find a multiplicity of
gales non-Jewess, who is as good allergies, he told of an experence,
arguments against us, be it the subtle theory
a Jew as any one of her attor- he, the pious follower of Jewish
of orientals vs. occidentals or the idiotic as-
nay-husband's friends, has offer tradition had had. He was feel-
sertion that the Jewish Communists are inter-
ed to enlist as an Army pilot and ing very ill and his devoted chil-
national bankers and the Jewish high finan-
to give her own Stinson plane dren rushed him off to a big
ciers are Communists. If we are to satisfy
for transport of army officials. specialist. Whatever that physi-
our anti-Semitic 'friends' the only thing for
Vichy, France, may be in the cian may have known of medicine,
us to do is to lie down and die—and this
of Hitler, but Universal he did not know particularly who
we are not going to do."
•
changed a scene in "Paris Call- his patient was. He gave Rabbi
The truth of this statement is so self- ing" to which the embassy b Levinthal all the usual allergy
That must make Elisabeth tests. After a long and grueling
evident that it needs no elaboration. What
i view examination, the specialist grave-
B
i its
ergner,
oferfvnheaiti,
the s star, happy in
matters is that the two most numerous
French are doing to ly announced to his patient: "I'm
Jewries in the world—American and Rus- her people today.
sorry, sir, but your condition is
such that in the future you'll have
sign are being drawn closer; that there
to avoid three things: ham,pork
is hope of cooperation between them on HATS OFF TO THEM!
.
Harry
M.
Warner,
Hollywood's
and
lobster."
t
there
is
the
added
hope
many fronts; a th
most
drafted
campaigner,
is
now
that after the war Russia may even be ch airman of the Red Cross movie BEHIND THE. SCENES
The Brooklyn salesgirls still
come one of the great collaborators in the colony drive.
Jack
Benny
is
expecting
to
go
chew
gum in rapid excitement as
building of the Jewish National Home in
on a tour of the nation to boost they recount to anyone who will
Palestine.
sales of U. S. defense bonds as listen the fabulous Cinderella story
Should this be-one of the results of this his assist to the Treasury Dept. of one of their number: the mir-
Station WCPO in Cincinnati acle of Shirley Levy, who ended
tragic war, then much good is in store for
established a record for the na- up as a star opposite Franch4
the greatest sufferer of all—the Jewish tion when it assigned different Tone I forgot to say that het
members of its staff to commun- billing is Carol Bruce.
people.
Poor Armand Tokatyan, Jewish
icate regularly with the Jews,
Catholics and Protestants of the tenor at the Metropolitan Opera,
Willkie Makes an Appeal
city to judge reactions to cur- is one of the victims of the Japan-
ese war. "Madame Butterfly" is
rent programs.
Harry Maizlish, enterprising one of the favorites in the "Met"
Wendell Willkie, standard bearer of
Hollywood Station repertoire and he is usually the
the Republican party, has come to the manager of really
responsible for Lieutenant. Now the "Met" has
KFWB, is
front on several occasions with appeals to that sensational Danish comedian, cancelled all future productions
strengthen decency in the world. His lat- Victor Borge, who got a five- of the Japanese story.
Chip - on - the - shoulder Herman
est plea is in behalf of the refugees. Mr. year contract because Harry went Shumlin
tells anyone who'll lis-
to
hat
for
him.
Willkie urges the Treasury Department to
ps in vaudeville, ten that he produced his anti-
Phil Baker, to
permit refugees to withdraw more funds musical comedy and films for 27 Nazi "Watch on the Rhine" which
than is allowed them today. He shows that years, starts a new lease on life brought Hungarian-Jewish Paul
a quizmaster's duttes on the Lukas from limbo, has been sold
refugees in whose behalf he pleads came with
new "Take It Or Leave It" radio to Warner's for $150,000. Which
to this country before June 17, 1940, and program, leaving behind his fa- proves that even a Jewish theme
in many instances before that date, and ramous accordian. cAn be sold if it's well done.

he asks removal of the limit of $500 per
month withdrawal allowance now in force
under the Treasury freezing regulations
for aliens. His appeal is logical and hu-
man, and the Treasury Department would
render great service by yielding to Mr.
Willkie's request, since in most instances
such easing of regulations would permit
aliens to expand industries which will
The Union of Jewries
benefit the economy of the country at
At Madison Square Garden in New large.
York last week, the Committee of Jewish
Writers and Artists in the United States
held a rally to pledge support to Amer- Notable Days on Jewish Calendar
ica's war effort. It was a significant gath-
5702-1941
ering, and among those who greeted it in Fast of Tebeth
Thursday, Dec. 30
messages were Vice President Henry Wal-
5702.1942
Monday, Jan. 19
lace, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Russian Am- Rosh Chodesh Shvat
Feb. 17-18
bassador Maxim Litviniff and Albert Ein- Rosh Chodesh Adar............Tues -Wed.,
Monday,
March 2
Esther
stein. The message of Ambassador Lit- Fast of
Tuesday, March 3
Purim
vinoff was important. It read:
Thursday, March 19
Rosh Chodesh Nissan
April 2 to 9
"Since the establishment of the Soviet Passover
Fri.-Sat., April 17-18
Union the Jews in the U. S. S. R. partici- Rosh Chodesh Iyar
Tuesday, May 5
pated in the development of culture, art Lag b'Omer
Sunday, May 17
Rosh
Chodesh
Sivan
and science of our country. Now, when
Friday-Saturday, May 22-23
Shevuoth•
the United States as well as the Soviet Rosh Chodesh Tammuz......Mon.-Tues., June 15-16
Thursday, July 2
Union is fighting with the blood of their Fast of Tammuz
-.
Wednesday, July 15
sons for independence, democracy and Rosh Chodesh Ab
Thursday, July 23
culture, the unity of the Jews of these Tisha b'Ab
Thurs.-Fri., Aug. 13-14
two great countries for a more effective Rosh Chodesh Ellul

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