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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

January 2, 1942

confer on political problems fac- Mrs. Hadassah Samuel, daughter-
in-law of Lord Sa'uel, Ada Fish.
ing the Yishuv.
Palestine Women Called to Enlist man, outstanding 1 . or leader, and
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from
Page
One)
other represents ve Palestine
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for War Service
Tuesday, Dec. 23, Benjamin
In an extraordinary action in- Jewish women gathered here for
task., During the First World Levinson, special representative Aaronson. The American diplo- dicating the pivotal importance a conference of the Central Coun-
War the newly ordained Rabbi of the General Discount Corpora- mat has had a warm friendship
cil of Jewish Women's Organiza.
Richmond was filling his first rab- tion, was host at a Christmas for the Aaronson family since of the Middle Eastern war sector, tions of Palestine to plan partici-
the
British
military
headquarters
World
War
I,
when
he
became
binical pulpit in Colorado when party and dinner given in the
pation in the enrollment of wo-
America entered the hostilities. English Room of the Detroit Le- intimately acquainted with the has announced the formation of men in teh Auxiliary Territorial
late Aaron Aaronson, one of the an Auxiliary Territorial Service
Rabbi Richmond immediately land Hotel.
to which all Palestinian women Service.
waived his clerical exemption and
This is the second party of this great Jewish heroes of modern between the ages of 20 and l5
Chief guest was Mrs. Chitty,
enlisted as a plain soldier . After kind that has been given by Mr. Palestine.
When Aaron Aaronson, noted are urged to offer their services, Commander of Britain's ATS,
due training he was on the point Levinson who is one of the out-
agronomist and assistant to Dr. in order to relieve men for other who surveyed the methods of or-
of embarkation for France with
ganization of her branch of the
Chaim Weizmann when the lat- Will' duties.
the American Expeditionary Force
In announcing` thefomation of war service and expressed the
before the Jewish religious auth-
ter visited Feisel to discuss post-
orities discovered his presence in
war relations, was killed in 1919, the Women's Auxiliary Territorial hope that Palestine would take
the Army. The Jewish Welfare
Mr. Bullitt sent a letter of con- Service (ATS), with the approval the lead in this effort to supple-
Board—which then, as now,
dolence to the family in which of the London War Office, British ment the reservoir of manpower.
The Jewish speakers dwelt on
shouldered the task of guiding
he spoke of the deceased "as a headquarters stated that the ob-
and counselling Jewish m.litary
sort of giant of the early days, ject was to release men for more the great share that women had
men through the stress of war-
active service from certain duties taken in the general upbuilding
like Prometheus."
time army life—recruited harry
During his stay in Jerusalem, such as in hospitals, as motor of Palestine, including the war
Richmond to the Chaplain Service
prior to his return to headquar- drivers, clerks, orderlies, store- effort.
The first day following the an-
instead, and Chaplain Richmond
ters at Cairo, Mr. Bullitt stopped women and cooks, as men have
thenceforth toured the military
at Government House, residence similarly been relieved in Eng- nouncement of recruitment for the
sectors of the French fighting
Women's ATS was marked by
land.
of the High Commissioner.
front, steadying and rallying dis-
The enrollment is open to all lively response at the Jewish
U. S. Doctor Arrives in Jerusalem
couraged and disgruntled Jewish
Agency's recruiting offices in
Dr. Henry Widgerson, Amer- women in Palestine and elsewhere Jerusalem,
combatants. "In France," Chap-
where many women—
as may be required. But it is
ican
physician
who
left
the
Unit-
lain Richmond recalls, "I scarcely
mostly
young
women, including a
unlikely
that
they
will
be
wanted
ed States early this fall, arrived
saw a day pass without some
here by air with his wife after outside the Middle East, although number of university students and
deeply moving experiences, tragic
a circuitous journey that took no guarantee is given to this graduates—registered, it was an.
and unforgettable. A chaplain
nounced this morning. Registra-
`hem from New York through the effect.
isn't in the thick of such things
tion continues countrywide.
East.
Dr.
Widgerson
will
Hebrew
Press
Expects
Large
En-
for didactic purposes, of course.
im.saidiately
assume
his
duties
as
rollment
of
Women
He's there to fraternize with the
the head of the new Department
Welcoming the announcement of Wedgwood Ele;ation Seen as
fellows, be one of them, their
"Removal" in Some Places
of Brain and Neuro-Surgery at an Auxiliary Territorial Service
comforter and friend."
the Rothschild-Hadassah-Univers- for women, the Hebrew press of
LONDON (JPS)—Although the
Lev—Principal Chaplain
ity Hospital on Mount Scopus.
Palestine gave editorial encour- elevation to the peerage of Colo-
Captain Aryeh Lev, assistant
Two New Colonies Established agement to a large response by nial Josiah C. Wedgwood, staunch
BENJAMIN LEVINSON
to the Army's Chief of Chap-
the Jewish women of the Yishuv Llbor champion of Jewish rights
in Palestine
lains, who is the principal Jew-
in the House of Commons, was
Two new colonies were added for the campaign.
ish chaplain in the service, rec- standing solicitors of Federal
The recruitment of women for hailed by his many friends as a
ognizes the need for a dynamic Housing Administration mortgages to the Jewish National Home as
in the southern section of Pales- service was described by the press deserved tribute to the veteran
religious faith on the part of in the country.
Jewish army youth. War under
There were 75 guests invited, tine 269 young men and women as an additional phase in the co- liberal, an interpretation was
any conditions is not a pleasant of whom the majority were build- took up their places to add to the tinting of the Yishuv for the war heard in some quarters that the
task—and when the shooting ers; also included were some of productive capacity of the coun- effort. Stressing that each new aged Laborite was sent to the
starts, the essense of courage re- the most prominent city officials. try in wartime. The new settle- phase involves a strenuous effort Houseof Lords as a means of
to achieve, the papers expressed silencing some of his frequently
quires a firm moral conviction to
Edmund Kuhlman, executive ments, established on the land
sustain the individual in his or- vice president of the Builders' of the Jewish National Fund by confidence that the appeal for the sharp criticisms of the Govern-
deal. Prayers, Chaplain Lev not- Association, acted as toastmaster. the Palestine Foundation Fund ATS would elicit a wide response ment. Several times a month
Wedgwood could be relied upon
ed, are a frequent resort of the Ralph Burton of the Burton Ab- with the assistance of the Hista- from the women.
Railway Line to Connect Haifa to ask embarrassing questions
soldier under stress.
stract and Title Company gave an druth, are called Manof and Ha-
about Palestine. Baronets in the
and Beirut. Then Tripoli
Chaplain Lev is the liaison offi- inspiring talk. Hubert Haeussler, bone.
The construction of a railway Houseof Lords ask no questions
The first of the new colonies
cer between the Jewish Welfare president of the General Discount
Board and the Chaplain Corps Corporation, also gave compli- is on the site of ancient Gath, line to connect Haifa with Beirut and expect no answers.
The entry of the United States
of the Army. Born in Jerusalem, mentary praise of the good work where 137 members of the Hash- which was begun by the British
Palestine and a graduate of the Mr. Levinson has done in the past omer Hatzair, mostly from Poland authorities in October will prob- into the war against the totali-
Jewish Theological Seminary and two years.
and Yugoslavia, founded Manof ably be completed before the end tarian nations has made America
the Institute of Religion, he was
on 6,000 dunams of National Fund of the year, it is reported by Ad one of the chief powers which will
Some
of
the
guests
invited
were
Difaa, Arabic daily. The line is determine the fate of the Jews
a rabbi in Lebanon, Pennsylvania
soil.
until the defense crisis mobilized representatives of Sheldon Land
The second settlement, Habone, then to be continued to Tripoli. after the war, Prof. Selig Brodet-
Company,
Frischkorn
Construc-
The construction of this section sky. president of the British Board
him into active Army duty.
tion Company, Garling Construc- is located near Ruhama in the
As Captain Lev views the prob- tion Company, Character Homes southernmost section of Palestine. of the track is expected to prove of Jewish Deputies, declared at
lems of religious education in the Company, Hayes Construction It comprises 10,000 dunams which an important economic factor in a Board meeting here.
Army ranks, the Army serves as Company, and the Bonn umber 132 members of the Kibbusz Ham- the development of the Lebanon
He said that the Jews of Amer-
euchad, all of them from Ger- after the war. It will he an im- ica have thus been afforded a
a valuable medium for introduc- Company.
many, occupied as the vanguard. portant link in the Calais to great responsibility and that co-
ing Jewish youth to a proper ap-
proach to spiritual belief. The
Both settlements are part of Cairo and the Cape all-railway operation between British and
lessons thus learned in the dis- PEP RALLY OF LADIES AUX- the memorial projects in tribute route.
American Jews is more imperative
cipline of army life will, Rabbi
to Dov Hos, Vice-Mayor of Tel
than ever. He stressed that con-
ILIARY OF KVUTZAH
Lev thinks, strongly influence the
Aviv, who was killed in an auto- Leading Palestine Women Plan tacts have already been estab-
IVRITH
THURSDAY
ethics of any postwar peace and
mobile accident a year ago as he
Enlistment Effort
lished between English and Amer-
help to prevent the moral collapse
The Ladies' Auxiliary of Kvut- was on his way to London to TEL AVIV (JPS-PALCOR)— ican Jewish organizations.
and disillusion which oft set in zah Ivrith held a pep rally at
with the release of pent-up war the home of Mrs. P. Gorczek,
psychoses.
Dec. 23.
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
The army chapel is rapidly be-
Sol Kasdan spoke on the sig-
coming the focal point for spirit- nificance of Chanukah.
ual guidance and character train-
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Mrs. B. Stein, donor luncheon
ing within the Army. It is here, chairman, reported having re-
decision
toward
other
civic - protective
by means of lectures, recreational ceived many pledges for the sev-
scholarly Jewish women in America, recognized
agencies.
activity, prayers and even voca- enth annual donor luncheon.
about two years ago that one of the troubles with
If every Welfare Fund in the country and
tional guidance, that the Chaplain
The next pep rally and lunch-
Jewish book publishing is the high price of most
buoys and steadies his religious eon will be held at the home of
every Jewish Community Council, and the
books. She therefore set out to produce Jewish
wards whose equilibrium he helps Mrs. I. Willis, 1821 Oakman
Council of Jewish Federations. were to say
to maintain. The Army is fast Blvd., on Thursday.
immediately, unequivocally and vigorously:
books to sell at a nominal price of 60 cents and
building 555 such chapels through-
"We want united action to meet a common
the set of seven small but highly informative vol-
For reservations call Ty.
out the nation and its outposts, 6-9159 or To. 5-1150.
problem regardless of what vested interests
umes which her Jewish Book Club published until
and these become highly adapt-
think," it will mark the most important—
now already attests to the success of her venture.
able houses of God within which
and perhaps the only o ne needed—step to-
Of the seven volumes, all of which are well
Jews, Catholics and Protestants group, but the 2,000-odd Jewish
ward ending the chaos, the confusion and
written and well gotten up typographically, Dr.
may each hold their spiritual soldiers under his guidance re-
complete futility of what passes for civic
Rosmarin wrote three herself. She began her ven-
services.
flect the cosmopolitan diversifica-
protection in America today.
ture with David B. Feinberg's "The Jewish Quiz
Present Army organization finds tion of urban life—with a com-
We quote this statement at length in Book". The second book was her own "Jewish
roughly 1,200 chaplains in serv- plexity of racial, cultural and
ice, with approximately 25 Jewish economic differences. Chaplain spite of our having advanced these points Women Through the Ages". Then came the an-
thology "The Oneg Shabbat Book" for which
counsellors in uniform—these lat- Segal, seasoned by reserve duty on several other occasions.
she is primarily responsible. "Maimonides Said"
ter from Chaplain Bernard Segal in years gone by, was the first
The
thing
to
remember
is
that
the
fur-
is an anthology selected and translated by Nahum
at Fort Dix, New Jersey to Chap- Jewish chaplain called to active
lain Harry Richmond in Hono- duty after the Selective Service ther we get away from unity the more N. Glatzer. Miriam Isaacs wrote "What Every
people will say that unified effort is not Jewish Woman Should Kno." Now comes Dr. Ros-
lulu. Rapid plans for expansion Bill was enacted.
of the Chaplain Corps are under
For a religious minority to essential and the more we will be torn marin's "Highlights of Jewish History".
way, and the Jewish Welfare whom the ways of force and war asunder by conflicting and overlapping
The latter is a splendid little book of 96 pages,
Board is working at top speed are unfamiliar and a reluctant
and it is an all-inclusive history, in spite of its
movements.
to recruit able spokesmen for last resort; for a Jewish youth,
brevity. It starts with the conquest of Palestine.
Judaism into army service.
No one expects that either the Congress takes
many of whom have hitherto been
the reader through the First and Second
The careful respect for relig- sheltered and protected in domes- or the Committee, or any of the other
Jewish Commonwealths, to the periods of the
ious freedom and denominational tic life; for a sensitive racial
differences has led to a close group to whom isolation and dis- movements will go out of business. But Exile, the Talmudic era, the Golden Period in
fraternization of all religious lead- crimination have been a real prob- all should be sufficiently concerned to de- Spain, the medieval period and life in the ghetto.
It is interesting to note that Dr. Rosmarin does
ers in their joint effort at build- lem—for all these the adjustment mand that whenever and wherever pos-
ing up army morale. A strong to military discipline raises a sible overlapping should be avoided and not despair of the future of our people, for she
writes:
inter-faith movement has been one host of individual and group
result of the joint chapel which problems. To an extent, the sub- unified effort resorted to.
"Two thousand years of persecution and mar-
merging of the individual and his
serves all creeds alike
There will be another series of fund- tyrdom—two thousand years of valor and heroism,
Where minority creeds have problems to the sheer discipline raising campaigns soon. Each of the spiritual deepening and intellectual ascendancy!
lacked available chaplains, the and mechanical obedience of army
Two thousand years of heartrending despair—two
Corps and army officials have life tempers or at least subordi- agencies will ask its share of defense thousand years of undying belief and hope! Thi.;
questions.
.
funds,
and
there
will
be
further
confus-
often pressed civilian religious nates these perplexing
is the history of the Eternal People.
into
nto voluntary service. In Yet a wise army administration ion in the minds of contributors. Instead
"And today? Today is no different from yester-
one Southern town the only Jew- knows that frustrated and dis- of clarifying issues we have become ex-
day—persecution and martyrdom, valor and hero-
ish resident hastily obtained a gruntled soldiers cannot long
ism, spiritual deepening and intellectual ascend-
hall and performed Jewish serv- stand the nerve-wracking physical perts in creating confusion.
ancy, heartrending despair and undying belief and
Will we ever get together?
ices during the High Holy days and mental strain of total war
hope. The Eternal People will not die!
for Jewish troops in transient without a compensating and all-
We
subscribe
to
the
viewpoint
that
quarters close by. Conversely, embracing ideal and faith to sus-
"Zionism and the new Hebrew culture, the
the
various
communities
should
be
com-
when Seventh Day Adventist chap- tain them in the hour of peril.
powerful renascence of the Jewish creative genius,
lains were unavailable, rabbis And quietly and unobtrusively. the pelled to seek cooperative effort leading the inspiration of Eretz Israel, and the great
furthered inter-faith tolerance by religious counsellors of Uncle to some semblance of unity.
promise of the latent possibilities and still dor-
officiating at the services.
Sam's command are working to
mant force of American Jewry—the Jewry of
At Fort Dix, New Jersey, key elevate the fervor and idealism
A Real Literary Achievement
today and tomorrow, strengthen our faith in the
distribution depot for the East of the raw recruits, to weld a
.T.tivine promise of Israel's eternity. Fear ye not,
Coast soldiers, Chaplain Bernard social solidarity and fighting
One of the truly creative achievements in the neither be afraid!"
Segal holds down a difficult as- spirit among the amred forces, to
Jewish literary field is to be credited to an able
signment. Not only is his snirit- prepare them for the trying task Jewish
Home and classroom will find her works valu-
woman.
ual flock a mobile and transient yet facing them .
able. They are procurable through the Jewish
Dr. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, one of the most

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Book club, 110 W. 40th St., New York.