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Sabbath Scriptural Selections The Palestine Land Program Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 1 :1-6:1. Prophetical portion—Is. 27:6-28:13; 29:22, 23. JANUARY 9, IB42 - Government in Exile looks to the restora- tion of rights for Jews on a full and equal basis at the end of the war." A better example, perhaps, is the mul- tiplicity of claims to "credit" made by many organizations whenever a refugee group is saved. All get on the band- wagon in search for recognition. Let some of the groups in American Jewish life stop searching for capital for themselves, and let some of their leaders stop boasting. Let us, instead, unite for proper work for the amelioration of Jew- ish sufferings. The American Jewish com- munity will then be the happier and Jew- ish hope for the future will be better sustained. Facts and figures being made public at this time indicate that Palestine stands in the front ranks of the countries de- fending the democratic idea, and that the Jewish settlements are serving as an ar- senal for the British forces. They are providing necessities of life—including food and medicaments—and are manu- facturing articles vital for military pur- poses. It is important, therefore, that nothing should be done to impair the growth of these settlements, and that there should be no setback to the efforts of the Jew- ish builders of Eretz Israel. Recently, a conference of the United Palestine Appeal was held in Akron, 0., and former United States Senator Wil- liam H. King of Utah pointed out that "it was an act of the highest patriotism to maintain our gallant Jewish allies fighting the democratic fight on the Mid- dle East front." Former Senator King continued to state: TEBET 20, 5702 A Giant Has Fallen in Israel Pinchus Ruttenberg is dead! The news from Jerusalem came as a shock. The former head of the Vaad Leumi, the Jewish National Council of Palestine, was the engineering genius who harnessed the Jordan and brought electricity to Pal- estine. He was the co-founder, while in the United States during the last war, with the late Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Judge Julian W. Mack and a group of other leaders, of the American Jewish Congress. He was a member of Alexander Keren- sky's cabinet during that short-lived Rus- sian administration, his rise to that posi- tion having been as a result of his revo- lutionary activities in Russia after the massacre on that "Red Sunday" in 1905, "Every Jew who ploughs a furrow, every as a result of the treachery of Father Jew who fights in Libya, every Jew who turns Gapon. a lathe in a Palestine factory is contributing to the defense of America. I am an Ameri- Mr. Ruttenberg became a Zionist short- •an, who traces his ancestry back to the ly after the failure of the Russian Revo- founding fathers, but it would never for lution of 1905. He settled in Palestine one moment occur to me that my American- after the triumph of the Bolshevik section ism might be tempered by accelerating the rebuilding of Palestine—both because of its of the Russian Socialist party, and his contribution to the war effort and because great contributions towards the upbuild- it is a permanent solution to a world-wide ing of the Jewish National Home placed problem. As an American Christian. I am him in the front ranks of great world asking American Jews to manifest their patriotism at this hour and send larger Jewish leaders. grants of assistance to Palestine to build up A giant has fallen in Israel a national home and make it an impreg- Two days earlier, Feiwel Weizmann, nable bastion in the democratic fight now eldest brother of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, waging on a worldwide front. Your patrio- tis m to America can be measured by the died in Haifa. He came to Palestine with faith that you have in final victory. That his aged mother, who passed away only faith, in turn, will be measured b y your a year ago, in 1926, and created a large continuous and large-scale assistance to our circle of important friends. Jewish Allies fighting on the Middle East front." To the Ruttenberg and Weizmann fam- These are significant words. They strike ilies, we extend our heartfelt sympathies at the root of a very important issue in on their great losses. Jewish life and point to a major need in the worldwide program for human re- . Unnecessary Duplication building. Since the so-called General Jewish Palestine is important as a military Council was amputated by the with- center. Palestine is important, also, as a drawal of the American Jewish Congress, plank in the peace program for the re- some effort has been made to inject new generation of Jews when this war is over. life into what had been hoped would be Without the amelioration of Jewish suf- a unifying force in American Jewish life. fering, there can be no peace, and with- But some of the activities of Jewish or- out a Jewish Palestine the Jewish prob- ganizations, including the General Jewish lem can not possibly be solved. Council, show that duplication of effort Therefore, there should be no halting continues in a most deplorable way. of Jewish activities on the defense front. For instance, here is an example of We must do everything possible for na- "false pride" as to actual achievements, tional defense; and we must continue and a good sample of duplication. On all our work in Palestine—whether it is Dec. 18, the General Jewish Council is- land redemption through the Jewish Na- sued a release regarding a pledge made tional Fund or industrial building through by Jan Stanczyk, Minister of Labor and the Keren Hayesod. Social Welfare in the Polish Government, that Jews will be guaranteed equal rights A Noted Martyr in the new Poland after the war. The news was released by Adolph Held, chair- An official announcement made in Lon- man of the Jewish Labor Committee don by the Polish Government in Exile which has retained membership in the reveals that Dr. Moses Schorr, Chief Rab- General Jewish Council. At the same bi of Warsaw, who was imprisoned by time, the irreconcilable foe of Zionists the Nazis together with Deputy Emil and the Jewish Congress, Zivion of the Sommerstein, had died on July 8. The Forward, boasted that this statement was news comes from Stanislaw Kot, Poland's made to the proper party—to the Jewish Ambassador to Russia, who states at the Labor Committee. same time that there is no news as to But a check-up of the record will show the fate of Deputy Sommerstein. that the Stanczyk statement as given to It is extremely saddening news. Chief the Jewish Labor Committee, and the ro- Rabbi Schorr was an outstandingg world port of which we published on Dec. 26, Jewish leader. He was a staunch defender was not a new one. Mr. Stanczyk had of the rights of Polish Jews, and even made a similar statement to a delegation vilest anti-Semites often had to listen th to representing the American and World his pleadings for justice. Jewish Congresses early in November. On Rabbi Schorr died a martyr to the cause Nov. 10, a Jewish Congress release stated of decency. May his blood serve to fruc- that the Polish leader "in a friendly con- tify a better earth for future generations. - January 9, 1942 .'.Heard in the Lobbies.'. By DAVID DEUTSCH OUR BOYS TAKE OVER BROADWAY If to keep 'em happy • is the first law of national morale, our boys are doing their bit on Broadway. Look at the shows that opened in just one week. First was Eddie Cantor's "Banjo Eyes," which got him the biggest critical salutes since he started show business in pre-War I days. Izzy Ellinson helped write the book and Vernon Duke (Vladimir Dukelsky) did the • music. Harry Horner did the magnificent sets and Irene Sharaff the costumes. And Lionel Stander runs Eddie a good second for laughs. . . . High-brow show of the week was Clifford Odets' "Clash By Night," which the critics took' apart only to find that the performances were great, with little else inside. We're glad they gave some good lines to Joseph Schildkraut, who's been Broadway's most misunder- stood man since "Liliom." Lee J. Cobb turns in his best show to date, while Lee Strasberg did the stage and Boris Aronson the set- tings . . . Howard Koch collabor- ated with John Huston on "In Time to Come," the Wilson bio- graphical play that the critics were nice to, as to a favorite grandmother. Bernard Randall does a nice job as Judge Bran- deis, while Arnold Korff was res- cued from Hollywood to do Mon- sieur Pichon. Harry Horner showed his versatility by doing the sets. Direction is by Otto Preminger, who'll be remembered for his great direction and act- ing in "Margin for Error." Pre- 'flinger is one of Hitler's finest gifts to America, his swell work including the direction of "Libel," "Outward Bound" and "My Dear Children," among others . . . And as if that weren't enough, "Letters to Lucerne," newest juvenile hit, was written by Fritz Hotter, with Allen Vincent. That's a shining performance turned in by Sonya Stokowski, who is one of a group of wonderful youngsters, includ- ing Grete Mosheim, Lille Skala and Alfred T. Hesse. Miss Mos- heim's great scene comes when she reads a letter from her moth- er in Germany. When she's through reading those lines of terror in Naziland, there isn't a dry eye in the house. ALL FOR DEFENSE Salaam to the Yiddish hour on New York's Station WHOM, which adapted the Texas-born idea and calls on listeners to send in a penny for every enemy plane knocked out by the "keep- cm-flying" boys. Over 500 Yid- dish fans told the radio station they would be listening in on the score and shooting in the coin. The number of pledgers is mount- ing, with the pennies going to Henry Morgenthau's big bank. Keep shootin"em down, fellas! Belle Baker, whose .songs still tug at the heart, turned down a series of night club engagements to be in New York with her son, Herbert, 20-year-old youngster who's enlisted with the American Army. Can't believe Louis Fal- kenstein, of Chicago's HiHat Club, would go through with his threat- ened suit for cancellation of the show. Herbert's been writing show scripts for his mama since he graduated from Yale last June. As soon as Miss Baker dries her tears for her only son's de- parture, she'll be right back mak- ing Americans keep their chins up. AFTER TEN YEARS Next week the former colleagues of Lewis Browne will be getting their annual choleric outburst, be- cause that is when his new book, "Something \Vent Wrong," will be published. It seems the rabbis can never forgive the slouching author for having deserted the rabbinate and gone out and made himself independent. His new book has been in the works for 10 years. Maybe that's because Lewis writes his books by long- hand and "Something Went Wrong" went through 10 differ- ent drafts. If you're a friend of Browne's, you've known about the book for 10 years, because the way he gets an idea of how the book is going is to read it to friends. ABOVE THE ROAR David ben Gurion, Palestine's chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, is thinking of setting up shop at Washington for the duration, with the Capitol the hub of the world's postwar plan- ning. Put a bet on it that the Coun- cil of Federations and Welfare Funds, which is still licking its wounds from a similar effort in 1941, is going to try to put through its national budgeting plan at the Chicago conference at the end of this month. The men responsible for planning the move feel they can drown any opposition by appealing to the patriotic unity of the nation, and are hoping everybody will be too interested in other matters to notice the putting over of this job. It's amazing the silly things people can do, even in wartime. Cooing between Zionists and non-Zionists for a hands-across- the-table pact for peace planning is getting sweeter and sweeter. One of the reasons is that Amer- ican Zionists in 1942 don't use the same vocabulary their pre- decessor, Herzl, did 40 years ago. And not because the words don't still mean the same thing. Editor Stout of the Saturday Evening Post- is promising him- self it'll be a long time before he touches on any more Jewish topics, considering the terrific amount of condemnatory mail he got on the Jerome Frank article —which, he had thought, would make all the Jews happy. Another Dome on the Moscow Horizon By BRESSLER •"....;••• •••