Americo( Awish Periodical Cotter 4 2. • ugh. have w ere No- .heir ..1n, and .vere -end s at and sler fled 'hey ■ Irs. Han del- Al- the iter rte. ex- -in- Irs. ida, 622 Sep tember II. CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 1 94 2 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle "A TREE" 9 A NEW YEAR MESSAGE—ROSH HASHONAH 5703 By MIRIAM G. SLOBIN A Tree, Nature's Sentinel Majestic, Stalwart, Strong. Filtering air, enriching the Earth, Giving Health and Life, it's un- fathomed Worth. By DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN To You and to those whose happiness is yours, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth El a Happy and Prosperous New Year. "Awake, Awake, Put on thy Strength" (Isaiah L11, 1.) The words that an inspired prophet anciently pro- claimed to the stricken Daughter of Zion, I speak to my people of the House of Israel today. "Awake, awake, put on thy strength, 0 Israel." In the tragic and terror laden conditions amid which we are living I can think of no more telling or timely New Year's message for the Jew than that which warns A Tree, him against a defeatist philosophy and which urges him Man' , Friend Constant, Protective, True to keep his spirit firm in the unwavering conviction that Producing Food and Fuel and Fact COATS — APRONS as always in the past so now "the hand of God is not That through Ages, Trees re- too short to save." cord each act. LINENS — TOWELS It would be futile and foolish to deny that the Jew Lost sad bend columns of faces a most desperate situation today. With all life made cheap and with civilization itself threatened with destruc- Tokio newspapers are crowd- ed these days. Every time an tion, what can that small group hope for which in times 3700 HUMBOLDT AVE. American buys a War Bond, of world calamity has uniformly been the first and chief the Japs lose face. Buy your victim of persecution and of hate? No wonder that many Phone LAfayette 3100 10% every pay day. of our people face the New Year with a feeling not only of helplessness but even of utter hopelessness and that they stand ready to give up the battle for survival, be- cause it seems beyond their strength. Rosh Hashonah Greetings It is to them especially that the call to renewed courage should come in the opening hours of this New I.E SHONO TOVO TIKOSINL! Year. Only then shall we be defeated when we believe ourselves defeated. Only then shall our strength fail us The Hamilton Fish when like craven cowards we consent to bow our heads before our foes. Company I am happy to believe that it is only a very small minority of our people who have yielded to this defeatist — Wholesale Distributors — attitude. The majority of Jews have remained stalwart in their faith and have shown a degree of physical and Fresh, Frozen, Salt moral fortitude that stamps them as heroes in the finest and Smoked Fish 6247 GRAND RIVER AVE. sense of that term. It matters not where we find them. They are giving a creditable account of themselves. In 1334 E. Vernor Highway the Nazi dominated areas, throughout the length and TYler 6-9 300 Eastern Market breadth of Palestine, in Britain and America this is equally true. When the final story of the War for Sur- Cherry 7855 4 Trunk Lines vival shall be written the Jews of the world shall not be — ashamed of the part they have played in the great con- flict. But though this be true it still behooves us to realize TO THE MANY USERS OF that our striving must be not only to save Jews, but that which alone justifies the existence of the Jew as a dis- Electrol Oil Burner and Westinghouse Air tinct entity—namely his Judaism. Stripped of his relig- ious identity the Jew is an anamole. The Jew without Conditioning Equipment I I: SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU a sense of spiritual mission is like a rudderless bark upon a storm-tossed sea. To be willing to salvage our ROSII HAS! IONA1-1 GREETINGS! A Happy New Year bodies at the cost of our souls is nothing less than moral suicide. Without his faith in God and without his sense 1 ,, You All of appointment as a priest people, wherein lies the dis- tinction between the Jew and the non-Jew. I urge that we begin this New Year with this thought from clear in mind. Let us be ready and eager to make any sacrifices that may be necessary to win the war. That 7704 Woodward Ave. Madison 7260 is our first and most important duty. Let us give unstint- ingly of our means an of our energies to the rehabilita- tion of the Holy .Land as a place of refuge for as many of our brethern as can renew their lives there. Of our duty in this regard there can be no shadow of doubt. Let us not waver or hesitate to answer the call to serve A Happy and Prosperous New Year to All and to sacrifice for the re-establishment of a world order New Wonder Bar that shall enhance the opportunity of all men and of all peoples to live their lives upon the highest possible plane. But through it all let us be constantly alert to the im- WasI,Ington Blvd. m State pressive fact that as Jews there rests upon us today and there will increasingly rest upon us in the post-war world the supreme obligation to stress for our own brot- hers in faith and ultimately for all men the fact that physical survival without spiritual survival will represent LOCAL and LONG DISTANCE MOVING an empty victory. The Jew must cut the path to the moral restoration of a spiritually broken world. Because this I Want to Be Your task is in line with his age old mission as the prophet 6554 HAMILTON AVE. CONGRESSMAN of justice and righteoudness and the sponsor of peace and MADISON 3960 good will among men he dare do no less. Therefore—"Awake, awake—put on thy strength, 0 Israel !" A Tree, God's Messenger Of Might and Strength Proving Growth, Stability, yes Beauty Examples to men to perform their duty. MICHIGAN TOWEL SUPPLY CO. DETROIT CITY ICE 8 FUEL CO. , MECHANICAL HEAT AND COLD, INC. Sammy Sofferin's JOHN F. IVORY Storage Company, Inc. -- SEGAL (Continued from Page 4) a quaint relic of history. It is a rusted weapon in sonic museum. It is the nameless grave of Hitler. It is the (lust." I HARRY A. McDONALD War Veteran — Businessman REPUBLICAN I 3th District I I rr HE RABBIS were glad to ob- i- serve that there was no more Jewish problem. There could he no special problem of any group in a brotherhood in which there was justice enough and bread enough for every man, and no man had cause to envy his brother. There was a memorial service for all the sainted dead who had given thejr lives in the Great War, 100 years before, to this end of brotherhood, liberty and justice. They were a generation that put aside all the comforts, easements and luxuries of an abundant civil- ization to fight and to die, if they had to, for the eternal values of the spirit, for this ultimate broth- erhood. God rest their souls. I believe this is true prophecy and everybody must believe it who has faith in ultimate prog- ress. True, it doesn't comfort today's pain to believe that it will be all right in 100 years, but we are on the plane of immense his- tory and the immediate tomorrow is of small importance. We suffer and sacrifice for the generations to come; that's the history of man. For the New Year I wish the leaders courage against the days to come and understanding to know what they are living these days for. Season's Greetings and Best Wishes1 EASTERN CELERY CO. 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