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September 11, 1942 - Image 12

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1942-09-11

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

ROSH HASHONAH MESSAGE FROM
SYNAGOGUE COUNCIL

(Representing 1,300 Orthodox. Con

live and Reform

Rabbis and Congregations)

The advent of Rosh Hashonah,
the Jewish New Year, bids the
Jew turn to reflection and analy-
sis touching himself and the world
in which he lives. The sound of
the Shofar (ram's horn) calls
him Godward. Repentance, pray-
er, and righteousness, is the three-
cold theme of this season of High
Holy Days.
Basic to the progress of civili-
zation is consc i ence. In the light
of conscience we examine our-
selves and the world. The dignity
of man, the sanctity of human
life, honor, truth and justice, have
been violated by the powerful
hosts of godlessness in our time.
Yet we have all s'nned in some
measure. Our generation has per-

mitted the forces of evil to be-
come exalted. Now at last, these
destructive forces are being suc-
cessfully challenged.
Rosh Hashonah calls for peni-
tence. The calamity of war is
not an accidental evil, but is an
evidence and consequences of hu-
man failure to live up to the law
of God. The present hour calls
for humility and repentance, for
an earnest inquiry into the evils
that have generated this war.
Rosh Hashonah exhorts to pray-
er. Faced with the most power-
ful hosts of evil which have ever
menaced religion and civilization.
we need the strength which comes
from earnest prayer. Let our
prayers be not only for the safety

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and well-being of ourselves and
of our country, but for humanity's
salvation.

Rosh Hashonah calls for right-
eousness. Personal righteousness,
national righteousness, and inter-
national righteousness, is the way
of life in which salvation lies.
Any state which denies to human
beings the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, vio-
lates the Law of God. 'Swords
can be beaten into ploughshares"
only when every man shall sit
under his vine and fig tree and
none shall make him afraid." The
safeguarding of the common in-
terests of humanity are the fore-
most charge upon the internation-
al order. May our great Democ-
racy, the United States of Amer-
ica, prove equal to the responsibil - -
ties of world-wide magnitude
which devolve upon it, both in the
winning of the war and in the
building of the peace to follow.

In the Rosh Hashonah mood
the Jew envisages his own present
affliction in the light of the
world's tragedy, and links his hope
for his own future with the hope
for mankind's future.
May the New Year bring us
closer to the inev'table victory of
freedom's cause, closer to lasting
peace and closer to the realization
of God's Kingdom on earth.

Rabbi Israel Goldstein,
President.

SAVE

YOUR

A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL

TIRES

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GROCERIES

ED PEISNER—KOSHER BUTCHER

September :

FRED M. BUTZEL HOPES FOR AGREEMENT
AMONG JEWS IN COMING YEAR

We are entering the current crisis in tren.. • (l oll ,
confusion. The oldest Jewries are in process of
ation and the uprooting of our people creates an ,,i,pall.
ing condition and it is difficult to even imagine
a I', s sibl e
i
reconstruction. The attitude of the democracies t, 'yards
the refugee is none too heartening. Worst of our
leadership is very divided and many influentia' .Jew's
look backwards instead of ahead. Many still m'tke a
fetish of the unity of Israel, in spite of its very ap)arent
disunity. On the other hand, too many do not know
of the existence of a Balfour Declaration and ti ntirzee-
mendous progress of Palestine and no not
that the only hope of the Jewish people in Pale• - He, if
they are not to be a minority cooped up in a gib-tto, is
some sort of political organization which calls for auto.
nomy and independence. There is some hope that a
large and representative body of Jews may accept the
conception of a homeland for Jewish people in Palestine,
with the necessity for political protection and recogni-
tion, as well as a clear-cut recognition of the political
identification of all other Jews with the countries of
which they are citizens and a complete disavowal of
so-called diaspora and universal citizenship. There are
of course extremists who resent any type of political
organization for the Jews in Palestine and just trust
to luck for the fostering of culture and religious values in
that country. Likewise, members of Jewish minorities
in countries of persecution and their sympathizers can
find their only hope in the recognition of the national
unity of Jews, no matter where they are. However,
American Jews can best serve their brethren if their
representatives will fight for the building up of Jewish
autonomy in Palestine, while assisting such stateless Jews
as do not care to go to Palestine to find equal citizen.
ship either in their lands of origin as democratically re-
constituted after the war or in such hospitable countries
as will receive them. In this time of turmoil thinking
along this line is becoming more and more prevalent
and while it is not to be conceived that all Jews \vault'
think alike on all subjects there is considerable possibil-
ity that representative and responsible groups may find
a formula of agreement to which all moderate, realistic
and modern Jews may subscribe.

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NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE

from

SENATOR

PRENTISS M. BROWN

SEN.

PRENTISS M. BROWN

The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashonah, symbolizes the epical story of Israel . . . recording for

posterity the triumph of faith and courage over intolerance and persecution, a saga to inspire future

generations along the paths of freedom and righteousness.

On the eve of the New Year, may the history of Israel continue to record cultural and material

contributions toward a more perfect humanity . . . and may the year 5703 record a more progressive

civilization, based on justice and enlightened by brotherhood and peace among mankind.

It is, therefore, a happy privilege for me to extend hearty felicitations on this most important

occasion to my fellow citizens of the Jewish faith of Michigan.

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