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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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The position of the Jews today
is perhaps the most poignant in
"What does the Lord require of lege graduate is Rabbi Ammo
all their long history, and yet
thee, but to do justly and to Prero, native of Jerusalem, who
perhaps because of the intensity
By DR. REDCLIFFE N. SALAMAN
love mercy, and to walk humbly has been named director of the
of the tragedy the path of the
individual Jew is both clearer EDITOR'S NOTE: The war today is a fight to deliver from the with thy God," constitutes the Hillel Foundation at the u ni.
threat of barbarism ever y spiritual valu
essential lesson of Judaism to- versity of Florida. He suceeeas
and more illuminated. Today the
e the world has pain•
day. The pursuit of such trans- Rabbi Louis Youngerman,
fully built up in the last
Jews must realize that his sole
years. In the following article, ce nds diffe rences r of belief
who
Dr. Radcliffe N. Salaman 3,000
an d has been shifted to
defense is his Jewishness, using
points out our common mission in na tiona lity, and
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emains a jus- Foundation at Maryland.
this fight and stresses that the answer
that term in its widest sense.
to Hitlerism is a spirit- tification of our past and an in-
ual one.
The defenses which were created
spiration for our future.
and so enthusiastically manned were based on the validity of a
by our fathers and grandfathers thesis which for convenience we may call "Legend of the Emz-
Adrian,
Social justice demands the re-
lishman of the Jewish persuas- pression of our own aggressive
ion." It denies to the Jew his and possessive instincts: Is it
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mission, and by its very sterility surprising that it should excite Season's Greetings and Best Wishe,
has played no mean part in tim the fury of a Hitler? Social jus-
decay of the Jewish communal tice no less demands a sympa-
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conscience throughout Europe. In thetic understanding of our rela-
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any case, recent events have tions to others and refuses to
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shown that our enemy despises recognize imaginary distinctions
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it as an argument and ridicules within the human family: Is it
it as a weapon.
surprising that this should excite
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Hitlerism is a spiritual one. We striving after social justice is our
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gift
to
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must
world.
We,
in
not only tell him but show
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us, and the more he robs us, not always lived up to our own
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the more he uncovers and fans ideal, but now, before it is too
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into flame the still glowing em- late, we must accept the self dis-
bers of that spiritual the which cipline which that ideal calls for.
prosperity may choke for a timo
As one community after an-
but which is ever ready to be other is uprooted and despoiled
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revived in the (lay of distress.
sae must surely realize that our
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would never have survived the specimen of outworn humanity—
destruction of the Temple nor or as a fiery ferment urging men
the horrors of the Middle Ages. forward on the path of social
It is for us to rediscover, or I evolution? That is the question
would rather say to re-learn, its beforeus today.
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primary lessons and in so doing
What, then, is the part we
arm ourselves anew for the fight.
Managing
Director
Jews in England are called on
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But this time the fight is not
to play in this cosmic tragedy?
merely
for
our
own
existence
nor
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I would suggest that there are
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for our own security, but for the
deliverance of all mankind from two directions in which the Jews
the barbarism which threatens of England may yet play a part.
every spiritual value that has The first and most important is
been so painfully built up in bk.. that we do justice to ourselves.
last 3,000 years. By this I mean that we should
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foster in every possible way a
Today, we may fortunately Jewish Homeland where the great
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formerly divided us from our not be merely preached but prac-
Christian friends to the theolo- ticed, and not merely practiced,
glans. It is no longer a matter but made the keystone of its
of importance whether the one whole structure. The second is
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expresses his faith in terms of that we must show in all our
a
triphasic Deity or the other dealings, whether with Jew or
finds the indivisible unity of God Gentile, that honor, justice and
an all-sufficient basis of his phii- mercy are our watchwords. Nor
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which in the aggregate spells are designated by them are in-
civilization. When, sonic 20 years spired by a sense of justice and
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ago, Bernard Shaw remarked to the love of their fellow men.
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my wife, Nina, "the Jew is born
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of fear and hate.
Many of us, and certainly the people and, through them, of all
world in general, are far too mankind.
apt to forget that Jewish teach-
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ers
throughout
our
history,
whether it be Moses and the
Prophets, or Christ and the Fab•
his of the Talmula, have one and
all preached the same lesson—
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the sanctity of the individual.
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This ideal of "sanctity" seems to Orthodox rabbis, one a graduate
me to be inherent in the idea of Yeshiva College in New York
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that man is created in the image and the other a graduate of the
of God. It matters nothing should Hebrew Theological Seminary in
it be argued that man has him- Chicago, . become directors of
self created the God which he Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations
desires to imitate, for in eith.k r this fall, it was announced here
case the deduction follow s that, by penry Monsky, president of A Happy and Prosperous 4New Mar
it is his duty to strive to liken Bnai Brith.
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himself to the model.
The Yeshiva College graduate
This character istic Jewish is Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman,
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teaching of the sanctity of life native of New York City, who
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in a variety of ways—but run- at Queen's University, Kingston,
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ning like a thread through all is Ontario, in Canada. Rabbi Klap-
the ever clamant demand for erman, who succeeds Rabbi Ben
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social justice. To me this de- Zion Steindel, received his B. A.
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mand for social justice, which is from Yeshiva College in 1940,
embodied in such an immortal majoring in philosophy and social
slogan as "Love thy neighbor as sciences. He was the valedictorian
thyself," or expressed in the un- in Hebrew and winner of the
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lowing his ordination by the Ye-
shiva in 1941 he served as rabbi
of a Brooklyn congregation until
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his appointment to Hillel. Rabbi
Klaperman has been active in
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