-- " 10111111114 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Sep t e 111 be t I , 1 942 New Year's Greetings to All From Michigan • Communitie s 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 _t _ the Nilhl 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 Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan 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- Season's Greetings to All conscience throughout Europe. In thetic understanding of our rela- A Happy New Year to All any case, recent events have tions to others and refuses to Dealer In shown that our enemy despises recognize imaginary distinctions TIRES AND BATTERIES it as an argument and ridicules within the human family: Is it it as a weapon. surprising that this should excite Scrap and Metal of All Kinds Our only possible answer to the spleen of a Streicher? This 306 College Ave. Phone 4 18-FI Hitlerism is a spiritual one. We striving after social justice is our ADRIAN, :Mill great gift to the must world. We, in not only tell him but show 410 8TH ST. 310 E. MAIN him that the more he tortures the days of our prosperity, have Benton Harbor, ;slick us, and the more he robs us, not always lived up to our own Benton Harbor, Mich. the more he uncovers and fans ideal, but now, before it is too Rush Hashonah Greetings 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 Season's Greetings and Best Wishes COMPLETE LAUNDRY AND revived in the (lay of distress. sae must surely realize that our Rosh Hosholuth Greetings! LINEN SERVICE Judaism has passed through strength lies not in material many phases, which is but an- wealth or in social position, for A Service You'll Appreciate other way of saying that it is both are rapidly disappearing. essentially dynamic and progres- Are we to be left in Europe as Phone 9 222 S. Winter sive. Had it remained static it an archaic group — a museum .%tottAN, !milt 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. New Year's Greetings to All LEON J. HARRIS 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 174 GRAHAM But this time the fight is not to play in this cosmic tragedy? merely for our own existence nor Benton Harbor, Mich. 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The second is I.e Shono Tovo Tikosevu 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 TOWING SERVICE osophy. For the enemy believes must we be frightened of the Day or Night in neither. To himthe Jew is labels men are wont to attach Complete Collision Service abhorrent not because of his to the opinion of their neigh- Safety Glass—Duco Painting deism nor even because of his born, for have we not seen that 184 PIPESTONE 530 PAW PAW separateness; the reason lies far which was dreaded yesterday is Electric 1.1 Acetylene Welding Benton Harbor, Mich. deeper. For 3,000 years the Jew courted today? Orthodox or lib- Frame 1.1 Axle Alignment Benton Harbor, Mid). has been taught, and not with.- oral, conservative or communist, 230-34 N. 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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- Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All 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— WASHINGTON, D. C. — Two the sanctity of the individual. WATERVLIET RD Benton Harbor, Mich. COAL—COKE This ideal of "sanctity" seems to Orthodox rabbis, one a graduate me to be inherent in the idea of Yeshiva College in New York Benton Harbor, Mich. Beecher 8 Madison Phone 171 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. A happy and Prosperous New Year to All himself to the model. The Yeshiva College graduate This character istic Jewish is Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, Electric and Acetylene Welding teaching of the sanctity of life native of New York City, who Structural Steel and Sheet has in the literature and history has been appointed director of Metal Work of our people expressed itself the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation in a variety of ways—but run- at Queen's University, Kingston, 123 MARKET PLACE ning like a thread through all is Ontario, in Canada. Rabbi Klap- the ever clamant demand for erman, who succeeds Rabbi Ben PHONE 575-M social justice. To me this de- Zion Steindel, received his B. A. aucti 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 A Happy New Year to All forgettable words of Mica:1 Gotterman Scholarship for ex- ST. JOSEPH. MICH. cellence in Talmudic studies. Fol- lowing his ordination by the Ye- shiva in 1941 he served as rabbi of a Brooklyn congregation until Rosh Hashonah Greetings his appointment to Hillel. Rabbi Klaperman has been active in NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS TO ALL Young Israel, Histadruth and Building Tile--Foundation B10,10 Zionist affairs. 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