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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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VOL. 44, No. 38
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1942
Unrest Grows In France as People
Demand Laval Halt Deportations
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Rabbi Wintner
Detroit Visitor
Represents Yeshivah and
Mesifta Torah Vodaath
Priests Who Shielded Jewish Children From
Police During Mass Roundup Arrested
BERNE (WNS)—The rift be-
tween the French people and
their pro-Nazi Chief of Govern-
ment Pierre Laval widened con-
siderably this week as Protestant
leader joined Catholic officials in
demanding that the Vichy Gov-
ernment halt the 'deportations of
thousands of Jewish refugees to
Eastern Europe.
Laval's answer to the plea of
the French people and clergymen
to give "sanctuary" to the home-
less Jewish refugees was to order
the arrest of many Catholic
priests who shielded Jewish chil-
dren from the police during th ,
mass round-up of Jews. Bitterness
against the puppet Vichy Govern-
ment is increasing steadily as the
result of the deportation thus
far of at least 20,000 Jews from
the unoccupied zone.
While the controlled French
press published very little infor-
mation about the anti-Jewish de-
portations, Catholic priests and
Protestant pastors have kept the
French people informed of the
Nazi-styled program. The under-
ground radio has also been active
in telling the French people of
the deportations which are gem=
orally conducted during the night.
In a letter to Marshall Petain,
the Rev. Marc Boegner, leader of
the French Protestant Federation,
stated: "No Frenchman can re-
main insensible to what has oc-
curred in interment camps since
Aug. 2. It will be argued, I know,
that France is merely returning
to Germany the Jews who came
here in the Autumn of 1940. The
truth is that there have been de-
livered—and are about to De
delivered up to Germany—men
and women who sought refuge in
France for political or religious
motives, several of whom are
aware of the terrible fate await-
ing them.
"Christianity has inspired na-
tions, France in particular, with
a sacred respect for the rights
of asylum. Christian churches,
whatever may be the diversity of
their creeds, would not he faith-
ful to their primary duty if they
did not raise a doleful protest
against abandonment of this
Rabbi M. E. \Vintner is now
visiting Detroit in the interest of
Yeshivah and Mesifta Torah Vo-
daath of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Torah Vodaath is now numeri-
principle. I tun compelled to add
that the 'delivery' of these un-
happy foreigners was made in
many places in conditions of in-
humanity that stirred the must
hardened consciences and brought
tears to the eyes of witnesses of
such misery."
The Protestant leader conclud-
ed his plea by saying: "I beseech
you to impose vasures, indis-
pensable if France is not to in-
flict upon herself a moral de-
feat, the burden of which would
prove incalculable."
Earlier, French Cardinals and
See UNREST—Page 16
Mizraehi Asks
Resignation of
Dr. J. Magnes
Conference Asks for
His Immediate Removal
New York—A resolution, de-
manding the immediate removal
of Dr. Judah L. Magnes as head
of the Hebrew University, was
adopted on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at
the Hotel Pennsylvania, where
the Mizrachi Organization of
America, religious wing of the
World Zionist Movement, con-
voked its national executive board
as well as members of the ortho-
dox rabbinate, to take a stand
in the matter of the newly m-
ganzed "laud" "which has be-
trayed the fundamental principles
of Judaism and Zionism in having
negotiated with the Arabs with-
out the knowledge or consent of
the Jewish agency, the only rec-
ognized authorative body of the
Jewish people in regard to Pales-
tine."
Following the keynote address-
es of Leon Gellman and Gedalia
Bublick, president and honorary
president of the Mizrachi Organ-
ization of America, respectvely,
Rabbi Wolf Gold, chairman of the
Mizrachi World Central in Jer-
usalem, and Ephraim Caplan,
well-known Yiddish journalist,
who pointed to the long record of
See MIZRACHI—Page 9
The Communal Scene
A Review Compiled by the Staff of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit
This has been a difficult year
tor us; more so abroad than at
home; but full of serious com-
munal problems hei e and else-
where.
The good news concerning the
constant immigration of Jews
from Europe to the United States
and Palestine despite all hazards
ef war and extreme shortage of
shipping facilities, furnishes ad-
ditional proof that the impression
'hat had been widespread in
American Jewish circles that noth-
ing further could be done for our
nand-pressed brethren in Europe,
was entirely without foundation.
Th e fact is that much can still
done to relieve, if not to stop,
Jewish suffering in European and
ether lands. Thus it is still pos-
, sible to bring some measure of
relief to the Jews of Nazi-held
Europe. The Joint Distribution
committee on numerous occasions
had made it clear that the only
reasons why it didn't engage in
relief activities on a much larger
scale, was its inability to raise
more funds from the five million
Jew s of the United States. What
Is true about relief is also true
in some measure about the emi-
gration possibilites. A great many
more Jews would have been eva-
cuated from Nazi-held Europe,
had there been more money with
which to do--it
More than fifteen - hundred Jew-
ish refugees are being cleared
monthly from Europe to the \Vest-
ern Hemisphere, Emanuel Rosen,
Director of the Immigration
Service of the Joint DiArdiutioa
Committee, stated upon his re-
cent return to America. Mr. Rosen
had been at Lisbon, Portugal, ex-
pediting evacuation of Jewish
refugees from Europe. lie paid
tribute to Portuguese officials for
their splendid cooperation in aid-
ing his organizaton's work among
the refugees. He pointed out that
since the outbreak of the Euro-
pean war, 36,000 refugee Jews
had been evacuated through Por-
tugal to the United States and
other American countries.
The safe arrival of 84 Jewish
refugee children in Palestine from
various parts of Europe and As'a
was announced by Hadassah, the
Wonje•s Zionist Organization of
America. Sonic of the children
were in trmsit for two years. The
arrival of this group brings to
8,250 the number of boys and
girls who have been sent to Pales-
tine in the past eight years; about
2,300 have come to Palestine since
the beginning of the war. This al-
most miraculous escape from the
hell that is Nazi Europe is tak-
ing place against a background
which for its unmitigated black-
ness has no equal in modern Jew-
ish history, as is attested to by
See SCENE—Page 13
American Jews Will Give All To
Preserve Freedom of America
Declaration Is Made By Maurice Wertheim
In Special New Year's Message to Jewry
NEW YORK (WNS)—The firm
conviction that American Jews
"will throw their all into the
fight to preserve the freedom of
America and the entire world"
was expressed by Maurice Wer-
theim, president of the American
Jewish Committee, in a special
New Year's message to American
Jews.
"The opening of the Jewish
New Year comes amid the grim-
mest and most fateful conflict
in human history," Mr. Wertheim
said. "A particular significance is
added this year to the Holy Days.
For by the time the new year has
Jewish Center
Plans Increase
Members' Dues
RABBI M. E. WINTNER
cally the largest center of higher
Jewish learning in America. It
includes an elementary and sec-
ondary Hebrew Day School (Pa-
rochial), a Rabbinical Seminary,
a Teachers' Institute, extension
evening classes and a summer
camp. Its enrollment last year
was 1227, recruited from all over
the United States and Canada,
and including many refugees
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run its course, it will probably
have been determined, for nations
as for individuals, when liberty
and peace are to prevail again.
To achieve a free world, our
New Year's devotions should
nerve us to endure and persevere
with undismayed heart through
disasters and suffering.
"This hope, foreshadowed in
the Four Freedoms, envisages a
world worth living for, and if
necessary, dying for. Its sublim-
ity must guide the post-war
world, since no other foundation
of mankind and civilization sur-
vive. To Jews, as to members of
all faiths, this future must bring
profound relief—relief from the
monstrous tortures and injustices
to which many of them have
been subjected: relief from the
closing of their schools and the
burning of their synagogues; re-
lief from hunger and squalor; re-
lief from the fear that haunts
millions of them in every waking,
hour.
"The re-enfranchisement of the
oppressed in Europe will free
millions of Gentile's as well as
Jews, for this is a war for gen-
eral liberation, a war which, iron-
ically enough, the would-be en-
slavers and oppressors falsely
charge was brought-on by the en-
slaved and persecuted. The states-
men of tomorrow must remember
our President's words: "We know
that enduring peace cannot be
bought at the cost of other peo-
ple's freedom. This vital and in-
contestable truth must be the
charter of Jewish freedom when
victory is achieved. It enshrines
the first and lust word of the
eternal Jewish creed. It was this
creed which produced the teach-
ers and the prophets in Jewish
history, and which has kept the
Jewish people alive in its unpile .-
ailed career of suffering. With
its new affirmation and our re-
dedication to it may yet begin
a new chapter in the history of
H o rn .
"Upon us Jews, in particular,
therefore, lies the imperative oh-
The Jewish Community Cen-
ter is planning an increase in
annual dues, in certain member-
ship classifications, 'effective Oct.
1, 1942, according to an an-
nouncement by Mrs. Samuel R.
Glogower, Center president.
"The increases were decided
upon only after long and deliber-
ate study of the Center's finan-
cial problem by its committee
See WINTNER—Page 16
and board of directors," • stated
Mrs. Glogower in a letter sent
this week to all those holding full
Center memberships.
"The increases will be effec-
tive in various classifications as
follows: Men's Health Club, from
$60 to $75; Women's Health
Club, from $25 to $30; Business
and Professional Men's Club,
from $20 to $25; Senior Men,
from $12 to $15; Senior Girls,
from $10 to $12; Sub-Senior
Men, from $8 to $10; and Moth-
ers' Club members from $2 to
Neighborhood Tea $3.50."
To be Held Sept.25 Mrs. Glogower pointed out in
her letter that those, whose mem-
The opening meeting of the De- bership dues expire any time be-
troit Chapter of Hadassah took fore Oct. 1, 1942, are privileged
place at the Jewish Community
See CENTER—Page 13
See JEWS—Page 16
Center Tuesday, Sept. 15. The
guest speaker Mrs. Ezra Shapira,
of Cleveland, 0. in her talk por-
trayed the part the Jewish Yis-
hub is playing in the war effort
By DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
in Palestine, which is the prime
middle East front.
Honorary Chairman. United Jewish Appeal for Refugees,
The Jews of Palestine and the
Overseas Needs and Palestine
Jews of the world were first to
recognize the real danger of Fas-
On New Year's Day the blast
cism, said Mrs. Shapiro. 20,000 from the ram's horn will be heard rain's horn will be sounded amid
Jews in Palestine have enlisted throughout this embattled world. the world's agonized travail of
with the Allied forces for military Above the fury of total war on war. Throughout the world the
Jewish people will offer a prayer
service. 1500 Pats . . . Palestine
auxiliary territorial service, a the battlefields that ring the on this New Year's Day that
globe,
through
the
bitter
sorrow
when next the shofar summons
women's unit, arc doing a splen-
did piece of work in the field. of the prison chambers of Nazi- us to usher in another year, the
Hadassah continues with a full dominated Europe, and above the plague of Ilitlerism will be driven
program, which they have car- clatter of men and machines mov- from the earth and the banner of
ried on for the past 30 years, ing into position for a fight to demom acy and human freedom
the death in defense of the Jew- will be firmly planted in every
See HADASSAH—Page 9
ish homeland in Palestine, the corner of the globe. That is the
sombre and stately tones of the prayer that will be on the lips
lam's horn will proclaim hope and of the millions of Jews in the
victory to ali the people of Is- many European lands which hay:
Yom Kippur Music on
rael.
been made the arena for the
WWJ September 20 by
The High Holiday period is the cruel annihilation of Jewish life.
Temple Israel's Choir
time set aside for contemplation That is the prayer that will be no
and self-examination — examina- the lips of the Jewish pioneeis
A program of Yom Kippur tion of the individual's seli as of Palestine who are determined
music will be broadcast by the well as the people's self. We are that no ghetto or concentration
choir of Temple Israel over a people whose cup of bitterness
camp shall ever besmi.ch the soil
WWJ Sunday noon, Sept. 20, has, in the past decade, been
of the ancient Jewish homeland.
12 to 12:30.
transformed into an unending to
The soloists will be Canto' rent or tragedy, but it is that That is the prayer that wiil be oi
Robert S. Tulman, Emma Laz• very dolorous trail of despair that the lips of Amori•!:m Jewry,
aroff Schaver and Dorothy has given rise to unyielding and whose sons face the foe on far-
flung battlefields.
Okoon.
unquenchable optimism. T h e
Among the selections to be backs of many Jews have been
The word, "Lidice", has been
sung will be the Kol Nidre,
bent, and in many lands today written in blood on the pages of
the Avinu Malkenh, and the they have also been lacerated, but history as the epitome of Nazi
Kaddish. The Shofar will also the backbone remains rigid and barbat ism. But has Lidice com-
be heard.
unbroken. No people could reach pletely erased the stain of Nurem-
The choir of Temple Israel the age of 5703 unless a spirit of berg from the minds of the free
is conducted by Dan Frohman. optimism were distilled from the world. Without minimizing the
The organist is Karl W.
bitter roots of its tragic exper- heroism of the Czech people, it
Haas.
must, in all „justice, be said that
ience.
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This is the fourth year that
See FUTURE—Page 9
First Hadassah
Meet Addressed
By Mrs. Shapiro
Looking Into' the Future