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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

OctoLy 16. 1942

The very meekest cannot be at
peace if his ill neighbor will not
let him rest.—Schiller.

A TWO POINT PROGRAM FOR JEWISH UNITY

pean Jews against persecution
and disgrace, any more than the Sports World
By M. J. NURENBERGER
Versailles treaty itself assured BERNIE MAYER, NEXT WORL
D
Editor's Note:—In a frank discussion of
the need for Jewish unity an everlasting peace on the con-
SHOT PUT CHAN1PION
t ig nee ntto . L ae a ty u t hte nhn set h% a n,o v s e r l i d tth e ai sacd on unt rot -
in America today, Mr. Nurenberger presents a program based a
SALE—APARTMENT PROPERTY
Bernie Mayer is a six foot four
on two essential points. The following article is presented
to
inch, .nineteen year old stripling
through special arrangements with the Jewish Mirror of which ourselves that j
i c i: o h s o t te
tipsp
i
e s b i n e atn hi e s n a r t t 2, 1 , c l
Mr. Nurenberger is editor.
enough to win any war in orde g r
insdg
to the natioh's fore:
to have peace, it is not enough According
experts
The Jewish people are in the Jewry in America? Hasn't the to defeat Hitlerism to brit'
1 putt
ninth year of a war that was day arrived for a united effort about peace
the shot and other weight throw.
th e Jews.
imposed upon them by the dark- of tmber
he five million American Jews let us reme for also, that And ing events, Bernie should be-
no come the world's shot
are taking advantage of present
est, most brutal and cynical gov- in that struggle for survival people was ever freed by .the VonbEeifioinrg
s chd a r m op ;
forced liquidations—your opportun-
e, h‘e,ettg,rrnancluilitnit .
ernment the world has ever seen. which God and destiny placed g
ity to become one of the independent
grace
of
others.
The
emancipa-
college
in
1945.
Even
door
Emil
During these nine years of the upon the shoulders of the might- ton of the Jews and the resale-
landlords of America. Assured life
income for you and yours. Mr. Bed-
war of the modern Amalek, Jews iest free Jewish community in sanee of the Jewish people will be
t' Lek and
ford has all the Facts and Figures.
everywhere even in the lands that the world? Or—are our should _ the work of the Jews themselves field coach at New Y ■ rk Uni-
,
versify
under
whose
tutylage
such
are
situated
very
far
from
the
ers
not
broad
enough
to
carry
CLOsE ENTATE--Must sell :7 apta
or it will not be at all. And it national champs as Leslie Ma
step to at aide chain store theatre
real battlefield, have felt directly this burden? Are our bodies too
happens that the work of Jew- Mitchell, George Winston and c.
center. New Kelvinators. Rent $12,-
and indirectly the repercussions weak to take up this fight?
ish self-emancipatio n
Goo. cost 195.000 to build Sacrifice
throughout Babe Scheuer have risen to prom.
of
this
assualt.
Our
enemies
de-
price only 340. 0 00 cash.
Of course, there is a glib an- the world today rests exclusively inence, attests that Bernie not
fined the character of this war swer to this vital question. It is upon the shoulders of American only has the makings of
AMON DOWN — Be autiful apt step
from the very beginning: A .wer easy to say that we have only to Jewry, just as the work of the champion but is one already.
a world
to Woodward-Blvd center. Mosaic
of
Berchtesgaden against Sinai.
tile marble lobby. Rent 519.000. For-
zis
win the war to assure the Jewish world liberation from N . ain
Not
only
was
Sinai
to
be
de-
mer value 92:3.000. Foreclosed price
Von Elling
is coach of the
.
that we have , only
to de- must be achieved by America .
only $93.000. Easy IS yr. terms.
V .
stroyed, but also the people who future,
.
sprinters
• ensm
•
cis and field men at
y
i
to
bring
about
This
is
why
American
Jewry
New
York
University.
stood at Mt. Sinai and accepted
$15,000 CASH for deed subject easy
He h
, l as for
had
the teachings which made them automatically the solution of our at this moment must achieve the Bernie Mayer with him --e now
pav rnt mtg. Outstanding location
problems.
supreme task of uniting itself a year and has watched him close-
cannot be duplicated. Elegant prop-
irreconcilable enemies of pagan-
erty sold in 19:1 for $165.0v0 entire
Let us talk frankly. Can we for the purpose of defending its ly during his practice stints and
ism and brutality.
price only 595.000. New ref rig new
achieve Jewish unity in existence as
Many age-old Jewish common- really
art of general freshman competition. Thus f
.
stoves all fine coot. Rent 915,090.
for
do Jewish survival.
A'?
va l a . P
There is no such pessimisstic Von to go off •, the
ities, from Amsterdam to Vilna, .t,
., merica If so, how can we
i
MANI DOWN Chicago Blvd. Well
thing as American Jewish splen- deep end and declare that "what
from Sephardic Bordeaux to Has-
built like new. Elevator new stoves
sidic Warsaw,—centers of Jewish
What is Jewish unity in sub- did isolation.
new refrig new roof new tankless
Mayer will do with a 16 pound
water heater has everything. Rent
learning, Jewish tradition, Jewish stance? What does it mean in
The way out of this impasse shot put before he gets out of
120.000. Former value 9:00.000. For-
inspiration—have been mowed P Practice?
would be an open round table N•Y.U. will eclipse anything Al
mer trite $100,004 will take 5100,00 ,1
down by those who want to de-
easy IS yr terms.
Does it mean the abolition of conference of Jewish organize- Blozis the present world champ
strop Sinai.
tions, so that public opinion might has ever done in his long and
all arties,
p, groups
21 APT. 3 to S rooms_ New stoves
Today, in the midst of the des of opinion inth and divergen- influence the deliberations. I be- spectacular career," is quite a
e practice of lieve that a program for Jewish statement.
new refrig new tankiess water heat-
tempest, when not only the people Jewish religion and the approach
er new roof. Low rent for duration
self-defense could be achieved
$9,150 tenants par
but all their anti-pagan- to Jewish problems?
elect gas. Only
However, the day that the
$9,03.5 down. Small ° terms.
1st
brethe rn are fighting Berch-
of Sinai,
with universal approval because crown is placed on Bernie's head
Not
Shows 41% net on down payment.
at all. Such a unity could there is really no deep difference he will have Babe Seheuer, form-
tesgaden, many of of the
us,
Jews cf never be achieved and is not of opinion concerning action, er I. C. .4.2 shot put champion
America,—think
yesterday,
HOMER WARREN A CO.
even to be desired. The Jewish even between so radically differ- to thank. Babe, now track coach
59 Years' Dependable St•vtce
the today
and the tommorrow
of people have no police force to ent organizations as the "Amer- of the championship Vocational
Jews
and Judaism,
and ask our-
Dime Bldg.
elves
impose the will of the "majority jean Jewish Committee' and the High School in New York City,
Ca. 0321
Isn't the time ripe for a united Party" upon the members of any "American Jewish Congress." The has been an assistant to Von at
individual group,—even if such problem lies more in the phrase- N.Y.U. for several years now. Be-
a forced unity should become ology to be used iii the defense cause of Babe's expert coaching,
necessary. But Jewish unity does than in the actions which must Bernie has been able to increase
- not mean the abolition of the follow. We think that some lead- his distance some ten feet in his
i differences of opinion within the ers of the "American Jewish freshman year.
Jewish community. There can't Committee" fear the words of the
In his
plebe every
year at
the open
Heights,
be unity based, for instance, on "American Jewish Congress" Bernie
swept
title
to
the reconciliation of a strictly more than they fear its actual freshman at all of the indoor and
Orthodox approach to the prac- aims, and vice versa.
outdoor track and field carnivals
tics of Jewish religion and the
The question
on to be considered during the 1941-42 campaign. At
FROM $35.00
Reform
point
of
view.
You
can't
is
not
whether
Jews
will
be
ad-
one
of them, he came quite close
create unity by asking a Sabbath-
observing Jew to violate the Sari- mitted to the peace conference. to being killed in an accident and
bath or by forcing a non-observ- I believe Jews will be admitted, strangely enough at the hands
he probl em no
w is how t he y o f Al Blozs,
i the
ing Jew to live as an orthodox. bull the
appear there— united or d i - Bernie seems destined loan whom
to dethrone
You can't create Jewish unity by vided,
as champ. The incident occurred
asking a member of the "Amer-
The program for un
united action at the National A.A.U. champion-
scan Jewish Committee," for in-
GABARDINES
TWEEDS
stance,
ce, to agree with the philos- must be designed primarily to ships last March when world rec-
COVERTS
SHARKSKINS
ophy of a revisionist. This would avoid a catastrophe and a dis- olds were swept aside with a
not mean unity. Such totalitar-grace similar to that which we consistency seldom seen even at
ianism does not correspond either witnessed at Evian, when about Madison Square Garden where
CLOTHIERS
with the realities of Jewish life three dozen different Jewish or- champions are a dime a dozen.
z i s 0 h e
d
or with the temperament of Jew- ganizations and committees ap- e B . a l oi m
SECOND FLOOR - DAVID STOTT BLDG.
to the worl d m
.e a a ffi
rkr 11 ‘ hi v (i i s t d h ot ‘hv h in e s
that con- I
ish men and women. A prere- peered separately y at th
and left behind them the 16 pound put by itying
quisite
of
Jewish
unity
is
mutual
f
CLifford 4027
Griswold at State
tolerance.
titter taste of the shamefuul tragi- record of 56 feet and some odd
somedy of our disunity and made
Ever y generation in Israel ' s several
leaders of the democracies inches. Mayer, the plebe title in
had its obligations. Ours has pc - ask themselves whether we really his
own pocket, was one of the
interested
sideline
spectators
haps the greatest of all. It must are a people who know what we watching the master perform.
realize the dream of all genera- want. We must appear united After Blozis' final throw, Mayer
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The question thus remains: Cat yield certain points in their pro- I°
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greatest a
there be unity in American Israel grams. We must concentrate on
r
for the fulfillment of this histor- the essentials now, organize our
of an Once
out, any
man
made.
again
the has
put ever
is task?
and though
ii ,
delegation now, on the basis of
The answer, to my mind, is the following two points, to been
Blozis
the hurled
weight by
was
thrown we over
Kosher Meat E3 Poultry Market yes.
which we can all subscribe:
58 feet, it was an unofficial toss
First, the problem of destroy-
and did not go down in the re c.-
1.
We
ask
for
an
interne-
or
ing
the
ghetto
concept
and
the
./
ds. Some photographers had in-
physical ghetto. One of the diffi- tional law against anti-Semitism, duce Blozis to make a throw
anti-Semitism
hors
la
poi.
culties in contemporary Jewish
merely for the sake of a picture
life i n our country is the tendon-
2 2.
We ask the fulfillment of and Al in an effortless heave,
cy of each group devoted to the the Balfour Declaration in its with all the tension and nervous-
defense of Jewish rights and the spirit and in its letter.
ness gone calmy tossed the iron
struggle against the ghetto con- that
This
two have
point
Jews
to program
make of does
the sphere close to the 60 foot nir irk-
cept to consider its own program not encompass all the demands e1. The ball bounced
unced right
h. near
.m.
and the only correct one for the
Bernie's foot and over him .t
achievement of the desired goal. world. It does not even satisfy
the
It is true, that the condition this writer. But our thesis is expression of fear and dismay h
sine qua non for the creation of constructed upon the basic grin- an
alert the
photographer
caught a on
both
faces of Mayer
d
a better world for Jew and non- ciple that at the peace confer- Blozis.
Jew, for all who believe in Sinai ence, we should forget what di-
and are in mortal danger so long .
as Berchtesgaden stands, is the only what unites us. We should
acceptance of this program
destruction of Ilitlerism; but we talk only about things on which will The
not mean
leaders
of I lif-
must not forget the lesson of vides
us; all
we
should
remember
we can
agree.
If an
American primarily
upon that
mutual
toleiance.

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create a better society; it will the Balfour Declaration, it does which no mutual agreement could
merely provide the condition, the not necessarily imply that he be-
be reached.
The Jewish
world could
terrain for the construction of a lieves that Jews the world over understand separate
Me'
better society. should leave their homes and set-
gations
for
demands
involving
The men who today lead the tie in Palestine. He does not even other problems. It will never
United Nations in their heroic ef- have to sign a declaration advo-
fort to crush the forces of ty- eating the upbuilding of Eretz
essential and
vital matters
.
canny already know that the post- Israel as the solution to the Jew- understand
division
on cardinal,
war settlement of world a affairs ish problem. These are points
Now it is up to the Jews of
•
must be worked out now, before on which both the leaders of this country, and especially to
we sit down at the peace table, Zionist organizations and the late their leaders to ask for such a
if we would avoid a second Ver.. Louis Marshall agreed during the round table conference and for
a unity for the purpose of
sailles. All the governments of last peace conference. Why can't such
s
•
the United Nations are already the Marshalls of today subscribe securing
ing Jewish survival. Let us
working within the lines of the to them?
recall to them the old Biblical
Atlantic Charter. Have American
This program is built upon the truth:
Jews asked themselves what will realities of Jewish life, upon the
" And it came to pass. when
be the place of the Jew in the reality of Jewish Palestine that ' doses held up his hand, that Is
. iet -
e prevailed; and when he
new world order? What will be is a living factor and not a pro- reel
d
our part in the victorious peace? gram of philosophical discussion, e down
his hand, that Amalek pre
.„
What are we to do in order to upon the reality born from tits van ..ed
avoid a new catastrophe for our Jewish tragedy in Europe,
urope, upon
The essential thing for the
the
he reality of Jewish party differ- leaders of American Israel is
i to
We know very well that the ences, upon the reality that we hold up their hands.
minorities clause in the treaty of Jews are human beings and can't
Then Amalek will be destroyc l.
Versailles did not insure Euro- agree on everything;it is based And we will live.