4 December 4, 1742 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Detroit Jewish Chronkle and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. JACOB H. SCHAKNE JACOB MARGOLIS Pres.-Gen. Mgr. Editor veneral Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle 'subscription in Advance $3.00 Per Year ro insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- jects of intorast to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Sabbath Readings of the Law Pentateuchal Portion—Genesis 37.1-40.23 Prophetical Portion—Zechariah 2.14-4.7 DECEMBER 4. 1942 KISLEV 25. 5703 Chanukah Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, will be celebrated for eight days in our land by the actual lighting of the candles, be- ginning with one and ending with eight. In most of Europe the holiday will be celebrated in spirit only, for the candles will not be available and if they were the blackout would prevent their being lighted. Chanukah symbolizes light and cleans- ing. This time the cleansing is not so much the cleansing of the temple of humanity by removing the pagan idols, as it is the cleansing of the temple of humanity and destroying the pagan ideologies that seek to defile and destroy mankind. When the cleansing job has been com- pleted, then the light of reason, decency, justice, freedom and equality will go on over the whole world. It is our devout wish that the job of cleansing will be a thorough one this time. After the long blackout, we should be able to appreciate the light. Rabbi Max J. Wolhgelernter Rabbi Max J. Wolhgelernter has com- pleted five years of service as Rabbi of Beth Tefilo Emanuel. These five years have been tragic years in the history of Israel, but men like Rabbi Wolhgelernter are not dismayed by the melancholy events that have made of lesser men mis- anthropes and pessimists. During his ministry here he has worked earnestly and untiringly in the field of traditional Judaism. To him must be given much of the credit for the work of Young Israel, Michigan Synagogue Conference, Sabbath Observance League and many other activities. Men like Rabbi Wolhgelernter know that with the catastrophy that has befall- en Polish Jewry that America must be- come the center from which Jewish thought and ideals must spread over the entire world. We are confident that in the years to come his energy, patience, learning and humanity will make his ministry even more fruitful and valuable to the entire community. A Day of Mourning World Jewry is in mourning and is making urgent pleas to the heads of the United Nations to save the harried, de- spairing remnants of our people in Nazi occupied Europe. The threat of reprisals, recommended by some, will not in our opinion have any effect upon these brutal gangsters who today rule their own people by naked violence. Like all gangsters they are reckless gamblers who realize that if they win nobody can punish them for their criminal misdeeds, and if they lose, then they will pay the penalty. Then too there is the danger if re- prisal action is taken in order to satisfy Jewish demands, that the people may not feel as kindly and may not be as ready to give aid and comfort as they have repeatedly given in Austria, Ger- many, France, Holland and Belgium. It may be some consolation, in this hour of grief, to know that our own Herbert H. Lehman is now Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilatation and that he will bring relief and will begin to rehabilitate as soon as he has the opportunity and oc- casion to do so. Beware of the German Generals Twenty-five years ago the Allies got rid of the "demoniacal" Kaiser, but the Generals remained. Let us not make the same blunder a second time. Both Hitler and the Generals must go this time. If the Generals remain there is the ever- present danger that the cry of "living space," "place in the sun," "German superiority" will be raised, and then again will the world be plunged into another global conflict. At the end of the last world war the peacemakers thought that a skeleton army of 100,000 was tantamount to complete disarmament of Germany. It may have been if these 100,000 had not been made into officers; and if the bal- ance of power political policies and fear of Bolshevism had not encouraged Hitler and the Generals to increase the armed forces far beyond anything con- templated by the Versailles Treaty. The false and hollow "living space" argument would have had no persuasive- ness in Germany if the armed might of Germany were not there to back it up. Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and oth er countries of Europe are even more crowd- ed than Germany and we have not heard that they wanted more living space. The reason is obvious: They have not the armed forces to take that which they can make, if they must. Germany has proved the falsity and hollowness of the living space argument up to the hilt since Hitler came to power at the end of January, 1933. If the organizational skill, managerial ability, ingenuity, inventiveness, technical knowledge and labor had been utilized in the production of capital and consumer goods, instead of war goods, in the last decade, Germany would have enjoyed the highest standard of living ever enjoyed by any country of Europe, provided there was a fair and equitable distribution of income. Hitler and the Generals preferred a police military regime rather than a civil, with the consequence that Germany and the whole world have been needlessly plunged into the worst war in the history of humanity. The talk of a peace offensive is again being heard in the capitals of Europe. These offensives seem to follow either successes or reverses of the armies of the Third Reich. This time it is more circum- stantial due to the remarks allegedly made by General Ritter von Thoma, Ger- man Africa Corps Commander under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The tenor of his remarks indicated a dissatisfaction with the interference by Hitler in German military affairs. This incident was followed by the al- leged curt dismissal of General Franz Haider as chief of the general staff. The sum and substance of these episodes to- gether with the Von Bock and Von Brau- chitsch affairs have given rise to the story that the Generals are ready to "isolate" Hitler and are ready to talk peace. Obviously, more than the complete dis- armament of Germany is needed to pre- vent further European and world wars. Balance of power politics, imperialism, tariff barriers, economic backwardness, must be removed if the world is to be safer and more secure. If all this cannot be achieved at one time, the least that can be hoped for is that the Reich Gen- erals should no longer be a sinister threat to the peace of the world. These Generals must go with Hitler and his camarilla. Deliverance The picture of fleeing humans has be- come a commonplace. Despite the fact that it has been oft repeated, one must be possessed of a vivid imagination to appreciate the tragedy of it all. The Jews of France fled to Spain when the Nazi hordes violated the armistice and occupied Unoccupied France. This tragedy, however, was not as poignant as previous occupations because on the other side of the Mediterranean hundreds of thousands of Jews were delivered from Nazi laws and concentration camps by the order of President Roosevelt. Let us hope that the African deliverance is the beginning of the complete deliver- ance of our people throughout the world. PLAIN TALK by AL SEGAL "Judith" OUR Town, one day the didn't argue the matter, 1,6 14, I I N other week, at one of the tem- so young. ples, the women of our two tem- ple sisterhocds had lunch with the 72 members of the women's of board of our local Council Afterward they all Churches. marched together in a most sis- terly way down the main aisle of the temple, the unity of their footsteps sounding like the verit- able sisterhood. Then the Jewish and Protestant sisters recited the psalms together and everybody felt it could be a decent world, after all, if it only tried to be. One of the Jewish sisters said afterward that she passed much of the time in the temple th'nk- ing just what it means to be Jew- ish. I shall call her Judith, a name which I regard much more lovely than most of those which are currently being handed around among girls. Judith had been brought up on the idea that being Jewish was strictly a separate identity. As soon as she was old enough to be intelligently conscious, she became aware of being surrounded by an impalpable ghetto. She didn't recognize it as a ghetto until long later. In her childhood she had no name for the invisible barrier between her and Mary Fogarty. Mary Fogar- ty was one of the girls in her neighborhood. Mary was one of the many little girls in the neigh- b•ohood who went to the paro- chial or to the public schools closeby. Judith remembered the first time she met Mary. They were both about seven years old then. Mary was sitting on her front steps and had some jacks in her hand. Mary said, won't you play jacks with me? That's how she came to know Mary. They became fast friends. In that time Mary didn't look at all like a different kind of person to Judith. She was just a nice girl who knew how to play jacks well. She could make a ball bounce up and down without missing up to the count of 30. It never occured to either of them to make anything of the fact that their religions weren't the same or that they came out of different stocks. Judith couldn't recall just when and how she became conscious of any essential difference between her and Mary. Her people never told her not to play with Mary, but from what she heard she came vaguely to an awareness that folks like Mary were of a separate kind and that she shouldn't be going too much with her. 1 / I L T ALI, had to do with her first cmcepts of being Jewish. Being a Jew, as she got it, was to be somebody different. There was something of being proud in it, to something of the idea of a holy obligation to stick ex- clusively to your own, something of tribal exclusiveness. Judith She remembered getting farth- er and farther away from Mary Fogarty. Mary, as she thought of her now, became like a figure in the movies fading out in the remote distance. It was a ,low fade-out. Nothing special had hap- pened to cause this, no childish quarrel. She began to think of Mary as some one far off. Judith was ten years old then and in her religious concept, being Jewish had become definitely a separate identity that couldn't be allowed to mingle. It had come to mean something exclusively sad. Judith guessed that perhaps Mary Fogarty, on her side had come to the same idea about her religious identity. Very likely she did. Very likely just as • Mary fades out of Judith's vision, so Judith vanished from Mary's eyes into the fog that people like to call the gulf between religions. It may be the fault of religious education generally, ludith thought. Yes, she mused, all the rel'g- ions may be to blame. They speak much of brotherhood but they had the most to do with the hateful separations among the hu- man kind. Their jealousies, their back-biting, their claims of ex- clusive sanctity and perfection. But, Judith felt that since she is Jewish she had a right to find fault only with her own people in this. A great part of them had been living in a vacuum of exclusive- ness. Many of them had made a virtue of being separate and had been thinking of themselves as people of a special dest:ny. Judith remembered hearing what the prophet had said about all people having one father, but she thought some of the Jews would set all the Jews aside as special children. Judith thought of the years of her maturity during which she had fully and actively accepted the idea of being somebody ut- terly different. Being a Jew was to carry separate banners and to march on our side of a narrow street. The people marching on the other side looked as remote as Mary Fogarty did the time she faded out. 1 1 1 U NTIL the hour of sitting in the temple with the Chris- tian sisters, reciting Psalms with them, she had never questioned the idea that she a Jew, was altogether different and must stick to a separate compartment labeled "Jews." She liked this much better — this sitting with the Christian sisters in the temple and speak- ing to God in one voice with them • . . The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork . . . Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart lie ac- See SEGAL—Page 13 HEBREW CALENDAR 5703-1942 Hanukkah ............................. ...................................................... ... Dec. 4 Rosh Chodesh Tebeth ...................................................................... Dec. 9 Fast of Tebeth ............ ........................................ Dee. 18 ........................ 5703 - 1943 Rosh Chodesh Shevat ............................................................... Jan. 7 Chamisho Osor B'Shevat ......................................................... Jan i • Rosh Chodesh Adar I .................................................................... Feb t1 • Rosh Chodesh Adar II Mai **Fast of Esther ............................................................................ Mai 20 Purim................................................ Mat. 21 Shushan Purim ........................Mar 2• Rosh Chodesh Nisan ................................................................... Passover ........ .................................................................................. 20 6 • Rosh Chodesh Iyar...................................................................... Ma: 1i Lag B'Omer Rosh Chodesh Sivan ...................................................................... I j i ti a lY 3 4 Shev Roh s uotc hod h. e . ... • s s t h of ch o Tammuz ..................... ................................................................................................................................ Ab Aug - Fast of Ab .................................................................................. Aug 1 • Rosh Chodesh Ellul .................................................................... Sept I ( • Also observed previous day. " Fast observed previous Thursday. Holidays begi n an the evening preceding the dates designated