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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

April 9, 1943

ligion, that the same shall be in Colonial days. David Franks and ing which their consciences do
no wise diminish, enlarge or af- Isaac Franks frequently corre- not permit them to pursue; and Sabbath Observance
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fect their civil capacities."
sponded with him, while the for- in the university lately estab- Meetings Planned
The influence of Jefferson's Vir- mer served as his diplomatic cour- lished here (the University of
laborated on a new phrasing
ginia statute was far-reaching. In
Plans for the extension of pub-
Virginia which he founded on the
which read: "All men are Europe it was received with un- ier. He also knew Haym Salo- basis of complete religious equal- lic adherence to the sacred day
equally entitled to the free exer- bounded enthusiasm. It was in- mon, who is known to have helped ity) we have set the example of
cise of religion, according to the serted in the new French Ency- out Jefferson with occasional ceasing to violate the rights of of rest in the major business
dictates of conscience." And in clopedia and was cited by the loans.
sections of Detroit Jewish neigh-
In his first inaugural address conscience of the different sects
this form it was passed, thus es- Jews of France in their petition
borhoods are now under way, ac-
respecting
their
religion."
Jefferson
once
more
stressed
the
tablishing religious liberty for the for emancipation to the National
In
this
connection
it
is
signifi-
idea
of
religious
liberty,
declar-
cording
to an anouncement by
first time. Assembly. Jefferson himself said
During the next ten years va- of it that "after so many ages ing that, "having banished from cant that as early as 1814 Jeffer- the Women's League for Sabbath
rious efforts were made to es- during which the human mind has our land that religious intolerance son predicted the corning of an Observance and the Religious
tablish Christianity in Virginia. been held in vassalage by kings, under which mankind so long bled institution like B'nai B'rith's
Educational Committee of Michi-
Annual assessments in favor of priests and nobles . .. it is hon- and suffered, we have yet gained Hillel Foundation and even out-
the Episcopal Church continued orable for us to have produced little if we countenance ik political lined its techniques. Writing to gan Synagogue Conference. Mrs.
until 1779, when they were abol- the first legislature who had the intolerance as despotic, as wicked Thomas Cooper, the sage of Mon- Abraham Caplan, pioneer in the
ished on Jefferson's insistence. In courage to declare that the rea- and as capable of bitter and ticello said: "In our annual re- local Sh'miras Shabbos move-
port to the legislature, after ment, which resulted in the clos-
the same year he introduced a son of man may be trusted with bloody persecution."
It was Jefferson who first pro- stating the constitutional rea- ing of the majority of Jewish
measure in the Virginia legisla- the formation of his own opin-
ture entitled "a bill for estab- ions." In his autobiography he posed the appointment of a Jew Nozis against a public establish- bakeries on Saturday almost two
lishing religious freedom." it made it plain that his law means to the cabinet. Shortly after ment of any religious instruction, years ago, addressed the last
languished in committee without "to comprehend within the man- his election to the Presidency in we suggest the expedience of en- meeting of the Twelfth Street
any action being taken on it tie of its protection, the Jew and 1800 he sought to make a Phila- couraging the different religious Merchants' Association, making
until 1784, when the laws calling the Gentile, the Christian and delphia Jewish lawyer by the sects to establish, each for itself, a strong plea for united action
for an annual tax for the sup- Mohametan, the Hindoo and in- name of Levy his attorney-gen- a professorship of their own ten- in keeping both with Jewish
port of the Christian religion and fidel of every denomination." Al- eral, but was advised against it ets on the confines of the uni- tradition and demands for war-
for teachers of that religion were though Jefferson was still abroad on political, not religious, grounds. versity, so near as that their time economy. A decision in the
introduced while Jefferson was in when the Constitutional Conven- But Jefferson did name Reuben students may attend the lectures matter will be made next month.
France as United States ambas- tion met in Philadelphiia in 1787, Etting of Baltimore, U. S. Mar- there, and have the free use of Similar action may soon be taken
sailor. It was Madison who re- his Virginia statute inspired the shal for Maryland at a time when our library and every other ac- by shopkeepers on Dexter Boule-
vived Jefferson's bill, rallied opin- delegates to incorporate in article under the statutes of that state commodation we can give them;
ion against the laws to establish VI of the Federal Constitution Jews were still disqualified from preserving, however, their inde- vard and Linwood Avenue. It is
Christianity and finally succeeded the clause forbidding the estab- public office. So firmly did Jef- pendence of us and of each other hoped that public opinion in favor
of the seventh day may thus help
in having them defeated in Oc- lishrnent of any religious test as ferson oppose everything that vio- • • . And by bringing the sects
tober, 1785. The legislature then a required qualification for hold- lated in even the slightest way together and mixing them with bring Sabbath rest back to wider
took up Jefferson's law and on ing any office or public trust un- the right to absolute religious the mass of other students we circles of the Jewish community.
January 16, 1786, enacted into der the United States. Jefferson's equality that he protested re- shall soften their asperities, lib- Oneg Sabbath Rally
Women shoppers in main Jew-
law the first measure ever passed law also paved the way for the peatedly against issuing sectarian eralize and neutralize their pre-
by a popular assembly providing First Amendment to the Consti- proclamations for Thaksgiving judices, and make the general ish streets will again be made
complete freedom of conscience. tution, which forbids Congress to Day, holding them unconstitu- religion a religion of peace, rea- aware of the religious and moral
implications of Sabbath observ-
The preamble to this greatest make any law respecting the es- tional and violative of the Amer- son and morality."
ican separation of church and
It was not mere coincidence ance at series of "Don't Shop On
of all documents of religious tablishment of religion.
therefore that prompted Commo- Shabbos" gatherings to be launch-
equality declared that "our civil
The sentiments expressed in the state.
In correspondence with emi- dore Uriah P. Levy to present to ed next Saturday afternoon
rights have no dependance on Virginia statute were no accident,
our religious opinions; that the for Jefferson adhered to them in nent Jews of his time after he the United States Government a (Shabbos Hagodol), April 17, ut
proscribing of any citizen as un- deed and word throughout his left the White House, Jefferson statue of Jefferson, which still 2:30, in the Mogain Abraham
worthy of public confidence by life. On the same day that the continued to champion religious stands in the Statuary Hall of Synagogue Auditorium of Yeshi-
laying upon him an incapacity Declaration of Independence was liberty and to oppose discrimin- the Capitol in Washington, and vath Beth Yehudah, Dexter and
of being called to offices of trust adopted,
Jefferson,
Benjamin ation because 'of race or creed. to purchase Monticello, Jefferson's Cortland. The next rally will be
and emolument unless he profess Franklin and John Adams were Writing to Joseph Marx of Rich- home, and offer it to the govern- held at Congregation Beth Tefilo
or renounce this or that religious named a committee to design a mond, who had sent him a copy ment. Nor was it chance that Emanuel, Taylor and Woodrow
opinion, is depriving him injuri- seal for the United States. The of the proceedings of the fa- the great Statue to Religious Lib- Wilson, on Shabbos Chol Ha-mold
ously of those privileges and ad- device that was proposed depicted mous Sanhedrin convened by a Na- erty, which was presented to the Pessach, April 24, and at other
vantages to which in common for one side Pharoah sitting in poleon, Jefferson said he read ci y of Philadelphid in 8
synagogues subsequently. The
with his fellow citizens he has a an open chariot, a crown on his them with great interest " an d the B'nai B'rith on the ce 1nt 7 e6
y
nal ;•v
natural right." The statute pro- head and a sword in his hand with the regret I have ever felt of the Declaration of Independ- forthcoming business meeting of
vided that "no man shall be com- passing through the dividing wa- at seeing a sect, the parent and ence, should have been the • I the Women's League for Sabbath
pelled to frequent or support any ters of the Red Sea in pursui t basis of all those of Christendom, of that distinguished Bon B•ith, Observance, which will take place
religious worship, burthened in of the Jews. The reverse sid e singled out by all of them for a Sir Moses. Ezekiel, whose status at Shaarey Zedek early in May,
his body or goods, nor shall other- showed rays from a pillar of fire persecution and oppression which of Jefferson stands on the cam- will also be devoted to that sub-
wise suffer on account of his re- beaming on Moses, represente( I prove they have profited nothing pus of the University of Virginiia. ject.
ligious opinions or belief; but that as standing on a shore extending from the benevolent doctrines of
That statue, incidentally, was
all men shall be free to profess, his hand over the sea causing i t Him whom they profess to make paid for in part by a subscrip-
and by argument to maintain, to overwhelm Pharoah. Jefferson the model of their principles and tion from B'nai B'rith, whose
their opinion in matters of re- was no stranger to the Jews of practice." To Dr. D. De la Motta Charlottesville unit is known as
--
of Charleston, who in 1820 pre- the Thomas Jefferson Lodge.
Jefferson's own estimate of his
sented him with a copy of a dis-
course made at the dedication of place in history indicated that he
a new synagogue, Jefferson ex- regarded his role in the achieve-
pressed his happiness "in the ments of religious liberty as par-
Harsh,. medicinal laxatives
restoration of the Jews, particu- amount. Over his grave in the
only griped me—and never
larly to their social rights," and family cemetery at Monticello is
really stopped my constipa-
declared that he hoped "they will a granite monument, bearing the
tion. It always came back.
be seen taking their seats in the inscrpition, written by himself,
Then I found out why. /
benches of science as preparatory and found among his papers after
just wasn't taking on enough
"bulk"-forming foods. So—
to their doing the same at the his death: "Here lies buried
1 started eating KELLOGG'S
Thomas Jefferson, author of the
board of government."
ALL-BRAN regularly and
That Jefferson understood that Declaration of Independence, of
drinking plenty of water.
e legal security of religious the Statute of Virginia for re-
And—I "Joined the Regu-
freedom was no guarantee that ligious freedom. and father of
lars!"
bigotry would be uprooted was the University of Virginia."
That's because KELLOGG'S
disclosed in his letter to Mor-
ALL-BRAN gets at the cause
You are assured of this fact by the direct supervision
There
are
seven
qualities
which
of
constipation like mine
decai M. Noah in 1818. "Your
and corrects it—by helping
of the VAAD HARABONIM OF DETROIT
sect," he wrote, "by its suffering, identify the wise man: he does
to form a soft, bulky mass
has furnished a remarkable proof not speak his opinion first, when
in the intestines.
Passover starts the night of Monday, April 19.
of the universal spirit of re- a greater person than he is pres-
Let us know as
If your trouble is What
ligious intolerance inherent in ent; he never interrupts a speak-
quickly as possible your requirements in Kosher Dairy Products to
mine was, why not try
every sect, disclaimed by all er; he does not answer prema-
help us plan production and delivery. See your Belrose Creamery
KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN? It's
while feeble, and practiced by all turely nor without deliberation;
Company milkman, or phone UNiverstiy 1-3600.
made by Kellogg's in Battle
Creek and tastes swell.
in power. Our laws have applied he asks questions and answers to
the only antidote to this vice, the point; he discusses things in
protecting our religious, as they their proper order and one at a
vmmommilmommI
do our civil rights, by putting all time.
men on an equal footing. But
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For
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with as much fanaticism as fans
the fires of an auto-da-fe. The 0
The
prejudice still scowling on your
section of our religion, although
the older one, cannot be unfelt
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by yourselves. It is to be hoped
that individual dispositions will at
for your
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length mould themselves to the
For
model of the law." In this same 0
letter he suggested what we now
call inter-faith good will as a cure
for religious prejudice, saying:
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Jefferson was also among the
first to protest against the handi-
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caps Jewish students suffered be-
Thurs.. 8 a. m.' to 10 p. m. — Sat., 8 a. m.
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cause of the inclusion of religious
to 10 p. m.
courses in school and college 0
REV. SAMUEL GLANTZ, of Detroit,
curricula. Writing to Isaac Har-
CLOSED TUESDAY, APRIL 20th and
by of Charleston, Jefferson said:
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