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June II, 1943
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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Numbers 4:22-7:89.
Prophetical portion—Judges 13:2-25.
JUNE 11, 1943
SWAN 8, 5703
Hopeful Signs
Under-Secretary Sumner Welles, in a
letter to Congressman Emanuel Celler of
New York assures the Congressman that
the Jews of Algiers will have theiir citi-
zenshiip restored within a short time.
According to the letter, the United Na-
tions are not interfering with the civil
administration of Algeria, Morocco or
Tunisia. This is left in the hands of the
French. as it should be.
We believe as does Secretary Welles
that the Cremieux decree will be re-
enacted within a short time, because we
are persuaded that the French favor po-
litical equality as much as do the Anglo-
Saxon peoples.
Giraud and DeGaulle as Frenchmen
have learned the hard, bitter lesson of
racial and political inequality. Their
teachers, the Nazis have not failed to
impress upon the French that they as non-
Aryans are not entitled to the privileges,
rights and prerogatives of the master
Aryans. If the long practice of political
equality had not incliined Frenchmen
favorably to it, then the recent experi-
ences they have had with the Nazis surely
must have convinced them tliat as long as
the doctrine of political and racial inequa-
liity is permitted to dominate men's
minds, then there is the danger that some
master race may again try to impose those
doctrines upon them.
North Africa today is liberated France
at war, and we must consequently re-
member that even the sincerest equali-
tarian and libertarian must recognize con-
ditions and circumstances and be guided
if not governed by them.
We wish we could feel as confident
about the enjoyment of political equality
in some of the other countries of occu-
pied, conquered or Axis-controlled coun-
tries of Europe as we do about France.
Equality, fraternity and liberty were more
than slogans in France for a century and
a half. They had become integrated into
the very fabric of French life, and a
dose of Nazi poison cannot destroy them.
Hungary Is Not Willing
It is reported that at a recent confer-
ence held in Berlin between Admiral
Horthy, Regent of Hungary, and Adolf
Hitler, the question of furnishing more
Jewish workers for the Russian front and
the creation of a Hungarian ghetto were
discussed. The admiral informed Hitler
that Hungary would furnish no more Jew-
ish forced labor and would not establish
a ghetto.
We do not believe that Admiral Hor-
thy's refusal was predicated upon any
special love he has for the Jews, but
because he is now persuaded that the
people of Hungary are not in favor of
anti-Jewish measures, and he so told the
Fuehrer.
This is another straw in the wind that
forebodes the doom of the Nazis. Th9
formerly helpless and hopeless Axis part-
ners are the first to detect the changing
winds of fortune. They have not been
guilty of the unspeakable atrocities that
are charged to the Nazis, but yet the
mere fact of associaition may be suffi-
cient to give them a sense of guilt of
which they wish now to purge them-
selves.
We may expect more and more such
reports as the defeats and misfortunes
of the Nazis multiply.
The different groups, factions, sections
of our city are presenting individuals and
slates who will ask their fellow Jews to
elecrn. This is the democratic way
and we should all be happy at this time
that we can employ democratic proce-
dures in the election of our representa-
rives. In fact we should be happy that
in times such as these that we can take
the time to choose men and women who
will frame a plan, and devise a program
that will have for its purpose the meliora-
tern of the condition of our brethren in
the unhappy and tortured countries of
Europe.
Plain Falk...
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Grandma's Shoes
GENTLEMAN tells me about
A his
grandmother and the shoes
she bought to walk all over God's
heaven. A grand old lady, the
gentleman said, of the kind that
was called Mother in Israel.
He digressed to inquire what
had become of mothers in Israel,
those stately women who are
typed in the renowned "woman
of valor" in the Book of Prov-
erbs.
Yes, he said, they are quite
rare in our times. He is a man
inclined to meditate pleasurably
on the glories of the past. He
thinks that in these days no mat-
zos balls are made like those his
mother used to make.
"My mother's hands," he said,
"were mystically bright when they
hovered over the Sabbath candles
blessing them. Do we see such
hands today?"
A discreet man, I refrained
from taking up a discussion of
the comparative merits of women
past and present. I mikht find my
self agreeing with him and that
would lead me into embarrass-
However, we do have a responsibility
above and beyond the mere election of
our representatives. 'Ours is the respon-
sibility of choosing men and women who
speak for all sections of the population.
If we do the job well we shall select
men and women who represent Zionism,
Orthodox Judaism, Reform Judaism, Con-
servative Judaism, Secular Judaism as
represented by Bnai Brith, Landsmanshaf-
ten, Community Council, veterans and la-
bor. If we and other communities in the
country should send delegates to the na-
tional conference that represent but one
or two segments of our entire population, ments
h
I changed
the subject.
neither we nor they will have done our "Now about your grandmoth-
er," I said.
entire duty.
We are not endorsing any specific slate
or any individual but we adjure the dele-
gates to choose from among the nominees
who will seek their support those who
will represent all of Jewry and not a part
of it.
It is our considered opinion that should
the National Conference be made up of
those who represent a single ideology
that its prestige and standing as the rep-
resentative body of all Jewry would suf-
fer and that it would not get the recog-
nition from the United Nations that it
merits.
At this time partisan feeling' should give
way to far sighted reasonableness.
It should be remembered that there are
many facets to the Jewish problem, and
every one of these facets should be shown
to those who will have the decisions to
make.
by Al Segal
"Oh," he said, "there was a
woman! She walked with God,
you might say." Sometime, as
he contemplates his many delin-
quencies, he is oppressed by a
sense of guilt that he, her grand-
son, hasn't lived up to her God-
liness.
He
thought the house of Is-
rael would be in better order if
her kind were extant today . . .
"What we need is mothers in
Israel—the grand old kind, you
know. There were a noble curri-
culum of Jewish education. Don't
you think that you, as columnist,
should write something to lead
women back to the eminent sta-
tus of mothers in Israel?"
The old mothers in Israel, he
said, were not just biological.
They were spiritual emanations.
"But tell me about your grand-
mother buying shoes to walk over
God's heaven," I interrupted.
Yes, that was just like her, he
said. That was the ultimate step
of the whole way of her life.
She felt she was not far from
dying and she must have bright
shoes to walk in God's heaven.
Flag Day
she was not one of those
B UT
who in their last years make
Flag Day will be celebrated on June
14 by all Americans who are appreciative
of the blessings of living in a country
that is united .
The flag symbolizes this union of
sovereign states into a federated union.
The forty-eight stars are of equal size
and equal importance, despite the fact
that some of the states are of unequal
size and unequal population, for in these
states of no matter what size or popu-
lation the individual citizen has equal
rights, privileges, duties and responsibili-
ties. This is basically true despite the
fact that some of our people may be
discriminated against because of color or
race in some of our sovereign states.
During these trying times we are made
more acutely aware of the soundness of
our plan of state sovereignty and of dele-
gation of powers to the Federal sovereign.
We have but to look across the Atlantic
ocean to see the multiple misfortunes that
have befallen the people of the European
continent because they have not learned
how to live together on a federative basis.
These people of Europe are the forebears
of the people of the American continent.
They have had much more political ex-
perience than we have had and yet either
through malevolence, stubbornness, special
interests and traditions have not learned
the lessons that we have.
On this Flag Day we should dedicate
ourselves to the important task of making
the Union more perfect, and to the further
task of removing the last traces of dis-
crimination, inequality and injustice.
It is the hope of all Americans, who
understand the meaning of their flag, that
the day will soon dawn when the Flag
will fly over a land that is free from
the fear of want and the fear of fear.
ready in a hurry to get into
heaven. Her whole life had been
a preparation and even if she
hadn't bought the bright shoes,
God certainly would have let her
in because of the bright garments
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she wore. God would have known
them as apparel fit for the glories
of heaven.
He told me how she came to
gather this clothing.
"Whenever we bought her a
new dress or a new coat she al-
ways said we must buy a dress
or a coat just like it for some
poor woman. We always did as
she told us to.
"There was the time we bought
her a coat for her seventieth
birthday. She tried it on and said
it was lovely but not warm
enough.
"It was all wool and well-lined
and certainly looked fit for the
worst rigors of our climate. Not
warm enough, grandma? we asked
her.
"No, she said, it couldn't be
warm enough since she knew
there must be some poor old wo-
man who didn't have a coat and
whose bones would shiver in the
winter days and who didn't have
good children to buy her one.
How could she feel warm in this
coat when some other old woman
shivered in the bitter cold. Didn't
we understand?
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WE couldn't help understand.
v v Our grandmother's com-
passion was a bright light that
always clearly showed us to the
way to justice and duty. We could
do nothing else than find an old
woman who needed a coat and to
buy one for her, too. Grandmoth-
er said it must be a coat just
like hers, and we always did ex-
actly as she told us in these
matters of her compassions.
So it was with his grandmoth-
er: If a pair of woolen mittens
were bought for her, a duplicate
pair was bought for some one
whose fingers might be bitten by
the cold for lack of gloves. When
they gave her a half dozen pair
of woolen stockings for Chanuka
nothing would do but that they
must buy stockings just as wool-
en and warm for some tattered
feet whose toes might be sticking
out in the bitter cold.
It was costly having to pay
twice for every garment they
bought her, but her children
themselves could feel in their own
bones a mystical warmth emanat-
ing from the extra coat, the extra
gloves, the stockings. They really
felt very grateful.
Yet the time they paid $25 for
a pair of orthopedic shoes for
her, it seemed just too much
when she asked them to buy a
$25 pair of the same kind of
shoes for the woman who did
their washing. The woman always
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Navy Honors Jeffery, Bnai Brith War Hero
II
New destroyer-escort named for Ensign Ira Weil Jeffrey of
Minneapolis, who was killed at Pearl Harbor, goes down the ways.
Ir, the inset are Jeffery's parents and a committee from the Central
New England Bnai Brith Council that represented the Ira Well
Jeffery Bnai Brith lodge of Minneapolis at the launching. This
lodge has undertaken to service the crew of the U. S. S. Jeffery
as part of the national Bnai Brith serve-a-ship war service project.
Left to right: Arthur Seserman, council president; Frances Kling,
president Haym Salomon Bnai Brith women; Mrs. David Jeffery;
David Jeffery, and Benjamin Bartzoff, council secretary.