DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
an THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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Sabbath Readingi:of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 21:10 - 25:19.
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 54:1 - 10.
SEPTEMBER 10, 1943
ELUL 10, 5703
Signs of Dissolution
According to reliable estimates, there
are now between 7,000,000 and 8,000,000
foreign workers in the Third Reich.
This huge number of foreign workers
are needed to take the places of German
workers who were combed out of indus-
try, agriculture, mining and communica-
tions to fill the gaps caused by the disas-
trous Russian campaign.
Ordinarily such a number of foreign
workers would be a serious problem for a
country at war, but the problem of the
Nazis is aggravated by the fact that a
larger proportion of the workers are na-
tives of occupies countries.
In the days when the Wehrmacht was
overrunning one country after the other,
the German workers were admonished
to treat the foreign workers as inferiors
and not to show any friendliness to them
or associate with them. Now all this is
changed, according to reports coming from
the Reich. German workers are told to
treat the foreign workers with considera-
tion and respect. They are told to culti-
vate them and win their friendship and
cooperation.
This change of front is not due to any
change in the master race ideology. The
Nazis still hold fast to the dogma of
Aryan superiority, but the exigencies of
the situation call for a change of policy,
and nobody is more ready to change policy
than the brutally opportunistic Nazis.
There are few things they will not do to
maintain themselves in power. They have
even made noble Aryans of the Jews who
were needed for their murderous enter-
prises.
The change, however, is significant. It
is indicative of distress and desperation.
It tells more than the reports of neutral
observers in the state of the Third Reich.
It means that the Nazis fear the sabotage
of the foreign workers. They know that
the home front is crucial and they will
even make the all-foreign workers noble
Aryans if by this device they can be as-•
sured that they will continue to work
hard and for long hours.
Signs of dissolution are mounting and
this is not the Nast of them.
Conference Results
The American Jewish Conference held
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Aug. 30
to Sept. 2, proved that American Jewry
is overwhelming in favor of a Jewish
Commonwealth in Palestine.
This, however, does mean that those
who dissented and those who are opposed
will not continue to dissent and oppose.
It must be borne in mind by the propo-
nents of the Jewish Commonwealth that
the right to dissent and oppose are im-
plicit in the American scheme. And they
should remember that there may be hon-
est differences of opinion. We are not
unmindful of the fact that it is not too
difficult for those in authority to procrasti-
nate and evade if they can say that there
are differences of opinion among those
who are seeking immediate action.
The Conference interim committee can
now place its demands and requests be-
fore the United Nations with the knowl-
edge that it has the backing of all the
Jews of America.
Plain Talk...
We are hopeful that , the leaders of
the Conference and the individual mem-
bers of the majority will realize that all
dissidents and opponents are not traitors
and mendacious men and women just be-
cause they do not see eye to eye with
them.
During heated controversies men often
call each other hard names. This is under-
standable, and now that the controversy
has been settled, the questioning of mo-
tives should end.
September 10, 1943
by
AI Segal
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Free Pulpit
ABBI Beryl Cohon of Brook- warned him; if they've told him
R
'Aline, Mass., sends me a recent once, they've told him a dozen
bulletin of his temple (Sinai) times: He simply has got to
with a typewritten note attached: change his ideas.
"I have been reading your stuff
After all, the president says—
for some time—and even like he speaks practically for the whole
some of it. Only fair that you membership when you hire a
read some of mine . . . Beryl D. tmetliin hyhonu, itlxotpeacst h eimplteoasdeos atso yott
Cohon.
We should never forget that freedom
of speech is one of the freedoms for
which mankind has struggled and is
I took up his challenge and In his own business would he
struggling, and if we deny this freedom
Rabbi Cohon's bulletin from keep any of the help even for a
to those who do not agree with us we read
cover to cover and was happy minute if they didn't take orders?
have all lost something precious.
to find there that he is allowed Why should they tolerate and
to have a free mind and to speak keep on paying a rabbi a regular
as hleighpti eases,
s.
in accordance with salary, if he talks in ways the
congregation doesn't like?
"Temple Sinai," Rabbi Cohon's
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bulletin says, "is dedicated to a THE WHOLE thing came to a
free pulpit and a free pew. The A head when the rabbi began
Rabbi is not only permitted but giving sermons about a good,
expected to use this freedom. He new world. They said he had al-
speaks his mind as God gives him ways been free with his mouth.
to see the right, and the congre- There was the time he dennounced
gation proudly approves. corruption in the City Hall. When
"At the same time, it is the he was told that was none of his
rabbi's wish that he alone be held business he answered that it was
responsible for what he preaches. the business of a rabbi or a min-
Perhaps now that we can point to the What he does ask of the pew is ister to speak up wherever there
practical unanimity of American Jewry that it too be free, consider re- was evil, and if the congregation
what is said from tip, didn't like it they could do
on all these questions, we may be able to spectfully
pulpit, and come to whatever something. He said he was going
get more satisfactory action than we have conclusion seems right. We firmly to keep on doing what to him
got up till now, remedial action for our believe that in this day and age looked like his duty.
this the only truly religious pol-
unhappy people everywhere.
Five of the best members quit
icy to follow in the matter of on account of that . . . "You
freedom of speech in the syna- are like a salesman that chases
gogue. Temple Sinai is strictly saalai y. customers," the president
Italy Surrenders
above party."
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But when he began talking
The junior Axis partner, Italy, is out
LL THAT reminds me of af- about the good new world—that
of the war with the unconditional sur- X fairs in Congregation Anshe was just about the limit. Of
Giborim. Anshe Giborim is a con- course, everybody is for a good
render to General Dwight Eisenhower.
gregational name that I have world . . . "You're for a good
For days before the surrender the Rome made up, but any resemblance to world and I'm for a good world,
a real congregation is more than but you shouldn't go crazy about
radio had pleaded for some statement just
coincidental. So if any citi- it," the president said.
that would assure the Italian people that zen recognizes in Anshe Giboritn If the rabbi had said merely
they would not be deprived of Libya, some resemblance to his own con- he was for a good world and let
it go at that, nobody could have
Eritrea and Somaliland and that they gregation, let his face get red.
Anshe Giborim has been ter- found any fault. He could have
would at least have the borders of 19,19. ribly
upset lately and if it were- even given a picture, you might
n't that rabbis are rather scarce say. Nobody could kick about
Their appeal was not so much one for —so many of them have gone as a pretty picture. Everybody likes
justice and generosity, but rather an chaplains in the Army and Navy to look at a pretty picture.
appeal to the sound judgment and prac- —the congregation wouldnt' stand But what did the rabbi do?
for its rabbi another thiy. You He told them how to build the
tical common sense of the liberating just
have to take what you can good, new world. The president
powers.
get during the war; you have sifys lie wouldn't have minded
do without new cars, without that either, since he doesn't lis-
We are c rtain that the United States to
new refrigerators and Anshe ten to sermons anyway, except on
does not covet any part of Italy or her Giborim has had to resign to Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur
colonial possessions, but we are not so keeping its old rabbi for the and then he doesn't really listen
certain at nations of Europe that have duration,
either. But what happened? Wh::.
What's the matter with the
an interest in the Mediterranean are as rabbi? The president of the con- the rabbi got his sermon in th:•
disinterested in territorial gains as we are. gregation says it's gotten so they newspaper and the whole town
just can't tell the rabbi anything read about his idea of a good.
There will be those who will insist anymore. The way he says what new world. There was a headline:
that Italy pay for the pusillanimous ac- he pleases in his sermons! Just "Rabbi Favors More Equal Dis-
tion of Fascist jackals, but there should shoots his mouth off! They've
We all knew that there would be no
difference of opinion on the question of
rehabilitation and resettlement of refu-
gees and the question of equal rights for
the Jews of Europe, but the problem that
confronted us and still confronts us is
how to get the United Nations to act, now,
especially in the matter of saving the
remnants of European Jewry that still
survive.
A
be many more who realize that nothing
is gained by humiliating a cultured people
and that a nation steeped in poverty does
not make for the prosperity of her
neighbors.
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JWII WOMEN'S DIVISION DISTRIBUTES 1
VICTORY KITS TO SERVICE MEN
With the fall of Italy we must give
more thought to the post-war world. We
must begin to think seriously about the
kind of a world we want, and we must
do all in our power to prevent another
world war. Can we lay the foundations
for a ,just and enduring peace by increas-
ing Italian poverty? We say emphatically
no. Can we lay the foundation for a just
and enduring peace by making the Ital-
ians bitter and resentful, and by making
them feel that they have been dealt with
unjustly? We can answer this by pointing
to the resentment and bitterness of Ital-
ians as a result of the treatment they
received at the end of the last war.
The fall of Italy should be followed by
the surrender of the satellite states. With
than 16,000 gift kits have been
their surrender the problem of territorial More
distributed through the Women's Di. row—Mrs. Mark Heyman, Mrs. Le,,
adjustment will be infinitely more difficult vision of the Jewish Welfare Board Guiterman, Mrs. Ernestine Stamm,
because of Yugoslav, Czecho-Slav and at ports of embarkation to American Mrs. Benjamin Loewenthal, Mr•.
Greek demands.
service men on outgoing transports Charles II. Bernheini. Far right—Mrs.
and
in hospitals. Made by
workers at
the Victory Kit Workroom in the
The territorial adjustments at the end Hotel
Savoy Plaza in New York City,
of World War I were fruitful sources of the kits contain shaving
cream,
voap
discord and dissension and gave rise to end soap container, toothpaste, chew.
ing
gum,
a
trench
mirror,
comb,
sew.
the Lebensraum fallacies of the Nazis.
ing kit, pencil, razor blades, and ciga.
Blanche Freeman. Left—Mrs.
Oscar
Herzog. Right—Mrs. Leo Levy, Mr•.
Phineas Sondheint, Mr-. Fannie Mug
den. .-
The distribution .)t . thousands . ,1
sendoff and utility kits is one of the
service activities for the armed forces
or cards. Under the chairman. of the Women's
Division of the Na-
The solution to these vexing problems reties
ship of Mrs. Charles II. liernheim, tional Jewish Welfare
Board, which
is a federal union of the liberated coun- more than 125 women spend the days celebrated its first anniversary
April
each
week at this workroom as. 18
tries with the liberator countries. Any-
th—fittingly in the very week of the
sembling and packing gifts. These arc Passover
festival which has always
thing short of this means that the endless the women who on 24 hours notice
disputes over territory will begin all over supplied 200 Christmas kits to Lt. symbolized freedom. Headed by Mrs.
Alfred R. Bachrach, the Women's Di-
Robert Kelly of "The y
again. Anything short of this means en- Commander
vision is the sponsor of the Serve-:1•
Were Expendabl e
Fame."
The
project
tentes, alliances, balances, provocations, is supported entirely by voluntary Camp project which will be expanded
and in the end probably another war.
contributions. Above, they are—back to include every military camp in
need of such aid.