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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
GOLDSTEIN CALLS FOR ALL-OUT ACTION
IN NEW YEAR
New Zionist Leader Outlines Objectives — Says 5704 Will
Be Year of Victory and Decision
A Tribute to the Late
Rabbi M. M. Zager
By RABBI J. S. SPERKA
October 1 , 1943
A ROSH HASONAH MESSAGE
By DR. A. M. HERSHMAN
There is much that we ask for ourselves; there is
The Eve of Rosh Hashonah has much that is asked of us.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — De- of the battle for the attainment
daring that the New Year 5740 of our historic rights, to rectify a special significance to Detroit
There is much that we ask for ourselves. "And
"will bring a year of victory and the centuries-old wrong commit- Jewry for it marks the Yahrzeit is a time of trouble unto Jacob.' ' We suffer in commo it
of
the
late
Rabbi
Menachim
Men-
d
decision," Dr. Israel Goldstein, its
must gird
with our fellow-men. We suffer, moreover, because n
ffaximum strength in the all-
we
newly-elected president of the out effort to safeguard the post-
are Jews. Well may we echo the wailing words of the
Zionist Organization of America, war status of Palestine in fulfill-
prophet: "Behold, and see if there be any pain like unto
in a New Year's message ad- ment o a f the united will of Ameri-
my
pain, which is being done unto me."
c
dressed to American Jewry, calls can Jewry, if our legitimate de-
There is much that is asked of us. Salvation will not
for "dynamic and constructive mands are to be recognized at
action" to help bring about the the , peace table.
be handed to us "on a platter". We must work for
it,
The to New
Year,
therefore,
attainment of the Zionist pro- brings
every
American
Jew
strain every nerve to achieve it. We must rid ourselves
gram for the establishment of
of
all
"parochialism"
and
"provincialism".
The
tragic
the Jewish Commonwealth in Pal- great obligations and heavy re-
times in which we live call for deliberation, careful plan-
estine, a program which has been sponsibilities. Expressions of en-
endorsed by united American dorsement, mere lip service and
ning, and concerted action. We must above all proceed
Jewry through the American Jew- passive association with our move-
to
set our house in order, re-arm ourselves spiritually,
ish Conference.
ment, will not suffice. Action
develop our Jewish resources, and thus fortify our faith.
In his message, Dr. Goldstein , alone, active identification with
who has been entrusted by the our cause, maximum participation
We must dedicate ourselves to the task of making
recently concluded Zionist con- in all efforts to bring permanent
America the arsenal of Judaism. Let us, therefore, sur-
vention with the high responsi- rescue to our suffering people
render ourselves heart and soul to the life-renewing mes-
bility of leading the movement, t through their rehabilitation on
sages
of the approaching High Holy Days. "It is a time
stated
that
in
the
coming
year
their
own
soil
in
Palestine—only
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by these means can we reach the
the fate and destiny of our peo- desired
of trouble unto Jacob, but out of it shall he be saved."
goal."
pie for generations to come will
be decided. The inevitable vic-Outlining the objectives of th e
tory of the United Nations will Zionist Organization for the Nel
Best Wishes for a floppy and
hasten the triumph of our cause. Year, the new head of the Zion
Prosperous New Year;
movement of this countr y
But, he warned, it will not bring declared:
ultimate victory for us—for our
"The New Year must, there -
people and for Zion—without an
RABBI M. M. ZAGER
extraordinary effort on the part, fore, be also a year of action, o f
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of American Jewry commensurate dynamic
Important and
and co nstructive action dell Halevi Zager, who passed
d
decisive
ve
DETROIT, MICH.
with the scope and gravity of the ahead of us. These
are: to win away prematurely three years
ago, on Erev 1 Rosh Hashonah of
hour.
For
victory
calls
for
sac-
the
whole-hearted
approval
of
the
rifice, labor and determination.', American Government
the year 5701, October 1, 1940.
Asserting that the year just pie er
and pee- 'Rabbi Zager died at the age of
for
the
establishment
of
'
a
ending will go down in history Jewish Commonwealth in Pales- 54 years while at the height of
as one "that has brought the
approval by a united American tine; to initiate and implement a his intellectual strength. His was
a rare personality on the Jewish
Jewry of the Zionist program for wide program of rescue and re- scene, combining at once the
habilitation for the victims of
the establishment of a Jewish Nazi persecution; to secure a color and qualities of the Talmud-
Commonwealth in Palestine larger response in Palestine' fund- Chochorn of Europe, who had the
talent and ability to move his
through
the Conference,"
action of the Ameri-
can
Jewish
D - r. raising; to intensify the Jewish listeners
to a greater Jewish zeal;
education of our youth; and, last
Goldstein declared that the im-
plementation of this program now but not least, to bring every con- and coupled with this a deep
rests upon the organized Zionists scientious Jew within the o•gan- knowledge of the modern Hebrew
of America and calls for the mar ized ranks of our movement. and Yiddish classics, he blended
shalling of the bulk of American These objectives represent a the ancient and the modern to
express the depths of his religious
Jewry into the organized ranks minimum program of action in soul and this harmonious expres-
of the Zionist Organization. which every American Jew must sion deeply "moved and touched
continues share if he is to do his duty to his listeners.
Dr. "American
Goldstein, Jewry,"
"as the spearhead
Rabbi Zager came to America
his people in an hour of crisis.
with the scars of a spiritual mar-
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"The New Year must be a year tyrdom worthy of the "Sainted
of re-dedication to the princi- Souls in Israel" for he barely
Rosh, Hashonah Greetings!
pals and ideals of Zionism. For escaped a Bolshevik firing suad
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only a Jewish Palestine will bring which had sentenced him to de ath
for practicing his religion. Instead
an end to Jewish homelessness of bitterness and cynicism as a
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and gentle, and all still remember
•
stein concluded.
is gentle smile, soft and kindly
voice, and deeply humane per-
CLAUDE SINTZ,
sonality. The passing of such a
leader leaves his place vacant
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and irreplaceable. He found his
happiness in the study of the
Torah and in the observance and
ONSOLIDATED
contemplation of the eternal
values of Judaism. His memory
is a blessing to all who knew
him and to his wife and daugh-
ters, who perpetuate the religious
concepts which to him were all
Engineers and Machinists
important.
The community will long re-
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member the personality of Rabbi
Zager who graced it and so pre-
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maturely was taken from it. Rab-
bi Zager gave of his energy to
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and served every communal insti-
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May his memory be a blessing.
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