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DEA IT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

October I, 1943

Detroit Organizations

"AKAYDAH"

Wish All A Happy

STRICTLY

New Year!

Bombed Japan Club," a very ex- tertainment unit . . . If and when

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elusive society membership in you see screen credit being give
CONFIDENTIAL
!,
which is limited to those to whom to a new scriptwriter named
,lef-
club's title applies
das Isaac." As it is Abraham only wanted to sacrifice
Dani
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
'll be se c.
Carmel, veteran Z
trey the w ork
his son, and although in the end he never touched him,
of non
el, know
yeouother than
has
been
invited
to
accept
an
ex.
David
Selznick,
the
Hde
p
the Jewish people persistently make so much ado, de- LESHANA TOVAH
ccutive position in an important producer . . . The nom ollywood
5703 will go down in history as institution outside the Zionist is a combination of the names lume
manding in their prayers: "Remember to our merit the
of
year ,,. . • ft
sacrificing of Isaac!" Now, can you imagine how much the black Jewish
movement . . . Pierre van Paas- his two sons
. . . Bu,
Joseph
hl
brought unprecedented and un- sen was inscribed in the Golden who left the Second
more the Jews would demand of God, if—God forbid— told
Avenue
stag e
tragedy to our people • Book of the Jewish National Fund for Broadway
y years
Isaac had really been -,
not so man
sacrificed? The Ribono-Shel-Olam More than a quarter of the whnle. recently by the Zionists of Hart- ago, is now getting
would never have been "able to repay that and to free Jewish population of the world ford • . . Maxa Nordau will soon offers . . . So don't H ollywo od
be surpri
se
forth
himself of the claims we would have made. So, you see, perished in the past few years.. be on her way to California . ... if it new comedian blossoms
a miracle happened to God. This joke, by the way, is 5704 must be an improvement Coming to Broadway before long on the screen ere long . . . Break-
it cannot
any worse is the play Clifford Odets has ing into the ranks of Broadway
. . Today
a single be
supposed to have brought a smile 'upon the lips of the • Surely
thought
nates the minds o all
Jews domi-
made out of Franz Werfel's short producer is stage and screen com-
Rabbi, which, according to the Chasidim, was a good
om en.
n.
throughout the world: Death to story, "Jakobowsky and the Col- edian Milton Berle, who is bring-

Fasc is m

and Nazism, death to
And now, to come back to our subject: Thousands Adolf Hitler
and his gangsters.
and thousands of Jewish martyrs all through the ages JEWISH
ACTION
of our glorious history actually did undergo all the tor-
first cooperative world-
tures and agonies of death for the sake of our religion. wiii The
be
ejerainshnettilecd s in . wartime
w
In almost every land upon the earth they were tortured
oon
and killed and burned in fire for "Kidush Hashem". esentatives of nerican te :
Why,
s ian, Palestinian andle
Why, then, not emphasize this rather than dwell so ry
n British Jew-
will cooperate in the editing
much upon the sacrificing of Isaac which was never
and
publishing
of
the
Black
Book,
actually effected?

onel" . . . Comedian Zero Mostel, ing us "I'll Take the High Road,"
to whom the Army has given a by Lucille Prumbs . . . Lu c ill e,
medical discharge, is going to you remember, is the daughter of
show his Uncle Sam that he isn't Sarah B. Smith, well-known •id-
entirely decrepit yet . . . He's dish novelist and newspaper-
going
overseas with a USO en- woman.

the record of Nazi atrocities

against Jews • . . This book will
The recalling of the "Binding of Isaac" in our favor, be
submitted to th peace con-
Pisgah Lodge No. 3.4, I. 0. B. B.
therefore, must have an entirely different meaning
com e
ng de-
be- 1
lot h eno.rue trh
yond the mere fact that it emphasizes our ancestors'
beeen
. . e • a \r
id
adership
votion to God. And this meaning is rather a symbolic ish le
organ ization ofin aEnp gland Yto the
EXTENDS BEST WISHES TO ALL JEWRY
medical group
one. The symbolic idea implied in the Akaydah will be ;h.ich
roup
calls itself the Me cal
best comprehended by following up the incident as it
nssociilaotnisoen .
FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR
grou p
described in the Bible (Genesis 22, 1-8): God wanted is is:ullecsY A
" quotes" freely r o organ is
to try Abraham and told him to (
fm "T he Proto-
sacrifice his only beloved
son Isaac as an offering on the altar. Abraham did not cols of the Elder s of Zion" . .
Isadore Starr, Ptl '
Rabbi Israel Goldstein's first pub-
hesitate to do so, and made all the preparations neces- to
e h appearance e n eafter his e
zi
on
ist
election
the
nary. He bound his son, on the altar, and organizatio
already he had taken the knife in his hand to slaughter
of America was as
the main speakers at the
his son—when suddenly he heard a voice calling "Abra- one of ildel
dinnter to .thrieh Soviet
Surprisil
Surprisingly he stopped to see who Jewish
was trying to intervene with his holy act—and he real- mittee of jegwaislohnWriters aendCo;r1--
ized that it was the voice of an Angel of God telling tists has released figures reveal-
ing that this delegation addressed
him: "Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do the 340'000
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
people
its tour
- a ineds in
least unto him!" Still stunned by what had happened, NI
o exieo cities
FOOT
int n the UnitedStates,
people
Abraham looked around him and saw a ram caught in a
Standing at the threshold of the New Year,
bush by its horns, and he took the ram and offered it
we
recall the many courtesies that have been
TO HISTORY
Instead of his son. Abraham must have wondered for Baron d Eouard
extended to us, and we pause in the midst of
de
Rld,
hi
what purpose God did all that—and conceived the indi- once one of the richest othsc
this Holiday Season to express our appreciation
men of
cation that it was significant a sign for all the future of Europe and now a refugee in this
and wish you most heartily a Happy New Year
country, was among those w
his descendants. That whenever in future the Children 7
h o
Sd nt on the
dais at the farewe ll
THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF
of Abraham will be in distress, when there will 'seem g ai nt inoonr taot tthee
the Sioivoiteeti Janismh
to be of no hope for their survival, when they will be
Commodore
MT. SINAI HOSPITAL ASS'N
bound on the altar defenseless and helpless with the last week . . . We asked him
whether
he
understands
Yiddish
knife over their throat—that they should nt despair! ' 1aid , rhe confessed
"but !ny
That they should trust in God, knowing that o
"fNatoh'e' , Jame
in the last spoke only
moment a voice will call from heave
Yiddish"s . . Rothschild
. Wilkie,,
n to command: "Do , C. Bullitt,
not touch Israel !" And Abh
ra am expressed
n who
is running for
this revela-
tion, when naming the Hill on which the whole incident J) mayor
illsnele in . Philadelphia, is rather
h is ledction rePosters caallingthf o.
took place, with the words: "It is said to this da
daes 4,0enier
On appearance, boosting made
the Hill will God be seen!" (i. e. every time in future
o f our
people, the son of Louisa
days). And this revelation has manifested itself in the -:
Wishes to Take This Means of Expressing Its
Horowitz"
d h . . . The posters were
long history of our people which is full of suffering
itehnegn"efinai Brithit Nwonns-
Best Wishes for a Very
and
despair, but out of which we emerged victorious, sur- Sec ta rian
viving all the nations and all our enemies who ever tried later discovered that they were
to extinguish the Jewish race,
the work of anti-Roosevelt group
When we were on
• . d
is very
edge of despair there was a call from heaven
to save the nc,-, Bulptt, incidentally,
sttrrayin. of FJoerwtiosoh
us.
blood
to All Its Members and Friends
inohistilaences
Thus the meaning of our praying "Remember the
Binding of Isaac" is to recall what God then revealed many years now, says a current
wisecrack, we've been talking
to Abraham that when his children will be in
, k xa in7t w let's start
greatest saying the Axis—no
distress,
seemingly
without
any
hope
to
be
saved,
God, in
that
moment, will brin them
will also explain the Midrash which salvation. This READER'S GUIDE
dto the question
tlemreraisentnhe mgartei;tet betr!::-
Our Sincere Greeting for a Happy New Year,
we mentioned in the beginning of this iscourse:
"Why facAtodrolfoPiA
do we blow a ram's horn 9 "
a Year of Victory for Our Allies in Arms
is the theme of an article by t itt s,
. says (different from what we Rockefeller
quoted fro m the T
Foundation's
Raymond
the
and a Year of Victory for our People
that "God said, blow with re . „ Fo
appearin g in the cur-
t issuiLtohf
the Isaac".
ram's This
horn is in order* remind yourself of the Binding S-c-riptadick
eniYateise
of
hni
va
ColleKes
td say thatthe Jewish people themselves
To Rabbi and Mrs. Joshua Sperka
should remember the Binding of Isaac—and not despair, article's thesis is th at by exiling
Germany's Jewish and liberal
but
trust
that
in
the
end
God
will
save
them
as
He
To
Cantor Moshe Ber Gordon
did to Isaac.
mathematicians Adolf did a great
service for this country, which
Bearing in mind this symlic
To Ex-President of Cong. Bnai David, Louis
"Akaydah",
implication of the welcomed so many of those refu-
Please and Family
. . . Best-sellers are rare
its place in the Jewish litgy
ur will be more gees
enough, but best-sellers
readily understood.
written
_
-To Members of Board of Trustees of Cong.
by rabbis are a Believe-It-or-Not
Ripley item . . . So you'll be in-
Bnai David

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ZEDAKAH CLUB

HAPPY NEW YEAR

The Eva Prenzlauer Maternity Aid

JOINS WITH THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY IN
PRAYER FOR A YEAR OF JOY
AND PEACE FOR ALL

—

The Chevra Ayinl Jacob of
Congregation
Bid .
nai Dav

GreetsIts Members and All Jewr
y on Thi s Yom Kippur.
May You All Be Inscribed for a Year of Good
Health-
Happiness and
and Prosperity

M. SLOBIN. President
SAM ZACK, Secretary

terested to know that Rabbi Is-
rael H. Levinthal's book, "A New
World Is Born," published by
Funk & Wagnalls, sold out it first
edition in a few weeks, and is
going through its second at a
swift pace . . "The People and
the Book" is the title of a little
booklet written by Dr. Joshua
Bloch and published by the New
York Public Library . . . It is
checkful of interesting info
tion about the love, care and rma-
use
of books among the Jews . . .
With all his many-sided lea-
tivities, Louis Nizer hasg l ac
also
found time to write a brilliant
article for the Columbia Law Re.
view's s pecial issue devoted do
compulsory contracts . • • Nizer's
piece discusses bargaining in the
motion picture industry and
ists tell us that it constitutes cre-
ative writing in the legal field.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Major Louis Blau of Los An-
geles is the president v1 r
the "1

To all Members of Cong. Bnai David
To Pres. of Ladies Auxiliary, Mrs. Z. Needle •
and Family
To Pres. of Sisterhood, Mrs. J.
Jacobs and
• Family

To Pres. of Chevra Aim Yacov, Mr. M.
Slobin and Family

To Pres. of Men's Club, Mr. Liebow and
Family

To Pres. of Young People's Society, Miss
Helen Bruson

To Scout Master Troop B. D. 135, Irwin
Ratner and Family.

MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH BLOCK.
President, Congregation Bnai David.

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