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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

and The Legal Chronicle

HISTORIC PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE CONVENED BY B'NAI B'RITH

October I, 1943

Rhode Island's Governor Sponsors Palestine
Project in Memory of Roger Williams

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"This thoughtful act will serve
to associate the ideal of religious is executive chairman of the
freedom on which our state was Council in which a group of ac-
communal leaders are mem-
founded by Roger Williams with tive
bers.
the Jewish pioneers who are to-
"This act on your part is a
This is a general view of the opening session of the Pittsburgh Conference of national Jewish mem- day laying the foundation of the demonstration of faith in the tri-
Jewish Homeland upon the sa-
bership
organizations,
convened
by
Henry
Monsky,
president
of
Bnai
Brith,
and
out
of
which
came
the
American Jewish Conference.
cred soil of their past," declared umph of the cause of human
Hon. J. Howard McGrath, Gov- freedom as exemplified in the
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ernor of the state of Rhode Isl- aims of the United Nations, and
and(fourth from left) to a dele- in the future of Palestine. The
We pray for a prosperi t _ _ , gation of Jewish communal lead- Roger Williams colony in Pales-
the spirit for the peoples o v
tine will forever be a visible and
By DR. EVERETT R. CLINCHY
faiths. These times summo ; all ens who called upon him to invite spiritual link between the state
n` all him to serve as Honorary Presi-
On the occasion of the Jewish that in the year ahead the victims Americans, Jew, Protestant and dent of the Nachlath William Rog- of Rhode Island, first to offer
New Year, American Christians will have a restoration of body Catholic, to a rededication t o the ers Council. The group, cooper- refuge to the oppressed reaching
extend to their Jewish fellow- and spirit, be enabled peacefully religious values and high moral ating with the Jewish National our shores, and the Jewish Na-
Americans and to Jews of all to mend the broken threads of standards of the Judeo-Chri stian Fund, has undertaken to redeem tional Home welcoming the
lands this primary wish: that the their lives, and take up once tradition, the basis of our c iriii. in Palestine an extensive tract of homeless and persecuted coming
tragedy visited on them by the again in harmony with their zation. At a time of war fever land which is to bear the name to seek a haven on the shores of
Nazi-Fascist oppression will come neighbors the great tasks facing when there lurks the dange r of of William Rogers, who founded the Mediterranean, declared Gov-
to an early end. Christians hope all mankind.
accepting an unrestrained na tion- Rhode Island as a haven for ernor McGrath. Standing, from
alism in substitution for reli glen, those who sought freedom from left to right: Alvin A. Sopkin,
the Jewish High Holy Days are religious and political persecu- treasurer of the council; Mrs.
a reminder not to become
tion. The well-known Zionist Samuel Michaelson, associate
snared by the Fascist-Nazi ph ilosn- leader, Archibald Silverman of chairman, Mr. Silverman, Gov-
HEARTIEST GREETINGS FOR ROSH HASHONAH
ophy that we are opposing. The Providence, is president, and Ar- ernor McGrath, Benjamin N.
greatest contribution to the c ivil. thur I. Darman of Woonsocket, Kane, honorary vice-chairman,
izing force of Judaism that Amer-
and Mr. Darman.
ican Jews can make in the coming
12 months is to strengthen their
synagogue life.
On this Rosh Hashonah, Ameri-
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can Jews will reaffirm their de-
vout interest in the human and
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social relations of the American
people. Grave as are the problems
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of the enslaved peoples abroad,
concerned as we must be with
the stricken men of all faiths, of
Euiope anelsewhere, we are
ever conscious of the primacy of
unsolved problems in this, our
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beloved country. Above all, we
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are conscious of the vast human
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challenge to peaceful and har-
monious living among all seg-
ments of the American people,
Protestant, Catholic and Jew,
white and Negro, those of the
North American tradition and
those of Latin American origin.
America's Jews will know how
to give emphasis to working on
ways of living together with
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Americans of other faiths while
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they are helping Europe's Jews
work out ways of living together
with Europeans of other faiths;
and helping Palestine develop
into a wholesome, peaceful com-
munity where justice and har-
mony will prevail for all of its
inhabitants.
There is one other hope during
the season of the Jewish New
Year. During the coming year all
Americans should think and pray
and act that vision and magnan-
imity prevail in the planning for
the postwar world. Believing as
we do in a moral universe in
which the oppressors, tyrants and
In appreciation of your past good-will and
flouters of justice and compassion
will know the consequences of
their evil behavior, we also pray
with a high hope for even happier rela-
that for the common people of
All countries, even our enemy
tions in the future, we take this
countries, there will speedily be
made possible those dignities and
opportunity to wish you all a
human rights which all of us
want for ourselves.
Happy New Year . . .
Our individual prayers for such
wisdom and magnanimity, the
common efforts of American
Catholics, Jews and Protestants
working in concert for world-
wide brotherhood, will help heal
the spiritually and physically
wounded, andreconstitute a life
of peace and harmony towards
which we must st r ive with the
war's end.

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