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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
October 29, 1943
continue to reside outside Pales-
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Russia, t he
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CINCINNATI, O. -"There is ism, in some respects, almost as extra-Palestinian Jewish settle-
is far too early
absolutely no compelling urge extreme as, and in other respects meat will be, itt t
towards Jewish nationalism to- more extreme than, the reforms even to prognosicae.
Dr. Morgenstern Sks
pea on "Nation, People,
Religion-What Are We?" at Seminary Opening
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HIS RECORD ALONE
Looks Ahead
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day other than that of sheer des- of Ezra and Nehemiah."
peration and despair," President The Jew, Dr. Morgenstern said, and
"But
wherever
it be and
what
how
many lands
in which
Julian Morgenstern of the He- was the first victim of the mod- our Jewish brethren may eventu-
brew Union College in Cincinnati ern revival of European racial ally find new and permanent resi-
said here at exercises marking nationalism and he at first clung Bence, they will become speedily
the opening of that Reform Jew- to his universalism "even while and eagerly, just as we are here
ish theological seminary' s aca- his world was tumbling down all in these blessed United States,
demic year.
full and contributing citizens of
around him."
,, But eventually the Jew, vie- their new nations. They will still
Dr. Morgenstern spoke on the
topic, "Nation, People, Religion- timized more and more in his be an indissoluble part of the ..
What Are We?" and he inveighed political, economic, social and re- Jewish people. But of a Jewish
against the idea of Jewish na- ligious rights and opportunities, political state in Palestine they
tionalism at a time when Reform began to recall the ancient days
Jewry is confronted with a re- of Israel's existence as an inde- they
will will
be no
part
all and to
it •r_
owe
no at
allegiance,
po-
quest for a decision to approve pendent national state, to invest litical or cultural, other than that
• them with a glory they never of the consciousness of common
or reject the American Jewish
Conference's recent resolution sessed,
and thus to dream spiritual brotherhood.
pos sessed,
"They will not feel themselves
demanding a Palestinian Jewish again the old dream of a re-
and
in an
the a part of a Jewish Diaspora for * *
stored Jewish political state
state.
In his address he followed the revived Jewish nationality
history of his people from their land hallowed by memory and under
the there
conditions
new * * *
world,
will be of no that
Jewish
origin in the Arabian Desert sanctified by unceasing yearning. d Diaspora. They will not look *
s upon themselves as in exile for i*
down to their present crisis to
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"Th us present day Zionism
wworld
there will be ';
buttress his declarations 111 at born.
in that ne
w
the Jew's contribution to the Run Entire Gamut
no exile. Those few Jews who *
world never has lain in the e field
"It has run the entire gamut may wish to migrate to Palestine
of nationalism.
of modern racial nationalism will have free opportunity to do *
"Israel, as a nation, has
so and there will be no occasion *
achieved no distinction whatever modest
from the,
as we
now see, very
hope
of restoration
of for them to wail longer that they *
'T,
and has made no contribution Palestine as the center of a new,
whatever to human civilization," and their children are in exile. *
he said. "As a nation in the past, positive and intensive Jewish cul- But we know that their number * , .
tural life, to the extreme theory will be exceedingly few and that
Israel was not one whit differ- of Jewish nationalism, practically not at all improbably in those *
ent from numerous
other
identical with Nazist and Fascist
happy days to little
come, the trend ‘ *
and equally insignificant nations. theory, which holds that the bonds of Jewish migration may well be t
of Jewish racial nationalism are from, rather than to, Palestine, *
Sees No Change Today
"And nothing whatever sug- eternally indissoluble, that there Precisely as it has been in the *
gests that today, restored to na- can be ever only one Jewish past periods of international good *
tional existence, Israel would be homeland, only one land in which will, emancipation and economic *
;
aught different from the many the Jew can ever feel himself opportunity.
"Certainly in this post-war, Ir c
little, insignificant racial states completely at home, that etern-
which struggle desperately to ally he is a member of the Jewish progressive and expanding world, *
maintain and to justify their na- racial nation, however that term we Jews, wherever we may dwell,
may be defined, that he resides shall feel ourselves completely 4,
existence.
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"On the other hand, that Israel among the nations, as at present, citizens of our respective nations,
is a people and Judaism as a re- only as a temporary sojourner, integrating ourselves as eagerly *
with the life, culture, spirit, *
ligion, and that these two prin- that he is in the 'Diaspora' i n
ciples are eternally and insepar- 'Galut,' in 'exile,' and that Is- achievement, progress of that na- *
ably linked, and that in this in- rael's redemption from its sad tion.
dissoluble fusion they make Israel fate of the last 1900 or even 2500 "We shall be, still and ever, an
a unique people among the na- years will be only when it will integral part of the eternal Jew- *
tions of the world, a people ani- be restored to the role of com- ish people, our religious people;
mated by the consciousness of pletely or predominately J ewi s h, and as such we shall live our ,*
divine commission to play in the independent, political statehood distinctive, Jewish religious dl
life
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y,
a unique role as the bear- in Palestine, in whatever form consciously, p
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ers and custodians of the knowl- and however achieved, this state- in the midst of our fellow citizens. *
"The
dispersion
of
Israel
among
edge of the one, universal God hood may take, commonwealth, ' the nations has made possible not *
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and of His way of life for all republic or dominion."
It
seems
"decidedly
improb-
only
the
present
numerical
ex-
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men and of the sole way of uni-
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versal salvation, this fact is be- able" that an independent Jewish pansion of the Jewish people, but *
political state will be established also the very continuity of its *
yond all question.
unto the present day. *
in Palestine as an outcome of existence
Attested by Evidence
Had the Jewish people been per- *
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"It is attested by all the evi• the present
war,
he continued.
But even
if such
state were mitted to live uninterruptedly as *
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dence of 2500 years of Jewish
d it "must be a nation in Palestine, they would *
li . d h
history. Israel is indeed a peo
pie with a religion, a religious granted by all who can interpret eventually have succumbed to *
Jewish history aright that a Arabic conquest in the second * *
people, and naught else
quarter of the seventh century ,*
"And in the soul of this peo- twentieth century, restored Jew- A. D. and, precisely as the prep- .*
pie, Israel, throughout the last ish state would be merely another ent population of the land, them- ;
2500 years of its history, the nationalistic episode in the life selves in very large measure the '*
greater part of which was an un- of the Jewish people, would re p - descendants of ancient Israel, in 1,
ending experience of exclusion resent but another backward whose veins the stream of Jew-
and exile from the land of the swing of the pendulum.
ish blood flows at least as purely •*
fathers, there has always burned Criticizes Statement
,_ as in ours, they would have, *
an eager desire to return to this
"Despite the oft-repeated high- through persuasion and compul- •*
land, there to resume existence sounding asserverations of the i sm, converted to Islam and •;
as the priest-people of its God, beneficent role which a Jewish would today be regarded as a so- 1,
ministering at His sacred altar and state or commonwealth in Pales- called Aral? people.
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living punctiliously the unique life tine may play or will play in
"Dispersion has not only pre- '*
which He had ordained for it.
setting a happy pattern of equi- served the Jewish people as a 1,
"But this longing, deep and table social relations for all other people but has enabled it to safe- *
passionate though it was, was also, nations to emulate, the most re- gu r a d its consciousness of idea- lt
it must be admitted, more or less cent formulation of which is in tity, mis s ion and destiny and to *
conventional, and honored in the the bombastic peroration of the radiate its influence throughout *
breach more than in the ob- so-called Palestine resolution of the world. .*
servance. Innumerable were the .._ the American Jewish Conference,
"We are a people with a God-
opportunities of individuals to et the fact, incontestably established appointed destiny, which we can- .;
feet this return, but few indeed by history, still confronts us with not avert through fear or fren- *
those eager, yearning souls, like brazen truth, that the true genius zied choice. We have been draft- ,4'
Jehudah Halevi, who availed and destiny of Israel finds ex- ed by God for an eternal service, *
themselves thereof. The vast ma- . pression only in its role as a re- which we dare not evade. We are *
jority of the children of Israel ligious people.
the prophet-people of history.
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through all these centuries have
"Israel has no need and no co- Opposes "Vain Hope"
been content to dream this dream pulsion to become again a na-
"Be
this
service
what
it
may,
,Iir
of a return, to voice it passion- tion ts fulfill its God-appointed
brief or enduring, sweet or bit- ';
ately in daily prayer, but at the destiny.
"At this critical moment in ter, easy or exacting, let us serve, *
same time to remain, in what
they chose to call, and indeed not human history, when the world with faith, dignity, courage, vi- w *
without justification, `Gai ut,' and
or seeks desperately salvation from sion and imperishable hope. And :if
'exile,' in uncertain security an( the maelstrom of destruction if it be, as in truth it is today, *
possession of property, at least
east wrought by resurgent racial na- that the burden seems almost lir
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for the greater part of this Pe - tionalism and is groping for some more than Israel can bear and 1-ii
form
of
organization
which
will
in
our
despair
we
fain
would
riod.
transcend the now almost out- shrink from the task and grasp at 1#
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Deeply Rooted
"And yet this expectation of grown pattern of nationalism, is a straw and seek escape in a ';
an eventful return of the peo- it not foolish, sad and tragic for vain hope and deluding dream, *
pie of Israel to the land of its the Jewish people which has let it be for only this one brief ;
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and th resumption of its dreamed the dream and pro- moment.
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fathers
an
"Then,
with
that
moment
pas
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religious life there has become claimed the message of world-
deeply rooted in the souls of a unity, to itself reject its mes- let us rise again, with renewed
consecration, #
renewed
very large section of our people sage, faith and destiny and to faith,
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and is still an integral principle seek for itself a salvation im- strength and hope, and resume
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of Orthodox Judaism."
words of our
He emphasized his belief that exploded theory of restored ra- the enh eartening er:
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eternal Command
there is nothing un-Jewish but cial statehood?
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" 'But thou, Israel, My servant, *
"The
solution
of
the
Jewish
nothing specifically Jewish in na- problem and fulfillment of Jewish Jacob, whom I have chosen, seed
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tionalism.
"The present Zionist movement genius and destiny lie far less of Abraham, whom I do love;
represents the most widespread within than outside Palestine. For thou whom I have drawn from ;
and intensive revival of the na- even should the seemingly vain the ends of the earth, and from * ;
tionalistic hope and program in and self-deluding dream of an its borders have called thee and *
Judaism in over 1800 years," he eventful Jewish population of said unto thee: My servant art
continued. It also represents, he some 5,000,000 in Palestine, thou; I have chosen thee and ;
said, "the complete reversion through some miracle, be realized, have not rejected thee; be not * T
from the free and almost unre- nonetheless in the post=war world dismayed, for thy God am I; I Ir
strained universalism of Judaism the larger and happier world of do strengthen thee; yea, I do sup-
of the first two-thirds of the true human brotherhood, eventu- port thee; yea, I do uphold thee
M y sure right hand.' " (Isa-
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The record speaks for itself. Mayor Jeff-
ries has served the people of Detroit with one
of the most honest and capable administra-
tions this city has ever known. He has kicked
out graft and power politics ... he has treated
all groups fairly with the best interests of the
city at heart.
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Now, Mayor Jeffries is fighting an organ-
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selfish leaders who are doing ever y-
thing in their nower ft defeat fair dgalina
aovernment. These leaders want SPFCIAL
FAVORS which they cannot get from Jeffries
. . . they seek to take away control of city
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government from the people.
We know that under Mayor Jeffries we
have always received a square deal . . . that's
A ll Any group has a right to ack for, and Mayor
.1r,ffr;,,,, will always defend that right!
The Jewish Community of Detroit should
have a special interest againa. Block Voting
forgani7ed political voting). The late Louis
Marshall. one of the greatest leaders in the
history of American Jewry, had set the prece-
dent for proper and natriotic action by
Americans when he condemned BLOCK VOT-
ING by any group and called for selection of
candidates on merit and not from the view-
point of special privileges.
Your vote for Mayor Jeffries guarantees
the perpetuation of equal opportunities for
all races and all faiths ... you have his record
for the past twelve years to prove that!
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This ad published by a group of Jewish citizens who
personally know Mayor Jeffries and believe he
should be re-elected.
KEEP SELFISH INTEREST OUT OF CITY HALL
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RE-ELECT
JEFFRIES
MAYOR
HONEST GOVERNMENT FOR EVERYONE
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