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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 45, NO. 46
10e Single Copy; $3.00 PerYear
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1943
Hebrew Union College Alumni
Disagree with Dr. Morgenstern
Dr. Joshua Liebman of Boston Heads Group
Of Reform Rabbis Who Strongly Dissent
Monsky's Slated
Visit Spurs Local
Bnai Brith Drive
War Chest Drive Passes Half
Mark with $3,000,000 to Go
Union in Sam's Cut Rate Pledges $15,000,
Which Amounts to Two Hours Wages a Month
To Present Large
Class to President
As we go to press, the total character as an actor and into
BOSTON, Nov. 1. — Deploring Balfour Declaration, the free im-
Louis H. Schostak, president of pledged to the War Chest was that of plain citizen and veteran
$4,774,113, with still $3,475,887 of World War I, to tell the work-
migration of Jews into Palestine,
the views on Zionism and Pales- and the establishment of Palestine the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith to reach the minimum quota of ers that the War Chest, above
tine recently made by Dr. Julian as a national home for hundreds Council, reports that following $8,250,000. all other civilian agencies of the
Desperately hard work is ahead day, is the powerful agency cre-
Morgenstern, president of the He- of thousands of Jews of Eastern the news that Henry Monsky,
of the 20,000 volunteer workers, ating deep friendship, gratitude
brew Union College in Cincinnati and Central Europe." They call
the "establishment of Pales-
if they are to reach the goal, Ed- and cooperation with the people
and given wide circulation through- for
tine as a Jewish commonwealth,
win J. Anderson, chairman of the of the United States.
out the country as "detrimental to with democracy, freedom, and
by Suffering.
industrial unit, said at the meet- Paid
"The hungry and suffering peo-
the constructive solution of the equal rights for all of its inhabit-
ing held on Tuesday, at the Book- ple of the Allies and of occupied
problem of Jewish homelessness in ants, Arab as well as Jew."
Cadillac
Hotel.
this time of sorrow for world
Raymond
C. Massey, noted countries have paid in advance by
Dr. Liebman's statement, co-
Israel," and rejecting his view signed with him by 44 alumni of
portrayer of the stage character their suffering for all the help we
that "Jewish nationalism is in any the Hebrew Union College and re-
of Lincoln, guest speaker of the can send them," Massey said. "It
way practically identical with nowned rabbis of the United
day, stepped entirely out of hhis was their suffering that served to
give us time here to prepare to
Nazi and Fascist theory," Dr.
(See HEBREW—Page 12)
defend ourselves against a similar
Joshua Liebman, leading Reform
Rabbi of New England and a dis-
fate."
The "still needed," to reach the
tinguished alumni of the Hebrew
Union College, issued a statement
necessary minimum set for the
•
• •
War Chest campaign, loomed as a
from Boston in repudiation of Dr.
In
Morgenstern's remarks, as report-
difficult battle over which the 20,-
000 volunteer workers are deter-
ed in the press of the country.
Dr. Morgenstern delivered his ad-
mined to go, but viewed with
dress on Zionism and Palestine at
apprehension by many, as the re-
the opening convocation of the
ports at the Wednesday noon
Declares Dr. Goldstein meeting in the Book-Cadillac Ho-
Hebrew Union College.
Kvutzah
Ivrith
To
The following Rabbis from all
indicated only a total of $430,-
At Round Table Meet tel
parts of the country, all of them
119 for the day.
Honor
Noted
Poet
alumni of the Hebrew Union Col-
It was "Labor Day" in the cam-
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president
lege, have joined with Rabbi Leib-
The Saul Tchernichovsky me-
of
the
Zionist
Organization
of
paign
Representatives
from program.
AFL and CIO
and numerous
man as signatories of the state- morial meeting of the Kvutzah
ment: Rabbi Morton M. Apple-
America and head of the Syna- locals of the unions were present
Ivrith
of
Detroit
will
be
held
baum, Rabbi Garry J. August,
AARON ROSENBERG
gogue Council of America, charg- to offer their assurance that so
Rabbi Solomon N. Bazell, Rabbi Saturday evening, Nov. 13, in the
ed that "there is a tendency far as labor is concerned, when
Albert T. Bilgray, Rabbi Philip Rose Sittig Cohen Building. Brief Supreme Lodge president of Bnai among liberals to wish-think the the canvass is completed, indus-
D. Bookstaher, Rabbi William G. addresses on several aspects of Brith, will address a public meet- Jewish problem out of existence." t trial workers will be well out in
12, that all lodges He termed as dangerous the as- advance of the quotas assigned
Braude, Rabbi Barnett R. Brick-
ing on Dec. 12,
ner, Rabbi Frederick Doppelt, the great poet's works will be de- and auxiliaries
t
surances that the Jewish problem them
and with generous increases
redoubled
efforts
to at- will be eradicated in a post-war over last year's contributions.
Rabbi Leon I. Feuer, Rabbi Her- livered by the following: Isaac their membershiphave
An indication of the seriousness
bert E. Drooz, Rabbi Jerome D. Franck, Joseph Haggai, Dr. tain the greater part of their
Folkman, Rabbi Leon Fram, Rabbi Aaron Dubnove, M. Michlin, S. quota by the time Mr. Monsky Europe.
Speaking at the Detroit Round with which workers are taking the
Eric Friedland, Rabbi Milton L. Kasdan, A. Twersky and Bernard arrives in Detroit. The quota
cause of
War 339,
Chest
was in the
_ report
of the
Local
URDWSEA,
Grafman, Rabbi Avery J. Gross- Isaacs, chairman., assigned
. . .
by District Grand Lodge Table of the National .Contere13.ce
Christians and Jews on post
field; Itabfil"°`Melbourne - Harris:
Tchernichovsky was one of the No. 6, Bnai Brith, to the local of
war problems, Dr. Goldstein de- of Sam's Cut-Rate, Inc., pledg-
Rabbi Bernard Heller, Rabbi most versatile poets of his time. lodges in honor of Bnai Brith's dared that "Jews in the European ing $15,000, or more than two
James G. Heller, Rabbi Jacob H. After Bialik, he was known as 100 years, is 1,500 new members.
hours ' pay per month per mem-
under discussion have
Kaplan, Rabbi Julius Kerman, the Hebrew poet laureate. He Prompted by this enthusiasm countries
been- and will continue to be for bell, an increase of 33 per cent
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, Rabbi wrote with equal ease ballads, and inquiries from members and a long time to come, a minority over last year's contribution. The
report was given by Daniel Cha-
Hershel Levin, Rabbi Irving M. idylls, sonnets, lyric monologues, non-members who desire to hear
which, like other minority
Levy, Rabbi Samson H. L. evy, etc. He also pioneered in work 'Mr. Monsky, the committee on group
groups, has a separate corporate .ney, president of the local.
Rabbi Lee J. Levinger, Rabbi Fe- of translations of the great mas- arrangements has secured the
Express Thanks
Robert H. McRae, executive sec-
lix A. Levy, Rabbi Theodore N. ters of the literatures of the main auditorium of Temple Beth identity distinguished by ethnic,
and religious character-
Lewis, Rabbi Maurice Lyons, world. El and, to accommodate the cultural
istics." "While," he added, "there notary
the
Detroit Community
Fund, of
and
managing
director of
Included in these masterpieces overflow, the Brown Memorial
Rabbi Samuel H. Markowitz :
has
been
a
centrifugal
trend
af-
who the War Chest campaign, ex-
Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn, Rabbi are: the Gilgamesh epos, the old Chapel is bein wired for this
. . .
ed the thanks of the cam-
Louis D. Mendoza, Rabbi Harry Babylonian creation myths, the occasion, in order that all who fecting many in Iv' ua iw
J.
B. Pastor, Rabbi Jacob Polish, Egyptian sun poem by the here- desire to hear Mr. Monsky may adopted assimilation as their goal
ress management to R.
paign
B.
Max Raisin, Rabbi Marius tic king Akhnaton, the Greek do so. One of the features of and believed that the best solu- Thomas and
v "for the
n Paul Silver
Ranson, Rabbi Efraim M. Rosen- love songs attributed to Anacre- this meeting will be the initiation tion of the Jewish problem wa.;
solicitation
weig, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, on, Plato's philosophical dia- of all members secured in the by dissolution, the main body of very splendid work the
they
among workers in the industrial
,,
plants of the Detroit area."
Mordecai M. Thurman, Rabbi Moliere's comedies, Longfellow's drive.
Tracing the motives underlying
Patrick V. McNamara, vice
Joshua Trachtenberg, Rabbi Jacob "Hiawatha" and "Evangeline,"
Aaron Rosenberg is chairman
J. Weinstein, Rabbi Harvey E. Macbeth by Shakespeare, poems of the city-wide membership the growth of anti-Semitism, Dr. chairman of the campaign, pre-
\Vessel, Rabbi Samuel Wohl, by Burns, Shelley, Alfred de drive of the following constituent Goldstein said that "anti-Semi-
tism has been kept alive in Eu- riding at the meeting, introduced
Rabbi Samuel \Volk•
.. Musset, , Goethe and Richard Deli-
' Bnai
Brith of
Council:
Pisgah Detroit
Lodge, rope because he has had a fume- Abraham Bluestein, executive di-
These rabbis "disagree with mel, the Finnish epic "Kalevala,.-
groups
the Greater
the reported views of Dr. Morgen- and Homer's "Iliad" and "Odys- Louis Marshall Lodge, Detroit tional value for reactionary poli- rector of the Labor League for
Lodge, Theodor Herzl Lodge, ticians. It is, as we have seen, r
stern, both on the necessity of soy..
AFL member
Palestine and the nature of Zion- While this gathering is limited East Side Lodge, Pisgah Auxil- one of the most effective tools in Human Rights, also
Business
and
Professional
dividing
and
conquering
first
their
of
the
United
Nations
Relief
Corn-
ary,
ism," and "declare it tragic at to people who understand Hebrew, i
this crucial hour in Jewish his- because all talks will be delivered Auxiliary, Theodor Herzl Auxin-
DR1VE—Page
2)
See WAR—Page 12
ary, East Side Auxiliary and
tory for any obstacles to be placed
in the way of fulfillment of the See TCHERNICHOVSKY—Pg. 12 Lou is Marshall Auxiliary.
All groups are conducting in-
Post-War Jewish
Tchernichovsky
Memorial Meet to
Be Held Nov. 13
rosition Europe
Is Not Assuring
Statement of American Jewish Comm.
On Its Withdrawal From Conference D r. C. Weizmann
EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the full text of the statement of with- Invites Ben-Gurion
drawal formulated by the executive committee of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee and anonunced by Judge Joseph M.
To London
Proskauer.
See MONSKY—Page 12
Self Emancipation
An Address by Rabbi Samuel Wohl, Cincinnati, 0.
EDITOR'S NOTE—This is an answer to the article of Dr. Julian
Morgenstern that appeared in The Detoit Jewish Chronicle on
Oct. 29, 1943.
The subject I shall attempt to up,: our rights for a Jewish
discuss w . th you does not concern commonwealth.
I deplore controversy, particu-
itself with an academic issue but
The American Jewish Commit- changed from "assembly" to "con-
LONDON. (WNS)—Dr. Chaim
tee associated itself with the ference;" and (2) the right of Weizmann last week sent a cable with problems that affect the life larly at a time when every ounce
American Jewish Conference in any participating organization to to the executive committee of the and destiny of the Jewish people. of energy we possess must be de-
the hope that through meetings dissent from and, so dissenting, Jewish Agency for Palestine ex- I am compelled by self-imposed voted to the destruction of the
of representatives of Jewish or- not to be bound by the conclu- pressing regret over his inability limitations of time, to divide this enemy and the saving of the lives
of our tortured and tormented
ganizations and communities in a sions of the conference, should be to comply with its request to address into two parts.
Tonight I shall deal with the brothers. Nor do I relish the role
consultative body, an endeavor recognized. These two conditions come to Palestine.
idea of Jewish nationalism and of challenging the views and dis-
Dr. Weizmann declared that
might be made to achieve a pro- were accepted.
As the election machinery de- since he was engaged in import- whether Zionism is the result of senting from opinions expressed
gram for unity of action with
desperation, and next Friday I
respect to Jewish problems in the veloped, it became evident that ant political conversation in Lon- shall present to you the evidence by a revered teacher, to whom I
am indebted for much kindness.
the
inclusion
of
overlapping
or-
don
which
may
have
an
important
post-war world.
of statesmen of the world, in-
The American Jewish Commit- ganizations, on the one hand, and bearing on Palestine's post-war cluding Balfour, Woodrow Wilson, I shall refrain from the use of
tee has at all times taken the the exclusion of large local and status it would be advisable if Lloyd George and Winston Chur- angry words. I do not questton
right of a scholar to his par-
position that the American Jew- national agencies, on the other, Ben-Gurion and other members of chill, as to why we ask for a the
ish Conference should be exactly would necessarily result in a Bath- the executive came to London. He Jewish Commonwealth now, and ticular interpretation of Jewish
what the name implies, a confer- ering in which significant seg- also urged the executive to prevail why Dr. Morgenstern's disregard history. I regret more than I am
once, that is to say, a delibera- meats of the Jewish population upon Ben-Gurion to withdraw his for the American Jewish Confer- able to express, that candor and
duty compel me to dissent and to
rive body, fairly representative of would have virtually no voice. resignation.
point out wherein these views are
In the meantime, the London ence is untenable.
a cross-section of American Jewry, Prior to the actual meeting of
Dr. Morgenstern does not want mistaken and hurtful.
and that it should not be an auth- the conference, we called the at- Jewish Chronicle last week car- a Jewish
commonwealth,
although
of its executive commit- vied a cable from Jerusalem to the
I shall not judge the address
oritative or permanent body super- tention
imposed upon the structure of Jew- tee to this situation. Our pro- effect that "people who have as I shall show next week, he does b y the synopsis which appeared
out that the organiza- spoken to Ben-Gurion declare that not consider it un-Jewish. I shall in the newspapers, although tens
ish life in America. Consequently t est pointed
"constituted the he catcgorically states that he also tell you why it became neces- of thousands of readers have only
the committee entered the con- tions excluded
sary at this time, when agree-
ference on two conditions. (1) the backbone of a substantial part of does not intend to withdraw his ments are being reached, to insist (See EMANCIPATION—Page 3)
res;gnation."
character and accordingly the
(See STATEMENT—Page 3)
name of the project should be