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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle
&
P. Women of Bnai
be a Dutchman, Beethoven a Ger- Was Israel like Egypt? Was they can lift their heads again. B.
man,
Chaikovski
a
Russian,
Dante
Israel
like
Babylon?
Never!
Even
To
rebuild
the
Jewish
Common-
EMANCIPATION
Brith To Hold Canteen
an Italian, Shakespeare an Eng- in its darkest hour, it never des- wealth would be the highest ad-
Tishman
because
they
are
accepted
cended
to
the
evils
of
paganism,
venture
requiring
courage,
vision,
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hope, faith. It would call forth SU pper Party Nov. 16
en who condensed the address, universally and they gave expres- tyranny
and
slavery.
•
I
deny
with
utmost
firmness,
from
the very depths of Jewish
the newspaper statements to con- Rion to universal values? If art,
The Halloween
we party sponsored
, a sense of exaltation for
• and literature are universal
music
that
"present
day
Zionism
rep-
misery,
-
'der.
I
know
that
the
newspaper-
-
is
Marshall
B. & P.
. usi
Sider.
? resents, in one significant aspect, the high goal. Life would then
stic, do they cease to be national
istic,
Women
of
Bnai
Brith
for
paid-up
. . high-lighted all the anti-Zionist Before an idea, a belief, a prophet the complete reversion from free have a purpose, a creative religi-
tions of the Jewish people for a become universalistic; they first and almost unrestrained univer- our purpose—a God-inspired pur- membership, held Oct. 31, at the
utterances and forgot to mention express the highest and best of salism in Judaism." Zionists cher- pose.
Let us resolve to free the Jew Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg., was a
those portions which expressed the nation. Isaiah and Jeremiah ish and put into practice in Pal-
success. The program, which con-
and
Amos
spoke
out
of
the
well-
estine
the
universal
teachings
of
from
the dungeon. To strike down by
the Lou
friendliness toward the aspira-
sisted
of an entertaining skit
their nation's soul and prophetic Judaism. They take seri- the infamy of horror and to de-
Toh performed by the dramatics group
' Jewish Homeland in Palestine. I 1, vause other peoples recognized ously the brotherhood of man, liver him from homelessness.
the Bnai Brith Young Women,
am among those who heard the 4.'11 1 eir sublime truth, they joined us non-exploitation, self-labor, econo- build a Jewish commonwealt of fortune
telling and piano selec-
make
it
universal.
Yet
never
mis
justice;
they
worship
God
would
be
a
call
to
millions
of
Jew-
its
entirety
and
in
my
'
address in
to
n one syllable did any of our with all their hearts and minds, ish people to walk in dignity and tiros by Harriet Aaron, was well
second discussion, I shall give by
when they drain swamps and turn be eccepted as an equal in the received. In addition, there were
you the excerpts which, had they prophets advocate the merging of
numerous games played during the
been given equal prominence, its people into other, nor did they a desolate land into blossoming brotherhood of nations. Zionism course of the afternoon. The serv-
give
up
the
claim
to
the
Jewish
fields
and
orchards.
Yet
history
has
been
and
will
be
one
of
the
would have mitigated somewhat,
will testify that for all the cen- highest religious experiences of ing of delicious refreshments con-
the distress caused by the news- soil and soul of Palestine. To
Jews did not consider them- our people. It is transforming the eluded a very delightful after-
claim that they no longer be- tunics
paper version.
lieved
in
a
Jewish
nation,
and
a
selves,
nor did the nations among soul of man. In Zion we
shall by noon.
I have also the advantage of
The week of Nov. 22 through
example , establish a
they
dwelled
consider
them,
precept
and
knowing what were Dr. Morgen- Jewish state, is to misinterpret whom
co-nations of their respective commonwealth in which freedom, the 26th has been set aside by
stern's actions and not his words, the deepest faith of their hearts.
peace are the bone
over a period of more than fifteen Certainly they wanted a brother- lands. We must here make a res- justice and
6 as Blood
Donor
Week.
It is
years.
He
was
associated
with
the
hood
of
nations
under
one
God,
ervation
concerning
America.
Here
and
sinew
of the nation, that the No.
Women's
District
Lodge
•
hoped
that there
will Grand
be a number
United Palestine Appeal since its but Israel shall be and must be a from
Jews the
with
other
nationals,
came
Israel
may
fulfill
himself
in
ac-
beginning and were part- cordance with God's will and God's of volunteers. Members desirous
inception. He gave his wholeheart- brother nation.
In
his
remarkable
exposition
of
ners
in
the
upbuilding of the land promise. Jews have contributed American Red Cross are requested
ed support for many years to the
policies adopted by the Central Israel as a religious people, Dr. and fashioned its fundamental without stint and without limit
donating
their Broudy,
blood to blood
the
In of
to contact
Bertha
the
peoples
of
the
earth.
Conference of American Rabbis Morgenstern speaks with fervor laws. That makes America the to
every realm of the spirit, religion, donor chairman, Twinbrook 2-0124,
and the Union of American He- and inspiration. It cannot be con- only exception.
I confess that the distinction law, literature and art, we have who will make all arrangements
brew Congregations, friendly to tested. We glory in that; our
There is a for you.
the upbuilding and restoration of major contribution has been the drawn between unique people and brought our offerings.
An open meeting will be held
Palestine as a Jewish National magnificent vision of a humanity Jewish nation is to me unreal. new contribution we can make on Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 8:30
dissent
becomes
even
more
and
to
achieve
it,
we
must
have
a
ig
Home. He has not pressed anti- in quest of God, but to draw the M y
p. m., at the Rose Sittig Cohen
Zionist views on students or fac- distinction that the people was all, pronounced when Dr. Morgenstern center for this new Jewish life. Bldg. in honor of the annual
comprehensible.
Such and
a distinction
and it is
evident
that for and
. ) ulty
lege student
body
were Zionists.
the nation nothing,
to cir- makes the sweeping statement, "As Just as Judaism must have its donor luncheon set for Dec. 5 at
many years the overwhelming ma- cumscribe nationhood to a mere a nation, a self-governing political synagogue as the reservoir of
p -. m. at the Book-Cadillac Ho-
jority of the Hebrew Union Col- governing function, is to me in- entity, Israel contributed little, faith, so the Jewish people must 1 tel, at which meeting a canteen
perhaps nothing at all, to the con- have its sacred land, its home in
These students, a year ago, con- has not been made between any tent and progress of civilization." which to establish its social and supper and card party has been
I see no validity at all for such economic patterns of life. There planned. All members who have
demned the American Council for people and its nationhood.
Other nations have made contri- an assertion. As I have indicated, the religion of Israel
shall be not already turned in their pledge
Judaism, a self-appointed body
of everyday
cards are asked to cooperate by
Israel
made
his
greatest
contri-
practiced
in
deeds
civilization.
which feeds the flames of anti- butions to world
our re la- doing so at that time. A very
Would
we
say
that
Greek
civiliza-
bution
during
the
centuries
when
life,
and
will
sanctify
Zionism. Dr. Morgenstern voted
between men and nations. entertaining program has been
l ast June for the resolution adopt- tion was made by the Greek pro he lived as a nation in his own tionship
This
is the greatest challenge arranged and the evening prom-
h
d
ed by the Centra l Conference of p 1 e and
an no ing
th. was accompis e land. It was then that he created
hallowed by ises to be most enjoyable. A cor-
American Aabbis, that Zionism by the Greek nation? Shall we the great ideals of liberty, jus- to the people of God, never
yielding dial invitation is extended to all
and
and Reform Judaism are not in- say that the Renaissance of Italy tice and democracy, when he was martyrdom
faith. In the midst of darkness, members and their friends to
compatible and voted also for the was the contribution of the Ital- a self-governing political entity.
Zionism is not a movement of we say unto you, "kindle that meet and dine at the canteen.
dissolution of the American Coun- ian people and not of the Italian
'k follow
to the the
Admission is free.
desperation.
It is one of heroism everlasting light and
cil of Judaism.
harrassed
command
of
God,
Speak
a.
Some years ago a great declara nation,
- nation?
Was
it
not
the
Italian
d
transformation
of
ay
the
noblest
an
or shall we s
tion was made and signed by 241 sons of Italy, who broke the shack- people into a people striving to children of Israel and let them
Reform Rabbis which contains a les of mediaevalism and recon- emancipate itself. Zionism is self- go forward.'
ringing faith in the renaissence quered classic learning? Is Mich- emancipation and nothing else.
of a Jewish people in their an- ael Angelo, son of the Italian You may call it desperation if you
will. Did the American colonists
cient homeland and expressing its
solidarity with the ideals of the Italian
people, nation?
not the Did
product
of live
the form a union and subsequently Rabbi Fram To Preach
lie not
Histadruth, the Jewish Labor Fed- in Italy? Did he not breathe the rid themselves of British tyranny On the Folklore of
in- `-'--
eration of Palestine. Dr. Morgen- air of his land? Was he not sub- and make their declaration of in-
stern was among the first to sign ject to the laws of his country? dependence because of desperation? The Sabbath, Nov. 19
Are Voltaire, Rousseau and Mon- No, it was because they had dig-
that declaration.
.
The
The view that Jews are merely taigne not sons of France, the nity, because they wanted free-
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which gave them birth and dom and because they wanted to "Legends of the Sabbath" will
a religious denomination and noth-
(neg. U. S. Pat. Office)
ing else, popular in early Reform natured their minds? Did not their govern their own destiny. Zion-
literature, is no longer tenable wisdom and their thought grow ism is just that and nothing else. Fram's sermon at the Sabbath
rightly
idea.
Jews out of the soil of France, of its Now is the time to look facts eve service of Temple Israel, Fri- 2IREETING CARDS
and
the discards
president this
of the
college
history, of its struggles as a na- in the face. There will be millions day night, Nov. 19, at 8:30, in
are not only co-religionists, but tion? Is Italy less a nation be of Jewish refugees. Where shall the Lecture Hall of the Detroit
CALENDARS
also brothers. It is this concep- cause it did not contribute to the they go? Why fragmentize these Institute of Arts. This is the third
tion that Dr. Morgenstern em- art of government, or is Russia Jews still further? Why pulver- in the new series of sermons
phasizes by his accent on the less a nation because it was gov- ize them and create new exile, which Rabbi Fram has been de-
MISSION LEATHER
peoplehood of Israel. erned by a tyranny for centur- new focci of anti-semitic infec- livering on the legend, folklore
every
land?
A
statesman
and
humor
of
the
Jewish
people.
We are one people, a unique ics? And if Israel did not distin. tion in
NOVELTIES
people, a God-centered people, guish himself in the art of govern- of a South American country ex- The Rabbi draws on the Talmud,
which has, out of its life, experience ment in the past, and one must plained that when a transport of the Midrash and medieval litera-
and history, its heart and mind, consider the times, surrounded as Jewish refugees arrive, the demo- ture to reveal the Jewish soul as
DIRECT MAIL
evolved a faith in God, justice, Israel was by a sea of paganism, gogues and anti-semites obtain a it expresses itself in song and
mercy and love. We have, there- does that deprive Israel of his new supply of hate with which to story.
The Sabbath Eve services will
ETCHINGS
fore, created ideas and ideals that right to nationhood? Does being demoralize the land, by their dia- be followed by the social hour,
have gone beyond the boundaries governed by teachers and priests, belie lies.
How long must the tortured sponsored by the Sisterhood of
ofIsrael and been accorded uni- not ward leaders and gauleiters,
Largest Manufacturers of
remnant endure this? Why should Temple Israel and the Youth
venal recognition. This is our deprive him of nationhood?
of an
Universalism.
Calendars in the World
Universalism is
achievement As a matter of contemporary we send them on to lands which Symposium, sponsored by the
understanding
fact, there are today in various do not want them and subject Young People's Club of Temple
and we seldom get credit for giv- nations, ctitizens of various na- them to new humiliations and ig- Israel.
Cantor Robert S. Tulman and
Due to present conditions
ing it to the world, but universal- tionalities. Even Britain is no nominy? Will this new postwar
ism was not born and natured in homogeneous nation; its people are world soon establish amity and the choir of Temple Israel, con-
we ask you to order early
a vacuum. It had to have a soul, Welsh, Scctch and English. They justice between men and between ducted by Dan Frohman, have
it hadto be transmitted by a have a common British citizen- nations? With all my faith I pray been invited to render the musi-
to insure deliveries.
people. Who were those people? ship. State and nationality are that it may come to pass. All of cal program of the Thanksgiving
The Jews. Where did the prophets not at all synonymous. Lord Bald- us shall strive and work for that. day community service at the De-
give utterance to these high win was prime minister and an But realism compels us first to troit Institute of Arts, Thursday
ideals In Palestine. What was Englishman, Lloyd George was a face the essential fact. Jews who morning, Nov. 25, at 10:30. A
Represented by
Palestine then, when the Prophets prime minister and a Welshman survive must be healed from phy- feature of the musical program
and the Psalmists taught and and Ramsay Macdonald was prime sical and mental torture. Jews will be the rendition by the Tem-
spoke? It was a Jewish state, minister and a Scotsman. And who survive must find homes and ple Israel choir of an original
sometimes free, sometimes domin- what was Lord Reading? Was he occpations. Will there be free composition written by the organ-
Englishman, a Scotsman or a immigration to England, to Amer- ist of Temple Israel, Mr. Karl W.
ated by a conqueror. From whom
did these Prophets draw their sus- an
elshman? He was a Lord Chief ice or elsewhere? To ask the gees- Haas. Mr. Haas' composition
is
Welshman?
rhapsodic anthem entitled
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tenance, their faith, their wisdom, Justice, Viceroy of India, a Brit- tion is to answer in the negative. a
their understanding? From their ish citizen and a Jew. And what Immigration is no longer a mat- "Psalm 150," which is the Halle-
brethren who lived in the king shall we say of the Jews of Rus- ter of free enterprise, but a tre- lujah Psalm. Cantor Robert S.
UN 3-9054
doms of Israel and Judah. sia today? There every nationality mendous problem in the social and Tulman will sing the solo "The
The Bible, as Dr. Morgenstern is recognized and there are a economic area of a nation. It is Prophecy of Isaiah" by P. Yassi-
taught me in his classes, was pro- hundred or more of them. The not pessimism but fact that makes novsky. The cantor will sing his
ducedin the course of several Soviet upper house is a council impossible the high hope that the solo number in Hebrew.
centuries and is the expression of of nationalities. Not every Soviet victorious nations will be gen-
.
the noblest hearts and minds of citizen is a Russian.
Molotov is a erous and self-sacrificing and em-
the Jewish people. It speaks of Russian, Stalin is not, he is a brace our immigrants. Shall they
their trials, of their wrestling Georgian and Litvinov is a Jew. then return to their accursed
with God and man; of their That is how Russia speaks of its lands with horror staring at them
and within them? Will those who
triumphs and of their agonies; nationalities,
of their sinfulness and of their
When Dr. Morgenstern speaks have robbed and pillaged, return
expiation. It is the history of the of brief episodes of Jewish na- their loot? And suppose their loot
soul of Israel.
tionhood, it may be well to note has disappeared? How will these
And what was Israel then? Was that the briefest of them all was people regain possession and oc-
he
a religious
No. He
had just
established
an sect?
organized
gov- the pseudo emancipation of the cupations? Are those occupations
Jews in Western Europe, when ready and waiting for them so
Representing
ernmental,
social
and
economic
life, which was a national state. some Jews called themselves Ger- that they might regain their livli-
Consequently, if you care to use mans or Frenchmen, though Ger- hood? Will it not require tremen-
19th century terminology, Israel mans and the French refused to dous efforts to re-establish and
was a nation. Is it not also true acknowledge that, and later de- to re-orient them again? The task
that whatever we consider today stroyed them altogether. And it is so overwhelming that beside it,
Insurance Company of New York
of universal value, was first made is a well-known fact that only a the settlement of hundreds of
T
possible within a national culture? fraction of the Jews surrendered thousands in Palestine
appears to
diffic t sk.
TOOIth
N Anniversary
It had to have roots in the soil their nationhood and to millions be No,
a less
tar them. Bring
ulatte
do not sc
of a country? and in the hearts of of Jews,
that
was utmost
anathema.
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I deny,
with
firmness, them home and let them live
that people which was nourished
by that soil. We have art that is that "as a nation in the past, amidst their brethren who them-
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have been plucked from the
al , Israel was not one whit di ff er- se ves
i vers
I
universal, music that is un
poetry and literature accepted as ent from numerous other little flames, and give them a chance to
the
universal
expression cease
of great
minds.
Does Rembrandt
to and equally insignificant nations." plant themselves in the soil where
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