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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
28th Year of Service to Our State and Nation
Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle__
THIS PAPER PRINTED IN TWO SECTIONS
SECTION ONE
VOL. 45, NO, 52
Tribunal Imposes
Heavy Sentences
On Hulda Settlers
10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Yee'
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1943
Chanukah Greetings to All Jewry
Fight for Repeal
Of White Paper
Gains Momentum
UAW-CIO Joins in
Abrogation Test
Terms Range From
Two to Six Years
NEW YORK (WNS)—Asserting
that the implementation of the
British White Paper of 1939,
which would prohibit all new
Jewish immigration into Pales-
tine after March 31, 1944, "will
have ominous consequences" for
Jews everywhere. Frank L. Weil,
president of the National Jewish
Welfare Board last week urged
all the board's constituent soci-
ties to join in the drive to abro-
gate the document.
In a message addressed to more
than 300 Jewish Community Cen-
ters, YMHAs, YWHAs and other
affiliates of the National Jewish
, Welfare Board, Mr. Weil recom-
mended that these societies join
"officially organized local com-
munity efforts" against the White
Paper policy.
United
the
Simultaneously
Automobile Aircraft Agricultural
Implement Workers of America
(UAW-CIO), largest CIO affili-
ate, announced that they would
join in the fight for abrogation
of the British White Paper.
In a letter to Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver, chairman of the executive
committee of the American Zion-
ist Emergency Council, George F.
Addes, secretary-treasurer of the
UAW, transmitted the text of a
resolution urging "immediate
withdrawal by the government of
Great Britain of the Chamberlain
White Paper of 1939 under which
Jewish immigration into Pales-
tine is restricted and under which
this Jewish national homeland will
be closer to Jews forever start-
ing April, 1944."
Condemning the action of the
British government in cancelling
its solemn promise made to Jewry
to create a Jewish commonwealth
of Palestine as a haven for all
homeless Jews," the Free Sons
JERUSALEM (WNS) —
five Hulda settlers who were
found guilty last week by a Brit-
ish rniltary tribunal on the charge
of illegally possessing arms, were
sentenced this week to terms
ranging from two to six years.
Jacob Galata and Moshe Haas,
the two defendants who pled
guilty to the charge at the open-
ing of the trial, were sentenced
to six and five years imprison-
ment respectively.
Before the sentence was pro-
nounced, Galata and Hass declar-
ed through their attorneys that
as "self-respecting men they
would not betray their conscience
for their liberty," and that they
did not intend to take advantage
of the court's offer of a lighter
sentence if they disclosed the
source of the confiscated arms.
They asserted that they had se-
cured the arms without the knowl-
edge of any other person in the
settlement.
The resentment of the Jewish
population in Palestine over the
imposition of such heavy sen-
tences was mirrored in the He-
brew press which charged that
the punishment was totally dis-
proportionate to the crime, if any.
The convicted defendants, said
the press, had merely intended
using the arms in self-defense.
The press pointed ou that the iso-
lated position of the Hulda set-
tlement (it lies between the
coast and Jerusalem) made it a
necessity for the settlers to keep
arms against possible Arab at-
tacks.
The arrest of the seven Hulda
settlers took place on Oct. 31,
when British police, assisted by
Polish troops, raided the colony
for alleged deserters from th
See REPEAL—age 16
See TRIBUNAL—Page 16
—
"The Fight for Faith"
By RABBI JOSHUA S. SPERKA. of Congregation Bnai David
The WWJ Jewish Sermon for Chanukah of 5704
RabbiMorris.4dler
Named Chaplain
In Armed Forces
Assimilationists in Maccabean
Times and in Our Times
By DAVID ZEITANI
the
Religious Labor Zionist Representative.
The other day I saw a little les, the pestilences and
Leaves for School
plagues they encountered. Sur-
injured sparrow. I watched the vival of the fittest means the
Over two thousand years ago, among the wealthy who sought
At Harvard Jan. I
to cooperate with the Greek gov-
fatal fight and determined strug- struggle, the adjustment and the
in the wars between Egypt and ernment and who helped to in-
R
abbi
Morris
Adler
of
Congre-
gle this little bird put up for its final triumph of certain specie:
Syria, Palestine was the battle- stall the Greek rituals in the
over miserable conditions and
ion Shaarey Zedek has bean field and the Jews bore the brunt Jewish temple. However, the
menacing beings of their times. gat nted a leave of absence for
sturdier Jews, despite all the
There need be no loss of dig- gra
handicaps, and under the most
duration by his congregation,
Inctit
to
man
—
even
the
nity and sa
y
trying conditions, continued to
con-
a
if his life is described as
observe the Torah and its tradi-
tinuous struggle. We, who live in
tions. The government took de-
the most competitive period o"
termined steps to suspress the
civilization see life steadily as
practice of Judaism, and many
growing, expanding struggle.
Jews suffered severe punishment
In our business, in our profes-
and even death because of their
sion, in our factories, and in our
beliefs, escaping to the moun-
fields, we are constantly striving
tains and wilderness.
for success to meet those who
After King Antiochus returned
contest for gain in our chosen
from his defeats in Egypt, he
work. We must compete against
vented his spleen upon the un-
them. We either fight or perish.
fortunate Jews. He went so far
as to place idols in the Jewish
We do or die.
temples and commanded that the
Biologically, life is freely com-
people pay tribute to these idols
pared to a bare struggle between ,,
with gifts. He passed edicts out-
the positive healthy, wholesom.''
lawing the observance of the
ogranism and the negative, harm
Sabbath and Koshrath; and, when
ful, deteriorating bacteria lurk-
it seemed that the peak has been
ing on man's being, blood an•1
reached in the suffering of the
tissues.
Jews, and no hope was le for
DAVID ZEITANI
Socially, people make them-
selves ridiculous by sacrificing
of these battling forces, suffering
them, there
suddenly
shone
through
the dark
clouds
the
their very best possessions and
RABBI JOSHUA SPERKA
numerous
outrages
and
pogroms,
bright
light
of
the
Maccabees—
struggle fiercely to gain recog-
and being greatly hindered in Mattathies and his five sons—
life. Will it survive? Will it nition and prestige.
their economic existence. Conse- who, through their fearlessness,
overcome its suffering and its
Politically, we have the great
quently, the morale of the Jews saved the Jewish people by lead-
wounds? Will it win its battle for misfortune to live in a genera-
became extremely low and many ing a revolt against the evil gov-
self-preservation? Will it win this tion which has started a global
RABBI ADLER
of them forsook their religion and ernment, and by their example
war for its existence and its struggle, a struggle which has
to enter the chaplaincy. He has lived as heathens and in ignor- lifted the morale of their peo-
become
the
most
inhuman,
brutal
life?
pie, and this was a signal to the
This incident is more than rep- slaughter of innocent men, wom- received his orders to report Jan. ance.
During that period, the Greeks, hundreds of thousands of Jews
1
to
Chaplains'
School
at
Harvard
resentative of what happens in en, and children.
with the aid of Jewish assimila- to arise in arms against their
Cambridge, Mass.
Even Religion, which proclaims University,
the animal kingdom. To me it is
Rabbi
Adler
has
been
associate
tionists, attempted to eradicate oppressors for the redemption of
symbolic of life in general and the sanest, balanced and spiritual
Judaism and a number of Jews Palestine.
rabbi
of
Congregat'on
Shaarey
of our age in particular.
philosophy of life. admits of such
Dark as was that period in the
Science teaches the fact that a struggle. Religion views life as Zedek for the past five years. He began to imitate their Greek
has previously served as rabbi of neighbors
by adopting
their
ens-
various species of animals van-
toms
and
traditions.
The
assimi-
See ZEITANI—Page 16
ished from this earth as they a conflict between good and evil.
lationists then, as now, were
See ADLER—Page 16
failed to combat the storms and
See FAITH—Page 16
floods, the thorns and the thist-