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29th Year of Serviee to Our State and Nation
SECTION ONE
VOL. 46, NO. 14
Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle
THIS PAPER PRINTED IN TWO SECTIONS
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1944
Conference to Be
Held by Jewish
Youth April 22.23
White Paper Goes
Into Effect Over
Jewish Protests
"Living in Democratic
World" to Be Topic
At a meeting at the Jewish
Community Center on Sunday,
April 2, the conference planning
committee of the League of De-
troit Jewish Youth completed
plans for its third annual round
table conference, entitled "De-
sign for Living in a Democratic
World".
The conference, to be held at
the Center on April 22 and 23,
will include panel discussions on
"Congress and the Coming Elec-
tions," "Problems of Demobili-
zation," "Impact of the War on
Intercultural and Interracial Re-
lations,' "How to Ensure a Last-
ing Peace" and "The Role of the
Jews at the Peace Table". Rep-
resentatives from the Hi!lel
Foundation of Ann Arbor, the
Catholic Youth Organizations,
University of Detroit Student
Body, Wayne University Student
Council, Negro Youth Council,
Chungking Club and the UAW-
CIO, as well as representatives
from the member organizations
of the League, have been invited
to participate in the panels.
Bertha Belkin, president of the
.1elegate body of the League,
stated in speaking to the com-
mittee that the principal aims
of the conference are to enable
youth to understand more clearly
its own position in the commu-
nal, national and international
scene and to integrate and co-
ordinate the efforts of all youth
groups in Detroit.
"Our conference is designed to
leach the many groups ill the
community who are anxious to
bend their efforts toward win-
ning a democratic victory and
peace," said Miss Belkin.
"We hope to come forth from
this conference with many prac-
tical ideas on how young people
can make an even better con-
tribution to the war effort and
the peace to follow, not only
locally, but nationally and inter-
nationally."
Members of the planning com-
mittee, serving with Martha Clei-
cher and Louis • L. Rosen, co-
chairmen of the conference, are
the following sub-committees:
Social committee: Bluma Nag-
ler, chairman; Beulah Smerling,
Population Plunged
Into Deepest Gloom
JERUSALEM. (WNS) — The
Jewish population here was
plunged into gloom as the White
Paper closing the doors of Pal-
estine to further Jewish immi-
gration went into effect without
either the British Government,
the British Colonial Office or the
British Administration in Pales-
tine making an official statement
on the situation.
Passover finds millions of our people on the
threshold of deliverance. They wait and pray
for liberation to free them from the horrors of
more than a decade of oppression. Decisive war
developments to come fill us with hope that
this will be the last Passover which so many of
our people will celebrate in an environment of
sorrow and darkness. But mass deportation and
death threaten to overtake large numbers before
victory comes. The spirit of hope and the faith
of the Jews of Europe can be sustained and
strengthened through the United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine. As
in the days of the Pharaohs, when the Children
of Israel were brought out of bondage into
Palestine, so today the homeless Jews must be
helped to find new life in the Jewish homeland.
The nationwide $32,000,000 campaign for the
Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine
Appeal, and National Refugee Service is the
"outstretched hand" of American Jewry snatch.
ing many thousands of men, women and chil-
dren from the vortex of war and destruction,
saving them for a happier future.
See CONFERENCE—Page 16
Whatever hope the Jewish
community here had that last-
minute intervention by the Unit-
ed States would halt the enforce-
ment of the White Paper faded
when it became known that Presi-
dent Roosevelt supported the
the view of the American War
Department that it would be in-
advisable, for military reasons,
for Congress to adopt a resolu-
tion calling for the recission of
the White Paper and the ulti-
mate establishment of a free and
democratic Jewish Commonwealth
in Palestine. The Jewish popula-
tion here is particularly per-
turbed over the fact that further
Jewish immigration into Palestine
should have been made contin-
gent on the approval of the Arabs
who had taken a "neutral" posi-
tion in this war at a time when
more than 40,000 Palestine Jews
had volunteered their services in
the British armed forces.
Experts in international law
here pointed out that the action
of the British Government in
stopping Jewish immigration into
Palestine was a violation of the
Mandate and contrary to tin ,
findings of the Mandates Com-
mission of the League of Na•
tions which held that the Brit-
ish White Paper was illegal.
They also speculated on what
action, if any, the United State::
would take in view of the fact
that, under the terms of the
White Paper, American Jewish
citizens would be barred front
entering Palestine while non-
Jewish American citizens would
not be affected. It was recalled
that when the Czarist Govern-
ment in 1911 passed a law bar-
ring the entry into Russia of
Jews holding American passports,
the American State Department
made vigorous protests which ul-
See WHITE—Pag e 12
Luncheon and Institute to
Feature Hebrew School Anniversary
A luncheon and institute is
the first feature of the series of
programs to be held during the
25th anniversary celebration week
of the United Hebrew Schools.
It will be held on Sunday noon.
April 16, in the auditorium of
the Rose Sittig Cohen Building.
The luncheon is sponsored by
the Woman's Auxiliary of the
United Hebrew Schools with Mrs.
Morris Fishman as_ head of the
luncheon committee, and Mrs.
Jack Tobin, president of the
Auxiliary.
Maurice H. Zackheim, chair-
man of the board of education of
the United Hebrew Schools, is
chairman of the institute. Par-
ticipants are: Lawrence W.
Crohn, Bernard Isaacs and Mau-
rice Landau. The guest speaker
is Dr. Azriel Eisenberg, director
of Bureau of Jewish Education
of Cleveland.
Dr. Azriel L. Eisenberg re-
ceived his bachelor's degree at
New York University, and his
M. A. and Ph.D. from Teachers
College, Columbia University. He
received his Hebrew training at
the Teachers Institute of the
Jewish Theological Seminary from
which he was graduated with
highest honors in 1922. He served
11s . principal and director of Ke-
hdath Israel Hebrew School, as
director of the Department of
Information and Service at the
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Bureau of Jewish Education of
New York City, as educational
director of the Jewish Education
Center of Philadelphia, as educa-
tional director of the East Mid-
wood Jewish Center of Brooklyn,
as director of the Bureau of
Jewish Education of Cincinnati,
and is at present director of the
Bureau of Jewish Education of
Cleveland.
Author of Many Books
Dr. Eisenberg is author of the
following books: Children and
Radio Programs, published by
the Columbia University Press;
a Teacher's Guide for the teach-
ing of the Early Prophets, a pu-
pil's workbook for same; A
Catalogue of Pictures for the
Jewish School; The Teaching of
the Writings, and the Teaching
of Post Biblical Literature—a
Teacher's Guide and Pupil's
Workbook, Jewish Post Biblical
Literature (2 volumes).
Dr. Eisenberg is a regular con-
tributor to the Jewish Education
Magazine, Jewish Teacher and
other magazines such as Jewish
Social Service Quarterly, the
Yearbook of Education on the
Air, etc. He was also author of
many educational pamphlets
which have been published by the
Department of Service of the
Bureau of Jewish Education in
New York, the Jewish Teachers
See INSTITUTE—Page 12
Nuremberg Laws White Papers In Dark Eras:
Decreed by Nazis A WWi Passover Broadcast
By RABBI JOSHUA S. SPERKA
For Hungarians
The symbols and concepts of
ANKARA (WNS).—Among the our Passover festival have be-
first official acts of the German come an intjgrated part of all
military authorities after the religions, all social thought, and
Nazi occupation of Hungary was literature. Egyptian slavery, the
the issuance of a decree estab- Exodus of Egypt, bread of afflic-
lishing the Nuremberg Laws tion, Moses' cry, "Let my people
there, it was reliably reported go," crossing of the Red Sea,
here this week by Hungarian offi- the song of Moses—all these
cials who fled to this country.
have become part of mankind's
The Nuremberg Laws in Hun- tradition, a theme for the songs
gary will affect approximately of all oppressed, and a source of
1,000,000 Jews believed to be faith for all who hope in the
living there now and about 700,- Lord. It is ironic, is it not, that
000 "racial Jews" who, under the Passover of 1944-3500
the infamous decree, are consid- years after the first battle
ered Jews because they have against slavery and master races,
strains of Jewish blood in them. against dictatorship and racial
Among these racial Jews are persecution, we should find our-
many Hungarian aristocrats and serves again in the midst of a
statesmen who have been holding world of slavery, oppression and
high government offices prior to racial conflicts. Oh God, how
the occupation of their country great is our need today for a
by Hitler.
new Exodus, a new emancipation,
A German radio broadcast and a new redemption!
heard here this week said that
It is tragic indeed that in many
the Hungarian Minister of the
Interior had issued a decree for- parts of our globe the crying
bidding the employment of non- and immediate need for another
Jews as servants in Jewish house- Exodus has recurred. Senator
holds or in homes where Jews Edwin Johnson last week when
are living, dismissing all Jews speaking for the passing of a
employed in state, municipal and resolution favoring the establish-
other public services, excluding ment of a, Jewish Commonwealth
all Jews from the membership in Palestinb, connected the Exo-
of the press, theater and moving dus of Europe with Palestine, and
he said, "Hitler has killed and
See NUREMBERG—Page 12
is killing more Jews in one day
than Jews have been allowed to
enter Palestine in one year." To
all of us the problem of Exodus
and Palestine today is one in-
separable problem as it was in
the times of Pharaoh and Moses.
For the Exodus of Egypt in itself
was only the cessation of slavery
but the assertion of freedom
came with the hope and the
reality of the Promised Land. In
that land Israel was destined to
create an ideal kingdom based
on the principles of the ten com-
mandments, God's law to Moses,
and the Revelation of the Bible.
No one who reads the Bible
can fail to feel in full measure
the significance of the Promised
Land in the revelation of God to
Moses and Israel. The Exodus,
the redemption, the miracles, the
40 years in the desert, all were
to prepare the Israelites for life
in the land God had promised
to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Even the revelation on Mt. Sinai
and the giving of the law of
Moses were intended to teach
them how to live in this Prom-
ised Land. Thus in the 18th chap-
ter of Leviticus it is told, "Ye
shall therefore keep my statutes
and my ordinances . . • that the
land may not vomit you out
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