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March 3, 1879.
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Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchal portion—Num. 22:2-25:9.
Prophetical portion — Micah 5:6
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pilght of hundreds of thousands of
Jewish refugees."

In all fairness, how could President
Roosevelt insist that the mandatory of
Palestine carry out the provision of the
Balfour Declaration and the Mandate,
when the Senate Foreign Relations Corn-
mittee and the House Foreign Affairs
Committee decided to postpone action
on the resolution?
The President has broad powers under
the wartime acts, but in matters of this
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BEWILDERED gentleman U E USED
kind the Congress still has authority and,
to havi. some (1 i
called on me with a matter 1 1
nite ideas himself about J
hat, he requests, be presenttbecel up
unless the Congress approved the Pales- that,
.
buIelefoarberbh&l. , glioi l,
:sill n o / nixbei-gd.
tine resolution, the President could hardly tuo S the Voices of Israel in
have insisted that the mandatory power
eviesr
said it is about time that committee, never n t b(..tv,ennond any
carry out its obligation under the Man- the He
Voices extricated themselves
date.
n he was afraid
from their babel and got together considered impudent
if he la
to t e

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What h It All About?

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on a statement of what being a hely gav e hi
s id eas
,,f what
Jew is all about. He has become ing a
mint be.
Jew is.
awfully confused about that in
"Go ahead," I said. "It'
JULY 7. 1944
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the recent years. He said it is right with me. No
TAMMUZ 16. 5704
one else0 ha I.
like being in a noisy meetin g
in
been
saying
anything
very
According to Under-Secretary of State which you can't make head or on the subject and • Y c ear b
Edward R. Stettinius, the British Gov- taiul couttiloisf atnybtlii
it may as
ii (ni g.
well be you."
hard to brie
hi'
ernment has agreed to the establishment Jewis
bei
W
ngella, he
jew
sairils, his , idea of w hat
"h ciiikliren in
1:ii rol tg, uol;
The plank in the Republican platform of a war refugee haven in Libya. This voices.
His own youngsters are nlicated and he mignhtt l‘a%uce
anent Palestine will no doubt provoke action follows the recent action in our
lny.
and 17 and they are begin- at by the rabbis who have made
much bitter political controversy. We have own country when a camp for 1,000 rt 15
to astk t eb lisibaassing
al (eldc
pees- it awfu
i .i lig
lly
hard
to
been
t
f
l
ii
lkl i ntgbena
understand,
b ou t
been and still are strictly non-partisan, but refugees was established at Fort Ontario
Jud a ism.
of thinki ng
our non-partisanship does not preclude us near Oswego, N. Y. Both of these actions hie°atirs ta li ot' tumult of volces and
all the (
f from presenting the facts as we see them. are clearly indicative of a definite plan they say, you can't call this tali- gentleman in first
'Iire(4)ionbse of
gion, exactly.
tly. Is this Judaism?
a gentleman. This is
The facts we have in mind are those to save as many refugees as possible.
Intelligent children who want it means to be generous and to say,
answers, they are growing H e
Just.
relating to the position and statements
We agree with Mr. Stettinius when he fair
thought it was lar , el a so.
quite
about the mat-
of President Roosevelt.
states that the problem is complex and ter of indifferent
cial identity by which a y a
being Jewish. If this con-
governed in deycent relationlisialllvitihs
The definite charge made against the the situation difficult, but yet we have felt fusion is all there is to Judaism his
neighbors.
President is contained in the following all along and still do feel that the refu- thei ree gne onttleimntaenrest
be H le snat a Jew especiallyshould
plank:
ted ks the con-
gee problem was not handled with the tending Voices are thinks
e nii:17: te coinn sidtehre•
doing the fu- i n g
his e spiritual
i rIteuna l
vigor and forthrightness with which it ture of Judaism snors
good at all. history of man
"In order to give refuge to millions
could have been.
and considering
l
Inteligent
youngte won't have
of distressed Jewish men, women
anything to do with a way of that the Jews inherited the Ten
The
Bermuda
Conference
left
the
im-
Commandment
1 . y
and children driven from their homes
Jet.
at is jussure
t confu s ion. .
pression that nothing could be done for life He th wasn
should t try to sbc Al 3'. e %%:1
great ' r a ge jne jl
't
by tyranny, we call for the opening
ho w to feel
bec rusell'
a
the
the
wanderers
until
the
end
of
the
war.
other Jets:
about it when his boy—he's the get hell
of Palestine to their unrestricted im-
if he a isn't.
Many accepted this defeatist conclusion older of his two children—told He didn't
migration and land ownership, so
think that ceremon•
and did nothing about it. There were those him he had . dropped in at the ials and observances
that in accordance with the full in-
were much
who refused to accept the Bermuda con- Quaker meeting house one Sun- related to the main idea of being

Refugees to Libya

In All Fairness

day morning. The boy hadn't
tent and purpose of the Balfour Dec-
Jew, but
elusions and kept right on insisting that been dropping into any of the a with
nyody he wasn't quarreling
laration of 1917 and the Resolution
b
w ho observed the
something
could
be
done
before
the
war
synagogues. He had read about ceremonials
emoial
an s pro vided he was a
of a Republican Congress in 1922,
he friendliness and brotherliness Jewish
was
over.
These
latter
were
right.
They
entlemn Th , c re-
t Quakers and their sanity even
Palestine may be constituted as a free
p roved that determination and resource- of
menials agre like c bright
hr, i
in a time of war, and he had on
a
Jewish
gentlem 1., ar eerits
and democratic commonwealth. We fulness could get them somewhere even
a n but who
ai only
stopped
at
their
meeting
house
false
pretense
on
a Jew
condemn the failure of the President
against overwhelming odds. Now that a gust ,, % 'eoll, a what they
i ke.
V' se & ' w t I were
to insist that the mandatory of Pal- - beginning has been made, it must be fol-
e : le
l
l tel
isn ,'
a bout
ti lkUst Gin ad. a
gion ," he told his father after- He ;a1
estine carry out the provision of the
:
1 a(GoT si n i dIellit:
lowed
up.
United
States
and
Britain
can
Balfour Declaration and of the Man-
ward.
"It's
all
about
being
kind
sunset
and
in
a
lovely
roSe,
and
no longer be charged with pious wishing and decent an 9d,,
date while he pretends to support
that's
the
whole
in
fine
gentlemen
whether
they
it .,
and non-performance. They have done thing,
them."
are Jews or Christians. He
boy didn t say he meant to thought a gentleman was the
something. They will have to do much be a he Quaker
but what was Juda-
rl ttbhaen works
The hearings before the Foreign Re- more. The other countries that can be ism giving him? His father was envoebnl estn oobfl ea all
a m of cod, ,
n tGa -
1 a t i o n s Committee on the resolution on of assistance in rescuing refugees can glad that the kid had the essence
the White Paper and the Commonwealth now be urged to act. There need be no of religion, despite the teachers Peak' Yes, he was sure of God
and preachers of Israel who were whenever he met a gentleman.
are probably still fresh in the minds of hesitation for they cannot now say to us: so
1 1 f
busy with extra-curricular ac-
c oa
j notewe.N was
r‘i'laii gIvi t baheseu ( t I nulai all tls.1
many of our readers, but for those who "Why do you not do something about tivities far from the essentials HE SAID a that
he e kne„
may have forgotten, it is well to refresh it, besides holding conferences and pass- of religion.
ter of being
ing resolutions?"
their memories.
Yes, the gentleman said, if apologetic; the idea of him talk-
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And lest we forget: The refugee prob-
Early in March of this year the Senate lem will not be solved even with the re- the upcoming generation is to be ing on religion! Wouldn't are
ridiculous?
Foreign Relations Committee was urged turn of peace. The uprooted masses of saved for Judaism and for Jew- seem
"After all," he said, "I and
ish life, the leaders should be
by Chief of Staff General George C. Mar- humans on the European continent will getting
together soon to tell the only a haberdasher."
shall to postpone action on the resolu- still be unable to reestablish themselves
I told him that our professional
children that Judaism is much
tion that would have put both Houses in their former homelands without outside more than this nasty fight.
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on record as favoring the abrogation of assistance. And in the main, that outside
the White Paper and the ultimate estab- assistance will be expected from the peo-
lishment there of a free and democratic pie and government of the United States,
. e have
"AXIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED!"
Jewish commonwealth Although the testi- if if w we
have really
really abandoned
abandoned our isola-
mony of General Marshall was given at tionism and realize our responsibilities to
a secret session, it was announced at the these unfortunate victims of Nazi br
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in the Near East. It was revealed at the
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time that Secretary of State Cordell . Hull
Archbishop Francis
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and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson broadcast to Hungary, told the Catholics
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were in accord with the views of General of that unhappy country that persecution
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Marshall.
of Jews is in direct contradiction t h
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No action was taken on the resolution. tenets of the Catholic faith.
We dare not hope that the plea of the
On March 10, President Roosevelt made Archbishop will stop the brutal deporta-
his position clear at an all-day confer- tions to Poland and the herdings in con-
ence of Christian leaders called by the centration camps, because the Nazi-mind-
American Palestine Committee in Wash- ed gang in control of Hungary will be
ington. as deaf to the pleas of mercy and justice
At this conference the President re- as were the Nazi gangsters in Germany.
ceived Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rabbi Yet the good Catholic folk can do much
Abba Billet Silver and the rabbis issued to relieve the distressed and conceal the
a statement authorized by the President hunted.
which was as follows:
Messages of this kind from Christian
clergymen
of all denominations should
" . . . that the American Government
be sent as often as possible to the peoples
has never given its approval to the
of those countries that are as yet not
White Paper" and that "the Presi-
"Judenrein". Even in Germany, many
dent is happy that the doors of Pal-
the Christian people held f ast to thei of r
estine are today open to Jewish refu-
determination not to be guilty of discrim-
gees, and that when future decisions
illation
against and perscution of the Jews
are reached, full justice will be done
in their midst. In all the turmoil and
to those who seek a Jewish National
travail of a chaotic world, the steadfast-
Home for which our government and
ness of Christian clergymen and their
the American people have always
honest communicants is a gleam of light
had the deepest sympathy, and today
in a black world, and a promise of hope
more than ever in view of the tragic
for a world set free.

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