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',EMIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
July 21 1944
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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Britain. But we realize that with the
best intentions it is going to be a very
difficult matter to handle all the refugees
that would be available if some deal
should be made with the Romanian, Hun-
garian and Bulgarian governments.
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Plain Talk... by
Al Segal
•
Whether a deal is made or is not made
with the satellite governments the fact
still remains that the refugees would be
much happier if they could go to Pales-
tine rather than to Fort Oswego or to I
Libya.
Dialog with God
—.)
HAVE just been reading the haven't a pot to cook in, a n d ha,.
book "Dialog With God" by a hard time paying the rent fo
Rabbi Frederic A. Doppelt of the narrow space they occup r
a d. dialog
y in
the world.
It does not require much understand- Ft,.1,1 1V a a y y er ne,is Ind,
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
with the
Another
business
man
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. ing to realize that it would be so much Holy One, praised be lie," it is also prays when
I know
approaches
said in one of the writings of important business he
transactim
better
for
the
mental
health
of
the
refu-
Pentateuchal Portion—Num, 25:10-30:1.
Hebrew mystic lore, and, that in but his prayer's theme is different.
gees if they found themselves among mind, Rabbi Doppelt called his Skeptical readers may doubt the
Prophetical pohtion—Jet. 1:1-2:3.
"Dialog With God". It is real existence of such a business
sympathetic co-religionists and landsleit book
JULY 21, 1944
all about praying: What people man but I am in a position to
AB. 1.5704
in Palestine, rather than in the Free pray. What good is it to pray? his name and address and gi t e
Ports, no matter how warm and sympa- Are prayers answered. All that. present his angelic likeness in o
Rabbi Doppelt's answers won't photographic evidence.
Pressure Should Be Kept Up
thetic the officials of the ports may be.
satisfy a great many people who
He has given me the substance
expect quick and substantial of his prayer, not at all in vain.
According to a report from Berne.
The failure to abrogate of the White profits on their prayers. It cer- glory but as the outgiving of a
Switzerland, - the Hungarian government Paper is another tragedy among the many thinly won't satisfy people like simple-hearted man who has troth.
the pagan gentleman I know who ing to conceal. He
is willing to make a deal with the Allied tragedies of the war. How poignant the speaks
that
to God on important busi- righteous dealing might prays
be in his
governments, that if the Allies should tragedy really is may become increasingly ness matters. He doesn't bother hands,
that the negotiations come
Him with the smaller affairs of to a conclusion satisfactory to
cease bombing Hungarian cities, the Hun-
apparent as the number of entrance cer- his business. He leaves those conscience, that the result shall hi s
garian government would discontinue the tificates is reduced.
things to the lesser executives not he of the least injury to th e
and the clerks. other man.
deportation of Hungarian Jews.
We do not believe the White Paper is But in the crisis of a big busi- I can't say that his most un-
ness deal he takes himself aside usual business piety has made
This proposed deal is allegedly the
the last word on the subject of Jewish in the sanctuary of his heart and millionaire out of him and, in a
answer of the Hungarian Nazis to the migration to Palestine. It is unreasonable prays for a successful result.
fact, he has never wanted to be
When he was a small boy his one. All I can say is that
pleas made by Archbishop Spellman and
and illogical for the British government mother told him that he could get gone bankrupt on it, and he at hasn't
his
others. The Nazis know that the United to close the doors permanent]
anything he asked for if he pray- death all he will leave with his
y
on
a
peo-
NI for it with a sincere heart. widow are a pretty good house
Nations cannot and will not cease bomb-
ple which was promised at least a status He had an opportunity to prove and adequate insurance which he
ing Hungarian cities as long as these
of equality with the Arabs by the manila- that not long after. A circus was regards as about enough, anyway.
coming to town and he p.I•ayed to He feels his prayers have been
cities are considered military targets by tory power.
go, and, sure enough, he was fully answered and that there
the General Staff. The refusal of the
taken to the circus.
has been profit enough in the fact
Whether
the
situation
in
the
Near
East
From that time on he remained that he has never done injury to
United Nations' General Staff to cease
that the way to get any man in any business deal.
bombings may be used by the Hungarians has eased or not, the British government convinced
things that looked hard to get was
As I understand him, Rabbi
to show their good faith to their Catholic should be importuned and retitioned in to pray for them. He accounted Doppelt would regard this as the
all
his
later
success
to
the
advice
kind
of praying worthy of an in.
citizens. These good Catholic citizens will season and out to abrogate the inequit- his good old mother gave him telligent citizen. It is like the pray.
when he was so young, ing of Mme. Chiang Kai Shek
not be taken in, for even the dimmest able and unjustifiable White Paper.
Re recalls the time when he whom he quotes.
witted peasant knows that in this war no
Britain cannot remain adamant to the didn't know whether to hold or In her "Confession of Faith"
airforce will forego the bombing of mili- appeals for decency and humanity to the to sell General Motors. The mat- she says: "I used to pray that
ter was heavily on his mind one God would do this or that. Now I
tary targets.
refugee Jews of Hitler Europe. Britain day
when he was attending con- pray that God will make his will
will change her policy if the pressure is gregational services, He departed known to me. Thus I entered into
We. would like to believe and hope that strong enough,
from the formal prayers long the third period where I wanted
enough to inquire of God what to do, not my will, but God's."
this offer to stop deportations is evidence
a man should do about General
1 f
that the Hungarian Nazis are willing to
I M
ve oito
.e.rs, conditions being what they n
UR own ritual prayers are.
We Are Politically Non-Partisan
N-J as a whole quite in line with
make some kind of an arrangement
He says the answer came to this intelligent concept. In the
whereby the victimized and hopeless Jews
In the forthcoming election in Novem- him
like a flash: He should hold prayers of the evening we say:
ber there may be some candidates who General Motors. He did and, he "Thou favorest man with kno•l-
of Hungary may be rescued.
will be truthfully charged with being • dds, everybody can remember how edge, understanding and discern-
We would also like to believe and hope anti-Semitic, and some who will be un- General Motors went up and up ment from Thee, Blessed art
after the six months' slump back Thou. () Lord, gracious Giver of
in 1921.
that the Hungarian Nazis are not so sure truthfully charged.
knowledge.
of their ground and would like to make
"Cause us to return, 0 our Fa-
IF
I
Before the advent of the Nazis many
UNDERSTAND Rabbi ther, unto Thy law; draw us near,
some kind of a deal that would help them candidates paid little attention to charges Doppelt's thesis, this gentleman 0 our King, unto Thy service.
all his pagan kind insult the and bring us back into Thy pres-
get better terms than the Hitler gang has of being anti-Semitic, but since Adolf and
might and majesty of God by ence."
Hitler came to power the charge of anti- taking Him in as an agent to get
been offered.
This is a civilized man's ap-
Semitism is tantamount to a charge of for them what they want. God is proach
to God. He doesn't ask for
The record has been so uniformly de- pro-Nazism and there are few Americans no entrepreneur N•ir, fixes tic busi- special favors. He asks only for
deals for the right people. In understanding enough to know
pressing and black, that when there is who relish the idea of being thought pro- ness
fact, it seems to me that it must
Nazi.
be
quite
offensive to God to' hear what is required of him. Ile hopes
even the slightest indication that a Nazi-
a citizen asking for success in a by prayer to get close enough to
controlled government will negotiate any
It is rather important, therefore, wheth- big real estate deal when there something of the divine vision to
matter touching the Jews, we are ready e• the anti-Semitic charge be true or are so many other people who
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to interpret it as something hopeful and untrue. If a candidate is an anti-Semite
we shall pillory such candidate, no matter
encouraging.
to what party he belongs, but if a candi-
Whether or not there is a crack in the date is falsely charged with being an anti-
Nazi dam of cruelty and viciousness, we Semite we shall give such a candidate
must continue to bear down on those sat- an opportunity to be heard and to state
ellites where large numbers of unfortun- his case and we shall espouse his cause.
ate Jews still reside. Hungary, Romania, We believe that it is the function of
Anglo Jewish press to expose the
Bulgaria may not be able to act with
with
anti-Semite wherever and whenever the
complete independence, but at the pres- disseminators of hatred, divisiveness and
ent time the Nazis are hardly able to prejudice show themselves. And it is
threaten them with reprisals if they do equally the function of the Anglo Jewish
not enforce the Nuremberg laws as the press to defend and vindicate those who
Nazis would like to have them enforced. are falsely accused of being anti-Semitic.
The Anglo Jewish press is non-partisan
in politics. This must be obvious to our
readers, inasmuch as there are Demo-
Asylum in Palestine
crats, Republicans, Socialists and perhaps
Twelve hundred and eight Romanian a few Prohibitionists among the Jewish
Jews are settled in Palestine. They are electorate and consequently the Anglo
rapidly being absorbed in the economic Jewish press cannot and in fact does not
depart from the non-partisan position in
and social life of the community. Thus local. state or national elections.
runs the story of rescue and rehabilita-
We trust that this explanation of our
tion of a small portion of the unfortun- position
will clear up much of the mis-
ates of the Hitler Gehenna. The tragic understanding that has recently arisen.
fact is that soon the unfilled quota under We are and expect to continue to be a
the White Paper will be filled and then free forum, giving all sides an opportun-
where shall they go? We are not un- ity to be heard on any and all contro-
mindful of the fact that free ports have versial questions affecting the Jewish peo-
ple of our community. Nevertheless, we
been established by the United States and shall continue to remain non-partisan.
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Rome Synagogue Broadcast
Sunday to Mark Liberation
This is the interior of the famed
synagogue of Rome, Tempio
Israelitico, from which
a special thanksgiving service will be broad-
cast
to the United States over a National Broadcasting Company riciv.o . rk
on Sunday, July 23rd, in a program presented by the American Jew1 , 15
Committee. The program will be the first Jewish broadcast from an
Allied liberated territory.
The Chief Rabbi of Italy, Anton Zolli, will conduct the ,.erliee•
Rabbi Zolli, despite his age
he is 73 years old — outwitted true
Gestapo and remained in hiding
for the nine months during ■■ 111 ( 15
the Germans directly controlled Rome.
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The synagogue is a modern structure built at the turn of tbk
tury. It stands on the site of an ancient synagogue, for the Jews' h
community of Rome is one of the oldest in the world.