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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
THOUGHTS OF HEBREW FREEDOM
By ARTHUR SZYK
Palestine is no longer the ex-
clusive domain of professional
Zionists. Palestine has become the
concern of all Jews—of all de-
DR. ARTHUR SZYK
scelidants of Hebrews everywhere.
It is a question of life or death
for our kinsfolk and a question
of human dignity for every Jew.
In this matter, no one has special
privileges or priority rights.
We are a people in mourning,
and only those capable of the
greatest sacrifices may be our
leaders.
Every Jew now alive is the
legatee of those who died to up-
hold the sanctity of the name or
the dignity of his origin. Let us
not profane their sacred memory
by trying to hide the tragedy of
our people.
There are anti-Semites who perk
up at the "noise" Jews are mak-
ing about their plight and their
rights. I beg their pardon for the
lack of manners on the part of
Jews refusing to die quietly. I
hail the fight of these Jews for
our honor with all the means at
their command.
Let others show how well be-
haved they would prove in the
same situation.
You say our fighters and he-
roes may prove dangerous? The
Lord be praised that Jews may
be a menace to somebody.
Our good friends talk sonor-
ously and let us wither away in
torture and degradation—or save
us into God-forsaken holes.
When the gates of Palestine are
shut to our kin, we must break
them open.
Whom do we represent?
We represent the Hebrews who
desire to live and to fight as
Hebrews; the Hebrew partisans
who "neglected to secure the per-
mission of our smug 'leaders'";
the heroes of the ghettos who
forget to obtain the prior consent
of our notables.
I hail the Hebrew Committee
of National Liberation as the
modern righteous men who are
willing to sacrifice themselves to
preserve our people.
The old leaders have changed
from lovers of Zion into chasers
after prestige, and are ready to
stake "all" of others, provided
they remain unchallenged in their
positions of dubious eminence.
The new leaders are ready to give
up every personal consideration,
including life itself, to save their
people.
The conflict between the old
and the new is no greater novelty
with us than with any other
people. Whoever tarries too long in
his seat forgets his obligations in
defense of his prerogatives; he
subordinates his people to his
own position.
One of the mandarins once
asked me what he should do with
"these young men". My reply
was: "Condemn them if you must,
but pray to the Almighty for
them."
I believe all the Jews pray for
the brave leaders of the new,
proud Hebrew Committee of Na-
tional Liberation, which aspires to
place our people on an equal foot-
ing with the rest of the world
and at last to redeem our soul.
USO ACTIVITIES
Mothers honor their own sons
in service by sponsoring a Bagel
and Lox Sunday breakfast for
other sons in service stationed in
and around the Detroit area.
These breakfasts are held week-
ly at the Jewish Community
Center, USO-JWB Lounge. The
following mothers served on
July 23.
Mrs. W. Burton of BroadStreet
in honor of her son, Pfc. Herman
M. Burton.
Mrs. Alec Schafer for Capt.
Max Schafer of Hazelwood Ave.
Mrs. Bertha Weiss for Pvt.
Theodore Weiss of Clements Ave.
Mrs. A. Moiseev of Calvert
Ave. for sons Pvt. Max and Staff
Sgt. Nathan Moiseev.
Through the efforts of Ben
Bavly, past president of the
Aesculupian Society, the Jewish
Welfare Board has been provided
with ice cream and ices for
their various parties and activi-
ties for servicemen. This week's
donors were J. Landaman, Eu-
gene Schiff, and M. Krasnick.
Men stationed at Camp Custer
have been enjoying the Sunday
picnics sponsored through our
Detroit organizations. Last week
the donors were The Jewish Na-
tional Worker's Alliance, The
Korostishever Ladies Auxiliary
and the Jewish Fraternal Club.
The traditional delicatessen foods
were the high spot of the day.
The Jewish Welfare Board and
men stationed at Fort Brady are
grateful for the fine, packages of
food sent up to the Soo each
Friday. The Bnai Brith Pisgah
Lodge were the donors this week.
The Jewish Welfare Board ac-
knowledge with thanks the serv-
ice rendered to servicemen at the
Downtown USO, at Cass at Lafay-
ette, by the East Side Bnai Brith
on July 23.
Laborites Expected to
Win Majority Seats
In Palestine Assembly
JERUSALEM (WNS) — The
indications are that the Zionist
and Socialist parties and groups
organized in the Histadruth, Gen-
eral Federation of Jewish Labor,
will gain a majority of the seats
in the forthcoming elections to
the Assefath Hanivcharim, the
Palestine Jewish Assembly.
Meanwhile, representatives of
the Sephardic Jews, the New
Zioinist Organization, the Gen-
eral Zionists "B," the Jewish
Agriculturists, the Jewish Land-
lords Association and the "Bnei
Chorin" issued a statement say-
ing that they would boycott the
elections to the Assefath Haniv-
charim, the Palestine Jewish As-
sembly, because of the refusal
of the Jewish National Council to
postpone the elections, slated for
next month, until an agreement
can be reached to amend the
elections system, which they
claim is responsible for the fact
that there are 35 separate lists
of candidates.
When the nominations closed
this week, 24 separate tickets.
with a total of 1,700 candidates
had been lodged. They will con-
test the 171 seats available in the
new Assembly, which will be the
fourth elected since this body
was instituted in 1920, when
only 28,000 voters were eligible
and 20,000 actually went to the
polls. Next Tuesday there will
be probably 200,000 voters of
the 320,000 Jewish adults elig-
ible.
1,694 CANDIDATES, 24 LISTS IN
JEWISH PALESTINE'S ELECTIONS
JERUSALEM (Palcor) — A
total of 1,694 candidates have
been placed in nomination by
24 groups for election to the
Assephath Hanivcharim, Jewish
Palestine's Representative Assem-
bly. The groups include the
Popular Democratic List, which
is the name of the Communist
ticket, and The People's Move-
ment for a Jewish State, whose
candidates are Dr. A. Lutobzky,
Ben Shem and Efi Jabotinsky,
the dissidents from the Zionist
Revisionists. E•i Jabotinsky is
the son of the late Revisionist
leader Vladimir Jabotinsky a
charter member of the Hebrew
Committee of National Libera-
tion and is now in Turkey on a
mission for the Committee.
The ticket of Mapai, Jewish
Palestine's Labor Party, the larg-
est single party, now undergoing
a new test of strength, is headed
by David ben Gurion, chairman
of the Jewish Agency Executive;
Berl Katzenelson, Labor editor;
Isaac ben Zvi, president of the
Vaad Leumi, Jewish Palestine's
National Council; Joseph Sprin-
zak, Labor representative on the
,
Downtown Theaters-
FOX—"Greenwich Village," a
technicolor Mardi Gras of mus-
ical merriment opened at the Fox
Theater Friday.
A companion feature will also
be shown.
MICHIGAN — Red Skelton in
"Bathing Beauty" with Esther
Williams promises plenty of fun
embellished with breath-taking
Council for Judaism
technicolor, pulse-pounding music
Denounces Zion Pressure
and beautiful girls at the Mich-
on Political Parties
igan Theater which started Fri-
day. "Crime by Night," featur-
PHILADELPHIA (WNS) — A ing Jane Wyman, Jerome Cowan
"serious injury" has been done and Faye Emerson is the com-
to American Jews by Zionist panion picture.
pressure on the Democratic and
Republican parties to include a
UNITED ARTISTS — Making
plank in their platforms calling its debut as a single feature,
for unrestricted Jewish immigra- Bing Crosby in "Going My Way"
tion to Palestine and the estab- goes merrily on its way at the
lishment there of a free and United Artists Theater. Thanks
democratic Jewish commonwealth, to Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald,
it is charged in the current In- whose performances are out of
formation Bulletin of the Amer- this world, "Going My Way" is
ican Council for Judaism.
a delightful film replete with sur-
"We American citizens of Je v- prises, songs, humor and pathos.
ish faith," said the bulletin, "are
A companion feature will also
too deeply rooted in the realities be shown.
of life in this, our own, coun-
try," to indulge in the "fantas-
tic nonsense" that the vote of
Those who have sin at heart,
many Jews will be decided by but are sweet of speech, are like
the stand of the two major po- a pitcher smeared with nectar,
litical parties on the Palestine but full of poison.
question.
—Lilita Vistara.
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Zionist Actions Committee; David
Remez, general secretary of the
Histadruth, Jewish Palestine's
Federation of Labor.
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Rabbi Moshe Avogdor Amiel; the
Democratic Centre ticket is head-
ed by Isaac Greenbaum, member
of the Jewish Agency Executive;
Dr. Max Soloveitchik, director of
the Education Department of the
Vaad Leumi, Jewish National
Council, and Moshe Kleinbaum
a Confederation of General Zion:
ists member of the Actions Corn.
mittee; the ticket of Hapoel
Hamizrachi, 0 r t h odox Labor-
Zionists, is headed by S. Z.
Schragai, Mizrachi member on
the Vaad Leumi Executive; and
Rabbi Isaiah Shapiro, the Left
Front, which consists of the
Hashomer Hatzair and the Peale
Left Zion, is headed by Meir
Yaari of the Hashomer and Zeri-
bavel (Jacor Vitkin) of the Left
Poale Zion; Dr. Rachel Kagan
heads the WIZO, Women's Zion.
ist Organization ticket; Aliyah
Hadasha (new immigrants group)
ticket is headed by Dr. Felix
Rosenbluth, veteran German
Zionist leader and member of the
World Zionist Executive, and Dr.
George Landauer, member of the
Executive of the Vaad Leumi:
the Movement for Labor Unity.
which is the dissident Group D,
formerly affiliated with Mapai,
is headed by Isaac Tabenkin,
Batsheva Haikin and Alexander
Zisling. This group was declared
by the National Council of Mapai
to have "expelled itself from
Mapai" by nominating an inde-
pendent ballot.
Nominees have also been
named by the Association of
Yemenites, by various other Or-
iental communities, and by an
ex-servicemen's group. In addi-
tion there are several lists of
nominees of a purely local char.
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