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practical compromises whereby does we are on the threshold of is not only a strong unity of
these two cooperated, each for a great era—if it does not, this leadership and purpose, b u t COO-
its own practical gains and the war will have accomplished noth-
By PFC. MAURICE ROBBINS
continuation and strengthening ing that is of real value to man. ltarna rrIY ththerethies tnd ol egdaotut that
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In addition to the problems fac- mony can exist between the
of its power. The welfare of the
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combination
Field, Deming, New Mexico, for the Rosh Hashonah serv-
was not only their own perpetua- recent race riots which have sin- this fighting between JTergetsin
ices held at the Chapel on Monday, Sept. 18, 1944.
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tion, but to keep the people in gled out the Jews and Negroes Arab is being fomented by E nt.
In a cemetery in Oran, North ism and Christianity is "Love a stronger form of subjection. as their victims have proven too land to use as an excuse to per
Africa, on the 1st grave in the thy neighbor as thyself." We Too often the churches and syna- well that in this country we have petuate its control. If freed from
1st row of the 1st plot, there also know the unfortunate fact gogues have been hamstrung in a segment of the population who any outside interferen ce thaPt t
al:Ise-
s)haobw o a tnh
can be seen a headstone marked to be that they have not done so. their desire to cry out against have not learned to LIVE TO- j
with the Star of David. In the Why has organized religion been the injustices around them, of GETHER. Judaism and Chris- t ienwe and Arab
adjacent graves lie buried Pro- so important in the past in avert- man's cruelty to man, because tianity must work together, more side by side. Palestine affords
testants, Catholics and Negroes. ing wars, poverty and the injus- the very group of men respons- closely than they have in the past to Judaism a rare
A question arose in the mind of tices of man to man. Organized ible for this condition were also few years, to eradicate this stu- show all other r
i
someone as to whether it was religion has put the blame on the the ones upon whom they were pid intolerance, and if the focal principles of its
an integral pail
proper to bury Protestants, Cath- people and sought to show that dependent for support. Many a point of these disturbances comes
olics, Jews and Negroes together it was their indifference to, and man of God bemoaned the fact from the higher places they must
in the same cemetery. The ans- failure to abide by, true religious that his and other pulpits were be exposed and the disease eradi- c( t)hofens7e1
aare workable
guideposts to a real
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wer was very simple—they fought principles that man has fallen not free—free to express true cated at its source.
Our newspapers now and for able way of life—and that they
together and died together, so to his present state of chaos. religious thought and its applica-
there seemed to be no good rea- There is a great deal that can tion to the life around them. It sonic time past have told us how arc t not tnheer e ptihaecotii
son why they should not be be said for this argument, but was these conditions as far back the Jews have been particularly
buried together. The only ques- perhaps the truth is that both as the ancient time of the great singled out in Europe for the of the people of this earth.
tion which 'thered one officer the people and organized religion Hebrew Prophet Amos, who al- grandest scale persecution known
Here we find a people who
was whether they could not learn are equally guilty, The indiffer- tho he believed in organized re- to history — Here Judaism is have converted arid wasteland
to LIVE TOGETHER. And that ence of one to the other, and ligion, protested against empty faced with the problem of pro- into productive farms by means
is the question confronting the the aloofness born of timidity and meaningless religious forms, viding food, shelter and clothing of irrigation, and this conversion
statesmen of the world at the of organized religion, to the reali- and that man should serve God —of uniting families that have has for the most part been done
coming peace table and in which ties of the life around them had not only thru sacrifice and pray- been dispersed intentionally and by men who were never farmers
religion must actively participate impaired the confidence of the er, but by justice and mercy to as part of the accident of war— before. We have created new
to make a reality. It is not only people in its leadership. Instead his neighbor. And there was of generally providing for their industries in galt isies:1::;11,:i:iit , ,sil. etnetx ti hleas,s
important that all religions be of devoting itself to its real pur- Jeremiah who denounced the re-habilitation and restoring their plastics and chemical:: and f er.
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a
heard at the peace table, but pose of creating a better and Kirg and the dishonest priests means of livlihood. To do this tiliztes cultural
Its
also that they lend their aid in just world,• they have too often and the financial exploiters to properly, Judaism must, now, and
the carrying out of a just peace. concerned themselves with the their faces.
we hope for all trite, settle a kept apace with its economic life.
Altho we know that wars are problem which has been left vex- Here Hebraic culture has en.
Judaism, because it has been sin- petty details of worship, which
gled out more so than other peo- resulted oftentimes in bitter evil and unnecessary, one of the atiously hanging since the con- joyed a rennaissance and is rich-
ple for their religious differences strife among themselves. History good and lasting things that may clusion of the 1st war—rid that er than it has been in centuries.
must be more zealous than the shows that for many centuries be resurrected from it is the re- is the matter of Palestdie as a The schools are modern ado pro-
there was the struggle between turn of organized religion to the country and homeland for the gressive and on Mt. Scopus stands
others.
We know that the teachings the church and state—the strug- fundamental teachings of its Jews. The issues involved in the the Hebrew University, which is
of all religions tells us that peo- gle to determine whether the prophets.
restoration of Palestine to the already recognized as an out-
Events soon after the start of Jews, will as such, if not more, standing institution of higher
ple can live side by side in peace state controls the church or the
and harmony. For one of the church the state—and in this this war have indicated that re- than the issues pertaining to any learning.. There has been a re-
fundamental tenets of both Juda- struggle there often was effected ligion has awakened from its other country, determine to what newal of Judaism so that it has
past lethargy, fear and ineptness extent the churches in England become something vital again.
and is now taking an active and and this country have influenced
It is not only that they have
aggressive part in influencing the their statesmen in the making of reclaimed a wasted land, created
peace to come so that it con- a just peace. Palestine, which industries and re-invigorated their
forms to its concepts of justice is a mandate of England by auth- deb culture, but the important
and mercy. The first manifesta- ority of the League of Nations, achievement is the establishment
tive director of the East Bronx tion of this awakening was the is the land bridge and cross roads of an economic structure based
Emanuel List to Open
Community Y.M.H.A. and Y.W. so-called Malvern Conference, a of three continents. It possesses on the principles of Judaism and
Concert Series Oct. 25 H.A., and a member of the staff meeting of all the Anglican vast strategical importance from those principles advocated by the
of the Sociology department of Churches of England, which met a geographical standpoint. Be- Malvern, and other conferences,
Emanuel List, famous basso of the College of the City of New sometimes in mid-January, 1941, cause of this unusual position it on religion. In an article en•
under the sponsorship of Dr. clashes head on with the Imper- titled "The Case for Zionism,'
the New York Metropolitan Opera York.
The new intermediate director Temple, then Archbishop of York. ialism of England and it will af- by Phillip S. Bernstein, appears
Co., will open the series of Cen-
ter Concerts on Oct. 25, accord- received his B.S.S., majoring in Here the church resognized that ford as much as any other coun- this statement: "Most of the
ing to Mrs. Abraham Cooper, sociology at City College, and his wars are not just a struggle for try a test case of the practical Jews who came to Palestine were
chairman of the Jewish Commun- M.S. in Educational Sociology at domination and survival of dif- carrying out of the principles of determined not to reproduce
the School of Education, City Col- ferent political groups, but rather the Atlantic Charter. In this
ity Center Music Committee.
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Mr. List made his Detroit de- lege. He has also taken graduate it was the result of a deep and charter, this country and England
but last December at the Center. courses at the New York School underlying social disease. To cure expressed the principle that they
these ills the conference adopted seek no territorial gain and fur-
Russell McLauchlin, music critic of Social Work.
As a research assistant for the a program for "ordering the new ther went on to say that, "They CMOCECKH:11:110MgHXHXKH:H:10.1:8:4
of the Detroit News, wrote: "Mr.
List is one of the finest Lieder Jewish Welfare Board, Mr. Can- Society" which they saw "quite respect the right of all peoples
singers of these times;" and J. ter completed a study of Jewish evidently emerging" from the to choose the form of govern-
D. Callaghan of the Free Press population trends in New York war. This program cleared the ment under which they will live."
described Mr. List's appearance City. He has also made a study fog concerning religion's part in If full sovereignty and unlimit-
at the Center as "sensational." of community resources of the life and laid down in crystal ed immigration be allowed for
Shade Co.
Many Detroiters heard Mr. Pelham Parkway section of the clear terms its duty to mankind. Palestine we will know that the
List's voice in "Kol Nidre" when Bronx for the Bronx Y.M.H.A. Its most outstanding planks principles enunciated by the At-
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were.
he sang it on the eve of the Day and Y.W.H.A.
lantic Charter was not just a
As chairman of the intermedi-
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CHURCHES FUNCTION: "The mere soothing syrup given to
of Atonement over the Columbia
Network broadcast from coast to ate activities committee, Emil T. church has the duty and the right r let the query of a people of
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bers but to the world, concern-
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Today in Palestine we have
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Instrumentalists to be
intelligent and aggressive. In
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Accepted for Orchestra
Irving Canter Named
the same alibi to deny independ-
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Julius Chajes, directoi of Music must be so directed and con- ence and self rule as she claims
Intermediate Director
ducted
that
its
relevance
to
life
Drapery Hardware
to
have
in
the
case
of
India,
i
at the Jewish Community Center,
and to men's actual needs is where a large part of the pop-
Mrs. Benjamin E. Jaffe, chair- announces that instrumentalists
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CHRISTIAN SERVICE: "The it is claimed that its leaders are
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Irving Canter as intermediate Sunday, Oct. 15, at 11:45 a. in. worshipping together should reg- stubborn factions for control of
There is no age limit, and no ularly meet to plan and carry this country. In Palestine there
director.
Mr. Canter, who comes from fee is required. For information out some common enterprise for
the general good; if there are
New York, was assistant execu- call Madison 8400.
social evils in a locality, such as
411 bad housing or malnutrition, let
tr
them consider how evil can be
remedied . . ."
Some of the other important
resolutions covered the coopera-
tion of Nations, the fair inter-
change of commodities, the recog-
nition of the rights of labor and
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and Enduring Peace was held at
the Hebrew Union College. It is
hoped that in the near future
there may be a conference of all
the religions to help guide the
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