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Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchal Portion—Gen. 1:1-6:8.
Prophetical Portion—Is. 42:5-43:10.

OCTOBER 13, 1944

TISHRI 26, 5705

Pre-Convention Thoughts

The Zionist Organization of America
meets this week-end in Atlantic City with
the definite knowledge that the over-
whelming majority of American Jews
favor a Jewish National Home in Pales-
tine. The first phase of the ZioniSt move-
ment is now completed. And when we
say American Jewry today, we really
speak for world Jewry, inasmuch as the
largest segment of Jewry is now in the
United States, and its power and prestige
is so dominant that any world conference
would be compelled to follow its dic-
tates.
There are still some dissident groups
that refuse to accept the Commonwealth
idea, but which would probably not re-
ject the National Home idea if it were
predicated upon a union of Jews, Arabs
and Christians to form a Palestinian State.
And there are those who, on historic, theo-
logic and theoretic grounds reject the
whole idea of Jewish nationhood.
These latter groups are not traitorous.
They are dissidents who have not been
persuaded that the Jews have any other
mission than to be the bearers of social
justice and righteousness and should carry
on among the nations of the world.
The Zionist Organization of America
has grave responsibiilties at this time. In
fact, grave responsibilities now that the
first phase is over.
The task facing the Zionists will need
more than emotional appeals to respon-
sive audiences. It will have to win over
those who are indifferent, and even hos-
tile, to Jewish national aspirations—the
Arabs and the British.
The Zionists will have to decide wheth-
er greater time and effort should be ex-
pended upon Britain or upon the Arabs.
There will be those who believe in the
realistic doctrine of the fait accompli,
and will insist that if Britain can be per-
suaded that a Jewish Commonwealth
should be established in Palestine that
the job is done. These belong to the
group that hoped for an endorsement of
the Commonwealth by the American Con-
gress. They believed that this endorse-
ment would go a long way in persuading
the British government to look upon the
Commonwealth idea with favor. This
group was the "all or nothing" group.
The abrogation of the White Paper was
of secondary importance to them at this
time. Their logic was sound, for if the
control of immigration were given to the
Jewish Agency under the Commonwealth
resolution, then the White Paper would
Cease to exist. There is another group
that believes that the first job is to have
Britain abrogate the White Paper so
that immigration to Palestine may be
Increased many fold. By this means they
expect the Jews to have a majority within
a reasonable time. Both of these groups
are committed to the idea of pressure
upon Britain. They believe that Britain
has the ultimate power of deciding what
kind of state should exist in Palestine.
We have serious doubts as to Britain's
ultimate power to determine the kind of
state that shall exist in Palestine. The
ferment among colonial and mandated
peoples is such that one cannot any long-
er assume that the status quo ante will
prevail when the war is over.
Certainly all the pressure should, and
no doubt will, be exerted upon Britain

to persuade her that Palestine is entitled
to Commonwealth or independent states.
This pressure we shall call the second
phase of the Zionist movement.
The third phase will be the attempt to
persuade the Arabs that they should
cease their opposition to increased immi-
gration and land purchase, and what is
the most difficult, to persuade the Arabs
to agree to the establishment of a Jewish
Commonwealth.
Realistic, diplomatic leaders will be
needed to complete these latter two
phases of the Jewish national movement.
Emotional appeals will carry little weight
with the hard-headed political leaders of
the Arabs and British. They will pay little
heed to historical or sentimental reasons.
They will ask whether it is in their inter-
est, and if it is not, they will oppose it
with all their power.
The "all or nothing" group will, no
doubt, persist in their maximal demands
for some time. We believe, however, that
if and when they realize that these max-
imal demands cannot be had, that they
will then use their energies to have Britain
abrogate the White Paper and will, at the
same time, try to find a basis for com-
mon action with the Arabs, to the end
that the mandate status of Palestine be
changed.
When the war comes to an end, the
period of negotiations and settlements
will begin. The Zionist should have a
fair, clean, definite and sound plan for
the settlement of the National problem.
If they do have such a plan, there is
some prospect that they may succeed.
If, on the other hand, they have an un-
fair, unclean, indefinite and unsound plan
that is based upon emotion, we are afraid
that they will get nowhere, and will miss
a great opportunity.
The job of persuading Britain and of
finding a modus vivenda with the Arabs
is far more difficult than was the job of
persuading the Jews that they are a
nation.

French Ingenuity

It is becoming increasingly evident that
the Nazis never conquered the French peo-
ple. The latest bit of evidence reveals
that the Underground succeeded in hiding
thousands of Jewish children in non-Jew-
ish institutions and homes, and in this
way saved them from deportation. Had the
people been conquered they would have
obeyed the most capricious, the brutal
edict, of the conquerors. Instead of obey-
ing the Master race, they seemed to take
special delight in wearing Mogen Davids
and yellow dresses, when this color was
the badge of helotry.
We shall probably discover that the
number of Jews saved in the different
countries will be in proportion to the
degree of conquest of the population.
The feeling of resentment and hatred for
the conqueror no doubt intensified the
feeling of solidarity for those who were
under the Nazi heel, and consequently,
inasmuch as the Jews were the special
victims, the people could be counted on
to rally to their support, and to use all
the ingenious artifices and schemes that
an intelligent and inventive people know
how to use.
We are hopeful of hearing better and
better news from Belgium, Holland and
Hungary. The people of these countries
were not won over to the Nazi racial
superiority theories any more than were
the French. They despised and resented
the conqueror as did the French, and their
feeling of oneness with the Jewish vic-
tims of Nazi discrimisation probably was
as intensive as that of the French.
Liberation of France and Belgium
means that the Jews of those lands no
longer have to conceal their identities
behind non-Jewish names and in non-
Jewish homes and institutions. This is
more than the liberation from a hated
conqueror, it is liberation from fear; and
of all the tyrants that hold mankind in
thralldom there is none more terrific than
fear.
Let us hope that before another holi-
day season rolls round, that all of Europe
and Asia will be liberated from the worst
despots that have ever foiled human
existence.

Friday, October 13, 1944

Plain Talk...

by Al Sega

Matter of Love

Christian gentleman his conscience being intolerant
A YOUNG
called on me on a matter of and pulling him back from his

love, though in matters of young love because the girl was Je w .
love I am long out of date. It ish. Not that at all!
is many years since I was in love
What troubled his conscience
in the same way as he, and what was whether in justice to this
can I know of his aching heart? Jewish girl he had, a right to
In my time of life a heart is ask her to marry bins, a Chris-
something to take to the doctor's tian? What, if she married him,
and have it connected up with would it mean to her happiness?
the electro-cardiograph machine She, probably, would accept him,
by a lady-technician. Next day since, as he had observed, she
or so the doctor will study the seemed as much in love with him
crooked line made by my heart as he with her.
"But, sir, would it be right
on the cardiograph and he will
tell me what's the matter with for me to ask her to marry me?"
it; but it won't be the same thing He knew what distress the
that is the matter with the young marriage would cause her par-
Christian gentleman's heart. ents. They weren't at all friend-
So, in a way, I could feel flat- ly when he came to their house.
tered that he had brought his He couldn't agree with their prej-
young heart to me. It suggested udice but he could understand
that he considered me still young it, he said .
. "I guess we
enough to understand a young Christians have a lot to answer
heart. I am a fellow whose van- for to Jews. It all runs back
ity is elated by any suggestion 2,000 years, I suppose."
that he is not as old as he knows
f 1 f
he is.
VES, her parents would feel
The young gentleman's name 1 deeply hurt, he was sure, and
was Frank. He was tall and up- their unhappiness would he like
standing and he was home on a a shadow on the girl's heart.
furlough from the Army. He was Since he loved her so much could
a first class young man, as I he ask her to take up a load of
could read at once on his sleeves unhappiness for his sake? Could
which carried the stripe of a first he ask her to suffer this for
class private. him? He was sorry his conscience
"Sir," (by the habit he had hadn't admonished him far back
acquired in addressing lieutenants when he started falling in love
he kept on stirring me through with her. They were in the last
out the interview) "Sir, I am year of high school then and his
calling on you on a purely per- conscience was young and un-
sonal matter," he said.
trained.
He told me he had made up
"What would you do in my
his mind to settle the problem place, sir? Your's is an older
during the 14 days of his fur- head and can tell me whether
lough. It had become a most urg- my conscience is telling me right.
ent matter, since there were only Besides, you're a Jew and should
three (lays of his furlough left. know whether I correctly under-
Not that he had been a laggard stand Jewish attitude."
putting off the solution almost
I congratulated him on having
to the last (lay; he had, in fact, a conscience that can put even
been thinking about it every day, love aside for the sake of what
even long before he started on it believed to be right. Young
his furlough.
love, as I remembered it, was
"I should begin by telling you like the hot sirocco that has its
that I'm in love."
own way when it blows, but this
Oh, I replied, that's a happy was a young love that had been
situation to be in. I myself used amazingly disciplined by chatac-
to fall in and out of love. It's ter.
very pleasant. There were so
I commended his elevated con-
many girls. They're nice to re- cept of love that was willing to
member.
sacrifice itself rather than hurt
I
f
1
its object by fulfillment. Ile- cer-
E SAID it's pleasant all right thinly was a first class private.
to be in love if there aren't "You are one in a million."
any problems connected with it.
He protested: "But you don't
It's awful, though, to be in love answer my question. What would
and to suffer a problem with it. you do in my place? Would you
. . • "You," he said, "cou
e -..„Ati:k a girl to marry you if you
joy being in love because t ere knew
that religious • conflicts
was no religious problem mixed might bring unhappiness to her,
up with it. You see, the girl Ins on account of her parents?"
in love with is Jewish. That
"Well," I replied, rather irre-
makes a big difference."
levantly, "what nobler young
He had been seeing a great man could any girl marry? What
deal of her during his furlough finer character? What loftier
and each time he had been on idealism? You have everything,
the point of asking her to marry young man."
him. Only the evening before
"But that doesn't answer my
the words were almost out of his question," he repeated. "What
mouth. They were driving in the would you do in may place under
starlit evening and he had pre- the circumstances? Agreed that
pared his brief speech, but his you're a very nice young man
tongue was like paralyzed every but would you ask the girl to
time lie started to utter it. When marry you—under the circum-
he delivered her back to her stances?"
home it was still unspoken.
t:tp
d , ad i l( ra u f n td s
coupl e
"It's a matter of conscience, froImPusisii(Yd pipe.
a
walked
you might say," he explained.
He said that as a Christian he
had always cultivated his con- the room three times. Then of
I
!flatter
way or who
another
a say
science. lie was quick to ex- decided
was in I to
one
plain that it wasn't a case of
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CALENDAR FOR THE JEWISH YEAR 5705

5705 - 1944

*Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
'Rosh Chodesh Kislev
Chanukah
*Rosh Chodesh Tebeth
Fast of Tebeth
5705 - 1945
Rosh Chodesh Shevat
Chamisho Osor B'Shevat
*Rosh Chodesh Achar
Fast of Esther
Purim
Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Passover
*Rosh Chodesh lyar
Lag B'Omer
Rosh Chodesh Sivan
Shevuoth
'Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
Fast of Tammuz
Rosh Chodesh Ab
Fast of Ab
*Rosh Chodesh Ellul
Erev Rosh Hashonah 5706

October 15
November 17
December 11-18
December 17
December 20

January 15

January 29
February 14
February 26
February 27
March 15
March 29 April 5
April 14
May 1
May 13
May 18-19
June 12
June 28
July 11
July 19
August 10
September 7

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