America 'elvish Periodical CeNter
Friday, June 15, 1945
SEGAL
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LONDON (WNS).—Sir Robert
Waley-Cohen, prominent British
communal leader who represented
the Anglo-Jewish Association at
Sa n Francisco, feels that there
are too many "serious divergen-
cies" in American Jewish life.
This divisiveness is having a
harmful effect, he believes.
Regarding Jewish activities at
San Francisco, Sir Robert said
that while Jews were only con-
sultants there, the American Jew-
ish Committee, the American
Jewish Conference and other
groups did good work in connec-
tion with the charter on human
rights. He also praised the Com-
mittee's fight on anti-Semitism
in the U. S. The discussion on
mandates, he asserted, was con-
fused, but it was indicated that
the final draft of the proposals
covering mandates would leave
the Palestine mandate intact and
not prejudice Jewish rights.
Where Jewish organizations
were divided on issues, their
counsel was rejected or ignored,
Sir Robert said, but "their united
voice was received with open ears
and had an effect." It would be
a great tragedy, he continued,
if Jewish organizations failed to
find a common ground for united
work. Admitting that it was diffi-
cult to come to an agreement on
the question of Palestine, the
Anglo-Jewish Association leader
said that it is possible for all to
agree on the great value of Jew-
ish achievements in Palestine if
the Balfour Declaration is carried
out. "A united Jewry can con-
vince the world that the hands of
the clock cannot be turned back-
wards in Palestine," Sir Robert
stated.
Aux., Home for Aged,
Honors Mrs. J. Rose
prodigy at 3"
. . They had a
jar of the vitamins ready at his
crib when he was brought in
from the delivery room He was
fed one at once.
When, on his third birthday,
the question was given him, he
replied: "I've been waiting for
that question and I have the an-
swer ready. Is a stenographer
handy? I want my answer set
down for the record."
Young Segal at once delighted
his parents by announcing that,
after thinking it all over, he had
decided to keep on being a Jew.
The rabbi of their synagogue was
present at the momentous occa-
sion and came forward with con-
gratulations. He had been send-
ing infant Segal numerous propa-
ganda tracts in anticipation of
this moment.
"Now, now, rabbi," Segal
laughed, "I don't think you can
take much credit for this. I
thought it all out myself. Just
sit down and let me tell you.
Have a cigaret? . . . As a matter
of fact, my dear rabbi, I haven't
read any of your tracts."
Well, young Segal asked, just
where should we begin? So he
started off by asking: Just what
is a man? A man, he replied,
isn't what other people think of
him. A man is what he is in his
character and his way of life, in
his attitudes toward other hu-
man beings, in his concept of his
duties an a social being.
And what, he asked, did it
matter to such a man that some
guttersnipe tossed mud at him?
The mud can't stick ; he washes
it off and goes his way and re-
mains the good man.
Three year old Segal paused
thoughtfully and inquired: "And
what has all that got to do with
being a Jew?"
He said he had been reading
and thinking a great deal about
the matter of being a Jew . .
"Not, indeed, about the pain of
being a Jew—not the anti-Semi-
tism that the Jewish press re-
ports, not the discriminations
that we are told about," he said.
When he was old enough to
read anything—approximately at
the age of 2—he began going
deeply into Jewish ethical teach-
ing. He had read the Ten Com-
mandments and was particularly
impressed by what was said there
about worshipping false gods. He
thought that was the most im-
portant Commandment. The main
trouble with the world was that
people were worshipping false
gods—god Greed, god Hate, god
Envy. These gods made all the
trouble in the world.
"Yes, that Commandment is
the sum of all the Command-
ments," the Segal child said
somewhat pontifically.
Women's
Auxiliary,
Jewish
Home for Aged, will hold the
closing meeting of the year at
1:30 p. m. Monday, June 18, at
the Home. A program is being
planned, and refreshments will
be served under the chairman-
ship of Mrs. S. Weller and her
committee.
Members are urged to come
and buy bonds from the chair-
man, Mrs. J. Fishman, who will
deliver bonds to the home of
each purchaser.
At the closing meeting of the
executive board which was held
at the home of Mrs. David Kli-
ger, Mrs. J. Rose was made an
honorary member of the Aux-
iliary.
Mrs. Rose is sunshine chairman
of the Auxiliary, and has held
that office for 20 years. As long
ago us 1912 she was interested
in the welfare of the residents Judaism Is Justice
He had also read the Jewish
in the old home on Edmund
teaching in Leviticus . . . "Chap-
Place.
ter 19, if you care to know," he
buy Bonds to help them come remarked . . . He remembered
the verse about loving the strang-
home sooner.
er as yourself . . . "That looks
to me like the original idea of
brotherhood" . . . He remem-
bered the verse. "Ye shall do no
unrighteousness in judgment, in
meteyard, in weight or in meas-
ure" That's justice, he remarked.
Yes, he said, all in all, Juda-
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it has to do with the good life
which is the main thing. "So
what's the matter with being a
Jew, provided you are the right
kind?" the bright youngster
asked. Of course, he added, there
was no sense at all in being a
Jew, if you're the wrong kind.
Then you have no defense
against the guttersnipe's mud.
It sticks.
He said it hurt to be a Jew
only if you weren't worthy of
being one. If you were worthy
it didn't matter what anti-Sem-
ites said against you. Your head
stood high above the guttersnipes
and you didn't suffer.
Segal, at the age of 3, had
decided to stick to the Jews . . •
"I'm going to try to be the best
kind of a Jew. Then being Jew-
ish never can be a pain."
His mother kissed him. His
father offered him a lollypop,
but his mother said No, he
shouldn't have candy now . . .
"It's time for his vitamin" . . .
The rabbi said he hoped Segal
would join his congregation.
Now the time has come to
report what my home-town rabbi
replied when the member of his
congregation asked: "Which way
would you have gone—Jewish or
Gentile—if at the age of 3 you
had had your choice?" The rab-
bi's answer was practically along
the sonic line as young Segal's.
"I'd stay Jewish because I would
know that if I was a good Jew,
faithful to the Jewish spiritual
and ethical teaching, I could
never turn out to be a Nazi.
That's one reason."
Mizrachi Demands
Zionist Reform;
Blasts Leaders
NEW YORK (WNS). — "We
have now reached the point where
we must declare that we can no
longer bear responsibility for the
work and policies of the Zionist
Emergency Council," the Miz-
rachi Organization of America
declared in a letter to Dr. Ste-
phen S. Wise, chairman of the
Council, demanding the reorgani-
zation of the Council within the
next two weeks.
Mizrachi has steadfastly sup-
ported the leadership and mili-
tant policies of Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver.
Pointing out that "the wide-
spread interest which has been
aroused among the Jewish public
by the San Francisco Conference
should not obscure the fact that
these actions are of relatively
minor importance so far as the
future of Palestine is concerned,"
Leon Gellman, president of Miz-
rachi, stated in his letter to Dr.
Wise:
"In view of the imminent dan-
ger, we feel that adequate meas-
ures were not adopted by our po-
litical leadership as represented
in the American Zionist Emer-
gency Council. Noe attempt has
been made to reintroduce the
Palestine resolution in Congress.
There has been no forthright de-
nunciation of the anti-Zionist
trends prevailing in the State
Department.
"There has been no adequate
attempt to force a showdown on
our government's policy through
the concentrated pressure of
public opinion. There has been
excessive reliance upon the pri-
vate and public assurances of
individual statesmen and the
continuing failure to pursue more
vigorous and militant policies.
Synagogue Council
Re-Elects Officers
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NEW YORK.—At the plenary
session of the Synagogue Coun-
cil of America, held last week,
the following officers were re-
elected:
Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein,
president; Rabbi Isaac Landman,
1st vice president; Rabbi Robert
Gordis, 2nd vice president; Rab-
bi Ahron Opher, assistant to the
president; Benjamin Koenigsberg,
corresponding secretary; Max
Fink, treasurer, and Charles P.
Kramer, honorary secretary.
Organized in 1926, the Syna-
gogue Council of America is the
united religious voice of the
American Jewish community. Its
constituencies are:
Union of Orthodox Jewish Con-
gregations of America (Ortho-
dox), United Synagogue of A-
merica (Conservative), Union of
America Hebrew Congregations
(Reform), Rabbinical Council of
America (Orthodox), Rabbinial
Assembly of Ameria (Conserva-
tive), Central Conferene of
American Rabbis (Reform).
NW Sisterhood
Elects Officers,
Picks Committees
Sabbath Motion
Clears Ways for
MizraChi Return
The annual meeting of the Sis-
terhood of the Northwest Hebrew
Congregation and Center was
held at the home of Mrs. Ira G.
Kaufman on June 6.
Mrs. Esther Mossman, wife of
Chaplain Sidney Mossman, ad-
dressed the group. She stated
that many of the Jewish boys in
service are blaming their par-
ents for permitting them to ne-
glect their Jewish education, and
emphasized that it is the duty
of every Jewish parent to see
that children receive a basic He-
brew education.
The Hadassah Choral Group
sang Hebrew and Palestinian
songs.
Mrs. Max Goldsmith, president,
appointed the following commit-
tee chairmen:
Membership, Mrs. Z. Garber;
conservation, Mrs. B. Brodman ;
card and gift, Mrs. A. Waller;
Sunday School, Mrs. Ira Kauf-
man ; tickets, Mrs. A. Sachs and
Mrs. G. Kushner ; telephone
squad, Mrs. H. Berlin and Mrs.
I. Shere; war efforts, Mrs. Rose
Singer; war bonds and stamps,
Michelle Tchor; social, Mrs J.
Gordon, and publicity, Mrs. M.
Haidy.
Young People's Society, Mi-
chellyL Tchor, representative, and
Mrs. David Miller, consultant;
Yiskor and memorial fund, Mrs.
Robert Wallach and Mrs. David
Tchor; fund raising, Mrs. Alex-
ander Moss.
Besides Mrs. Goldsmith the
other officers are: Mrs. D. Miller
and Mrs. Ira Kaufman, vice pres-
idents; Mrs. C. Charlip, treas-
urer; Mrs. Meyer R. Rubin, re-
cording secretary; Mrs. D. I.
Samelson and Michelle Tchor,
corresponding secretaries; Mrs.
Ben R. Levy and Mrs. A. Helf
gott, sgts-at-arms.
The donor dinner is being giv-
en by the congregation at the
Jewish Community Center this
Sunday evening, in cooperation
with the Sisterhood. A large
number of reservations have
been made. Dr. Emanuel Gamo-
ran of Cincinnati will be the
guest speaker at the dinner, and
Aaron Rosenberg will officiate as
master of ceremonies.
A meeting of the board of di-
rectors will be held at the home
of Mrs. D. Miller, 17523 Cherry-
lawn, on Wednesday, June 20, at
8 p. m., to outline activities for
the coming season.
JERUSALEM (Palcor). — The
adoption of an amended resolu-
tion by the Vaad Leumi, Jewish
Palestine's National Council, on
the public observance of the Sab-
bath, has cleared the way for the
return of Mizrachi and Hapoel
Hamizrachi, to their posts on
the Executive Committee of the
Council.
The amended resolution had
previously been adopted by the
Assephath Hanivcharim, Jewish
Palestine's Representative Assem-
bly, and was passed in the Vaad
Leumi, by a great majority, over
the objections of the Hashomer
Hatzair, Labor Unity and the
Left Poole Zion. The resolution
applies the Sabbath observance
regulations to public transport
and communications. To date,
these regulations were applicable
to trade and industry alone.
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