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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

Ain.
ust 3 1945
Fr i day, Aug

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and Th. Legal Chrealeits

Plain Talk

THE STORY OF A TEMPLE

By AL SEGAL

Po • Seven

Jerusalem May Be
Divided Into Arab,
Jewish Districts

changed.
tion of the Jewish population in
The third witness, Auni • Bey the political, social and economic
Abdulhadi, claimed Arab rights life of Rumania; 4. Protection of
to the Jerusalem mayorship on the Jewish population from diver-
religious, political, humanitarian isionist efforts and reactionary
JERUSALEM (Palcor) — Mo-
and legal grounds, stating that elements.

, hammed Yunis Husseini, Jerusa-
lem Arab lawyer, admitted be-
fore Chief Justice Fitzgerald,
conducting an inquiry into the
Jerusalem mayoralty question,
that for the past 75 years, since
1870, Jews have formed the ma-
jority of the population of Jeru-
salem.
Husseini argued that despite a
Jewish majority in Jerusalem,
Jews should not he given the
mayoralty because the status quo
must not he changed after 13
generations of Arab mayors.
Husseini is the chief . accountant
for the Umma fund, which pur-
chases land in Palestine in order
to prevent its sale to Jews.
Taking the same position, Dr.
Hussein Fakhri Khalidi, last
elected mayor of Jerusalem, de-
nied the "unique" character of
Jerusalem as a citadel of three
faiths. He asserted that there is
no difference between Jerusalem,
Nazareth, Bethlehem and any
other town in Palestine. Dr. Kha-
lidi was deposed from the Jeru-
salem mayoralty in 1937, at the
height of the Palestine riots, and
NUS deported to Seychelles Is-
land. He returned to Palestine
in 1938.
Anton Atallah, Christian dep-
uty mayor in the last Council,
tated the Arab character of Pal-
estine and Jerusalem must not be

the Arabs would not suffer a Jew-
William Filderman, president of
ish mayor, who, although having the Union of Rumanian Jews,
no jurisdiction over Holy places, speaking in the name of the cen-
might want to visit Haram esh tral committee of that organiza-

From our temple board I have gogues to sit with their fathers.
ju st received a letter which re-
Their hearts are respectfully
Sherif, where Jews are not per- tion, issued a directive to all
minds the members that it's with the old men but their minds
mitted.
members of the union prohibit-
exactly 80 years ago that the edi- are with the rational Judaism
(Well informed sources in Je- ing them from joining the new
fice in which the congregation that Dr. Wise preached. He
rusalem believe that the city may group. Despite this order, how-
worships was built.
preached "a religion without mys-
be divided into Arab and Jewish ever, Selter Sarateanu and
M.
I thought the matter might he teries or miracles, rational and
boroughs with separate adminis- M. Rosenkranz, vice-president and
f
general
interest
for
several
o
self-evident, eminently It u m a n,
trations, the United Press re- general secretary, respectively,
reasons: In the first place, an universal, liberal and progres-
ports).
as well as other members of the
80-year-old temple, standing in sive, in perfect harmony with
union, joined the committee. A.
an American city, is comparative- modern science, criticism and
L. Zissu, leader of the Jewish
ly something of an antiquity, con- philosophy, and in full sympathy
Rumanian Jewish
Party, also attacked the commit-
sidering that organized Jewry in with universal liberty, equality,
Community Splits
tee, declaring that it was unrep-
America is a newcomer, you justice and charity."
resentative of Jewish aims.
In Two Factions
might say, as time is measured
He summoned Jews to take
At the first meeting of the
- heir rightful place among men
in history.
BUCHAREST (WNS)—A split Jewish Democratic Committee,
Then, our temple is unique, be- af good will, to walk with the
between the right and left wings
which was attended by the gene-
cause it is called the cradle of Jewish prophets toward a world
of the Rumanian Jewish commu-
ral secretary of the National
Reform Judaism, though on the made more just and lovely; his
nity has resulted in the forma-
Democratic Front, representatives
gate at the temple in Charleston. Judaism understood the social
tion here of the "Jewish Demo-
of the Yihud, which is the Jew-
S.C., I have seen a bronze tablet mds of Jewish teaching as given
cratic Committee," which re-
ish Labor Party, the Hashomer
that says this Charleston temple in the Torah and prophets. It
places the "Jewish General Coun-
Hazair and the Jewish Commu-
is the veritable cradle. But it was wasn't a Judaism self-serving in
cil," established last August. The nist Party were present.
The
from the pulpit of our temple a ghetto.
council collapsed as a result of
Jewish Social Democratic Party
that Dr. I. M. Wise, organizer of
internal dissension.
He was no Zionist and for
was not represented.
Reform Judaism, for many years many years his congregation was
The new committee, which is
thundered the concept of a Ju- non-Zionist but now it's mixed.
composed entirely of representa-
d a is m that was called liberal, Some members take Zionism and
JERUSALEM (ZOA )— 1,434,-
tives of left-wing parties, issued
progressive and American.
>then: let it alone, but they don't
a manifesto outlining its pro- 000 cases of citrus fruit were
shipped this year to the United
Yes, our temple really is the 'Wit about it in the congrega-
2.rani. The manifesto calls for: Kingdom, three times more than
cradle of Reform Judaism in its tion. The main thing is to bring
1. Unity among the Jewish last season's export.
organized form. The Union of up the children right, to be
democratic forces; 2. Assistance
Haifa's Municipal Commission
American Hebrew Congregations American citizens who live by
for the Rumanian people in their unanimously adoped the 1945-46
and the Hebrew Union College the ethical ideals of their Jewish
effort to rebuild the country on budget of LP.445,350, about_ 33
were born there. (This year inheritance.
a democratic basis; 3. Integra- percent higher than last year.
there is being celebrated the
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the Hebrew Union College in this cessful, considering the many re-
very temple, on Oct. 3, 1875. It spected citizens who were con-
was a grand occasion from all firmed in his temple. They are
accounts).
not learned in the literature ant'
Well, I have gone along too lore of Judaism but they ar ,
far in my story without men- first-rate people in the genera
ac
tioning where this temple stands community. It really must be con-
and what its name is; that is fessed that a first-rate man i•
considered inexcusable in good the best product of Judaism, ar"
journalism which requires that what if he is lacking in the cur-
you squeeze your story into the riculum of a thorough Jewisl -
first paragraph and go on from - ducatien? What if he can't rea%
1 rage of Talmud?
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there.
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Haven't our teachers made toe
So I hurry up to mention that
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our temple is in Cincinnati and much of classical Jewish learn.
these. 80 years has stood down- ing, too little of the ethics_p_11
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town at i]ighth and Plum streets being a Jew?
There is an annual occasion,
across the way from Catholic St.
Peter's which has been there 100 not a Jewish holiday. when our
years. St. Peter's used to be the temple is opened and the great
cathedral until the archbishop's chandeliers are lit up as on Rosh
throne was moved to a church it Hashonah and Tom Kippur. This
the suburbs. Our temple is called is the Sunday when the temple is
Isaac M. Wise Temple, though given over to the Negro people
Hebrew name is Bnai Jeshurun of the city on Brotherhood Week.
Brotherhood was prime in
and though old-timers keep on
calling it Plum Street Temple Wise's teaching and our altar
because of the street on which it seems a fittingly holy place for
an assembly of Negroes reaching
stands.
Slums and rooming houses have for brotherhood. They may not
gathered all around the temple find it elsewhere but, anyway,
August sale prices are lower at ANNIS! Now is the
since it was built 20 years age they can catch a gleam of it
(the congregation was already among us.
time to buy your new fur coat when choice selection is
So our temple isn't just an
23 years old when the temple
was erected), but we hang on to antique shrine, or a moldy mau-
at its peak . . . In finest quality pelts fashioned in the
it sentimentally. We think of it soleum guarding old memories
as a shrine that never shall be and dessicated old bones of re-
most exciting styles in years.
sold or torn down to make way ligion. It tries to live vibrantly
in
such
Jewish
meanings
as
arn
for a parking lot. (That's what
happened to St. Paul Episcopal contained in the facts of the Ne-
groes taking over the temple on
59 years of fur merchandising have proven that Annis
Cathedral in the next block).
We do have a substitute, much Brotherhood Week.
The rabbis are James G. Hel-
Furs are Better Furs. Annis Furs' faithful service brings
smaller synagogue in the suburbs
where Sabbath services are held. ler and Samuel Wohl, both Zion-
to fashion-loving women the newest modes in furs at
but on the holidays old Plum ists. (Heller is the national pres-
street temple glows brightly 'dent of the United Palestine
all times . . . the epitome in quality and superb work-
again as in the beginning, in all Appeal).
I can scarcely imagine what
its Moorish splendor. The 80-
manship and always the utmost in value.
Year-old frescoes are unfaded and Dr. Wise would think to see a T- k .) ,
the immense chandeliers hanging couple of the hottest Zionists in
from the domes give me the same the pulpit in which he was just
dazzling thrill as when I was a as hot against Zionism. But ho
Choose now from among thousands of beautiful fur coats.
kid which was ever so long ago. believed in the free mind for
(You should be there on the others as well as for himself.
Their Annis label is your assurance of quality, value, lasting
eve of Yom Kippur!)
beauty and workmanship . . . which mean long and faithful
Yes, it seems that even 80 J. D. C. Reports
Years ago Reform Judaism was
wear. And remember Annis Furs are priced lower during the
already a substantial institution On Relief Activities
ARGENTINA — Ten thousand
capable of building a gorgeous
August sale.
edifice like this; though, in some blankets. the initial shipment of
circles, there is an opinion that 23,000 blankets made available to
Reform Judaism is an upstart the Joint Distribution Committee
4-
that hasn't long to live.
in Argentina. are now en route to
ANNIS LAYAWAY PLAN
The builders of our temple France for distribution to Jewish
wer e of the German immigration orphans and needy persons. The ,4 7,1
Select your furs at the best time . . . NOW! Pay at
but now, I should guess, 50 per- remaining 13,000 blankets will be
convenient intervals. NO extra charge for this service!
sent
to
Poland,
Belgium
and
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cent or more of the members of
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the congre gat ion
ion are the children land. The blankets were purchased
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Open Saturda) 'till 5 p.m.
of the East European immigrants by the Junta de Ayuda Judia a
AIR COOLED SALONS
Monday
las
Victimas
de
la
Guerrt,
the
who came over on later ships. On
9:45 p.m. to 9 p m.
Yom Kippur some of these are Jewish overseas relief agency of Tr(,*
Tue•day thru Friday
LIBRARY
AT
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GRAND
RIVER
Argentina,
as
part
of
the
Junta's
in the temple in the morning but
9:45 a.m to 5:45 p.m.
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in the afternoon they run over 1 1945 contribution to the work of
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