Page Two DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Le • al Chronicle Friday, August 17, 1945 Friday Detroit Rabbis Hail Peace; See Dawn of New Era Rabbi Glazer Hails Dawn Of New Era Rabbi Franklin Urges Fight for Universal Peace Rabbi, Temple Beth El By Dr. Leo M. Franklin Almighty and merciful God we turn to Thee with full and grate- ful hearts on this day of victory and peace. After seemingly end- less years of agony, brutality, and bloodshed, the sound and fury of destruction has been silenced. The dawn of a new day of sanity and hope is breaking upon the horizon of mankind. Once again, with Thy help, the threat or nameless evils has succumbed to the power of free, brave and resourceful men. May these evils never rise again to complete their work of annihilation. This long-anticipated and joy- ous hour of redemption from the horrors of war has lifted a heavy burden of anxiety and fear from our souls. Now we may look for- ward with confidence to the safe and speedy return of our loved ones in the armed forces of the nation. Comfort and sustain, 0 God, those families whose fathers, sons and husbands have made the supreme sacrifice • that we may reach this day of victory. Be Thou also with our wounded and maimed veterans to bring them boundless, healing courage and confidence. And finally, 0 God, may this hour of liberation from the curse of war renew within each one of us a solemn determination to pre- serve domestic and world peace. May we dedicate ourselves to the creation of a new spirit of unity and brotherhood among the peoples of the earth. Free our souls from false pride and cor- roding hatreds against our fel- low men. May all mankind turn to Thee as their common Father and worship Thee in the holiness of universal fellowship. As men and nations plan the new and better world of tomorrw may they remember with the Psalm- ists, "except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that built it." Amen. Rabbi Emeritus Temple Beth El God Had Pity On Israel, Says Detroit Rabbi By RABBI JOSEPH THUMIN (Head of the Detroit Orthodox of Congregation Beth Abraham Rabbinical Group) Dr. Hershman Cites Peace Responsibilities The end of the war brings more responsibilities to each and every one of us. Nations and in- dividuals must seek to live with each other in a spirit of brother- hood and good will. Man has in- vented the means to destroy him- self utterly and unless he is able to curb national and racial ha- treds mankind will go to its doom. Let us thank God that we have lived to see peace; that the forces of righteousness have con- quered the dark forces of evil. Let us hope that the cessation of hostilities between nations will be an everlasting one. Atoll Hop Will Rabbi Fram Says Peace Is A Challenge ti Rabbi Leon Fran, of Temple Israel The terrible ordeal of war is over. The searching test of peace begins. Humbly we thank God "Truly it is recorded in the that we have been delivered from Book of the Just, the sun the fascist threat to our liberty. stood still in the mid sky and Gratefully we cherish the mem- hastened not to set for a ory of the men and woolen who day. And there has not been died to rescue mankind from sla- the likeness of that day, be- very. We who have survived must fore it or thereafter, for God now determine that this dearly- to listen to the voice of a won military victory shall pro- man — but God fought for duce a world society capable of Israel."—Joshua X, 13-14) The divine intervention at the peace. Our enemies were the em- bodiment of race prejudice. conclusion of this war is as mani- fest as a biblical revelation. We must establish a world As Joshua harnessed the sun society in which all men are at Gibeon in Israel's battle treated as equal. Our enemies against beirbaric worshippers of were the embodiment of injustice the sun and other idols, "until the and oppression. We must estab- people avenged themselves upon lish a world in which every man their enemies" . . so in our may enjoy a decent standard of struggle today against the evils life. Let us not delude ourselves of those who worship the "rising sun," God gave us the power to into believing that war will auto- harness the basic energy of the matically be eliminated because sun in form of the Atomic Bomb the weapons of war have become — and now victory is ours! Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, so utterly destructive. QUOTES TALMUD President of the Synagogue Coun- Bias Leads to War All during this long period of cil of America, issued the fol- As long as we have among us human suffering, many of us felt lowing statement on the obser- men who cherish their own like Adam in the Talmudic leg- end when he noticed the winter vance of V-J Day. racial, religious or social prej- V-J Day should mark the be- udices above the interests of man- War. days becoming continually short- ginning of a religious revival. I kind as a whole, who are more In this hour of military victory er: "'Woe unto me," he cried feel sure that upon reflection all concerned with promoting their it is well to remember that there in fear, "that through my mankind will be convinced that own personal gains than with the is yet another battle to be won sin the world is coming to this terrible war has been brought welfare of mankind as a whole, It is not enough that Hitler is an end!" vanquished. Now the battle must But the winter solstice came about because of the lack of re- so long will men resort to war be against the philosophy of Hit- and the days lengthened once ligious observance. If we observed no matter how deadly the weap- lerism. more. "It is the law of the world" our respective religions, love ons. It is not enough to have con- would be a substitute for hate— It is not enough that Japan has he comforted himself. So we, too, when the world was yea, we would not only tolerate quered the fascist enemy by our been brought to her knees. Until the things she lived by have been in the grip of death and devasta- the stranger but, as the Bible superior material resources and tion, when streams of human scientific devices. We must now utterly destroyed, ours would be blood flooded the green of the commands, we would love him. proceed to a spiritual triumph an empty triumph. It is of little fields, when high explosives shook The world will be safe if we importance that the sinner has the earth and mountains of smoke adhere to the call of the prophet over the evil inclinatoins which been shorn of his strength. The darkened the sun . . . we pon- who spoke of a sure peace, then lurk in every human soul and op- forces that made possible his evil dered in Fear: When will it end? the nations will disarm and 'not erate in every country to foster works must be blotted out of ex- Will it end? . . But now the learn the arts of war any more.' hatred, to impair human dignity, and to create poverty. war is over! istence. I suggest that there be inter- Must Rebuild World "Quiet, peaceful is all the Our battle begins now for uni- national arsenals under the super- With V-J Day a grim race be- earth — they break out in versal Peace that knows no com- vision of the United Nations. gins between faith and disaster. song!" (Isaiah XIV, 7) promise; for Freedom that can- From these arsenals every nation Either we shall rebuild the world The dawn of a new era is aris- not be attained until all men ev- ing; of a new and better world erywhere are free; for universal in which the sun of freedom and should receive the armaments upon the faith that all men are Brotherhood that shall be a great justice shall shine resplendently necessary for its own safety and equally the children of God and there would be an international equally entitled to education and reality and not an empty phrase upon mankind. army to which all nations shall work and happiness, or paralyzed upon men's lips — and for the FOUGHT FOR ISRAEL building of that new world in "But God fought for Israel!" give its quota. This international by our prejudices, we shall watch which at last the Prophetic dream Will the peoples of the world re- army shall also receive its arma- the world slide back toward a of swords beaten into plough- alize this? Will the victorious ments from the international ar- third and a more horrible dis- nations appreciate the Jewish senal. When some such scheme aster. shares shall be realized. We who have been proven great Rabbi Moses' Fischer Only when this battle shall people's share of suffering and is devised whereby no nation sacrifices in this war? Will they shall manufacture armaments of in war—we pray that we may have been over shall we truly of Congregation Bnai Moshe recognize our vast contributions not be found too little for peace. Deborah (the prophetess and celebrate a day of Victory. Only towards final victory? What war, then will humanity be safe then shall we repay the heroic and war will be banished from Judge in Israel) celebrated the about the shameful WHITE PA- victory of Israel over the mighty sacrifices of those who have died PER and Palestine as a home off the face of the globe. V-J Day should be a day of for milions of tortured homeless army of Sisroh with the words that we might live. great outpouring of charity. Jews? "The Stars of the Heaven have For peace came, in the words Every person must not only offer fought against Sisroh." The com- of the prophet (ib. v. 1) : lip-service of thanksgiving, but mentators of the bible interpreted "Because the Lord has pity should in some tangible way make the phrase to mean that the very on Jacob and once more has WASHINGTON. — The follow- a contribution for the healing forces of the Universe are on the chosen Israel; and HE will ing V-J Day statement was is- RABBI ISAAC STOLLMAN and betterment of humanity. side of Righteousness and fight put them on their own land." sued by Henry Monsky, national We, the most peace-loving peo- the enemies of God and mankind. president of Bnai Brith. This implication of the prophet- ple on earth, rejoice over V-J Victory has been won but the ess became literally true in the Day, share the celebration of the United Nations which paid for last phase of our global war whole world while at the same this triumph in blood and suffer- against the forces of evil and time, we, as Jews, cannot dis- for world organization such as ing dare not relax until the peace By Mrs. Joseph Welt wickedness. The Stars of the regard the fact that so far no that recently outlined in San has been won too. All the moral Heaven symbolizing the citadel answer, no consolation was as National President of the unknown, and forces of nature yet given by the Big Three to Nat'l Council of Jewish Women Francisco at the United Nations and political forces mobilized for Conference on International Co- war must be kept intact to make have arrayed themselves on the Jews on the loss of six million of The long awaited announce- operation. The unleashing of this certain that the war not side of eternal right and have their innocent brethren. ment of Victory, marking the administered their final sledge We rejoice over the fact that end of hostilities in this most ter- new force, as the war was ap- fought in vain. hammer blow against the axis the greatest bloodshed in history rible of all wars, may mark the proaching its end, is almost as Ahead of us lie far reaching came to an end. However, our beginning of a new era of inter- though God in his wisdom was tasks of reconversion at home and powers. It is but providencial Justice brethren in the liberated concen- national cooperation and brother- serving final notice on the world of reconstruction and rehabilita - that the people who have suf- tration camps are still naked and hood between all men and all na- that we must all learn to live to- tion abroad that will regoire the fered most and were the desig- homeless, and anti-Semitism is tions of the world. At least that gether, if we weren't to perish to- same genius and determination gether. rated victims of the Nazi powered still dominating Europe. and unity of purpose mmifested will be the hope of all God-fear- The atomic bomb unquestion- during the years of war. The ycientific geniuses who collabor- Our song, as our historic de- ing men and women as they go ated in the harnessing of the liverance from Egypt, begins to their respective synagogues ably is the forerunner of a new United front of the United N:1 energies of the universe in order with: OZ YOSHIR and our sages and churches offering grateful scientific era of atomic power. We tions will be tested in the ' to punish wickedness and to abol- explain that the song was just a prayer for the deliverance from have every reason to expect that of peace as it was nee our scientists and technicians will ish through it acording to all beginning of which the real end- the holocaust of war. harness the atom in the service in the crucible of war. human calculations, war, oppres- , is ing would have to be in years to The world has paid, in what of mankind; but always there will now demonstrate that the sion and tyranny from the earth. for which we fought the ..yai ,ire Fleeing and expelled from come. That was the beginning of Mr. Churchill called "blood, sweat be in the background the spectre ti,' !hey Spain the genius of man discov- a long song which would have to and tears," for the extravagance of destruction unless along with real and purposeful and ered America where 5 million continue on and on as long as of war. Millions of our finest this new marvel of science there are the goal of the 1, -! war young men and women have died develops a spiritual renaissance, a world. Jews now find homes, happiness humanity exists. It is now in the hands of hu- in the service of their countries; worship of God and a respect for The American Jewry \ , hich and opportunity Now 6 million old , • martyrs' graves cry out for jus- manity to make this celebration almost as many innocent civilians, the rights of all His children, for mobilized all its resent \kat women and children included, a lasting one. manpower in the years each individual man. tice. Shall the genius of mankind I an confident that the Jew, have been the victims of the ter- Without a new devotion to the and made a proud contrihnt!" not rediscover Palest in e and ror of war and the inhumanity spiritual welfare of mankind, V-J to victory, has the additional Pot award it to the Jew as a home- who brought the greatest sacri- Day will be just another armistice war responsibility of helping r e- land as a great laboratory to fice in this war will give his share of the Axis powers. The atomic bomb, and its al- in the long record of man's cruel- store the shattered Jewish corn - work out a new social era for the to the utmost in making this lp welfare of Israel and the world peace lasting and preparing a most incredible capacity for de- ty to man; with it, the world will munities of Europe. It must he better world to live in. struction, underlines the necessity enter a new and greater era them back to health and vitality. at large. With the ancient sage all peace loving peoples may say today: "This is the (lay that the Lord hath made — let us be glad and rejoice in it." We have a right to rejoice that at last the slaughter has ended. Might has been dethroned and Right been crowned with victory. But it is no time for hilarious and vulgar celebration. Rather it is a time for us to bow our heads in reverent supplication to God to give us the strength and the wisdom to dedicate ourselves anew to a way of life that shall make a repetition of this holo- caust of calamity — to use Owen Wister's phrase — forever im- possible. For the victory over our en- emies, who have been the foes of civilization, we have paid a full price in precious lives sacrificed and in property destroyed. 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