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Friday, September 7, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
An Analysis of
Jewish Problems
And Potentialities
(Continued from Page 5)
not be completely unaffected by
the tensions through which he has
passed; all students cannot help
but be bruised by the inevitable
problems and tensions which will
arise in the greatest period of
national and international re-
construction which America has
ever faced.
The post-war challenge which
faces Hillel in religious leader-
ship and Jewish group work is
equally thrilling and compelling.
The Bnai Brith Hillel Founda-
tions are uniquely qualified to
provide the returning veteran with
the type of religious and Jewish
activity to which he has become
accustomed in the army and
navy. Both the regular Hillel pro-
gram as well as the Foundations'
varied war service experience
with the trainees on the campus
have provided the movement with
a rich, funded experience in this
field.
Thousands of young Jews will
return to the campus and to
civilian life with a broadened and
more vital acquaintance with Ju-
daism thanks to the magnificent
contributions now being made all
over the world by the Jewish
army and navy chaplains, a num-
ber of whom served as Hillel
directors. The Judaism of the re-
turning veterans, as a result of
their service experiences, will be
less formalized, their religion
more personalized. The rabbi,
thanks to the contact with chap-
lains, will symbolize for them less
the preacher and more the coun-
selor, guide and personal friend.
The Hillel technique for almost a
quarter of a century has been
definitely in this direction. It
is no exaggeration to point out
that the returning veteran will
find at the Foundation and in
the Hillel rabbi, a counterpart
of the community-wide emphasis
which he enjoyed in the service.
Hillel's post-war role will not
be exhausted, however, with its
contribution to personal counsel- century experience in campus fin-
ing and realistic Jewish religious terfaith and inter-cultural rela-
and group work leadership. There tionships has forged a strong bond
is another phase of • the Founda- of understanding in American in-
tions' work which warrants at- tellectual circles. The various in-
tention. Mention was made pre- ter-faith courses and seminars,
viously of the inevitable tensions the day by day contacts between'
which will face us in the period of Jewish and Christian groups, the
reconversion and reconstruction. inter-faith awards and scholar-
It is perfectly obvious that this ships, and the dynamic inter-cul-
devastating world war has shaken tural leadership of the Hillel di-
our earth to its very foundations. rectors are but facets of the
One need be no alarmist to point valued contributions made by the
out that even in America, racial Foundations to campus democratic
and religious tensions will test values. The post war years will
our democratic heritage in the bring both a strengthening • and
post-war years. War, to be sure, enlargement of Hillel's role in
strengthens the spirit of sacrifice, affirming and confirming the debt
group loyalty and civic enterprise. owed by all Americans to our corn-
But long years of conflict also mon Hebraic-Christian heritage.
There is still another post war
create the unsettled economic, so-
cial and political conditions, from task and challenge which Hillel
on
which dissensions arise and in faces in common with all Ameri- Prof. Klausner lecturing to students at Hebrew University
Modern Hebrew Literature.
cans,
and
particularly
with
all
whose wake the demagogues dis-
youth-serving agencies. Inspired
turb the public peace.
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Naziism and Fascism have al- by the example of the great Rab-
bi,
whose
name
they
so
proudly
ready revealed to us the trage-
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dies which result from the politi-
cal acts of confused and insecure
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youth and the betrayal by the in-
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tellectuals. We already know by
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sad experience how the European
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university was too often a hot-
Be Realized Speedily
bed of racial hate, and how pro-
fessors and students both prosti-
Drugs With a Reputation
tuted their sacred heritage of
truth and learning.
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The 118 Hillel units at Ameri-
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not only vital fortresses of Ju-
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daism but true and dedicated
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