Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

VOL. 47, NO. 36

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1945

SECTION I-A -

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Rosh Hashonah, Dag of Conscience

By DR. NORMAN SALIT

uttering the last lines of Micah only to sins of commission but —
and als o appropriate prayers, h
e also to sins of omissions.
(Dr. Norman Salit, a practicing symbolizes his desire to free him
We have the right and even JWB Participates in "Youth Service" Exhibit
attorney, is Director of the , self of his sins. At the begin
- the duty to ask this question—a
Wartime Emergency Commit- ring of the meal that evening
right and a duty we wish to God
tee for Conservative Judaism. he distributes to his family piece
s had never been ours: Where
of
apple
dipped
in
honey,
to
be
He is a graduate of the Jewish
was the conscience of Western
Theological S e m i n a r y of eaten with a prayer for "a happy
Civilization when those Nazis,
America ; a member of the and sweet year", thus symboliz
through Hitler and his fellow-
Natonal Administrative Com- ing his hope for better days to
criminals, were trumpeting their
mittee of the Zionist Organiza- come.
intentions
toward
us Jews?
tion of America, and former
In the synagogue the next day Where was the conscience of
rabbi of Congregation Shaaray during the Reading of the Law
, Western Civilization when the
Tefila of Far Rockaway.)
he hearkens to the ancient story Nazi beasts put those plans into
of the birth and offering of operation? Where was the con-
Isaac, eternal symbol of man's science of Western Civilization
capacity for sacrifice to God.
when millions upon millions of
He then hears the Shofar. Its Jews — of men, of women, of
vigorous blasts reach deep with- children and infants—were being
in him to dimly stirring desert starved, enslaved, beaten, vivi-
memories. They are not as sweet sected, gassed, cremated?
as the strains of modern. instru- MANY JEWISH LIVES
ments, but to the Jew they are
Word of this had not waited
more authentic. They are the
voice of his religion, instrumen- for invasion of Germany by the
talized during this one period of United Nations. Innumerable re-
the year; they are the summons ports had long previous been
to duty, the call of conscience, coming to London, Washington
no longer still and small but and other capitals. These reports
were fully documented. The Youth activity programs developed by the National Jewish Welfare
loud and demanding. •
world knew of Warsaw and Lub- Board (JWB) were explained by Mrs. Alfred R. Bachrach (left)
Throughout the Holy Day the
lin, of Buchenwald and Dachau, and Mrs. Leonard H. Bernheim, chairman and vice chairman, re-
Jew's
prayers
are
addressed
to
DR. NORMAN SALIT
of long lines of sealed freight spectively, of the JWB Women's Division, at the JWB booth
God the King, before Whom he
cars in a k i n g German-occupied
of the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office exhibit "Youth Builds for
A value cannot be true for one literally kneels; to God Who Re-
territories "Judenrein", but also
the Future" held recently in New York Cty.
members
his
sins,
Whose
com-
man if it is not true for all men.
making the German soul forever
Similarly, the contribution to civi- passion he suplicates; to God befouled.
lization of one people cannot be Who is also Father, Whose Pity
Food Parcels Can
Hebrew School Women
The conscience of Western Ci-
permanent unless it has signifi- he seeks; to God the Judge,
vilization stood aghast at Lidice, Be Sent to Poland
Send Condolences
cance for all peoples. If contem- Whose decree he seeks to soften
a small Czech town, now become
A letter of condolence was sent
porary history has demonstrated by Penitence, Prayer and Char-
NEW YORK—Parcels of food
the symbol of German vileness,
anything, it is that ours is "one ity.
to individuals in Poland or Cze- to Mrs. Joe M. Dorfman, 3274
but that very conscience could
world" not only in space but also
choslovakia can now be sent Fullerton, whose mother passed
learn of a thousand Jewish Li-
DAY OF CONSCIENCE
through the Committee for Over- away.
in spirit—that the anarchy of
dices, both before and after that
seas Supplies of the World Jew-
jungle law is receding before the
Thus, beginning with Tashlih
A letter of appreciation was
of Czechoslovakia, and not lose ish Congress.
increasing determination of the before the first evening, and con-
its imperturbability. What evil
sent to Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Keidan,
masses of men to forge for them- tinuing through to the final Sho-
Each parcel of food will con- 2311 Calvert Ave. for contribu-
did German barbarism have in
selves+ a cooperage society.
far blasts which conclude services
Lidice that it did not have in tain,- it was asserted, seven tion in memory of Mrs. Ethel
Viewed in long-range terms, the at noon or later of the second Warsaw? And what sort of con- pounds of carefully selected food Schiller, wife of Harry Schiller,
day — in symbolism and prayer,
recent affirmative votes of the
science is it that gags at the delivered, on a non-profit basis, 15088 Snowden Ave.
U. S. Senate on the Bretton in atittude and emotion, the one and gazes serenely, or at for an advance payment of nine
In memory of Mr. Jack Langer,
dollars.
Woods monetary plans and the theme is that of shortcomings least silently, on the other?
husband of Mrs. Jack Langer,
acknowledged, sins committed,
I go further and ask as to the
United Nations Charter, and the
Orders must be sent by mail
3160 - 2nd avenue.
duties unperformed, of personal
magnificent ability of the English
conscience of Western Civiliza- and addressed to the Committee
unworthiness, of God's pardon
In memory of Mrs. S. Rosen-
tion today. Now that the holo- for Overseas Supplies of the
people to subordinate, even in the
sought. Rosh ha-Shanah is thus
midst of conflict, their war en-
caust in Europe is over and the World Jewish Congress, 1834 stein, mother of Mrs. Jack and
above all the Holy Day of Con-
thusiasms and normal gratitudes
work of reconstruction begun, Broadway, Room 221, New York Mrs. Louis Tobin.
science.
what is being done for the sur- 23, New York. The name and
to their peace-time aspirations, as
Conscience is not the posses- vivors among Germany's chief address of the sender and of the
evidenced by their retiring from
office one of England's greatest sion of Jews alone. According to victims? In how many liberated consignee should be submitted,
heroes, can have no other mean- Biblical account, the sense of countries are they being returned accompanied by a check, money MEYER'S
order or cash.
ing. There is a Talmudic dictum : -ight and wrong, of good and evil, to their homes and property?
In how many liberated coun-
"'All Israel is responsible one for far antedated the beginnings of
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mankind seems finally conscious This divine power of recognition corded their proportionate share has received $35,000 worth of
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makes him "little lower than the the broken remnants can never
One of the chief reasons for
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angels." When we fail to exer- consent to repatriation to the
the milennia-old validity of Is-
cise that power — and what is lands where came upon them Rosh Has/tonal, Greetings
rael's religious festivals, enduring
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perfect example of this are the not; this is an inescapable deri-
ples of the world. Without this
Nazis, who descended to depths vative of the moral basis of hu- r
universality of significance, they
of depravity and blood-lust for- man society. The Jew may be
could not have retained their vi-
eign even to the jungle.
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tality—even for us. Pesach, Festi-
It is an awesome responsibil-
val of Liberation; Shevu't, Festi-
val of Law ; Succot, Festival of ity placed upon man by this fac-
Season's Greetings to All Jewry!
S elf- Preparation; Rosh ha-Shanah ulty of conscience — for it com-
mands
him
to
action.
Its
slogan
and Yom Kippur, Holy Days of
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Cantor of Cong.
spectively—all these have deep Leviticus (XIX, 16) : "Thou
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Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu
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