Friday, September 14, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Pag• l'hraa
Synagogues Join
In Appeal for
$ioo,000 Here
History of Hebrew Union College
And Development of Reform Movement
By ALFRED SEGAL
Jewish Survivors in Camps
Complain They Are Not Aided
through its frontiers and Jews
CINCINNATI — Reform Juda- were going along. With them
By NORMAN LOURIE,
At a conference of synagogue ism, in its organized identity, is must. go American Jewish leaders
]isle Jews that have fled to Hun-
presidents held Thursday at Shaa- coming to a stately birthday in to carry Wise' concept of Amer- Independent Jewish Press Service, gary and Austria told me that
rey Zedek, a merger was effected October and this city, its cradle, ican Judaism to the new-born Palcor News Agency Corresp't pogroms and excesses, inspired
between the Detroit appeals for is making quite an affair of it. and growing communities. Amer-
SALZBURG — Jewish relief by the fascist Armja Krajowa,
the Vaad Hatzala Emergency The matter is to be sacredly ob- ican-born, English-speaking rabbis
organizations overseas draw noth- now working underground, have
Committee and the American Re- served, too, in every city and were few if any.
ing but scorn from the "liberat- raged without letup in the past
ligious Palestine Fund for the so- town iu the country in which a
So in 1875 Dr. Wise founded ed" Jews in the American, British few weeks. Polish Jews here dis-
licitation of pledges among wor- Reform temple is served by an in Cincinnati, under the auspices
and French occupied areas of pute official figures and claim
shipers on the Day of Atonement alumnus of the Hebrew Union of the Union of American He- Austria. Four months after liber- that the maximum number of
in all local congregations.
College.
brew Congregations, the Hebrew ation, at least 10,000 Jewish Jews in Poland now is 50,000, al-
Yes, it's the Hebrew Union Col- Union College to train American "displaced persons," mostly of Po- though the number fluctuates,
The agreement was negotiated
by Isaac Meyer Lewin, represent- lege that will be seventy years Jewish youth for the rabbinate.
lish, Romanian and Hungarian or- and some consider even this fig-
ing the Agudath Israel coloniza- old on October 3 and looking
igin, still live in approximately ure high.
tion and child rescue efforts in back to the beginning you may AJC TO ESTABLSH
twenty camps, where conditions
Hungarian Jews are differently
the Holy Land, and Rabbi Eliezer say it has made a great life of OFFICE IN EUROPE
range from tolerably good to situated. According to present es-
NEW YORK — The American thoroughly bad. I visited them, I timates there are sonic 200,000
Rabinowitz of Vaad Hatzala head- it. As a rabbinical seminary it
quarters in New York, both of hasn't been a mausoleum of dead Jewish Committee will establish have been with these people; I Jews in Hungary, which provides
whom are visiting here, for the letters standing on a remote peak permanent headquarters in Eu- 1 know.
a one-in-four chance that some
rope. Dr. Max Gottschalk, direc- At Camp Riedenberg, near Salz- kin of the "liberated" from con-
purpose of avoiding duplication of history.
and conflict, and was previously
It has concerned itself with tor of the foreign affairs depart- burg, admittedly the worst of all centration camps may have sur-
approved by the Detroit Council today's Jewish life, particularly ment of the AJC last week sailed spots, 23 persons sleep in 14 beds vived. Therefore many refugees
of Orthodox Rabbis. The goal of American Jewish life, to make it for Europe. The AJC plans to aid without mattresses, with no light are returning to search for their
the Yom Kippur appeals is $100,- effective and respected in the in the rehabilitation of European ing in their dormitories. In an- families. The younger elements,
000.
American scene. Some 350 tem- Jewry and in the safeguarding of other room in that camp, 20 wo- by contrast, are almost all deter-
At the meeting which was con- ples are being served by Hebrew the civil and religious rights of men sleep on the bare floor, with- mined to wait for the opportunity
out any blankets.
of reaching Palestine, but in many
vened by William Sandler, presi- Union College rabbis who carry the Jews.
At Camp Ebensee, where 400 cases there is a great inner con-
dent, of Congregation Beth Tefilo the Jewish name in dignity in
Polish Jews, mostly Orthodox, flict between the desire to return
Enuinual; Joseph A. Block, presi- their communities. They serve the
have been living for the past and the hope of building a new
dent of Bnai David; Harry Ros- Jewish name and with men of
three and a half months, I was life elsewhere.
man, president of Bnai Moshe, other faiths go to serve the com-
told: "Rosh Hashonah is almost
The winter is approaching, and
and Harry Cohen, head of Shaa- mon life as well.
with us, and we haven't a single these men, women and children,
PRIDE OF COLLEGE
rey Zedek, quotas were aodpted
machzor."
face bitter, cold months ahead.
The College has had the idea
for all 40 houses of worship and
In all these camps I have heard
UNRRA representatives are on
committees appointed to prepare that good lives are the best prod-
the universal complaint about the the scene in Austria, scheduled to
the appeals.
uct of Judaism and counts its
monotony and inadequacy of the take over the administration of
It was also decided to send a success in the characters of the
daily, official ration of 2,000 cal- the camps by October 1.
Detroit representative to New members of the congregations led
ories, which is quite insufficient
York for a first hand report of by Hebrew Union College rabbis:
for persons who have spent years BI-NATIONAL STATE
Their
ethical
idealism,
their
so-
the relief and rehabilitation ac-
in concentration camps. Under-
cial
consciousness,
the
manful
TEL AVIV (Palcor) — The
tivities in European countries,
nourishment is the chief source Palestine Communist Party which
and Palestine. This report will be part they play as Jews and citi-
of illness. Two thousand persons met in Tel Aviv during Rosh Ha-
submitted to another meeting of zens in the affairs of their com-
munities.
confined to the camps' hospitals shonah adopted a resolution sup-
local synagogue representatives to
are victims of starvation.
porting the establishment of a bi-
That is the greater pride of the
be held Thursday night, Hoshana
There is hardly a Hebrew book national state of Arabs and Jews
Hebrew
Union
College
in
its
sev-
Rabba, Sept. 27. All monies
in any of these camps. Many of in Palestine.
pledged during the Yom Kippur entieth year, though it possesses
the children are completely illit-
a
group
of
stately
buildings
and
appeals are to be collected be-
erate. And only education, reli-
fore that time and turned in at a library of Judaica unsurpassed
gious education, can break down
and its renown for scholarship is
the Sept. 27 meeting.
the "lager psychologie," fear and
world-wide.
hopelessness, which has possessed
It's all in line with the teach-
these people.
ing of old Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise
who came here from Bohemia 100
FROM POLAND
years ago and preached a Juda-
An exhaustive tour of these
The opening meeting of the ism liberated from ghettoes self-
camps has convinced me that, as
Men's Club of Temple Beth El, made and ghettoes imposed by en-
regards the Polish Jews, theirs is
set for 6:30 p.m, Wednesday, emies. It was called Reform Juda-
a one-way traffic only — escape
Oct. 3, will be a stag dinner par- ism but nowadays it is more often
HARRY M. KAMINER
from Poland, no repatriation. Po-
ty open to all male members of spoken of as liberal and pro-
The weekly Saturday night ra-
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Principal speakers will be Clif- become static but a religion that Detroit Section of the American
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neve that the London conference
Will avoid direct talks on the Pal-
estine question. These sources
base their opinion on the fact that
Lord Gort, High Commissioner
for Palestine, is not to participate
in the discussions.
A prediction that Britain will
announce its decision on the Pal-
estine question "before the end of
the year" was made last week by
the official French news agency.
The agency's report said that be-
fore announcing its decision the
British government will hold a
Joint conference of Arab and Jew-
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