DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle eublishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040

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fostered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879

Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD

Vol. 48, No. 6

Publisher, CY AARON

Managing Editor, NATHAN J. KAUFMAN

Friday, February 8, 1946 (ADAR I 7, 5706)

Detroit 26, Michigan

Shall Judaism Die?

Thousands of Jewish mothers and fath-
ers attended graduation ceremonies two
weeks ago. To intermediate schools, to
high schools and to colleges they flocked
to enjoy, to congratulate, to take part.
And several hundred went to a graduation
that was of the utmost importance to
Jews and Judaism. That graduation took
place at the Yeshiva Chachmey Lublin.
Why was that graduation so important?
Why was it so full of meaning? Because
it contained within itself the seed of the
continued existence of Judaism.
The Hebrew bible has profoundly
affected the culture and political in-
stitutions of the whole world. It has
been a source of spiritual advantage
and satisfaction not only to Jews but
to all peoples. The Torah and the
Talmud and the whole of Jewish lore
has been the one link that has kept
the Jewish people alive and unified,
spread as they were over the far-
flung corners of the globe.
For the last fifty years, Jews in this
country have kept up the centers of learn-
ing in Europe with money contributions.
A Jewish conscience, half awakened, de-
manded the payment of this money.
But the whole thing was not clear to
Jews so tar removed from real Judaism.
Common sense even suggested that • all
this was wasted. Still, in a half-grudging
way, as a sort of a necessary nuisance,
American Jews kept up this far-away
source of their culture. From there came
the spiritual leadership. There the culture
flourished and ripened.
Now, that source is no more. There are
no great Yeshivas left in the lands where
the Nazi scourge passed. No Wilna Gaon
will rise from prostrate Europe. No Rashi
will step forth from the bleeding wreck-
age of European Jewry. From failing
hands, they have cast the torch of our
two thousand year heritage to this coun-
try and to Palestine. And we must take
up that torch and hold it high.
We must! Else we are false to our
history, false to the civilization to
which we have already contributed
so much. Else our sufferings have all

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A Liberal Daily

With all due deference to our three
great metropolitan newspapers, Detroit
does not have any great liberal daily that
speaks for the welfare of a people as does
the P.M. of New York or the Chicago
Sun. The need for such a liberal daily has
long been felt by thinking people in this
city.
At long last, there is a prospect
that such a daily may come to De-
troit. A committee for a liberal daily
has been set up with Alan Brown,
well known attorney, at its head. This
committee is circulating petitions to
bring such a daily here.
Details cannot be given here. We rec-
ommend the project, however, and urge
people to sign these petitions in the hope
that a great liberal daily, free from de-
mands and pressures will appear on our
streets.
The CHRONICLE carries such petitions
in their offices at 525 Woodward. People
who are desirous of bringing such a daily
here and who cannot find any other place
to set down their names in a great and
liberal cause may come here and get such
petitions For others, the petitions may be
obtained at 963 Penobscot Building.
"lAit's look at the record," Al Smith
used to say. There is no greater weapon
greater force
than the truth, There is no
to fight injustice than the merciless spot-
light of publicity focussed on the forces
of evil, We congratulate t he committee
them
fur their progressive action and wish
the greatest suctaa4atheir work.

been in vain and Nazidom has won
its battle. Else the noblest, the most
splendid spiritual force in history, has
lost its luster.
The study of Jewish law and culture
must continue! The Jew worships God
through the study of the Law. Study is
more important than any religious prac-
tice, according to the words of the sages.
And let no one think for a minute that
this detracts from our Americanism! If
we have anything concrete to offer to
America, if we want to furnish strength
and glory to this land of ours, if we would
add to the greatness of our country and
not detract, then we must see that the
study of Judaism goes on.
That is why, orthodox, conservative or
reform, every Jew must lend his support,
moral and financial, to institutions like
the two Yeshivas of Detroit, Chachmey
Lublin and Beth Yehuda. The strength
and the richness of Judaism must be kept
in full. Only through study can this be
kept alive. And only through Yeshivath
can there be study.

The present superficial education-
al setup in the United States is totally
inadequate to furnish real education
for Jews or to furnish the kind of in-
tellectual Jewish leadership they need
so badly. They are so inadequate, they
cannot hope even to scratch the sur-
face of the vast treasures of Jewish
knowledge. Only through Yeshivath,
with their thorough grounding in the

sacred literature and secular knowl-
edge that is Jewish can we meet the

demands of our age.
There have been holocausts before in
our past. Whole sections of our people
have been wiped out. We survived that.
And we will survive this one.
Our seats of learning have been moved
before. After the fall of the Temple, the
great schools of Sura and Pumpeditha
were founded in Babylonia. From Baby-
lonia, Moses ben Hanoch brought them
over to Spain. From Spain they were
transferred to Germany and Poland. Now
they must move again.
And it is to America even more than to
Palestine that the citadels of learning
must be transplanted. Whether we wish
or whether we do not, the real seat of
Jewish learning is here—to live or to die.

The essence of the Jewish religion,
the essence of Judaism is Torah. And
for Judaism to stay alive, Torah, rich
and full, must be kept alive. If that
is permitted to die, the Jewish people
dies. They have nothing else to bind
them together. And to the question
of survival, a Jew can have only one
answer. Judaism will live on. It will
flourish forever.

Lincoln's Birthday

Every year when Lincoln's birthday
rolls around we have occasion to refresh
ourselves on the genuine essence of Amer-
icanism. It is a long time since the figure
of the tall and swarthy Abraham strode
the American scene, yet we seem to need
his message today as much as ever.
He said that the slave was a roan, that
men must not be denied their rights on
account of color or creed. These are quite
simple things, it would seem -- and yet,
in all ages, men have continued to ignore
them. Today the world is still distorted
over essentially the snow thing.
The greatness of Lincoln is that he
great —
stood for these simple — yet so
prer.sed
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wuy
thut
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things in such a
them to some extent un the whole A own'.
can life. To give way to prejudice today
as the slave
is to light Lincoln just as truly
driver once fought

Friday, February 8, 194c,

Book Review

By LEON SAUNDERS

"The Great Conspiracy"

Published by Little, Brown & Co.

Under this title Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn repeat t.„.
success of their "Sabotage" and present to the world an intelli;„ ,
book about Russia and the Allies. This is not a book about "Coss& ,
and Vodka," peasants merrily singing and praying for their "LI. :•
Father."
It is an HONEST book and a terrible one, showing the wli.
lurid history of a conspiracy in comparison with which Oppenlit is
Wallace and similar authors seem totally without imagination.

From the 23rd day of December, 1917, when the agents of Ei:
land and France met in France and agreed to "dismember" So c
Russia, all the foul means possible were used by the allied nations •
strangle the struggling Soviets. Starting with Bruce Lockhart a t
the unspeakable Sidney Reily as secret agents sent to disrupt Rus- t
from within, all the might and wealth of the powerful countries in t• ■ ••
world led by England were employed to harass, slander, starve and
ruin Soviet Russia.

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U. S. Representative Incompetent
Unfortunately for the Soviets, the U. S. was at the time of th.•
revolution represented by an incompetent, David Francis, who
not know what it was all about, • and when the intelligent and honest
Col. Robbins reported the true facts and Lenin's proposal for Russo-
American relations, these documents never reached Pres. Wilson. All
the reactionary prejudices and dark forces in the world united in the
relentless attempt to crush Russia by means of fifth columns within
and direct military attacks from without. Aside from factual stories
based on documents and facts known to the world, the reader gets
the impression of reading a detective story by an author of limitless
imagination but little finesse, so crude and brutal were the means
used in the prosecution of their aims by the enemies of Russia.

Trotzky-Stalin Affair

The book devotes much space to the Trotzky-Stalin affair and, in
spite of our complete trust in the integrity of the authors, they seem
to be not a little prejudiced against Trotzky or too much stor Stalin.
We still have in mind the Soviet Russian novels in which trotzky is
called a traitor. We fully agree with Lockhart's impression of Trotzky
that he would only start a revolution provided he had a big enough
audience to watch it. But wc still think that the Russian novels in
which Trotzky is pictured as a traitor to the revolution and a "bielo-
bandit," a bandit working for the whites, smell to heaven. To place
Trotzky in the same category with Petliura, Machno and other white
bandits can mean only a desire to please Stalin or fear to displease
him.

Behind the Scenes
All the powerful figures behind the scenes like Deterding, Chur-
chill, Hoover and Poincare are shown in this book in their true light.
France had invested eight billion dollars in the czar's Russia; Eng-
land wanted the Caucasion oil, and for that they kept up the War
after the armistice with Germany, for, as Herbert Hoover bluntly said:
War is better than bolshevism.

All the efforts and all the bloodshed ended in failure for the
robbers, but the poison and hatred lingered for 30 years. The White
Russians, the refugees, who "have forgotten nothing and learned
nothing," began to spread all over the world the poison which brought
out a new deadly weed — fascism. The authors disclose all the activi-
ties of Henry Ford and how his henchmen, using all their vast re-
sources to spread hatred and anti-Semitism, were all ready to organ-
ize old-fashioned pogroms, and how Ford was rewarded by Hitler who
hung his picture in the chancellory in Munich.

The Dies Committee, Lindbergh, the great authority on flying and
world economics, and all who live and breathe in the dark, poisonous
atmosphere of hatred are brought to light in this hook.

Like Murder Incorporated
You may dislike Soviet Russia, but the methods and means used
by high financiers, statesmen and politicians were outrageous and tip ,
picture presented by the authors of "The Great Conspiracy" smacks
of Murder Incorporated. If one benevolent soul doubts the possibility
of such things, the authors give, chapter by chapter, all the bibliog-
raphy and document the sources upon which they drew for their in-
formation.
The book should be read by all and especially by those who think
that Hitler was the Knight Errant who defended civilization against
bolshevism, and that the Deterdings, the Churchills and the Henry
Fords are benefactors of the world and humanity.

LEST WE FORGET

"...1F THERE IS ANYTHING WHICH
IT IS THE DUTY OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE

NEVER. TO ENTRUST TO ANY HANDS

BUT OUR OWN THAT THING IS THE
PRESERVATION AND PERPETUATION
OF OUR LIBERTIES AND INSTITUTIONS"

CO'

