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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
VOL. 48, NO. 15
and The Legal Chronicle
SECTION TIIREE
10c a single copy; $3.00 per year
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1946
This Is Our Hope and Our Future
As long as our chil-
dren know they arc
Jews, as long as our
children know about
Jewish ceremonies and
Jewish customs, our
heritage is safe.
The festival of Passo-
ver is old, centuries
old. "Thou shalt teach
thy children" is the old
adage.
Doors to Immigration Still Shut Tightly;
Jewish Refugees Still Find No Welcome
By MILTON BROWN
(Copyright, 1916, JTA, Inc.)
A representative of the World
Jewish Congress reported that he
had seen a secret directive of the
State Department to our consular
representatives to go slow, very
slow, in issuing visas for immi-
grants.
When these children
eat of the Matzos,
when they ask the old,
old four questions, they
are inculcated with
Jewish tradition and
Jewish lore.
The quota laws have almost put
a stop to immigration as it is, but
it appears that ,even the very
small number legally authorized
are not going to have an easy job
entering. The fact of the matter
And when this is im- is that the White Paper in Pales-
planted in them as tine is only one of many White
children, it is them:: to Papers. All the world is today
stay.
closed to the immigrant and per-
haps it is this which makes the
fight against the Palestine White
Paper even more significant than
it normally would be.
Once upon a time the world was
a fairly open place. Bernard G
Richards once told the story
about the old Jew, laden with
baggage, going up to the ticket
office in the railroad station.
"I want a ticket," said the Jew.
"A ticket to where?" asked the
agent.
• "It makes no difference, just so
it is a ticket."
"I don't know of any story that
crystallizes more poignantly the
tragedy of the Jew. He had to be
moving all the time. And as to
his destination, well, one place
would be as good as another —
or as bad.
But at lest in the old days,
there were places where he could
get a temporary haven — some-
thing which the displaced Jews
in the German and Austrian
camps cannot find today. We have
coined a new term today — "dis-
placed persons." There are hun-
dreds of thousands of people in
the category of Edward Everett
Hale's story, "The Man Without
a Country."
Up to 1882, as Prof. R. Davie of
Yale in a little booklet distributed
by the Public Affairs Committee,
points out, the doors of America
were open to the immigrant wher.
ever he might come from. Then
slowly the country began closing
its doors. First, just a little hit,
than it began looking at who was
coming. If you came from certain
lands — from Russia or from It-
aly, the door was kept open just
a crack, so that you would have
difficulty in squeezing through.
Prof. Davie points out that the
immigration question has assumed
a new significance in connection
with plans for establshing an en-
during peace. The Atlantic Char-
ter, he points out, "guarantees
the enjoyment by all countries of
'access on equal terms to the raw
materials of the world.' " The free
movement of goods, he points out,
is not unrelated to the free move-
ment of people.
It is a significant fact that the
most acute of economic depres-
sions came when the highest wall
against the goods of other na-
tions and the people of other
lands had been erected. We erect-
ed these tariff walls and these
immigration walls in the thought
of protecting ourselves. Instead of
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PASSOVER GREETINGS
Passover Shows the Remarkable
Similarity of American Democracy
To the Spiritual Qualities of Judaism
By DR. SAMUEL BELKIN
(President, Yeshiva University)
Emphasizing as it does the les- is our duty not to squander this
son of spiritual and human lib- great inheritance, but transmit
erty, Passover is an inspiration this sacred heritage to our young-
for all enslaved and downtrodden er generations which are capable
peoples of the earth. The festi- of receiving that heritage and
val demonstrates most clearly the make our accumulated treasures
remarkable similarity between the of learning and our spiritual and
American concept of democracy moral values a creative force in
and the religious and spiritual our daily life.
democracy of historic Judaism.
Judaism can make its greatest
It should serve as a reminder to contribution to human society,
all Jews in this country that the not by assimilation and self an-
more loyal and devoted they will nihilation, but by remaining true
be to the tenets of the Torah, to the golden chain of our spir-
the greater will be their contribu- itual being, by continuing to car•
tion to the symphony of Ameri- ry the torch of Jewish learning
can democracy and to a better which was lit long centuries be-
world order. fore Western civilization came
Passover can become a living into being. In fact on all the bat-
reality if its symbol is concrete- tlefields of the world, the ulti-
ly manifested by our return to mate and the deepest issue which
the fundamental belief that hu- is being decided is whether or
man freedom and the infinite not the Jewish concept of so-
worth of the individual, which ciety and sacred worth of the in-
are the essence of democracy, dividual, whether or not the di-
are not mere political theories vine concepts of the Torah of
but rather profound religious justice and liberty, shall continue
truths upon which the entire to survive.
structure of Judaism is based.
Hitler's Purpose
We must never forget that so
When Ilitler came into power
long as minority groups are op- he spent fortunes in order to es-
pressed and discriminated against, tablish institutes of learning for
the world will not experience a the sole purpose of misinterpret-
genuine sense of liberty and ing Jewish history and traditions,
freedom. Democracy to us should for the burning of our books,
mean the extension of true jus- for the destruction of our mu-
tice not to ourselves alone, but seums, for he knew full well that
rather to all children of God. Jewish learning and traditions
Only when manind learns to ap- are his greatest enemies, for Ju-
preciate the indigenous values of daism and paganism arc diame-
democracy as prototyped by the trically opposed to each other.
Torah of Israel, can we hope for
It is not our sacred duty to
a peaceful era.
spend our money and our energy
Great Heritage
for the proper interpretation of
It is increasingly clear that Judaism, for the creation of
there is no substitute for our higher institutes of learning, for
spiritual and religious heritage, making the Jewish book a living
for our historic system of values. force in our lives.
If we hope for a new and better
Jewish history teaches us that
world, we must reintegrate our-
the torch of Jewish learning was
selves with our Jewish life, with
always carried from continent to
the eternal search after G-d's
continent. From Palestine it trav-
knowledge. Neither philanthrophy
elled to Babylonia, from Babylo-
alone, nor secular culture, nor se-
nia to Spain, from Spain to
cular nationalism is sufficient for
France, Germany and Poland. At
the stress and challenge of our
the present there remain two
lives.
centers where Jewish learning
We, as Jews, were born into a
can prosper. One is Palestine,
great spiritual and ethical heri- which is witnessing the great mi-
tage, a heritage which was made
racle of the rejuvenation of He-
possible by the insight, sweat and
braic culture and which we hope
blood of inspired and devoted,
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courageous and sainted men. It
To You of the House of Israel
My personal and heartfelt greetings to you all during
this Passover Holiday.
Working together, the problems of the world can be
met. We face it with hope and confidence that right will
prevail.
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new friends and the opportunity and obligation to
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resolve to continue to render the service on which the
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