fewish Periodical Cotter i i1, ling ac- to 101. fn Vac tes, 'cif, ite- at ich ive to lis- 1a- AC 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 (Continued on Page 18) 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, (Continued on Page 18) courageous and sainted men. 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