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Friday April 19, 1946

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Ct....tinkle

The Struggle

Judaism in America Is Not Dying, Says UAHC Director

NEW YORK, N. Y.—Declaring thousands of returning service- mongering to which we have been
that there is no "torrential de- men and women who, so the chap- subjected, are not going to be so
sertion of Israel's tents, but rath- lains assure us, were never more easily frightened or stampeded.'
By CLARA ASCIIER-PINKROF
It was Dr. Eisendrath's conten-
er a strengthening such as we proud of their Jewish identity;
have never known before," Dr. young Jews in uniform who have tion that those who prophesied
EDITOR'S NOTE: The author loaded trucks and find ourselves Maurice N. Eisendrath, of Cin- tramped scores of miles to attend the doom of American Jewry are
of this sketch, a well-known surrounded by ploughed fields cinnati, director of the Union of Jewish servivces, who have not "individuals remote from Jewish
iter from the Netherlands, whose long furrows stretch out American Hebrew Congregations, infrequently donated, out of their life, ivory-tower academicians,
ae to Palestine in 1944 from like black shadowy lines in the called "alarmists and defeatists own meager earnings, funds for dwelling in their provincial seclu-
sion — and nothing can appear
e Bergen-Belsen Concentration moonlight, Although the new set- those who have dolefully prophe- their stricken brethren.
"It is a glaring insult," he con- quite so provincial sometimes, as
Camp, having first been impris- tlement is being started now, the sied the doom of American Jew-
tinued, "to an American Jewry the swarming metropolis of New
oned by the Nazis in the Wes- preliminary work began some ry."
which at the present moment is York City. "Such Olympians,"
Dr.
Eisendrath
spoke
at
a
tes-
days
before.
The
soil
had
been
terbork Camp in Holland. Her
fifth book, "The Star Children," prepared. This time it would will- timonial dinner honoring Colonel digging, perhaps more deeply continued Dr. Eisendrath, "fail
Frederick F. Greenman, president than any people on earth, than utterly to feel the pulse boat of
dealing with the fate of Dutch- ingly receive its settlers.
of the New York Federation of any folk at any time, into its American Jewry because they
Jewish children under the Ger-
Building Begins
Reform Synagogues and national own pocketbooks and with un- rarely come to grips with the dy-
man occupation, will soon be
And then a magic suddenly
published in Dutch, English anti cast its spell on man and things vice-president of the Union of stinted generosity is seeking to namic throbbing heart and surg-
American Hebrew Congregations, succor its fellow Jews overseas. ing stream of the Jewish people;
in Hebrew.
and soil, even on the strong on his return to civilian life. It is a travesty on the number- they stand safely and serenely on
mule, the hairy dog and the tiny Other speakers were: Roger W. less humble and decent Jews in the sidelines and fail to pour
They tried it half a century Iamb which the trucks brought to
Straus, chairman of the National America who are building tem- thir energies into Jewish organ-
ago, a small vanguard group of this spot. For whence did the sud-
Conference of Christian' and ples, religious schools, Jewish izational life and hence are un-
an organization of one thousand, den appearance of those quick
Jews, who served as toastmaster; centers, academies of learning at aware of the driving power of an
who came to Palestine shortly hands come, of rapid feet, that
Oscar M. Lazrus, chairman of the a rate never before known in this awakening American Jewry."
after the "Bilu" had laid the brought a surging life to this
New York campaign; and Colonel land. It is a jibe at myriads of
first foundation. They came with lonely place that started swiftly
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Greenman.
the bold purpose of mastering the building a fence around the place
Tributes to Colonel Greenman who, through one organization or
Sincere Passover Greetings
waste soil of the mountains round which was to be the new Kibbutz, were received from Secretary of another, are manning the barri-
s
e
the
spot
.
about Safed. They cho
putting up tents, a barn, a shed, War Robert P. Patterson and cades for Jewish rights and Jew-
Sam Trabman
•• of Ein Zeitim, with/its ancient a house—all those things that are Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Sec- ish self-respect. It is a shoddy
and Max Finkel
history, its deep valley, its rough necessary when men and women retary Patterson, stating that he piece of sensationialism which
settle down to live and work. knew Colonel Greenman "for will, however, prove self-defeat-
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beauty.
But the soil, sleeping its sleep What could it be but magic?
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thirty-three years as student, law- ing for we Jews in America, de-
and dreaming its dream of cen-
Like a great, pale eye the yer and soldier," declared that spite all the techniques of scare- i111111111111111111111111111111811111111111111111111111IUM1111411111111111111111111
moon rested on u hill-top, Soon it "his job with the War Department
turies, said:
"No, my children — not yet." hid itself behind a ridge, yet left during this war has been out- fi
Best Wishes for a Joyous Passover
They failed. Their number was a silvery glamour over the moun- standing." Governor Dewey, pay-
too small and their strength too tains. Then, daybreak. It was ing "first hand" tribute to Colo-
limited. They had to give up their cold.
nel Greenman as a "devoted and
Work With Zest
aim.
unselfish man," said that "it is
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But a new generation came,
The sun rose from behind characteristic of him that, after
who could not resist the call of other mountains. In the hovering returning from a tour of the
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the wild mountains of Ein Zei- daylight the faces of the busy world with the Senate Investigat-
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ti tim. They tried it again.
lads and girls looked pale and un- ing Committee, his first thought
The soil, still dreamy, said:
real. You did not realize before is to give his time and his ener-
"No, my brave children.— not that they had faces; you only gies and the fruits of his expe-
yet."
felt that they had hands, quick, rience to the great religious
Soil Finally Awakens
skillful, capable hands. You (lid group which he himself organ-
The first world war came and not even realize they could be ized. "This action," Governor
left them isolated in their dan- hungry; now you see them grasp- Dewey continued, "is a fine pub-
gerous spot. They were only a ing a slice of bread or a tomato lic service indeed, for we see
handful. They, too, left the fields from the tables which some of more clearly every day the in-
they were trying to bring back the girls had prepared. There is creasing need of the inspiration
to life. But again new settlers no time to sit down for break- of religion to help us in solving
came, who did not believe that fast. Today a new settlement the problems of a world beset by
these rocky mountains could op- must come into being, however materialism and its resulting hu-
pose their young strength and unfinished, but complete enough, man distress."
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their burning faith. They tried to enable those who remain to
Although not mentioned by
again to settle here.
spend a night there, a place that name, it was generally understood
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The soil, still sleepy, said:
may be left to itself, without an- that Dr. Eisendrath was refuting
"No, my bold children — not xiety, by those who have come statements recently made by Dr.
from other settlements in Galilee Louis Finkelstein, president of the
yet."
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The Arab disturbances of 1929 to help in its birth, There is Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr.
descended and found them, de- plenty of work still to be done, Eisendrath stated that charges of
fenseless, at the mercy of the but their young hearts do not wholesale conversion among
surrounding e n e m i e s. Previous question even for a moment, that American Jewry are "an irre-
A VERY JOYOUS PASSOVER To ALI.
lives were sacrificed. Those who they will be able to finish it be- sponsible calumny, a gross libel
remained had to evacuate the fore sundown. Didn't they man- and a slur upon millions of loyal
age to remain alive in Europe and faithful Jews in America and
spot.
But finally, in January, 1946, amidst death and cruelty and particularly upon hundreds of
young girls and boys came, who hate? Then why shouldn't they
had escaped from the cemetery manage to fight a bit of danger,
of Europe and had joined some a lot of labor and a willing soil
Sincere Passover Greetings
of the lucky lads and girls who which proudly shows its furrows
for Beautiful Dresses
had been born in Palestine. To- in the rising (lay?
gether they wanted to awaken
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the dead fields and by their labor
You leave the spot. From a
and achievements to help revive distance you look back to where
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the declining town of Sated. They
some hours ago the pale moon-
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tried it again.
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light showed you ploughed fields,
The soil, wide awake at last,
without any other sign of life.
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said:
"Yes, my hunted, courageous Now you see a group of barns
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and tents, and many moving fig-
children now it is time."
I was there and saw the soil ures which you cannot distinguish
wake up and welcome its chil- but which give you a sense of
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life, eager, intense life. You try
tvrinetrvevotvori-OCH,Gri
dren.
to keep this picture in your
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mind's eye. You try tc be all
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The houses of Safed, their ears, all eyes, to catch a last
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empty windows looking down on sound from this distant point,
the moonlit slopes like blinded which is so near to you and will
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sparkling white stones and dark-
Then the chill wind carries to
blue shadows all through the you the sound you have been
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ered, each bearing its load of those young voices you have
young people and building and melted together into one strong
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f a r m i n g material. Indiscreetly voice, one irresistible call:
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the full moon illuminated the
"Wake up, dreamy soil! Our
ti
procession. No one was to have time has conic!"
or,i•CH:H5 - C:M•tto - o - o-p-o-p-oo-n-
-• seen them starting on their jour-
to the spot where that day
a new Kibbutz was to be settled.
But everyone who was not asleep
Sincerest Passover Greetings!
could see the long row of trucks,
quietly waiting one behind the
other till, at 5 o'clock, the sign
was given to start.
Then, silently, like a long rib-
bon of small lights, the cavalcade
set out along the winding path
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which leads through the moun-
tains to Ein Zeitim. A mysterious
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landscape, all silver and dark-
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Soon, the lorries have to leave
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along the narrow paths and
through soft earth. At last they
stop. We jump off the high-

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