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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

This Years Passover Has Special Meaning

are moving at a fatal pace. Our spirit is pointed at as a romantic

technological abilities have never and

By
L J. Margolies

harmless

whos

fledgling,

Friday April 19 1946

Methodist Church Gives $10,000 to
United Jewish Appeal Campaign

Expressing profound concern relief of Catholic refugees. Thi

before had such an opportunity wings ought to be clipped for It "over the peculiar losses and contribution was made, Bishop s
hardships and agonies" which the Welch said, "quite in line with
for cohesive impetus. Atom bombs own safety.
of Europe have endured, Bi- your well-known policy of bearing
There are perhaps no remedie: Jews
Modern comparisons are nev I are bound to be mere relics soon;
shop Herbert Welch, chairman of your own burdens and then,
In a
and
in
view
of
the
physical
de-
(
Too
much
determine
has
been
the Committee for Overseas Re- broad spirit of cooperation, shar,
lacking when we celebrate ho1 I-
days. That is what gives the n struction man can so easily ma- and there are no shorE-cuts t 0 lief of the Methodist Church, re- ing as well the burdens of t
nipulate, any tolls of the human regain what we have lost. So i cently presented a check of $10,- general community."
their eternal note. There is
spirit must seem a hollow apa• Passover means anything thi 000 to the United Jewish Appeal In acknowledging the gift of
ways a contemporary situatio n
Refugees, Overseas Needs and Methodist Church, Mr. Warbu.
thetic joke.
year, let it mean a strengthenin , for
Palestine, which is seeking to declared that it represented
which revivifies the old for 1 , J
Humanity has, in all its record- of old beliefs — beliefs, w h i c i raise $100,000,000 this year to save
and convinces us of the inevi ta-
demonstration of the deep
ing, left note of its belief in though they have been challenge , and rebuild the lives of the 1,400,- concrete
ble sameness of human ex _
understanding of the fact that
000
Jewish
survivors
of
Hitlerism
something deeper than the eye before never quite gave in. His
the indescribable tragedy of the
rience, a sameness independe t
can see, or the hand touch. And tory acknowledges that a handfu in Europe Th.e check from the Jewish people suffered under Na.
of time.
Methodist
Committee
for
Overseas
those who have lived with the of people can stand off the world Relief was received in behalf of zl persecution and the present des.
And now we have the Passove r
spirit
most have left testimonies There shall some day be a spir the United Jewish Appeal by Ed- perate need of the survivors con.
of 1946—a dubious year. Many o f
of its wonder—the saints and itual Exodus again; we knov ward M. M. Warburg, chairman stitute a humanitarian problem
us shall celebrate it for differe n t
is of concern to all Ameri.
poets. We moderns, though, are that—but must spiritual slaver: of the Greater New York cam- that
cans, regardless of race or creed
reasons. Passover's religious si g -
paign.
skeptical. To be hard boiled, precede it?
nlficance can of course not be al -
Bishop Welch referred to the
tough minded, seems most advis-
contribution to the United Jewish
tered, but there is always tha t
able to us. Scientific sterility we
Appeal as "a slight contribution
personal sense of revelation whic 1
to your great undertaking" and
hold
in
awe.
It
is
fashionable
to-
SEASON'S GREETINGS
ao much depends on, there is al
I Awarded Legion Of Merit expressed the hope that it would
day
to
be
contemptuous
of
all
else
ways that added touch.
"serve
as
a
token
of
the
spirit
in
— a view the great scientists
which we join with you in the
No matter what the conditio 1 never subscribed to.
common task of bringing relief to
of our own lives, this year's pass -
If we doubt that such a thing
the suffering and hope to the op-
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JACK GUTTERMAN
over has a very specific over-al I
pressed and the despairing."
as
the
spirit
can
at
all
be,
at
meaning. Six million of our p •
In
his
statement
Bishop
Welch
pie have been killed, and beside i least we can take some cogniz-
recalled that in 1931 the United
ance at its attributes: love,
Jewish Appeal had "mane an ex-
the war has come to an end. ■
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faith, charity, courage, freedom.
ceedingly liberal gift to the Fed-
there something that disturb s
eral Council of Churches" for aid
But
no!
In
every
corner
of
the
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you in this last sentence? Re
to Protestant refugees. A similar
world we are beginning to hear
read it. Is it incongruous? S
gift
was
made
at
the
same
time
voices inquiring whether love,
million of our people have bee n t
to the Roman Catholic Church for
faith and courage are not, after
killed, and the war has come t I
all mere myths. In the French
an end! No. It is not incongru
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ous. It is merely the statemen t Parliament, it was asked, only a
SEASON'S GREETINGS
few weeks ago, whether freedom
of two facts intimately associated
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Their incongruity lies but in th e was not after all a hoax—imply- •
ing
of
course
that
since
it
is
a
irony of that association. For we
hoax, and since there is really no
want very much to celebrate ou r
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such thing as freedom, it is not
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first peace-time Passover with all
necessary
and
ought
to
be
done
.
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,
i
the enthusiasm we can give it.
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proportionate. So much so, that six million innocents, and the vie- vice-president of the Union of tr-
the realization of the payment for goes about planning for an American Hebrew Congregations,
Judaism has made to world automaton society?
was awarded the Legion of Merit
Passover tells us something of "for outstanding services" dur-
peace robs it of the festivity it
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Joy is also its sorrow—a position
too familiar to our race.
Passover Greetings!
But Passover is a holiday of
strength; and we must, to appre-
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Passover implies the durability of
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