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Vol. 48, No. 40

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1916

Jewish Matriarch in Prague Aided

Lulav, Esrog
Lead Succoth
Processionals

The gay and colorful harvest
festival of Succoth—the "Jewish
Thanksgiving"—will draw worship-
ers to the synagogues Thursday
and Friday, Oct. 10 and 11 and to
congregational Succahs following
the services.
The Feast of Booths will be
ushered in at evening services
Wednesday at Sundown. Pulpits
will be adorned with flowers of
the season and the congregations
at morning services will join the
majestic processional of the Lulav
and Esrog, symbols of the harvest.

NORTHWEST SERVICES
At the Northwest Hebrew Con-
gregation, the rporning devotions
will begin at 8:30. Rabbi Jacob E.
In Prague, Czechoslovakia, a Jewish matriarch thinks back to Segal's sermon subject Thursday
will be "The. Roof the Stars Shine
the days before Hitler came. Today she is resting in a Joint Dis-
tribution Committee home for the aged, where good food, fresh air Through;" Friday "The Symbols
by Which a People Lives:" and
and pleasant surroundings are helping her pass the days in quiet
Saturday, Oct. 12, "Who Shall Be
and comfort.
Our Succah Guest?"
Temple Israel will hold its ser-
vice Thursday in the lecture hall
of the Institute of Arts at 10:30
a. m. and Rabbi Fram will preach
on "Harvest Time." On Friday,
the devotions will start at 8:30
p.m. and Rabbi Fram will preach
NEW YORK, (JTA) —The bo- on "The Towering Figure of
rough of Brooklyn has a Jewish Moses."
population of about 1,000,000, it
was estimated this week by the RITES AT BETA EL
Brooklyn Church and Mission
Services at Temple Beth El will
The quarterly meeting of dele- Federation, making it the largest be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday
Jewish
community
in
the
world.
morning. Dr. 13. Benedict Glazer
gates to the Jewish Community
The survey found that probably will preach and the Temple quar-
Council will be held at 8:15 p.m.
not
more
than
one-fourth
of
the
tet will render the liturgical mu-
Monday, Oct. 7, in the auditorium
of the Jewish Community Center. Jews in Brooklyn were affiliated sic.
with
a
synagogue
or
a
temple.
The agenda will include a re-
The worship at Congregation
The survey put the religious di- Bnai Moshe will start at 9 a. m.
port on the community's Palestine
protest program, a review of the visions in Brooklyn as follows: 37 the first three days of the festival.
proposed budget for 1946-47, and per cent Jewish, 32 per cent (or Rabbi Moses Fischer and Rabbi
reports of other committees which more) Roman Catholic, 39 per Eliezer A. Levi will deliver the
have been active during the cent (or less) Protestant, and two sermons on alternate days. Fol-
per cent Eastern Orthodox.
summer.
lowing the services, Kiddush will
be recited in the Succah adjoining
In addition to these reports, the
the synagogue.
delegates will be asked to con-
sider several constitutional changes
Rabbi Morris Adler will preach
which are being presented by the
on the first three days of the
constitutional committee, under the
festival at Congregation Shaarey
chairmanship of Louis Rosenzweig.
Zedelc. His subject Thursday will
Aaron Droock, president of the
be "The Invincible Weak;" Fri-
Jewish Community Council, urges
day, "Refusing to Grow Older,"
NEW
YORK,
(JTA)
—
Strongly
that all organizations be repre-
criticizing the policies of the Bri- and Saturday, "Sins of the Right-
sented by their delegates at this tish government in Palestine, Her- eous."
meeting.
bert H. Lehman this week ap-
Delegates should have their pealed for the immediqte admis-
cards and present them at regis- sion of 100,000 Jews into the Holy
tration.
Land and urged Congress to pass
legislation permitting the en-
trance of "even more than our
fair share" of displaced Jews into
the U.S.
Lehman also supported the Jew-
LONDON, (Palcor) —The Man- ish Agency partition plan to
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The 22nd
chester Guardian, commenting on create a Jewish state in Palestine
the deportation of Jewish refu- large enough for further immi- World Zionist Congress will open
in Basle, Switzerland, the first
gees to Cyprus, observes that the gration.
British government seems happily
If elected to the Senate, Leh- week in December, it was an-
convinced that what we are doing man pledged, he would continue nounced here this week by a
in Palestine Is right, and once to use his influence to support the spokesman for the World Zionist
persuaded that what we are do- efforts of President Truman to Executive.
He said that all obstacles have
ing is morally justified, the gov- bring about a change in British
ernment complacently carries out policy. "With our leadership, other have been overcome and that a
a policy which would shock us countries will do their share," he press office has already been
very much if carried out by any- said, "without it, they will do lit- opened in Basle. The congress will
one else."
be the first since the outbreak of
tle or nothing."

Council Calls
Oct. 7 Session

Brooklyn Called
Largest Jewish
City in the World

Delegates to Hear
Report on Protest

Lehman Backs
Partition Plan

Zionist Congress
to Go On in Basle
as Planned Earlier

Manchester Guardian
Raps Cyprus Policy

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British and Arab
Conference Fails

Parley Adjourned Until Dec. 16;
Agency Expected at New Session

LONDON (Special)—The ill-fated Palestine Con-
ference of Arab states and Britain collapsed Wednesday
when the Foreign Office announced that it had been
"adjourned" to Dec. 16 to give the British time to study
the Arab proposal for an independent Palestine state
with an Arab majority,.

It was freely predicted that, if
the conference does reconvene in
December, it will be completely
reconstituted to take in delegates
of the Jewish Agency and of the
Arabs in Palestine itself.
When the conference adjourned,
members of the Zionist high com-
mand, including David Ben Gurion
who had been proscribed, were in
the midst of discussions on Jew-
ish participation.
OTHERS NAMED
An official government announce-
ment had not mentioned Ben Guri-
on but did name Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann, Prof. Selig Brodetsky, Berl
Locker, Dr. Nahum Goldman, Rab-
bi J. L. Fishman and Eliczer Kap-
lan as those conferring with For-
eign Secretary Bevin and Colonial
Secretary Hull.
The Arab proposals for Pales-
tine call for the appointment of an
interim government of seven Arabs
and three Jews, the election of a
proportionally representative as-
sembly of 60, to which a draft
constitution would be presented.
Elections for a Palestine par-
liament and the naming of a head
of state would take place later,
perhaps not until 1948.

tinuance of present land • restric-
tions.
Hebrew would be the second of-
ficial language of the country and
the Jewish community would be
allowed to preserve its own net-
work of schools.
(Quoting highly - placed Arab
sources, the Associated Press re-
ported from Jerusalem that an
Arab "shadow government" for
Palestine had been organized last
week-end at Alexandria, asylum
of the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem,
These informants said the shadow
regime would in effect have the
Mufti, Ham Amin el Hussein', as
"President of the Republic," and
his cousin, Jamal Bey Hussein',
deputy chairman of the Arab Ex-
ecutive, as "Premier and Secre-
tary of Foreign Affairs.")

Moscow Synagogues
Jammed for Holiday

MOSCOW, (JTA) — Four thou-
sand worshippers jammed this
city's principal synagogue, which
has an official capacity of 2,000,
for Rosh Hashonah services.
Thousands of others crowded
thd stIect on the outside to follow
the ceremony from loudspeakers.
ASK IMMIGRATION BAN
Three smaller Moscow synagogues
The plan calls for a stoppage of and 25 in the suburbs were de-
Jewish immigration and the con- scribed as equally crowded.

Van Paassen to Voice Protest
on Zion Policy at Crucial Rally

THE

DETROIT CHRISTIAN
community will voice its in-
dignation over British perfidy in
Palestine at a mass meeting Mon-
day, Oct. 7 in St. Paul's Cathed-
ral. Pierre Van Paassen, the dis-
tinguished friend of the Jewish
people and of Zionism, will be the
chief speaker.

The meeting will be sponsored
by the Inter-Sectarian Committee
on Palestine and is designed as a
protest at British and United
States failure to live up to pledges
on the establishment of Palestine
as the Jewish National dome and
to admit 100,000 homeless Jews
to Eretz Israel.

How 1st Postwar Yom Kippur . Stirred GI's at Hawaii Rites

(In the following article, a
former sailor in the United
States Navy tells how he ob-
served Yom Kippur in IIono-
lulu in 1915, two months after
the war was over).

By AL VORSPAN

f

WHEN THE CAPTAIN told me
" that I would be detached
from the ship and assigned to
Hawaii on temporary duty, I si-
lently but furiously protested. I
didn't care one whit for the idea
of going to Gurmery School, even
though it meant a spell of shore
duty.
A few days in Oahu, the im-
Portant island in the Hawaiian
c
hain—Pearl Harbor and the city
of Honolulu are both In Oahu—
and I began to change my mind.
The weather was idyllic and the

natural beauty of the island was
breath-taking.
There were things to see and
remember: sitting on the terrace
of the luxurious Mona Ilotel and
watching the orange moon bathe
the silent ocean; walking down
lialakaua boulevard where the
whole city of Honolulu scorned
alive and blooming in a gorge-
ous profusion of flowers; and
listening to the inevitable clus-
ters of natives strumming uku-
leles on the sandy beach.
• • •
JOINS CONGA LINE
THEN, SUDDENLY, the atomic
bomb burst on the horizon like
Armageddon, and before its mean-
ing could be fathomed, the war
was over!
While my shipmates were try-
ing to celebrate the glorious oc-
casion as well as it can be ccl
brated on a bucking destroyer es-
cort somewhere north of Okinawa,
I, happily resigned to shore duty,
was taking part in a mammoth
conga line snaking wildly through

the Royal Hawaiian Hotel to the
accompaniment of an exuberant
band which appeared out of no-
where.
The war had begun in Hawaii,
and when it ended, Hawaiians and
servicemen stationed there cele-
brated the victory up to the hilt,
and so did I.
One bright and early morning
a few weeks later, it was Yom
Kippur day. I got into my grays,
put. on a tie, (this constituted for-
mal attire in the Pacific), and
got on the highway to hitch-hike
to the synagogue in town.
I knew there was a service at
the Navy Yard, which was much
closer, but for an inexplicable rea-
son I wanted to go to the civilian
synagogue. Maybe I was begin-
ning my civilian readjustment
program.
• • •
SPIRIT IS DIFFERENT
THE SYNAGOGUE, a rather
ordinary building on Young street,
was crowded when I arrived, and
I noticed that there were many

servicemen among the congrega_
tion.
The rabbi, the cantor, the serv-
ice itself—all were the same as
you. would find in practically any
synagogue in the States. There
was nothing distinctive about
them. And yet that service will
live in my memory as something
distinguished and unique.
There was a spirit pervading
that synagogue which I have never
felt before or since. It filled the
air like a vapor, and I am sure
that every person in the congre-
gation must have sensed it.
What caused it I have never
been able to understand. Maybe
it was the end of the war. May-
be it was an indefinable need to
thank God that the long night-
mare of war was over.
Maybe it was the inspiring rea-
lization that next Yom Kippur we
would spend with our families in
our synagogues at home.
It may have been all of these
things, but whatever it was, there
was a spirit in that congregation

which lived and breathed through-
out the synagogue.
There was a spirit which made
prayer leap from the heart instead
of the book, and charged the air
like an electric current. It was a
religious service in the deepest
and fullest sense.

APPROPRIATE TIME
I REMEMBER being struck
with the appropriateness of Yom
Kippur, coming as it did so soon
after the war's end. Day of Atone-
ment! A day to seek forgiveness
for our collective and personal
sins. A day to bare the heart and
soil of hate, greed and meanness.
' I wished there was such a day,
not alone for the Jewish people,
but for the whole world, for all
humanity.
If all men could somehow be
made to examine their innermost
souls in the spirit of humility
which filled that synagogue in
Honolulu, the chronic scourge of
war might at long last come to
an end.

