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Friday, November 1, 1946.

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DETROITJEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronic/.

American Action Inc.
Has Bigots as Pals

al

The Negro Jews
of Harlem

age Three

Personal Problems

How to Spur Children
to Eat All Their Food

By LIBBY ZARITSKY
ROOM WAS in seml.dark-
ness. No light was reflected
from the street through the blue.
stained windows with their orange
Mogen David design.
No lights were lit in the barren
chamber of the synagogue. Only
the seven candles of the Menorah,
which stood on the makeshift al-
tar, cast a flickering light on the
Negro worshippers who had gath-
By PIIINEAS K. BIRON
ered to celebrate Simchath Torah,
A MERICAN ACTION INC., the new "America First" group, is no and
on the fruits of fhe soil with
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
innocent babe, according to John Roy Carlson of "Undercover" which these colored Jews had
fame . .. The personnel behind the scenes of A.A.I. have rather decorated their synagogue in hon- " VERY
MEAL IN OUR house used to be a battle. The children
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odorous connections . . . Bob Christenberry, owner of tile Astor Hotel, or of Succoth, the harvest festival.
turned up their noses at vegetables, fish or any unusual food.
who has joined the financial backers of A.A.I., insists that there is
A perfumed aroma rose from the Our boy tried to skip the main courses, always preferring desserts ...
nothing wrong with the corporation master-minded by Upton Close, incense burned near the Menorah By sheer patience, firmness and some thought, we are now back on
Mervin K. Hart and John T.
and permeated every corner of an even keel. Everybody eats the same foods, without objection, likes
Flynn ..
the densely occupied shul.
it and meals are enjoyable occasions again." Mrs. V.
How does Bob explain the tie-up ta, secular university by all
Lazy parents like to th
, —
"Hallelujah,
Amen.
Hallelujah,
between A. A, I. groups of Americans leads all
least to tell others, that
at there
Amen.
Joyfully
we
enter
the
house
of
us
to
believe
that
our
pro-
and Salem Ba-
is a physical basis for food idio. good foods given to the children.
der, notor ious gram will be one of the Jewish of our Lawd," chanted the rabbi. syncr a sies of
No comments about the food are
anti-Semite who community's strongest and most "Hallelujah, Amen," echoed the their children.
permitted by any members of the
family.
uses "Women's universally supported projects in procession of white-clad Negroes Barring ill-
Voice," the Jew- centuries. Initial backing of the as it thrice circled the small cham. health, which
Parents and older people do not
baiting organ of Foundation leaves no reason to ber of the synagogue, singing calls for medi-
give the child any reason for imi-
praises to the one Sefer Torah it cal atten t i o n,
the Jew-baiting believe that the university will was
tating their food dislikes.
so proud to own.
each child learns
"We, the Moth. suffer from lack of funds."
Every person cleans up his
This column is only too happy
• • •
to like or dis-
ers of Chicago?"
plate, taking smaller portions if
like food as a
Public figures to withdraw its prediction made STOMP THEIR FEET
necessary. Small portions should
matter of imi-
who extol toler- Oct. 4. Actually we are one of the
be the rule for children, with
ance from the voices in the "overwhelming ac- THE WOMEN, BLACK faces tation, habit, or
the child asking for second help-
shining beneath the white as a means of
grand ballroom of the Astor are ceptance", Lazrus speaks about ...
ings.
Arab-like kerchiefs, seated on the getting at te n-
made to look ludicrous because of Good luck and Godspeed.
An inviolable rule that no des-
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wooden benches, stomped their tion. Dr. Goldberg
Bob Christenberry's affiliations...
sert is given if the main courses
feet in rhythm with the marchers,
We confidently predict that the GREEKS ASK HELP
These rules have been found are not completely eaten.
Anti-Defamation League of Bnal A MONG THOSE WHO are run- swayed their bodies in tempo with helpful in raising children and in
• • •
Brith will change its plans for
ning Greece today are still the chant, and raised their voices getting them to eat whatever is RULES ON DISCIPLINE
the testimonial dinner to Barney some traitors who collaborated in high in song for their God, Yah- placed before them:
Balaban, now scheduled for the the German bestialities against the weh.
Each child is normally hungry IF A CHILD REFUSES to eat
and he is healthy, he is asked
Astor.
Jewish people . . . These ex-quis.
And I, a white stranger, ob- at meal times if his day has been
to leave the table. No food is
• • •
lino are conducting unrelenting serving the spirit exhibited by active.
given until the next meal.
UNIVERSITY PREDICTION
campaigns of extermination the members of the Royal Order
When children are old enough
Mealtime is not the time for dis-
to eat at the table with par-
RALPH LAZRUS, new pres1- against Greek democratic forces... of Ethiopian Jews in celebrating
ents, a small portion of each cipline or a recital of the evil
Elias Barzalal, chief rabbi of the holiday, was reminded of
0 , dent of the Albert Einstein
dish for that meal is placed on acts of the child. Discipline should
Foundation Inc., which plans to Athens, reminds us that Greek something their founder and
be given by whichever parent is
his plate.
establish America's first non-sec- partisans saved thousands of Jew. chief rabbi, Rabbi Matthew, told
when the breach of discip.
Everybody at the table . . . home
tarian university under Jewish aus- ish lives during the Nazi occupa- me at a recent interview,
line occurs.
pices, takes vigorous issue with tion . . . He appeals to American
"Our people are not steeped in mother, father, brothers and sis-
Attractive serving of food, In
ters . .. eat the same food with-
this column's prediction that the Jewry to repay this debt with erudition," he said, "but they have out
special shapes and colors, whets
exception.
"moral
and
material
aid
to
assist
project will still be a project in
knowledge in their hearts. They
the appetite. This calls for plan-
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1947 because of lack of funds." the democratic people of Greece"... exult In their religion and in their
ning, thought.
We sent our contribution to Amer- love for Yahweh."
EXPLAIN DIETING
Lazarus says:
Invite those friends of your
MOTHER OR DAD is on a
"On the contrary, the over- ican Relief for Greek Democracy,
The Royal Order of Ethiopian
children who are known to be
111 W. 42 street, New York City.
diet
calling
for
special
foods,
whelming acceptance of the idea
The New Republic, in Its Is- Jews consists of Negroes who be- this should be explained to the good eaters. Your child will eat
of a Jewish sponsored, non-quo.
better in company.
lieve themselves to be the direct
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descendants of the Ten Tribes of children. Emphasis is placed on
If a child consistently refuses to
their
not
being
able
to
enjoy
the
Israel.
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THE

New 'America First' Group Linked
to Notorious Midwest Jew-Hater

Rules Helpful in Teaching Young
to Acquire Good Meal Habits Listed

IF

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Capital Letter

AFL Stand on FEPC,
Immigration Is Vexing

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FOUNDED IN 1926
ORDER in America was
founded in 1926 by Rabbi Mat-
thew, himself of Ethiopian birth
and a member of the Felasscs
group located near Abyssinia. They
are strictly orthodox and intensely
religious.

THE

Plain Talk

Will 5 Day Week Lead
Us to the Synagogue?

They conduct their services in
Hebrew and in English. Because
many of their number do not
understand Hebrew they have
started a Yeshiva, with after.
noon classes for children and
evening classes for adults. This
particular congregation in Har-
lem numbers approximately 3,000
people and there are also con-
By CILiRLOTTE WEBER
gregations in Brooklyn and in
Youngstown,
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WASHINGTON—Paul Robeson, an indefatigable worker against the
By ALFRED SEGAL
"In view of your small num-
forces of reaction in this
country, told a group of union men bers," I asked Rabbi Matthew,
LFRED M. COHEN (he's honorary president of the national Bnal
meeting in Cleveland that labor groups and minority groups must
"how do you keep your children
work together to combat a rising tide of fascist forces in our own within your fold? Whom do they
Brith) tells me he has been watching the want ad columns in
country.
the daily press hopefully.
marry?
He went on to discuss the similarity between the plight of the
One advertisement after another specifies that the job is on the
Negro and the Jewish people.
Rabbi Matthew hesitated a mo- five-day week, which generally means Saturday off.
Cohen forsees the time when the Saturday holiday will be uni-
"The tragic plight of Europe's anguished Jewish people was a ment. He stroked his long, black
beard, his curly side-burns, set the versal. Then what excuse will Jews
Year ago indescribable," Robeson
yarmulke straight on his gray- have for not being observers of
said. "Today our country sides
with those unspeakable jugglers of CIO-PAC, the CIO's political ac- tinged hair, and said softly but their Sabbath? No excuse at all, the teaching they get in their
Sabbath schools.
tion
committee,
are
symbols
for
firmly:
and Cohen en-
human fortunes, the British ruling
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visages J e w s
class, in making the lot of the an institution familiar to most
"We
are
strictly
against
inter-
Americans.
SCHOOL TEACHES VALUES
Jewish people unbearable.
marriage. Marriage between white packing their
Much of the political energy
synagogues on
THE SABBATH School a
"At this hour, in China, in
generated by the PAC has been and black is certainly out of the the Sabbath.
child learns he should honor
Greece, In Palestine and In other
question and so is marriage be.
used to support anti-lynching tween black Jew and Negro gen-
On the Sab-
Places, our government, Imperial-
the Sabbath, since It is holy. Its
and anti-poll tax legislation and tile . . . If a child of ours marries bath, Cohen
ist Britain and similar forces
holiness is established in the Ten
to fight for the creation of a a Christian, either the Christian himself ne ver
Commandments.
help crush the people's struggles
permanent Fair Employment becomes a Jew or we consider our misses being in
toward democracy, freedom and
But at home he learns some-
Practices Committee.
independence.
child dead. We then sit shiva and the synagogue
thing else. On the Sabbath his
Therefore, in the face of the say kaddish and . . . " His voice of which he has
"...The
worn
out
and
dethroned
father has perforce gone to his
r
been a member
epresentatives of reaction the CIO's demonstrated awareness of trailed off sadly.
work. His mother has gone about
more than 60
Alfred Segal
world over turn to American pow- the need to maintain civil liber-
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her shopping and, maybe, in the
years. He is always a guest at afternoon
er and might. And they get it. ties and the rights of minorities,
has a bridge game.
SPURNED
BY
WHITES
the
stand
of
the
AFL
in
opposing
the
altar
in
deference
to
his
years
The little people who really fought
There is no Sabbath in the child's
the
federal
bills
for
the
FEPC
is
and
his
faithful
service.
"YOU
SEE,"
he
began
regret-
house
against and defeated fascism are
fully but proudly, "we are a sect
being crushed and we help to do hard to understand.
He is also at religious worship
The child may wonder: What's
0 the
It was opposed on the ground whose claim to Judaism is for the on Sunday. Next door to Cohen's
crushing."
his Sabbath school teaching worth,
that legislative requirements might most part unaccepted by the white house
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a Presbyterian anyway? HI4 father is away on
injure rather than help in the Jews of the world. We are on church. stands
UNIONS SEE LINK
All his life Cohen has the job, though the sacred ordin-
promotion of tolerance.
good terms, but we have little to carried torches for the brother. ance says the Sabbath is a day
DOBESON'S TALK was spon-
The recommendation in opposi- do with each other. We are not hood of man. What more signifi-
of rest. His mother is busy at
sored by the International tion of the FEPC legislation is
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter contained in the annual report of numbered as their kind, receive cant way of being brotherly shopping.
no
aid
from
them,
nor
are
we
in-
than attending the neighbor's
Workers of the CIO.
The child may not put it in
the AFL presented by the execu- vited to take part in. their acti- church? So Cohen Is at his
just those words. He may ex-
Pres-
Many union groups have long tive council to the convention in vities.
byterian neighbor's services every
press it in disdain for all the
realized that the freedom of the Chicago recently.
Sunday.
We are also a sect which, al-
teaching he gets from his reli-
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worker to organize diminishes di.
though we look like the other
For a number of years he has gious teaching is valid in propor-
rectiy with the denial of freedom OPPOSE IMMIGRATION
people In Harlem, differ greatly been the guest of honor at the an. tion as he sees it practiced by
to other groups, especially minor-
LSO HARD TO understand is from the Negro gentile.
We be- nual dinner of this church and has his elders.
ity racial groups. After Hitler be- A the reasoning behind con-
have differently, have our own given the benediction.
So what's the Sabbath anyway?
gan his war on the minority tinued AFL opposition to lowering
It's just another day for his father
groups
he next began a systematic immigration bars to permit the customs and our own way of life.
So
you
see,
Cohen's
hope
for
a
d
estruction of the trade unions entry of European refugees into They, not understanding, are universal Sabbath observance to go to work, for his mother to
often resentful, and often just
do her shopping.
and their activities.
this country.
Indifferent- However, we take amongJews is well based on the
The CIO has been aware tha
Cohen isn't quarreling with the
fine
example
of
his
personal
devo-
t
Testimony
given
by
the
CIO
pride in our religion and, rec-
Its obligations ex tend beyond mak-
child's father for being at work
counsel during hearings on the ognized or not, have managed tion. He has been troubled because on the Sabbath. He knows the
ing wage and hour settlements.
of Jewish children who in their
(Continued on page 19)
to survive and grow."
own homes see no obedience to awful pressure that's in economic
(Continued on page 4)

Opposes Civil Liberties Measure,
Fights Lowering of Bars by U.S.

We May Still Stay Away on Sabbath
Since Other Interests Will Intervene

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