America ,fewisk Periodical Cotter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO Editor Derides Civil War Fear Torah Rescued From Germans Finds a Safe Haven in Ecuador was used for the first time recent- ly at the Bar Mitzvah services. Six Jewish lads recited the an- cient blessings over this Torah, which had at long last found its way back to the little community of German refugees in the new world. NEW Labor Unit Tells of Silesian Efforts NEW YORK—Disclosing current conditions among Jews in Lower Silesia, Poland, the American Jew- ish Labor Council today made public a report from its trade union delegation after a tour through newly established Sile- sian Jewish communities. The delegates were inspired by the "production, courage and spir- it of thousands of Jews" who were settled in Lower Silesia and who are determined to build a new life for themselves, the report stated. Orphaned children are well cared for in numerous homes throughout Lower Silesia. Jewish culture, re-established after • the Hitler terror, is blossoming. Jew- ish cooperatives formed with the help of the Polish Government are a "huge success" according to the delegates. The report disclosed also that despite the great strides that have YORK — A Torah, which was spirited out of Germany by a German refugee, entrusted to the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB), for safekeeping, and which later was used at religious YORK — Just returned services of Jewish chaplains on NEW omPalestine, Rabbi Aaron Fech- Pacific battlefronts, has finally • nick, editor of official Mizrachl come to stay in the German-Jew- Organization publications, declared ish community of Gunyquil, Ecu- this week that "there need be no ador, where it was used recently fear of civil war in the Holy at the first Bar Mitzvah held in the community. Land." NEW YORK — Asserting that This was disclosed here by the the plight of the refugees and dis- Rabbi Pechenick, who is also director of Mizrachi's Overseas JWB which had sent the Torah placed persons in German and Rehabilitation Department, spent to the Communidad de Culto Is- Austrian camps "has been trans- three months in Palestine survey- raelito in response to ah SOS from formed into a political problem ing refugee needs and conferring its chairman, A. Jamszon and which retards the estaldishment with Zionist leaders. On his way secretary, A. Bernstein. of peace in Central and Eastern • * * to America, he spent two weeks Europe," the interim committee of in Egypt gathering information on YOUTH SAVES TORAH the American Jewish Conference the Egyptian-Jewish community THE ODYSSEY of the Torah called upon the U.S. Government and their Zionist orientation. goes back to the days when Nazi to initiate an emergency program Having traveled throughout all violence and incendiarism had on immigration to this to country. induce of the Holy Land, visiting most reached a new high. A synagogue and by its example of the settlements, Rabbi Peche- dear to a German Jewish youth other countries to accept their nick today reported: "There is no named David Kaufman, since his share of these refugees. The Government was urged to fear of civil war in Eretz Israel. earliest childhood, was due for I found Palestinian Jewry united a "visitation." He stole Into the adopt a five-point porgram: in its resistance to British oppres- synagogue at night, took the To- 1. Waiver of the system of allo- sion. It is this united resistance rah, and carried it out secretly cating fixed proportions of quota when he left the land of his birth visas according to countries of that has given the British govern- forever. origin on a temporary basis, and ment cause for great unrest." In America, Kaufman, now a for the exclusive benefit of refu- resident of Grand Island, Neb., WAR OF NERVES gees and displaced persons; learned that the JWB was call- 2. Recapture approximately 125,- "With unusual stoic reserve, the ing for Torahs to be used by Its Yishuv is conducting a 'war-of- chaplains for GI services, he an- 000 permits unused during the fis- nerves' against the government. swered the call, and the Torah cal year ending June 30, 1946, and Simultaneously, the upbuilding of became the property of the JWB. their allocation to European refu- the homeland continues unabated," Subsequently the Torah found its gees and displaced persons; 3. Similar allocation of all nor- be added. way to far distant Pacific out- mally unused quotas during the Declaring that he was over- posts, gladdening by its presence next three years; whelmed by the "high spirit of the hearts of homesick GIs. 4. Grant of priority among refu- In time, the Torah came 'home.' gees the Yishuv which is energetically and displaced persons to vic- building a Jewish homeland and But it was not destined to remain tims of religious and racial per- defending Jewish dignity," Rabbi there for long. secution; • * * Pechenick pointed out that the 5. Improvement in the present word 'fear' had disappeared from SEND OUT S.O.S. inadequate visa service in Europe the Palestinian horizon. The Yish- WHILE THE TORAH had been to insure that the entire number uv's disciplined 'war-of-nerves' has doing Its bit in the war, a little of persons admissible under the made the Britisher nervous and group of German-Jewish refugees quota regulations will receive the depressed, he said adding, that had, in the meantime, arrived at necessary clearance. the administration's actions against Guayaquil, Ecuador, where they innocent citizens have proven established a synagogue. stupid and nonsensical. The first great thrill in the life SEASON'S "The dismissal of Gen. Barker of the little congregation came, and Col. Webb is an indication when it was announced that the GREETINGS! first Bar Mitzvah would be held that the government admits its tactics to date are fraught with in the new temple. But the con- gregation learned to its dismay guilt." that this could not come off since it lacked talesim (prayer shawls) BROUGHT BY BRITAIN and tefilin (phylacteries) — and Rabbi Pechenick declared that above all, a Torah. the Yishuv generally Is opposed to 10461 GRATIOT AVE. An appeal went out across the extremist uprisings in the land. continent to the office of the JWB PL. 6160 "However, the average man in the in New York, for the ritual' ar- street," he said, "feels that 'ter- ticles, and in particular, a Torah. rorism' has resulted directly from In response to the call, the Torah ■ s. Britain's political deceit. 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