Friday, January 3, 1947
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ASSAILS 'TOADIES'
Dear Editor:
The wisdom of Solomon and the
Psalms of David are still quoted
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and sung by the more erudite of
qntered
the Christian clergy and laity.
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
Where were the various European
CY AARON, Publisher
NATHAN J. KAUFMAN, Managing Editor
supermen in 1000 BCE? What was
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Manager
their social and civilized standing?
Detroit
26,
Mich.
Well sonny, ask your Aryan pro-
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1947 (Teveth 11, 5707)
Vol. 49, No. 1
fessor of history and after you get
the answer you will feel a new
for 1947, the communal leaders are ad-
pride at being a Jew.
Appeasement at Basle
vised to be more diplomatic, more tact-
And yet, there are Jews who
It may be argued that it is too early ful, more sagacious and more prescient
when among their Gentile friends
desperately try to hide their Jew-
to appraise fully the deliberations and than ever.
ishness in the vain belief that by
A misstep may be disastrous. Let us
decisions of the World Zionist Congress,
so doing they will rate ace high
but its failure to take positive action with have no feelings hurt, no groups inad-
with them.
regard to several vital issues is to be vertently overlooked, no arrogance, no
Nothing is further from the
truth. The self degrading toady
favoritism.
deplored.
might receive a certain contemp-
The 1947 campaign will be Detroit MOTHERS MISLED
From this vantage point, we can hardly
Currently, a number of the De- tuous tolerance — which to a self-
say that the Congress was a success. In Jewry's greatest challenge. It must not troit hospitals do not permit a respecting person is an insult —
fact, one is forced to conclude that mat- fail because someone blundered.
Mohel to operate, and even in but that is all.
Nothing is more incongruous
those instances where the Mohel
ters are no better than if the Congress
is permitted, many uninformed than a Jew celebrating Christmas,
had not met at all, so little of concrete
young Jewish mothers permit which is purely a Christian religi-
and permanent value having been ac-
Felicitations to Mizrachi
themselves to be misled by some ous event.
Passover, Chanukah, Rosh Ha-
Jewish as well as non-
complished.
For 35 years, Detroit Mizrachi has acted physicians,
Jewish, to the belief that the life sonah and Yom Kippur are all
We may be forced to change this view, unobtrusively and devotedly doing its part of
the child might be endangered universally recognized as great
and we hope we can, after the newly cre- in fosterng Zionism without any surrender unless the physician perform the events in human experience and
ated Zionist General Council concludes of traditional religious obligations and Miloh.
particularly so to Jews. There
its sessions. We are not too sanguine about goals. In a Holy Land were acquisition of Furthermore, the current prac- would be no Christianity but for
in most hospitals to send the a Jew or an Old Testament either.
its efforts, since early reports indicate the land subordinated aspects of holiness, tice
mother and child home from the
It would take a full sized ency-
council is as hopelessly split as was the Mirachi worked zealously to preserve tra- hospital on the fifth day under clopedia to record Jewish contri-
circumstances has persu- butions, in the matters of art, sci-
Congress itself.
ditions which through the ages preserved normal
aded uninformed young mothers ence, literature and statesmanship
At Basle, we had a world Zionist body Israel in the diaspora.
that it is perfectly proper to have toward western culture. And all
meeting for the first time in years deliber-
On Jan. 14, Detroit Mizrachi will cele- the circumcision done on the fifth are agreed that the Jews are the
ating for over two weeks and bogging brate 35 years of fruitful labors at a ban- day because it is "safer" to have spark plug in any nation's busi-
ness.
down in a sea of words and resolutions. quet in Shaarey Zedek. We know we it in the hospital.
A Europe without Jewish enter-
There was the usual bickering, name-cal- speak for the entire community in wish- RITE IS BASIC
prise, initiative and acumen can
Nothing
is
further
from
the
ling, pettiness and irreconcilability. Noble ing Mizrachi many more successful years
never make a full comeback. This
and touching words were spoken in eulogy of endeavor on behalf of Israel and in truth. The Jewish community they will eventually find out. A
should be informed that the Rite
of leaders dead and living. Some speakers
tribute to its many loyal mem- of Circumcision performed on the. Jewish nation in Palestine might
reached great heights in oratory. There offering
day after birth is basic to be the shot in the arm needed for
bers who labor to make Palestine a cen- eighth
world recovery.
Jewish life and tradition, that cir-
were tears and cheers. But little was ac- ter of holiness as well as a Homeland.
Jack Freeman.
cumcision
done
by
a
physician
is
complished by this heterogeneous group
highly improper, and that the child
of sincere but inept elders.
who has been circumcized by a
EDITORIAL PRAISED
The partition issue was bandied
physician has not entered into the Dear Editor:
covenant of Abraham, and cannot
about between Dr. Weizmann and his
Your editorial on the World
be considered a member of the
faction who espoused it and by Dr. Sil-
Jewish fold. Any other policy Zionist Congress deserves special
commendation.
ver and his adherents who condemned
leads to assimilation.
Your support of a Provisional
it. In the end, it was left up in the air
The AbrahamIc Covenant, the
characteristic symbol of Judaism, Hebrew Government in Palestine
although the London conference boycott
Lucky Little Nazis
must be performed on the eighth is extremely welcome to those of
vote implied a repudiation of the de-
of the child's life, in the man- us who have advocated right along
-
It is one of the universally recognized day
teatist proposal.
ner perscribed by religious ritual. that we must labor to determine
destiny and, with the help of
Considering the boycott decision itself, principles of jurisprudence that an ac- It is much more than a surgical own
the Almighty, that is the only
one can hardly claim Congress decisive- complice to a crime, either before or af- operation for purposes of health road to our salvation.
ness in a vote of 171 to 154 with 25 ab- ter its commission, is as guilty as the ac- or I hygiene.
The valued publicity which the
trust that every bit of pub-
sentions. Whether this vote will even tual perpetrator of the crime. It is also licity possible will be given in Chronicle has been giving to this
shows your splendid and
stand was not certain at the time of this a basic principle of law that the plotters your paper to this dangerous chal- project
of a basic principle of Jew- progressive organ is again leading
writing. On its face value, however, it was of a conspiracy are all equally guilty ir- lenge
respective of the extent to which they ish life. Apparently, the Jewish Jewish public opinion, instead of
a reluctant gesture of support for Dr. have actively participated in furthering community itself requires more following it.
The New Zionist Organization
Silver and the ZOA program of militancy.
education on this subject than the
of Detroit,
hospitals or physicians.
The vote was too close, however, to im- the criminal plot.
M. MANUEL MERZON, Sec'y
But when it comes to Nazi criminals
RABBI ELIEZER LEVI
pute acceptance of an aggressive policy
BRITII MILOII EVADED
Dear Editor:
I would like to call the atten-
tion of the Jewish community to
a most serious problem that faces
it with regard to the practice of
the Rite of Circumcision. (Brith
Miloh.)
Honest physicians who have no
personal axe to grind will admit
that an experienced Mohel per-
forming the rite in the traditional
manner, is in most instances, bet-
ter qualified than the average
physician. Certainly, our experi-
ence during the many centuries
prior to modern surgical technique
would indicate that no one is bet-
ter qualified to perform the cir-
cumcision than a qualified Mohel.
The Visiting Editor
of defiance of Britain. Dr. Weizmann's
appeasers, apparently, still held a strong
Congress grip.
It is to be regretted that the Congress
didn't have the courage to proclaim itself
the Provisional Government of Palestine
and inaugurate a full-scale resistance in-
side Palestine and a trade boycott of Brit-
ain that would have let perfidious Albion
know that Basle was not another Munich.
Glancing at the assembly results, one is
constrained to guess that it was.
New York Shows The Way
New York again shows the way for the
nation. The Jewish community there has
virtually doubled its 1946 goal and has
undertaken to raise $65,000,000 of the
$170,000,000 national quota set for 1947
by the United Jewish Appeal.
There will be the usual million dollar
gift and a few in the hundred thousand
dollar bracket, but the overwhelming ma-
jority of subscriptions will be in the $25
and $100 class. These will be the ones
that will put the drive across. It will not
be the millionaires but the masses who
will make a success of the 1947 appeal
to America's comfortable Jews on behalf
of their forlorn brothers in Europe.
New York will do it and so will Detroit
when the task is presented to it.
There is a word of warning, how-
ever, that should be spoken. Detroit's
community leaders must not let them-
selves get smug about the forthcoming
drive. There is a spirit of defeatism
prevailing about civic charitable under-
takings in Detroit. The Community
Chest failed to attain its goal and the
Goodfellow fund, for the first time in
memory, failed to raise its quota.
Lest that gloomy spirit do any damage
to Detroit Jewry's record-breaking drive
it seems that all sound principles of law
are abandoned for disgusting sentiment-
ality. How else can one explain the Christ-
mas amnesty recently granted to 800,000
"little" Nazis in the American zone in
Germany? The Nuremberg trial was sup-
posed to have established a new prin-
ciple of international law—that persons
engaged in a conspiracy to incite war are
war criminals and subject to punishment
befitting their crime .. .
The Nazi party was the arch conspir-
ator, and its members were accomplices,
either as direct participants in crimes
or as conscious recipients of the bene-
fits resulting from the crimes. When the
Germans plundered Europe, it was com-
mon knowledge that the loot went to
enrich the Nazi members. In fact, it
was the prospect of such personal gains
that prompted many to join the party.
When the Nazis slew millions of Jews
and non-Jews it made no difference to
the victims whether their murderers
were "little" or "big" Nazis.
Why, then, should a distinction be made
between Nazis when it comes to retribu-
tion? The 800,000 were Nazis in fact and
in deed, understood the nature of the
conspiracy of the Nazi party and stood
ready to receive the benefits of victory.
Nov, by a mysterious twist of logic, they
are rid of the stigma of criminality.
We do not say that the 800,000 should
be made to pay the supreme penalty—
though if the situation were reversed they
would not hesitate to kill, murder and
plunder. But it is certainly a miscarriage
of justice to exonerate them, particularly
in the light of the recent assertion by
Gen. Clay that the Germans were bog-
ging down in their denazification efforts...
NATHAN ZIPRIN,
Seven Arts Feature
Ill Health Causes Personality Faults
(Continued from page 3)
cal program . . . all under the
direction of the family doctor.
More people are finding the ben-
efits of improving the physical ap-
pearance of their children. Much
can be done in this regard by or-
thodontia. The child with the un.
derslung jaw, protruding teeth or
ill-looking teeth is at a disadvan-
tage from a personality stand-
point.
*
CONFIDENCE WEAKENS
ACH PERSON REACTS to an-
other according to the first
person's idea of the reaction of the
other person. Therefore, If a
child feels that other people are
reacting unfavorably to him (and
the child visualizes this on the
basis of physical appearance), the
first child thinks less well of him-
self. It is an undermining of
self-confidence.
Even as in plastic surgery, more
is involved than the surgery. The
shot-in-the-arm to the personality
and self-confidence are primary In
importance.
Many personality difficulties can
be ameliorated by ruling out or by
treating physical conditions. The
well child or adult is less likely
to have or to develop personality
problems.
Dr. Goldberg Is pleased with
the many favorable comments he
has received following his recent
column on the Christmas tree.
Please feel free to comment on
material in this column.
(Copyrighted 1946. All rights reserved.)
Looking Back Through the Years
Events as complied from the files of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle
25 Years Ago
Dr. Stephen S. Wise attacks fashion follies of high society.
Julian Zemon, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Zemon of Virginia Park,
gave several specialty dances at the opera, "Make It for Two," staged
by students of the University of Michigan at Orchestra Hall.
20 Years Ago
Asher Ginsburg (Ached Ha'am), Hebrew essayist, philosopher and
spiritual father of Zionism, dies in Tel Aviv at age of 70.
David A. Kleinman will leave Jan. 8 for a short stay in Philadel-
phia prior to his departure for Florida and Havana, Cuba. Ho will
be accompanied on his trip south by his father.'
10 Years Ago
Dr. W. NL Howlett in New York, suggests placing Jews of Ger-
many In United States and England.
Rabbi Leon Fram will be guest speaker Jan. 8 In Grand Rapids
at the installation of Rabbi Jerome Folkman at Temple Emanuel.
5 Years Ago
Meyer Levin, 25-year-old Brooklyn boy and bombardier on Capt.
Colin Kelly's plane, recommended for Distinguished Flying Cross by
esident Roosevelt.
Emma Scharer scores huge success in concert at Carnegie Hall,
New York.