Friday, April 25, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Strictly Confidential
Doublecross Visioned
for Zionists at UN
U.S. Officials to Reject Jeivs' Plea
And Appease Arabs, Writer Predicts
By RABBI MORRIS MAX
Executive Vice-President,
Rabbinical Council of America
THE CO-ORDINATION of or-
thodox forces in American
Jewish life, the establishment of
more Jewish day schools, a plan
for providing security for aged
Rabbis, Palestine and relief pro-
jects for European Jews will be
some of the subjects that will be
acted upon at the convention of
the Rabbinical Council America
to be held in Detroit, Monday
through Wednesday.
In line with its new policy of
thinking and acting on a national
scale, the Rabbinical Council has
brought its eleventh annual con-
vention to•Detroit In order to en-
able more of its members to at-
tend—especially those from the
Western part of the country.
Personal Problems
Rebbe 'Red Whiskers'
Terror of His Time
He Taught the Reading of Hebrew
With Aid of Copper-Riveted Strap
By DR W. A. GOLDBERG
THE REBBE, "Red Whiskers," as he was known without affection
to his pupils, or the Melamed, had the cheder in our town. To
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
amount to something, to learn correct Hebrew pronunciation, required
attendance at Red Whisker's cheder.
SOME ZIONISTS have been predicting for some time that Moscow
Sessions were held in the "summer kitchen" attached to the
will be giving moral aid to the Arabs. We go on record predicting
Rebbe's house. Pupils sat at a long bench on both sides of a wooden
that at the UN session the U. S. spokesmen will doublecross the
table. One electric bord supple-
Zionists and do everything to keep Ion Saud in good humor so as
mented the light from the 12- empty the gin bottles or to get rid
to safeguard American oil interests.
inch window in the center of one of the strap . . . only temporary
The Soviet Union will clamor for an independent Palestine, and
wall. The only
satisfactions. Every strap we
support a bi-national state . . .
other furniture
threw on the car tracks to be
Kurt Weill, noted composer, has molested and ernbarassed by the
was the locked
cut up by the street car wheels,
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booked passage for Palestine to Thomas-Rankin Corn m it t e e.
cupboard in
or threw down the two-holer in
visit his par- Frank has never stinted his sup- MERGER OF EFFORTS
which the Reb-
the yard, every gin bottle wo
ents . . . Hank port on behalf of anti-discrimi-
hid
be
stored
emptied was followed by another
EXPLORATORY WORK has
Greenberg due nation activities and it is up to been done with the Yeshiva Uni- Holland gin. On
strap, another bottle.
for a guest spot us • to show now that we have versity in New York, the Hebrew those few occa-
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on the Bing not forgotten . .
sions
when
he
Theological College in Chicago and
Crosby show in
forgot
to
lock
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TAUGHT
HOW
TO READ
the Union of Orthodox Jewish
a couple of
the cupboard,
HE TAUGHT HIS pupils correct
Congregations
of
America
with
the
weeks... Charlie POT POURRI
Hebrew. Deficient as a. teacher,
aim of -bringing about a closer we had fun.
Chaplin returns EVEN IF YOU don't like Walter coordination if not a • merger of
Sunday thru
with limited knowledge, he re-
to California
Winchell, his April 15 column their efforts and activities so that Thursday a n d Dr. Goldberg
peated the portions of the Five
soon "to see on the former Grand Mufti of the orthdox Jewish communities also on Saturday, everybody, aged Books. Not one pupil has ever
our babies . . . Jerusalem is worth reading. Seems throughout the country may be seven through 14, repeated the made a show of himself but has
P. J. Blron Stella Adler is as if the notorious Nazi collabor• served more fully and effectively. Biblical portion for the week. We been able to read creditably . . .
exhibiting the paintings of Nor- ator is planning to return to Pal-
A history of the growth of this read the Hebrew, the Rebbe trans- whatever level that may be called.
man Raben at her home. He's the estine from his Egyptian "exile"... Rabbinic body in the last quarter lated into .Yiddish and we repeated
My mother and I had many
son of the immortal Sholom Alei-
Watch your bookstore for Sin- of a century reveals the necessity his translation. If we faltered with discussions (not arguments, of
cheim . . .
clair Lewis' new book—"King's for such a merger at this parti- the translation or if we made course) about what I said was the
the strap.
waste of time spent in this Che-
What is ex-Gov. Lehman plan- Blood Royal"—due about May 22. cular time. Organized 25 years ago spitballs, out • came
• •
der. For the same time and the
ning to do with the suite of of- The most savage indictment of as a Rabbinic alumni of the Rab-
same fee, the neighboring Tal-
fices he's opened in New York's race prejudice in the U. S. that bi Isaac Elchanan Theological CRUEL INVENTION
Squibb Building? . . .
has ever been published . .
Seminary, the Rabbis were soon THE REBBE was an inventor mud Torah taught reading, writ-
Orchids to Charlie Chaplin. His called upon by communities thru- z ' because nowhere have I seen ing, grammar, the commentaries.
Joseph Curtis, whose father is
the same kind of strap.
Old
Columbia film executive Jack quiet and dignified replies to out the country to take the lead leather belting two Inches wide etc . . . far beyond our progress.
Cohen, will quit the movies for smear-slanted questions of Hearst in planning for the furtherance of was layered together and kept In But mother always said she didn't
dare send her children elsewhere
an advertising career . . . Is Judge "reporters" at a press conference orthodox observances and the in-
one piece with copper rivets. And
Samuel Leibowitz eyeing the D.A. last week won the respect of a tensification of Jewish learning the Rebbe was no Annie Oakley and still save face, because the
Rebbe was her brother.
majority of the newsmen attend- among the American Jewish youth.
office in Brooklyn? . . .
when he swung . . . believing that
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"Bloody ThurSday" was Targum
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ing . .
if he hit one or two pupils, the Day, when we read the Aramaic
This week we journey to Ar- SUPPLY CHAPLAINS
commentaries with its peculiar
gentina for a look behind the
DEFENSE BILL SILENCE
TWELVE YEARS AGO the others would keep in line.
Only in the Cheder could the pronounciatlon. More mistakes
WHY THE STRANGE silence smokescreen of anti-communist Rabbis reorganized themselves in-
WHY
Rebbe
maintain
ego
satisfaction.
than usual meant more strap-
the part of Jewish de- hysteria. Several months ago Juan to a national Rabbinic body and
fense organizations about the Peron discharged more than 5,000 they soon came in contact with To keep him fortified, he used pings than usual.
Holland
gin
and
to
bolster
his
The Rebbe has gone wherever
Buckley bill (H.R. 2848). This bill school teachers. The reason given the Rabbinical Association of the
. demands the outlawing of anti- was that these scholars were Hebrew Theological College, an- fortification, more gin. And he you believe Rebbes go. But the
vented
the
bitterness
of
his
life
Ivrah he taught, the memory of
Semitism and definitely says so. "reds"—opposed to the Peron dic- other orthodox Rabbinic group
Holland gin, the leather straps,
engaged in the same work. A upon his pupils.
Which reminds us that Jew- tatorship.
The
only
way
we
could
get
even
the poor substitute for a religious
A high percentage of those dis- merger between the two groups
ish organizations should protest
was to raid the cupboard and education . .. all these linger on..
en masse if Sinatra Is to be missed were of Jewish origin .. . was consummated in 1942 and
since then the membership has
grown to 350.
The merger came at an oppor-
tune time. The Rabbinical Coun
cil was ready, when the last war
started, to supply chaplains for
the armed forces of our country
who supplied the orthodox Jewish
men and women with their re-
ligious needs in accordance with
the tenets of their traditional
faith.
As the Rabbinic body of the
Union or Orthodox Jewish Con-
gregations, which is the organized
orthodox Jewish laity, it was of
great service on the home front.
The numerous pamphlets pub-
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
By ALFRED SEGAL
lished by that organization, cover-
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON — If you want to get a Democrat fighting mad ing different phases of Jewish ONLY RECENTLY your correspondent, was trying to behave like
one of the prophets in Israel. He might have been Isaiah or
swipe his legislation and call it a Republican bill.
life—such as the dietary laws, the
Several weeks ago House Democrat Edward Hebert of Louisiana Sabbath and all the other festivals Micah or Malachi but all he got was hell for being that way.
In his prophetic function lie had arisen in his town to speak
introduced a bill to establish an alcoholic clinic in the District of of the Jewish calendar—were writ-
Columbia. The bill had to be rewritten in some sections. This re- ten by members of the Rabbinical up for a Negro. He was, indeed, no ordinary Negro either. He had
done prodigiously for alma mater the local university) on the foot-
writing was done by Republican A. L. Miller of Nebraska and, the
Council and edited by the publica- ball team.
bill ended up as the Miller instead
tions committee.
How the town had cheered him
of the Hebert bill.
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number of years but face deporta-
when he was making the touch- him a trouble-maker. Some said
Good Democrat Hebert, his Ire tion because their temporary visas
it was the Jew in him. He was
down. He heard
aroused, rose in the House one have run out or because their en- KASHRUS SURVEY
undermining the good name and
THROUGH
THE
Kashrus
com-
praiseful
"Oh,
day and condemned equally good try was illegal because of some
fame of the city. He had civic
mission
it
has
investigated
the
you
Willy"
all
Republican Miller for "one of the technical violation of the immi-
patriotism . . . ''Why do you Jews
manufacture
of
numerous
food
through
every
rawest legislative thieveries ever gration code.
stand up for niggers?" one asked
products to ascertain whether they game ... "Atta
perpetrated in any Congress."
him.
Put in by Congressman Frank are Kosher. After a thorough in- boy, Willy!"
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The university's trustees met in
Fellows of Maine and Senator vestigation was made the Union His prowess had
TRUMAN MAY ACT
solemn, special convocation. A ma-
William Langer of North Da- was authorized to permit the caused the team
IT'S A FUNNY thing, but the kota, the hill would enable the
jority voted that it was all right
manufacturer to use the (U) in-
Republicans seem to hav e Attorney General to stay de- signia on the label of his prod- to be so suc-
to play in the bowl without Wil-
cessful
that
it
grabbed off some of the best Im- portation if the alien has shown ucts showing that it has the sanc-
ly. The team went to the bowl
was
invited
to
migration bills in spite of the "good moral character" for the tion of the Union.
without Willy.
one
of
those
Al
Segal
fact that the immigration Issue is preceding five years.
As a result of the high standard "bowl" games
Your humble prophet mentions
one of the specific terns hoped for
In certain other cases, where of supervision that has been estab- down South. Then the university all this not in any vainglory at
by the Truman administration.
lished the confidence of the con- authorities decided that Willy having tried to be a prophet, but
Should the trend continue the alien is racially ineligible for sumer and the manufacturer in could no longer be the hero of only to make a point; to suggest
some observers suggest that the naturalization, it permits the At- the (U) as a symbol of Kashrus the team. In deference to pre- what happens to one who tries
President may be obliged to go torney General to suspend de- has been firmly established.
judices that are supposed to be to play the prophet nowadays,
before the Congress with a spe- portation proceedings if the per-
Realizing the importance of the indigenous to the South, Willy even as in former times.
son
has
been
in
continuous
resi-
cial message on immigration not
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printed word it has established a would have to stay at home.
only to bring a straying chicken dence for seven years or if his publications commission to convey
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wife,
parent
or
child
is
a
citizen
home to roost but to bring into
to as many Jews as possible the I' ROPI IET'S MANTEL
line those among his own party and is economically dependent on value of the Torah's principles IT WAS THEN that your cor- HE MIGHT NOT have brought
who bitterly oppose immigration. him.
up the matter at all if it were
respondent took up the pro-
The catch in this bill is that for Jewish living. Its first booklet
Good bills recently introduced
not for something that Rabbi
entitled "The Jewish Concept of
by Republicans, for example, in- these aliens, when allowed to stay, Marriage," which is an explana- phet's mantel in the column he Ferdinand Isserman of St. Louis
clude one in the House to enable would be awarded a quota num- tion of the Jewish wedding cere- conducts in one of the town's said in a speech at Indianapolis
the admission of 400,000 displaced ber from the current year's quota mony in the form of a frank talk daily press. He was Amos saying recently. It seems that Rabbi Is-
aren't we all God's children. 113
persons using quota numbers of their country of origin. This to the bride and groom, has been was Micah reasserting the verse serman was calling for a I I
which had accumulated during the would be one less quota number distributed in tens of thousands
about the good life that deals prophets. This is to say, he had
available for displaced persons.
war.
justly and walks humbly. He was the idea that Jews might resume
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But even this fluke may be of copies.
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•
•
Isaiah thundering for justice. He their role as heirs of the pro-
ironed by an amendment now be-
STATUS OF ALIENS
phets.
NEW SIDDUR DUE
ANOTHER BILL, introduced by ing considered—by another Re- Among the projects of this com- said the team should refuse to
He mentioned several angles of
play in the bowl if Willy couldn't
" Republicans in both House publican—that would take an un- mission are two which will be of play in it.
the current life in which Jews
and Senate, would help consider- used quota number from the year Interest to American Jewry as a
could be IT
prophetic,
In accordance
But what did this prophet get? WHERE
MATTERED
ably in adjusting the status of in which the alien entered this
(Continued on page 15)
I A flock of angry letters called
(Continued on page 5)
aliens who have been here for a country to legalize his presence.
Capital Letter
GOP Hit for 'Stealing'
Best Immigration Bills
Truman May Go Before Congress
With His Measure to Aid Refugees
•
U.S. Orthodoxy •
Speaks Up
=6
Plain Talk
Prophets of Today
Face Rebuffs Only
May Wait 100 Years for Recognition
But Should Speak Up Now Anyhow