Friday, July 11, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Fage Fear
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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Letters to the Editor
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and modern, self-styled liberals
attend Temple on Sunday.
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I note that in your issue of
June 27 you have an editorial
So first generation reformers
on "Buckley Bill Disunity" in
which you take the American like Mr. Segal still have "nostal-
Jewish Congress and other gic memories of the warmth of
groups to task for their opposi- old Synagogues" and find it a
tion to the Buckley Bill and bit cool in the modern Temples
their failure to cooperate with
with their "chill of mausoleums"
the Jewish Labor Council in
And now, in order to work
amending the measure.
May I point out that the up a little life—a bissel lebben-
American Jewish Congress, as a reform Rabbi is sending out
well as all other responsible na- "First Aid Packets" to unlock
tional Jewish agencies, consider the silent mouths of the "deaf
the Buckley Bill so faulty and
inadequate that they could not and dumb". Ess vet zay helfen
regard it even as a starting vee a tayten bankehs unless you
point for discussion or as amend- send along a surgeon who pas
able. In fact, we consider the a miracle drug able to defiost
bill to be potentially very harm- the frozen hearts of these lost
ful to the cause of group libel Jewish souls.
legislation which the American
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Jewish Congress Heartily favors.
Have
you
ever.
Mr. Segal, vis-
Opponents of group libel legis-
lation use such badly drawn and ited a modern, model synagogue
untenable proposals us an effect- service (orthodox of course) on
ive argument against any legis- a Shabbos morning as conducted
by any one of the Young Israel
lation at all.
branches throughout the coun-
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The bill came to the attention try? There are about 35 of these
of the national Jewish agencies in the New York City area
only after it had already been alone, and about 30 branches
introduced into Congress. I am in various other 'cities through-
not aware of the fact that the out the country. You'll find
Jewish Labor Council is con- there a spiritual haven that
sidered particularly authoritative even you will find worthy of
or technically competent in the praise.
Not only do the congreganta
field of law and legislation.
recite the Sh'ma bekol rom, but
If they 'had been in earnest a large portion of the service
about securing sound technical consists -of congr,egational sing-
guidance, they could easily have ing of the sort that your Rabbi
conferred, long befote the bill Schwartz and his commission on
was introduced, with the na- synagogue activities will never
tional agencies who maintain
in a thousand years attain. Why?
specialized professional staffs for
They simply lack the "hisla-
such purposes. They might then
ayes."
have discovered that the Amer-
SAM H. BONCHEK,
ican Jewish Congress,' for ex-
President, Young Israel
ample, had been at work for
of Cleveland
months on municipal, state and
Federal measures with regard
to group libel.
BETH SHMUEL THANKS
DAVID PETEGORSKY. Dear Editor:
Executive Director
In behalf of the Ladies Auxil-
iary of Congregation Beth Shmuel,
A NOTE TO SEGAL
I take this opportunity to extend
Dear Editor:
our sincere thanks for your help
Ile's done it again! Seldom in making our Fifth Donor Lun-
does a week pass by that Mr. cheon a success.
Al Segal doesn't stick his neck
Articles appearing in your pa-
out on one subject or another. tier from time to time, prior to
If it isn't anent the Jewish all- our affair, were a constant re-
day school. on which he takes a minder and inspiration to our
stand opposed to anything that friends and followers.
smacks of Yiddishkeit, it's to
"badoyerr" the super-decorous
services" in the temples.
So the old time orthodox Shill
was too noisy—so Mr. Segal
couldn't stand it, nebuch, and
now his reform temple is too
quiet—ken ehr dus vidder nisht
WILDWOOD, N.J. — The new
lyden.
national marbles champion is 12-,
Poor Mr. Segal (and all his year-old Benjamin (Buddy) Sklar
ilk) he's really having a time of Pittsburgh, who won the na-
of it, finding a spiritual haven, tional tournament here.
isn't he? Have you tried the
Benjamin led his league from
Unitarian Church yet, Mr. S.? the first day's play and displayed
Or the Seventh Day Adventist? rare form as he defeated 13-year-
But, of course not the latter, old Ralph Brunty of Huntington,
they have services on Saturday, W. Va., in the finals.
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BUCKLEY BILL
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under tlie Act of March 3, 1879 Dear Editor:
CY AARON, Publisher
CHARLES TAUB, Business Manager
Vol 49, No. 28
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
NATHAN J. KAUFMAN, Managing Editor
FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1947 (Tamus 24, 5707)
DETROIT 26, MICH.
major contribution will have been made to
the stability of the world".
Despite our criticism of the quibbling res-
Collier's lets the chips fly where they
olutions by the Central Conference of may. "The double-leading and double-cros-
American Rabbis on the mixed marriage sing which Great Britain, and laterally our
issue, we must confess that our hats are own government, have given the Jews with
off to the reform Rabbis and their conserv- regard to their ancient homeland have been
ative colleagues for taking such courageous scandalous," the editorial asknowledges,
and unequivocal stands on several social and confounding those who would lay the blame
political questions at their recent conven- on petty Jewish-Arab differences ex-
tions.
clusively.
At Montreal, the Rabbis minced no words
It is this kind of thinking that will help
in pointing to the dangers inherent in the bring peace to a tormented land and a tor-
Truman doctrine and deploring the passage mented world.
of the Taft-Hartley labor legislation. They
expressed opposition to compulsory military
training, advocated FEPC and anti-lynching
JNF Elects Schlussel
measures, the extension of rent control and
In electing Irving W. Schlussel to the
"the reconstitution of price controls along
presidency, the Jewish National Fund
the lines of the OPA unless the President's
Council of Detroit has chosen one of the
plea for the reduction in prices is heeded or
city's most earnest and devoted young Zion-
the general level of wages materially in-
ist leaders. His selection augurs well for the
creases."
advancemnt of the council's efforts on be-
In New York, the conser4ative Rabbinate half of the Yishuv.
deplored the decline of liberalism implicit in
the passage of the Taft-Hartley bill "which
Schlussel has been president of Detroit
put labor back into the weak position from Mizrachi for several years and has been one
which it emerged after years of effort".
of the chief stimuli of the resurgence of the
When you consider that the reverend religious Ziogist movement here in recent
gentlemen head Synagogues and Temples years.
many of whose members hold violently con-
He is innately modest but his straight-
trary views, the honesty of their resolutions forwardness and industry make him a
is unchallengeable.
leader in any cause he espouses. He believes
in the greater participation of young peo-
ple and we are sure he will open the door
of the council wide to them.
Personal Contact
Social-Minded Rabbis
Appeals are being sent out by mail to all
Detroit Jews who have thus far not con-
tributed to the Allied Jewish Campaign for
$5,335,000. Gifts total approximately $4,-
000,000.
These last-minute pleas by mail are an-
other example of the weak planning and
poor administration which have marked the
drive throughout.
Altogether too much solicitation has been
done by mail and particularly by telephone.
While both media have their value, there is
nothing to compare 'with personal solici-
tation.
To this day, hundreds of potential con-
tributors have not been visited personally
and as a result they have made no offering
at all or promised meagre ones as a result
of a tepid telephone contact.
We realize that many of the solicitors
have fallen down on their jobs, but we are
certain that all the confusion and ,derelic-
tion could have been avoided by more sens-
ible planning.
It is up to the Federation moguls to see
that the missed calls are made and that
the procedure in future 'years be mapped
with broader vision and more efficient lead-
ersh f;).
"Tormented Palestine"
After the many thousands of empty
words that have been written about the
United Nations Palestine inquiry, Collier's in
its issue of July 12, summarizes the issue
in a tiny editorial, "Tormented Palestine",
that is a model of cogency and pithiness. It
covers the situation in a nutshell.
"If the UN falls down on the job," says
Collier's, "our feeling is: Heaven help the
UN." In this way, the editorial epitomizes
the hopes of the peoples of the earth that
the new international organizations can act
wisely and resolutely to settle a world
question.
For is it a world question. "Can't we
matt one fast, mighty effort to get this
prolgem settled somehow, and thereby get
it o the .front pages and out of the main
arena of:piople's emotions and prejudices?"
writes Collier's. "If that can be achieved, a
Under his regime, too, we hope that the
petty annoyances and evidences of favorit-
ism which marred the previous administra-
tion's relations with the Jewish Chronicle
will be erased for the good of Detroit
Zionism.
The Visiting Editor
The Hospital Merger
Quietly, without publicity, and without
the usual fanfare accompanying similar
events in Jewish communal life, two of the
leading, wholly philanthropic institutions
supported by the-Jewish community of Los
Angeles, have just about completed all an-
gles of a pierger of their properties, their
functions, and their services.
The 'Los Angeles Sanatorium which for
the past several decades has been concen-
trating its service on tuberculous patients,
and the Mt. Sinai Hospital and Clinic which
for almost as long a time has had an equal-
ly fine history of health service to the indi-
gent, will soon be one insttution.
There will be mutual benefits to both
institutions in this merger, because of eco-
nomy of budgeting,. staffing, and fund rais-
ing expenses. And there will be a great
number of visible and invisible benefits to
the community as well.
Buddy Sklar
Is '47 National
Marbles Champ
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MATTER
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The friendly, but intense rivalry between
these institutions in fund raising efforts did
not help toward the creation of unity in the
community. Their demands on the news-
papers were sometimes exasperating.
There will be a lessening of solicitations
for advertising in souvenir programs and
whatnots, which too, had reached an exas-
perating state in the community.
With the great national medical center
as the objective of the Sanatorium, and
now made part of the Mt. Sinai's objective
as well, we look for a greater maturity, a
more scientific methodology in the raising of
funds, and a greater institutional self-re-
spect and dignity in its public relations.. .
BNAI BRITH MESSENGER ; Los Angeles
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