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Friday, October 24, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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SERIIION OF THE WEEK:
UN Events Are Part of Providential Design
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By RABBI
M. J. WOHLGELERNTER
THESE ARE EVENTFUL
DAYS in which we live. Be-
fore our very eyes history is
being written. One reads the
news headlines or hears a radio
broadcast, and a page from the
Bible comes to life. In the sensi-
tive words of the Hoshana Rab-
bi prayer, Kol m'vaser m'vaser
v'omer:
"A voice heialds and calls:
Fulfilled is the ancient
prophecy."
As we follow the UN Assem-
bly proceedings it is impossible
escape the tremor of a mys-
ical experience. This is not a
mere political wrangle. What is
unfolded before us in the day
to day reports from Lake Suc-
cess is rather the Providential
design which is the very basis
of our religious beliefs - and upon
which our national aspirations
are founded.
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A TALMUDIC TRADITION
divides the 6,000 years of re-
corded history into three eras of
equal duration. In its first. 2,000
years man's world was spirit-
ually desolate, characterized by
blind groping for truths and ad-
justment.
With the appearance on the
Oriental scene of Abraham—
first prophet of Monotheism and
teacher of righteous living—
there begins the period of Torah,
of training in religious and
moral values.
Our own tint s mark the
conclusion of the A third and last
epoch, the "Days of the Mes s
siah," when humanity is en-
gaged in a quest for the ulti-
mate realization of a just so-
cial order.
• • •
IT IS WELL THAT we do not
lose sight of this broader per-
spective in the midst of our
struggle for immediate c9c-
Personal Problems
Adolescent Requires
Sympathy of Parents
They Must Overlook Minor Failings,
Have Faith in Child and Guide Him
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
MORE THAN.ONE PARENT despairs that his son will ever learn
1". to keep himself clean or come to the table washed and neat
or stop climbing fences and tearing his clothes.
If this is true with boys, it is true earlier with girls. Joan
suddenly stops running around with little boys and becomes a
young lady. Where she has used a dab of lipstick and rouge on
the sly, she now wants to use
it openly.
Parents can save much emo-
Boys and girls suddenly blos- tional upset if they will select
som out as
the basic controls in the lives
young adults.
of their growing children, guide
The boy spends
firmly and totally ignore the
endless time
minor elements. Youngsters soon
slicking his
learn when parents mean busi-
shoes, brushing
ness. If the parent is firm about
his hair, bor-
major matters, there will be
rowing Dad's
no confusion in the child's
thinking.
ties or asking
• • •
for the car.•
Sharon sud-
FEARFUL PERIOD
denly has a
DOLESCENCE IS a fearful
interest in Dr. Goldberg
time for a yc,ong man or
dresses and dances.
woman. The physical disturb-
is
This sudden transformation
ances of the body are great and
a sign of budding maturity. It
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means also that Dad and Moth-
er are getting older. The chil-
Strictly Confidential
dren are growing up.
• • •
•
UNWELCOME SIGNS
A LONG WITH DESIRABLE
signs of maturation, come
others 'which seem not so desir-
able on the surface. Son is posi-
tive that he can set his own
hours; daughter knows what to
wear and what to do. These
children have become young
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
adults and are trying to become
WHILE THE NATIONAL CON-
independent.
" FERENCE of Christians and
Our attitude remains as we
have stated it: A parent is Jews its itself on the back on
merely a trustee, guiding the the grounds that, as it believes,
child and teaching him, all anti-Semitism is on the decrease
with the single aim of total in America, public. and confi-
dential polls prove that anti-
independence of the child.
Jewish sentiment has reached a
- N. Adolescence is a trying time
for parents and for children. new high in the United States.
The most dangerous anti-
The parents rebel, more or less,
at this sudden independence. democratic outfit unquestionably
is Arnet lean
The children rebel at being tied
Action, Inc., fi-
down.
nanced by no-
Is there a guiding rule? Un-
torious hate
fortunately, human conduct is
peddlers
not so well-defined that detailed
among them
rules can he set _down as a
Gen Robert L.
specific guide. Only the general
Wood (former-
rule is known.
ly head of
America First),
PARENTS ARE GUIDES
Col. Robert R.
PARENTS MUST BE the guid-
McCormick (of
ing force. They have to over-
the Chicago
P. J. Biron
look many things which, on the
surface, appear to be violating Tribune), Robert M. Herris (one
the customs of the home. Par- of Coughlin's stalwart support-
ents must learn to distinguish ers), Larnont DuPont and other
between the important and non- "eminent" reactionaries.
Gerald L. K. Smith, Elizabeth
Important items of life.
tives. Statehood for Jewish Pal-
estine, free immigration and
land purchase and unrestricted
opportunities for economic and
cultural development are the
RABBI WOHLGELERNTER
Orphan Pair
Adopted by
Yiddish Star
NEW YORK —Two war or-
phans arrived in New York
City from Belgium last week.
to be taken into the home of
Maurice Schwartz, director of
the ayiddish Art Theater and star
of ,`T- Shylock and His Daughter,"
United Service for New Ameri-
cans revealed.
The y'oung refugees are Fan-
nie and Moses Englender, 8 and
9. Their parents were killed in
Poland by the Nazis.
Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz became
acquainted with Moses last sum.
mer during a theatrical tour of
DP centers, while visiting the
Wesembeek Home for refugee
children, maintained in Brussels
by the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee.
Charmed by the little boy,
they started to make arrange-
ments to bring him to this coun-
try with his sister. Fannie was
away at the time, and Mr. and
Mrs. Schwartz did not meet her,
but they included both children
in their plans.
For the past five years Fannie
and Moses lived with a Christian
family in Belgium who hid them
during the German occupation.
necessary tools for the achieve-
ment of the goal. Yet more than
that is at stake
What is being evolved in
Eretz Israel is not just absorp-
tive capacity for homeless Jews.
The rebuilding of the Homeland
is bound up with the restora-
tion of Israel as r people dedi-
cated to universal Messianic
aims.
Zionism has been a Divine in-
strument despite the secular na-
ture of some of its pronounce-
ments and notwithstanding cer-
tain aspects of present-day life
in the Jewish National Home.
Martin Buber, in a recent
volume, points out the fallacy
in the attempt to dissociate the
movement from its religious
source.
"The story of Abraham," we
quote from his penetrating He-
brew essay, "which ties the gift
of the land to the command,
'and thou shalt be a blessing,
is very brief and concentrated
summary of the fact that the
union of this people with this
land was placed under the sign
of a specific purpose. The people
came to the land in order to
carry out this purpose . . . at
no time in Jewish history was
this land simply the possession
of the people. Always there was
the demand to make of the land
that which God wanted it to
become."
• • •
IN THE READING of the To-
rah for this week (Par's gas
Lech) the promise of Eretz Is-
rael to Abraham and his chil-
dren is reported five times, but
the last reference (Genesis
XVII, 7-8) specifically denotes
the essential condition of this
association between Istael and
the land:
• "And I will establish my cove , .
nant between me and thee and
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Plain Talk
Lay Students to Study
About .Jews at 11114
A. B. Candidates to Follow Courses
Giving Theni Knowledge of Selves
By ALFRED SEGAL
HEAR OF SEVEN young men who are making the matter of
being an understanding Jew part of their general education
which has to do with becoming a Bachelor of Arts.
Jewish young men have been ranging all the sciences from
medicine to splitting the alum but this, as far as I know, is the
first time Jewish students have taken time also to study them-
selves as Jews in order to be
even more
seen.
worthy Bache-
To become acquainted with
lors of Arts.
yourself as a Jew is really an
Jewish stu-
excursion in civilization. It
dents become
takes you back through the
doctors, 1 a w-
thousands of • years in which
yers, engineers,
Jews have been conscious, in-
chemists a n d
teresting and effective people in
physicists, a
the world.
number of
To study Jews is to study his-
whom had to
tory still alive, vigorous and
do with the Al
troublesome all around the
making of the
world, even after all the ages of
atomic bomb. But they don't being alive, vigorous and trou-
know much, if anything, abotit blesome.
themselves as Jews, even
Jewish students have been
though they may be on inti- studying the dusty antiques of
mate terms with the infinitesmal the Greek and Roman civiliza-
neutron which nobody ever has tions, but, except for their
brief, once-a-week studies in the
Jewish Sunday school, they
have been made scarcely aware
of their living selves.
• • •
SURVIVE DESTROYERS
IT IS A MOST absorbing phe-
nomenon that the Jews had
only certain ideals, such as God,
to live by and they have man-
aged to live even unto now.
The Third Reich is only a
Dilling, Eugene Flitcraft and tens of thousands of dollars fi- relic of history but the Jews
the leaders of "We the Mothers nancing "scientific studies of whom the Third Reich set out
Mobilize for America," while mass psychology in anti-Semit- to destroy still are daily in the
not officially affiliated, are all ism." . .. A tragic farce in the headlines. Yes, Jews are most
rooting for American Action, light of the concrete anti-Se- interesting people but quite ig-
Inc. Our defense organizations mitic program sponsored by big nored by the study courses of
call the Smiths, Dillings and industrialists and Fascist-minded most Jewish students.
Recently the Hebrew Union
Flitcraft crackpots—but they are politicians. •
• • •
College at Cincinnati took up
doing a tremendous job in the
the idea that educated young
small communities of western A FEW QUESTIONS
states.
WHY DOES THE JEWISH In- Jewish men and women should
American Action puts out formation Bureau, New York, also know themselves. For 72
tons of propaganda material lend itself to the distribution o f years the Hebrew Union Col-
against "leftists," "radicals" anti-Soviet propaganda? . . . lege had been educating Reform
and "minorities," and is al- Why is the Canadian govern- Rabbis, but Rabbis are a closed
ways careful to feature Jew- ment inviting members of shop of Jewish knowledge, you
ish names. It's a new, stream- Ukrainian anti-Semitic, pro- might say. Knowledge of the
lined version of Hiller's "Ju- Nazi outfits, who served Hitler Jews is practically all in the
deo-Bolshevik menace" slo- during the war, to settle in heads and in the libraries of
Canada? ... Why did Life mag- the Rabbis.
gans.
• • •
And what is the National Con- azine label Dr. Stephen S. Wise
ference of Christians and Jews and Louis Lipsky "representa- CREDIT FOR COURSES
doing about this intensified po- tives of non-Zionist groups"? TILE HEBREW Union College
decided to give Jewish lay
litical anti-Semitic drive? Its . . . Who will be the new chief
leaders are in Europe as advis of the Semitic Division of the students some knowledge about
ers to the American Military Library of Congress at Wash- themselves as Jews, even while
Command on how to curb Ger- ington, now that Dr. Theodore they were busy splitting atoms
or hunting down the nature of
H. Caster has resigned? . . .
man anti-Semitism.
A number of years ago Pierre cancer.
The American Jewish Com-
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mittee meantime, is spending
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American Action, Inc. Peddles Hate
in Small Towns of Western States
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