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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Friday, October 21, 1947

Page Three

SERIION OF THE WEEK:

Era of Righteousness and Wisdom Visioned

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By RABBI ISAAC STOLLMAN the latter days has been a mat- idolators who ravage their fields
of considerable thought by I shall destroy".
A ND ABRAHAM CALLED the ter
social thinkers of all times. This
name of that place "The issue has Peen mainly one in
Lord Will Show", as it is said terms of Jacob versus Esau—
to this day: In the mount where the Book versus the Sword.
the Lord is seen , . • Genesis And the question is. which shall
XXII, 14.
prevail finally, the Book or the
The Rabbis tell us of two men Sword?
who carried on a portentous What do the Rabbis tell us
discussion on a question of in their, recorded account? "Ha
paramount consequence. A chief-
tain once asked one of the house brought a clean paper." By this
of Saloni, who will succeed to act he demonstrated to the chief-
the throne of world sovereignty tate that in the future there
in the latter days.
will be no question of forces
The wise man brought a clean ranged one against the other, for
aper and wrote upon the sheet, all the recorded secular past
nd afterwards his brother will become as a blank paper,
nerged and his 'hand grasped in which the future will have
the heel of Esau" (Midrash R.). no heritage.

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AS THE RABBIS have said
THIS QUESTION of the dom-
inant ideology or cosmology in elsewheie (Mid. Error), "The

RABBI STOLLMAN

The evil forces in the world
welter of ideas and practice will
destroy themselves and their
cultural traditions of all ages.
And the paper will become
blank once again.
The godless philosophies and
cosmologies that have prevailed
in the development of man, will
be recognized, empirically, for
their falsehood and malefaction.
Mankind will reject his tra-
ditional past, for it will have
proven to him that it bodes no
good for mankind's welfare. In
the latter days, man will seek
to erase his past and start afresh
in a new proven direction.
In the chronicles of mankind
will then be written the history
of Righteousness and Justice, of
Charity and Wisdom. In that
day history will he recorded
with the words of the living
Torah.

Mankind will aspire to God
and will "go unto Zion to dis-
cover Ills Law".

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AND EVEN TODAY man is
struggling forward towards his
glorious, millenial future. The
"blank paper" is gradually be-'
coming a reality.
As time goes by, man is wit-
nessing the erasure of old, ma-
levolent, self-destructive ideas
and concepts. Man is becoming
aware that past life can
bring hint no good if it be per-
petuated in the future. He is
becoming aware that all of his
old values need replacement.
Time will come when he will
bring a blank, clean paper and
write anew. And on this paper
he will write what has long
been delayed, "And afterwards
his brother emerged and his
hand grasped the heel of Esau".

Dowry to Young Man DP Shochtim Brotherhood Vision
Of to Prepare of Chaplain Fades
Would Spur Marriage
Irish Meat Gift

Revival Would Give Wedded Couple
Running Start in Their New Life

YORK—One million
pounds of meat offered by the
Irish government for distribution
among Jewish DP's in Europe
will be specially prepared in Erie
by 15 Lubovitcher Shochtim
(slaughterers) to meet the re-
quirements of Jewish dietary law,
it was reported by the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee.
The group, which was recruited
by the JDC in DP camps, will re-
main in Erie for three months to
supervise the killing of the cattle
and the processing of the meat in
the Jewish tradition.
All costs will be borne by the
JDC, which is supported by the
United Jewish Appeal.
Arrangements for the Irish con-
tribution towards Jewish relief
in Europe was made a year ago
in Dublin following conversa-
tions between Rabbi Isaac Her-
zog, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Dr.
Joseph J. Schwartz of New
York, JDC European chairman,
and Irish government officials.
Rabbi Herzog was Chief Rabbi of
Ireland from 1925 to 1936.

NEW

Rabbi Goode Who Died for Brothers
Betrayed by Arrogant Rulers of Men

By ALFRED SEGAL
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
I HAVE BEEN reading the new book "American Jews in Work!
HE MOST BURNING question of the day is: How can we .en-
War NI—The Story of 550,000 Fighters For Freedom" by L
courage marriage between young men and women? Or be-
Kaufman, published by the Jewish Welfare Board of New York
tween not-so-young men and not-so-young women? The young
which faithfully kept the record of every American Jewish soldier
man and young women take care of themselves, else they fall into
in the war.
the second group.
In the chapter on Jewish chaplains I find the widely-known
One practical suggestion is to revive the dowry, in cash or
story of the martyrdom of the
goods but not in promises. The girl's family gave the dowry to
Rabbi Chaplain Alexander Goode ligions who died by being broth-
the prospective bridegroom. This is a respected European custom
of York, Pa. He was one of the ers, in accordance with their
among many peoples, sanctioned
four clergymen—the others were common teaching. They gave
a Catholic
and embodied in the prelim- at the starting point of financial
their life-belts to young soldiers
priest and two
inaries to the marriage cere- or earning ability.
on the ship. They were last
Protestant
min-
mony and mar-
seen, hands clasped, praying to-
They would prefer to have
isters — who
riage contract.
gether as the ship sank.
with Chaplain
the man begin at the point their
This encour-
But before I took up the book,
parents left off—at the end of
Goode went
ages marriage
I had never read the letter
down
with
the
the
father's
earning
capaMy
and
and gives the
Chaplain Goode wrote to his
USS Dorches-
then to go forward from that
young people a
young wife just before he sailed
the
night
point.
ter
running start
on the Dorchester.
it
was
sunk
In
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in life.
Such
girls
and
their
parents
Mid-Atlantic
in
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Perhaps you
la.
should
be
not
unwilling
to
as-
1942.
VISIONED NEW AGE
will say we
sist the young man—if other-
The way of Al Segal
will then re-
CHAPLAIN GOODE was say-
wise eligible—with this run-
their death is already an Ameri-
vert to the r
ing to his wife:
ning
start,
by
giving
him
a
can
saga,
an
epic
of
the
brother-
days of the Dr. Goldberg
"We are fighting for a new
hood of men of different re-
American Indians, where a substantial dowry.
age of brotherhood, the age of
slightly different version was
brotherhood that will usher
true: The squaw was worth five, Strictly Confidential
in at the same time the world
10 or more ponies, to compen-
democracy we all want. The
sate her father fur the loss of
age when men will admire
her work. Or back to the Ro-
the freedom and responsibil-
man days, when the father-in-
ity of the common man in
-law-to-be paid the bridegroom
American democracy.
"Justice
and righteousness
to marry his daughter.
dreamed of by the prophets who
One suspects that the father
gave the world the democratic
also wished to make a public
series of articles on Judaism in ous Dr. Wise is to the cause spirit will cover the world as
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
exhibition, to the other citizens,
Russia for the Hearst papers) of democracy! He is ready to a torrent. Men of the world will
of his worldly worth.
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THE ASSOCIATION OF Re- clumsily warns Protestants, Jews fight Fascism without demand- have enough to eat, clothes to
-2 ' form Rabbis, the New York and Catholics that "the Com- ing a "loyalty test" of his co-
wear, opportunity for improve-
Board of Rabbis and the Alumni munists are working hard on workers. Now, really, Dr. Wise ment and employment.
TODAY'S IMPLICATIONS
Association of the Jewish In- the three faiths to soften Amer- —what is this country coming
"Tyranny will no longer be
lt TANY GIRLS TODAY earn stitute of Religion are in an
possible in a united world be-
ica for Soviet aggression".
to? . . .
"'
as
much
as
man,
in
the
IN
uproar. These bodies are in-
Among the other "reds" who cause, before it can gain power,
And who, in Schultz's view,
usual jobs. A stenographer censed—and rightly so—because
menace the Jewish religion the forces of justice speeded
are
the
credulous
fellow
trav-
makes 2200 a month. A factory one of their number, Rabbi Ben-
cites Joseph Brainin, through space by airplane will
worker makes the same. On jamin Schultz, has behaved in elers who are "ensnared by red Schultz
w ho, he discovered, writes have overwhelmed it. Protests
crocodile
tears?"
First
of
all,
these wages, how can a man what they tertn a most unethical
"Strictly Confidential" under the against injuctice will be heard
marry a girl and support her in manner, unbecoming a religious Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who, pseudonym Phineas J. Biron. in every capital of the world
Schultz asserts, defends Soviet
style
to
which
she
is
ac-
the
leader.
expansion and committed the What an earth-shaking revela- the moment it occurs and re-
customed?
S p e cmiation crime of speaking at a rally tion!
dress granted at once.
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is running
Biron, Schultz says, follows
Even if they pay board at
under the auspices of the Jew-
high as to ish People's Fraternal Order, the party line. Proof? "Ile JUST A DREAM
home, most working girls spent
what these which Schultz labels a Com- boosts the American Youth for
considerable money on their
4 HAT HAS SEEMED like
Rabbinical munist front organization.
clothing when single. This
Democracy," which Schultz la-
" civilization up to this point
groups will do
bels
Communistic.
is more than they world have
And the proof that the JPFO
is but a crude effort compared
to save the
when married and living on
Others
who
share
the
spot-
honor of the is red Well, it gave more than light with Dr. Wise are Rabbi to the era that lies just before
the husband's salary alone.
Rabbinical $40,000 to the Hadassah Hospital Abraham Bick, Rabbi Joshua us. The new world will be the
For this reason, among others,
profession . . . in Palestine and helps the Jews Block, Prof. Abraham Cronbach goal of the cavalcade of de-
many girls shy away from mar-
Benjamin of Poland and supports Jewish and journalist B. Z. Goldberg. mocracy marching on, heralding
riage.
Schultz, w h o cultural projects. What a red
The major crime of these dan- the new century of humanity."
it must be!
Alas for this bright dream in
P. J. Biron
holds the job front organization
Some girls believe that the
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gerous men is their sponsorship
Goode's eyes in the hour
man they marry must be either of Rabbi at Temple Emanuel
of the School for Jewish Studies, Rabbi
when he laid down his life. It
a professional or business man, Yonkers, N.Y., wrote three ar- DR. WISE'S CRIME
which, Schultz says, "cleverly
And—please don't tremble— sandwiches a Bible class in be- was much like all the dreams
one capable of earning a large ticles for the New York World-
income. Otherwise he is a dope Telegram last week under the Schultz actually reveals that Dr. tween courses on Marxism" ... 9f all the soldiers and sailors
Who died.
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title "Commies Invade t he Stephen S. Wise "sincerely be-
and not a marriage prospect.
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That's what they were fight-
lieves that liberals and Com-
Church".
ing and dying for: A good, new
In these articles Schultz pur- munists can work together WHO IS SCHULTZ!
THIS GREAT CRUSADER for world and it was all right to
NEED ASSISTANCE
ported to show "the penetration against Fascism, as certain Pro-
IT . SEEMS . DIFFICULT . for of religion by Communists". testant bishops and ministers the purity of religion has a die for that. It was better than
rather shabby reputation among to die on account of things like
Schultz, in sensational Hearst also believe".
some girls to envision life
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with a man at his beginnings, style (last year he wrote a Can you imagine how danger-

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Rabbi Smears Dr. Wise, Others
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