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ROBERT KRAUSE, Business Manager
SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President
GEORGE 0 WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief

Vol. 49, No. 51

Friday, December 19, 1941 (Tebeth 13, 5708)

The First Month.

DETROIT 26, MICH.

gerated stories of a flight of Jewish home-
owners from the 12th street area.
These are some of the larger communal
issues that have been• faced. In addition
there have been scores of individual cases
of discrimination and kindred problems that
have been met and cases of questionable
business dealings by individuals that are in-
jurious to the good name of the Jew.
A committee such as. this must continue
to have courage..lt must be ready to take
part in controversies and make demands in
cases where its action will be resented and
even challenged. It must be ready to invoke
sanctions by the entire community, if neces-
sary, when in its judgment, refusal to ac-
cede to its recommendations may act as a
detriment to the community at large.
We are confident that in Dr. Kleinman
the committee has a leader with the cir-
cumspection and resoluteness essential in
the post.

At the end of the first month, the sit-
uation with the new Jewish State may be
outlined as follows:
There is reliable confirmation of the
prediction that the Arab League will not
invade Palestine for a holy war against
the Jews. Discretion is the better part of
valor and the Arabs are displaying a
healthy respect for liaganah's potential.
Moreover, despite heroics in Cairo about
a fight to the finish, Aral rivalries will
nevelt permit concerted action by the Mos-
lem states whose effective armed strength
is hardly greater than that of the Jews.
There are two possible dangers from
the Arab blusterers. One is that eaeh state
will arm guerilla bands with modern weap-
ons as hit-and-run forces. These were the
tactics of Ilaganah and Irgun that were so
effectual against Arabs and British in the
last troubled years.
The second threat is from wide-scale
attacks during the amorphous period when
the last British troops are to be evacuated
and the UN transition commission is sched-
uled to set up new governments and militias.
It is quite evident that a frustrated and
unforgiving Ernest Bevin still seeks to
wreck the partition plan. He has announced
. that although May 15 has been set as the
deadline for British withdrawal, the UN
commission would not be permitted to enter
Palestine before May 1.
In those two weeks, the UN delegates
will be expected to recruit an armed militia
from the residents of each state to main-
tain order and prevent frontier clashes, put
two new states into working order, review
hundred of miles of border and halt blood-
shed.
If there was ever a formula - for failure,
this is it. The UN will be unable to per-
form a miracle in the two weeks grudgingly
allotted to it. Disaster would he facing the
Jewish cause if Jewish leaders, in anticipa-
tion of British obstruction, had not mobil-
ized their defense forces.
All is not smooth within the UN itself.
So far only Czechoslovakia and Bolivia have
appointed their representatives to the five-
nation 'Palestine Commission. This vacil-
lation, abetted by Britain's pernicious
pronouncement and the dilatory tactics of
Loy Henderson and his gang in the State
Department, act to encourage the Arabs
to defy the UN.
The brightest spot on the horizon is the
Yishuv itself. This vigorous and confident
community is comparatively calm and much
less disturbed than the newspaper headlines
intimate. Life is normal except for a
shortage of food in Jerusalem and an in-
vasion of Tel Aviv public buildings by
Oriental Jews who fled the Jaffa border
area. Recruiting of men and women be-
tween 17 and 25 is progressing and the
response has been great. As far as the
Yishuv is concerned, Statehood is as good
as here.

The Visiting Editor

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Letters to the Editor

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have prayed these • two night-
long millenia.
To the Editor:
Go through the whole arcane
By ISIDORE SOBELOFF
Your recent editorial on the of Jewish literature in the He-
The months ahead must be set aside by name suggested for the Jewish brew language—ancient, medie-
.and past—emancipation —
all Jews of Detroit for an over-all, all-out State will strike a responsive val,
Haskalah, Achad Ila-am, even
chord
in
the
hearts
of
all
Jews
effort to translate the opportunity given by
the ultra-modern Hebrew writ-
the .United Nations into fulfillment. It is our who are acquainted with the his- ings in the Yishuv—and the term
tory and traditions of their peo-
task to recognize that a big moment in
"Judea" for Palestine will be
Jewish history has arrived, and to be ple. There are many who think found to be as rare as the pro-
verbial needle in a haystack.
guided accordingly.
that the question of a name for
• • •
There is a grand drama in the new world the new nation is relatively un-
setting and a new kind of inter-relationship important. Yet, psychologically as In the third place, the name
bears phonetic under-
among the Jews of America, Europe and well as historically, the names "Judea"
tones which, in themselves, con-
Palestine. The responsibility for under- which peoples and tribes adopt stitute valid objections to its use
standing the total need belongs to all of us. for themselves are as significant on psychological and strategic
The organized community must go forward factors in their destinies as the grounds in a Christian world.
and resources of their
in unified endeavor in behalf of the com- topography
Its supporters argue, I am told,
countries and the talents and
that it is easy to pronounce and
mon bond that ties us, and of placing in energy of their populations.
that it is philologically related to '
proper perspective both the big things and
• • •
the small. Organizationally, every group The repoil that the name "Ju- the designations "Jew" and
people". This defense is
must relate itself to the total job before dea" or New Judea" is seriously "Jewish
based on the ancient apologetic.,
us. Individually, as well, everyone of us being considered for the Pales- attitude—"Mah yamru ha-goyim?
mustfall
into the line as part of the great tinian Jewish State is a shock- (What will the Gentiles say?)"
,
army of assistance, both as a contributor ing commentary on the indif- If we are to concern ourselves
ference of the Jewish Agency with the attitude of the world,
and as a worker. . •
Now, the United Nations has spoken for and Zionist leadership to the then even here the use of "Ju-
the civilized world and we are faced with idealogical needs of budding dea" is unwarranted and, to say
the least, unwise. Christendom
the challenge of demonstrating that we are Jewish nationhood.
In the first place, the name knows the term "Judea" largely
prepared to make good on the opportunity "Judea"
arrived on the stage of
the gospels. as applied
that has been presented to us. The $250,- our people's history quite late. through
to the land where Christ was
000,000 goal of the United Jewish Appeal, It is not even Hebrew, being a born and crucified, the home of
as determined in Atlantic City, gives us the Greek rendition of the name "Ju- the "Pharisees and hypocrites."
chance to translate our expressed attitudes dah," first used during the pe- Galilee, where Jesus is sup-
into action. • riod of Alexander the Great, posed to have wrought most of
The Jews of America, in supporting the when Greek. civilization came in his miracles and recruited his
disciples, has a much more favor-
$250,000,000 quota, will again channel their contact with Hebrew culture.
drives through the local welfare funds. Our Used almost exclusively in able association in the New
tradition than has Ju-
own Allied Jewish Campaign, along with Greek and later Roman writings, Testament
it never was the designation of dea. Besides, "Judea" sounds
other similar drives the country over, will our sacred soil in the holy He- very reminiscently like "Judas,"
offer a four-point program:
arch-symbol of perfidy in the
brew tongue.
1. To promote the creation and develop- Throughout the Talmudic and Christian mind. Such connota-
ment of a Jewish State in Palestine.
Gaonic writings still extant, the tions, however subtle and indi-
2. To maintain and rehabilitate the term "Eretz Ysrael"—Land of Is- rect, cannot be overlooked or
1,250,000 Jews of Europe until govern- rael—is the only term used for treated lightly. . .
THEODORE H. BARUCH
mental aid, economic improvement, or emi- the Jewish homeland.
Within the Community.
• • •
'gration relieves their situation.
HORODOKER THANKS
The Jewish Community Council's enter-
the second place, the deep-
3. To receive, assist and integrate into est In and
Dear Editor:
prise in the field of intra-mural activity American
tenderest
emotional
as-
life the displaced persons and
was outlined at a dinner meeting of the in- other refugees fortunate enough to be ad- sociations of the Jewish people Mrs. I. H. Lawton, president
of the David Horodoker, Jrs.
cluster about "Eretz Yisrael."
ternal relations committee of the Council mitted to the United States.
The Siddur—that age-old re- wishes to thank the Jewish
last week. Tribute was paid to Dr. B. Bene-
4. To support domestic and local agen- pository of Jewish memory and Chronicle for the fine publicity
dict Glazer who was chairman of the com- , cies
in the fields of health, welfare, recre- Jewish hope—mentions Jerusa- given them during the prepara-
mittee until recently when Dr. Schmarya ation, care of the aged, youth work, educa- lem, the holy city, and "Eretz"- tions for their 10th annual do-
Eleinman took over the post.
the Land. Never is "Judea" em- nor dinner which was a hoar .
tion and community relations.
The committee is interested in the vexa-
In effect, the campaigns, by using psy- ployed as the name of the Home- success.
BESSIE CHASE.
land for whose restoration Jews
tious issues that sometime confront a Jew-

ish citizen only because he is Jewish. Under
this incomplete definition come such prob-
lems as discrimination and defamation, in-
terracial and neighborhood relations, con-
flicts among Jews requiring arbitration and
acts of individuals that might bring ill-re-
pute to the community as a whole.
The committee has hitherto displayed
much wisdom and great courage. In the
past year alone it has met such problems
as the reputed disparity in koshemeat
prices, the hostility against Jewish mer-
chants in the near-East Side and the exag-
...

A Historic Opportunity

CRITICIZES 'JUDEA'

chological parity to embrace. all these four
points, will serve as a basis for a rounded
out program at home and abroad. They
will provide the financial underpinning to
activities on which American Jews have
agreed as a common platform.
Gen. McNarney has well said "there are
no free rides in history." If the Jewish peo-
ple at last are to realize their age-old dream
of a Homeland they:are, by the same token,
obligated to assume new responsibilites.
May it be given to us us individuals and as
a community to meet the great test.

Fram Continues Palestine Sermons

"Palestine: The Land of the
Three Faiths — Judaism, Chris-
tianity and Mohammedanism,"
will be the subject of the third
in the series of sermons which
Rabbi Leon Fram is delivering
on the "History and Destiny of
the Jewish State."

Rabbi Frain will deliver this
sermon at Sabbath Eve services
of Temple Israel Jan. 2 in the
lecture hall of the Art Insti-
tute.
On Friday night, Dec. 26, he
will preach on "Palestine: The
Land That Produced Christian-
ity."

