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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Friday, January 9, 1948
Bigots Spur 'Ti,night Control'
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• Vol. 49, No. 54
Friday, January 9, 1948 (Tebeth t7, 5108)
DETROIT 26, MICH.
in the Homeland. In advertisements and
through its play, it made many a Jew con-
It is gratifying to observe the unanimity
scious for the first time of his link to the
with which one Jewish community after
fighters of Israel. Whether the league's
another has accepted the challenge of the
claims were valid or not is not now the
$250,000,000 quota of the United Jewish
question. The point is that while the
Appeal for 1948.
struggle with the occupying force went on
This is particularly noteworthy because
the league performed an essential job.
the leaders are well aware that the figure
Today, the struggle with Britain, while
does not include local needs which will raise
admittedly not fully composed, is over-
the total sought by another $100,000,000.
shadowed by greater battles, figurative and
The goal is stupendous. UJA leaders
real. To keep alive, the Yishuv must have
were courageous men and women when they
the solidarity of all elements that make it.
asked for 250 million in the face of a 40
up. There is no room for recalcitrants.
million deficit in the 1947 quota of $170,-
Irgun, reports say, is joining with Haganah
000,000. On the Detroit level, this means
for the all-out battle. The league must not
that the relative quota here Will hit the
stand in the way of the united armies.
eight million mark when only four millions
We advise Detroiters not to jump for
were raised of a $5,335,000 objective in
the bait when receiving dollars by mail
1947.
from the league in its clever drive for
On the face of it, the 1918 figure may
funds. Spend your twin dollar instead for
seem foolhardy. But one must remember
a Shekel and align yourself with a respon-
that much of the 1947 campaign was based
on an emotional appeal which failed to sible Zionist organization.
produce the expected results in the large
Youth Education League
ON HOME ReNTALS
more of this sort of instruction.
centers of population pretty well hardened
Organized
charities
cannot
possibly
cover
B. EDELMAN, Edelman Realty
Dear
Editor:
to such pleas.
The 1948 campaign will be premised on every field and every case where assistance Referring to your news item, Co.
a more realistic approach. It will not be is needed. Detroit is fortunate to have "Bigots Make it Hard for Jews
RABBI SEEKS HELP
chiefly a question of relief, of salvaging several women's groups with great prestige to Rent Homes,' the writer be- Dear Editor:
lieves
that
you
are
not
only
un-
Europe's pitiful remnants and moving them and a tradition of service which supple- fair to the person involved, but I came from Czechoslovakia-
to a speculative Homeland. The UN de-
Cyprus-Palestine to the Domini-
ment the activities of the professional or- in addition are not recognizing can Republic seeking a liveli-
cision has changed all that.
the merits of the other party.
hood as a Rabbi, but the Jews
What is now being offered is a cure. A ganizations.
woman, for example, told here are not prepared to em-
A leading such society is the Youth the This
Jewish State will arise after the birth
prospective tenant that she
pangs are eased and the unreality and the Education League which will hold its annual did not feel she would be happy. ploy a Rabbi. I am living here
in this remote island without
Pledge
Fund
Luncheon
Jan.
27
at
the
Ma-
fiction will be brushed away with the ad-
This is probably true. Isn't it support of the Kehillah and
vent of this autonomous commonwealth sonic Temple. This 12-year-old group, in better, therefore, to accept this without connections with the
created for those Jews who wish to dwell addition to participating in the annual without prejudice as being a Jewish world at all. . . .
campaigns, have taken over several com- fact?
there.
My situation here is terrible,
This concept, its verity and its con- munal and civic duties on their own. The For the past 10 years we have all the more because I have no
creteness have captured the imagination of catholicity of their interests i i ian be gauged been doing the same thing; fit- furniture and no necessaries for
every Jew, even of that minority that has by a listing of their beneficiaries. They ting people into homes and a household. I do not even get
where they would Jewish magazines.
been opposed to the State ideal. As a re- range from the Community Chest, Ameri- neighborhoods
not only be welcome but would
I would be grateful if you
sult, where the heart' was touched hereto- can Cancer Society, FEPC and the Ruth find neighborliness. It has work- would
let your leaders know
Alden
Dress
Fund
to
the
United
Jewish
fore, both heart and brain will respond to
ed wonders. The trouble with too that I am seeking a position as
the program for the uphuilding of the land Appeal, Yeshivath Beth Yehudah and many people today is their in- a Rabbi, being a graduate Rabbi
difference to the problem and and teacher capable of per-
and the transfer of the hundreds of thou- Youth Aliyah.
The devoted and high-minded women of they rent and sell indiscriminate- forming all religious duties. I
sands who can find peace only there%
Realistic Americans can understand this the Youth Education League and their able ly with the result that neither refer you to the Mizrachi Or-
and should be more liberal than ever before. president, Mrs. Sidney Kalt, merit the sup- existing occupants nor the new ganization, 1133 Broadway, New
corners get along.
York 10.
Relying on this turn of events, Jewish port and acclaim of the community.
DR. A. KERTESZ, Rabbi,
As a contrast, I was very
leaders have set an even larger goal than
•
pleased to read of your instruc-
Calle 19 Marzo, 41,
the record quota of 1947. But they must
Dr. Weizmann Errs .
tive suggestions in table man-
Ciudad Trujillo,
realize that the techniques of education and
Rep. Dominicana.
Dr. Weizmann contradicts himself. In ners and would like to see much
public relations that seemed so faultless in the same statement, he asserts that "we
1947 may never do in 1948. Above all, must find our way back to friendship with
they must realize that if there were no the Britain of the Balfour Declaration" and
unity- and no compromises here and there, then declares that "it is not too bold to hope
there must be solidity and abatement of that with patience and perseverance we
with the people of Israel amid
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differences in 1948 everywhere.
may bring back Arab-Jewish cooperation which is considered essential for all circumstances and condi-
Leaders, both lay and professional, must as in the days of Cordova when we jointly salvation. Unlike many other tions?"
be ready to discard some of the techniques created a culture". These are pretty words religions, Judaism does not claim Her "Yes" was more than for-
an exclusive monopoly of truth. mal. It sounded clear, bell-like
of yesterday for a new approach and more but the,aspirations are at odds.
does not say 'you must be- in the chapel.
realistic appeal.
A Jewish State cannot be friends with It
"Do you pledge your
lieve
as we believe; otherwise
Above all there must be unity. That Britain because, first of all, the Jews must
to Judaism?"
you
will
not
be
saved.'
Follow-
should be their first resolve and first order be friends with the Arabs, and perfidious
"Yes!"
of Judaism believe it to bp
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of business as they assemble to outline Albion is trying and will continue to try ers
the highest, purest revelation of
the details of the campaign.
PLEDGE
TO
JUDAISM
every restraint its pettifogging colonial of- truth to man but we are
fice lackeys can conjure up to prevent taught that 'the righteous of DOROTHY RECITED a pledge
to Judaism: "I, Dorothy, do
all nations have a portion in the
No Room For Dissidents
Jewish-Arab accord.
herewith declare in the presence
The program of the American League
It is evading facts to comment self- world to come.'"
Dorothy's Jewish education of God, that I, of my own free
for a Free Palestine has apparently been righteously that this can only be a Re- told
her: "The purpose of Ju- will, seek the fellowship of Is-
repudiated by its president, former U. S. visionist view and that "we may be serious- daism may be summed up in a rael and that I fully accept the
Senator Guy M. Gillette who resigned his ly harmed without the good will of all few words. It is to bring about faith of Israel . . . I promise
post last week. The league has denied concerned'.
an era when all men will ac- that I shall endeavor to live, as
All Jewry recognizes the value of British knowledge God and live in ac- far as it is in my power, in ac-
reports' of the resignation but we have rea-
son to believe that Gillette is no longer the goodwill. But where is there any towards cordance with His Will; 'On that cordance with the ideals of Jew-
life . . . I further promise
warm adherent of its policy that he once the new State? Every British move—par- day the Lord will be One and ish
that should I ever be blessed
His
name
will
be
One.'
"
tiality to the Arabs, failure to halt the out-
was.
Yes, Dorothy was told, "the with children, I shall rear them
The former senator, it seems, has come breaks, planning a union of Transjordan mission of Israel and the service in conformity with the Jewish
and
the
Arab
half
of
Palestine,
plotting
to see what the small, well-intentioned
demanded of it imposed many religion. May God strengthen
group of zealots in the league peversely the assassination of the Mufti at the hands difficulties and much suffering. me in these resolutions."
refuse to acknowledge—that the day has of a Jew—all these can be added to the Our people had to endure, and Then she recited the Shema
come for the league to dissolve and to join long list of deliberate British acts to-block many of them still have to en- and with that the ceremony of
dure, martyrdom for their God conversion was over. Some of
the majority establishing the Jewish State, the establishment of a Jewish State.
friends may object: "What!
Englishmen cannot be trusted with re- and for the faith that is ours ray
meagre as it will be.
His name . . . We are a liv- Dorothy wasn't taught a thing
There was a time when we were virtual- gard to Palestine. They have a psycholog- in
ing proof that a people can live about keeping Kosher." Accord-
ly the only journalistic voice that had a ical stake in preventing the creation of a by spirtual truth."
ing to the book of Reform Ju-
kind word for the league. We felt that it Jewish State and seeing it fail after it is Dorothy was joyously willing daism—it's my book too—Doro -
was performing a function unwisely neg- set up.
to take the burdens of being a thy will be a Jew good enough
Dr. Weizmann has no basis for his Jew. The Rabbi asked her: "Do if she lives by her lessons iii
lected by the recognized Zionist groups.
you promise to cast your lot Judaism and by her pledge.
The league dramatized the Jewish struggle optimism.
WA Challenge Accepted
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Letters to the Editor
Dorothy Takes Her Vow as Jewess