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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE •
Friday, January 23, 1341
Strictly Confidential
5 Major Bodies Hostile to AJ Conference
By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
HE AMERICAN JEWISH CON-
FERENCE, now in process of
becoming the American Jewish As-
sembly, is showing a lot of guts.
Supposedly the creation of the
Bnai Brith, American Jewish Con-
gress and Zionist Organization, it
is in fact fighting all three orga-
nizations behind the scenes. 43nai
Brith is at best indifferent to the
proposed Assembly, the Congress.
notwithstanding lip service, •con-
siders the Assembly a nuisance,
P. J. Biron
while the Zionists, now that Palestine has secured
political recognition, are no longer interested. Yet
T
FUTILITY OF protest! . . . The New York UJA
the Conference is struggling on against these almost
insurmountable odds, and despite side-line sniping campaign for 1948 includes the Jewish Telegraphic
ican
appealpeal
and the Amer pro-
Defense
Ap
from the American Jewish Committee and the Amer- Agency, the Joint in its
,
not
Jewish Congress
ican Jewish Labor Committee.
tests from a large number of contributors. What
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AMONG 28 JEWS who recently arrived from are a few millions when the quota is a quarter of
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Europe to work in the forests of Canada, as part of billion?
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that country's current immigration program, one Herz
THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE proudly
DylewskY, 28, from Czestochow, Poland, is of special
interest' to us. Herz survived the Nazi terror in points to the Dec. 1 Issue of Life magazine. Life
Poland, and escaped to Germany at the end of the quotes liberally from an article by editor Elliot E.
August issue of Commentary, pub-
war. There he became the boxing champion of the Cohen in the AJC.
the
Cohe n
In this article Mr. Cohen condemns "Crossfire,"
U.S. zone.
That's no mean achievement—from concentration
camp to boxing championship. We must be a sturdy
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race.
Plain Talk
Jews Trained
Rabbis Arc Rebuked
September Brings
to Take Over for Furor on Carols
School and Holidays
Envoy Posts Doubts if Songs Affect One's Judaism,
Personal Problems
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Jewish Almanac Reviews the Customs
as Practiced in Ma's and Pa' s Day
Calls Attack III-Advised at This Time
Setting up a new country is
job. Li
an exciting and challenging
both
Like newlyweds setting up
housekeeping it always devel-
By ALFRED SEGAL
LOT OF RABBINICAL brethren in New York remain excited
ops that there are many more
A.
GOLDBERG,
Ph.
D.
prom-
A
By W.
things to provide than just
about Chrismas carols being sung in public schools and prom-
of the Jewish Almanac)
11-
(This is the second half
new
ise
to
have
the
matter
settled
to
their
own
satisfaction,
by
next -
back to school. It's a pleasure not furniture.
S EPTEMBER: The kids go
Just as an example, a
Christmas.
of
t all day.
" to have them under
foot,
n
must develop many
It all started when a Jewish assistant superintendent
Hashonah and Yom Kippur—Ma puts on her new gown, country
Rosh
services of course. What does she care if Mrs. Ginsburg is services that Americans, and
even more so, Europeans, take schools in New York handed
for
for granted. There's the ques. down an edict to prohibit the grown up to Jewish manhood
there too? What does she care?
And lots with
of mushroom
Syna-
gogues,
Jews packed
in bushes" in their homes, Kosher tion of a diplomatic service, for the
singing
of Christmas
carols
we the
sang Christmas
Christmas times
carols
schools
of his area.
ti n in after all
Christmas with other kids in school.
ts instance.
Christma
A special school set up by thought that to sing
I remember singing "Holy
li ke sardines. With so many house ups
airs? and
Wonder
if they
them, we won- tree downstairs
a
Jews if supporting
i t h Night" and "Adeste Fidelis"
they don't really serve a will ape the GoYim, without the Jewish Agency at Beth carols in schools religion
was to w
mix
der
an institution without being aware in the least
purpose — just shame, without asking them- Hakerem near Jerusalem has
of the state, of anything subversive to my
lves
why
they
have
absorbed
been
training
young
men
and
religious selves
the
women in the art of diplomacy
and therefore character as a Jewish boy. From
services with- a Gentile custom so edsily.
unconstitution- Christmas carols in school I
I
hope
there
will
be
less
of
it.
and
in
the
administration
of
0 u t sermons.
a
at
without
al.
would
They tell book
me that even the
local government
for over go home and rejoice
my mother's hands luminous
Later
he
said
reviews, with- Socialists are almost ready for year now.
he was tray- over the Sabbath candles, as she
out mortgage Judaism, almost ready to accept The school was set up Nov.
ing it all to blessed them.
services, customs and 2, 1946, on the anniversary of
payment, with- religious
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the discretion
out &les.instructions in their Volkschulen! Balfour Day. Its curriculum is
does swing, divided into three sections.
of the princi- BUILDS BROTHERHOOD
Yes, the pendulum
They pay , for
I specializes in the train-
pal in each IN THE YEARS that have
what they get, slowly of course but it swings. Section
Al Segal
Perhaps
there
is
a
parallel
in
ing
of
civil
servants to • staff
school.
I passed since, I have come to
no more and
The Rabbis keep on chewing know these carols, whose words
Dr. Goldberg no less. May- the Reform congregations, more the government of the new
Section II specializes in the the issue toward next Christ- I still remember, as part of my
be they aren't crazy after all! of whom are accepting Zionism, state.
promoter introducing customs and tradi- training of diplomatic personnel mas when they hope to have education toward the purpose
And suppose the
every schoolhouse carol-proof. of being an all-around member
makes a few bucks? He's an tion into their services.
Did you nave a "latke party" for service in Europe. And ev I hope they forget it and apt of the human family, not just
entrepreneur, isn't he and en-
at to warming up • a parochial little guy shut away
your home on Chanukah? those studying in Section III
ly their hat
titled to something for his risk? i n
pancakes, with jam, make an exhaustive study of p t he
house of Is - from other men of other re-
Goldberg's birthday falls in this Potato
cheese, sour cream and coffee? Middle Eastern history and poi_ rael. Yes, there's so much for ligions.
month.
I can even appreciate Christ-
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Tenty-five students—includ- Rabbis to do for Judaism. Or
It's a nice custom helping to itics.
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make the home into a Jewish ing w five women—were chosen is their faith in the living mas carols as something of the
INTO THE SUCCAH
Until next year, loads of luck by competitive exam at the authority of Judaism so little better expressions of my Chris-
home.
ER: Succoth . . . Re-
b an neighbors. I recall an after-
"
member
how,
on
the
night
and
health to all of you. Don't opening of the school and will that they
are afraid
it childr
can be
Christmaswish
en noon on the eve of Chris t mas
Je
OCTOB
v
carols with in the daily newspaper offic e in
Yom Kippur, Dad made his forget Eretz Israel is your soon complete their course. undermined by
of
yearly speech? "We haven't Home, too. Give it all you've When the next course of study singing
much time to get the Succah got. R will need that and more. begins, immediately after Pe- their neighbors? Well,. Judaism which
I work.
At the
approach of Christmas
That's your contribution to sach, it' is hoped that at least has lived through
far worse.
generations
of us have eve things had relaxed in the
ready." Out would come the
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14)
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office and the office boys were
two by-fours saved for this pur- your own history.
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sitting around. All tough kids!
pose, the special door panels
Then one of them sounded off
the
white
clean
sheet
to
and
d
Off
the
Record
with a Christmas carol and
trip
to
line the walls. And the
others joined. They went on to
country to get willow
the
sing all the Christmas carols
branches for the roof which had
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they knew.
to be open to the sky so the
Our big city room had heard
stars could be seen. That was
nothing so lovely in all the
the home Succah made by men
years I had worked there.
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for their own families.
I joined in the singing. The
And on Simchas Torah . .
sectarian words of the carols
My Tante baked bushels of
didn't impinge at all on my
Kichul, my Onkel furnished the
mind. I could feel at once,
The Jewish State, together with face the alternative of sterner
Sc hnapps. And the dairy man,
though, with the spiritual mo-
Wolfe (of blessed memory)
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
the non-Zionists and anti-Zionists, American policy .. .
inent that these kids evoked.
would cry out, at any time,
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prevent the Zionists
I was not alien *co it and sang
THE MEETING of the Zionist will try to
"Shepsele, meh, meh." He had THE
Action Committee, to be held from running its affairs. They THE ZOA PRESIDENCY will along with them.
lots of fun and so did we chit-
The
early in February in Palestine,are not bound to succeed.
Should I say, no, these boys
.
dren.
State for a long time will be too go to Daniel Frisch if Dr. Eman- should not have been taught to
And the Torah procession and will be of crucial importance. The
between the Jewish weak to stand on its own feet.
uel Neumann chooses not to pro- sing these songs in the public
the flags, big event in our lives. relations
j e t his candidacy at the - next schools? It's unconstitutional.
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Enthusiasm for the kids, for the State and the Zionist World Or-
Rather I say, thank goodness,
grownups, enthusiasm in the ganization will be redefined.
Torah. Perhaps decorum was Palestine Jewry feels that the PRESIDENT TRUMAN has been convention.
Frisch gave his business up they got this much out of their
public school education.
individual;
it lacked
re- Jews outside the Jewish State urged by close observers to make
straint. But perhaps
it furnished
a spir-
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strong statement on the Pales- four years ago to devote himself
A
itual outlet for families. It tied should not interfere in its affairs.
entirely to Zionism. When his ILL-TIMED MOVE
them to the Synagogue and to Zionist leadership is divided on tine situation.
funds shrink to zero he will start IT SEEMS TO ME quite pre-
War Department officials have
that
' sumptuous for Rabbis to set
religion . . . Pa, Ma, and the this issue. Some contend
business again.
the President against
rare idealist and of themselves up as critics of an
the State is not being given to the advised
kids. . . .
lie is a
American folkway and to fly
I wonder if we have so di Jews at present in Palestine but making a strong statement on the
s ground of expediency. The "ex- strong convictions, combining ut- truculently in the face of a so-
toted our services with decorum
an engaging cial practice.
that it lacks, respectfully, of W the Jewish Agency.
course, the necessary "omph" They hold that the State to be pediency" angle has to do with ter frankness with
I have heard it reported that
manner.
and
the
Greek
situation.
Pro-
persuasion fails, another sonic of them are thinking of
make it colorful, living, real? created is merely a beginning
A
committee
of
Catholic,
If
to
that the State will need but both
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moral testant and Jewish leaders who Agency member of the executive going to the Supreme Court to
receive the financial and
test the constitutional author-
pro-Zionist is
INDEPENDENCE DAY
if
they were never overly
plan to call on the will announce his resignation. In-
Christmas carols sung in
NOVEMBER: Don't ever for - backing of Jews abroad
a
working
on
formed
sources
in
New
York
hear
itY
the public schools
Is - are denied any influence.
Of course non-Zionists will side leaders of both major
political
i I get the rebirth of Eretz
joint statement Moshe Sneh may reconsider his
How ill-thought, how ill-
Ho
to issue a
rael, not ever!
in the interests of
hanukah . • . with the Jewish State because parties
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DECEMBER:
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f more Jews or fewer they will not want to be identi- urging the Arab states to stop in- resignation
terfering with the UN decision or unity.
Wonder i
it.
have "Chanukah fled with
Jews will
How Bg i a Role Should Zionists
Play • Affairs of the New State?
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