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Friday, October 15, 1948 (Tishri 12, 5709)

Vol. 50, No. 39

Succoth

After the more serious Holy Days - of
Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur, Judaism,
as it were, rewards its adherents with the-
more joyful holiday of Succoth.
Originally Succoth was an agricultural
festival and we observe it today very much
as a reminiscence of the times when the
Jew was a tiller of the soil. The Jew even
brought his farm symbolically into the
Synagogue with his Esrog and Lulav, with
which he used to chant his thankfulness
to God.
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ment of a chemical industry in Israel.
Horowitz hopes that more capital will come
from foreigners investing in manufacturing,
citriculture, building projects and mortgage
credits.
That's the type of plans the Jews have
for the Negev and the rest of Israel. What
do the Arabs have to offer?

Hitler Lives in Spain

Senator gurney (Rep.) of South Dakota
wants the United States to give Franco's
Spain economic and military assistance and
Today, the festival takes on more of its sponsor her admission to the UN.
ancient significance as Israel again takes
powe
Gurney is chairman of
its place as a nation among the nations. armed services committee of the se ate.
Once more Israel is a tiller ...of its soil, He hopes that Gov. Dewey, if lie is elected
living the normal life of a people. In the president, will send an ambassador to Ma-
new Israel, Succoth thus undergoes a re- drid to heal the rift with the fascist gov-
vivifying experience.
ernment there.
It is possible that the newer forms, or at
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least the new spirit, with which Succoth
Senator
Gurney,
when
asked
whether the
will be observed in the new Israel will in
time also influence our own observance of fact that Spain is not a democracy makes
the holiday. In any event, Succoth is a any difference to him, replied that "it is
not up to us to say what kind of govern-
very welcome holiday.
It is a Zman Simchasenu, a time of joy, ment a country should have."
and the world has need of joy.
Which sounds familiar, doesn't it? There
was the Munich crowd and a large number
of Americans who did not believe it was
up to the civilized world to say what kind
The Crisis Eases
of a government Germany or Japan should
The newest crisis with regard to Israel have. And because of this shallow and
has eased off appreciably, but that should cowardly position, millions of persons are
not deter anyone from sending wires or dead today, including 200,000 fine American
letters to President Truman, Secretary Mar- boys, and half of Europe is a shambles.
shall and Senators Vandenberg and Fergu-
United States backing of Spain would be
son. '
Letters of protest against a possible new mockery of justice and democracy. It
American sellout take on extra significance would cap American blundering in the dip-
in these few weeks of the presidential cam- lomatic field and give aid and comfort to
bigots and whelps everywhere.
paign.
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Time has been on the side of Israel at
the General Assembly in Paris.
Because of precedence of the armament
and atomic questions, the Palestine issue
will not come up for another month. The
Anglo-American diplomatic hysteria for im-
mediate implementation of the Bernadotte
plan as a "monument" to the slain UN me-
diator has subsided and reason is begin-
ning to resume its place in the thinking
of the American delegation. It' is too
much to hope that a similar objectivity
would rationalize Britain's mood.
By the time the question of Israel comes
up formally at the UN, the American presi-
dency will have been decided. If Mr. Tru-
man wins there is the strongest indication
that he will order a strategic retreat by
Secretary Marshall so that the Democratic
platform pledges will be adhered to. That
may come even before the election.
If Gov. Dewey is elected, Secretary Mar-
' shall's hands will be tied since the Repub-
licans have announced that they' are not
bound by the Bernadotte proposals. •
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There is one argument of Israel's why
the Negev should remain in its hands that
arouses the support of all clear-thinking
people. If the arid desert zone is handed
over to the Arabs, it will always remain a
desert especially if British plans to estab-
lish a military base there are carried out.
If the Jews retain the Negev, it may
soon be made to flourish like the northern
Jewish settlements with the aid of Jewish
ingenuity and Jewish capital.
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The report last week that the Tel Aviv
government will seek $1,000,000,000 in
foreign capital investments during the next
10 years is an indication of how much
money the Jews will be ready to pour into
the land to permit the settlement of a mil-
-lion newcomers in the next decade or less.
According to David Horowitz, Israel's
economic planning director, none of this
money will be sought for the prosecution
of the war since military expenditures are
being met out of taxes and defense loans

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Just listen to the kind of reasoning that
big-hearted Senator Gurney wants the U.S.
to indOrse: In banning the movie, "Gentle-
men's Agreement", a priest heading the
Spanish film censorship board said that
although it was .a Christian' duty to "stim-
ulate love among individuals, societies, na-
tions and peoples, this duty should not be
extended to Jews."

The Anti-defamation League of Bnai
Brith calls this statement "the most shock-
ing expression of anti-Semitism since the
death of Hitler". It is far more than that;
it is a shameful blot on Christianity's Lame
when one of its spokesman, a priest, can
feel undisturbed when uttering such a
satanic, remark.

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There is something wrong with the moral
fibre of a nation that permits this kind
of thinking. It is a doctrine that contra-
dicts morals and decency; that blasphemes
•God and the Bible; that inspires hate for
hatred's sake. Where are the true Chris-
tians who will repudiate this monstrous
precept?

Israelis or Israelim?

Just what to call the people of the State
of Israel has us stumped. We have been
writing Israelim, the Ilebrew plural, but
that does not seem to have any backing.

We are reluctant to call 'them Israelis,
which to, us is a hybrid word, apparently
being the English plural to a Hebrew singu-
lar, Israeli.

Letters to the Editor

YESIIIVAH GRATEFUL

Dear Editor:

Please accept our sincere
thanks for the wonderful dem-
onstration of true Torah spirit
evidenced by you and your pa-
per towards Yeshivath Beth Ye-
hudah as demonstrated by the
recent publicity given us.

It is mdst gratifyirig to us to
see the cooperation extended to
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah by the
Detroit Jewish Chronicle. Only
with the generous help of peo-
ple like yourself is the future
of our Yeshivah assured.
RABBI JULIUS WEINBERG,
Executive Secretary.

SOUGHT BY RELATIVES
Dear Editor:
. May we ask your assistance
in locating the following:
(or
Spant,
Reiza
Spunt),
daughter of Leib Felshtein, of
Golovlia, Ukraine, being sought
by her sister, Necha Felshtein.
Wallerstein, Mote-Hersh and
his sister, Mindele, born Valvr-
stein, daughter of Leib and Yo-
cheved, of Kurov, Lublin re-
gion, Poland, sought by rela-
tive, Pinkus Ackerman.
Pfeffer or Feller, Aron,
painter-decorator from Warsaw,
sought by his youngest brother,
Naftuli Fefer, of Warsaw.
UNION OF RUSSIAN
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Random Thoughts

allIIIINIglINSINNINIMIRIONWINISOM

By Seymour Tilchin Nommiiimemilit SNOW
"The primary task of the
Zionist Organization will be to
settle in Palestine masses of
Jews from Europe, North Africa
and other lands who need and
want to go to ISrael.
"It will also devote itself to
Zionist education which means
education for "Jewish physical
and spiritual survival—wherever
Jews dwell. And it will seek
to bring private capital and in-
dustrial skill to Israel in order
to develop the economic absorp-
tive capacity of the country.

FAST WEEK we printed an
LAST
entitled "Vio-
lence Against Non-Zionist Jews
in DP Camps". It was paid for
by a member of the American
Council for Judaism.
We . printed that article for
two reasons: first to further
prove that we are a free and
independent newspaper; second,
if there is any truth in such a
statement it should be publicized
and condemned.
We know the following facts
to be true—that Hitler did not
discriminate between Zionists
and anti-Zionists, that practical-
ly all anti-Zionists come in
the category of self-hating, 101
percent, assimilated Jews who
find it embarassing to be iden-
tified with anything Jewish let
alone Hebrew and Palestine.
We know further that such a
small minority is found in the
DP camps. They must be a very
unhappy and unpopular group
there.
Despite it all, we do not jus-
tify any discriminatory action
by a majority against a minor-
ity. The concentration 'camp
should be a reminder to our
people that they are there be-
cause they were a minority.

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THE BURMA ROAD

THE "BURMA ROAD" linking
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is a
miracle of Jewish ingenuity and
daring, having been constructed
over most difficult terrain and
built by hand at night, one mile
away from the Arab lines.
The road is now well. traf-
ficked. Alongside it runs a
newly laid water pipe line which
supplies Jerusalem, making the
Jewish - community of Jerusalem
in considerable measure inde-
pendent of the water supply
from Latrun which is in Arab
hands.
The Jewish 'ommunity et
Jerusalem which has undergone
terrible hardship is beginning to
COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM
"THE AMERICAN Council For recover.
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Judaism should now go out of
JERUSALEM
TO RESIST
business without delay", Rabbi
Bernstein advoCated. "It is bank-
THE 100,000 JEWS of Jerusa-
rupt in everything but money.
lem will resist any proposal for
"If the American Council for the internationalization., of the
Judaism does not of its own free city. They have been let down
will go out of business because by the Christian world and the
of 'the stubbornness of one rich UN which sat by while Abdullah
man, every Rabbi still associat- and his Arab Legion were de-
ed with it should publicly resign stroying the city.
from it, as some have already
They have no faith in the
done."
willingness or ability of the UN
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to protect them against attacks

Others seem to be having the same
trouble as we have. We note that the
Detroit News Commentator, W. K. Kelsey,
uses Israeli for the plural, a Latin ending,
we assume.
within the State.
We have not seen an official statement
Private investors, he revealed, have al- on this muter by the Israeli government. ZIONIST GOALS
in the future.
EXCERPTS FROM Dr. Israel
ready begun to stimulate the infant State's
Jerusalem should become
industry, with American capitalists expend- We wo be happy if they would publish Goldstein's address to the ZOA part of the Jewish State and
administrative council:
end the confusion.
the capital of Israel.
ing several million dollars for the establish- one

