DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
rage Four
Friday, February 25, 1949
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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Entered as Second-class mane' March 3. 1916, at the Poet Office at Detroit. Mich.. under the Act of March 3. 1879
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
SEYMOUR TILCUIN, President
Friday, February 18, 1919
(Shoat 26, 5709)
In Brief' . . .
The delegates to the Jewish Community
Council will meet for...their quarterly session
next Wednesday night. Democratically-
elected representatives of about 100 organi-
zations, more or less, will be present. With
great sincerity, they will discuss anti-
Semitism, elect a new board member and
study the Council's budget to be submitted
to the Jewish Welfare Federation which con-
trols the Council's funds. The delegates are
all aware that the Federation is standing
quietly by scheming to swallow up the Coun-
cil and take over all its functions so that
its professional administrators can have
greater power over the workings of the Jew-
ish community. They have known this for
years and they also 'knew that the situation
is progressively growing more serious. De-
spite warnings and appeals by this news-
paper, they have never done a thing about
it except whisper among themselves be-
moaning the situation. Rest assured, they
will do nothing again about, it next Wednes-
day.
DETROIT 26, Mich.
Silver, Neumann Are Right
We acclaim - the action of Dr. Abba . Hillel
Silver and Dr. Emanuel Neumann, leaders
of American Zionists, who have , resigned
from the Jewish Agency. They must not
withdraw those resignations as long as the
causes which brought them on are not recti-
fied. The resignations are a warning to
American Jewry and the first open blows by
top leadership at the greedy octopus which
is attempting to seize control over all Jew-
ish funds in America and over all Jewish
agencies collecting money for whatever pur-
pose. On a larger scale, they are the same
kind of blows that the Jewish Chronicle has
been aiming at the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion here which through its professionals is
attempting to squeeze the life out of every
independ'ent money-raising agency in the
Jewish community. Silver and Neumann
have told Henry Montor and his dupe, Mor-
genthau, that a man who until three years
ago didn't even know he was Jew and that
a man who is hired to do a fund raising
job are not going to take over the control
over funds destined for Israel and thus at-
tempt to pressure the government of Israel.
Men who perform their jobs for the sake
of power and prestige and not for the love
of Israel should not be given the authority
to supervise its funds in America. The rank
and file are with you, Dr. Silver and Dr.
Neumann. Stick to your guns. Help save
democracy in the American Jewish com-
munity.
Flight Empties Euro krlie
of Jewish Remnant
By WILLIAM ZUCKERMAN
(Jewish World News Service)
EW YORK—The Exodus from Europe is now a fact. Europe is
The Yeshivah Needs Help
being rapidly and surely emptied of Jews. Most European coun-
tries have already lost between 50 and 75 percent of their Jewish
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, one of the most
inhabitants and the process of 0 -
successful and most progressive educational
l
emigration is going on at the leave
every month; 4,000 have
institutions in the city, will have to get
rate of ten and more thousand already emigrated.
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greater communal spirit than it has hitherto
per month. Within a year or more FEW IN DP CAMPS
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in order to continue its existence. Chief op-
the so-called Dispersion of the
THE EVACUATION process is
position to that support has been premised
Jews, Galuth, in Europe at least, more remarkable from the Jew-
Brotherhood Week
will
be
a
thing
of
the
past.
its
stu-
on the'fact that about 40 percent of
In connection with the anti-Semitic re- This was brought out by one ish DP camps in Germany, Aus-
tria and Italy. Until recently,
dents attend all-day classes at the Yeshi-
hurled at the pickets protesting the of the top officials of Israel, Dr. these camps had a total Jewish
vah, a situation that is repugnant to certain marks
Flagstad concert, we must say that the Jew- Isaac Werfel, the head of Jewish
of nearly 300,000.
ideals on public education. We confess we ish community showed itself weak in failing immigration of the Jewish Agen- population
Now it is nearer 75,000.
cy
in
Palestine,
who
is
in
this
have been a victim of that repugnance and
In Italy, most of the camps
to support the picketing. The remarks dem-
we are not yet entirely convinced that the onstrate that there is something wrong with country. According to Dr. Werfel, have already been liquidated. In
than half of the population Austria only several thousand
all-day school is a healthy development in Christian teachings when such a violent ex- more
of the Jewish communities in the are left; and in Germany the li-
Jewish education in the IL S. To be honest, hibition of hate and malice can be elicited
quidation goes on at a pace
however, we must point out that objective from a small group of cultured Christians. their homes and emigrated to Is- where there will not he a single
educators are more and more convinced that Frankly, we are getting tired of being the rael. The other half is on the DP camp left by the end of sum-
this type of schooling is the most success- only religious faith sincerely observing way. mer.
Specifically: 25,000 of the 40,-
At the same time between six
ful in reaching the goal of a well-rounded Brotherhood Week. What is the matter with 000 Jews of Bulgaria have al- and
seven thousand Jews are
J^wish education. In addition, observations our Christian neighbors? Are tolerance, un- ready settled in Israel. Out of leaving every month from ports
will point otit that the methods of educa- derstanding and brotherly love too much the 11,000 Jews in Yugoslavia, of France.
6,000 have emigrated; the others
tiOn in the Yeshivah are of the most ad- for them to practice?
In short, something extraordi-
have the government's permis- nary is going on in Europe. A
vanced types and that the student body has
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sion, even encouragement to people who have lived on that
a loyalty and affection for their school
leave. continent for 2,000 years (Jews
First
Parliament
Opens
that is unfortunately lacking in most other
In Czechoslovakia, 20,000 of are, as a matter of fact, the old-
The opening of the first Parliament of Is- the entire Jewish population of est people in Europe. They were
Jewish schools. The fact that 80 percent
of the Jewish children in the city get no rael was one of the most impressive cere- 35,000 have left the country. The there before the fall of the Ro-
Jewish education at all, even the one-day monies of this historic year, and rightly so. others are preparing to leave man Empire.), are now leaving
with the permission of the gov- it en masse.
Sunday School kind, should help convince It represented the culmination of a series of ernment.
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the doubter that a successful school like the events which brought about not only the
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VOLUNTARY EXODUS
Yeshivah ought to be accorded the support establishment, but also the political solidifi- OPPOSED IN EAST
IN A FEW YEARS, Europe
of the full community. As it stands now, cation of the Jewish State in a remarkably THE SITUATION is somewhat will be emptied of Jews and
except for $22 500 "Iven to it by the Allied short period of time. The opening, like most more complicated in Poland. Ro- Hitler's dream of a "Judenrein"
Jewish Cat/mini• the schools are supported other State ceremonies of Israel, was used mania and Hungary because of Europe will be realijed, but not
the active opposition to mass-
the way he dreamed of and
almost entirely by the same handful of de- as an occasion to stress the desire* of the Jewish emigration by the local in
tried to bring about, for this
voted contributors year after year. It is Jewish State for peace with its Arab neigh- Jewish Communists, but even in exodus is primarily voluntary.
time that we all unite to back the Yeshivah bors, peace not only on the battlefields, but these countries a constant stream There is less anti-Semitism
first, and then, if we are still unconvinced. also- in everyday life. The opening addret:ts of emigration is going on with and persecution of the Jews in
debate the matter of the day classes. The by President Chaim Weizmann was a mov- the consent of the governments Europe now than ever before
on a scale unknown in this cen- 'n its history, and yet Jews are
situation is getting desperate and will be- ing document which amply proved that the tury.
leaving it at a greater rate
of
blek-
aged
leader
is
not
a
figurehead,
but
one
disastrous
if
increased
fina
neial
.•onnin
come
In Poland there are now only than eve- ham— •ri).
•'
the moulders of the character of the new 0,- Inn •
inn is not forthcoming. The Allied Jewish
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State. The ceremony left a feeling with le
eral Jewish people the world over that t
Jewish State is in the sple hands of pear
loving men with sane minds and progress
liberal ideas.
Campaign holds the answer.
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Jewish 31usie '{loath
Last week saw the launching of Jewish
Music Month on a scale hitherto unknown
in the U. S. The National Jewish Welfare
Board likes to do things in a big, American
way and its list of musical programs for
the month in New York City and in approxi-
mately a thousand Jewish centers all over
the country, is simply staggering. Will it
all help to encourage Jewish music? And
what is Jewish music? How does it differ
from international music? And is it neces-
sary to introduce separation even into the
one universal language that humanity has?
These are questions that come to mind dur-
ing this month.
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Peace—Israel's Symbol
• A martial eagle with frightening mi
used to be the chief symbol on a nation
emblem. Israel in choosing its emblem us,
a seven-branched candelabrum embraced '
two olive branches. Beneath it is the we ,
"Israel". No threat, no arrogance in tl
symbol. Rather there is assurance of c,
tinued respect for ancient traditions am.
promise of treading the pathways of pew ,
Perhaps, some day, the great prophecies
old will be fulfilled and Israel will help le
all men to the ways of permanent peace
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