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GE ORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
Detroit 26, Michigan
(Adar 17, 5709)
In Brief .. .
Did you give $10 to the Allied Jewish
Campaign in 1948, or perhaps you gave $1001
If you did, we want you to know that tlie
$10 or the $100 went to pay for a Jewish
Welfare Federation ad in last week's Jewish .
News as part of its program of subsidizing
the Jewish News again. The Jewish Chron-
icle, on page one of the same issue, gave
spice to the meeting advertised in the News
ad in a position for which an adver-
tiser would pay quite a lot. It is the job of the
Chronicle to present such news to the Jewish
community without payment. We cannot
understand why the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion uses money donated for charity to pay
for announcements that the Jewish News is
obligated to publish without charge. How-
ever. if the JWF insists on advertising, as a
sign of its good faith, it should advertise on
an equal basis in both papers.
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Rabbis and Meat Prices
Critics of the Rabbinate in the controversy
over high Kosher meat prices here misun-
derstand the function of the religious lead-
ers. It is not their job to attempt to force
a reduction in prices because they are not
an administrative body with quasi-police
powers but rather a religious authority only.
Complaints on high prices should be directed
to the Jewish Community Council, which is
the administrative organ of the community.
The Council is in the midst of an investiga-
tion with which the butchers are now coop-
erating after some stalling. If there is to be
any slash in prices, it will have to come from
that investigation and not from the Rabbis
who cannot jeopardize their religious in-
fluence by high-pressuring the butchers even
if they could.
Jewish community as it already has in so
many other cities," the Sentinel's dynamic
editor, J. I. Fishbein, writes. "Within a few
years the clique will have made its rule
complete. It is the most unbelievable in-
stance of a self-imposed dictatorship that
ever has taken place and yet we sit quietly
by and allow it to happen before our very
eyes." It has happened in Detroit. Wake up,
Chicagoans! Yours is a fighting city. Don't
let it happen to you, lest it destroy your
independence and self-respect.
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Israelis Change Names
The reaction to the changes in names by
Epstein, Shertok and others in the Israeli
government has been two-sided. On one hand
we have the viewpoint that harsh Germanic
or Slavic surnames have little place in a new
n ati on with its own beautiguage a
ful lan
is expounded
cul ture. The other viewpoint
by a writer in the Labor Zionist "Yiddisher
Kempfer" who insists that the changing of
names is 4., symbol of a break on the part
of the Israelis with the Jews in the Diaspora.
It indicates a break with Jewish history, with
the common people of Jewry, its civilization,
culture and suffering, he asserts. It reflects
disrespect, if not contempt, for the past, he
adds. His deductions are unjustified, we be-
lieve. The changing of names is just part of
the "newness' of the new State. It is a fresh
and healthy manifestation with no subtle
implications.
astern Anti-Zion ism
IS Move - in Cold War
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
(Jewish World News Service)
NEW YORK—The alarming reports which have been circulating
for the last several months about the change of attitude on the part
of the pro-Communist governments in Europe towards Zionism have
been crystalized into clear facts'`------- - -- - ---
which can no longer be denied. are to be faced without bias,
Hitherto the pro-Communist fanaticism and hysteria which is
countries in Europe were not only', already gathering in certain guar-
actively assisting Israel, but also tees. •
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assisted the Zionist movements', The facts of the case are that
within their own countries, espe- the pro-Soviet governments have
Back Genocide Measure
cially with a free and unmolested changed their policy towards
of their Jewis h na- Zionism (especially against one
The United Nations convention on the emigration
tionals to the Jewish State. Po- aspect of Zionism, emigration t .
crime of genocide was approved by the New land, Czechoslovakia, the Balkan Israel), but not to Israel and
York Bar Association and the body voted s tat es, Romania and Hungary Jews.
unanimously a recommendation that the had thrown open their doors to The attempt which is already
United States ratify the convention. The Jews who wanted to go to Israel. being made to present these re-
No restrictions were made strictions as a new anti-Semitic
importance of the move consists in the fact
pro - Communist
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that this is the first important legal American against men of military age, or movement by untrue as it is
persons
who
wanted
to
countries
is
as
against
group that came out for the convention, since
out their property. The dangerous.
The Aqaba Skirmish
the American Bar Association, the national take
Zionist parties within those coun- I The opposition to Zionism is
If you will look at your map of Palestine, body, has recommended against its ratifica- tries were also not interfered not an isolated trend directed
you will note that the southern half is an tion and the convention was held up in the with in their preparations and against Jews as such. It is a part
of the general trend towards ex-
inverted cone with the tip resting on the Senate. Former assistant Secretary of State training for Israel.
tremism and isolationism which
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Red Sea. At the right is the small port city Adolph Berle Jr., James N. Rosenberg and
is rising all over the Communist
of Aqaba in Transjordan territory. It is a Joseph Proskauer, former president of the EMIGRATION IIALTED
THE SITUATION has now world by the order of Moscow.
strategic port because it is the only one on American Jewish Committee, made strong changed abruptly. In Romania, It is a move in the cold war of
the Red Sea under British control. If Israel pleas for the convention and attacked the emigration has been suspended Soviet Russia against the west,
can create a port of her own opposite Aqaba decision of the American Bar Association as I entirely. Even the pro-Soviet at one with the Berlin blockade,
in the few miles of its coastal strip, she will "retrograde and pusillanimous."
Zionist party, Mapam, has been with the propaganda against the
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have a terminus on both the Mediterranean
suspended and its more than a western alliance and with the
hundred Ilechalutz (Pioneer) declarations of disloyalty on the
and Red Seas which will be of tremendous
part of the Communist leaders in
centers have been closed.
Congressman Sol Bloom
economic significance if Israel is ultimately
The earlier agreement to per- every country. , • .
to become the industrial center of the Middle
Congressman Sol Bloom who died last
East. The recent skirmish between Israeli week was a good American. He was the best mit 5,000 Jews. to leave Romania NO ANTI-SEMITISM
month, has been cancelled
and Transjordan advance forces on Israeli example of how the Jew can become thor- every
IT MUST BE MADE clear to
and the usual Communist propa-
soil underscored the potentials of the tiny oughly Americanized, imbibe the spirit of gouda against the Zionist move- every Jew and non-Jew that anti-
area so well assessed by the Jewish and Brit- the country and of his time and become a ment as an ally of western imper- Zionism does not mean anti-
ish governments. By sending a small force pillar of American life not only financially ialism has been revived. Semitism: nor does it even mean
to garrison the future Israeli port, the Ben and politically, but also psychologically. Mr.
In Hungary, the Zionist organ- anti-Israelism.
Gurion regime was merely making certain Bloom was an American of the same genera- ization is still legally permitted to
Communism, even in its ores-
that the roving, greedy eye of Britain did tion as the late Al Smith and Jimmy Walker go on with its activities, but emi- ' ent nasty, militaristic mood of ex.
not rest permanently on the few miles of and of the same type—Shrewd, kind, gener- gration has been stopped and the tremism and despair, has no spe-
coastline belonging to Israel on the Red Sea. ous, eager to be in the limelight and not Israeli representatives ,who were cial quarrel with the Jews as had
negotiating with the Hungarian the Nazis. It treats Jewish op
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seeking to hide it, a showman and a business government about immigration to'
ponents
with the
same cruelty
man and a kind human being who never for- Israel were ordered to leave the and
brutality
as others,
but it
Octopus Reaches for Chicago
country.
does not single out Jews, or a sec-
got the poor people he sprang from.
In Czechoslovakia there Is no lion of Jews, as i its special target.
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Chicagoans devoted to the principal of
suspension of the Zionist activi -
Those who are now trying to
of democracy in civic life are greatly dis-
ties, nor of emigration,
h a s e v.i d but
e n the
t 1 3? utilize the change to raise an
Airlift to Israel
turbed by the announcement that the pro-
government
changed its mind about permit- hysteria about Communistic anti-
fessionals, hired to raise funds for its com-
their Semitism are not only confusing
A modern fairy tale in the form of a news changed
take out
bined Jewish appeal, are planning to grab story was told in the American press. It was property
Zionists
as it to
had previously the issue, but are doing the cause
control of all communal activities. The lead- the story of 4,000 Yemenite Jews who were
of the Jews and of Israel an in-
ing Jewish paper in the city "The Sentinel" flown by air from their home of oppression agreed to do.
calculable harm. The morbid,
masochistic desire on the part of
calls the date of this announcement "one of and pogroms to Israel. Yemenite Jews lived HYSTERIP DEPLORED
the blackest days in the history of Chicago in even greater poverty, squalor and persecu- THESE ARE no longer rumors , son,e Jews to see. anti-Semitism
Jewry." We in Detroit sympathize with tion than Jews in any other Arab country. or reports• these are facts which everywhere, may lead to real
"The Sentinel." For years, the Jewish When the Arab states invaded Palestine, the have to be faced by Zionists and anti-Semitism in the east, of
Jews all over the world. But they which there is none at present. —
Chronicle warned that the $25,000 a year
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executive director and his $20,000 a year
assistants were slyly and wickedly taking
over one Jewish activity after another, but
there was no one in the community with the
courage to fight them because they had sup-
-- port of the big givers upon whom they
fawned and whom they gave empty . honors.
It is almost too late now to do much about
it in Detroit. But Chicagoans who do not
want to see charity become the plaything of
professionals and millionaires should hasten
to the support of the "Sentinel." "The noose
is being tightened around the neck of this
fanatical Arabs of Yemen staged some of the
bloodiest pogroms of the postwar pe riod_ on
their Jews. Four thousand of them fled to
neighboring Aden from where they hoped
they would go to Israel. But rail and ship
communications were • cut off because the
Arab countries would not allow the Jews to
pass. The Joint Distribution Committee then
stepped in and organized an airlift anetrans-
ferred all the 4,000 Yemen refugees to Israel.
The operation was started last December and
was going on every day until the last Yemen-
ite Jew was transferred to Israel last week.
Rubiner Praises A rbitration Aid
Judge Charles Rubiner, in a
letter to the Jewish Community
Council, acclaimed the arbitra-
tion services of the Council.
"I urge most earnestly," he
said, "the submission to concilia-
tion and arbitration of all dis-
putes between individual mem-
bers and organizations of the
Jewish community.
"The' results have always
proven far more satisfactory than
litigation with its protracted de-
lays, its expense and not infre-
quent publicity, usually of an un-
favorable nature."
The Council has available
speakers on the subject of arbi-
tration. Call Cll. 1657. A. C. Lap-
pin is chairman.