Thursday, July 14, 1949

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Publishers Weighing News Service of Their Own

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON

THE ANGLO-JEWISH Publisher's Association is

seriously considering the establishment of its own
news service.

Anglo-Jewish editors have felt
the need for such a service for some
time. The lack of a good news ser-
vice covering American Jewish life
from coast to coast is one of the
weaknesses of the Anglo-Jewish press.
Here's hoping that the project will
be realized in the near future.
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A FEW COLUMNS AGO we
called attention to an article by Rabbi
Jacob Weinstein of Chkago. The
article dealt with the Jewish concep-
tion of marriage as opposed to the
"romantic fever notion of love."

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Biron

Rabbi Weinstein writes: "My dear Biron. If you

will re-read the piece, and that I grant you is certainly

a

"Anyone who listens to the daily grind of divorce
complants before the divorce mills, or who must listen
to marital difficulties as they conic to the Rabbi's
study, must see how bitterly young people pay for
basing their marriages on ephemeral changes in their
metabolism.
"While I do not ask for the return of the Shad-
chan, I think that it would not at all be amiss for our
personal counselors, our ministers, our recreation lead-
ers and social directors to cooperate seriously in de-
veloping social mechanisms by which young people
can meet each other and get to know each other on a
more than superficial basis."

chore, you will see that I do not advocate the return

of the Shadchan. I do. however, emphasize that some

way must be found to substitute for the romantic
fever gateway to marriage, some instrumentality which
will enable people to get to know each other in a
much more constructive and dependable way.

OFF THE RECORD

Zolli Running True
to Form of Meshumed

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RABBI WEINSTEIN'S point of view received
strong backing in a letter signed "Bewildered" from
Chicago.
The lady writes: "My first reaction was that Rabbi
Weinstein has indeed the right idea. I speak from bit-
ter experience as one who has just gone through the
agony of a divorce.
"What we thought was love was just sexual at-
traction ... And since he was 12 years older than I,
after the first month I did not have sexual satisfaction.
"The misery and unhappiness that I have gone
through ought not to happen, and yet as long as ar-
ranged matches are outmoded and our parents are

JERUSALEM --(MNB)—Young
artisans, smiths and electricity
experts are being trained for
gainful living in two major insti-

OLLI, WHOSE conversion to If lie were sure that his arrival movement.

Catholicism some years back
while holding the rank of Chief
Rabbi of Rome was no surprise to
those who had been observing
his spiritual decay, is running
Prue to the Vatican policy con-
cerning the internationalization
of Jerusalem.
He is said to be now more than
a mere foe of Zion. Before pub-
lication of the recent Vatican en-
cyclical on the status of the Holy
City he was busy studying the
history of Jerusalem and its re-
ligious significance. We wonder
whether while preoccupying him-
self with the task he took note of
one of the most famous historic
ironies—that Jerusalem had been
won back for Christendom by a
man who felt the lash of church
excommunication, Emperor Fred-
erick.

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CHRISTIANS CURBED

SO LOATHED was this man by

the church that when he was in

the midst of negotiating for Jer-
usalem with the sultan in 1229, the
pope issued an edict barring him
and all Christians from affixing
their signatures to the Treaty of
Jaffa. The diplomacy behind the
ban was as clear then as is the
motivation now behind the op-
position to the inclusion of Jerus-
alem within Israel's orbit.
. We cannot resist recalling at
this time, when the Christian
world appears so self-righteous
in. its so-called equalitarian de-
mands'on the Holy „City, that the
man. who gained the city for
them accomplished the feat de-
spite and not because of papal
authorities who speak of Jerus-
alem with such possessiveness to-
day.
For further information on the
subject we would advise the
Meshumed to read David G. Ein-
stein's "Emperor Frederick." It
might perhaps be a good idea for
the publishers, Philosophical Li-
brary, to send him a free copy.

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HEARD AND RECORDED

PROF. ALBERT EINSTEIN is

there would not set off a heavy
wave of receptions, he would be-
gin making plans for the tour.
The Educational Alliance, one
of the oldest Jewish institutions
on New York's east side, is about
to become a non-sectarian insti-
tution. Change of population
trend is said to be responsible
for the contemplated move. Years
ago the Alliance Synagogue was
one of the most famous in the
country. It was graced by the
incomparable gold-tongued orator
Zvi Masliansky. Now the Syna-
gogue is closed down. . . .
Hostility in the State Depart-
ment toward Israel has not di-
minished . . . The opposition is
less vocal because it has been
silenced .

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In Safed, the Yeshivah Torah
U'Mlacha (Study and Labor) is
preparing gold, silver, and metal-
smiths and is teaching young stu-
dents fine handicrafts "in the
Bezalel tradition."

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M. SPEGAL of Drake Street, Chicago, does not
believe in the Shadchan. "The Shadchan," writes
Spegal, "is more interested in his profits than in the
respective parties. As for matching the right parties
and achieving compatibility I would suggest that an
intermediary merely introduce the man and, woman
(without .rying to sell one to the other) and let them
find out for themselves whether they are suited to
each other. No laboratory test could be invented to
guarantee happy and successful mating."

NEW YORK. — Mrs. Rebecca
Kohut, of New York City, honor-
ary cite-president of the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women
and former president of the
World Congress of Jewish
Women, has been elected hon-
orary life president of the Inter-
national Council of Jewish
Women, Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, of
Detroit, president of the Inter-
national Council of Jewish
Women, announced.

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In Jerusalem, a similar Yeshi-
REVIVAL IS PLANNED
vah trains youth in electro-tech-
MUNICH — (YIVNA) — Those
nics. Youths, from 14-16 years of
German Jews, who are represent-
age, after completing elementary
ed on the "Society for Christian-
school, devote four hours each
Jewish Friendship," have decid-
day to religious study and four to
ed to revive the pre-war "Zen-
craftsmanship.
tral-Verein Deutscher Staatsbuer-
Sated students are making ger Nosaischen Claubens" (Ger-
trinkets out of empty cartridge man Citizens of the Mosaic
cases found after Israel-Arab bat- Faith), which bore an outspoken-
ly anti-Zionist character.
tles.

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GOETHE A HITLERITE

THE BOOK "New Irish Poets,"
published by Devin-Adair Co.,
proves that the great Irish liter-
ary renaissance has not altogeth-
er fizzled. And also that poems
written by people with names
like Brady, Shanahan and Mac-
Donagh can very sensitively be
supplemented in woodcuts by a
gentleman named Harry Kerneff.
Goethe's bicentennial anni-
versary is being widely celebrat-
ed in this and other countries.
His genius of course is beyond
denial even though there are
some who are inclined to the be-
lief that his greatness has been
exaggerated. As Jews we can-
not give moral approbation to the
German poet who struggled for a
lifetime with Jew hate.
Goethe had praise for the Bib-
lical Jew who existed only in the
Bible, as the great Yiddish poet
Jacob Glatstein has recently ob-
served, but he had no use for the
living Jew of his time. In his
ideal state Jews would be felt
only by their absence.
We hate to mar a literary holi-
day. But we would be derelict in
duty if we did not remind the
Goethe celebration sponsors that
their hero was quite an anti-
Semite in his days.

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"EVERYBODY IS WORRIED about the ever-
rising divorce rate. People talk about 'finding' a man,
and not whether you will be happy married to this
creature.'
"Let us not talk in generalities. I have been di-
vorced. I want to be happily married."
It is obvious that "Bewildered's" marriage failed
not because it was not "arranged" but because of
other reasons. Yet tier case presents a strong argument
for the Rabbi's point of view.

Mizrachi Schools World Women
Training Artisans Honor Mrs. Kohut

profoundly anxious to visit Israel. tutions of the World Mizrachi

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

completely without power in this respect, this shame-
ful pattern will undoubtedly repeat itself many times
over. As long as the chief way of meeting a man is
at a public dance where the important factors are
sex appeal and a good line, the real sense of values
will be either lost or completely hidden.

Joshua Lotb
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