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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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SEYMOUR TILCHIN
President

Thursday, July 14. 1949

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Life Is Eosv,
and So We
Forget God

By ALFRED SEGAL.
IN 'LIBERAL JUDAISM", I
read a discussion between Rab-
bis Solomon B. Freehold of Pitts-
burgh and David Polish of Chi-
cago on what's the matter with

GEORGE WEISWASSER
Editor-in-Chief

Thursday, July 14, 1919 (Tammuz 17, 5709)

,

Detroit 26, Michigan

US.

That is to say, what's the mat-
ter with you and me and a great
many other
Jews? Religious=
Except for the final winding up, the Allied Jewish Cain-
ly speaking.
The reverend
paign is over. If you have not made your contribution up to
doctors have
now and intend to, do not make it harder for the few devoted
been feeling our
leaders of the drive who are sticking to their desks these hot
spiritual pulse
days to finish up the job. Send in your check or pledge to 250
which at times
Lafayette west.
is scarcely de-
tectable. We
Those who have already made their pledge are asked to
seem healthy
send in a check as soon as possible to help relieve the critical
enough othe r-
Segal
situation in Israel. Because help has been slow, 70,000 Jews are
wise, We can
stay up till all hours at gin rum-
living in makeshift camps without sanitation, breathing-space or
my; we hit the ball with pow.
ample food. The Israelis are taxing themselves to the hilt in
erful strokes at golf; the night
building their new State. They have voluntarily assumed an
clubs esteem us as the very best
austerity diet that includes only one ounce of meat daily, one
among their customers and 2 o'-
clock in the morning finds al
ounce of fish daily, one egg every three days, no butter except
still fresh at their gaming tables.
for children and very little milk or anything else.
But we're seldom in the Syna-
Speed your check so . that your brothers can at least have a
gogue. By reason of the five-day
bit more to eat!
week many of us don't work on
Saturday, but we don't know the
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
Jewish Sabbath. The Temples,
(Jewish World News Service)
on the Sabbath, contain nice eld-
WO VIEWS BY representative American Zionists indicate that erly ladies in black who have
at last the confusion which has reigned in American Zionist come there to recite Kaddish for
circles since the emergence of Israel is beginning to rise and people their husbands and others of their
Like an old maid, the Detroit News has succumbed to the
are beginning to see clearly a
kinspeople. Few are the men. • .
anti-Communist hysteria and is screeching away for want of
crucial question facing American pirations. Some hysterical speech-
something better to do. The staid old lady has much good to
Zionism today.
es were made and some fanatical ONLY THE AGED LEFT
her credit, but it won't be easy for her to explain away the
THE ORTHODOX Synagogues
The question is: Is American articles were written to the ef-
fradulent move to fill the news vacuum in the period of these
Zionism to be a philanthropic fect that an American Jew who are inhabited on the Sabbath by
movement whose purpose it is to does not go personally to Israel old and aging men who have ear.
summer doldrums.
help establish in Israel a home to help to build the country, even tied the habit of religious woe.
It would be a waste of space to point out the fallacies and
for those homeless Jews who are if he helps financially in a gen- ship from their remote youth.
absurdity of the campaign. The drive, however, must not turn
God has remained with them
in need of it, or is American erous way, is not a.Zionist.
into a witch hunt against minority groups. The patience of
To this chauvinistic zealotry, from their childhood to their
Zionism to become a nationalistic
Americans who honestly venerate our basic freedoms should
movement which considers Israel the "Detroit Jewish Chronicle," ripe years like the breath of their
not be tried too much.
as the home of all Jews, includ- a Zionist weekly of that city, an- lives.
swered editorially (June 30), in
ing American?
Sometimes the old men think
the following strong words:
out loud: What will become of
Phrased differently, the same
"Any
attempt
to
foster
a
large
these Synagogues after they are
question can be asked: Are Amer-
scale movement of American through with them and they have
ican Zionists to help build up Is-
rael as a home for others, or also young men and women to go to gone away to speak to God in
for themselves? Is American Israel is an INFAMY AND A
We believe our columnist Phineas J. Bison erred in alleging
Zionism to be a humanitarian or THREAT TO THE WELL-BEING
The reverend diagnosticians
that President Truman was himself responsible for the recent
OF AMERICAN JEWRY, who
a nationalistic movement?
think one way and another about
State Department intrigues seeking to keep Israel within the
must
not
be
bled
of
its
young
• •
leaders who will rightly be stig- us. Rabbi Polish says maybe it's
confines of the November, 1947 partition formula and to force
PRACTICAL BASIS
matized as DISLOYAL BY the prayers; maybe we're tired of
Israel to admit several hundred thousand Arab refugees at once.
saying the old prayers over and
THE QUESTION WAS raised FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
over again. Ile proposes a re-
Mr. Truman, we are confident, is a good friend of Israel and,
not theoretically, but practically. ALIKE. Let us remain sympa-
construction of the prayer-serv-
as Daniel Frisch, ZOA president, told Premier Ben Gurion, he
A movement has been started in thizers, good Americans and fine
ice in accordance with modern
does not surrender easily to the pressure of officials.
this country for a large settle- Jews, but withal Zionists. because Jewish experienc e— a prayer-
ment of American Jewish young we can love Israel with deep de-
service that will not be the same
That there is an intrigue in the making is patent, but it is
men and women to go to Israel votion without having to make a
all the time, but will offer variety
being nurtured by the minor career diplomats who hold on to
as Chalutzim, settlers, and ex- trip there to prove it. Let us,
each Sabbath.
their jobs while Secretaries of State come and go and take their
change their American home, the Americans, be the Chalutzim of
cues from the British foreign and colonial offices which they
He would make the prayers
home of their birth, for Israel, the spirit, and let those who have
venerate with a respect that is plain idolatry.
more meaningful to the modern
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the home of their nationalistic as-
mind. Then, perhaps, people will
So despite President Truman's reassurances, we must ever
start going to Synagogue again.
remain vigilant lest the pro-Arab minor officials gain the upper
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hand. It is to American advantage that a strong and friendly
2 POWERFUL SERVICES
State be built up in the Near East, up to now an exclusive Brit-
RABBI FREEJIOFF isn't to
ish preserve. American Zionists should not permit British am-
sure what the cure is. Ile finds
bitions to nullify what has. so far been done in bolstering the
that the spiritual sickness is not
tiny Jewish State.
developed dental ailments. The only among Jews but among
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
old
could
not
replace
their
de-
EW
YORK
—
All
toothaches
Interestingly enough, only a few short months ago, Tel
Protestants and Catholics as well
were forgotten in the small caying teeth with those shining
Avi• circles felt that the political assistance of American Jews
He points out that the Syna-
substitutes
for
nature.
And
there
town of Oriskany, New York,
gogues are crowded on Rosh Has-
had outlived its usefulness. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, a
when Alfred Grossman, a young was trouble in the land. Appeals honah and Yorn Kippur . . . "In
ZOA memorandum reminds us, expressed this view in a speech
Jewish dentist from America's by the community failed to draw these two services," he says,
in Philadelphia which fortunately did not get much attention.
largest city, was paraded through answer. Advertisements in the "there is a tremendous power of
The situation is now changed and so has the thinking of the
street and road in token of his New York City press were of no attraction as strong for modern
self-assured Israeli officials. They now acknowledge that Ameri-
acceptance of an offer to open a avail—until there arrived one day people as for past generations. We
can Jews, especially the dues-paying Zionists, can continue to
dental office in that community. a letter from Alfred Grossman.
have never analyzed the source of
Before opening the letter, the
help Israel tremendously, in political as well as in economic
The parade was headed by the city officials did some praying, strength of these two services.
fields.
mayor of the town of 930 people, hoping against hope that this was Such a study may be of great
representatives of the chamber of not another rejection. And the help."
The doctors having spoken,
commerce and social and reli- prayers of the toothless and the
gious leaders. A band played stricken were answered. Here now let one of the patients speak
music loud and sweet and den-, was a Moses that would lead up.
►
Reverend doctors: I, the patient.
tist-hating children cheered loud- them out of the Land of Tooth-
am being constantly mindful of
ly as they came within reach of ache, and
We have often had occasion to deplore the u.ifol tunate
the people were happy. what's the matter with me by my
the man who was aching to sub-
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practice of some Jews of celebrating Christmas and other non-
father. He is 93. Not that he ever
ject them to unpleasant drilling.
Jewish religious holidays in homes and communal institutions.
PEACE
OF
MIND
speaks to me directly with re-
It was not a hero, or a return-
WHEN THE PARADE ended, proaches upon my spiritual sick-
The celebration of such holidays, we felt, was inimical to the
ing veteran, or a long missing
person, or a popular athlete that history will tell, the sun settled ness. Without meaning to do it
basic tenents of Judaism and alienated our youth from the
they came to greet and cheer on. quietly over the town and sleep- he brings my own delinquencies
practices of its faith.
ers rested in their beds consoled
It was just a dentist that was by*the knowledge that if their to me in the evening when. on his
We could never understand why such an idle weed had
the object of their adoration. And sleep is disturbed by pain, Moses sickbed, he opens his eyes and
been permitted to grow on our Jewish soil here. Certainly there
they cheered and applauded, the will lead them out of the mess. sees that the day has passed.
Then he recites the prayers of
is enough satisfying depth, spirituality and tradition in our own
old and the young, because they
Whether it was mentioned or
holidays. There is no need for meandering in alien fields.
stood in sight of the man who not that this Moses too was a Jew the evening which he first learned
old.
was to assuage their dental ills has not been recorded. Certain it to say when he was six years
We were, therefore, glad to see the reform Central Conference
more to
It
comforts
him
the
and, in the case of the old, give
is that in the midst of jubilation know that they are the same eld
of American Rabbis take a forthright stand on the issue at its
them new zest for food.
60th anniversary convention at Bretton Woods. The conference's
the word Jew was non-existent. prayers;
co n t
suggest
f God : th e time-
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resolution 'against an evil which has long been the target of
Pain and the anticipation of al- less continu i ty o
APPEALS
FAILED
orthodox elements was as wise as it was timely. For it is clear
leviation vitiated all differences
"Blessed art thou, 0 Lod our
FOR YEARS the town had and united all men and women God, King of the universe who at
that if this type of assimilationism is unchecked it will in time
been without a dentist. Children and children into one purpose.
shake the very foundations of Jewish life in this country.
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Speed Your Cheek in Campaign

For Whom, by Whom
Shall Israel Be Built?

Witch Hunt on the Local Level

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Truman Is Still Israel's Friend

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Town Laughs Off Acites
With Arrival of a Moses

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Assi ilationist Evil Assailed

