Thursday, September 1, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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Wolves on the Prowl
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GEORGE WEISWASSER
SEYMOUR TILCHIN
Editor-in-Chief
President
Thursday, Sept. 1, 1949
(Ellul 7, 5709)
Detroit 26, Michigan
Why Chronicle Is Going on the Air
After a great deal of deliberation and careful planning, the
Detroit Jewish Chronicle is making its debut on the air on
Sunday, Oct. 2, over WKMH, Dearborn's 1,000 watt station.
We are aware of the existence of two good Jewish programs
now on the air, namely, the "Eternal Light," which can be heard
irr-Detroit on Sunday at 8 a.m. and the "Message of Israel," heard
Sunday morning at 10 a.m.
We are also aware of a number of programs which are
aimed to serve the Yiddish-speaking public.
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Detroit does not have the type of program that the Chronicle
is going to present—a powerful variety program, containing
dramatic salutes,' interpreting the news objectively and por-
traying other phases of Jewish life, history and culture against
an entertaining, musical background.
We recognize the need for a good, colorful program done
completely in English with Jewish music of dignity to reach the
entire Jewish community as well as the non-Jew.
It is our conviction that this type of program is a vital need
in our community. It is the aim and hope of the Chronicle that
the Jewish Chronicle Hour will also prove an excellent medium
for interpreting the Jewish heritage and the Jewish community
to our Christian neighbors and that it will establish under-
standing and goodwill between them.
Isadore Starr—Liberal American
We are shocked at the viciousness of Joseph Bernstein's
attack in the "Forward" on Isadore Starr, who is running for
the Common Council in the Sept. 13 primary election. When
Bernstein stated that Starr's leadership in the Jewish com-
munity was negligible, we realized at once that Bernstein had
cast aside the facts so that he could make a distorted appraisal
on a purely emotional basis.
The core of Bernstein's complaint is that Starr is a "leftist"
and has even been indorsed by the Communist "Freiheit."
Bernstein, who should know better, immediately painted Starr
with the Communist label in the now common practice of the
witch-hunters. And let it be said, so there is no doubt in any-
one's mind about it, a "Communist" can be just as vile anathema
to a Jewish Socialist zealot as he is to the pope.
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Now for the truth. Starr is a liberal. We do not mean one
of those weak-kneed liberals who shifts his colors with every
change of the wind, but a liberal in the best American tradition,
the tradition of Brandeis and Holmes and Franklin D. Roose-
velt. During the war, he worked for Russian relief and in the
last campaign he supported Henry Wallace. So did a lot of fine
100 percent Americans, let it not be forgotten. Does this make
Starr a Communist or a fellow-traveler? We believe not, and
we honor his word when he says that he is no friend of
Communism.
Starr is a former president of Pisgah Lodge, Bnai Brith,
and a former president of Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Council.
With affiliated groups, he was the nominal spokesman for 20,000
Detroit Jews. To call his inflluence in the community unim-
portant is crass ignorance.
We strongly indorse Isadore Starr, liberal American.
The Jerusalem Issue
Until recent (lays the news pouring out from Lausanne
concerned itself chiefly with the Arab refugee problem and
territorial adjustments. In fact, Israel's offer to admit 100,000 of
those refugees was believed to have opened the road to concrete
achievement even though the shrewd Arab bargainers insisted
on further concessions. Now it appears that the crux of the
issue is not the repatriation problem but Jerusalem.
That the issue was injected by "outside influences" rather
than by Arabs themselves makes it virtually certain that the
forces which have been seeking to nullify the Lausanne efforts
will succeed in their objective of bringing the issue anew before
the General Assembly in the hope of securing greater "inter-
national" pressure on the new state.
The warning by UN headquarters in Jerusalem against the
transfer by Israel of any of its government offices to that city
and the Lausanne report that a subcommittee of the UN Concili-
ation Commission had worked out a plan for the international-
ization of the disputed city show an unmistakable trend—it
shows the effectiveness of the propaganda from certain quarters.
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Daniel Frisch, president of the Zionist Organization of
America, disclosed that he had been assured by a high State
Department official that oiz . government was not bearing pres-
sure on Israel either on the question of the admission of a
specific number of Arab refugees or the transfer of portions.of
the Negev to the Arabs.
The rapidity and manner with which that disclosure was
subsequently "clarified" by the State Department certainly
warrants caution if not outright doubt in the proclaimed inten-
tion of our policy makers against wringing concessions from
Israel via political and other pressure.
Jerusalem has been the heart of the Jewish people over the
centuries. Even the opponents of Jewish statehood will admit
that it is the heart of Israel. Israel without Jerusalem is in-
conceivable. Political pressure will not foist an internationaliza-
tion solution on Israel.
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'Marriage
to Non-Jew
Is Surveyed
By ALFRED SEGAL
ONE HEARS IT brought up
every week or so in our Jew-
ish circles. Our Jewish commun-
ity is not so large that We don't
know what may be going on in
a Jewish house
even two miles
away.
We are all sit-
ting around the
living room,
talking of this
and that, the
economic state
of the times, the
way ready-made
borscht in jars .•t:
tastes just as
Segal
go o d as that
mama used to make, and sudden-
ly somebody asks: "Did you hear
the latest?"
"No, what is it?"
It's about another intermar-
riage in our Jewish community.
Another Jewish young man has
gone and done it. It's happening
frequently but it still is exciting
news.
The living room buzzes with
excitement.
"And who is it this time?* •
"Vincent Cohen!"
"Vincent Cohen?"
"His old grandpa, Olav Hash-
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
olem, should know that!"
(Jewish World News Service)
His grandpa was one who was
curious
difference
of
opinion
EW YORK—There seems to be a
designated by the high title of
about and attitude towards the Arab refugee problem in Israel Reb Mordechai Eliezer—in defer-
than exists in some.Zionist circles in this country. Here, for some ence to his Jewish learning and
unknown reason, the admission of t
his strictest piety.
more than 100,000 Arab refugees speech in the Knesset, we must
"That this should happen to
long-range
view
of
the
a
into Israel is considered a calam- take
him!"
ity of the first order. In Israel, a Arab problem and think of it
Vincent laid Tffillin every
less hysterical view is evidently not only in terms of immediate morning until he was 21. He
taken of the issue, except in ex- benefit, but also of the future.
went to Cheder.
tremist quarters. Israel will always be surrounded
In the Shul he knew how to
The Israeli government, S. Itz- by Arab states which will for a lead the Minyan in the prayers
in
essence
from
Tel
long
time
not
be
our
friends.
rites
haki w
when he was saying Kaddish for
Aviv in the "Morning Journal," The fundamental policy of
his mother and later for his
is not at all afraid of 200,000. Israel must be for an Israeli-
making a total of 20 percent of Arab alliance, if we want to have father.
the population. real peace in the Near East, and
In the first place, it is being a full economic development of 'WHO'S THE GIRL?'
"YOU CAN expect anything
forgotten by some Zionists that the area. Such an alliance and
for several decades when Zion- good relationship with the Arabs nowadays."
"It's happening in the best
ism struggled for the establish- can best be achieved by having a
ment of a Jewish State in Pales- considerable Arab minority in families."
tine, no one ever dreamed that Israel and by treating it well and
Somebody asks who the girl is.
The one who reported the news
the majority of Arabs would sud- making it happy.
To these two points, one might in the first place replies: "She
denly leave their homes in Pales-
tine in a moment of hysteria. add a third one which is pre- is said to be a very nice person."
Zionists always expected a size- valent in the minds of many
"Well. that's the main thing,
able minority of Arabs in the American Jews. That is that isn't it?" asks a lady who be-
Jewish State. Jews have always been and still longs to the reform Temple.
Why should we be so perturbed are to a large extent a people of "That's all that should count,
now that approximately 20 per- refugees. They have always de- isn't it?"
cent of the population of Israel manded justice for refugees and
"That's your reform idea," her
would be Arab? consideration of their plight.
best friend snaps viciously.
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For the first time in their his-
"Anyway, it's the human idea,"
tory, the Jewish people have a she replies. "Isn't character the
LONG RANGE VIEW
SECONDLY, AS Mr. Ben Gu- refugee problem of a different main thing, after all?"
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Hon recently mentioned in a
"Yes, but what if your own son
came to you and said, 'Mama, I'm
engaged .to a Gentile girl.' You'd
sing a different tune."
"Well, I'd say, 'Oscar, is she a
good girl? Is she intelligent? Do
you think she'd make a good
Outlining the government's wife for you?'"
TEL AVIV—(WNS)—Address-
"Yes, you would! Your heart
ing the 18th World Mizrachi con- plans for future defense, Premier
ference in Jerusalem, Chief Rabbi Ben Gurion in the Knesset intro- would be broken to pieces. Your
Isaac Halevi Herzog demanded a duced a compulsory service bill grandma's ghost would haunt
revision of Israel's laws and a which asked for a mixed army you. She was in Shul every Sat-
urday."
remodeling of its legislation based of draftees and volunteers.
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Draftees would join at the age
on the laws of the Torah. He also
of
18,
if
they
are
Israeli
residents,
PONDERS
CAUSES
demanded more powers for the
THEN MR. ZILCH speaks up:
and new immigrants up to the
Rabbinical courts.
age of 26, receiving both mili- "Ladies! Ladies! Let us rather
The Chief Rabbi accused the
tary and agricultural training, consider causes. Why are so many
Israeli government of adhening
while volunteers would enlist for young men of Jewish families,
to "Gentile jurisdiction which is
sea and air, as well as the land, and strict ones, too, intermarry-
utterly un-Jewish." He also asked
ing? What's the matter?"
forces.
for the removal of Supreme Court
Mr. Zilch has some ideas on
READY WHEN NEEDED
judges who, according to him, do
Ben Gurion said that the aim that. Could it be that religious
not have extensive Jewish jurid-
of the bill is to train the entire authority is weakening in the
ical education.
population to be ready for action ways of people—Jewish people
Israel Would Not Fight
Entry of 200,000 Arabs
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Chief Rabbi Asks Law Code
of Israel Based on the Torah
FACE ULTIMATUM
The British-owned oil refineries
at Haifa will soon be presented
by the Israeli government with
an ultimatum either to get the
plants into operation within three
months or submit to government
operation, it is reported here.
Government operation, how-
ever, would be temporary, only
until such time as the owners,
Consolidated Refineries, Ltd., are
willing and able to resume nor-
mal functions themeslves. The
owners would be compensated for
in the event of an emergency.
He warned that no other na-
tion is faced with such a lack
of security as Israel, insisting that
until war is outlawed in the
world, Israel will be living under
the threat of renewed Arab at-
tacks and invasion.
Importation of all luxury goods
which can be manufactured in
Israel will be barred in the fu-
ture, according to an announce-
ment by Dov Joseph, minister of
supply and rationing. A plea to
ban such products was made by
the period of state operation.
the Manufacturers' Associatiost,
and other people?
Mr. Zilch asks: "How Jewish-
ly religious are most of us, any-
way? We reverence the religious
ways of our fathers but we don't
go that way.
"We like to remember the re-
ligious quaintness of our grand-
parents. Interesting, like antique
furniture which we like to look
at but we buy modern furniture
for our living room.
"We cherish the memory of our
grandfathers who went to Shul
every morning, even on bitterest
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