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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Thursday, October 6, IMO
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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Wanted: Membership in Human Race
Bnai Brith, the world's largest and oldest Jewish service
organization, is engaged in marking its 106th anniversary with a
membership drive in the Jewish communities of the country.
We can think, of few causes as well deserving of support as
this. For what is sought here is not only membership in a formal
organization, but membership for humanity's sake; membership, in
short, in the human race.
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Bnai Brith—the name means "Sons of the Covenant," and the
covenant is that made by God with Abraham—was founded Oct. 13,
1843, by a group of 12 men who sought to "unite Israelites" for the
highest of ethical, fraternal, social and moral purposes.
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The 12 founders wrought far better than they could have
dreamed. What they brought into being is today a tremendous
organization of men and women, an organization of people banded
together for volunteer service wherever service is needed, and
whenever needed.
In the century and more that has elapsed since the first meet-
ing of Lodge No. 1 in New York City that October day 106,years
ago, the achievements of the Sons of the Covenant have been
remarkable.
They range from fighting bigotry to helping the victims of the
Galveston flood; from recruiting a company of vounteer soldiers
for Abraham Lincoln to sending $4,000,000 worth of food, supplies
and equipment to the people of Palestine and then Israel; from
supporting homes for orphans and aged, le fighting for civil rights
for minority groups in Europe and Asia; from Americanization
programs and orientation of new immigrants into the American
scene to establishment of scientific laboratories and veterans aid
programs; from making it possible for 150,000 Jewish young men
and women on American campuses to maintain touch with their
Hebrew heritage, to enabling worthy students, regardless of creed,
to obtain college educations.
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Letters to the Editor
PLEASANT CHANGE
To the Editor:
It was indeed a pleasure to
read Diane Diamond's "Jewish
College Student Has No Cause to
'Cry'," in the Chronicle, Sept. 22.
Here was an accurate, realistic,
objective analysis of an interest-
ing topic. Even more, it was a
pleasant contrast to the hysteria
variety of reporting so common
in the Anglo-Jewish press.
BERNARD EDELMAN
does not receive any funds wha
soccer from the national United
Jewish Appeal. The sole bene-
ficiaries of the national UJA are
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, the United Palestine Appeal
and the United Service for New
Americans.
The JTA is a beneficiary of the
United Jewish Appeal of Greater
New York, which also allocates
funds to other beneficiary agen-
cies. As a completely autono-
mous organization, the New York
UJA makes allocations to various
causes in the same way as any
local Jewish welfare fund or fed-
eration throughout the country.
I am sure that, in the interests
of accuracy, you will wish to
bring these facts to the attention
of your readers.
MEYER F. STEINGLASS,
Director of Publicity
Kol Nidre's
Tie to Liberty
Is Explained
THE FOLLOWING is an excerpt
from the Yom Kippur eve
sermon of Rabbi Leon Frain:
The prayer called Kol Nidre
and the glorious melody to which
it is chanted remind us yearly
how precious is our American
heritage of the freedom of re-
ligion. Historians trace the origin
of the prayer and the melody to a
time of persecution in the Dark
Ages.
This simple prayer which asks
only for the pardon for the sins
that a man may commit in his
relationship with God, had to be
recited and sung in cellars and
in tunnels, and at the risk of ar-
rest and torture and death. The
Kol Nidre is therefore a monu-
ment to one of the supreme
achievements of d e m ocr a e y,
namely, liberty of worship.
• • •
HUMBLE HEARTS
IT IS AT THIS Day of Atone-
ment that we appreciate what the
psalmists call, "the beauty of
holiness." It is beautiful for men
and women to humble their
hearts, to confess their sins, to
pray for forgiveness, and to
aspire to righteousness. It is
beautiful thing for the human
soul to seek coMmunion with the
God of the universe and out of
this communion to draw strength
for the enhancement of the in-
dividual life and the advancement
of mankind.
We pray tonight in the forms of
our Jewish heritage, but the ex-
This is doing good on a vast scale; and 106 years of activity
perience of worship gives us an
today finds Bnai Brith more active and flourishing than ever.
appreciation of all religion and
Surely it must be a privilege to belong to such an organization,
a profound sense of kinship with
and to be swept into the mainstream of good works in such a
all who seek to realize the king-
CORRECTS BIRON
splendid tradition!
dom of God upon earth.
Dear Mr. (Phineas) Biron:
• • •
In a recent issue of your column,
"Strictly Confidential," you state,
DAY OF PURIFICATION
in a discussion of the Jewish
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT is
a season of
It may be
Nothing could be more unrealistic than the United Nations Telegraphic Agency, that the JTA
receives "huge financial subsi-
painful to go without food or
Concilation Commission's recommendations on Jerusalem. In re-
drink for an entire day, yet, the
verting to the statute adopted by the Trusteeship Council in 1947, dies" from the United Jewish
Appeal.
experience is also beautiful. At
the commission has overlooked the fact that a war has intervened.
The JeWish Telegraphic Agency
the end of the day we feel puri-
As the New York "Herald Tribune" said last week, "It was the
fied.
Israel army and not the UN which saw to s it that the partition
We have known what it is to
of Palestine became a reality." Today the Arab Legion still
ignore for a while our mate rial
holds the Old City, while the rest of Jerusalem, 95 per cent
interests and to live on a spirit ual
Jewish, has survived and maintained its independence through a
plane. Above all. the experience
bitter siege and at a terrible cost in lives and property. Today it
of de privation has given us an
is economically as well as emotionally bound to the rest of Israel.
insight into the suffering and
To attempt to unite the city under UN authority would require
affliction that prevails in the
an army prepared to fight both Jews and Arabs. Since no such
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
world and has imbued us with
force exists and since no important interest would be served by
(Jewish World News Service)
the resolve to help. This is sure-
the internationalization of the Jerusalem area, it is hard to under-
EW
YORK—Many American visitors returning from Israel have ly what the psalmist must have
stand
the conciliation commission put forward such an un-
complained that Israelis have a perverted idea about the position meant when he said: "Worship
workable plan. Presumably the Vatican was the chief active in-
of the Jews in the United States. The bulk of the people in Israel the Lord in the beauty of holi-
fluence behind the decision. But when the issue comes up in the
ness."
General Assembly, the Israelis will be able to show that their are convinced that anti-Semitism
Speaking on the subject. "This
original proposal—to divide the political control of the Jerusalem is raging in the U. S. not less vi- the Jewish Agency executive in
area between Jews and Arabs roughly along the lines fixed by the ciously than in Poland or in Ger- charge of immigration to Israel, Mid-Century New Year" on Rosh
many
before
the
war,
and
that
Israel-Jordan armistice, reserving supervision and protection of
delivered a speech to a confer- Hashonah, Rabbi Frain said in
the Holy Places to international authority—offers the best hope American Jewry stands on the ence of youth and Chalutzim or- part:
of peace and at the same time protects the legitimate interests of brink of a similar calamity as did ganizations in Tel Aviv in which
Before this New Year, which
German, Jewry when Hitler came
every religion including the Roman Catholic.
we call 5710 by the Hebrew cal-
he
made
the
prediction
that
a
to power.
endar, is more than three months
If in the face of this the interested powers insist upon the
`a The prevailing theory is that wave of anti-Semitism will soon old, it will coincide with the
commission's plan, one can only conclude that the attempt to
strike the U. S. following the eco-
pogroms
on
Jews
in
America
are
year 1950 of the universal calen-
blackmail Israel into territorial concessions has not yet been
inevitable and just around the nomic depression which, he was dar. In ancient Israel the con-
abandoned.—The Nation.
sure,
was
coming
in
this
country.
corner, and that American Jews,
clusion of 50 years was marked
if they are not to repeat the mis- This he assured his listeners, will by a grand celebration called the
start
the
large
Chalutz
(pioneer)
take of the German Jews, should
"Jubilee."
begin immediately to transfer movement of Jewish youth from
It is described in the Book of
America
to
Israel.
their business, belongings, and
It is said of Premier David Ben Gurion that when he was
Levieitus, Chapter 25: The Sho-
"They
do
not
see,"
Dobkin
said,
families
to
Israel
before
the
po-
told by an expert that the Biblical land of milk and honey
far, or the ram's horn. was
"that the first economic crisis in sounded to "proclaim a. liberty
groms come.
might after all turn out to be a land of oil, he replied that
the
near
future,
accompanied
by
This state of mind is remark-
Israel's concern was water rather than oil. The water problem
throughout the land to all the in-
ably like that existing in Soviet mass unemployment, will cause habitants thereof.".With the blast
will doubtlessly be solved in time. However, since water is a
Russia with regard to the cap- the outbreak of anti-Semitism of the Shofar, all slaves were
worthless commodity on the financial markets of the world
italist world and is just as ob- that will strike the Jewish youth emancipated.
solution of that problem will hardly solve Israel's economic
difficulties.
nqxious and just as much a prod- first and will arouse Chaluziut."
• • •
uct of deliberate propaganda.
This speech, coming so soon LINE TO HISTORY
The Israeli premier, of course, might have intended using
Louis Hollander, one of the after Ben-Gurion's appeal about
THIS BIBLICAL JUBILEE has
the word water in a figurative rather than a literal sense. Ile
leading labor friends of Israel bringing American Jewish youth made its impress on American
might have referred to wafer as a symbol of contrasting ideas,
and recently a delegate to the to Israel, is an indication that the history, for the Liberty Bell
for water connotes both the idea of tranquility and turbulence,
Histadrut to Israel, was so struck premier's speech was not an acci- which rang out on July 4, 1776
transparence and obscurity, depth and shallowness, motion and
by this similarity that he publicly dental slip, as some newspaper to announce the independence of
stagnation, purity and pollution. Since Ben Gurion is no doubt
protested against it upon his re- editors have tried to explain, but the 13 colonies had inscribed
familiar with our ancient concept of "Mayim Chayim," meaning
turn home and warned the Israeli a part of a definite policy for a upon it the very words which the
the water of life or living water,. he most certainly was thinking
government against the danger of large scale Chalutzim movement Shofar announced on jubilee year,
of the bright rather than the shadowy symbolism of that element.
such propaganda.
from the United States to Israel, "Proclaim liberty throughout the
In an ideal world water would have preference over that
• • •
which seems to gain ground in land to all the inhabitants there-
slimy object known as oil and over which peoples stand ready to
of."
Israel now.
FELL ON DEAF EARS
devour each other. But the world being what it is. the Israeli
• • •
BUT THE WARNING evident-
It is a remarkable fact that our
premier must have been gratified when he learned that Jewish
American Declaration of Inde-
ly went unheeded, for this week SPINOZA'S PUNISHMENT
workers at Petach Tikvah had struck a possible oil source at
a
came a remarkable report from
stone quarry.
AARON ZEITLIN, a fine Yid- pendence had its inspiration in
Israel which reveals that this type dish poet who, like so many other Biblical faith. It was from the
The discovery of oil may well lead to the solution of many
of propaganda pervades not only poets of our age (Eliot, Pound, Bible that our founding fathers
a the burdensome problems facing the pioneers of the new
the rank and file of the people of and others), has emerged from drew their principles of the
state. We only hope that this modern oil painting will not mar
Israel, but also high official cir- the second World War with pro- equality of all men and the dig-
the poetic, tranquil and inspiring Biblical portrait
nity and inalienable rights of
of the land
cles.
milk and honey;
nounced leanings towards social each individual man. Let us ia
Eliahu Dobkin, a member
a
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UN Plan Unrealistic
Expect Pogroms
U . S •, Ask ews to Flee
Israelis
in
N
why
Water and Oil
fasting.