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DETROIT

JIWISIN CRIONICLI

The Ugly Mirror

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Published by the Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
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NEWS

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SEYMOUR TILCHIN
Publisher

Thursday, Oct. 13, 1949

ITEM

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be noted on his card-
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won't go down

EMILY SOMLTO
Business Manager

(Mari 20, 5710)

Detroit 26, Michigan

Simchas Torah

As American Jewry prepares to celebrate the annual Jewish
Book Month, which comes a month after Simchas Torah, it should
be noted that no other people but the Jews created a festival like
Simchas Torah, the Joy of the Torah, because no other people so
• needed the Book as the Jews, writes Rabbi Mortimer J. Cohen.

. The very nature of their national and personal experience was
such that, merely to remain human, they had to draw their
strength from the Book. For the Jews reading the Book was not a
casual luxury for an ephemeral hour; it was the very fountain-
head of their salvation.

By the Book of the Torah the Jews meant not only the
Pentateuch of Moses, but also the rich treasury of literature of
which the Pentateuch is the supreme symbol.

Nor by the Torah did the Jews mean only the Book of the Law;
neither Jews nor other human beings can live by law alone. The
Torah and Jewish books through the ages satisfied deep and abid-
ing human hungers in the Jewish heart.

Because the Book gave the Jews a sustaining joy of living, they
exalted the Book and dedicated to it a festival—Simchas Torah, the
Joy of the Torah.

Confusion on Dates

Three major community events were scheduled for 8;30 p.m.,
Wednesday, and if you were interested in the different subjects
discussed, all you had to do was cut yourself up in three pieces
and send each piece to a different location. Or you could attend
one, send your wife to a second and hire someone to report the
third function for you.

LoS,
JEWRY
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Jerusalem Jews Fight
Proposals for UN Rule

Tkursisy, October 13, nil

Writer Tells
Why He Will
Support ZOA

By ARNOLD R. GINSBURG

Phila. Jewish Times/
I 1Frove
AM SEATED AT my desk. A

few minutes ago I was
&ant-
ing at my memo pad to see whet
remains to be done before Rog
Hashanah. One notation mow ell.
circled. All it said was "ZOA
mere check"—but I was able to
understand my own hieiogl,_
phics.
So I pulled out my checkbook
and wrote a check to the order
of the Philadelphia Zionist Or-
ganization for $8 to Cover my
ZOA membership dues fie this
coming Jewish year, 5710. If I
had a wife ,the check would have
been for $12 to cover our joint
membership in ZOA. She would
probably want to be a member
of both ZOA and Hadassah.
Not having yet made my first
million, I am not the sort of per.
son who writes checks just for
the fun of it. Moreover, I will
not support any organization
whose job is finished or whose ac-
tivities are unnecessary and de.
signed merely to keep it in ex-
istence. It is self-evident that I
do not consider the ZOA, Nadas_
sah er the other strong wins of
American Zionism are anywhere
near ready for the trash can.
• • •

LAKE SUCCESS—(WNS)—A cable expressing determination GOLDEN AGE DISTANT
EVEN ASSUMING that the es-
to fight the proposed internationalization of the Holy City was re-
ceived by Aubrey Eban, chief of the Israeli delegation to the UN tablishment of the State of Is.
council.
rael ended the need for Zionist
The cable voiced the graditude:ie, it was reported, was awaiting activity in that area, the second
Of course, there was another alternative. Two of the organiza- of Jerusalem's Jews toward the instructions from Tel Aviv.
of American Zionism's twin ob-
tions responsible for this surfeit of communal activity that evening Israeli diplomat and his efforts to
jectives— a Jewish cultural and
That issue was raised earlier
could have availed themselves of the Calendar of Events service of
thwart the attempt to sever Jeru- by the American delegate Ben- religious renaissance, a Golden
Age of Judaism in America— is
tile Jewish Community Council, learned that an important Zionist
salem from the Jewish State,
jamin Cohen, who accused Rom-
evening had been scheduled on that date weeks before and
In the meantime anti-interns- !ania, Hungary and Bulgaria of still far away and requires the
postponed their events to another night with much more promise of
tionalization sentiment was re-;persecuting Rabbis and religious unique approach and intensive el-
good attendance.,
ported to be developing among Jews. He charged Romania had , fort with organized mass support
We hope that it g was not selfishness and stupidity that were many delegations. Several dela. removed the Chief Rabbi and ne- that only American Zionists can
responsible for the setting of three events, each of much impottance gates were said to have declared placed him with a sympathizer of give through their result-produc-
ing organizations. If ZOA were to
in private conversations that the !the Communist regime.
to the community, for the same evening. We hope that it was
remain strong and active only for
tither ignorance of the Community Council facilities or a slip-up. plan to place Jerusalem under an; RABBIS COERCED
international regime was imprac_i The Morning Journal, New this purpose—dayenu!
If it can be shown that an organization deliberately ignores
But is our political and public
tical and incapable of implemen- I York Yiddish daily, carried a re-
the fact that another event had long ago been set for a certain
relations work done? Israel has
tation. Jerusalem, tbey said, must
•
Buch
arest
that
the
Rab-
date and then goes ahead to grab the same date for its function,
not be transformed into a second bis in Romania were forced to de- a long way to go to reach its goal
that organization should be disciplined by the Council. The
Danzig or Trieste.
liver "prayers," prepared by Jew- of security and peace. No peace
Chronicle offers its sincere cooperation in seeing that fairness and
ish Communists, in which the treaties have as yet been signed
DUTCH OPPOSE PLAN
good judgment prevail, in date-setting in this community.
of Israel, Zionism end the with any of the Arab states. Dis-
It became
ecame known that
the i World Jewish Congress were de- turbing reports reach us that the
Dutch delegation was com mitted
to
as fascist
in- United States government is ex-
to unqualified opposition to the 'citing a third
world institutions
war.
ercising pressure upon Israel to
internationalization pro
sal
fl Rabbis who showed reluctance, make large territorial conces-
the
Conciliation
Detroit may well consider it an honor to have been host to
Commission.;
were threatened with death . sions to the Arab states and to
With the solid opposition
of the
the executive boards of the National Federation of Temple Brother-
accept back large numbers of
Balken and eastern European ! When the Rabbis delivered the
hoods and the Jewish Chautauqua Society. The work of these
refugee Arabs. A powerful in-
states, and with the expected anti-Israel sermons on Yom Kip-
groups is of a type that commands the respect of every Jew regard-
! pur there
Opposition of the Scandinavianisynnog,„
was
weeping in the fluence is being exerted to ex-
.
less of whether he is orthodox, conservative or reform.
clude Jewish Jerusalem from the
bloc, t h ere is growingg c b el ief
State of Israel.
at!
Most
of
the
worshipers,
ac-
We note that the two organizations have just completed an- the commi ssion
ac-
o m mend
tha-
cor ding to
You say that these are matters
d
other summer of constructive teaching among youth in Christian tions
,
are headed for defeat.
!Sy nagogues the moment left the! for the Israel Government and
church camps. Fifty-four Rabbis each spent a week or more as
the anti-!
The Dutch delegation was re- 'Israel sermons began and ran to not for us? You are quite light.
teacher-counselors in campi located in one-half the states of the ;ported
to have advocated instead !
union . The Rabbis, under Jewish Chautauqua Society, auspices, j
cemeteries, where they wept over, except to the extent—the very
a
UN
treaty
with Israel and the fate that had overtaken them.: great extent—that the Amei lean
were assigned as regular members of the camp staffs and spent the
Transjordan calling for the safe- Another report in that paper State Deparment is mixed up is
entire time with the young campers, teaching, working and
guarding of and free access to the said that 30,000 Russian Jews who all tte".c
hriis.aInt is o urresponsibility
playing.
tohe tee
s ssr
l
holy places. settled in the Lemberg regio
help
n,
Such personal contact—in the case of many of the campers the
A statement dealing with hu- formerly Austrian, had been evac- the foreign policy of the United
first such meeting with a Jew—exerts great influence on the future
man rights, particularly as they luated by the Russians in order to
affect the Jews in the eastern '
thinking of the youngsters. Incipient prejudices disappear to
• . •
prevent their attempt to settle
return no more, and many a child leaves camp a better Christian
European countries, is expectedlultimately in Israel. Lemberg, the FRIENDS, OF ARABS
and a better citizen because of the week he has spent with "my
to be made at the political corn- !Morning Journal disclosed in a
BUT LISTEN ALSO to this: On
friend, the Rabbi."
mittee by Arthur Lurie, Israeli report from its Paris correspond- Sept, 12, !Ng, under the headline
The JCS also sponsors a college speakers program where the consul general in New York. Lurolent, is now a
city without Jews. "Friends of Arabs Form Outfit
------- —
Rabbis go out to more than 1,0()0 colleges and universities through-
to Attack Israel," the New York
out the country, addressing the student body and enlightening them
Post revealed that a "new and
on Judaism. •
well-financed propaganda oigam-
The goodwill burn between Christians and Jews through these
ration" has just been formed and
hundreds of visits to the camps and the campuses point to the right
named "Holy-land Emergency
pathway towards mutual understanding and respect among two
,
Liaison Program" of "HELP."
groups divided only because of ignorance.
According to the New Yolk
NEW YORK—Presidents of the whole State to the dangers of
Post, "Its sponsorship indicates
' • four major Zionist parties in the unemployment
D e
ing tha tantd
he dpressi on"
it will be strongly pro-Arab and
U.
U . S.. representing a membership
l a r
"constructive decidedly anti-Israel in its ap
-
of over• 1;000,000, have issued a achievements of the Zionist move-
proach to the touchy political and
ment
in
the
establishment
of
the
joint call to their constituencies, "
economic issues its the Middle
When some months ago it was reported that, there was a
State
well be then-
reat
East ,
HELP has its head-
discernible lull in the organized activities of • America's hate-
urging them to participate in the ed," the presidents stressed
: "W
mongers and anti-Semites, we were inclined to accept the de-
United Palestine Appeal's Nation- Zionists must take the lead
in e quarters in the (Washington) of-
velopment as an encouraging sign. And this despite the fact that
al Conferenece on Israel, Oct. 22- drafting (at this conference) an fice of the Middle East Institute,
our own observations of the scene gave little cause for optimism.
23, at the Shoreham Hotel, Wash- overall program and plan of ac- an oil company-subsidized outfit
ington, D. C., Judge Morris Roth- tion which will help cope with which has consistently supper ted
Now the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League reports that, at a
e
the Arab cause and opposed the
secret conclave at St. Louis, the rabble-rousers showed alarming
nberg, UPA acting national the critical situation in Israel."
new State of Israel" and which
strength and disquieting financial backing. In fact, Gerald L. Kt" chairman, announced.
The principal speakers are
has "close relations with the con-
In a special letter signed by scheduled to include:
Smith was reported to have boasted that only rack . of funds pre-
D aniel Frisch, ZOA president, Eliahu Elath, Israel ambassador t rolling pro-Arab clique in the
vented him in the past from moving his black clouds over the
B aruch Zuckerman, president of to the
n
tm East t. section of the State
Middle
eastern part of the country. If we take the League reporter's •
U. S.; Gen. Lucius D. Clay,
word, it appears that the hate-mongers are about to start a
he Labor Zionist Organization, former military governor of the
M rs. ' Samuel Halprin, president American Zone in Germany; Gen.
Sponsors and executive com-
nationwide drive against Jews, and with unprecedented vicious-
0
ness.
f Hadassah, and Leon GelInten, John H: Hindring, formerly mem- mittee members of HELP include
. It is quite possible that the league's picture is somewhat z p resident of the Mizrachi Organi- ber•of the U. S. delegation te the Kermit -Roosevelt, pro-Arab lec -
colored. But, in a battle such as this, relentless vigilance can si ation, the Zionist leaders empba- UN; and Henry Morgenthau. gen- turer and author; Lessing J. Ros-
ized that "Israel is in the midst eral chairman of the UJA -cam- enwald, president of the 'Amer-
never be a fault.
1 ican Council for Judaism. and
of e crisis which can expose the paign .`•
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Chautauqua Society

(IPA National Israel Parley
•
Slated for Washing
ton Oct. 22

Bigots Stirring Again