Thursday, November 17, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE .
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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
`Eliminate All Jews', Says Retired U. S. General
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
hattan borough, supported the American Committee of
AT
Jewish Conference is stillborn and will not even be
A T THE RECENT ST. LOUIS convention of the Jewish Writers, Artists and Scientists of which Albert
considered by the major organizations.
Nationalist Crusade. the delegates signed
Einstein is the honorary president and also because
a petition to impeach Supreme Court Justice Felix
There will be no showdown on the Jerusalem issue
Isaacs spiinsored the American Committee to Save Ref-
Frankfurter on the grounds that "he is a Jew." And
during the present session of the United Nations. Dr.
ugees.
at another session of the same convention Gen. George
Chaim Weizmann will visit the United States during
Another "crime" committed by Councilman Stanley
1950.
Van Horn Moseley, who still draws a „.
Isaacs
is
his
sponsorship
of
the
"Jewish
Black
Book,
A
•
fat pension from the U. S. government,
Record
of
Nazi
Crimes
Against
the
Jewish
People."—
declared: "As for me, the whole tribe
Co-sponsors of Isaacs' were Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
PREMIER BEN GURION'S recent warning to leaders
of Jews should be eliminated from the
if Zionists organizatins to keep their hands off political
Henry Morgenthau Jr. and other such "dangerous Com-
human race."
issues in Israel was not directed against Rabbi Abba
munists." No wonder Rabbi Stephen S. Wise called
But don't let it worry you . . . The
Schultz "unfit to be a rabbi."
Hillel Silver; newspaper reports to the contrary. Ben
American Jewish Committee is con-
Gurion meant none other Ulan Daniel Frisch, president
• •
vinced that organized anti-Semitism is
of the Zionist Organization of America.
on the downgrade.
GERTRUDE
SAMUELS
WHO
writes
for
the
"New
• • •
Frisch's interventions in Washington are neither re-
York Times" on every phase of Israeli life, is not re-
quested nor desired by Tel Aviv. Israeli government
TILE AMERICAN JEWISH LEAGUE
lated to Maurice Samuel, the author and lecturer.
leaders charged with the responsibility of foreign and
Against Communism is now entering
Rollett Nathan, head of the economic department of
domestic policies have felt for some time that Frisch,
a new phase of activities. During the
Biron
the Jewish Agency is considering moving permanently
although well-meaning, is beyond his depth when deal-
recent municipal elections in New York, this outfit,
to Israel. Stephen S. Wise's autobiography just out is
ing with the complexities of political problems facing
headed by the discredited Rabbi Benjamin Schultz
climbing the best seller list. James Waterman Wise, his
the Jewish State.
campaigned openly againA Stanley Isaacs, Republican
wife and child sailed for southern France where they
candidate for the New York Council.
Therefore, Ben Gurion's statement that only leaders
will stay for six months. Jimmy Wise wants to get a
Now get this—Schultz charged Isaacs with being a
living in Israel deal with political affairs is another
book off his chest and will write for the "Compass."
way of lng thplomats o f 42nd street in New
Communist because Isaacs, former president of Man-
Daniel Frisch's plan for a new edition of an American York to mind theire diplomats
business.
OFF THE RECORD
Frisch. Plan Backers
Expected to Organize
.
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
THE FRAGMENTIZATION of
Jewish life has come of late
under the scrutiny of sharp eyes.
ZOA President Daniel Frisch's
plan for the democratization of
Jewish community through for-
mation of a body consisting of
democratically elected represen-
tatives of the Community Coun-
cils, we predict, will evoke wide
interest and discussion. He sug-
gested integration of the Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds
within a democratic community
framework as a mean of bringing
about community responsibility
for Jewish needs coupled with
a community-wide unified system
of fund-raising.
The presently constituted lead-
ership of the Federations and
Welfare Funds, he said. "cannot
expect to be entrusted with the
direction of Jewish life through
a system of planning and budget-
ing" unless and until it accepts
the control of the organized demo-
cratic Jewish community. His
plan has the support of the ZOA
and more will be heard about it
in the near future.
Opposition to what he called
the "mechanization" of Jewish
life through an "efficiency" sys-
tem conducted by a "social serv-
ice" coterie 'neglectful of the
Spiritual needs of the Jewish com-
munity was recently voiced by
Louis Segal of the Jewish Na-
tional Worker's Alliance. He said
the "efficiency" slogans had orig-
,
inally led to the formation of
chests and welfare funds but
that is was now becoming ap-
parent that the welfare funds
were "seeking to dominate Jew-
ish life in America" and "other
parts of the world."
Also within recent days, in
Congress Weekly, the veteran
communal worker Harry Lebau
charged that the rejected "na-
tional advisory budgeting" idea
has for all purposes been put
into effect. He said the scheme
of a National Jewish Welfare
Fund was being pushed strongly
by the people at the helm of the
funds and that if realized it
would complete the subjugation
of the independent national Jew-
ish agencies. The proponents of
democratization are not yet a
unified group. But, this situation
may change before long. (See
this week's editorial "Revitalizing
Jewish Life."—Ed.)
• • •
JEWS IN THE SENATE
HERBERT LEHMAN is the first
Jew ever sent by New York State
to the U. S. Senate. The first Jew
to serve in the Senate was David
Levi, a Floridian. Although born
of religious parents. Levi married
a Christian woman and later be-
came converted to Christianity.
The last Jew in the Senate was
Simon Guggenheim of Philadel-
phia. He served between the years
1907-1913 and gain,fd for himself
a reputation as a liberal of great
stature. He supported a number
of social measures which were of Joseph Jonas, said to be the
considered revolutionary at that first Jewish settler in Cincinnati.
time.
The fourth Jew in the Senate
The second Jew in the Senate was Joseph Simon of Oregon. He
was Judah F. Benjamin of Louisi- was Mayor of Portland between
ana who served between the years 1909 and 1911.
1853-1861. Benjamin was one of
The fifth came from Maryland.
the leading figures in the Con- He was Isidore Reiner, one of the
federacy. He resigned from the most brilliant and liberal lawyers
Senate with the outbreak of the of his time. He served between
Civil War. When things went 1905 and 1913.
badly with the Southern cause
Governor Lehman, who still
the anti-Semites accused Benja- prefers being called "Governor"
min. At the end of the Civil War is the seventh Jew in the Senate.
•
• • •
he vowed that he would rather
leave the States than be captured
DR. ISRAEL TABAK recently
alive. He and three Negro friends suggested the formation of a uni-
jumped a British schooner and fied synagogue in America that
landed in England. There he be- would be non-denominational and
came a jurist of renown.
non-sectarian. Obliteration of dif-
The third Jewish Senator was ferences in Jewis life is a worthy
Benjamin Franklin Jonah , also I ideal. But we fear Dr. Tabak went
of Louisiana. He was a nephew a bit too far in his desire to
eliminate divisiveness in Jewish
life. This writer cannot see how
the plan, even if desirable, can
§ilver to Be Feted
at Israel Event
NEW YORK—The second an-
niversary of the UN decision
which gave sanction to the crea-
tion of the Jewish State will be
marked on Nov. 29 here at a
dinrer honoring Dr., Abba Hillel
Silver, former head of the Amer-
ican section of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, and the Hon. Aub-
rey Eban, chief of the Israeli
delegation to the UN.
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be translated into reality. It
would require a revolutionary
change in concepts before Ortho-
dox, Reformed and Conservative
Jews can be seated under one
religious canopy. This writer is
inclined toward the view of Dr.
S. Margoshes who recently de-
clared that it was but "shadow
boxing" to attempt at this time
to reverse a Jewish development
of the last 150 years by ignoring
the deep religious cleavages in
Jewish life.
`Eternal Light'
Plans Lyon Story
The Thanksgiving program of
the -Eternal Light broadcast will
be "In Henry's Backyard" by
Peter eyon, to be presented Sun-
day on NBC. Dr. Moshe Davis is
program editor.
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