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Thursday, June 29, 1950

D E TROIT JEWISH. CURONICLE
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Lack of Action Noted in Handling of Tribune Case

By PHINEAS J. BIRON
T SEEMS THAT negotiations were held between the
I owner of the Chicago Daily Tribune and a group of
Jewish defense agencies.
The subject of these negotiations
was the recent libelous attack by the
Tribune against Justice Frankfurter,
Lehman, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Reliable sources reported that the
American Jewish Committee, the
American Jewish Congress, the Anti-
Defamation League, and the Jewish
Labor Committee "went into action' .
immediately following the publica-
tion of this outrageous piece of anti-
Semitic journalism. Biron
' A number of sessions were held by the represent-

atives of the Jewish organizations and the spokesmen
of the newspaper with a view to "reaching an agree-
ment" which in this case meant a retraction on the
part of the paper.
At the time this is being written no official release
has been issued by the parties involved.
Yet, we know in advance what the results of these
negotiations will he.
The Tribune will publish a meaningless statement
in which it will say that no slur on the Jewish citizenry
of America was intended and that if the story did
create an impression of being anti-Semitic, the pub-
lishers regret it.
Our defense agencies will record the incident as a
victory and the ADL report on 1950 will duly note that
a great advance has been made in the spheres of news-
paper anti-Semitism.

Rabbinical- Assembly
Left Mark on Zionism

By RABBI LEON SPITZ
The jubilee celebration of the
Rabbinical Assembly of America
coincides with that of the Zion-
ist Organization of America,
serving as a reminder of the vital
role which the conservative rab-
binate has played in the develop-
ment of Zionism in this country
and in Israel durinLg, the past half
century.
lielembers of the Seminary
faculty, all of whom are likewise
members of the Rabbinical- As-
sembly, have been in the fore-
front Of the Zionist movement
since the turn of the century,
including Solomon Schechter, Is-
rael Friedlander, Israel David-
son, Louis Ginzberg, Mordecai M.
Kaplan and others whose records
can speak for themselves.
Schechter, for many years the
foster father of the Rabbinical
Assembly, served valiantly as
prophet and philosopher of Zion-
ism at a time when, in his own
words, "adhesion to the cause of
Zionism might interfere with the
prospects of a man's career." •
In a pamphlet called Zionism,
and published in 1906, believed to
be the first official publication
of its sort issued under the im-
primatur of the ZOA, he bridged
the gap between the differences
of the various groups working
towards one common end "that
Palestine, the land of our fath-
ers, be recovered with the pur-
pose of forming a home for at
least a portion of the Jews, who
would lead there an independent
national life."
Schechter clearly foresaw the
day when establishment of the
Jewish state would prove "a
tower of strength and of unity
not only for the remnant gath-
ered within the borders of the
Holy Land, but also for those
who shall, by choice or necessity,
prefer what now constitutes the
Galuth."
Following in his path, Prof.
Friedlander, later served as ex-
ecutive council chairman of the
ZOA and as the first president
of Young Judea. Mordecai M.
Kaplan, a past president of the
Assembly, at one time headed
the ZOA executive council.
More recently, Ginzber g,
Davidson and Kaplan /ikere visit-
ing professors at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem. Provost
Simon Greenberg was a student
there and Moshe Davis, dean of
the Jewish Teachers Institute, re-
cently received a doctorate in
philosophy at the Hebrew Uni-
versity.
The Rabbinical Assembly has
given' two national presidents to
the ZOA within the past few
decades, Solomon Goldman of
Chicago and Israel Goldstein of
New York.
Israel Goldstein told this writ-
er that he enrolled at the Sem-
inary because he was sure that
there he would find a "Zionist
atmosphere."
President of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund for many years, he
also served as President of the
United Palestine Appeal and ,of
the ZOA. Continuing his effdrts
in behalf of the fledgling Jewish
state, he took a ler..•.re of absence
from his pulpit to spend a year
m Jerusalem as treasurer of the
Jewish Agency.. •

Now returned from the post,
Rabbi Goldstein is president of
the World Confederation of Gen-
eral Zionists and also a mem-
ber of the American section of
the Jewish Agency.
In his brief and brilliant life-
time, the late Milton Steinberg
gave of his intellect and inspira-
tion to the cause of Zionism. Dr.
Louis Finkelstein, Seminary pres-
ident. also takes high rank in the
van of those who are aiding in
the construction of the Jewish
state and of the 'Hebrew Univer-
sity.
There were times when the
Rabbinical Assembly stood alone
in unqualified commitment to the
Zionist ideal, notwithstanding in-
dividual differences among mem-
bers on specific ways of imple-
menting this ideal, while other
bodies hedged and maintained
policies of neutrality, if not of
open opposition.
In many ways, the Assembly
has1eft its imprint on the spirit
and form of organized Zionist
activity in the United States. It
is no accident that the Assembly
and the ZOA, largest segment of
American Zionism, celebrate their
jubilees together. The two
throughout their histories were
often integrated into one force
guiding the development of
American Jewish life.
• • •

Davidson Heads
Rabbis' Assembly

NEW YORK — (WNS) — T h e
Rabbinical Assembly of America
concluded its golden jubilee con-
vention here with the election of
Rabbi Max D. Davidson of Perth
Amboy, N. J. as its president.
The convention adopted a num-
ber of resolutions whose cumula-
tive objective was dedication of
the conservative movement to the
task of restoring "the disciplines
and observances always associ-
ated with the Sabbath."
The convention also called on
the Jewish people to dedicate
themselves to the achievement of
and maintenance of world Jewish
unity.

`Too Many Jews
in Iraq House '

CAIRO—(Special)—The na-
tionalists Istiklal party of Iraq
has protested that the six Jew-
ish deputies of parliament are
too many, because the majority
of Jews is now leaving Iraq.
Jewish deputies sit as legally
recognized representatives of
the Iraq Jewish community.

CHURCH MUSIC
ROME—WNS)—Two Jews, Dr.
Eric Werner of the Hebrew Union
College of Cincinnati and Dr.
Gershon Kavy of the Hebrew Uni-
versity in Jerusalem, addressed
the Catholic Church-Music Con-
gress. They spoke on Christian
religious music as a source for
the music used in liberal syna-
gogues.

The Jewish Chronicle is the
only newspaper that gives com-
plete coverage of Jewish events
in Detroit.

Nell i

The truth, however, is altogether different.
The approach of our defense agencies in tackling
the Tribune case was wrong.
Had these defense agencies expressed indignation
against the Tribune in a series of full-page advertise-
ments in the American press and rented time on a
national radio hook-up to blast the Tribune editorial
policy—the owners of the Tribune would have reacted
differently.
The Tribune would have understood that the Jew-
ish community is concerned not only because three
distinguished Jews have been maligned, but is protest-
ing against a low bigoted type of journalism.
In other words, diplomacy of the subtle kind in
this instance meant retreat, appeasement, and besides,
will prove futile. Action through public criticism was
required.

Millet Building Reuther,Mayer

to Discuss U.S.
Policy hi Reich

Shown above is the architect's sketch of the new Hillel building
to be erected at 429 Hill street, Ann Arbor, near the campus of
the University of Michigan. Ted Rogvoy is the architect. Plans
have been made to start construction on the building late this
summer with completion scheduled about six months afterwards.

Rabbi Adler to Lecture
at Jewish Seminary

ica. He will give a course in horn-
iletics.

Rabbi Morris Adler of Congre-
gation Shaarey Zedek has been
appointed lecturer in the summer
graduate school of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of Amer-

ADULT SUMMER PROGRAM
A diversifkd and interesting
summer program is being plan-
ned by the Adult Education De-
partment of the Jewish Com-
munity Center.

Circuit Judge Carl M. Weide-
man will preside at a city-wide
conference called by the Detroit
chapter of the American Associa-
tion for a Democratic Germany
to consider the present American
policy in Germany.
The meeting will be held at
6:30 p.m., Thursday at the cen-
tral YWCA, Witherell and Mont-
calm avenues.
Speakers will be Victor Reu-
ther, education director of the
UAW-CIO, who has just returned
from a visit to Germany; and
Arthur Mayer, until recently
chief of the motion picture
branch of the military govern-
ment in Germany.
Also participating in the pro-
gram are Bill Kemsley, chairman
of the Detroit Chapter of the
American Association, and Hans
Scherber, its executive secretary.

Will
this
man
please
come
in
and
pick
up

his
lost
"doodle
and

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