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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Thursday, August 24, 1950

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Protestations of Loyalty Show Lack of Character

By PHINEAS J. BIRON
FEW WEEKS AGO, several of our Jewish defense
organizations issued statements, pledging their
support to our government in the present military ac-
tion in Korea.
When we read these declarations we
could not rid ourselves of a peculiar,
at first indefinable feeling that there
was something wrong with the picture.
We promised ourselves to analyze
this strange reaction but in the course
of our daily preoccupations we for-
got all about it.
Why did these declarations of loyal-
ty impress us as uncalled for, and
utterly inappropriate?
There was nothing wrong with the
Biron
text of these declarations.
It was the source that made them obnoxious.
Why should defense organizations whose exclusive
concern is or should be Jewish affairs presume to speak
on a subject which concerns us, solely as Americans?
Shouldn't it be taken for granted by our government

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that Jews no less than other citizens of our country are
loyal and dependable in a national crisis?
If there are pacifists and "First Peacers" who op-
pose our military policy in Korea, they do so—at their
own risk—irrespective of their religious or racial af-
filiations.
So, why did these Jewish organizations offer their
support to our government?
•
THE QUESTION PERTURBED us until we came
across an editorial (in the National Jewish Post, Aug.
11) entitled "Is This Cheap but Dangerous Publicity?"
Although we did not agree with everything in this
editorial, we found it intelligent and logical. Yet, it
missed the major point.
What the editorial overlooked is this: When organ-
izations of that type profess the loyalty of American
Jews, they actually throw doubts on that very loyalty.
Why should we, American Jews, have to re-identify
ourselves as Americans? Does the leadership of these
organizations believe that we are suspected by the
U. S. government of disloyalty?
The only explanation is that Jewish leadership, of
course, is intimidated by anti-Semitic whisperings. It

is jittery lest it be classified with that minority which
in accordance with various ideologies, political or re-
ligious, criticizes our policy in Asia.

A UNITED PRESS dispatch, the other day, re-
ported that Jews in Germany were worried about the
increasing number of desecrations of Jewish ceme-
teries.
What puzzled many of them was the fact that these
outrages were committed by youngsters, who could .
not have been much more than infants at the time
Hitler died.
So, the Jews of Germany are asking who is re-
sponsible for the anti-Semitic education of these young-
sters.
A reliable foreign correspondent, who just returned
from western Germany, told us the other day:
"You . cnow why there is so much anti-Semitism in
Germany? All our officials are so much interested in
bolstering the anti-communist spirit of the Germans
that if in the course of that process a little anti-Semi-
tism creeps in, they choose to ignore it, as long as the
big objective is attained."

Hadassah 1-Day Membership Temple Israel Northwest Hebrew to Complete
of Main Synagogue
Plans Youth Building
Drive Slated for Sept. 17
The Northwest Hebrew Congre- i ing have encompassed the crea-

Programs

gation and Center took another tion of an auditorium and social
step forward in the development hall capable of seating over 1800
Rabbi Leon Fram announces a of its completed synagogue when members and suitable for up to
program of youth activities and it retained the Lerner-Linden 800 dinner guests.
adult education in the new build- Construction Co. as its general
A large kitchen with the most
ing of Temple Israel at Mander- contractors for the building of the modern equipment is on the
son and Merton roads.
main synagogue over the present premises.
The new Temple will open its social hall.
The second phase of the build-
doors for the first time for the
The contract was signed by Ira ing was the school building corn-
High Holy Day services begin- G. Kaufman, president; J. Mau- pleted in 1948 and which has
ning Monday night, Sept. 11.
rice Karo, first vice-president and been in use for the past year,
Immediately after the High chairman of the building com- both by the religious school of
Holy Day season, the program of mittee; and Charles H. Charlip, the synagogue and by the United
Sabbath Eve services will begin. co-chairman of the building com- Hebrew Schools of Detroit.
These Friday night services are mittee.
planned with a special accent on
The chapel will seat close to
MIZRACIII CAMPAIGN
youth.
1,700 people. The vestibule will
NEW
YORK—A campaign for
Rabbi Fram will direct his ser- be circular and will be of the di-
one
million
dollars to be used for
mons to the interests of young mensions of 41 feet in diameter
immigrants has heel
people. Each service will be fol- and will have a height of 41 feet. religious
launched in the United States by,
lowed by an Oneg Shabbat, or
The dome over the entrance will Mizrachi.
Worship Hour, and by discussion
tablet bear-
groups meeting in the several be surmounted by a
ing the Ten Commandments. It
lounges of the building.
The youth center hall on the is expected that the building will
take approximately nine months
Going over plans for the Hadassah "H" Day membership campaign second floor of the temple will
to complete.
to be held Sept. 17 are, left to right, Mrs. Ralph Davidson, chapter be the scene of man programs for
The beginning of the main syn-
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high
school
youth
and
young
and
Mrs.
Milton
Prag,
. vice-president; and Mrs. Adolph Lowe
adults. The youth center will agogue is the final phase of the
r n.
Day chaime
RATE
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have facilities for dancing, Congregation's physical growth
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which began with its formation
dramatic
per-
lunches,
suppers,
70-bed
tuberculosis
hospital
in
'YOUR NEIGHS° HOOD
An enthusiastic army of cap-
musicales, and lec- under the presidency of Alexan-
SAYINGS INSTITUTION'
tains and lieutenants will visit Jerusalem, with 35 beds set aside formances,
der
Moss
in
1944
and
continued
thousands of Detroit Jewish for tubercular children—the first tures.
with
the
presidency
of
Ira
G.
two
The building will contain
homes on Sunday, Sept. 17 (desig- TB children's wing in the coun- libraries—one a library for the Kaufman in 1945, followed by the
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
nated as "H" Day) to enroll new try. In addition, a new 100-bed
general public, which will have ground breaking for the social Dexter Blvd. at Cortland- TO.9 6 511
children's
hospital
was
recently
members in Hadassah.
available all current books of hall which took place in Novem-
W. Fort at Military • VI. 3-7500
opened.
Prominent in this unusual one-
Jewish
interest, and a religious ber of 1945.
Hadassah
helps
to
maintain
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Successive phases of the build-
day campaign are : Mrs. Ralph
education library which will con-
Davidson, chapter vice-president; per manent playgrounds, day tain reference books and Jewish
camps,
summer
camps
and
teen-
Mrs. Milton Prag and Mrs. Adolph
classics for Jewish student and
Lowe, "H" Day chairman and co- age clubs in Israel. Thirty thou- the staff of the Religious School.
sand
children
benefit
by
its
school
chairman; and the following group
Rabbi Leon Fram's class in cur-
luncheon system.
Membership vice-presidents:
rent Jewish history, a class which
he has taught uninterruptedly for
Mesdames Stanley Akers, Ben-
the past 25 years, will now be
jamin Arkin, Benjamin Bond,
housed in the new Temple Build-
Clarence Jacob, Kopel Kahn, Da-
•
vid Miro, Louis Redstone, Morris
ing.
Louis H. Schostak is chairman
Schiff, Leonard Morein and Ben-
of the building committee.
jamin Weiss.
The synagogue committee of
Also, the following group mem-
United Hebrew Schools an-
RABBI OF TEL-ARZA
bership chairmen and committees: the
nounces that services will be
a ceremony
JERUSALEM—In
L. Berkowitz, Alfred Bleier,
held during the high holy days in attended by religious leaders and
Joseph Deutsch, Joe Ellis, Bernard
the Rose Sitting Cohen Syna-
Feldman, Paul Friedberg, William gogue at Lawton and Waverly local residents, Rabbi J. Caleb was
Gelb, Gerald Girard, John Hor- and in the David W. Simons appointed rabbi of the Tel-Arza
She's learning by experience
witz, George Keil, Julius Kraft, Synagogue, Tuxedo at Holmur. quarter of Jerusalem and of the
he always buys this famous
Harry
Fischel
Institute.
that a tuna dish Is either a
Philip Levant, Albert Pines, Har-
"BITE-SIZE" TUNA; she glorious success ...or a dismal
At the Rose Sittig Cohen,
ry Pinsky, Kolman Sachse, Harry
officiate
H you Iwo the
knows it's delicate, tender, and failure! Next time, she'll buy
Sloan, Harry Spector, Manuel Abraham Shachter will
• v .s .n
assisted by a
and
he
will
be
delicious. Every tuna dish she
Stoler, Sam Sugerman and Jack
quality tuna!
choir. At the David W. Simons
„•v., yew won't
WinshalL
serves is a coup de maitre!
find
•
litho
wine
thaw
Synagogue Rev. David Rine will
Conf.
As the "Healing Hand of Israel,"
Trademark of Yon Camp Sea Food Co. Inc.,Terminel
Hadassah has won world wide officiate.
Tickets are already on sale.
recognition for its medical and
The synagogue committee con-
social achievements in IsraeL
sists of Nathan Yaffa and Isaac
Its first mission to that country Rosenthal, co-chairmen, and they
was in 1913, when two trained
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