Ce NAT CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO Thursday, September 7, 1950 Page 27 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE AJC Calls forjDemocratic Communal Organization of race, color, religion, ancestry, ' This is the philosophy of the or national origin. American Jewish Congress, All When the American Jewish A mer i can Jews w ho su bscribe to Congress was founded 32 years these views regarding totalitari- ago, the world suffered from a tyranny of oppressive monarchies, anism, Jewish life in America but since then a more ominous and the relationship to Israel are threat to free men and to-Jewry invited to join the ranks of the has emerged in the shape of to- American Jewish Congress. talitarian regimes. Totalitarianism is as contrary NON-JEWS ENTER ISRAEL By MRS. SAMUEL GREEN to Jewish tradition as it is to TEL AVIV — (ZOA) — In the President, Michigan Council, American Jewish Congress American concepts. No totalitari- course of the first five months HEN THE AMERICAN Jewish Congress came into being 32 years ago, the world sit an regimes. 1 of 1950, 6180 crossings of Israel uation and .the status of Jewry were quite different -from-- what they -are- today. Th e • „Totalitarianism. is as contrary- frontiers - wore -- made .by - non- Jewish state was at that time still a distant goal. The Jewish population in Eastern and to Jewish tradition as it is to 1 Jews, according to a report by Central Europe, numbering some 10,000,000 maintained a vigorous and widely ramified com- American concepts. No totalitari- I the Mlnistery of Immigration. artist can countenance non-con- I _ __ _ _ _ munity life which was distinguished by its creative cultural contributions. fortuity to dogma. It was giving spiritual suste 1' The Jewish faith has never Greetings . . . nance to the growing Jewish which the American Jewish Con- been dogmatic and cannot flou•- community in America. gress had always maintained. ish in the climate of totalitarian- Through the immigrant gener- Both the physical safety of the ism. ations the seeds of this rich Jew- Jewish communities dispersed in ish heritage were transplanted in many lands as well as the spirit- THE AMERICAN Jewish Con- - American soil and gave promise ual needs for Jewish survival re- gress opposes totalitarianism in of fruitful groWth, I quire the close association of any guise whether of the right or In the course of the last three Jews throughout the world. of the left and since the essence of decades, particularly in the re- Therefore, we join in demo- both the American ideal and the cent 10 to 15 years, changes have cratic association with the World Jewish tradition is the sacred- taken place in the life of the Jewish Congress in affirming the ness of the individual, we can 8237 JOHN R. STREET Jewish people. unity of Jewish people every- pursue these objectives only through the free democratic pro- Of shattering import is the de- where and to help protect their TR. 3-7770 cess. struction of over 6,000,000 Jews civil, religious and economic and the virtual extinction of rights. ■ 7 0■ ■■ ■ Jewish communal and cultural The building of a vigorous HAPPY NEW YEAR life in Eastern Europe. Jewish zommunity in America Jews in the Soviet Union and cannot be based exclusively on its satellite states are isolated philanthropy and the fight against from their fellow Jews through- I anti-Semitism. Jewish life can- out the world. On the othor hand, not thrive on relief campaigns. the miracle of Zion has come to charity drives, or defense activi- pass. ties. MRS. SAMUEL GREEN At the same time American . These are necessary tasks but « « Jewry, because of its size and in- in- j they will not give meaning and 18290 Santa Barbara major responsi- I substance to our lives as Jews. damental f reed o ms of man fluence, bears a Mr. Charles II. Charlip bility for maintaining the unbrok-1 To preserve the Jewish way of through the elimination of all en chain of Jewish continuity and life, the communal resources of forms of political, social, and eco]- UN. 3-6947 i 480 Stimson TE. 1-7773 group survival. Jewish life must be democratical- I l , ■ ■•■••■ ■•■■ ■0■1■■•■ Unable any longer to feed spir- ly \?rganized and administered so nomic discrimination on grounds 1 . ■0■11■1,1 ■■•■ ■ ■4.■•■■ ■■■ ■■■ ■ itually on the older centers of as to stimulate the creative Jewish tradition, it must devel- sources of Jewish learning and Best Wishes . . ope its own resources and create scholarship. ... • • • NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS TO ALL its own forms of Jewish living. TIIE AMERICAN Jewish Con- 1 • • • Dr. Mayor OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS FROM THE VERY first day of gress dedicates itself to the as- its existence the American Jew- ' surance and extension of the _ fun- Stephen L. ish Congress was committed to i work for the establishment of a Rosh Hashonali Greetings Jewish commonwealth in Pales- tine and throughout its history the ideal of a Jewish state has 921G JOS. CAMPAU been a cardinal point in its pro- WO. 4-7586 1430 Griswold TR. 5-1593 gram. This ideal has now been realiz- Hamtramck 12, Mich. ed, and we of the Congress con- I sider that its survival and growth ••••• ■•■ ••••• ■•■ seme.m...1, ■••■•■••■■■•■ •••• ■.■ rommro..... ■ ....... ■••■■•■••■••■■•■•••■•■■•■•■••■.■■•■■■■ ommemm• ■••■■••■ DAVE BURKE, Mgr. is the responsibility of all who have contributed to its creation. • The fact of the existence of the 820 W. BALTIMORE AVE. 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