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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Thursday, September 14, 1950

Speech of Ben Gurion
Marks End of an Era

City of Hope Unit
Plaits Fund Affair

life and future of the Jews out-lin which Israel can no longer
side Israel which are likely to play' the exciting heroic role that
undermine the Jewish position it played before.
in the diaspora and particularly
Now American Jewish inter-
in the United States.
ests must supersede those of
The Detroit Business Men's
This feeling is not limited to Israel, American Zionism is re- Group, of which Nathan R. Ep-
the Council for Judaism only, al- turning to its original and hu- stein is president, will open its
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
though the ACJ stressed the manitarian - philanthropic con- fall season, Thursday, Sept. 14,
1950, with a meeting at the
THE YIDDISH PRESS ;n the United States did not receive favor- point more than ethers. It pre- ception of 50 years ago.
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Furniture Club, Hotel Detroiter.
ably the latest policy speech of Premier Ben Gurion delivered vails in the ranks of American
in Jerusalem at the luncheon in honor of Jacob Blaustein, president Je•ish labor which has been
THIS, AND NOT any kind of
The meeting will start with
of the American Jewish Committee.
friendly to Israel. It has become a "deal", is responsible for the cocktails at G p.m.
Ant: no wonder. The speech,<>
Eugene Epstein will be chair-
crystallized in the circles of the present change. It is not some-
like the previous one delivered of mass emigration of Jews from Jewish middle-class as represent- thing new which has just hap- man of the meeting. Final plans
per .. It has been fermenting in for the Nov. 19 dinner which
in the same city by the Premier the United States to Israel and ed by the AJC.
at the conference of the Israeli proposed that Chalutziut be con-
Last, and not least, it has found American* Jewry for the last will be held at the Bel-Aire will
be completed.
envoys, was a complete repudia- ducted on a purely personal bas- expression also among native- three years.
tion of the militant nationalistic is.
It came into the open last year
The November affair will start
barn American Zionists who, al-
aspects of Zionism.
He even went so far as to ad- though most devoted to the idea when the AJC elicited the first the 1950-51 fund-raising cam-
Ben Gurion repudiated, in the mit the danger of dual allegiance of Israel as a place of refuge for promise of a retreat from nation- paign for the City of Hope, Los
first place, the tenet that Israel and urged the end of -the con- homeless and persecuted Jews, alism from Ben Gurion, and now, Angeles Sanatorium.
is the center, political or other- fusion which exists in the minds never considered themselves, as with the second retreat, the posi-
Ben Goldberg is chairman of
wise, of all Jews the world over. of some American Zionists that did East European Zionists, as Ho, of American Jews as indi- the fund-raising drive.
He rejected the idea that Jew- one can be an American and an r-al, or prospective citizens of a vidual citizens and not as a pol-
ish life in the diaspora is doomed Israeli at the same time.
itical or minority group, has been and problems in the United
Jewish State.
to extinction and that the only
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During the crucial period of clarified,
States.
thing it is good for is to serve
This is why the Ben Gurion
AMONG CERTAIN old- the political struggle for the speech marks the end of a period
as a fund collecting station and
establishment of Israel, Ameri-
as a temporary immigration- fashioned Zionists, it is custo- can Zionists became politically- in American Jewish history-
RECEPTACLES
mery
to
dismiss
all
criticism
of
point for Israel.
Ash and Rubbish Rein-
minded and militant as Jews and tb period of Zionist militancy Garbarge.
Israel
as
"Council
propaganda"
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He also disavowed the theory
and domination over American forced
they
carried
away
with
them
a
Priced
Right.
and to forget it. But the truth
Jewry. It marks also the begin-
AMERICAN CON CRETE
which is now dawning upon considerable section of American ning of a new phase, one dedi-
RECEPTACLE CO.
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many people is that much of the non-Zionist Jews. This naturally cated primarily to Jewish life 519 Kenilworth
criticism flows from the historic led to their assuming a leading,
Greetings
events of the last three years if not dominant, role in Ameri-
WE WISH OUR PATRONS AND FRIENDS
and rises above mere partisan- can Jewry.
What many fail to realize
A HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
ship.
MR. and MRS.
that this state of affairs was ne
The chief cause of the criticism er meant to be permanent and no
ERNEST J. STECKER
in this country has been the real- longer prevails. With the emer-
ization that the easy establish- gence of Israel, the militant pol-
and, FAMILY
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it no longer has any reason to be
militant and to keep itself and
Holiday Greetings
American Jews in a constant
state of tension.
American Jews are entering a
new phase of development, a
quieter and more normal phase
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