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THE JEWISH NEWS
March
27, 1942
CATHOLIC JOURNAL DENOUNCES "SOCIAL JUSTICE"
MAGAZINE; SAYS IT IS NOT CATHOLIC PUBLICATION
Front Page Editorial in Pittsburgh THE NEW HAGGADAH
Last year, three outstanding
Paper Denounces Fr. C. E. Coughlin leaders in the Reconstructionist
'
PITTSBURGH—Religious News Service—In a front page edi-
torial, the Pittsburgh Catholic denounces the magazine Social Justice
founded by Father Charles E. Coughlin, and points out emphatically
that it is not a Catholic periodical.
The editorial said :
movement, Prof. Mordecai M. Kap-
lan, Rabbi Eugene Kohn and Rab-
bi Ira Eistenstein, collaborated in
issuing
This Haggadah caught the imag-
ination and interest of American
Jews so fast that the supply of
Declaring that the Christian printed copies was exhausted be-
world suffered "an intellectual in- fore Passover. The new edition is
suit by the invitation to join with out for this Passover, and there
the racial Jews against their own will be hundreds of additional
homes in which the new Seder rit-
fellow Christians who were more
ual will be followed.
sinned against than sinning," the
It is a most interesting compila-
organ of the Detroit priest, antici- tion, which teas been published by
pating severe criticism, takes issue the Behrman Jewish Book House,
with those who may indict the 1261 Broadway, New York. The fine,
illustrations are by Leonard Wies-
Coughlinites as pro-Nazis. "The
gard.
Jews of America, through their
The value of this splendid Hag-
various publications, persistently gadah, whose appearance has not
been
without criticism from the
have caluminated Father Coughlin
orthodox and more traditional
and Social Justice, both of whom
groups, is that it pleads for beauty
were termed un-American," the ar- for the Seder table and prescribes
ticle says. "Here, then, is our ans- methods of observance to enhance
wer to them-- in part. We will let the beauty of the Passover table.
"The New Haggadah" is printed
the world know who is un-Ameri-
in Hebrew with an English trans-
can and un-democratic. If pro-Am-
lation. Many portions of the old
ericanism consists in boycotting a
Haggadah are eliminated. But the
suffering 40 million German peo-
additions make up for eliminations
ple upon whose neck rested the
yoke of the Nazi Party; if pro-
Americanism consists in casting
the entire civilized world into
seething cauldron of bloody war
for the protection of 600,000 rac-
ialiets or religionists—as you care
to call them . . , then American-
Irm under that interpretation, is
not worth while fighting for."
"The fact that Social Justice sees I Jewish Appeal To Christian World
"An Intellectual Insult"
fit. at a time when national unity
is essential, to promote disunity;
that it obviously seeks to promote
intolerance of a certain racial and
religious group; that its policies
at this moment, when the United
States Is at war with the Nazi-
domi , ,•1 Axis countries, are so
frequently parallel with those of
the Nazi propagandists:
these are
the reasons why Social Justice
would have to be rejected as a
guide for Catholics, even if it
claimed to be a Catholic publica-
tion. But It does not so claim; It
cannot so claim; Social Justice is
not a Catholic publication.
"It is true that Social Justice
is sold in the streets at the doors
of some Catholic churches. But
daily secular newspapers are sold
in the Wile public places.
"It Is true that Social Justice
bears on its cover the line 'found-
ed 1936 by Father Coughlin.' But
the name of Rev. Charles K Cough-
lin,. who founded the periodical
does not (appear on its masthead
as editor, consultant or in any
other capacity. The March 16 issue
of the magazine refers (on page
5) to Father Coughlin as 'silent
and silenyed.' It states (same page)
that since May 1940 Father Cough-
lin has heen glIrnt '
"Soon nine years will have elaps-
ed since a world-wide 'sacred war'
was declared on Germany not by
the United States, not by Great
Britain, not by France, not by any
natioe; but by the race of Jews".
the article reads. "eitarthng as that
statement Is it is substantiated by
a public address made over sta-
tion WABC, outlet of the Columbia
Broadcasting System, by Mr. Sam-
uel Untermeyer, an American Jew.
"Jews all over the world were
Ordered not to buy from Germany,
not to patronize Merman merch-
ants, not to deal with firms which
mold German goods, not to ship on
German boats. Mr. Unterrneyer,
speakir.tg officially for all the Jews
in the world on 'what we art pro-
posing and what we have already
gone far toward doing,' said that
his organization would 'undermine
the Hitler regime and bring the
German people to their senses by
destroying their export trade on
which their very existence de-
pends.'
"AU this to rescue 600,000 Jews
=int in the Third German
An audience that filled to ca-
pacity the main auditorium of
Shaarey Zedek heard Congressman
John D. Dingell make a strong plea
for a Jewish Army in Palestine
and severely condemn the negli-
gence that caused the sinking of
the Steamer Strume with 750 refu-
gees from Rumania aboard.
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Zionist Council of
Detroit of which Lawrence W. Cre-
tin is president. All the speakers
—Congressman Dingell, Mr. Crohn,
Philip Slomovitz, editor of the Jew-
ish News who presided, B. M. Lai-
kin, Jacob Rycus, spokesman for
the Zionist Youth Council, Rabbi
Morris Adler, president of the Zion-
ist organization of Detroit, and
Mrs. Frank, president of Detroit
Hadassah, the women's Zionist or-
ganization—emphasized that Jews,
as allies of Great Britain in this
war, felt it necessary to call the at-
tention of the United States Gov-
and the Reconstructionist Hag-
gadah is certain to be given a
splendid welcome' by the enlarged
audience of the present year.
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ernment and the British authori-
ties for the need of averting trage-
dies like the one that occurred
with the Strume. Facts were pre-
sented at the meeting to show that
three weeks before the Strume
struck a mine, Zionist leaders in
Palestine, London and Washington
pleaded with British authorities to
admit the stranded refugees on the
Strum e.
The audience unanimously adopts
ed a resolution protesting against
the Strume disaster and demand-
ing future averting of similar oc-
currences.
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Probe of "Social Justice" Urged;
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A demand
"Social Justice has itself defin-
that the magazine 'Social Justice'
itely denied being a Catholic pub-
he investigated by the United
lication. It has denied being un- ,
States government because it is
der any obligation of obedience
disseminating anti-democratic pro-
or loyalty to the authorities of the
paganda which menaces successful
Church. It has attacked, by name,
prosecution of the United Nations'
Catholic Bishops, In terms that no
war 'against the Axis, was made
publication interested In the well-
this week by Prof. James H. Shel-
being of the Church would use.
den, chairman of the Anti-Nazi
"Let it be repeated and remem- League speaking to group of
bered. then, when charges and in- YMCA leaders in Brooklyn.
sinuations are made against Cath-
CINCINNATI, (.1 r.\ —The Cin-
°Ilex and the Catholic Church, be-
cinnati Post, a member of the
cause of what is printed in that
Scripps-Howard newspaper chain,
paper, that Social Justice is not a
this week charged in an editorial
Catholic periodical."
that Charles E. Coughlin's maga-
'SOCIAL JUSTICE" (' HA 'WES zine 'Social Justice', was "preach-
JEWS, NOT NAZIS, STARTED ing pure and unadulterated Nazi
T1114: PRF.SENT WAR
propaganda "
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NEW YORK, (JTA) The pro-
Attacks "Social Justice" As
Nazi allegation that it was the
Successor to Band's "Weckruf"
Jews and not the Nazis who start-
NEW YORK — Declaring that
ed l the present war. is made in a
violent article in "Social Justice," "the publication, Social Justice has
the mouthpiece of Father Coughlin . taken up where Hitler's Weckruf
and Beobachter, suspended organ
The first of its kind since Am-
erica's entrance Into the war, the of the Nazi Bund, left off," Prof.
article which resembles the anti- James H. Sheldon, chairman of the
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Jewish outpourings in the• most board of directors of the Non-Sec- 7
tartan Anti-Nazi League, called
vulgar Nazi publications in Ger-
many, attempts to "convince" Am- upon Americans of all races and
creeds to join in "eradicating the
ericans that they are laboring un-
menace of unAtnerican propagan-
der a false impression when they
think 'that this was a war to save da, •h:ch is springing up in every
democracy." It claims that "for corner of the country, like fires
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persecutions suffered by 600,000 kindled by incendiary bombs."
Jews in Germany, the world was
catapulted into a 'sacred Wet ' of
economic boycott" which developed
into the present conflagration.
"The New Haggadah for
the Pesah Seder."
Rep. Dingell Thrills Large Audience
With Plea for Jewish Army, Condemns
Negligence That Caused Strume Tragedy
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