Page 10 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. —BUY DEFENSE BONDS- 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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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 " --- 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 7 7 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 SI 51 = 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 —BUY DEFENSE BONDS— We Write Ail Forms MYER KAUFFMAN AGENCY Suite 605—Fox Theater Bldg. 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