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Dear Boys and Girls.:
By the time you read this column you will have asked
the Four Questions at the Passover Seder and will have
celebrated, as I will have, the great Festival of Freedom.
What a magnificent holiday! Passover set the stage
for the Declaration of Independence. It taught the world
to want and to love freedom. It should teach us all to fight
for our freedom and never to submit to slavery.
Are you enjoying this column, which is YOUR col-
umns^ Do you want to help me make it better from .week
of war and hate in overseas lands,
strengthening the defenses of Pal-
estine as a democratic bastion in
the Middle East and helping refugees
in the United States undertake their
democratic responsibilities in behalf
of the country which has given them
haven.
On his return to the city this
week, Mr. Butzel pointed out that
the local Jewish community was
preparing for an intensive drive in
behalf of the United Jewish Appeal
and fifty additional local, national
and overseas services, as an added
contribution to the cause of dem-
ocracy, over and above its partici-
pation in other activities designed
to further the successful, prosecu-
tion of the war. The United Jewish
Appeal was the fund-raising agency
for the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee. United Palestine Appeal and
National Refugee Service, the three
major American organizations which
AprI 5, 1942
BetweenYou and Me
By Ben Lewis
Copyright, 1942, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
at least for the summer months.. ..
Instead Rabbi Wise will preach on
Friday nights. . . .
• • •
A SCENE IN CASINO:—
Louis Fischer, known to our
readers not only because of his
interesting book, "Men and Poli-
tics," but also because of his lec-
tures before various Jewish and
non-Jewish audiences, has done it
again. . . . He has just issued an-
other interesting volume entitled:
to make a flying visit to India to "Dawn of Victory," published by
strengthen Sir Stafford Cripps in Duell, Sloan and Pearce. . . . The
the latter's negotiations with Ghan- book opens with a chapter on life
di . . .
in Lisbon, which, among other
• • •
things, throws light on the tragic
WAR ECHOES:—
situation of the Jewish refugees
Sergeant Abraham L. Teitelbaum, stranded there.... The story of the
a 20-year-old Chicago boy, was Jewish girl from Warsaw who es-
one of the group who escorted caped from the Nazis to Lisbon.
Gen. MacArthur from- the Philip- but to whom a Nazi official apolo-
POLITICAL NOTES:—
President Roosevelt, we hear, has
taken a "special interest" in she
latest issue of Father Coughlin's
anti-Semitic organ Social Justice.
After examining some articles ap-
pearing there he summoned At-
torney general Biddle and ordered
him to (get after this sheet which
is trying to sell America the idea
that the Jews, and not the Nazis,
started the present war . .. Felix
Frankfurter: we hear, may be asked
%ve•k?' I believe that you do, and I will therefore ask
write something for me. The have rescued hundreds of thousands
of victims of Hitlerism since the
be published so that our entire beginning of the Nazi regime in
pines to Australia. . . He joined gizes in the Casino in Lisbon when
1933.
fmnily of young readers may enjoy them.
the army in September, 1939, soon his coat brushed her shoulders is
after his graduation from high characteristic of the mismash of
ON WARTIME BASIS
A happy Passover and a joyous Sabbath to you all.
•ry one of you to try to
best poems and stories will
. . •
FAK1OUS LEGEND: THE
FOX AND THE FISHES
One of the best known fables
in .1••wish folklore Ls the one Rabbi
UNCLE DANIEL.
•
lasting for fifteen hundred years,
in which the poetsand the actors
were also the heroes?" — George
Eliot.
•
• •
people in the Portuguee capital.
. . . Impressive, however, is the
scene when the same girl shrieks
stitute about two per cent of the and faints in the Casino and why.
Royal Canadian Air Force . They . . . Chiefly interested in political
Declaring that since the out- school . . . His father served in
break of the war in Se te:nber 1939 the American army in the last
world war . .. Canadian Jews con-
the agencies represented in the
United Jewish Appeal have been
confronted with an ever-expanding
theater of Jewish suffering and
need, Mr. Butzel stressed the fact
are also well represented in the
Army and Navy. . .
aspects of the present war, Fischer
went on a flying visit to London
• • •
and was fascinated with the spirit
he found there. . . . His strongest
MILESTONE IN HISTORY:—
chapter is nevertheless the one on
35
years
the
Free
Synagogue
For
Jew., and told them they would be
of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise has been Russia where he suggests the idea
kIll,a1 if they dared keep their re-
my
daily
study
and
vigilant
contem-
holding its services in Carnegie that Soviet Russia today is a coun-
some Rabbis advised th e ir
h platlon. If there be anything in my quiring them to conduct their oper- Hall. New York.... Beginning with try where Nationalism has taken
stop
• : er v ing J ew i s
pi e,i e
11
atiens on a full wartime basis.
was style or thoughts to be commended,.
April 10 the services will` be held
cu' isms and laws Rabbi Akiba
In the course of the statement an- in its own auditorium in the Free the place of Internationalism. . . .
the credit is due to my kind parents
one who refused to bow to the Ro-
an early nouncing the preparations for the Synagogue House. . .. Sunday mor- He believes that there is no danger
in
instilling
into
my
mind
man , He had made up his mind
, love of Scriptures."—Daniel Web- local drive. Mr. Butzel said: "Follow- ning services will no longer be held, of Europe becoming dominated by
to be true to his faith. no matter
ing President Roosevelt's leadership,
I ster.
a Communist Russia after the
whst happened.
• • •
we must recognize that our energies
Waen Pappus once asked Akiba: I
and our thoughts must encompass is vital as a contrite expression of downfall of Hitlerism.... The main
"There are no songs comparable
**Are you not afraid to disobey the
American Jewry's readiness to share task of making the coming world
command of the Romans?" Akiba to the songs of Zicn; no orations4 the far-flung front of democracy in the victory of the democratic
which extends to all four corners
peace, he thinks, will fall to Eng-
an...wered by telling him the tolloW- ; equal to those of the Prophets; and of the earth. It is our solemn obli- cause and the preservation of the
land and the United States even
no politics like those which the
and
women
who
millions
of
men
rig 64tory
gation to continue and expand the
look to us for a renewal of hope." if Russia will influence the situa-
A fox was walking along the Scriptures teach."—Milton.
flow
of
our
support
to
the
Jewish
• • •
bank, of a river. As he looked into
tion in Eastern Europe. . . . Of
people who were the first victims ASSISTS DRIVE HERE
th• water. he saw hundreds of little ,
course. America will be the one to
"I find more sure marks of au- of Hitlerism. Sustenance for the
Jacob S. Pearlstien, former educa- play the first fiddle, since Eng-
!lanes hem all excited. 'Why are thenticity of the B ble than in any faith and hope of those whem the
yr !I afraid?' he asked. 'We are profane iaLstory whatever." — Sir Nazis have temporarily crushed will tional director of the Jewish Center land's power will have been ser-
who has been engaged iously depleted by the war. . . .
afraid of the fisherman's net-s,' they
ac Newton.
hold together a vital front for dem- of Detroit,
repI,,1 The fox then advised them:
• • •
• • •
ocracy overseas. Increased help to in social work in several parts of
the country. has been loaned to De-
Ce me out on dry land and I shall
Palestine Jewry will enable the
CRIME
AND
PUNISHMENT:—
1
"A
Christianized
Jew
and
a
rec.-
troit for the duration of the drive
hide ou in the rocks.' Thereupon
onciled foe are not to be trusted." 550.000 men and women in the Jew- by the United Jewish Appeal. He
For the benefit of our American
the fish answered. 'You are ton-
ish homeland to broaden agricul-
'
-
Russian
Proverb.
will be in charge of the mercantile Jew-ba.iters. . . Crime among
na! Ted to be the most cunning
tural and industrial production for
• • •
Jews is considerably less than
aueieg all animals. But you seem to
the prosecution of the war in the and professional divisions.
be se 01)14. If we are in danger in
"While the Jews of the United Middle East and enable a larger Important announcements will be among non-Jews. . . . Figures just
the water, the only place where States have remained loyal to their number of its young men to take made next week regarding plans for made public show that in New
we e.:0 keep alive. how much more faith, and their race traditions, they up arms against the Axis forces. the presentation of, first-hand re- York state. where the Jewish popu-
(Lin.; •roes will It be for us cn dry have become indissolubly incorpor- Within our own country, aid to Port of the Jewish position in Eu- lation is about 20 percent. the Per-
land'
ated in the great army of American America's newcomers represents aid rope by Dr. Abbe Hillel Silver, na- centage of Jews in State prisons is
It my life ls in danger while citizenship."—Theodore Roosevelt.
to America's national welfare, and Lionel chairman of the United Pal- 8.2 percent; in reformatories 3.9
are a true Jew. - exclaimed Rabbi
will help refugees assume the duties estine Appeal. who Is expected in percent. . . . In- Ohio, where the
"I shall not be able to save
Detroit on April 15 to confer with Jewish population of the state is
and responsibilities of democracy.
NAZIS MOBILIZE JEWISH
m elf by bring false to myreligion.
"Prisident Roosevelt's 'four free- leaders in the special gifts division 2.8 percent, there were only 118
M.
D.'s
TO
FIGHT
TYPHUS
1") . .. Jew cannot live without his
dom§' and the historic Atlantic of the Allied Jewish Campaign. Dr. Jews confined in the five penal
religion
Silver has just returned from Lon- institutions of the state, or 1.1 per-
Geneva (JPS)—The
typus epi- Charter constitute the banner under
with Jew- cent of all the prisoners. . . . In
R ebbs Akiba was taken prisoner
demic inPoland ghettos has taken which our country is going forward don, where he 'conferred
s ti , •1.1y afterwards and placed in a
Baltimore the Jewiati penal popu-
gargantuan proportions to assure peace and democracy noth leaders and spokesmen for the
on such
du s•00 There he met Pappus, who
lation is less than 1 percent as com-
that the Nazis are fully mobilizing only to its own population but to British government.
ha I hoped to save himself from
pared with the estimated Jewish
Jewi.th physicians to fight the all the peoples of the world. The
donate by not remaining true to
8 percent.
plague and are warning Jewish success of the campaign in Detroit — BUY DEFENSE BONDS — population of over
his religion and by obeying the
Alz•b, told nearly 20no years agc-
When the Romans tormented the
Ft, i ■ ,.ins
FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Ti prayer we say "Amen.** which
• So be It." This is an ex-
of emphasis from a He-
pre -so
n.
moth-
"From the time that. at my moth-
leaders that they will be held -re-
sponsible for the .spread of the
epidemic to non-Jewish quarters—
a gesture designed by the Nazis to
divert attention from their own
patent responsibility for health
conditions.
b. v word meaning To be true."
•Ille name of Palestine comes
from Philistia. The country was so LITERARY DEPARTMENT
calkd when it belonged to the
Congratulations to New York's
Philia Ines.
Yeshiva College on the publication
- nose - originally tame from the
of its new album of Portraits of
Our •k word "biblos. - meaning book. Famous Physicists, with biograph-
ical accounts by Henry Crew . . .
The album constitutes the fourth
RIDDLES
in the Scripta Mathematica series
cau,tion:
,
Why are pctatoes and
\ corn like the idols that Abraham
snsished? Answer: Because the first
"lia ..e eyes, but see not." and the
Nee aid have ears, but hear not."
What has a face yet cannot
w
' Answer: A clock.
Wil it has an eye yet cannot see?
An.4,v•r: A needle.
What has teeth yet cannot bite?
of Pictorial Mathematics. which
provides as painless a way as we
knew of to get an idea of the his-
tory of mathematical and physical
science . . . Prof. Jekuthiel Gins-
burg. who fathered the entire proj-
ect, deserves especial credit for the
appearance of these albums.
Emil
Ludwig, the biographer,
feels very much relieved now that
confusion about his name ... When
WHAT FAMOUS PEOPLE SAID Kurt Ludwig was found guilty as
a Nazi spy and sentenced to a 20-
ABOUT JEWS AND
year prison term here recently.
THE BIBLE
Mcecow papers featured the story,
"Every country has the Jews it but changed the "Kurt" to "Emil"
. . . PosAbly some Moscow scribe
des•r% ,s •—Knr1 Finil Francos.
• • •
,got the idea by remembering. that
"The Jews are among the aris- Emil Ludwig, the famous anti-
tocracy of every land; if a litera- Nazi author whose original name
Answer' A comb.
ture Is called rich in the possession
that America's envy into the war
has imposed upon the Joint Distri-
er's feet, or on my father's knee.
bution Committee. United Palestine
I first learned to ILsp verses from
the sacred writings. they have been Appeal and National Refugee Serv-
ice even greater responsibilities, re-
was
It's an unmistakable
sign of GOOD TASTE
to reach ...for
Schmidt's . . . a beer
that's deliciously dif-
ferent . . . light, yet
full bodied ... an all-
- grain beer with that
mild, mellow flavor.
When there's
Schmidt'i on hand ...
it's not only polite to
reach . for Schmidt's
. . . but very smart.
NO SUGAR
OR GLUCOSE
ADDED
Cohen, is a first -cousin of
a few Classic tragedies, what General Milch, the guiding spirit
shall we say to a national tragedy of the •SIazi air force.
Of
via scram
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