May 8, 1942

THE JEWISH NEWS

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The Meaning of Sacrifice

The Weekly
Sernionette

THE YEAR OF JUBILEE AND
THE FOUR FREEDOMS

By RABBI MOSES FISCHER

The Torah introduces in this
week's portion the great social
legislation of Israel which cli-
maxed in the institution of "Jo-
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
bel" the year of Jubilee to be
Philip Slomovitz
Maurice A ronsson
celebrated at every fiftieth year,
Isidore
Sobeloff
Fred M. Butzel
when the Jew ... .
Abraham Srere
Theodore Levin
was bade and
Henry
Wineman
Maurice H. Schwartz
enjoined by
Holy Writ to re-
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
store each piece
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of land which he
On this Sabbath, the twenty-second day of Iyar, 5702, the bought within
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following Biblical selections will be read in our synagogues: this period to
Pentateuchal portion, Lev. 25:1-27:34; Prophetical portion, Jer. the original
owner and when
16:19-17:14.
every Jew al-
MAY 11, 1942 though he sold
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himself into sla-
y e r y, returned Rabbi Fischer
to his family. Thus personal lib-
erty and economic equity and
This Sunday evening, at the opening dinner of the equality was to be established
Allied Jewish Campaign, Detroit Jewry will be privileged and preserved as the law of the
to welcome one of the most distinguished publicists in the land in Eretz Israel. On the soil
world. the eminent Nobel Peace Prize winner, Sir Norman of the Holy Land, for the first
time in the history of mankind,
Angell.
When the campaign is officially launched, it will be a new social order, "An Economic
of God" as Ruskin
necessary for our people to understand that this is not Kingdom
called it, or an "Economic De-
just "another drive" for funds.
mocracy" as we would state it
This is a campaign for life and for liberty. It is a in our plainer language. was to
supreme effort to secure guarantees for the Jewish future be introduced and realized the
and to give a signal to the world—and to our brethren first time.

MAURICE IL SCHWARTZ and PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Publishers

SACRIFICES
-9a0THER_, THI NK
WHAT HE'S,
SACRIFICING!

A Campaign for Life

Major-General Phillipson

The Michigan Jewish communities will be especially
everywhere—that we are not yielding to Nazism and The True Servant of God
interested
in the transfer of Major-General Ivving J.
therefore refuse to subscribe to a program that might
If we shall careftilly reflect Phillipson from his post in the Second Corps Area to that

spell suicide. '
On the contrary, our campaign this year is a great

task to mobilize all our strength for the retention of our
principles and for the strengthening of those institutions

which make up the Jewish community.
This is a time for each one of us to declare that Jews
as a people refuse to abandon hope, that we adhere to the

tradition of protecting life, that we shall stand by our
fellow men who are lighting on many fronts against the
brutalities imposed upon mankind by Hitlerism.
A campaign like the present one calls for unstinted
giving. Every dollar mIty count in the effort to save addi-
tional lives. Every contribution will serve to protect those
agencies which stand for human freedom and the right to
worship and to act according to our consciences.
This is, therefore, an American campaign. It is part of
the effiiirlo strike a blow at the menace of the destructive
influences which seek' to undermine decency in the world.
Every Jew is summoned to hold up high the banner
of democratic ideals, and the Allied Jewish Campaign is
the symbol of this tight for Jews, on the philanthropic
front. There should not be a single refusal either to give,
or to increase one's contribution to the present Allied Jew-
ish Campaign.

Sen. Brown's Opposition

Gerald L. K. Smith, one of the men who is considered
to be following a dangerous line in opposing the present
administration in our war crisis, has announced that he is
considering becoming a candidate for the United States
Senate against, the incumbent, Senator Prentiss M. Brown.
Why such a move?
The answer is obvious.
Senator Brown is a liberal. Senator Brown has fought
racial and religious prejudice. Senator Brown has opposed
the Coughlinites and the crack-pots in this country. Sena-
tor Brown is a New Dealer.

Now, this man Gerald L. K. Smith, who has been

fighting labor, who was affiliated with the late Hugh Long
and Father Coughlin, wants to displace Senator Brown.
If we know the voters of Michigan and understand
them as we believe we do, we know what the answer will
be to the candidacy of Gerald L. K. Smith. There may be

and 'ponder upon the institution
of "Jobel," we shall find em-
bodied and indicated in the
structure and ramification of this
great Law the four Jewish free-
doms which in their composite
and combination, constitute the
true dignity of man, the true
characteristic of the "Ebed
Adonai," of the true servant of
God!
"Ye shall sanctify the fiftieth
year." The very concept of
"Sanctification" presupposes and
premises the spiritual freedom of
man, that man is endowed with
the moral power to rise in his
actions and deeds above the
brute, that if he but wills, he has
the power to burst the fetters of
the body, the bonds of his ani-
mal appetites. The fiftieth year
in distinction of the labor years
was hallowed, consecrated and
set apart to the pursuit of the
higher sanctities and values of
life.

"Ye Shall Proclaim Liberty"

"Ye shall proclaim liberty unto
the land and all its inhabitants."
This proclamation of the "Jobel"
refers to and affirms the physical
freedom of man and was des-
tined to become the driving force
in the holy history of human
freedom, was to give birth and
rise to revolutions and evolutions
and ultimately to be engraved
with letters illuminated by per-
petual flames on the Liberty
Bell! This declaration became
the Magna Charta of the truth
that every man with the spirit
of God is a little or rather a
great world in and unto himself,
that no human being was created
to serve as means and tool to in-
crease the wealth and power of
another more aggressive and less
conscientious fellow-man!

of Executive Director of Army Emergency Relief. General
Phillipson was born 60 years ago in Dowagiac, Mich., was
graduated from West Point in 1904, commanded the
142nd and 143rd regiments in the First World War and

was decorated several times for valor under fire.'

Many Jews today are following in the footsteps of
General Phillipson and are making Army life their career.
There is good reason to hope and to believe that they will
be as successful as the Jewish general who is a native of
our state.

The Foreign-Language Press

Attorney-General Francis Biddle has informed Rep.
Samuel . Weiss of Pennsylvania that "the policy of the
Department of Justice is not to suppress foreign-language
newspapers. Appropriate action against seditious news-

papers will be taken regardless of the language in which
they are printed, but those loyal to the United States have

nothing to fear."
This is straight-from-the-shoulder talk which
should go a long way to dispell any fears that we are be-

coming ultra-reactionary as a result of the war. The basic
principles of democracy, freedom of thought, of academic

liberty, freedom of worship, continue to function as the '
basic ideals of America. As long as liberty-loving men are
entrusted with the power to legislate for us, we are safe.
Based on Attorney-General Biddle's statement, we are
justified in feeling confident that basic liberties will not

be affected by the war.

The "Voices of Defeat ',

The anti-Semites are on the run. From all quarters
come revelations of activities by pro-Axis groups which
horrify the imagination and expose the Jew-baiters as
the enemies of democracy and of the most sacred Ameri-
can principles.
Among the most important factual exposes of sediti-
ous elements was the article on "Voices of Defeat" in Life

Magazine. It- showed clearly the existence of dangerous

forces which are bent upon destroying the morale of this
land and to play into the hands of the Nazis.
other candidates seeking approval from the voters of this
state on certain merits, but there can be no sizable en- The New Social Order
The Life Magazine article could have been made
"And each of you shall return
dorsement for a man who has been appealing to his fol-
more
complete by the addition of information regarding
to his possessions." This injunc-
lowers on class lines.
efforts in
tion of the "Jobel" year has anti Negro activities and former Black Legion
heralded the economic freerdom, Detroit, as well as the propaganda conducted by the Ku

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Aid for Polish Jewry

Starvation and suffering has been made the lot of the

Jews of Poland, and their misery is compelling considera-
tion of a program of relief which may make it possible for

food and medicaments to be sent to the millions of un-
fortunates who are under the heel of Nazism.

The leading American Jewish organizations—Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, Bnai Brith, American Jewish Con-
gress, Jewish Labor Committee, together with the Joint
Distribution Committee—have considered a plan of action,

responding to a call of the General Jewish Council.
It is to be hoped that some form of relief work will
materialize from these discussions. There are difficulties
created by the war which place obstacles in the way of
transportation of these necessities, and there is fear in
some quarters that_these materials may be acquired by

the Nazis for their own use. Should these obstacles be

overcome, no sum should be considered large enough to
provide the required help, and the resulting gathering of

funds will be the most important mercy measure ever
undertaken.

democracy and equity which was
to permeate the Jewish way of
life and the new social order in
Palestine. Each and every Jew
was to have not only an abstract
right but an actual share and
portion "a Divinity guaranteed
clear deed and title" in the pos-
session of Eretz Israel. At the
conquest of Palestine its soil was
divided equally with equity
among all the children of Israel.
This equity and equality was to
be made permanent and abiding
through all the processes of time
and fluctuations of history. Thus
Divine law frustrated and
thwarted from the outset the ac-
cumulation and concentration of
vast stretches of land into single
families on one hand and the cor-
responding impoverishing, pau-
perization and creation of "luft
menschen" on the other hand. It

Klux Klan.
In the main, Life Magazine's article has rendered an

important service in re-establishing the truth and thereby
restoring peace and harmony among the various elements
in the. American population.

became the third economic free- home the Jew celebrates annually
dom acquired through the Jobel. at springtide the great feast of
freedom and retells to his chil-

The. Fourth Jewish Freedom

dren the saga of freedom wrest-
"Each of you shall return to ed by the power of God from the
his family." The , fourth Jewish Egyptian oppressors.
freedom consisted of the right of
The home is the nursery of

the Jew to reintegrate' himself
into his family even after he sold
himself into slavery, to take the
place he left vacant as a mem-
ber of the household and to be-
come the nucleus and center of
anew life clustering arouno nun.
The Jewish home was and is
the strongest citadel and bastion
of liberty at all times. In the

freedom for the adolescent, de-
veloping 'Jewish souls. Therefore
the freedom to the integrity of
family life is the fourth corner
stone of Jewish liberty.
These are the four freedoms
given to Israel by the Grace of
the Lord on the Mountain of

Sinai, through the institution of
the "Jobel."

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