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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, May 29, I

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Philip Slomovitz
Isidore Sobeloff
Abraham Srere
Henry Wineman

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor

On this Sabbath, the fourteenth day of Sivan, 5702, the follow-
ing Scriptural selections will be read in our Synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Num. 4:21-7:89; Prophetical portion, Judges
13:2-25.

VOL. 1—NO. 10

MAY 29, 1942

Youth In Front Ranks

It is of more than passing significance that the first
division in the Allied Jewish Campaign machinery to
exceed its assigned quota is the Junior Division.
No other group has been as seriously affected as
that of the youth. Their ranks are depleted by the
induction of large numbers in the service of this country.
The number of workers has diminished. The possible
income from this group has been reduced.
Nevertheless, this group has gone over the top.
This is something to cheer us. It is a definite indi-
cation that youth is not calloused, that our young people
are deeply concerned over our future, that the coming
generation is prepared to assume responsibility for leader-
ship in the future.
The success of our youth is one of the cheering
factors in the very interesting Allied Jewish Campaign
now nearing completion.

Inspirers of the Drive

Detroit's 1942 Allied Jewish Campaign, in spite of
being short of its goal at this writing, must be recognized
as representing one of the most successful fund-raising
efforts in the history of our community.
The chairman of the drive, Fred M. Butzel, thanks
to whose untiring work the campaign has made such far-
reaching advances, pointed out on several occasions that
the machinery for this year's drive has been excellent
and that its efficiency accounts for innumerable successes.
Those who have had occasion to watch the workings
of the drive closely will testify that Mr. Butzel was right
in his evaluation of the campaign set-up. Under the
direction of Isidore Sobeloff, Allied Jewish Campaigns
have made remarkable progress in a period of three
years, and to have exceeded last year's subscriptions in
a trying year like 1942 is another mark to his credit
which will make Detroit the envy of the entire country.
It is to be hoped that when the final reports are
submitted at Wednesday's workers' rally that the amount
raised will come very close to the quota. In the mean-
time it is only fair to recognize that a remarkable cam-
paign organization, composed of loyal leaders and
workers, has set a new record for generosity in the
Jewish community of Detroit.

The Revolt of the Oppressed

It is now certain that when the invasion of Europe by
the United Nations finally takes place, their most valuable
allies wilt be the millions of oppressed who belong to the
temporarily conquered nations.
An indication of what is in store for the Nazis when
the revolt of the oppressed takes place is the report of
the attitude of the Danish people in the present crisis.
The story goes that a German commander approached
King Christian of Denmark with the demand that "the
Jewish problem in Denmark must be solved," thereby
insisting upon the introduction of the Nuremberg laws
in that liberal country. King Christian replied : "Sir, we
have never considered ourselves inferior to the Jews,
hence we have no such problem in Denmark."
The Nazi scheme was defeated in this subtle manner
and a statement just issued by the National America
Denmark Association maintains that the King has the
Danish people behind him. "Prof. Hal Koch," the state-
ment declares, "as leader of the powerful Danish youth
movement, and other representative men, has again and
again emphasized that whatever they will endure for
the sake of peace they will not endure any injustice to
fellow-citizens on account of race and religion."
We are also informed that a recent Swedish cartoon
quotes King Christian as saying that if the Nuremberg
laws are forced on Denmark "then we must all wear the
yellow star."

This is also the attitude of other conquered nations
who are determined that Nazism shall not survive and
that freedom be restored on earth. Therefore the revolt
of the oppressed will be a decisive factor in the present
world . conflict., ,
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THE QUEST FOR LIFE

By RABBI JACOB J. NA

MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ and PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Publishers

Maurice Aronson
Fred M. Butzel
Theodore Levin
Maurice H. Schwartz

The Week
Sermonett

United By One Cause

All Americans are united today by one great cause
—by the supreme effort to guarantee the'' survival of
democratic institutions and the defeat of those elements
which have set out to destroy decency in the world.
The best example of the manner in which racial and
religious lines are being erased in the present struggle
was the community memorial service that was re-enacted
last Sunday evening on the radio program "They Live
Forever," over the Columbia Broadcasting System. The
service paid tribute to the first son of Delaware to fall
in World War II—Sergeant Harry Fineman of Wilming-
ton, Del. At the original services held in April, the Rev.
J. Francis Tucker, rector of St. Anthony's Catholic Church,
honored the memory of Sergeant Fineman and stated:

"The thoughts of many hearts that are revealed
here today are the conscious expressions of the hidden
love we Americans have for one another as members
of the same•family, and of our open hatred of hate for
any man. A Jew dies for Christians. It was a Jew who
said : 'No greater love hath a man than that he lay
down his life for his friends.' We Christians, who
unworthily follow that Jew, believing Him to be
God's very Son, can answer the challenge in only
one way : We, Christians, shall lay down our lives
for our Jewish brethren as for all others that all
may live and be free and pursue happiness."

day."
Consecration through a
ious pattern of life is of
essences of Judiasm. To be a
of God's pre
at all tim
the motif be
the comm
merits of
Torah. Or ••
ily a fee •
God - consc
ness is fel
• the normal
tine of exist
Man partak
Rabbi Nathan. the bount
the earth, he satisfies his p
cal appetites; in appreciatio
thanks, Him who sustains
mankind.
However, some indivi
need a more austere mod
expression to give vent to
religious emotions. Some ra
departure from the normal
of life, preferably some fo
asceticism, is needed to e
in them deep religious fee
In its extreme form, men
been known to torture
selves and resort to self-
fication as a means of re •
expression.
SPIRITUAL ELEVATION
Jewish law recognized
weakness in man and permi
with the sanction of religio
assuming of non-obligatory
strictions, that should but
the devotee closer to God.
a mode of religious expr
is found in the vow of
Nazarite as outlined in the
tion of this week. The N
was one who in respo
some crucial experience
upon himself to abstain fro
intoxicating liquors, to
his hair to remain unshorn
a specified period of time,
avoid contact with a dead
Traditional Judaism, w
sanctioned such ascetic to
cies, nonetheless was not
ciled to such a philoso
Rather than avoiding life
taught man to seek it,
all that God created was
and carried within it the
tialities of man's spiritual el
tion. With intelligence
intuition man should be abi
detect • God's glory in
phase of creation. In every b
of grass that grows, in e
star that shines, is God's sple
visible to those who have ey
see. The truly religious
is he who is able to draw
nectar of religious faith
every flower of life.

On Memorial Day of 1942, to be observed tomorrow,
it will be well for members of all creeds to study the
lesson of this significant tribute in order that we may all
learn that the American creed is undying and that the
principles enunciated by the founders of this Republic
are not to be destroyed by the temporary rise to power
of dictators and tyrants. To the bigots, the democracies
of the entire world today direct a challenge that the
present fight for liberty and decency is one to be carried
to a finish, and that never again shall terrorism raise its
ugly head on this universe.
EMBRACING LIFE

The "Pernicious Protocols"

Dr. John Shelton Curtiss has established in a volume
just published by the Columbia University Press that the
"Protocols of the Elders of Zion" are forged and plagiar-
ized "documents" that have been used to stimulate and
justify anti-Semitic movements all over the world.
Thirteen leading American historians concur with
Dr. Curtiss and state that they "accept and endorse his
findings as completely destructive of the historicity of the
Protocols, and as establishing beyond doubt the fact that
they are rank and pernicious forgeries."
The study made by Dr. Curtiss and the appended
statement by our outsanding historians are important in
themselves as an expose of one of the worst frauds in
history, and significant as appeals to reason against the
spread of bigotry.
But the question must be asked at this time who will
read these revelations? If Dr. Curtiss' book is to be limited
to Jewish libraries, and if it will fail to reach the thou-
sands belonging to the lunatic fringe who have been fed
on the stupid "Protocols," then the efforts • of our well-
meaning scholars will be of little value. Dr. Curtiss will
have rendered a great service if he will enlist the interest
of the leading Americans who will join -in a movement
against the further spread of anti-Semitic literature like
the "Protocols." But unless that is achieved, and until
non-Jews rather than Jews become interested in this new
study, they will have added little if anything to the battle
for justice which must include the fight against anti-
Semitism.

The story is told of a yo
Chassid, who seeking to im
his Rabbi, said, "Do you
Rabbi, every night I flage
myself, roll in the snow,
in white, and put nails in
shoes. Are not ray a
meritorious in the eyes of
The aged sage called his y
disciple to the window and
"Look, my son! Do you see
horse rolling in the snow?
is all white,,he .has nails in
shoes, and he is beaten ev
night. And yet he is sti
horse!" ,
No wonder the Rabbis loo
with disfavor. upon any rn
tation of asceticism even_
tioned by ieligious legisl
"The Nazerite is conside
sinner because he deprived
self of wine." (Nazir 19'.
sages held that man need
recede behind the gloomy w
of asceticism to find God. Ju
ism teaches that God's glory
the universe. "M'loh kol
oretz k'vodo" (Isaiah 6:3).
need he resort to acts of
denial of that which is permi
in order to become aware
divine intimations. Rather
men, by . a positive affirmatio
faith, embrace life and seek
Such is the philosophy of 3,

