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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
On this Sabbath, the twenty-sixth day of Tammuz, the following
Scriptural selections from the Torah will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Num. 30:2-36:13; Prophetical portion, Jer. 2:4-
28; 8:4. On Wednesday, Rosh Chodesh Ab, Num. 28:1-15 will be read
during the morning services.
JULY 10, 1942
VOL. 1—NO. 16
Egy'ptian Plague
A new plague has broken out in Egypt. It is the Nazi
invasion which is being recognized as a major danger to
the elements of decency in the world.
The United Nations recognize the necessity of putting
an end to this plague. And if the Egyptians themselves
do not appreciate the importance to world peace of a
check on Nazism, then they, like their ancestors nearly
four thousands years ago, will be the worst sufferers.
The Nazi victories in the desert are certain to be of
short duration. This is a war to a finish, and it can not
and will not end until victory is guaranteed for world
decency. Therefore, let there be no despair during
temporary German triumphs. The hour of retribution is
approaching and mankind will soon rejoice over the end
of the decade of barbarism.
Valuable Information
--
"The Story of the Jews in the United States" is the
title of the first of a Jewish Information Series of pam-
phlets, to be issued by the Jewish Welfare Board and
the American Association for Jewish Education, for
Jewish men in the armed forces of the United States.
The publication of this series is a great contribution
towards strengthening the morale of our men, through
information. It is not enough that our men be provided
with entertainment and means for relaxaion. There are
times when men in the service need to explain to their
comrades in arms how extensive Jewish eontributions have
been toward' the upbuilding of this land.
This pamphlet renders this service. It traces the
history of the Jews in America from Columbus through
ttre various periods of American history, down to the
present day. It gives the reader an idea of the Jews who
have rated among the great Americans, of the part our
people played in the Colonial Revolutionary periods, it
lists the Jewish heroes in American wars, it reveals that
seven Jews won the Congressional Medal of Honor and
that three of John Brown's group were Jews.
Furthermore, this interesting pamphlet relates the
part Jews have played in the First World War, when 290,-
000 Jews were members of the U. S. armed forces, that
nearly 3,000 made the supreme sacrifice and that many
were wounded.
The Jewish Welfare Board and the American Associ-
ation for Jewish Education are to be commended to
producing this valuable brochure.
Anti-Semitic Tricks
In letters to editors of American newspapers, pro-
Nazi, anti-Semitic groups have managed to make propa-
ganda for their un-American ideas during the past few
years.
Lately, we are warned by Richard E. Gutstadt,
national director of the Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation
League, letters, supposedly written by Christian- have
been sent to "Voice of the People" columns praising the
virtues of Jews and lamenting the faults of Christians.
The conclusion arrived at by these letter-writers, that
Jews should assume leadership in this country, is a
very evident attempt to arouse people to thinking that
Jews are either already controlling leadership or are aim-
ing to acquire such control.
The warning to newspaper editors to be on guard
against such destructive propaganda is timely. The sub-
versive elements have not ended their activities, in spite
of Pearl Harbor. Whenever they show a tendency of
renewing their un-American tactics, they should be ex-
posed and should be treated as traitors to our country in
this hour of national crisis.
Irving Berlin's New Hit
Irving Berlin's "This Is the Army" is a great success.
This sequel to "Yip, Yip, Yaphank" of 1918 is not only
aiding the Army Emergency Relief Fund but is an im-
portant medium in strengthening morale among men in
the service as well as the population at large.
Besides, "This Is the Army" is good satire. For
instance, the melody "Aryans Under the Skin" is sung
by the "Japs and Germans" in the play.
The country at large owes Mr. Berlin a debt of grati•
tude for repeating in 1942 the services he rendered in 1918.
THEY'RE GIVING ALL—BACK THEM UP!
The Weektly
Sermonette
- EVERY DOLLAR YOU SPARE
AND SCRAPE FOR
WILL HELP US FIGHT FOP YOU ,
LAMENT OF EXILE
By RABBI ABRAHAM M.
DANZIG
Congregation Beth •.E1
, Wpm-
dotte, Mich.
.
TEXT: For these things do I
weep; my eye, my eye runneth
down with water; because jar
from me is the Comforter that
should refresh my soul. My
children are in misery because
the enemy hath prevailed. —
Lamentations, 1.16.
For 2,000 years the Jewish
people have been mourning the
destruction of their temple, land
and Kingdom, and their heart-
ache today is just as deep and
tragic as when the Temple was
encircled with
flames. Jerusa-
lem, the hearth
of pure religion,
the home of
prophecy, t h e
sacred fountain
of the word of
God, is the very
emblem of the
deathlessness of
Rabbi Danzig the spirit. Like
the Jew, this Holy City of Israel
—the spiritual capital of human-
ity that has for ages been the
magnetic pole of the love and rev-
erence of mankiiid—is deathless;
fire and sword and all the en-
gines of destruction have been
hurled against it in vain.
From Shivah Asar b' Tammuz,
when the tablets of stone were
destroyed, when the enemy of
Israel broke through the gate, of
Jerusalem, slaughtering our peo-
ple, until the Ninth Day of Ab,
is known as the Three Weeks,
or the Weeks of Sadness. The
Talmud Mesichta Tanis tells us
that when the Temple was des-
troyed, all the young priests as-
sembled on the roof of the Tem-
ple and held in their hands the
keys of the Temple, and they
cried out to God, "Lord of the
Universe, as long as we were not
worthy of continuing our holy
work in the Holiest of Holies,
we must return to you the keys
of our Temple." As soon as
these words were spoken, an in-
visible hand appeared and took
the keys away from them. After
returning the 'keys to God the
young priests threw themselves
into the fire.
FAMINE—OLD AND NEW
The Midrash relates to us a
tragic picture of the destruction,
a picture that causes our blood
to freeze in our veins, a picture
that causes a terrific storm in
the Jewish heart. A famine
breaks out in Jerusalem. The
daughters of Zion wander
through the streets of Jerusa-
lem seeking a piece of bread to
quiet their hunger, but to no
avail. They fall in the streets.
Babies,- seeking to quiet their
hunger, creep up to their moth-
ers, but fall away 'without the
food they were looking for.
History is repeating itself. The
very same thing is hap
in the ghettos of Europe
BIRTH OF MESSIAH
The Jews' longing for redemp-
tion is not a phenomenon of
modern times. It is as old as
the G'ulah itself. On the very
day that the Temple was des-
troyed and the Jews lost their
national independence, the Agada
tells us, was the Messiah, the
future redeemer of Israel, born.
If we are once more to be
free, we must learn to be self-
reliant, self-sufficient, build up
our spiritual resources, become
strong in our attachment to our
heritage, establish our future on
WE MUST HAVE THE WEAPONS
WITH WHICH TO FIGHT-
Buy MORE WAR SAVINGS
. BONDS AHD STAMPS
The Nazi Murderers
Three reports of the current week demand the re
awakening of public opinion against the outrageous m
murders which /nark the tracks of the Nazis in their a
tempt to conquer the world.
."Poland Fights," the organ of American Friends o
Polish Democracy and International Coordination Council
in its current issue carries a tale of horror. Referring t
the order of Nazi General Governor Frank forbiddin
anyone to leave the Warsaw ghetto, the story relates tha
six men and two women beggars were caught on th
"Aryan" side of the wall and were sentenced to death
These beggars were 'covered with vermin, dirty and wer
unable to read or write. The story further reveals that
Homeless children are the scourge of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Gangs of them swarm in the streets, begging, stealing. They live
and die in doorways, in abandoned ruins, in tibia streets, These
children, dirty and wild like animals, often;-Manage to run
away from the ghetto. In October, 1941, as a punitive measure
and a warning to future offenders, German policemen publicly
drowned 30 Jewish children in the water-filled marl-pits near
Okopowa Street. These children had been caught trying to
escape from the Jewish quarter into the "Aryan" part of the city.
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency report from Stockhol
states that more than 4,000 Jewish children, 12 to 15 year:
of age, have been deported from the Warsaw ghetto-fo
slave labor on farms in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Six hun
dred of these children were taken from orphanages an
the others were rounded up in schools and on the streets
A report submitted at a press conference in Londo
by the British section of the World Jewish Congress show
that more than a million Jews have died under the rul
of Nazism-700,000 in Poland and Lithuania, 125,00
in Rumania and 200,000 in White Russia and the Ukraine
Independent Jewish Press Service also reports fro
Geneva that 200 Jewish women have been released fro
internment camps in occupied and unoccupied France
under orders of pro-Nazi leaders, for white slavery
Tunis, Algeria and Morocco.
It is no wonder that the Polish Government-in-Exil
declared from its offices in London that a policy of retalia
tion should be adopted by ,the United Nations_ to compe
the Germans to cease their wholesale slaughter of Jew
and other anti-Nazis.
Tales of horror and destruction continue to pile up
and nothing but complete defeat\ at the hands of th
democracies can stop the Nazi beasts. But even if on)
for the record the voices of President Roosevelt, Prim
Minister Churchill and other leaders of the United Nation
should be added to those of Jewish and Polish leader
condemning in tio uncertain terms the worst atrocities i
history now being perpetrated by the Nazis.
a firm foundation by telling our
children how our ancestors were
redeemed, and who their re-
deemer was.
FAITH IN GOD
Palestine belongs not merely
to Jews who actually live in it,
but to all the fifteen million
Jews of the Galut, for even if
the latter do not derive their
material subsistence from its
soil, they are dependent upon i
life for their spiritual sustenance
We must return to God an
Torah, and deserve the fuilfil
merit of His promise to to
these days of sorrow and fast'
into days of rejoicing. 0
God is indeed a Kind and Merci
ful Father, and He will listen t
our prayers and observe our Of
forts to deserve His salvation.