Friday, December 18, 1942

TH - E JEWISH NEWS

`Does Victory Mean
Emancipation?'

Rabbi Philip R. Bdrnstein, of Rochester, New Director
of Army, Navy Religious Activities for JWB,
Gives His Views

In a feature article syndicated
by Independent Jewish Press
Service, Rabbi Philip S. Bern-
stein of Rochester, who has just
resumed the post of director of
Army and Navy religious activi-
ties for the Jewish Welfare
Board, discusses the question,
"Does Victory Mean Emancipa-
tion?"
America Marching Forward
Raising the question of the
Jewish positon after the war and
the dangers facing Jews as a re-
sult of misunderstandings cre-
ated by numerous controversies,
Rabbi Bernstein writes:
"Even in the future march of
humanity, and -sometimes be-
cause of it, groups in society
with special problems of their
own, must organize to work for
and fight for statesmanlike solu-
tions to those problems. America
marched forward in the decades
following the Civil War. Never-
theless, it was necessary for labor
to organize, for it to fight for its
rights before it could fully share
in the general progress of the
nation.
"There were men in those days
who said about labor's struggle
for self-emancipation what Rabbi
Moris Lazaron has said- about
the undertaking of the Jews for
self-emancipation: that it was
turning its back on its universal
dream at a time when the free
people of the world are united
in an epic struggle to preserve
that dream. In reality, of course,
the organization of labor in a
statesmanlike program was a
step toward the achievement of
brotherhood. And those who
sought to prevent it, even from
the best of motives, by refusing
to recognize and act upon the
historic realities were enemies
of human brotherhood.
"Similarly, it . must be said that
those who would seek to prevent
the Jewish people from achieving
their own emancipation, those
who would substitute vague
words for concrete deeds are,
however little they mean it, the
enemies of Jewish freedom.

Practical Point of View
"What hope is there for the
Jews of such countries as Ger-
many, Poland, and Rumania save
Palestine? Does anyone think
that the western nations, inclu-
ding our own, will welcome mass
immigration of poor European
Jews when the war is over and
millions of men will be released
from military service and will
be seeking to re-establish them-
selves? From a purely practical
point of view, thinking only in
terms of philanthropy, of econ-
omy, Palestine is the most con-
structive solution.
"We are Americans with the
dream. in our hearts of life, liber-
ty, and the pursuit of happiness
as fundamental rights for all. We
are Jews with a vision of a
prophetic social order of which
justice shall be the foundations
and in which each man shall
sit beneath his own vine and
fig tree and none shall make
him afraid. Yes we believe in
the four freedoms and we are
ready not only to fight for them
but to work for them and to
plan for them and to organize
for them.
Recalls Pilgrim Fathers
"If the establishment of the
Jewish National Home in Pales-
tine were the negation of these
hopes, I would then oppose it
with all my strength. If it would
involve the oppression of other
people, I would fight against it
as I would resist any exploita-
tion. If migration to Palestine
meant turning our backs upon
the forward march of human
progress, I would say to my mis-
erable brethern in Central and
Eastern Europe, stay where you
are, the end of your misery is
in sight.
"But let us look at the reali-
ties. Would we be here if the
pilgrim fathers and our own
fathers had not found life in
Europe insufferable and had not
been ready to brave every hard-
ship of the pioneer life to achieve
freedom? Coinpare the life of
the Jews in a Kvutzah in Pales-
tine during these critical years,
sinking their roots deeper into
the earth, standing their ground
against every terror and threat,
remaining dauntless and growing
stronger with each new peril—
compare that with the driven,
harried, helpless Jews of Ru-
EDWARD ROSE GIVES
mania and Hungary and Poland
ANOTHER $500 GIFT
Reporting to the board of di- and Germany and say which is
rector's meeting of the Jewish to be regarded as the way of
Community Center, on Wednes- hope and freedom."
day evening, Dec. 16, Mrs. Sam-
uel R. Glogower, Center presi-
dent„ announced the receipt of Zionist Laborites
•a second gift of $500 from Ed-
ward Rose, which brings Mr. Pledge Support to
Rose's donations to the Center
up to $1,000, during the fiscal
year of 1942.
Mr. Rose has not designated
NEW YORK (JTA)—A delega-
his gift for any particular pur- tion of the Zionist Labor Party
pose, but as an admirer of the of America visited Dr. Chaim
Center's work, he has made his Weizmann and presented to • him
donation to further the general a resolution adopted at the re-
program and to make it avail- cent convention of the Zionist
able to a greater number
Laborites in Syracuse, N. Y.,
young people and • children. He pledging fullest support of the
•is chairman of the Center's Men's American Zionist Labor move-
Health Club Committee.
ment to all his undertakings for
* * *
Palestine, it was announced here
MOTHER'S CLUBS
this week.
"What is the economic stabil-
The delegation included Hayim
ization plan under the War Man- Greenberg, editor of the Jewish
Power Commission, which went Frontier; David Wertheim, gen-
into effect this week in the De- eral secretary of the American
troit area? How will it effect us Zionist Labor Party; and Isaac
as Wives of wage-earners, and Hamlin, director of the Gewerk-
how will it speed up the War shaften Campaign.
Effort?" These and other current
problems will be discussed at the
"Let us .beware that our rest
various Mothers' Clubs this week. become not the rest of stones,
The scheduled meetings are:
which, so long as they are tor-
Presidents' Council, Monday, I rent-tossed and thunder-strick-
p. m. at Jewish Center; Linwood- en, maintain their majesty; but
Dexter Club, Tuesday, 1:30 p. m., when the stream is silent anti
at •Bnai Moshe; Fenkell Club, the storm passed, suffer the
Tuesday, 8 p. m., at Midland and grass to cover there and the
Parkside; Woodward Club; Wed- lichen to feed upon them, and
nesday, 1:30 p. m., at Jewish are ploughed into dust." -
Center.
-Ruskin.

Jewish Center
Activities

Weizmann Program

Assists in Plans
For School Event

A Hanukah program was spon-
sored on Dec. 12 by the Sholom
Aleichem Reading Circles in be-
half of the 12th annual donor
project. Artists from the Ben-

Pa ge Thirteen

Non-Zionist Rabbis Organize
To Oppose Palestine State

New Group Seeks to Identify, Define Jews Solely on Relig-
ious Basis; Press Service Charges Attempt to
Split U.. S. Jewish Life

PHILADELPHIA. (JTA)—The formation of an
American Council for Judaism which will "combat
nationalistic and secularistic trends in Jewish life" and
Will oppose the establishment of a Jewish State in Pales-
tine, was announced here this week by . Rabbi Louis
Wolsey, provisional chairman of the organization.

MRS. LOUIS LaME'D

Ami theatrical group appeared on
the program. Moishe Dombey
read Yiddish selections. Tzirl
Soifer presented a Hanukah
sketch. Doris Dombey, accom-
panied at the piano by Rena La-
Med, gave a recitation. The
latter are pupils in the Sholom
Aleichen Schools.
Other parties are planned for
the donor project to be held
Sunday evening, Jan. 10, at the
Jewish Community Center. Mrs.
Isaac Finkelstein is general chair-
man. Mrs. Louis LaMed is an
active member of the arrange-
ments committee.
Details are available by calling
UN. 1-6172 or UN. 1-8834. A rum-
mage store is available for pros-
pective donors.

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Truer Now
Harry Hershfield, who has told
the story to many an after-dinner
audience, thinks this tale has
more point than ever. It's about
the German humorist now in a
concentration • camp because he
put into wide circulation the gag
about "98% of the German
people are for Hitler, but wher-
ever I go I meet the other two
per cent."
* * *
A Slight Misunderstanding
A poor Jewish .writer found
himself a guest at a most fashion-
able function in pre-war London.
Coming out of the smart hotel,
the uniformed official was asking
the name of each guest and he
was heard to call out: "Car for
the -- Lord of Rockbottom!" "Car
for the Lord of Mountwell;" "Car
for the Marquis of Battwell!"
"And what is your name, sir?"
asked the official respectfully,
turning to the Jewish guest.
The reply was: "Makes and dal-
las."

The official saluted smartly,
turned, and shouted down the
line: "Car for the Marquis of
Dallas!"

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E mph asizing tat
h the new or-
ganization "will seek to identify
and define the Jew as a member
of a religious community and
nothing else," Rabbi Wolsey stat-
ed: "We are definitely opposed
to a Jewish state, a Jewish flag
or a Jewish army. We are inter-
ested in development of Pales-
tine as a refuge for persecuted
Jews but are opposed to the
idea of a political state under
Jewish domination in Palestine
or anywhere else."
Flint Rabbi is Director
Rabbi Elmer Berger of Flint,
Mich., will be executive direc-
tor of the Council which will
open headquarters in New York
as soon as a charter is issued
b'y New York state. The Council
will publish a magazine, will es-
tablish a lecture bureau and will
release tracts on liberal Judaism.

"War Pledged on Zionism"
The Independent Jewish Press
Service, in a lengthy statement
describing the events which have
led to the formation of the New
anti-Zionist organization, charges
that it has as its objective "the
splitting of American Jewish
life," and that "war. has been
pledged on Zionism and on all
persons and institutions sympa-
thetic to that program, with the
wealth of influential Jews and
the power even of irreligious
Jews mobilized in order to smash
every gain the Zionist movement
-.has made in the United States
and Palestine in 40 years." .
The JPS statement further
charges that Sidney Wallach, un-
til recently "educational direc-
tor" of the American Jewish
Committee, and Dr. Maurice Hex-
ter, executive vice-president of
the New York Jewish Welfare
Federation, are among the key
leaders in the new Council for
American Judaism."
Inside Track Reported
The statement reveals that

leading .figures in existing Jew-
ish religious movements, includ-
ing the Central Conference of
American Rabbis and the Syna-
gogue Council of America—Dr.
James G. Heller, Dr. Israel Gold-
stein and others—have been sub-
jected to criticism by the new
group. It is also charged that
Secretary of the Interior Harold
Ickes was prevented from deliv-
ering a pro-Palestine address at
the recent U. P. A. conference
through the influence of this an-
ti-Zionist group which claims to
have the ear of the U. S. State
Department.

Reunion to Be Held
by Music Study Club

The Mendelssohn meeting of
the Music Study Club will be
held at the home of Miss Joanne
Prince; 2272 Glynn Court, Dec.
18, at 8:15 P. M. Muriel Moskow-
itz will be the chairman. Plans
will be made for the annual re-
union of members who will be in
the city during college vacations.

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