Page Four THE 4•E.WISH 'NEWS THE JEWISH NEWS Modern Manna Member of Independent Jewish Press Service, Jewish Tele- graphic Agency, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, Religious News Service, Paicor News Agency, Bressler Cartoon Service, Wide World Photo Service. Published every Friday by Jewish News Publishing Co., 2114 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Telephone, RAndolph 7956. Sub- scription rate, $3 a year; foreign, $4 a year. Club subscription of one issue a month, published every fourth Friday in the month, to all subscribers to Allied Jewish Campaign of Jewish Welfare Federa- tion of Detroit, in accordance with 1942 Allied Jewish Campaign pledges, at 50 cents a club subscription per year. Entered as second-class matter August 6, 1942, at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. By VICTOR HUGO BOARD OF DIRECTORS PHILIP SLOMOVITZ MAURICE ARONSSON ISIDORE SOBELOFF FRED M. BUTZEL ABRAHAM SRERE THEODORE LEVIN HENRY WINEMAN MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor DECEMBER 18, 1942 This Week's Scriptural Portions: This Friday, the tenth day of Tebet, is a fast day commem- orating the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem by the Baby- lonians. On this day, the following Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Ex. 32:11-14, 34:1-10; Prophetical portion, Is. 55:6-56:8. - This Sabbath, the eleventh day of Tebet, the following Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Penta- teuchal portion, Gen. 44:18-47:27; Prophetical portion, Ezek. 37:15-28. Accountability for Crimes President Roosevelt's statement to the Jewish delega- tion that "the American people not only sympathize with Jewish- National Fund Conference Our community is being signally honored by its selec- all victims of Nazi crime but will hold the perpetrators of tion as the convention city of the Jewish National Fund of these crimes to strict accountabiNty in a day of reckoning America. which will surely come" should strengthen our faith in the belief that there will be an end to Jewish misery when the hour of victory arrives. There is a possibility that Dr. Chaim Weizmann will address the conference. Always a welcome guest in De- troit, his appearance will strengthen interest in the cause Eretz Israel's reconstruction. The President's statement to tie delegation—which was composed of Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Maurice Wertheim, Henry Monsky, Adolph Held, Dr. Israel Goldstein and The fact that men like Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Dr. Rabbi Israel Rosenberg—is important also because our Israel Goldstein, Judges Louis E. Levinthal and Morris Chief Executive saw fit to state.: "The mills of the Gods Rothenberg will be among the speakers is attracting grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small. We are countrywide' interest in the conference. doing everything possible to ascertain who are personally Land redemption is one of the most vital reconstruc- guilty." tions needs in Palestine today. The large increase of im- This conference between President Roosevelt and migration into the land which is expected after the war, spokesmen for American Jewry was historic from many will of necessity be controlled by the amount of land avail- points of view. Our leaders had the opportunity of pre- able for the settlement of the newcomers. The Detroit senting, for the record and for courts of justice to deal conference will therefore be called upon to make the with after the war, the evidence of brutality practiced necessary plans for the acquisition of as much soil as against Jews in Hitler-ruled Europe, since it is now a possible. matter of record that millions of Jews either have already It is important that Detroit Jews should cooperate perished or,are doomed to extermination by the Nazis. in planning the forthcoming conference and to assist in Corroborated by information in possession of our making its deliberations as effective as possible. State Department, the memorandum presented to Presi- dent Roosevelt represents one of the blackest experiences in the history of our people who have already been tried by so many fires. Incorporation in New York of the new organization to The fact that all elements in Jewish life collaborated be known as the American Council for Judaism will set in presenting the story of Jewish suffering to our Presi- many people thinking as to its necessity in Jewish life. dent, and the additional fact that President Roosevelt has According to the announcement made by Dr. Louis personally given assurance that every step will be taken Wolsey of Philadelphia, this organization will seek to to end these crimes against the Jews and other civilian identify the Jew as a member of the religious community populations of the Hitler-ruled countries and to save those and nothing else. who may yet be saved, should give us courage to carry But — we already have the Synagogue Council of on in the present crisis and should help us retain our con- America ; there are already functioning movements that fidence that all mankind will soon return to sanity. speak for the Reform, the Conservative and the Orthodox elements. Why a new movement? Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that an avowed anti-Zionist, Rabbi Elmer Berger of Flint, is to be the or- Another real service is being rendered by the Jewish ganization's executive director, and that the principles of Community Center of Detroit where the works of Arthur the new movement lay so much stress upon the need for Szyk are being exhibited. opposing the formation of a Jewish State in Palestine. If this indicates the fanning of a new controversy in Jewish Mr. Szyk's illustrated "Haggadah," his manuscript of the Statute of Kalisz, his reproduction in art of the Balfour life, then the new project may be the source of a bitter Declaration and his numerous other works are today argument which should be avoided at all costs. among the outstanding creations of our time. The anti-Zionist rabbis have received comfort from Dr. —The advancement of art in time of war is of great Judah L. Magnes, with the result that the demand is being educational value. Mr. Szyk has devoted most of hi8 time renewed for the resignation of the president of the Hebrew during the past year to exposing the Nazi-Fascist menace, University. Instead of cementing Jewish feeling and creat- and his drawings have been featured by the leading peri- ing a unified front, a minority in Jewish life is fanning flames of hatred. It is a saddening occurrence which will odicals in this country. , bring no good and which may result in harm for Jewish Those who have not yet seen the Szyk exhibit will aspirations to end of homelessness after this war. do well to observe it, before it ends on Jan. 3. They will surely agree with us that the Center is making wholesome contributions to community programming by sponsoring such educational displays. Sweden's Christian leaders refuse to tolerate intoler- ance, and the Quislings of Europe have suffered another setback in the statement issued by Bishop Gustaf Aulen, who has condemned the Quisling anti-Jewish machinations The Jewish community of America has suffered a great in Norway as "the horrible infection of racial persecution loss in the death of Louis E. Kirstein. which is spreading toward Scandinavia." A great American, a devout Jew, a man of vision and Of interest also is the statement made in Stockholm action, this noted merchant had proved in his lifetime that by a leading Baptist churchman, who has declared that it is possible for a man to have an all-embracing interest "Norway has never had a so-called Jewish problem— in life, as an American citizen and a faithful Jew, without these actions are inspired by strangers to the Norwegian compromising either loyalties. way of life." Mr. Kirstein was respected by all elements and he wts Thus, the strange ways of haters of men are being above petty squabbles either on the Zionist or the relig- discredited. These declarations by leading churchmen ious fronts. His ideals should serve as an example for help to strengthen our hopes that anti-Semitism will fail future generations to follow. in the end, and that better days are in store for all peoples. A New Jewish Group Arthur Szyk's Works Quisling Rebuked The Late Louis E. Kirstein THE DAY WILL COME From the Opening Address at the Peace Confer- ence of 1849 MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ and PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Publishers VOL. 2—NO. 9 Frkiay, December 18,., 1942 A day will come when the only battlefield will be the mar- ket open to commerce, and the mind opening to new ideas. A day will come when bullets and bombshells will be replaced by votes, by the universal suffrage of nations, by arbitration of a sovereign senate, which will be to Europe what the Parliament is to England . . A day will come when a can- non ball will be exhibited in public museums, just as an in- strument of torture is now, and the people will be astonished how such a thing could have been. A day will come when these two immense groups, the United States of America and the United States of Europe shall be, seen extending the hand of fellowship across the ocean, exchanging their products, their industry, their arts, their genius clearing the earth peopling the desert, improving creation under the eye of the Creator and un- iting for the good of all these two irresistible and infinite powers, the fraternity of men and the power of God. . Hordes Welcomes J.N.F. Delegates Describes Importance of Na- tional Conference Here, December 26-27 By WILLIAM HORDES President, - Jewish National Fund Council of Detroit .The Detroit Jewish community is highly privileged to act as host to the conference of the Jewish National Fund of America, to be held at the Book Cadillac Hotel on Dec. 26 and 27. This is a great occasion for our community. First in every Jew- ish philanthro- pic and recon- struction effort, Detroit holds the enviable post of being second highest in the , entire country in the amount of money our people have contributed t o - wards land re- Wirn. Hordes demption in Er- etz Israel. Therefore, when we all go to the Book Cadillac Hotel during the next week-end we will be expressing the community's joy for liberality and devotion which does us credit. But our work has only begun. We must do our due share for the Jewish National Fund loan. We must complete the Forests we have begun to plant in Zion. We must provide more land reserves so that more and more pioneers may be settled in the Jewish Na- tional Home when the war comes to an end and the great job of reconstruction begins. In Detroit, we should proceed to complete the Joseph H. Ehr- lich Forest and should as speedily as possible secure the balance of the fund necessary to complete the Fred M. Butzel Forest. We should raise as large a sum as possible towards the Jewish Na- tional Fund $2,500,000 loan. I am happy, as president of the Jewish National Fund Council of Detroit, to extend greetings to all the visiting delegates and to ex- press my thanks to all my co- workers and to all Jewish organ- izations in Detroit for their co- operation in planning this great convention. May it bring the great - results that are necessary for victory and freedom. PILGRIMAGE FESTIVALS The feasts of Passover, Shabu- oth and Succoth are thus spoken of. During the time of the Tem- ple, the Jews came on those oc- casions from many parts to offer sacrifces in the Temple at Jer- usalem.