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THE JEWISH NEWS
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Service, Palcor 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, 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.
The A.D.L.'s latest publication,
"Questions and Answers Con-
cerning the Jews," presents the
facts regarding the Talmud, the
Crucifixion, the forgeries known
as "The Protcols" and the "Ben-
jamin Franklin Prophecy," Com-
munism, the refugees, Jews as
farmers, Jews' participation in
the life of America, Jews in lit-
erature and music, and numerous
other related questions.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MAURICE ARONSSON
PHILIP SLO1VIOVITZ
FRED M. BUTZEL
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
THEODORE LEVIN .
ABRAHAM SRERE
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ
HENRY WINEMAN
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
DECEMBER 25, 1942
This Week's Scriptural Portions:
This Sabbath, the eighteenth day of Tebet, the following
Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Penta-
teuchal portion, Gen. 47:28-50:26; Prophetical portion, I
Kings 2:1-12.
Bestial Policy Condemned
The joint declaration of the 11 United Nations and
the French National Committee, which condemns the Nazi
atrocities and the plan to exterminate the Jews, will rate
for generations to come as one of the historic documents
of the present war. The world at large is told in this
declaration:
The attention of the Belgian, Czechoslovak,
Greek, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norwegian, Polish,
Soviet, United Kingdom, United States and Yugoslav
Governments and also of the French National Com-
mittee has been drawn to numerous reports from
Europe that the German authorities, not content with
denying to persons of Jewish race in all the territories
over which their barbarous rule has been extended,
the most elementary human rights, are now carrying
into effect Hitler's oft repeated intention to extermi-
nate he Jewish people in Europe.
From all the occupied countries Jews are being
transported in conditions of appalling horror and bru-
tality to Eastern Europe. In Poland, which has been
made the principal Nazi slaughterhouse, the ghettos
established by the German invader are being syste-
matically emptied of all Jews except a few highly
skilled workers required for war industries. None of
those taken away are ever heard of again. The able-
bodied are slowly worked to death in labor camps.
The infirm are left to die of exposure and starvation
or are massacred in mass executions. The number of
victims of these bloody cruelties is reckoned in many
hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men,
women and grandchildren.
The above - mentioned governments and the
French National Committee condemn in all the strong-
est terms this bestial policy of cold-blooded extermi-
nation. They declare that such events can only
strengthen the resolve of all freedom loving peoples
to overthrow the barbarous Hitlerite tyranny. They
reaffirm their solemn resolution to insure that those
responsible for these crimes shall not escape retribu-
tion, and to press on with the necessary practical
measures to this end.
The free nations of the world are at present helpless
to cope with the tragic situation described in this text.
In the meantime, Nazi Germany is in position to continue
unabated its cruel policy. But the fact that the freedom-
loving nations have gone on record refusing to compro-
1111 -.2 with bestiality is partial encouragement for our
people and for all decent elements in the world to begin
to regain faith that the terrible things which are happen-
ing today upon orders from the Hitlerite staff will not
only come to an end but will never, never recur.
In the meantime, the responsibility devolves upon
the democratic nations of the world to save those who
can be saved and to open avenues of escape from Nazism
for the persecuted Jews. The obstacles placed in the
paths of men, women and children who have an
opportunity to settle in Palestine must be removed and
a policy of fairness should be enforced for all time
to come.
"Rumor Wardens" Against Bigotry
An advertising firm has appeared on the scene as a
pioneer in a new form of attack against anti-Semitism.
Young & Rubicam, Inc., one of the leading advertis-
ing agencies in the country, makes the novel proposal that
"rumor-wardens" be mobilized to fight against the anti-
Semitic rumors manufactured by the Nazi propaganda
factory. The proposal is made in a full-page advertisement
in the current issue of Fortune Magazine in which "three
cancerous campaigns" are listed : the attempts to set
Americans against Negroes, Jews and the English.
This agency deserves universal commendation for
its appeal to all Americans to do their country the
invaluable service of fighting the Nazi barrage of lies.
This is the type of pioneering in the cause of decency that
will go down on record as . one of the great contributions to
the war effort and to the peace that is to follow.
A.D.L. Publishes
Volume to Scotch
Lies About Jews
Bnai Brith's Anti-Defamation
League has produced a most val-
uable and informative book deal-
ing with the Jews, as part of its
program to counteract anti-Sem-
itism in this country.
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ and PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Publishers
VOL. 2—NO. 10
Friday, December 25, 1942
A Significant Gathering
In a period of distress, when the democratic peoples
of the world join with us in expressing their protests
against the bestial treatment of Jews in Nazi-ruled terri-
tories, it is encouraging to know that delegates from Jew-
ish communities throughout the land will undertake to
deal with the problem in practical terms, at the sessions
of the Jewish National Fund conference in Detroit.
The significance of this book,
which is available at $1 a copy
from the Anti-Defamation Leag-
ue, 130 N. Wells .$t., Chicago, Ill.,
is described in the preface, writ-
ten by Dr. Everett Ross Clinchy,
director of the National Confer-
ence of Catholics, Jews and Prot-
estants. Dr. Clinchy reveals that
the book is an outgrowth of an
actual experience. At a gather-
ing held recently there was a
discussion in which Christians
asked many questions very free-
ly. Sigmund Livingston of the
A.D.L. was present and was ask-
ed to put down in writing the
answers to the questions raised
that night. The result is this
splendid bdok.
Dr. Clinchy properly points out
that " 'Questions and Answers'
is a book to be USED ; as well as
to be read." It is a most informa-
tive volume and contains a mass
of informative reading matter.
Tears, fast days, prayers, are good for the soul and
serve to remind' the complacent elements that there are
millions of our kinsmen who are downtrodden for the sole
This volume should be in the
sin of being Jews and for whom help must be provided. hands of every schol teacher and
and it should be spread
But having shed tears, having fasted and uttered prayers, preacher
as liberally as possible among
we must begin to plan for the day when we will be in non-Jews because it is such an
position to save hundreds of thousands of victims of excellent weapon in counteract-
the misinformation that is
Nazism who will survive the wholesale slaughter. The ing
current about Jews.
Jewish National Fund, as the agency which redeems the
soil of Palestine to make it the inalienable property of the
New Hebrew Grammar
entire Jewish people, seeks the means for eliminating
homelessness in Israel and for assuring the possession of
sufficient tracts of land upon which to settle large masses Excellent Textbook Written
of Jews.
by Reuben Wallenrod and
Abraham Aaroni
The Detroit conference assumes added significance
because the gathering here this week-end will honor Dr.
"Modern Hebrew. Reader and
Isral Goldstein for the devotion with which he has served Grammar" by Reuben Wallen-
the movement as president during the last 10 years. He rod and Abraham Aaroni (Shilo
Publishing House, Brooklyn, N.
has earned whatever honors may be shown him, and all Y.),
is a thoroughly modern text-
American Israel entertains heartfelt affection for him book. It is not- only an improve-
and holds him in high esteem as an idealist and as one of ment on existing elementary
textbooks of classical languages,
the most devoted American Jewish leaders.
with their unrelated sentences
May the deliberations at the Jewish National Fund
conference in Detroit be successful, and may the word go
forth from here that the Jews of America will not fail
their kinsmen throughout the world when the hour of
reconstruction and resettlement arrives.
The Late David M. Bressler
Detroiters who were active in relief and social service
activities in the early '20s will recall the interest that was
generated here in behalf of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee and other important overseas causes by David M.
Bressler of New York. This dynamic leader not only in-
spired his fellow townsmen in behalf of pressing needs
for overseas relief, but made tours of the leading cities
in the country, including Detroit, to inspire others to in-
crease their efforts for this great work.
The death of this eminent leader, which occurred in
New York on Dec. 16, was saddening news to those of us
who knew him and admired his energetic efforts for lead-
ing Jewish causes.
In 1926, Mr. Bressler served as associate chairman of
New York's $6,000,000 United Jewish Campaign, which
was part of the nationwide $25,000,000 drive conducted
under the chairmanship of David A. Brown of Detroit.
Only a day before Mr. Bressler's death, Mr. Brown wrote
to us to commend us on our efforts in behalf of the Detroit
War Chest and reminded us that the slogan "Tired of
Giving? You Don't Know What It Is to Be Tired" which
appeared over the cartoon in our issue of Oct. 30 was
fathered by Mr. Bressler and was used successfully
throughout the 1926 campaign.
This slogan symbolizes the devotion Mr. Bressler had
shown to worthy Jewish causes, and the contributions he
had made to his people during his lifetime.
and tiresome paradigms, but it
can be favorably compared with
any book for the teaching of a
modern language.
The most striking feature of
the Modern Hebrew Reader and
Grammar is reading material
that consists of dialogues, stories,
essays, and poems—not of de-
tached sentences or verses. From
the very first lessons, there are
selections that hold the interest
of the student. When the pass-
ages, culled from ancient and
modern Hebrew literature, are
too difficult, they appear in a re-
constructed version that retains
as much as possible of the liter-
ary value of the original.
Vocabulary has been chosen
with due regard for frequency,
and the reading material provid-
es for sufficient repetition. The
grammar lessons are developed
from the literary passages and
from model sentences. ConCise,
simple, and lucid explanations of
the grammatical rules make for
good motivation, and the. varied
exercises at the end of each liter-
ary passage and grammar lesson
are a concrete aid in fixing the
newly acquired knowledge.
This first volume will be fol-
lowed by a second, which will
contain the essentials of the regu-
lar verbs in the simple conjuga-
tion (Qal), the inflections of fre-
quently used regular nouns, pre-
positions, conjugations, and other
grammatical points.