Friday, January 8, 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
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UNITED STATES—
The organized rabbis of New York,
representing the Orthodox, Conservative
and Reform wings in the New York
Board of Jewish Ministers, delivered a
stinging rebuke to the handful of anti-
Zionists among them by eliminating
from office anti-Zionist candidates who
had been scheduled for election to the
highest posts before the Independent
Jewish Press Service broke its sensa-
tional scoop revealing the lengths to
which the anti-Zionist rabbis were going
to spread their doctrines through the
American Council for Judaism. Rabbi
Joseph H. Lookstein, Orthodox leader
and chairman of the executive commit-
tee of the Mizrachi Organization, was
named president of the New York
Board, although a few weeks ago it had
been taken for granted that Rabbi Hy-
man Judah Schachtel would become the
president, since he was originally the
unanimous choice of the nominating
committee. Schachtel had taken a lead-
ing part in the formation of the Ameri-
can Council for Judaism.
OVERSEAS—
Prof. Harold J. Laski, distinguished
political scientist and economist, in an
article in the London Daily Herald,
urges the United States and Great Brit-
ain to "abandon the policy of appease-
ment of the anti-Semites" in the face of
the present critical Jewish situation. The
Declaration of the United Nations is im-
pressive, he states, but it does not con-
tain a policy of immediate action ... The
doors of the British Empire and of
America are closed to the Jewish refu-
gees from Nazi terror, Prof. Laski
points out. He appeals to Prime Minis-
ter Churchill and to President Roose-
velt to act strongly and quickly without
fearing that the admission of many Jews
to the U. S. and England will create
more anti-Semitism.
The prisons of Tunis, Bizerte and Sfax
are crowded with thousands of Tunisian
Jews who are suffering brutal treat-
ment, according to a report from Tu-
nisia. Jewish businesses and homes are
being systematically looted. All syna-
gogues, kehillah offices, Jewish schools
and institutions are closed, it is revealed.
A report from Casablanca states that
the French Quisling paper, Intransig-
eant Maroquin, continues to incite the
population against the Jews. The sheet
informs the Ametican soldiers that "all
beggar children" running after them are
Jewish. -
A Belgian priest who hid a hundred
Jewish children to prevent their deport-
ation to Eastern Europe has been arrest-
ed by the Nazi authorities in Belgium.
In many Belgian cities the priests are or-
ganizing secret funds to help the Jews.
One of these towns raised 60,000 francs.
The Bohemian town of Nachod is now
"Judenrein," according to an announce-
ment by the Prague Nazi press.
The prosecuting attorney in the trial
of 62 Jews in Sofia who are accused of
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breaking the anti-Jewish laws pertain-
ing to food trading has demanded the
death sentence for five and the concen-
tration camp for 57.
Since the United Nations' Declaration
against the Nazi atrocities, the Polish
Endek newspaper in London has ceased
to publish anti-Semitic articles.
A new institute for the study of anti-
Semitism has opened in Budapest under
the direction of Dr. Soltan Bosnik, no-
torious Hungarian anti-Semite. The in-
stitute will co-operate with similar orga-
nizations in Frankfort and in Paris.
The Istanbul Yenisaba denies the
statement heard over the Rumanian
radio to the effect that American Am-
bassador Lawrence A. Steinhardt, at the
request of the Istanbul Kehillah, under-
took to secure exemption for the Jews
from the new super-tax introduced in
Turkey to strengthen the country's de-
fenses. The entire story, the official
Turkish newspaper declares, is a Nazi
invention.
At the request of the Archbishop of
Canterbury and the head of the Free
Church, churches in England recited
prayers of intercession on behalf of the
Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe.
Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz of the
British Empire was designated a Corn-
panion of Honor, a distinction held • by
only 50 men, in the list of New Year
honors issued by King George. Major
Jack B. Cohen, honorary treasurer of
the British Legion, was elevated to
knighthood. -which does not involve any
hereditary transfer of the title.
Although the Zionists are not desirous
of exploiting the "terrible tragedy" of
European Jewry, they cannot abstain
from emnhasizing the "complete vindi-
cation of Zionism as a solution of the
Jewish problem which anticipated the
disaster decades ago," it was declared
by Moshe Shertok, political chief of the
Jewish Agency, at a meeting in London.
Praise for the heroic efforts. in indus-
trial production and in mobilization of
resources, of the Jews in Biro-Bidjan,
autonomous region in Siberia, is express-
ed by Premier Josef Stalin in an open
letter appearing in the Moscow Pravda,
Communist Party newspaper.
Condemnation of the Iraqi govern-
ment for its "refusal even to permit the
transit of Polish Jewish children now in
Teheran who have visas" is expressed
editorially by the Manchester Guardian
in a leading article dealing with the
problem of rescuing Jews now in Nazi
territories.
In the 10 days from Dec. 20 to 30. 10,-
000 Jews were deported from France to
ghettos in Eastern Europe.
One hundred and seventeen Jews
were arrested in Paris because they did
not wear the yellow Magen David ; all
were fined heavily and sent to concen-
tration camps. Another group of 154
persons, arrested in Paris as "commu-
nists," included 70 Jews charged with
the possession of arms.
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Magnes Urges U. S. Prevent
Jewish State in Palestine
Warns of "Danger of War Between Jews and Arabs"; Pre-
sents Three Proposals 'Toward Peace in Palestine";
Suggests Jews be Restricted to 40% of Population
NEW YORK (JPS)—Warning of "the danger of war
between Jews and Arabs," Dr. Judah L. Magnes, Presi-
dent of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; urges that
"America's moral and political authority be thrown into
the balance" to prevent the creating of a Jewish State in
Palestine or an Arab State. His views are contained in an
article in the January issue ofJ
Foreign Affairs in which he takes is greater than had been sup-
issue, direct and indirect, with posed. The Jews have shown that
an article by Dr. Chaim Weiz- there is more water in the coun-
mann, President of the Jewish try, more arable land, better
Agency, that appeared previous- land, the possibility of raising
ly in the magazine.
more diversified crops, more raw
Dr. Magnes offers three pro- materials for industry, more
posals "Toward Peace in Pales- chances of establishing industries
tine":
both for home consumption and
"1. Union between the Jews for export, than had been im-
and the Arabs within a bi-nation- agined."
al Palestine.
He then repeats as one method
"2. Union of Palestine, Trans- of meeting Arab objections a
jordan, Syria and the Lebanon in proposal he first offered in 1936:
an economic and political federa- "that the number of Jewish im-
tion. These lands form a geo- migrants be so calculated that at
graphical unit and constituted a the end of a ten-year period the
political and economic union at Jews would constitute no more
several times between ancient than 40 per cent of the total pop-
Semitic days and the First World ulation .. . A similar procedure
could be used now . . . Whatever
War.
"3.- Union of this federation percentages and periods might be
with an Anglo-American union fixed, the Jewish population
which is assumed to be part of would never be permitted to be-
that greater union of the free come more than one half of the
nations now laboring to be born total population."
out of the ruins of the decaying
world."
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Saying that Palestine "must oc-
cupy an -important place in any In the Sefer Ha-Yeled
consideration of the Jewish prob-
The name of Erroll Richard
lem," Dr. Magnes adds: "would
that it were large and empty Sweet, son of Mr. and Mrs. Law-
enough to absorb millions of per- rence Sweet of 1972 Elmhurst
secuted, wandering Jews and to Ave., has been inscribed in the
be constituted into a Jewish Sefer Ha-Yeled, the Children's
state! . . . The fact remains that Golden Book of the Jewish Na-
Palestine is small and is not tional Fund, by his grandparents,
empty. Another people has been Mr. and Mrs. S. Schaengold, it
in possession for centuries, and was announced this week.
the concept of Palestine as a
Jewish state is regarded by many .
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He suggests, therefore, that a
compromise "be imposed upon
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. . . The first step—and the sooner
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Discussing the economic ab-
man Yablokov and Aaron Lebedeff.
sorptive capacity of Palestine,
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Withdrawing its previous recognition
of the rights of the Jewish religion. the
Rumanian government has ordered the
confiscation of all Jewish religious prop-
erty in the country.
Apparently intending to lift the mo-
rale of the Italian soldiers facing disas-
ter on the Russian front, the Italian gov-
ernment has announced a decision to
confiscate all immovable Jewish proper-
ty in Italy and to distribute it among the
Italian troops now fighting against the
Red Army — when and if the Italians
ever get back to their homeland.
The Nazi press reports that 252,000
Germans, who fled from bombed areas
in their native land, now reside in Vi-
enna, being accommodated in the houses
of Jews who were deported to Poland.
The record for shooting down German
planes has been broken by Reuben Lus-
tic, Jewish lieutenant in command of an
anti-aircraft gun in the factory district
of Stalingrad, it is reported by the Soviet
press. High tribute is paid also to "the
best military instructor in the Red
Army," Private Magidov.
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