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VOL 2—NO. 16
THE JEWISH NE S
A Weekly Review
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of Jewish Events
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British Churches Map Program
For Relief of Jewish Sufferers
Page 3
Jewish Committee Asks Universal Equal Rights
Page 5
Two Warships Goal in Bnai Brith Bond Drive
Page 7
Is Duce Easing Anti-Semitism?
Page 10
Beth El to Honor Men in Service
Page 12
ht, Qf Jews in France
Page 6
* Other News In This Issue *
Page
Between You and Me 2
Center News
• 14
Children's Corner
13
Classified
15
Coming Events
16
Congregational News 12
Detroit Happenings
16
D.eutsch's Column
2
Editorials
4
Film Folk -
15
Humor Column
• 15
Jews in Uniform
11
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Letter Box
7
Music
13
News Review
3, 15
Purely Commentary.... 2
Quotation of Week
2
Sermonette
4
Society News
8, 9
Strictly Confidential.... 2
Theater
15
Women's Clubs
S
Youth Listening Post 13
20 Years Ago
16
GUEST EDITORIAL—
Women and the War Efforts
UJA Helped Them Survive 10 Years of Hitlerism,
By MRS. LEONARD H. WEINER
President, Detroit Section, National Council of Jewish Women
Woman's place in the war effort is as all-pervading
as man's, for she has the same interests in the victory of
human decency, and the same areas of service demanding
her efforts.
She should know what the coming peace will mean
to the world, that she may be ready to pay the price'
that peace will entail. She should be alert to the workings
of the government, that she may co-operate completely,
and yet retain her right to evaluate and
strive for the improvement of its function-
ings. Her knowledge must be accompanied
by action.
Women know the obvious services
they will perform—salvage of all vital
materials, cheerful acceptance of ration-
ing, volunteer and defense work, service
in the auxiliary corps. But beyond these
Mrs. Weiner
things, women have a special opportunity
to practice democracy in daily life. The home, the neigh-
borhood, the family, are directly influenced by the kind
of citizenship women practice. If tolerance and sympathy
are exhibited, if standards of social life are based on
sincerity, if richness of spirit and faith pervade the home,
women are helping to form a public opinion that will
assure democratic peace for all when victory comes.
Any woman striving for these things by herself will
meet discouragement. The individual grows strong in the
group, and it is here that organizations can serve. Thous-
ands learning and acting together can accomplish ends
beyond the powers of the strongest individual. Women
find new qualities in themselves and in their associates
when they work together. -
The National Council of Jewish Women, - celebrating
its 50th anniversary this year, has joined 60,000 women
in such a program. Together with other such groups it
strives to maintain those community enterprises embody-
ing the democracy for which free men and women the
world over are fighting.
When victory comes, women will face days as diffi-
cult, if not as dramatic as these. It may take generations
to work out a world order in its real sense. Patience, sacri-
fice and courage are womanly virtues. May we all be en-
dowed liberally with them.
This youngster, left homeless
by Nazi mass deportations in
France, is being nursed back
to health in a child-care cent-
er in Switzerland—one of the
hundreds of thousands, young
and old, throughout the world,
to whom life-saving aid is ex-
tended by the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee.
These Jewish soldiers, repair-
ing their tanks somewhere in
the Middle East, are among
the 50,000 fighters in the Brit-
ish army and defense forces of
the Jewish homeland in Pales- t
tine, which has been convert-
ed into an important arsenal
and granary for democracy
through the efforts of the
United Palestine Appeal.
These United States troops are
young refugees who are being
welcomed to American citizen-
ship by their commanding of- x
ficer. They are a few of the
newcomers to our country who
have been helped to become
good Americans and to do
their share for democracy by
the National Refugee Service.
These scenes show how, on the tenth anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to
power, the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Pales-
tine is turning the corner to victory in the world-wide program for rescue
and rehabilitation of Jewish victims of Nazism, through the efforts of the
Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and National Refugee
Serivce.