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THE JEWISH NEWS

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Entered as second-class matter August 6, 1942, at the Post
Office at Detroit, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ and PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Publishers

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MAURICE ARONSSON
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
FRED M. BUTZEL
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
THEODORE LEVIN
ABRAHAM SRERE
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ
HENRY WINEMAN

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor

VOL. 2—NO. 20

MARCH 5, 1943

This Week's Scriptural Portions:

This Sabbath, the twenty-ninth day of Adar Rishon, the
following Scriptural selections will be read in our Syna-
gogues: Pentateuchal portion, Ex. 35:1-38:20; 30:11-16; Pro-
phetical portion, II Kings 12:1-17. On Sunday and Monday,
Rosh Hodesh Adar Sheni, Num. 28:1-15 will be read during
morning services in our synagogues.

As the Editor
Views the News

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The Annual Federation Meeting

Friday, Ward, 5, 1943

Preface to Peace Terms

The Weekly
Sermonette

A Sanctuary of the People

By DR. SAMSON R. WEISS
Dean of YeshiVath Beth Yehudab
of Detroit

The reading of the Torah por
tion of this Sabbath is enriched
by an additional chapter, the so-
called "Poroshath Sh'kolim." In
this chapter, which signifies the
first of the four special Sabbath
days introducing and leading up
to the festival of Passover,
Scripture tells us about the first
taxation levied on the Jewish
nation,
In the seventh month of the
journey through the desert,
every male Jew
of the military
age of 20 was to
contribute a half
Shekel towards
the erection of
t h e sanctuary.
"The rich shall
not give more
and the poor
shall not give
less than the
Dr. Weiss
half Shekel."
Although the erection of the tab-
ernacle demanded great volun-
tary contributions of gold, prec-
ious stones and materials for the
holy vessels and the garments
On several occasions, The Jewish News has warned of
priesthood, the basic contri-
against the appeals of the Committee for a Jewish Army as bution was collected in equal
misrepresenting the facts and as leading its adherents into shares from every mature mem-
ber of the community.

An Irresponsible Appeal

This year's annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration of Detroit assumes special importance by virtue of the
authoritative report on the position of the Jews in Europe,
which is to be brought to us by Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz,
chairman of the European Executive Council of the American believing that the funds it gathers are used for the creation
A Sanctuary of the People
of a Jewish fighting force. We have pointed out that the
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
From the metal of the more
After 19 months in Europe, during which he was the funds collected were used only for advertising purposes than 600,000 silver coins so ob-
chief negotiator in the work of rescue for tens of thousands and that the committee has not earned popular support be- tained, the sockets for the pillars
of Jewish men, women and children from the cauldron that cause there are official and responsible agencies which have of the sanctuary and the books
had been lit by the hatred of Nazism, Dr. Schwartz was in it as their chief duty to propagate Palestine's needs, in- connecting them were cast. The
Tabernacle was to stay on com-
a position to observe the spread of the poisons which brought
about the present war as well as the sympathetic attitudes cluding that of urging the formation of a Jewish fighting mon ground, its base and its
connecting links, "making it to
of the democratically-minded peoples who sincerely desire force.
one," were to be the property
to assist in savinc, as many Jews as possible from the terrible
The Committee for a Jewish Army has demonstrated its and the responsibility of the
death prescribed for them by Germany. His report to the
whole nation. The house of the
Jews of Detroit, at Monday's meeting of the Federation, true character in its latest advertisement, which appeared Lord should not become the ex-
should be heard by every one who is concerned over the wel- in a number of metropolitan newspapers including one in pression of voluntary and emo-
fare of our kinsmen overseas.
Detroit, carrying a text written by the able Ben Hecht, tional giving, but rather the
of the deeply Un-
Simultaneous with Dr. Schwartz's visit to Detroit and under the heading: "For Sale to Humanity: 70,000 Jews. manifestation
derstood obligation of every man
with the annual meeting of the Federation comes the report Guaranteed Human Beings at $50 A Piece." The advertise- fit to carry arms in the defense
for 1942 issued by James H. Becker, chairman of the National ment gives the impression that the Jewish Army Committee of his nation and its ideals.
Council of the Joint Distribution Committee. Mr. Becker is in position of save Jews by transporting them to Palestine
The half Shekel tax, original-
shows how the J.D.C. work is being carried on in the midst at $50 a person.
ly created for the • erection of
of war, how. aid is being provided for our people who are
the sanctuary, became subse-
trapped in occupied countries and how life has been made,
Since the report that Rumania is prepared to release quently by law of the Torah an
easier with the aid of the J.D.C. for 123,000 refugees in Latin 70,000 Jews for settlement in Allied countries may be a annual institution. Its proceeds
American countries.
were utiliied in the same demo-
hoax, this advertisement is thoroughly Irresponsible, and it is cratic manner. The sacrifices of
The J.D.C. report shows also that 7,700 refugees have
been evacuated during the past year from Europe to Pales- evident that Mr. Hecht has been misinformed. But even if the community were provided
by them, the daily . offerings
tine and the Western Hemisphere; hbw the J.D.C. provided the Rumanian offer were genuine, the fact that must be which
could not be bought from
the main source of relief for tens of thousands of refugees in taken into consideration is that there are responsible agencies private funds nor accepted.ps do-
France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and North Africa, and to deal with matters of Jewish rehabilitation. The Jewish nations. Being an expression of
how the American relief agency introduced a program of Agency for Palestine and the World Zionist Organization are the devotion of the whole na-
shipping medical and surgical supplies to hundreds of thous-
tion, of the "Klal Yisroel," to the
the spokesmen for the builders of Zion, and efforts by newly- Eternal;
ands of Polish Jews who are refugees in Asiatic Russia.
being the manner of
After 28 years of effort as the agency that links the created committees to interfere with their work must be dis- daily worship in the name and
fortunate Jews of this country and Canada with the millions credited promptly and firmly. Furthermore, when the ques- on behalf of the people, every-
of unfortunates in the European inferno, the J.D.C. now tion of relief is raised, the Joint Distribution Committee must body was to have an equal share
in them. Thus, by the half
emerges as an even more important instrument of mercy. Its not be ignored. But the Committee for a Jewish Army as- Shekel
tax, the sanctuary of the
burdens are greater, and are certain to increase not only sumes to speak as the only active group that is ready to save Jews never fell into the hands
during the war but also in the post-war reconstruction period.
of a limited group or clique. It
As an agency that, receives its support from Detroit the Rumanian Jews, and by its actions this committee has was truly a sanctuary of the
harmed
the
cause
of
responsible
Jewish
movements
which
people.
Jewry through the fund-raising arm of the Jewish Welfare
Federation—the Allied Jewish Campaign—the Joint Dis- have earned the confidence and respect of our people every-
The Detroit Yeshivah
tribution Committee will find a keenly interested audience where. -
The communities outside of the
when one of its chief spokesmen reports on its activities at
The fact that the New Zionist Organization (Revisionist), Holy Land watched diligently
the Federation's meeting on Monday.
over the fulfillment of this sac-
which is believed to be the sponsor of the Committee for a red
duty. By special messengers
Jewish Army, is now appealing for a million dollar fund to they sent .every
year their
carry on a campaign of its own, also through metropolitan tributions to the Temple. con-
newspaper advertisements, to advance its organizational
hundreds of years after
Acceptance by Dr. Harry Schulman, administrative as- political purposes, strengthens our suspicions that there are its Even
destruction by the Romans,
sociate member of the National War Labor Board and former selfish motives in the advertising campaign which is mis- this tax was still collected
by
professor at Yale University, of the position of impartial leading Jews and non-Jews alike. It is the duty of the Zionists the Jewish communities in the
umpire between the Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto- of this country to clarify the issue, to prevent confusion in Diaspora and distributed for the
mobile Workers (CIO), is of more than passina interest.
Jewish ranks and to warn the Jews of this country not to be maintenance of the Schools of
To Dr Schulman, "the experiment at the Ford
company misled into supporting the irresponsible campaign of the Jewish Learning, the Houses of
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is so promising and challenging" that he found it agreeable Committee for a Jewish Army.
Torah, which always have been
to accept the call to service. To many in our community, this
regarded as the nearest substi-
tutes for the destroyed Temple.
appointment will serve to dispel misgivings about the Ford
The erection of a House for
Motor Co. Suspicions dating back to the days of the Dearborn
Torah here in Detroit, exactly
Independent articles against the Jews have caused many
one year ago, has shown that the
people to retain a prejudice against the Fords.
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah's first anniversary in its new
In recent years, however, the company has emphasized building on Cortland and Dexter has occasioned increased feeling and the understanding
for the necessity of a "Mikdosh
its absolute impartiality in the employment of men regardless interest in the school and its curriculum.
M'at," a substitute tabernacle, is
of race or creed- and in assigning jobs and business orders to
alive. This institution
Staffed by an able group of teachers, the Yeshivah has still
Jews and Jewish firms. Furthermore, efforts made by Ford
founded 27 years ago by the late
made
its
mark
in
our
community.
Its
intensive
course
of
representatives to stop the circulation of "The International
Rabbi Judah Leib Levin and
Jew" in Latin American countries help to eradicate ill feel- study, its consistent religious program, the fact that it has named in his honor Yeshivath
ings.
been able to enlist close to 200 pupils, reacts to the credit of Beth Yehudah, has grown and
expanded. But it will not be-
It is encouraging to be able to record this trend in the this educational agency.
come a "sanctuary of the people"
Ford Motor Co. on the occasion of the selection of an eminent
We join with the numerous friends of the Yeshivah in
Jewish professor as an umpire between capital and labor at extending greetings to them on the occasion of the annivers- unless its maintenance will be
understood as the sacred duty of
the Ford Motor Co.
ary banquet which will take place this Sunday evening.
the entire Jewish community.

The Ford Labor Umpire

The Yeshivah's Anniversary

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