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Frid4,' May , 14,‘,1 943'

Heard in
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"During the first years of the Hitler terror, 1933-36, 1 was League
of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany. Then, as
my colleagues and I searched throughout the world for places for
mass settlement' 61 refugees and fOUnd only Palestine, I came to feel
and I still feel that those of us concerned with the fate of the refugees
should thank God for- Palestine."

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

(Copyright, 1943, Independent
Jewish Press Service)

By DAVID DEUTSCH

(Copyright, 1943, Independent
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WANTED: AUTHORITY
What we need in Jewish life more than
THE- HATE FRONT •
- G. McDonald, Chairman• of the President's
anything else is authority. In• religious
- Advisory •Committee. on -Political Refugees and former
If . you- think (a). that Washington is
activities especially, we.. appear at times
taking a strong hand against, the spread
League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
to be lost. There. is . no . central body to
of intolerance or (b) that the Anti-De-
in United Jewish Appeal nationwide radio broadcast.:
regulate for. us under modern conditions,
famation League has lost its reason for
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and the result is a state of irresponsibil-
being, just pore over these items:
ity in some issues.
•(1) . Leon de A•ryan, one of • the 34
The need for authoritative rulingS . in
WaShirigton indictees, is Out of jail and is
Jewish . .life becomes • apparent in war
editing his infamous "The Broom" from
time. • • Fortunately, *there are • accepted
troop4illed San Diego.
rulings on the question of dietary laws
In.ternational Assem;bly,"- which:at-
and other matters, handed . down by the
tacks,. Jews, Communists,. etc., is still be-
'By-BORIS SMOLAR
late Chief Rabbi Kook of Palestine and
.. ing by F. H. Sattlei., who calls
By PHINEAS J WON,
by. the famous Chofetz :Chaim, which
himself the enemy
-"AtheiStie
(Copyright, 1943,- Jewish Telegraphic
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(Copyright,
1943,
Seven
Arts
Feature
serve as precedents.
Agency, Inc.)
(3) 'Gerald - L.' X. Smith wantsWheeler
Syndicate)
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But there are other issues on which we
-or Nye-to -become.. the president and is
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lack authority. What's to be done about HEROES AND.. TRAITORS
touring the country, he announces, for
HISTORICAL CORRECTION ..
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his "America First Party.."
Before the war is over, 'there will be
It was not Henry Davidson 'wha raised
(4) "America Preferred" is. the name of
A SPECIFIC INSTANCE
many - vessels named after - American
the Red 6':Oss 'quota World War
One must: be very careful with his Jewish' heroes •: . The destroyer escort frOM "$M000;000 to $100,000,000, although I the new 'Publication on the stands under
comments on religious matters. Never- U. S. S. Levy, named after Commodore Thomas Lamont ,said so at a .recent meet- the sponsorship of anti-Semitic Repub-
theless, there are serious problems that Uriah, P. is one of these vessels ing. in. Philadelphia. The man responsible lican Carl Mote. •
demand' "speaking up."
. . Now the -Navy Department has an for giving the Red Cross Jeaders suffi- PERSONNEL'
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Here is one of them.
flounced that a destroyer is being built cient confidence to go after the hundred
The depletion of Jewish organizational
in
the
-Boston
Navy
Yard
- which will be inillionwas none other than Jacob Billi- -forces continues at a rapid pace .
. In a michvestern community, a group
of Orthodox rabbis - have issued a state- named U. S. S. Eisner, in honer of Lieu- kopf. Billie, as his comrades call. him, Samuel
S iegler, research - director. of the
p
ment on the "Agunah"- question and have tenant Jack Eisner who • met a hero's Was drafted in February, 1917, by • Felix Jewish
Council, is in the
made certain. proposals.. They call atten- • death on the bridge of his ship . 'off the Warburg, Herbert Lehman, Louis
- Mar- army . . . So is Norman Garmezy of the
Solomon
Islands
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And
on
May
15
tion to the inability of a woman to re-
shall and Jacob Schiff to undertake the Jewish Vocational Service of Cleveland.
marry until it has been established that there - will be launched at Quincy, Mass., direction" - of a ten-million-dollar . cam- . . . and Siegmund Lifschitz, formerly ein-
her husband is dead, and they warn of - the , U. S. S. Jeffrey, named in honor of paign for the American Jewish .
ployment director- of Hias - New York.
Ensign Ira L. Jeffrey, first casualty in Committee. At a conferehde he told Relief
possible injustice to wives of soldiers
Hen- . . . As well as Lawrence Gould, speak-
who may be taken prisoners of war or this war from Minneapolis . . . - This will ry Morgenthau Sr.: "If the Jews of Am- ers' bureau director of the United Jewish
who may be. lost in battle. If no definite be followed by the naming of a new erica can undertake to raise $10,000,000 Appeal . And . these are only typical.
record exists, the rabbinical statement vessel after Ensign Robert Leopold of among three or four per cent of the • . . A fellow who is most envied is Rabbi
says, then the wives of soldiers will be Louisville,- Ky., hero killed in the Japan- population, and if one Jew (Julius Rosen- Isidore. Breslau, former director of the
doomed to a life of . tragedy.
ese attack on Pearl Harbor . . • The wald). is prepared to contribute $1,000,, Zionist Organization of America, who is
Therefore, the proposal is made that possibility • of the Navy Department 000 to the fund, I should think that you, chaplain 'at the WAAC Trainn' Center
Jewish •.soldiers should issue conditional naming a destroyer after Haym Solomn, who are prominent -
in the . inner circles at Daytona Beach, Florida And don't
divorces to their wives. Rabbis are to be is also not . excluded.. . •
of the -American Red Cross, Might per- fool yourself, those rabbis who became
authorized to issue the traditional Get
Pro-Nazi • propagandists are finding . stiade your associates--•,.Cleveland. Dodge, chaplains have plenty tough assigninents
(divorcement papers) to their wives in their way into army camp papers and J P. Morgan and -others—to raise the as.. the death of young .Alexander Goode
the event they are not heard from for a defense•plant publications Since they Red Cross quota from ten to a hundred made everybody realize. . .
Certain period of time after the war.
The story of the refugee who led the
disguise their anti-jewish . propaganda millions."
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Since, according to Jewish law, when through funny poems, and .jokes, they
choir for President Roosevelt at Easter
."Uncle• Henry" Was fired by the idea
a soldier lives with his wife authoriza-
succeed in placing them in camp organs and before the week was out he had. , services at Fort Riley, Kansas, is a, first-
tion of a Get is automatically cancelled,
whose editors never suspect that they are .suceded in getting the Red Cross rate tale. Pvt. Herman Golenko is just
an ordinary Orthodox Jew who was
the Rabbis propose that ••Jewish soldiers being utiliied for pro-Nazi - ptirpoSet"
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executives to lift their.. - quota to -the driven out : of Germany. In -pre-Hitjei
renew the procedure of authorizing isSu- •
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You may have come across some of - hund d mark: • P. S.:---A3illi- re land he was a cantor. In addition, to be. ,-
ance of a divorce after every furlough or
kOpf
raised
$10,061,000
for
Jewish
foreign
these
"innocent!'
funny
poems
which.
are
military,leaveAt home. • . . •
ing the chazan at Fort Riley, he directs
,being -distributed by Unknown organized relief that year, and • the -:.Red-,_Cross at- the Protestant -Choir and is__ the organist
IS IT MEDIEVALISM? .
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its
objective.
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at Sunday services. "That's what makes
It is not for us, or any one else in our groups throughout the country . ..You can
recognize them by their titles, which in- READER'S GUIDE
America a great country," says Golenko.
position, to judge the Rabbis in this ac
. . And while on the .subject _ of Fort
tion. All we know is that many who have • clude "Song of the Kosher Air Wardens," . A new Anglo-Jewish 'monthly will be
"Coney Island," "The First American," in-
Riley, the Jewish Welfare Board might
read this Rabbinical statement were .hor-
circulation
this
week
Called
"Lib-
"Three Wise Men"—all full of anti-Jew;
•well establish -a prize for the best camp
rifled by it and branded it as "medieval-
ish poison . To counteract the:Nazi eral Judaism," it is 96 pages thick, . and paper among Jews :in the armed forces.
ism."
its
editor
'are
Rabbi
James
Heller,
Solo-
propaganda lies, the Jewish War Veter- Mon.
Our first choice is that put out by Chap-
We are - certain that such calls to ralc,
Freehof, Max Currick and Isaac
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. , lain Jacob .Hochmaii of 'Fort Riley. It's
binical authority do not command res- ans have published a book, "Jews - in - ••Landrnan.
Wars," giving the facts of Am-
called "L'Chaim;" is .splendidly -mimeo-
pect - but invite ridicule and rebuke American
erican history and answering the malic-
If you didn't see • last month's Harper's graphed and its motto is. "In Shul Arein."
and failure•to listen to orthodox - decrees.
ious attacks on the patriotism of the Magazine - you missed one of the most
We ask again: what's to be done about Jews.
dramatic stories of the -war . . . We refer
it?
to
George W. Herald's„ "My Favorite
THE BRITISH FRONT
FOR A MODERN SANHEDRIN
Assassin" . . • It is the tale of Ernest
The rabbinical call we have referred to
For the first time since the outbreak of Tessier, a French Foreign Legion officer
is certain to do one thing: encourage ad-
the
war a report of what the Nazi air whose heroic exploits are the talk of
By JULIAN L. - MELTZER
herence to civil law in such matters.
raids -have . done to Jewish houses of wor- North Africa .. . But Tessier's real name
The only way to correct the situation is
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EDITOR'S
NOTE:—Little known.. enttsiOe
Ernst Werner Techow; and he con-
Eretz Israel, Ann Judith Landau, a pioneer
to establish some sort of modern rabbini-_ ship in England has been compiled . .
fessed fo having. been one of the three •of
girls' education in Jerusalem - recently has
A
large
number
of
synagogues
in
London
cal authority—a modern Sanhedrin, if
observed her 70th birthday and nearly .45
the provinces have -been completely men who killed Walther Rathenau
years residence in Jerusalem. '
you please—that should have full author- and
June 24, 1922 . . . If you want to know
destroyed
or
damaged
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7;v.
The
Great
ity to revise ancient rulings- in such- mat-
how come this assassin- became a foe of
JERUSALEM (Palcor)' — Forty-four
ters the Agunah, so that each case can be -Synagogue in:*Dlike's Place in London, Hitler and personally rescued seven hun- years ago, on a February morning, a prim
the so-called Cathedral Synagogue, which
judged on its merits.
dred Jewish refugees from the Nazi young lady stepped out of the: rickety.
It is cruel to say to a man who leaves was on the point of celebrating its bi- clutches in France, you'll have
centenary, wai totally. destroYed.
to read train that piffled up the narrow gUage
for the service: divorce your wife, in or-
Herald's fantastic-sounding yet authentic railroad from the coast to Jerusalem
The same fate overtook the Central story.
der to protect her. Even if you modify it
and had her first sight of the domes. and
and say that such action is to be taken and the Western Synagogues, in the fash-
in secret, through a responsible rabbi, ionable parts of London . . . The prin-
What happened to The Hour, Albert spires, the minarets and cupolas, and the,
red roofs of the Holy City.
you are playing with the feelings and_ cipal • Liberal Synagogue, in Northwest E. Kahn's weekly confidential news bull-
She was 26—gently nurtured and bred
deepest sentiments of men. You invite London, was severely damaged . . . So etin? . . It did a magnificent job in in the household of her father, an of- •
the breaking of 'rather than adherence to was the. Western Branch Synagogue of exposing subversive fifth column work ficial of the Board of Jewish Guardians.
... Why was it discontinued? . . . There's
Jewish traditional law. For the sake of the Sephardic community.
Her grandfather had been a well-known
plenty left to expose.
the sanctity of Jewish traditionS, some
The Reform Synagogue in Manchester
preacher Matif in Vilna. She herself had
sort of . modernization is in order. Else, was destroyed . - The histOric syna- ,WEEKLY GIGGLE
been born in London but educated first
that which orthodoxy calls tradition will gOgues of .E.keter; Portsmouth
and Ply-
at Frankfurt-on-Main. Later she had
be labelled medievalism.
At
Lindy's
the
other
day
Harry
Hersh-
mouth were - damaged , • The head-
gone ' to a teachers' college in London,
quarters of the Jewish Historical Society field stopped by just long enough to tell where she was a pupil - of the well 'known
.us
of
the
big
Nazi
meeting
at
the
Berlin
of England -haye also suffered. .
ben Shimshon -Raphael Hirsch.
Sportpalast, with Hitler standing on the Mendel
From 1892. until 1898- she taught. in
Woburn House, where all central Jew- platform and shouting at the top of his
ish organizations have their offices, was lungs: "I'm a self-made man" . . • And London, and also dabbled in journalism.
By BEN SAMUEL
damaged The offices of the London from the big mass of Heil-Hitlers came She came to the notice of the Anglo-Jew-
ish Association and . they • asked her if
Jewish
Board of. Guardians were hit
a voice complaining: "That's the 'trouble
(Copyright, 1943, Jeivish Telegraphic
she would care to .educate Jewish ...girls
All
these'.
facts
are..,yelated,
bY
Albert
—cheap
labor."
Agency, Inc.)
in Jerusalem.
M. HYainsO4;-,,.,Anglp-jeiSli..histOrlian, in
- Today, Anne Judith Landau, Principal
Sergeant Theodore Billen, of Pough- the current .issue - of the Contemporary JEWISH NEWS
of-. the
keepsie, N. Y, holds five awards for hero- Jewish Record . . . He draws a - gloomy
Evelina.
.de..Rothschild•
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. . Schocil , for
Within the next - few weeks ' a :deIeka-
ism in the South Pacific as an...aerial picture of ..the.change..Which the war has
Girls., can look' back. at a career..-stncided
gunner in the 19th Bombardment com- brought about in.:Jewish life in-England. tion representing the JeWish•Anti-Fascist
-With- service and .fellowiiP... - p,-.61-n• -..her•
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mand.
Committee of-the:11,-S:: S.-R-. - will arrive 'School, of which she becarne'...;t;h0.-pr-incipal
' The Jewish Welfare Board, learning
ill 1901, two years after hers '.arkiVal,' gen-
in this country.
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man, set out in search of him.
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- . orations : of girls have; Among. ,.ther
from Sergeant Billen's mother in .Pough-.
Madison Square Garden . will -have an- pupils today are .drandclaughters • of *those
Sergeant Billen, winner of the Dis-
keepsie that her son was stationed at
the San Antonio (Texas) Aviation Cadet tinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, two other giant spectacle of special signifk- whom -she.. taught at 'the C:claWn. 'of. the
Center, and that his 21st birthday was group citations and the Order of the dance to Jews next morith . 1-5,000 : 'century, . and :perhaps- . gte,o_ . ',grand-
daughters . too. ' ' -
coming up on April 17, arranged a party Purple Heart—was found doing K. P. in children will participate in a -
Rally: 'of ." Marking their -'..
for the young hero at her suggestion. the mess hall,' on "starch duty;" peeling
appreciation . of" her
Hope
the
main
feature
of which will: be I great. qualities,: a ;group: of British ;
When the zero hour for festivities ar- potatoes.
-Jewish
a spectacle depicting the tragic fate of and Arab friends .raised. a purse of iribre
rived, the celebrators were assembled,
The cake was proniptly transferred to
the birthday cake was on the table— the mess hall, and shared With the other the Jews in Europe
A capacity aud- than 500 pounds among . all the corn-
and the guest of honor was nowhere - to K. P.'s, - who sang "Happy Birthday to ience is expected -to .: witness - this child- Munities, and -presented it ' to .her on her •
be seeri.. -- •
You" as if they had known it an along. ren's pageant : :under.: the direction ' of 70th birthday *on . March 20, for distribu-
tion among the charities and social wel-
Irwin Lefkowitz, San Antonio JWB
That's how heroes. come of age.
Piscator, the great theatrical director: fare projects of her own choice.

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