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THE JEWISH NEWS
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
MAURICE ARONSSON
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
FRED M. BUTZEL
ABRAHAM SRERE
THEODORE LEVIN
HENRY WINEMAN
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
VOL. 3—NO. 8
MAY 14, 1943
As the Editor
Views the News
The Liberation of Tunisia
The liberation of North Africa from the yoke of the Axis
bring new hope to the sorely oppressed peoples in that area.
Christians, Jews and Moslems have good reason to rejoice
that they will now be able to .breathe freely under the flags
of the democratic powers and that their days of sorrow and
enslavement may be over for all time to come.
In Tunis alone, nearly 30,000 Jews are offering prayers
of thanksgiving for the freedom they have regained as a re-
sult of the victories scored by American and British troops.
In Bizerte, another 1,300 Jews were freed. In all of Tunisia,
'the Jewish population of more than 59,000 sees a new ray of
hope on the horizon.
There are and there probably will continue to be numer-
ous difficulties in translating the newly-won freedom into
reality. As in Algiers, where the Giraud laws have seriously
affected the -status of the Jews, there may be conflicting
interpretations of the Jewish position. But the chief objective
is to speed the total uprooting of the Nazi ideology every-
where and the complete destruction of the Axis system of
brutality.
The victory in Tunisia brings us nearer to the realization
of this hope. Better dayS are, indeed, in store for mankind.
`Stale and Tasteless' Encomia
Revision of Catholic Bible
As a follow-up to the decision altering the Army-Navy
edition of the New Testament and deletina from it the
passage "The Jews are the synagogue of Satan;
the true
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synagogue is the Christian Church," comes the additional
news that the footnote also will be revised in the civilian
edition of the Bible.
The Right Rev. William Newton, editorial secretary of
the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, has informed Wil-
lard Johnson, assistant to the president of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews, that Catholic church
dignitaries have agreed to alter the civilian edition by re-
moving the objectionable passage, in response to protests
against the anti-Semitic implications in the footnote to
Apocalypse 2:9 in the Roman Catholic New Testament.
This action is a step in the direction of assurina amity
among all faiths and of eliminating ill feeling that
b may
have been aroused hitherto on religious lines. The National
Conference of Christians and Jews has rendered a real
service with the share it had in accomplishing these cor-
rections.
In a statement issued jointly with the Palestine govern-
ment, the military headquarters in Palestine declared that
more soldiers and more manpower must be mobilized in the
Holy Land for the war effort.
The communique denies the "erroneous impression,"
created by "the notable successes achieved in recent months
by the armed forces of the United. Nations," that the need
for men and women recruits in Palestine has diminished.
Thus, special recruiting will commence again in Pales-
tine, but there is not a word in the military authorities'
statement to indicate that Jewish rights to the formation of
Jewish military units will be recognized.
Jews will join the colors in large numbers, and Jewish
industries will continue to produce large quantities of goods
to help in the war effort. But, from all indications, Jewish
rights remain abused by those who should be the first to
recognize them.
Axis Propaganda in Middle
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East
Traitors to America
Cyrus L. Sulzberger, New York Times correspondent in
Cairo, Egypt, in a series of cables to his newspaper last week,
revealed that Axis propaganda among the Arabs gives the
impression that "President Roosevelt is a Jew who intends
to form a huge Jewish-controlled state based on Palestine,
Syria and Lebanon."
Mr. Sulzberger's cables place emphasis on the need for
disavowal by our government of any intentions to dominate
the Middle East during the post war period.
Meanwhile, the Jewish position is being undermined
by the propaganda of lies for which the Axis has been noted
during the past decade, and it will take very wise handling
of the situation to overcome the dangers that may emanate
from the type of propaganda reported by Mr. Sulzberger.
In view of difficulties Jews encounter to gain even ele-
mentary rights for the settlement of Jews in a Palestine that
has been reduced to a skeleton of what is generally consid-
ered as Eretz Israel—the Land of Israel—the propaganda of
the Axis is ironic.
In the past it has worked because anything said about
the Jews was accepted. - It is the duty of the victorious forces
in North Africa and the entire Mediterranean area to see to
it that such a lie-spreading campai g n is made unworkable
even among the most illiterate of the Arabmasses.
In a statement made in the U. S. House of Represen-
tatives, urging the adoption of a resolution to amend
the Articles of War to provide for the military trial of
six American traitors who are now acting as broadcasters
in Italy and Germany, Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York
lists those whom he charges with treason as follows:
This - Week's Scriptural Portions: .
Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion: Lev. 21:1-24:23.
Prophetical portion: Ezek. 44: 15-31.
The Chosen People
Pentateuchal Portion — Kedoshim,
Leviticus xix-xx.
Weekly Religious Message
Released by the
Jewish Welfare Board
The resume of the important
moral laws of the Bible, to be
read this Sabbath in the syna-
gogue, has an initial keynote
phrase the command, "Ye shall
be holy, for I the Lord your God
am holy."
This declaration gives the es-.
sence of the idea of the "chosen
people," the most misunderstood
teaching of the entire Bible. For
the separateness involved has
nothing to do with superiority or
pride or other misunderstanding
interpretations of the idea of the
chosen people. The Midrash
(Vayikra Rabbah 24) thus para-
phrases and correctly interprets
the biblical verse: "Separate
shall ye be—just as I, God, am
cure, separated from the impure,
so shall .ye be distinctive in your
purity."
Our Distinctive Obligations
Bawler Urtoral Ca ere...,
In his stirring address at the Philadelphia sessions of
the United Palestine Appeal, on May 1.
1, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver
made an interesting declaration. In
denunciation of the
"new line" adopted by the Administration in Washington,
which has established as a "tabu" any sympathetic reference
to the Jewish Homeland in Palestine, he charged that our
government officials restrict themselves to "Rosh Hashanah
greetings" to our people. These, Dr. Silver said, are by now
"stale and tasteless."
Dr. Silver has earned the gratitude of American Jewry
for exposing this New Year "practice," and for labeling it for
what it is worth. Our readers will recall that The Jewish
News, in its holiday issue last Rosh Hashanah, definitely de-
viated from the nauseating policy followed by Jewish news-
papers throughout the country and eliminated from its col-
umns these "stale and tasteless" greetings. Jews need to be
enlightened, not patted on the back and called "nice." We
limited ourselves at Rosh Hashanah time to publishing the
President's message, as having news value, and two or three
statements which carried weight because of their references
to the position of the Jewish people.
Mere denunciation by Dr. Silver of the "stale and taste-
less" policies of publishing empty encomia is not enough.
Jewish readers must exert pressure upon their publications
to stop emphasizing nonsense and to dealing with Jewish
issues in all sincerity, in order that our people may have more
facts and less compliments.
This Sabbath, the tenth day of lyar, the following
The Weekly
Sermonette
More Soldiers From Palestine
There emanate nightly from Germany and Italy short-
wave broadcasts by Nazi and Fascist radio broadcasters
who unfortunately are Americans. These traitors are Con-
stance Drexel, Fred Kaltenbach, Douglas Chandler, Jane
Anderson, Ezra Pound and Robert H. Best. Douglas Chan-
dler broadcasts under the pseudonym of "Paul Revere."
Fred Kaltenbach broadcasts ui.der the salutation of "Dear
Harry." Constance Drexel entitles her traitorous utterances
as "News from Germany." Robert H. Best uses the alias
"Guess Who." He also urges Americans to write to their
Congressmen to impeach Roosevelt. Jane Anderson appar-
ently broadcasts from Italy and is introduced usually as a
famous orator. Ezra Pound opens his damnable talk with a
sort of verbal Fascist salute.
The men and women listed are genuine haters who
belong in a class with the broadcasters of hate in this
country before the war. They hate Jews and love the
Nazis; they hate human beings and love the Axis.
We are confident that they will be dealt with prop-
erly when the time arrives for the democracies to settle
the score with those who have brought about this ter-
rible war. Traitorous Americans must not—we are con-
fident that they will not—be excluded from the list of
sinners and those who are guilty of the crimes commit-
ted against humanity. It is well that we should remem-
ber the names of those listed as traitors by Congressman
Celler.
The Jew is a member of a
chosen people only so long as he
lives up to the superlative stand-
ards of purity and religious ideal-
ism set upon him at Mt. Sinai.
When he forsakes the moral way
outlined by the Bible he loses his
right to be considered chosen.
But another thought must be
added here. All men who are
righteous are regarded by Juda-
ism as having their assured place
in the -world to come. But there
are distinctive obligations in
many forms set upon the Jew in
order that a distinctive Jewish
people may continue to exist.
These are the specific observ-
ances which differentiate the
Jewish religious faith and prac-
tices from all - others. A world
which values character and seeks
to avoid sameness readily admits
the right of the Jew, as of every
other distinctive group, to its
continued distinctive existence.
Talmudic Tales
By DAVID MORANTZ
(Based upon the ancient legends and
philosophy found in the Talmud and
folklore of the Jewish people.)
Everything Is for the Best
Once while traveling in a
strange country, .Rabbi Akiba
took with hiM a donkey on
which to ride, a rooster to an-
nounce the dawn and a lamp by
the light of which he studied at
night.
One night he sought shelter in
a village but it was refused.
"Everything is for the best,"
said he, so he went into the for-
est and prepared to spend the
night as best he could. However,
the strong wind extinguished the
lamp when he endeavored to
light it.
Even though he had to make
his preparations for the night in
darkness, he cheerfully said,
"Everything is for the best."
When he awoke, he found that
both his rooster and his donkey
had been eaten by wild beasts.
"Everything is for the best,"
said he, without complaining.
The next day he found that an
enemy army had passed through
the forest, attacked the village
and captured it. Had he obtained
lodging in the village, he would
have been captured or had the
donkey brayed or the rooster
crowed or had his lamp burned
so the soldiers could have seen
it, he would possibly have been
captured and put to death.
Thereupon he felt very thank-
ful that he had been denied shel-
ter in the city, that he had been
without his light and that he had
lost his donkey and rooster be-
cause it strengthened his convic-
tion that one should not com-
plain, regardless of what happens
because, "Everything is for the
best."
(Copyright by David Morantz)
("Talmudic Tales," containing 128
legends and 500 pearls of wisdom,
are available in the autographed,
195-page volume, from the author,
1)avid Morantz, Grossman Bldg.,
:Kansas City, Ran.).