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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.
"Herr Goebbels, Tell Him He's in the
Friday, June 11, 1941
Wrong
House!"
By DAVID MORANTZ
(Based upon the ancient legends and
philosophy found in the Talmud and
folklore of the Jewish people.)
Honor Thy Parents
Nathina was a wealthy dia-
mond merchant who owned a
certain diamond which the High
Priest desired for his Ephod (a
priestly vestment worn by the
High Priest) and on which the
merchant had placed a price of
sixty myriads.
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. 3—NO. 12
JUNE 11, 1943
As the Editor
Views the News - MU
Detroit's Conference Delegation
On Tuesday evening, the electors chosen by Detroit's
Jewish organizations will be faced with the responsibility
of selecting a delegation of nine to represent our community
at the forthcoming American Jewish Conference.
This will be the nearest approach to a popular election,
and for the first time since the American Jewish Congress
plebiscite in 1918, our people will have an opportunity to
select a delegation to represent us at an important assembly
by a vote of all elements in the population.
_ e have only nine
It is naturally regrettable that w
delegateships to divide among the very many factions which
make up our community. But if the forthcoming American
Jewish Conference is to fulfill its objectives of striving
to protect Jewish rights throughout the world and in Pales-
tine after the war, we must determine to elect the ablest
men to speak for us.
If Detroit's delegation is to be forceful and impressive,
it must include spokesmen for all elements in the commu-
nity. Since there are leaders whose dedication to our needs
for many years has given them status of community-wide
recognition, their selection should satisfy numerous groups
who must face the possibility of not being directly repre-
sented.
The important point to remember is that cooperative
action in assuring an effective program for common action
to deal with. post-war Jewish problems, with emphasis on
the defense of the status of the Jewish National Home in
Palestine, demands the selection of the ablest men and
women who will be recognized as spokesmen for the entire
community.
Intelligent action is needed, and the delegates at the
'electoral conference on Tuesday evening should be careful
to make their choices for the good of the entire Jewish people
and not to seek advantages for their own parties and factions.
`Filthy Situation' of Discrimination
Monsignor Francis J. Haas, who has been selected as
chairman of the reorganized Federal Fair Employment
Practices Committee, has announced that he intends to
clear up "this filthy situation" of racial and religious dis-
crimination in war production plants.
Removed from the control of the War Manpower Corn-
mission, set up as in independent agency within the Office
for Emergency Management of the Executive Office of
the President, and now properly evaluated as having for
its task the wiping out of a "filthy situation" leading to
discrimination, the Fair Employment Practices Committee
should show the results needed to enforce just dealings
in employment.
It is much more than a coincidence that in exposing the
activities of the Ku Klux Klan in local defense factories,
R. J. Thomas, president of UAW-CIO should also have
branded discrimination as "filthy," when he stated:
"We are demanding that the LaFollette Committee come
to Detroit without delay and get to the bottom of the situa-
tion and expose the Klan and kindred bodies for the filth
they are."
Msgr. Haas has stated that his new committee "is not
going to dodge anything" and that "our country is too big
for discrimination." This is a pled b, for the enforcement
of the Fair Practices Executive Order, in the preamble to
which President Roosevelt declared:
"It is the duty of all employers, including the several
Federal departments and agencies, and all labor organiza-
tions, in furtherance of this policy and of this Order, to
eliminate discriminations in regard to hire, tenure, terms of
conditions of employment, or union membership because of
race, creed, color, or national origin."
Based on this order, we may expect that results will
finally be obtained for the elimination of discriminatory
practices in the employment of men and women of all
creeds and races. This will be possible only if all evidences
of discrimination will be reported at once to the responsible
groups in this community. The plea issued by Jack B.
Burke, Field Representative of the President's Fair Em-
ployment Practices Committee, that reports be submitted
to him or to the Jewish Community Council, must not fall
on deaf ears.
This Week's Scriptural Portions:
This Sabbath, ninth day of Sivan, the following Scriptural
selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion: Num. 4:21 7:89.
Prophetical portion: Judges 13:2 25.
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Talmudic Tales
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The Child Rescue Fund
Detroit Hadassah's campaign for Youth Aliyah, to aug-
ment the funds that will be needed during the coming months
to assure the establishment of homes for 29,000 Jewish chil-
dren in Palestine, deserves the wholehearted support of all
who will be called upon to help in this project and who are
in position to give the drive its support. It is a great task in
which the women should be encouraged.
Acting in behalf of the Youth Aliyah plan as supervised
by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Hadassah, through this
campaign, carrier on a traditional project in which the
American women's Zionist organization has been engaged for
nearly a decade.
When the messengers of the
High Priest called at the home
of Nathina to purchase the dia-
mond, they were met at the door
by his son, Damah.
They stated their mission and
offered the price asked but the
son shook his head. Knowing
how much their master desired
the diamond, they increased
their offer but the son still
shook his head so they went
away.
The next day they returned
and when the son again met
them at the door, they offered
him a fabulous sum for the dia-
mond. "My friends," said the
young man, "the diamond shall
be yours for sixty myriads.
Yesterday, when you called, my
father was asleep and the key
to the safe, where the diamond
is kept, was under his pillow
and I would not disturb my
father in his rest for any sum
to obtain it for you. You may
now have the diamond for the
amount first asked by my father.
as I do not desire to profit.
merely because I honored my
father."
Those who have studied the situation facing the rescue
fund in behalf of the children who must be saved from Nazi-
Says the Talmud further on
held territories regret that a unified effort could not have
been established for such a fund and that other Zionist par- the subject of honoring one's
parents:
ties are engaged in similar efforts.
There is particular cause for regret over the fact that
the Lubavitcher Rebbe in New York should have raised the
issue of housing Jewish refugee children in Palestine in what
he termed "non-religious educational institutions." The re-
ply of the Jewish Agency for Palestine is adequate in its
forcefulness to back up the position of the Youth Aliyah
movement.
In its statement, which came recently from Jerusalem,
the Jewish Agency shows that under the direction of Miss
Henrietta Szold the training of every child is being properly
administered.
Referring to the rumors on which the Lubavitcher Rebbe
must have based his protest, the Jewish Agency pointed out
the following:
"There are many ways in
which honor is to be shown
to parents. If they have a cer-
tain corner in their room which
they prefer or a certain chair
on which they sit, these are not
to be used even when not used
by them. They must not be
contradicted, and attention is to
be shown them in every way.:
A child must not only love and
honor his parents while they
are living but must love and
respect them after they are
dead."
(Copyright by David Morantz)
("Talmudic Tales," containing 128
legends and 500 pearls of wisdom,
are available in the autographed,
195-page volume at $1.50, from the
author, David Morantz, Grossman
Bldg., Kansas City, Kan.).
"There were 716 children who arrived in Eretz Israel. Of
this number, 30 babies were sent to a baby home; 26 were
given to relatives and 16 were admitted to hospitals. Of the
remainder, 346 entered religious institutions, mostly those as-
sociated with the Mizrachi (Orthodox wing of the Zionist
movement), and a part to the Agudath Israel (ultra-Ortho-
dox oroup). The other 298 were sent to educational centers
in the labor settlements. These were over the age of 14 and
had themselves requested that they be sent to these places.
"The Youth Aliyah Bureau under Miss Szold considers
every case on an individual basis before final arrangements 1,500 Protestants, Catholics
and Jews Adopt Plan
I are made."
at Meeting in East
This statement answers whatever objections may have
been raised. It is clear that the Youth Aliyah project is today
PROVIDENCE, R. I. (By Reli-
one of the most important needs in the work of rescuing gious
News Service)—Immediate
Jews from the Nazi hell for settlement in Palestine.
action for the rescue of European
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Jews yas urged in 12 resolutions
The Youth Aliyah problems have become aggravated by adopted by more than 1,500 Pro-
the controversy created in England where the Union of testants, Catholics and Jews who
Orthodox Rabbis had instituted a boycott of the Keren Haye- united in a mass demonstration
and memorial meeting to mar-
sod because of the differences over the children's fund. The shall public opinion behind a plan
Palestine Rabbinate, in special conference, has appealed to to aid Nazi victims remaining in
the British Rabbis to call off the boycott. It is an unfortunate Europe.
occurrence which must not be repeated for the sake of the
Resolutions called for the des-
lives that must be saved.
ignation of sanctuaries for Jewish
All Faiths Join
In Plea to Speed
Refugee Rescue
Georges Mandel
The death of Georges Mandel, who became famous as
the "Tiger Cub" and associate of "Tiger" George Clemenc,.eau,
in a German prison, ends one of the most interesting ea,. —
in modern political history.
Mandel was uncompromising in his opposition to Nazis
He was a valiant fighter for France and he never conce-
to anti-Semites. The fact that his Jewishness wasparequently
recalled by those who opposed him and the democratic forces
with whom he was aligned never upset him.
His death is one of many sacrifices that have to be made
in this war against the Nazi-Fascist forces of brutality. But
these sacrifices shall not have been in vain. That which
Georges Mandel contributed to the cause of justice before his
imprisonment by the Nazis,. and that which our fighters in
the Allied forces are doing on all fronts, will lead to ultimate
victory for liberty and justice for all.
refugees in Allied and neutral
countries, for the relaxation of
United States immigration laws,
for opening of the doors of Pel-
estine and other British territories
for refugee immigration, for feed-
ing, and for the provision of "fi-
qal guarantees that may be
"ed for the execution of the
'rogram."
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.:rs included: The Rt. Rev.
„inville G. Bennett, Suffragan Bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Is-
land ; Rev. J. T. Fitzgerald, vice presi-
dent of Providence College; Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise of New York; Acting
Mayor William A. Cahir of Providence;
Sevellon Brown, publisher of the
Providence Journal and Evening Bul-
letin; Rabbi Israel M. Goldman, presi-
dent of the Rabbinical Association of
Rhode Island; William L. Connolly,
Rhode Island State Director Labor and
president of the state branch of the
A.F.L. ; Frank J. Benti, president of
the Rhode Island Council of the CIO; .
and David Wertheim of New York,
national secretary of the Zionist Labor
Party.