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THE JEWISH NEWS

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Credit Where Credit Is Due:
In Honor of Soviet Delegation

WELL/ YOU'VE DONE IT FRIEND!.
AMERICAN VISION, COURAGE
AND ORGANIZATION GOT A
"SECOND FRONT"STARTED
—AND IT TAKEN QUITE
A LOAD OFF OUR SACK

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor

JULY 30, 1943

As the Editor
Views the News - - -

The Case for Rescuing Jews

The Emergency Conference to Save the Jews of Europe,
called by the Committee for a Jewish Army, has inspired
several columnists to make strong appeals for immediate
action for the saving of the Jews who remain in Europe
under Nazi rule.
Samuel Grafton's syndicated column "I'd Rather Be
Right" and Max Lerner's editorial in PM were especially
effective. Mr. Grafton took exception to the confusion that
exists among our own government's spokesmen which has
caused the Jews of Europe to be "a special case when they
are executed; they are part of the general case when they
are denied rescue."
This able columnist points out that "all classifications
leave them (the Jews) in Hitler's hands" and he calls for
immediate planning to effect a rescue program.
"Actually," Mr. Grafton writes, "the Jews are a special
case. Hitler has made them so. They are the only people he
has threatened to exterminate. To tell them to wait along
\with the others is to disregard this special classification.
They cannot wait. Hitler will not let them wait."
Mr. Lerner follows the same line of thinking in his edi-
torial appeal "What About the Jews, FDR?" He declares that
the fate of 4,000,000 Jews who are now threatened with ex-
termination, in addition to the more than 2,000,000 who
already have been murdered in Nazi-held territories "is not
a trifling matter either in the war or in the conscience of
Western man." He emphasizes that Jews are killed as Jews,
arid tnat "Hitler has made out of Europe a charnel-house of
the Jews."
Mr. Lerner's specific appeal is that the Jews of Hungary,
Rumania and Bulgaria be saved and he makes this point:
"Thanks largely to your brilliant leadership in the war,
along with Churchill and Stalin, the Axis satellites know
that their end is near. They will do many things to acquire
even a qualified merit in our eyes. To stop the slaughter of
their Jews, to send as many as possible into neutral coun-
tries, to cease the brutal discrimination against those who
remain, are things they would do if we demanded it."
The Emergency Conference to Save the Jews of Europe
will be rated an historic event if the Allied powers, and
especially our own government, undertake to plan a positive
program for the rescue of our people, as a result of appeals
of the type we have just quoted. But the conference will
remain another gab-fest if it fails to move the democratic
powers to take action at once.

Friday, July 30, 1943

Talmudic Tales

By DAVID MORANTZ

(Based upon the ancient legends and
philosophy found in the Talmud and
folklore of the Jewish people.)

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

VOL. 3—NO. 19

111.1110•11117

What Is True Honesty?

A rabbi once bought a don-
key and saddle from an Arab.
Later that day his servant dis-
covered in a pocket of the saddle
a little package containing - some
precious stones. Hurrying to the
rabbi, the servant exclaimed ex-
citedly: "Master, look what I
have found in the pocket of your
saddle. You are indeed a wealthy
man. These jewels are worth a
fortune."
"I must return them at once,"
replied the rabbi. "I paid for a
donkey and saddle and not for
these jewels."
Says the Talmud further on the
subject of honesty:
"If one finds something of
value and returns it to the right-
ful owner, that speaks more elo-
quently than all protestations of
integrity and all professions of
honesty."
"A beggar who feigns blindness
or sickness will really become
so before he leaves this world."
"Mere professions of honesty
go for naught. Rather it is the
actual practice of honesty that
counts."

(Copyright by David . Morantz)

A Message from Russia

Prof. Solomon Mikhoels and Lt. Col. Itzik Feffer, the
emissaries from Russia who will address a public meeting
this Sunday evening at the Masonic Temple, have an impor-
tant message to the Jews of America regarding the heroic
efforts of our kinsmen under the Soviets in the battle against
Germany.
Detroit Jews will have an opportunity to hear the story
of the courageous Soviet struggle against Fascism at this
meeting. The Russian resistance to the Nazis has inspired the
entire democratic world, and the share Jews have had in
this fight represents one of the most impressive pages of
modern Jewish history.
It is to be hoped, also, that the Russian spokesmen will
explain Russia's attitude on general Jewish issues, especially
those affecting post-war resettlement; the attitude of the
Soviet to the Hebrew language and Zionism, which were
hitherto proscribed in Russia, and the stand of Russia on
Jewish aspirations in Palestine.
Upon his arrival in London last week, Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, reported
on his meeting in this country with Prof. Mikhoels and .Lt.
Col. Feffer and declared, in reference to his three-hour in-
terview with them: "I took away the impression that the
Jews of Russia are not opposed to Zionism and that they
hope that they will establish contact with Jews of other
countries in due course."
In view of this statement, it ought to be in order for the
spokesmen for Russia to declare themselves frankly on these
issues, and we hope that they will do so during their visit
in Detroit.
During their visit here last Saturday, the two eminent
Russian Jews did give assurances that the Soviet government
will do its utmost to protect the position of Jewries every-
where A word to this effect to the large assembly .here on
Sunday evening would act as a great encouragement to our

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Anti-Semitism
Held Disgrace
To Christianity

Reverend Urges Palestine
Home for Jews as One
of Two Solutions

"Anti-Semitism — The Voice
of Folly and Fanaticism," is the
title of a striking and impressive
volume by Rev. Amos I. Dushaw,
just published by Tolerance
Press. 2170 Bedford Ave., Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
Viewing Anti-Semitism as a
disgraCe to Christianity, Rev.
Dushaw presents two solutions
of the existing problem affecting
hatred of the Jew among Chris-
tians: He advises Christians to re-
discover the religion of Jesus and
to live by it; and he urges that
the United Nations should make
possible the establishment of a
Jewish Homeland in . Palestine
for the settlement of Jewish vic-
tims of European intolerance.
Rev. Dushaw's book is a highly
scholarly study of the subject. He
discusses the position of the Jews
in the larger Semitic world, their
Considerable discussion has been aroused over the need people.
status under Graeco-Roman rule
for declaring Rome an open city and thus saving the seat
and the rise of Christianity. He
of the Vatican from the dangers of Allied bombings.
deplores the racial theories that
The complaints of the Fascists have been adequately
have recently taken hold and
answered by the Allied powers.
makes his proposals as means of
Defenders of Gen. Henri Giraud will have a lot of counteracting these evil pheno-
But the Fascists of Italy need • to be reminded that not
so long ago their men bombed the open city of Tel Aviv, explaining to do after his recent speech in Ottawa, Canada, mena.

Rome and Tel Aviv

Gen. Giraud and the Nazis

killing innocent men, women and children, and attacked the
defenseless city of Haifa.
Nevertheless, the Fascists are whining. They fail to see
that retribution for their misdeeds may exact a heavier toll
in their ranks than they had expected.

Henry Ford's 80th Birthday

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, which he observes
today, Henry Ford made some interesting statements to his
interviewer, S. J. Woolf of the New York Times. Mr. Ford
said, in expressing his views on life and on human relations:
"The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish
more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they
had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For
greed and idleness brought it on."
This is an interesting statement. If Mr. Ford's wish were
to be fully realized, race and religious prejudices could be
averted, and the experiences of our people on this score
would have relegated to the realm of impossibility.
May his wish be fulfilled.

This Week's Scriptural Portions:

This Sabbath, the fourteenth day of Tammuz, the following
Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion: Num. 30:2 - 36:13.
Prophetical portion: Jer. 2:4-28; 3:4.
Torah selection for Rosh Hodesh Ab, Monday, Aug. 2:
Num. 28:1-15.

where he referred to some of the "magnificent" achievements
of the Nazis in Germany. -
Gen. Giraud is reported to have made the statement that
"not all is bad in the Nationalist Socialist system." Informing
the newspaper correspondents that as a young man I knew
Germany well, he stated:
"I could almost say that I loved Germany. I had many
friends among youna Germans of my age." For which no
one can blame him. b But he is also quoted as saying about
the Nazis: "Some of its accomplishments have been magnifi-
cent. But what spoils everything is the grip that the party,
with its doctrines and propaganda, has on the bodies and
minds and the spirits of the people."
While he was in this country, the French general re-
frained from making such statements. In Canada, however,
he revealed his true nature. This man, who was responsible
for the abrogation of the Cremieux law in Algeria, neverthe-
less claims the right to leadership of the French in the
fight against the Nazis whom he adores.
Are we, nevertheless, to be expected to place full trust
in such leadership?

Judge Levinthal
Writes Credo of
American Zionist

A powerful presentation of the
Zionist case and a strong defense
of the demand for a Jewish Com-
monwealth in Palestine is con-
tained in an essay by Judge
Louis E. Levinthal, president of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, under the title, "The Credo
of An American Zionist."
"There is no losing this war
and winning the next — for us
there will be no next," says Judge
Levinthal. "We throw into this
struggle all that we possess, all
our love of life, all the despera-
tion of those who are conscious
that the sole alternative to vic-
tory- and survival are extinction
and oblivion."'
World Jewry mourns the death of a great friend.
This stirring and challenging
Lord Wedgwood was the most courageous defender
"Credo of an American Zionist"
of Jewish rights among the Christians of the world.
is published by the Zionist Or-
The severest criticisms from his colleagues did not ganization of America, 1720-16th
deter him from a path which he saw as leading to justice St., N. W., Washington, 9, D. C.
for an oppressed people.
Copies are available without
Biessed be his memory.
charge upon request.

The Late •Lord Wedgwood

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