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THE JEWISH NEWS

T, 1943

Palestine or °utopia'?

By HARRY SACHER

Leader Of League
Of Religious Labor
Is Visiting City

Bnai Brith Sets $2,000,000
As Quota In 3rd Bond Drive

Philologists have argued whether -when Sir Thomas More
called his ideal State Utopia he meant Eutopia, good place, or
• Outopia, no • place. There is no doubt that when kind friends
offer us substitutes for Palestine they mean Outdpia, nowhere.
They may give it a geographical name, fluttering on the winds of
chance from Madagascar or Libya or Guiana, 'but as soon as you
attempt to pin it down it reveals itself as nowhere, and the pin is
lost in the void.

Inaugurating a new $2,000,000 War Bond drive, the Michi-
gan Bnai Brith Council, meeting at the Hotel Statler, Sept.
19, issued a call to lodges throughout the state to assist in
oversubscribing Michigan's quota in the Third War Loan.
Harvey Steadman of Lansing was chosen chairman of
the Council's war efforts committee.

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Michigan Council at Conference in Detroit Announces
Plans for Campaign; All Lodges in State
Urged to Help Oversubscribe Goal

Now ()utopia has very excellent qualities which comrhended
it to the politician. .
When he makes the offer to the Jews of .Outopia a, warm
glow of moral content suffuses him. He has shown a Sensitive
heart and a broad humanity; he feels for the travail of the Jewish
people. The offer has the further advantage that 'it costs him
nothing. Outopia does not belong to him. It has the further ad-
vantage that he does not have to ask the co-operation of any other
country, for Outopia not only does not belong to England, it
belongs to nobody. Again, it is free from internal complications,
for it has no inhabitants. It is as large as your fancy cares to
make it, and, therefore, can take as many immigrants as you
desire. It has an ideal climate, the best of soil, and the maximum
_ of natural resources, and, therefore, can employ the maximum
number in the most various and profitable occupations. Beyond
doubt Outopia is Eutopia for the politician who wishes to push the
Jewish problem out of his sight.
Nor are these all the advantages of Outopia. It helps the
politician to cast off the shackles of his real obligations, to prove
the inadequacy of a vulgarly real land like Palestine. Seated on
the brightly coloured clouds. of Outopia, he can contrast Outopia'c
limitless space, vast resources, and freedom from problems and
• complications with Palestine's only too measurable area, straitened
resources, ineluctable problerhs. And as he makes the comparison
'a double process operates in favour of Outopia and against Pales-
tine—Palestine is made - to appear more and more ,meagre and the
Jewish problem infinitely more swollen. Palestine diminishes in
his eyes to a point and the persecuted Jews seeking a home
multiply to tens; perhaps hundreds, of millions. What a happy
. chance ()utopia _offers him—release from the reality of Palestine
and absorption into the mirage of Outopia.

Now all this might well be. agreeable to those with the
-appropriate taste for- .make-believe---if only the Jewish • people
consisted of imaginary individuals and the Jewish tragedy was
but a play. You can still the imaginary weeping -of imaginary
women and children with imaginary • comforting; you can feed
the imaginary -hungry with imaginary bread; you can cover the
_imaginar-ynaked. with imag#1,ary 4 clothes; you can bind up
With. -imaginary ;bandages you can bury. imagitary
dead in imaginary graves you can cleanse imaginary Stains with
imaginary _ perfumes.
But what if the tears be real the hunger stark, the nakedness
Lbitter ; the wounds gangtene4,-- the dead corilsps, and the stains of
political perfidy veritable and f oul?' That :is the .reality Which
cannot be .
shaken off by any ramblings in the irridescent nothing-
Tress: of °utopia.

DAVID ZEITANI
David Zeitani; resident of Tel
Aviv for the past 15 years, is in
Detroit in behalf of the League
for Religious Labor in Palestine
to continue the work of the
league which was organized last
year under the chairmanship of
Dr. A. M. Hershman. .
Representing 22,000 organized
men and women who pursue
the ideology of Torah. v' Avodah
(Torah and Labor) and recog 7..
nized as one of the important
forces in the ,upbuilding. of the
Jewish Homeland, Zeitani, . al-
ready has contacted many De
troit leaders who cooperated in
the- project last' year. •
The Religious Labor :Move:
ment has 40 branches and has a
large youth organization, Bnei
AkiVah; which has 35 . brandhes'
and 4,000' in.einbers. "

Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman, the
State of Michigan's delegate to
the American Jewish Conference,
reported on the Conference ses-
sions.
New Officers
The Michigan Bnai Brith Coun-
cil inaugurated the following new
officers:
Sam Goldfarb, Jackson, presi-
dent; Harvey S. Steadman, Lans-
ing, 1st vice-president; Jess
Feller, Detroit, 2nd vice-presi-
dent; Milton Weinstein, Detroit,
secretary; John _Merdler, Sagi-
naw, treasurer; A. B. Roman, Bay.
City, and Sam Leib, Detroit, corn :.
mitteemen.
Other Council members who
attended were: Harry Yudkoff,
Isadore Starr, Rudolph Meyer-
sohn, David I. Rosen, _ Arthur
Kaufman and Sam Maza, Detroit.
From Out of Town
Samuel J. Levine, Mt. Clem
ens; Joseph. Burry, Marty Gor-
don, Jack Rabinowitz and Rabbi
Morton Applebaum, Flint; Paul
Bernhardt,' Saginaw;. ,Isadore L.

Goode, Pontiac; Rabbi Jerome D.
Folkman, A. H. Fleck, Grand
Rapids; Samuel Meisel, Jackson;
Walter Block, Bay City; Justin
Morrison, Charlotte; Morton
Davis, Battle Creek; Sam
Abrams, Lansing.
• Flint was chosen for the semi-
annual convention to be held
Sunday, Nov. 14.

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Halevy Society
Hears Address
By Rabbi Adler

dent, Eugene _Franzblau, who an-
nOtinced, 'that. the 19th- annual
Concert will be. held Jan. 16 at
the Masonic Temple. A:feature
of this concert will be the pres-
entation : of the oratorio "Die
Tzwei Erid.er." :
T The: mo§ical :porticm of ,the pro-
gram was provided by several
members of the Halevy: Anna
Warren sang a group of soprano
solos and Jerry Robbins was
heard " in several baritone num-
bers. Accompaniment was pro-
vided by Bella Goldberg, who
was later heard singing a group
of- selections .fór mezzo-soprano;
her accompanist was Rebecca
Frohman. The instrumental fea-
ture was the appearance of Dan
Frohman, Halevy musical diree-
tor, as cellist, with Mrs. Froh-
man at the piano.
Halevy rehearsals are held
every Tuesday at 8:30 p. m. in
Roosevelt school auditorium, Lin-
wood at Burlingame. All singer's
are invited.

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Famous Singing Group Holds

Banquet Opening 19th
Year of Activity

Rabbi Morris Adler delivered
an address on ."The Relation of
Jewish Music to the Problems of
Today," and Moishe Dombey read•
some _ humorous Yiddish selec-
tions, at the banquet at Pereira's
. on - Sept. -19, which marked the-
opening of the 19th year of ac-
tivities of the - Halevy Singing
Society.
The gathering sang patriotic
songs. Jack Rosberg was master
of ceremonies. - -
Plans for the coming year were
outlined by the - Halevy presi-

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