Friday, October 1, 1943

Our

CHILDREN'S
CORNER

Dear Boys- and Girls:
I wish you all a very Happy
New Year.
This is our most solemn per-
iod in the entire year. But this
year it is more serious than
ever. The entire World is at
war. Each one of us has a father
or a brother or a cousin in the
war. Many of us have sisters
in uniform, because women, too,
are playing an important role
in helping win the war.
Therefore we all pray more
concertedly than ever. We pray
for victory for the just cause
of the democracies. We pray for
the safe return of all our men
and women in uniform.
We pray for a better world.
We pray for a chance for all
Jews to be free and to give their
best talents to mankind.
Let us hope that the New
Year 5704 will bring us peace
and comfort, and that we shall
no longer be subjected to a life
of insecurity.
I hope you will all enjoy the
column this week, and that you
will contribute to the column
during the year.
LeShanah Tovah Tikosevu!
UNCLE DANIEL.
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Meaning of Rosh Hashanah
On the evening of Wednesday,
Sept. 29, synagogues and tem-
ples will be filled with wor-
shippers to herald the approach
of the Jewish New Year, Rosh
Hashanah. To celebrate this
solemn holiday special services
will be held for one day in Re-
form Temples and in Orthodox
Synagogues for two days.
In olden days this festival
marked the beginning of the
agricultural and economic year
in Palestine. With the destruc-
tion of the temple in Jerusalem
and the dispersion of the people,
new customs were developed in
regard to worship. Instead of
sacrifices offered on the altar
the holiday has come to mean
a time of prayer and meditation,
of self-scrutiny, and of penitence.
This interpretation of the holi-
day comes from the rabbinical
tradition that the New Year
commemorates the beginning of
creation. Based upon scriptural
passages, it has become the judg-
ment day of the Jewish year—
the day upon which all people
of the world pass in review be-
fore their Creator for judgment.
The prayers of the day are
filled with the message of
justice. The sound of the Shofar
calls for remembrance of God's
laws and one's obligations to his
fellow-men.
Rosh Hashanah is a day on
which family ties are strength-
ened and friendships are re-
newed. Encompassing the ideas
of divine justice and human
responsibility the day begins
"The Ten Days of Penitence"
which culminate in Yom Kippur
or the Day of Atonement. Dur-
ing this period Jews are given
the opportunity to reflect on the
past year and to repent the
wrongs done. If the repentance
is sincere, forgiVeness is attained
on Yom Kippur, the solemn
festival of the Day of Atone-
ment which closes the penti-
tential season.
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Ten Commandments for
Synagogue Attendance
Several years ago, a great
Christian clergyman wrote a
very interesting set of Ten
Commandments for synagogue
and church attendants. The
author, Dr. John Haynes Holmes
of New York, is a great liberal
and a good friend of the Jewish
people.
While he addressed his 10
rules to his own people, it is
good also as commandments for
Jewish synagogue worshipers. I
am therefore reprinting them.
Here they are:
I.
Thou shalt not come to service
late,
Nor for the Amen refuse to wait.
IL
Thy noisy tongue thou shalt
restrain
When speaks the organ its re-
frain.

THE JEWISH NEWS

Detroit Servicemen's Birthdays
To Be Published In Jewish News

Suggestion of Soldier Overseas Accepted in the Hopes
of Fulfilling His Wish that it Brings Good Cheer and
Happy Tidings to Those Receiving Paper

Because of a suggestion of a
soldier now on duty overseas,
The Jewish News will publish
birthday dates of Detroit'S men
and women in service.
In the past few issues The
Jewish News has published
birthdays of leading Detroit
Jews. Many Detroiters on the
far-flung war fronts are receiv-
ing The Jewish News, sometimes
a month or two late but never-
theless welcomed by all who
look forward to reading about
the happenings back home.
Myron A. Keys, chairman of
the War Records Committee of
the Jewish Welfare Board's
Army and Navy Committee, the
other day received a letter from
Pvt. Arthur Doctor, 534th GM:

III.
But when the hymns are sounded
out,
Thou shalt lift up thy voice and
shout.
IV.
The endmost seat thou shalt
leave free,
For more must share the pew
with thee.
V.
The offering-plate thou shalt not
fear,
But give thine uttermost with
cheer.
VI.
Thou shalt this calendar peruse,
And look here for the house of
worship news.
VII.
Thou shalt the minister give
heed,
Nor blame him when thou'rt
disagreed.
VIII
Unto thy neighbor thou shalt
bend,
And if a strane- P-. make a friend.
IX
Thou shalt in every way be
kind,
Compassionate, of tender mind.
X.
And so, by all thy spirit's grace,
Thou shalt show God within this
place.

Sal. Rep.. Co.,- who lists an APO
number.
"I want to take this oppor-
tunity," he writes, "of wishing
you success in your appoint-
ment as chairman of the War
Records Committee. The service
to be rendered in this under-
taking will speak for itself in
time to come. Being a sub-
scriber of The Jewish News I
was able to learn of this a
month after the issuance of the
edition making this announce-
ment.
"My interest is in behalf of
fellow brothers-in-arms in every
part of the globe where the
fight for freedom progresses. The
suggestion is to print the birth-
days of men in the Armed
Forces in "The Jewish News"
giving unit organization address.
This will accomplish the de-
sired purpose of bringing happy
tidings and good cheer."

Police Chief's Son
Admits Riot Charge

MONTREAL (JTA) — Rene
Bolduc, son of the police chief
of the Canadian resort town
of Plage Laval, who has been
sought by the police for several
.weeks -as ringleader of a gang
of young hoodlums who pre-
cipiated an anti-Semitic riot in
Plage Laval on July 25, sur-
rendered here last week.
Bolduc pleaded guilty and will
be sentenced soon. In court
this week, a constable testified
that he had seen Bolduc "roll -
up his sleeves and look for a
fight" during the disturbances.
Moe Herscovitz, Canadian Oly-
mpic star whose eye was in-
jured, is still under a doctor's
care, it was reported at the
trial. .

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WA Sees 5704
As Last Year
of Oppression

United Jewish Appeal
Heads Praise Contributors,
Asks Greater Effort

Expressing the hope that the
New Year — 5704 — will be the
first year of liberation and the
last year of oppression for mil-
lions of Jews in European lands,
William Rosenwald, Rabbi Abba
Hillel Silver and Rabbi Jonah B.
Wise, national chairmen of the
United Jewish Appeal, issued
Rosh Hashanah greetings to
American Jewish communities.
They praised the contribution
which U. S. Jewry made during
the past year toward Jewish
survival through the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, United Pal-
estine Appeal and National Ref-

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ugee Service and urged wider
effort for the coming year to
make possible the realization of
greater rescue opportunities.
"During 5703 the Jews of the
U. S. were deeply shocked by
the revelations of massacre of
millions- of Jews in Nazi Europe.
The horrors of 10 years of op-
pression reached their apex in
the lethal gas chambers and
slaughterhouses in eastern Po-
land," they said.
"Liberation of our oppressed
fellow-Jews will not liberate
American Jews from their re-
sponsibilities. On the contrary,
developments already have indi-
cated that we must be ready to
increase our help in areas freed
from Axis domination. We
should be greatly encouraged by
the fact that the invasion of the
mainland of Europe will open up
new avenues of help in 5704."

Shanah Shel Shalom

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