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THE JEWISH NEWS

Weekly Review of the News of the World

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After appearing for 32 years, the Cleve-
land Jewish World, a Yiddish publication,
has suspended operations. Financial diffi-
culties were given as the reason for
closing down the paper.
The 80-odd American' Red Cross serv-
ice clubs in Great Britain played host to
Jewish servicemen on the High Holy
Days, serving free meals to them on Rosh
Hashanah and preceding the following
fast of Yom Kippur, it was reported by
Norman H. Davis, chairman.
The disclosure of the presence in
Washington of Richard K. Law, Minister
of State in the British cabinet, whose
presence was known here for some time,
has led to the belief in some quarters that
Mr. Law, former Parliamentary Under-
. secretary for Foreign Affairs, is including
a sounding of Palestine sentiment among
Americans as one of his missions.
Rabbi Isaac Bertrand Rose of Ottawa
has. been appointed chaplain to the Jewish
men in the Canadian Army, it was an-
nounced by the War Efforts Committee of
the Canadian Jewish Congress.
The full extent of American Jewish
participation in the war is hidden to the
American people because so many of the
heroes have Anglicized names, it is assert-
ed editorially in the Jewish Examiner,
English-Jewish. w e e k l y published in
Brooklyn.
The importance of giving "every man
an opportunity to live and work without
being persecuted because of his faith or
color or race" was stressed by Vice-Presi-
dent Henry A. Wallace in a Yom Kippur
address broadcast via CBS to Jewish
servicemen in all parts of the globe.
Speaking on a program sponsored by the
Jewish boys in the armed forces to "free
from bondage millions of men and women
who are not free to worship God as they
choose."
The father of Private Alton Levy, who
was 'sentenced to four months in the
guardhouse at hard labor because he spoke
out in opposition to discrimination ,against
Negroes at Lincoln Air Base in Nebraska,
has written a letter to President Roosevelt
asking that he review the findings of the
court martial.
An American Jewish serviceman who
gave his life in the Tunisian fighting was
honored by his government and by his
friends and family in ceremonies held
here. The Silver Star, awarded posthu-
mously to Lt. Adolph W. Kutner, was pre-.
sented' to the Jewish soldier's sister, Mrs.
Horace Block, by Col. William Schiff, rep-
resenting the commanding general of the
Second Service Command.
Eugene L. Garey, counsel for the Cox
Congressional Committee investigating
the Federal Communications Commission,

Custer, Kellogg
Soldiers Attend
Holy Day Services

BATTLE CREEK — -Iigh Holy
Day observances were carried on
this year for one of the largest
groups of Jewish men from Fort
Custer, Kellogg Field and pati-
ents of Percy Jones General Hos-
pital.

At Carpenter's Hall, here, sol-
diers, their wives and families
attended Services with the con-
gregation of Temple Beth-El. At
Fort Custer, the Post Chapel was
filled to capacity with service-
men attending Holy Day Services
carried on by Chaplain Martin
M. Perley.

used the inquiry "to needle Jews," it is
charged in PM by its Washington corres-
pondent, Elizabeth Donahue.
The Liberty ship Adolph Lewisohn,
named in honor of the late New York
financier and philanthropist, was launched
in Baltimore by Mr. Lewisohn's daughter,
Mrs. Arthur Lehman, who is also the
sister-in-law of former Governor Herbert
H. Lehman.
An additional $50,000 has been cabled
to Jerusalem by the Pioneer Women's Or-
ganization for the Jewish Agency's Child
Rescue Fund, it was announced by Miss
Rothbard, national secretary.

OVERSEAS

Alexei Tolstoi, famous Soviet writer
and member of the Soviet Committee on
Nazi Atrocities, related, under oath, that
he had witnessed the opening of a mass
grave in Kharkov in which 24,000 Jewish
men, women and children had been buried
after having been massacred by the Nazi
barbarians.
A new airplane designed by Shimeon
Lavotshnik, Russian Jewish engineer, was
hailed by leading Soviet military authori-
ties in. an article appearing in Pravda as
"the best plane" the U. S. S. R. has used.
The designer was awarded the order of
Hero of Socialist Labor.
Shona Vilensky, famous Jewish guer-
illa fighter from the Karukova Tshernigov
district, has been hanged by the Nazi
invaders.
The Fascist government set up by the
German forces in Italy, allegedly under
the leadership of Benito Mussolini, has
ordered the enrollment for forced labor
of all Jews between the ages of 18 and 35.
The Swiss government has refused to
grant permission to the. Swiss Kehilloth to
arrange to billet Jewish refugees from
Italy in the homes of individual Jewish
families. The government insists on the ,
creation of special internment camps for
the refugees, it is stated.
Eighty thousand Jews were massacred
by the Nazis when they first invaded Kiev,
according to an announcement by the
Soviet High Command. The proclamation
called on the Red Army to avenge that
crime and the occupation of Kiev.
An anti-Jewish exhibition is now on dis-
play in Cracow and will tour Poland. The
exhibition, entitled "Jews Are the Menace
of the World," attempts to prove that there
will never be peace in the world as long
as "the power of the Jews remains un-
broken."
Sixty-six Jewish political prisoners were
among those released under the amnesty
granted in observance of the name day
of the King of .Bulgaria.
A group of Jewish women advocating
the creation of a Jewish Army has elected
as its chairman Lady Strabolgi, wife of
the pro-Zionist peer.

Z.O.A. Comptroller

financial institutions in that
country. He was General Secre-
tary of the Palestine Trust Com-
Joins Armed Forces
pany and at one time served
with the Department of Immi-
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Zvi
Levavy, comptroller of the Zion- gration of the Palestine Govern-
ist Organization of America and ment. He is also a former secre-
its director of finances and per- tary of the Danish Consulate at
Tel Aviv.
sonnel, has joined the armed
In this country since 1929, Mr.
„AarntatIk
Levavy was awarded the de-
gree B.C.S. at the New York
University, School of Commerce
and Finance.

Through arrangements by the
Jewish Welfare Board of Battle
Creek, soldiers were enabled to
spend the period of . Rosh Hasha=
nah and Yom Kippur with I'm -li-
lies in Battle Creek, Kalamazoo,
ZVI LEVAVY
Detroit, Grand Rapids, South
Bend, Benton Harbor, South forces as a private, it was an-
Haven and Jackson.
nounced here by the national
Services also were conducted Zionist headquarters. He was
at Station Hospital and the Re- inducted from his • home town,
habilitation Center at Fort Cus- Perth Amboy, N. J.
The second member of the na-
ter, by Chaplain Perley, and at
Percy Jones Hospital, patients tional headquarters staff of the
unable to attend services, were Zionist Organiiation to join the
given religious solace by - Dr. service, Mr. Levavy has been as-
sociated in his present capacity
Sheldon Blank of Cincinnati.
with the Organization for the
past four years. Born in 'Pales-
tine, he occupied important .po-
sitions in various industrial and

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Anti-Jewish Laws
Abolished in Corsica

ALGIERS (JPS) — All anti-
Jewish laws enacted in Corsica
under the Vichy regime 'have
been abolished by the Prefect of
Corsica, Charles Luizec, appoint-
ed to that post by the French
Committee of .National Libera-

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Shaarey Zedek

Our

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Friday, Ocfo6er 15, 1943

Library Honors

CHILDREN'S Zemon's Memory
CORNER

Dear Boys and Girls:
We are now observing Suc-
coth, and I hope you are all
utilizing the holiday to study the
history and importance of the
festiVal.
Succoth is also known as the
Feast of Tabernacles. It was
originally a harvest festival and
its character was for our .people
in Palestine what Thanksgiving
Day is for America.
This festival also reminds us
that during the march of the
Jews from Egypt to the Prom-
ised Land, our forefathers were
compelled to live in booths, or
tabernacles, or huts.
Today, too, millions of Jews
are wandering all over the globe
and are compelled to live under
very trying conditions. But our
people have always survived
crisis and we shall survive this
one, too.
A pleasant holiday to all.
UNCLE DANIEL.
* * *
Palestine's Food Production
Helps the United Nations
The festival of Succoth is a
good time to think in terms of
food conservation which helps
the Allied cause against the
Nazis.
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The Library Board of Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek has
adopted a resolution paying
tribute to its deceased president,
David S. Zemon. The resolution
reads:
"On Aug. 6, 1943, David S.
Zemon was summoned frOm the
earthly scene. His death consti-
tutes a grievous loss to the De-
troit Jewish community,
to
Shaarey Zedek Congregation
and to the synagogue library.
"Mr. Zemon had the distinc-
tion of being one of a small
group of men who visioned for
Detroit Jewry a library which
would symbolize Israel's his-
toric role as the bearer of know-
ledge in the realm of the spirit.
"The growth of the library
from a small collection of Juda-
ica 10 years ago to its present
place as one of the three best-
equipped libraries of their kind
in America may be attributed
largely to Mr. Zemon's consist-
ent and unflagging labors. He
brought to his task as first
chairman of the library board a
zeal and an earnestness which
produced signal results.
"His work for the library was
distinctly and peculiarly a labor
of love, and the part he took
in its development will be re-
membered as long as Shaarey
Zedek Congregation and its Li-
brary continue to exert an in-
fluence in the life of Detroit
Jews."

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STANLEY JOHNSON, HERO
REPORTER, SPEAKS OCT. 22
Stanley Johnston, hero-report-
er of the first battle of the Coral
Sea, and author of "The Queen
of The Flat Tops," is the speak-
er for the Detroit Town Hall, at
the Cass Theater, Friday morn-
ing, Oct. 22.

The Palestine Jewish lass
shown in this picture is one of
thousands of girls and women in
the Jewish homeland who are
"digging in" to produce more
food for the United Nations'
armies and civilian war workers
on the Middle Eastern front.• In-
creased food produCtion is sup-
ported with funds raised by the
United Jewish Appeal for Refu-
gees, Overseas Needs and Pales-
tine.
In Detroit, this cause is sup-
ported by the War Chest which
includes the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign. The United Jewish Ap-
peal is one of the funds included
in the Allied' Jewish Campaign.
When you give your nickels and
dimes and dollars to this. fund—
in addition to the contributions
of your parents—you help pro-
vide relief for suffering Jews
and you support the work in
Palestine.
Phenomenal wartime expan-
sion of Palestine agriculture and
industry has been financed by
the United Palestine Appeal, the
central . agency of American
Jews for the upbuilding and de,
fense of the Jewish homeland,
which now has a population of
584,000. The United Palestine
Appeal raises its funds through
the nationwide campaign of fhe
United Jewish Appeal, which

also maintains the overseas res-
cue and relief work of the Joint
Distribution Committee and the
aid to refugees in the United
States provided by the National
Refugee Service.
* .* *
An Old Spanish Succoth Custom
Judah Ibn Tibbon of the Gold-
en Age in Spain is often called
"the father of translators" for
his sons became famous literary
men, preserving the Spanish-
Jewish classics by translating
them from Arabic into Hebrew.
We can understand why such fa-
mous scholars were produced by
this family • when. we listen to
one of the counsels of Judah to
his son: "Take good care of
your books — make note of all
that are borrowed by others, and
every Passover and Succoth, call
in all that are oUt• on loan."

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