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THE JEWISH NEWS
Winston Churchill's Augury:
This Terror Will End in 1944
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By DAVID MORANTZ
A Taste of His Own Medicine
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
NOVEMBER 12, 1943
As the Editor
Views the News
Talmudic Tales
(Based upon the ancient legends and
-philosophy found in the Talmud and ;
folklore of the Jewish people.)
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
MAURICE ARONSSON
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
FRED M. BUTZEL
ABRAHAM SRERE
THEODORE LEVIN
HENRY WINEMAN
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ
VOL. 4—NO. 8
Friday, November -12, 1943
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Armistice Day
Another Armistice Day has just been observed in the
midst of war, and a celebration that could be interpreted as
an inconsistency is in reality a most fitting event for peoples
whose ideals and aspirations are for peace and for freedom:
The Jewish people, whose Psalmist urged mankind to
"seek peace and pursue it," can appreciate the consistency of
such a celebration. A horde of tyrants has set out to destroy
us, and we are compelled to fight back with all our might. We
are forced to follow the Midrashic admonition (Numbers
Rabba 21) that "if one is approaching to slay you, get ahead
of him and slay him." Literally, we have never followed this
precept to the letter of the law. We have pleaded and rea-
soned with our neighbors to understand our position in the
fight leveled against us by Nazism. But the democratic
peoples of the world, having been forced into battle against
those who sought to slay civilized men, are now bent upon
slaying those who mrould destroy the world.
Thus, the basic principle of this war is self-defense
against barbaric forces.
In the midst of a war-time Armistice Day, the major
philosophic precept in Jewish life remains: "Love peace and
hate conflict."
Therefore we observe Armistice Day in the hope that the
destructive forces will be completely obliterated from civil-
ized society as a result of the present war and that peace and
security will thereafter reign on earth for all time for all
peoples.
GUEST EDITORIAL
A Laboratory Fighter for Freedom
By JUDGE WILLIAM FRIEDMAN
Scores of scientists who were driven out of Europe by
Hitler and who found a home in Palestine are today con-
tributing to Allied victories in the Middle East. In a secret
laboratory somewhere in Palestine, a white-haired Jewish
refugee from Germany is aiming the bombs which are
destroying the Nazi Germany's war machine.
For a long time the British High Command
was anxiously searching for this world-
famous optical expert. When they learned
that he was in Palestine, a special plane was
placed at his disposal and he was promptly
flown to secret military conferences, at which
powerful air blows against the Axis were
planned. Today the special bombsights
which Professor Goldberg has perfected are
guiding Allied airmen to strategic targets in
Judge Friedman
Nazi-dominated Europe.
Our contributions to the War Chest will serve to
strengthen the Jewish homeland in Palestine for maximum
participation in the crucial offensive against Nazi forces in
Central Europe. The United Palestine Appeal is supporting
Palestine's war effort on the farms and in the factories and
recruiting Jewish soldiers for the British army. Through
the Allied Jewish Campaign's participation in the War Chest,
we can fulfill our obligations to the agencies of the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine
and other overseas, national and local Jewish organizations.
The Ill-Trained Hoodlums
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward J. Flanagan, founder of the
Boys' Town in Nebraska, in an address delivered in Boston,
where anti-Semitic outbursts compelled a statewide investi-
gation, declared that the occurrences were the result of bad
home training.
What he said in Boston has great bearing on all racial
and religious issues. This eminent Catholic youth leader,
who has learned to know the attitudes of young people better
than any other person in this country, stated:
"A child grows into the type of man his environment has
taught him to be. Anything can happen in - homes where
there are bad parents. Anti-racial feelings, anti-religious feel-
ings, crime and delinquency, follow from such homes. That
is truer now than ever, with war hysteria sweeping us.
"There is no place in our democracy for anyone trying
to develop totalitarianism, which is what anti-Semitism really
is trying to do. We are fighting totalitarianism all over the
world. Jew and Christian are fighting side by side against the
common enemy. Anything like racial or religious bigotry
must be dove away with if we are to obtain a united front."
These views are not new. But they were never expressed
as forcibly.
Good News from Palestine
From Palestine comes encouraging news.
For the first time since Italy entered the war in 1940, the
Palestinian citrus fruit growers again may be enabled to
ship their products to the United Kingdom.
With the announcement that the first shipment of ten
to fifteen thousand cases of oranges and grapefruits may be
made in the coming few weeks, it is also stated that if suffi-
cient wooden boxes are available 2,000,000 more cases are
to be shipped during the remainder of the season.
The fact that consignments are to be bought by the
Ministry of Food in London is further proof that normal
business relations are to be restored between England and
Palestine.
Msgr. Flanagan's warnings should be taken to heart by
educators and community leaders everywhere, if we are to
avoid serious trouble in our . democracy. Hoodlumism has
no place in civilized communities, and anti-Semitism, a form
of hoodlumism, will disgrace America if it is permitted to
spread.
This news is important for two reasons. In the first place,
there is to be relief for the Palestinian citrus growers—
•
Jewish and Arab—who have suffered as a result of the war,
many
of them being compelled to uproot their groves be-
lloshe Shertok, political chief of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, predicted last - week in an address before the cause inability to export their fruits cut off the available
Central Jewish Recruiting Committee in Haifa, Palestine, sizable markets.
that the crisis. in the Agency, caused by. :David Ben . Gurion's
More important, however, is the fact revealed by this
proferred resignation, will be resolved "without sacrificing , news that the Mediterranean has been freed from the Axis
a single outstanding individuality." ,
and 'is now Open again for commercial shipping. It is proof
The differences of opinion that have arisen between Mr. that the war. is nearing its end and that the terrorist nations
Ben Gurion and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the distances between
Palestine and England, the conflict between the leaders in :soon Will be crushed by the democracies.
London and Jerusalem, have not contributed towards unity
in Israel and have not given strength to our ranks in the
present struggle to assure justice for the Jewish cause.
This Week's Scriptural Selections:
It is to be hoped, therefore, that Mr. Shertok's 'augury is
This Sabbath, the thirteenth day of Heshvan, 5704, the fol-
not mere wish thinking. Unless we can resolve our inner
lowing Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
differences, our cause will suffer. This is no time for internal
Pentateuchal portion: Gen. 18:1-22:24.
strife, whether it be in this country, between the American
Jew'sh Committee and the American Jewish Conference, or
Prophetical portion: II Kings 4:1-37.
on a worldwide scale, between the leaders in the Zionist
movement.
Resolving -Our Differences
-
An Athenian on a visit to Je-
rusalem met a child playing on
the street and thinking to have a
little fun with him, handed him
a small coin, saying:
"Take this and buy something
for me to eat so that I may eat
now and have enough left over
to last me the balance of my
journey."
The child took the small coin
and went on his errand. He was
gone so long that the Athenian
began to suspect that he would
not return and the joke would
indeed be upon him instead of
upon the child, as had been his
original plan.
Finally, however, the child re-
turned and handed him a large
package. Opening it, the Athe-
nian found it full of salt.
"What is this?" he exclaimed,
"I did not send you to buy salt
for me."
"Did you not say for me to
buy something for you to eat so
you might have enough for now
and also for the balance of your
journey?" returned the child.
"You will find enough salt in
the package so that you may eat
as much of it now as you wish
and still have plenty left for the
rest of your journey."
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Our
CHILDREN'S
CORNER
Dear Boys and Girls:
I am sure that you have.' all
read about the great act of hero-
ism and kindness on the part of
the peoples of Sweden and Den-
mark.
The Jews who escaped from
Nazi oppression in Denmark
were welcomed by Sweden and
were given asylum in several of
their castles.
This should give us all courage
to have faith in human nature
and in the kindness of the- free
Christian peoples.
To help those who are suffer-
ing and who can be saved from
Nazism, we must all help the re-
lief causes included in the War
Chest. The Allied Jewish Cam....
paign, which supports all Jewish.
causes, locally, nationally and
throughout the world, is in-
cluded in the War Chest.
I wish you all a joyous Sab-
bath.
UNCLE DANIEL.
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Rabbi Isaac and the Jewel
Once upon a time there lived a
famous Rabbi known as Rabbi
Isaac. ..He- was very poor but
never let anyone know how poor,
for he and his wife did not want
charity. One day he found a
huge jewel almost as large as a
pear. He took it to a jeweler who
immediately offered him one
thousand shekels of gold for it,
saying: "The king wishes a large
idol made and this is needed for -
the eye. Some Lime ago I bought
one like it but we could not find
another."
Although this money would
have made them rich;' the 'Rabbi
and his wife decided that they
could not sell the jewel for such
a use. The jeweler was very
angry and he told - the' '11/1ay:Oi-,.'3
who asked Rabbi rsaac to go to a
neighboring city with him to buy
grain; on the boat he asked to •
see the jewel and when he saw it
he said: "Name your own price
and I shall pay it.".
Just then a gale of Wind sud-
denly blew the stone out of
Isaac's hand into the sea, and
Isaac instead of being sorry that
his wealth was gone, was glad,
for now, the stone could not help
to beautify the idol.