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THE JEWISH NEWS

Pals in Distress

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Dear Boys and Girls:

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor

As the Editor
Views the News

DECEMBER 24, 1943

NI IN 1•11

The Spirit of Good Will

This is the season of good will, and men of all faiths pray
that the sentiments expressed at this time may be translated
into action and shall not be limited to mouth preachments.
Especially in this great land, there should be sufficient
justification for hoping that expressions of good will should
be marked by great sincerity and by united determination
that bigotry and intolerance should be uprooted.
Unfortunately, the preachments are often forgotten im-
mediately after the good will season closes, and often they
are not spoken by men and women who kneel before their
God.
We are not only preaching good will at this time, but we
are engaged in a war which is intended to establish freedom
and justice on earth.
Therefore, reasons for sincere efforts to establish true
brotherhood on earth are multiplied a thousand-fold.
May the aspirations for true good will cease to be lip
service, and may they become reality in our time.

STEP ON YOUR

HEAD _YEDT I

(From Poems for Young Judeans)

Macfadden's Outrageous 'But'

throughout the years I have acquired a great respect
for the race, even in spite of the huge financial losses—totalling
into millions—that I have incurred through the chicanery of
some of them. As a race they are clever traders and 'sharp
practices' are frequently used, but they do not by any means
monopolize these characteristics."

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This Week's Scriptural Selections:

This Sabbath, the twenty-eighth day of Kislev, 5074, the fol-

lowing scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion: Gen. 41:1-44:7; Num. 7:30-41.
Prophetical portion: Zech. 2:14-4:7.
Pentateuchal portions to be read during Hanukah week:
Sunday, Num. 7:36-47; Monday (also first day of Rosh
Hodesh Tebet), Num. 28:1-15; Num. 7:42-53; Tuesday (also
second day of Rosh Hodesh Tebet), Num. 28:1-15; Num.
7:48-59; Wednesday, Num. 7:54-8:4.

Hail the Maccabees

Hear Judea's mountains ringing,
Hail the Maccabees!
Host from cleft and cave up-
springing
Hail the Maccabees!
Shining shields and spear-heads
glancing,
See the lion brood advancing. 1
Hail the Maccabees!
When a man tells you that Hitler's wholesale massacre
Hail the Maccabees!

Mr. Long and the Refugees

Hebrew in N. Y. High Schools

A Happy Hanukah to you a1l:4
I hope you are enjoying thisi
great festival of the Maccabeesi
and that you are learning to ac-i
quire courage and pride b
learning the story of this happ
holiday.
Two of the poems in this;
column are most appropriate
Hanukah selections.
I am pleased again to publish 34
poem by Miriam Bernstein,;
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. E.
Bernstein of 2400 Boston Blvd..,;
who previously contributed to
this column.
UNCLE DANIEL.
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By ISRAEL GOLDBERG

of the Jewish race is "an unthinkable return to savagery,"
and then appends a "but" to qualify his statement, you can
begin investigating into the secret workings of the mind of the
person who cannot unqualifiedly condemn an outrage.
Bernarr Macfadden, in an editorial entitled "Health—
Jewish Question--Pogroms," in the January issue of New
Physical Culture, does not limit himself to the damaging
"but." He goes many steps farther in repeating charges
which were coined by the Nazis, and the venom with which
Assistant Secretary of State Breckinbridge Long, in his he presents his thesis is nothing short of riot-inciting.
statement to the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs
Committee, said that in the past 11 years 580,000 refugees
It is true that the hodge-podge of ideas incorporated in
were admitted to this country and that a majority of these
were Jews.
this article will be laughed at by discriminating readers.
This statement may mislead some people into believing But there are also non-discriminating people for whom the
that everything possible has been done to solve the refugee Macfadden ideas may have some validity. To these, -the
problem. The facts, however, refute such beliefs.
New York publisher has the audacity to say this:
Official statistics made public by the Department of Jus-
"All over this country at the present time, the question is
tice show that 476,930 immigrants were admitted from Jan. 1,
being asked—usually in a mysterious undertone, 'when will the
pogroms begin?' and I doubt if even) the middle-aged citizens
1933, to June 30, 1943. It is also pointed out that during that
of this country will ever see such a hideous tragedy. But if
period, 243,965 persons permanently left the United States.
the Jewish race with only about three or four per cent of the
These figures speak volumes when it is realized that our
population, should finally control all the great business and
quota system provides for the admission of a minimum of
professional groups, no one can tell what human greed and
selfishness may develop, and we are not so far removed from
450,000 immigrants a year into this country.
savagery as has been definitely proven in this brutal war."
Also, it is important that it be known that only 209,932
Jews were admitted in this country during the 11-year period
Mr. MacFadden is fearful of competition and he reveals
under discussion.
A
his prejudices as follows:
The important thing to be recognized, however, is that
"Their (the Jews') failure to build a nation of their own
even if all of the 580,000 referred to by Mr. Long were Jews,
has often been a source of much discussion, but doubtless they
it would be far from solving the Jewish problem of homeless-
have found it more profitable to compete with citizens of other
n.ess.
countries. Their rules of life—religiously, dietetically and
otherwise, are of a nature to develop superior health."
When will the State Department recognize the justice of
the pleas in behalf of the persecuted millions of Jews who
. This is not all. Here is another revealing statement:
were the first victims of Hitlerism?

Samuel S. Schneierson, president of the Jewish Education
Committee of New York, has made an interesting report on
the study of Hebrew in New York high schools.
Mr. Schneierson reports that the study of the Hebrew
language and literature has made greater progress than any
other non-English language. An official report of the New
York Board of Education shows that students of Hebrew
increased by 5 1/2 per cent, whereas Spanish, the other popular
language, increased by one and one half per cent. There was
a drop of eight per cent in the number of students of French,
German and Latin.
It is pointed out that the increase in the number of
students of Hebrew asumes significance by virtue of the fact
that the total number of students in the New York high
schools has increased by nine per cent.
The popularity of Hebrew in the New York schools is
encouraging because it indicates definitely that Jewish stu-
dents, who form a large percentage of the New York student
population, are sufficiently interested to study the language
of their fathers.
While we are especially interested that Jewish schools,
which provide an intensive course of Jewish studies, should
record ever-increasing enrollments, it is good to know that
those who are not studying in our Hebrew schools have an
opportunity to acquire a knowledge of the Hebrew language
and literature in our civic high schools.

Our

CHILDREN'S
CORNER

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

VOL. 4—NO. 14

Friday, December 24, 1943'

Then- comes the references to Hitlerite pogroms by this
man who has proven a good pupil of the Nazis:

"Wholesale massacre of the Jewish race adopted by Hitler is
an unthinkable return to savagery, but even cold-blooded reason-
in.g would indicate that we should acquire the intelligence neces-
sary to compete with them."

In reality, when Mr. Macfadden speaks of having lost
millions through the "chicanery" and "sharp practices" of
Jews, he libels the law courts of this country, since it must
be assumed that law-abiding citizens do not cheat, and those
who cheat are subject to prosecution.
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The unfortunate thing about the sorry spectacle pre-
sented by Macfadden "physical culture" outburst of anti-
Semitism is that there is nothing to compel a person of his
thinking to prove his charge—whether personal or imper-
sonal. Thus, the Nazi line is followed here without hindrance.
It is not enough that we place faith in the common sense
of American public opinion, in the hope that the Macfadden
Poison will fail to affect very many people. The thinking
elements must condemn such outrageous outbursts so that
the Nazi way of life should not find a foothold here at a
time when it is being defeated on the battlefield.

Wild the battle din is beating,
Hail the Maccabees!
See the tyrant hordes retreating
Hail the Maccabees!
Loud shall rave the tyrant-
weakling,
Mad Antiochus, the Greekling..
Hail the Maccabees!
Hail the Maccabees!

See the bright procession wend/
ing,
Hail the Maccabees!
Hear the songs of praise ascend*
ing,
Hail the Maccabees!
Holy—great the dedication
Of a liberated nation:
Hail the Maccabees!
Hail the Maccabees!

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Hasmonean Lights

By J. FICHMAN

(A Hebrew poem "Nerot Hanukah."
From A Hanukah Evening, published
by Keren Kayemeth. Jerusalem. Jew.
ish National Fund Publication.)

Pure is the oil I take
My festal lights to kindle,
Lights of holiness,
Tiny lights,
Lights of God,
ReMinders
Of the miracle of the
Hasmoneans.

Rage winds,
Fall snows,
My wicks are aflame!
Away, evil winds,
A drop of oil remains—
My lamp still burns—
Lights of God,
Lights of the Hasmoneans.

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The Challenge

By MIRIAM BERNSTEIN

Time passes at every ancient clocle
chime.
Sand trickles through the hour glass oil
time.
Years are rapidly passing by,
Watch the old :world and its customs
die.

Watch the death of prayer and study,:
See the complacency of everybody.
See writing and reading replaced by,'
the rod.
We've accepted the fact that we're
"Children of God."

Now prayer has become a superficial
thing.
No knowledge of our people does each
day bring.
Once in a while we pause and look,
But seldom do we read The Book.

Oh. Children of Israel, we must awake,
To be a true Jew is for our sake.
We must take up the pen, put down
the sword,
Then we'll return again to the ways
of the Lord.
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The Menorah remained a sym-
bol of the Jewish people until
Medieval times when the six-
pointed Star of David came into
Six Detroiters' have until now enlisted as Chaplains in vogue as a Jewish Emblem.
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the United States Army and Navy.
The traditional Hanukah drei-
Rabbi Morris Adler's enlistment as a Chaplain in the del's four Hebrew letters on each
Army increases the number of Detroit's Jewish chaplains side — Nun, Gimmel, Hay and
to seven and gives us a splendid record for service.
Shin, are the initials of the He-
brew. words Ness Godol Hoyoh
The best wishes of the entire community accompany Shorn, meaning "a great miracle
Rabbi Adler on his important mission in the interests of occurred there," the miracle be-
the spiritual welfare of our men in the Army who are ing the eight days during which
fighting for a better world.
the oil burned in the Temple.

Detroit's Jewish Chaplains