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THE JEWISH NEWS
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Friday, January 7, 1944
Liberty Belles
Talmudic Tales
By DAVID MORANTZ
(Based upon the ancient legends and
philosophy found in the Talmud and
folklore of the Jewish people.)
A Story With Two Morals
There was a great scarcity of
food in the land, even approach-
ing a famine, when Martha,
daughter of Beithus, a member
of one of th.e most noble and
wealthy families of Jerusalem,
sent her servant to the market
to buy some white flour.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MAURICE ARONSSON
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
FRED M. BUTZEL
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
THEODORE LEVIN
ABRAHAM SRERE
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ
HENRY WINEMAN
Arriving there, he found that
all the fine flour, such as she was,
accustomed to using, had been
sold but there was - some coarse
flour available.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
VOL. 4—NO. 16
JANUARY 7, 1944
As the Editor
Views the News -
He hurried home to see if she
would want him to buy this
coarse flour but by the time he
had returned to the market place
with her permission to buy it, he
learned that all the coarse flour
had, likewise, in the meanwhile,.
been sold. However, there was
some coarse barley meal that
could be bought but not wishing
to buy it without her consent, he
went back and asked whether he
should buy this for her.
Publicity Curbs Anti-Semitism
Berkshire County Eagle, published in Pittsfield, Mass.,
makes interesting comment on recent outrages committed
against Jews in the Dorchester area of Boston.
This newspaper declares that "publicity has its uses in
combating anti-Semitism when it is backed up by a resolute
and non-political police administration," and cites as evi-
dence for its assertion the fact that "in sections of Boston
where youthful anti-Semitism had become an unpublicized
malignancy, it has yielded to vigorous police treatment."
Most interesting fact in this newspaper's comment is
that it differs with the attitude of some Jewish leaders on
the most effective ways of fighting bigotry, and it offers the
following opinion:
"It must be said, however, that opinion among responsible
Jews has been divided on how to deal with such a situation
as existed in Dorchester. There is a strong group which would
pursue a policy of hush-hush believing that publicity only
further calls attention to the disease and aids in its spread.
What cure is sanctioned, they maintain, should be done with
extreme discretion and by oblique means within the educa-
tional process.
"It is our opinion that such efforts, while admirable in
intent. can never be broad enough to be effective and the
educational process frequently is completely lost on such
individuals whose anti-Semitism manifests itself in the overt
act and not merely the passive prejudice."
Thus, the hush-hush policy is rejected as lacking effect-
iveness. Coupled with similar opinions we have already
quoted from the Christian Register, it is to be hoped that
Jewish leadership will take cognizance of the fact that pub-
licity does help in curbing anti-Semitism. The only way to
fight a disease of this sort is by exposing it to the full view
of all decent and sensible people.
*
"Make haste," she cried, "and
buy that before it is likewise
gone and do not return without it
as we must have food."
Peace Conference in Progress
By the time, tho, that the ser-
vant arrived at the market place,
It is clear from the reports to the United Nations being the barley meal was likewise all
submitted periodically by President Roosevelt, Prime Min- sold and there was no flour or '
ister Churchill, and other leaders, that the conferences food left to be bought at any .
occasionally taking place in pivotal spots on the globe are price. So he returned empty-
handed.
not limited to discussions of the military situation. The
future peace of the world is being planned at these sessions,
and the fate of many peoples is to be decided by democratic
leaders of the greatest powers in the world.
When, therefore, Jews and other small peoples speak in
terms of their future - now, expressing anxiety over their
status after the war while the world conflict is being carried
on, they are justified in their action by what appears to be
inevitable planning being carried on by the spokesmen for
the democracies.
There is too much at stake in this war, and in the peace
to come, that the smaller nationality groups should be silent
over their status. War planning also involves peace planning,
and the security of the world demands that justice should be
done to all involved. When, therefore, we and others like us
—Czechs, Poles, Yugoslays---ask for clear explanations of
plans being made for our groups after the war, we should
not be chided, but should receive the kind of frank answer
which is due to partners in a great struggle against world
tyranny.
She then started out herself
to buy food but nothing could
be found regardless of the price
she offered to pay because of the
scarcity of food in the land.
The next day and the next she
went.. to the market place hoping
to buy food but there was none
to be found anywhere.
Suffering from intense hunger
she saw the skin of a fig in the
gutter, picked it up and ate it.
This fig being spoiled, it poison-
ed her and she returned home
seriously ill.
Last week's expose of outrages perpetrated against Jew-
Her condition became very
grave and when she realized she
ish children and of the 'desecration of synagogues, in sections
was dying, she cast all her gold
of New York City, as reported in the New York papers, calls
and silver into the street, say-
attention to a menace that is not limited to Massachusetts.
ing:
The lengthy reports of the New York menace, in PM,
"Away with you! Of what good
New York Times and other New York newspapers, is part of
is wealth if it will not buy food
the campaign of publicity which should go a long way in
and what one needs in life?
putting a stop to the disgusting demonstrations of intol-
Christian friends of a Jewish Palestine are playing an realize now that wealth is not I
erance.
important role in efforts to assure justice for the cause of a everything."
It is sincerely to be hoped that the remedy proposed by national home for Jews in their cradleldsnd. Functioning as
the Berkshire County Eagle will prove as effective as it the American Palestine Committee, the best minds in Chris-
(Copyright by David Morantz)
sounds to us.
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Palestine's reconstruction' and the defense of the nearly
For Michigan residents, it is especially encouraging to
300 settlements established in the Jewish National Home know that Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg has accepted mem-
would have been an impossible job without the devotion of bership on the national executive committee of the American
the workers, constituted as the Histadrut—the Jewish Fed- Palestine Committee, and that an eminent jurist, Judge
eration of Labor.
Frank A. Picard of the U. S. District Court, is chairman of
Forming the bulk of the population of Eretz Israel, the Michigan chapter of this national committee.
members of the Histadrut have been in the vanguard of all
A majority of Michigan members of Congress, both of
efforts to create garden spots where there previously was our Senators, eminent jurists and educators, labor readers
desert land as a result of Moslem neglect of the Near and and clergymen, are members of the committee in Michigan. Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg's
Middle East.
There is good reason for hoping that such encourage- 'The Devil and the Jews'
The standard of living of the people of Palestine is far ment will be effective in speeding adherence to all guaran-
Renders Valuable Service
above that of any other country in the Mediterranean area, tees made to the People Israel for the redemption of Zion as
thanks to the efforts of the Histadrut.
Eretz Israel.
Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg's
"The Devil .and the Jews," a Yale
Not only have Arabs benefitted from the organizational
University Press publication, is
work of Histadrut, but they have been organized in labor
an exhibit of the manner in
unions under the supervision of the Jewish Federation of
The feature article on "Patriotism and Zionism," pub- which the Jew was conceived by
Labor. Such constructive work has helped increase better
Christians in the Middle Ages.
relations between Jews and Arabs and has provided prOof lished in this issue of The Jewish News, is an interesting
Jews appeared as grotesque
that the two kindred peoples can live together in harmony. commentary on contrasts in the reactions of some parents
characters to the people in those
The work of the Histadrut is financed by the National and their children to Jewish issues.
days, and the illustrations and
Labor Committee for Palestine, functioning as the Gewerk-
This article, written by the late Cyrus L. Sulzberger word
stories of their conceptions
shaften. Its current drive commences here on Sunday. We nearly 40 years ago, is a direct contrast to the views held of our people will leave the
are confident that it will receive liberal support from the now by his son, the publisher of the New York Times, who reader in amazement that such
Jews of Detroit.
is one of the leaders in the anti-Zionist faction in this views were possible.
country.
Yet—even today we see repro-
Readers of the elder Sulzberger's article will undoubt- ductions of similar stupidities—
Sunday's conference of the Gewerkshaften assumes
added importance by virtue of the planned political action edly come to the conclusion that if it was patriotic to be a in Streicher's publications in
to be proposed to the gathering.
Zionist in 1904, it is even more so today, since there is so Germany, in crackpots' brochures
Utilizing the gathering the hundreds of spokesmen for much more at stake in the cause which involves the rescuing in this country, in bigots' works
everywhere.
leading Jewish organizations, it is planned to formulate an of the lives of millions of Jews.
expression of opinion against the White Paper and the re-
Why is the son antagonistic to the ideals of his father?
Rabbi Trachtenberg's book has
strictions threatened by it upon free Jewish endeavor in
You may just as well ask why a liberal rabbi, the son of great value in that it exposes the
Palestine.
an orthodox cantor, should suddenly have found it necessary grotesque conceptions as belong-
ing to the Middle Ages and not
The voice of the Jewish people must be heard as often to start a crusade against kashruth.
to civilized times or peoples. The
as possible against unfair restrictions, especially when they
horrible idea that Jews resorted
threaten the existence of an entire community and the
This Week's Scriptural Selections:
to ritual murder, the views of
future of hundreds of thousands of Jews who have only
fantastic heresies, the conceptions
Palestine to look to as a haven of security and peace after
This Sabbath, the twelfth day of Tebet, 5704, the fol.
that Jews had been sorcerers and
lowing
scriptural
selections
will
be
read
in
our
synagogues:
the war. The proposed political action is therefore consonant
magicians—all these ideas are
Pentateuchal portion: Gen. 47:28-50:26.
with the principles of the Histadrut and its American
exhibited for all to see and to de-
counterpart—the Gewerkshaften.
plore in the scholarly &work of
Prophetical portion: Zech..I Kings 2:1-12.
The American-Palestine Committee
The Palestine Labor Campaign
An Expose of
Anti-Semites
Of Middle Ages
The Sulzbergers: A Contrast
Rabbi Trachtenberg.