THE JEWISH - NEWS
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Friday, June 16, 1944
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PALESTINE
Five co-operative groups of discharged
servicemen and special policemen, including
a group named for the late Major General
Orde Charles Wingate, will be settled on the
land by special arrangement between the
Keren Kayemeth, Jewish National Fund, and
the Markez Haklai, Agricultural Department
of the Histadruth, Jewish Federation of Labor.
This is part of an extensive program for the
'settlement of Jewish veterans, including non-
Palestinians.
Discharged servicemen and their families
Should be given priority when applying for
employment with the security forces, the
executive of the Histadruth, Jewish Federa-
tion of Labor, declared in formally approving
the recognized policy of -IV Histadruth in
this matter.
A new sa i ling boat, named for David ben
GuriOn, .chZirman of the Executive of the
Jewish Agency and Labor Zionist leader was
launched in Haifa by the • Hapoel, Labor
Sports Organization, on the organization's
25th anniversary.
Over 20,000 pilgrims, including hundreds of
Jewish soldiers serving with the Allied armies
in this area, visited the Wailing Wall on the
first day of Shevuoth. Many also visited the
Tomb of David on Mount Zion.
The Council of Mapai, Jewish Palestine's
Labor. Party, took the position that Group B,
an opposition group within its r a n k s , had
"established a separate party and withdrawn
from Mapai" when it decided at a recent
rally in Tel Aviv to nominate its own slate
of candidates for the forthcoming elections to
the Assephath Hailiveharim, Jewish Federa-
tion of Labor.
AMERICA
A speeding up in the process of making al-
cohol is the result of the method of "re-use
of yeast" introduced to Canadian alcohol
manufacturing plants by M. M. Rosten, an en-
gineer from Poland. By Rosten's method, live
yeast cells, separated from the fermented mass
of yeast, regenerate themselves and full grown
yeast is ,obtained for fermentation. Twenty
hours are required for fermentation by this
method, against seventy to ninety hours
needed under the older sulphite liquor fer-
mentation process.
Erie M. Heilbronn, 20-year-old-son of a
Rabbi, who in 1939 came to America as a ref-
, ugee, was killed in action' as a private in the
United States Army somewhere in Italy. The
Purple Heart medal awarded to him posthu-
mously was sent to his m.other. His father
died over a year ago. _-
Associate Supreme Court Justice William 0.
Douglas warned- that "the real reserves of
Fascism ill this war," are the ideological storm
trcropers being held for the political war that
" will flare up after our armies have beaten the
enemy in battle."
William M. Leiserson, economist and Lormer
secretary of the National Labor Board of the
NRA, resigned as chairman of the National
(Railway) Mediation Board to accept a visit-
ing professorship at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity and write a book on labor relations.
President Roosevelt was described by for-
eign correspondent and columnist Edgar An-
sel Mowrer as supporting a number of Brit-
ish schemes for the Middle East, including the
partition of Palestine. Mowrer, back from a
trip to Palestine and the Middle East, said
that these schemes were hatched in Cairo to
make the Mediterranean "a 'ritish zone of
influence."
Declaring that in his opinion Father Cough-
lin "was out," and his political career finished,
Rev. Edward Lodge Curran, Jew-baiting head
of the International Catholic Truth Society
and formerly closely identified with the
Coughlinite movement, stated in a speech in.
New York that his own "diredt" followers
number in the "hundreds and hundreds of
thousands." /. . . Father Curran recently found-
ed a "national pommittee for the preservation
of Americanism against internationalism." He
said that since April 30,- when he made his
first speech enunciating the ,principles of his
"committee," his followers 'increased from
200 to 300 per . cent." He denied ever having,
had any connection or "official correspond-
ence" with the Detroit priest.
OVERSEAS
That all Hungarian- towns with populations
over 10,000 will be cleared of Jews within a
short period, is the proud boast of the Tester
Tag, a newspaper published, in Budapest, Hun-
gary's capital. /One hundred and fifty towns
and villages already a r e "Judenrein," the
newspaper reports.
Anti-Semitism is "so deeply entrenched in
the Polish Army, that super-human effort is
needed to eradicate it," according to an al-
leged report submitted to Dr. Heizman, head
of the political department of the Polish War
Ministry, by 30 Jewish officers with the. Polish
forces whom the Polish Government assigned
the specific task of studying ways and means
for the alleviation of the tension caused by
the trials of Jewish soldiers who deserted as
a consequence of anti-Semitism in the Polish
Army.
Chaim Zussin, Blumin and Mendelsohn,
serving with the . famed • Red Army regiment
operating in Estonia, have been cited for hero-
ism. The regiment has been acknowledged
/ as the hardiest in the Red Army.
Pnina Saltzman, a 20-year-old Palestinian
pianist, is now touring South Africa, and has
been a phenomenal success. She gave f iv e
concerts allf of which were sell-outs. She also
gave several performances at military camps
and will tour Cape Town and a number of
provincial towns. On- returning from her tour
to the Provinces, Miss Saltzman will- give a,
concert for the benefit of the Palestine Or-
chestra and the Habimah.
Dr. Moehlman Warns Against
Religious Studies in Schools
condemned Jesus to death. Con-
trary to what was formerly be-
lieved, the Jews under Roman
rule possessed the right of capi-
tal punishment, but they stoned
His "School and ChurCh: The American Way" Condemns for blasphemy. Crucifixion was
the Roman method of execution.
Proposals for the Introduction of "Released-
"Jesus was crucified on the
Time" Plans in Our School Systems
charge of treason against the Ro-
Dr. Conrad Henry Moehlman, to a population of more than 200 man state. Faith in his non-politi-
professor of the history of Chris- religious beliefs, and comes to cal messianity originated after the
tianity at Colgate-Rochester Di- the conclusion that "the released- crucifixion and in Galilee under
vinity School and visiting pro- time plan for religious education the leadership of Peter. The 'last
supper' preceded the slaying of
fessor of religion at the Univer- seems doomed."
the Passover lamb and was a
sity of Rochester, has issued a
Prof. Moehlman's interesting `Kiddush,' not a Christian com-
challenge for the preservation of
study shows that the "released munion service. The church at
the democratic ideal of the
time" plan is not only a complete
American public school. If not failure, since only a small per- Jerusalem celebrated a rite
known as the 'breaking of the
heeded, Prof. Moehlman's warn-
centage take advantage of the bread' and was not familiar with
ings point to the rise of a great proposal, but also ..
d
eclares
that
menace to our free institutions. for those who are' idle during the 'Lord's Supper.' Jesus be-
In his book "School and that time "marking time," relax- came SOTER only much later."
Church: The American Way,"
He proceeds to ask these ques-
ation and truancy result. He also
published recently by H a r - states:
tions:
per's, Prof. Moehlman presents
"But, if the story of the last
New Evils Begin
an. historical approach to the
days of Jesus were thus to be
"The
desire
of
children
for
re-
problem of religious instruction
told in a textbook used in Ameri-
in public education and deals leased-time periods can hardly can public schools,. would not at
with the latest attempts to in- be called pronounced, and new least the orthodox have the text
troduce "released time" periods evils begin to make their appear- removed from even the reference
for religious studies in our ance. Feuds between different list? How then can the Prot-
religious groups are growing estants insist that the direct
schools.
-more and more. Where formerly teaching of Christianity shall be
A Thorough Study
Starting out with the premise the race issue was no problem on reintroduced into the curriculum
that "Christianity is a minority the public schdol campus, it is of public education?"
in our population" and that "the becoming so because the matter
Thus, Moehlman's "School and
religion of the American major- was discussed in religious educa- Church" is a challenge to all
tion
on
released
time."
ity is democracy," Prof. Moehl-
Americans. His book should be
In his discussion of the diffi- placed in the-hands of all educa-
man makes a thorough study of
the subject; quotes statistics to culties encountered in religious tors as a,protection against abus-
show that only small percentages studies, Pli-of. Moehlman deals ing a sacred American ideal of
—minorities even -among Cath- with the question of the crelci- freedom for our school system.
olics—,attend parochial schools; fixion. He points out:
points to the difficulties of teach-
"It was the Roman govern-
ing
through the schools ment which arrested, tried and
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MISS NANCY REID, a junior in the College of Science, Litera-
ture of Arts, receives from DR. WALTER COFFEY, president of
the University of Minnesota, the annual King Gustav Interfaith.
Fellowship for outstanding contribution to campus interfaith re-
lations. This fellowship, established' by the Bnai Brith Hillel
Commission in honor of King Gustay. of Sweden as a token of
appreciation for what his country did to save the Jews of Den-
mark from Nazi extermination, was awarded for the first time
at the annual commencement exercises.
`Brain Trust'
Nazis Say Jews
Associated With
Marshal Tito
ZURICH (JTA)—Quoting Nazi
newspapers publish _ ed in occu-
pied Yugoslavia, the German
radio this week claimed that
Marshal Tito is being aided by
"a Jewish brain trust" in his
fight against the German forces.
Listing a number of men asso-
ciated with Tito in the fight for
the liberation of Yugoslavia, the
broadcast said: "Ales Bebler is
a Galician of Jewish descent;
Boris Kidric is a son of a Slovene
woman married to a Hungarian
Jew; Josip Vidmar has constant-
ly and proudly emphasized his
Jewish descent."
In a broadcast in Arabic, the
German radio called upon the
Arab- world to combat Jewish
efforts in Palestine. "From Tunis
to Iraq, Jews have shown pro-
Allied feelings and enthusiasti-
cally welcomed the A 11 i e d
armies, contrary to the attitude
of the Arabs, particularly those
in Tunis who wept when they
saw Germans taken prisoner,"
the broadcast said.
Orthodoic Rabbis' Head,
Rabbi Konvitz, Dead
BELMAR, N. J., (JTA)—Rabbi
Joseph Konvitz, president of the
Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the
U. S. and Canada, died at his
summer home here. He was 66
years old. Born if. Lithuania, Dr.
Konvitz came to the United
States in 1915. He served as
rabbi of several New Jersey con-
gregations, and became president
of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis
in 1933.
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