Fiijay,'June 16, - 1944
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Talmudic Tales
By DAVID MORANTZ
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(Based upon the ancient legends and philosophy found. ii
the Talmud and• folklore of the Jewish people dating back
as far as 3,000 years.)
Genuine. Humanitarianism
RISE WITHOUT DEBT
One of the most impressivetacts of humani-
tarianism is revealed in the story that came'
recently from Ann Arbor regarding the
nine girls living at the University of Michi-
gan Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation who had
undertaken to read his lessons to a near-
blind Negro student.
Herman Hudson, the afflicted Negro, has
been struggling to finish his academic work.
The nine Jewish girls are helping him with
his required reading of 14 to 16 hours a week.
They even typed out for him, on a special
typewriter with letters five times the usual
size, his French lessons, so that he may re-
view them when the benefactors' services
are not available.
Although the • girls , had offered their serv-
ices without charge, Hudson insisted on pay-
ing them at the rate of 30 cents an hour,
and this income has been turned over to the.
Jewish National Fund.
Here is an example of genuine humani-
tarian action which belies Nazism or any
other semblance of racial or religious prej-
udice.
"Go to sleep without supper," says the Tal-
mud, "but rise without debt."
"The wicked borroweth and payeth not again."
"Never take the clothes of wife or children in
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payment of a debt."
"If you have taken of a man his plough or
his pillow for a debt, return his plough in the
morning--and his pillow at night."
"The possessions of a widow, whether she be
rich or poor, should not be taken in pawn."
"No man is impatient with his creditors."
"If thou hast guaranteed for one, remember
that it must be paid by thyself. If thou hast
borrowed money, know that thou hast borrowed
it to be repaid in time. If thou hast loaned
money to somebody, be prepared to have diffi-
culty in collecting it. Remember the time thou
hast to repay and settle thy accounts."
(Copyright by David Morantz)
For a handsome 195 page, autographed gift volume con-
taining 128 of these tales and 500 Pearls of Wisdom., send
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Children's Corner
'Usurpatory' Authority
Max Zaritsky, chairman of • the American
jewish Trade Union Committee for Pales-
tine, has made public a cabled denunciation
Lt. (j.g.) Abe Condiotti, a 23-year-old Jewish lad from
of the "usurpatory aspirations of the com-
mittee of Peter Bergson and his friends," Brooklyn, N. Y., commanded the first wave of small assault
which he had received- from the General boats which brought the invasion • troops • ashore on the
Federation of Jewish Labor in Palestine. French coast.
Writing for the Combined Press, B. J. McQuaid reported
The cable declares that "this group has ab-
solutely no authority to represent the politi- that "Condiotti's own boat actually was the first to touch on
cal interests of the Jewish people of the the beaches of this assault area between Cherbourg and Le-
Havre. Condiotti's boat hit the beach within fewer than 60
Yishuv (Palestine Jewish community)."
While Mr. Bergson and his friends do , not seconds of H-Hour so it may well have been the first ashore
deserve to be dignified with too, much at- of the entire cross-channel invasion."
tention,- •in spite of the prominence of some
This report added that , Condiotti's boat "carried members
of the men and women whom he has misled of an infantry company commanded by Capt. Leonard T.
into backing his so-called "Hebrew Libera- Schroeder, 25, who comes from Baltimore and is of old Ger-
tion Committee" ,and "League or a Free man-American stock. Just as Condiotti's Was the first boat
Palestine," the repudiations should be wide- to hit the beach, Schroeder may have been the first American
ly publicized
-order to enlighten the gen-. or even Allied soldier to invade Europe."
eral_Je..x-i.n. public so that our people should
Also, Robert Halperin, a New York Jewish serviceman,
-10-; -prepared to reject irresponsible .spokes-
was
one of the first Americansperhaps the very first — to go
men.
ashore in France. A former member of the Brooklyn Dodgers
The Jewish AgenCy for Palestine, prom- professional football team, he had already distinguished him-
inent national leaders, Christians as well as self in Morocco and in Siaily.
Jews, have repudiated this .group which is
In these facts is incorporated the secret. of the genius- of
seeking to "usurp" power. without assuming
a share of the responsibility in building Pal- America and the justice of the Allied cause." Racial and re-
ligious lines do not exist in the cause:of liberty. That is why
estine.
the
democratic cause must, as it will, succeed.
This is a free country—but this is the only
authority the "League • for a Free Palestine"
and the "Hebrew Liberation Committee"
have for suddenly proclaiming "statehood"
Nazi threats to "solve the Jewish problem" by resorting
on the rooftop of a Washington building. It
is high time that public opinion drove this to total extermination of our people are now being applied
group to a po-sition of obscurity.
with full force to the Jews of Hungary, and the terror of
Hitlerism is becoming more frightening as time goes on.
Quoting the testimony of Jewish forced laborers who are
now Soviet war prisoners, - Red Army officers report, accord-
Member of Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Independent
ing to a dispatch from Moscow, that 2,000 JeWs who had been
Jewish Press Service, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate,
Religious News Service, Palcor News Agency, Bressler
drafted for forced labor on the Eastern Front by Hungary
Cartoon Service, Wide World Photo Service, Acme
NewSphoto Service
were burned alive in their barracks in Korosten, after being
Published every Friday by Jewish News Publishing
stricken with typhoid fever. The order for the burning came
Co., 2114 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit 26 Mich. Telephone
RAndolph 7956 Subscription rate, $3. a year; foreign,
from the Hungarian commandant who also had 'many Jews
$4 a year. Club subscription of one issue a month,
published every fourth Friday in the month, to all
thrown .into the Dniester River.
subscribers to Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit, at 40 cents a club sub-
Many Jews, among them writers, artists and communal
scription per year.
workers, committed -suicide, and thousands perished of ex
Entered as second-class .matter August 6, 1942, at the
Post Office at Detroit, Michigan, under the Act of
haustion and hunger.
March 3. 1879. '
In the First Line of Invasion
-The Nazi Terror in Hungary
Dear Boys and Girls:
Have you bought your bonds and war stamps?
Are you encouraging your parents to buy more
bonds than they had - planned?
Every one of -us must do his duty. What we
do is little compared with the sacrifices our
relatives and friends are making on the battle-
fronts.
Now that the summer vacation has begun, I
hope you will all make very_ good use of your
time and that you will not forget your reading,
even if it is to be supplementary to baseball and
swimming.
I wish you all a pleasant vacation and a happy-
Sabbath.
UNCLE DANIEL
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The Mishna is the chief depository of the
Jewish "moral law," which forms what may be
called the text of the Talmud, as distinguished
from the Gemara, or commentary. The •earliest
groupings of the moral law were made by the
school of Hillel; but the Mishna, as now extant,
was largely - collected and arranged by Rabbi
Jehuda Hannasi in the third century. .
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
A. R. BRASCH, Advertising Counsel
VOL. 5—.-NO. 13
JUNE 16; 1944
This Sabbath, the twenty-sixth day of ..Sivan,
the following Scriptural selections will be read
in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 13:1-15:41.
- Prophetical portion-Joshua 2.
Rosh Hodesh Tamituz, -.Wednesday and Thurs-
t-lay,Nurn,.28:1-15 will be r...3ad• during morning
.
Apparently, the fate of Jews is sealed in ALL Nazi-held
territories. The stories emanating from Europe should serve
to Speed all efforts to rescue as many as can be saved and not
to permit >a single opportunity to pass by without removing
the sufferers from the clutches of the Nazi beasts.
Stories like the one from Moscow about the atrocities of
the Hungarian Nazis also should. speed all our efforts to win
the war• and to put an end to the tyranny threatening the en-
tire world in the event the Hitlerite poison spreads. Nothing
should be left undone to improve the morale of our service-
men, to provide theta with the necessities of the war—espe-
cially through successful War Bond drives and assistance to
the USO and its agencies, including the Jewish Welfare
Board—and by backing up our government in the program to,
speed victory fox the cause of the United Nations.
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MODERN FATHER GOOSE
By Berton Braley
There was a man in our town who bought a bond,
and then
He took it to the Treasury and cashed it irl'again. -
I don't know what he thought it was he needed
money for,
I do know that a cashed-in-bond won't help
the war.
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(From "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport")
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pride. and Humiliation hand in hand
Walked with them through the world where'er
they went; •
Trampled were they as the sand, -
And yet unshaken as the continent.
For iri the background figures vague and vast
Of patriarchs and prophets rose sublime,
And• all the great traditions of the Past
They .saw reflected in the. coming time.-
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THE TORCH OF LIBERTY
THE JEWISH NEWS
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BOARD OF DIRECTOR.'
`MAURICE ARONSSON
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
.FRED , M. BUTZEL
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
THEODORE LEVIN
ABRAHAM SRERE
'MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ HENRY WINEMAN
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THE MISHNA
(Inscription on the Statue of Liberty in
New York Harbor)
By Emma Lazarus
Give me Your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, .yearning to be free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these; the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift the lamp beside the golden door.
The Earliest Hymn Book in Existence
Undoubtedly the earliest hymn book in con-
tinual use for upward of 3,000 years is the Book
of Psalms.
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The Path of the Just—From Proverbs
• Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get
.wisdom: and with all thy getting get understand-
ing.
Exalt. her . and she shall promote thee: she
shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost em-
brace her.
• She shall give to thine _headan ornament. of
grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee,
• Take. fast hold_ of instruction: let her not go:
keep her; for she is thy life.
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go
not in the way of evil 'men:
.For they sleep not, except they have done mis-
chief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they
cause some to fall.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, in cl
drink the wine of violence.
'But the path of the just is as the shining light,
that shingth more and more unto the perfect clay: