Friday, September 1, 1944

- THE JEWISH NEWS

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How Democracy Works

Facts You Should Know

Answers to Readers'
Questions About Jews

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Argentinian Fascism

Overseas News Service reports that the
blacklisted Buenos Aires Astoria Cinema has
begun a two-week run of the German anti-
Semitic film "Jew Suess."
This film, whose title was borrowed
from Lion Feuchtwanger's novel, was billed
at its first production in Germany in 1940
as the "first German anti-Semitic film."
In Buenos Aires, the German newspaper
Deutsche La Plata Zeitung said that the film
aimed to show "the unconsidered spoliation
-of a whole nation by forces which are still
active today."
Here is additional proof that Fascism
and anti-Semitism are inter-linked and that
Argentina is one of the most dangerous cen-
ters of Nazism in the world. Unless the Unit-
ed Nations act quickly to stop this growing
menace on this continent, Hitlerism may win
another battle even though Germany loses
the war.

Explain significance of Mezuzah.

—D. L.
Mezuzot, literally meaning doorposts, are re-
ceptacles containing transcriptions of Deuteron-
omy 6:4-{4 and '11:13-21, which are attached by
observant Jews to doorposts of every room. These
inscriptions are intended to remind him, as he
enters or leaves his home, of the unity of God
and the duty to love Him.

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What is the meaning of Yizkor?

—A. A.
Yizkor, the name used for Memorial Services,
means "he will remember." Memorial Services
were originally held only on the Day of Atone-
ment (Yom Kippur). However, in the 18th cen-
tury, these services were added to the liturgy of
Passover, Shevuoth and Sukkoth.
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When did Spain abolish the Inquisition?
—L. M.
In the year 1821.
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Is it true that the surgeon on Columbus'
ship was a Jew?

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Polish Incidents

While Jewish guerillas are fighting the
Nazis within Warsaw, new incidents of dis-
crimination are reported in the Polish Army
ranks in Italy.
Meyer Gluck, Independent Jewish Press
Service correspondent in Rome, reports that
anti-Semitic agitation of the Endeks has led
to discrimination which has caused Jewish
soldiers to appeal to their officers. Some of
the officers, however, have advised against
the filing of complaints because they tend
"to disrupt military discipline."
Such attitudes are disheartening. If we
can not have true cooperation among allied
forces in time of war, what are we to expect
from Endek-influenced Poles after the war?

Sir Ronald Errs Too Often

Courtesy Appreciate America, Inc.

Poetic Justice in Nazis' Downfall

British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, in a recent
speech in London, pointed to the .irony of the occurrence that
the first Russian general to set foot on German soil probably
was a Jew. He was referring to Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhov-
sky, commander of the Third White Russian Army.
Now it develops that Cherniakhovgky is not a Jew and
that his name was confused with that of Lt. Gen. Mikhail
Cherniaysky, the tank expert commanding a force on the
second Baltic front, who is a Jew.
Actually, what difference does it make, as long as the
war is being won and as long as in the minds of the demo-
cratic peoples it would be an act of poetic justice that Jews
should lead in the invasion of Germany?
One thing is certain: there WILL be tens of thousands of
Jews, in the uniforms of the United Nations, who will be
among the armies of occupation in territories now held by
Germany. Poetic justice will be in evidence before long and
Jews will have a great share in the downfall of the Nazi
rulers.

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Jerusalem's former governor, Sir Ronald
Storrs, whose chief boast is that he knows
Hebrew and Arabic, has seen fit to criticize
the Democratic and Republican parties of
this country for backing Zionist aspirations
and for insisting that the pledges contained
A sharp rise in Palestine's immigration is indicated in the
in the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate -
report
made by Dr. James G. Heller, national chairman of the
for Palestine should be honored.
Sir Ronald also is peeved because Zion- United Palestine Appeal, who revealed, on the basis of a
ists are rendering. "a poor service to thou- cable from the Immigration Department of the Jewish
sands of Jews who could anyhow never get Agency, that more than 1,950 Jewish refugees entered the
into Palestine, by allegedly deriding and dis- Jewish National Home during 'July, bringing the total of
couraging every alternative" rescue proposal. Jewish settlers during the first seven months of 1944 to
It will be remembered that Sir Ronald 10,500.
This is clear proof that Palestine is the major coloniza-.
was governor of Jerusalem at the time of the
worst outrage in Palestine's history, when he tion center for Jews and that, as stated by Dr. Heller, "de-
and his associates in the government failed spite the physical smallness of Palestine, it has the greatest
to stop the Arab bandits who murdered in- generosity in welcoming Jews who need its security and its
nocent Jews in Hebron, Safed and Jerusalem. freedom."
These numbers can be greatly increased, provided the
Also, it will not be forgotten that less
than a year ago Sir Ronald saw fit to attack mandatory power adheres to pledges to keep Palestine's doors
the Histadruth, the Palestine Jewish Federa- open to Jewish settlers and the necessary funds are supplied
tion of Labor, and that he was compelled to by the Jewish people. Those who are striving to guarantee
political freedom for Jews are constantly on the watch that
apologize publicly for misstatements.
We predict that Sir Ronald Storrs, emi- the British government should honor the obligations to our
nent scholar, linguist and wit, will also apol- people. It is left for the Jews in democratic countries to
ogize for his latest slurs. Great Englishmen raise the largest possible sums for land reclamation through
are human and they often err. Sir Ronald has the Jewish National Fund and for immigration work through
the Keren Hayesod—both United Palestine Appeal agencies
erred too often.
—in order that the work for Palestine's redemption should
not be handicapped when the day arrives for large-scale Jew-
ish immigration to Zion.

Rise in Palestine Immigration

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VOL. 5—NO. 24

SEPTEMBER 1, 1944

The Week's Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the fourteenth day of Elul,
5704, the following Scriptural selections will be
read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 21:10-25:19.
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Prophetical portion-4s. 54:1-10i;

S. T.

Marco, the surgeon on Columbus' ship, was a
converted Jew. ,

Talmudic Tales

(Based upon the ancient legends and philosophy found- in
the Talmud and folklore of the Jewish people dating back
as far as 3,000 years.)

By DAVID MORANTZ
"The study of the Law," said Rabbi Chonan
of Zepors, "can ,be compared to a great 'pile of
dirt that is to be cleared away.
"Says the simple man:
"It is foolish to think that I can remove
this huge heap. Why even attempt it?"
"But the wise one. says: 'I will remove a little
today, a little tomorrow and continue each day
and eventually I will have removed it all'."
"So it is with the study of the law. He who
studies a few chapters a day, and every day will
eventually master it. Rabbi Jochanan illustrates
this point with an apple hanging from the ceiling
out of reach of the foolish man who says: 'I can-
not reach it because it is too high' but the wise
man by placing one object upon another is able,.
to stand thereon and reach the apple.
Thus is illustrated that passage in Proverbs
XXXIV:7: 'Wisdom is too high for a fool'."

(Copyright by David Morantz)
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Children's Corner

Dear Boys and Girls:
With school opening on Tuesday and Rosh
Hashanah only two weeks from Sunday evening,
I am sure that you are all getting into a serious
mood.
Those of you who are interested in arts and'
crafts—especially campers who took an interest
in crafts at camps during the summer—may want
some ideas regarding New Year cards.
I would suggest that you go to a Jewish
library—like the Shaarey Zedek's—and study the
ideas that are offered for making Rosh Hashanah
greetings cards on paper, card board, linoleums,
wooden blocks.
Also—I urge all of you to study up on the sig-
nificance of Rosh Hashanah and the other holy-
days that are approaching.
I wish you all a good Sabbath.
UNCLE DANIEL.

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AMERICA—A DEFINITION

, By Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,. Cleveland Rabbi
To me America is definitely more than an ag-
gregate of 110,000,000 people; to me America is all
that the submerged races of the world wish to
be and cannot; to me America is the concrete
realization of what the ages have hoped for and
labored for.
It is a definition. It is a creed. .It is a
challenge. God built a continent of glory and
The spreading movement for the introduction of released filled it with treasures untold. He carpeted . it
soft rolling prairies and pillared it with
time plans for religious education in the public schools has with
thundering mountains. He studded it with soft
aroused a serious debate in San Francisco.
flowing fountains and traced it with long winding
With a number of croups already organized to put the streams. He graced it with deep shadowed for-
program into effect, if adopted,
the Jewish spokesmen have ests and filled them with song.
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Then he called unto a thousand peoples and
expressed preference for "dismissed" rather than "released"
the bravest among them. They came
time for religious instruction. Rabbi Morris GoldStein pointed summoned
from the ends of the earth, each bearing a gift and
out that "dismissed" time would enable the children to ad- a hope. The glory of adventure was in their eyes
journ for religious training without returning to public and the glory of hope within their souls. And
school classes and he .expressed the fear that the released out of the labor of men and the bounty of earth,
out of the prayers of men and the hopes of the
time plan might lead to "discrimination and distinction."
world, God fashioned a nation in love. blessed
But while Rabbi Goldstein added that if the plan is it with a purpose sublime and called it 'America!'
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adopted the Jews will cooperate and will endeavor to elim-
Israel's Faith Is In Your Hands
inate the threatened dangers in the program, two groups are
The responsibility of each individual Jew to
fighting a the idea — the Parent-Teacher Association and the
the entire people is described in the Talmud. in
Public Education Society. A spokesman for the latter stated the following story:
that the organization would object to any action which would
All Israelites are mutually accountable for
interfere with the school day. The former insisted that the each other. In a boat at sea one of the men
plan is un-American in that it violated the principle of began to bore - a hole in the bottom of the boat.
being remonstrated with, he answered: "I am
separation of church and state and that it will lead to dis- On
only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his
unity, intolerance and discrimination.
comrades, "but when the sea rushes in we shall
The latter view has been expressed on numerous oc- all be drowned with you." So it is with Israel.
casions, and was especially emphasized in Dr. Conrad H. Its weal or its woe is in the hands of every in-
Moehlman.'s "School and Church," a lengthy review of which dividual Israelite.
to a Midrashic legend, the priests,
was published in a recent issue of The Jewish News. Dr. after According
the destruction of the Temple, came to return
Moehiman's devastating arguments should give every com- its Keys to the Divine Owner. "The Temple
munity leader courage to fight against this plan. It is to be service is at an end," they exclaimed; "herewith
hoped that Jews will not hesitate to join with their courage- we restore the keys."
"The Temple is destroyed," God replied, "but
ous Christian neighbors in opposing any attempt to put an my Law
survives. The keys to the Temple are
end to the sacred American principle which separates church now the keys to the Law. You are the teachers
and 'state.
of the Law; in your hands I deposit the keys."

Released Time Religious Education

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