Friday, Sepfemtier 15, 1944
ZOA Organizes
Unity Committee
For Palestine
Group Launches National
Educational ,Program
To Clarify Issues
THE :JEWISH NEWS
HEROES OF VILNA
Chaplain Adler Greets Detroit
Jewry Through Jewish News
By RABBI mom's ADLER
Chaplain, U. S. Army, Stationed at Rhoads General Hospital
Utica, N. Y.
I pray that the. New Year may .bring its redeeming and
compensating blessings for the sorrows and horrors of the
tragic period, which we hope is now drawing to a close. The
two chief motifs of this season are repentance and resolve;
repentance as we face the past, resolve as we front the future.
These are likewise the at-
titudes t h e world most
acutely needs. Without pen-
itence, for we too share in
the guilt, we shall lack the
humility out of which alone
wisdom rises. Without res-
olution we shall be bereft
of the steel-like determina-
tion adequate for the im-
mense problems of healing
and re-building that chal-
lenge us. These are too, the
traits which American Is-
rael must develop in this
hour. We must recognize
our weakness and failures
in the past and must mo7
bilize our group will to
correct them.
To the Jewish commu-
nity, its leaders and mem-
bers, I extend my warm
and earnest wishes that the
year 5705 may usher in a
period of health and bless-
ing — and that satisfaction
which is born of conse-
crated endeavor in behalf of great things.
WASHINGTON — With the
avowed purpose of "unifying the
American Jewish community be-
hind the full implementation of
the Balfour Declaration," the
newly established "Committee
on Unity for Palestine" has
launched a nationwide educa-
tional program primarily de-
signed to clarify Zionist issues
to non-Zionist Jewish circles,
according to Dr. Israel Gold-
stein, president of the 'Zionist-
Organization of America.
Dr. Felix Levy of Chicago,
veteran Zionist and outstanding
Reform Jewish leader, is serving
as chairman of this new ZOA
Committee, while Rabbi Arthur
J. Lelyveld, of Omaha, is vice
chairman.
Oscar Leonard of New • York
is secretary, and the member-
ship of the committee includes
outstanding rabbis and laymen
from all segments of American
Jewry.
The committee sets forth as
its aim the fostering of "recog-
nition of the need for united
Jewish action in the campaign Rabbi Doppelt's Book, "Dia-
for full implementation of the
logue With God," Deals
_Balfour Declaration." ."We see
With Mystic Studies
in Palestine," the committee's
announcement said, "the land
"Dialogue With God," Rabbi
with which our people have had
an unbroken historic connection, Frederic A. Doppelt's latest
promise of a normal future for book, published by Dorrance &
our brethren, those Jews of the Co., Philadelphia, is a signifi-
world who would otherwise be cant study of prayer.
Interpreting the concepts of
homeless." -
"We see in Palestine promise prayer, Rabbi Doppelt, who min-
of rich, new spiritual contribu- isters to Temple Achduth Ves-
holom in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
tions from a people of Israel re-
draws upon Hebraic and Chris-
planted in a publicly secured,
tian
sources to explain why peo-
legally assured home on its
ple pray, whether prayers fail
ancient soil."
or succeed, why people MUST
Rabbi Lelyveld maintains that pray today and what people
"the simple justice of Zionist pray for.
aims has too often been ob-
A student of mysticism, Rabbi
scured by emotionalism and con- Doppelt writes from the view-
troversy. We intend to present point of a mystic. He interprets
the facts' of the Zionist case in prayer as "a discipline of the
accurate and temperate terms to soul which disciplines man to
that section . of the American function , as God's co-worker in
spublic which has never been the world."
properly approached on the
Prayers, he admonishes the
matter."
Meaning of Prayer
Permanent FEPC
Bill Supported
WASHINGTON, (JPS) — Em-
ployment discrimination against
Catholics as well as against Ne-
groes and Jews after the war was
predicted by the Rt. Reverend
John A. Ryan, of the National
Catholic (Welfare Conference, ap-
pearing before a Senate subcom-
mittee in support of a bill to
create permanent Fair Employ-
ment Practices Committee.
Rabbi J. X. Cohen,. of the
Commission against Economic
Discrimination of the American
Jewish Congress, was another
witness for the bill. ,
Charging that indications are
that neither Republicans nor
Democrats intend to enact per-
manent Fair Employment Prac-
tices legislation before the elec-
tion, A. Philip Randolph, na-
tional director of the March on
Washington Movement, issued a
statement calling on Negroes
throughout the country to start
a "blitz of propaganda" calling
for a permanent FEPC.
Page Thirty-nine
I. Feinberg
re a der, "are answered when the
wit of God • works through the
will of nature and becomes the
will of man. Then, what starts
out as only wishful thinking be-
comes a spiritual force which
changes the soul' within and the
world without."
In his interesting discussion of
"Why Prayers Fail" he declares
that "prayer must rise out of
the human spirit as a natural
and consuming desire of t h e
spirit, even as art from the soul
of the artist."
British Jews Mark 5th
War Year with Prayers
LONDON (JTA)—British Jews
marked the fifth anniversary of
the war at services in synagogues
throughout the c o u n t r y. Al-
though the bulk of the congre-
gations were aged men and
women, the services were at-
tended by many American, Ca-
nadian 'and other Allied soldiers.
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VILNA (JPS)—The signal for
the Jewish guerilla war against
the Nazis in Vilna and its en-
virons, a war which raged for
three years until the city's libera-
tion by the Red Army, was given
by Vitka Kempner, 23. Having
demonstrated remarkable initia-
tive and indomitable courage in
the organization of the first Jew-
ish guerilla units, she was as-
signed by Itsik Wittenberg, chief
of the Vilna Jewish guerillas, to
the first major task undertaken
by them—the wrecking . of a
German train as it steamed into
the Novo Vilnius railway station.
The successful execution of this
assignment was the signal for
both friend and foe that the Jew-
ish partisans • were taken back.
For Vitka Kempner, too, this was
only the beginning. Betwen that
time and the liberation of the
city by Red Army forces, Vitka
Kempner scored to her credit
several other train wrecks, in-
cluding one in which, at least
two hundred German soldiers
were killed, and the. demolition
of the power station in Vilna
which hampered Nazi efficiency
and ,facilitated the execution of
a long-range sabotage program.
The struggle waged by the .
Jewish guerillas is a golden
page in the history of Jewish
heroism, but, unfortunately, we
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day, the deadline for our Sept. 22
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On account of Yom Kippur, the
deadline for the Sept: 29 issue
will be at 1 p. m. on Monday,
Sept. 25.
on account of Sukkoth, occur-
ring on Oct. 2-3 and Oct. 9-10, the
deadlines for our Oct. 6 and Oct.
13 issues be at 3 p. m. on
Fridays, Sept. 29 and Oct. 6, re-
spectively.
cannot yet unravel the full story
of their heroic exploits.
When Wittenberg perished in
action on July 16, 1943, Abe
Kovner, 25, an artist, took over.
Up to that time many of the
Jewish guerillas were still op-
erating within Vilna from hide-.
outs, and from a fully equipped
"underground city.'
After a bloody skirmish, Kovn-
er and several hundred survivors
retreated to the forests and con-
stituted themselves into four
separate all-Jewish units. For
nine months Kovner led a de-
tachment c a 11 e d "Avengers,"
which on July 16, one year after
the death of Wittenberg, marched
into Vilna with the Red Army.
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