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. Buy War Bonds! for Jews Battled Coming Issues Nazis 3 Years Of Jewish News !Deadlines By Capt. Aaron Kushnirov 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 On',account of Rosh Hashanah, occurring on Monday and Tues.! day, the deadline for our Sept. 22 issue will be at 3 p. m. today--# Friday, Sept. 15. - 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. Buy War Bonds! Suited to FALL PORTRAIT STUDIOS Portraits that Please .. . Taken in Our Studies or at Your Home! New Year's Greetings FOR APPOINTMENT CALL MA. 8319 808 Stephenson Bldg. Grand Boulevard at Cass_ 9 to 6 Daily — Sun. By Appt. A Happy New Year To All Our 2 9 9 Friends and Customers Suited to Fall . . . and to you. Beautiful A Happy New Year Buy More Bonds new suits of supple 100% woos in flattering dressmaker styles. 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