fHE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 27, 1944

Jewish Broadcast at Aachen
Planned for Sunday Morning

NATIONAL W ,\R FUND

Page Seventeen ,

111 Educators Hail Book
To Teach Tolerance In U. S.

American Jewish Committee Program From Embattled
City to be Short-Waved from Ruins of Synagogue
Which Germans Razed in 1938 Pogrom

Call New Textbook for Youth, a "Timely" and "Realistic"
Blueprint for Nullifying Prejudice Among High
School Students

The embattled German city of
Aachen. will be the scene of the
first Jewish broadcast from Nazi
soil to the United States when
Chaplain Morris A. Frank of
General Hodges' First Army con-
ducts religious services this Sun-
day morning, Oct. 29, 9:30 to 9:45
a. rn., EWT, in a program pre-
sented by the American Jewish
Committee in collaboration with
the National Broadcastng Com-
pany.
(The Detroit Jewish Commun-
ity Council has arranged for the
program to be rebroadcast over
WWJ from 11:15 to 11:30 p. m.)
The program, to be carried
over the NBC coast-to-coast net-
work, will come directly to
American listeners from the ruins
of Aachen's only synagogue al-
most six years after the Nazis
had destroyed it when they bent
their special fury against the
Jews of the Reich following the
assassination of Ernst von Rath,
a minor official in the German
legation in Paris, by Herschel
Grynszpan on Nov. 7, 1938.
Oldest Jewish Settlement
Aachen, better known under
its French name of Aix-La-
Chapelle, is said to be the oldest
Jewish settlement on the Euro-
pean continent. In 1938, when
the anti-Jewish pogroms swept
Germany, it had a Jewish popu-
lation of 1,000.
Following the broadcast to this
country NBC will beam the pro-
gram back to occupied Germany.
The broadcast from Aachen is
the second American Jewish
Committee program to be short-
waved by the National Broad-
casting Company from an allied
liberated areas. The first such
program came from the Temple
Israelitico in liberated Rome on

July 23, 1944.
Chaplain Frank was formerly
rabbi of Temple Emanuel in
Lawrence, Mass., and before that
rabbi of Congregation Beth-El of
Richmond, Va.
The arrangements for the
broadcast are being handled by
James Cassidy, NBC commenta-
tor in Germany.
Charlemagne Capital
Aachen has the distinction of
having been the capital of the
legendary Charlemagne, who
made use of the Jews as his
emissaries. The Jews were be-
lieved to have settled in Aachen
in the first centuries of the
Christian era, and the course of
the "Jews' Street" runs along
the outside of what was once
the western . wall of the old
Roman rampart. The first refer-
ence to Jews in Aachen is in
an ordinance of the eighth cen-
tury, which mentions J e w is h
merchants. For four centuries
after that nothing more was
heard of the Jews of Aachen.
In the 13th century, according
to the records of the Church of
St. Mary, there were a few
Jewish converts. In the 15th cen-
tury, the Jews of the town
brought magnificent presents to
Maximilian I at the time of his
coronation. Their presence dur-
ing the 16th and 17th centuries
is a certainty, for they contrib-
uted .large sums to the state
treasury at that time. In 1629
they were all expelled from the
town and only six Jews were
allowed to return in 1667.
The founders of the present
Jewish community settled in
Aachen during the French Revo-
lution. The synagogue which the
Nazis razed in 1938 was built in
1860.

NEW YORK—The "first textbook" to set forth a concrete
program for coping with the problem of incipient prejudice
among American youth—"Probing Our Prejudices," by Prof.
Hortense Powdermaker of Queens College, New York—has
been hailed by 111 prominent educators and inter-faith lead-.
ers from 25 states as a "timely" and "realistic" blueprint for

House of Shelter
Party on Nov. 8

Neugarten Aid Equips
Day Room for Veterans

Neugarten Medical Aid will

Mrs. Hyman Altman Makes hold a rally at 1:30 p. in. Monday
in the English Room of the Book
Appeal for Support of
Cadillac Hotel. Admission will
Auxiliary's Project

Mrs. Hy- man Altman, president
of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the
House of Shelter, announces that
elaborate arrangements are being
completed for the annual card
party to • be held on Nov. 3 at
Moss' Hall on Joy Road.
Mrs. Altman states that pro-
ceeds will not only go towards
furnishing and equipping the
House of Shelter, but also to con-
tinue the policy of providing
holiday meals for . residents of
Eloise and Ypsilanti.
The report just made by Mrs.
Altman indicates that large num-
bers of people have been aided
by the auxiliary to observe the .
recent holydays.
Mrs. Altman stated that ad-
ditional funds are also needed to
provide necessities for the House
of Shelter.

Isaacs Will Address
Youth Training Course

The second meeting of the
Youth Training Course of the
Jewish Community Center will
take place this Sunday.
Bernard Isaacs, superintendent
of the United Hebrew Schools,
will discuss the field of Hebrew
literature. He will present a
panoramic picture of the great
Hebrew works, will stress the
ideas which seem to be para-
mount and will also point out the
great literary personalities who
have created in the Hebrew
language.
Drora Selesny will lead the
group in community singing. The
purpose of this phase of the
group session will be to carry
away some idea of leading com-
munity songs.
Meetings of the Youth Train-
ing Course are held on Sundays
at 2:30 p. m. in the Adult Lounge.
Those interested in joining the
group are asked to see Louis Nei-
mand, assistant director of the
Center.

FOR OUR OWN -FOR OUR ALLIES

For the most part the children
og Europe are today involved in
the greatest welter of horror,
devastation and misery that the
world has ever known. Millions
of youngsters have yet to know
what peace and freedom mean.
Some thousands of others have
been removed from the chaos
and brought to temporary homes
in America by the United States
Committee for the Care of
European Children.

The war time activity of the
committee, as well as that of oth-
er member agencies of the War
Chest of Metropolitan Detroit, is
promoting world-wide good-will
and neighborliness.
Your contribution to the Com-
munity War Chest will aid this
work and that of numerous war-
related member agencies serving
our neighbors, our allies and our
fighting men. Give as generous-
ly as you can to the Detroit War
Chest, 51 W. Warren Ave.
"They'll never forget that you
remembered."

$1,520,340 Budget
Adopted for 1945
By Welfare BOard

CHICAGO, (JTA) — The sum
of $1,520,340 for service during
1945 to Jews in the U. S. armed
forces, returned . Jewish veterans
and Jewish youth at home, was
voted here by the National Fin-
ance Council, the budgeting and
allocating body of the National
Jewish Welfare Board, following
a two-day session at the Hotel
Stevens, presided over by Frank
L. Weil, JWB president.
Expansion of 'services account-
ed for an increase of $348,000
above the 1944 budget, Irving
Edison of St. Louis, chairman of
the council, explained. "Through
602 Army and Navy committees
here and abroad, 263 Jewish
Army and Navy chaplains, more
than 300 field workers and 293
Jewish centers and Y's, JWB
service reaches soldiers and .sail-
ors in every part of the world,"
he said. "It follows them into
hospitals when they are wounded
and continues into civilian life
after they are discharged."

building mutual understandingۥ
among America's religious and ter or inferior to another people.
ethnic groups, it was announced And for the first time it also
by Dr. William H. Kilpatrick, helps them become aware that
Professor Emeritus of Education they do in fact carry prejudice
at Columbia *University a n d and, besides, where it comes
chairman of the board of the from, why it is there and what
Bureau of Intercultural. Educa- effect it willunless checked—
tion, 119 57th St.
have on their future lives."
Dr. Kilpatrick said that schools
Michigan Endorsers
throughout the country were
Endorsers of "Probing Our
adopting the book for study and
Prejudices" from Michigan are:
use in the classroom. Though
Max A. Brail, Superintendent
the book was designed primarily
of Schools, Baldwin; Dr. John
as a unit for high school stu-
R. Barnes, Detroit Public Schools;
dents, he added, it was also be-
James B. Edmonson, Dean, School
ing used by inter-faith groups
of Education, University of Mich-
working with adults. "Probing
igan, Ann Arbor; Manley E. Ir-
Our Prejudices" was issued by
the Bureau in conjunction with win, Divisional Director of In-
struction,. Detroit; Harvey C.
Harper's.
Jackson, Race Relations Coun-
Best Startizik Point
selor, Highland Park; Dr. Edgar
Declaring that there is in- Johnston, Bureau of Coopera-
creasing awareness of the acute- tion, University of Michigan;
ness of the problem of group Ralph Van Hoesen, Principal,
tensions by leaders of thought Lincoln High School, Ferndale.
all over the country, Dr. Kilpat-
rick said that "education, while
it should not constitute the only Dr. Brin's 3d Book
line of attack, is certainly the On Speech Published
most inclusive approach and the
BOSTON (JPS)—The Speech
best starting point."
Arts Press has announced the
"Before prejudice can congeal
publication of Dr. Joseph G.
in the youthful mind, it can be Brin's "Help Yourself to Better
brought out into the open and Speech," a work in the field of
discussed for what it is right in
public address, with a forew4rd
the classroom," he said. "A' si- by the Rev. Walton E. Ctle,
multaneous process, a more posi- prominent Unitarian minister.
tive one, is to develop in our
This is Dr. Brin's third pub-
school youth a respect not only lication in the field of American
for the similarities but also for Speech. Previously he wrote
the differences in the cultural "Personal Power Through Public
contributions which each group Speech," Harper and Brothers,
has brought to America.
1940; and "Leadership Through
Suggests Activities
Forceful Speech," Harbinger
"Prof. Powdermaker's book is House, 1942.
of especial value," he continued.
"It embraces both these ap-
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Council For Judaism
Urges U.S. to Alter
Stand on Palestine

MRS. CHARLES ROTHSTEIN

be by paid pledges to the annual
luncheon.
Mrs. Morton Jacobs, rummage
chairman, has arranged for rum-
mage dates which can be made
by calling TO. 8-5010. Mrs. Mor-
ris Roth is in charge of cards.
Mrs. Charles Rothstein, chair-
man of the war efforts commit-
tee, reports that the Veterans Ad-
ministration Hospital in Battle
Creek will be equipped with a
Day Room with funds to be raised
by the club. A contribution is
also being made to the Red Cross
for Army and Navy embarkation
k its.

Buy War Bonds!

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PHILADELPHIA (JPS) —
American Council for Judaism
submitted a memorandum to Sec-
retary of State Hull proposing
that "all previous documents and
commitments on Palestine" be re-
placed by 'a new policy stressing
"the special character of Pales-
tine as part of the religious heri-
tage of Judaism, Christianity and
Islam." This implies abrogation
of the Balfour Declaration pledg-
ing the JeWs a national home in
Palestine.
Urging abrogation of the White
Paper, the Council proposed that
the government of the U. S. use
its good offices for the adoption
of a policy. whereby "immigra-
tion shall. not be limited by racial
and religious qualifications but
shall be determined by the ex-
panding economic capacity and
political stability" of those terri-
tories that are "potential centers
of immigration not now having
the status of a sovereign nation."

Hedy LaMarr, they say, is
planning to produce pictures un-
der her own banner and bank-
roll.

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