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THE JEWISH NEWS

The Undesirables

A Jewish Brigade Fund

Moshe Shertok, head of the political de-
partment of the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine, has made an interesting: , proposal,
urging the creation of a fund to
b assist the
survivors of members of the Jewish Brigade
who have lost their lives in this war. •
It is significant that the Jews of Argen-
tine already have raised $32,000 for this
purpose, and there is reason to believe that
other lands will join in the effort to assure
some semblance of security for the families
of the Brigaders.
The reports regarding the Jewish Brig-
ade's activities are highly encouraging. Re-
porting to a large gathering in the Beth
Haam in- Tel Aviv, on a visit with the Brig-
adiers before V-E Day, Mr. Shertok declared:
"I don't know if there is, among the Jewish
people generally, a community as happy as
our soldiers on the Italian front where they
are fighting with the feeling that they are
giving expression to Jewish bravery which
was always a latent flame smouldering in
Jewish Palestine."
The least that the Jews everywhere can
do as an expression of appreciation for their
efforts is to assure them that their families
will not be neglected in the event that an
'hour of need should arise.

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Facts You Should Know

Answers to Readers'
Questions About Jews

Patience and Justice

Humanity's hopes continue to hang in
the balance.
As the hands on the clock of Time con-
tinue to move slowly, it • becomes apparent
that we have been and are impatient.
Perhaps we are too impatient. There
is a war to be won. The eastern foe has
been crushed, but the western enemy car-
ries on a relentless fight.
Until the complete victory is achieved,
there will continue to be carried on inter-
governmental negotiations, and the demo-
cratic powers will be compelled to make
compromises and concessions affecting the
entire scheme of the planned new Interna-
tional Organization..
This is where we come in. In whatever
bargains may be made, we will be affected.
If oil is to play a serious role in the peace
plans, as oil undoubtedly will, then our
position will be impaired. If immigration
streams are to be cut off and there is to be
rigid control of population movements, we
will be affected. If all former residents of
territories now held by Russia are compelled
to return to their former homes, there will
be tragedy for those coming from former
Germanic countries who had sworn never to
set foot again on the accursed land whose
rulers had brought destruction upon the
world.
What we need is patience. But where
are the saints who can muster up enough
patience to wait for solutions of problems
which have caused so much misery to Israel
whose ranks have been decreased by 5,000,-
000 men, women and children who had died
the - death of martyrs at the hands of Nazi
tyrants?
Our patience must be fortified by as-
surances that the nations of the world will
not forget the plight of our people and that
justice will remain the guide for the plan-
ners of the world's future,

Friday, May 25, 1945

•■■

How does the American Jewish Joint Dis-
tribution Committee dispense its aid abroad?
—A, M.
The Joint Distribution Committee overseas
works through local Jewish communities. JDC's
overseas representatives have gone to direct and
assist in the work of the .JDC and to report to
New York on the needs and problems facing Jews
overseas. The actual work of administering the
money is left, where possible, to the native Jews.
* * *
When do Jewish new-born children receive
their names?—D. S.
A Jewish girl is named at the services in the
synagogue on the Sabbath (or any day when the
Torah is read) following her birth, when the
father is called to participate in the reading of
the Torah. A boy is named at the ceremony of
circumcision. One of those present then prays
for the health of the mother and her child and
announces its name.
* * *
What is the symbolism of the perpetual
lamp in Jewish synagogues?
U. V.
Symbolically, the perpetual lamp attests the
firm conviction of Jews that the light of instruc-
tion will always issue from the synagogue. The
lamp is made of gold, silver or burnished brass.

Talmudic Tales

By DAVID MORANTZ

(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).

REMEMBER AND KEEP

Late one Friday afternoon Rabbi Shimon ben
Yochai and his son, Rabbi Elazar, were walking
down the street when they saw an old man
hurrying past carrying two bunches of myrtle,
one in either hand.
"Why do you carry these?" they inquired.
Civilized nations have undergone a rude awakening.
"I carry them to smell in honor of the
It was not so long ago that the democratic peoples, in- Sabbath," he replied.
"But why two bunches?" they asked. "Would
cluding our own, listened with suspicion to reports of the
bunch not' be enough?"
horrible atrocities perpetrated upon the Jews. They did not one
"No," replied the pious old man, "one is to re-
hesitate to say that the reports of wholesale murders were mind me to 'Remember the Sabbath' and the
exaggerated and the word "propaganda" was used all-too- other is to remind me to "Keep the Sabbath'."
Says the Talmud further on the subject:
freely.
"It is not enough that man "remembereth' the
The evidence, unfortunately, has arrived a bit late. Sabbath
but he _must 'keep' it as well."

- •
—A Carlisle Cartoon
—Copyright, 1945, New York Herald Tribune Inc.

A Rude Awakening

Much suffering could have been prevented had the world at
large been aware of the barbarities which were imposed
first upon the Jews and later were visited upon all groups.
Yes, the evidence is here. The horrors of Oswiecim and
Dachau and Buchenwald are a matter of record.
We are horrified by the stories, by the photographs of
human suffering, by the statistics of wholesale murder and
brutality.
Now, the conscience of mankind- finally has been
awakened, and we may well hope that the experiences of
the past 12 years will cause the democratic powers to set up
-the necessary machinery not only to punish the perpetrators
of the crimes against humanity but also to isolate the Nazi
gangsters that they, their kinsmen and their offspring never
again will be able to violate the principles of human decency.

If there are Germans who do not know about the crimes
that were perpetrated by the Nazis, it is encouraging to
know that the Office of War Information is giving them
"plenty of information on German atrocities," according to a
statement by Elmer Davis, OWI director.
All Germans should be informed, for instance, about
the expose of the United Press correspondent, Robert
Richards, that photographs of Jews stripped to the waist
and "revealing huge welts as thick as a man's wrist, caused
by repeated- beatings," were found in the Nuremberg home
of Julius Streicher, the sadistic author of the Nuremberg
racial laws. Streicher had fled Nuremberg two days before
the arrival of the American troops, among whom were Jews,
some of them refugees from Germany, who would have
known how to take care of this arch-criminal.

From all indications, the criminals will be well attended
to. The world has suffered entirely too much from fascism
and nazism to be able to tolerate mercy for the disgusting
criminals or to make it possible for their crimes to be
repeated.
There should be a continuous flow of exposes of the
terrible German crimes, so that the peoples of the world
always should have before them a picture of Nazi brutali-
ties It is the only way of enforcing law and order, of aveng-
ing the wrongs done to millions, of averting future wrongs.

Punishment for Traitors

In normal times, retribution is a harsh word. But in
time of war and in the process of making peace for the world
it is a mild objective in the process of teaching a lesson to
tyrants that their destructive efforts must not be tolerated.
The. list of war criminals is not limited to Nazis and
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Fascists. Among the world's evil spirits are also to be found
MAURICE ARONSSON
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Americans.
FRED M. EUTZEL
ISIDORE SOB ELOFF
THEODORE LEVIN
Ezra Pound is one of them.
ABRAHAM SRERE
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ HENRY WINEMAN -
This American-born poet had become a part of the Nazi-
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
Fascist machine by broadcasting anti-American Nazi pro-
A. R. BRASCH, Advertising Counsel
paganda from Italy. He called bhimself an expatriate. As
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MAY 25, 1945
one of Mussolini's tools, his destructive work resulted in his
indictment two years ago, in Washington, for treason.
The Week's Scriptural Selections
We are confident that he, and other traitors like him,
This Sabbath, the fourteenth day of Sivan, will be dealt with summarily and firmly. The penalty he is
5705, the following Scriptural selections will be to receive should serve as a lesson and as a warning to weak-
read in our synagogues:
minded not to yield to the temptations that are offered them
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 4:21-7:89.
by foreign powers to become their tools in destroying the
Prophetical portion—Judges 13:2-25.
peace of the world.

(Copyright by David Morantz)
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Children's Corner

A POET'S THOUGHT

What Heinrich Heine Wrote
About the Bible in 1830
"The Bible, what a book! Large and wide as
the world; based on the abysses of creation, and
towering aloft into the blue secrets of heaven.
Sunrise and sunset, promise and fulfillment, birth
and death—the whole drama of humanity—are
contained in this one book. It is the Book of
Books. The Jews may readily be consoled at the
loss of Jerusalem, and the Temple, and the Ark
of the Covenant, and all the crown jewels of
King Solomon. Such forfeiture is as naught when
weighed against the Bible, the imperishable treas-
urer that they have saved. If I do not err, it was
Mahomet who named the Jews the 'People of the
Book,' a name which in Eastern countries has
remained theirs to the present day, and is deep-
ly significant. That one book is to the Jews their
country. Within the well-fenced boundaries of
that book they live and have their being; they
enjoy their inalienable citizenship, are strong to
admiration; thence none can dislodge them. Ab- •
sorbed in the perusal of their sacred book, they
little heeded the changes that were wrought in
the real world around them. Nations rose and
vanished, states flourished and decayed, revolu-
tions raged throughout the earth—but they, the
Jews, sat pouring over this book unconscious of
the wild chase of time that rushed on above their
heads."

ESTEEMING THE BIBLE

By HORATIUS SONAR
This holy Book I'd rather own,
Than all the gold and gems
That e'er in monarchs' coffers shone,
Than all their diadems,
Nay, were the seas one chrysolite,
The earth one golden ball,
And diadems all the stars of night,
This book outweighs them all,
Alt, no, the soul ne'er found relief
In glittering hoards of wealth;
Gems dazzle not the eye of grief,
Gold cannot purchase health.
But here a blessed balm appears
To heal the deepest woe,
And those who read this Book in tears,
Their tears shall cease to flow.
* * *

THE JEWISH HOPE

By DR. MORRIS JOSEPH
The momentous work that was begun on that
fateful night in Egypt when our ancestors
marched forth to freedom may seem to languish;
but perish it never will. It is ever being carried
on. It cannot fail to be carried on if only we, we
of the doubting heart, casting aside our misgiv-
ings, will take part in it. Let there be but one
faithful soul left to cherish the old tradition and
to work for it, and it must survive. Let there be
but one heart left to dream of Israel's triumph,
of the conquest of a pure and exalted Judaism
over the minds of men, and that dream will ulti-
mately come true. Like every vigorous and
worthy hope, it will fulfill itself,