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Friday, IVovemier 2, t44'

Facts You S4oulcl Know

Answers

to Readers'
Questions About Jews

Tragic Balfour Day

No. 2—Balfour Day—once an occasion for
celebration is today cause for mourning.
Was Karl Marx a Jew?—U. V.
When Arthur James Balfour issued his
Karl Marx . was born .a Jew but was baptized
faMous statement on behalf of the British I
at the age of 6.
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government, 28 years ago, the Jewish people
Who were the inventors of the telephone
rejoiced and - 51, nations applauded. .-
and the microphone?—C. S.
It was an act of justice. A great power
1. Philip Reiss (1834-1874), a German Jew,
had declared itself in favor of facilitating the -
invented the telephone. He was , prevented from
establishment. of the Jewish National Home
developing and industrializing his epoch-making
invention by lack of funds. Later, Graham Bell
in Palestine.
and Thomas A. Edison placed it on the market,
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reaping fortune and fame, while the real in-•
Our own go(rernx-nent, under the leader, -
ventor remained unknown to the masses of the
ship of the great .Woodrow Wilson, endorsed
people of the world. 2. Emile Berliner (1851-
1915), German-Jewish scientist who made Wash-
that step and pledged its cooperation tC.
ington his home.
Zionisin, -Fifty other governments took
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similar steps: • • •
Who introduced the "coffee house" in
Ensiond?—Z. L.
Arab leaders endorsed the Balfour Decla-
A Jew- who was known only as "Jacob" in -
ration and expressed joy that a free Jewish
troduced the "Coffee House" in London in 1650:
nation will live in friendship with our half-
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brothers, the Arabs.
How many months are there in the Jew-
calendar year?-7S. 0.
Since then we have had nothing but
There are 12 months, in the Jewish calendar,
betrayals.
but during leap years one of the months is
Unfriendly 'administrations in Palestine,
duplicated as Adar Rishon and Adar "Shenithe
many of whose officials were anti-Jewish;
first and second Adar-----making it 13 months for
the leap year. •
an antagonistic Colonial. Office and bigoted
administrators incited Arabs to riot and
created trouble. They .Continue to cause
trouble. They continue to betray a sacred
trust. -
By DAVID MORANTZ
Balfotir and Wilson must be turning over
(Based upon the ancient legends and philosophy found in
the Talmud and folklore of the Jewish people dating back
in their graves. Their pledges are •being
"And I just learned that they awarded a Congressional
as far as 3,000 years).
broken. Their intentions are misinterpreted.
Medal without looking into the soldier's ancestry. Dis-
A
DAILY REMINDER
A new generation has arisen to shatter the
graceful!"
hopes of a people.
"Why was manna meted out to the Israelites
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in daily portions while they were in the wilder-
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This is the Balfour Day of 1945.
Jochai, "instead of giving them enough. to last
But there are redeeming features.
them a year at 'a time.
"A little parable," replied the rabbi,
The brave pioneers in Palestine do not
Having refused to deal with the British government answer your question."
give up the. struggle. '
. on the basis of the White Paper—a stand in which it stands
"A king once had a son to whom he gave a
The survivors from Nazism insist that. Pal,
yearly allowance. On the day- the allow-
Supported by the near-unanimous judgment and decision certain
estine. offers the only solution to their prob
ance was due the son called upon the father
of the Jewish people everywhere—the Jewish Agency now and this was the only time during the year
lem and that the civilized world must make
he saw his son:
their hopes realities.
emerges as the ignored and rejected "partner" in the inter- that
"Finally the king decided to divide the yearly
American and British Zionist leaders re-
national arrangement for Palestine's development as the allowance into daily portions and in order to
fuse to give up the struggle for justice and
obtain it, the son was required to tally daily
JeWish National Home.
upon the king. Hence, he did not any longer
will carry the fight to a finish.
have
to wait for a year to pass each time before
A JTA cable from Jerusalem states that the Palestine
On Balfour Day Jewry declares: we carry
government has ignored the Jewish Agency and has dis- he saw his son. •
on the battle for justice •and we shall never
"It was the same • way with Israel. As each'•
give up the fight until righteousness prevails._ patched 400 certificates directly to British consulates for one went forth to gather the manna, it was a
diStribution among Jewish refugees.
constant daily . reminder of the kindness and
• of the Great Master and Sustainer
, At the _same . time, another. JTA cable, from Sofia, re- goodness
of life."
, yealS that 700 Jews, who ,were preparing to leave for Pales-
tine, were left hgmeless and destitute by the sudden with-
Two items cabled to this country in the
drawal of their certificates by British authorities. These
past few days call for clarification.
700, including men, women and children, had sold their be-
One corroborates the information that
longings, had given up their jobs in anticipation of settling
100,000 former PoliSh Jews will be required
in Palestine. Facing a hard winter, they have appealed
to leave Soviet Russia and to return to
to the Jewish Agency to interecede with British authorities. Dear Boys and Girls:
Poland.
This month' has been set aside as Jewish Book
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The other states that the new proposed
Month. During this celebration, programs will
On what basis can the Jewish Agency use its "influence" be held in synagogues, in schools and in Jewish
British solution of the Palestine problem
Centers, in order to encourage our people-
with the British ?
will be to provide homes for 50,000 Jews in
young and old—to take a greater interest in
Philippeville, a costal town in - French
The Palestine Mandate, allocated to Great Britain at
Jewish cultural
Algeria.
the Allied, Conference of San Remo, April 25, 1920, corn-
matters. . It is
hope d, during
At a time when Polish Jews are fleeing „pleted in...London July 24, 1922, and put into force Sept. 29,
this month's
1923, states, in Article 4:
Poland into American and British zones of
celebration, to
occupation in Austria and Germany, pre •
encourage o'tfr
"An appropriate Jewish agency shall be recognized as
ferring concentration camps to a life of
people to help
a public body for the purpose of advising and co-operating '
in all e due a-
horror in anti-Semitic Poland; and in view
with the Administration of Palestine in such economic,
tional projects,..
social and other matters as may affect the establishment
of our experiences in Algeria where Jews
to buy Jewish
of the Jewish national home and the interests of the Jew-
suffered pogroms, the question must be
books and to
ish population in Palestine, and, subject always to the con-
asked, in both instances:
inspire our peo-
strol of the Administration. to assist and take part in the
ple' to read
development of the country.”
Do the United Nations consider these
them.
steps to be genuine rescue efforts, or do they
I believe that-- •
Now, the Jewish agency stands rejected, a symbol of
fail to realize that in the main such steps
the accompany- •
Jewish hopelessness, denied even the right of the "partner"
ing picture, tak-,
are tantamount to death sentences for the
to ask for the stipulated portion of his bargain.
en from a Bas-
Jews who are asked to go to Poland and
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Relief by the
Algeria?
late
Prof.' Boris
'But Great Britain apparently has little to worry about.
Schatz, the great
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Jewish sculptor, ••
symbolizes 'Jewish Book Months. It portrays
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The li e4gue o .Nations, to whom she was supposedly best
"Man and Book," and . symbolizes the Jews - - as •
Member of. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Independent
responsible, -is dead. ,
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Jewish Press Service, Seven ArtS Feature Syndicate ; -
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the Am Ha-Sefer--the People of the Book.
Religious News Service. Palcor News Agency, Wide World •
All of us should participate in the Jewish
The Palestine 'Mandate is a scrap of paper.
Photo Service, Acme Newsphoto Service, King Features
Syndicate, Central Press Service.
Book Month celebrations, and we should all
A
Roosevelt_
letter
in
response
to
a
vile
message
from
help increase cultural activities among our
.. Member American Association of English-Jewish News-
papers and Michigan Press Association. .
Ibn Saud. stands in danger of becoming "American policy." • people. .
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Yes, there are many angles in the situation which account " The sculptor dreaths in stone,
The potter Works in clay;
Entered as second-class matter August 6, 1992 at the
for betrayals in the British-Jewish agreements on Palestine:i
Post Office • at Detroit, Michigan, under the Act of ..
The scholar leaves us words alone,
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March 3, 1879.
When he has gone his way.
But justice—so we persist in believing--must triumph
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
No marble gods the Hebrew wrought,
MAURICE ARONSSON
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No tombs to pierce the stars;
in the end. When that day comes, there will be historic
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
FRED M. BUTZEL
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
Nor sculpture of Assyria, fraught
retribution, to the everlasting shame of British officials who
THEODORE LEVIN
ABRAHAM SRERE •
With scenes •of mighty wars.
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ HENRY WINEMAN
refuse to honor the validity of a sacred pledge.
For yellow gold the nations fought
PHTLIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
But
there
are
also
encouraging
angles.
And power which passed • away;
A. R. BRASCH, Advertising Counsel
The wealth of books our fathers sought—
Men like Senators Wagner, Taft, Vandenberg, Ferguson
VOL. 8—No. 7
And
it is ours today.
NOVEMBER 2, 1915
and scores of others like them are determined that justice
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shall be done.
The Week's Scriptural Selections
THE BIBLE
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President Truman's firm stand in behalf of the 100,000
By WALT WHITMAN
This Sabbath, the twenty-sixth day of Hesh-
Jews
who
must
be
rescued
from
concentration
camps
is
How many ages and generations have brooded
van, 5706, the following Scriptural selections
helpful in assuring a change in previous British policies.
and wept and agonized over this book! What
will be read in our synagogues:
It is possible that by the time this is published a decision untellable joys and ecstasies, what support to
Pentateuchal portion--Gen. 23:1-25:18.
martyrs at the_ stake, from it! To what myriads
may have been reached on Palestine.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 1-31:
has it been the shore and rock of safety—Lthe
The fight directed in behalf 'of the JeWish cause by Dr. refuge
driving tempest and. Wreck! Transla, - :
On Tuesday, Rosh Hodesh Kislev, Num.
Abba Hillel Silver : has been effective. It may even prove ed into from
all languages, how it has united this*
28:1-15 will be read during synagogue services.
diverse world! Of its thousands there is .not a
successful. We are on the eve of an historic decision. May
Candle lighting time this. Friday-is at 5:32 p. m
a .•; war*
is thick-studded with
be honorable. _and just.
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Talmudic Tales

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New Angles in Betrayals

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Rescue or Death Sentence? •

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