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THE JEWISH NEWS
As the Editor
Views the News - -
Facts You Should Know
Answers to Readers'
uestions About Jews
Cause of Terrorism
There are very few Jews who will justify
terrorism, in Palestine or elsewhere.
"But very few people anywhere will be
too harsh with the youths of Palestine, ir-
responsible as their actions may be, if they
study existing conditions.
Great Britain's failure to adhere to the
assurance that even the minimum of 1,500
settlers a month will be admitted into Pales-
tine added fuel to the fire.
The deportation of 55 Jews from Eritrea
camp represented an act of heartlessness.
British authorities in the main act with
flagrant disregard to Jewish rights..
It is under these conditions that Jews in
Palestine act as the Irish did in Ireland a
quarter of a century ago. .
Terrorism is wrong. But when you
realize 'that British policies are responsible
for them, you begin to understand the
anguish- of Palestine Jewry.
What is the Shulhan Arukh?
The Shulhan Arukh is a compendium of Jewish
law according to which orthodox Jews regulate
their -daily lives.
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Who introduced soap manufacturing in
this country?
The General Assembly of Rhode Island in 1761,
empowered James Lucena, a Jew, of Newport-,
R. I., to open a castile soap factory.
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If there were very many people who had
doubted that the surviving Jews in Europe
must be taken out of their present places
and settled where they can have true and
decent homes, they should read the state-
ment of former Chief Rabbi Leo Baeck' of
Berlin, who is on a visit in this country
after having been released by American
troops from a concentration camp.
Rabbi Baeck spoke in behalf of the 4,000
surviving German Jews, the 3,000 surviving
Austrian Jews and the 150,000 survivors
from Poland, Romania and other Central
European countries who, he ,declared, must
find homes abroad.
He mentioned Palestine, the United
States and England and he spoke of Presi-.
dent Truman's directive for the admission
of 3,900 refugees a month to this country as
"a big comfort."
The great task of rehabilitation is about
to begin, and the Jews of America will be
called upon to render services that are un-
precedented in the history of philanthropy.
The task will be accomplished with lesser
difficulty once our people begin to under-
stand the terrific problems involved.
The Palestine Labor Drive
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VOL. 8—No. 16
JANUARY 4, 1946
The Week's Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the third day of Shevat, 5706,
the following Scriptural selections will be read
In our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 6:2-9:35.
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 28:25-29-21.
Candle-lighting time this Friday is at 4:51 p. m.
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What share did Jews have in the compil-
ation of astronomical tables used by great dis-
cov erers?
Most of the important astronomical tables
in use during the Middle Ages were compiled or
translated by Jews.
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What became of the Ark of the Covenant?
The Ark with its contents was destrayed, hid-
den or, stolen, during the capture of Jerusalem
by Nebuchadnezzar.
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When was the Old Testament completed?
According to tradition, the canon of the Old
Testament was closed by Ezra and the books
probably compiled about 100 B. C.
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Future of Survivors
Detroit's Palestine Labor Committee will
inaugurate its annual Gewerkshaften cam-
paign on Sunday, for a quota of $125,000;
and it is evident from the pre-campaign
response reported by the campaign leaders
that this year's fund-raising effort will be
as successful as the previous Palestine labor
appeals.
The Gewerkshaften campaign has become
one of the more popular of the lesser cam-
paigns in our community. Serving as the
supporting medium in our community for
the Histadnit, the Palestine Jewish Labor
Federation, this cause has gained momentum
during the past 1-5 years and has risen from
the first year's collection of approximately
$3,000 to last year's $95,000. This year's in-
creased goal was made necessary by in-
creased responsibilities of the Histadrut as
well as the expanded interest in Palestine
labor's objectives.
Gewerkshaften's popularity is well earn-
ed. The devotion of its leaders 'is certain
to lead to another triumphant fund-raising
effOrt in 1946.
Friday, January 4, 1946
Talmudic Tales
By DAVID MORANTZ
THERE'S STILL A WAR ON !
"These prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the world
long after their bodies have returned to dust."
(Justice Robed H. Jackson at the War-Crimes Trials)
. Welles and Churchill
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Palestine
During the past week it became apparent that the hopes
for the creation of a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine
are far from lost and that the Zionist cause has better than
an even chance to succeed—in OUR lifetime. There is
reason to believe that the cause of a -Jewish Palestine
will make even better strides in the decade to come than
it has in the two previous decades which have seen the
miraculous growth of the Jewish colonies in Eretz Israel.
This contention is based in the main on the statements
of two eminent Christians—former Under Secretary . of
State Sumner Welles and Randolph Churchill, son of former
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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In a statement accepting the chairmanship of the Mary-
land American Christian I:alestine Committee, Mr. Welles
said:
"The Commonwealth in Palestine can only come into
being if the United Nations Organization decides, as it
should, that the establishment of a Jewish Cominonwealth
in Palestine is essential to world peace and to world se-
curity." He proceeded to state that he "wholeheartedly
endorses" this declaration made by the World Zionist Con-
ference in London last summer:
"Any delay in the solution of the problem, any at-
tempt at half measures, any decision which, however favor-
able, remains en paper and is not faithfully and speedily
implemented, will not meet the tragedy of the hour and
will only increase suffering among Jews and tension in
Palestine."
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Randolph Churchill, journalist whose column is syn-
dicated by the Scripps-Howard newspapers in this country,
in a letter to the London Spectator in which he replied to
a correspondent, "Janus," who charged that British Jews
Want other Jews to go to Palestine "while they hold fast
to Hampstead," wrote:
"I am not a Jew but I am a British Zionist, meaning" I am
a supporter of the Balfour Declaration and would like to see a . .
national home created for the Jews in Palestine.
"No Zionist, Jewish or non-JewiSh, ever suggested that all
16,000,000 Jews of the world seek admittance to Palestine and
why are the Jews of Hampstead specially suggested for emigra-
tion? The British Government, rightly or. wrongly, :curtailed
Jewish immigration into Palestine. Isn't it better for those who
escaped slaughter and are homeless to go there than for British
Jews who are comparatively well off and leading useful lives
in this country to go instead and crowd out their brethern?
Zionism is a partly romantic idealistic conception to which many
Jews adhere without wishing to go to Palestine themselves,
while a practical policy might help the world rescue the -million
Jews .left from the six million in Europe before Hitler." •
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These statements by the two eminent Christians are
significant from many points of view. They prove once
more that Christian public opinion is not misled by false
propaganda. They indicate a sincere interest in practical
efforts for the solution of the problems of the ;unfortunate
Jews of Europe. They prove that Christian leaders are not
misled by the present unfOrtunate situation in Palestine
resulting from the terrorism for which a handful of youths
are responsible. They are heartening to Jews and non-Jews
who are banded: together in efforts to bring aboUt the
realization of hopes for the creation of the Jewish National
Home in Palestine.
We would feel better about it if these statements were
to become the POLICY of statesmen IN, OFFICE. But we
are prepared to accept them as an encouragement to all
who are determined that justice shall be done to the Jewish
people and that pledges shall be kept.
(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).
Two slaves were one day walking along behind
their master when one slave remarked to the
other:
"There is a camel traveling ahead of us. This
camel is blind in the left eye and carries two
skin bottles, one on the left side containing wine
and the other on the right side containing oil."
The master, believing this to be mere imagin-
ation on the part of the slave, upbraided him for
such foolish talk."
"My master," he replied, "the grass is eaten
only on the right side of the path which would
indicate that the camel is blind in the left eye.
The wine dripping from one bottle has soaked
into the dround on the left and the drops of oil
on the right side of the road show where the
oil has trickled down from the bottle on that side."
"Come let us hasten and meet up with them," -
answered the master, "and if this be but: idle
talk, you shall be punished."
By quickening their speed, they caught up
with the party ahead and found the slave's pre-
diction correct.
There was the camel, blind in the left eye, the
two bottles Made of skins containing oil and wine
just as the slave had stated.
"Thou art too shrewd to be a slave," said the
master, "thou mayest have thy freedom and may-
est thou live long and prosper thru thy shreWd-
ness."
Say the Talmud further:
"Honor the wise."
"Learning is wealth to the poor, and an orna-
ment to the rich."
"Counsel and wisdom achieve greater exploits
than force."
"Unlettered men are not always the most
ignorant, nor learned men always wise."
Children's Corner
Dear Boys and Girls:
On Thursday, Jan. 17, our people • everywhere
will celebrate a minor festival—Hamisha Asar
b'Shevat, the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month
of Shevat, which is also known as Rosh Hashanah
Lellanoth, the New Year of the Trees.
It is the Jewish Arbor _Day.
We celebrate it because in Palestine the trees
begin to blosSom again on this day.
Interesting, isn't 'it, that although we may -
have sleet and snow on this day, Jews are cele-
brating Arbor Day here? It is because of our
devotion to ancient traditions and our interest in
what is happening in Palestine. It is even more
so because we are 'concerned that those whom
we help to settle in Palestine and to get away
from persecution should be healthy, wholesome,
steady and successful people in the Jewish
Homeland.
I wish. you all a very happy 1946 and a very
pleasant Sabbath.
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THE .PSALMS
By Mrs. N. L. Cohen
Our first feeling about God is His goodness to
us. He made us and gave us all we have, our
father and mother, to love us and take care of us,
the earth to live in, and the sun to shine on us.
Our next feeling about God is His greatness.
He made the whole world and everything in it,
and every living creature. The more we think
how great. God. is, the more we feel how kind
He is to every one of us, and the more we want
to thank Him for 'all His goodness to us.
The book of Thanks and Praise -to God in the
Bible is called the -Book of Psalms. It was written
long, long ago by our forefathers. Many of the
'Psalms in it were written and sung by King
David 3,000 years ago.
- One of the Psalms says that a thousand years.
in sight of ,God "are but es yesterday, when it is -
past." For God never 'changes, Right and Wrong
never change, and God's mercy to us never
changes. So we will say and sing these old, • old
Psalms when we want to thank God for, ""His
goodnesS, and His wonderful works to the
children of men."