THE JEWISH NEWS

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As the Editor - -
Views the News
Comparative Figures .

Friday, May 3, 1946

There's Still a War On!

Buts You Should Know

nswers to Readers'
uestions About Jews

As Detroit enters upon its great task of
-raising $2,000,000 for the United Jewish Ap-
peal, through our Allied 'Jewish Campaign,
it may be valuable for solicitors and contri-
butors alike to know hoW other communities
are doing in their drives in behalf of the na-.
tional $100,000,000 goal.
Here are some interesting facts:
Hartford, Conn., with a Jewish population

What is the Hetubah?
A marriage contract documented by two wit-
nesses, by which a Jewish bridegroom affirms his
obligation to support and provide for his spouse
according to the manner of Jewish husbands.
When was the Bible written in shorthand?
The complete Bible was written in shorthand
by William Addy in 1687. Jeremiah Rich had -
transcribed the New Testament about 1666. ,

FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

of - 24,000, had a quota of $750,000 and has al-
ready exceeded the $1,000,000 mark.
Dallas, Tex., had a quota of $400,000 and
already has raised more than $750,000—the
Christians of the community having 'con-
tributed 10 per cent of the total.
Jacksonville, Fla., with a Jewish popula-
tion of 5,000, has oversubscribed its goal of
$150,000.
Detroit, too, MUST oversubscribe its
$2,000,000 goal.

Conservation of Food

Unless the United States and other wheat-
producing countries take action immediately
to conserve food and with their preserved
food supplies fill the -empty European bread
basket, there will be wholesale death from
hunger . overseas. -
Europe's prospects are grim, and for the
masses of the survivors of the war and of
Nazism, UNRRA, at whose urgent request
the conservation movement has been in-
augUrated, emerges as the only possible
savior.
The responsibility is great. It can be ful-
filled by being personally frugal, by en-
listing the aid of our neighbors, by eliminat-
ing excessive entertainment.
A suggestion is in order to those who give
their support to this humane program: let
them add the money thus saved to their con:-
tributions to the Allied Jewish Campaign.
They then will help in the national program
and at the same time will increase the sup-
port that is needed for the national $100,-
000,000 United Jewish Appeal.

Fritz Kuim's Release

Fritz Kuhn, former chemist at the Ford
Motor Co. in Dearborn, once had the ambi-
tion of becoming the Fuehrer of the United

"These prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the
world long after their bodies have returned, to dust." •

(Justice Robert H. Jackson a.t the War-Crimes Trials)

Our Drive: A Serious Business

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The Allied Jewish Campaign for $2,000,000
opens officially on Tuesday evening, and general so-
licitation will be conducted until May 17.
It would be superfluous to review again the ob-
jectives of the drive at this time. .
The needs of the hour are well known to every
Jew in the community, and it is not too much to ex-
pect that the entire amount will be oversubscribed
before the allotted time for the campaign wind-up.
Detroit Jewry never has shirked responsbility.
We shall not shirk it now.

Jewish Rights in Palestine

The report of the Anglo-American Inquiry Committee

on Palestine represents a major victory for the Jewish people
in the fight for recognition of our historic rights.
While the admission of 100,000 JeWs to Palestine will be
considered only as a partial concession to Jewish needs at
this time, in view of the necessity of settling all of the
Zuropean survivors in Palestine, since it is the only haven
of their choice open to them, the two major points in the '
inquiry committee's report are the , principles for which we
have been pleading and fighting during the last seven years.
Their enforcement is a triumph for us.
The 'two pointS are: The immediate admission of the
100,000 who must be rescued at once and "the abrogation of
the White Paper, thus putting an end to restrictions on Jew-
ish land purchases in Palestine. .
Both . restrictive clauses of the White Paper marked the
incorporation in a charter, issued by a democratic nation,
of the worst elements of Nazism: the refusal to admit Jews
into the Jewish National Home and the prohibition of land
sales to Jews because they are Jews.

States. When the war broke out he was
deported as enemy alien.
Last week he was released from the in-
ternment camp near Heidelberg, - Germany,
and the U. S. headquarters there announced
that "he is no longer a threat to the security
of the occupation mission in the United
States zone."
This is a sample of the policies dominating
our -army's practices in the zones of occupa-
tion, which are causing uneasiness, among
liberal forces in this country.
If Fritz Kuhn's liberation is justified, what
is to prevent the freeing of Many other
violently outspoken Nazis?
While the Kuhns go free, hundreds of
The victory marked by the inquiry committee's report,
thousands of Jews, who suffered the tortures --is- a tribute to the sense of brotherhood of the American mem-
of hell during Nazi doMination of . Europe, bers who acted firmly in demanding that justice should be
continue - to suffer privation.
done to the Jewish people.
Is this the type of justice we 'won with
Impressions gathered at sessions of the inquiry commit-
the victory over the Nazis?
tee in Washington, London and Jerusalem gave rise to
fears that some of the American members would yield to
their British confreres and oppose large-scale Jewish im-
migration. But the pressure that 'came from influential Am-

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VOL. 9—No. 7

MAY 3, 1946

THIS WEEK'S SCRIPTURAL SELECTIONS

This Sabbath, the third day of Iyar, 5706, the
following Scriptural selections will be read in our
synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 19:1-2&:27.
Proisalletical portion—Amos 9:7-15 .
22:1-19 .4(tir..
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Candle-lighting time this Friday is at 7:12 p.

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ericans, the educational campaigns conducted by the. Amen-
can Christian Palestine. Vonunittee, the firmness of Zionist

leadership, proved strong enough to avert this calamity.
The result -Of the demands.froth American quarters in

Dear Boys and Girls:
Our young people are playing an admirable
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role in-the great Allied Jewish. Campaign.
No one is too young to give his share to the
fund which will help the needy in Europe and ,
which will assist many of them to settle in
Palestine.
Next Wednesday there will be a rally of sChool
children in the Avalon Theater. The aims of the
drive will be outlined for you, and you will be
enlisted as' participants in the drive.
Through your'schools you will be asked to give
as much as you can out of your allowance. I know
that we will be proud of your gifts and that you
will discuss the responsibility we have in this
drive with your parents whom you will urge tO
give even more than they had planned. _
Please share with me the appeal that is repre-
sented by the accompanying picture. It is a photo-
graph of a boy
'behind barbed
wires, in a con-
contration camp.
This drawing
was made for
the Joint Distri-
bution Commit-
tee, one of the
agencies benefit-
ing from the
drive, by a New
York artist, • Is-
rael Levy. The
boy in the draw-
ing suffered pri-
vation and hun-
ger Today., the
barbed wires are behind him. He no longer -faces
the Nazi dungeon, But he needs help to make him
a valued citizen, wherever he may reside. YOU '
and I can and must 'help him. The Joint Distria-
bution Committee provides necessities .for thg ; f
survivors and the United Palestine Appeal helps
to settle therm in Palestine. The National Refugee'
Service .helps those who will be settled in this
Country.
.This, briefly, is the story of the drive whiCh
of us will assist in Making a success.
We are partners in a great undertaking.
undertaking., Let
one
send a message to the boys and girls like
in this picture that we stand back of them and '"
will not let them dow .
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UNCLE DANIEL.

AND THE JEW IN AMERICA

By DR. EMIL G. HIRSCH (1851-1923)
We have had a share in the making of this
nation. In the mine and in the mill, at the lathe
and at the lOom, in counting room and council
chamber, the Jew has been at work for two
centuries and a half for his America. He has
sentried his nation's camp; he has been • in the
mast's look-out on his nation's ship; he haS 'gone
out to battle; and he was among them that fell at •
the firing line. Officer, private, whatever his rank,
when the nation asked for life or limb, he did not
hesitate to offer the. sacrifice. In institutions of.
learning the Jew has made his mark. In the walks .
if enterprise his individuality has been felt as a _
telling potency in the development of the greater._
aims of American energy.
The future .will place new solemn obligationg
upon us for the country's sake and as -Judaisrifs
consecration; we shall not shirk our duties. .-

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Ignorance of-Judaism

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By ,GEORGE - ELIOT (1819-1880)
He had been roused to the consciousness of. ,
knowing hardly anything about modern Judaism
or the inner Jewish history. The Chosen People
have been. commonly treated as a people chosen
for the sake of somebody else, and their thinking
as something (no .matter exactly what) that' opght%
to have:"been' entirely otherwise; and Deronda,
•like his neighbors, had regarded Judaism as a
sort of eccentric fossilized form . from which' an
accomplished.man might dispense with studyingy ,
and leave to specialists.. But there had flashed on
him the ,hitherto neglected reality that Judaism.
was something still throbbing in _human lives,„
still making for them; the only conceivable veSture .
of the world.
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support of the Zionist cause was _that the British members
yielded to the best -judgment of the Americans and combined
in issuing a unanimous report encouraging Jewish effort in
Palestine.
The inquiry committee's report marks a new challenge
to Jew _ s in the remaining free countries in the world.
By DAVID MORANTZ
It means that very large sums will be needed to make (Based upon the ancient legends and philosophy found la
the
Talmud
and
folklore of the Jewish people dating back ;
possible, the IMM E DIATE transfer of 100,600: 'Jews to '
as far as 3,000 years)
PaleStine.
FRIENDS
An estimate ,a such la:program reveals that the :cost
"Cherish thy friends," says the Tahrnid, "and
Will run into many hundreds of millions of dollars, and the temperately adnionish thy enemy."
"Choose your friends 'with foresight from among
present $100,000,000 national United Jewish Appeal Campaign
honest, and do all you can to 'retain them:
will prolie entirely insufficient to 'make possible the recon- the
Anticipate 'their desires, and be: courteous towards
structing of the shattered lives of .100,000, personS.
them, but do no wrong for the sake of pleasing_
The inquiry :committee's report',-should be welcomed, thent Reprove them in kindness when they ,do
not with shouti4g and -jubilation, but with solemnity and a wrong, and overlook readily , any little offenses,.
are committed against yOu.'
determination to meet the challenge it poses to the Jews which
"At' the gate Ok abundance there are Many -
of America to make good our pledge: that the opening of brothers and friends; at the gate of misery theie
Palestine's doors will:find us ready to provide the homes are -but kW:" - • ; -
"He who knows.that his friend is about to greet
needed for the repatriated -Jews:
Sh_ould hasten• to: try to greet him first.",-...,
One major'' deniat(L-mot . be emphasized: the.. recom s him-
"A m ail 'without friends,
the leOlhaudF.

Talmudic Tales

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mendations MUST be implemented at once.

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