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As the Editor
Views the News

The Crowning of Abdullah

/ Maj. George Fielding Eliot, noted war an-
alyst and newspaper columnist, in his address
to Allied Jewish Campaign workers on May
9, made the point that "unless aid is given
to the survivors in Europe immediately, it
may as well not be given at all."
"Are you going to let them perish?" he
challenged. Our community is answering
with an emphatic NO!
Our $2,000,000 goal not only is being reach-
ed, but will be oversubscribed.
But Maj. Eliot's challenge retains its force-
fulness and. importance for this reason:
As has been pointed out consistently
throughout the drive, the $2,000,000 goal was
established as a MINIMUM obligation for
Detroit Jewry.
In view of the pressing needs in Europe,
the national $100,000,00.0 United Jewish Ap-
peal must, also, be considered as a minimum
goal.
Maj. Eliot stated in his address here that
he has reason to believe that the reported
death rate of 12,000 a month among the Jew-
ish survivors in Europe is an underestima-
tion and that the figure is closer to 15,000 a
month.
This means, specifically, that unless more
extensive help is sent immediately there will
not be very many Jews left to be helped.
The lives of the survivors are in OUR
hands, and we dare not fail them.
* *
The obligations to the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign include Palestine. It is too early to
assume that the objective of settling 100,000
of the survivors in the Jewish National Home
has been defeated. The union of liberal Chris-
tian forces with our own to press for speedy
implementation of the portion of the report
which calls for immediate settlement of
100,000 in Zion gives us hope to believe that
this goal will be achieved.
It is important in this connection to call
the attention of our readers to a heart-break-
ing call for help that was received this week
by the American Jewish Conference from
Dr. Zalman Grinberg, chairman of the Cen-
tral Committee of Liberated Jews in the
American zone in Germany. Dr. Grinberg
asserts that failure to start large-scale Jewish
immigration to Palestine within the next few
months will bring catastrophe to the home-
less Jews. He warns that conditions "are go-
ing from bad to worse"; that "anti-Semitism
among the German population is awakening
as in former years, and every day brings re-
ports about anti-Semitic excesses in various
places."

* * *

This, truly, is a frightening report. It is
depressing to know that the liberation of
Europe has not effected the freeing of the
Jewish survivors.
Our responsibility begins anew: to speed
their liberation, by resorting to political
means and through our philanthropic efforts.
The political activities will have to be
extended on many fronts. The battle begins
anew through the Zionist Emergency Coun-
cils. American Jews should implore President
Truman and our representatives in Congress
to secure prompt implementation of the pro-
posal to settle at least 100,000 Jews in Pales-
tine IMMEDIATELY.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
MAURICE ARONSSON
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
FRED M. BUTZEL
ABRAHAM SRERE
THEODORE LEVIN
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ HENRY WINEMAN
puma> SLOMOVITZ, Editor
A. R. BRASCH, Advertising Counsel

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No. 9

MAY 17, 1946

THIS WEEK'S SCRIPTURAL SELECTIONS
This Sabbath, the seventeenth day of Iyar, 5706,
the following Scriptural selections will be read in
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 25:1-26:2.
Prophetical portion—Jer. 32:6-27.
Lag G'Orner occurs on Sunday, May 19.
Candle-lighting time this Friday is at 7:45 km.

1946

Facts You Should Know

Answers to Readers'
uestions About Jews

Help NOW or NEVER

VOL. 9

Friday, May 17,

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Four

What was the full name of the famous
Berdichever Rebbe?
The full name of the popular Hassidic Rabbi
who was known as the Berdichever Rebbe was
Rabbi Isaac Levi ben Meir. He was born in Hus..
sakow in 1740 and died in Berdichev in 1809.
* * *
What is the derivation of the name Miz-
rachi?
Mizrachi, the orthodox Zionist organization,
derives its name from "Merkaz Ruchani"—mean.
ing spiritual center.
* * *.
What was Rashi's full name?
The full name of the great Biblical commen-
tator, RASH', was Rabbi Shelomo ben Itzbaki.
RASHI was the first Jewish writer to refer to
the game of chess in his commentaries.

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* *

What prayers are offered daily in the '
synagogue?
The Shacharis, or morning prayer, the Mincha,
or afternoon prayer, and the Maariv, the eve-
ning service. On sabbaths and holy, clays an addi-
tional prayer is added. This is known as the
Musaf.

Resistance andSelf-Defence

Prime Minister Attlee's challenge to the resistance move-
ment in Palestine has brought forth a speedy reply from the
defenders of the Jewish position in Palestine.
Voice of Israel, the secret radio station of the Jewish
Resistance Movement, has let it -be known that the weapons
of the Jewish self-defense movement are needed to protect
the lives and property of the Jews of Palestine and that the
right to self-defense never will be abandoned. In view of
past experiences, with the British having failed to offer
adequate protection to the Jewish settlements in Palestine,
this is a valid stand justifying the position of the Jews of
Palestine.
This statement was supplemented by an important assur-
ance: the Jewish Resistance Movement offered its pledge not
to violate the peace of Palestine if the recommendations of
the inquiry committee for the immediate admission of 100,000
stateless surviving Jews in Europe is adhered to.
It is important to note that the Jewish Resistance Move-
ment denies connections with terrorists acts or the sabotag-
ing of a British steamer at the Haifa port. This movement
has, in every respect, adhered to a position that it is justified
in making possible the entrance of Jews into Palestine and
in defending the rights of Jews in Eretz Israel.
Freedom-loving people everywhere should respect this
position. It is not a program that encourages or invites ter-
roristic acts. It is a movement for self-defense and for the
protection of the rights and dignity of Jews in Palestine.
Surely, our people will not be denied such elementary human
rights.

Dynamic Leadership

Oversubscription of the $2,000,000 Detroit quota for the
Allied Jewish Campaign is ascribable to two chief factors:
the tremendous importance of the cause and the dynamic
leadership which has presented it to the community.
The devoted efforts of the chairman of the drive, Nate
S. Shapero, and his able campaign organization, have spurred
the community into action.
Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation and the Allied Jewish Campaign, was
primarily responsible for mobilization of the community's
forces in behalf of the campaign. For months, prior to the
campaign, he and his staff were engaged in creating cam-
paign machinery and in sub-dividing prospective contribu-
tors into trade and professional groups. They had to build
anew, because of the three-year interruption in Jewish com-
munity fund-raising resulting from War Chest solicitations.
Mr. Sobeloff's splendid achievement has resulted in the
moulding of a stronger and more representative community.
He has guided Detroit Jewry well and he deserves highest
commendations. The country at large recognized in him a
very able social service director, and we should feel highly
gratified that we have his help in building a great Jewish
community.

Let Your Voices Be Heard!

President Truman's comments on the report of the
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine were
the only redeeming features in the release of the shocking
conclusions arrived at by the committee of 12. Our Presi-
dent had the vision to point to the important elements in
the report: the recommendations for the immediate admis-
sion into Palestine of 100,000 Jews and for the abrogation of
the outrageous White Paper.
The British governnient, however, is setting up ob-
stacles to make it impossible to implement these two pro-
posals. British action is, in effect, a repudiation of Ameri-
can public opinion, and it should be fought to the bitter end.
It is important, that our government should fight to a
finish in adherence to the stand President Truman has taken
for the admission of 100,000 Jews into Palestine this year
and for the scrapping of the White Paper.
Write to the President today! Tell him of our gratitude
to him for his stand in behalf of speedy rescue efforts! Urge
him to stick to his guns and to insist upon speedy imple-
mentation of the humane portions of the inquiry committee's
report! And while you are doing it, write to your Senator
and Congressman expressing similar sentiments. Let's get
some action to end betrayals of sacred trusts.

FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

Dear Boys and Girls:
I am sure you were as thrilled as I was to
learn last week how well the Jewish boys and
girls of Detroit are doing in the Allied Jewish
Campaign.
Here is an artist's drawing of a rough setting
in Europe where the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee is assisting teachers and pupils in acquiring

an education. Note the desk made out of a bolt,
the crude chair, the children who have been pro-
vided with school supplies and with clothes by
the JDC—which also gives them their daily food.
YOUR contributions make this possible.
Just picture to yourself a change in setting -
yourselves reporting to your teachers in fine sur-
roundings in beautiful American buildings. YOU
have everything; these children have nothing.
All they possess is what is sent to them from
this country.
If you think about it, you will do even more
for the campaign. I am sure that many boys
and girls have not yet contributed. Let them
do so NOW.
* * •
The Jewish schools in Detroit conducted an
interesting campaign. One of the boys delivered
the following little speech to his schoolmates:
"I'd like to have a talk with you about form-
ing a team.
"We are all pals in this school.
"If you or I had a fight with someone and one
of us needed help, we'd get it, wouldn't we?
"Well, we are having a fight all our own.
"There are lots of boys and girls like you and
me who are fighting for their lives. There are
150.000 of them, and they are only ones who re-
main out of a million and a half who were in
Europe before the war. That means that 1,350,000
were murdered by the terrible Germans. •
"Now then, these 150,000, all of them orphans--
think of it! none of them with a member of his
family left alive!—are fighting, for their lives.
They want a chance to live and have homes--
just as you and I.
"They have nothing, absolutely nothing. They
want bread. and a chance to grow, They want a
home—and that home they seek is Palestine.
"Their fight is our fight,. because they are Jew-
ish boys and girls. If WE were in their places, in
Europe. WE would be orphans today, without par-
ents, brothers and sisters. And if we are thank-
ful that we are among the lucky Jews we must
help the unlucky ones.
"That's why we have this campaign, the Detroit
Allied Jewish Campaign.
"Let's give all we can. Let's make it dollars..
"And after we have given as much as we can,
let's go back home and tell our parents to give
more than they have given.
"How about it, boys and girls?
"Are you going to join this fight so we Jewish
boys and girls can stick together and win the
battles?"
• * *
If you agree with this litle speech. you will
set out to do what it asks and you will do a lot
to help alleviate the plight of our unfortunate
people overseas.
I believe our drive will be a success—and that
you will always help do good deeds.
Good wishes to all of you for a pleasant Sab-
bath.
UNCLE DANIEL. I

