As the Editor
"Views the News
`No Jobs for Jews'

Ion Mihalache, vice-president of the
Romanian Peasant Party, addressing a group
of students in Bucharest, warned the Jews
of Romania against "hunting for political
posts to which they are not entitled", and
suggested that anti-Semitism may increase
if Jews fail to follow such advice.
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Where did we hear this before?
Even in the United States, not so many
years back, there were people who warned
Jews not to accept political appointments
if they did not wish to see an increase in
Jew-baiting.
There were Jews who failed to recog-
nize that it is the responsibility of ALL
citizens, regardless of creed or color, to
respond to their country's call whenever
they can render service to their government.
Regardless of where un-democratic de-
mands like Mihalache's are made, they
should be challenged and fought to a finish.
Once the anti-Semitic cries gain ground
anywhere, the fight for freedom and for
participation of all elements in the govern-
ments of their respective countries will be
prolonged.
We must especially remember this, in
our free United States. If we spurn bigotry
here, we shall have greater hope of defeat-
ing it everywhere else.

Relief for DPs

The problem of the displaced persons
remains unsolved,
Overcrowding and tension in the Berlin
area has motivated American military au-
thorities to permit the immediate transfer—
at the rate of 50 a day—of 1,400 DPs to
the U. S. zone.
Meanwhile the survivors in Austria are
clamoring for release from the centers in
which they are now housed and for admis-
sion to Palestine. The DPs in Germany
similarly demand an opportunity to settle
in Palestine in order that they may escape
the approaching horrors of another winter
in the land every nook of which bears wit-
ness to the murder of 6,000,000 of our people.
While these conditions prevail, Ameri-
can and British delegations are carrying on
a debate over the future of the Jewish sur-
vivors, and with the exception of Brazil's
offer to take 100,000 European settlers no
one has come forth with any sort of pro-
posal to help in the „solution of the horrible
problem of the dispossessed.
This problem, we repeat, can be solved
with a single "move—to open Palestine's
doors to all who desire to go there.

The Palestine 'Terror'

Bombing of the military headquarters
in Jerusalem has created great uneasiness
in Jewish ranks everywhere.
No one in a responsible position can or
does approve of such methods of resisting
the British in their effort to prevent Jewish
immigration to Palestine.
Irgun Zvai Leumi's scandalous act
again relegates this group to a position of
total disrepute.
One thing, however is certain: ALL ter-
rorism can be ended instantly by imple-
mentation of the British pledges to facilitate
the establishment of the Jewish National
Home through free immigration to Palestine.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MAURICE ARONSSON
PH [LIP SLOMOVITZ
FRED M. BUTZEL
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
THEODORE LEVIN
ABRAHAM SRERE
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ HENRY WINEMAN

Plinir SLOMOVITZ, Editor

VOL. 9—No. 19 -

JULY 26, 1946

This Week's Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twenty-eighth day of Tammuz,
5706, the following Scriptural selections will be
read in our synagogues:
Pen ta teuchal portion—Num. 30:2-36:13.
Prophetical portion—Jer. 2:4-28; 3:4.
On Monday, Rosh Hodesh Ab, Num. 28:1-15 will

be read.

Friday, July 26, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Hitler's Dead; Hitlerism Grows

Facts You Should Know

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Answers to Readers'
Questions About Jews

"Hitler's Body Lies Amoulding in His Grave . . . But .. ."

Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz's Open Letter

Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz's "Open Letter To All Jews
Who Are Not In Europe," published in full in this issue of
The Jewish News, should be placed in the hands of every
Jew in America.
As chairman of the European Executive Council of the
Joint Distribution Committee, Dr. Schwartz rightfully is
considered the best informed person in the world on the
situation affecting the survivors from Nazism.
His letter presents the practical problem of caring for
the needy in a succinct and factual manner.
Repatriates from Russia, the starving in Hungary, the
new-born babies of the displaced persons in Germany—all
need help.
They are issues that must be acted upon. We must
continually keep them in mind so that when the time comes
to settle the unfortunate European Jews in Palestine we
may be able to send to Eretz Israel people who are healthy
in body and in mind. -
More than that: existing conditions in Europe, as out-
lined by Dr. Schwartz, should keep our minds attuned to
the problem and should cause us to remember that addi-
tional help must be forthcoming from our community as
time goes on. The rescue work is in its initial stages. A few
months will pass quickly. We shall have to think anew, be-
fore long, of our unending responsibilities—until all of the
1,250,000 surviving Jews are settled in proper homes. and
are provided with thecare that we, as American Jews, owe
to them.
Detroit's recent successful Allied Jewish Campaign was
a step in the direction - of remembering these issues.

The Vatican and Polish Pogroms

1. What is the origin and meaning of
the term "Bible"? 2. Of the term "Old
Testament"? 3. What is the connotation of
the term "Megillah"?
Rabbi Samuel J. Fox, writing for the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, replies to these questions
as follows:
1. The term "Bible" is generally believed to
have stemmed from the Greek term "Biblion"
which means "Book". According to some au-
thorities, the Greek term itself stems from an
older Oriental term meaning "Paprus". The word
when used as a stem still maintains its original
meaning, i.e. "Book", as in the case of "Biblio-
graphy", "Bibliotheque", etc. When used by
itself, however, it refers to the Sacred literature
of the Scriptures. The Bible is also known in
Hebrew as "Sefer Torah", which may be trans-
lated as "The Book of the Torah". It is not to
be definitely asserted that the Hebrew word
"Sefer" originally meant "Book", although later
Hebrew definitely uses the term in that way.
It is more likely that the term is comparable
to the term "siddur" which means "story" or
"account".
2. The term "Old Testament" is the Christ-
ian appelation for the Holy Scriptures we call
the "Bible". It is the Latin translation of the
Hebrew term "Brith" which means "convent" or
"agreement" or "binding". From the latter comes
the Assyrian term "Baru" which means to 'bind"
or "Beritu" which means to "fetter." What the
Christians imply by the term "Old Testament",
then, is the fact that it is the Old "covenant" or
"agreement" or "binding" between G-d and his
"agreement" or "binding" between G - d and his
people. It follows then, that according to Christ-
ian thought, the "New Testament" was the "New
Agreement" between the Lord and humanity. It
is hence not typically 'Jewish" to refer to the
Bible as the "Old Testament."
3. The term "Megillah" is the Hebrew term
for the word "Scroll". It may have been derived
from the stem "gal" which implies the meaning
or "roundness" or "revolution." A scroll, which
is manipulated by "rolling" or "revolving" is
hence appropriately called "Megillah". In the
Talmud Tractate (Megillah) the term "Megillah"
refers to any of the Books of the Bible or the
Bible as a whole, which is classically written in
"Scroll" form. Of late, however, the term
"Megillah" applies to the Book - of Esther which
is read on Purim.
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What is meant by the Bible Belt?
This is a colloquialism for the more orthodox
and fundamentalist states of the South.

August Cardinal Hlond of Poland, by raising a political
issue in his statement regarding responsibility for the po-
groms in Poland, created a controversy which compelled the
American Jewish Committee, the World Jewish Congress,
Agudas Israel of London, Agudas Israel Youth Council of
America and other groups to issue appeals to the Pope to
condemn anti-Semitism and to urge Cardinal Hlond to with-
draw his anti-Jewish remarks.
But the unofficial Vatican newsletter, Ari, commenting
on the Kielce pogrom, has seen fit to declare that the mas-
sacres of Jews in Poland "resulted exclusively from political
passions provoked by measures adopted by responsible Jew-
ish authorities."
Compare this with the United Press report from Wash-
ington.
The UP correspondent, asserting that "inside Poland,
so far as can be seen, there was hardly a ripple of surprise"
although "news of the pogrom at Kielce may have shocked
the outside world," makes this significant statement in his
July 15 cable:
— "Anti-Semitism among Poles, according to foreign ob-
servers, is deep-rooted and intense, and some Poles them-
selves admit it. Several well-educated and presumably in-
telligent Poles have told this correspondent that at least
Hitler was right about one thing—he wanted to kill all
the Jews."
But a Catholic dignitary and a Vatican newspaper per-
sist in saying that "Jewish officials" in Poland are respon-
sible for the massacres of Jews.
The Polish American Congress, in paid advertisements
in New York newspapers, maintains that what has happened
in Poland was not a pogrom by the people, but "premeditated
murder" by the government. This Polish group, however, was
not heard from when, during the last year, with the war end-
ed, constant sniping was conducted against Jews throughout
Poland, resulting in the murder of more than 1,000 innocent
and helpless persons.
The Vatican, the Mikolajczyk elements, the Polish Am-
erican Congress and all others who seek to find excuses
for the pogroms need better explanations for having failed
to intercede in advance to prevent murder—yes, "premedi-
tated murder."
Horrible in all its aspects, the unending series of po-
groms now in progress in Poland calls for severest con-
demnation by the entire civilized world, not debates and
exonerations. The Polish government acted promptly to
punish the guilty, and should be commended. Those who
attempt to pin responsibility upon Jewish officials are
strengthening the hands of the pogromists, and are using
arguments which are Coughlin-like, and just as intolerable.

Talmudic Tales

By DAVID MORANTZ

(Based upon the ancient legends and philosophy fontA is
the Talmud and folklore of the Jewish people dating back
as far as 3,000 years)

PEARLS OF WISDOM
"Deliver your words," says the Talmud, "not by
number, but by weight."
"There is nothing so bad as not to be good for
something."
"Do nothing today that you are likely to repent
of tomorrow."
"Despise not the poor, for you may want their
virtue."
"Let the honor of thy associate be as dear to
thee as thine own."
"No man is impatient with his creditors."

FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

Dear Boys and Girls:
The Talmud has the following to say with rela-
tion to the dignity of labor:
Do not shun labor, however menial. Say
not: "I am a priest. a great man; how can I
stoop to such an indignity?" Rather flay a
carcass in the market - place, and earn your
wage, than be idle and dependent on the gifts

of men.

While you are enjoying your vacations, I hope
you will give serious thought to these wise remarks
about work.
All of us should consider it a privilege to be
able to work—as long as the work is honorable.
If you have a part time job, take as much pride
in your work as if you were holding a high place
of honor.
If you do not have a paid job, make. yourself
useful around the house; learn to make repairs;
take care of your lawn; keep your home and its
frontage as attractive as possible.
I hope you are having an enjoyable vacation and
that you have a pleasant Sabbath.
UNCLE DANIEL.

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THE GOODNESS OF GOD'S WORK

By MOSES MAIMONIDES (1135-1204)
Men frequently think that the evils in the world
are more numerous than the good things; many
sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this
idea. They say that the good is found only ex-
ceptionally, while evil things are numerous and
lasting. The origin of this error is to be found
in the circumstance that men judge of the whole
universe by examining one single person only. If
anything happens to him contrary to his expecta-
tion, forthwith they conclude that the whole uni-
verse is evil. All mankind at present in existence
forms only an infinitesimal portion of the perma-
nent universe. It is of great advantage that man
should know his station. Numerous evils to which
persons are exposed are due to the defects existing
in the persons themselves. We seek relief from
our own faults; we suffer from evils which we
inflict on ourselves, and we ascribe them to God,
who is far from connected with them. As Solomon
explained it: The foolishness of man perverteth
his way, and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

