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August 30, 1946 - Image 16

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1946-08-30

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Friday, August 30, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Sixteen

Victuve __Stories

front the Sibta

aBRA1-1Arn AND SARAN FOR MANY YEARS '
HAO DESIRED A SON-AT LAST ISAAC WAS
BORN, AND GREW UP TO BE A FINE BOY-

PART I THE STORY OF

GOD DETERMINED TO TEST ABRAHAM'S

FAITH-ONE DAY AS HE WAS WALKING IN A
GROVE OF TREES HE HAD PLANTED—

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• •••,,,5 JAMES, DOIJAY AND JEWISI-J_PUBLICATION SOCIETY

VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE ---•••



(COPYRIGHT 19113 13Y MC. GA/AlEs)

TARE ISAAC, YOUR ONLY SO
WI-40M YOU LOVE, AND GO 1-04-
A MOUNTAIN I WILL TELL YOU OP-
TO
AND THERE SACRIFICE

ME2

THE LORD HAS
COMMANDED ME
TO MAKE A
SACRIFICE TO HIM-
COME!

-BUT ABRAHAM GATHERS HIS STRENGTH
TO OBEY

ABRAHAM IS STUNNED
BY THIS COMMAND"'

BUT LET ME ALWAYS REMEMBER,
LORD, THE JOY MY CHILD HAS BROUGHT
ME!--AND LET ME ALWAYS REMEMBER,
THE THANKS I OWE TO YOU! AND NOW
GIVE ME
STRENGTH TO
OBEY YOUR
WISH!

NOTHING WAS LACKING
TO ME BUT A SON, AND
, EVEN THAT GOD
GRANTED ME-
NOW HE WANTS
HIM BACK-IT
IS HARD!

t wo

0/74 ..c/

WAIT HERE -FOR
ME-MY 50N
AND I ARE GOING
UP ON THE MOUNTAIN
TO WORSHIP!

J

BUT, FATHER, HOW CAN YOU
MAKE A SACRIFICE IF YOU DON'T
HAVE A LAMB?

MY SON,
YOU ARE
THE
LAMB!

{ISAAC WAS TERRIFIED AT FIRST, BUT....

GOD KNEW WHAT
T HELD MOST DEAR,
AND THIS HE CAME
IN A VISION TO ASK
ME FOR! - FORGIVE.
ME, SON!

IF GOD BIDS YOU
THEN DO 17
F AT HER- I SHALL
NOT BE AFRAID,
FOR GOD WISHES
YOUR GOOD
AND MINE!

7111

NEXT WEEICA IV/FE /S 501/ENT FOR /SA,4c.

Survey Bares Anti-Semitism
Of German-American Press

New Jewish College
In Einstein's Name

UJA to Hold Special State
Conference Here Sept. 15

Detroiter Abend Post Listed Among Most Flagrant Viola-
tors of Democratic Principles, by Bnai Brith Anti-Defama-
tion League; Denial of German Aggression Cited

Edward M. M. Warburg, Mrs. Avis Shulman Will Report on
Plight of European Jewry, Achievements of Rescue Pro-
gram; East Central JDC Also to Meet at Detroit-Leland

NEW YORK.—According to a national survey conducted
by the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, and directed
by Arnold Forster, head of its legal department, "the at-
titude of three influential newspapers, the Detroiter Abend
Post, the Chicago Abend Post and the St. Paul Wanderer
(and Excelsior), strikes the keynote for this section of the

Emergency efforts to help Europe's 1,400,000 destitute
Jewish survivors forestall added hardships during the coming
winter, and adoption of special measures to assist the Jews of
Palestine in expanding the capacity of the Jewish homeland
to absorb many thousands of new immigrants from devas-
tated Europe will highlight discussions when delegates from

German-American press which is <;;
back at its pre-war stand, more 3. the handmaiden of -British
blatantly anti-American, anti- imperialism."
The survey further points out
democratic and anti-Semitic than
that in all of these papers at-
ever.
tention is focused on the plight
Richard E. Gutstadt, national of "poor" Germany. The extreme
director __of the League, released section of the German-American
details of the survey which was press which thrives on narrow
based on an analysis of the 150 German nationalism, advocates
newspapers which make up the extensive relief for Germany but,
German-language press.
significally, oppose aid to any
Hitler's Satellite Press
other nations. This is especially
"In the pre-war period the true of the Chicago and Detroiter
German-American press was Abend Post.
largely controlled by the Nazi
"How dreadful—maybe even
regime in Germany and native Frenchmen may have to suffer
pro-Nazi groups," the report re- while Germany starves to death,"
veals. "Thus it echoed the fascist says the Detroiter Abend Post in
ideology and supported the Nazi editorials ridiculing the claim
movement in this country. But that there is need for helping—in
Pearl Harbor smothered the vici- a d di t i o n to Germany—Italy,
ously pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic France, England and other Euro-
line of these papers.
pean countries.
"After V-E Day the German-
Quotes Detroit Paper
American. press resumed its at-
Alleged
Jewish criminality is
tacks against the international
and domestic policies• of the another favorite editorial refrain
United States, and now, scarcely of these papers. Violators of law
a year after the defeat of Nazi or ethics with Jewish-sounding
Germany, Hitler's satellite press names are singled out for em-
in America is linking anti-Semit- phasis. One example from the
ism with attacks on internation- Forster report reveals that "in
writing about a man in the news,
al cooperation."
These papers are prejudiced the Detroiter Abend Post states
against the U. S. government, the that he was 'originally called
democratic administration, the Kaplan . Don't worry, that sort
foreign and economic policies of of people always get along . . "
our government, international co-
operation, and the United Na-
tions, the report continues. Even
When they assume a "pro-Ameri-
oan" position, they support the
extreme nationalistic and isola-
The Norwegian government has
tionist elements in this country.
decided to permit 600 Jewish dis-
Follow Old Nazi Line
"These papers deny that Ger- placed persons from the German
many was an aggressor nation camps to settle in Norway, accord-
during the last war. Their pres- ing to a report from Oslo re-
ent 'day editorials, particularly ceived by the World Jewish Con-
those of the Chicago and De- gress. A request for the admission
troiter Abend Posts, closely fol- of Jewish displaced persons was
low the old Nazi propaganda line. made to King Haakon last Febru-
The editorials repeatedly charge ary by Rabbi Mordecai Nurock,
that the U. S. is: 1. a war-mon- World Jewish Congress leader and
gering nation, 2.
a dictatorial former minority leader in the Lat-
regime dominated by Jews, and vian parliament.

Norway Opens Doors
To 600 Jewish DPs

—International Photo

DR. ALBERT EINSTEIN, the

noted nuclear physicist, has given
Lis support and name to the Al-
bert Einstein Foundation of High-
er Learning which will establish
a top-ranking college, to be fi-
nanced by an organization headed
by Dr. Israel Goldstein, at Wal-
tham, Mass. Students and faculty
members will be selected by this
college without regard to race,
creed or religious beliefs.

10 Major Cities
Raise $50,000,000
In UJA Campaign

Campaigns recently concluded
in 10 leading American cities on
behalf of the United Jewish Ap-
peal for Refugees, Overseas Needs
and Palestine have raised approx-
imately $50,000,000 for the unpre-
cedented United Jewish Appeal
drive to rescue, rehabilitate and
resettle Europe's 1,400,000 Jewish
survivors, it has been announced
at UJA headquarters in New York.
The total raised by these large
cities — New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Los Angeles, Detroit,
Cleveland, St. Louis, Dallas, Kan-
sas City and Buffalo—represents
one-half of the nationwide $100,-
000,000 goal set by the UJA as the
minimum •sum needed to restore
to health and to find new homes
for the shattered remnants of the
Jewish people of Europe.
New York already has raised
more than $29,000,000 for the
United Jewish Appeal; Philadel-
phia, $5,000,000; Detroit, $2,750,-
000; Cleveland, $2,150,000; St.
Louis, $1,450,000; Dallas, $750,000;

and Buffalo, $803,221,

14 Michigan communities meet
Sunday , afternoon, Sept. 15, at the United States under current
the Detroit-Leland hotel for an immigration quotas.
extraordinary conference of the
The United Jewish Appeal is
$100,000,000 United Jewish Appeal American Jewry's unified fund-
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and raising body for three constituent
Palestine.
agencies. These are the Joint
Will Hold Combined Session
Distribution Committee, which
Sunday morning, Sept. 15, mem- provides relief and rehabilitation
bers of the East Central region of assistance to destitute Jews over-
the Joint Distribution Committee seas; the United Palestine Appeal,
from six states in the Middle which provides for the mass set-
West will hold their first annual tlement and upbuilding of the
meeting in the Detroit-Leland. Jewish homeland in Palestine; and
They will join the Michigan con- the National Refugee Service,
ference during the afternoon at a (United Service for New Amer-
icans), which is responsible for
combined session.
the social and economic adjust-
The conference will be addressed
ment of immigrants who find
by Edward M. M. Warburg, chair-
haven in the U. S.
man of the United Jewish Appeal
of Greater New York and of the
Joint Distribution Committee, and
Mrs. Avis Shulman, noted Jewish
communal leader who just has re-
turned to this country from an
extended tour through Europe and
tension-ridden Palestine. Both King Christian X of Denmark
speakers will present up-to-the- has awarded a medal of the
minute reports on the plight of Order of Merit to Dr. Samuel
stricken European Jewry and on Margoshes, columnist of the Jew-
present accomplishments of the ish Day and World Jewish Con-
vast rescue program launched by gress leader.
the UJA in their behalf.
In his letter transmitting the
Will Aid Refugees Arriving Here medal, Danish Consul General
The JDC'S relief, rehabilitation Hans H. Schroeder wrote that
and emigration programs . in be- the Order was awarded in recog-
half of Europe's Jewish survivors nition of services rendered Den-
are carried out by approximately mark during the darkest days of
200 American professional and the war.
Dr. Margoshes, former editor of
technical workers stationed in
nearly fifty countries throughout the Day, wrote a series of columns
about the treatment of Jews in
the world.
The delegates, representing 14 Denmark during the war, extoll-
Michigan communities which will ing the heroism of the Danish
stage campaigns this Fall on be- people and their monarch in the
half of the UJA, will act on relief face of Nazi oppression.
Asked as to the particular
measures to overcome the hunger
and destitution of Europe's dis- column which; in his opinion,
tressed Jewish survivors, and will won him the medal, Dr. Mar-
provide for increased aid to the goshes referred to a story he
Jewish Homeland in its work of wrote about King Christian of
expanding Palestine's capacity to Denmark who, when importuned
care for thousands of homeless by the Nazis to expel all Jews
refugees. Special provision will from his capital, replied, "Why
be made to meet the needs of should I? I am not suffering

Danish Merit Medal
Awarded U. S. Editor

war refugees who are admitted to from an inferiority complex."

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