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Friday, August 30, 1946
THE JEWISH NEWS
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As the Editor - .
Views the News
Reminder to Truman
Tomorrow, Aug. 31, will mark the end of
a complete year since the issuance by Presi-
dent Truman of the famous statement urging
the IMMEDIATE admission of 100,000 Jews
into -Palestine.
These 100,000 remain in DP camps in Ger-
many and live under repelling conditions.
The only Jews who have managed to enter
Palestine during the year are those who
have broken through the ILLEGAL barriers
set up by Great Britain. -
What are you going to do about it, Mr.
President?
Our Brother's Keeper
A Chinese- advertising principle is that
"one picture is worth a thousand words."
Taking this cue from the Chinese, we pre-
sent herewith for - the consideration of our
readers, and for presentation to our Chris-
. tian friends, the photograph of two children.
The photographer appropriately labelled
the picture: "His Brother's Keeper."
The parents of these children were mur-
•dered by the Nazis, and the younger of the
two was saved and cared for by his "big"
brother of O.
Now, they are seeking haven in Palestine.
But the doors to Eretz Israel, their only -
remaining hope, are kept shut for them by
the British "guardians" of the Middle East.
True, these youngsters are cared for by
the Joint Distribution Committee. They are
being provided for - in the. best possible way
that can be fashioned for their existence by
the relief -workers who receive funds through
the United Jewish Appeal.
But their major need is a HOME—and
the civilized world, if Great Britain is rep-
resentative of civilization, is re-creating for
them concentration camps, in Cyprus as well
as in Palestine.
We present this photograph for your con-
sideration so that there may be no misrep-
resentation of facts of existing needs.
Hundreds of children like these are among
the immigrants- who are knocking at the
gates of Palestine and are seeking haven and
security after all they had endured under
Nazism. If we are to believe that Hitlerism
was defeated in World War II, they must
be given the home they seek. Else, Jewry
will be justified • in the belief that Great
Britain merely is carrying on the work of
Adolf Hitler.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MAURICE ARONSSON
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
FRED M. BUTZEL
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
JUDGE THEO. LkV-IN
ABRAHAM SRERE
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ
HENRY WINEMAN
manor
VOL. 9—NO. 24
SLOMOVITZ, Editor •
AUGUST 30, 1946
This Week's Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the fourth day of Elul, 5706, the
following Scriptural selections will be read in our
synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 16:18-31:9.
Prophetical portion—Is. 51:12-52:12.
Bevin's Idea of 'Equality'
A Great Encyclopedia
CYCO's First Volume in Series "The Jewish
People: Past and Present" Is a Great .
Contribution to Jewish Scholarship
Jewish scholarship is greatly enriched by the
latest encyclOpedic product—the publication by
CYCO (Central Yiddish Culture Organizations) of
the first volume in its series, "The Jewish People:,
Past and Present."
Jewry's outstanding scholars in this country,
Palestine and Europe collaborated in the prepara-
tion of the numerous essays incorporated in this
great work. Anthropology, archaeology, religion,
Messianic movements and Jewish migrations are
among the subjects covered in this first volume.
Generously Illustrated
Richly illustrated with hundreds of drawings,
maps and photographs, annotated with statistical
-tables, and with a chronological table of Jewish
history, the new encyclopedia is unique in the
thoroughness with which the. subject matter is
covered.
Jacob Lestchinsky, the eminent historian and
Bevin: "I will strive to bring the Jew back on terms of equality economist, has written two essays for the volume—
wit% other nations."
"The Economic and Sobial Development of the
Jewish People" and "The Economic Development
of the Jews in the United States."
One of the very timely studies, which concludes
the volume, is L. Hersch's "Jewish Migrations Dur-
Bartley Crum's expose of the machinations of our State ing the Last Hundred Years."
Department in its relation to Palestine is less a secret than
There is an essay by the late Dr. Arthur Ruppin,
the noted Palestinian leader and statistician, on
is generally imagined.
"The Jewish Population of the World."
State Department and Palestine
While the American member of the Anglo-American
Inquiry Committee made special mention of Loy Henderson,
chief of the State Department's Middle East and African
Affairs Division, whose dismissal he demanded at the meet-
ing of the American Christian Palestine Committee in Wash-
ington, Jewish leaders have known for many years, dating
back to the _days of the Balfouf Declaration, that disruptive
forces in Washington interfered with the rights of Jews to
create a Homeland in Palestine.
Nevertheless, it is of the utmost importance that Amer-
ican public opinion be aroused, to Mr. Crum's charge that
every time an American President since Woodrow Wilson
has stated U. S. policy on Palestine a secret message has
gone forth from the State Department assuringsArab leaders
that such policy would not be carried out. Such tactics not
only are immoral from every point of view, but are inhuman
and deserving of condemnation.
Equally as shocking as Mr. Crum's revelation are the
exposes of the horrible political machinations of disruptive
forces made during the week by Drew Pearson and Harold
L. Ickes.
Mr. Ickes, in his review showing how the U. S. tax-
payers' money was used, to the tune of $10,000,000, to play
King Ibn Saud's game, points out how "it really affects our
national honor," and referring to the game made of Jewish
aspirations asserts that "If I were King Ibn Saud, I would
smile contentedly at any protestation by the United States
of concern for the Jews."
If' there still are any doubts relative to treachery in
Washington in relation to the Jewish position in Palestine,
all, that is necessary as proof of the existence of a double-
dealing policy in the State Department is the fact brought
out by Mr. Pearson that brazen British trickery is being
used against the Jews and that—
Two Scholem Essays
Gershom G. Soholem has written two essays—
"Jewish Mysticism and Kabbala" and "Messianic
Movements After the' Expulsion from Spain." The
latter subect is supplemented by another essay,
"Messianic Movements Up to the End of the
Middle Ages,' by A. Steinberg. - Other essays by
Mr. Steinberg are "The History of Jewish Re-
ligious Thought" and "Thee History of the Jews in
the Middle Ages and Modern Times."
A. Menes is the author of "Origin and History
of the Jewish Religion" and "The History of the
Jews in Ancient Times." E. M. Tcherikover writes
the essay, "Jewish Historiography." Other schol-
ars participating in this volume and their sub.
jects are:
Prof. William Foxwell Albright, "Israel in the
Framework of the Ancient 'Near East;" E. L. Su-
kenik, "History of Jewish Archeology;" J. D.
Brutzkus, "The Anthropology of the Jewish
People;" M. F. Ashley Montagu, "Rah Theory in
the Light of Modern Science."
Two More Volumes Coming
The second and third volumes, now in prepara-
tion, will include studies on the following topics:
Demography of the Jews in Europe and the U. S.;
Jewish Agrarian Settlements and Colonization in
Palestine and other countries; • Anti-Semitic
Theories and Anti-Semitic Movements in World
History; the Fight against Anti-Semitism; Searth
for a Solution of the Jewish Problem—Socialism,
Zionism, Territorialism; National and Social
Trends among Jews; Labor Movements in Russia,
Palestine, Poland and the United States; Jewish
Contributions to General Culture; Literature,
Poetry, Drama in Yiddish, Hebrew, English, and
other. Languages; Languages of the Jewish People
(Hebrew, Yiddish, others) ; Jewish Art, Music,
Theater, ( (Hebrew, Yiddish.)
The entire work will include about 50 mono-
graphs, ranging from 1,000 to 60,000 words each,
totalling more than 1,000,000 words, 500 illustra-
For instance, the President recently received a report on • tions, and dozens of black and white and full-
how two secret cables he had sent to Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson,
colored plates.
chairman of the Anglo-American Palestine Commission, were
"The Jewish People: Past and Present" is pro-
read by the British Consul in Geneva before being delivered.
cureable from Jewish Encyclopedic Handbooks,
Truman also has a report from Assistant Secretary of the
Inc., and Central Yiddish Culture Organization
Treasury Ed Foley on how the British tried to double-cross Her-
(CYCO), 425 Lafayette St., New York 3, N. Y., at
bert Gaston, former assistant secretary, on the Palestine question.
$10 a volume.
Gaston cabled from London asking permission to file a dissent
from the Grady-Morrison plan to divide Palestine.
The British held up Gaston's message to Washington while
they lodged_ a protest against him and persuaded Ambassador
Averill Harriman to cable a critical report to the State Depart-
ment.
Harriman's protest arrived before Gaston's cable and helped
to nullify it.
FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE I
THE RABBI'S SHOES—A KARAITE STORY
The Karaites were a set of Jews who revolted
against Talmudism and the interpretation of the
Rabbis and sought to follow the Bible to the ex-
clusion of rabbinical _laws. The sect was founzed
by a man named Anan, who lived in the eighth
century; and it acquired many followers, especially
in Mohammedan lands. Their teachings were the
subject. of much -controversy, and among those
who took up the cudgels for the rabbis against
the Karaites was the famous Gaon- Saadia, who
lived in the tenth century. The Karaites persisted
down to our own day, and there are still some
remnants of the sect living in South. Russia: But
they have little influence and are hardly Jews
at .all.
In connection with the Karaite controversy an
amusing story is told. There was once a Caliph,
who arranged a disputation between Jews and
Karaites. Each was to attempt to prove that his
own faith was. the older and whichever side suc-
ceeded, was to be richly rewarded. The Jews were --
represented by a Rabbi and the Karaites by a
Priest.
The Rabbi appeared' before the Caliph simply
clad carrying his shoes under his arms while
the 'Priest came in rich robes. The Prince was
Christian Union is the name of an "interdenominational angry with the Jew for coming before him bare-
civic organization promoting Christian citizenship," organized footed and asked him what he meant by it. "That
is a mark of honor," he .said. "When 'Moses ap-
in Ann Arbor with plans for national expansion.
before God he cast off his shoes."
There is an interesting contradiction in the publicized peared
"Very well," said the Cailph, "but why do you
announcement of the objectives of the organization which carry your shoes under your •rm?"
"I will explain,"- said the Rabbi. "When the
speaks "of deep Christian character regardless of po-
stood at Mount Sinai they had to take off
litical affiliations, religious faith -or church denomination." Jews
their shoes. When they returned form the Mount
At the same time, however, the group announces that and wanted to recover their shoes, they could
"to Christianize the American government is merely a matter not find them. A Karaite had been there and
carried them off. I was afraid for my shoes."
of putting our votes together . ."
The Priest became very angry when he heard
Suppose we were to announce an intention of "Juda- this.
"It's a lie!" he exclaimed. "When- the Israel-
izing" the government? Would that be in keeping with ites were at Mount Sinai, there were no Karaites."
American traditions?
"Aha!" retorted the clever Rabbi. "If that is
Even the contradiction in statements as we have quoted so, then we have it out of your own mouth that
is older than Karaism."
them does not reduce the un-Americanism of any group's Judaism
The. Karaite did not know what to reply, so
attempt to inject religion into our government. The two the Rabbi won the day and received the promised
Anger at the existence of such conditions will not solve
the problem. What we need is action—by men like Messrs.
Crum, Pearson and Ickes.; by our Christian friends; by Jews
and non-Jews alike.
The important thing to achieve NOW is to inform Pres-
ident Truman that we resent empty phrases incorporated
in Rosh Hashanah messages; that we. demand a fair deal;
that double-talk may temporarily disrupt Palestine and harm
the Jewish position in the world, but that it is certain - to
lead to international crises of irreparable nature. It is high
time that our President and our State Department learned
that when one people is harmed the entire world may go
up in flames. And - it is time that our President informed
the State Department that if its officials do not deal squarely
in matters affecting world peace and the destiny of human
beings, they must get out of office and make room for people
who will refuse to tear holy covenants into scraps of paper.
Contradiction to Americanism
must remain inseparable.
reward.