<-3 Friday, August 30, 1946 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Four 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. THE JEWISH NEWS 2114 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich.- Member of Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Independent Jewish Press Service, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate. Religious News Service, Palcor News Agency, King Fea- tures Syndicate, Central Press Service, International• Soundphotos. Member American Association of English-Jewish News- papers and Michigan Press Association. Published every Friday by The Jewish NeWs Publish- ing Co., 2114 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich. Telephone RAndolph 7956. Subscription rate $3 a year; foreign $4 a year. Club subscription of one issue a month, published every fourth Friday of the month. to all subscribers to Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit at 40 cents a club sub- scription per year. Entered as second-class matter August 6, 1942 at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan, under the Act o/ March 3, 1879. . • 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.