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THE JEWISH NEWS
As the Editor - - -,
Views the News
Chest Drive MUST Succeed
Autumn 'Leaves'
nswers to Readers'
uestions
Detroit's Red Feather Community Chest
campaign is lagging in results, and all ele-
ments in the community are challenged,
during the concluding days left for solici-
tations, to respond to the needs of the scores
of important agencies which depend upon
this fund for their sustenance.
Interdenominational in scope, thii Com-
munity Chest serves to unite all faiths and
all, nationality groups in behalf of a single
movement which cares for the social service,
Are special sanetification eeressonies nommen
to Jewish worship?
Yes. Sabbath days and festivities are frequently
ushered in by the "Kiddush," an ancient cere-
mony proclaiming the holiness of such days. The
Kiddush is performed by reciting a blessing over
wine. In many homes the Kiddush is also re-
peated before the Sabbath noon meal and in
Orthodox and some Reform synagogues it . i
chanted Friday night during the services.
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FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Maurice Aroncson
Philip Slomovitz
Fred M. Hutu'
Isidore Sob?lor1
Judge Theodore Levin Abraham Srere
Maurice H. Schwartz
Henry Wineman
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ. Editor
VOL. 10—NO. 8
NOVEMBER 8, 1946
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the fourteenth day of Heshvan,
5707, the following Scriptural selections will be
read in our synagogues7
Pentauchal
portion—Gen. 18:1-22:24.
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Proph tical portion—II Kings 4:1-37.
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Dear Boys and Girls:
Last week marked an interesting anniver-
sary—the 60th birthday of Lady Liberty, the
Statue of Liberty on Bedloe Island, New York,
which has been welcoming newcomers to the
shores of the United States for six decades.
1 It was a great event
when Jewish, Catholic
and Protestant chil-
;
i dren, who came to
this country as a re-
t suit of a directive is-
.. sued by President
Truman, gathered to
celebrate Miss Lib-
erty's 60th birthday.
The youngsters, who
are shown in this
photograph, are among
the survivors from the
Nazi terror whose way
to freedom was light-
ed by t h e Statue
whose tablet has in-
scribed upon it the
famous poem by the
great Jewish poet,
Emma Lazarus, "The
New Colussus." Unit-
ed Service for New
Americans, formerly
known as National
Refugee Service, one
Fai Employment Law
Hitherto suppressed facts, just revealed
in a dispatch from Rio de Janeiro, reveal
that a series of riots was aimed at Jewish
merchants and was chiefly anti-Semitic in
character.
Organized b', the Integralista Fascists in
an attempt to prevent passage of a demo-
cratic Assembly, these riots are disturbing
and are indicative of the insecure position
of our people in Latin American countries.
It is encouraging to know that trade
unions and other liberal groups organized
a counter-drive to check the effects of the
riots. In the meantime, however, it is un-
fortunate that anti-Semitism should have
gained a strong foothold in the Latin
Americas.
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The Great Bible was an English version of the
Scriptures edited by Miles Coverdale at the order
of Thomas Cromwell and published in 1539. It
was so-called on account of the size of the vol-
ume. Later editions were called Cranmer's Bible.
1i.
Trouble in Brazil
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What was the Great Bible?
recreational and educational causes super-
vised by Catholics, Jews and Protestants.
While the Allied Jewish Campaign de-
pends exclusively upon. Jewish supporters,
since the War Chest was disbanded, six Jew-
ish agencies—Fresh Air Camp, Hebrew Free
Loan Association, Jewish Community Cen-
ter, Jewish Social Service Bureau, Jewish
Welfare Federation and North End Clinic—
derive their incomes entirely from the Com-
munity Chest. Thus, the Jewish community
has an important direct stake in the fund,
aside from. our obligations" to the over-all
community needs represented in the present
fund-raising campaign.
Those who, thus far, have failed to con-
tribute to the Community Chest owe an
obligation' to themselves and to their neigh-
bors to make liberal donations. If, by acci-
dent, they have been overlooked by solici-
tors, they should make voluntary gifts with-
out waiting to be asked to give to our all-
important community needs.
Detroit's Jewish Community Council
has undertaken an important project to en-
list Jewish community support in the move-
ment to secure passage of a state Fair
Employment Practice law.
While Jewish leadership has been in
the forefront for several ■ ears in behalf of
the national FEPC efforts as well as state
movements in support of fair employment
practices, the latest undertaking is sponsored
in a spirit of greater optimism in view of the
adoption of similar measures by the states
of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts,
and because of the interest that has been
aroused in behalf of the proposal among all
elements in the state.
public meeting arranged for this
Sund\ay afternoon, at the Jewish Center, by
the J\ewish. Community Council, deserves
more than passing interest. It should be at-
tended not only by Council delegates but
also by a large and representative audience
of Detroit Jews who should indicate deep
interest in securing passage of the proposed
measure. The leaders in the movement have
earned the entire community's encourage-
ment in their activities.
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Facts You Shosela Know
Palestine and the State Department
Dr. James G. McDonald's charge that the U. S. envoy
ter plenopotentiary at Damascus,
plenipotentiary and r
George Wadsworth, 'Is so pro-Arab that in comparison the
Grand Mufti is a Zionist" should serve to awaken further
concern in Washington to assure justice for the Jewish
position in Palestine.
Dr. McDonald's charge, made at the meeting sponsored
by the Men's Club of Congregation Bnai Moshe last week,
was offered as proof that President Truman's good intentions
are nullified by unfriendly officials of the State Department
at home and abroad. At the same time, at the convention
of the Zionist Organization of America, Bartley C. Crum,
an associate of Dr. McDonald on the Anglo-American Com-
mittee of Inquiry on Palestine, urged the overhauling of
the Middle East Division of the State Department and the
removal of Loy Henderson, this division's head, as important
steps towards effecting an honest solution of the issue in
Palestine.
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of the agencies of the United Jewish Appeal,
made possible the settlement in this country of
these refugees and their families.
While on the subject of European children,
I am sure yon will be interested in these photo-
graphs of Jewish boys and girls who were treated
to a circus in Berlin by the Joint Distribution
Meanwhile, however, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
has given assurance, in a letter to Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Committee.
that the State Department is in accord with President Tru-
man's policies on Palestine; and the President's letter to
King lbn Saud rejects the Arab protests vis-a-vis American
commitments to the Jewish people.
The latter occurrences provide the necessary encourage-
ment that our government is on the right track; that our
President's sincerity is proven by his acts and that there
is new hope for an early and favorable solution of the prob-
lem as a result of the policy of firmness adopted by our
President, with the support of the Secretary of State.
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From all indications, the basis for an approach to
proferred solutions to the problem is the proposal of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, as adopted at the Paris meet-
ings. It is a compromise proposal which would yield to the
partitioning of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, pro-
vided that the territory which includes all the present Jewish
settlements, with the addition of the Negev, would be
included in the .Jewish State. Adopted reluctantly by the
overwhelming majority of the members of the Jewish
Agency Executive, this decision awaits approval of the World
Zionist Congress. In spite of the objections of the conven-
tion of the Zionist Organization of America, there appears
no other alternative, especially since our Government's
approach to a solution to the problem hinges upon the Jew-
ish Agency's compromise partition plan for the establishment
of a Jewish State in 65 per cent of the mandated territory
of Palestine.
There is ground for feeling confident that we are on
the eve of seeing an end to controversy and struggle over
Palestine. The firmness displayed in President Truman's
latest declarations on Palestine provides grealest assurance
that a fairly satisfactory solution is imminent. What we need
primarily today is agreement on the issue among Jews -them-
selves and united action in support of major points of agree-
ment which have the endorsement of our Government.
I am sure you are happy to know that these
children were given a bit of joy with the con-
tributions you and I made to the Allied Jewish
Campaign of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration. -
A pleasant Sabbath to all. •
UNCLE DANIEL