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Friday, December 27, 1946
THE JEWISH NEWS
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He Won't Get
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Views the News ...
Cyprus Drains Zion
British Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-
Jones revealed last week that it already has
COSt his government $7,600,000 to erect in-
ternment camps on Cyprus and to maintain
Jewi4h immigrants there. The estimated cost
of $4,600,000 for the camps alone is to be
Oiarged to the Palestine government—which
means that taxes derived in the main from
the Jewish community will be used to keep
Jews out of Palestine.
Thus, British policy remains to spend more
money for internment camps than in facili-
tating the settlement of Jews in Palestine,
as pledged in the Balfour Declaration and
the Mandate. Such policy cannot possibly
win friends for the British government.
Meanwhile the Colonial Office is pursuing
a program, decided upon in November, to
split the 1,500 monthly immigration quota
among the Cyprus internees and displaced
persons residing in the British zone in Ger-
many. Jews in the American zones in Ger-
many and Austria are excluded from par-
ticipation in quota allotments, exceptions be-
ing made only for the few who may have
relatives in Palestine.
The fight, therefore, continues against the
perpetuation of grave injustices perpetrated
by the British.
Entire Goal: $215,000,000
American Jewry's fund-raising obligations
in 15347 will not be limited to the $170,000,000
United Jewish Appeal goal.
Dele:,;ates attending the Central Atlantic
Regional Conference of the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare Funds, in Phila-
delphia. were informed that additional obli-
gations to local and national causes will boost
the total campaign quotas in 267 American
Jewish communities to $215,000,000.
This means, very clearly, that every Jew-
ish community in America will have to plan
to raise sums nearly double the amount
raised last year. It means that the Jews of
Detroit may have to subscribe $5,000,000 or
more thrcaah the Allied Jewish Campaign.
It is important that we should know these
facts and that we should be prepared for
action.
Aiding the DPs
michi,..!an's Committee on Immigration
Pulic\ - fur Displaced Persons, organized here
with t he aid of the Jewish Community Coun-
cil and other important groups in Detroit, is
a significant move in the direction of secur-
ing Congressional action for reallocation of
unused immigration quotas. The specific re-
quest is that priority be given to those who
now are in DP camps. The newly-formed
committee should be given the support of all
who recognize the urgency of its objectives,
in the hope that the entire community's coop-
eration %yin be enlisted in this humanitarian
ef
There is a recalcitrant group in the U. S.
Congress that refuses to permit the admis-
sion of unfortunate European survivors even
on available visas which have accumulat-
ed during the war when immigration was
at a standstill. It is necessary, therefore,
that the true facts be made known in order
that the humanitarian idea should triumph.
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VOL. 10—NO. 15
81.0MOVITZ. Editor
DECEMBER
Li, ims
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the fifth day of Tebet, 5707, the
following Scriptural selections will be read in our
synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 44:18-47:27.
Dr. Weizmann's Leadership
Novel Entertainment .:
Pat Frank's 'Mr. Adam'
Is Hilarious Satire
Pat Frank, one-time Jewith Telegraphic Agency
foreign correspondent whose cables appeared
regularly in The Jewish News, has written an
unusually hilarious book. When the Chicago Sun
reviewer wrote that "it's an easy prediction that
readers the country over are going to be laughing
about Mr. Adam (and his experiences as the
potential father of his country) for months to
come," he was understating the case. It is this
reviewer's belief that the laughter will continue
for years.
"Mr. Adam" is the title of the satirical work
which was published by J. B. Lippincott Co.,
Philadelphia. Pa. It is the story of a young news-
paperman who, upon leaving a Zionist rally in
Madison Square Garden, bumped his knee and
was taken to a hospital. There he learned that
reservations had stopped coming in for space in
maternity wards. As art AP reporter, he and his
organization immediately made an investigation
and it was discovered that the male population
of the entire world was sterilized as a result of
an explosion in an atomic plant which blew up
all of Mississippi. Rankin and Bilbo were among
those who perished, but the world was placed
in a dilemma—until our reporter discovered that
one man, Homer Adam, who happened to be at
the bottom of a lead mine in Colorado at the time
of the explosion, was unaffected by the tragedy.
Here the fun begins. Mr. Adam becomes the
property of the government and special agencies
are set up to rescue the world through an A. L
(artificial insemination) program. The women be-
came concerned. There was competition as to
who was to be the first woman selected for the
reproduction process. A woman senator was the
first lucky person in the lottery.
Mr. Adam did not like the business. He be-
came involved in a love affair. found himself
betrayed by conspirators who desired to see an
end to humanity. he became sterilized himself
by accident and humanity was chagrined. Then,
one of the obstetricians who was affected by the
tragedy discovered a cure: a sort of seaweed: and
humanity was rescued.
When the problem first arose. the usual charge
was heard: it was a Jewish conspiracy.
Which causes this reviewer to pose another
question: suppose Mr. Adam were a Jew' How
would that have affected international feeling?
Would it have started pogroms. or further charges
that Jews sought to Judaize the world? Perhaps
Mr. Frank would like to elaborate on this theme.
What a plot!
In the meantime, his novel ranks among the
most entertaining we have read in many years.
There is genuine entertainment on every page.
A very prominent American Zionist leader committed
the blunder of shouting the epithet "demagogue" at Dr.
Chaim Weizmann, venerable and brilliant Jewish leader,
during the latter's repudiation of terrorism before the World
Zionist Congress. Dr. Weizmann made this moving reply:
"Every house, every barn in Nahalal, every little
factory in Haifa bears a drop of my blood."
The great gathering rose out of respect to Dr. Weizmann's
leadership to demonstrate its loyalty to the man who, during
more than 40 years of service to the Zionist cause, brought
to the movement the Balfour Declaration and the esteem of
statesmen, lay leaders and nearly the entire Jewish people.
Epithet-hurling at the outstanding world Jewish leader
not only is regrettable: it is a mark of disrespect deserving
of condemnation. The Zionist movement is divided on the
interpretation of the wisdom of Dr. Weizmann's policies.
There are many who believe that he should have been firmer
with the British, that he was too conciliatory, that he did not
demand Jewish rights strongly enouth. But the endorsements
that have been given to his policies by men like Louis Lipsky,
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Prof. Selig Bro-
detsky and many others, especially the leaders in the ranks
of the labor Zionists. are indications that he does not stand •
alone in the view that Jews must continue to negotiate with
the British government, British rule in Palestine being inev-
itable for the time being.
The Revisionist opposition has failed utterly in its atti-
tude on resistance in Palestine and on other issues affecting
the reconstruction of the Jewish Homeland. The threat made
by William B. Ziff, as spokesman for the Irgunists, of an
impending civil war among the Palestinian Jews is the best
indication of irresponsible action by a very small fraction of
Zionists. Haganah's assertion that there will be no civil war
is an assurance that the overwhelming masses of Jews who
support Haganah will not permit internecine war and that
the Irgun will be crushed if it undertakes measures detri-
mental to the Yishuv.
Dr. Weizmann is on firm ground in his warning that
terroism in the Holy Land had done immense harm to and
might eventually poison Jewish life.
At 72, Dr. Weizmann remains the most influential and
most impressive personality in Jewish life, and his status
will not be reduced by epithets. We are convinced that he
has not lost any of the affection the Jews of the world hol d
for him because of the blunders of his opponents.
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Prophetical Ortion—Ezek. 37:15-28.
Next Thursday, the Fast of Tebet, the following
Scriptural selections will be read:
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 32:11-14; 34:1-10.
Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-56:8.
FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BAR MITZVAH
By HERZL SHUR
We have forgotten the full significance of Bar
Mitzvah.
It is highly important that before one becomes
a candidate for Bar Mitzvah, that he fulfill certain
requirements. These should consist of a five to
seven year period of Jewish education of at least
five hours a week in the study of Jewish history,
Hebrew, and Jewish ceremonials.
Thus, every boy should build up in his tieart
some appreciation of Jewish values. Once he does
that, during this preliminary stage, the Bar Mitz-
vah ceremony will become more meaningful to
him and he will look forward to it intelligently,
whether or not he is of a scholarly inclination. Bar
I have set tap each letter of the words
Mitzvah to stand as a symbol of one or more
values, as follows:
of age and aware of one's Jewish
B ecoming
Heritage
of the obligation of being
A ssumption
a Jew
Religious observance of Jewish customs
and ceremonials
itzvos to be performed in the practice of
Charity, Loving Kindness, Learning
5.5.1 which steads for the
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Primary Consideration for Education 1 eternal Jew
An important pamphlet, "Educating the Jewish Child,"
by the eminent Jewish educator, Uriah Zevi Engelman, pub-
lished in the "Jewish Affairs" series of the Office of Jewish
and Talmudic
T orah
Teachings
which is crysialking the age old Jewish
Information of the American Jewish Congress, evaluates the Z i onism
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yearning
for Eretz Yisroel into concrete reality
standards of Jewish schools in this country and makes this
ctory
ultimately
over Anti-Semitism
valid plea:
"The balance of Jewry has now swung to the United
and Intolerance
States. The Jews of the world will look increasingly to this
rganization and Harmony in the
country for leadership. We can only meet this historic respon-
Jewish Community
sibility if our great material resources are joined with a far
Vi
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richer knowledge of Jewish history, traditions, and problems,
than is possessed by the average American Jew. In Europe,
'Honor and respect for Jewish tradition
" and learning
education provided the bUsis for an informed public opinion
and an enlightened leadership. So far our own system of
Answers to Readers
Questions ...
a comprehensive and thoroughly integrated system of Jewish
education has been haphazard and lacking in perspective.
The new responsibilities confronting American Jewry make
it imperative that the problem of Jewish education be given
primary consideration."
While a minority of American Jews already recognizes
the primacy of such an obligation, it is important that the
issue be studied anew, that community leaders as well as
educators study the facts presented by Mr. Engelman and
What is the unique feature of Hanukah?
It is the only Jewish -festival of which it is
known exactly when it was first observed.
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What is a Menorah?
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A seven-branched candelabra used in syna-
that we take the matter more seriously than we have in the gogues. It is reminiscent of the 10 golden menorahs
past. The urgency of educational needs, the lack of perspec- in the Temple of Solomon.
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tive, the haphazard approaches, call for a re-evaluation of
Who were the itephajmn?
A race of legendary giants mentioned in the Old
our aims and objectives in dealing with our educational sys-
tems. The sooner we give primacy to this question, the better. Testament.