As the Editor
Views the News...
Thank You, Dr. Mc Donald
Dr. James G. McDonald, former High
Commissioner of the Intergovernmental
Committee on Refugees, one of the American
members of the Anglo-American Inquiry
Committee on Palestine, rendered the cause
of justice for the Jewish people a very great
service during the Town Hall discussion on
Palestine, Feb. 6.
Dr. McDonald called every bluff. He was
frank in his stand in favor of a Jewish Na-
tional Home in Palestine. He nailed the lies
regarding Arab-Jewish dissensions, pointing
out forcibly that the two peoples desire and
can live peacefully side by side, provided in-
terference from outside sources is eliminated.
He did not mince words in his condemnation
of Great Britain's failure to adhere to her
pledges. He was emphatic in indicating
that Jews are not grabbing up land, but are
buying it and paying exorbitant prices for it.
This great Christian leader was the perfect
scholar and gentleman throughout the dis-
cussion. He was so superb in his presentation
of the facts that all Americans owe him a vote
of thanks. The Jewish people owes him a
great debt of gratitude.
Thank you very much for your great act of
justice, Dr. McDonald.
Inhuman Evictions
In the midst of negotiations with Jews and
Arabs for a solution of the Palestine problem,
the British government undertook unneces-
sary evacuation of civilians, issued a threat
of martial law and imposed requisitioning
and eviction orders upon Jews and Arabs,
threatening 1,000 people with loss of their
homes.
Jews and Arabs demonstrated cooperative
action by joining in a protest against the
eviction order.
Acquisition of the Rehavia section in Jeru-
salem, adjacent to the Jewish Agency build-
ings, not only affects many officials but serves
to humilitate and embarrass the Jewish com-
munity. Similarly insulting are eviction
orders directed against Arabs.
These are actions that call for repudiation
and it is of the utmost importance that our
own government act in the matter, to avert
further tragedies in Palestine.
Late -Alvin D. Hersch •
In the death of Alvin D. Hersch, Detroit
loses an eminent personality who was a
power for good on many fronts.
As a member of the faculty of the Uni-
versity of Detroit, which awarded him an
honorary Doctorate, he has taught hundreds
of practicing attorneys and has imbued them
with highest ethical ideals.
More than 20 years ago, then already recog-
nized as one of the outstanding Jewish lay
leaders, he became an ardent Zionist, par-
ticipated in educational efforts in behalf of
Zionism and was an important figure in cam-
paigns for the Keren Hayesod.
In the past few years, he devoted himself
untiringly to the program of activities of the
Detroit Round Table of Catholics, Jews and
Protestants. He traveled widely as a member
of several good will teams, addressed church
and school groups throughout Michigan and
rendered a great service in preaching broth-
erhood among all faiths.
Whatever he had undertaken he fulfilled
with zeal and loyalty, earning the respect
of an entire community.
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FEBRUARY 14, 1947
VOL. 10—NO. 22
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twenty-fifth day of Shevat,
5707, the following Scriptural selections will be
read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 21:1-24:18; 30:11-16.
Prophetical portion II Kings 12:1-17.
Next Thursday and Friday. Rosh Hodesh Adar,
—
28:145 will be read during morning services.
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Friday, February i 4, 1947
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Reflections by the Jordan
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Cyril Arronson, Able Detroit Artist
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generally known to the public and one of the
purposes of this column is to acquaint you with the
persons who are making an important contribution
to art.
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`Whom the Gods Would Destroy . .
British policies in Palestine have retrogressed from the
impractical and oppressive to the medieval and insane.
Not only have British authorities ordered liquidation and
evacuation of homes by Jews and Arabs—a step that is tanta-
mount to confiscation—but they have enforced army rule to a
point that borders on the barbaric.
In London, Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin,
differing with Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones who
apparently favors a conciliatory program, has attempted to
impose a plan whereby Jewish immigration would be limited
to 100,000 for a two-year period, but Jews would be required
to concede to the abolition of the Jewish Agency and the
acceptance of a five-year United Nations trusteeship.
It is clear that under such a plan Jewish authority would
be liquidated, a number of Jewish "ghettoes" would be set up
in Palestine and the . British would be _saving face through
the palliative gesture of consenting to the admission of 100,000
Jews—a plan that should have been put into effect when the
demand for it first was made by President Truman in August,
1945.
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Is it any wonder, therefore, that Britain's latest scheme
has been rejected summarily by the Jewish spokesmen?
If the British again are gambling on a "muddling
through" policy on Palestine, then they seem to be forgetting
the old adage that "whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad." Their latest actions border on madness. The
demand that Jews should round up terrorists would have
meant that brothers would have to inform on brothers, and
the unanimous opinion of Palestinian and world Jewry—in-
cluding spokesmen for American Zionism—was that Jews
never will turn "informists and spies."
The establishment during a night's secrecy of three new
settlements in the Negev area during the past week is an-
other indication of the forcefulness with which Palestinian
Jewry will meet the British demands. It was another signal
to the British authorities that an autonomous Jewish territory
in Palestine would not be complete without the Negev and
that Jews will not yield to attempts to convert Palestine into
another ghetto.
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Describing the heroic skill with which the new settle-
ments were created, Homer Bigart cabled to the N. Y. Herald
Tribune from Jerusalem:
Cyril Arronson, who is on the staff of the High-
land Park High School and Junior College, is a
young woman of outstanding ability. I first met
Miss Arronson when she was teaching a painting
class at the Museum on Saturday morning and
there was so much enthusiasm that I had to find
out more about her. Early this week I visited her
studio up on Davison and found the some en-
thusiasm in her studio work. Right now, her studio
is full of promising work, as well as many fine
completed oils, watercolors, and sculpture.
She is skilled in a variety of mediums and
in the strength and quality of her productions. She
is forceful, imaginative, and sincere, and her man-
ner of painting is always direct and simplified. She
shows a tendency toward the abstract which seems
to clarify rather than obscure her meaning. There
is a monumental quality to her oils, her figures at
times seem to be-hewn out of paint with a sculp-
tors sense of the dramatic. Several watercolors of
Chicago summer scenes, are rich in color, splendid
in composition and would warm and enliven any
wall in any home.
Cyril Arronson was graduated from Wayne Uni-
versity with a master's degree in Fine Arts. Shit
has also studied with Sarkis Sarkisian at the So-
ciety of Arts and Crafts. Examples of her work
may be seen at the Artists Market or at her studio.
She is a member and prize winner of the Women
Painters of Detroit and has exhibited at the Inter-
national Watercolor Show in Chicago.
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Irene Clinton, Painter of Babies
I found a little girl over on the east side of
Detroit who is just like the babies she painted. Its
Irene Clinton and she is just 19, and she has just
finished a most delightful mural for the Peter Pan
Shop at 7 Kercheval, Grosse Pointe. Her piquant
portrayal of children is tremendously attractive
and the fantasy she has created on the wall is well
worth the trip to the Peter Pan Shop to see. (I
have no interest in the Peter Pan Shop.) One
sleepy, pajama clad baby with his hand over one
eye and rump up, will be my favorite baby for
some time to come.
About seven or eight years ago, Irene's father
showed me some of her drawings which displayed
a great deal of talent, and her interest in drawing
and painting never stopped. She has a real gift.
Irene Clinton is a student at the Arts and Craft-2
and has studied with Marilee Baske. Though her
career has just begun, she is full of enthusiasm
for her work and I feel certain that we will hear
more about this capable young artist
The Jewish Center has just hung a show sent
from the Museum of Modern Arts concerning
American Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Century. The panels consist of fine reproductions
with explanatory notes about the artist and his
place in American Art. The exhibit will remain
for two. weeks and should be of interest to all.
Facts You Should Know
Answers to Readers
Questions About Jews
What dOes the Jewish term, Halakah, mean?
Derived from the Hebrew, holek, to go, it is used
a
as general name for authoritative law, which is
a way of life. It refers also to those parts of rab-
binic literature which deal with any phase of
Jewish law.
A Jewish Children's Story-Book
An exceptionally fine collection of stories, writ..
ten by Arthur Saul Super and Joseph Halpern,
under the title "Storytime: A Jewish Children's
Story-Book," has just been published by Edward
Goldston, 18 Grape St., London, WC2, England.
"If, as some London newspapers suggest, the Arabs were
With fine illustrations by A. Kenneth Snowman,
red hot against Jewish intruders, the three settlements would
this
volume, which is especially suitable for young
have been exterminated by now, for the Negev is predominantly
people of 14 to 17, touches upon a variety of sub-
Arab, with fewer than 18 scattered settlements and au total
jects. It deals with historical Palestinian topics,
Jewish population of under 2,000. Actually, the only menace is
holidays, the horrors and experiences of the war
the Palestine government.
and numerous other significant issues which rank
"A few weeks ago this correspondent toured the Negev and
among the most important in the annals of Jewish
talked with police and British army officials at Gaza and Beer-
history.
sheba. They reported that the Bedouins were not interested in
"Sammy and King Saul," for instance, is a tale
the war cries of the Mufti, the Haj Amin el-Hussein, and saw
revolving around a dream which took a Jewish
no indication of an uprising.
student back to the days of Saul and David. It has
"The sand on which the settlement arose is Jewish—bought
heroic aspects which will thrill the young reader.
from the Bedouins several years ago. But even with the legal
Another aspect, covered in "The Boy Captain
ownership, the Jews must obtain the High Commissioner's con-
and King Solomon," introduces the reader to
sent to erect villages in the Negev, that was the reason for the
Nachshon and Aminadab, the ancient sea-travelers
secrecy."
-who were the forerunners to the present seafaring
This is the testimony of a non-Jew, an eye-witness who, activities in Palestine.
The heroism of the Maccabees, a story of the
during the past few weeks, has consistently condemned
period of Jeremiah, a tale of the days of Hillel
British tactics in Palestine.
and Herod, stories about the period of the Black
Will the British government see the light and recognize Death, Sabbatai Zevi and Moses Mendelsohn (the
latter under the title "Marriages Are Made in
that it cannot continue a policy of madness in its treatment Heaven")
are among the thrilling episodes related
of the Jewish and Arab populations of Palestine?
by the authors.
Another story deals with the Essenes, Pharisees
Jews have waited for centuries for the present chance to
Saducees (title: "Poured on the Ground") and
rebuild the National Home. If the British continue to inter- and
offers a fine explanation of the three sects which
fere with the progress of Jewish efforts, we may have to have been misunderstood and misinterpreted by
iother few years. We shall survive British interference. some theologians.
another
"A Grand Old Man" is the story of Jochanan
As Palestine's Chief Rabbi Herzog is reported to have told ben
Zaccai. Another tale deals with Mairnonides
an important British official, there will be "no third destruc- and there are interesting stories about the fighters
British
who
stand
to
the
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tion for the Jewish people."
against Nazism and the share in the battles by
Jewish children. - -
lose the most as a result of their policies."