THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 31, 1947

Form World Women's Council

Menu Magic

New Recipes Are for
Fricasee, Date Bread

Recipes taken this week from
Temple Israel Sisterhood's "Trea-
sured Recipes\' include the tradi-
tional chicken ricassee and a date
and nut bread to dress up lunch-
eon menus.

CHICKEN FRICASSEE
3', lb. chicken or small parts of two
or more chickens
3 quarts boiling water
c. each, onion, celery and carrot,
diced
3 tbs. chicken fat
4 tbs. flour
2 c. • chicken stock
Salt, pepper and ginger
clove garlic
Dress, clean and cut chicken at
joints in pieces ready to serve. Add
salt, pepper and allow to stand sev-
eral hours or overnite. Cover with
boiling water, simmer about three
hours until chicken is tender. Melt
fat in frying pan, add flour and grad-
ually brown (this burns easily and
must be watched); after this is golden
brown gradually add the chicken stock
to which has been added clove
garlic minced, a slice of onion, 2 bay
leaves and li cup diced celery. Pour
over chicken and steam carefully
until the chicken has absorbed some
of this spicy flavor. Serve hot over
boiled rice.

Reorganization of the International Council of Jewish Women,
which prior to the war represented organizations in more than 20
countries, was undertaken by the annual ,meeting of the national
board of directors of National Council of Jewish Women in New
York. An international meeting was planned for September, 1948, in
France, Switzerland or South Africa. Left to right: Mrs. Ottilie
Schoenewald, now of New York, former President of the Union.
* * *
of Jewish Women of Germany• Mrs. Harold Lorie, Toronto, presi-
DATE AND NUT BREAD
dent of the Council of. Jewish ' Women of Canada; Mrs. Joseph M.
Welt, Detroit, president of the National Council, and Miss Sallie 1 c. sugar
c. shortening
Russel, Johannesburg, organizing secretary of the Union of Jewish 2 eggs
'Women of South Africa.
c. walnuts

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Our Letter Box

Why Don't Movies Portray Jews
as Likeable 'People, Reader Asks
Editor, The Jewish News:
I saw the motion picture
"Crossfire" several months ago
and enjoyed it immensely. It is
easy to understand the popular
approval the picture is receiving.
As a murder mystery it is a real
thriller and what several of its
characters say against intolerance
is balm to all who find prejudice
hurtful. And yet, if this picture
encourages a stream of similar
pictures, the result will be regret-
table.
In "Crossfire", the American
Jew has been portrayed (by a
symbolic character) as someone
who is liable to be killed simply
because he is , a Jew. A •few
weeks hence we shall have Amer-
ican Jews pictured on the screen
as persons to whom people do not
want to rent or sell their proper-
ty ("Gentleman's Agreement").
A few months later, the Ameri-
can Jew may be portrayed as
someone whom others do not
want as a son-in-law ("Earth and
High Heaven").
If these are box-cffice success-
es, we may soon find the Jew
presented on the screen as some-
one whose winclows are smash-
ed; as someone to whom jobs are
refused; as someone unwelcome
at the colleges; as someone mis-
treated in many other ways. In
all of these pictures anti-Jewish
scurrilities must be spoken. Some
of the film characters will de-
nounce anti-Semitism but the
American Jews will be fixed in
the public mind as persons most
likely to be disliked. As for the
exhortations against the abuse,
scientific research indicates that
such preaching has negligible ef-
fect.
There is little likelihood of
similar portrayal on the screen
of American Catholics, Negroes,
Italians, or other groups who en-
dure similar prejudice. Cath-
olics would resent it. Theirs are
consistently admirable screen
roles, as in "Boys' Town", "The
Song of Bernadette", "Bells of
Saint Mary", and "Going My
Way"—to mention only a few.
If there is anything the Jews
of America need, it is that they
be regarded not as a problem but
as people, who, as individuals,
range from saints to sinners.
When regarded as a group, they
must appear as deserving people,
who elicit respect, not animosity.
To employ mass propaganda em-
phasizing a rising tide of pre-
judice against any minority
minority group has a boomerang
effect upon prejudiced or waver-
ing elements.
One of the comments that
"Crossfire" has elicited widely is:
"This picture is the first to face
the Jewish problem." "The Jew-
ish problem" is the most damag-
ing phrase that . confronts the
Jews anywhere. We can and

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should speak freely of "the prob-
lem of anti-Semitism", "the
problems of Jewish - Christian
relationships", etc. But through-
out the European continent be-
fore the debacle the phrase "the
Jewish problem" was a term of
common parlance and heightened
the impression that Jews are nec-
essarily a problem to their neigh-
bors. I prefer • that Hollywood
treat my correligionists as people,
rather than as a problem.
I have no quarrel with the pro-
ducers of "Crossfire.", Their mo-
tives are of the best. But while-
a little fire may warm a home,
if it is likely to. start. a conflagra-
tion that cannot be confined, the
fire can hardly be welcomed. The
"please don't hate them" treat-
ment of the Jew has always
proved much more a boomerang
than an aid. Constructive, posi-
tive suggestion is excellent • and
the negative appeal is mistaken.
Anti-Semitism is a subtle, corro-
sive force which can be success-
fully combatted only by subtle
methods. These must establish
the right of the Jew to respect
and equality of treatment by de-
manding similar treatment for all
racial and religious groups. Spot-
lighting the Jews as disliked peo-
ple in mass media is rarely nec-
essary, and is usually self-defeat-
ing.
Coughlin, the German-Ameri-
can Bund, the Christian Front,
the Ku Klux Klan and sundry
rabble-rousers have assailed us
fiercely. They did not win. The
anti-Semites lost decisively dur-
ing the most critical period. And
there were no movies like "Cross-

2 tsp. vanilla
1 c. dates
1 c. boiling water
2 c. flour
tsp. soda
1 tsp. baking powder
Combine sugar, shortening, eggs,
cut up dates and nuts. Add to boiling
water. Sift dry ingredients, add to
other ingredients. add dates and van-
illa. Bake in loaf pan for one hour
in 325 degrees F. oven.
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Copies of "Treasured Recipes"
may be obtained by calling Mrs.
Joseph Falk, UN. 3-2615.

fire" when the menace was great-
est,—perhaps that was fortunate.
I hope that Jews will be por-
trayed in the Movies, but in the
manner that Catholics have been
portrayed there—as likable peo-
ple whose friendship . anyone
would .desire. .Surely, that is a
fair and legitimate •-role to seek
for the Jews on the screen. Sure-
ly, Jewish life in America has
provided more than one "Jolson
Story" for the Cameras.
S. ANDHIL FINEBERG
386 4th Ave., New York

MOSES MILLER

Author, " Criiis in Palestine"
Reports on
Palestine

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United Nations
S essions
Sunday, November 9, 7 :30 P. M.

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Lehman Reveals Fall in Population
In Radio Plea for Admission of BPs

Seventeen Midwestern states. ;.>were Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, of
have lost over 1,000,000 in popu- Detroit, national president of the
lation in the last six years, for- Council; Mrs. Elsie Elfenbein,
mer Gov. Herbert H. Lehman executive director; and Mine.
revealed in supporting the Strat- Menie Weinmann, former head
ton Bill to admit 'a fair share. of of the Social Service Department
Europe's displaced persons into CI the Jewish Coordinating Com-
mittee of Holland.
the United States.
"Our vital farm belt is crying
for labor to till the soil," Lehman
disclosed; "and among the dis-
placed persons there are 90,000
skilled agricultural workers who
DESERVE THE FINE CARE
could replace this lost farm pop-
ulation and help feed our people."
The former Director General of
UNRRA spoke on a special
"Council Day" program spon-
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