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NEWS

United High School Is Example Professor Haber
Adviser
Of Good Educational Cooperation Named
On DP Problems
Article Nine In a Series

By RUTH MIRIAM LEVINE

Cooperating to the fullest degree in providing higher ed-
ucation for the graduates of the Yiddish Schools, the Farband,
Workmen's Circle and Sholom Aleichem Schools sponsor the
United Jewish High School (Mittelschule.)
This year, 32 students attend week-day afternoon and Sun-
day morning classes-for eight hours each week. All are grad-
uates of the three. participating

schools.
The curriculum is divided, usu-
ally, into four grades, with two
additional years of extension
courses for advanced students.
The students' ages vary from 13
to 19 years. This year, however,
the student body is unusually
small, since only the first, second
and fourth classes, and one ex-
tension class are being conducted,
according to H. Bendore, director
of the school.
Hebr,.w, Yiddish, literature,
history, Bible and holiday cele-
brations make up the High
School's curriculum. After the
first two years, the students drop
their study of Hebrew and Yid-
dish as a language, and concen-
trate on the literature, both tra •
ditional and modern, of the two
tongues.
Students pay a nominal tuition,
but the High School's budget is
supported, largely, by the Jewish
Welfare Federation, through the
Allied Jewish Campaign... The
classes meet at the Workmen's
Circle Center.
The faculty includes Bendore,
who uerves both as director and
teacher, Samuel Sigal of the
Workmen's Circle, and Wolf Sny-
der and M. Goldoftas of the Far -
band Schools.
Students at the United Jewish
High Sch.col are all deeply con-
scious of their roles as young
people in the Jewish community,

Bendoie reports. Each of them is
a member of one or more youth
organizations, the majority be-
ionging to the young Zionist
groups, Habonim and Hashomer
Hatzair.
The United Jewish High School
is a major indication of Detroit's
progressiveness in Jewish educa-
tional work. It was the first such
project to be undertaken by a
Jewish community in the United
States. Since then, similar coop-
erative ventures have been be-
gun by the Yiddish schools of
Chicagf-, and Los Angeles.
Further cooperation between
the Yiddish schools on the ele-
mentary level is reportedly be-
ing considered.

Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Two Weizmann Admonitions
In his address to the United Jewish Appeal's extraordinary na-
tional conference in Atlantic City on Dec. 13, Dr. Chaim Weizmann
made two suggestions which undoubtedly will bring forth another
outburst of wrath from his antagonists.
Dr. Weizmann, in the first place, urged that Jews should not
over-emphasize victory because Jewish tradition disapproves of
mentioning the "Shem Hameforosh." The mere fact that he deified
the great occurence at the UN indicates that the eminent Jewish
leader does not underestimate the historic importance of the re-
creation of Jewish nationhood.
His second statement will invite greater criticism. Dr. Weiz-
mann asked that Jews should not waste their tremendous reservoir
of good will and declared: "We must find our way back to friend-
ship with the Britain of the Balfour Declaration, and it is not too
bold to hope that with patience and perseverance we may bring
back Arab-Jewish cooperation as in the days of Cordova when we
jointly created a culture. It is not too bold to hope that we may
once more give from Zion a message to the world.
It is unfortunate that tension and reality force a spirit of bitter-
ness towards the present British rulers in Jewish hearts. Bevin and
Attlee are non-cooperative. The administration in Palestine is anti-
Jewish. The arrests of Haganah defenders of Jewish positions in
Palestine mark the continuation of cruelty by an administration that
is charged with the responsibility of enforcing peace and of enabling
the defenseless to resort to weapons of self-defense.
Nonetheless, once the Jewish state is re-established it will be
necessary for us to live at peace with the entire world—and Britain
will not be excluded. The Britain of the Balfour Declaration—the
honorable Britain to which Dr. Weizmann made reference in his
speech—should be wooed back to friendship. The Bevins do not
rule forever, and our aim should be to see the restoration of amity
among the former partners in the great effort for the building of
Eretz Israel.
Revisionists and Irgunists won't like Dr. Weizmann's statement
and our endorsement of it. But we take this stand on the ground
that we can survive in peace and may be seriously harmed without
the good will of all concerned — including the British and the
Arabs. Surely, we can not afford the influence in our ranks of
"Moishe Machiavellis" — as Maurice Samuel termed them.
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Reburial of Herzl's Remains
On four occasions, Dr. Theodor Herzl is reported to have ex-
pressed the wish, during his lifetime, that "I want to be buried on
Carmel," or "I will be buried on Carmel."
The ActiOns Committee of the World Zionist Organization is on
record in support of the movement to transfer his remains from
Vienna to Palestine. It is a decision that calls for speedy imple-
mentation, in order that the wishes of the leader, who predicted
the nearly exact year for the realization of the ideal he espoused,
should be fulfilled.

"

PROF. WILLIAM HABER
Prof. William Haber of the de-
partment of economics of the Uni-
versity of Michigan has been
named adviser to Gen. Lucius
Clay on the problems of displaced
persons and will leave for Ger-
many on Jan. 1.
Prof. Haber succeeds Judge
Louis Levinthal of Philadelphia,
who has just completed his assign-
ment in Europe. Rabbi Philip
Bernstein preceded Judge Levin-
thal in this post.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Through a
misinterpretation, last week's ar-
ticle in this series, concerning
the Parents' Institute at the Jew-
ish Community Center, named
Mrs. Charles Lakoff• as interim
chairman of the parents' com-
mittee of the Institute. As a mem-
ber of the Center Bbard of Di-
rectors, Mrs. Lakoff met with the
group in its preliminary sessions,
but she is not affiliated with the
Institute and no longer meets
with it in any official capaCity.
The Jewish News regrets the
Midtown Neighborhood Coun-
misunderstanding caused by this cil is planning personal inter-
error.
views with householders in the
12th St.' area for the first week
in February. The Council is dedi-
cated to neighborhood improve-
ment and seeks to enlist the aid
cf all residents of the area.
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 194, .Jewish Telegraphic Agency, inc.)
The plan calls for a number
of interviewers, themselves resi-
Washington Talks
dents of the area, to visit every
The Jewish Agency is now concentrating on its negotiations in fifth house and ask the house-
this country for huge loans for the Jewish State .. Private talks
are being conducted simultaneously with government officials in holder a number of questions
Washino ton and with bankers in New York . . . The loans which the designed to bring out what people
Jewish ' Agency is seeking from the U. S. Government would run who live in the area regard as
into 10 times as much as the $250,000,000 goal of the United Jewish the most important problem fac-•
Appeal . . . The private loans sought from bankers also run into ing them as residents.
millions of dollars, .
Plans for the survey are being
Jewish Agency officials in New York are working on a plan to completed by a Committee o.om-
contact individual wealthy Jews throughout the country to secure
substantial loans . . . In preparing this plan, Agency experts are posed of Ann Lorber, Hollis K.
careful that such individual loans do not affect any large contributions L embel and Joseph Jenkins. The
to the UJA . . . Some aspects of the loan which the Jewish Agency Jewish Community Council is
is seeking in Washington may require Congressional action .. ." Here working closely with the organi
is where American Zionist leadership, through its influence in Con- zation, along with several other
gressional circles, will again be in a position to perform a great civic agencies.
service to the Jewish State . .. That goes to show that the time is
not yet ripe for the dissolution of the American Zionist Emergency
Council. as some groups have suggested .. . The fate of the Emer-
genry Council was discussed and was decided to prolong the life
of the Council until Oct. 1, when the Jewish State is officially set up. Four-Seminar
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Midtown Council
Plans to Interview
Residents of Area

Between You and Me

Federation Women's
Session
Is Set for January 29

Zionist Affairs
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver is taking a leave of absence of six months
from his temple in Cleveland to spend most of that time in Palestine.
A general meeting of the
Who is behind the-"mysterious" organization American Friends
of a Jewish State? . . . The name of the organization was officially Women's Division of the Jewish
registered soon after the conclusion of the UN General Assembly . . . Welfare Federation will be held
Zionist leaders are trying to establish who the founders of the group Thursday, Jan. 29, at Hotel Stat-
ler. Mrs. Abraham Cooper, pro-
are. Don't speculate on the name of the new Jewish State .. . No gram chairman, said that the
name will be giVen to it prior to the National Assembly which will meeting would be patterned after
be convened in Jerusalem-to elect a President and to select the offi-
cial name for the State . . . Since it is taken for - granted that Dr. last year's highly successful "Ac-
Weizmann will be the first President, there is much talk of the cent on Youth" program, and
possibility of having the capital of the Jewish State established in that it would begin in the morn-
Rehovoth ... On the other hand, there is a suggestion to make ing with four seminar sessions
Sarona—the former Nazi-infested German settlement—the capital and culminate in a large lunch-
of the Jewish State . . . Sarona is a suburb of Tel Aviv and will be eon meeting.
among the first areas in the Jewish State to be evacuated by the
The four morning sessions, un-
British.
With competition between extremists and Zionist-Laborites in der the leadership of experts in
DP camps not subsiding, a new type of "illegal" immigration to the the respective fields, will be de-
Jewish State is feared . . . Some believe that as soon as the Jewish voted to mental health, Jewish
State is established, Zionist extremists will try to send in as many education, old age care and
of their members in the DP camps as possible . . . If they are not
admitted to the Jewish State by the Jewish Government, the extrem- campaigning in 1948. The lunch-
ists will try to land them "illegally" . . . Since the Jewish State does. eon meeting will consider na-
not contemplate admitting more than 75,000 immigrants a year during tional health and welfare, as well
he first two years, such "illegal" immigration is likely to attract as the overseas situation.
many impatient displaced Jews who will not be among the first to
Members of the program com-
be admitted legally.
mittee working with Mrs. Cooper
* * *
include:
Communal Trends
Mesdames Julian H. Krolik, co-chair-
Now that the United Jewish Appeal has decided to launch its man,
David Arnold, Harry Bennett,
$250,000,000 drive for 1948, many informal polls are being taken on Jack Berger, Arthur Bloom. Moe Dia-
what will be the sum actually raised . . . However, it will be inter- mond, Max Dushkin, Joseph G. Fen-
Finsterwald, Stanley
esting for many to know that at the Atlantic City Conference of the ton. Maier B.
Seymour J. Frank, Mar-
UJA, there was practically no opposition to the above goal when it Fleischaker,
tin L. Friedman, Aimee Gaines
was discussed at the committee which was to recommend the quota Samuel R. Glogower, Nathaniel H.
for the new year . .. There was no doubt in anybody's mind con- Goldstick, William Gottesman, Samuel
Jerome B. Grossman, Joseph
cerning the necessity of having a much larger quota for the coming A. Green. Robert
N. Janeway, Harry L.
year, even though this year's quota of $170,000,000 was not reached. Jackier,
Jones, Ben Juliar, Leonard Kasle,
. . The most interesting part of the UJA conference was the great Julia Klein, Harold Koenigsberg, Har-
and historic evening session at which Weizmann, Morgenthau, Leh- ry Landsman, Leonard T. Lewis. Rob-
Lewiston, Milton Maddin, Bernard
man, Gen. McNarney, Gen. Hilldring, Shertok and other celebrities ert
Kay, Barney Newman Arthur • S.
spoke .. . The most inspiring address was delivered by Dr. Weiz- laUrdy, Alexander W. Sanders, Jacob
mann .. . Incidentally, this was the first time in 30 years that Gen. Schreier, Nate S. Shapero. Ben Schway-
Hilldring, who played such an important role at the UN on the der, Leonard M. Sims, Seymour Sim-
ons, Harry C. Singer, Raymond A.
Palestine question, had delivered a speech as a civilian . . . And his Sokolov,
Julian Tobias. Louis J.
address will long,remain in the memory of each .of. Tobin;- Leonard- H. Weiner; Sidney •J.
maid
en .
the 1,200Jewish leaders who attended the Atlantic city parley .
Winer and Mils Pearl Devenow.

Titus Repudiated Judea Lives!
The (in)famous Arch of Titus in Rome serves as a symbol of
the indestructibility of Israel. Titus, having destroyed Judea in the
year 70-1,877 years ago—saw fit to transport the Menorah and other
spoils from the Temple.
Special coins were struck by Titus with the inscriptions "Judaea
devicta" and "Judaea capta"—"Judaea is conquered" and "Judaea
is captive."
There is a legend that in bygone days no Jew evar passed under
the Arch of Titus in order to avoid being reminded of the tragedy
of the destruction of the Temple. and that the Jews of the Roman
ghetto opened another path from the Coliseum to the capitol leading
from the Arch to Palatine Hill.
The stigma now is removed! The celebration held by the Jews
of Rome at the Arch after the historic UN decision wipes out the
insults intended with the "devicta" slur.
In a cable . from Rome to the Christian Science Monitor, the
eminent correspondent, Joseph G. Harrison, described the historic
scene in a most interesting article which reads:

—

If Josephus Flavius, the great Jewish historian of the First Century,
A. D., had been there, he could have added a final chapter to his famous
account of the wars between the Jews and the Romans. He might have
been tempted to philosophize that if one waits long enough, he is almost
certain to see the wheel of history swing back to its point of departure.
For what Josephus Flavius would have seen was a simple ceremony
which took place in the warm sunshine of a Roman afternoon in De-
cember, before the famed Arch of Titus, which frames the Sacred Way
of the Romans just where that antiquely cobblestone street dips down
into the great Forum of the Caesars.
Standing with his back to the Palestine Hill • and with a scroll of
papyrus—or whatever writing material was used in those days to make
hurried notes—in his hand, he would have seen some 500 or more Jews
gathered about that piece of beautiful masonry to celebrate the United
Nations' decision to establish an independent Jewish state in part of
Palestine.
. In all the long life of Rome, there can have been few snore interest-
ing scenes than this one. For the Arch of Titus was built to commemorate
the destruction by that Emperor of the city of Jerusalem in the year
70 A. D. From that date begins the wandering and the homelessness of
the Jewish people.
From that year, which saw the Holy City razed and the pulling down
of the Great Temple, there dates the statelessness of the Jews, a situa-
tion whose remedy began only on Nov. 29, 1947, when the General
Assembly of the United Nations took its historic decision.
Even Josephus, the calm historian, might have been excused if he
were to let himself become a little jubilant in describing a scene of such
symbolic importance for his people.
Of those present at -the ceremony, some were from Rome's own Jew-
ish colony, which had its beginning before Peter and Paul visited this
city. More; however, were from outside the city. from those camps where
the displaced Jews of a dozen or more European countries are awaiting
the day when they can board ship for Palestine.
They bore banners—some in Italian and thanking this country for its
kindness in sheltering them, but more in Hebrew and Yiddish and pro-
claiming their joy at the establishment of a Jewish -State Or demanding
that they be sent without delay to that Promised Land from which their
forebears were driven by the victory of this Titus so many centuries ago.
There were some speeches, of course, but they did not appear to say
much. Probably the gathering was too strongly aware of the historical
interest of the moment to bother listening to words. Nor was there more
than a slight ripple of interest when members of the underground Irgun
Zvai Leumi group tossed into the air sheaves of handbills protesting
against the partition of a land whose whole area they claim.
To most of the Jews present, it was enough that they . had been given
their own country at last and they did not propose to worry over its
exact dimensions at that moment.
With the speeches over, the throng formed itself into a long parade
along the Sacred Way and beneath blue and white banners bearing the
six-pointed Star of David, they began slowly to march under the Arch.
Behind them rose the great, weathered mass of the Colosseum, on
their left the ruins of the palaces of the Caesars atop the Palestine Hill,
on their right the immense arches of the Basilica of Constantine, who
ordered the conversion of the Roman world to Christianity, and before
them the columns and pavements of the Roman Forum.
As they filed through the Arch, all heads turned to the left to see
the famous reliefs, showino• the procession of captive Jews taken in the
fall of Jerusalem and the ' loot from the Temple, particularly the seven-
branched candlestick and the table with the shewbread.
On the opposite side of the Arch could be seen the triumphal ride of
Titus in a four-horsed chariot driven by Roma herself, while above their
heads, in the center of the vault, was a relief of Titus being borne to
heaven by an eagle.
Looking at the. seven-branched candlestick and reminded that the
number, seven, always had played a particular part in their religion,
the Jews found it an interesting coincidence that this same number had
come up again.
They recalled that Jerusalem had been destroyed in 70, A. D., that
the Balfour Declaration had come in 1917, that the United Nations had
voted for an independent Jewish State in 1947, which was exactly 1,877
years after the destruction of Jerusalem.

Titus and all his followers who aimed at the destruction of
Judea and Judeans have been discredited by Prophecy, by our peo-
ple's will to liVe, by the "eternity of Israel." Now, the Arch of
Titus stands as a mocking symbol of triumph of truth over infamy,
of justice over tyranny. The great test, however, is yet to come—
the test to which Israel will be put when we build a state in which
there will be no injustice, a commonwealth in which decency, fair
play and good will shall rule as a lesson for the entire world that
"out of Zion. shall come..forth the Law and , the , worcl of the Lord
from Jerusalem."

