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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 23, 1948
Hollywood Star Visions. Film Portraying The Archbishop Called Him 'Sam'
Refugees' Dramatic Arrival in Palestine
By LEON GUTTERMAN
there, doing something, aiding in
some way a people who have be-
come a symbol of courage and
fearlessness.
"To me Palestine is like a
dream," she said quietly. "I shall
never forget that land and its
ness of a people who have lived
dangerously through the ages and
HOLLYWOOD—The reason
have been reborn once again.
Paulette Goddard is so popular
"Some time ago, Robert Buck-
among her many Hollywood
ner (the very talented producer-
friends is that in addition to be-
writer now at Universal and for-
ing , a. charming a n d beautiful
merly with Warner Bros.) wrote
motion picture star she is an in-
a magnificent screen play titled
telligent one as well. She not only
The Nightwatch, which tells the
adds good ideas to a discussion
story of the landing of refugees in
but often leads it, and the sub-
Palestine.„ It's a beautiful job of
jects of conversations range from
writing, and someday soon I hope
movies, music, art and literature
to make it. I am eager to play
to current events, political issues,
the role of the Jewish refugee
national economics, modern psy-
gitl who wants to enter Palestine
chology, . European culture and
and being a new life; it's a role
religion. .
which I believe is one of the most
That is why, when Paulette re-
emotional, most human and dra-
turned from Europe recently, I
International Photo
matic I have ever been offered.
decided to pay her a visit, get
some of her ideas, views and
"I believe such a Jewish film, .IMany years ago, Sam Greenberg, a Jewish tailor in New Britain,
opinions about postwar Europe.
produced in Palestine as well as Conn., was benefactor to those in need, and among those he' aided
Paulette was waiting for me in
in Hollywood, can be a great was an Irish lad named _Frank Keough, who had ambitions to become
her dressing room at Paramount
American success. This script is a priest. Sam encouraged the boy, who 'was eventually ordained.
. _studio.
a chunk of social dynamite, and Recently, Sam accepted ,an invitation from the Roman Catholic
"Europe has the most amazing
one of the most . soul-searching diocese of Baltimore to attend .the elevation of a new archbishop.
will to live I've ever seen," she
dramas I've read in" a long time. With his wife, Sam borrowed money for the trip and enjoyed what
PAULETTE GODDARD
said.
The Palestine problem is dis- he terms "the thrill of my lifetime," when , the most Rev. Francis
Paulette visited England— people as long as I live. I want cussed more openly, more daring- Keough, newly-elevated archbishop of .Baltimore, surrounded
by
to
visit
and
re-visit
it
again
and
where she made a picture for
ly than has ever been done, to ; church dignitaries, greeted him with "Hello, Sam. II
producer Alexander Korda—Os- again.
"Palestine is such a wonderful date, in a screen play. Of course I
car Wilde's "An Ideal Husband"
such a picture will be called prop-
—then went on to Holland, Bel- land, such heroic people, so pro- aganda. But why not? For so
gressive
and
so
forward-looking,
gium, France and Ireland, where
much realism, so many truths and
the appeared for one month at such a monument for a Hebrew
the Gayety Theater opposite her valor that fights for a homeland unjust prejudices will be dra-
By RABBI MILTON STEINBERS4
husband Burgess Meredith in the of its own. A land of brave men matically exposed.
"This film will be something
Broadway stage h i t of several and women fighting on despite
they did was to recapitulate it in
years ago, "Winterset."
torture, despite overwhelming more than just a piece of screen
This set of questions and an- fresh idioms or to give it timely
I asked Paulette about Pales- odds. A rich, clean, fertile, modern entertainment. It will be a story
tine. Ever since her trip to the land populated with energetic, that pictures the heroism of hu- swers on the basic tenets of applications . . . So, under all
Judaism includes the restatements, Judaism has
Holy Land three years ago when ambitious,' strong and intelligent man beings—any human beings
material f r o m persisted as one and the „same
she visited it on her way home young men and women who are —beaten, discouraged, afraid, but
Rabbi Milton from Moses to our day . . . 'and
from entertaining American sol- forever building, forever creating finally rising to the full heights
Steinberg's new constancy, despite changing times
diers in China, she has been ob- a fLiture, progressing and pressing and dimensions in self-immolation
book, "Basic Ju- and circumstances, is a major
sessed with the idea of returning forward and adding to the great- for the sake of mankind."
daism," and is characteristic of Torah in the
an exclusive fea- view of the traditionalist and un-
ture of The Jew- der his hands.•
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ish News by spe-
Q. What is the modernist's
Rabbi Steinbergcial a r r a n g e_
view of Torah?
ment with • the publishers, Har•
Members of a group of rein-
"The Labor Leader" by Prof. ante when labor found itself en- court, Brace & Co.
A. To the modernist, the first
forcement guards, sent from var- Eli Ginzberg of Columbia Uni-
criterion of the truth of a
gaged in a struggle with man-
ious sections of Palestine to pro- versity (Macmillan) haS its fas- agement."
Q. What is the basic difference proposition or of the validity of
a
tect farmlands in the Negev area,
We learn that "American trade between the traditionalist and principle is not its conformity
a Haganah boy and girl watch cination not only because it in-
modernist
interpretations
of
Jud-
troduces the reader to outstand- unions turned away completely
with the Tradition but its con-
ing labor leaders and to the from the political arena -and con- aism?
sonance with reason and experi-
A. Traditionalists believe the ence. Far from judging all
methods pursued by them and centrated upon achieving econo-
their movements in securing jus- mic objectives through collective whole Torah to be God-revealed, things by one standard of Torah,
tice for American workers, but, bargaining. This is offered as the, therefore unimpeachably true and he tests Torah against the stand-
in addition, because it treats in- key to Samuel Gompers' leader- good throughout; modernists hold ards by which he judges every-
terestingly the entire subject of ship of the American Federation that truth and goodness are to be thing else. And only in so far
leadership.
of Labor."'
found in the Torah, and to the as Torah passes muster does he
Samuel Gompers' historic
Prof. Ginzberg's book deals extent of their presence it is God- accept it as authoritative .. .
achievements in the setting up of with prominent Jewish labor inspired. To traditionalists the (For) the modernist has been
the American Federation of Labor leaders, including Sidney Hill- entire Torah-book — 'every word, persuaded by the biological and
will be found especially interest- man, David Dubinsky,, Joseph every letter, every punctuation social sciences that the law of
ing. Prof. Ginzberg writes:
Schlossberg and others. The auth- mark — was imparted by God change i's universal and that
"Blocked on the political front, or's comment on the place of the either directly to the whole peo- Judaism is no exception to it;
Samuel Gompers and his asso- labor leaders in American life is: ple of Israel at Mount Sinai or that it is no fixed and constant
ciates were forced into develop- "No men are faced with more indirectly through Moses. The entity, as the traditionalist holds,
ing a st7ategy aimed at a frontal difficult problems. If they under-, fact of revelation is decisive. It but the• end product - of a long
attack on industry. Labor had to stand them and solve them as is a guarantee of absolute valid- and still continuing growth. Even
prepare carefully by building up statesmen,. not as - bureaucrats, ity, intellectual and moral. . . . the Torah-Book, according to the
strong unions that were financial- they will succeed. The future of Since the Torah-Tradition like modernist, did not come into be-
ly sound. Then it could bargain American labor, in fact, the fut- the Torah-Book is of divine in-• ing all at one time, as the work
Successfully with industry. The ure of America herself, largely spiration, significant conclusions of the single hand of -Moses. To
tactics were simple: organize, depends on the success of their follow: One is that' Judaism can- the contrary, it achieved its fa-
solidify one's gains, increase the efforts."
—International Pnoto
not be susceptible to consequen- miliar shape and dimensions only
over a reservoir. There are some scope of the unionization; advo-
Prof. Ginzberg, who was born tial change — Judaism was com- as the result of an evolttionary
25 settlements of Jewish pioneers cate that labor receive its just in New York in 1911, has done plete and perfect at Sinai. As for process. The typical modernist,
in the Negev, a vast stretch of share; 'disassociate the labor pioneer work in problems of la- the historical growth through in other words, follows higher
dessert land bordering on the movement from agitators and bor and labor-employer relations. which the Tradition seems to criticism in the conclusion that
Egyptian frontier, where farms radicals who were seeking to He has been associated with Gov- have passed, this is an illusion. the Torah text as we now have
have been cultivated by using destroy the American system; ernment agencies and is the au- The prophets, sages, and rabbis it is a composite of several docu-
modern irrigation methods and gain public support for the ob- thor of other important works neither modified it a whit nor ments done by diverse authors
scientific planting.
jectives of labor and public toler- dealing with labor problems.
added aught to its substance. All and sewn into unity by some un-
known editor or editors.
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Q. Are there dogmas in Juda-
ism? Is there anything in Jewish
tradition akin to Apostles, Nicene,
and Athanasian Creeds of the Ro-
man Catholic church, Augsberg
Confession of Lutheranism, or
Westminster Confession of Pres-
byterianism?
Thais why folks_
A. There are three views in
Of all religions
the matter: One denies the pres-
ence in Judaism of a binding
And of every
creed, the second vigorously as-
Shade of skin
serts there is, and the third main-
tains a midway position. Those
Have to live
holding the moderate view point
out that the "dogmatists" and the
As friends and
"non-dogmatists" both have some
neighbors
of the truth, but neither has it
completely. The "dogmatist" is
Henry thinks the atom know-how is a secret
Henry can't see why it's urgent to protect
But we're not all Hopeless Henrys, and we know
In this one world
correct in saying that Judaism
our victory
we can keep.
that unity
has a very definite religious out-
And he laughs when science tells us other lands
With United Nations action on
Is the one and only safeguard against
That we're inl
look, but it is also true that
atomic energy
are not asleep:
war's barbarity;
So he won't agree that if a global war should
Judaism has been chary about
So that countries big and little need not live
We can use the atom wisely if we figure
in constant dread
come again.
from the start.
translating its outlook into pre-
We may face atomic bombing of our cities
Of some dreadful secret weapon hanging
That we all must work together or we'll
cise propositions, avoiding dog-
darkly overhead.•
and our men.
all be blown apart.
mas so far as it could, since it re-
gojaarqe
quires formal creed less than do
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(Copyright, 1948, JTA)
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