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N HIS EARLY YEARS, JEREMIAH KNEW THAT HE
WORK TO PERFORAA

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HAD A LIFE

N THE VILLAGE
OF ANATHOTH, NOT
FAR FROM THE
GREAT CITY OF

- ATSOEVER. COMMAND,
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YOU GHALL SAY- DO NOT
BE AFRAID, FOR. I
AM WITH YOU !

JERUSALEM,
THE BOY
JEREMIAH

GREW UP

NOW AT THAT TIME THE KtNGOOM
OF JUDAH WAS IN THE MIDST OF
TROUBLED DAYS. Kee peoPt_e,
WEAKENED BY EVIL; WERE BE-
E,ET FROM WITHOUT BY THE

ARANE9 OF ScyTHIAN
CONQUERORS

THAT remE, THE SCYTHiANS WERE

BEATEN BACK, BUT STILL THE
PEOPLE OF JUDAH LIVED WICKED
LIVES, OPPRESSING THE PooR,
MURDERING, AND BREAKING
THE COMMANOmENT9

COMMANDED JEREMIAH TO
LIFT H* VOICE AGAINST THESE.
WRONGS

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HEAR. THE WORD OF THE.
LORD! DO NO WRONG, DO
NO VIOLENCE. TO THE
STRANGER., THE FATHERLESS

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KING, AND THE LAND OF JUDAH
WILL BE DESOLATE

THE KING HAS FORBIDDEN ME TO PREACH,
BUT GOD'S MESSAGE MUST REACH MY
PEOPLE IN SOME WAY- THER_EFORE,BARUCh,
SINCE YOU CAN WRITE, PUT
DOWN THESE WORDS ON THIS

&IT KING JEHOIAKIM SEIZED
THE WRITINGS AND BURNED
THEM ---

SHEEPSKIN PARCHMENT-

OR. THE WIDOW NOR. SHED
INNOCENT BLOOD!

V

ND JEREM1AH'S PiZOPWECY CAME TRUE A9
THE AR.MtES OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR., KING OF
BABYLON, BESIEGED JERUSALEM

Goo

NILE NE6ucHADNEzZAR PLACED ON THE
THRONE A KING NAMED TEDEKIAN WHO wouLD
DO HIS BIDDING

THE KING GAYE PERMISSION To HIS CouNOLLORS
THROw THE PROPHET JEREMIAH INTO AN UNDER-
GROUND DJNGEON,TO SILENCE HIS TEACHINGS''''

THIS WILL STO P
youR MOUTH!

11

THEN

COMMANDED
JEREMIAH TO
TAKE ANOTHER
PARCHMENT
AND TO LET

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Now yodu...
PREACH NO
MORE

eAszucHwRITE

AGAIN ALL
THE WORDS
wHK.H WERE
IN THE
FIRST
PARCHMENT

IMPRISON
ME, GUT
`ADv CANNOT
KILL THESE
IDEAS!.

A/4-Kr ive- e - K: aEREAlkiHis pEc/5/oNt

Off the Record

(Copyright, 1948, SeVen Arts Feature Syndicate)

By NATHAN:ZIPRIN

20—THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 15, 1948

Leaders Honor Memory
Of Judge E. A. O'Brien

Hof and Cold
Governor Dewey was expected to issue a' strong statement in
Jews and non-Jews joined in
favor of Israel's aspirations . . It is rumored that Dulles and
Arandenberg dissuaded: Dewey from• making the anticipated declara- paying honor to the memory of
tion . . . Despite the secrecy surrounding the Dewey-Dulles talks,
this writer learned that the Republican 'candidate and the man who
lo slated to be the next Secretary of State if Dewey wins exhibited
sharp differences of opinion over the Palestine question at one of
their meetings . • . Dewey's Rosh Rashanah message was radiant
with warmth for Israel and its aspirations . . . It seems only logical
therefore that the Republican aspirant to the Presidency should
clarify his stand on the posthumous Bernadotte report . . . To leave
the issue in abeyance until after the election would be an unpar-
donable act of political timidity . . . High Democratic leaders close
to the White House intimated that Mr. Truman will shortly announce
opposition to the proposed severance of the Negev from Israel and.
to reconsideration of the original UN decision . . . There is a pos-
sibility he may rescind the arms embargo if the Arabs remain trucu-
lent and continue challenging UN authority.

On the Home Front
Henry Montor has tendered his resignation as Executive Director
of the UJA . . . He will live in the history of fund-raising as- the
man who ran the first Jewish drives for $100,000,000 and more .. .
there have been reports for months that Montor was opposed to
gontrol of the United Palestine Appeal by the Zionist Organization.
. Years ago he most vehemently opposed National Budgeting • . .
He fought for the "sovereignty" of the Zionist Organization • . In
his present fight against control by the Zionist Organization he has
reversed his position . Henry Morgenthau will shortly visit Israel.

Israel has a secret war weapon almost as effective as the atom
bomb . . • This is what Drew Pearson told his radio audience in a
broadcast last week.
The Jewish merchant of Baghdad who was publicly hanged last
Week after conviction by an Iraqi military court on charges of aiding
the Jews in Palestine and spearheading a Zionist movement in Iraq
was not a Zionist ... The authorities accused him of being a Zionist
as a pretext for confiscating his property after execution . . . At
Alexandria government officials confiscated over 400 telephones in
Jewish homes . . . Restaurants and cafe houses in Cairo carry signs
"Jews and dogs not allowed" • Jewish businessmen in Egypt
employing help must engage at least 75 percent Arabs.

Dr. Goldstein Explains World
Zionist Fund- aising Decision

Dr. Israel Goldstein, national
Chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal, in an exclusive state-
ment issued to The Jewish News,
explains the decisions reached
recently, by -the World Zionist
Actions Committee, at meetings
• in Israel, as follows:
At the recent meeting of the
World Zionist Actions Committee
A significant reorganization was
Accomplished in the affairs of the
Zionist movement. A separation
of functions as between the Gov-
ernment of Israel and the Jewish
Agency for Palestine was clearly
established. By mutual agreement
the Jewish Agency has the res-
ponsibility for the program of
settling in Israel the Jewish
masses who need and want to
come there. This involves tem-
porary care upon arrival and
permanent absorption as soon as
possible in agricultpre anci

dustry. The Jewish National Fund
continues, as heretofore, to pur-
chase land and prepare it for
colonization. The Keren Hayesod
continues, as heretofore, to be
the colonizing agency. In addi-
tion, the budget of the Jewish
Agency must provide for the
economic rehabilitation of Jeru-
salem, concern with the desper-
ate plight of Jews in Middle East
countries, and other urgent needs,
Immigration into Israel at pre-
sent is at the rate of 10,000 a
month. The program for the year
provides for an immigration of
125,000. The budget'of the Jewish
Agency for the year 5709 will be
about $200,000,000, exclusive of
the Jewish National Fund budget
for land.
"It is now up to the Jewish
people and especially the Jews.
of America to determine how
many shall enter the gates of
salyatio4 in

,

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright. 1948. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, hie.)

Community

Currents

Never underestimate the power of a woman ... For the first
half of this year, Jewish women in 285 cities raised more than
$13,000,000 for local Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds . . . This
is $4,000,000 more than the sum raised by women during- the first
half of last year.
Los Angeles has moved along the lines of. Detroit in checking
up whether members of Jewish country clubs are contributing
adequately to the local Jewish caMpaign . . . Close to .$4,000,000 will
have been raised by the end of this year's drive there from the
membership of two country clubs . . . Buffalo clubs have introduced
new application blanks in which the applicant is requested to show
his contributions to the Community Chest and to the United Jewish
Fund for the past few years.
I am told by American labor Zionists that the Histadrut cam-
paign in the United States will embark this year upon a vigorous
and independent program . . . They emphasize that although some
labor Zionists considered reviving proposals for a unified, but not
united, American Zionist movement, this must not be misunderstood
to mean that any of the campaigns conducted in this country by the
labor Zionist movement are likely to enter ZOA hegemony ... The
plans for a unified American Zionist movement are based on a World
Zionist Congress decision of a decade ago • . They provide for no
restrictions on the independent jurisdiction of the separate Zionist
parties.

On the Record

JUDGE ERNEST A. O'BRIEN

Here and There

Between You _and Me

Federal Judge Ernest A. O'Brien
who died last Saturday.
"Judge O'Brien was one of the
outstanding leaders in the good
will movement in Detroit and has
contributed towards efforts to
cement friendship among Chris-
tians and Jews," his colleague,
Judge Theodore Levin, said,
Herman -A. August, a former
law .partrier s of Judge O'Brien,
said Judge O'Brien had no preju-
dices and was motivated by a
sense of fair play towards all.

Van Heflin Stars in UJA
Broadcast This Saturday

The cooperation existing betWeen the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee and world Zionist leadership even before the establishment
of Israel is best illustrated by the following •facts . . From 1914
through 1946 JDC exPenditures in Palestine and Palestine-related
fields amounted to some $21,600,000 ... • Few may know it, but it
is a matter of historic record that the very origin of JDC is connected
with Palestine . . . Pleas for help began to reach American Jewry
from Palestine immediately after the outbreak of World War I .. .
Starting with the winter 1914-1915, JDC funds were :made available
for relief work in Palestine through the then American Ambassador
in Turkey, Henry Morgenthau, Sr... .. Later the JDC participated
in the promotion of economic activities and land settlement through
the Palestine Cooperative Company, the Palestine Economic Cor-
poration and the Emergency Fund for Palestine . In the 1920's
the JDC began to support in various European .countrieS the. Hach-
sharoth, vocational preparation centers for prospective emigrants
to Palestine . .. At the beginning of 1947 it supported more than
500 such centers with about 43,600 residents in eleven countries . .
In recent years the JDC concentrated on helping refugee rabbis- in
Palestine and, in addition to supporting Yeshivoth there, it financed
a number of research projects by rabbis and scholars ... As to
financing Jewish 'immigration to Palestine, JDC records reveal that
in 1945 the organization assisted the immigration of about 9,000 Jews
to Palettine while in 1946 the number of the JDC-assisted Jewish
immigrants to Palestine rose to 15,000.
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*

NEW YORK, — Van Heflin, Here and There
'noted motion picture star; will
Edwin Samuel, son of Sir Herbert Samuel, the first High Com-
have the leading role in an origi- rhissioner
of Palestine, who has himself lived in Palestine for alitost
nal radio drama entitled, "A Day 30 years, is now teaching at Dropsie College, Philadelphia . . . FlUerit
To Remember," to be presented in both Arabic and Hebrew, Samuel has been engaged as. Visiting
by the United Jewish Appeal at Professor by the newly-founded Institute for Israel and the Middle
10:30 p. m. Saturday; Oct. 16, over East at Dropsie College to lecture there on Middle East Government
the American Broadcasting Com- and AdminiStration . . He held various important administrative
pany network, WXYZ. in Detroit. positions in the Palestine Government during the British adminis-
tration.
The program was written by
The • Jewish Post of Winnipeg is , the first, and so far the . only
Sylvia Berger and will be pro- English-JeWish
newspaper on the American continent to carry a
duced and directed by Hitriati, Hebrew column for the benefit of its young readers . . . Its editor,
Brown. It describes the experi- M. Fenson, wanted to start the Jewish New Year right, and intro-
ences of a young doctor in Israel, duced this innovation in. his Rosh Hashanah issue.
and unfolds the dramatic story of
Congratulations to Samuel B. Gach, publisher of the California
the arrival of new immigrants Jewish Voice, a former Detroiter, which this week is celebrating a
in the Jewish republic, the reha- .quarter century of its existence.
bilitation work going on in DP
The autobiography of President Chaim Weizmann of- Israel will
camps in Europs, and the assist- be published by Harper under the title. "Trial and Error" . . . In
ance provided for refugees in the addition to the regular edition, there will be a limited two-volume
United States. •
w Vition that will be autographed by Dr. Weizmann.

