20—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 4, 1949

Off the Record

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

O'Brien Resolution Called
For Israel's ReCognition

(Copyright, 1949, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)

Palestine Saved Him from Bankruptcy
Ludwig Mond, grandfather of Lord Melchett; who died a few
Congressman George D. O'-
days ago in Miami, was a German Jew . , . He emigrated to England Brien of the 13th Michigan Dis-
and founded one of the key industries of Great Britain through form-
ation of Imperial Chemicals . . . Lord Melchatt's father died during trict sponsored a bill in the U. S.
the depression period . . . The Shares of Imperial Chemicals had House of Representatives calling
for full recogni-
gone down 90 per cent . . . Young Melchett was unable to pay the
heavy inheritance taxes . . . He was in danger of being wiped out ...
tion of Israel
Ile suddenly recalled the holdings his father acquired in Palestine ...
by the United
And Palestine saved him from bankruptcy . . . Melchett's uncle, Sir
States Govern-
Robert Mond, was a great scientist and archaeologist . . . The base-
ment. His bill
ment of his house at 9 Cavendish Square in London harboured a
was
introduced
rare and precious collection . . . He was not interested in Palestine
last week, but
and did not belong to the Jewish faith . . . But he was one of Bri-
President Tru-
tain's most implacable foes of Hitler . . . He assumed the presidency
man's move on
of the anti-Nazi boycott committee in England . . . He married his
non-Jewish housekeeper who was opposed to his pro-Jewish activi
Jan. 31, granting
, ties . . . The Monds were men of great ability, influence and char-
de jure status to
lacter who rallied to the Jewish community at the time of stress.
Israel, obviated
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Rep. O'Brien the need for a
ZOA Note
vote on his joint, resolution.
There is a wise maxim: "If you want to be right, don't write"
Rep. O'Brien's - resolution,
. . . Henry Montor has tendered a written apology and retraction
of the letter he wrote to Dr. Israel Goldstein malting grave charges which at the outset was referred
against the ZOA . . . His friends hope that Montor's retraction will to the Committee on Foreign Af-
facilitate his return to the UJA as an aid and advisor to Morgenthau fairs, read: ,
. . . According to indications the ZOA will remain adamant.
"Resolved by the Senate and
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the House of Representatives of
Trial and Error
Dr. Stephen S. Wise and other leaders of the American Jewish the United States of • America, in
Congress are being sued by Marcus Wulkan, whose brother, Stanley, Congress assembled, that the
was'the key figure in the sensational inquiry into corruption of gov- Government of the United States
ernment officials in England . . . Wulkan claims he has not been give full recognition to the State
adequately compensated for services he rendered the relief section of Israel."
of the Congress . .. The Stanley affair caused great embarrassment
to England's Jewry . . . But Stanley is cashing in on the notoriety
the case brought him by writing his autobiography for a London UJA Gives Priority
newspaper.

To 'Operation Cyprus'

Crohn Article. Stirs Controversy
On Revision of Religious Ritual

NEW YORK (JTA) — "Opera-
tion Cyprus" involving the trarcs-
fer td Israel in the coming weeks
of 11,000 Jewislf refugees interned
in British camps on the Mediter-
ranean island, will be the first
major task undertaken by the
$250,000,000 United Jewish Ap-
peal in 1949, it was announced by
William Rosenwald, Herman L.
Weisman and Rabbi Jonah B.
Wise, national chairmen of the
UJA. Transportation of the 11,000
Jews detained on Cyprus to Isra-
el will be completed within two
or three weeks.

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Try and Stop Me

By BENNETT CERF

L JOLSON came home exhausted after appearing at one
radio program and two benefits, and flurried into bed.
His neighbor's airedale, however, kept howling through the
night. The next day Jolson
buttonholed his neighbor
V- (>7-
and said, "Confound it, do
you know that dog of yours
barked all night ?"
"I know," said the neighbor,

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"but don't let it concern you.
He sleeps all day."

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After Calvin Coolidge had
been sworn in hastily to suc-
ceed the late Warren Harding
as President of the United
States he drove to the White
House for his first night in
residence there, and proceeded G 1 ,
calmly to pick up the evening
paper and eat an apple. A close friend of the family, seated with
Mrs. Coolidge, remarked, "Considering the circumstances, you don't
seem too weighted down with your responsibilities."
Coolidge looked up from his paper and said, "You may have
noticed . that I swore to be President of the United States. I didn't
swear to be a great President!"

HE feud between Harold Ross, brilliant but irascible edi-
T tor
of the New Yorker, and Raoul Fleischman, baking

magnate who put up the capital that launched the magazine,
is unending and famous.
HAT QUA/M7; QUAIA17;
The late Russell Maloney,
,
PEOPLE ONe SEEs)
who was on the New York-
AROUND HERE.
er staff for years, swore ,
that when Fleischman and /
Ross passed each other in
the hall, Ross would mut-
ter, "Yeast," Fleischman
would answer "Pest"—and
never the brains did meet!

Widespread controversy in the lowed by abstention from bread
ranks of religion-conscious Jews and bread products and the eat-
has resulted from Lawrence W. ing of matzot.
Crohn's article "A Layman
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For the Sabbath, Crohn sug-
Speaks Out" in the Jan. 7 issue
A New York lady, freshly
gests
a
synagogue
service
that
is
of The Reconstructionist.
arrived at the village of Truro,
Asserting that Conservative Ju- traditional, meaningful, attractive.
Oh Cape Cod, for a vacation,
daism, while welcoming theoreti- He commends the spreading prac-
was endeavoring vainly to en-
cal discussion on all- phases of tice of club meetings, discussion
gage a taciturn native in con- gri-
basic Jewish doctrine, has care- groups, Oneg Shabbats and class-
versa.tion. Her bright remarks -
fully refrained from putting into
about the cottages, and dunes,- and the views of the sea went titian- .
practice a modern interpretation es in Jewish history and in He-
Swered. In desperation she hazarded, "What quaint, quaint people
one sees around here." Unexpectedly the native. replied, "You're
of the traditions of Judaism, brew on Friday nights-. He rec- Frank Weil Heads
absolutely right, ma'am, " he said, "but, -thank God, they all to borne
Crohn takes the initiative in out- ommends, too, the wider observ-
after Labor : Day."
lining a series of modifications ance of the festivals. "Our festi- Social Welfare Group
in ritual practice to conform with vals need not be connected en-
the current tenor of Jewish life. tirely with the synagogue. They
NEW YORK—The National So-
should be made to invigorate the
"In attempting to adapt ritual
cial
Welfare Assembly, the cen-
totality of Jewish life," he states.
observances to "p resent-day
tral national organization for so-
"The
over-all
needs
of
the
Jew-
needs, it seems that two princi-
WO Spanish refugees passed the home of John D. Rocke-
cial welfare planning, elected
ples are in order," Crohn de- ish people and the interest in its Frank L. Weil, president of JWB,
feller, Jr. "If I only had that man's millions," sighed one
clares. "(1) to preserve the in- tradition will preserve the essen- as its president at its annual
of them, "I'd be richer than he is." "That doesn't make
tial
customs
of
all
Israel.
But
for
ner essence of the practice, and
meeting here Jan. 31. Weil, a
sense," the other reminded
(2) either to retain the tradi- an ever widening segment of founder of the Assembly, has
ONLY
him. "If you had Mr.
tional character of the custom or Jewry, the Jewish system must served as chairman of its exec-
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Rockefeller's million s,
to substitute some new folk-way be unravelled and clarified, so utive committee since the organ-'
AVIVONS
you'd
be
just
as
rich
as
he
1
that
each
generation
will
witness
ization's inception three years
for it . . .
a rebirth of Jewish life," Crohn ago.
is--not richer."
"If it be presumptuous for a
concludes.
"You're wrong," the first as-
layman to write of these prob-
sured him. "Don't forget that
lems, be it so, provided it wlil
Hebrew U. Professor Heads
I could give Spanish lessons on
JNF to Purchase
help to bring into the open the
Israel Geological Survey
the sid ► !"
crying need for courageouS dis•
a a a
4 Million Dunams
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A five-year
cussion," he continues. "The
geological
survey
of
Israel
has
Broun was
When
Heywood
lay view is important in an
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Joseph been undertaken by the Cabinet
employed by the New York
age when the rabbinate has few
Tribune, he tried in vain to
ecclesiastical sanctions to fall Waitz, chief of the settlement de- committee for economic affairs,
persuade Ogden Reid, the pub-
back upon. Judaism can sur- Partment of the Jewish National composed of representatives of
lisher, to raise the salaries of
vive only if it is acceptable to Fund, announced that 4,000,000 the Trade and Industry and Agri-
the entire staff. A few weeks
Jews. In times gone by, Jews dunams of land must be pur- culture Ministries. Prof. J. L. Pic-
later, Broun was invited to
who strayed from the fold were chased at an approximate cost of kard, of the Hebrew University's
spend a weekend at the Reid estate in Purchase. As he drove into
adjudged 'wicked' and were li- $320,000,000 under the JNF's cur- Geology Department; will super-
the private roadway. he noticed that a beautiful new fence was
able to be cut off from their rent five-year plan. He added vise the project. He recently con-
.being built around the entire place. "Hufnphh," snorted Broun.
ducted
a
similar
study
in
Argen-
'that
it
is
also
planned
to
establish
people. There must be differ-
"Millions for de fence. but not a cent for Tribune!"
ent methods today to elicit the 75,000 farms with a family of tina, which was lauded highly by
Copyright. 1949. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features SYndieatS.
President
Juan
Peron.
about
five
persons
on
each
unit.
loyalty and devotion of think-
ing Jews."
• ILOOUCED SY NORMAN & SOL NOSEL.
Crohn, who is a contributing
LIVES OF OUR TIMES
DR. LOUIS FINKELSTEIN
editor of the Reconstructionist
and a leader in Zionist circles in
HE STUDIED AT NEW YORK'S CITY
ONE OF AMERICA'S OUTSTANDING JEWISH
COLLEGE,COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY--
Detroit, lists alterations in three
RELIGIOUS LEADERS,PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH
WHERE HE EARNED HIS PH.D AND THE
aspects of Jewish ritual: The diet-
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Of AMERICA
JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,WHERE
ary laws, Pesach observances and
HE WAS ORDAINED.
Sabbath and holiday observances.
In the first category, he suggests,
admitting that a large proportion
of American Jews have complet-
ly - discarded any semblance of
Kashruth, that the spirit of the
tradition be maintained by absti-,
BON IN. CINCINNATI IN (895,H15 EARLY SUR ,
nence from the flesh of. specified
AFTER SERVING ASA-LECTURER ON
ROUNDINGS AND THE LOVE WHICH HS FATHER--
JEWISH HISTORY AT THE SEMPNARY,HE
animals, while discarding some of
A RABBI . OF THE OLD SCHOOL-INSTILLED•IN
WAS NAMED AS PROVOST IN 193tANO.
the less commonly accepted laws.
HIM FOR JUDAiSM,MADI HIM:RESOLVE TO
PRESIDENT IN 1940t
SERVE HIS PEOPLE AS . A SPIRITUAL .LEADER.
"This will appear to some to be
a radical suggestion, but it is con-
servative, because it is intended
CHURCH &GOVERNMENT PEACE EFFORTS. DR.
•THE WEST COAST BRANCH OF THE SEMINAR
A GIFTED SCHOLAR,HE HAS MADE NOTE-
KNOWN AS THE "UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM,*
FINKELSTEIN ESTABLISHED THE INSTITUTE
to save a valued Jewish folkway.
WORTHY CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESEARCH
FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES, A GRADUATE SCHOOL
AND THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN NEW YORK.
IN MEDIEVAL JEWISH HISTORY
To many of the sincerest Jews.
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WERE ESTABLISHED WITH THE AID OF
CONDUCTED AT THE ITS, WITH THE AID OF
the system - of shohetim, mashgi-
CATHOLiC,JEwl5H &PROTESTANT SCHOLARS.
him, vaade kashrut and kosher
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shops is anything but edifying,
with extra high prices as added
ittit18
penalties for being Jews," Crohn
Writes.
The same principle of main-
taining the spirit of the law
while discarding its negative
Ill:41111111i
aspects dictates Crohn's inter-
IN 1941 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT APPOINTED HIM AS
THE JEWISH REPRESENTATIVE ON A COMMITTEE OF
pretation of the Passover ob-
1ILLOGSWI•C AreCAICY
RELIGIOUS LEADERS SET UP TO ADVISE HIM ON JOINT
servances, in which he lays
Stress on the Seder service, fol-

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