Civil Rights, Religion in Schools
Discussed at Two-Day NCRAC Parley

THE JEWISH NEWS-5

Friday, February 10, 1950

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For Agudath Israel

many, the discussants felt that
`democratization of Germany is
not a Jewish problem but an
all-American one; because of in-
grained German respect for
various grades of totalitarian-
ism, it may take 25 or more
years to democratize Germany.
The discussants did not advo-
cate a peace treaty with West-
ern Germany, but rather a con-
tinuance of the American and
other Western Allied occupa-
tion, under which there is a
greater possibility to influence
the government of German life
_Co-chairmen of the confer-
along more democratic princi-
ence were Dr. Shmarya Klein-
ples.
man, president of the Jewish
Jules COhen, NCRAC coordina-
Community Council of Detroit,
and Bernard P. Popkind, vice- tor, reported on the -establish-
chairman of the National ment of the Coordinating Coun-
cil on German Democracy, rep-
Community Relations Adviso-
ry Council. Morris Lieberman resenting a broad array of
and Mrs. William Grahm, co- American religious, labor, social,
liberal and - veteran orga:niza-
chairmen of the Council pro-
tions, whose aim is to advise the
gram committee, were assisted
Guest speaker at the Agu-
by Walter E. Klein and Dr. S. Government of the United States
along the lines of much more dath Israel city-wide meeting
Joseph Fauman of the Coun-
rapid and decisive democratiza- Sunday evening, Feb. 12, at
cil's staff.
Four topics included in the tion of Germany.
the synagogue, 11331 Lin-
Mr. Kopkind, in his after-
agenda of the conference were:
wood, will be MICHAEL • G.

Important issues facing Amer-
ican Jewish communities locally
and nationally were discussed at
the two-day regional conference
on community relations, held in
Detroit jointly by the Jewish
Community Council of Detroit
and the National Community
Relations Advisory Council, with
delegates present from Detroit,
Upper. Michigan and neighbor-
ing Ohio cities. The conference
was held Saturday night and all
day Sunday at the Jewish Cen-
ter.

JNF Annual Purim Collection March 2

The annual Purim collections
for the Jewish National ► Fund
will be conducted in local syna-
gogues on Thursday evening,
March 2, it was announced by
Irving W. Schlussel, president of
the JNF Council.
A speakers' committee will be
mobilized at a special meeting
on Feb. 26, in accordance with
a decision reached by the Coun-

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"Religion in the Public Schools,"

with Rabbis Morris Adler and
Leon Fram and Norman Drach-
ler serving on the panel, chaired
by Harry Yudkoff of the Corn-,
munity Relations Committee of
the Council. The three discuss-
ants agreed that the traditional
-American principle of separation
of church and state, and reli-
gion and education, should be
maintained and strengthened.
The discussants, however, dif-
fered on the immediate tactics
to be employed in relation to
the spread of religious teach-
' ings in the public school sys-
tems. A greater tendency to in-
troduce religion in schools
through Christmas and Easter
celebrations was noted. In some
cities, particularly in Cleveland,
attempts were made to intro-
duce Hanukah and Passover
celebrations in the public
schools. The Synagogue Council
of America, jointly with NCRAC,
expressed an opinion that in-
sistence on the introduction of
Hanukah and Passover celebra-
tions in the public schools may
weaken the American principle
of separation of religion and the
schools.
The two Sunday morning ses-
sions held on Feb. 5 were de-
voted to "The Impact of Israel

on the American Jewish Com-
munity" with Sidney M. She-

vitz, president of the Zionist
.Council of Detroit- and vice-
president of the Jewish Com-
munity Council, as speaker, and
Julian H. Krolik, president of
the Jewish Welfare Federation,-
as chairman of the session. The
other morning session discussed

the "Failures of Democratization

in Germany," with Prof. William
Haber of the University of Mich-
igan and Abraham Cohen, as-
. sistant director of German Op-
erations of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, as reporters,
and Dr. Kleinman as the chair-
man.

Mr. Shevitz evaluated the
future • possible activities of
organized Zionism in America,
in view of the re-emergence
of the state of Israel with its
own government, which now
performs many of the func-
tions formerly within the
scope of the Zionist move-
ment. He paid tribute to the
unaffiliated non-Zionist por-
tion of American Jewry for its
wholehearted support of Is-
rael's aspirations and con-
demned the super-assimila-
tionists of the American Coun-
cil for Judaism for their nar-
row attacks on the rest of the
American Jewish community.

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lunch remarks, noted the pro-
gress of coordination of Jew-
ish community agencies on a
national and local level,
through the medium of
NCRAC, Which is entering the
sixth year of its existence. He
hailed the principles -on which
the Jewish Community Coun-
cil of Detroit is built and
stated that under these prin-
ciples the varied philosophies
in Jewish life find their ex-
pression and tend to unify
action, particularly where leg-
islative matters of local or na-
tional importance are involved.

The closing session was de-
voted to "Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties" and the panel con-
sisted of A. L. Zwerdling, former
general council for the UAW-
CIO, Louis Rosenzweig, chair-
man of the internal relations
committee and treasurer of the
Jewish Community Council, Prof.
Boaz Siegel of Wayne Univer-
sity Law School, with Morris
Zwerdling, chairman of the
Community Council legal com-
mittee, presiding.
Prof. Siegel discussed the im-
plications of FEPC and similar
legislation for Jews. A. L.
Zwerdling analyzed the implica-
tions of loyalty oath amend-
ments, particularly the one re-
cently ' adopted in Detroit. The
invasion upon constitutional
rights might be more danger-
ous and more harmful than the
employment of alleged or even
real subversive elements in in-
significant city positions, and
may be particularly dangerous
when it is perverted against
minority groups, he pointed out.
Mr. Rosenzweig reviewed the re-
cent Supreme Court decisions on
the cases involving discrimina-
tion against minorities.
In addition to the bulk of del-
egates from Detroit, representa-
tives of Flint and Port Huron,
Mich., and Cleveland and To-
ledo, 0., participated in the
conference.

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Arab Wins Case
By Lawyer's Slur
On British Justice

In his column "The Lyons
Den," in the New York .Post,
Leonard Lyons tells the follow-
ing story about Bartley Crum,
who addressed the JNF Auxiliary
donor event in Detroit last week:
"Bartley C. Crum; the former
member of the Anglo-American
Commission on Palestine, was in
Israel last month, and visited
Mr. Shevitz thought that the the new Supreme Court there ...
reappearance of Israel as a Crum listened to a case—an Arab
state, while already improving accused of grand larceny, as a
the position of Jews as regards fourth offender.
"One judge told the Arab's
the rest of the larger American
community, also will serve as lawyer: "Your client has three
a catalytic agent in making the previous convictions" . . . The
organized Jewish community lawyer conferred with his client,
more representative, more well- and then made the plea which
rounded insofar as the fields of won an acquittal: "Your lord-
its activities are concerned, more ship, it is true that my client
tolerant to different schools of was convicted three times. But
Jewish thought. that was under British rule.
Prof. Haber, supplemented ( by Now, before this Israel court,
Mr. Cohen, unfurled the picture he expects justice."
Lyons also reports that on
of substantial shortcomings in
our government's attempts to Feb. 14, at the Lawyers' Club in
democratize Germany. While New York, a group of American
there are few Jews, whether law book publishers will present
a law library to Israel.
German or DPs, left in Ger

cil at a meeting Tuesday eve-
ning.
Schlussel commended the
JNF Ladies' Auxiliary on its ac-
tivities this year.
It was announced that Ar-
thur Shutkin, JNF executive di-
rector, is leaving for several
weeks' stay in Wisconsin where
he will organize the Jewish com-
munities for activities for the
Israel land-redemption fund.

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