Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

2 — THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, December 29, 1950

Sharett's Missing Notes

N.Y. Board of Regents Grants Charter
For Yeshiva U. Medical, Dental Schools

NEW YORK—Yeshiva Univer- move ahead with plans to open
sity has been granted a charter the first medical school in this
A basic American idea triumphed at the mid-Century White
by the New York State Board country under Jewish auspices,"
House Conference on Children and Youth. A recommendation that
of Regents to establish medical Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of
the study of religion should be introduced in the public schools
and dental schools, it was an-
inspired an exciting debate, with Dr. Abraham N. Franzblau, (Compiled by the American Jewish Press) n-ounced here by William J. Yeshiva University, said.
Action by New York State
member of the Hebrew Union College faculty, leading the opposi-
ATLANTIC CITY (AJP) — Wallin, chancellor of the Board education officials marked an-
tion.
Israel Foreign Minister Moshe of Regents.
o t h e r. outstanding historiCal
Dr. Franzblau used the interesting slogan "millions for re- Sharett's missing notes p r o-
"With the granting of the milestone in the growth of
ligion but not one cent for religion in the public schools." When vided • United Jewish A p p-e a 1
charter to Yes- America's first university under
his substitute motion was declared out of order by the chairman, staff members at the '51 na-
hiva University Jewish sponsorship at Amster-
Oscar R. Ewing, chief of the Federal Security Agency, he appealed tional convention here with a
by the Board of dam Ave. and 186th St., New
against the ruling and the chair was overruled by a vote of 752 tense moment. Delegates glued
Regents of the York City.
to 751.
to their seats during a gripping
State of New
The permission for Yeshiva
In his appeal for the defeat of the religion-in-the-schools one hour long address by Shar-
York empower- University to proceed with its
ing it to grant plans came at a meeting Dec.
proposal, which, he pointed out, is contrary to basic Ainerican pre- ett on Saturday evening were
. the degrees • of 15 of the State's highest educa-
cepts.because it would place the teaching of religion in the hands not aware of the frantic elev-
Doctor of Me- tional governing b o d y. The
of secular administrators, he was supported by Mrs. Agnes Meyer, enth hour search by UJA staff-
dicine and Doc- achievement came five years
co-publisher of the Washington Post. His motion, which finally ers preceeding the address' de-
livery.
Dr. Belkin for of Den t al and one month after Yesniva
as adopted. after a two-hour debate, reads:
Hours before his scheduled Surgery, Yeshiva UnlVersity will had become a University.
"Recognizing that knowledge and understanding of religious
and educational concepts are essential to the development of speech, Sharett was approached
UJA publicity director Meyer
. spiritual values and that nothing is of greater importance to by
Steinglass for an "advance" on
the moral and spiritual health of our nation than the work of the address for the preparation
' religious education in our homes and families and in our institu- of news releases. Sharett
tions or organized religion, we nevertheless strongly affirm the searched through his pockets,
principle of the separation of church and state which has been then turned to his baggage. The
Dr. S h m a r y a K l e i n m a n, Reznik is also the Chairman
the keystone of our American democracy and declare ourselves notes had "vanished."
president
of the Jewish Corn- of the Anti-Defamation League
T h e minor mystery proved
unalterably opposed to the public schools directly or indirectly
munity Council, announced that Committee of the Greater De-
far more easily solvable than the
for religious'education purposes."
next delegates' assembly will troit Bnai Brith Council.
Without the courageous action of Prof. Franzblau, serious the huge problems of world- be held at 8:30 p.m., Jan. 25,
Last weekend Rabbi • Moses
w
i
d
e
Jewish
rehabilitation.
harm might have been done to a traditional American principle. Sharett recalled he might have in the auditorium of the Dev- Lehrman, spiritual leader of
The Hebrew Union College teacher proved that vigilance is the left the notes on a table in • a ison Jewish Center. Notices of Cong. Bnai Moshe, was t h e
price of liberty and that one must speak up for freedom. His Washington, D.C., r e s t a u rant the meeting and a detailed guest minister on the Detroit
agenda will be mailed to dele- Pulpit Series, sponsored by the
action should be a lesson to all who wish to have a share in the where he had dined
de- i
battle for justice.
parting for the convention. A gates and to Council organiza- three major faiths of our corn-
1 n France of Dreyfus' Time: When Socialists Were Anti Semites personal courier w a s rushed tons this week. I munity in cooperation with Ra-
All organizations are asked to , dio Station WJBK.
Anti-Semites who are in the habit of branding everything back to the nation's capitol in
t hey . dislike as "Jewish Communistic" are severely jolted in Prof. search of the important missing ;have representatives at the
Jewish programs on-the Series
Robert F. Byrnes' "Anti-Semitism in Modern France," the first notes. There, lying on a table meeting. The assembly will con- are arranged by the culture
sider
reports
of
the
standing
commission
of the Council.
volume of which has just been issued by Rutgers University Press. untouched, were' Shgrett's notes. committees and an accounting
They
were
back
in
the
Foreign
As an introduction to a later review of this book, the part played
The series can be heard from
of the Councils recent activi-
by labor leaders and Socialists in the Dreyfus case is worth special Minister's hands with minutes ties.
8:15-8:30 a.m. Sunday morning.
mention at this time. So many stupidities are on the calendar of to spare before he ascended -the
The appointment of Charles The next Jewish program in this
human events that it is well to recapitulate history and to register platform to thrill a packed, an- Levin and Julius Reznik to the series will be on Jan. 28. Rabbi
a n established fact: that no single group is altogether holy; that xious audience.
Council's community relations Morris Adler is chairman of - the
It was one of Sharett's best
p rejudices creep in everywhere; that to establish truth it is neces-
committee was announced this culture commission and Morns
ary to hammer away with facts and with serious attempts to speeches.
week by Dr. Kleinman and Lieberman, co-chairman.
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e ducate people.
Delegates to the '51 UJA con- Harry Yudkoff, chairman of the New Yorker Wills Brandeis II.
In the case of the. Holy Trinity Church in downtown Brook-
1 yn, whose rector, Dr. John Howard Melish, is threatened with vention were treated to a mid- community relations committee.
The Committee meets bi- Sum for New Science Center
e xpulsion by the Episcopal Church, contrary to the wishes of his night movie.
weekly
to consider developments
0 wn parish, the domineering bishop has been quoted as saying
The new film, "Out of Evil,"
t hat the Holy Trinity church's members are all newcomers and recently taken in Israel, was in community relations as they A gift to Brandeis University
affect Detroit's Jewish corn- providing for the erection of a
that most of them are "Jews" and "Communists." This is the ex- shown at a local theater. Be- munity,
and directs cooperation modern science building to serve
t ent to which bigots will go even in affairs involving church cause of the resort theater's
•in atters.
late Saturday eve schedule, the of the community with other as a center for the study of the
sectarian and non - denomina- physical and biological sciences
The first volume in Prof. Byrnes' trilogy on modern French Israeli film could not be viewed tional
bodies which are inter- has been received from the es-
a nti-Semitism serves as a prologue to the Dreyfus affair and until midnight.
a nalyzes the antagonistic role played by the Catholic church
Hundreds of delegates passed ested in promoting good human tate of the late William N.
a nd the negative attitude adopted by some Socialists toward up sleep to fill the theater and relations throughout the city. Sydeman of New York.
C aptain Dreyfus. Those who are in the habit of maligning Jews view the new film.
a s Marxists have a lesson in store for them in Dr. Byrnes' book.
e points out that the collected works and letters of Karl Marx Rabbi Eskin Organizes
contain many more invidious and derogatory remarks directed
a gainst Judaism, the Jews, and individual Jews than do those VFW Loyalty Day Here
By BORIS SMOLAR
• 0 f Metternick, Bismarck, or even Mussolini. Moreover, Marx used
(Copyright, 1950, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
t he word 'Jewish' as an epithet to a degree which was not com-
Annual Loyalty Day observ-
on even among leaders of the anti-Semitic parties." Marx, him- ances, sponsored nationally by The New Year
elf born a Jew, was deluded by the existence •of Jewish bankers. the Veterans of . Foreign Wars,
The Jewish communal picture will—as can be seen in ad-
A lso, he was biased on the religious issue and once wrote : "The will be organized in the Detroit
vance—show little change in 1951 except for the contemplated
C hristian from the outset Was the theorizing Jew; the Jew is area by Rabbi Herbert
. S. Eskin, launching in May of the Israel bond campaign in this country .. .
t herefore the practical Christian and the practical Christian has
2671 Ewald Circle. He was named
a gain become a Jew. Christianity has only seemed to overcome to the position by G. Edwin There has been very little reduction in local community services
in 1950 in almost all Jewish communities, and all indications
r eal Judaism . . . Christianity is the sublime idea of Judaism. Slater, commander
of the Michi- point to the fact that there will be no reduction in 1951 . .. What-
J udaism is the common application of Christianity."
gan Department of VFW.
ever reductions occurred this year, as a result of the decline in
In the years of the Dreyfus case, a number of Socialist leaders
Rabbi Eskin is a former VFW
ollowed a popular trend and enrolled with the bigots in oppo- state and national chaplain and fund-raising, consisted of tightening up budgets rather than
..elimination of actual services . The Jewish Agency's Com-
ition to Dreyfus. In analyzing "the Socialist Dupes of Drumont"
mittee on Control and Authorization of Campaigns will be con-
France's most violent anti-Semite), Dr. Byrnes relates these in- serves as a chaplain at the Vet- tinued
erans Administration Hospital at
in 1951 . .. Applications are now being reviewed by the
t eresting incidents:
"Paul Lafargue, Marx's son-in-law and a fervent member - Dearborn and as Rabbi of Tem- committee and announcement of 1951 authorizations is expected
in the middle of January ... However, it can be revealed in
of Guesde's militant SoCialist organization, sought to utilize ple Mt. Sinai, Port HUron.
He saw military service with advance that -the Jewish Agency will not renew in 1951 the allo-
Druniont in the same way. When French troops killed .10 and
• wounded 35 by firing into a May Day denionstration in Four- the 100th Infantry Division in cations it made in 1950 to the Zionist-Revisionist and Agudath
plies in northern France in 1891, Lafargue visited the city, at- three European battle cam- Israel organizations . • The question of authorizing separate
tended religious services, and addressed crowds of workers with paigns, receiving the bronze star. Revisionist and Agudah campaigns in 1951 is still pending .
He is a member of the Charles At the same time the Jewish agency is about to renew its 1950
Drumont. This approach was adopted by Socialists in other
countries also. Victor Adler, a baptized Jew and the leader of Schoor Post No.. 796, VFW of agreements with the Confederation of General Zionists and the
Mizrachi under which the Zionist Organization of America and
the Austrian Socialist Party, argued at the Brussels Confer- Port Huron.
the American Mizrachi Organization were prohibited from con-
ence of the Second International in 1891 that anti-Semitism
ducting separate fund-raising drives . . . Under these agree-
helped the Socialists. The conference, however, roundly de-
ments,. the Agency allocated in 1950 the sum of $1,100,000 to the
nounced anti-Semitism and demonstrated that it was a natural Israel Plant to Begin
General Zionist Constructive Fund and $1,000,000 to the Mizrachi
enemy of social progress."
Making Refrigerators
Palestine Fund, which - includes the Mizrachi Laborites . . The
Here you have the crime and the solution—the attempt by
b igots to inject anti-Semitic ideas even into Socialism and the
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A plant 1951 allocations for these two groups will remain on the same
onsistency- of the international leaders in repudiating the bigots for the assembly of Philco re- level provided the Jewish Agency's income is at the level of 1950
or higher . . . Should income drop, these allocations will be re-
yen when hatred ,of Jews is preached by renegade Jews.
frigerators was dedicated here.
Anti-Semitism did not last long in the workers' ranks in Known as "Amcor," the new duced in proportion to the drop in total income, but a minimum
of $750,000 is guaranteed each beneficiary . . . In the meantime,
F ranee. "French Socialism," Dr. Byrnes writes, "in general by
1 892 had rather clearly and completely broken away from anti- plant will turn out 1,000 refrig- the American Zionist Fund issued a memorandum to all ZOA
erators
monthly.
Capitalized
at
regional directors advising them not to make any application to
Se mitism, although the Dreyfus Affair and the eruptions it caused
in French political affairs introduced the problem again tem- 200,000 pounds (about a 56 13,000), welfare funds for ZOA Israel projects, but only for projects in
the plant already has orders for the United States.
orarily in 1897 and 1898."
In the main, labor has been the mainstay in the fight against 250 refrigerators from Turkey.
A delegation representing the Timely Topics
ew-baiting. The anti-Israel attitude that was injected in British
la bor affairs by Ernest Bevin was an unfortunate interlude, but Philippine Government and the
At the annual meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee,
it did not influence the thinking of American labor lea-ders who Philippine Airlines arrived in on Jan. 6, it will be revealed that the 1950 United Jewish Appeal
re mained cautious and consistently supported the Zionist cause. Israel to discuss an air agree- will yield some $27,000,000 for JDC's activities . .. Originally, JDC
AF L and CIO spokesmen remain the defenders of liberal ideas ment between Israel and the appropriated $36,500,000 for its 1950 program .. . Jewish emi-
gration from Europe to Israel and the United States will assume
d they have even deviated from their anti-immigration views Philippines.
by supporting liberal DP legislation.
a new aspect after this week, when the JDC hands -over financial
Peron Congratulates Jewish
19 51 : Trials, Challenges, Tribulations
responsibility for transportation of Jews to Israel to the United
Chess
Champion
on
Victory
Palestine Appeal . . . The JDC, which will continue to aid JewiSh
The coming year will be different. Nearly every home will be
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—Mig- immigration to countries other than Israel, is mapping plans to
aft' ected by the national emergency. More of our men will be in
uniform. None will be spared the anxieties created by internation- uel Najdorf, Jewish Chess chain- help 25,000 Jews emigrate from Europe to the United States, Cana-
pion here, who wan an inter- da. Australia and Latin America ... Since the rise of Hitler in
al problems and challenges.
national contest in Holland, was 1933, the JDC rescued and brought safely to Palestine, and then
It will be a tough year, but we shall come through nobly. congratulated
by President and Israel, some 615,000 Jews . . .. This includes 460,000 Jews brought
American Jewry will be strengthened during the coming year. Our Mme.. Juan Peron
for his feat. to Israel. on JDC-chartered ships and planes since the establish-.
liberality will be vindicated and our past loyalties reaffirmed.
Najdorf came to Argentinia in ment of the Jewish State . .; In 1950 alone, the JDC brought to
With the assurance that we shall face all issues with courage 1939 to participate in a chess
and faith, your Commentator extends to you best wishes for a. contest and remained here when Israel 180,000 Jews, of whom abOut 50 percent came from coun-
tries behind the Iron Curtain . Incidentally, do you know that
Good and Happy 1951.
the war broke out. •
the JDC is supporting 90 Yeshivoth and seminaries in Israel?

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