Passover Rules Listed by Rabbis:
Warn Against Use of Chornetz
Soviets to Memorialize
Medieval Jew Killer
Detroit's Council of Orthodox
9; eating of chometz must
Rabbis has issued a statement
cease at 10:15 a.m., April 9;
calling upon the Jewish com-
sale of chometz no later than
munity to comply with the tradi-
11 a.m. April 9; removal of
tionally prescribed Passover
chometz, no later that 11:15
rules.
a.m. April 9.
The statement emphasizes the
All bakeries must close from
following points in exercising
10:15 a.m. April 9 to 7:45 p.m.
care in the purchase of Passover
April 17. "Products baked dur-
food products:
ing that period are forbidden
All products must carry bona
for use."
fide certification by a rabbi or
Adult persons should refrain
rabbinical organization to in-
from partaking of any food
dicate that it is kosher la-
after 4:20 p.m. Wednesday
Pesach. in case of doubt, it is
until after the Seder meal.
asked that the Vaad Horab-
Erev Tayshilin must be made
bonim be called at TY. 6-8906.
on April 9.
A label which does not show
authoritative rabbinical en-
Further information will be
dorsement may conceal the
offered by the rabbis 10:30 a.m.
fact that the product is cho-
to 5 p.m. daily, at the Vaad
metz and is prohibited for Horabbonim office, 9105 Linwood,
Passover.
TY. 6-8906 or TY. 8-4839.
All bakeries, groceries and
Observing Passover is not lim-
delicatessen stores must sell
ited to eating kneidlach, Rabbi
their chometz not later than David Bakst, director of the
11 a.m., April 9, and a certifi-
Vaad Horabbonim and the Mer-
cate from a rabbi proving the kaz, stated. "It is urgent that the
sale must be displayed in the
spirit of the festival, that its
place of business.
holiness should be emphasized,
Maccaroons and other baked rather than the food. We there-
goods of Detroit bakeries are
fore urge that the rich symbol-
declared to be chometz. Bak- ism of the Passover should be
eries are called upon by the fully respected so that we shouid
rabbis "not to mislead the
go forward towards solemn re-
Jewish consumers by baking
dedication to the thought and
chometz."
The search for the chometz form of traditional Jewish life."
in homes is to be on Tuesday
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THE JEWISH NEWS
night, April 8; Fast of the
Friday, April 4, 1952
First-Born, Wednesday, April
—
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Democracy—'To Free Every Man From Fear'
PARIS, (JTA)—A monu-
ment to the memory of the
Cossack H e t m a n Bogdam
Chmielnicki, who was respon--
sible for the massacre of an
estimated 300,000 Jews in
1648-49, will be unveiled on
May 1 in Lwow, in the Soviet
Ukraine, the Soviet Radio re-
ported. Chmielnicki, who led
a war against the Kings of
Poland, has now been elevat-
ed to the status of a Ukrain-
ian national hero.
Passover Appeal
For Israel Bonds
Jewry to Observe Ghetto Uprising -
At Council-Sponsored Program Sunday
Detroit Jewry will honor the
Chairman will be Dr. Shmarys
6.000,000 victims of Nazi • Ger- Kleinman, president of the
many Sunday at 8:30 p.m. at Council. Tickets have been sent
Temple Beth El. This communi- to many affiliated organizations
and to delegates, and are avail-
able at the Council office. I.
Pokempner is the p r o g r a
chairman.
Histadrut 'Domination'
Denied by Dr. Heller
Address ing approximately
1,000 people in the main audi-
torium of Shaarey Zedek March
26, at the event that marked the
closing of the Histadrut drive
here, Dr. James G. Heller of
Cincinnati denied charges that
Histadrut in Israel is seeking to
dominate and control the eco-
nomic situation.
The former General Zionist
leader who has joined the labor
ranks stated that Histadrut sub-
mits to bids whenever its serv-
ices are needed. He said that
private investments are encour-
aged in Israel and he denied
categorically that Histadrut in-
fluences the Mapai-controlled
Israel government against pri-
vate economic initiative.
Shoshana Damari w a s ac-
claimed at the meeting for her
rendition of Israeli songs. She
sang many encores. reenonding
to audience requests to sing
many numbers.
The Detroit Israel bond office
has issued an appeal to Detroit
Jews to purchase bonds in honor
of Passover.
"Passover—Festival of Free-
dom — is an appropriate time_
to remember, as the Haggadah
bids us, that not only our an-
E/MVIA SCHAVER
cestors were delivered, but that
we today share—and may speed
ty-wide
observance of the War-
—this deliverance."
The bond leaders' appeal saw Ghetto uprising and the
death of 6,000,000 Jews in Europe
states:
"The story of the fight for is sponsored by the culture com-
economic independence, in mission of the Jewish Communi-
which the Israel bond issue ty Council, under the co-chair-
represents the broadest avenue manship of Lawrence Crohn and
to victory, may not win the Louis LaMed.
A. M. Klein, noted poet and
headlines of a military engage-
ment. But to the thoughtful per- author of "The Second Scroll"
son it is no less moving. and will be the principal speaker.
Benjamin Tabachinsky. cam-
often more significant.
"The story of the economic paign director of the Jewish La- Joseph Zwerdling Named
conquest of the Negev is quite bor Committee, will be the Yid-
To OPS Washington Post
as arresting as the martial bat- dish speaker.
Emma Schaver, noted soprano
tle in the Negev which riveted
Following his association with
the attention of the world a
who visited
DP
camps
following
World
War II
and
whose
album, the Office of Price Stabilization
short time ago.
"The army of workers in "Ani Maamin," (I Believe is a since February, 1951. Joseph
Israel has uncovered valuable collection of recorded ghetto Zwerdling, son of Mr. and Mrs.
minerals which have already songs, will be heard in several Osias Zwerdling of Ann Arbor,
borne fruit in the development selections. Cantor Jacob Sonen- has been appointed chief counsel
of a significant chemical indus- klar will chant liturgical selec- of OPS in Washington. D.C.
Zwerdling, 41, a graduate et
try. When this industry com- tions.
The Ehrlich-Alter Branch of the University of Michigan. re-
pletes the expansion program
ceived his law degree in 1933. A
that Israel Bonds are now fi- the Workmen's Circle. a group ceived
nancing, it has been estimated of newcomers, will present a research secretary to Michigan
that it will save and earn Israel short dramatic reading entitled Supreme Court Justice Henry M.
"The Lighting of the Candles." Butzel, he was named assistant
$6,000,000 annually.
"The general statistics of Harry Goldstein, radio artist, Michigan attorney general in
economic gains throughout Is- wiii read from "The Second 1937. He also served with the
rael are no less impressive. In Scroll." U.S. Office of Alien Property.
one year, the area of land under
cultivation, has grown by over a
million duriams. In dairy foods
Israel is already self-sufficient.
The natiorl income has risen
phenomenally, the number of
By BORIS SMOLAR
gainfully employed has reached
(Copyright. 1:, 52. Je.is.h Telegraphic Agency. Inca
above the half-million mark.
Experts predict that within a Behind the Scenes:
half dozen years. Israel will be
The reason the Jewish reparation8 talks with Germany are
completely self-sufficient.
not taking place in Brussels, as originally scheduled, is because
"By investing in State of Is-
rael Bonds. the Jews of America the Belgian authorities indicated that they would not like the
are contributing in a major way talks in their country . . . Apparently they were afraid of hostile
to win this battle for economic demonstrations ... One such demonstration took place in front of
the Israeli legation .. . It was organized by local Communists .. .
freedom and independence.
As the talks proceed now in The Hague, it becomes more and
more clear that the German negotiators have no authority to
Sinai Hospital Signs
make any decisions . . . They can only listen to the Jewish dele-
gates and forward their demands for final decision to the Bonn
Assistant Director
government . . . Within the ranks of the Bonn government, it
seems,
there are some who are reluctant to pay any indemnifica-
Joseph Hornstein, formerly di-
rector of the Jewish Hospital of tion to Israel . . . However, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer seems
Hope in Montreal, Canada, has to be determined to bring the German-Israeli negotiations to a
satisfactory conclusion . . . Indicative of the moods among some
of the members of the West German Cabinet is a statement made
by Dr. Felix von Eckhardt, chief of the press department of the
Bonn government, who is supposed to know what-is-what . . . He
said that the whole German-Jewish reparations problem is bristl-
ing with legal, technical. political, domestic and international dif-
ficulties . . . Although be believes that the present talks at The
Hague will bring favorable results for Israel, he is of the opinion
that they will last a long time . .. He disclosed that Israel wants
Germany to build—as part of reparations payment—a great darn
'across one of the waterways in the Jewish state for the genera-
tion of electricity , .. This, he said, would be impossible as long.
as Israel does not want any Germans on its soil, since the project
would necessitate the sending of several hundred German - spe-
cialists to Israel.
On the eve of Passover we speak not only of freedom but
also of freedom's strongest defense: democracy.
Of all the definitions of democracy, that of Pericles the Greek
(495-429 B. C.) remains among the most effective. "The adminis-
tration of our Constitution favors the many and not the few—
that is why we called it democracy," Pericles said in a funeral
oration in 431 B. C. His utterance of 2383 years ago is as valid
today as it was then.
The struggle for freedom, is an unending one and the gap
between Pericles. in Greece, nearly 24 centuries ago, and Spinoza
(1632-1677), in Holland 300 years ago, is not as wide as years
would indicate. To quote Spinoza from his "Writings on Political
Philosophy":
"The ultimate aim is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor
to exact .obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from
fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words,
to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without in-
jury to himself or others. No, the object of government is not
to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but
to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security,
and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showi:zg hatred,
anger or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and in-
justice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty."
There are, of course, warnings against abuses of the liberties
of democracy. Shakespeare—in "As You Like IC—admonished
against those who would embrace the whole world for their own
good under the rights of liberty's charter:
"I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind
To blow on whom I please."
There also is a warning in Shakespeare's - Pericles, Prince of
Tyre," against the tyrant's kiss:
"But thou know'st this,
'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss."
For the best 'definition of - democracy we still must go to
Pericles' funeral oration of 431 B. C.:
"We are happy in a form of government which cannot envy
the laws of our neighbors—for it bath served as a model to
others, but is original at Athens. And this our form, as com-
mitted not to the few, but to the whole body of . the people, is
called a democracy. How different so ever in a private
capacity,
we all enjoy the same general equality our laws are fitted to
preserve; and superior honors just-as we excel. The public ad-
ministration is not confined to a particular family, but is at-
tainable only by merit. Poverty is not a hindrance, since who-
ever is able to serve his country meets with no obstacle to pre-
ferment from his first obscurity. The offices of the state we go
through without obstructions from one another: and live
together in the mutual endearments of private life without .sus-
picions; not angry with a neighbor for following the bent
of
his own humor, not putting on that countenance of discontent,
which pains though it cannot punish—so that in private life
we converse without diffidence or damage, while we "darenot on
any account offend against the public, throuoh...the reverence
we bear to the magistrates and the laws, chiefly to those en-
JOSEPH HORNSTEIN
acted fipr redress of the injured, and to those unwritten, a
breach of which is thought a disgrace. Our laws have further been appointed assistant direc-
tor of Sinai Hospital here, Max
provided for the mind most frequent intermissions of care by
Osnos, president of the Detroit
the appointment of public recreations and sacrifices through:-
Hospital Association, has an-
out the year, elegantly performed with a peculiar pomp, the
daily delight of which is •a charm that puts melancholy to nounced. The Association is the
sponsoring organization of Sinai
flight. The grandeur of this over Athens causeth the produce
of the whole earth to be imported here, by which we reap a Hospital, which will be ready for
familiar enjoyment, not more of the delicacies of our own use late this year.
A native of Montreal, Horn-
growth than of those of other nations."
served for five years in
Pericles spoke of Athens where "poverty is not a hindrance." stein
Royal Canadian Air Force
The ideal he. propounded was in itself a heritage from Judaea, the
during World War II. Following
and Judaeans in turn inherited the ideal from Sinai. All of free- the war, Hornstein completed
dom, all of democracy, was fathered by Passover. The very open- training in hospital administra-
ing words of our Haggadah—"let all who are hungry come and tion at the University of Toron-
eat"—is symbolic of the equality, the liberty, the democracy which to in 1949. He is married and has
was born with our great Festival of Freedom. We rejoice in it one child.
and in its blessings—blessings that have been apportioned alike
Hornstein will assist Dr. Julien
to all mankind.
Priver, Sinai's director.
Between You and Me
Passover Present:
The American film-loving public 1.1as just received a Passover
present from Israel .. . It is 'Faithful City, "first Israeli-produced
English- speaking full-length film, which will be distributed in
the United States by RKO Radio Pictures . .. In New York. it will
have its premiere on April 7 in the fashionable Park Avenue
Theater . . . Ambassador Abba Eban of Israel and top level rep-
resentatives of the United States and foreign countries will attend
the event . .. "Faithful City" deals with the problems of Jewish
war orphans whose parents were annihilated in Europe and who
are brought to Israel for rehabilitation . . . It is a picture that
leaves a very deep impression . . The children portrayed in the
film have lost the characteristics of normal children, and are
harsh, suspicious, unamenable to authority . . . Yet they event-
ually become normal, and when Jerusalem is besieged by the
Arabs, they display the characteristics of members of a well-
integrated community working for the common good . . . It is a
dramatic picture directed and produced by Joseph Leytes, a Polish
Jew who lives in England and who is no newcomer to the film
industry . . . He produced and' directed a number of Polish films
before the war, and in 1937 won one of the prizes at the Interna-
tional Film Festival in Venice .... The fact that RKO undertooir
the distribution of "Faithful City" IS the best testimonial fOr the-
picture ... Jews in the United States should not miss it. •