Four Personalities Who Helped
Launch Bond Drive in Detroit
Jews Puzzled by
Ike's Backing of
Revercomb, Holt
On the Record
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
(copyright 1952, Seven ArlS Feature Syndicate)
Orchids
By MILTON FRIEDMAS
One of the biggest hits during the recent Hazamir Choir
Festival in Jerusalem was the "Zadikoff Ch9rus," a newly organ-
WASHINGTON — J e w i s h iced ensemble. This chorus is composed entirely of the new "ohm"
groups here are puzzled over the from Bulgaria and their piece de resistance was "Palestinian
Nights," a composition by Julius Chajes 2f Detroit. Popular de-
latest moves by Gen. Dwight mand -for this number was so great thatAt became a virtual must
Eisenhower in urging the, re- at every - concert. Chajes has just returned from Vienna, where
election of ex-Senator Chapman he successfully premiered his new Plana Concerto with the Vienna
-
Revercomb of West Virginia, Symphony Orchestra.
and the election of ex-Senator Idiot's Delight
Rush Holt as Governor of West
Joe Kamp's notorious filthsheet - "Headlines" recently charged
that the ADL is ftsponsible for the choice of all four national
Virginia.
Revercomb was listed by the candidates. ADL, according t.,6 Kamp, is the stringpuller for
Bnai Brith Anti- Defamation "puppets" Eisenhowe'r, Stevenson, Sparkman and Nixon. How
League report on anti-Semitism crazy can you get? '
in 1948 as a legislator who They Can Have Him
"strengthened animosity tow ard
From a Yiddish nep_
145 „Der n Paris we learn that when the
the Jew." Holt has been de- Greek rabbi who recent13 e ispoused Christianity came for the con-
Scribed by an ADL. bulletin as version ceremony the priest counselled him against deserting his
"a companion of the Coughlin- faith and more particularly the small Jewish community of Atra
ites" and a "darling of the inn- whose pre-war Jewish population of 400 has been reduced to 50.
atic fringe."
The "rabbi" however remained abdurate and insisted that the
Because of Revercomb's anti- pr iest perform the conversion rites.
Jewish record, Gov. Thomas E.
Four important personalities at the Israel bond committee's Dewey refused to enter West The Israel - Arab Front
According to UN Secretary General Tr ygve Lie there is no
"get well" party for Eddie Cantor were EDWARD G. ROBINSON, Virginia during the 1948 cam-
ZVI PRIHAR, Israel Postmaster General; Judge FRANK PICARD, paign and refrained from men- peace in sight between Israel and the Arabs. But rumors are
chairman, Michigan Chapter, American Palestine Committee, and tioning his name. Revercomb abounding that Egypt may make definite peace overtures and that
SAM LEVENSON. Robinson and Levenson both flew here at a was defeated. This year, how- the Turkish delegation to the UN has offered to act as mediator
moment's notice to substitute for Eddie Cantor, who collapsed ever, Revercomb was welcomed .... At the same time it is being said in UN circles that London
following his television show and was unable to attend. The bond aboard Eisenhower's train in had intimated to Cairo that no arms shipments would be made
drive counted $400,000 as this beginning of its fall bond campaign. West Virginia and invited to to Egypt unless there is an assurance of peaceful intentions. Lon-
don, incidentally, is inclined to believe Naguib's peace gestures . .
pose with the general at whistle In
Israel, where developments in Egypt are under careful scrutiny,
stops. On Sept. 24 at Wheeling, there
Abraham Ribicoff Fights for Senate Seat,
is speculation whether Cairo's dove display may not in effect
Gen. Eisenhower told the voters: be a maneuver
to secure American and British arms while at the
"I
am
sure
you
are
going
to
send
Insists on Telling His Backers 'The Truth'
back to the Senate of the United same time throwing Israel off guard . . . Informed UN circles be- a
States your experienced former lieve that the current General Assembly session may witness in
MAX SIMON
Senator, Chapman Revercomb, serious Israel-Cairo peace-making attempt. Perhaps a straw
Aa AMerican Jewish Press Feature
and to your state capital at the wind is the lambasting in the most recent issue of "Libera-
Charleston your candidate for tion," the official organ of the Egyptian military staff which is
"It is a rare experience these a 4-year term in the Connec-
published under the personal supervision of Naguib, of the Farouk
days—and, therefore, a rather ticut State Legislature, follow- governor, Rush Holt, a Repub- clique for having waged war against Israel. Apart from charging
police
court
a
lican
ticket
from
top
to
bottom."
by
4
years
as
ed
moving one—to come upon hon-
The ADL 1948 report said that that the war against Israel had been maneuvered by the back-
judge, and finally election to
and corrupt elements in the Farouk regime the publication
Congress. He defeated the Re- "in Congress, the debate over ward
refers
to a statement by Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett to
the
Displaced
Persons
Bill
was
publican incumbent, the late
the
effect
that "Egypt is the only Arab country with which Israel
William J. Miller, a three-time a springboard for Congressional
no quarrel." In addition the paper rakes the Farouk govern-
winner, with a plurality of bigotry . . . The Messrs. Rever- has
for rejecting the UN Palestine partition resolution ; charging
close to 25,000. Ribicoff as- comb, Gossett,.and Rankin were ment
the slogan to liberate the Arab countries from Jews was de-.-
tounded all political observers the most notrious in this re - that
signed "to incite anti-Semitic campaigns" . . . Just as these lines
when he turned up in t h e gard." Revercomb was described were being written the UN Palestine Conciliation Commission re,
by
the
ADL
as
among
"the
most
Congressional appointment on
that Israel has agreed to release a substantial amount of
the highly important For- culpable" of giving "encourage- ported
the
frozen
bank accounts of the Arab refugees- from Palestine. -
. eign Affairs Committee. Or- ment to anti-Semites in 1948."
"Senator Chapman Revercomb Potpourri
dinarily, freshman Congress-
men are relegated to minor of West Virginia," said the ADL, ... I see where the Jewish World of Minneapolis is celebrating its
"was responsible, in a large fortieth anniversary. Yes, friend Leo Frisch, there seems to be
posts.
He devoted many hours of measure, for the Displaced Per- more truth than poetry to the adage that life begins at 40, but
study to foreign relations and sons Act of 1948, which,.. in sev- would qualify this truism by applying it, say, to a publication.
within three months after the eral provisions, flagrantly dis- am sure, Leo, that you share my preference for the pro-forty rath-
session was underway, the Con- criminates against Jewish DPs." er the post-forty years.
gressional Record was mention- Revercomb demanded in 1948 The War of the Esrogim
It was a bloodless but bitterly contested war. The arena wa.it
ing his name increasingly. He that the Justice Department
proposed and got aPproval for permit certain Nazis to remain New York's lower East Side, or more correctly that part of the
several significant amendments in the United States, including area which becomes transformed into an esrogim market within
to the Marshall plan. The For- individuals who during World hours after conclusion of the Yom Kippur services. The fighting
eign Affairs Committee time and War II actively aided Hitler's however, was not limited to the market place alone—it was carried
on wherever Orthodox Jews congregated, including synagogue,
again entrusted him with steer- efforts to defeat this nation.
Holt was identified in the shtibel and public places. No blows were struck but abuse fell
'
ing vital legislation on American
ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF
foreign policy through the House. ADL bulletin of September; 1950, upon the contestants and vituperation and curses, too.
The conflict was precipitated by differences of opinion whether
esty, intelligence, and real tour-
the 81st Congress re- as a speaker at Coughlinite and
Wh
en R i • b i coff went abroad Christian Front rallies before this year's crop of Israel esrogim could be used during the Sukkot
age anywhere in Washington.: It i cessed,
•
•
is perhaps particuiarly rare to to learn at f i rst hand the pos- World War II, who attempted holiday since they were the produce of a "shemitah or sabbatical
come upon these qualities in the ition of the United States in "to. whitewash the crimes of year. Under Biblical law the land must remain fallow during the
Adolf Hitler." sabbatical year and its yield, while permitted for consumption, is
United States House of. Repre- the world. He shared the in
barred from commercial purposes. Banking on this situation
sentatives, on the whole not the . Tormatzon he collected 2V i t h
- his constituents in speeches Yeshiva U. Adds Two
a number of merchants imported huge esrogim stocks from Moroc-
most inspiring branch of
co and other countries. Since all is fair in war and business, this
can government. Yet all three t and articles written for the
Writers to Faculty
group flooded the esrogim market with pamphlets cautioning
of these qualities are to, be found
local papers.
prospective esrogim buyers that they would transgress Biblical
in the person_ of a certain fresh-
In 1950, RibicOff ran for his
man Representative, Abraham A. . second
law as well as be liable to excommunication if they purchased
term- and won handily
,
the' Israel product. In addition some of the leaflets carried scan-
Ribicoff."
That freshman Representative, a plurality of 38,000. It was
dalous attacks on Israel.
whom Stewart Alsop so highly. the first time since the early
But the sellers of the Israel esrogim had a powerful rejoinder
D
praised in his nationally-syndiH + Roosevelt years that aDemocrat
—no
less an authority than the great scholar Rabbi Isaac Elcha-
the off-
nan of Kovno, Lithuania, who ruled in 1880 or thereabout that
cated column in February, 1950 , carried the district in
.
the sale of shemitah products was permissible under certain con-
is today running for the United Year.
Ribicoff considers one of his
ditions. The ruling was made in answer to a query by early Jewish
States Senate seat from Connec-
ticut, left vacant by the death of prime achievements in Congress
colonists in Palestine who complained that strict and unalterable
Brien McMahon. If elected, Ribi- to be the McMahon-Ribicoff
compliance with the Biblical edict would ruin 'the yishuv. Rabbi
coff will join Herbert Lehman as Friendship Resolution which he
Isaac Elchanan held—and his views were accepted - by the Palestine'
the only JeWs in the Senate. sponsored jointly with the late
rabbinate then and by the Israel rabbinate now—that if the land
Both are Democrats. ! Connecticut Senator.
were "sold" to non-Jews and the agricultural work during the sa!a
Elected to the Eighty-first I Its purpose, Ribicoff explained,
batical year were performed by non-Jews or even indigent Jews
Congress in a close race, -Ribicoif was to penetrate the iron cur-
the yield could be sold commercially. With that ruling as a prece-
gained national prominence by taro and persuade the common'
dent, both Rabbis Herzog and Uziel of Israel ruled the current
voting against measures which people of the USSR that Ameri-
crop of Israel esrogim as perfectly permissible.
were sought by the citizens of cans, are not what the Russian
In addition the sellers of Israel esrogim argued that if neces-
his district. Virtually the entire leaders are painting them—and
sary they would not "sell" the esrogim but give them away "gratis"
farm vote of his district consists that the United States 'desire is
with the purchase of lulovim, palm leaves, which are in most
of shade Tobacco growers. At peace. With a better under-
cases California grown.
thei• request he introduced an standing, Ribicoff r e a s o n e d,
HERMAN WOUK (left), author
To this corner it seems that this was less of a war "l'shem'
amendment to the farm bill in- there could be no war.
of the Pulitzer Prize winning shomaim" than "l'shem business."
Ribicoff has been labeled novel, "The Caine Mutiny," and
eluding shade tobacco under the
the "Remarkable Ribicoff" for JACOB CHURGIN, Israeli au-
farm parity program.
He has also opposed the build- his action in "telling the voter thor and editor, have joined the Eban Views Germany's Restitution Payments
ing of a federally-financed+ $32„- the unpalatable truth" — and faculty of Yeshiva University.
German restitution payments United Israel Appeal, major ben-
000,1000 dam in his own district. then winning elections by The university, first in the U.S.
"We have fixed charges which smashing pluralities. He has under Jewish auspices, recently to Israel and their effect on the eficiary of the United Jewish
must be Met before 'we can even not changed his . practices in opened its 55th year, with a social and economic structure Appeal campaign, will seek to
record enrollment of 2,000 stu- of the country will be viewed by develop a "New Program for
begin to discuss appropriation his Senatorial campaign.
for such projects," he told the I. "The American people do not dents. It is located in New York Abba Eban, Israel Ambassador to Newcomers," aimed at improv-
voters. "The security of our Na.- have to be coddled, reassured, City,
the United States, when he ad- ing the condition and status of
tion, as represented in military then browbeaten. They merely
dresses the national conference 250,000 immigrants now living
and foreign aid commitments, is want to be told the truth," Ribi-
Mizrachi Slates Convention
for Israel, Nov. 9, at Commodore a. "marginal existence" in shacks
and tents in the work-villages
now primary." toff observes as he carries on his
Hotel, New York.
The conference, called by the throughout Israel,
Ribicoff's personal history is ' fight for the seat of the late NEW YORK—Mizrachi Or-
a first-generation success story • Senator McMahon with 'whom ganization of America will hold
—the ambitious son working he worked closely during his four its 32nd annual convention, 24 — THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 17, 195?..
in Congress • Nov- 12-16, in Atlantic City,
his • way through law school; I years
Copyright, 1952, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.
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