THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporatino the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20. 1951
Keep 1JJA Machinery Working by
Giving Liberally to Allied Drive
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Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at Post Offic e, Detroit., Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879
PHILIP
SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager
April 17, 1953
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VOL. XX/IT, No. 6
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the third day of Iyar, 5713, the following Scriptural selections
will he read
in our synagogues:
Pentateuch& portion—Lev. 12:1-15:33.
Prophetical portion—II Kings 7:3-20.
Licht Benshen, Friday, April 17,
6:17 p.m.
Detroit Jewry's Great Campaigning Tradition
The Montefiore-Lowe "Rabbinic Antholo-
gy," in its claapte`17 on "Charity," incorpor-
ates this comment on a Midrashic. selection:
"In the future world, man will bf asked,,
'What was your occupation?' If he reply, 'I
fed the hungry,' then -Lzey reply, 'This is the
gate of the Lord: he who feds the hungry,
let him enter' (Ps. cxviii, 20). So with giving
drink to the thinity, clothing the naked, with
those who look after the orphans, and with
those, generally, who do deeds of lovingkind-
ness. An these are gates of the Lord, and
those who do such deeds shall enter within
them."
many local and national causes which we
are obligated to help with all the means at
our disposal.
Nationally, we assist the Jewish Welfare
Board, whose chief projects are in the field
of uplifting the morale of our men and wom-
en in the armed forces; hospitals and homes
for the aged and movements for the ad-
vancement of Jewish education.
The local agencies do not need re-elab-
oration. Without the funds gathered by the
Allied Jewish Campaign, our several school
systems would collapse, the Home for Aged
could not function, Sinai Hospital would
have to close its doors. There are other local
causes which, as a combination, represent
the cultural-education, recreational and re-
lief efforts of Detroit Jewry.
All of these represent our collective ob-
jective in the drive for lovingkindness, in De-
troit. Jewry's aim not only to live up to past
traditions but to exceed our community's
liberality in 1953. We are confident that
this community, with a background of kind-
heartedness, will work hard and give liberal-
ly, so that the 1953 Allied Jewish Campaign
may set new records for outstanding labors
in the field of lovingkindness.
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Detroit's 1953 Allied Jewish Campaign
appropriately opens on the fifth anniversary
of the rebirth of the state of Israel. This,
too, should be an incentive for more liberal
giving to our great campaign.
In a statement issued on the occasion
of Israel's anniversary, the Jewish state's
Prime Minister, David Ben- Gurion, asserted:
Detroit. Jewry's many years' activities in
Horowitz's 'State in the Making'
the fields of good deeds have earned for
them the respect of the entire country and
Israel's Story by Man Who Knows
the self-respect of the people who make up
this fine community.
David Horowitz speaks about Israel, in his book "State in the
Making," with the authority of a man who knows and who is in
Our record is a good one. Now, we are
position to relate the intimate details of the rise of the Jewish
once again in the midst of another drive.
state. In this book, published by Knopf, he relates the details that
Once again, our people are asked for "lov-
accompanied action at the United Nations, the struggle for rec-
ingkindness." As the Allied Jewish Campaign
ognition, the challenges within Israel and the final declaration of
-independence and the shooting by seven Arab nations that
gets into high gear, with the official open-
ing set for the coming week, we meet its
marked the great event.
challenges with a sense of confidence that
Mr. Horowitz, close associate of the late Israel Foreign Min-
the traditions of many'years—of feeding the
ister Eliezer Kaplan, is regarded as one of Israel's leading finan-
cial authorities. As Director General of the, Ministry of Finance,
hungry and clothing the naked and rescuing
he occupied a key position in the Jewish state. His book on the
the homeless and oppressed—will be met
rise of Israel brings him to the fore as a literary figure and as
with dignity and with liberality.
historian.
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Julian . Meltzer, one of the ablest foreign correspondents in
Israel, translated the book from the Hebrew.
In this campaign, as in previous drives,
we are not limited, of course, to mere "chari,
The importance of "State in the Making" lies not merely in
ty." The Allied Jewish Campaign should be
the fine description of the struggle for statehood but also in its
treated not as alms-giving but as character-
analysis of the "diplomatic prelude." Mr. Horowitz - relates every
diplomatic move of importance in Israel's making—the UNSCOP
building, as a restorer of courage, as a build-
We face the future with faith and confi-
committee's activities, the deliberations of the intergovernmental
er of good faith. While an important portion
commissions, the investigations conducted by the United Nations;
dence. We shall' advance under the inspira-
of the funds we are gathering is to be used
and finally the debates before the UN and the UN's political corn-
tion of the three great visions to whose imple-
for relief purposes, made necessary by re-
mittee.
mentation we shall continue in the future to
newed campaigns of violence and expulsions
devote all our material and spiritual resources:
Having served as a member of the Jewish Agency delegationS
in many backward and authoritarian lands,
Development, Freedom and Peace. We shall
and having shared in the secret . sessions affecting Israel held in.
there are important elements in the cam-
continue to develop the natural resources of the world's capitals Mr. Horowitz is able to tell his story by relat-
paign which must be considered outside the
our country, pioneer our waste lands and press ing facts and figures.
realm of charity and within the scope of
forward
our industrial progress. We • shall
Israel before the bar of the nations, the part played by emi-
creative efforts.
nent British and American leaders and the machinations behind
strengthen and consolidate our democratic
The mere fact that the Allied Jewish . ..regime built an the firm foundations of hu- official scenes—are illuminatingly told by Mr. Horowitz.
Campaign assists in Israel's upbuilding is
man freedom. And we. shall stand together
This is a volume to which the man of research will have to
sufficient cause for pride that by giving to
with all our might with peace-loving and return time and time again. Seeking facts about men like Harold
the drive we are assisting in a very impor-
Beeley, the British anti-Zionist, and for many more like him who
freedom-loving nations of the world.
tant effort to raise the morale of downtrod-
It is an incontrovertible fact that without played an important role in the struggle which accompanied
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den people by creating homes . for them.
the encouragement and support of American Israel's rebirth, the student of Jewish history will have to go back
again and again to Horowitz's "State in the Making" which he will
The several Israel causes included in. the Jewry,-the attainment of Development, Free- find indispensible in gathering - knowledge about Israel.
dom
and
Peace
would
be
most
difficult.
If
drive—the Haifa Technion, the Weizmann
Institute, the , Hebrew University and other these objectives are to be reached, it is es-
important agencies—are indications of the sential that the UJA, the chief philanthropic H I STOR I ETTE
positive value of the 1953 campaign to which fund, without which it would have been im-
we owe all our concern in the coming weeks. possible to settle 700,000 Jews in Israel since
Old Testament in the New World
the establishment of the state, be strength-
An American Jewish Press Feature
ened. In Detroit we do it through the Allied
Jewish
Campaign.
Let
us
exert
all
our
ef-
There is another parcel that must not
An American Jewish Committee study, "This Is Our Home,"
be forgotten while we propagate in behalf forts for the continuation of this great com- makes the point that "the major source of Jewish influence in the
first two centuries of American history was the Old Testament, In
of this year's drive. Included in it are the munal tradition.
many ways the Holy Book for the Puritan settlers." The story
continues to point out that "in the Old Testament these dissenters
discovered precedents and justification. for their religion, which
differed from that of the established church in England. In it
they sought and found close parallels to their own situation.
When they fled from England, they likened King -James I, their
all the purges and did nothing to put an end persecutor, to Pharoah, the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, Amer-
to injustice.
ica itself to the New Canaan. They called their new communities
But the worldwide trend for peace is the 'little Israels' and their leaders Moses and Joshua. The tomb of
thing of importance. It is through a general John Cotton, one of the great leaders of early colonial Protestant-
desire to end the war in Korea and to ad- ism, carries the following inscription:
Soviet Russia's Conciliatory Attitude
Soviet Russia's new conciliatory attitude
is heartening to all Americans. It offers en-
couragement to Jews that, possibly, the re-
cent anti-Semitic drive will never again be
repeated and that there will be an end to
Communist witch-hunts under the guise of
anti-Zionism.
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The release of the doctors is one indica-
tion of a change of heart among the Com-
munists. The Korean peace talks add to the
entertained hopes that the wave of anti-
Jewisll prejudice which was in evidence for
the past .ithree months in all the • countries
behind the Iron Curtain will be short-lived.
It has been said that the elevation of
Lazar KaganoVich to the USSR vice-premier-
ship is proof of a desire in Communist ranks
to conciliate thou. )vho were under attack
in recent monthS. We are skeptical of this
prognostication, since ,Kaganovich reputedly
played an important role in Russia during
vance peace in Europe that we may hope
also for the termination of the horrible
nightmare that was created by the new
Russian anti-Semitic drive. In spite of the at-
tempts by apologists for the. Communists to
prove that Russia is merely anti-Zionist and
not anti-Jewish, the fact remains that Com-
munist leaders who happen to have been
Jews have been purged on the charge of be-
ing Zionists—although all their lives they op..
posed Zionism—and Jewish institutions have
been liquidated.
If the Kremlin is sincere in its peace
overtures, its leaders can also be expected
to order an end to anti-Semitism. The two
issues are inter-linked. We pray for peace,
out of which also must come an end to big-
otry and persecution.
"'But let his mourning flock be comforted,
Though Moses be, yet Joshua is not dead;
' . I mean renowned (John) Norton; worthy he
Successor to our Moses is to be,
0 happy Israel in America,
In such a Moses, such a Joshua'."
"Once settled in the American wilderness, the Puritans quite
naturally turned to the Old Testament for guidance when it came
time to write laws. And it was on the battleground of the Old
Testament that the early colonial theologians and philosophers
fought out fundamental issues concerning the nature of govern-
ment and the connection between government and religion. It. 18
surely no exaggeration to say that the colonial period was the
first time since the days of the ancient Jews themselves that
Hebraic principles of government, morality, and philosophy were
so fully put into action as a way of life. As one historian remarked
about the early settlers: 'The Bible was their statute book, the
law of Moses their authority.' "