What Is A Jew?

By LEO TOLSTOY

What is a Jew? This question
is not at all so odd as it seems.
Let us see what kind of peculiar
creature the Jew is, which all
the rulers and all nations have
together and separately abused
and molested, oppressed and
persecuted, trampled and butch-
ered, burned and hanged—and
in spite of all this is yet alive?
What is a Jew, who has never
allowed himself to be led astray
by all the earthly possessions
which his oppressors and perse-
cutors constantly offered him in
order that he should change his
faith and forsake his own Jew-
ish religion?
The Jew is that sacred being

who has brought down from
heaven the everlasting fire and
has illumined with it the entire
world. He is the religious source,
spring and fountain out of
which all the rest of the peoples
have drawn their beliefs and
their religions.
The Jew is the emblem of
eternity. He w h o in neither
slaughter nor torture of thou-
sands of years could destroy, he
whom neither fire nor sword nor
inqUisition was able to wipe off
from the face of the earth, he
who was the first to produce the
oracles of God, he who has been
for so long the guardian of
prophecy, and who transmitted
it to the rest of the world—
such a nation cannot be de-
stroyed. The Jew is everlasting
as is eternity itself.

Graves of Rabbi Shimon and Rabban
Ike Greets JWV
At Chicago Parley; Camaliel Are Uncovered in Israel
Racists Assailed
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel archaeologists working on

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the site of Bet Shearim have uncovered graves bearing the

CHICAGO, (JTA) — President names of Rabbi Shimon and Rabban Gamaliel, noted Jewish
Eisenhower lauded the Jewish sages who lived about 2,000 years ago.
War Veterans of America fog
The archeologists are not yet certain whether they are
"displaying in their peacetime
the
graves
of the sages or of other scholars bearing the
activities the same dedication to
high purpose that marked their same names. It is believed that inscriptions over the graves
on the site warning that persons who break open the graves
service in time of war."
The President expressed his will die, place the age of the graves in the same period as
praise in a message to the 58tii the one in which the sages lived.
annual convention of the Jew-
ish War Veterans of the United
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Expand Zionism in Europe
States. Jesse Moss, of New, York,
Friday, September 11, 1953
national commander of the or- LONDON, (JTA)—Zalman Sha-
ganization, in his opening ad- zar, deputy chairman of the
dress, told delegates that "Corn Jewish Agency executive in Je-
Mr. & Mrs. J. Milan
munism's drive for . world domi- rusalem, arrived here on the
nation has evoked fears, hatreds first leg of a trip to study the
and Family
and suspicions whose efforts are possibilities of expanding Zion-
of
the Lee Plaza
impairing human rights and ist educational work in Europe.
civil liberties in every corner of
Wis all their relatives and
the globe,"
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Moss assailed "the bigots who proven successful. Try them first.
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are• the Communists' brothers
My righteousness I hold- fast, under the skin," and said that
Wish their family and friends
and will not let it go; my heart the House Un-American Activi-
a healthy and
shall not reproach me so long ties Committee "has a duty to
prosperous New Year
focus public scrutiny" on totali-
as I live.—Job 27.6.
Extends New Year's Greetings to All
tarians of the right, as well as
the left."
Its members and their families; to
He deplored "a disturbing ten-
dency to regard the bigot as
the Jewish Community and to all its
little more than a noisy nuisane
Best Wishes on the New Year to the Officers and
because, unlike his Communist
patronizers of the yearly journal.
Members of Adas Shalom Synagogue, Its Men's
counterpart, the right wing ex-
May you all enjoy the best of
tremist is not part of an organ-
Club and Sisterhood, and to the Jewish
ized international movement"
Community of Detroit
health and prosperity the coming year.
Jewish community relations
organizations in t h e coming
years must be prepared to meet
A. J. Katz, Vice Pres.
H. Lipsitz, Pres.
every fresh turn of Communist
strategy, "with programs that
will expose and defeat any at-
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tempt to confuse and divide
public opinion," Joseph F. Barr
of Washington, chairman of the
group's community relations de-
clared. He called for the streng-
thening of existing community
relations agencies and the es-
tablishment of additional agen-
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cies in communities where they
do not now exist "as the best
PASSENGER and FREIGHT ELEVATORS
means of achieving an effective
defense against Communist ac-
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tivities in local communities."
To advance their objectives,
FOR SERVICE WORK
Communists have posed as
friends of civil rights legislation:
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as opponents of the McCarran-
Walter Immigration Act and az
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advocates of fair employment
laws, Barr said.
While stressing the need for
effective anti-Communist pro-
grams, Barr said that "the in
creasing boldness of bigots and
ultra-nationalists" must be given
equal attention by local JewiSh,
community relations councils.
The veterans were told by
Samuel Rose, Washington chief
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Discussing veteran s' use of
other Federal benefits, Rose said
that more than one-half of all
World War II veterans have
availed themselves of educa -
tional and training resources
under the original GI Bill. He
estimated that this fall more
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Answer not a fool according
to his folly,
Lest thou also be like unto
him.
Answer a fool according to his
folly,
Lest he be wise in his own
eyes.
He that sendeth a message by
the hand of a fool
Cutteth off his own feet, and
drinketh damage.
The legs hang limp from the
lame;
So is a parable in the mouth
of fools.
As a small stone in a heap of
stones,
So is he that giveth honor to
a fool.
As a thorn that cometh into
the hand of a drunkard,
So is a parable in the mouth
of fools.
—Proverbs 26:4-9.

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