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DETROIT JEWISH . NEWS

Friday, Dece: -"her 4, 1953

David Safran to Head
Bond Steering Group

By PHILIP SLOMONAITZ

Hysteria and Fright: Panic Among Kinsmen

Frightful hysteria is destroying the vitality of our peopl e.
David Safran was elected
When it is mixed with politics, it becomes all the more deplorabl e.
The search for communists in all school rooms, in government of chairman of the steering com-
fices, wherever there are public interests, has aroused hatreds an d mittee of the .
suspicions to an extent approaching loathing and detestatio n Detroit Israel
bond drive.
among kinsmen.
Mrs. Theodore
The communist threat is serious enough without our losin g Bargman, chair-
our heads and our creating fear and suspicions in our own mids t. man of the De-
If the present internal strife among Americans should continue troit Women's
people will hesitate to accept public jobs, they will shun respon Division for Is-
sibility and they may spy one on another. That would place us a t rael bonds, was
once in the Nazi class. And that's just the thing to avoid.
elected as co-
This Hanukah, the lessons in the Maccabean story are appli- chairman of the
cable to our time. There are certain principles which can not be steering com-
sacrificed on idol-worshipping altars. The craving for freedom mittee. The pur-
Safran
of worship, for which the Maccabees fought, also included the pose of the spe-
need for free thought and free speech. It is when we create sus- cial committee of 11 persons Will
picions among people, when we drive the destroyers of our be to consolidate the leadership
freedoms underground, that we enable the enemy to gain strength in the local bond organization
and to carry on his nefarious activities. It might be well for the and to assist in future planning
investigators to take a lesson from the Hanukah story, in order to of functions in Detroit.
temper their angers and ap-P-Ty their vigilance where it will accom-
plish greatest good without destroying the people's confidence.

Center Organization's
Prepare for Hanukah
With Special Events

The Panicky Anti Zionist Who Is Harming Israel

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Sholem Asch Denies Reported Intent
To Give Up Residence in America

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Sholem
Asch, noted Jewish writer,:
denied that he had the slightest
intention of giving up his
American citizenship or of tak-
i n g up permanent residence
abroad.
Mr. Asch sailed for southern
France to rejoin his wife who is
in poor health at Nice. He was
recently involved in incidents

at Hibiscus Island, Miami Beach,
where he has a home, where a
Yiddish-speaking section of the
Jewish community took excep-
tion to Mr. Asch's writing on
Jesus.
In denying that he would take
up permanent residence abroad,
Mr. Asch pointedly remarked
that "that doesn't mean that I
have to come back to Miami
Beach. That's not America."

Putting Two and Two Together

By RINNA GROSSMAN

An American Jewish Press Feature

This past week has been one
of "those" weeks when Israel
seemed glued to each day's ban-
ner headlines—and each story
seemed more confusing than its
predecessor.
The Kibya resolution climax-
ed this gloomy procession of bul-
letins datelined "The United
Nations." The U. S., France and
B r it a i n submitted to the Secur-
ity Council their condemnation
of the border *settlers' retaliatory
raid amid considerable Arab
rejoicing, neglected to mention
the hundreds of Israel dead, vic-
tims of a long series of raids by
Arab infiltrators.

said, not the point. Etut the Is-
' rael delegate had anticipated

this reaction. Abba Eban invok-
ed an article of the Israel-Jor-
dan armistice agreement which
states that attendance at a con-
' ference called under its terms
"shall be obligatory."
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Now, peace talks are

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strange phenomena. You can
Hysteria and panic is not limited to government groups.
always tell who is in the
You'll find them among the people, among all faiths.
wrong by inviting the protag-
In our ranks you'll find them in a council that calls itself Jew-
Special Hanukah celebrations
onists to discuss an amicable
ish and American.
will be held by several Jewish
settlement. The test never
'Alfred M. Lilienthal, the former State Department employee Community Center groups this
fails. Let me refer you to the
who gained notoriety with his article, "Israel's Flag Is Not Mine," week.
recent Soviet refusal to attend
in the Reader's Digest, evidences this state of fright in his . book
The Telcove Club will have a
a meeting of the Big 4 For-
"What Price Israel" (Regnery Publishers, Chicago).
supper-dance at 8 p.m. Sunday,
eign Ministers. Or to Korea,
It is an unfortunate book. It is regrettable that an able man at the D. W. Simons Branch,
etc.. No aggressor nation ever
should be so blinded as to fail to recognize realities.
with traditional latkes and a
wants peace talks — and the
In Israel, public indignation
Lilienthal reviews all the well-known anti-Zionist facts. special collection of holiday
Arabs are no exception.
Every one who supports Israel emerges as a Zionist and a Jewish dishes made by the women simmered. The three-power
Israel, obviously, has all to
nationalist. He wages war against all elements involved in the members. Abraham Berman will resolution was regarded as an
building of the Jewish state.
chant Hanukah rituals, a n d unwarranted slap in the na- gain and nothing to lose by try-.
If we were to listen to Lilienthal, we would have washed our Bert Grossman will conduct a tional face—and Israelis talk- ing to end the perilous, expen-
ed and wrote angrily about sive, and often bloody tension in
hands of the share in Israel's upbuilding and, thanks to the Lilien- festival game program.
the Middle East. Israel might
thals and the Lazarons and the Bergers, the door would be open
At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Jewish their sense of hurt.
The man in the Jerusalem i not have insisted on these talks
for a wholesale massacre of Jews by their war-threatening neigh- Culture Club will give a special
bors.
dinner at the Twelfth Street street wondered aloud why those I now had she been left alone.
He asserts that "American Jewry must realize, fast and un- Council Center, with dancing, !who most stubbornly had defied
equivocally, that the survival of Israel is solely Israel's responsi- an Israeli film and Hebrew and the UN authority all these years Landsmanshaften Plan
bility. American Jews who want to share in that responsibility Yiddish songs by folk singer were suddenly cast in the light
of international martyrs. The New Program Service
will have to do so in Israel, that is, become Israeli Jews."
Malke Shaw.
But Israel's survival—note the term used by Lilienthal—is not
The Council of Mothers' Clubs man in the street decided that
the sole responsibility of the Jewish state. It is a human duty to has scheduled its Hanukah enough was enough. •
The latest films, a panel of
And on Tuesday, Israel's cele- speakers, musical entertainment
aid a reconstituted national group to retain its identity, to live a party and dance for 8 p.m. Dec.
brated delegate to the UN, Abba and other program aids are be- .
decent life, to be encouraged in a struggle against war threats 12 in the Davison Branch.
that endanger its very existence.
General chairman is Mrs. Eban, presented a letter to Sec- ing offered by the Council of
Granted, as Lilientthal and his associates aver, that we, the Jenny Horowitz, with co-chair- retary-General Dag Hammarsk- Landsmanshaften of Detroit in
Jews of America, as well as our fellow-Jews in other lands, are, men Mesdames Grace Krolik, jold, demanding that Jordan be conjunction with the Jewish
alone. Jews, being so by religion; and that Israel has no right to Dexter; Martha Markzon, Cen- summoned for peace talks.
Community Council, to help de-
The news came as a bomb- velop programs for meetings of
call herself a Jewish state: then there still remain the uncon- ter Club; Esther Karbel, Mary
tradictable fact that Israelis are our kinsmen, even if we were to Caplan Women; Pearl Miller, shell. Israel, in a bold and con- Yiddish speaking organizations,
concur in the fantaStic Judaism Council claim that they are not New Study Club; Martha Bern- structive move, had taken the as well as to strengthen such
Jews. Lilienthal et al would, indeed, abandon their kinsmen to stein, Pasadena Club; Mrs. Max first steps towards doing some- organizations. Services may be
thing to settle the Arab-Israel obtained by calling Morris Ma-
their fate ! And that we call inexcusable !
Rudman, Fenkell Club.
Lilienthal has read a lot. He quotes interminably in his book.
lin, vice-president of the Lands-
Mothers' Clubs are planning a conflict!
The Arabs were filled with manshaften Council, TA. 5-3714
He tells us about a boycott that was threatened against the New mystery trip on Wednesday,
York Times because its publisher, Aithur Hays Sulzberger, in 1946 with luncheon at Butzel Me- alarm. Peace parleys were, they or DI. 1-0008.
said that he disliked "the coercive methods of Zionists." He "re- morial Hall. Reservations
veals" that "there is a heavy file tucked away in Mr. Sulzberger's should be made with club presi-
safe and no one will today talk about the frightening experience." dents or at Center branches by
He proceeds to charge that the Herald Tribune "did its best to 10 a.m., Monday.
cut into the Times circulation" by going overboard in support of
The annual fund-raising
By BORIS .SMOLAR
partition and by serializing Chaim Weizmann's life.
luncheon of the Fenkell Moth-
(Copyright, Mt Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
What's wrong with the latter? It would be kosher, we assume, ers' Club will be held at 12:30
with the self-hating anti-Israelis for any newspaper to serialize p.m., Dec. 14, at the D. W. The International Scene
the life of Ghandi and Churchill and Roosevelt and Eisenhower, Simons Branch. Luncheon com-
Behind the sudden rejection by the Austrian government of
but not—Heaven forbid! (remember, they speak in the name of mittee women are Mrs. I d a
Jewish claims for heirless property is the assumption that the
Heaven)—that of Weizmann!
Arenkoff, Mrs. Fannie Borak, Jews have lost their influence in Washington and thus there is no
Lilienthal overlooks a fact: the New York Times, since Israel's Mrs.. Bertha Faigenbaum, Mrs.
rebirth, has defended the state's existence and has aided in the Sally Reisher, and Mrs. Ida further need to negotiate with them. This assumption is based
primarily on the notion that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
battle for justice for the Jewish state. Neither the New York Times Shulman.
is not friendly to Israel, which is seen by some members of the
nor liberal Christians have found it necessary to apologize for it,
New Fenkell Club officers are Austrian Cabinet as an indication that Washington may no longer
but Lilienthal would have us and all who speak in uiefense of Is-
Mesdames Joseph Etkin, presi- be backing the Jewish claims against Austria . . . It will not take
rael be apologetic.
dent; Max Rudman, vice-presi-
"After the United Jewish Appeal fell under the virtual control dent; Isadore Siegel, secretary; long before these members of the Austrian government discover
of Zionist-Minded leadership, it became increasingly difficult to Rose Marshak, treasurer, and that they were mistaken . . Contrary to their calculations, the
U. S. Government is not entirely disinterested in helping the
determine how many millions of U. S. charity dollars go each year Carrie Sperling, chaplain.
American Jewish groups secure a proper settlement from Austria
to Jewish nationalism for propaganda purposes," Lilienthal's book
Mary Caplan Women are cur- for heirless Jewish property left there by families annihilated by
charges. In other words, distinguished men like William Rosen- rently
stuffing toy animals for
wald (brother of Lessing Rosenwald, Lilienthal's confrere), Ed- children in several hospitals. the Nazis ... In fact, American authorities in Vienna are watching
ward Warburg, Jonah Wise and scores upon scores—thousands Chairman of the doll project is very closely sentiment in the Austrian cabinet with regard to the
question of satisfying Jewish claims . . . And the possibility is not
upon thousands—tens of thousands upon tens of thousands--of
Sara Golden.
excluded that Washington may indicate to the Austrian govern-.
.American Jews are merely propagandists who divert charity dol- Mrs.
new club formed in memory ment its "surprise" over the sudden breaking off of the talks ...
Aars! What a charitable thought on the part of a group whose of A Ida
Drapkin, dean of Moth- However, it is significant that the new trend in the U. S. Govern-
failure to support the UJA's sacred efforts have been its disting- ers' Clubs
who died Nov. 16, has ment attitude towards Israel is giving encouragement not only
uishing trademark! •
In their opposition, the Lilienthal group—and his book proves been started. Daughters and to the Arabs, but also to some statesmen in Europe who have a
it—often harms Israel's position in U. S. Government circles. It is daughters-in-law of present mistaken notion about American ideals !t, of justice.
a result of- their fear that something may happen to them: that Mothers' Club members are eli-
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some one may accuse them of disloyalty. Because of it, they put gible. The first 50 to join will Domestic Issues
Negotiations between the United Service for New AMericans
up a front =which seems to say that they have a monopoly on be considered charter members.
patriotism. No one really belieVes such contentions of this small For information, call Mrs. Tess and HIAS for consolidation of their activities in the field of aid
Kominars, 1ATE. 4-2369.
to Jewish immigrants are progressing ; .. . However, since no agree-
group, whose adherents are :victims of panic and hysteria.
Newly elected officers of the ment has yet been reached, the Council of Jewish Federations and
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Dexter Mothers' Club are Mes- Welfare Funds is insisting that the communities financing the
Judaism Council's IFellOw Travelers
dames Fannie Grober, pr es i- two agencies be given representation in the negotiations . , This
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Unfortunately, the Judaism Council's techniques are not lim- dent; Rebecca Katz and Grace request is based on the belief that without a neutral party par-
ited to the publication of Lilienthal's* book. They hive won the Kr a 1 i k, vice-presidents; and ticiPating, the USNA-HIAS talks may go on for quite a time with-
'Support of a so-called "newsletter" emanating from New York= William New, chaplain.
out result . The CJFWF claiins that there is duplication and
propaganda sheet that is without doubt the mouthpiece of the
overlapping of immigration services between USDA and HIAS...
:Mit-Israel-anti-Zionist Council. A news release from the pro.=
The leaders of these agencies :have agreed that any duplication
;Arab anti-Israel American Friends of the Middle East in- Mrs. Nachbush Issues
that exists should be eliminated ...' . The present.talks. among the
forms us that one of the editors of this "Jewish (?) newsletter," Husband's Records Here
leaders of the two. agencies are directed toward, : exploring, the
'he notorious anti-Zionist (former Zionist) Morris S. Lazaron, to-
possibility of a USNA-HIAS meicger Many small .and intermedi,
ether with two Christians who lean towards anti-Zionism, Harold
Mrs. Noah Nachbush, the wife ate cities report that the problem. of, multiplicity- Of competing
iE. Fey of the Christian Century and John Cogley of Common- of the eminent Jewish actor, is campaigns, especially for Israel; is, no longer : a serious one,
Weal, are touring the Middle East, that they will visit Cairo, Egypt, in Detroit to distribute her hus- However, in some of the larger:, cities, the problem, still, exists and
Sy ria, Iraq, Lebanon, :Jordan and Turkey and also Israel. All of band's records.
is considered harmful ...In this: connection, the con Inanities are
!these countries, except Turkey and Israel, bar Jewish tourists. Life ' The Nachbush Album has at- reminded that the Jewish Agency, has . authoriz.ed. only ,12. cam-
insecure there for American and other Jews. We can just tracted wide attention. It in- paigns for Israel in the United'States .and published .a ;list of
*bout imagine what 'sort of report these men will bring back cludes three •12-inch. records.
the organizations authorized to conduct theSe campaigns . The
'About Israel, with. their time—five weeks of travel—divided be-
Mrs. Nachbush can be con- 12 organizatiOns are required to sUbriiit to the Agency quarterly
tween Israel and six other lands, five of them .engaged in threats tacted here at Room 1334, Bar- financial reports as well as inOntI4'ieports on the transfer of
f war 'against 'Israel! BUt that's Council for. Judaism fair play!
ium Hotel,
funds to Israel.
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