Still Stuffed-Up
THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20.
Ilternher American Association at ftglish-Jewish (ewspapers, Michigan Press Association.
Puhits ► ted every Friday by the Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35, Mich., Vir,. 8-9384
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entered as second Clan matter Aug. 8. 1942, at Past Office, Detroit, Mich., ander Act of March 2, 1879
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager
April 9, 1954
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VOL. XXV. No. 5
FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the seventh day of Nisan, 5714, the following Scriptural selections will be read
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Lev. 14:1-15:33. Prophetical portion. II Kings 7:3-20.
Fast of First Born, Thursday
Licht denshen, Friday, April !, 6:49 P.m.
Allied Campaign Moves Into High Gear
Detroit Jewry is asked to take into ac-
count the serious challenges of the 1954
Allied Jewish Campaign on the home front
as well as overseas. The crisis in Israel calls
for earnest efforts to increase our contribu-
tions to this life-giving drive whose major
beneficiary is the United Jewish Appeal. The
need for expanded educational systems and
for the enlargement of our social service and
recreational programs call for the continua-
tion of our traditional generosity to local and
national causes.
When the budgets for agencies supported
by the Allied Jewish Campaign were planned
recently, it was established that on the basis
of the 1953 income of $4,500,000 the over-
seas and Is-rael agencies would receive 58.7
of the amount raised, 25.9% would be allo-
cated to local agencies, 10.9% to local capi-
tal funds and 4.5% to national movements.
But the challenge of the present critical time
calls for vastly increased allocations to over-
seas and Israel causes, .and the 1954 appeal
therefore emphasizes the vital need for a
10% increase in income over last year, in
order to assume a campaign total of $5,000,-
000. The additional funds would primarily
—to the tune of 74% of the increase—bene-'
fit Israel. It is clear, therefore, that the rais-
ing of an additional $500,000, as an increase
over last year's income, is a vital necessity.
The importance of the Current- Allied
Jewish Campaign becomes clearly evident
upon study of the following list of 1954 bene-
ficiaries:
OVERSEAS
American Committee '- Institute on Overseas
Studies
for the Weizmann
Institute of Science
Jewish Telegraphic
American Frinds of
Agency
the Hebrew
University •
United Jewish Appeal
American Fund for
Israel Institutions
Joint Distribution
American. Techaion.
Committee
United Israel Appeal
Society .
HIA.S (Hebrew .Shelter-
United Service for
ing and Immigrant
New Americans
Aid Society)
IN DETROIT
American. Jewish Ter-
Jewish Welfare Fed- •
centenary Committee,
eration
1Ll idrasha
Detroit Chapter •
Community Wo1 - 7,: Shop North End Clinic—
Hospitalization Fund
Hebrew Free U)011 As-
Resettlement Service
sociation
Sholem Aleichem In-
stitute
House
Shelter
Sinai Hospital
Jewish- Community
United Hebrew Schools
Center
Jewish Co mm unity
United Jewish Folk
Council
School
United Jewish High
Jewish Home for Aged
School
Workmen's Circle
Jewish Social Service
Schools
Bureau Dept. for
Aged
Jewish Vocational
Yeshivath Beth
Service
Yehudah
NATIONAL
American Academy for .Jewish Labor Commit-
Jewish Research
tee
American Association
for Jewish Education
Jewish Occupational
Council
American Jewish Con- Jewish War Veterans
gress
Joint Defense Appeal--
American Jewish. Ter-
American Jewish
centenary Committee
Committee
Anti-Defamation
Bellefaire-
League of Bnai Brith
Regional Child Care
Service
National Community
Relations Advisory
Bnai Brith National
Council
Youth Service Ap-
peal
National Conference of
Conference on Jewish
Jewish Communal
Relations
Service
Council of Jewish Fed- National Jewish Wel-
erations and Welfare
fare Board
Funds
liropsie College .
Yiddish Scientific
Institute
Histadruth Ivrith
Jewish Braille Institute
It is difficult to conceive of a single ele-
ment in our community whose concern with
Jewish life and the need for the 'perpetuation
of Jewish ideals and • the advancement of
Jewish goals is not represented in this list.
Every member of our community therefore
is obligated to assist in assuring the success
of the drive.
The 1954 Allied Jewish Campaign has
moved into high gear. A number of divisions
already have begun to solicit their prospects.
The pre-campaign dinner next Tuesday eve-
ning again traditionally sets the pace for
the official opening of the drive on April 27.
From this point all of us must proceed to
go forward in striving for the attainment
of an increased income for Israel, for relief,
efforts among impoverished Jews overseas
and for the continuation of our support for
local and national educational, recreational
and social service causes.
Our campaign provides the means with
which to serve the men and women. in the
armed forces of our country, through the
Jewish Welfare Board. It helps finance the
American Jewish Tercentenary programs,
nationally and locally. It is the instrument
for aid to the blind, for comfort to the aged,
to provide the heartening means of assuring
our less fortunate kinsmen that we stand'
firmly in their support.
It is a one-time, all-inclusive drive that
covers all avenues in fulfilling Jewish - needs.
This elevates our drive to a high status as a
unifying force of all elements in Jewry. As
a united force we now combine our. resources
to give verity to the Talmudic principle that
"He who does charity and justice is as if
he had filled the whole Nvorld with kindness."
Dr. Hallgarten's 'Why Dictators?'
Exposes Nazis' Brutality to Children.
In "Why Dictators?: The Causes and Forms of Tyrannical
Rule Since 600 B.C.," published by MacMillan (60 5th Ave., N.Y. 11).
Dr. George W. F. Hallgarten issues the warning that the greatest
danger to freedom "is complacency and the attitude 'Let others
care'." Complacency, he asserts, - `might bring us
a step closer to Caesarism," adding: "This threat
can only be met by redoubling our : efforts to ac-
tivate democracy, inside as well as outside Our
country." He urges the bolstering of existing
democracies in order to ban the specter of dic-
tatorship and warns against the dire consequences
of a third world war. His analyses of dictator-
ships and their evil effects on mankind make his
book especially valuable at this time.
Dr. Hallgarten exposes the extermination
policies of the Nazis and reveals the horrors that
were imposed upon German Jewry by Oswald
Dr. Hallgarten Pohl, who directed the SS Wirtschafts and Ver-
waltungs Hauptamt, the central agency for economic exploita-
tion of slaves. He shows how the slave hunts were highly profit-
able, such as:
"A chemical factory called Stresa acquired the bones rights
at the camps, for the purpose of producing superphosphate. The
gold extracted from the victims' teeth was sent to the Reichsbank,
which paid the SS a total' of 60,000,000 marks for 76 such ship-
ments. In 1942, when Hitler believed he had Russia in his
he, Himmier, and Kaltenbrunner held a - conference in Berlin and
decided to use gas for the mass killings. Later Himnaler inspected
the Auschwitz camp and ordered it to be extended to gigantic
size, and technically streamlined. •It-finally included 620 build-
ings and harbored a floating population of between 180,000. and
250,000 people, 10,000 of which were ;exterminated each . day.- In
the summer of 1944 the camp was overcrowded owing to the mass
hunting of Jews in Hungary. As there- was .a temporary stoPpage
at the crematoria, people, according to testimony produced in the
trial against Pohl, were burned on grills in'open fields. Since the
population in the city of Auschwitz, several kilometers from the
camp, became restless because of the continual screaming, the
camp orchestra was reinforced greatly and was ordered to play
as loudly as possible. To the accompaniment of music of Johann
Straus and Schubert, several thousand Jewish children were burn-
ed there alive. SS guards who showed 'pity' for these children
knocked them unconscious before throwing them into the flames."
This is only a portion of the evidence submitted to show the
extent of the Hitierian mania. "Why Dictators.?" indicates how
the Fuehrer created racial taboos in order to impose the magic
superiority of his followers.
. There will be some questions as to historic authenticity of
some of the facts in this book, such as Dr. Hallgarten's reference
bo Lavrenti Beria as being "a Georgian of Jewish extraction." We
doubt that Beria. had Jewish ancestors, 'but perhaps Dr. Hall-
garten has facts to substantiate his belief.
"Why Dictators?" has much to commend it as a book aimed
at striking a blow at totalitarianism. It renders a real service in
this regard.
Passover Workshops
Congregations .sponsoring workshops. •to
enlighten the community on Passover needs
and on the manner of conducting Sedorim
are to be commended for the services they
render through such projects.
In the past, children learned from their
parents, and the home was, in itself, the
workshop that passed on knowledge about
holiday observances from generation to gen-
eration. But conditions have changed, and
it has become necessary for the rabbis to
introduce classroom techniques to teach the
processes of traditional celebrations.
The Passover Workshop sponsored by
four orthodox congregations for the purpose
of explaining the Haggadah, the Passover
laws and the Seder routines; similar courses
included in the programs of Conservative
and Reform congregations, and in the cur-
ricula of our community schools, serve
worthy purposes._ Their continuation, and
the application of these methods to other
festivals, deserve encouragement.
Our Schools' Expansions
-
P alestine Problem'
Commend Dr. joss'
As 'Most Concise .Work on Israel'
The laying of the cornerstones for two
additions to our school systems here, on
One of the most effective and most concise works on the Is-
Sunday, will contribute towards our com- rael problem. is Dr. Carl Hermann Voss' "The Palestine Problem
Today" (Beacon 'Press, Boston).
munity's progress.
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah is enlarging its
• Governor Theodore R.. McKeldin - of Maryland, commending it
present facilities, on Dexter and Cortland, to a wide reading audience, evaluated -Thisbook as follows:
"It embodies more complete and accurate information than
with an annex to provide facilities for many
one is likely to find anywhere without wider search in the history
niore students.
the region, the story of Israel in ancient and modern times,
The Esther Berman Branch of the o.:
the relation of the new State to its Arab neighbors, the interplay
United Hebrew Schools, on Schaefer and of complex religious, economic and geographical factors, and the
7-Mile Road, will fill the need for serving respective roles of Israel, the United States and the United Na-
the growing Jewish population in northwest tions in the great struggle of the Western World for survival and
Detroit.
peace. It is an authoritative treatise, succinct and clear, intel-
Both events attest to this community's lectually satisfying and spiritually stimulating. I commend- it
understanding of the priority that must be unreservedly to anyone seeking light on the subject, and I pre-
given our schools in our communal plan- dict that it will have permanent value as a source-book on the
with which it deals."
ning, thus aiming towards the training of problems
Reviewing the basic political and economic problems in the
a well-informed constituency. •
Middle East, Dr. Voss, who has visited Israel and the Arab coun-
The. Yeshivah and the United Hebrew tries, shows how discontent has harmed the Arab lands, how mis-
Schools are to be congratulated on their: understandings have led to conflicts, :how the Arabs fail to recog-
vision in seeking ample quarters for an en- . nize Israel's earnest pleas for peace and cooperation.
Dr. Voss'asserts that peace in the Middle East holds the key
larged school population, thus continually
aiming at enrolling in the schools children to world-wide peace. He proves how the troubles fomented in the
Middle East prove advantageous to Soviet Russia. In his plea for
who are now receiving a Jewish education. peace
he points to Israel as a striver for peace and describes how
The construction of new school buildings. Israel has "shown, and will continue to show, how life can become
points the - Niay to rapid increases in school richer and fuller for the tens of millions who now live miserably
enrollments and to the attainment of the ob- in a vast feudal area and are desperately in need of man's inge-
jective of providing a Jewish education for nuity, man's devotion, and man's goodwill to make that part of
: the wurld truly blessed. as in long tinnes pas•."
every Jewish boy and girl in Detroit.