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THE JEWISH NEWS

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Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20. 1951

*ember American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35, Mich., VE. 8-9364
Subscription 84. a year. foreign S5.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942. at Post Office. Detroit Mich., under Act of March 3. 1879

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher

SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager

FRANK SIMONS
City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twelfth day of Ivar, 5714, the following Scriptural selections will he read in
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Lev. 25:1-26:2. Prophetical portion. Jer. 32:6-27.

Licht Benstien, Friday, May 14, 7:45 p.m.

VOL. XXV, No. 10

Page 4

The Modern Sanballats

The impression given by the anti-Zionist
American Council for Judaism, whose actions
cause it rightfully to be considered the Jew-
ish pro-Arab, anti-Israel body, is that it is
the upholder of American policies, as op-
posed to the Zionist actions which, the anti
Israelis charge, are fomenting anti-Semitism
and are from their point of view "anti-
- American."
Thus, the anti-Zionist Council, in a con-
: vention resolution, endorsed the "imparti-
ality" of the Eisenhower administration and
declared: "We believe that the proper offi-
cers of the United States Government should
be free from pressure groups to develop a
foreign policy in the best interests of all the
people of the United States and the free
world." At the same time, the anti-Zionists
called upon the press and other media of
public information to clarify the terms "Is-
raeli," "Zionist" and "Jew."
The keynote in the discussion was struck
by Henry S. Moyer of Scarsdale, N. Y., who
called for support of the Eisenhower ad-
ministration's rejection of "the idea that
American Jews are endowed with special
responsibilities to the State of Israel."
These accusations call for careful examin-
ations in the interest of truth and fair play.
If they are not exposed, Eisenhower admin-
istration officials who are antagonistic to Is-
rael may themselves begin to believe these
distortions of facts and use them as weapons
against Israel.

May 14, 1954

Israel's Antagonists

We would like the Assistant. Secretary
of State to be cognizant of human. values —
and it is the human value in the Zionist
ideals, it is the need for protection of the
lives of oppressed peoples and for upholding
the basic American idea that "all men . . .
are endowed by their Creator with cer-
tain inalienable. Rights, that among these
are Life, Lib6rty and the pursuit of -Hap-
piness." We hokl that these human rights
are not _ assigned by our Creator only to
those who own oil fields and large terri-
tories, and we plead the cause of those who,
settled in a small territory, escapees from
Nazism, seeking "Life, Liberty and the pur-
suit of Happiness."
It is a duty of American citizens to pro-
tect the basic idealS upon which our nation
was built, and we hold that the protection
of the rights of the oppressed is part of such
obligations. If Mr. Byroade should insist
upon speaking 'only of religious and philan-
thropic principles, to the elimination of the
human elements involving the security of a
people, then we must share the view of. those
who suspect a new policy of appeasement
which does not lend credit to established
American policies. In that case, he speaks
not for our "Government" but for an ele-
ment that is antagonistic to Israel within the
State Department. And if his views are
shared by the present administration, then
we must register a protest against such
views.

Dr. Runes' 'Letters to My Daughter'

A Philosopher's Sentiments

Folklore, personal experiences, reactions to world affairs and
scores of other sentiments are incorporated in "Letters to My
Daughter," the charming new book by Dr. Dagobert D. Runes,
published bytPhilosophical Library (15 E. 40th, NY16).
Like its predecessor, "Letters to My Son," this book is replete
with feeling, with devotion to Jewish values and the heritage of
the Prophets, with ideals steeped in liberalism.
Dr. Runes draws upon Jewish legends in illustrating his ideas.
He is resentful of the flirting with Christianity by a friend of his
daughter, and he tells her:
"Man's conscience is the supreme judge of what is true or
false, good or evil. A person who lives professing a belief he does
not hold has lost the only true, the only immutable thing—his
conscience. It is this conscienee that makes us Jews, even when
we don't participate in the rituals of Hebrew religious tradition;
it is this consciousness of invisible but indestructible unity that
makes us belong together."
Dr. Runes, always the philosopher, advocates good cheer.
"There is ma.gic in a smile," he writes his daughter. "If your
We
are
inclined
to
the
view
that
to
If the anti-Israeli Jews have been led
spirits are low, try to smile. I wonfd almost say, if you cannot
...believe that the Eisenhower administration State Department officials would not lend smile go before a mirror and grin. It might change your dis-
comfort toIsrael's enemies and would not be position."
is deluded by some mythical concept of spe-
cial rights for American Jews in. Israel, then parties to accusations of disloyalty to the
He is critical of the psychiatrists and he calls their profession
it is time to begin challenging those evil in- loyal American. Jews if it were not for the "a gold mine to the sexliterate coin hunters."
dastardly
actions
of
the
anti-Israel
Jews
in
fluences which are bent upon harming the
condemns Jewish converts to Christianity, and he makes
the Council for Judaism. Only the acts
of , these He
small state of Israel by devious methods.
comments on the Subject: "The Jew who becomes a Christian
coin
the San1Dallats in the days of Nehemiah
Even the Assistant Secretary of State for
or a Mohammedan or a Marxist because it admits him to a plush
Foreign Affairs, Mr., Henry A. Byroade, pare with those of the destructive Council
b in Vienna or Cairo or Moscow, is like the rice-Christian in
the missionaries ran out of rice the Chinese ran out
t.
whose recent addresses have irked the- goy, for Judaism whaSe members, a few thousand 1 o ') p
"Heinrich Heine, a self-hating Ger-
Ch ris ti i anity." And he a
ernment of Israel as well as many Ameri , frightened Jews amidst five million prOud
n Jew, Once wrote that conversion to Christianity is but an ad-
can Jewish leaders, in his address to the American Jews, dare to accuse the large man
Council for Judaism. emphasized that he was body of American Jews of disloyalty and of m ission ticket to European civilization."
There
is an interesting letter on morals and morality. "Who
,,
not "casting aspersions upon the natural dual allegiance.
b aunt vic es e ee a dan st
Fortunately, the American people know care h e writes, "about the thous d little pe tty
feeling or affinity one .feels for a brother of
le o
ommit on his own b d?raL7naitty a wtehe do- l care
better
than
to
fall
prey
to
the
acts
of
a
hand-
may
C
his own religious faith, wherever he may be."
la deeds
vice
i
ful of Sanballats; The established policy of vice of vic ously oppressing °.

He added that "the principles of the United
States on Matters of religious freedom are
so well-known that this assertion • of mine
should need no expansion." Then, with ref-.
erence to his earlier speech, in Dayton, 0.,
he made this declaration:
"Nor was I referring in any way to prop-
er philanthropic support—in its broadest
sense—by American citizens of Jewish
faith in •the economic development neces-
sary to achieve a reasonable standard of
living for Israel's people—nor to support of
religious, educational and cultural enter-
• prises in. Israel. There is no divergence
between . our Government and American
citizens Of the Jewish faith who are inter-
ested hi the development and welfare of
the . State of Israel."
Mr. Byroade, however, saw fit to advise
Israel to "remove the spector" of increased
immigration in order to lay at rest Arab
fears of Israeli expansion. But that wouad
mean that Israel would have to warn Jews
who are in danger of their lives — behind
the Iron and Crescent Curtains — that they
can not seek haven in the Jewish state.
Prime Minister Moshe Sharett gave the
proper answer when he said: "Let no man
entertain the vain thought that the state
of Israel will ever turn back any Jew who
knocks at its doors." That's the original
American ideal. The founders of this Re-
public would be proud of the stand taken
by Israel.
We recognize the difficulties that are en-
countered by Mr. Byroade's "field of For-
eign Affairs" in the State Department, and
it is our feeling that Americans should work
together to secure harmony in that area.
But Americans never sought • harmony at
the expense : human rights, elementary
justice and . f.ir play, and it is our conten-
tion that ,any attempt to. mollify Jewry's
enernies....and. .appease . the . Arabs _is. con,.
trary to American principles. .

our Government supports the aspirations of to man."
An interesting chapter expressing thoughts on a variety of
those fighting the cause of liberty in the Mid- subjects—reading,
friendship, music, etc.—adds to the book's value.
dle East—for themselves and for their neigh.: In this chapter there is a telling paragraph under the title "Bars":
bors. Some non-Jews have been misled into
"Perhaps the wrong people are behind bars. Mr. Hjalmar
sending messages of greetings to the Council Schacht, a pillar of support in the mad scheme of Hitler's san-
for Judaism. We believe that when our Pres- guine orgies, is alive and president of a bank, while some elderly
ident greets the Council he errs—because he scrubwoman in New Jersey (mother of four minors) got five years
lends a certain amount of dignity to an ele- for fraud by doing odd jobs to augment her small welfare check."
ment of Jews that seeks to undermine a
"Letters to My Daughter" enhances the already fine literary
humanitarian effort to protect the revived career of Dr. Runes. It is a book worth reading.
Jewish center in Israel. We_ believe that
I
Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin Jr.
was careless when he greeted the Council
•
•
•
•
convention, even if he intended it only as a D
courtesy to a group assembled for a conven-
tion.
Leo Pfeffer's "Church, State and Freedom," published by
* .*
a

Pfeffer s Church, State and Freedom
elates Historic Fight for Separation

We accuse the antagonists of Israel,
whether they are the handful of frightened
Jews who have lost all self-respect, or wheth-
er they are misled Christians, of appeasing
anti-libertarians, of giving comforts to the
enemies of democracy, of being un-American
in their approach to human values.
We admonish them to read the Book of
Nehemiah and to learn anew that those who
conspire against the builders of an honorable
life are themselves doomed to destruction.
In our protest against the handful of Jews
who conspire with Israel's enemies, we are
saddened that in an hour of great difficulty
for a million and a half Jews who are striv-
ing for security and peace there should be, in
America's midst, those who form partnership
with the Communist-Arab bloc. We have
long ceased sitting shivah over betrayers of
justice and of common decency.
We have no doubt that Israel will triumph
over her enemies, even in this hour of trial.
We pray, that misguided Christian Ameri-
cans,, who have blundered into fraterrii4ng
with enemies of Jewry, even if they are Jews,
will mend their 'ways. For; just as Israel's
just .cause. triumphs, American ideals alWays
emerge unblemished.

Beacon Press, Boston, remains saneof the chief documents which
clarify the issue and present the facts relating to the struggle to
keep church and state separate, in accordance with established
American traditions.
Mr. Pfeffer, American Jewish Congress leader, naturally bases
his thesis on the First Amendment, which was ratified in 1791 and
which reads: "Congress- shall make no law respecting -an estab-
lishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
It is a voluminous book. It covers a lot of ground, and the
author asserts, regarding the American principle: "Under this
system of the separation of church and state and religious free-
dom, religion has achieved in the United States a high estate
unequaled anywhere else in the world. History has justified the
great experiment, and has proved the proposition on which it
was based--that complete separation of church and state is
best for church and best for state, and secures freedom for
both."
This book performs a meritorious task. It fills a great need
in its evaluation of a problem which crops up from time to time
as a result of efforts to inject the religious issue in American
affairs. The able author makes this assertion with regard to the
pioneering done by this country in the establishment of religious
freedom and the separation of church and state:
Before the launching of the American experiment, the eon-
cePt of religious liberty and the separation of church and state
was=for 'all practical purposes--unknown. The experiment em '
bodied in the majestic words, "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establiShment of religion or prohibiting the
exercise thereof," was a uniquely American contribution to civ-
ilization, and' one that • the other countries of the world in in-
creasing numbers have emulated and are continuing to emulate.

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