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Tom.. JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with. issue of , July 20,-1951'
member 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., VR.
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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
F RANK SIMONS
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twentieth day of Elul, 5714, the following Scriptural selections will be read
in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portimi,--Deut." 26:1-29:8. Prophetical portion, Is. 60.
Licht Benshen, Friday, Friday, Sept. 17, 6:42 p.m.
VOL. XXVI, No. 2
Page Four
September 17, 1954
The Arming of the Arabs and Grants for Israel
Israel is justified in feaiing possible dan-
gers to her security from the extent to
which the Arab states, and especially Egypt,
are to be provided with armaments - by the
Western Powers. Lincoln White, our State
Department's press • officer, has made it
known that the danger of Soviet aggression
in the Middle East has made it imperative
that that region should be strengthened mili-
tarily.
Apparently there is a change in attitude
in the State Department, if we are to judge
by the assurances given a few days ago by
Mr. White that Israel may be included
among the Middle Eastern nations that are
to receive arms grants from this country.
Meanwhile there are charges and counter-
charges, attacks and counter attacks, involv-
ing Israel, Jordan and Egypt, and the situa-
tion is very grave. The extensive arms ship-
ments to Egypt by Spain, the lifting of the
embargo on arms to Egypt by Great Britain
and the approval of such a step by the
United States, add fuel to the spreading
dangers.
All who are concerned over peace pros-
pects in the Middle East must view the de-
velopments in that area with seriousness and
with the aim of ending aggression and. war
threats.
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Rabbi Irving Miller, as chairman of the
American Zionist Council, while deploring
State Department policy which has resulted
in "profoundly shaking the precarious bal--
ance of military power in the Middle East"
at a time when Egypt continues to threaten
a renewal of war against Israel, has issued
an appeal to President Eisenhower and to
Secretary of State- Dull& "to throW the full
weight of. America's influence behind con-
structive and statesmanlike efforts to bring
peace" to that area We agree with him
that it is "not yet too late" to strive in that
direction and we concur in the proposal that
definite assurances be secured that there
will be no aggressive attacks on Israel by
those receiving military aid and that the
IM•mmos.
k' The New School
The Berman Family is to be commended
for its generous act in helping make possible
the construction of a new school building,
in memory of Esther Berman.
This new building assumes special signi-
ficance by virtue of the fact that if will com-
bine the facilities of the United Hebrew
Schools and of the Jewish Community Cen-
ter.-- This indicates the earnest desire of
our community leaders to avoid duplication
in building programs and to combine facili-
ties wherever possible in order to eliminate
waste—in money and in manpower.
The formal dedication of the new Hebrew
school building is another step in the direc-
tion of the expansion of our educational pro-
gram. Other buildings are planned in the
Oak Woods and the farther northwest area,
and the community has reason to hope that
the construction of new buildings will mean
the enrollment of many hundreds of addi-
tional boys and girls in our schools. This,
of course, is the basic objective: to provide
a Jewish educatfon for ail youngsters who
possibly can be reached by the educational
arms that are being stretched out to them.
The aim of our community educational
program is not to limit itself to brick and
mortar, but to inject the very spirit of our
people into those who are to be drawn into
our classrooms. Toward such an end, Jewish
education becomes the major objective of
all community planning. The perpetuation
of our highest ideals, which have also be-
come a part of the democracy and the free-
dom we enjoy as Americans, depends upon
the strength of our educational system. The
power that is derived from the knowledge
that our children will be taught in modern
buildings like the one to be dedicated on
RIPY,
Suez Canal, which now falls completely
under Egyptian control, will not become "a
springboard for fresh Egyptian adventures
against Israel and the general security of
the Middle East."
We disagree with whatever claims may
be advanced regarding "balances of military
power" because we consider them unrealistic
and inadequate. Under the best circum-
stances, if there were a complete change in
the policies of the Western powers, Israel
can not expect to receive as much aid as
all the Arab countries combined — and only
in that way could there be a true balance
of power. Therefore anything like militar-
ism and preparedness and complete arming
is thewrong approach to an issue which re-
quires total peace.
What we need — and "it is not yet too
late" on that score—is to strive for peace,
to insist that our representatives in Wash-
ington, from President Eisenhower and
Secretary of State Dulles down the line,
should make their efforts for peace between
Israel and her adversaries one of the chief
objectives of our present Administration.
Peace in the Middle East was a campaign
pledge and we ask that it be lived up to.
Strife begets strife, and acts of aggres-
sion beget similar acts of counter-aggres-
sion. They can be fought only through good
will, and the two great friends, Israel and
the United States, must make this also the
aspiration of Israel's hostile neighbors.
Perhaps these things are easier said
than done. Yet they must be done. A few
more guns will not help Israel. But the
shaming of the Arabs into peace moves,
roreing then% into talking amity in the
best interests of world peace — and that
would be the best weapon also against the
danger of Soviet aggression—are the neces-
sities of the hour. We pray that strong
men may arise to help make possible the
peace that all humanitarians aspire to.
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A Religious Entity
One of the basic truths that will emerge
out of the experiences of the celebration of
the historic event marking the American
Jewish Tercentenary is the fact that we are
essentially a religious community.
The able historian Rufus Learsi, in his
impressive new history - "The Jews in Ameri-
ca," published on the occasion of the Ter-
centenary, makes this prognosis:
"If the past is to guide us, we may
fairly affirm that the American Jewish
community must be, as indeed it has been
in the first 300 years of its career, essen-
tially a religious community, or it ;vill not
be at all ... Religion in general is not to
. be dislodged from the human spirit, and
Judaism will in all likelihood speak its in-
elluctable truths to the human heart and
mind, as it has always done, through a
people that has lived and endured by it and
for it."
Rufus Learsi (Israel Goldberg) , the Zion-
ist, the man of culture who most of his life
was devoted to interests that were only in
a limited sense linked with the synagogue,
has come to the realization that we are "es-
sentially a religious community." It is a
truth that must be accepted even by those
who are not religiously inclined.
This conclusion strengthens rather than
weakens the support that is claimed by Zion-
ism from the religious sentiments of Jewry.
Prophetic Judaism envisions a rebuilt Zion,
and Israel claims and fortunately receives
the encouragement of American Jewry. This
link between Israel and the religious Jewish
communities must continue. At the same
time, recognizing our position as a religious
community, it is the responsibility of Jews
in all walks of life to make the synagogue
strong, and to assist in the development of
op,r, rejigiop,, schools and institutions,
Germany's 'Collective Shame'
Historian Exposes Neo-Nazis
.
Dr. Koppel S. Pinson, professor of history at Queens College,
Flushing, N. Y., performs an important service with his "Modern
Germany: Its History and Civilization," (published by Macmillan),
whose thorough research and warnings of the continued influence
of Nazism should keep us on guard against impending dangers to
world peace.
Prof. Pinson, a former editor of Jewish Social Studies, has
visited Germany several times and served, after World War II,
as educational director for Jewish displaced persons in Germany
and Austria. He must be taken seriously, therefore, when he
warns of the seriousness of "the danger from the remnants of
National Socialism, from the newer forms of so-called neo --Nazism
and from nationalism and militarism which still "prevail." He
points to "the presence of former Nazis in high government posts*
as giving friends of democracy cause for serious alarm."
"Revived anti-Semitism," Dr. Pinson declares, "is also *
barometer of the increased strength of Nazi sentiment. The
number of Jews, remaining in Germany is now no more than
about 25,000. But there are numerous instances of desecration
of Jewish cemeteries, attacks on Jewish DPs, - and above ally
blame for Germany's plight is attributed to Jews. Wolfgang
Fiedler made a speech in 1950 in which he declared that the
only thing wrong with Hitler's Jewish policy was that the Jews
were gassed. An Evangelical clergyman in Marburg delivered
a sermon in which he designated the life and death of - Ohlen-
dorf, one of the Gestapo chiefs most active in the extermination
of Jews, as an 'Easter revelation'."
While due credit is given to the efforts of many Germans "t0
recognize their 'collective shame' for the fate of European Jewry,"
and especially to the serious work of Chancellor Adenauer for
restitution to Jews for material injuries inflicted upon them, Prof.
Pinson nevertheless states that "the anti-Semitic manifestations
remain symptomatic of the dangers of neo-Nazism."
In this thorough history of Germany, in which the events of
the last 400 years are adequately covered by the able author, the
Hitlerian rule is exposed and proof is offered that "the Nazi move-
ment ended, as it began, with a call to make war on the Jews."
"Extermination of Jews," Dr. Pinson states, "was carried out
first by special Eisatzgruppen that would herd the .7 -ews of a
given area into a ditch and shoot them down. Then more refined
techniques were devised in the form of death vans in which the
victims were gassed while the vehicles were in motion. The cap-
stone of this gruesome chapter of human deprai ity came with
the establishment of specially constructed. crematoria and gas
chambers that were able to engage in mass slaughter with effici-
ency and dispatch. According to testimony of Rudolph Hess, com-
mandant of the Auschwitz camp, at least 3,000,000 persons were
exterminated at Auschwitz alone, of which all but 20,000 Russian
prisoners of war were Jews gathered from all the conquered
countries of Europe. German industry co-operated with the Ges-
tapo in running the camps to utilize the slave labor there, to col-
lect the clothing and shoes of the victims, and to utilize their
bones for fertilizer . . ."
Prof. Pinson makes this interesting comment: "The great
tragedy for Germany was not that it did not have a Lenin or
Trotsky to provide it with revolutionary leadership, but that it
had no Gambetta, no Clemenceau, no Zola, no Jaures, to infuse
it with republican elan and with passionate zeal for democratic
institutions."
In Dr.- Pinson's "Modern Germany," the reader will find a
splendid evaluation of the flourishing period of Jewish history in
Germany, as well as the evolution of anti-Semitism, the spread of
hatred, the infusion of "literary" food for racialist Nazism by
the spread of the falsified "protocols of the Elders of Zion" and
"The International- Jews" pamphlets from Detroit. Emphasis is
placed on the point made by Jacques Maritain that "the Nazi
hatred of the Jews really stemmed from the fact that they re-
sented the imposition of Christianity upon them." Dr. Pinson states
that "Nazi anti-Semitism and Nazi racialism laid the groundwork
for the Nazi assault upon Christianity."
"Modern Germany" is a comprehensive account of the histor-
ical, social and political development of Germany from the age
of Goethe, Schiller, Kant and Beethoven, through von Metternich
and Bismarck, the war of 1914, the Weimar Republic, the totali-
tarian police state of Hitler, World War II and its consequences.
Prof. Pinson brings to light the various strands of German liberal-
ism and the repeated efforts to impress their influence upon Ger-
man parliamentary progress. He looks upon the revolution of
1848 as of crucial significance being "the only attempt in German
history to solve the problem of German unity not by kings or the
sword but by liberal-democratic action of the people." Stating
that the Weimar Republic of 1918 .-1930 pick( d up where the revo-
lution of 1848 left off, Professor Pinson writes: "The post-Hitler
Germany of today once again looks to 1848 as the German histor-
ical tradition upon which to create a new liberal regime ..."
"Modern Germany" is based on first-hand study of German
sources, much of which accumulated during the Weimar Republic
and was not utilized due to the advent of the Nazi regime. For
the period since 1933 Prof. Pinson has had access to documentary
materials gathered by the Allied powers. Special autention is given
the various political parties, the Catholic, Socialist, and Commu-
nist influences in modern Germany, and the economic and soda
conditions are clearly portrayed in explanations of how the forces
of German culture converge to make it a totalitarian state;
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