Rubiner Asks Jewry's Support of Torch Drive

4 Major Agencies Receive
United foundation Support

Samuel H. RUbiner, presi- 'realize too that among the serv-
dent of the Jewish Welfare Fed- ices supported by the drive are
many of the agencies offering
eration of Detroit, called upon assistance to our Jewish popula-
the Jewish Community to give tion. Our Fresh Air Society, Jew-
whole-hearted support to the ish Community Center, the Jew-
United Foundation Torch Drive ish Social Service Bureau, and
which begins Oct. 19.
North End Clinic receive allo-
"Through our support and giv- cations from funds in the Torch
ing to the 1954 drive, we help Drive."
Rubiner, who is chairman of
carry the Torch for 150 health
and community services," Rubi- the central assignment com-
ner explained. "These services mittee of the drive, said that
provide effective aid against dis- many members of the Jewish
ease and in time of emergency, community are giving leader-
and help the aged, the needy ship to the Torch Drive and
pointed out that Stanley J.
and our youth.
"Those of us who are mem- Winkelman is co-chairman of
bers of the Jewish community the major commerce and pro-

fessional unit; Mrs. Bernard D.
Osnos is co-chairman of train-
ing, w o m e n's participating
unit; and James Wineman is
assistant to the chairman of
central assignment. John E.
Lurie is leader of the food
division of the commerce and
professional unit.
Among the leaders of the
drive are: King Shwayder, a
General Chairman of Downriver
Campaign, suburban unit; Dr.
Harvey D. Lynn, advisory com-
mittee chairman, downriver sub-

urban unit; and David S. Dia-
mond, member of downriver ad-
visory committee, suburban unit.
Vice presidents of the OF in-
clude Meyer L. Prentis and Nate
S. Shapero. On the board of
directors are: David S. Diamond,
William H. Frank, Dr. Richard
C. Hertz, Leonard N. Simons,
Hugo Slotkin, and Wineman.
Members of the advisory board
include -Mrs. Hyman C. Broder,
Leo M. Butzel, Julius W. Gilbert,
I Joseph Holtzman, Julian H. Kra-

lik, Max Osnos, Abe Shiffman,
Ben L.- Silberstein, Melville S.
Welt, Mrs. Henry Wineman,
Henry Wineman, and Maurice M.
Winston.
Many officers and board mem-
bers of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration and its agencies also
serve on the boards and com-
mittees of the United Commun-
ity Services, major beneficiary
of the Torch Drive.
The goal for this year's drive,
which runs through November
11, is $13,250,000.

The Hebrew Commonwealth and the Government
Of the United States of America

By OSCAR S. STRAUS

An AJP Tercentenary Feature

Part 4
1 that time until the Babylonan Israel numerically, but only in
The children of Israel having
cantivity,
and was revived and their representative capacity, is
-
- arrived in sight of the Promised
a.nized
on more definite clear from the context itself, es-
n
g
ized
'
reorga
Land, their great lawgiver sum-
pecially when, from the nature •
mons them all before him; he principles after the return of of the occasion, the whole popu-
recounts to them their whols the Jews to Jerusalem Some lation could not have possibly
eventful history, their hardships, writers even go so far as to deny acted. For instance, when it
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
their toils, their sufferings and that this council of seventy was was commanded respecting an
their triumphs; he recapitulates a legislative body, and claim offender, "Let all the congrega-
Dr. Abba Hitlel .Silver'vCourageous Leadership
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver's appearance here this Sunday, as and codifies their laws and that it was purely judicial. I am tion stone him," it surely could
guest speaker at Detroit's Tercentenary Dinner, serves to awaken causes them to be written in one inclined to the opinion that al- not have meant that the three
recollections of the distinguished guest's courageous efforts in be- brief book, the Book of Deuter- though its chief functions were million should do it? "From
onomy, which are thereupon legislative, and occupied the various passages of the Penta-
half of Israel.
adopted by the whole people un- same position in the frame of teuch," says the learned com-
During the crucial war years, when the Jews of Palestine
der the most solemn and awe- government as our senate, yet mentator, Michalis, we find that
were in danger, when there was a ganging up against them by the inspiring
circumstances. He ad- it was at the same time a high Moses, at making known the
British and the Arabs, when elements unfriendly to all Jews
gave encouragement to the anti-Zionists, Dr. Silver spearheaded monishes them to keep these court of justice, the legislative laws, had to convene the whole
laws fresh in their memory, and and judicial departments being congregation of Israel; and in
the efforts that led to Israel's triumph.
directs that they shall be read united as in the English House like manner, in the Book of
It was necessary at that time to challenge our own State De- before all Israel at the end of
Lords.
Joshua, we see that when Diets
• partment in the struggle for the liberation of hundreds of thou- every seven years, in solemnity
were held the whole congrega-
The Assembly
sands of survivors from Nazism. Dr. Silver dared to do it—and he of the year of release, on the Third.—The
Assembly. This tion were assembled. If, on such
did his job well.
Feast of Tabernacles.
was the popular branch of goy- occasions, every individual had
True Theocracy
A guest here at a bond rally a few days ago spoke as if he
ernment, and that such existed to give his vote, every thing
had forgotten what had been done by American Jewry under Dr. The Judges were elected by is very evident from numerous would certainly have been dem-
Silver's leadership. He urged that American Jews should emulate the people, and summoned to passages which directly refer ocratic in the highest degree;
British Jewry by protesting to their own Government in behalf of power as the necessities of the thereto, and from distinctions but it is scarcely conceivable
Israel. Is it possible that there is even a single man in Jewish times demanded; they were made between "all Israel" and how, . . . for this circumstance
ranks who did not know of Rabbi Silver's efforts which led pro- statesmen-heroes, and after the this third department or assem- alone must convince any one
testing Jews into the White House, to the State Department, to occasion for which they Were , bly. Its characteristics and con- that Moses could only have ad-
members of both Houses of Congress? It was Dr. Silver's personal caned to assume the had
head passed
of the " stitution are not so definitely , dressed himself to a certain
courage
courage that inspired the Jews of America to action under his confederated
, away, they nation
usually . retired 16 laid down as those of the sen- ; number of persons deputed to
leadership as chairman of the American Zionist Council.
ate, nor do the Scriptures in- represent the rest of the Israel-.
Dr. Silver continued these courageous efforts before the United ! their humble • occupations,.: as form us of how many individ- ' ites. Accordingly, in Numbers 1.,
Nations. He labored for an independent Israel in the face of was notably the case with *Gid- uals it was composed. This as- 16, mention is made of such per-
eon. The government under the sembly is styled generally the sons, and in contradistinction to
great odds.
ges as very .imuch like our
H e also has left an idelible mark in Am erican J ewish his tory
,1 1"Congregation," the "whole Con- the common Israelites they are
with his scholarly contributions to Jewish lit erature and alsa l with oWn Feder al Government: e c2. 1 gregation," "all the Congrega-1 .there denominated Kerue Haeda
his fearless • opposition to all manifestations of bigotry. No one tribe, had its own tribal or state 1 Lion, and that these terms did —that is; those want to be called.
ever dared attack Jewry without drawing his prompt repudiation, g6vehament, which .:Iiiad juriS- ! . not mean all the children of the convention."
That was the case in the era of Coughlinism, and in the nar. of diction over all local affairs, and l
sent its duly elected representae •-
• -
Hitler's maniacal rule.
We honor this distinguished leader for these and many - Mare tives to the national congress.
services to Israel, when he comes here to address the historic This Government, from the fact
Tercentenary celebration. that God, the source ' of all
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power, the embodiment of the
By BORIS SMOLAR
law, and not a king, was ruler
Shortcomings hi Julian Huxley's 'From An Antique Land'
(Copyright, 1954, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Julian Huxley does, indeed, bring knowledge and entertain- of the nation, is termed by vari-
t to o his
di public.
His latest work, "From an 0118 writers a Theocracy, or No
p
men
s wide reading
Antique Land: Ancient and Modern in the Middle East" (pub- mocracy (from nomos, meaning The 'Scrip' Issue
The Israel government is engaged in studying proposals de-
lished by Crown, 419 4th, N. Y. 16) is in his typical style. There is law), or a Commonwealth.
signed
to modify "scrip" transactions . . . Under the present pro-
charm in his style, beauty in his description of the areas he has Three Branches of Government
Many writers fall into the er- cedure, a donor in the United States deposits dollars with offices
covered. Included in this work are 66 of the author's own photo-
ror of defining this theocratic in America selling scrip . . . These dollars are used for the pur-
graphs, including 27 in full color.
chase of foreign goods which are shipped to scrip-warehouses in
It is a travelogue-history. He deals with Mankind's birthplace, government as a government by Israel .. . There the donor's intended beneficiary calls and receives
'with the empires of thousands of years ago, with the ruins, the priests, or a purely religious
commonwealth. The very fact the goods by presenting the certificate' sent him from the United
manner of worship and the contrasts of our time.
He covered Lebanon, Jordan, Persia, Egypt. He talked with that the Levites, the tribe of States by his friend ... The Israel government is anxious to change
King Abdullah about the status of women and education in Arab- priests, were separated from the this procedure . . . The change is aimed at encouraging the sale
other tribes, and that, with the of locally produced commodities, rather than foreign goods, in
dom. But he says very little about Israel!
At one point he states: "There is the new efficiency of Israel: single exception of Eli, no priest the scrip store . . . Under the expected change, donors in America
would
but this is having serious demographic and political consequences was ever elected to the chief would send their currency to Israel, where the government
exchange
it
into
Israeli
pounds
and
give
•
the
local
scrip-store
magistracy
during
the
entire
—the impending overcrowding of Palestine, the creation of a huge
would
block of dispossessed and displaced refugee Arabs, and the in- period of the Commonwealth, credit against locally-produced articles Two advantages
a
jection of racial and political bitterness (for which both sides decidedly negatives any such in- accrue under such an arrangement .. First, Israel would make
terpretatiori. The central or na- considerable saving in foreign currency by reducing its imports
Must share blame) into tpe region."
from whom the scrip-store
Surely, he did not have to write a new book or go to that tional government. was divided .... Second, the local Israeli producers ;
would
thus
be
obliged
to
purchase
goods,
would be given additional
into
three
departments;
they
region for such a verdict: • Arab propagandists are saying the same
protection ... Negotiations have already been initiated . betweelt
were: -
thing all the time !
First.—The Chief Executive, the Israel government and the companies selling scrip in the
The only other reference to Israel is this one:
arrangement.
"In Israel there is a unique situation: a democracy consciously who was styled Judge or Sho- United States for such a purchasing
*
*
*
based on modern science and its technological applications, con- phete. He was vested with chief
Communal
Trends
command
in
war,
and
was
at
the
sciously inspired by the ancient dream of a promised land, and
The American Jewish Tercentenary year is . being marked,
supported by contributions from world Jewry. It has to struggle same time the first magistrate
with the problem of assimilating immigrants from many back- in peace. He summoned the sen- with the erection of . new Jewish community center buildings in
grounds and from every level of culture; to guard against im- ; atorial and popular assemblies, 41 communities located in 16 states ... The year's building pro-
pending overpopulation, while menaced by Arab hostility from with- proposed subjects for their de- gram for Jewish centers runs into many millions of dollars
out and by the contrary forces of reactionary orthodoxy and ultra- liberation, presided in their The first three new Jewish community centers to be opened dur-
modern terrorism from within. Time alone will show whether the councils, and executed their ing the Tercentenary year are the $1,600,000 center in Milwaukee,
the $700,000 center in Springfield, Mass., and•the $500,000 center in
result will be merely another jealously nationalistic little country resolutions.
Second.—The Senate, Sanhed- Youngstown, 0. .. Between . April and June four other new center
in the Middle East, or whether the constructive ideas and energies
at its core become a stimulus instead of a stumbling-block to rin or Synedrium, - Whether it structures were dedicated in Los Angeles ($1,750,000), in New
its neighbors, a stimulus to the real job of recreating a hign had its origin in Jethro's advice Haven ($1,300,000), iri Akron ($500,000) and in Cambridge, Mass.
civilization in the region, and taking a constructive hand in the to Moses, above referred to, or . .. By the time the Tercentenary year ends in May, 1955, five
came into being a year later more center buildings will be nearing completion . • . They include
human adventure as a whole."
This, too, leaves us with regret that the able author could (Num. xi., 16, 24), is a matter the $1,000,000 building of the Jewish Community Center in Louis-
not take time for 'deeper study of the Israeli experiments and of concerning which biblical expos- ville, Ky.; a $500,000 building in Savannah, Ga.; the $400,000 Pelham
that little country's great developments. He leaves us with the itors are divided. That a perm- Parkway Center building in the Bronx ... The construction of new
feeling that he has been fed unsavory propaganda.
anent national senate was cre- center buildings is being planned also in Camden, N.J.; Washing-
There is an interesting reference to the anti-Israel Arab ated at this latter period is ton Heights, N.Y.C.; Tucson, Ariz.; Brookline, Mass.; Trenton,
League. Huxley states: "The Arab League seems in constant dan- maintained very generally by N.J.; Elizabeth, N. J.; Birmingham, Ala.; Kansas City, Mo.; and
ger of falling apart, and has too often served as a manifestation Jewish writers, as well as by Corpus Christi, Texas . . . In Scranton, Pa., the Jewish Com-
of Arab disunity and political inefficiency, instead of as a demon- such scholars as Sidney, Grotius, munity Center has sold its present building and will start on
stration of what Arab unity could achieve in the way of positive and Selden. The former claim the construction of a new $1,000,000 building In Allentown, Pa.,
benefits for Arab peoPles."
that this senate continued with the Jewish Community Center has also sold its building and
What about the "positive benefits" from a "unity" in the but short interruptions from planning a new one ...In Providence, R.I.,.the center has bought
from the city a former police training academy which will be
direction of realism: leading to peace with Israel? But Huxley
converted into a second center building ...A new center building im
seems unable to steer in that direction, and world peace and amity 2—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
also .being planned. in Oa4land, Calif:. ,
Friday, October 15, 1954
are the losers froM such literary deficienCies.

Purely Commentary

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