THE JEWISH NEW S
See, Israel Is Attacking Us Again
incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1931
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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.; VF.. 8-9364
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. Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879
SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
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VOL. XXVI, No. 11
Sabbath Scriptural Selections •
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FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
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November 19, 1954
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This Sabbath. the twenty-fourth day of Heshvan, 5715. the following Spriptural • selections
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will he read in ow- synagogues:
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Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 23:1-25:18. Prophetical portion. I Kings. 1:1-31;
On Friday, '.ash Hodesh Kislev ...Num.,' 28:1-15 will be read during morning services.
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Refugee Bluf
High Tim - e to-Call the 'Arab cared
for where they are.
being fed and
"The contrast, to what was mea.nwhile.lhap-
pening across the border in Israel was striking ..
•There. millions of trees were being planted
annually to replace those cut down through •
the centuries by the Arabs who destroyed their.
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The swamps in Israel, which had served as
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breeding places for mosquitoes through the
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ages, were being drained and cultivated; steep
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hillsides were being terraced and tillable land
cultivated according to the most modern i'TheDeath of Hitler's Germany'
practices; roads were being built and kept in
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repair; sanitary villages were being built on the
barren hilltops while the land below bore crops;
schools, when permanent buildingS were not yet 1
available, were held in tents. Everywhere was
evidence of industry and a determination to
better conditions of labor and
The last days of Hitler are re-created in "The Death of Hitler's.
"The same things needed to be done in . Germany" by George Blond (Macmillan). Frances Frenaye is the
Jordan, yet no Arabs seized the opportunity. book's translator from the French.
The loitering men could have raised eucalyptus
Recapitulating the nine crucial months of World War Ili
seedlings and then transplanted them in the Blond describes the events from the attempted assassination of
barren hillsides behind their camps. Never have Hitler on July 20, 1944, until the surrender in March of 1945.
I seen such destruction. The Arabs do nothing
The book is a factual account of events in Germany. The
but complain to a sympathetic world."
author bases his report on briefs from the Nuremberg trials, -
This statement is a redeeming feature in i captured German Supreme Military Command archives and eye-.
a sad situation. Others, Mrs. Franklin D. witness statements. The author's skill as a novelist adds color to
Roosevelt among them, have returned from this interesting story.
Describing the Teutonic beliefs, Blond points out: "The Latin
the afflicted area with warnings against the
poor Arab exiled from his native Palestine by a
people
held to be of secondary interest; the Jews, scum and
perpetuation of the state of misery existing vermin. were
combination of fate and his own action, war
Christianity was presented as a • religion impregnated.
and flight. It was easy to be sentimental about . among the Arab refugees because of their
with Judaism and indeed a Jewish product intended to humble
the matter and most Americans are. But a visit
unwillingness to go to work and the en- mar by convicting him of original sin."
to refugee camps in Jericho . was a shock.
couragement given them in such an attitude
An interesting incident is recorded about Heinrich Himmler, : .
Esoteric emotion was replaced by a revulsion of
by the Arab nations whose "statesmen" de- Gestapo Chief, who was "famous above all as the director finally
feeling, if not justifying their exile at least
sire thereby to perpetuate a weapon against responsible for the atrocities and massacres in the concentration
freshly understanding it.
Israel. It is time to call a halt to such a prac- camps." Blond, stating that "responsibility is rightly his," tells.
"There in Jericho, in camps created to
tice! Let the truth be known and let the cul- the following:
shelter them, sat thousands of .Arab men, smok-
"Upon one occasion, Himmler's demon seemed briefly to waver...
prits stand exposed in their villainy!
ing and endlessly talking as they lounged. They
He was present at an execution of Jews in the Russian city of
sat in a filth which a little labor could have
Minsk when he. saw a fair-haired, blue-eyed young man stand
eliminated, but made no move to better their
proudly in front of the firing squad.
condition. What little work had to be done, such
"Are you a Jew?' Hiramler asked him.
as bringing water to the camp and thorny
" 'Yes.'
bushes from the mountains for fuel, was done
" 'Were both your parents Jews?'
The call issued to Detroit Jewry by the
by the women. Meanwhile there was work
" 'Yes.'
Tercentenary Rabbinical Committee for ob-
crying to be Clone: roads full of holes which
"At this point Himmler hesitated.
servance
of
Tercentenary
Sabbath
on
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land
which
needed
needed to be
" 'Isn't there any non-Jew among your ancestors?
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inspires
the
hope
that
our
to be prepared for cultivation. There were irri-
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'None.'
synagogues will be filled on that Sabbath.
gation canals to be dug, planting to be begun.
. "Himmler.stamped on the ground in vexation.
Yet there sat the men unperturbed. Why should
" 'Then there's nothing I can do for you,' he shouted, with a.
In their call to Detroit Jewry, the three gesture
they exert themselves? The United Nations had
to the officer in charge of the firing squad. And the young
spokesmen for Conservative, Orthodox and man fell dead." .
taken over the responsibility of feeding. them
and
apparently •
felt no urge to do
any-
Blond describes how, later, I:limmler "connived at the betrayal
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Reform Congregations appealed to us - to
thing for themselves. They showe no evidence
of the high priest of his religion, Hitler.
"give
expression
to
the
gratitude
in
our
of initiative, no effort to improve the conditions
Blond's concluding paragraph should set people to thinking.
under which they lived, displaying merely
• . a hearts for all the good God has wrought for Describing. General • Jo-dl's capitulation and the signing of the
'dull acceptance or a bitter resentment of the
us, and humbly; to pray that He may con- surrender papers which he handed to General Eisenhower, Bloncl-
fate which had put -them where they were. •
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tinue to guard and bless us."
"They have refused any . offered solution of
"Jodi saluted and left the room. This time it was really all
their problem save •a return • to Palestine where,
But the
For
the
blessings
we
enjoy
as
Amer-
over. So Eisenhower probably thought at the moment. caprici
ous
under the hated,Jews, they were better off than
ceases in its flow, and its course is
never
river
of
History
icans, we may well utter this prayer. It is
they had ever been under their fellow Arab
and meandering." .
administration. They are unwilling to move to
td be hoped that our synagogueS will be 1
Thus, a warning of •a possible reawakening of the. worst ele-
un,:..er-populated Arabian lands and to work
ments among. the L ;ermans who sought world domination - under
filled
on
Tercentenary
Sabbath
in
thanks-
to make them fruitful. They wait passively for
ivin for the blessings we enjoy in this land. Hitler.
the world to offer them something better while
the small
One • of the weapons aimed
state.of Israel by Arabs and their friends is
the utilization of the Arab refugee problem
as a means of :discrediting the Jewish state.
Only the keen students and the truly im-
partial have seen through the regrettable •
trick of perpetuating a problem which should
have been 'solved long. ago.
By this time,_ 'the Arab refugees should •
have been .integrated-into a sound economy
'of the Arab states, but their rulers insist on
keeping them in a backward position. The
refugees have been taught to loaf, and many
poOr Arabs from the countries '.where refu-
gee camps now exist have. joined the home-
less, thus increasing their ranks, because of
the allotments that are being given them by
the United Nations, mainly with funds from
the United States.
One American woman, Cornelia, James
Cannon, has exposed the bluffs. She vis-
ited the refugee camps, studied conditions
there, and has . written her impressions in
Messianic Witness, a Missionary publication,
as follows:
"I went to Jordan steeped in pity for the
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Expose of Himmler's Cruelty,
Warri•ing,_ of Teutonic Threats•
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1 for the want of a Teacher I
For want of a
Teacher, a
For want of a
School, a
For want of a
or want of a
Child,
Citizen, a
School was lost
Child was lost
Citizen was lost
Country was lost
Our Education Month
The accompanying illustration tells •a
graphic story. Prepared by the National.
Citizens Commission for the P u.blic
Schools, 2 W. 45th St., New York 36, from
whom our readers can secure the ex-
planatory booklet, "How Can We Get
Enough Good Teachers," and issued as a
public service by the Advertising Council,
it calls attention to a serious problem
facing our country.
We -present it on the occasion. of . the
current Education Month of the United
Hebrew Schools of Detroit because it is
also the problem of our religious and
community schools. The shortage of goOd
teachers is one of the basic problems in
our Jewish school system.
If Education Month will serve to lend
strength to our functioning schools, if it
will encourage the enlargement of the
Midrasha, the college for Jewish studieS,
and if it will stimulate larger attendance
in classes of the various adult educational
courses instituted by our synagogues, we
may hope to see an -early solution- to the
problem.
All citizens owe a duty to their com-
munities to assist in solving the problem—
in the civic sphere and in the spiritual area.
The encouragement we give to the func-
tional movements—the Citizens Commis-
sion on the Public Schools and our Hebrew
Schools—assists in rendering great service
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