. THE, JEWISH NEWS

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

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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

SIDNEY SHMARAK

FRANK SIMONS

Editor and Publisher

Advertising Manager

City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the tthenty-sixth day of Nisan, 5716, the following Scriptural 'selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, She-mini, Lev. 9:1-11:47. Prophetical portion, II Sam. 6:1-7:17,
. Rosh Hodesh l'yar Scriptural selections, Thursday, Num. 28:1-15.

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VOL XXIX — No. 5

Page Four

April 6, 1956

United Nations Put to the Test

Had Woodrow Wilson's ideal for a
the combined military forces of all the
Arab nations.
League of Nations succeeded, there might
Now these forces, still smarting from the
not have been a second World War.
pangs of defeat at the hands of .a tiny ad-
If the United Nations should fail now,
versary, are again attempting to defy the
especially in its handling of the Middle
will of the United Nations and an effort to
Eastern situation, we may have another
secure peace agreements between Israel
world conflagration.
and her enemies.
The inadequacy of international- mach-
Only a strong United Nations, determ-
inery was proven in the past two weeks,
fined to secure and assure peace, bent upon
when pressures from the Soviet and Arab
a policy of preventing aggression, can nos-
blocs triumphed in their obstructive ef-
sibly avert another world calamity. Will
.
forts for peace.
. the international organization prove strong
They were not new obstructions. They
enough to strive for peace, or will its ef-
date back to the very beginnings of the
forts be undermined by disruptive forces.
United Nations, to the day when the veto
Perhaps we shall have better results
rower was granted to any one of the big when the nations comprising the United 'Rebel and Statesman'
powers, as against the combined force of
Nations realize that at stake is not only the
world opinion. They date back to the day
security of Israel but the peace of the en-
when Israel's rebirth was challenged by
tire world.
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Biography of Jabotinsky

'A Ship Named Zion' and the Middle East's Peace

An Israeli ship made its maiden voyage

to this country last week. The occasion

inspired this editorial in the New. York
'Times, under the heading "A Ship Named
Zion":

The Israeli liner Zion, which came blithely
into the port of New York on Friday, is only
about one-third as heavy as the Queen
Elizabeth, and a little more than one third
the tonnage of the Andrea Dorict. She
docked at Greenpoint and not at one of the
North River piers. Her passenger list was a
modest 30 or so.
All new ships from friendly countries are
welcome in this port. But the Zion has a
particular significance for us and for the
world. She was built in Hamburg, Germany,
, and it may be truthfully said that she is a
small fraction of German atonement for the
frightful crimes committed by Hitler's re-
gime against Germany's Jewish citizens and
subjects.
Coming from. Haifa, the Zion carried with
her something of the doubt and tension of
the Near Eastern. crisis. But she does not
symbolize crisis. She represents the noblest
and most hopeful aspect of the Zionist adven-
ture. She symbolizes the wholesome intrusion
into. the Near East - of Western science and
techunlogy. The imaginative eye might see
her as part of a coming international mastery

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of Near Eastern rivers and soils, and not
merely a ship to carry produce out of the
East and manufactured goods in.
As we welcome the Zion, so we welcome
ships from Egypt and would welcome ships
giving service to any part of the Near East,
Arabic ,crr Israeli. The Zicrn will make her
voyage, we hope, in peace and in the cause
of peace. We wish the ship, those who man
her, those who furnish and those who use
her, prosperous voyages and happy havens.

This story speaks for itself. Its major
importance is that it inspires thoughts of
peace.
But first there must be peace. Without
peace, the vessels that ply the seas are en-
dangered. Unless there is cooperation
among the nations, the wholesome efforts
of peace-loving peoples can be destroyed.
It is in order to prevent destruction that
five must plead again and again and again
for an amicable arrangement whereby the
war-like atmosphere of the Middle East
can be cleared.
It is a source of great joy to welcome a
ship 'that represents good will. It is a
greater aspiration to hope for the speedy
attainment of peace that will make the
seas, the air and God's earth secure for all
nations to live in harmony.

At last, we have a full-length biographical study of the
stormy petrel of the world Zionist movement.
The first in a two-volume work, "The. Jabotinsky Story,"
under the major title, "Rebel and Statesman," has just been
issued by Thomas Yoseloff, publisher (11 E.k:. ;,.=K1
36th St., NY 16).
This first volume deals with 'Vladimir
Jabotinsky from birth (1880) to 1923. Thed.s.
second volume will cover the turbulent
17 years of the founder of the Revisionist:
Zionist movement, including the implemen-
tation of Jabotinsky's political program, his
battles with the Zionist leaders in power,t
the "independent political action outside the
framework" of the World Zionist Organi-
zation.
Written affectionately, with great admir-
ation for the rebel who developed into a
distinguished Jewish statesman, the author,
Joseph B. Schechtman, has incorporated in
Jabotinsky
this book all the available facts about his hero with whom he
had worked for 30 years.
•
Dating back to his family background, to the struggles of
his youth, his studies abroad, Schechtman traces the influences
of the European capitals upon Jabotinsky. As a youth in Rome,
he was already a Zionist. He began to write early in life, and
his first pen-name was "Altelena." He entered "the ZioniSt
stream" as a writer and as an orator, and, early in life, he be-
came an effective leader and propagator of the Jewish national
idea.

Those who fought with Jabotinsky in World War I, in the
Jewish Legion, for the liberation of Palestine from the Turks,
will find the record exceedingly interesting.

Kasles' Wise Gift to Wayne University Library

Abe Kasle has earned the community's
commendations for the wise gift he has
made to Wayne University—for the estab-
lishment of a Judaica Section in the Wayne
University Library.
While there are a number a Jewish
libraries in Detroit where readers are able
to secure popular books on Jewish subjects
and the standard reference volumes —
notably the Shaarey Zedek and Temple
Beth El Libraries—the need has long been
felt for a collection of manuscripts, old
periodicals and out-of-print classics to en-
able students of Jewish history, literature
and theology to find material they seek
without traveling for them to the Library
'of Congress in Washington or the Libraries
of the Jewish Theological Seminary and
Hebrew Union College in New York and
in Cincinnati.
Such a collection now will be available
at the Wayne University Library, thanks
to the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Kasle
and their family.
Not only- the provision for a Judaica
Library, but also the public-spirited inter-
est in a great university and its library
are involved in the vision displayed by the
donors of the magnificent gift which makes
possible the establishment of the Kasle
Collection at the Wayne University
Library.
We heartily commend the Kasles for

But even more interesting is the story of Jabotinsky's fight
for justice for the Jews in the Holy Land under the British
his imprisonment in Acre, the ban placed on his return
their vision and generosity. The entire Mandate,
to Palestine by the British. His fight went on, uninterruptedly,
community, Christians as well as Jews, are by his followers in Palestine, by his party in the Diaspora.
certain to benefit from their-. gift.
A master of seven languages, Jabotinsky was a disting-
uished journalist, author of outstanding books, a master de-
bater, ad orator who inspired his audiences to action for
A bit of advice to those who were Zionism.
hurt by newspaper reports of the forma-
There is an interesting report in the book of an "encounter
tion of the new "committee for security with Brandeis." Jabotinsky is supposed to have warned the late.
and justice in the Middle East," an unmis- U. S. Supreme Court Justice of impending anti-Jewish develop-
ments in Palestine, under British rule. While there are differing
taken group that aims to harm Israel:
Do not feel too alarmed over the fact reports on that meeting, Robert Szold, an eminent Brandeisist,
that a Jewish anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli, "who was present at the Brandeis-Jabotinsky" meeting in 1919,
Alfred M. Lilienthal—a man who already "only stated that Brandeis listened attentively to Jabotinsky's
of the (political) situation" and "admitted to this
is so infamously known for having im- exposition
author that Brandeis 'did not take to Jabotinsky.' "

The Enemy Within

measurably harmed Jewry—is its leader.
There is a Talmudic story that ex-
In a chapter "The Pact With the Devil," Schechtman describes
plains the actions of such self-hating ene-
negotiations with the anti-Semite Petliura, admits
mies of their own flesh and blood. In Jabotinsky's
that on this score "Jabotinsky was greatly mistaken" in desiring
B'Reishith Rabbah V you will read:
to "negotiate even with the devil" in "organizing a Jewish

"Man is his own worst enemy. This
• is reminiscent of the parable told about
the creation of iron, which caused the
trees to tremble and complain. But the '
iron remarked: 'Why tremble? If none
of you give me a handle, none of you
will be harmed'!"

gendarmery," and declares that "the `Petlatta Affair' pursued
him for the rest of his life."
•Jabotinsky's conflicts with Dr. Chaim Weizmann and other
Zionist . leaders, in the early days of his rift with the World
Zionist Executive, are thoroughly covered in Schechtman's book.
In the second volume, "the story to come," the reader is
promised , the details of Jabotinsky's battles against the Havlagah
Substitute for "man" the term "Jew" policies—the self-restraint advocated and practiced by Zionists,
and consider Lilienthal the "handle" in the emergence of the Irgun, the "story of great hopes and dis-
the current anti-Israel troubles, and you appointments, achievements and failures."
have the explanation for the actions of
Jabotinsky was a most controversial figure. The Schechtman
destroyers of freedoms. Fortunately, there biography ably describes the life of the Revisionist leader. "Rebel
are few such enemies of their own people and Statesman" is a welcome addition to Zionist history and
literature.
and they earn nothing but contempt.

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