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

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections -
This Sabbath., the -third day of Shevat, 5717, the following Scriptural selections will be
read in our synagogues:
Pentateucha/ portion, Bo, Ex. 10:1-13:16. Prophetical portion, Jer. 46:13-28.

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January 4, 195'7

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VOL. XXX—No. 18

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Beware of Hitlensm on the Nile

Egypt's dictator-president Gamal Abdel Nasser is reported to be ready to negotiate
an international solution to the Suez Canal problem. But every report of "concilia-
tion" is punctuated with, warnings that the dictator is not yet ready to effect a per-
manent peace with Israel.
In view of the continued insistence of the Egyptian leader to perpetuate the war
threats against Israel, it is important that the civilized world should take into con-
sideration Nasser's Nazi-like tactics which threaten to plunge the entire world into an-
other crisis that may lead to a world war.
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are accompanied by Hitler's "Mein Kampf." Here is the proof:

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These are reproductions of two editions of "Mein Kampf" circulated in Egypt. The
one on the left reads in Arabic: "Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler. Hitler and Nazism. Trans-
lated by Louis El Haj. Beirut Printing and Publishing Rouse. Beirut,' 1952." On the
right is the cover of the 1955 edition with the inscription: "Adolf. Hitler. Mein Kampf.
Hitler and Nazism." -
In addition to "Kifari " the Arabic translation of "Mein Kampf," many other anti-
Semitic documents, likened to the murder-inciting propaganda of Josef Goebbels and
Julius Streicher, were found by the Israelis in the captured Egyptian quarters in the
Sinai Desert and the Gaza Strip and on Egyptian prisoners.
This is the type of propaganda that leads to genocide. Will the United Nations
call a halt to it before it is too late, or is Nasser to be pampered into heroism, in spite
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Meanwhile, the attitude of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is cause for
deep concern. This man, upon whom much hope had been placed for help in bringing
peace to the world, is unfriendly to Israel and unwilling to.exert himself to bring Arabs
and Israel together for peace talks. His attitude is beyond comprehension, in view of
his earlier friendly and very human' attitude on matters relating to just rights -and
the survival of men. Thus, Camille R. - Honig, writing in the London Jewish Chronicle,
supplies us with the accompanying reproduction of a letter from Nehru in which sym-
pathy was expressed to the Jewish people f or the tragedy they suffered at the hands of
the Nazis. The letter, written in Bombay, Feb. 26, 1946, reads:
"No man or woman who is at all sensitive can fail to be deeply moved by the tragedy of

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the Jewish people. The long past of the race was -- itself a tragedy, but recent years have
overshadowed everything else and language itself fails to express the sense of numbness
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decade ago, and the solution, conjectured
by. hima is found in Israel, why is Nehru
unwilling to assist in bringing about a
direct peace conference in the Middle East?
All we - can do is hope and pray for a
change of attitude irT the United NatiOns
and among men like Nehru. All they, and
the spokesmen for the United States, need
to say is "yes" to calls for peace, and for
action in that direction:The whole world
then will breathe easier, and we shall no
longer have to fear • the .*emergence of
Nazism on the Nile.

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It is now 40 years since the great fight, spearheaded by
President Wilson, to secure confirmation of his appointment of
Louis Dembitz Brandeis as an Associate Justice of the United
'States Supreme Court. There was economic, religious and political
prejudice in the fight against Brandeis. But President Wilson
won the battle against bigotry, and from that point on, for nearly
25 years, Mr. Justice Brandeis, became one of the Supreme
Court's most articulate exponents of the use of law as a weapons
for social and economic reforms.
It is most appropriate that now, on the eve of the -100th an-
niversary of the birth of Louis D. Brandeis, that Oceana
cations (80 4th, NY 3), should have issued "The Brandeis Reader."
Edited by Sr.. Ervin H. Pollack, professor of law at Ohio State
University, this valuable work opens with a foreword—"Louis
D-. Brandeis, Perfectionist"—by Frank L. Weil, chairman of the
Brandeis Centennial Commission of Brandeis University.
In his introduction, Prof. Pollack points to the appropriate-
ness of evaluating Brandeis' philosophy which illumined Amer-
ican society in his day and remains as a guiding ideal of the
present."
A section on Brandeis' life and work is taken from the
Dec. 21, 1942 memorial proceedings. It contains a tribute by
Prof. Edmond Calm, of New Tork University, and is followed
by tributes to Brandeis by Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Bran-
deis' biographer Alpheus Thomas Mason and an article written
by Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren for the Harvard Law Re-
vievi in 1890 on the subject "The Right to Privacy."
Brandeis' political and economic views, taken from his ju-
dicial opinions, are then quoted, and are followed by tributes to
Brandeis by Dean Acheson, Prof. Paul. A. Freund of Harvard,
Judge Learned Hand, former Attorney. General Francis. Biddle
and Mr.-Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone.
Mr. Justice Brandeis' contributions as American, Jew, Zionist,
are evaluated here.
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"The Brandeis Reader" is an interesting and timely book.

`Jews at a Glance'

114 Intimate Illustrated Biographies

A mere listing of the names of the "114 intimate illustrated
biographies of unusual Jewish men and - women from the dawn
of civilization to the present day," _whose names are included
in "Jews at a Glance," the new bOok by Mac Davis, would at
once recommend the volume as a valuable handbook for those
seeking information about Jewish personalities, and as inform-
ative reading.
Sam NisensOn illustrated this volume, which has been pub-
lished by Hebrew Publishing Co. (79' Delancey, New York 2).
Jews from the very beginning of our history—starting with
Abraham—to the present are included in this biographical col-
lection. From A to Z, from Abraham to Adolph Zukor, all men
and .women who played important roles in our annals are repre-
sented.
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Mac Davis had succeeded well with an earlier book of bio;-
gr- aphies, "They All Are Jews," and the present work is certain'
to enhance his standing as a Jewish writer. He explains, in an
introduction to "Jews at a Glance":
"My people were chosen from many places, from many. fields
of human endeavor, and from many periods of civilization. Bust
all made things happen."
The brevity of the biographies, the fine drawings, the com-
mendable selection of names, combine to give this book the
recommendation it is certain to receive from all quarters.
Men and women like Chagall, Sholom Aleichem, Ben-Gurion,
Malik, Brandeis, Disraeli, Einstein, Edna Ferber, Magnes, Mai-
monides, Golda Meir, Steinmetz, Spinoza, Henrietta Szold, Lillian
Wald, Weizmann, Frankfurter, Freud, Heril, Gompers, Rebecca
Gratz, Emma Lazarus, Herbert Lehman.
A page is devoted to "Albert Kahn, Architect for the
World," the late famous Detroiter whose firm still is among
the leading architectural set-ups in the country.
- Exception might be taken to some of the names included
in - the book, but it will be eanted that as an over-all survey
Of Jewish genius it is a fine volume, well worth reading and
•possessing.

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