THE 'JEWISH NEWS
Tourist Season, 1961
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspaper, Michigan Press Association, National Edi-
torial Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Pub lishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35,
Mich., VE 8-93G4. Subscription $5 a year. Foreign $6.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich. under act of Congress of March
8, 1879.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ HARVEY ZUCKERBERG
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath—Sliabbat Hahodesh—Rosh Hodesh Nisan—the first day of Nisan, the following
Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portions, Vayikra, Lev. 1:1-5:26, Num. 28:9-15, Ex. 12:1-20. Prophetical portion,
Ezek. 45:16-46:18.
Licht Benshen, Friday, March 17, 6:22 p.m.
VOL. XXXIX. No. 3
Page Four
March 17, 1961
Difference in People: Applied to our Campaign
We are currently engaged in another
great effort that represents our com-
munity's major humanitarian undertak-
ings. We are in the midst of an Allied
Jewish -Campaign in which it is necessary
to enroll the participation of all of our
Jewish fellow-citizens.
It is a drive of great dimensions, and
it is one through which we become part-
ners in continuing a great local program
of education and social services, of assist-
ing all of the national agencies that strive
to provide cultural bases for our com-
of
munities, that guide us alon g
fusing the finest ideals in .Judaism and
Americanism, that are on guard in pro-
tecting our liberties. And it is through
this drive that we uphold Israel's hands
and provide means of rescue for hun-
dreds of thousands of oppressed Jews.
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People in all walks of life are expected
to participate in the Allied Jewish
Campaign. One need not be amona the
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very wealthy to share in this great effort.
People of lesser means must be partners
in this great endeavor.
We draw upon a most interesting
statement, written by an anonymous
author, to prove our point. Comparing
"people and people," this anonymous
author wrote: •
Here are two lists of people, a com-
plete book could be written about each
person, each group. Here are ten names.
How many of them have you ever heard?
Harold Lafayette Hunt, Robert H. Wood-
ruff, Joseph Pew, Stephen Vining Davis,
Clint Murchison, Hugh Roy Cullen, J. Paul
Gettey, James Abercombie, Stephen
Bechtel and William Keck.
Can't place the names? These people
were listed in a national magazine recent-
ly as the nation's wealthiest men. Each;
has One Hundred Million, Dollars, and
most have much more! They have ac-
quired their wealth in one way or another,
but their names are unknown to most of
their countrymen and the world. They IM e„.
knew how to gather the wealth but they!'
didn't know how to gain immortality.
When they die they will be forgotten.
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Now take this next list of ten: (John)
Harvard; (Elihu) Yale; (John) Hopkins;
(Leland) . St a n f or d; (Ezra) Cornell;
(Andrew) C a r n e g i e; (Paul) Tulane; Nazi Phantasies Attaked
(James Buchanan) Duke; (Frederick)
Barnard; (James B.) Colgate. You've
heard of every one of these. Stanford, ,
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Cohn s P u rs u i t of Millenium'
one of- the ten brings to mind higher edu-
cation, a university, a college, a future for
Young America of yesterday, today, to-
morrow. These . men had foresight! They
built a tomorrow for themselves as well
as their fellow men.
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Indeed, it is not necessary to be im-
mensely wealthy to be generous, to be a
partner in an historic effort of protecting
our own community and of coming to the
rescue of our fellow-Jew in many lands of
oppression.
Even the small gift counts. Every con-
tribution adds to the task of rescuing
lives and of assuring the indestructibility
of our heritage.
This is a time for action—by all of us.
Let every one emerge as wealthy in spirit,
as great in humanitarian considerations,
by sharing in a successful Allied Jewish
Campaign.
Ghetto Commemora tion and Eichmann
The Warsaw Ghetto anniversary com-
memoration, to be held March 26 under
Jewish Community Council auspices, this
year serves, in addition to paying tribute
to the heroes who defied the Nazis, to
add emphasis to the importance of the
impending trial of the Nazi arch war
criminal Adolf Eichmann.
Acting in defense of human . dignity,
the heroes in the WarSaw Ghetto revolt
conducted a battle that could not possibly
be won. Well-organized armies already
had been defeated by the very force
which the Jews in the ghetto defied as
an expression of repudiation of humilia-
tion. They were asserting themselves in
defense of elementary human rights, and
they must have known in advance that
they could not possibly survive the
struggle against overwhelming odds.
The ghetto heroes celebrated the Pass-
over underground during that battle, and
although they themselves were doomed,
they were heralding to the world that the
idea of freedom can not be permanently
suppressed, even under the odds of
a thousand well-armed Nazis against each
unarmed Jewish defender of liberty. It is
what these fighters for freedom did in
the ghetto, in their burning homes, in the
undefended alleys, in the sewers of their
penned-in environment, that will go down
in history with honor.
The heroism of the Jews in that hope-
less struggle is one of the evidences of
resistance to tyranny on the part of Jews
in: the inhuman era of Nazism. There have
been accusations that resistance was at a
minimum among Jews against Nazism.
The Warsaw Ghetto revolt certainly dis-
proves the charge insofar as that heroic
group of fighters for, freedom is con-
cerned.
On the eve of the Eichmann trial, the
commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto
anniversary keeps alive the memories of
the horrors that were perpetrated. By
calling attention to the tragedies under
the Nazis, there is revived also the warn-
ing against the repetition of the crimes.
Both the. Warsaw Ghetto commemora
tion and the Eichmann trial are admoni
tions to bigots never again to impose
Nazi cruelties upon human beings, no
matter whether they are Jews or Chris-
tians.
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Two Anniversaries
The month of May will mark two
anniversaries for great investment
efforts: it will be the twentieth anniver-
sary of United States Savings Bonds and
the tenth anniversary of the inauguration
of the first Israel Bond issue.
Both projects have the endorsement
of United States Government leaders. In
line with the policy of assisting the
smaller nations, our Government has
encouraged efforts in behalf of Israel
Bonds, and the friendly attitude of this
nation towards Israel has gone a long way
in spurring the economic activities in
the small new State.
The U.S. Savings Bond campaign is
so much vaster in scope that there could
be no question of competition. The
success of both is desired if there is to
be an interlinking of unity among peoples
and if American policy of assisting
smaller nations to become self-sustaining
is to materialize.
In "The Pursuit of the Millenium," in which he deals with
"revolutionary Messianism in medieval and Reformation. Europe
and its bearing on modern totalitarian movements," Norman
Cohn states:
"The Nazi phantasy of a world-wide Jewish conspiracy of
destruction stands at only one remove from medieval demonology;
Curiously enough, the phantasy came to Germany from Russia;
and in Russia relations between Jew and Gentile remained right
down to the 20th century very much as they had been in medieval
Europe, and so did popular Gentile beliefs about JeWS."
Cohn's challenging book, issued as a paperback Torchbook
by Harper & Bros., exposes the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
that was published in Russia in 1905 by the Russian religious
eccentric Nilus "in all good faith and quite unaware that they
had been forged by the Tsarist secret police."
It is the contention of the author of this interesting book
that "whereas Nazi ideology was frankly obscurantist and ata-
vistic, Communist ideology has always claimed to be "scientific'
and 'progressive.' Yet Communists and Nazis have been at one
in their murderous hatred of Liberals and Socialists and re-
formers of every kind—and the reason for this is that Corn-
munists no less than Nazis have been obsessed by the vision of
a prodigious 'final, decisive struggle' in Which a 'chosen people'
will destroy a world tyranny and thereby inaugurate a new
epoch in world history. As in the Nazi apocalypse the "Aryan
race' was to purify the earth by annihilating the 'Jewish race,' so
in the Communist apocalypse the 'bourgeoisie' is to be extermi-
nated by the 'proletariat.' And here too, we are faced with a
secularized version of a phantasy that is many centuries old."
Cohn states that "It is certain that Hitler and his associates
really believed that theJews were united in one vast, centuries-
old conspiracy to enslave the human race."
His thorough analysis of historical backgrounds is enlighten-
ing. He writes that "originally prophecies were devices by which
religious groups, at first Jewish and later Christian, consoled,
fortified and asserted themselves when confronted by the threat
or the reality of oppression." He adds that "precisely because
they were so utterly certain of being the Chosen People, Jews
tended to react to peril, oppression and hardship by phantasies
of the total triumph and boundless prosperity which Yahweh,
out of His omnipotence, would bestow upon His Elect in the
fulness of time."
Then came an era when "the Old Testament was dismissed
as valueless; for from the time of the Creation onwards it was not
the Jews but the Germans who were the Chosen People . . . "
Thus there develops the expose by the able author of the theory
of domination and the phantasies that mark "The Pursuit of the
Millenium."
'The Art of Being Human'
Runes' 'Letters to My Teacher'
"What is wrong with education that makes 100 million
Germans cheer Hitler?," Dagobert D. Runes asks in one of
his "Letters to My Teacher," which was published by Runes'
firm, Philosophical Library (15 E. 40th, N.Y. 16).
In these letters, Dr. Runes challenges the educational
methods that have failed and points to the inadequacies that
have brought tragic results to mankind.
The wisdom of love, he shows, can be found in great text-
books, including the Psalms of David, the Proverbs of Solomon,
the blessings of Isaiah and Jeshu, of Ben Sixach and Moses.
"But among approximately three billion people no voice
could be found that would halt the garroting hands of Hitler
or stem the sinister intent of the German nation to annihilate
the Jewish women and children of Europe," he declares.
He condemns the education of the party line and appeals
for "the art of being human."