Rabbi Rothschild
Defies Hecklers,
Asks Negro Unity
By Jewish News
Special Correspondent
ATLANTA — Addressing t h e
Hungry Club Forum here, Rabbi
Jacob Rothschild, a pioneer in the
civil liberties movement, told Ne-
gro hecklers: "I
resent t h e at-
tempt to bar me
from the battle
to achieve hu-
man rights and
I resent being
told this is not
my battle."
Rabbi Roth-
schild, whose
temple was bom-
Rothschild bed 10 years ago
by anti-Negro bigots, declared
that as a Jew and as an American
he will not forget his religious
commitment "in the face of black
separatism," no more than as a
Jew did he forget it "in the face
of white segregation."
.He charged that an injustice is
being done the Jews by black mili-
tants, a number of whom inter-
rupted his speech with heckling,
and he declared:
"I cannot believe the answer to
our problem is to destroy our so-
ciety and to create two separate
societies, and while I at times
despair, I see a ray of hope." He
called for a constructive prc gram
to bring back self-reliance and
self-respect.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12—Friday, November 22, 1968
Reform Judaism's Woes in Canada Described
Boris Smolar's
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
'Between You
... and Me'
to The Jewish
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
VIENNA—INSIDE POLAND: The Polish Government, while doing
its utmost to oust the Jews of the country, is causing tragedies in
many Jewish families of mixed marriage. About 75 percent of the
Jewish families in Poldnd today are of mixed marriages.
The Polish authorities are determined to have the Jews leave the
country but they don't want non-Jews to emigrate. In families where
the father is not Jewish and the mother is Jewish this presents a
great problem. The mother and the children can emigrate , but the
father finds it very difficult to obtain an exit document, Many Polish
fathers are not eager to leave Poland; they would rather give up
their Jewish wives and children than to renounce their Polish citizen-
ship, especially when the mother and children intend to settle in
Israel. As "good Poles," they don't want to leave Poland for Israel,
especially now when Israel is being constantly attacked in the Polish
press and radio as an "enemy" of Poland. They consider them-
selves Polish patriots, no matter what the regime in Poland is, and
they don't want to be labeled as "Zionists" which in the present
official Polish vocabulary means traitors.
In some cases the fathers retain some of their children—espec-
ially the boys—while separating themselves from their wives and the
other children who leave the country with their mother. In other
cases, they agree to have all the children go with their Jewish mother
since this gives the father the opportunity to divorce himself from
the "Jewishness" in the family. Of all the Jewish families whom I
have seen in. Vienna coming out of Poland, there was only one non-
Jewish father who joined his wife and two boys in leaving Poland for
Israel. But even he refused to sign the usual declaration before his
departure that he renounced his Poland citizenship. The authorities
cancelled it anyway, against his will.
MOTHER PROBLEMS: With non-Jewish mothers, the situation is
different. They would like to leave Poland and remain with their
I Jewish husbands and children in Israel. However, they hesitate to do
so, They have learned that the Israel Rabbinate does not recognize
the non-Jewish wife of a Jewish husband as Jewish, nor her children.
Most of them therefore, fear emigrating to Israel. They fear not so
much what will be their fate in Israel as the possible consequences
for their children.
The tragedies of hundreds of broken families can hardly be de-
scribed. These families would have lived a normal life had the Polish
Government not pursued its anti-Jewish policy. Some of the parents
have been married for more than 20 years. The Warsaw Government
is applying the rule barring non-Jews from emigrating with special
rigor to Polish husbands who would be willing to emigrate with their
Jewish wives and children not to Israel, but to the United States.
There the Polish father or the Jewish mother, or both, have relatives,
and can therefore get American visas after waiting several months.
But even emigration to the U.S. with his Jewish wife and children
poses great difficulty for the non-Jewish husband.
ASSIMILATED CHILDREN: The Jews coming from Poland to
Vienna enroute to Israel are usually families of four—a husband, wife
and two children. But these are families where both the husband and
wife are Jewish, or Jewish mothers who left their non-Jewish hus-
bands in Poland and do not fear that their children will suffer restric-
tions in Israel since they are children of a Jewish mother, even
though they are not circumcised.
The children are completely assimilated and cannot speak any
language but Polish. They are aged between 10 and 18 and they ask
all kinds of questions about life in Israel.
While the Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia are mostly intel-
lectuals, the great majority of the Jews coming from Poland are
qualified artisans.
Unlike the Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia, most of whom
apply for visas at the American Consulate in Vienna—and receive them
in a short time—few of the Jewish families coming out of Poland seek
their way to the United States. The majority of them are interested
in reaching Israel. In fact they come to Vienna with Israel visas on
their documents—visas that are issued to them easily in Warsaw by
the Dutch Consulate which represents Israeli interests in Poland.
Jews Irked at Naming
of Schroeder as CDU ,
President Candidate
BONN (JTA)—The appointment
of Defense Minister Gerhard
Schroeder as Christian Democratic
candidate for the West German
presidency is regarded with some
consternation by Jewish circles
here.
Dr. Schroeder sought to join the
Nazi SA (Sturm Abteilungen or
Storm Troops) in 1933 after Adolf
Hitler's rise to power. The SA
played an important role in the
Nazi Party's early anti-Jewish ac-
tions.
After he became foreign minis-
ter, Dr. Schroeder said that he
sought membership in the SA be- ,
cause he wanted to continue his
university studies. JTA's West
Germany correspondent Alfred
Wolfmann reports, "It is well
known that in 1933 no student was
expelled for not belonging to a
Nazi group."
Dr. Schroeder will face Justice
Minister Gustav Heinemann, can-
didate of Foreign Minister Willy
Brandt's Social Democratic Party,
when the federal assembly con-
venes early in 1969 to elect the
head of state, succeeding Dr. Hein-
rich Luebke. Dr. Heinemann was
an opponent of Hitler.
News)
OTTAWA—A negative image that
Reform Judaism appears to have
presented among other Jews in
Canada and the problem of Jewish
adjustment to the predominantly
French culture of Quebec Province
were the subjects of papers pre-
sented at the biennial convention
of the Canadian Council of Reform
Congregations here.
Rabbi Arthur Benjamin of Otta-
wa's Temple Israel said the "Achil-
les Heel" of the Reform movement
in Canada was "a negative ap-
proach to Judaism that defined
itself as running away from the old
man with the beard rather than
toward a pattern of Jewish obser-
vance and expression of real qual-
ity and import."
There are approximately 15,-
that, given a dominantly French
province, Jews could turn to that
culture for their cues?" Adam ob-
served that most revolutionary
movements seek to impose con-
formity and that when a movement
has a nationalistic base, "Jews
have often been the first casual-
ties."
The 200 delegates attending the
conference from Canada's 13 Re-
form temples elected Dr. Bernard
Shapiro of Toronto as president of
the council, succeeding Lawrence
Marks of Montreal. The council IS
affiliated with the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations.
000 Reform Jews in Canada, out
of a total Jewish population of
280,000 although about half of
the latter are not affiliated with
any synagogue. Most other Jews
tend to label Reform' Jews as
"secessionist, anti-Zionist, nega-
tive, assimilationist, nonreligious
and Jews of convenience," Rabbi
Benjamin said.
A position paper presented by
G. Stuart Adam of Temple Israel
suggested that Jews adapt to the
French language and culture of
their native Quebec. "The Jew of
Quebec, if he is suspect at all, is
so because of his identification with
Anglo-Saxon values and culture,"
the paper said. "Is it not possible
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