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24 Friday, March 5, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Late Paul Robeson's Lack of Bias Antidote to U.S. Bar Association Stand
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
Paul Robeson is gone. A
great voice — a great singer
will be heard no more.
I recall a little Jewish
story about Robeson which I
read in a book some years
ago, gotten out by the Jew-
ish Publication Society — I
can't recall the name of the
book — but the author was
Ben Ami. He told of a visit
to Soviet Russia and of at-
tending there a celebration
of the centennial of Sholem
Aleichem's birth. The So-
viets had gone a little over-
board in permitting. this
Yiddish event as Sholem
Aleichem was pictured as
something of a herald him-
self of the new Soviet order
since his writings are so
much concerned with the
poor and so-called ordinary
folk.
Robeson's singing was a
tremendous hit and the au-
dience almost melted with
joy when he sang the old
Yiddish song, "Suntig
Bulbes," long a favorite with
all Jews. This was followed
by other Yiddish melodies.
Then Robeson paused and
told how much he liked the
Jewish songs. He went on to
say that the blacks and the
Jews both suffered from
-prejudice and added that his
own grandchildren were
half black and half Jewish.
Then Robeson resumed
singing, but this time
there were none of the
happy Jewish songs. He
sang instead the song of
the Warsaw resistance,
"The Song of the Jewish
Partisan" and when he
finished with the last line,
"Never say this is the last
path," the demonstration
was so thunderous it
seemed the roof of the hall
would be lifted.
Prejudice is an old-time
disease. There has just been
published a book, "Unequal
Justice," by Prof. Harold S.
Auerbach, dealing with the
American Bar Association.
You might think that law-
yers who are specifically
concerned with the problem
of justice would be freer of
prejudice, but Prof. Auer-
bach shows the American
Bar Association has been a
chief victim of it.
He cites the statements of
many of the leaders of the
bar association. Henry M.
Drinker who was the chair-
man of the ethics committee
of the bar association, spoke
of "the Russian Jew boys
who come out of the gutter
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with Israeli Dancing led by
Uri Segal.. There will be a
shul-in for young people 12
years and older and super-
vised activities for younger
children.
A family Shabat service,
lunch and study groups are
also planned. The celebra-
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Havdalla. ceremony.
Speakers will include:
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and follow the methods
their fathers were using in
selling shoes and other mer-
chandise."
Elihu Root, another bar
leader and one-time Secre-
tary of State, didn't think
Brandeis fit for the Su-
preme ,Court. President Wil-
liam Howard Taft became
excited about the Brandeis
appointment and did not
think him fit either "in poli-
tics, ethics or religion for
the post."
Taft later became chief
justice of the Supreme
Court, but we have never
heard of lawyers quoting
his decisions, but Brandeis
is often quoted and one
who would say that Bran-
deis was inferior ethically
to any of his critics must
be half-witted:
Taft should have known
better. He was a Unitarian,
so he could not have so much
of the religious element of
prejudice as others and the
Taft family lived near the
home of the learned 'Rabbi
Isaac M. Wise, founder of
the Hebrew Union College,
a man certainly not inferior
either ethically, morally, or
in any other way to the
Tafts.
When Taft was president,
he was visited one day by
Rabbi Cohen of Texas ask-
ing him for a pardon for an
inmate of the federal prison
in Texas. He said he thought
the man was a victim of cir-
cumstances and would-
make a good citizen.
Taft turned down the
plea, saying to Rabbi
Cohen, "I must say you
Jews do set an example for
trying to help each other."
"But, Mr. President, this
man whose freedoM I am
seeking is not a Jew."
It opened Taft's eyes. The
man was granted a pardon.
But how can you keep
open the eyes of those whose
vision is blinded by prejud-
ice?
NY Aged Join Food Co-Operatives
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
Several hundred elderly
New York Jews shop regti
larly at three food co-ops,
two in the Bronx and one in
Brooklyn, organized by a
federation youth group, at
which they pay from 20 to
30 percent less than retail
prices for kosher staple
grocery items, according to
a report from the Federa-
tion of Jewish Philanthro-
pies.
The food co-ops are part
of a larger effort by the fed-
eration to involve college
youth in programs of service
to needy Jews through the
federation's Jewish Associa-
tion for College Youth. In
addition to •helping to oper-
ate the food co-ops, in which
some of the elderly Jews
join theni, members of
JACY provide home visits,
shopping escorts, halla
bread delivery, arrange holi-
day parties and outings, and
distribute food packages.
The West Bronx food co-
ops are located in the Bronx
YM-YWHA senior citizen
Hashomer Hatzair
Starts New Kibutz
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — A
groundbreaking ceremony
was held for Kibutz Samar
the first settlement of
Flashomer Hatzair's Haki-
butz Haartzi movement to
be created - south of the
Beersheba line. The kibutz,
which is located about 35
kilometers north of Eilat, is
between Yotvata to the
north and the Timma
Cooper mines to the south.
The settlement comprises
about 100 members, some of
whom have recently ended
military service. They come
from kibutzim and cities in
Israel and include volun-
teers from the United
States, Canada, Britain and
Australia who came to Is-
rael during the Yom Kippur
War. Some 60 housing units
will be constructed for the
members who have already
begun marketing their first
crop of vegetables and
fruits.
Natan Peled, secretary of
Hakibutz Haartzi, said the
new settlement indicates his
movement's policy to give
top priority to settling the
Galilee, the Arava and Ne-
gev in the south, and the
security belt on the Golan
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center and in the Hope of Is-
rael Synagogue senior citi-
zen center. JACY leases
space from the Y on an an-
nual basis for both the food
co-op and as a base of opera-
tions for other JACY activi-
ties in the West Bronx.
The inevitable subsidy is
provided by the Lavenburg-
Corner House Foundation
to the JACY programs at
the West Bronx Y of which
the food co-op is one ele-
ment; and the federation
provides coverage of the
Brooklyn co-op's deficit
Students and senior citi- with an allocation from a
zens in the West Bronx special grant. Books are
join in visits to wholesal- kept at the co=ops by social
ers to make purchases for work students serving as
the co-ops. The quantity project coordinators. These
bought is determined by include daily and cumula-
the level of inventory and tive ledgers, inventory rec-
via decisions which ords and sales results
emerge from regular meet-, sheets.
ings between the students
•The Bronx co-ops sell dry
and the elderly beneficiar- foods, canned foods and
ies, Lyons said. Food is dairy products. The Brook-
purchased at wholesale lyn co-op started with dry
and marked up one cent to and canned foods and plans
five cents per item, he to start offering dairy foods
said.
soon.
Pioneer Women Will Honor
Alice Ross on Behalf of Bonds
Pioneer Women - of De-
troit will pay tribute to Al- -
ice Ross April 8 at the
Town and Country Club, it
.was announced by Mrs.
Ralph Miller, Pioneer
Women Council- president.
Cited as "Woman of the
Year", Mrs. Ross will re-
ceive _the David Ben-Gurion
award from the State of Is-
rael Bond Organization "for
service to Israel, her organi-
zation and her community."
Mrs. Ross is an imme-
diate past president of Pi-
oneer Women Council of De-
troit and recently was
named to the national board
of Pioneer Women as Amer-
ican affairs chairman.
Mrs. Ross was graduated
from Wayne State Univer-
sity with a degree in home
economics and taught in the
Detroit school system.
She is active in the
Women's Division of Is-
rael Bonds. She also be-
longs to Zionist Organiza-
tion of America, American
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Jewish Committee and
Common Cause.
Eliezer Lipsky, promi-
nent Zionist, author and lec-
turer, will speak.
MrS. Sam Isaacs is the
Israel Bond chairman for
Pioneer Women and Mrs.
Ben Harold, executive vice
president in charge of
funds.
For information and res-
ervations, call the Israel'
Bond office, 968-0200.
Giscard to Skip NY in U.S. Visit
NEW YORK — France's
President Valery Giscard
d'Estaing will skip New
York City Luring his trip to
the United States in May to
mark the U.S. Bicentennial.
Giscard will begin his of-
ficial visit in Washington,
D.C., address Congress and
travel on to Houston, New
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Orleans and Philadelphia.
According to Newsweek,
New York was scratched
when Paris decided that
France's pro-Arab and pro-
Palestinian policies might
spark demonstrations
against Giscard in the city,
which has 2 million Jewish
residents.
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