90 Friday, September 12, 1980 WE WISH OUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES A HAPPY, HEALTHY NEW YEAR DR. and MRS. SIDNEY FRIEDLAENDER & FAMILY I WISH MY FRIENDS AND RELATIVES A HAPPY. HEALTHY NEW YEAR MRS. GEORGE MAX WE WISH OUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES A HAPPY. HEALTHY NEW YEAR MR. and MRS. RICHARD MOSS David, Susan & Carol THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS In Defense of Dual Loyalties: Leon Blum's Reply to Critics (Editor's note: Anti- Semitic charges that Jews were practicing double allegiance are not new. In 1936, Leon Blum, who was to be become Prime Minister of France after World War II, re- plied to these charges in this article from the South Africa Jewish Chronicle, Oct. 23, 1936.) The Jews of France are aware of no sufferings which accrue to them as the result of their Judaism. It is true, of course, that here We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year LEON BLUM CANTOR & MRS. HYMAN J. ADLER & MR. & MRS. SHLOMA H. DUBEN & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MR. and MRS. MAX DREW & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MR. and MRS. ALEXANDER FRANK We wish our family and friends a very healthy. happy and prosperous New Year 1 112rizn rIzu: FRED and RUTH KATZ rit3v5 ROSA and DAVID KRASMAN wish all their friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ROZ & SID PELTON tlZsizn rimm rt3v5 MR. and MRS. HARRY SCHLOMPER wish all their friends. and relatives a happy and healthy New Year MR. and MRS. DAVID IWREY Wishes Their Family and Friends .t• A Happy & Healthy New.Year,.. MR. and MRS. MORRIS WATT and LITTLE SHULAMIT wish all their family and friends a year filled with health, happiness, joy and peace _ and there anti-Semitic winds blew over the land, but these were in general very stormy and sporadic in nature. Our French Jews, have always enjoyed safety and complete civil equality. Hence, their anxiety — be- cause of strong Jewish ac- tivity or because of too con- spicuous Zionist endeavours — has its origin in the fact that they believe that this might possibly endanger their peace and safety. This security of the French Jews is one which naturally they do not owe to a higher level than that of their co-religionists in other countries, but to their favorable lot which enables them to live in a free coun- try in which the political equality of all human be- ings is acknowledged and guaranteed. There is this further idea: If we take an active part in Zionistic labors and declare ourselves to be Zionists, are we not thus furnishing a basis for that argument which has always been em- ployed against them? Indeed, during the anti- Semitic period it was con- stantly contended that the Jew can never be wholly an undivided Frenchman; that in his heart he always re- mains a Jew, an utterly strange being of a different type who remains incom- prehensible to the genuine Frenchman. As far as I personally am concerned, I am a French Jew, and I may conscien- tiously claim to be a good Frenchman as well. I was born in Paris, in the heart of France. My parents and grandparents lived in Paris. My ancestors were Alsa- tians, hence also French. I was reared as a Frenchman, attended French schools, my friends were French — and I labored in France. I believe it was French culture that molded me to the greatest extent and thus also become an integral part of me. I speak French per- fectly without the slightest trace of a foreign accent. Even my features are entirely free from those racial traces which might be espe- cially noticeable. Hence, I regard myself as being assimilated, wholly inte- grated. I feel with a sure inner conscience and certainty that there is no element (no matter how difficult it may be) of the French spirit, of the French concept of honor, or of French culture, which could possibly be foreign to me. Yet, although I regard myself as a true Fren- chman, I know that I am at the same time a Jew. Furthermore, I have never yet felt the slightest contradiction of these two phases of my conscience. For one can certainly be susceptible to a dual loy- alty. Attachment to a coun- try does not at all preclude the possibility of allegiance to another group of another human society. We can belong to the Jewish community, body and soul, yet we can be wholly French in our feel- ings and sensibilities. Here there is no difficulty and no contradiction. A Jew may be a Frenchman in every re- spect without loosing the ties that bind him to his Jewish community. Such examples of a double loyalty may be adduced from all periods of time. As Frenchmen we live very happily in France. But ought we, despite this personal security of ours, forget that there are in other countries Jews whose lives are less peaceful, less safe, than ours? Ought we forget that it is necessary to ameliorate the plight of Jews in other coun- tries? And this for the reason that, in my opinion, Zionism was not created as a na- tional demand — and this is not even today — but only because millions of Jews, the majority of the Jewish people, do not live under normal conditions in lands wherein they reside. It is, therefore, necessary to find a place in which this is possible. In diplomatic documents, this place is called The National Home- land." The Jews must have this homeland because the coun- tries in which they have lived do not any longer per- mit them to feel at home there — legally or actually. This we must not forget. He who is better situated must not regard this as a reason for losing that solidarity which binds him to those Jews who are less fortunate, less secure, and all too of- ten, fearfully persecuted. Our people are endowed with a fine sense of reality. The Jew usually acknowl- edges accomplished facts and reckons with them in his thoughts and deeds. Today we need not reflect as to whether it is right or wrong to be a Zior ist since Zion already ,,xists. It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. Convention Site Opens on Kibutz JERUSALEM — A new convention center was opened in December 1979 at the guest house of Kibutz Shefayim. Shefayim, Kibutz situated near Herzliya, is only a 20-minute drive from the heart of Tel Aviv. The six-room center caters to groups of 25-500 persons. 1271311 71= 11311 05 TO ALL OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS DR. and MRS. ALEX FRIEDLAENDER & FAMILY 17 371 MO flTICS TO ALL MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS MRS. PAULINE MAX WE WISH OUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES A HAPPY. HEALTHY NEW YEAR MR. and MRS. SIMON SHIFMAN WE WISH OUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES A HAPPY. HEALTHY NEW YEAR MURRAY and EDDLENE STATFIELD & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MARION and SAM AUGUST We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year BOB and PHYLLIS BURTON Joshua, Abby & Stephanie We'wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ALLAN & LINDA GURVITZ, ERIC &- MICHELLE f We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MR. and MRS. SZMUL JUTKIEWICZ & FAMILY rizm ruv5 MR. and MRS. LEON HALPERN & FAMILY would like to wish all our family and friends a healthy and happy New Year n3V5 HARRY and ESTHER LANE & FAMILY would like to wish all our family and friends a healthy and happy New Year II ■ 111 ■ 11I ■ ARON and PAULA SPINNER & FAMILY Wishes Their Family and Friends A Happy & Healthy New Year 112rizri rizle r13v5 11119, The Coming Year Be Filled With Peace.; He alth and Happiness H A ROLD an(L.DO-ROTH 1 . II kitEll