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For an affirmation of collec- tive guilt in misjudging and having failed to recognize the approaching dangers we need the evidence of blindness to realities. The , years of judgments by local leaders given here are from the mid 1920s-1930s. In 1926 we already had the admonitions. The admonitors included Albert Einstein. In the record of his Jewish activities which he appended to his "A Painter's Self Por- trait," one of the most distinguished Jewish leaders of this century, James N. Rosenberg, recalled the facts. He was a man with a voice that will not be silenced and must be heard now, two decades after his death. In his remarkable book and the story of his visit to Berlin in 1926 at a meeting of the most eminant German Jewish leaders, including Albert Einstein, James Rosenberg revealed the shocking facts about blindness to reality. A dinner party was given for me at the splendid Wahnesee home of Lola . Hahn, glamorous daughter of Felix Warburg's brother Max. There I met some 20 topmost German Jews, who were eager to know about the Crimean work. Albert Einstein was one of the guests. When the time came for me to speak, I dealt but briefly with the Crimea and turned to another topic. This, be it remembered, was 1926. Taking a magazine called Bren Essel (Nettle) from my pocket, I told how by chance I had picked up that savage anti-Semitic journal at the Berlin railway station. Pointing to hideously offensive caricatures of some of the very men who sat at that dinner table and to inciting libels against them, I ask- ed what was being done to stop Hitler. They listened tolerantly to this ignorant American and assured him that Hitler was just another one of those harmless, demagogues who from time to time rose briefly to the surface and soon vanished. Germany, they told me, suffered no such anti-Semitism as did we of the U.S.A. They were members of some of Ger- many's most exclusive clubs. Einstein's warnings were heeded no more than were mine. Who can blame them? There is a compelling reason for revealing these depressing facts. They may be applicable to our time, to an intifada that has been em- braced by some Jews as a method of endorsing "peace ideal." It is their way of ad- ding to the misguidance and misjudgmenmt of those who would uproot the statehood of Israel. It is like the approach to the Holocaust, when Jews also found fault with fellow Jews. There were Jews whose anti-Semitism equated to failure in rescuing Hitler's victims. Their admission of guilt came too late. There are the ultra critical today, at a time when Israel is building, creating, striving to establish a homeland and an end to persecution of tens of thousands of Russian Jews, instead of giving comfort to the would-be destroyers of Israel. James Rosenberg, whose multiple creative American and Jewish roles are legion, leaves a legacy of warnings against indifference border- ing on self-hatred in the treat- ment of loyalties to Jewry. Presently these warnings apply to the manner in which some Jews are playing the games of challenging the morality of Jewish leadership and their dedicated followers by comforting the plotters on Israel's right to survive in statehood. Those who stand in the way of retaining and dignifying must be treated with utter disgust. Let there be a united defense for Israel's right to live, to prosper, never to sub- mit to the annihilative threats. There had been cowtowing to barbarities in Germany. Let it never be repeated in world Jewry and in Israel. Slawson Continued from page 2 periences it is urgent that we take into account the threatening factors. In the latter part of this century we have already become over- whelmed with the vast in- crease in mixed marriages. It is cause for great concern. As in all other occurrences we know that such has been a condition in Jewish life in many world areas and under varying conditions. They never spelled destruction of the People Israel. There has always been the Psalmist's assertion of Lo O'ut — "I shall not die This condition in itself is cause for an obliga- tion to learn the way for retention of the dignity of Jewish existence and its search for uplifting of the glory of the Peoplehood that is always to be elevated. In the ingathering of the ef- fects of developments in our life as we approach another decade toward another cen- tury, it is well to have much appreciation for the cultural aspects of our people. It is - doubtful whether we have progressed thoroughly in the- schooling we always em- phasize for the younger in our midst. Have we improved the teaching? Have we encourag- ed young men and women to enter the Jewish teaching profession? Have we increas- ed the learning hours or are we constantly reducing them? Therefore, by judging the decades we must also search for progress in the years ahead. There is another matter of cultural advancement. It is doubtful whether another century has surpassed ours in the number of books on Jewish topics that have ap- peared in the preceding years. We pay tribute to author- ships. Only a few details appear in this memory of some of the oc- currences in the century that is reaching a climax. There is much to brand it as cruel and unsavory. There is a faith that spells "never despair." That's how we enter from one decade into another, and toward a universality of cen- turies. For the Jew it is always into Eternity. ❑ A Tribute To A JN Editor When the Wayne State University daily newspaper was published under the Col- legian masthead, Ruth Levine was among its ac- complished editors. Upon her graduation from WSU she became Jewish News city editor when she married Louis Cassel. She retained that post with reportorial and interview skills. One of her major tasks was fulfillment of an assignment to condense for our readers the noteworthy Who Crucified Jesus? by Prof. Solomon Zeitlin. That scholarly work was in great demand at the time. She reduced it for our readers into four weekly in- stallments and won commen- dation from Prof. Zeitlin. More than 20 Jewish news- papers acquired publishing rights to her condensations. With her husband she devoted recent years to volunteering in behalf of JARC, especially with residents in the Kingshire home. These devotions are properly recalled for tributes, on her passing on Dec. 20 at age 64. ❑