'PURELY COMMENTARY

Home Security

Brandeis, Detroit,
And Israel Landmarks

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor Emeritus

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1991

he very interesting
series of articles about
and from Israel in the
Detroit News by editorial
page editor Thomas Bray,
included an article of special
interest to our community.
Mr. Bray reported on his
visit to and study of kibbutz
En Hashofet. That coop-
erative settlement's name
can be translated as "the
fountain of the judge." In
this instance, the judge was
Supreme Court Justice
Louis D. Brandeis, a
dedicated Zionist.
In the early 1930s, several
groups of young Detroiters
left for what was then
Palestine to establish and to
enroll in kibbutzim. Many
activists from Hashomer
Hatzair, the radicalized
Zionist youth movement,
developed En Hashofet and
proposed to honor their ad-
mired Judge Brandeis in the
naming. This was in 1937
when the new settlement
had roots not far from Meg-
gido, a crossroads city. The
early settlers included the
Haggais: of Detroit, Daniel
Tickton and others who
followed later.
Daniel Tickton began his
Hashomer Hatzair in-
volvement as a teen-ager. He
became a veritable martyr to
the Zionist cause. Together
with a kibbutznik from
Toronto, he went to plant
trees in the settlement's
farming area. In the process,
both were murdered by Arab
marauders.
A different record is seen
in the role played by Yer-
miyahu Haggai, another
early En Hashofet settler.
He became one of the editors
of Al-Hamishmar, the
Hashomer Hatzair daily
Hebrew newspaper. He also
co-authored a history of the
movement and did some lec-
turing in this country.
Yermiyahu's father,
Joseph Haggai, was one of
the leaders in Detroit's Heb-
rew educational system. He
was a Hebrew and Yiddish
lecturer.
Thomas Bray's article
serves as a contribution to
the study of kibbutz ideology
and its socialist aspect. 0

Ford Bias
Stays Poisonous
When Henry Ford signed
the apology to the Jewish

people and to mankind for
his anti-Semitic lies in 1927,
there were naive who
believed it would end the
linkage of his name with
libels. It became apparent
that the auto magnate con-
tinued his hatreds. The
libels he propagated have
lasted and keep reappearing.
This was evidenced in a
black history exhibit that
was supported by Los
Angeles city funds. The ma-
terial displayed by a black
Muslim bookstore included
the Ford-written pamphlet
entitled "The International
Jew: The World's Foremost
Problem." It was displayed
with shocking forgeries and
falsifications that keep gain-
ing circulation by bigots
everywhere.
The Ford lesson must
never be silenced in confron-
ting bigotries. Those who
fight must reject the "hush-
hush" and "oho-oho" fears of
those who panic in time of
stress.
An interesting happening
in relation to the Ford
matter occurred almost im-
mediately after Ford signed
the apology. Dr. Leo
Franklin of Temple Beth El
was timid enough to express
the view that Mr. Ford
might have been negotiated
with to abandon his anti-
Semitism. Louis Marshall,
American Jewish -Com-
mittee leader, expressed his
outrage and chided the
rabbi. He referred to the
Aaron Shapiro and Herman
Bernstein libel suits
punishments which Mr.
Ford escaped with his
apology. In one portion of a
letter to Rabbi Franklin, Mr.
Marshall wrote:
There is not the slightest
basis for charging any
Jew with preventing the
flow of the milk of human
kindness into the veins of
Henry Ford. If you believe
that you could have suc-
ceeded in that task, it
must have been because
of your greater familiarity
with the "flivver" and its
maker. Nobody else was
visited by such a dream.
It may be interesting for
you to know that shortly
after Mr. Harding became
president, I took advan-
tage of a favorable oppor-
tunity to suggest to him
the desirability of employ-
ing his influence to
dissuade Ford from con-
tinuing his campaign of
defamation ... I have in

my possession ... Ford's
promise that he would
stop . . . So long as Mr.
Harding lived that prom-
ise was kept ...
Do you believe that the
influence of any man
could have been more po-
tent than that of the Pres-
ident of the United States?
Or do you believe that it
would have been ap-
propriate for us to have
grovelled or -crawled on
our bellies before him, or
to have prayed that he
should be illuminated by
the light of truth, or to
have humored him, or to
have acted as toadies, or
to have sent him religious
tracts?
You may not be aware of
the fact that the statement
of Ford was written by me
and was signed by him
without the change of a
word. His pitiable excuse
of ignorance, which was
made to me as his sole ex-
planation, was deliberate-
ly inserted by me to
enable the world, and es-
pecially those of other
lands who have had no
appreciation of his men-
tality, to know the kind of
man who succumbed to
the blandishments of the
anti-Semites.
While recalling the inci-
dent, it is important to em-
phasize that bigotry must
never be condoned; we must
never approve of the "hush-
hush" approach; forgeries
and falsifications must
always be condemned and
we must never forget the
Ford name in doing the con-
demning

Self-Respect
For Exiles
Fault finding about
Israel's rescue labors for
both the Soviet Jews and the
Ethiopians has given the
critics venom. In a search for
means to describe the Israel
resettlement program as
strewn with obstacles, both
rescue efforts are portrayed
not as great humanitarian
efforts but as confrontation
of impossibilities.
What is mostly read about
the Soviet Jews is their lack
of housing and unemploy-
ment. These are major prob-
lems for Israel. Why then
does the Soviet Jewish
stream continue unabated?
It is because those searching
for freedom and security will
face up to difficulties while
rejecting submission to