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liAost Sacred Jewish Holiday Will Start Tonight
■ Week In Review
By MILTON SHOWN. JXA.
Ee ANTI - JEWISH DRIVE IN
■ FRANCE
I The foreboding among Jewis in
■ccupied and unoccupied France
■eepened as the Petain Govern
ed a nd the Nazi occupation au-
Eiorities expanded their anti-Sem
itic program.
■ The Vichy regime decreed com-
Mulsory labor service for all for-
“unwilling or unable” to
■migrate and who are considered
■superfluous” for. French economy,
■he law stipulated that all for
.Bgners between the ages of 18
Ed 45 considered “superfluous” to
Kench economy and who, being
Khigees, were unable to return to
■heir native lands, would be as
sembled in special groups by the
■tench authorities. Foreigners af
■ected by the law would be per
mitted to emigrate if willing and
■ble to do so. Those “superfluous”
remaining in France
■ould be used for compulsory la-
I At the same time the Vichy cab
inet met to discuss a proposed sta
.■nte designed to establish a defi-
Kite status for dews in France.
kd by Jews ordered by the Nazi
■authorities. Jews were reported
■pptehensive about going out as-
Hter dark in Paris owing to the in
■reased activity of anti-Semitic
■odies, such as the “New Youth."
I Nazi occupation authorities re
portedly promised French retailers
■hat Jewish merchants soon would
Ibe squeezed out of the trade. A
■Nazi official was quoted as say
■ng that not a Jewish merchant
■would be in the business after
■fov. 1.
■the SITUATION IN GERMANY
I A tragic picture of the plight
■of Jews in Germany was drawn
■>y Richard O. Boyer, a correspon
■dent of PM who recently returned
■rom Germany, in an article in
■that newspaper.
I “Regulations directed against
■he 187,000 Jews still in Germany
■-there were never more than
|«00,000 have made It literally
■hue that all a Jew in Germany
■nay do “is to sit in his room and
■ope and wait for death,” either
■through starvation or illness, Boy
■er said.
I Under present restrictions, Jews
■re forbidden among other things
■to buy clothes of any kind, re
■'eive reduced , food rations, with
■®° milk, are forbidden all coal and
■annot engage in business, or go
■° m °vies, restaurants, shows or
■operas, and are forbidden refuge
■m bomb shelters in many places,
■Boyer said.
J BRITISH PLEDGE TO JEWS
■ A message from Arthur Green-
British Minister without
■ ortfollo, stressing the restora
■jr® ?* Jewisll “freedom and equal-
1’ in Europe following a British
■victory was made public in New
■ *ork by the Rev. Maurice L. Perl
■zweig, head of the European head
■MOarters of the World Jewish Con
■P* 88 Britain’s first public dec
■^ rati ° n 0n the Jewis * question
■ ee (he outbreak of war.
■>. r ' Perlzweig, who. arrived in
■ ew Yoi |k from London via Mon-
Ur 6 *’ said at a press conference
■th i W York that he had brought
■ r e etter f or presentation to the
■« f n^ ress executive committee. Dr.
■ Phen s. Wise, president of the
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LONDON (JTA)—Berlin |
§ Jews are punished for Royal i
| Air Force raids by being im- =
[ pressed into gangs to clear 1
| up the debris, it is reported. |
| Jews living near public shel- I
| ters do not venture into them f
| during air raids because of |
| incidents created by storm |
E troopers, the report said. |
| Those living near the “ghet- I
| to shelters” constructed by \
| the Berlin Jewish Communi- |
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Palestine’s Future
Seen Depending
On Jewish Army
NEW YORK (JTA)—David Ben
Gurion, chairman of the Jewish
Agency’s Jerusalem Executive, ar
rived here on the British liner Scy
thia en route to Palestine via the
Far East. He will remain in the
United States for a few weeks.
In an interview, Ben Gurion pre
dicted that the center of war
would soon move to the Near East
and asserted that Palestine’s Sur
vival depended on the immediate
organization of a Jewish army.
Adelbert Freidman
To Be Speaker
at Zionists’ Meet
Adelbert Freidman will be the
guest speaker at the opening
meeting of the Jacksonville Zion
ist District which will be held
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock in the
Jewish Center. I. M. Leiberman,
president will be in the chair.
There will be a short business
meeting.
Mr. Freidman, who is from At
lanta, is the Southeast regional
director of the Zionist Organiza
tion of America. Having spoken
here before, Jacksonville audiences
have found in him a fluent and
enthusiastic speaker. It is hoped
that a large group will avail them
selves of the opportunity of again
hearing Mr. Freidman.
executive committee, said the
statement "in a sense has wider
and farther-reaching implications
than the Balfour Declaration.” Dr.
Perlzweig also made public assur
ances from Gen. Charles de Gaulle,
head of the Free France move
ment, regarding restoration of
Jewish rights in France.
the fifth column in the
UNITED STATES
A “counter attach” °n Nazi
fifth column activities in the
ted States was urged in the inter
ests of national defense by For
tune magazine in an
study of “Nazi Agents in the U.
S »* in the October issue. The mag
azine declared that the action of
the Federal Bureau of &"**“*£
tion and exposures In pm
had achieved some resultsinco^n
bating the fifth column but stated
that more drastic action was ne
cessary, including the po^ib^;
ZdVJn foreign prop*
ganda.
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Newspapers report that the Na
zis have removed the monument of
the High Rabbi Loew from the
City Hall in Prague.
Rabbi Loew, friend and advisor
of Medieval German Emperors,
was the most famoua of all K«W«r
lists, and created the mysterious
Golem, a figure made of clay that
he brought to life as so powerful
a man that he could put him back
to sleep again only with difficulty.
He told the secret of how to re
vive him only to his successor. As
legend has it, the successor told
his wife and she awakened file Go
lem when a pogrom broke out and
her husband had already been ta
ken to jail. The Golem ended the
pogrom by destroying part of
Prague and by killing the most
fanatic Jew-baiters.
Picture shows the monument of
the High Rabbi Loew at Prague’s
City Hall.
Editor’s note: Jewish Edu
cation Month is being ob
served from September 24th
to October 27th.)
“The Torah which Moses com
manded us is the inheritance of
the entire people of Israel.” It be
longs to every Jew, and every Jew
shares in it. It was not given to
individuals, or to the class of the
learned alone; a Law so limited
could never exercise an eternal
influence on a whole people. “He
who refrains from teaching his pu
pil one law of the Torah is as one
who withholds from him part of
the rightful inheritance of his par
ents.” Each Jew is expected to
know the Torah completely from
its beginning: “It is the legacy of
all Israel since the six days of the
world’s ceration.” (Sanhedrin 91
b).
In America the Jew, especially
the Orthodox Jew, is facing a hard
struggle against those elements in
Jewry that are trying to limit
Jewish education to that of pray
er and ritual. All our Hebrew
schools are erroneously called re
ligious schools and the people at
the head of them are continually
proclaiming “Jewish religious ed-
JEWISH EDUCATION
Yom Kippur Will Be Observed
By Jewry Throughout the World
Following the traditions of ages, Jews will gather in
their Synagogues and Temples tonight, Friday evening, Oc
tober 11th, the eve of Yom Kippur, to observe the Day of
Atonement, the most solemn holy day of fasting and prayer
which will last until sundown, Saturday, October 12th.
All Jews, Orthodox, Conserva
tive and Liberal observe this one
holy day.
Characteristic of the evening
service that ushers in the holy
day is the Kol Nidre chant whose
origin is buried in the story of the
past.
One of the 3 festivals which was
evolved from an ancient autumn
harvest feast, Yom Kippur was
marked with great ceremony in
the days of the second temple.
A week was spent in preparation
for the services, which were con
ducted only by the High Priest of
Israel. Jews from all parts of the
world made a pilgrimage to the
temple in Jerusalem in order to
participate in this ceremony of
fasting and prayer for a New Year
of life.
After file destruction of the sec
ond temple, there was no longer
a central place at which ceremo
nies were held. But in synagogues
wherever Jews were settled, the
British Jews Hold
New Year Services
LONDON (JTA)—British Jewry
greeted the New Year in hundreds
of synagogues throughout the
country, many of which bear the
scars of Nazi bombs. At least
three of the synagogues in Lon
don could not be used for the tra
ditional services because of bomb
ing damage.
With the civilian population ac
tually in the front line of the war,
Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz ordered
a drastic curtailment and modi
fication of the New Year’s service
to prevent a congestion and ex
pose the congregations to the dan
ger of night raids.
ucation.” That accounts for the
small and insignificant influence
the Talmud Torahs have over the
life of the Jewish youth in Ameri
ca.
Charity and mercy have become
the idols of American Jewry. To
these fiie Jew bows down, and to
them he devotes most of his com
munal efforts. The greatness of
a Jew is now measured by philan
thropy alone and not by scholar
ship. The Jew of renown is not
the distinguished rabbi, the pro
found student, the savant or writ
er, but the giver, the donor of
large sums to charitable causes.
The communal leader is not the
sage, journalist, or the man of
learning and foresight; that dis
tinction goes to the person able
to provide the greatest amounts of
money for charities devoted to
immediate physical relief.
The United Yeshivos Founda
tion limits its activities to purely
financial ends, but seeks always
to uplift the moral and spiritual
standards of orthodox education.
Ultimately it hopes to create com
plete uniformity in the methods of
orthodox Jewish education i n
America. (H. L. Selig)
prayers that had made up the
temple services were recited. Each
individual said his own prayers
asking for forgiveness and for an
other year of good Use.
Not related to any nature festi
val or historic event, Yom Kippur
probably developed out of a desire
to prepare, in a fitting way, for
the grateful celebration of the
harvest which follows.
YOM KIPPUR
- The Holy Day -
By RABBI DAVID P. ALPERT
“For thus saith the High and
Lofty One that inhabits the uni
verse, and Whose Name is Holy:
I dwell. . . with him that is of a
contrite and humble spirit. . .”
(Isaiah 58)
Yom Ha-Kipurrim remains un
iquely a Jewish Day. Though its
religious exercises and its spirit
ual abolutions touch deep into the
heart of all men and women, only
uie Jews alone in their worship
have set apart one sacred day each
year to recognize these innermost
needs of the human spirit.
Man, touched with greatness,
and filled with dismay, holds hea
ven within his reach. The confes
sion of sin is exacted from him
at Yom Kippur, not as something
morbid, not as pleasure-in-reverse
by mention of his failings as
means of living them over. The
confession of sin at Yom Kippur
sustains him in hope and upholds
him in the depth and direction
that he should go to make the
most of life. And the long confes
sion of sin (as in the A1 Het) item
continued on Page Eight)
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1940, 1941—5701
Yom Kippur Oct 12
First Day of Tabernacle Oct. 17
Hoshanah Rabbah Oct 23
Sh’mini Atseres Oct 24
Simchas-Torah Oct 25
Rosh-Chodesh .Nov. 1-2
Rosh-Chodesh Dec. 1
First Day of Chanukah Dec. 25
Rosh-Chodesh Dec. 30-31
Fast of Tebet Jan. 9
Rosh Chodesh Shevat....Jan. 29
Chamisha Asar Feb. 12
Rosh Chodesh Adar Feb. 28
Fast of Esther March 12
Purim March 13
Rosh Chodesh Nisan—.Mar. 29
First Day Passover April 12
Rosh Chodesh Iyar. April 28
Lag B’Omer May 15
Rosh Chodesh Sivan May 27
First Day Shavuoth June 1
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz.June 1
Fast of Tammuz. July 13
Rosh Chodesh Ab. ....July 25
Fast of Ab .Aug. 3
Rosh Chodesh Elul Aug. 24
•Observed previous day as
well. All holidays begin at sun
down of day preceding that
listed above.
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