AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
Vol. 16 No. 19
Week In Review;
By MILTON SHOWN, J.TA.
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jjjWS AND THE LEASE-LEND
BILL
Last week Congress overwhelm
ingly approved and President
Roosevelt signed the Act to Pro
mote the Defense of the United
States, commonly known as the
lease-lend bill. On two sides of
the ocean opponents of the bill
made efforts to make the meas
ure a Jewish issue.
Fraught with the more imme
diate menace was the action tak
en in Europe. The Axis propagan
da organs intensified their ef
forts to blame the Jews for the
aid-to-Britain measure, accompa
nied by a German hint of repri
sals against the Jews of Europe.
The Berliner Boersen - Zeitung
declared that the. bill “burdens not
only the Jewish emigrants, but al
so that portion of Jewry which is
still in Europe with heavy respon
sibility” and added that “the Jew
Frankfurter did them no service
in getting around and undermin
ing American neutrality.”
The Berlin radio asserted that
"the aid-to-Britain law means
nothing else than an extension of
Jewish rule to the European con
tinent.” The Rome radio said “the
real masters of the situation”
were “the bankers, many of whom
are Jews.” •Tr.TEtffljsn.
As the Nazis gave out hints of
contemplated action to make the
Jews the scapegoats for Washing
ton’s aid to Britain, it was learned
that Dr. Otto Hlrsch, principal
leader of the Jews in Germany,
had been suddenly arrested by the
Gestapo and that other Jewish
leaders had been called up for
compulsory labor service. What
connection this development had
with the Nazi anti-Jewish press
and radio campaign remained to
be seen.
In the United States, the veiled
anti-Semitism which Senate op
ponents of the lease-lend bill had
introduced in the last days of the
debate threatened to boomerang
against them in the storm of press
denunciation which descended on
these few Senators.
The New York Daily News edi
torially denounced the whispering
campaign seeking to identify the
Jews with interventionism and de
clared: “The Jews hate Hitler and
wish him harm, because Hitler
first hated them and did them
barm. But to call the Jews the
prime movers in the United States
interventionist movement is sim
ply to talk against the facts in
the case.”
New light was shed on Senator
Wheeler’s recent utterances about
“international bankers” by an ar
ticle of The Nation’s Washington
correspondent which reported that
the isolationist Senator a year
ago held a “long and friendly
telephone conversation with Fa
ther Coughlin and also that Sen
ator Wheeler’s wife has said in
conversation that she thought the
Jews were 100 per cent for the
lease-lend bill.
IN HITLER’S EUROPE
Expulsion of Jews from Austria
Poland go e s on. Jews are
crowded into school buildings in
Vienna and ordered to hold them
selves in readiness for departure
at any time. In one case a show
Was put on for the benefit of for
eigners to Vienna. Jews were put
to first- and second-class accom
odations in trains and were given
Packages of food. At the next sta
tion they were transferred to cat
tie cars and the food packages
Were taken away.
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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, MARCH, MARCH 21, 1941
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Mrs. David Dubinsky, wife of the president of
the International Ladies Garment Workers Unions,
presents a check of $7,000.00 to Dr. David Lvovitch,
vice-president of the World ORT Union, to be trans
ferred to England for ORT relief work among ref
ugees there. The check represents the amount of
the profits made from a concert arranged at Car
negie Hall under the chairmanship of Mrs. Dubin
3,500 Americans in Palestine
Face Loss of U. S. Citizenship
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Some 3,-
500 Americans residing in Pales
tine, most of whom are Jews, are
believed to face loss of United
State citizenship under the new
provisions of the U. S. Nationality
Act of 1940.
The law cancels the U. S. citi
zenship of (1) any naturalized
citizen who resides for five years
in a foreign country, (21 any nat
uralized citizen residing for three
years in his native land, (3) any
naturalized citizen residing for
two years in his native land if
that land gives citizenship after
two years’ residence.
It is pointed out here that many
Americans in Palestine who would
desire to visit the U. S. in order
Jews to Join in
British Day of
Prayer, Mar. 23
LONDON (JTA) The
Jews will join in a national
day of prayer on March 23
proclaimed by King George,
it was announced by Chief
Rabbi J. H. Hertz.
“His Majesty’s Jewish
subjects will loyally obey
the royal summons,” Dr.
Hertz stated, “and all con
gregations under my juris
diction will, in the course of
next week, receive the or
der of service containing
supplications to Father in
heaven for strength and
guidance in the stern strug
gle before us, as well as
prayers of thanksgiving for
the mercies and victories hi
therto granted to the forces
of freedom.”
to retain their citizenship find it
impossible to do so at present be
cause of wartime transportation
difficulties.
Greek Jews to Erect
Metaxas Memorial
ATHENS (JTA) The Jewish
community of this city has do
nated 25,000 drachmas for erec
tion of a memorial to the late
Greek Premier, John Metaxas. TTie
announcement coincided with re
ligious memorial services for the
late Premier throughout the coun
try.
Jewish Soldiers and Sailors
Granted Passover Furloughs
NEW YORK (JTA) Orders
granting furloughs during the
Passover holidays for Jewish men
in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
Coast Guard and Civilian Conser
vation Corps have been issued by
the War, Navy and Treasury De
partments on application of the
Jewish Welfare Board, it was an
nounced this week by John M.
Schiff, chairman of the Board’s
Army and Navy Committee.
Request for the furlough orders
was made by the Board as the of
ficially recognized representative
of Jewish men in the national de
fense forces in matters of religious
observance. For those men who
will not be able to go home be
cause of distances involved, the
Board will sponsor community Se
der services and home hospitality
in the cities nearest the major
cantonments. Jewish Community
Centers, Y.M.H.A.’s and Y.W.H.
A.’a affiliated with the Board will
s»Ky. jLooking on are (at left) Alexander Halpern,
president of ORT in England, and Adolph Held,
chairman of Labor & Peoples ORT. Lady Marley,
wife of Lord Marley, Deputy Speaker of the House
of Lords in England, declared recently in a speech
here, that funds sent to ORT trade schools in Eng
land help British defense.
N. Y. Trade Unions
to Raise $75,000 for
ORT Federation
NEW YORK—The sum of $75,-
000 will be contributed by the
trade unions and fraternal labor
organizations towards the New
York quota of $500,000 which the
American ORT Federation set out
to raise in its campaign this year.
This decision was adopted at a
luncheon-conference of Labor &
Peopleg ORT, upon the suggestion
of David Dubinsky, president of
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, and was enthusi
astically approved by the many
trade union leaders present. The
conference was held in New York
under the chairmanship of Adolph
accomodate soldiers and sailors
stationed in their vicinities.
The War Department order de
clared, “The Secretary of War de
sires, in order to permit soldiers
of the Jewish faith to participate
in the observance of Passover,
that furloughs be granted to mem
bers of that faith for such time
as is necessary to permit them to
be at their homes, when practic
able, or at places where Seder cel
ebrations are held, from noon of
Friday, April 11, 1941, until mid
night of Sunday, April 13, 1941,
provided no interference with the
public service is occasioned there
by.
“Matzoth (unleavened bread)
and Haggadoth (prayer books for
the Seder service) will be distri
buted by the Jewish Welfare
Board. Commanding officers and
chaplains will lend assistance to
and cooperate with the represen
tatives of this board in such dis
tribution.”
Reich Jewish
Leader Jailed
NAZIS HINT REPRISALS
ON LEASE-LEND BILL
ZURICH (JTA)—As the United
States rushed to put into effect
the lease-lend bill, the Nazi au
thorities, who had hinted reprisals
against the Jews of Europe if the
measure was passed, this week in
tensified anti-Semitic persecution
throughout the German-dominated
areas of Europe.
Leading developments were:
(1) Dr. Otto Hirsch, director of
the Jewish Reichsvereinigung and
principal Jewish leader in Ger
many, was arrested by the Gestapo
and several other Jewish leaders
were called up for draft labor.
(2) In Holland, the German
Commissioner declared that the
Nazis would fight the Jews “until
they are vanquished” and warned
the Dutch people not to aid them.
(3) In Belgium, 2,000 Polish
Jews were rounded up and deport
ed to Poland, and a similar expul
sion of Polish Jews began in Ru
mania.
(4) Expulsion of Jews from
large Polish centers continued un
abated and the refugees arrived
in the provinces in large numbers,
where the already impoverished
local Jewish populations were bur
dened with the task of caring for
them.
Held, head of Labor & People:?
ORT.
An outstanding feature at the
luncheon was the presentation by
Mrs. David Dubinsky of a check
of $7,000.00 to Dr. Lvovitch, vice
president of the World ORT Union,
to be sent to England for relief
work there. Mrs. Dubinsky, in pre
senting the check, declared that
it represents the proceeds of the
successful ORT concert held in
Carnegie Hall recently, and ar
ranged by a women’s committee
under her chairmanship.
“The labor movement in New
York and especially we, of the
1.L.G.W.U., are vitally interested
in the constructive relief work
which ORT is doing for the refu
gees and war-victims in Europe,”
Mr. Dubinsky declared. “It is,
therefore, the duty of the Jewish
labor movement to make the ORT
campaign a great success. The I.
L.G.W.U. expects to raise about
$250,000 to $300,000 for various re
lief causes this year, and I can
pledge that out of these funds,
ORT will be among the first to
receive our contribution.”
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Rosh Chodesh Nisan....Mar. 29
First Day Passover. April 12
Rosh Chodesh Iyar. April 28
Lag B’Omer May 15
Rosh Chodesh Si van.—May 27
First Day Shavuoth June 1
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz.-June 1
Fast of Tammuz July IS
Rosh Chodesh Ab July 25
Fast of Ab Aug. S
Rosh Chodesh Elul Aug. 24
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