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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
mffT- No. 9
Week In Review
|y MILTON IROWN, J.T.A.
1942 IN GERMANY
Hxhe Nazi press in new year re-
Kws predicted that 1942 will be
■year in which Germans will be
Hbjected to much greater re
ductions on food and clothing.
He German army will have the
Hst call on all available food and
Hthing. The German civilians
Hq get what is left over. Small
■lions, it is promised, will be as-
Hned also to the “Aryan” popu
-Htions in the occupied countries,
A t| these same newspapers pre
dict there will be little rations for
;Hws in the ghettos.
|HDr. Max Winkler, head of the
iHffice of Trustees over “Aryan
fled" Jewish and Polish property
occupied eastern countries, re
'Hrted that 230,000 business en-
Wrprises and 187,000 other prop
{Hties have been taken over from
iHe Jews and Poles in the section
;H Poland which has been incor
|Hrated as part of Germany. This
|Hes not include the businesses
fHolen in the unannexed parts of
loland. This record reveals the
’Hermans as the greatest bunch of
iHganized thieves in the world’s
jHstory.
•■The reports of the mass massa-
Hes which have been coming in
’Horn various sources were con-
Brmed this week by reports from
Huibyshey, which seem to estab
■Hh the soundness of these almost
■credible reports. According to
Hem, the Germans on their en
hance in Kiev destroyed practie-
Hly the entire Jewish male popu-
Htion of the city. The complete
■curacy of these reports however
be vouched for until the
Russians have retaken Kiev.
DR. EINSTEIN
■ln America, Professor Albert
Rnstein signalized the New Year
H expressing confidence in the
Hctory of the democratic forces
■ er the totalitarian tyrannies,
■r, Einstein took occasion at the
H me time to explain his conver
■on from his former espousal of
Hcifism. “in the twenties, when
H> dictatorships existed, I advo
that refusing to serve would
■lake war impossible. As soon,
However, as conditions changed so
H®t in certain states, coercion
■as the rule, I recognized that
■acifism would weaken the less
■SgTessive nations in the face of
He more aggressive.”
I A DAY OF PRAYER
■ln conformity with the Presi-
Hnt’s call setting aside New
■ears day as a day of prayer, the
■nion of Orthodox Rabbis called
• r the holding of special victory
■Dices on New Years day. The
■•izraehi Organization also adopt
■" resolutions calling for unstint-
H? support of the government in
■° e Prosecution of the war.
I BlLlixt IN PALESTINE
■ Reports from Palestine during
H e week revealed that William C.
■Wiitt, President Roosevelt’s en
■” y to the Near East was seem
y inking an intensive study
■ the Palestineian Jewish situa-
Cfli Ir ' spent some time
Ki> M ° She Shertok . chief of the
■ Itlcal Department of the Jew
■ Agency and later visited the
Br )rew University and Hadas .
■ hospital and also observed
H a ny of the farming colonies. Mr.
f, HI declared that the Jewish
■ionization reminded him of Cal
colonization in 1910. The
El 81 ; of Mr. Bullitt may well have
■ strong influence when the fate
E alestine is determined after
■ne war.
Will Speak At Hadassah Southeastern
Regional Conference To Be
Held Here January 17-18-19
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Plans are proceeding rapidly
for the annual conference of
Senior and Junior Hadassah of the
Southeastern Region to take place
here January’ 17. 18. and 19. with
headquarters in the Roosevelt
Hotel.
A program replete with business
and entertainment features has
been arranged by a group of com
mittees from Senior Hadassah.
Junior Hadassah and the Business
and Professional Women’s Division
of Hadassah, as all three groups
are participating in plans for the
regional conference. Jacksonville
will again be the host city for the
region for the first time in. six,
years.
Mrs. Moses P. Epstein and Miss
Edith Bukspan. of New York will
be the national representatives,
who will appear as guest speakers
on several occasions during the
three day gathering. Mrs. Robert
Travis, of Atlanta, president of
the Southeastern Region of Senior
Hadassah will also be a featured
speaker and will take an active
part in many of the sessions.
Pre-convention activities will be
gin with joint Friday evening ser
vices January 16, at the Jewish
Temple, of the Center and Temple j
congregations, with Rabbi I. L. j
Kaplan and Rabbi M. D. Margolis
conducting the services. Acting as
hostesses during a reception to
follow the services, will be mem
bers of the Temple Sisterhood and
the Council of Jewish Women.
Saturday afternoon’s feature
will be an Oneg Shabbat gather
ing at the Jewish Center, which
promises to be one of the most de
lightful social affairs planned for
the visiting delegates and guests.
Members of the Daughters of
Israel will tender a reception and
serve dainty refreshments during
the social hour following the pro
gram.
Other convention affairs plan
ned for the entertainment of the
visiting delegates and guests wnl
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1942
MISS EDITH BUKSPAN
include a buffet supper in the
home of Mrs. Sam Weiss and a
Mah Jong party in the home of Mrs.
Maxwell Sobel. and several dances
sponsored by the Junior and Busi
ness and Professional Women’s
Division.
The conference will open offic
ially Sunday morning January 18
at 11 a. m. with Mrs. Ben Stein,
conference chairman presiding.
Following the morning business
sessions a luncheon will be held in
the Roosevelt Hotel at which Miss
Julia Mizrahi, Junior Hadassah
conference chairman, will act as
mistress of ceremonies.
The afternoon will be given over
to business meetings of the var
ious groups of Hadassah and the
main feature of the afternoon will
be a youth symposium, conducted
by Harry Katz. Taking part in
this will be members of Young
Judea. Masada, and Junior Ha
dassah.
Besides the regular business
sessions Monday*, a model Thrift
Luncheon will be given at the
Jewish Center, with Mrs. Maurice
Cherry’ as general chairman. An
entertaining program will follow
the luncheon.
The banquet at the hotel Mon
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Recognizes Son
As Soviet General
Philadelphia ' JPS i—When Mrs.
Beile Lemberg saw the picture of
Josef Stalin congratulating Soviet
General Josef Lvov for his great
leadership in the war against the
Nazis, the Jewish woman knew
that her son “Joey” was alive.
She related that after the death
of her husband in 1923 she left for
America. Her children remained
with relatives in Russia. She
could not explain how her son at
tained the high post he now holds.,
Strong Campaign For
Jewish Army Started
New York (JPS) —In an all-out drive for a Jewish
army in Palestine, the Committee for a Jewish Army has
begun a campaign for the recognition of Jewish Palestine
as a nation at war with the Axis and for the British to let
Palestinian and stateless Jews fight under the flag of the
Jewish National Homeland, j
In a nearly full-page advertise
ment in the New York Times, the
Committee, Revisionist in its ori
gin, points to a potential army of
200,000 Jews and stresses three
military advantages for the crea
tion of such a force. Consolida
tion of Allied positions around the
President Says
“Sane Policy”
Toward Aliens
WWashington ( JPS) President
Roosevelt nipped in the bud an in
cipient move to oust aliens from
civilian as w’ell as defense jobs
by’ issuing a vigorous statement
calling for “a sane policy’” regard
ing the employment of aliens and
foreign-born citizens.
Pointing out that it was the
Nazi technique to “pit race against
race, religion against religion,
prejudice against prejudice.” the
President asked his countrymen
to remember that “we are defend
ing liberty, decency, justice.” He
especially stressed the fact that
“there is no law providing against
employment of aliens except spe
cial defense work of a secret na
ture.”
American Fascists
Still Condone
Anti-Semitism
New York (JPS > —Although the
United States is at war with the
Axis. Lawrence Dennis, America’s
No. 1 Fascist thinker, still pro
mulgates the theories of Fascism
calls American democracy ‘ dead”,
and refuses to speak out against
anti-Semitism.
At a meeting in a Protestant
church in New York. Dennis de
clared that totalitarianism is here
and that the United States is too
late to do ar.yhing about it. Al
though denying he is anti-Semitic,
Dennis, who has often been seen
with Charles A. Lindbergh, re
fused to denounce anti-Semitism
at the meeting, which was attend
ed by 150 persons, many of whom
booed the speaker.
Free French Score
Petain’s Silence
ZURICH. (JTA)—The Free
French radio at Brazzaville. French
West Africa, this week scored
Marshal Petain for not protesting
the execution of 95 Jewish host
ages. which was reported last
week by the Berne correspondent
of the newspaper LaSuisse.
Recalling that Petain had pro
tested against the German threat
early this month to execute an
other 100 hostages, the Free
French broadcaster said: “Ninety
five of these men have already
been executed, and it is more than
significant that the Marshal has
still remained silent”
Suez Canal; the release of Anzac
forces from the Middle East; the
strengthening of the western hem
isphere are given as military reas
ons for creating a Jewish army.
The aspect of the stateless Jews
being allowed to fight in the
Jewish army of Palestine empha
sizes that Jews who have lost
their citizenship in Nazi-occupied
lands do not have a proper oppor
tunity to lash back at Hitlerism.
The committee’s statement is
featured by quotations by Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
both of whom have stated that all
those against Hitler deserve the
support of the Allies.
The Honorary’ Chairmen of the
Committee are Dr. Samuel Harden
Church and Colonel John H. Pat
terson. Pierre van Paassen is
National Chairman.
Colorful
Personality Dies
New York (JPS > —Picturesque
Albert Strunsky, a Greenwich Vil
lage landmark, died here at the
age of 72. “Papa” Strunsky to a
generation of Greenwich Village
artists, whom he admired so much
that he refused to charge them
rent, he was one of the many
eccentrics who made the village
one of the most popular areas o£
New York City.
Hitler Presents
Jewish Villa
To Ex-Mufti
BERNE, i JTA) —The German
press reaching here this week re
ports that Hitler has ordered that
one of the confiscated Jewish vil
las in a fashionable Berlin suburb
be assigned to the ex-Mufti of Je
rusalem as a permanent residence.
The ex-Mufti is to make his home
in the villa “for the duration of
the war.” the Voelkischer Beo
bachter states.
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