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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLIC ATION IN THIS TERRITORY '
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THIS WEEK
I by MILTON BROWN, JTA !
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■ Are These The Messianic Days ?
I Before the coming of the Mes
■ah, ushering in the Millenium,
B ere will be “an awsome and
Barful day”, according to the
■cripture.
I with squadrons of airplanes a
Bousand strong ranging over
Bermany and with the thundering
Bf the cannon in a global war, it
Bould seem that the present day
B “awesome and fearful” enough.
But only orthodox Jews have been
Bont to talk of the Messiah com-
Bg. “Mosheeach’s zeiten” is a
B>mmon enough phrase in the
Bthodox Jewish household, but
Be strange part Is that now the
Blk of the Messiah coming is not
Bnnng the orthodox Jews but a-
Bong the Reform Jews.
For example, this is what was
Bid by Rabbi Isaac Landman at
I conference of Reform rabbis
Beld at Atlantic City last week:
I “The time for the realization of
Be Jewish religious hope of Uni
versal justice and righteousness
Bnong peoples and nations, first
Bivisioned by the Jewish prophets
Bid carried down by the Jews to
Bis day, has come: that the his-
Bry of the United Nations shall
Besage the setting of the right
B the earth according to the
Buth; that the peace shall
Buarantee this right for all peo-
Bes of the whole world; that na-
Bons shall not learn war any-
Bore, so that none hereafter make
Bern afraid.
■ Is not this a belief that we are
Bout to enter the days of the
Bessiah — “the time for the reali-
Btion of the Jewish religious
Bpe of universal justice.”
■ls any think that Rabbi Land-
Ban is unique in believing that
Be great day of world salvation
B nearing, they are mistaken.
Bimner Welles, Under-Secretary
B State, made an address this
Beek and he spoke in almost the
Bme vein as the rabbi. “Our vic-
By>” Mr. Welles said, "must
Bng in its train the liberation of
V peoples. Discrimination be-
Been peoples because of their
Bee, creed or color must be abol-
Bhed.”
■ The conference at which Rabbi
Bndman spoke was a rather un-
Bual one. It was a gathering of
Bme sixty Reform rabbis opposed
B Zionism.
■ The situation which brought
Brth this meeting is an unusually
■ one and strangely eon-
Basting with the situation during
B® first World War. During the
B 8 * War, Zionism was
Bmething of an outcast among
B® Ref *>rm rabbis. But in the
B J' Years, much has hap
■n ®° and this year we see the
Conference of American
B*” >s presided over by Dr. James
B Hellen, a dyed-in-the-wool
■®“*st, and the mass of the mem-
I °t the Conference are like
s'!* Zionists. The non-Zionists
■ “ ant «-Zionists are a minority
B” U P now, to such an extent that
K* * elt *t necessary to call a
■. eren( “e of their own to pro-
B*® 1 their views.
| A j. the end °f the last war, one
■ e ra bbis who attended the
■ ent conference in Atlantic
Bm WaS quoted in the New York
Boh? aS sayin S that the Jewish
■ em was solved, because since
lr? a had n< iuidated the Czars,
|i j great victory had been a
■L.. ! n the fight agfiinst anti
s' 8 ' 1 discrimination
g
| Spain Closes
Jewish Offices I
LISBON (JTA) —Leaders i
| of the Jewish communities jj
1 [ in Spain have been request- ;
| ed by the Spanish authori- |
i ties to sign a pledge not to |
| continue any Jewish com- j
! munal and religious activi- I
■ e ties in the country, accord- \
E ing to information reaching i
| here from Madrid this week. =
i The “request” was issued §
E following a law promulgated I
I by the Spanish Government j
| providing for the dissolution i
E of all Jewish religious insti- |
I tutions, and ordering the I
I closing of all synagogues i
i and Jewish communal offices |
|' and the confiscation of all i
1 I Jewish communal property. \
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Congressman Says Jews Told Him
To Keep Hands Off “Army”
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Washington (JPS) Congress
man- James P. McGranery of
Pennsylvania originally decided to
have nothing to do with support
for, a Jewish Army in Palestine
> because some Jews told him it
was a “controversial” question
from which he ought to dissociate
himself. This is revealed in an
nouncing his support to the Com
mittee for a Jewish Army.
“The reason I failed to lend my
support,” . the Representative de
clared, “was that in discussing it
with some of my very good
friends of the Jewish faith, they
told me at the time that it was
controversial and in their opinion
an Irishman like myself had no
right to take sides.
“I have since discussed it fur
ther and find that while there
GOVERNMENT EXPERTS TO LEAD PANEL
ON YOUTH’S HOME FRONT ROLE
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To save tens of thousands of tire-miles of
precious rubber and thousands of gallons of gaso
line that would be used utf by the delegates to the
national campus convention of Aleph Zadik Aleph,
scheduled to be held at the University of New
Hampshire, the convention has been cancelled and
replaced by a national war service conference in
Chicago, with attendance limited to 175 delegates.
Highlighting the conference will be a panel dis
cussion on youth’s role on the home front, with
government experts from Washington leading the
panel.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 12. 1942
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To 'Speak At Farm
School Exercises
J*! P l '-' •
JAMES MARSHALL
James Marshall, member of the
New York City Board of Higher
Education, and until recently its
President, was the chief speaker
at the 46th Founder’s Day exer
cises of the National Farm School,
on Sunday, June 7th.
is some division of opinion among
the Jewish p_eople, the evidence
for an Army in Palestine is over
whelmingly in favor of it, and I
will give my name and whatever
aid and support I can to this
movement from here on in.”
To Teach Anti-
Semitism In
Italy’s Schools
Lisbon (JPS) —ln the most j
sweeping anti-Semitic order ev<r
issued by the Fascist Government |
of Italy, the regime has ordered
all schools from elementary
grades through university, to in-
troduce courses in anti-Semitism. !
The panelists are: L. to R. Mark A. McClosky,
national director of recreation in the Office of De
fense Health and Welfare Services of Federal Se
curity Agency; J?rs. Hannah G. Kaiser, director of
the youth section of the War Savings Staff of the
Treasury Department; Wilbur Schramm, head of
the colleges and educational groups unit of the
Civilian Mobilization Branch of the Office of Civil
ian Defense; and Herbert L. Gutterson, chief of the
General Salvage Section of the War Production
Board.
Paris Jews Demonstrate
Against Yellow Badges
VICHY (JTA) French Jews demonstrated on the
streets of Paris this week against the German order forcing
them to wear a yellow Mogen David badge. Jewish girls
wearing yellow stars prominently displayed on their coats
paraded along the main boulevards of the city in silent pro
test against the order which officially went into effect last
Sunday.
Palestine Police
Military Force
For Duration
, TEL AVIV (JTA)—Problems
of increased war production in
Palestine were discussed here this
week by the representatives of
the Palestine government and the
Association of Jewish Industrial
ists, while the Official Gazette
published an order proclaiming
the police force of the country a
military force for the duration of
the war.
The Inspector General of the
Palestine police force was auto
matically given the military rank
of Brigadier General. Other po
lice officials are to receive ranks
equal to their police titles. Un
der the order in the Official Ga
zette, the entire-Palestine police
force will be employed for mili
tary duties in the defense of Pal
estine. Exception is made only
for the section composed of spe
cial constables.
Jewish Agency Sends 150
Immigration Certificates
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jew
ish Agency for Palestine this
week sent to Iran 150 immigra
jtion certificates for Jewish refu
j gees from Poland now in Teheran,
enroute from Soviet Russia.
| Official data published by the
'Jewish Agency this week reveals
that 464 Jewish immigrants en
tered Palestine during the first
i four months of this year.
It was also reported here this
week that several aged Jews are
confined in a hospital in Nice, on
the French Riviera, as a result of
an attack by French anti-Semitic
youths on a synagogue there on
Friday evening while services
were being held.
Two of the youths are under
arrest. They declared that the at
tack was oragnized by the anti-
Semitic French Popular Party in
order to avenge Albert Clement,
editor of the anti-Semitic news
paper Cri Du Peuple, who was
assassinated last Tuesday in Paris
while leaving his office. The
youths invaded the synagogue
with clubs and stones and demol
ished the furniture and fittings.
Several of the Jews who defended
the synagogue were severely in
jured. The hooligans were driven
off by young Jews from the neigh
borhood who rustled to the syna
gogue to defend their parents, and
wounded several of the anti-
Semitic youths in a fierce battle.
Plan Strengthen
ing of Reform
Judaism In N. Y.
New York (JPS) —A plan which
has been five years in the making
to strengthen Reform Judaism^in
metropolitan New York has now
been adopted through the creation
of a New York Federation of Re
form Synagogues, including 28
synagogues affiliated with the
Union of American Hebrew Con
gregations. Frederick F. Green
man, lawyer, was chairman of the
committee which studied the
problem of enlarging the influence
of Reform Judaism in New York.
The new Federation “will devote
its best efforts to act as a repre
sentative body for Reform Juda
ism in all matters affecting re
ligious, moral and communal life.”
Local representation is provided
by the rabbi, president and a lay
delegate from each of the 28 con
gregations.
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