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an INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THE QLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLIC ATION IN THIS TERRITORY
BvolHT— NO. 41
1 ITHAPPENED
I THIS WEEK
■ by MILTON BROWN, JTA ;
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BOAKE CARTER AND
THE JEWS
I For sheer sensationalism, from
■v,„ Jewish standpoint, the week
Hffords no more striking news
Whan the announcement by Boake
Barter, radio commentator and
newspaper columnist, that he had
Become converted to the “Biblical
Hebrew faith”.
•I It is explained however that the
Baith Mr. Carter has adopted
■differs from the orthodox and
Beformed Jewish beliefs. The Bib-
Bcal faith to which he converted
Himself without benefit of clergy,
Bequires only strict observance of
Hosaic laws”. Mr. Carter, it is
Baid,'observes Saturday as the
Babbath, completely divorcing
Bimself from any work on that
Bay. He also observes most of
Bhe Jewish Holidays.
I The columnist explained !**at he
Bad tried the Episcopal Church
Bnd later Christian Science, but
Had decided that hope for his soul
Bould be found only in the Hebrew
Beligion. But this Hebrew religion
Bhich he follows depends largely
Bn a mystic interpretation of the
Bible, provided by a Palestine
B*emiit. According to this mystic
Biterpretation, “Hitler is Saton—
Bermanj is Assyria. The ten lost
Bribes of Israel have not been lost.
Bhey are in the United States and
Bngland.”
i| Last weel< > H. V. Kaltenborn,
Bhe radio commentator, now visit
-81-! in England, described over the
B ir a se °t which has become active
Bn England recently which is de-
Hnanding a Federal Union, of Eng-
Hand and the United States. They
Base their arguments not on the
Brdinary reasons but on mystic
Biblical grounds.,
I Such marginal elements as
■hose represented by Boake Car-
Br and this English sect have al-
existed. Long before the
Bvar, there was a group in Eng-
Bnd which asserted that the Brit-
Bh were the ten lost tribes. They
Bated the word British to He-
Brcw —Brith Ish, that is, a man of
Bhe Brith or Covenant.
1 1 The favorite theory of the mys-
B ic m inded as regards the lost
B en *- r ’^ es has been of course that
Bhey were the American Indians,
Bnd it must be admitted, that
■here were some things about the
■ndians which lent some plaus
■bihty for seeing} a similarity be
■ Ween them and the ancient Is
■ealites. The Indians were, like
■ e Israelites, divided into tribes;
■“leir religion was a simple but
B ery va £ ue monotheism. They
B ere not idolators but worshipped
HJ>me overruling Great Spirit.
V ey reckoned time in the same
H ay as the Jews by the moon.
■Many observers listed many more
Bences of similarity, but it is
gro abi e that,such men as Roger
Both ' amS and William Penn and
B1 Crs in describing these resemb-
B nces - being devout believers
Br e oing a lo t of wishful think-
B n g.
I° N THE EUROPEAN FRONT
BfoJ h r nCWS °" the Eur °Pean front
week continues disquiet
■ " g n The drive on the Caucasus
ritish military experts indi
s w e»k, makes the danger
Inia alesti ne more serious. “Ger
■ Brie^ Ct ° on Caucasus,” one
■tar T.° fficer was Quoted as say-
■ dri ’ tead to a Nazi pincer
I on through Persia and Iraq
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Jewish Soldiers Praying At
Wailing Wall
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Jewish soldiers and officers of South Africi at prayer at the Wailing
Wall Jerusalem. The above photograph, released through the Zionist
oSdSSF* America, was received from the Jewish Agency
Palestine under whose supervision soldiers of the United nations
stationed’ in Palestine are visiting Jewish colonies to view the wonder
ful work done by Jewish pioneers.
WAR HERO GETS SILVER STAR
New York (^PS)— One Jew a
warded the Silver Star, one killed
and several missing in action are
the, figures given in the latest re
port of Jews in the armed forces
of the United States, compiled by
the Jewish Welfare Board’s Bu
reau of War Records.
Murray Weinrub, Machinist’s
Mate, First Class, U. S. N., of
Los Angeles, Cal., has been a
warded the Silver Star by the War
Department and has received a
letter of commendation from the
Navy Department for his heroism
during the Battle of the Philip
pines. Reported to be the first
man in the United States under
sea fleet to be thus honored since
the start of the War, Weinrub
was a member of the submarine
crew responsible for the loading
and transporting of the gold and
securities from Corregidor to a
cruiser in mid-Pacific.
Bombardier on one of the planes
from which U. S. fliers bombed
Western Europe for the first time
on July 4th, Second Lieutenant
Jerome Notowitz, 22, Army Air
Force, of St. Louis, Mo., was re
ported killed in an airplane acci
dent "not due to enemy combat,
one month following his safe re
turn to England after having
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timed with the renewal of offen
sive activities on the part of Gen
eral Rommel’s forces in Egypt.”
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 21. 1942
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1 raided airdromes in Nazi-occupied
Holland.
Among those missing in action
were: Second Lieutenant Irving j
Berman, Navigator, U. S. Air,
Corps, 23, of Paterson, N .J., re- j
ported missing somewhere in
Alaska; Frank Ostroff and Hy-!
man Ostroff, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
brothers in the Army Air Corps |
who had fought together in the|
Philippines and Australia, and
Private Herbert Baker, 23, of
Roxbury, Mass., missing in action
since the fall of Corregidor. Bak
er, who won the New England
middleweight championship i n
1938, had five brothers, three of
whom are well-known prize
fighters and are also in the armed
forces.
REPORTS AMERICAN
CONSULAR CLERK
SHOT AS HOSTAGE
London (JPS)—David Tiano,
formerly chief clerk in the Amer
ican Consulate at Salonica, was
shot as one of the Greek hostages
shot by the Nazi invaders, it was
reported here by the Associated
Press. A naturalized Greek of
Spanish Jewish ancestry, Tiano
was 38 years old, the news agency
stated, in revealing that Tiano
had been killed in January.
100,000 Warsaw Jewj
Demanded for Deportation
Geneva (JPS) —Horrified by the increasing ruthless
ness of the Nazis against the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto,
reaching a climax in the demand that a list of 100,000 be
made available for deportation, L. M. Cherniakov, presi
dent of the Jewish Community Council of Warsaw, a noted
engineer, and three of his associates committed suicide, it
was revealed here. *
Excluding the rigid German
censorship, the reports published
by the Geneva press disclose that
on July 15, when the Nazis offic
ially began the mass deportation
of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto
to occupied Russia, they demand
ed of the Warsaw Council that
100,000 Jews be turned over for
deportation by August Ist. Mr.
Cherniakov told Nazi Commissar
Fisher that the Council categori
cally rejected such a demand.
Thereupon the entire member
ship of the Community Council
was seized and all were subjected
to torture for three days to ob
tain their official consent to the
Nazi action. Released following
New Jewish Colony
Established On
Syrian Border
Jerusalem (JPS-Palcor)—While
Palestine Jews were mobilizing
their forces to strengthen the de
fenses in the south, they again
manifested their faith in the coun
try’s future as a new Jewish set
tlement was established on the
northernmost border of Pelestine,
virtually on the frontier of Syria.
Situated on the eastern shores
of Lake Huleh, directly across the
lake from Yessod Hamaala, the
new village was founded by a
group of working youth who had
settled at Kibbutz Hulata. The j
site covers 1,250 dunams of Jew- j
ish National Fund land. The Hul-!
ata group has distinguished itself
by record catches of fish on Lake
Huleh.
Many visitors from the vicinity
came to the settlement to pay’
1 their respects and even joined in
! putting lip the first crude huts to
j house the pion«ers. Remote from
I all other points, the settlement
! can be reached only by boat across
j the lake.
HEADS HILLEL FOUNDA
TION AT FLORIDA
COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
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Rabbi Ernst M. Lorge, who has
been appointed director of the
B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at
the Florida, College for Women.
their refusal to yield, all the mem
bers submitted their resignations
to the Council. Cherniakov and
three others, saying that they
could no longer bear to see the
sufferings of the Jews, killed
themselves.
It is reported from Stockholm
that the Community Council was
dissolved and a Nazi commissar
placed in charge of the Jewish
community until a new Council
membership is chosen. The Jew
ish police are said to have been
temporarily suspended, to be re
placed by Ukrainian and Lithuan
ian substitutes under control of
the Gestapo. The new police, num
bering many anti-Semites, are
said to be subjecting the Jews
under their control to brutal treat
ment to gain the favor of their
German masters.
Nazi Commissar Fisher ordered
a stringent curfew for the War
saw ghetto, all residents being
compelled to remain indoors for 20
hours daily until further notice.
They are allowed to appear on the
streets only from 9 to 11 A. M.
and from 3t05 P. M. Those who
disobey the curfew may be shot
without warning, according to in
structions given to the police in
stalled bj} the Gestapo.
SAYS 60,000 PURGEES
WERE PRO-JEWS
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I Istanbul (JPS) —The mass
“purge” of 60,000 officials and
| members of the Fascist party in
Italy was aimed at the elimina
tion of those held to be under
. Jewish influence, according to re
ports reaching here from Italy.
Mussolini, who is said personally
to have ordered the elimination of
the offending members from the
party rolls, believed that they had
“sabotaged” anti-Jewish legisla
tion and had otherwise offended
against the official anti-Semitic
code of the State.
A great many of those purged
were revealed to have had Jewish
wives or to have had relatives
married to Jews.
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