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AN <ND£p ENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLIC ATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 17 NO. 52
IT HAPPENED :
THIS WEEK
! BY MILTON BROWN, JTA !
THE ARABS AND THE NAZIS
With the Battle for Egypt con
tinuing and going badly for the
Axis, the German radio stations
have been resuming their broad-
I casts to the Arabs telling them
I what fine friends the Nazis are.
I The Arabs are a superior race
I just like the Nazis themselves,
I the broadcasters have been say
ling-
We do not think the Arabs will
I like the compliment—especially
■ right now when the Nazis in
I Egypt are on the run.
THE BIRTH OF FASCISM
This month two anniversaries
Rare being celebrated. It is the
■twentieth anniversary of the be-
Iginning of Fascism. Just two
Idecades ago this week, Mussolini’s
■Black Shirts started their march.
■After twenty years Mussolini has
■nothing to show the Italians ex-
Icept less spaghetti and more
casualties.
PALESTINE
I In Palestine the Mapoi, the
■Jewish Labor Party of Palestine,
was holding one of its stormiest
cessions. Ben-Gurion is being
challenged. There are elements
■n the organization that do not
■ike the Administration policy,
■t would be very bad if any seri
■dus harm came to the Jewish
■abor Party as a result.
EUROPE
I The liberal British newspaper,
■he Manchester Guardian, this
week estimated that “almost two
■million Jews have already been
■estroyed in Nazi-occupied Eu
■ope, excluding those massacred
■n the parts of occupied Russia.”
I Os the original 450,000 Jews in
wermany in 1933, there are only
■O,OOO left, it declares.
I Os this remnant there came a
■eminder this week in a pitiful
H*U by the aged Chief Rabbi of
Bermany, Dr. Leo Baeck. In a
Statement to the Jews of Ger
■any, published in the organ of
we German Jewish community,
■>e Rabbi says that now that the
Herman Jews are isolated from
Be rest of the world, they must
Bpend on one another.
■The statement is merely a cry
■ the darkness. What other
■eans of relieving grief no longer
we found, there is some satisfac
in crying.
■ The Chief Rabbi, despite the
Bight of his age, has several
wnes been arrested by the Ge-
Bpo
■The same paper which carries
■ e message of the Chief Rabbi
■bo carries a Nazi decree, order
s’ the Jews of Germany to sur
wkier all electrical household
■uipment, including flat irons,
■cuum cleaners, stoves and mir
■fo what bareness must these
homes without stoves,
■thout even a mirror be reduc
■ • To the bareness of coffins?
■ ey are the living dead, these
■iman Jews.
■ TO SIBERIA
■t is pleasant to turn from con-
Bplation to a report from
Bbyshev, telling of the success
-11 Resettlement of thousands of
wish evacuees from the Ukraine
■ >n land in the Soviet interior,
■■ty Jewish collective farms
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER fi. 1945!
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Frank Reports
Brazil Treats Jews
And Nazis Alike
New York (JPS)—In Brazil
Jewish refugees are treated as
enemy aliens” on the same basis
as though they were Nazi adher
ents, Waldo Frank, returned from
a visit to South America, where
he was beaten up by hoodlums for
expressing his views on Argen
tine’s relations to the Axis, told
“Aufbau,” German language week
ly here.
“In Rio de Janerio, the Jewish
refugees suffer from the fact that
German non-citizens in the Unit
ed States, a great many of whom
are Jewish refugees from the
Reich, are classified as enemy
aliens. However, while in the
United States a distinction is
made between Jews and German
aliens generally, in Brazil there is
no differentiation whatever. Thus,
in Brazil Jewish refugees had to
share in meeting the levy impos
ed on Germans in the country af
ter the sinking of a Brazilian
ship, and this was when Brazil
was still a neutral. As a result
of the restrictions imposed upon
all Germans, the Jews are being
seriously hurt economically.
“Guardian” Only
British Paper To
Note Balfour
Declaration
London (JPS-Palcor) —The Brit
ish press, with the exception of
only the Manchester Guardian,
was strangely silent editorially
regarding the great meeting held
here in commemoration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the
Balfour Declaration.
In its editorial hailing the mile
stone of Jewish achievement in
Palestine during the past quarter
century, the Manchester Guardian
editorial said:
“The Balfour Declaration re
mains a signpost of Jewish dest
iny. The Jews have already a
chieved something in the making
of the civilization of Palestine
which cannot now be taken away
from them, nor can any setbacks
remove it from their ultimate
control.”
WOMEN SEPARATED
FROM HUSBANDS
IN POLAND
Geneva (JPS)—As part of a
new mass deportation technique,
the Nazi authorities in Poland
have begun to separate Jewish
women from their husbands and
children. They are sent to White
Russia and the Ukraine for forced
labor, according to the Swedish
Arbeted. .
It is reported here that 52 Jew
ish cemeteries in Posen and other
districts of Poland annexed to the
Third Reich have been converted
into parks, football fields and
playgrounds.
from the Kherson region were
transferred lock, stock and barrel
to Siberia. Many Jews who pre
viously had no knowledge of the
land are also working on farms
in Siberia.
Lehman To
Address Seminary
Convention
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HERBERT H. LEHMAN
Hundreds of Jewish religious and
lay leaders will gather at the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America on November Bth to con
sider plans for meeting the chal
lenge to American Jews of anti
religious tendencies and group
dissension. -The delegates "*will
hear special messages on the
Seminary program for the
strengthening of the Jewish faith
and the democratic tradition from
the Honorable Herbert H. Leh
man and Doctor Louis Finkel
stein, president of the Seminary,
who have jointly issued the call
to the Conference.
Marking the opening of Semin
ary Anniversary Week, in com
memoration of the fifty-fifth an
niversary of the founding of the
Seminary and the fortieth anni
versary of its reorganization un
der Solomon Schechter and Cyrus
Adler, the Conference on Novem
ber Bth will be followed, on No
vember 9th, by a special Com
mencement of the Rabbinical
School to ordain the class of June,
1943, for entrance into the Chap
laincy service at the earliest pos
sible moment. Other outstanding
events to be held during this week
include a national conference on
“Adult Education in Time of
War,” and a Fifty-Fifth Anniver
sary Dinner.
Judges Os B’nai B’rith Youth’s
Sermon-Writing Contest
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L. to R.: Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, New York, professor of
homiletics at Yeshiva College; Rabbi James G. Heller, Cincinnati,
president Central Conference of American Rabbis; and Rabbi Ira
Einstein, New York, associate leader of the Society for the Advance
ment; of Judaism, who are serving as judges in the national sermon
writing contest sponsored by Aleph Zadik Aleph, B’nai B’rith youth
organization, hi connection with the observance of the 17th annual
AZA Sabbath, to be held throughout the country! on Friday evening,
November 13th.
Hull Says U.S. to Redeem
Jewish Hopes After War
WASHINGTON (JTA) —Secretary of State Cordell
Hull this week received a delegation representing the lead
ing rabbinical groups in the country and assured them that
when the Axis powers are defeated the United States will
be prepared not only to redeem the Jewish hopes of a fu
ture world based upon freedom, equality and justice, but to
create a world in which the tragedy which the Jews are
living through at present will not occur again.
The delegation, which submit
ted a memorandum to Mr. Hull
asking the U. S. Government to
continue its support “for the fur
ther implementation of the Bal
four Declaration,” was also told
by the Secretary of State that
the Balfour Declaration has a
roused wide attention in the
United States, and that this coun
try has followed with interest
and sympathy the work which
had been done under it, in which
American citizens have played a
useful part.
The delegation also called on
Sir Gerald Campbell, British Min
ister in Washington, and submit
ted a memorandum declaring that
whatever “the grievances of the
Jewish people with respect to the
restricted policies pursued, more
particularly in recent years, and
however profound the differences
which exist at the moment, the
issuance of the Declaration will
live in the annals of our people as
a memorable act of historic jus
tice and statesmanship performed
by a great people at its truest
and noblest.” The British Gov
ernment is requested in the mem
orandum to continue "its offices
for the full and complete imple
mentation” of the Balfour Declar
ation.
The delegation was composed of
Dr. James G. Heller, president of
the Central Conference of Ameri
can Rabbis; Rabbi B. Levinthal,
presidium member of the Union
of Orthodox Rabbis of America;
Rabbi Louis Levitsky, president
of the Rabbinical Assembly of
America; and Rabbi Joseph H.
Lookstein, president of the Rab
binical Council of America. The
rabbis stated that they represent
ed not only themselves but the
overwhelming majority of the
American Rabbinate.
America Is Outraged By Nazi
Barbarities Against Jews,
“This country was shocked and
outraged, when tyranny and bar
barity again commenced their
march, at the brutality which was
inflicted on certain races, and
particularly on the Jewish popula
tions of Europe,” Secretary Hull
said. “Apparently no form of
abuse has been too great, and no
form of torture or oppression too
vile, to be meted out to these pop
ulations by the Nazi despots.
And, in taking this attitude to
wards the Jewish race, they have
made it plain by concrete acts
that a like attitude would be tak
en towards any other rcae against
whom they might invent a griev
ance.
“The Jews have long sought a
refuge. I believe that we must
have an even wider objective; we
must have a world in which Jews,
like every other race, are free to
abide in peace and honor.”
Churchill, Sikorski
Denounce Nazi
Cruelties
LONDON (JTA)—“The system
atic cruelties to which the Jewish
people, men, women and children,
have been exposed under the Nazi
regime are among the most ter
rible events of history, and have
placed an indelible stain upon all
who perpetrate and instigate
them,” Prime Minister Winston
Churchill declared this week in a
message to a meeting in Albert
Hall called to protest the Nazi
atrocities against the Jews
The Prime Minister’s message
was read by the Archbishop of
Canterbury who declared that “it
is hard to resist the conclusion
that there is a settled purpose to
exterminate the Jewish people if
it can be done.” The average
Briton, the head of the Angelican
! Church stated, is not really aware
of what the Nazis have done to
the Jews.
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