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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
VOL. 18 NO. 43
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Walter Rothschild, chairman of the National Jewish Welfare
Board’s Army and Navy Committee, shown placing a wreath at the
new American military cemetery in England on behalf of the Board
in tribute to all American servicemen buried there. Mr. Rothschild,
now returned to the States, visited Iceland, North Ireland and
England to survey the religious needs of American fighting men
of Jewish faith serving in these areas.
BETWEEN YOU
AND ME
BY BORIS SMOLAR
MARCH OF TIME; The Ital
ian Government, we learn, has
communicated to British authori
ties its readiness to permit the
emigration of Jews from Italy
and Italian-occupied Yugoslavia.
... - It is willing to start with
several hundred Jewish children
all to be comforted by their par
ents . . .-It is understood that
this first group is to proceed to
Palestine ... - Zionist leaders in
America are aware of this pro
posal ...- The Treasury De
partment is now compiling a reg
ister of property held by Ameri
can residents in Axis countries.
... - One need not be an Amer
ican citizen to file a claim . . . -
In fact, the National Refugee
Service is seeing to it that refu
gees do not fail to comply with
the requirements of the Treasury
Department ... - By the time
these lines are published, Dr. J.
N. Steinberg, who has spent sev
eral years in Australia negotiat
ing for a Jewish territory in the
waste lands of Kimberly, will
have arrived in the United States
with a report on his negotiations.
... - From all indications it
seems that Dr. Steinberg has
single-handedly achieved more
than any Jewish organization has
recently accomplished anywhere
in the field of immigration . . . -
The results of his stay In Aus
tralia will be felt as soon as trans
portation facilities can be made
available for Jews in liberated
European countries ... - And
speaking of Jewish settlements, it
'nuy be of interest to the Jewish
Colonization Association to know
that its recent report of fifty
Jears of J. c. A. work in Argen
tina has attracted the attention
of important Washington officials
who are studying the document
w *th great interest .. . -
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER:
With the American Jewish Con
®fence opposing the British
White Paper policy, it is import-
to remember that this docu
me nt contains other restrictions
* n Edition to closing Palestine
or Jew ish immigration .. . -
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1943
These restrictions give the High
Commissioner of Palestine gen
eral powers to prohibit transfers
of land, and provide for the set
ting up in Palestine of an inde
pendent government which would
involve the political subordination
of the Jewish National Home to
an Arab majority ... - It is also
worthwhile to remember that the
Council of League of Nations had
no chance to discuss the White
Paper and that the Mandates
Commission rejected this docu
ment by a vote of four to three.
... - The White Paper is thus
actually illegal, since it was de
clared by the Mandate Commis
sion to be in conflict with Article
VI of the Palestine Mandate ... -
Article VI requires the adminis
tration of Palestine to facilitate
Jewish immigration and to en
courage, in cooperation with the
Jewish Agency, the close settle
ment of Jews on the land • • • '
For those who may not know, it
will be interesting to learn that
Winston Churchill, in 1939, prior
to his becoming Prime Minister,
bitterly criticized the Whte Paper
as a breach of the Balfour Declar
ation ... - Needless to say, he
was not in a position to express
himself so outspokenly after he
became the head of the British
Government . . . -
PRAYER FOR JEWISH
CONFERENCE RECITED
IN CHURCH
Sudbury, Mass. (JPS) —The hope
of Christians for the successful
outcome of the American Jewish
Conference, held in New York,
was expressed in a special prayer
recited in the First Parish, Uni
tarian Church, here by Rev. Karl
M. Chworowsky, Brooklyn Uni
tarian minister.
“We pray,” the minister said
in his extended offering, “that
the sessions of this Conference
may not only make clearer the
way Thy people must go to a
chieve security, justice and peace,
but also the way we, their Christ
ian brothers, must walk with
them to make sure the hastening
of that day when men shall live
toother as brothers, when neith
nor rite W any more
divide them, and when all me
may recognize in Zion the symbo
of unity, of brotherhood, of
peace.”
Jewish Conference Opens to Huge
Assembly As 500 Delegates Meet
Personalities At
The Conference
BY SHIRLEY CHARDKOFF
(Special Southern Jewish Weekly
representative at the American
Jewish Conference)
Henry Minsky: He is doing a
top-grade job as chairman of this
Conference. His is an iron hand
in a kid glove. He possesses a
great deal of charm his pictures
do not reveal.
When he first mentioned in his
opening address “to rebuild their
national homeland” he received an,
ovation. Then he added, "May I
say you made a serious error
when you think I’ve devoted only
one paragraph to Palestine.”—
and he had the grace to blush as
the whole conference laughed
with him.
Stephen Wise: One is left con
scious of his “elocution” and not
swayed by the content of his
words. Is he getting so old?
His horror portrayal of the for
eign scene was a Cecil B. DeMille
production. However, he woke up
to genuine fire (as of old) at
the end of his speech when in a
grand finale he quoted Ben Gur
ion . . . “It would be wrong to
consider the Jew in Palestine in
capable of deeds of despair.”
Judge Joseph M. Proskauer: I
can well believe my colleague,
Carl Alpert, that this was prob
ably the first time he had ad
dressed a public mass meeting.
He shys away from the mike. He
speaks of formula —not of the
birth of a nation. He received a
big hand with his pro-Palestine
commitments,” and speaks of the
“ultimate form” of Palestine,
carefully skirting any pro-Zionist
policy. We held our breath a
Zionist Convention To Open At
Columbus, Ohio September 11-13
Washington, D. C. —Governor
John W. Bricker of Ohio is sched
uled to address the opening ses
sion of the 46th annual Conven
tion of the Zionist Organization
of America which will take place
on September at the Deshler-
Wallack Hotel, Columbus, Ohio,
the national Zionist headquarters
announced here today. At the
same session memorial services
for membere of the armed forces
who died on the battlefield will
be held with Chaplain Isadore
Breslau of Washington, D. C.,
Rabbi Barnett Brickner of Cleve
land, Ohio, and Mr. Ben Kaufman,
national Commander of the Jew
ish War Veterans, officiating.
The war-time annual gathering
of American Zionists will deal
with major issues affecting the
future status of Palestine, the
Jewish position throughout Eu
rope in a post-war world and with
plans for an expansion of Zionist
efforts in this country.
The Palestine situation in the
light of the latest developments
on the war and political fronts
will be reviewed in the annual
message of Judge Louis E. Levin
thal, president of the Zionist
Organization of America.
Among the principal speakers
who will address the sessions de
The American Jewish Conference, the first representa
tive body of American Jewry to meet since December 1918,
opened its first session Sunday afernoon at 3 o’clock, in the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. 500 delegates,
elected from Jewish communities throughout the United
States, were in attendance as well as a visiting audience of
over 1,500 people. Henry Monsky, national president of
B’nai B’rith, delivered the opening address.
“We have come together,” he
declared, “not to adopt or propa
gandize for one or another post
war plan; not to issue public man
ifestos or proclamations in refer
ence to the important role of
Palestine in any such plan; but
rather to take such preliminary
steps as will result in a course
of action and procedure calculated
to accomplish the single objective,
devoutly desired, of some basis of
agreement between the diverse
and conflicting groups that con
stitute the American Jewish com
munity.” So stating the purpose
of the Conference he continued,
“American Jews, in collaboration
with other Jewish communities of
the free countries will be requir
ed to assume a greater measure
of responsibility than at any pre
vious time in the long, dark his
tory of the Jewish people, for
the preservation of the remnant
of Israel in the war devastated
lands and for the establishment
of an acceptable post-war status
of the Jews, after the United
Nations shall have purged the
world of the evil forces that have
so sorely threatened the values —
yes, the whole existence of our
minute thinking he would do a
Louis Marshall, but the able law
yer just gave the semblance of
that greatness. We shall see what
we shall see.
Dr. Israel Goldstein: Dr. Gold
stein is the man who talks “cold
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voted to Palestine and to the
American and world scenes will
be Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Robert
Szold, Louis Lipsky and Dr. Israel
Goldstein of New York; Dr. Solo
mon Goldman of Chicago, Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland,
Ohio; Dr. James G. Heller of Cin
cinnati, and Dr. Nahun Goldmann,
member of the World Zionist
Executive.
William B. Ziff, noted aviation
expert and author of “The Com
ing Battle of Germany,’’ will be
one of the guest speakers at the
sessions, according to a further
announcement by Maurice M.
Boukstein o f New York, Chair
man of the National Convention
Committee.
Delegates representing some
500 Zionist units throughout the
country are expected to attend
the sessions. Plans for increas
ing Zionist participation in the
war effort of the United Nations
will be one of the main items on
the agenda.
JACKSONVILLE DELEGATES
Elected as the five delegates
from the Jacksonville Zionist Dis
trict to attend the convention
were: I. M. Lieberman, Charlesi
Kroser, Rabbi M. D. Margolis and
Abe Newman, and M. Wolfson.
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civilization.”
Claiming that “expressions of
sympathy and compassion will
not save human lives,” Monsky
called for “concrete measures,
promptly planned and expedit
iously executed as the indispens
ible imperative.”
“We must urge the facilitation
of emigration by whatever proper
method it can be brought about,”
he declared. “We are to consider
and recommend action upon all
matters looking to the imple
mentation of the rights of the
Jewish people with respect to
Palestine.”
Monsky decried the flagrant in
justice of the White Paper of
1939. Speaking forceably of the
“cruel and indefensable act” he
asked that justice shall be done.
“As Americans and as Jews, the
cause of the United Nations is
doubly ours,” the president of
B’nai B’rith said and then report
ed the proud record of the Jews
in all the armies of the United
Nations. “The Jews will be a
mong the proud participants in
a common victory,” he continued.
“If after the war is won, we shall
not lose the peace . . . We wont
no special privileges—we ask
only for simple justice and
equality."
Session Devoted To Rescue
Os Jews
The Sunday evening session of
the Conference was devoted en
tirely to the problem of the rescue
of the Jews in Europe. The main
speech was delivered by Dr.
Stephen S. Wise. He was follow
ed by Baruch Kuckerman, Judge
Joseph M. Proskauer, Jacob Wein
berg, Rabbi Israel Goldstein,
Gealiah Bublick and Mrs. David
de Sola Pool.
Delegates From Other American
Countries Also Attend
Official delegates representing
the Jews of Canada, Colombia,
Argentine, Chile and Mexico also
attended the Conference.
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5703 - 1943
*Rosh Chodesh Ellul Sept 1
Rosh Hashonah Sept 30
Fast of Gedaliah Oct. 2
Yom Kippur Oct. 9
Ist Day of Tabernacle.... Oct. 14
Hoshannah-Rabbah Oct. 20
Sh’mini Atzeres Oct. 21
Simchas Torah Oct. 22
Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan Oct. 29
Rosh Chodesh Kislev....Nov. 28
Ist Day of Hanukkah.... Dec. 22
Rosh Chodesh Tebet Dec. 27
* Also observed previous day.
Holidays begin on the evening
preceding dates designated.