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The Southern Jewish Weekly is published monthly for the duration
OL. 19 NO. 4
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■The Synagogue Council of America issues its
Bssover message in this year 1944—a year of
Bstiny for the world.
■The clouds are beginning to lift and the first
■vs of the new dawn are struggling to appear on
Be horizon. The forces of liberation are definite
lon the march to victory. Large sections of en-
Bved lands have already been liberated from the
Hke of the oppressor. All of North Africa, Sicily,
Buthern Italy, and almost all of the occupied
Britory of Russia are now free. The hearts of
Hen and women throughout the world are filled
Hth new hope for the speedy and complete vic-
By of the United Nations.
■The Passover Holiday, the sign and symbol of a
Hople’s successful struggle for liberty will this
Bar too give strength and courage to the fettered
Bd enslaved survivors of our people and of other
Boples in the lands* of Nazi dominated Europe.
Beir battle for freedom Is part of the pattern of
He historic struggle of the human soul against all
Hrms of degrading bondage experienced by human
Bings. This historic struggle for freedom is part
H the nature of the Almighty Himself. In the
Bst of the Ten Commandments God discloses His
■entity in terms of one “Who brought thee out of
tescue And Resettlement Again In The Promised Land
■PASSOVER, symbolizing the Rescue and Deliv
lance of the Children of Israel from the tyranny
I Egypt, brings a message of singular timeliness
I the Spring of 1944, when the liberating forces of
|e United Nations, by land and air blows, are
ply hammering at the cracking walls of Hitler’s
Iwtress Europe, and the problem of Rescue for
Be surviving remnants of European Jewry is
fcsuming a terrifyingly urgent signifigance. The
koto-montage above, released by the Jewish at
hal Fund in elucidation of its “Land for Rescue”
Bo gram in Palestine, conveys a visual picture of
le significance of this program in the terms of
iscue and rehabilitation.
ON PESACH EVE
On the evening of April 7,
hundreds of thousands of Jew
ish men and women in uniform
ill over the world will sit down
a t a traditional Passover Seder
service, symbolic of the age-old
struggle against tyranny.
Holding a piece of unleaven
ed bread, the Jewish warriors
on the invasion beachheads, on
the ships at sea, in jungle
clearings and desert camps
chant the opening prayer
the Seder service: “This
jread of affliction . . . . ”
That passage ends with the
>rophetic words: “next year all
nankind will be free.”
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED
Protestant Ministers Demand Arrest
Os Anti-Semitic Hoodlums In Boston
BOSTON (JT A)— Representa
tives of 300 Protestant ministers
in Greater Boston called on the
Commissioner to make arrests if
further disturbances similar to the
assault on 15 members of a vet
erans’ band by a group of anti-
Semitic hoodlums occur.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith, New Eng
land regional office, commended
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
whose Malden (Boston suburb)
Post sponsors the band, and the
Jewish War Veterans of Malden,
JACKSONBILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1944
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage”.
It is as the God of Liberation that Israel recog
nizes the Almighty. For an Israel enslaved in
Effypt cannot be expected fully to recognize God
and establish His Law as the moral basis of His
existence. Israel as any people must first be free.
Then only can he hear the voice of God on Sinai
and accept the Torah.
“Let my people go, so that they may serve me”
was the principle enunciated in the Passover story
of Israel’s liberation. That principle is as valid in
our own fateful days as it was in the days of the
Pharaohs. The peoples of the earth look to the
God of liberty to help the United Nations win
speedy victory over the monstrous legions of the
Nazi hordes that have over-run and enslaved so
many nations and peoples.
Let Israel’s faith in God never falter, and let not
the nations of the earth ever despair of the victory
that is sure to come. Many are the sacrifices still
ahead, long and uphill is the road; but the day of
the oppressor is certain to end and the liberated
peoples of the earth will again sing a poem of
praise to God even as Moses and Israel sang their
song to God on the shores of the Red Sea.
1) RESCUED AND RE-UNITED: Grandmother,
mother and baby were among the 411 refugees
from Poland who, having traversed the expanse of
the U. S. S. R. and suffered indescribable hard
ships in Iran, recently arrived in Palestine. 2) ON
THE RAILROAD TRACKS, at Athlith, Palestine,
the refugee mother, with a baby bom while en
route, await the train that will bring them to one
of the settlements on the land of the Jewish Nat
ional Fund where they will be housed and cared
for. 3) A JEWISH STATION MASTER of the
Palestine railways is overcome with joy as he
recognizes a brother of his among the newly
arrived refugees.
JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
for “their determination to in
vestigate the entire affair and its
anti-American implications.
Last week’s incident occurred at
the conclusion of the annual Evac
uation Day parade when a group
of anti-Semitic youths spied Sea
man Albert Cohen, who was
marching with a band from the
Malden Post of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. After passing sev
eral derogatory remarks about
Cohen and several other Jewish
members of the band, the hood
lums attacked them,
An Independent Newspaper Serving American Citizens of Jewish Faith
Roosevelt Gets Plea For
Free Entry to Palestine
WASHINGTON (JTA) —Inquiries made by the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency this week in authoritative quarters
here elicited the reply that American Jews are barred from
immigrating to Paleestine as a result of the British White
Paper ban on all Jewish immigration to Palestine.
No distinction will be drawn
between American Jews and Jews
of other countries with regard to
the ban on Jewish entry to Pales
tine, the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency was told. The State De
partment could give no informa
tion on this subject while the
British Embassy refused to make
any official statement.
There are at present several
thousand American Jews in Pales
tine, most of them elderly Jews
who because of religious attach
ment to the land of their fore
fathers, have made Jerusalem
their permanent home.
No obstacles have hitherto been
placed in the way of Jews enter
ing Palestine on permanent visas.
The present ban on Jewish immi
gration to Palestine, however, will
I make it legally impossible for any
| American Jew to take up perman
ent residence there, while no such
| restrictions will apply to non-
Jews.
Situation Compared With Ban On
American Jews In Czarist Russia
It was recalled here that the
situation in Palestine may re
semble that which prevailed in
j Czarist Russia where Jewish hold
! ers of American passports were
barred from residence in the sec
tions of Russia closed to Jews in
general. This resulted in an ex
change of correspondence between
the State Department and the
Czarist Government and caused
the abrogation of the U. S. treaty
of 1832 with Russia in 1911 fol
i
lowing a resolution to this effect
adopted in both houses of Con
gress.
It was also recalled here that
the State Department toward the
end of the last century protested
to the Turkish Government when
American Jews were refused ad
mission to Palestine which, at
that time, was a part of Turkey.
At present, since Palestine is a
mandated territory in which the
interests of American citizens are
specifically protected by special
provisions, the ban on immigra
tion of American Jews for perm
anent residence in Jerusalem or
any other part of Palestine would
be contrary to America’s stipula
tions with regard to the mandate.
At the same time, the admittance
of American Jews would be con
trary to the restrictions of the
White Paper.
Diplomatic circles here predict
ed that the ban of Jewish immi
gration to Palestine —excepting
the 20,000 Jewish refugees who
can still come there under the
White Paper quota —will probably
remain in effect until the end of
the war. They based their obser
vations on the fact that President
Roosevelt, in his statement last
week, emphasized that the Pales
tine problem is a civilian question
for the future to be worked out
in connection with the peace.
Zionist Leaders Refrain From
Commenting On Roosevelt’s
Statement
Zionist leaders, though appar
ently disappointed, refused to
comment on President Roosevelt’s
statement, which is considered a
blow to Zionist efforts and to the
work of rescuing Jews from occu
pied Europe. Disappointment at
“the President’s attitude” was
expressed by Senator Edwin C.
Johnson, Colorado Democrat, and
Senator Bennett C. Clark, Missouri
Democrat. The latter, who led
an hour-long debate in the Senate
this week, declared that the Presi
dent’s statement still presented no
bar to Senate action on the Pales
tine resolution.
President Roosevelt’s statement,
made at his press conference,
came as a shock to all members
of Congress who have gone on
record as supporters of Jewish
immigration to Palestine. The
President said that his views on
Palestine, as expressed through
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and Dr.
Stephen S. Wise recently, con
formed to, rather than conflicted
with, the position taken by the
War Department.
Arab Consent To Further Jewish
Immigration Required
The Jewish population here is
especially bitter over the fact that
any further Jewish immigration
to Palestine —except for the 20,-
000 Jewish refugees who can still
come in under the unfilled quota—
is contingent on approval by the
Arabs. Jewish leaders consider
it a breach of faith in view of the
fact that the Arabs have taken
a “neutral” position in the pres
ent war, while the Jews of Pales
tine have given 40,000 volunteers
to the British armed forces, many
of whom have distinguished
themselves in the African cam
paign.
The White Paper, in addition to
stopping further Jewish immigra
tion, also makes the Jewish posi
tion in Palestine precarious by
prohibiting and restricting sale of
land,to Jews in Palestine and by
providing for the establishment of
Palestine as an independent state
in 1949, in which the Jews are to
be called a one-third minority.
(In London, members of the
House of Commons this week
urged the admission of J ewish
refugees to Palestine regardless
of the quota set by the White
Paper. Foreign Secretary Eden
was asked to re-admit to Pales
tine the 1,400 Jewish refugees
who were deported as “illegal im
migrants” to the Island of Maur
itius. He replied that he was
“not aware of this deportation.”)
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5703 - 1943
Passover April 8
Lag B’omer May 11
Shovuos May 28
Fast of Av. July 30
* Also observed previous day.
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