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November, 1945
CHANUKAH: 1945
By BERNARD LERNER
Copyright 1945 by Independent
Jewish Press Service, Inc.
*
Let us take a world tour of
this occasion of Chanukah, 1945!
The enemy is vanquished. In
Belsen the killers of a third of our
people faced trial. They were
arrogant, defiant, and had reason
to be. The allied cause provid
ed them with defense attorneys,
one of whom modestly describ
ed himself as a “mouthpiece for
them, labelling the Jews “dregs
of the ghetto”, whose death was
little loss to the world, and ex
pressing the “objective” opinion
that, after all, the torture of Eu
ropean Jewry may not have been
such a terrible crime —for the
torturers had scientific ends in
mind. They used the Jews as
guinea pigs, thus probably ben
efiting science. What better fate
can a Jew expect, than to be a
guinea pig for German science?
Let us remember on this Chan
ukah the hate-fomenting address
of Foreign Secretary Bevin, who
admonished the guinea pigs of
Nazi experiments in science and
imperialistic solutions not to “get
ahead of the queue.”
Let us remember on this Chan
ukah the plight of the Jews in
camps in Germany. 1 Yesterday’s
death camps are still death
camps. This time it is slow death,
by attrition, moral as well as
physical. Correspondents tell the
story of cpffin-size lebensraum al
lotted to the Jews in Germany
by the Allied authorities. Their
conditions, temporarily improv
ed following the Harrison report
and the admonitions of Eisenhow
er, have again deteriorated.
Chanukah, 1945. Jews fleeing
from Poland, where the Govern
ment’s intentions are good, but
the intentions of the populace,
and its actions, are still unchang
ed, in its great Christian zeal
stimulated by anxiety lest there
still remain somewhere a distant
uncrucified kin of Christ.
Chanukah, 1945. Holiday of
Jewish liberation. Jews, scatter
ed over the map of Europe, “lib
erated” Jews, are pleading in vain
for admission into Palestine, in
some cases fighting in vain against
repatriation.
Chanukah, 1945. The Mufti of
Jerusalem, harbored in France,
coddled by the imperialism of
France and Britain, has been
elected Chairman of the recon
stituted Arab Higher Committee,
through the intercession of the
Arab League. No act of defiance
this. The League is Britain’s
creation. The League has receiv-
CHANUKAH
GREETINGS
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Jewelry Co.
30 W. FORSYTH ST.
TELEPHONE 5-0372
“We wish to take this means of wishing ALL the Jewish people a very
Happy Chanukah
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Featuring electrical appliances of all kinds.
We HAVE them, when others don't.
334 W. Forsyth Street Jacksonville, Florida . Phone 5-0071
SMILE OF FREEDOM
lli
She thought she’d never smile again,
but today, after seven years of home*
lessness, 19-year-old Lore Blank, a refu
gee girl whose parents died during the
family’s imprisonment in three Nazi
concentration camps, has reason to feel
cheerful. The National Refugee Serv
ice, which is financed by the United
Jewish Appeal, located her uncle, Dr.
Frederick Blank, in New York City,
and Lore is on her way from Europe to
join him. More good news awaits her
Here—her brother, who escaped and
joined the underground, has been
located through NRS in the Nether
lands.
ed a go-ahead signal. The Chief
of British Intelligence in Cairo
has personally undertaken to in
tervene for the Mufti’s return.
Chanukah, 1945. Palestine Jew
ry is the heir of the Maccabees
in no metaphorical sense, but in
a very real and grim sense. It
has a job on its hands more try
ing than that of the Maccabees.
It has on its hands, not alone a
fight against the enemy trying to
suppress the Jewish people in its
own homeland, but the additional
job of assembling Jews from all
over the world, victims of Eu
ropean and Arab Nazism and
sanctimonious British socialist
imperialism into Palestine, des
pite all barriers.
It isn’t the oil in the Temple’s
lamps that is running low, as in
the days of the Maccabess. It is
Jewish life that is running out
rapidly* the world over. Will the
Jews overcome the tremendous
obstacles? The answer is partly
dependent on us. Will we con
tinue applauding pledges made in
bad faith, and hail as humanitar
ian every kind of political evas
ion by vote-baiters? Lives are
dependent upon our behavior.
PRIDE CAN SAVE US!
WE EXTEND GREETINGS TO OUR JEWISH FRIENDS ON THE OCCASION OF CHANUKAH
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THE SOUTHERN JEWISH MONTHLY
Do Palestine Jews
Have “Piece of
Atom Bomb?”
TEL AVIV, (JTA) From
three sources this week came the
story of how recently a group
of Arabs visited the Jewish set
tlement at Kfar Saba and said
to its leaders:
“Let’s roast a lamb and hold a
peace festival” (the traditional
Arab ceremony signalling the end
of hostilities).
The surprised Jewish settlers
asked, as one man:
“But why? we had one two
months ago.”
Since the Arabs insisted, the
lamb was roasted and the peace
festival duly celebrated.
Subsequently, the Jews of Kfar
Saba learned the reason for the
Arabs’ insistence. The Arabs had
heard that the Jews had a “piece
of the atomic bomb,” and they
wanted to determine the truth or
otherwise of that report.
One Jew who told the story
said:
“We let them believe it. Why
shouldn’t we?”
Chanukah Greetings
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For the finest in Beauty
Work whether it’s a mani
cure, a permanent or a se
ries of slenderizing treat
ments.
29 W. Monroe St.
Phone 5-5081
BEST WISHES
FOR
CHANUKAH
★
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MATHER CO.
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“GOOD AND BAD
FURNITURE”
★
201 E. FORSYTH STREET
PHONE 5-3120
Chanukah Greetings To Our Friends and Patrons
Hawkins Grocery and Market
16th and MAIN STS. CALL 5-5927
Chanukah Greetings From
ELI EDWARDS
OWNER SMITH & EDWARDS GARAGE
Complete Automotive Work Body and Fender Painting
702 W. ADAMS ST. PHONE 5-0781
“SEASON’S GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES *
FOR A HAPPY CHANUKAH”
I
Greyhound Bus Depot, Inc.
—Ticket Office:—
233 W. FORSYTH PHONE 5-6171
SEASON’S GREETINGS
We wish to announce to our many friends the formation of a
partnership to engage in the REAL ESTATE and RENTAL
business.
FOLAND and HIGBEE
Russell C. Foland John H. Higbee, Jr.
325 West Forsyth Street Phone 5-4396
Best Wishes for Chanukah
HOMESTEAD TAX
Many home owners were wholly exempt from county
tax last year this year there is a small tax on many
of them.
Call for your bill—we are ready to serve you.
CLYDE H. SIMPSON
County Tax Collector
GREETINGS FROM
JACKSONVILLE’S NEWEST GUEST HOUSE
THE RIVERSIDE INN
2538 RIVERSIDE AVENUE
Full Course Dinner for $1.25
ALSO BEAUTIFUL GUEST ROOMS
Transit and Special Weekly Rates Phone 7-6588
MRS. LILLIAN HOY, Mgr.
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