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Friday, May 6, 1949
The Southern Jewish Weekly
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Rothenberg Attacks Council For Judaism, Inc.
In lasi week's editorial we defend
ed Judge Morris Rothenberg, who
was viciously accused of un-Ameri
canism for disqualifying himself
from a trial involving the egg-pelt
ing of the anti-Semite, Bevin of
Britain. The charges came from
Professor Milton Konvitz, a spokes
man for the American Council for
Judaism, Incorporated.
We have just received a statement
from Rothenberg, President of the
Jewish National Fund and Acting
National Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, who fur
ther justifies his action, and denounces in strong words the
nefarious conduct of the Council.
The entire statement is as follows:
“Instead of concerning himself with my judicial action
in disqualifying myself to pass upon the charges of Disorder
ly Conduct against some youths who threw missiles at Mr.
Bevin on his recent arrival in New York, I think it would
serve a better purpose if Professor Konvitz and his confreres
in the Council for Judaism would give thought to their own
behavior in.calling into question the Americanism of mil
lions of their fellow Jews who are loyal American citizens,
but who in the‘minds of the Council for Judaism are to be
criticised because they have given support to the aim of the
Zionist movement to establish a Jewish State and home and
happiness and dignity to the tens of thousands of the surviv
ors of the Nazi terror, who desire to live in a land which they
can call their own, like all the peoples of the earth.
"What prompted me to act as I did in the case referred
to was in the interest of fairness, because I had repeatedly
in connection with my Jewish activities, given public ex
pression of resentment shared by countless other American
citizens, Jewish and non-Jewish against Mr. Bevin's grievous
hurt to Israel in admittedly having supported the policy of
furnishing arms to the enemies of Israel which resulted in
the loss of many precious young Jewish lives and resentment
against Mr. Bevin's well known hostility to the entry into
the Jewish homeland of Jewish refugees who had every
right to enter that land under the terms of the Mandate
which Britain held over Palestine... The dark chapter in Cy
prus for which Mr. Bevin was largely responsible is still
fresh in our minds... Under the circumstances, fairness and
judicial correctness dictated that I should not sit in cases in
which Mr. Bevin's person was involved and that I should
pass them on to another judge. I believe every right-think
ing person will understand the propriety of the course I took.
“But what 'will not be understood is the spreading of
vicious and baseless propaganda against Zionists that they
manifest a dual loyalty in their activities to help Israel firm
ly to establish itself as a democracy and to provide the tens
of thousands of hapless Jewish refugees who are pouring in
to Israel with the bare necessities of life until they can be
come self-sustaining. Since when is such a humanitarian
purpose un-American? How can any intelligent American
speak of dual nationalism at a time when the American
Government and the American people are wholeheartedly
committed to giving not merely economic but also military
a id to European democracies to preserve themselves. I fear
that Professor Konvitz is but repeating the outworn argu
ments against Zionism which the Council has advanced over
me years and which have made so little impression upon
Nght-thinking Americans. Every President since Woodrow
Wilson and our own government under the leadership of
President Truman has endorsed the aims and purposes of
the Zionist movement and have not thought of accusing
(Continued on Page Six)
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THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY
Israel's Fourth
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1949, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
America has its Fourth of July,
Israel its Fourth of May. The
one was proclaimed in Philadel
phia, the other in Tel Aviv.
Have you ever thought about
the name Philadelphia? You’ve
seen Jewish congregations which
call themselves “Ahavath Ach
im.” That phrase means “Love
of brothers.” The first syna
gogue I ever attended was called
“Ahavath Achim.” Well, when
Wm. Penn brought his Quakers
over to the Pennsylvania wilder
ness and set up a city, he thought
he would like the city to person
ify the idea of brotherly love, so
he called it Philadelphia, which
is Greek for brotherly love or
“Ahavath Achim.” Penn thus
artificially fashioned a name. He
took an idealistic abstraction and
clothed it with reality.
Some forty odd years ago, the
trickle of Jews who had gather
ed in Palestine decided like Penn
to establish a new city. Like
Penn, they didn’t go looking
through atlases to find some
nice sounding name. They had
been reading Theodore Herzl’s
book, Alt-Neuland, and they said,
we will name it after that book,
for the name of this book really
embodies the idea which ani
mates us, the wedding of all that
is best in the old with all the cre
ative in the new.
But “Altneuland” would have
been somewhat clumsy, just as
calling Philadelphia in English
“Brotherly Love” didn’t seem
quite right. Suppose a man were
shot there and the newspapers
would report, “A Man was Killed
in Brotherly Love Today.” the
phrase into Greek and the word
Philadelphia was born. The Jews
of Palestine translated “Altneu
land” symbolically.
For “alt” or old, they substi
tuted Tel, which is a hill or a
mountain. What can be older
than a mountain?
And for “new” they substituted
Aviv or Spring. What is young
er than ever refreshing Spring?
So it became Tel Aviv.
America’s first Fourth was
proclaimed in Philadelphia, Is
rael’s in Tel Aviv. I don’t know
.whether Israel, now that it has
an Independence Day, will also
fashion for itself, a Liberty Bell.
If it does, it may well copy the
words on America’s Liberty Bell,
for the Philadelphia bell contains
the words from the Hebrew Bi
ble, “Proclaim Liberty to all the
land and all the inhabitants
thereof.”
America borrowed its inscrip
tion on the Liberty Bell from Is
rael of old and modern Israel has
already borrowed much from A
merica, but the accounts will be
squared. We may be sure that
America will borrow a good deal
from the new Israel. This Is
worth thinking about.
Those who think that Israel is
Israel and America is America,
that there is an unbridgeable
dichotomy between them and
should be are laboring under a
terrific delusion.
The whole early history of A
merica refutes the superficial
thought of these people. If
Thomas Paine in “Common
Sense” could quote the prophet
Samuel against monarchy, I fail
to see why it is wrong for A
mericans today to quote Ben
Gurion or Weizmann. The Ameri
can Revolution of 1776 greatly
spurred the beginnings of the'
French Revolution of 1789. When
a nation declares its independ
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Between You and Me . . .
BY BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1949, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
the Israeli delegation at the Arab-Jewish conference which
is now taking place at Lausanne under the auspices of the
U.N. Conciliation Commission has a definite plan regarding
division of the city . . . The plan provides that the new sec
tion of Jerusalem, as well as the Jewish quarter in the Old
City, should become a part of Israel . . . The remainder, con
sisting of the Moslem and Christian quarters of the Old City,
should be ceded to Transjordan . . However, the Holy Places
should be entrusted to a special mixed committee composed
of representatives of Israel and Transjordan, under the
supervision of the United Nations . . . This is in line with the
“Weizmann formula” on Jerusalem which the Israeli Presi
dent enunciated in New York . . . This formula, as well as
the entire text of Dr. Weizmann’s speech delivered at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, had the official approval of the Is
raeli Cabinet . . . All indications point to the fact that the
Pope is far from being satisfied with the “Weizmann formu
la” .... It is known now that Cardinal Spellman visited
President Truman in the White House and had an unusually
long talk with him on Catholic demands with regards to
Jerusalem . . .
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POLITICAL NOTES:
The request voiced by the Pope that
Jerusalem be internationalized is not fa
vored by the American delegation at the
United Nations . . . Nor does the British
delegation at the U.N. intend to stand by
its previous demand for the internation
alization of the city . . . Britain is being
pressured by King Abdullah of Transjor
dan to agree to the division of Jerusalem
between Israel and Transjordan . . . And
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