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VOL. 28 NO. 52
PLAIN TALK
BY ALFRED SEGAL
FOR FATHER DONOVAN
I must speak to Father Victor
Donovan C. P. (Passionist father
at the monastery in Dunkirk, N.
Y.) who, in an article in the
Catholic journal "America."
brings up our Channuka in rela
tion to Christian theology.
He recalls that the Jews, on the
Channuka feast, came to Jesus ..
“He told them," says Father Don
ovan, “that his works proved him
to be the Christ and the Son of
God. In this way our Lord
brought out the spiritual mean
ing of Channuka."
Channuka, as the Jews know
it, according to Father Donovan
merely "is concerned with what
happened to a material building
of stone (he means the temple)
that once stood in Jerusalem 164
years before Christ."
The Catholics, lie says, know
Channuka as a more spiritual ex
pression ... ‘The day of our bap
tism was our Channuka,” he says
speaking for the Catholics, “our
souls’ dedication to the worship
of God, as well as its purification
from the defilement of an evil
spirit, Satan."
What Father Donovan appar
ently means to say is that to the
Jews this Feast of Lights means
only an occasion that celebrates
the purification and re-dedication
of the Jerusalem temple after the
Maccabees had won it back from
the pagans. It seems, according to
Father Donovan, that we miss its
spiritual significance.
He had hope for us though. He
looks forward to a time when we
will light our Channuka candles
with complete understanding of
what it’s all about in its deeper
meaning .. . “Speed the day,” he
says hopefully, “in which the Jew
will light the Menorah that does
not fail His faith in Jesus
Christ, the Messias."
Yes, I must bring to Father
Donovan's mind the true illumi
nation of the eight Channuka
lights. Channuka, as every Jew
joyously knows, has to do‘with
one of the victories—the first
one, in fact—of religious liberty.
The alien king who had attempt
ed to impose his own pagan wor
ship on all Jerusalem and its en
virons is defeated by the lesser
army of the Jewish people. That
achievement of the human spirit
is what Channuka gratefully no
tices. Channuka is a notice to the
arrogant of what may happen to
powers that attempt to establish
their own religion as the compul
sory religion of a state or nation.
Channuka celebrates a victorious
day for the rights of the indivi
dual conscience. The idea of
Channuka is in the first article of
the U. S. Constitution's BUI of
Bights in which church and Stats
are made separate.
Reported International
Meeting of Former
S. S. Men Planned
For Spring
Organizations of German vet
erans of World War 11, despite
the fact that their existence is
strictly forbidden by Allied and
German legislation, are gaining
strength rapidly in West Ger
many and showing alarming
rightist tendencies, it was re
vealed by the Institute of Jewish
Affairs of the World Jewish Con
gress in the current issue of its
bulletin, “Information on Ger
many.”
While the first German veter
ans organizations were formed to
protect the social and economic
interests of ex-servicemen, they
are becoming increasingly con
cerned with politics and in a
number of cases their leadership
has been captured by former
Nazi generals, the study reported.
The Hamburg meeting heard
former S. S. General Gille an
nounce that a large international
meeting of ex-S.S. men would be
held in *the spring of 1952 and
that representatives from France,
Belgium, Holland, Denmark,
Sweden, and Norway had al
ready signified their intention to
attend. The initiative for this
meeting reportedly originated in
Spain, where S. S. General
Skorzeny and other ex-S.S. offi
cers have found refuge.
The World Jewish Congress re
port also warned that a number
of these veterans organizations
were backing the views of neo-
Nazi political groups and were
being used, in fact, to strengthen
the resurgence of Nazism in Ger
many.
Florida Outrages 'Worse Blot' On
America, McGrath Told
A wave of protests against re
cent Florida outrages piled up in
the U. S. Attorney General’s of
fice in Washington on the eve of
the disclosure that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation had offi
cially been ordered to track down
the racial terrorists.
The attacks were decried by
officials of Freedom House in
New York City as “the worst blot
on the American scene in recent
times.”
The group wired McGrath
shortly before his announcement
the FBI was actively seeking the
TNT culprits that action by the
Federal government was essen
tial to ending, the terror reign.
The protest followed on the
heels of a wire to McGrath from
Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, presi
dent of the Detroit Jewish'Com
munity Council, who asserted
that “no life of any decent Amer
ican is safe” until the Florida
outrages, including the murder of
Negro leader Harry T. Moore,
were ended, the criminals appre
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1952
Our 28th
Anniversary
The next issue of The
Southern Jewish Weekly will
commemorate the 28th year of
our publishing. This week's
issue has been reduced to six
pages to enable our printers to
devote more time to the 48-
page edition coming out on
January 25th.
FBI Hunts
Florida Terrorists
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion was officially ordered to
clean up the Florida mess by
Attorney General J. Howard Mc-
Grath this week as a nation-wide
campaign to discourage resort
trade to the Miami area got
underway.
McGrath, who said he would
worry later about the question of
Federal-State jurisdiction in the
outrages, cleared the legal road
block following a conference
with top Jewish and Negro lead
ers. FBI entrv into the case—
agents previously had concen
trated on determining whether
the blasts against Jewish centers
and Negro housing projects con
stitute a violation of Federal
statues —marked a new highpoint
in the jumpy Florida racial
arena.
Meanwhile, a nationwide boy
cott of the vacationland by the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
failed to show any immediate re
sults. A check by the American
Jewish Press of train, air and bus
agencies in major U. S. cities fail
ed to disclose any decrease in the
number of persons making the
Southern junket to the Miami
area.
hended and punishment imposed.
A double-barreled proposal to
end the terror-reign in Florida
emanated from the Jewish Labor
Committee at the week’s close.
Emanuel Muravchick, director of
the Anti-Discrimination Depart
ment of the JLC, urged the es
tablishment of an inter-group
council in that state to lessen
racial and religious tensions and
the elimination in Miami Beach
of “precedent prohibiting" Ne
groes from being on the streets
after dark.
Muravchick, who issued a
statement after a survey of the
sites of the recent Florida dis
turbances, took sharp exception
with the 'theory that the out
breaks “were the work of indivi
duals or isolated acts in them
selves.”
“These multiple bombings are
possible,” he said, “only in an
atmosphere of bigotry and under
local and state administrations
which tolerate terror.”
Israel Actress To Address Joint
Meeting of Local Zionist Groups
BY SYLVIA KRAEMER
Miss Irene Broza, young Israeli
actress who for the past 2 years
has served as assistant to the Di
rector General of the Israel For
eign Office, will be the guest
speaker at the joint meeting of
all the local Zionist groups on
January*23 at 8 P. M. in the Jew
ish Center. The meeting has be
come an annual event to
strengthen cooperative relation
ships among the following par
ticipating groups: Senior Hadas
sah, Junior Hadassah, Hannah
Senesh Session, The Zionists Or
ganization of America and the
You-ng Zionists or Masada.
Presiding will be Mrs. Herbert
Panken, Senior Hadassah’s presi
dent. Also present will be Dr. Roy
J. Sloat, president of the Zionist
Organization of America; Junior
Hadassah’s president, Miss Bobby
Shulman; Young Zionists’ presi
dent, Hy Kaufman; and Mrs. I.
Bruckner, Hannah Senesh Ses
sion Chairman. After a few words
of greeting from the presidents
of the various organizations, Miss
Broza will address the group on
Hadassah’s achievements in Is
rael.
Miss Broza was born and raised
in London and was reared in a
strictly orthodox environment.
Early in her life she became ac
tive in Habonim, the labor Zion
ist youth movement. In 1935,
Miss Broza and her family left
for Palestine where they settled
in Tel Aviv. Five years later,
Miss Broza joined the adminis
trative staff of the British naval
headquarters in Haifa. From 1941
until the end of World War 11,
she served as administrative as
sistant in the British Embassy in
Cairo, making valuable contacts
with top diplomats that were to
play an important role in her fu
ture career.
It was while she was in the
British Embassy that Miss Broza
joined a British camp show com
pany and played with many dis
tinguished actors before service-
Morgenthau Predicts
Israel 'Self-Sufficient'
In 6 Years
NEW YORK CITY (AJP) —An
end of immigration coupled with
“self-sufficiency” looms for Israel
within six years, Henry Morgen
thau, Jr., chairman of the $500,-
000,000 Israel Bond Drive, pre
dicted this week upon his return
to the U. S. from the Jewish
State.
Morgenthau, returning from a
five-week honeymoon which in
cluded stop-overs in Europe and
a visit to the Jewish State told
newsmen he believed Israel
would be “self-sufficient” five
years after immigration ceased.
The Jewish leader estimated that
immigration would be halted in
about a year.
men at army camps and hospi
tals.
Meyer Levin, then in Israel to
produce a motion picture saw
Miss Broza’s photograph and of
fered her the featured role of
Miriam in “My Father’s House.”
This film, taken “on location” in
such Youth Aliyah centers as
Meier Shefeyah, Ben Shemen,
and Degania, and also in Hadas
sah’s hospital on Mount Scopus,
has since been shown to enthusi
astic audiences throughout the
United States and Europe.
After this intimate experience
with Youth Aliyah, Miss Broza
became a staunch champion. In
Switzerland, after attending the
1946 World Zionist Congress, she
organized a Youth Aliyah cam
paign for funds which resulted in
the founding of a special center
for problem children at Kiryat
Yearim, opposite the Eddie Can
tor Village. Following this suc
cess, she launched a Youth Ali
yah drive in England, reaching
tens of thousands of workers in
hundreds of factories.
Returning to Palestine in 1948,
Miss Broza prepared to play an
other role—this time in her coun
try’s war of liberation. She
served as liaison officer and con
fidential assistant to Colonel .
David “Mickey” Marcus, as Eng
lish announcer on Tel Aviv radio
station, Kol Israel, and since 1949
in the diplomatic service of her
country.
She was a member of Israel’s
delegation to the UN conciliation
sessions, to the Rhodes peace
talks and to the UNESCO Theat
re Conference. She has now oc
cupied her present administrative
post in the Israel Foreign Minis
try since Sept. 1949. Her appear
ance in Jacksonville will be a
part of her first tour of this coun
try.
Following the meeting, a Social
hour will be held during which
all Hadassah groups will serve as
hostesses. Hostesses for Senior
Hadassah will be Mrs. Harry
Hinden, Mrs." Joseph Becker,
Mrs. Marx Baker, Mrs. M. Bono,
Mrs. A. Fagan, Mrs. Joseph
Strauss, Mrs. Joseph Grossberg,
Mrs. Hyman Selber, Mrs. Rose
Sloat, Mrs. Si Sobel. Hostesses for
the Hannah Senech Session win
include Mrs. Rose Barnett,* Mrs.
Gertrude Exton, Mrs. Mel Poses,
Miss Mildred .Blume. Hostesses
for Junior Hadassah will be Miss
Bobby Shulman, Miss Rita Eskin,
Miss Helen Witten, Miss Ann
Margolin, Miss Irma Weiss.
The meeting is open to the
public and everyone interested is
invited to attend.
Miss Broza will also be the
featured speaker at an Oneg
Shabbot lunch, Saturday, Janu
ary 26th at 12:30 P. M. at the
Seminole Hotel. All interested
members of Hadassah are wel
come to attend. Fo£sreservations
for the lunch, telephone Mrs.
Harry Katz at 9-6087 or Mrs. Alee
Rothstein at 9-2025.
$3.00 A YEAH