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AW INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN OF JEWISH FAITH
THE OLDEST'AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL 30 NO. 12
PLAIN TALE
BY ALFRED SEGAL
JEWS AND LOVE
My friend, the lawyer Leonard
Rowe, brings to me a matter 11181
has been Jewishly on my mind
* for quite awhile. It has also been
with me whenever I read sug
i gestions that kindness, mercy and
compassion are the exclusive con
tent of and have their prime ori
gin in the New Testament. (The
Jesus story, t)lat is.)
There is rather an extensive
opinion that our Old Testament
is cruelly vindictive—“eye for
eye, tooth for tooth,” that sort of
thing. Jesus, who, by the way,
was of the Jews, gets the credit
for bringing to the heart of man
kind a new enlightenment of
compassion.
I say this with not the least
i disparagement of Jesus of whom
: I am a sincere admirer. In this
column I have said that if there
were no Jesus, and some have
suggested there never was, it
would have been necessary to in
vent* him for the moral benefit
of a large section of mankind.
Sectarian opinion gives to Jesus
the credit for being the first to
promulgate a great new land of
human relations, because of what
he is quoted as saying in the
'Book of Matthew: “Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart and with all thy soul
5 and with all thy mind. This is the
\ great and first commandment.
; And second, thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself. On these two
commandments the whole law
hangeth, and the prophets.”
On these words rests the fame
of Jesus as a prophet for Godli
. ness and for the idea of men being
good neighbors toward one an
other] though long before Jesus it
was said in the iiook of Leviticus,
Chapter 19, verse 17: "Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself."
And long before him, it was
said in the Book of Deuteronomy
(6-4),: “Thou shalt love Jehovah
thy God with* all thy heart and
with all thy soul and with all thy
might.” (We recite this with the
Sh’ma in the services of the morn
ing and the evening.)
When he preached the love that
is due God and the love that is
due to* neighbors', Jesus, as a very
good Jew, was quoting exactly
words he had learned out of our
Torah.
Knowing all this, my friend
Rowe felt stirred up in his dander,
as they say, when in the recent
brotherhood week he came upon
a full-page advertisement in the
New York Times. The advertise
ment was signed, “Leon Acker
man, 910 Seventeenth Street,
N. W., Washington 6, D. C.”
Byway of promoting the
brotherhood of man, Mr. Acker
man's advertisement said, "Love,
the Greatest Gift. He Who Under
stands Love Understands God, for
God is Love."
Then followed a quotation from
the First Book of Corinthians
(New Testament): “And though I
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Southeast Temple
Youths Hold
Conferences Here
Jacksonville’s Temple Ahavath
Chesed was the scene this past
week-end of the Southeastern
Federation of Temple • Youth’s
convention which featured several
meetings which included reli
gious services, seminars on as
pects of Jewish life,, and social
festivities.
More than 60-teen agers from
Florida, Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina were here for the
youth meetings, with the Temple
Youth Group of Congregation
Ahavath Chesed as host.
The program opened with a
worship service. Preaching the
sermon was Rabbi Allan Tarshish
of Charleston, S. C.
Rabbi Richard Singer of Tem
ple Israel, West Palm Beach, was
the principal speaker at the
luncheon.
Rabbi Tarshish and Rabbi
David Zielonka of' Congregation
Schaari Zedek, Tampa, led discus
sions during afternoon seminars.
Principal speaker at a banquet
in the Temple auditorium was
Miss Eleanor Schwartz, assistant
director of the National Federa
tion of Temple Youth, with head
quarters in the House of Living
Judaism, New York. The banquet
was followed by a dance.
JEWISH CENTER GIVES
SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD
TO CATHOLIC BOY
TAMPA, Fla. The Tampa
Jewish Community Center’s
annual award for outstanding
sportsmanship in high school
athletics was presented this
week to Robert Fernandez, a
Catholic, of Jesuit High School.
McCarthy - the witchhunter
By Nathan Ziprin
The illusion that McCarthyism suffered a
major defeat in the drubbing Wisconsin’s Joe
received over the Bohlen appointment is per
haps more dangerous to the democratic proc
ess than the antics of the Wisconsinite who
now is arrogantly striving to usurp the pre
rogatives and functions of the State Depart
ment. By raising the security issue against
Bohlen when he knew none existed, Joe
established himself in the minds of gullible
millions as a self-proclaimed watchdog over
American safety and as a one-man vigilante
team over the government. His subsequent
denial of intimations that Bohlen was a secur
ity risk was only a blind, since it was coupled
with the shocking thesis that association with
former administrations was per se sufficient
reason for exclusion from participation in the
present government.
If this horrible thinking is carried to its
logical conclusion, the more than twenty
seven million Americans who voted against
a change must live under a cloud of suspicion
for the next four years at least. If this thesis
were to gain credence, it would mean that
elections would no longer mark an orderly
process of change in government but the erec
tion of dangerous walls between the winners
and losers, with consequent recriminations
and purges until the opposition, is totally
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1953
Serves Seven Years
With River Garden
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SIDNEY ENTMAN.
Sidney Entman, executive di
rector of the River Garden He
brew Home for the Aged at 2508
Riverside Avenue, served as
moderator on an important panel
discussion this past week-end at
the Florida State Conference of
Social Welfare held at the George
Washington Hotel. Subject of the
discussion was the. licensing of
nursing homes and homes for the
aged.
Recently over 300 persons at
tended the seventh annual meet
ing and election of the Home.
Re-elected were Harry Gend
zier, president; Ira Stein, honor
ary president; Robert J. Gordon,
first vice president; Ralph Miz
rahi, second vice president; Joe
Becker, treasurer; Irving Klepper,
recording secretary; Dr. Sam Wit
ten, chairman, admissions board,
and Sidney Entman, executive di
rector. ■
Annual reports were given by
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obliterated. This is the seed of totalitarianism.
Party infallibility, it must be remembered, is,
the very meat on which the red dictators are
nourishing themselves.
It will, indeed, be a bleak day in American j
history when a man is penalized or barred
from government participation just because
he was a member of the opposition party, for
it will mark the death knell for the demo
cratic process. •
McCarthy’s bold attempt to interfere in :
matters solely within the province of the;
State Department—such as pacts with for
eign shipowners—is a disconcerting develop
ment on the American scene, for if would
establish the idea of a government within a
government—a function so diabolically exe
cuted by “the party” bosses in the Commu
nist countries. McCarthy’s claim that his pact
with the shipowners was on behalf of the
national interest is a specious ope at best.
Ask any party whip in the Communist coun
tries and he will piously tell you that he is
motivated solely by national interest.
It may have originally been McCarthy’s
ambition to become the country’s chief
witchhunter. He now seems to aspire for new
pastures—to become America’s voice while
stilling the opposition through intimidation
. and smear and posing as the Great Protector
or, more aptly, the Benevolent Despot.
New Book Warns
Nazis Coming Back
BY MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1953, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
*****
—WASHINGTON
State Department and Pentagon officials, who have hushed up
the ant potentialities of a remilitarized .Western Germany,
find themselves confronted with the publication of an embarrassing
book. It appeared in Washington co-incidental with the arrival of
German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
ABERG'S ANTI-JEWISH
LEAFLETS SENT TO ALL
WEST GERMAN DEPUTIES
BONN, (JTA) All members
of the German Federal Parlia
ment have received savage Jew
baiting leaflets signed by Swed
en’s notorious Einar Aberg, but
mailed in the German city of
Neuss, near Cologne. Claiming
that General Mark Clark is Jew
ish and President Eisenhower of
Jewish descent, the text threatens
that, if a third world war should
break out, none of the “Jewish
war criminals” will survive the
following 24 hours.
VIENNA COMMUNISTS IN
1 TROUBLE OVER JEWISH
VOTE EXPLANATION
VIENNA, .(JTA) Efforts of
Vienna Communist Party officials
to blame the poor showing of the
party in the recent Parliamentary
elections on the defection of Jew
ish voters in the Soviet-occupied
districts Vienna because of
Communist anti-Semitism, have
brought them into hot water.
Top leaders of the party reject
ed this -excuse and castigated
their ward captains for failing to
“enlighten” the Jewish voters on
the “true nature” of Communist
policy.
Entitled “Germany Plots With
the Kremlin,” the book is by T. H.
Tetens, an American of German
origin who did confidential work
for the government during World
War 11. Tetens reveals Nazi docu
ments, never before published and
reports that the State Department
and Pentagon have rebuilt Ger
many along lines planned by Nazi
geo-politicians. The book assails
Dr. Adenauer as the “old fox”
who has duped the United States.
It charges that Bonn will betray
the West by negotiating with the
Soviet Union when it best suits
German interests. Another revela
tion is a blueprint for German
domination of the Middle East, A
plan already being implemented
by Adenauer, it says.
'On the basis of the endorsement
by the Bundestag of the Israel
reparations agreement and treat
ies making possible the remilitari
zation of Germany, Dr. Adenauer
can claim favorable treatment in
Washington. Our diplomats and
generals are so delighted with the
prospect of restoring German
militarism as a "bulwark" against
Communism they have paid no
attention to the nature of storm
troopers to be re-armed.
Former General Adolf Heusing
er, leading military planner in the
Bonn Government, has praised
Col. Gen. Alfred Jodi, Nazi Chief
of Staff who was hanged for war
crimes by the Allies. Heusinger
came to Jodi’s defense during
post-mortem legal proceedings in
February. In a written affidavit
read to the court, Heusinger said
Jodi was a “thoroughly decent
man filled with soldierly spirit.”
When the British arrested
seven former Nazis in the British
zone in January, they confiscated
30 crates of incriminating docu
ments. British Foreign Office
sources said that documents re
vealed connections between neo-
Nazis and officials in the office
of Theodor Blank who is, in ef
fect, Defense Minister of the Bonn
Government. Dr. Adenauer de-'
manded that the documents and
the prisoners be turned over to
Bonn authorities. The British
complied.
A new Gallup poll indicated
that 30 percent of Americans feel
that “much chance” exists for the
Nazis to regain power. Against
this background, the Tetens book
lays bare the blackmail practiced
by Bonn and appeasement by
Washington to secure German
“cooperation” against the Soviet
Union. Tins “cooperation” will
prove illusory when the Germans
are strong enough to proclaim
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