Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1942-12-18

              JWRONICLE
2^ \\yy   Serving Coltunbus and Central Ohk) Jewish Community \jl\^
Vol. 21, No. ,'il
fOLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY,  DKCEMBEIl   18,   IIMZ
Devoted     to    American nnd    .lewish    IdenU
Strictly Confidential
- TIdhllM Prom  ICvcrj-ivlit-re By  Phlnrns .1.  Blron
COMMKNT
SB You've no doubt noted that the proposed Austrian military unit sanctioned hy the U. S. War Department In answer lo Otto of Hapsburg's offer Is encountering stormy weather . . . And truly Richard Schuller. Max Ueln- hardt, Wolfgang Korngold, Har- on Louis Hothschlld, Bruno Wal ter and - Walter Ooldschmid should have known better than to affix their signatures to the call of Otto's "Military Commil
EARLY DEADUNE!
On account of ChristinaN holiday next Friday, Pec. 2.5th, all news mailer and so¬ cial Items MUST reach the CHBONKLK O F P IC E no lat(>r (Iiiin Tuesday noon, Dec. 22nd.
Tlio cooperation of all or- guni7.tdions us well as individ¬ uals will be opprcrlated hy the Editorial Staff.
Ohio Jewish Chronicle
PHONE Al). 2».'54
Over 500 Attend 14th Annual Hadassah Donor Dinner
tee   for  the  Liberation  of  Aus¬ tria" . . . After all. Otto hardly symbolizes the kind of Austria uie people ot that unhappy coun¬ try are entitled to after all this blood shed ... All of which re¬ minds  us  that  Stanley   Walker the famous editor, has come out with  the Ironic suggestion that the    proposctt    .lewish    Army should have an Otto (H. Kahn) Battalion . . , .IOI>S0N  lUSItlKT SS W'e Intervlewetl Al .lolson the other day, and found him look¬ ing better than ever ...   In  fe- cent months  he's been all over the   map   enterlalnlng   soldiers and right now he's waiting to go lo Australia . . . "I'm o\er fifty, and no longer afraid", ho grins. .  .  .   I've been In ah- raids and under artillery fire, and i don't mind It" . . . Al has a hetiri of gold . . . After reading Pierre van I'aa.s.sen's  open   letter,   "To   the Conscience tif America",  in  the New York Times recently, he im¬ mediately made ari'angements to have It published In a two-page ad In Variety . . . And did you notice the drawing Arthur Szyk made   for  the Committee  for  a Jewish Army, showing a. sokller of the Jewish Army-to-be carry Ing an old Jew, a victim of Hit¬ ler's cruelty? . . . Al Is using It on   his   Christmas cards,   to mind   the  Christian   workl   that the  Jew   is still   Itclng  houndetl mercilessly  .  .  . Jolsiiii, you  re-1 member, was In KiiglaiKl during! the Mlgh   Holy   Days  this  .\eui', i and the day before Yom Kii)|mr a high English officer asked him to  visit a  ho.spltal  of .''ilKI  men, eight of them Jews .  .  . .So he; went there, and sang Kol Nldrej to the patients In the Inlmltahlel Jolson manner ... No man can be more unaffected than Jolson ... In the middle of oui- conver¬ sation, while speaking of a song, he suddenly said: "Let me sing it tor you" — and oft he went, giving  us   a  million-dollar  per¬ formance . . . Al Jolson still is tops . . . And while he makes a lot ot money, that Isn't his am¬ bition at all . . . "What I'd like", he says, "would be to get a pri¬ vate bomber and give a solo per- (Continued on Page Eight)
li.abbi J. L. Llebman's inability to cfimc to Columbus as lladas- stih's Donor Dinner speaker, and Dr. .h'lmcs O, Heller, who had bookcil passage on a plane to Co¬ lumbus, but found later that all air I ravel had been suspended flue to bad weather, created a I'cjil cnicfgcncy for the commit Ice on arningements for this big event of the year helil last Sun (lay at the Nell House.
However, Rabbi Harry Kaplan (iii-ector of the li'nai B'rlth Hlllel Koundallon at Ohio Slate ilni verslly, not only 'filled the bill' but {icllverod one of the most inspiring messages hoard in Co- Itimbtis in recent years. He was introduced by K. .1. Schanfarber, who in well chosen words, de- scriliod the speakers' situation of 1 liHl:i.-.s;iii a.s something they had 'nothing In worry about' with siicli Infill ttiloni in our midst as Htiblii Kiipltin. Hlghllghls of Kahhi's Mcssage In reviewing the important rnlc iilayod by Palestine, past tind pi-osont, Kjibhl Kaplan sttld*. ¦The American .lew, by his lc:i(lor-shii>. efforts and financial aid thiough Hadassah. United| I'tilcsilne Appeal and the various /.lonist organizations has made lasting contributions to the cause of Palestine and to the rebuild Ing of a Jewish homeland.
"We must never forget, how¬ ever that American Jewry, in turn, has been Immeasurably en¬ riched hy the Jewish national re¬ naissance tmtl hy the Invigorat¬ ing influence which the cause of Palestine ha.t brought to our own community and congregational life.
Let 11.^ consider some of these gilts. To the American Jew, Pal; cstine has brought first of all a new tipprociation of the jicople hood nf l.sraol anil a richer con scinilsncss of our hl.slnrlc, fnk- , ftilc ttiid destiny. In an age of; ' gi'nwlng isolationism and paro- chlailsin, Zionism came like a new spirit In affirm the intetna- tiniuil fellowship of Israel and to pi-nclilim again the prnlihetU; synthesis of nationalism and in tcnuitlonallsm.
Through I'alesllne. further, the wiifld Is being tictputlnted with a new \ihase of the creative caput Ities of tho Jcsvlsii people. Ileie Is one land where the Jew has virtually built the entire civlli zatlon frnin the ground ui). lleie he played not only his customaiy role as Intellectual, professional and inlddlemun but through the sweat of his brow and tho labor of his hands he has drained swamps, eroded homes and liuilt (Cnnlltiuod  nil   I'liKU   I'^ig
Minority Rabbis Conspire With Handful of Wealthy Jews To Fight Zionism Here and Palestine
NOW  HEADS ()\'EH SO.OW) IVNAI B'HITII WO.MEN
Irreligious   Asked   To   Join   Religious   Reform   Jews To
Strengthen Anti-Zionist War — Anti-Zionist Leader
Claims Pipeline To State Department And
Cabinet Members
Smashing  of  .American   .lewish   Committee   Thrcatrnod   by   (iroup
Calling Itself Council For .American .ludidsm If Ouirlght
iAnii-'/ii»nist   Platform   Kpjrcied
PHILADELPHIA (.H'S)—Wilh the objective of .splil- tiiiK ;ill of Aniericiiii .lewi.sh lift--. w;ir iia.s been pledged on Zioni.sin and on till iiersons and institutions .sympathetic to that iinigrani. witli the wealth of influential .lew.s and the power of irreligious .lews moliilized in order lo smash evei-y fit\in the Zionist movement has made in the United States ;ind I'ak'stine in forty years.
Thai is I 111 for itself b; iintisly callt Amcfican   .1
amtiitioLis gntil set
tho   grnup   Innoc-
:1     ho   Council   for I
iii.iism,   wlilch   waS[
Mrs. Maurice Turner, (libovc) Chicago, newly-elected president of tho Women's Saproni<r-Conn, ell of B'nnl B'rlth, coordinating agency for the District Grand l,0(lges of B'nai B'rith  Women.
Phil Rabin To Leave Jewish Center For Position With U. S. 0.
NAMKH TOO LATK TO .AI'IM'IAK   I\   IMIOGKAM
'I'lif follDwhig iiaiiH's uf liiends of Hadassah I'eached the Chi'oniclc [)rinling (h,')>ari- mem UK) lute to l)e Jiu-luded in the Donor Dinner program:
DONOK Mrs, A, K, Waller
Mrs.  Ivan  Deitch Mrs. A. S. Greenfield Miss Ida Kellner Miss Miirie Kellner Kroger Grocery & Bak¬ ing Company Mrs. Albeit L. Sugarman CONTIUBUTOB Mrs. Gerald Pelleson
Phillip   I!.   Rabin,   director   of iiiivities ;it the Schonthal Cen- eavhig Columbus the first of the year to accept a position with  the Jewish  Welfare  Hoard in r. S. (). work, according lo an aminuncement nuide this week. Since coming here Oct. 1. \'.):v.\ Mr.    Rabin    has   done   an   out- ¦^lunding   job  al   the   Center  by UKU isul    KtiMlv   in   every   de- Itartnumt.     The   youth    groups (¦ s p e c i a 1- ly,     found     in him a fine lead- e r,     a     true friend    and councillor.   His s y m p a t h e tic understand iuK    and    dffv- cient help hi been a real spiration to the lewish    yoimg men   aTiil    wo¬ men at this in¬ stitution 1*1)11 Uablii Mr. R a b i n
was also executive secretary of the .lewish Couuiuuiity CouTicil and secretary (^f the Army and Navy Connuitiee of the local •Ii'Wish Welfare Hoard, l)Oth of which he served faithfully and. well. His work as co-organizerj with Nonuan Nadal, of ilu* Co- liunhus Citizen, of the Columbus I'hilharmonic Orchestra which was first formed at the Center and where it rehearsed during the first year of Its existence, and as one of the organizers of the firtJt Jewish Haskethall League in Columbus, will long be re¬ membered my many in our com¬ munity who wish for him suc¬ cess and happiness in his new war service assignment.
Imrn in this nly six weeks ago| alihough its l)irih wa.s annnunc-' I'd only this week. Dedicated battle against those who build up the .lewish National Home destine, the initial meeting was held, ironically enough, in Ten\ple Rodeph Shalom, which means "pursuit of peace'"; a name doubly ironic because the secret .se.ssion took place in the City of Hrotherly Love. As thQugb^.to .j.eyrabolize the con¬ tempt which they liave for the Halfour Declaration and its pur¬ poses, the auli-Zionist Rabbis held their first gathering here on N'ovembor 'Jnd and perfected then' i»lans on November 2:inl. Hehind ihi-m, they contend, are sonic of Ihe niosi powerful and wealthy Jew.s in Anu-rica. who. one of Ihe (-(aucnei-s alleged have the power of persuasion over the Slalc Department and I'cady acress to present these anli-'/ionist views to other mem- si.iicnu-ui of hers of the Cnited States Cal)! i-l by one of tin
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The Indepeudeiu .lewi.sh Press Ser\ice has learned the secret background of tlu- C<juncil iuid, b,>(-ause of the extraordinary i.s-| sues raised and ihe outstanding' personalities involved, decided to nudie the lengthy material a\'ailabk' (o ilu' general puiilic. These are sonie of llic elements, involved in ;i dranui which <le-' rives special significance from (he |)resent siinaliou in Kuro|)e. where nnllions of Jews are be¬ ing slaughtered by  ihe Nazis.
(1) A snitill grou|) of anii- Xionisl Reform rabbis, ntany of them lelired from tluMr pulpilsl becau.se of su|n-'rannualion. has' unilertaki'U a wide-ranghig polui-; e;d program aganisl Zionism, to which these rabbis allegedly ob- je<i because it is politieal in charaeier. Asserting that /.ion- ism is 'secular" and "n re!igiou.->" and that Ihat is why Reform .ludaism, as they understand il,' oppo.ses il. the.se atUi-Zionist rabbis have decided to enlist irre¬ ligious ,lews as well as tlie re¬ ligious   in   order   to   attempt   lo
s! achieve    then' anti-Zionist  aims long rejecled by the majority of I American Jewish  leatlers.
(2) The names of Morris Wolf, prominent Philadelphia lawyer, associated with Leasing Rosenwald of this city, Henry Itlleson, wealthy head of Com¬ mercial Investment Tioist, Ar¬ thur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, Samuel Leijdesdorf,     prominent     New
York accountant. Haul Haerwald, Honorary Chairman of the Joint Distribution Commiltee. a re among (hose of laymen involved \n   the   remarkahle   story
CD Match that lit the anti- Zionisi fire of these ral)his and laynu-n into flame was Sidney Wallach, until recenlly ¦'educa¬ tional direclor" of the American Jewi-h Committee, retiring from that body under unknown cir¬ cumstances. Hut a decade ago, Mr. Wallach was the editor of The New Palestine, official or¬ gan of the Zionist Organization of America. Another person as¬ sociated wflh the tale is Dr. Maurice Hexter, now Executive Vice-President of the New York Jewish I*'ederalion. but i)rior to that for many years in Palestine as (he I-'elix Warburg - named member of the .lewish .'\geni'y KxecMiive
I 1) Seeri'lary of Stale Hull s deparlment be -reaelied" by this atitl-Zionist gi"ou|). one member of il. Rabbi William I-'ineshrdier. of ibis city, <'laiins. (luoiing a nil-Zionist intent leading mi'nil)ers of the Sialc Dejiarl [ucnt.
Co Ral)l)i l.ay.arun also under¬ took lo "see" Secretary "f llie Interior Harohl L, Ickes in-Kive he delivered his speech on De- cemlier C.th al the National Council of the Cnileil Palestine Appeal in New York in order to present the ami-Zlonisl position to the Secretary. Whether he "saw" him or not, Mr. Ickes said not one word about Pales- line at a uaiional Palestine gath¬ ering.
((il Among the epithets hurl¬ ed al various other leading American Jewi?sh personalities were these: Adolph II. Rosen¬ berg, bead of Ihe Cnion of Amer¬ ican Hebrew Congregations, was described as an ¦ap|)easer" by Uabbi Louis Wol.sev, of Philadel- \)lua. Kabbi Jtiunes G. Heller, Pret-ideiu of Ihe Central Confer¬ ence of American Rabbis, and Rablii Israel Goldstein, President of the Synagogue Council of America, were both denounced as using these organizations for Zionist purpo.ses; the American Jewisii Committee itself, under l)reseuL conlrol, was charged with having "ducked" ihe Zion¬ ist issue.
C'uiiipalgu Vov Largf Fuuds To achieve its purposes, the Council for American Judaism, a name proposed by Rabbi Laz- aron, has launched a campaign for $25,000 in the first month. Morris Wolf, attorney for wealth In Philadelphia, that "far more'* (Continued on Page Five)
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