Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1942-12-25

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Vol. 21, No. :
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Strictly Confidential
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)^ The propaganda Gahby Goeb- bels direct-s at the Arabs of Pal¬ estine and other Moslem coun¬ tries declares that Hitler is a di¬ rect descendent of the Prophet Mohammed, BmilLengyel reveals . . . Look out for Ren Hecht's stir¬ ring piece on the .lowish plight in Europe, scheduled to appear ere long in Reader's Digest (un¬ less the editor changes his mind) . . . Did you Itnow, incidentally, that Ben started his literary car¬ eer as a society reporter on a Chicago paper? . . . Any one who buys a thousand dollar war bond at Arnold Reuben's restuarant is given four free meals at that famous eatery ...So the other day, Harry Hershfield re¬ ports, a refugee bought $-1,000 worth of bonds —and brought in sixteen friends for the free eats. - . . If you want first-hand Infor¬ mation on what Magda IjUpescu looks like these days, you might ask Dr. Stephen S. Wise ... At least, we understand that during his recent visit to [Mexico, Dr. Wise one evening found himself in a restaurant which Magda and her Roumanian Carol were grac- ijlg with their presence — and we presume he took a good look. WE REPORT
ft At the time of the last Zionist leader Abraham Goldberg's sud den death some months ago his s6h",^:'Kibi'd6c!al was expecting a
clcleS that 'If'^the' "expecfed "oiff- aprlng should turn out to be a boy he would be named after his distinguished grandfather . . But fate did not cooperate inso¬ far as the sex of the new ge;nera- tlon was concerned, and the Mor- ¦ decal Goldberg household was augmented by a pair of two baby girls ... So the ingenious par¬ ents named the youngsters Amy and Barbara ... Get it? . . . Their initials make A13 GOLD¬ BERG . . . Under way before long, you should know, will be the publication of a volume of Goldberg's essays in English translation, a project which he had long been planning and for which he had collected a consid¬ erable number of his character sketches and studies of outstand¬ ing Jewish leaders in every field of endeavor . . . UTBRABV NKWB fe Featured in the Hartford, Conn., Courant, America's oldest newspaper, a couple of weeks ago, were three sonnets by the Hebrew poet Zalman Shneur, as translated by Maurice Samuel . . Lion Feuchtwanger's new novel is promised for spring publica¬ tion . . . Translation trouble is the reason for the delay in the appearance of the hook on the (Continued on Page Eight)
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE BY LOCAL ZIONISTS FORGES AHEAD
Every indication points to most successful drive for 200 now meintiers in tllc Zionist Or ganization of America in the Co- himluis area, was voiccfl this week by Hon Grossman arnl Wm. ih-onof, chairman nf (hr Colum¬ bus Zloni.st District's mcmlier- ship campaign. Through the splendid efforts of Sam Meizlish. .lack Sher. i'^rcd Yonkin and .lake Krakowilz over 1.^)0 mem- hers have alr-cadv been enrolled in this comminiily. and while the drive will still lie in progress until every .Jew here is contact¬ ed, an effort will Ite made to enlist memberships In neighbor¬ ing towns within a .'30 mile ra¬ dius. Those who have volun¬ teered in this latter undertaking are V\'m. Broner, Robert L. Mell- man, Sam Meizlish, Jack Sher, Albert Schiff and Roy Stone.
Those who obtain the most members will be awarded appro¬ priate prizes at an important pub¬ lic meeting the early part of March when the new class of Zionists will be formally present¬ ed to Albert Schiff, Regional president, in whose honor this member.ship drive is being dedi¬ cated. An outstanding out-of- town speaker is to be here on that occasion. Further details of this program will be announc¬ ed iu a later issue of the Chron-
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DR. STEPHEN S. WISE DENOUNCES AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM AS AGAINST POLICY ENDORSED BY NATIONS OF WORLD
American No.  I  Jewish Leader Declares   Jews   Saved   In
Palestine, Would Have Remained  Under Nazi Tyranny
If Wishes of New Group Had Prevailed
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COMMUNITY   cor NOIL  TO MEET TUESDAY, DEC 2»
The regular quarterly meet¬ ing of the Jewish community Council will be held on Tues¬ day, Uiic. iJflth, at 8 p. m., at the Sehonlhul Center. All delegates arc invited to be present.
Iliibbi Barnett Brickner NEW VOKK (JPS) — Rabbi Ilarncit Hrickner, prominent Zionist leader and In the last war head of the training School for .lewish welfare workers of the .Jewish Welfare Hoard, has been elected a d m 1 n 1 s t r a- tive chairman of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious activities of the ,1. W. li., it was announced liy Frank L. Weil, Hoard president.
Tlie naming of Ratibi Hrickner to the post follows a reorganiza¬ tion and streamlining of this im¬ portant phase of J. W. B, activ: ity. Rabbi Brickner's congrega¬ tion in Cleveland is said to have Indicated its willingness to have hirn go on frequent leaves in or¬ der that' he rnlght give time to his new responsibility. Rabbi David de Sola Pool, chairman of the committee, has been shifted to other duties, concerned chief¬ ly with relations with the offi¬ ces of the Chiefs of Chaplains of the War and Navy Departments as well as with representatives of the Protestant and Catholic faiths. The administrative tasks will be supervised liy Rabbi Hrickner, who will also have re¬ lations witli chaplains in the field.
IN CONTEST FOR GUARDIAN OF B'NAIB'RITH
EARLY DEADUNE!
On account oi New Vciirri holiday iic\t Friday, .fan. 1h(, all iiewH inattcr and No¬ dal Itentti MUST reach the CHRONICLE OFFICE no lat£r than TucHday uoon, Dec. 29th.
The cooperation of all or- ganlzatlonH an well as Individ¬ uals will be appreciated by the Editorial Staff.
Ohio Jewish Chronicle
PHONE AD. 20M
Samuel  Lupei*
As in all previouy elections of Zion Lodge No. 02, B'nal B'rilh, the contest for Guardian, an of¬ fice which four years hence leads to the presidency, is one that draws a record crowd to this final meeting of the year.
Next Monday, 8 p. m., at the Broad St. Temple, -will be no ex¬ ception as it will have as candl-
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essential   i|u;ilifiu^lion.s   desired of ihem i)y H'lmi H'rith.
Samuel l.uper is a well known local attorney, who for many years has served Zion Lodge on many important committees. His opponent, Ben Yenkin, is a Co¬ lumbus paint manufacturer who has not only been active in the
\. v.. Ooc, HI— Wise. Chairman an Kmergencv Zionist Affaim meeting of th it (irganizalinn held yesteniay it ¦II K. 12ntl Street, New York, made ihe follov^-'inR statement on fichalf o[ h\H rommltfec, which represents all Zionist bodies in America including the Zionist Organization of America. Had is sah. the Women's Zionist Or ganizatlon of America, Po de Zion and Mizrachi, with regard to a recent announcement of the formation of an "American Coun¬ cil for Judaism".
"The formation by a smal group of rabbis of the so-called "American Council for .ludaisrn' vvho.so avowed object it Is to fight the restoration of I ho Jews as a nation in their own home¬ land, has come as a painful shock to the vast majority of Jews throughout the country.
"During the past twenty-five years all the leading groups an<l organizations in American Jew¬ ry have endorsed the Balfour Declaration and associated them- .selves with the movement for the re-establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine. The poii^-of that Declaration was enddfse'd by the nations of the world which, in the Mandate, gave official recognition to the status and aims of political Zion¬ ism: it has been unanimously en¬ dorsed by the Congress of the United States.
"It is an indication of the sick¬ ness which afflicts Jewish life as a result of centuries of disper¬ sion, that Jews alone among the peoples of the world should find in their midst those who, far from iheiping, would seek to jtlace olistacles in the way of the national rehabilitation of their people. That such an effort should be made at a time when the Jewish ma.sses of Kurope are writhing in a fearful agony, add, an element of heartlessness which future generations will neither forget nor forgive.
"The members of this group base themselves on an inlerpre tation of Judaism which is with out foundation either in the Jew ish Scriptin-es, in Jewish tradi¬ tion or in the long history of our people. Uealizing that they cannot ignore the place which Palestine occupies in the heart and minds of Jewry, they would never the nakedness of their op¬ position by admitting that Jews nuiy be entitled to find a refuge in Palestine; but al the same time ibcy destroy any possibility of giving practical effect to this hope by altcniiiting to deny the right of Jews elsewhere to take political action to thai eiui. They pay Up service tt) the idea i)ut would pivveiU the reality. Had lliese views pievailed iji the course of the last two decades, lumdieds of thousands of Jews who liave-been enabled to find a home and hope of a worthy fu¬ ture in Palestine would today have have been helpless victims of the Nazis.
"The responsibility for the con¬ flict which impends within American Jewry, If the sponsors of this body proceed with their
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activities,     the    sole    result  of which will be to sow confusion.
"In their opposition to the Jewish national idea,,these men constitute a very sma'll minority in Jewish life. They seek to turn back the clock, to preserve the Jew forever as a wanderer ^ among the nations, and to re-'^^- verse the magnificient develop¬ ment which the hope of a Zion reborn has created in Palestine. They will fail. They are bound to fail because-they are flying in the face of all the facts and of all the hopes and strivings of the ,lewish |>eoi)le.
"The work of rebuilding the Jewish National Home in which American Jewry has played and will continue to play so vital a part, will go on to the day wlien a proud Jewish people restored in its own land will once again lake its place among the na¬ tions".
Oi-gauiziitlon   PiCMident   Charges
Anll-Zionlsts  Repudiate
Democracy
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dates for this much coveted post  various capacities, but has also  proposals, is their own.   We can two members possessing all the        (Continued on Page Two J        only deplore    their    misguided
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Charging that the anti-Zionist rabbis who have formed the American Council for Judaism "h a V e repudiated American democracy it.self". Judge Louis K. Levinthal, President of the Zionist Organization of America, a resident of Philadelphia, whose Kabbi Wolsoy is provisional chairman of the Covuicil, termed them "internal enemies of the ,lewish   people'.
In the course of his statement, Judge Levinilial .said:
'¦These anti-Zionists are de¬ nuding Judaism, they seek to strip it bare of all the meaning with which history has endow¬ ed it. Tliey try, in effect, to tell us that the sixteen millions of Jews throughout the world today are but a spirit and a soul, iKJund together by naught but a few majestic prophetic ut¬ terances of the past and devoid of that feeling of brotherhood which a common ancestry, com¬ mon historic and contemporary experiences, and a sense of com¬ mon destiny have implanted in their inmost beings. All the ef¬ forts of these anti-Zionists to con- (Continued on Page Five)