Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1946-09-27

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Vol. 24, No. 40
COLUMBUS, OHIO, PRIDAY, SEIPTEMBER 27, 1940
Osvottd to  Amfrican «nd Jswiih  IdMli
The Holiday Season
By   DAVID   SCHWARTZ
Rosh Hashanah antl Yom Kip¬ pur are not without aspects ol lightness and brightness. On Rosh Hashanah, we dip our fotxl In honey, symbol of our hopes for sweetness in the New Year and we greet one another With good wishes. Even on Yom Kippur, the Talmud IkIIs us, the young men and women used to go out and dance.
Yet essentially, they are sen lous tiays, days in which we are supposed to review our past lives, grave days In which we must be prepared to stand in judgement before God, es¬ pecially on Yom Kippur when traditionally, God talces a final look at the record and sets down the judgement.
Things have changed some¬ what We do not have the re¬ ligious Intensity that was char¬ acteristic of the Jews of old. Some people today go to syna¬ gogue on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kiippur l)ecause they lilce the cantor's singing. Others go because it is leas boring than staying at home. It gives them a chance to see Mrs. Jacobson or Mrs. Oohen and a host of other people they haven't seien in a long time.
But in days of old, going to
synagogue for Yom Kippur was
a different'thing. The ten days
between   Rosh   Hashanah   and
t; Yom Kippur wiere truly days of
fS,,,    penitence.  Th^ men; even the
[gj;;;. r perlcid; eatlhjg oiiiy oiie Ifteal at ,' '¦ jiSght. My oym tather was one tb do this, And they did more than this. They actually sought out one another to ask mutual forgiveness, God, according to the Jewish tradition, only for¬ gave sins against God, but sins of man against man could only be forgiven if men "made up" with one .another; Men really strove for true penitence. Proud and even arrogant men swallow¬ ed their pride to go and search for and ask pardon of some man for whom they may have felt a contempt, but against whom, they felt, they had offended. Men sought to be truly just and humble in every little detail during that period.
EJven the humor of Yom Kip¬ pur—and there are Yom Kippur jokes—reveals this. There is the story, for instance, of a great rabbi, who, to make his com¬ munion with God more perfect on Yom Kippur, sought to seat himself for prayers at the side ol the most truly pious indivi¬ dual in the congregation.
He looked aropnd, and walked up and down the aisles of the synagogue. Suddenly, he heard one old Jew, all wound up in his "talith", mournfully repeating the sentence: "I am as dust to (Continued on Page Eight)
Notice!
Columbus Jewish Community Calendar
The Columbus Jewish Community Council an¬ nounces that it will resume publication of the Com¬ munity Calendar in next Friday's issue o€ the Ohio Jewish Chronicle. Organizations are requested to immediately phone the Chronicle office, Telephone AD. 2954' for clearance of dates and insertions of meet¬ ing notices in the Calendar,
The Calendar will be published every other week in the Chronicle.
Broad St. Temple To Conduct Fellowship Service
The Tifereth Israel Congrega tion will play host to the Fei lo.wshlp Church Service Organ¬ ization and its friends this Sim day, Sept. 29th at 4130 P. M.
The Fellowship Church, spon sored Jointly Tjy the Franklin Coimty Council lor Democracy The FrankUn .County Council of Churches and the University Y. M. & Y. W. C. A., has for the part year conducted regular in ter-denominational and interra cial services on the iast Sunday of each month in the First COn gregational Church of Columbus In compliance -with a request for  a   traditional   Jewish- Ser-
-vidift;i.v;ttiei;.CpiniWttee,,;.,onu,;i^^ faith •A:cfivlties,.; bf-> the.:. T? t Coiigregatlon has scheduled the current month's Fellowship Ser ¦vice in the Broad St.' Temple, at 1354 E. Broad St.
An interesting service follow¬ ing the Friday eve pattern has been arranged by Rabbi Nathan Zelizer, Who will speak on the topic "Religion or Ruin". Can¬ tor Leo Halpern will l>e accom¬ panied by the well-trained T. I. Choir In the rendition of the traditional chants associated with the Sabbath service.
The prihcipal objectives of the f'ellowship Church services center around the development of better interfaith and inter¬ racial understanding in our community toward the ultimate abolition of race hatreds and group intolerance.
Noh-memljers, as well as mem¬ bers of the Tlfereth Israel Con¬ gregation, are invited to attend and worship with our non-Jew¬ ish friends of other creeds and races. A tea and social hour, sponsored by the Sisterhood, is scheduled to follow the service.
Council Women To Open Season With Tea Tuesday
Lehman Tells J. D. C. Workers Of Greater Relief Needs
NEW YORK (JTA)—Lauding the "monumental and historic" work of the Joint Distribution Committee in aiding displaced Jews, former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who was the first director-genei^i of, UNBRA, em¬ phasized this wieek that tfie cpming dissolution of UNRRA places demands on private or¬ ganizations "far greater than ever before, and the means to satisfy even the most elemental demands will be totally Inade- .quate."
Meanwhile, it was reported here this week that thousands of Italians in southern Italy who are employed in camps for dis¬ placed Jews established in -vil¬ las in Santa Maria, Marina di Leucca, Santa Cesarea and Tri- kosa Porto, submitted a petition to UNRRA protestng a proposal to transfer the Jewish refugees from the villas to a camp in Bari. The ejection of the Jews has l)een demanded by the o-wn- ers of the villas.
SEND XH YOUR NEW YEAR GREE'HNQS
Althoogh it is too late to be inserted in the Annual Jewish New Year Magazine, which reached oil homes this Thursday, yonr New Years Greeting to friends and rela¬ tives may be inserted ih our noxt week's edition ol Oct. 4. A beantlfnlty composed boxed greeting, two colnmns tn iWath, for onl^ «2.00.
Cnll the Chronicle office now AO, Z0S4 and bare one ot these appropriate- greet¬ ings; Innerted.
Near East Policy of U. S. Government Outlined
Mrs. Charles Hymes
Mrs. Robert ' Blashek, presi¬ dent of the Columbus Section National Council of Jewish ¦Women, announces that the first meeting of the season -will be a tea honoring new members next Tuesday, October 1, at 2 P. M^ in the Bryden  Rd. Temple.
The guest and honored speak¬ er of the afternoon wili be Mrs. Charles Hymes, of Minne¬ apolis, Minn. Mrs. Hymes, a na¬ tional t)oard member of the Na¬ tional Council of Jewish Wom¬ en, and who Is well know^ as a tlistinguished speaker, will, after a short business meeting, ad¬ dress the group pn th topic, "Democracy Is You."
The opening prayer widl be given by Mrs. iMioe iJlrsch.
All old members and those now joining are urged to attend, not only to hear Mrs. Hymes, whose topic is of vital import¬ ance to every American today, but to participate in Council's I well-known hospitality.
Please bring your tax stamps to this meeting. '
IjOS ANGELES (JTA)—The policy of the United States with regard to the Arab ijountries m the iMiiddlS East -was outlined here this week by Loy Hender¬ son, director of the Office of Near Eastern and Afriean Af¬ fairs of the State Department, addressing a meeting of the Na¬ tional Association of SecretiU'les of State.
The United States Govern¬ ment, he said. Is aiming, at pre¬ venting "rivalries and conflicts of Interests" In the Near Jlast which might develop Into hos¬ tilities leading .to a third World War. One of the chief alms of 'Washington's policy, he added, was to assist the governments
Zionist Actions Group Pondering Participation
JEBUSAIiEM CWNIS)—The Small Zionist Actions Commit¬ tee ivhose deliberations last week on the problem ot participating In Uie, London- conference pn PalestJiiig.;.3*i^s^iTpdstt>aWea:vl^ ing the arrlvai'iriiiin tendon oi Berl ILocker, Is exipeoted to re¬ sume its meeting here early this week and decide the question of possible attendance.
Mr. Locker is expected to re- port on his negotiations 'with the British Government. Cur¬ rent reports Indicate that while sentiment on participation is evenly divided, there Is absolute uniformity with regard to the- demand that the arrested Jew¬ ish Agency leaders, held at La- trun, be released as a condition to participation.
Jewish GI Offers To Act As Executioner
NUBBMBEKS (WNS)—An of¬ fer to serve as executioner of the top Nazi war criminals in the event they are condemned to death by the international tri¬ bunal was made Ihs week by an American soldier, Sgt. H. Le- kach, whose parents were killed by the Nazis at Dwinsk.
In a letter to-the British pros¬ ecutor at the recently concluded Nuremberg trials, the American Jewish GI wrote that his en¬ tire family was ivlped out at Dwinsk and that "all my efforts to fUid my father and mother have failed. There is no trace of them."
Sgt. Lekach was born in Dwinsk. He came to the United States in 1939 and has since be¬ come a naturalized citizen. He has been serving in the Ameri- of that area to bring about po- can Army lor over lour years Utical and economic stability and Is now stationed at Berlin and to Improve the standard of | with the occupation forces, ll-ving In those ^countries so that
Defeat Proposal Against Jewish Immigration
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (JTA) —An attempt to prevent large- scale immigration ol Jewish refugees to Palestine was made this week by Dr. Charles Malik, Lebanese delegate on the sub¬ committee on refugees of the U. N. Economic and Social Coun¬ cil, who proposed that in man¬ dated territories not only the administration but the people be consulted before European refugees are re-settled there. The jMToposal was defeated by the other members of the 11- jnan  body.
Speaking to 750 volunteers in JDC's Supplies for Overseas survivors campaign, which has started a special drive to collect ]0,(X)0,000 cans ol food by the end of next month, Mr. Leh¬ man referred to the "practically indescribable" plight of "the pit¬ ifully few survivorsi" of the Jews in Europe. "Try as I may," he declared, I can't picture the degree of suffering, both physi¬ cal and spiritual, that peoples overseas are undergong, par¬ ticularly the Jews. "Tho war Is over," he stressed, but the need for relief abroad Is as great as it has ever lieen." Explaining why this new cam¬ paign is necessary In adtiltlon to the millions dl dollars .al- reatiy .raised, .he asserted, ''|he
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Mr. Lehman palii tribute to thfe' JDC aa the organization that has stood between 1,400,000 European Jews and starvation. "Seveinty-flve percent of these Jews reside in areas where UNRRA did not operate," he pointed out, "and it was only ' the JDC that was able to bring them assistance."
Show yonr appreciation to the Chronicle's 24 years of loyal and devoted ser¬ vice to Colambas Jewish Community by paying year Bubserlptlon now.
Report Palestine Export Increases
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Pales¬ tine's foreign trade during, the first quarter of this year shows a marked increase over the same period last year, accortUng to figures published by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Ex¬ ports, led by oranges and polish¬ ed diamonds, increased some 45 percent over the first quar¬ ter of last year. Imports -were 33 percent higher.
The United States -was Pal¬ estine's best customer, taking some $5,850,244 worth of goods during that period. The United Kingdom bought $5,391,100 worth of Palestinian products. Exports to European countries, especially Belgium, Increased considerably. Egypt, Greece and Syria were important customers although exports to the Middle East declined generally.
they will not "continue to pre¬ sent a temptation to powers out¬ side the area, "aiid to support in that area the principles of thie United Nations.
He revealed that American policy envisions extending con¬ siderable financial and teclinl- cal assistance to-the Arab coun¬ tries lor purposes ol rehBbillta« tion or modernizing their econ. omy.
;JB. HADASSAA CIRCUS THIS SUNDAY AT 230 P. M.
Columbus Jr. Hadassahltes are invited to attend the Jr. Hadassah Circus this Sunday, Sept. 29, at'2:30 p. m, at the Broad St. 'Temple. All officers and board members will partici¬ pate in tills gala event Admis¬ sion is free and refreshments win be served. Members may bring their Mentis..
COIiUMBUS JEWRY
SHOUU)   NOT   MISS
J.  N.  P.  RAIiliY, OCT. 6
An up t^ the minute mes¬ sage on present day Palep- tine by Mrs. Archllwld Silver¬ man, noted Zionist leader, win highlight the big J. N. F. rally Sanday, Oct. 6, 8 P. M., at the Deshler Walildi BaU¬ room. Mrs. Silverman^ has just returned from tbe holy lUind where she witnessed the plight ot tjiousands of retngees seeking a haven there.
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