Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1943-10-08

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COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1943
Mid J«wlih IdaaU
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From EiTerjmhere By Phlneas J. Bfron
I/ESlHANA TOVAH . .
So 5703 will go down in history as the black Jewish year . . It brought unprecedented arid un¬ told tragedy to our people , More than a quarter of the whole Jewish population of the world perished in the past few years . . . 5704 must he an Im¬ provement . . . Surely It cannot be any worse . . . Today a single thought dominates the mimis of all Jews throughout the world: Death'to Fa.scism and Nazism, death to Adolf Hitler and his gangsters . . .
JiBwiSH AcrroN . , .
Ba The first cooperative world¬ wide Jewish action In war time will be launched .soon . . . Repre¬ sentatives of American, Ru.ssian, Palestinian and British Jewry will cooperate in the editing and publishing of the Black Book, the record of Nazi atrocities against Jews . . . This hook will be submitted to the peace con¬ ference to come . . . Not enough attention has been paid by Jew¬ ish leadership in England to the organization of a medical group which calls itself the Medical Policy Association ... This group issues a house organ which ."quotes" freely from "The Proto¬ cols ot the elders ot Zion" . . , Rabbi Israel Goldstein's first pub¬ lic appearance after his election tp .flie presidency of the Zionist
one of the main Bpe'akwB at the farewell dinner to the Soviet Jewish delegation ... The Com¬ mittee of Jewish Writers and Artists has released figures re¬ vealing that this delegation ad¬ dressed 349,000 people during Its tour of fourteen cities in the Uni¬ ted States, Mexico and Canada. FOOTNOTES TO HISTORY . . . te Baron Edouard de Roth¬ schild, once one of the richest men of Europe and now a refu¬ gee in this country, was among those who sat on the dais at the farewell dinner to the Soviet Jewish delegation at the Hotel Commodore last week . . . We asked him whether he under¬ stands Yiddish . . . "No", he con¬ fessed, "but my grand/iither, James Rothschild, spoke only Yiddish" . . . William C. Bullitt, ¦\^ho is running for mayor in Philadelphia, is rather puzzled . . Posters calling for his flection recently made their appearance, boosting him as "one of our peo¬ ple, the son of Louisa Horowitz" . . . The posters were signed by the "B'nai B'rith Non-Sectarian League" ... It was later discov¬ ered that chey were the work of an antl-Roosevelt group . . . Bul¬ litt, incidentally. Is very proud of the strain of Jewish blood in his ancestry . ^ . For too many years now, says a current wise¬ crack, we've been talking about the Axis ^ now let's start saying the Axain't . . RBADEK'S <;CH)K . . . te Adol|)h Hitler as the great benefactor of Ameilcan mathe¬ matics is tha theme of an article by the Rockerfeller Foundation's Raym.on(l li. Fosdick appearing in the current Issue of Yeshiva College's Scrlpta Mathematica . . ., , . The article's thesis is that by exiling Germany's Jewish and liberal mathematicians Adolf did a great service for this country, which welcomed so many of those refugees ... . Uest-seliers are rare enough,'ijut best-sellers ¦written by rabbis are a Believe- (ConUnued on Page 8)
Rabbi Greenwald Among 500 Rabbis To See President
Rabbi' Leopold Greenwald, spiritual leader of Beth Jacob Congregation, was among the five hundred orthodox rabbis who marched to Washington last Wednesday, Oct. 6, to petition immediate action by the Presl dent and Congress to save the millions of Jews trapped In Europe.
After visiting the White House, where they presented a petition to the President urging the establishment of a special intergovernmental Ijody to facil Kate the handling of the refu gee problem, the rabbis met with Congressional leaders at the Cap ital bulidinR to di.scuss the proh lem of the immediate rescue of the Jews of Europe. These con ferences were preceded hy a special gathering and prayer ceremony held by the rabbis on the steps of the Lincoln Memor¬ ial.
Proclamations issued on the Washington march hy the Union of Orthodox Flabbis' of the Uni¬ ted States and Canada, and hy the Union of Grand Rabbis nf the U. S. and Canada urged adop¬ tion, of the rescue program of the Emergency Committee, and ask¬ ed that "the President warn the world that Jewish blood Is not to be shed, with impunity, and that the President use his influence to open the doprs of Palestine,to the;^hoH)fileaa,iJews;aiidttothaye .thS'< neutral" c6unti;i6s create havens of refuge for the refu¬ gees":
The Washington march will be followed by a "Week of Com¬ passion", to be observed by 600 Christian churches throughout tlie country, as an expression of sympathy towards the plight of the Jews.
Christians Urged To Observe Own Day Of Atonement
NEW YORK (JPS)—A Day of Intercession, dedicated to "the task of eradicating anll-Semlllsni and thereby offering more than mere passive' tolerance to our Jewish brethren" will be olv served by 6,000 Christian church¬ es throughout the United States, it was announced here at an ex¬ traordinary session of the Emer¬ gency Committee To Save The Jewish People of Europe. A Week of Compa.ssion will com¬ mence with the Day of Interces¬ sion, which falls on Sunday, Oc¬ tober 10th, the day following Yom Kippur.
A message to the > hurches signed by Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Resident Bishop Francis J. Mc- Connell ot the Methodist Churcli, and Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, moderator of the Presbyterian Church, asked the churches to "urge immediate action to allev¬ iate the plight of the Jews" and to set up committees in their congregations to work with, the Emergency Committee. Arch¬ bishop Athenagoras, It was dis¬ closed. Informed the Emergency Committee that all Greek Ortho¬ dox Churches in the United States would join in the week of Compassion.
The message read. In part, as follows:
"Hitler's   humanity   and   vlo-
LOCAL ZIONIST MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN GETS OFF TO A FLYING START AT RALLY
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Unfier the energetic loadershi]) of Leonard Kohn and hi.s four Vice-Chairmen, Leonard Mane¬ kin, Ben Grossman, Jack Sher, and Sig Wei.s.skerz, the X,ioni.si membership drive ha.s made real progresH, with new names being added daily to the Zionist j-oster. Il is the result of thor¬ ough organization, a willingness to work and a realization of the importance of the work on the part of those participating In this all-out campaign. ;,; Thti :.iirlxe:; ;.w^^ launched' last Sunday with ' a meeting and buffet supper at the Deshler Wallick Hotel. Fifty- five enthusiastic and eager par¬ ticipants, were in attendance.
From present Indications It seems that Columbus Commun¬ ity is becoming fully aware of the indispensable role, that I'al- estine mu.st play in any futtire plans for the resettlement of mil¬ lions of European Jews and the importance of strengthening the Zionist Organizalipn of America, the major agency to fulfill this aim. There is every reason to believe that the goal of 1,000 members  set  hy  the  Columbus
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Zionist District, will he reached hi due time.
Among! the new members who have joined the Zionist Organiza¬ tion of America at press time are the ff)IIowing:—
Julian Barlt, Joseph Basch, Louis Berliner. Joseph Berman Robert Blashek, Emanuel Block. Louis Brom- herg, Geoi'Re W. Bromley. Herbert Byer, Dr. B. B. Caplan Arthur W Cohen. Dan Cohen, Mike Oohen. Rob- ei-t H. Cohen. Sam Cohen, Louis F.. Coyne. David Davldorf, Don Erkis Mil¬ ton J. Ermnn, David Feerer, Melville D. Frank, . Herman- Freedman, Harry ¦Friadman,   Chas,   Gersteh'eW.    Daye
Morris' Glaser, Moa OlasBman, I. A'. Gllck, Lt. Howard Greenberg, Harry Gruber, Jacob Grundsteln, Sam Gure¬ vitz, Hamel Gurwin. Joa. Haas. Leon Handler, David Hirsch. David C. Jaco. Henry Judls. Harry L*rner. Charlei Levi, IrvInK L Levine, Max Levino, David Levinson. Burton Levett,
Herbert L^vy, Robert K. Levy. Edwin B. Linick, Haroid Lowy, Louis A, Madison. Samuel Martlin, Sam Melton, LeRoy Morris. Leon Nason, Jos. New¬ man. J. R- Nichols, Hyman Peer. Jr.. Nathan Polster, Joseph Prince. Jr.. Leonard G. Qulnn, Malcolm A. Rl(*ser. Max H. Rieser. Fred M. Roland, Isu' dore H.   Roth.
Sol H, Ruben. Harry Schallt. Ivan SchloslnKer, Jde Sculler. Simon Sculh-r, L E. Sealfon, Gilbert Setden, M. R. Shapiro. Louis Schlansky, Harold SU- vvr. Waltei- Simon, PhlUp Stein. Mop- ry Tarcov. Harold M. Topy, Sam Val¬ cov. SUnley Well, M. L. Yualer. Ben A.   Zuckeimun,
Fr^klin County War Chest Campaign Begins Oct. 25th.
Refugees from ruthless  Nazi- domination scattered throughout he   world   will   be   among   the heheflciarie.s   of   the    Franklin County War Chest next year.
Among the 80 or more agencies for which the annual ilrive will ho held Oct. 25-Nov. R, are sever¬ al which are saving the lives of refugees from Poland and other occupied lands. New in the Chest this year is the Refugee Relief Trustee-s, Inc., which aids those who are Keeking lo find a new, worthwhile life in our lan<is.
This year's ro,tI is $l,.|87,00(). Of this, 575,800 will go to .the 17 agencies in the National War Ftmd. The national agency which will receive the largest portion of this Is the USO, nf which the .Jewish Welfare Hoard is a member. In all, nationally and locally, the USO will receive $.3-12,000 froin tho Kranklin Coun. ty War Chesl.
Tho list of 17 agencies In the Naticmal War Fund follows: U. S. O.. United Seamen's Service, War i'risfmers Aid, Belgian War rielief, liritish War Relief, French Relief Fund, Friends of Luxembourg, Greek War Relief, Norwegian Relief, Polish War Relief, Queen Welhelmlna Fund, Russian War Relief, United China Relief, United Czechsldvak Rellefi Ujnlted Yugoslav Fund, Heftisree-BeUef/^Ti7jsteesi2lJ7.';.S.v eoinmittee"f6r Care of European Children.
Herbert N. Lape Sr., chairman of the board of Julian & Kok- enge, shoe ma^nufacturers. Is heading the drive for the .sec¬ ond consecutive year. An exten¬ sive publicity program acquaint- ing the piil>llc with the work of Chest agencies has been mapped out liy tho publicity committee, of which Robert iv. Levy is chairman.
Schonthal Community Center is one Of tho 5-1 Community Fund agencies which participate in the War Che,?t.
lenco towards the Jews have tried the spirit of nil Christian men. Our Jewish'brethren in Hitler's Europe have found no respite from suffering. Peace comes to them only In death . .
"We have set aside Sunday, Oc¬ tober 10th, as a Day of Inter¬ cession, when the Christian Churches may lift up their voices to God on High, beseeching Him to ameliorate the lot of these Jewish people, and to usher in an era of enlightenment and Jus¬ tice.
"We have chosen a tlay that follows Itimiediatoly upon the most solemn Holy Day of the Jewish Calendar, namely i.he Day of Atonement, to show our compassion for a people so sore¬ ly harassed and endlessly persc- culed, and to dedicate ourselves to the task limg awaiting the Christian Churches— the task of eradicating anti-Semitism and thereby offering p\ore than mere passive tolerance, to our Jewish brethren".
GENEVA (JPS)—The Croat puppet government set up by the Nazis In Slovenia and Dal- matla, where Croat soldiers have replaced Italian troops Is now enforcing antl-Jewlsh measures, according to reports reaching here.
T. I. Sisterhood Wins Top Honors In War Bond Sales
A new Immber, "City of Co¬ lumbus", purchased with funds from war bonds' sold ijy local organizations during the Tliird War Loan, was dedicated at Locktiourpe Air Base Tuesday i)y Mrs. Julius Wa.sserstrom. 275-1 llryden Rd., Bond chairm'an for the Tlfereth Israel Sister¬ hood of the the Broad St. Tem¬ ple. Mrs. Sam Melton. 21Hii E ilroad St.. was co-chairman. The Sisterhood led all other organiza¬ tions in this patriotic efftirt.
Among other groups with high Bond sales rotoi'ds present at the (ledicution ceremonies was Junior Hatlassah.
Mrs. Wasserstrom and Mrs Melton wish lo thank tho fol¬ lowing wonien who cooperated in the success of the 3rd War Loan Drive; Mrs. Sam Loppor, Mrs. Emil Wasserstroin and Mrs. Wm. Wasserstrom.
KKTOIVr 80,()0l) ,IK\V8 M.-VSHACKEJ) BV NiVKIS IN  KIEV
MOSCOW (JPS)—Eighty thou¬ sand Jews wer« massacred by the  Nazis  when   they  first   in-
Sixty New Members Welcomed Into Council Roster
Sixty new memiiers wore wel¬ comed at the opening meeting of the Council of Jewish Women last Tuesday at the Bryden Hd. Teinple and wore guests of honor at a lea following -the Imsiness meeting and program.
Hostesses were members of tho committee on memlicrship including Mrs. Alhert Schiff, chairman; Mrs. David Cohon. co. chairman: Mesdames Saul Schiff, I. L. Goldberg, Jule Mark, Harry Kohn. Hornnan Liovc^rmnn, Ben Yenkin, Abe Yenkin and Meyer Glnsburg.
Mrs. Louis Madi.son pkinned tho tea and was assisted in iiour- ing hy Mrs. Jack Wolman, Mrs. Dave Goodman anti Mrs. Allen Gundersheimer
A skit by Mrs. Julian Barlt, a review of current books by Mrs. L. S, Teeter of the Lazarus book shop and a business meeting pre¬ sided over by Mrs. William Schiff, hew president, completed the afternoon program.
vadeil Kiev, according to an an¬ nouncement hy the Soviet High Command. The proclamation called on the Red Army to avenge that crime and the occu¬ pation of Kiev.
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