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Thursday, July 12, 1951 Thursday, July~----~----~~~~--~~~~~~----~------~~~ 12, 1951 'THE JEWISH POST Page Thr.. " THE JEWISH POST l'aite Two /Ie . k/l Name Prof. to possess. a ran Cuban Jewry/s Sephardic Pioneers Yield Leadership 4. That should lead me to have at least some Centennial of By . DAVID SCHWARTZ S. Bronfman faith in myself. POST 5. But I am an average person, no different (copyright, 1951, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) . 'T 0 European Immigrants, Visitor Reports . Columbia Chair lEWiSH , ! • ' from most people. , be called proletarian, the community The Oldest Anglo-Jewish Weekll/ In Western Ca..... New York - Columbia University 6. They, too,' most likely have some good in This year marks the centennial of the ,passing An intense Jew­ had a vociferous and active leftist (Issued week]~ in tpe ~nteresta of Jewish Community activities announced that William m Wmnipeg and Western Canada) - them. of a famous early American Jewish politician and ish life, revolvh1g wing •.. until it was silenced two H. Newman, Professor of Business Adrilini.stra:'" Member of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency .7. By concentrating on the good in them, I am "crank" and a famous early American editor, Zion­ largely around the years ago when its ,Sholem Aleichem bound to develop at least some faith in most tion, has heen named . as the first Published every Thursday by ist and playright. ,e u I tu' ral, social school was closed and its bi-weekly I am not referring to two men or more, but Samuel Bronfnuin Professo~' iI;l THE JEWISH POST LTD. people.. - The Reconstructionist.. Bnd political inter- ' paper silenced. Publishers to one man - Major Mordecai Manuel Noah. He ests of the more Democratic Business Enterprise ~* BEN M. COHEN ... All Jewish and Hebrew schools in the Graduate School of Business. . . Busine88 Manager and Managing Editor was all of these things. . recent Jewish ar­ FLORIDA EXPERIENCE Cuba ,are conducted along the paro­ Professor Newman, at' is one Phone 54400 Evenings 591129 Noah was born about the same time as the rivals who poured 41; chial ,program, with the larger of of the youngest faculty members in .' MELVIN FE!NSON, BA. LEO J. LEZACK United States. As.a boy he heard George Wash­ into the island' Editor . Advertising ManaKer the four institutions covering six Columbia's history to occupy- an ington speak in Congress. He used. to see Ben since 1920 and Head Office: 213 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Canada Jewish Country Club Franklin walking about the streets of Phila- grades., In aU, about 700 children are endowed chair. He has been on the Authorized as second clasa. mail, Peat .Office Depa.rtment. Ottawa particularly sinc'e enrolled.. delphia. Hitler's, time, faculty since 1947 and has-had ex~ Exclusiveness Backfires I don't know how the Council for Judaism Mr. Szechet 'Qescribed relations tensive experience as a management emerged i in the - By HARRY SIMONHOFF between. the' Jewish community consultant in industry and govern­ would explain it but Noah was a ho,t American description of .cu­ ~nd the government' as cordial, although ment. He is the author ·of several Zionist Congress Issues ban Jewry given . The new Deal and the war brought new people patriot, he wrote very spread eagle. American he reported the community's size was books on the problems of manage'­ ,and ushered in a prosperity hitherto undreamed patriotic plays and he was also as warm a Zionist. this week by Rev. Mendel Szechet, still- to:o small to warrant parlia­ ment and industry. of. A golf park property (Gratigny Raad, Miami) He has been in fact called the first American The Samuel' Bronfman Chair' in It has perhaps been more healthful than we visitor from Ha-­ mentary representation. Democratic Business Enterprise is imagined to, have .dissensio,ns within the body was acquired by private investors, who were eager Zianist. vanna. Despite their own personal close to work out a satisfactory deal. At a public meet- A politician is not supposed to 'be a prophet. supported by the Samuel Bronfman . politic af Zionism erupt into, fitful discord between The cultured, ties with the, community there . . , Israel leaders and U.S. Zianists during the past ing an a Sunday afternoon, the necessity of a A statesman .may be a prophet but ~ot. a politician, Foundation, which in March' set club was agreed to ,by all. Parents stressed the but agam Noah was a contradICtIOn. He was sun tanned Cuban and Mrs. Szechet's aciive role' in the h~~e. 'aside an initial fund of $1 00 ,,-000 "to- year. Such Qutcro,Ppings of do,rmant tensions are . . : who has made' local educational scene, they felt , J, a necessary prelude to, practical sessions of a social 'benefits' for their grown-up children. A a politiCIan -:- a leader of Tammany Ha!l but he promote understanding of :the prin­ ',1 his home in Ha... th~y \vould be depriving tbeir own cammunity-wide project was debated but never \ also, prophesle~ and worked for the achIevement ciples of democracy and freedoI'l;l' of World Zionist Co,ngress. It Wo,uld be a waste of materialized. ' ,. af the restoratlan of Israel. In an' address in New vanna foor 15 years sons' of the Jewish education that time and effort were such divergent views per­ opportunity in our free' enterPrise ... spoke Yiddish, is rightfully theirs if they viewed mitted to be glossed o,ver, and no new synthesis Instead, a small graup 'cancluded the purchase York more than a century ago, he said "the system." , , ",' ,with the owners. So after the vicissitudes of 20 of Israel is nearer than most 'people and is equally at six: elementary grades ~f training or forcefully advanced partisan view adopted. ~esto;ati~n The foundation was established by ! home in Spanish as adequate. Their older son, 14, ,. I World Zionism ... particularly diaspora Zion­ years, the grounds and buildings of Golf Park Imagme. !". .... the affiliated Seagram companies in as. well as Polish was enrolled a year ago af the .., , ism .... needs nothing less, as one writer put it, were put to uses originally intended. A JeWish At first he had a dream that AmerIca Itself the United States in honor of ~am­ and Russian. Mestifta Tora~, V'Dass in Brooklyn than a new Torah to,day. And, world JElwry awaits' Country Club for Miami became a reality. might be at least a provisional Zion for the op- uel Bronfman, president of Distil~ Cuban Jewry and their 12-year-old will follow this new Torah not in the spirit that it awaited The fOUI\dersput up $5000 each and formed pressed Jews of the world and ,he bought an island has an older seg_I:tev. Szechet is here shown performing .~ brith in distant Santa Clara, capital of the lers Corporation-Seagram Ltd.. of the Westview Country Club. They set up a limited near Buffalo to which he invited the Jews of the ment of a Seph-' provInce of the same name. The uniformed official at the right is the Chief of Police of shortly. the original ... "Naaseh V'Nishmah" ... We Will _the provincial capital, a friend' of the family of the infant. Canada. Do and We Will Hear. Today, they will demand. oligarchy and. added to ~heir members only with world to make their home. He called it Ararat. Rev. Szechet, who prior to 'going Mr. Bron£man is national president ardic community, to, hear first ... and assess its message against the utmost .. ClrcumspectlOn. Men of wealth and" There was no Zionist organization at the time to izing in shoe production and leather of the Canadian Jewish Congress. boasqng its -own synagogue, and one be close to. his relatives, and is to Cuba was shochet and mohel in their own needs. . influence, who had rendered' important service to' sponsor the prospect so, he launched it himself interested ,in" contacting communities working, A few of the older Seph­ Czarotisc, Wolyn province, Poland, the {!o,mmunity, were ignored. Membership of a with the aid of sympathetic Christians'. The cor­ small Hebrew ·school.. But most With Ben Gurio,n's view that Zionism is first requiri~g the ;er~ices of a Mohel ardic familie's or newer U.S.A, arri­ has thus indicated how possible' it secoJ.ld category with limited vo,ting rights was ner was laid with the aid of an Episcopalian progressive developments both' in and foremost a perso,nnal co,mmitment to, settle ~tone and Shochet. vals ~ave a small toehold in the is to -maintain the traditional stan­ in Israel; and his derivato,ry view that dollar per cautlOu~ly offered for a $2000 entrance fee. Pro~ . mmlster who offered the invocation and the cere­ synagogue construction and growth major sugar' cane plantations .' • • TeachersHear . . . , of the Yiddish school movement Mrs. SZ€chet is a teacher in one dards of. Jewish education in the . , dollar, erstwhile enemies. of Zio,nism are more gress and growth proved sloW; and the inexpei:i- monywas not lacking a.military touch. A group but' their effect in the Jewish com­ 1 have peen stimulated by what Rev. of the largest. Yiddish schools in .the face of major hardships. Such fer­ 'I valuabllJ than the ZOA including her 50-year enced faundin$ fathers began to realize the high of New York militia co,ntributed their services capital, arid' is the author of a small munity is felt slightly if at all. While Rabbi Frank on " 'I Szechet refers to as 'unzer' Yidden.' most contaCt is' with North Ameri­ vent. Jewish loyalties are doubtless 1, heritage . .. with these deliberately extremist ~o,st . of maintaining a luxury: institutiori. The' for the grand march.. , . pamph~et ',on tl",e school system there: views, large sections of American General Zionism mner guard yielded to the minority who opposed . But the Jews of the world failed to, flock to The visitor is guest of his uncle, can 'Jewry, the predominance of the a major asset of the Cuban com­ aunt and family, Mr. and 'Mrs. Joe Of pas'sing interest is the fact that Democracy have small sympathy. exclusionist policies .. Within two, years after for- thIS haven near Buffalo. Buffalo, itself at the time the brochure was printed at the Spanish tongue, has led to close cul­ munity --. . . and would be to any Gelfant; 307 Boyd avenue. Official LondGn, Ont.(Special)-A part of It is precisely this matter of definition o,f mation, the bars were let down and invitations was about as big as one of the smaller suburbs local Yiddish newspaper plant, 10- tural'ties with -Argentine Jewry. community in which a man of his extended toth@sepreviously snubbed. Some over- of Tel Aviv, with a population of perhaps not Mohel and Shochet of the Havana Canada's teaching profe-ssion - 200- functions and boundaries that will require the c~~ed at 'Jesus -Maria St., No. 107,' Despite the general prosperity of Jewish community since his arrival upright, ~aditional Jewish character of the 550 teachers' attending the keenest minds and spirits dedicated to the unity lo,oked the unnecessary slight and become· en- more than 10,000. Most isla!ld Jews are in retail or ,Cuban Jewry and absence of any there in 1946, Rev. Szechet is now would make his home. University of W,estern Ontario's of the People Israel as well as to the land. A thusiastic supparter~. Others, not so, easily ap- Noah was not disconcerted by this ~ejection small manufacturing lines, 'special- large body· that could legitimately strong Zionist organization is vital' .... ' vital fo,r peased, stand aloo,f m sullen resentment. but he <.!hanged his tune somewhat. After that' interested in moving to Canada, to Sununer School -. was urged' last our 'communities . . . vital for the future pro,­ . . Th~s kind of petty sno,bbery would be funny he spo~e. and agitated anlyfor the restoration of night to strengthen freedom through Israel interests o,f our o,wn peo,ple ... and ulti­ If it dId not cause pain. To, people of character th~ orlgmal Israel. He was familiar with the education. ' , such brash sniping is beneath notice. But others'Mld?le East. He had been American Consul to Kravetz Rabbi Dr. Frank, former Wimlipeg mately vital for Israel too. Car. Presentation.' Honors Dr who, have the means and the taste fo,r club life' T~ms and had no doubt that when needed the . their labors in arranging the fes­ spiritual leader, now" of Montreal , To command the Io,yalties o,f Jews throughout tion to Mrs. O. Hochman, former tive supper. 1 the world and raise their interests in Israel a ~u~er. a sense of ostracism in being left out. And M~ddle East Jews wogld ,be able to furnish a for- A circle of admirers and friends 'mmded those present for their told the group of summer sChool­ president of Canadian Mizrachi Sharing in the presentation of the cut ,above automatic annual cheque~writing, the If It 'lS a matter of indifference to the man it mldable army. And he believed the time was gathered Sunday night at the devotion to< the idealS of Judaism. students gathered for the opening . . Women, and Mrs. Sam Kanee, for car to the rabbi were Mr. and Mrs. Zionist Organization must come first to, cammand may be of utmost impo,rtance to his wife or dau~h- near - nat anly because o,f his mystic hopes but Ashkenazie synagogue. to do honor He voiced his.'particUlar apPl'e-cia- banquet of the six-week school, the ter. because h~ was a shrewd realist and saw the very' J. Wolinsky, D. Secter, D. Thomp­ the respect o,f Israel. To, achieve this, so,me spe­ to Ral;l-bi'Dr. Abraham Kravetz, for educator must teach freedom and son, O. Hochman, S. Kanee, S. Pitch, cial status or ftinctio,n must be devised for her. The jo,ker '.is that exclusio,n from Gentile flsagran.t .s~gns of the then great empire o,f the , his manifold services on behalf of creative thinking. H. Fainstein, D. Slater, S. Stall, S, B. If the achievement o,I Statehood has taught societies is the prime cause fo,r the existence of ultan dlsmtegrating. , . traditional Judaism in the com­ "You as teachers are engaged in Levin, D. Smith, G. Grubert, L. anything concerning the mechanics af World 'Jewish co,untry c~ubs. So thjl discriminated com- He was a leading editor in the era of Andrew munity, and' to wish him and' his working out the cultural fabric of As Garfinkel, J. ,Garfinkel, I. Menzer, Zionist organizatio,n structure,' it has underscored pen~ate fo,r the ~ting~y ?iscriminatingagainst ~afks~n. 'd I recallect, the onlYPo,Iitical Po,st he wife. "many years ahead of, good Canada which eventually will be­ R. Calof, J. H. Hecht, J. Margulius, come the voice of Canada", D r., once again the utter futility o,f trying to main­ t~elr o,wn. Gentile o,bJectlOn to, social mingling Sh 'ffesl e the Consulship to Tunis was that of health and happiness:" J. Freman, J. Gershfield, I. Zipursky, Frank said. "This voice mu§t meet, tain Zionism here fo,r no,n-potential immigrants WIth people o,utside their religion and community e:l . of New York. Some cracked "Pity a The rabbinical leader, who was on the basis of duplicating Israel's internal party o,f interests might 'be understandable, though not ChrIstian ":fio. has to be, h~ng by a Jew'" and Noah 'A. Nitikman, L. Stem, M. Wjseman, the challenge of totalitariartism ,; excusable. But what possible excuse can there retsPlol~?ed PIty a ChrIstIan who has to be hung bailed for hiS se~ices: as prin .. •and N. Rothstein. The rabbi, who now h~~ds' Can:'" structure. If the Po,litical divisian of Diaspora cipal of. the Winnipeg Talmud· ~da's oldest synagogue - the Span­ Zionism into factio,ns is defensible, then why not be for exclud~ng a car-re!igionist of adequate a a . Torah, spiritual leader of the go the fuJI 20-odd parties o,f--Israel rather than means and SOCIal decency WIth whom he need no,t Actually S~~r~ff Noah hung no one. Instead, HUNGARIANS IN 'ISRAEL lS~ and Portuguese S;ynagogue-s'aid "break bread" if he cho,o,ses no,t to? crltIClzed for showing too, much mercy Ashkenazie Synagogue, and,presi­ CANCEL RETURN VISAS the country's unity comes from di­ the mere three we concentrate o,n at present? ~e ~hs lat~r dent of Maimonides College, was versHy. "It is only a dictator wh Pursuing this course to, its Io,gical extreme points It ,:,ould be interesting to, know the yardstick b~~k e pnso.ners when an epidemic o,f yellow fever . presented with a 1951 Pontiac as Tel Aviv (JTA) - A number by whIch the bl.ack baU slingers measure the r' e out m the Debtors Jail. Noah set the wants unifonnity. Only a man lik~ its basic inadequacy. '_8 token of the esteem' in which' of, Hungarian Jews who had ex- What seems to, be indicated is a return o,f wor~h of an applicant. A former generation had lSoners free when the fever' invaded the jail pressed the desire to return to Stalin will pass on everything'_ iI he was held. Diaspora Zionism to, . its o,riginal territorial a SImple deVICe. The sons of Bavarian cattle edwas sharply attacked for this act o,f mercy' Hungary fro m Israel, have artJ science and literature.",

Joseph 0' Wolinsky, associated with "eale""'''' ...... -1-1-...... \""1""- "- k an one clergy Dr. Frank pointed out that th' . structure. . u .~ ."..l~ed . "pu..... et. ""hl.Y .0 spea English that th .. m~n even went so far as to say changed their minds as a result • ...1--.' ,ere 1 many of the institutions which have 15 no ... ~mg comparable ,to the s h' --; o,r near English to keep out the Russians whose New Y~r:epowhfeyer was God's punishment to of the anti-Jewish measures now • .• c- UU.l. i claimed Rabbi Kravetz's talents and was. o,n bias.': In Miami, a test of Noah's or avmg made a Jew its Sheriff. being followed hy the Hungar­ m shapmg the CItizen. ' :: "a~cent .t~e devotion, made the pr.esentation, and arlStocracy IS rIdICulous m the 'nouveau riche' falo, had fkor a Jewish haven near Buf­ ian Government involving the "There has been at lot of talk" th:~heme served as 'chairman of the -evening. Combatting Despair whose Yiddish speaking fathers slept in their himself Jud armar s o,f a "crank." He anno,unced eviction ;of Jews from their about denazification -of Germany b t it has been difficult to dO"'h . .u underwear.Mo,st of the secIuders emerged from g d' ge of Israel and had issued a very Rabbi Arthur Chiel, who has been homes in the cities as "undesir­ -u ' esald The children were not taught h . LOSING FAITH? --- Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan poverty with the Ro,o,sevelt New Deal. ran lose praclamation. a co-worker' of Rabbi Kravetz in able elements" unde~ the Hun­ -The Jewish Floridian. co,meYet true essentially Th J both h 0 f h'IS . pro,phesies have many_·educational projeets, was the garian resettlement plan. Those to think for themselves, nor ~: wrote this week: ica and I;rael e ev:s ave made a haven of Amer- evening's main speaker, and praised who had already filed applica­ meaning of freedom." When you are on the point of losing faith in, , h b N h . as een restored. . the, ba'al simchah for his devoted tions with the Hungarian Lega­ The speaker is lecturing daily at ' mankind, think of the follo,wing: . Washington (JTA) - ~ohn G. Blandford, Jr., the W,S.O. School of Religion which 1. I am disgusted with the evil and corruption 'inskyO~nc;a;a~~s~a tbitahead of his tiptes. Jabot­ labors. tion here for their return, were new head .of the U~N. Rehefand Works Agency who would . a e Jews were hke the man D,'. Kravetz thanked those preS­ _reported this week to have with­ began Tuesday and runs throu h' I see about me .. for Palestme. Refugees, left this week fo,r Beirut clouds were ~hver tta~e ,his umbrella when' the ent, and while discrediting the drawn their requests. :next Friday. g 2. Since I react that. way, I myself cannot be to assume hIS post. Prior to his departure he , . rea enmg but must wait fo,r the Joseph Wolinsky presents the c"r keys to Rabbi Dr, A. Kravetz.. ., ~raise, lavished upon him" com- , . " - ," entirely bad. conferred with Israel Ambassador Abba S. Eban. (Cant. on page 11)" . 3. Let me concentrate o,n the good that I myself

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