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Thursday,_.__ ~.~.~.~ Mar.ch.. ~~~~.~. 23, 1944 ~ . . ______~~~ ______~ ______---~-~~ .. __ ;rBWI·B-..:~:O~B~~~----~------~ ... ______~~~~~ ______p_ag~e_T_m ___ ~ Thursday, March 23, 194:'1 , J...... -..::.:.:: .• "" •.,..~, ...... ~. t"age TwCl ~BE .rEWISB POST but to you and me, to the future Q~sic ftlAd~ij:i~~fa1:~:qHestiQ!!:.~:.::..~4i.'*, of civilization as a whole .. , I ~ay .of ?f~~'is:?t~l)lr~~~~?;J~\ \flfie'i;: If every majority can, WIth perfect ~~tabtanap. Yllth mSlstence' on... ·.drab i'i The Right To Be Different impunity and with utter disr~gard I,':and detetmi~dF~~~ j.~~~in.e-likePt 'of any Higher Law attack and des-I, onenes:~\?~.1 ?~,~.,~t,.to be·tli :lberal~,;' The Oldest Angl<>-Jewtsh Weekly in Westem Canada Fights .{", (Isiued w&>ltly the or Christianity Speech delivered by DR. SOLOMON outlooks and beliefs, yet inspired world is \0 prove that better world troy every minority, then the fut~re t~~ progte~slyei: :t~,~"d_~:m:~r~:~~lC tr~T: in interests Jewish Community activltietl i in Winnipeg' and Western Canlu1a) FRANk on the Purim Bl'o~dcast I by the ideal of working together we hop~ to achieve for the benefit holds in store a long and unendmg dltion ,Wh12h .. _~lJ!~~pts· as, .a~lOmat~~ of B'na'i B'rith. for the common good? This is the of those who are to come after us. series of continuing and never-end-I the right of ev'ei'y~-:maii::~o:::F.~?~hip Pnblished every Thursday ing conflicts. The majority of people his God in his own way, inspired' by by _.- advanced , civilized view of the lib- Let us for the moment attempt. to today can easily become the minority I the common desire to advance the iJ EMPIRE PRESS, LTD. 'Anti Semitism AlVI truly delighted to have this eral tradition, These approaches reconstruct the scene of twenty-fIve ,', . - 't t -1 t d may seem new to us. In reality they hundred years ago. Haman, the group of tomorrow. Hence what: welfare of society as a whole and l)rinters and Publishers I t I oppor.um'Yj hark back to the very beginnings .of Prime Minister, discussing problems he has done to his minorities today not of an isolated segment? BEN M. COHEN, Business Manager th tOhsPBe~>;.: .0B~~lt~unT~r e auspIces 0 e nal n. e I . hi' I't t his king' Phone 54 400 Evenings 54345 tian. It can only be dealt with as such. Perhaps ' '·B' ·th t t d' gl' organized society. And so m t e of natlOna Unl Y says 0 . will tomorrow be done to him. Such This is the issue which faces us . By KENNETH LESLIE B ou l the supreme example af anti-Semitism in recent n;l. n , ~n t. 5 ~n m y l~~-I days described in the Book of Esther, c1There is a certain people scattered a future is bereft of the hope of 1 today. The future of Jew and non­ Head Office: 213 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Canad~ (Editor of the New Protestant) Etltered &3 Second Glaas Mail Matter Ottawa years af its great influence among thinking Prat­ Pbort~nt tOhrganh'Zad,ond'thls now cfe :t-s the Emperor 'of Persia, acting on the abroad, 'their laws are different, progresss. Man will start on his ~ Jew alike depends upon which of at ramg e unre year 0 1, b d t d" OT long ago I sat in on an informal panel estant ministers, was the remark made by the . t I ' t f advice of Haman, his Prime Minister, therefore let them e es roye , ~reary jot~rney back, back to the! these two viewpoints is to prevail. Vol. XX-No, 12 Thursday, March 23, 194'1 N held at a Christian seminary, devoted to the editor af the Christian Century to the effect that eXIS ence, mar ~\:mg. athcen uryh.o chose the totalitarian solution to the Think or his words in the language Jungle whIch knows no law, save: Of the eventual outcome there must communal serVIce m e parae 1a l ' Id . n problem of anti-Semitism. During the course of anti-Semitism was due to. what he called the 11 . th d . t' 1 problem of government. Bec,ause the and thought of today. It wou tU that of jagged tooth and the bloody; of course be no' question. ~Ve are e n .the discussion which lasted several hours only af~ IWd AaSt1 : non- enom~a members of the Jewish faith decided something like this: "We have living claw. convinced of the ultimate certainty tragic unassimilability of the Jews. The fact, as Ie. c Ive. In war serVICe, 10::e . b t f pulation I once was Christian doctrine mentioned as a POSe indicated by this remark, that certain members B'nai Blrith has taken part in every 'I' to abide by their own religion, Y with us, as par - 0 our po , Friends, civilization consists of of victory. We know that our cause Ten Years Youth Aliyah sible source of anti-Semitism. With this single of a demacracy calling therpselves Christians can ff t t f th t bTze ur their own way of liie, they were different peoples. Because the land the right to be different and of the I is just. Inspiration to that eventual exception the entire time was spent or wasted call others members of that demacracy aliens e,t'0r pu. t~ tOtrna 1 1 h~ ch I threatened with extinction. Fortune, of their origin is different from our consequent o.bligation imposed on' moment of universal goodwill comes On February 19,1934, a grollp offifty German- first in giving evidence for the existence of anti­ CI lzenry 111 a .. grea cause w I ~ g however was with them. The evil own, because they differ in their shaws haw deeply anti-Semitism has waven itself . y all of us to co-operate whole-I to everyone from the pages of the Jewish children arrive din the colony. oL.Ain .Semitism, in other words, indicating that the prob­ into the texture af Christian idealagy. We shall at presentTohccuPI.es ~ur evfethr wa nn. \ plans ca~e to nought. Help arrived mode of worship, perhaps because heal'Ledly with everyone who is Book of Esther., To the down­ moment. e wlnmng a e war IS • • 'd t th' k' l' even Harod in Eretz Israel. Their arrival heralded the lem is not purely imaginary, but that anti-Semit­ have to reckon with this fact in America before the onl thin that matters today. just in time. This histonc mCl ent, they happe~ -0 m In a likeminded, in doing the work of the trodden and the oppressed the Book g beginning of the Youth Aliyah movement. Since ism really exists; then pointing out some of the anything thoraugh-gaing can be dane abaut anti­ y d f d 'Il described ih the Book 01 Esther. speak at dlfferent language from world. This is the fundamental issue of Esther brings a note of high its inception ten years ago. nearly 11,000 children conditions of the growth of anti-Semitism, for Semitism. All m~n t~n t fw~me~ ~ ~:; i;li5 I which relates but a meagre fragment our own ... then regardless of who raised by the Book of Esther. It is l:ope, a word of promise that the have found haven and home in Palestine. The instance that it rises with economic hardship; The "religiaus" advertising pages of a city like l'ellcogmze a' ~c il t~ a b 'n a of the history of contemporary: they are, or what they think or do, e the identical issue being fought out eventual tomorrow will bring free­ prosaic retelling of these facts, together with and pointing out that since we may expect a period Detroit tell every Saturday·. night of the hate­ a . ~ver, w. . s a.th ~n e f \1 Persia is the foundation of the we must rid ourselves of them. We tonight on the beaches of Italy, on dam and happiness, and the right such other information that two tho.usand chil- of economic readjustment and consequent hard­ PCOSlt1dO~ to ~omthwl at outraske yOW Jewish festival of Purim which be-' have no room for ourselves and for fests to follow on Snnday. One, far instance, anam.nsm egreaer et I'· h t A thc Steppes of Russia and on the to be different. It brings to all the dren have entered Palestine since January 1943; ship sooner or later after the war, we may also pictures in lurid pose a cowboy evangelist who on f k' 'hle the even I gan at sundown today. I the stranger WIthIn t e ga es. s rocky islands of the far-off Pacific. realization that in doing the work that six thousand children have come to Eretz expect a rise in 'anti-Semitism; and lastly the November 21 told his audience, as reparted by to come a mida lU£ g POSSI It' 'I But the Book of Esther in reality long as we are in the majority, we As in the Book of Esther, so in of the world, we must co-operate better war 0 tomorrow. l5, . I f I I' We are since the war started, daes not begin to describe panel agreed in anticipating that this will be very: . t th t I h uld' goes beyond the mere reclta o' can do exact y as we pease. members of Ford Lacal 600 who. were present, there f are appropna e a so. / d I W . e We countless millions of hearts today not on the basis of enforced same- the great dramatic and heroic achievement of great and that we shall therefore see conditions ' . tho . d under' a trying moment in the long an all powerfu. . e are suprem . and I quate this cowbay evangelist: "Christ was k man must ask himself one simple I (Cont. on Page 6) the movement which has captured the imagina- in America similar to what happened in Germany ,spea to yo.u III Is veln an f the varied career of the Jewish people' are the, law. There is no one who auburn-haired, therefore nat a Jew; but the dark, these auspIces on the eve a " Th" . ely tian of Jew and non-Jew. Every child that has during the rise of Nazism. dirty hook-nosed people you see running araund . f ' I ! P . and of what might perhaps even be can say 'No' to us. IS IS preCIS JeWIsh 'estlva 0 urun. d t Th are -the been erscued and brought into Palestine is a living A pro.minent figure in the Christian church streets af Detroit are Jews. They are the tares in ·t' b d all time It described as a miraculous re emp- what, Haman mean. ese , H o I y Wn IS eyon. . . t 1 . r d which hav~ , testimonial to the determination of the Jewish made oneaf the main cantributians to. the panel. the wheat." . . h I" h't g f tion from grave and lmmmen' words, actua or Imp Ie - has become t e Ivmg en a e 0 b 1 'med by every totalitarian EWSY II people to live and flaurish as a peaple and as a The burden of hi.s thaught was as fallows: the In a period of quiet economic expansion such ,-. E h f d danger. It centres attention upon een proc 81 I., every generation. ac age ill s a h th . h' toric nation. Jews should not indulge in a persecutian complex exhibitio.ns might be overlooked. Focal infections d f guidance a- question which is vitally import- leader of w om ere I~ an IS new message, a war 0 . d h" import NOTES» In Palestine, as elsewhere throughout freedam- which only makes the persecutars mare anxiaus can be absorbed and carried aff in a healthy . 'ts inspired ant to the thinking of our own tIme record. An t IS raIses an - « i, d t f h ntUIIIIUtlltntlltltlnllllUltlllllUIIIIIIIUI"lnlUlltllll11ltn1HII111111111 , loving lands, the tenth anniversary af Yauth to persecute The Jews should nat demand a ,bloo.dstream. But when the organism, be it indi­ an a noF e th0 t ope m 1 the scrip- and a question to whIch. we mus'\ I ant ISSue. VI't a 11 y essenti a I riot only l Aliyah will be abserved with a renewed determin- natianal home, especially in full-page advertise­ pages. °hr Id ~, reason, t'~e give a positive answer if tomorrow's to the particular minority aggrieved) vidual or social, cames under the heavy strain of tures we 0 In common are ...... - By BORIS SMOLAR ation to continue with this magnificent work. As ments in the daily newspapers which anly exacer­ economic dislo.catio.n and adaptatian these focal part of the seremonies in Palestine Miss Henrietta bate Americans. Apart fram advising the Jews less. I want to talk to you this (Copyright, 1944, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) infections assume much greater importance. The . evening about one of the smaller , r Szald, notwiehstanding her 83 years, has under- what they shauld do. or rather what they should infection in this case amounts to. a mass insanity WASHINGTON SIDELIGHTS - It will be revealing no secret if I , of these books in that great col­ Henry Goody, - Ish Eshkolot taken a tour of ane hundred agricultural ca- refrain from daing, this eminent Christian teacher involving millians of individuals canditioned by lection. To me, as a member of the tell you that President Roosevelt has definitely decided to issue no .formal statement on Palestine without first consulting. ChiJrchill. . . . The aperatives, small haldings, institutians and other had ane solutian far the whale problem. That a deep-rooted fixed idea to the effect that the Jewish faith, it brings a special settlements now training refugee children. By was to farm committees of substantial citizens trouble of the world can be debited directly to message tonight. For at sundown Thi~ eulogy was written by Rabbi action~ and good deeds. His memory presid~nt indicated as much to Rabbi Wise and Rabbi Silver when he her example this frail but vigorous little lady, who. drawn fram all strata of saciety who could act the account of the Jewish peaple against whom Jews everywhere, began the observ­ Ritholtz, a prominent American shall never be erased from our received them ,at the White House .... The text of his views on Palestine hearts, from the hearts of his which he authorized them to make public was "Text Number 2" prepared has headed youth Aliyah since its inception, has as a fire brigade to. put out anti-Semitic fires in the Creator of the world has declared war. Any ance of an historic festival on the rabbi, shortly after the death of relatives, friends and numerous wan the respect and admiratian of the world for their incipient stages. dutiful citizen af this demacracy must take ac­ anniversary of the occasion mar ked Chaplain Henry Goody, who was by the Zionist leaders and changed here and there by the' President in acquaintances. He was never tired the cause she has so. faithfully spansored. In This speaker had cansiderbale advice for the caunt of such a mass insanity, came to. grips with by that book. I refer to the story of killed a little over a year ago in an his own handwriting.... A "Text Number 1" was presented to him by when he knew that he could help the Zionist leaders, but he did not approve of its contents.... As it is, view af her latest act it is small wonder the Jews and no. criti~ism whatever for Christians. it at once and deal with it in such a way that it Esther. accident while in line of duty. Chap- Jewish women of Winnipeg, as women every- One felt too. in listening to him a regretful dis­ will nat wreck our society. Nothing can be gained We are taken back 2,500 years. lain Goody was a former Winnipeg- his fellow men. He was never ex- even the approval Of "Text Numher 2" came as a surprise to many who where, have been inspired to carryon their yeo- taste for the necessity of dealing with this subject py further delay in this matter. It must be The Empire of ancient Persia had ger and was widely known here. hausted in procuring consolation for .are close to the President, including Vice-President Wallace. . . . It ---- the needy, weary and sick soldiers took seven important' non-Jewish personalities, including members of man efforts for youth Aliyah. at all. The human tragedy of anti-Semitism had handled with as much tact as firmness, but it grown in power, extending in sway Everywhere in Canada youth Aliyah drives nat gripped him. If only the Jews wauld do a must be handled with the utmost firmness. This from the upper reaches of the Nile MOl'e than a month has passed of humanity. his cabinet, to convince President Roosevelt that something must be done are meeting with outstanding success. In every little more of this and a little less of that the is a No. 1 ;lii'io),'ity in American education and to the distant mountains of India. since cruel death snatched from our During his short stay on this by him to offset the bad impression which the shelving 'of the Palestine village and hamlet in the Dominion where a whole unpleasant mess wauld be cleared up. In a cannot be further postponed. As the story of that book opens, we midst that great and beloved per':' eai·th his so~l gained for itself the resolution had made.. , . The President, very cordial to Rabbi Wise and Jewish person resides, something is being done burst of self-cammiseration he revealed that he The questian is asked: wpat can Chri~tianity see the rulers of Persia wrestling sonality of Chaplain Henry Goody reputation and recognition of both Rabbi Silver, had much to say to them during the half-hour which they to hasten the rescue of children. Men and Wamen felt very upset that his "Jewish friends" had got­ do to combat anticSemitism? The answer is with the never-changing problem of blessed memory. But time has God and man. His deeds were Godly, spent with him.... The attitude which the American delegation to are recognizing the increased c~st in mainta!n- ten themselves into a "state of mind" over this Christianity ~n do practically all there is to be . of governmental organization and only int~nsified our realization of his actions Divine, London, under Acting Secretary of State Stettihius, will take on the ing children under the Yauth Aliyah scheme and matter. done to combat anti-Semiti..sm. It is a job which control. We see them ask the age- the _greatness of -the loss that we No! Chaplain.Henry Goody is not Palestine question when it is raised during ~~e forthcoming Anglo­ have sustained. dead, for the righteous never die, American talks was also touched upon during the Zionist leaders' talk are giving accordingly. The increased needs are There were several Jewish people present, democracy must assign taChristianity: Clean old question: being met with larger contributions. Reports of mastly refugees with distinguished' records in house of this anti-democratic thought and action. What means should be used to He was the real Ish Eshkolot, the just never disappear. They live with the President .... which is translated by the rabbis as in the memories of their friends in drives in Western Canada where Mrs. Irma Eurape. These expressed themselves in darkly Some Christians are a:wakening to the neces­ keep a nation united, to make it HEROES AND VICTIMS - There is very little said about Jews in Lindheim is now visiting speak of tremendous pessimistic terms delving deeply into the ap­ sity af a revolution in Christian thaught with strong and to prolong its life, its Ish, "Shekol-Bo-" the man in whom the annals of humanity and in the n everything is to be found, who pOS-. paradise of immortality. Men like Paul Tabori's latest book "They Came to London just published by successes. We are confident that the women of parently inexhaustible pit of their fearfulness. regard to its attitude towards the Jews. Those national existence? Should we seek IVracmillan. . . . But the chapter on the internees in the Sahara Desert Winnipeg will do their sh:;re in ma.int~ining the One of them did dare to say that he sometimes who. have become aware of this necessity belong this unity by forcing every citizen sesses every gift that can come from Chaplain Goody are the examples in North Africa who escaped to England, tells, indirectly 1 more about the support being accorded thIS humamtanan move- thought the problem was a problem for non­ the understanding of human nature. that God in His beneficence sends us, to thase groups within the Christian traditian to conform to established norms of Jewish victims than could be told in a full-length book. , , . There is the ment. We are equally confident that the men w,nl Jews, but this observation braught no response. which have learned to practice self-criticism. thoughf of belief and of worship? When Rabbi Elozot, the son of Rabbi so that we may know how to live, Simson, died, the men of his gen- llOw to exist, and how to act in our young Jew of indetermined nationality who came from "the Baltic States" contribute their share. The wamen's affarr, I cite this experience because it represents an These groups will nat hesitate to. cut but the last This of course is the totalitarian and who was known only by the name of David. . . . There is Dr. where minimum cantributions of five dallal'S are average approach to this problem an the part af fibre of the cancer af anti-Semitism which may approach. Or should on the con­ eration referred to him the phrase, relationship with fellow men. They "With all the powers of the roer- are the forerunners of a better world: Ehrenzweig, the Viennese professor or entomology.... There are others being asked, takes place next Thursday w~th mast liberal groups. One thing they never men­ be left in the bady of their teaching and further- trary, every effort be put forth to who volunteered in the French Legion only to find themselves later in Mrs. Lindheim as guest speaker. A capaCIty tian and that is this: The basic anti-Semitism (Cont. on Page 7) obtain the voluntary co-operation chant", because Rabbi Elozot was I of a nobler humanity. audience shauld be in attendance. which is an element in the Christian tradition _. Karaya, Vetanyah-Upaitan, Veda- Without such noble examples and, the Sahara as political prisoners.... David had his leg amputated after of all groups, though differing in being caught in ~. cave-in in the sands of the desert while doing slave vetran-Master in Scriptures~ Master patterns we could never know to itself. N o.w I must digress, briefly, an tho.se fun­ labor there .... It took his fellow-internees two hours to move the sand in Rabbinics, great as a poet and choose between good _and evil. damental attitudes tawards life which we call and earth which covered his body.... Miraculously he badlsr hurt; great as a preacher." Ev~n so may From dust ait thou_man taken .an.d ~asn't religians. The Jewish Calendar only his knee-cap had been crushed .... But the doctor refused to send A Welcome Decision Orientations to life (religiaus) may exclude 5704 - 1944 Weekly Giggle it be said of Chaplain Henry Goody; unto dust thou shalt return. Thls]s he was bedecked "with all the the Law of God, the Law of Nature, him by lorry to a base hospital where he could get expert care.... So the ane anather without inevitably leading to canflict. Rm:;h Hmlmh Nissan ...... Sat., Mnr. 25 wound turned septic and the leg had to be amputated well above his ~ Passo\·€1" ...... , .... Sat.• Apr. 8 - Sat., Apr. 1G powers of the Merchant" in spiritual which no living being could possibly The decisian by the University Baard of But if the exclusiveness af such arientatians have t Rosh Hodesh Iyar...... ,,, ...... Mon. Allr. 24 The Jaw-bone knee.... ·Worse even was the fate of Dr. Eherenzweig who could have and intellectual wares. resist. Gavernors to. examine and revise the syste~ of fruit in econo.mic conflict and hardship then there Lag' B'Omcr...... ,." ...... " ...... Thurs., 1I'la.y 11 h ved to see the day when entomology no longer would be a matter of Rosh Hodcsh Sivan...... Tues., May 23 A school examiner, finding a class Chaplain Goody is not dead - No! Observe the upright and notice the selecting students for entrance to. the Mamtoba will be civil 0.1' internatianal war. In other wards Shuvuoth ...... :...... Sun .• Jv1ay 28 Aryan descent.... This Jewish scientist found a silent grave in the T Ro:;h Hndesh 'rammuz ...... Thurs .• June 22 . th Nothm'g d,'es', It l'S only a transmuta- righteous for there is a, future for Medical College will, we feel, be welcomed by all if the spiritual difference has its material effect, hesitating over answenng e ques- waters of the Atlantic after he had joined a group of escaped internee.s ~ Fa..<;t of Tammuz ...... : ...... SD.t .• July 8 tion, "with what weapon did Samson tio~ from one world into another. the man of noble deeds; citizens of good-will. This decisian came about if it matters, its credal exclusiveness tl'anslates Rosh IIoc1~sh Ab ...... Fl'i., July 21 trying to rea'ch English shores as st~waways. . .. '''they came to Lo:ridonH largely as a result of a brief presented bJ: Mr. H. itself into political-econamic exclusiveness - then 8 'risha Il1Ab ...... ,,, ...... Sat., .Tu}y 20 slay, the phiI istines.? " an,d WlS . h'lng A transmutat,'on from a world where May God destroy the angel of t Rosh Hodcsh Elul...... , .. ,... " ... ,.... Sun.• Aug. 20 "f' tl ta d pal'ns, sufferl'ng, tears and death death, together with the, forces of is a stirring book depicting characters from 12 different countries who in Sokalov an behalf of the Avukah SOCIety, an conflict ensues. A creed is nathing more than a to prompt t h em, Slgnl lcan y ppe their determination to fight Fascism and Hitlerism risked their lives to 5705 M 1944 his' cheek and asked: "What is exist, into a wor~d where everlasting, evil and ·thereby eradIcate tear~ organization of Jewish graduates and ul!-dergrad­ belief, a fundamental ,belief, a belief men will S Rosh Hashonah ...... Mon .• Sept. 18 reach England under the most difficult circumstances.... The author, Yom Kippur...... Wed., Sept. 27 this?" . peace - happiness exists for the and suffering from the surface of uates at the University. The presentatr~n made die far, Paul Tabori, is HWlgarian-born, but lived in many parts of Europe and The whole' class: "The jaw-bone righteous person. Chaplain Goody this earth. May God bless you aiL 'by Mr. Sakalov was temperate and restramed and Anti-Semitism as we know it in the western & Holitlay begins at sundown day before, is now in London doing broadcasts for the British Government.... he is to. be cangratulated for his excellent present- ' world is an element which has been far 2,000 years t Second day 01 new moon. . of an ass:' leaves behind' him countless noble Amen! (Cont. on Page 7) and more part and parcel of the Christian tradi- .- , , "\

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