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Canadian English-Jewish Weekly
MONTREAL. JANUARY 2, 1848
No. 14
Say* Jews Showed War Valor
Twelve memorial windows and a war service alcove hi The Temple, In Cleveland, Ohio, were dedicated la memory of the twenty-two members who died in World War II and 'the 766 members who served in the aimsd forces.
Babbi Abba HilW Silver read messages concerning tfas heroism el the Jewish service men from Generals of the Army Dwigbt D. Elsenhower, Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Jttmita.
Lieut. Gen. Robert C. Richard-eon Jr., retired, commander of the 'Army Ground Forces in the Central Pacilc, made the dedicatory ad-dress. He extolled the services of men and women of the Jewish faith and cited, "as a simple matter of Justice to the Jews to counteract the persistent propaganda that some races are superior to others JlUbe field of battle," the fact that
050,000 Jews served with honor in �tery theatre of operations and in every braftch ef the armed services. 44 All Americans who have the in-ferest of permanent peace at heart ssust work bojh against prejudice and for the doctrine that we shall vfc� judged in this world by our individual worth and not by any other standard," General Richard-Km aakL "All of the high commanders of the Army and Navy have attested to the valiant service �jandered by the men of Jewish faith**
General Richardson, speaking as a soldier, told of the hardship and
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Want Religion Out Of Schools
The United States Supreme Court is asked to declare that religious instruction in schools is unconstitutional in a brief filed by a number of New York religious and lay groups, who emphasize that the religious education of children is the "sacred responsibility" of the church and the home.
The brief has been filed by the
� Synagogue Council of America, and the National Community Relations Advisory Council. These bodies are national coordinating agencies, respectively, for rabbinic and lay congregational religious groups representing the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform branches of American Judaism; and for national and local Jewish organizations working for better inter-
� group and inter-faith relationships.
Dr. J. J. Dawson, secretary of the Joint Baptist Conference on Public Relations, told a congregation in Washington that religious education mast be kept out of the schools in interests of the traditional American church-state relationship.
He asserted it was "heartening" to observe a deepening interest among Americans in the preservation of the country's moral life. But, he added, "if America is to be saved from moral deterioration and utter secularization, the home and the church must assume the proper responsibility."
Dr. Dawson, speaking in the First Baptist Church, announced the committed ***** submitted an "arnicas curias0 brief to toe Supreme Court, which is considering the appeal of a mother in Cham-is askias; that r*U.
Foresees Strife For Indefinite Period
Dr, Nahum Goldman, director of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, said in an interview in London, England, that Jewish legal experts, working on a draft constitution for the projected Jewish Palestine state �which may be named Judea � have included a clause binding the country to neutrality on the Swiss model in any future world conflict.
Dr. Goldman said that perpetual neutrality would be justified because millions of Jews would still remain scattered in the Eastern World as well, as the Western World.
A Jewish Agency spokesman said, however, that a period of "indefinite" conflict with partition-resisting Arabs was foreseen and an army of at least 10,000 would have to be maintained at an initial weekly expenditure of $500,000 to defend the country, according to the New York Tiroes.
Dr. Goldman outlined these points in the interview:
Eliezer Kaplan, Jewish Agency treasurer, is now in the United States examining the prospects of raising a loan from the Export-Import Bank and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to capitalize national projects.
An economic aijd defense delegation of fifty American Jews will fly to Palestine in February to survey financial needs of the new state.
American Jews will be asked by the United Jewish Appeal to subscribe f2M.000.000 to meet the state's overseas needs, indud-f�r d�fease.
Resigns Over Zionist-Soviet Coetict
Moshe Sneh, one of the outstanding members of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, resigned in a move believed to indicate a fundamental split on the question of Zionist relations with the Soviet Union.
Mr. Sneh accused the Agency, which is the nucleus of the future Jewish State's governments of undue emphasis on friendship with the Western democracies. For months he had been rumored favoring closer contact with the Soviet union, and his statement upon resigning was said to align him definitely with the left wing of the Jewish labor group.
The immediate cause of his resignation was a disagreement over the continued restriction of Jewish immigration, particularly from Eastern Europe. Mr. Sneh, who is of Polish origin, recently visited a number of countries behind Europe's "iron curtain". He played a large part in organizing the mass movement of thousands of Jewish refugees toward Rumania and Bulgaria to be brought to Palestine, reports the New York Times.
The Sneh-Zionist dispute stemmed from the Agency's order to halt unauthorized immigration after the partition vote, although that is only a symptom of the fundamental differences.
Mr. Sneh's statement on his resignation mentioned the immigration policy as one of the reasons for which he believed that the Western powers planned to "betray and Subjugate" the Jews.
An Agency spokesman said that the Agency never commented on
tfdals and had
ORT Priitd By Truman
President Truman praiaed the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training for ita "effective and humanitarian efforts" in teaching new skills to Jewish refugees and war victims in the displaced person camps of Europe.
The President's message, which was read to 500 persons at the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the American division of ORT, in the Roosevelt Auditorium, 100 East Seventeenth Street, in New York, spoke first of the organization's rehabilitation work among the DP's and then said:
"ORT has been of inestimable assistance in helping them to become once again dignified and self-supporting members of society through a program of vocational training,
Herbert H. Lehman, former Governor of New York, was the principal speaker. He described the schools that ORT conducts, many of which he'helped start while serving as Director-General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and urged that the organisation continue ita work of training "the persons who will be responsible for the development of the new Jewish state."
Telling of the part ORT could play in the future of Palestine, Mr. Lehman said that only 75,000 of the 260,000 Jews now in DP camps would be able to enter the Jewish state next year. This meant, he added,- that some plan of selection would have to be worked out, and
H.IJLS. Seeks $4,000,000
The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society adopted a resolution at its eighteenth annual convention at Manhattan Center. Thirty-fourth Street and Eighth Avenue, New York, supporting a* plea for the collection in 1948 of $4,000,000 for the organisation's assistance to Jewish emigration. '
Samuel A. Telsey, president of. the H. I. A. S. Council, reported. that the society faces a deficit of $780,000 because of post-war expansion of ita activities, this despite the collection during 1947 of-, $2,000,000, which Isaac L. Asof*' sky, executive director, said was the largest collection in its sixty-, three years.
Mr. Telsey declared that "the' problem of the Jewish homeless,, the stateless, the persecuted and: the unwanted will not be solved: even if all of the Jewish D. PJV were moved to Palestine* >
"Immigration into Palestine^ must obviously be selective in tkev' beginning," he saM. "Not all who; will be eagerly knocking at the door can, with the beat of wflVV be admitted. The nations of the v world must open their doors aejs^T their hearts to these peseta." -:�;
Hugo E. Rogers, BoewMfti PreaVj dent of Manhattan, eenefe-red fey this, asserting that "Palestine not take care of all of m even if we all wanted to fp
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Jewish Palestine probably will remain in tke sterling bloc.
The political relationship between world Zionism and Palestine Jewry remains to be settled. Jews of Palestine are largely Socialist, in contrast to many of Zionism's supporters abroad.
The country will apply for United Nations membership as soon as possible, and may seek to be heard at any future peace conference on Germany.
A Jewish Agency spokesman said the new state may Ale a claim for reparations against Germany on account of the "murders, sufferings and persecutions" that Jews underwent
H.Y. Farrier Lived fcccess Story
I. J. Fox, president of I. J. Fox, Fifth Avenue furriers, who came steerage from England to America at the age of 19, died of a heart attack at his residence in the Seek-man Hotel, �7� Park ATW�e, New York. He would hare been 19 years old on Dec. ST.
Mr. Fox, retail farrier, designer and manufacturer, who had made his company widely known by extensive advertising in all media, had btea in apparently good health and was preparing to go to his store at 393 Fifth Avenue. His SOB, Howard, vice-president of the firm, was in the apartment at the time. Mr. Fox had been iU several years ago and knew he had a weak heart, but he maintained his energetic pace. He had remained in his office the day before his death until early evening.
One of the largest retailers in furs, Mr. Fox opened his store on Fifth Avenue in 1930, after the stock market crash and against the advice of friends and business a&so-ciates. But he took the vacant store, and, determined to make it the largest fur retail establishment, he made over the front and went to Paris to stock up. His flair for promotion stunts helped immediately to carry him over the first rough going.
Since then he had opened stores in Boston, OereUud and PkOadel. phia, and had far dcpertsftSBts in the BSSM of his im im JissiUissit stores of half a doaea New EagUad cities. He sdvertascd extsasHety in newspapers and was one of tills fint merchandisers to exploit tfce radio and television. Air*4a�es wrote the firm name in the skies
intervention' policy in tfce face of the bloody attacks upon the Jewish community, and Anglo-American intervention against uncertified immigration from Western Europe are the first signs of plans to betray and subjugate us.
"In estimating these dangers and in the decision on how to combat them, I disagree wtih my colleagues and am unable to share the responsibility with them."
Mr. Sneh said he would keep the full explanation of his resignation for the forthcoming meeting of the Zionist party, but according to Zionist sources in Palestine his disagreement was based on immigration from Eastern Europe and, more fundamentally, because the agency looked top much to the Western democracies and the United Nations for guidance on policy �in other words, too little toward the Soviet Union.
Mr. Sneh studied medicine at Warsaw University, made a reputation as a journalist, and afterward became leader of the General Zionist Organization.
He was taken prisoner by the Russians while serving in the Polish Array during the war, but escaped to Palestine in 1949 where he was elected a member of the Jewish Agency executive five years later.
Before the decision to give up tie mandate, he advocated active resistance to British policy in Palestine ; early in December he stated that friendship with Russia must bt a basic tenet of the new Jewish State.
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Mr. Fox was active in Jewish philanthropies and during the recent war aided in war-bond drives and served on various Government committees. He was a veteran of the first World War, having served as a private in Battery B, 304th Field Artillery, Seventy-seventh Division. He was a member of the division's association and in 1939 the association tendered him a dinner at which the United States Flag Association presented him with the "Order of the Flag."
Last year he was designated the "outstanding man in the fur industry" by the Fur Garment Traveling Salesmen's Association, the first retailer so honoured.
Mr. Fox was one of ATS men selected this year to receive awards for their contribution to American business from the American Schools and Colleges Association. Th� citation, which haags in Mr. on
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