The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-06-12
Heard In The
LObbies
AND THEY LYNCHED
MILTON MAYER!
BY DAVID DEUTSCH

Among the many anti-ZiOnist
rabbis gathered at Atlantic City
last week were many who had
publicly pilIOried Milton Mayer for
his Saturday Evening Post article
on the ground that it exposed the
Jews to grave hurt in a critical
period But Rabbi Morris Laz-
arOn spattered the news columns
of the nation with denuciatiOn
of the effort of the Jews of Pal
estine to get arms to fight with
and for the United States! E.
Several anti-ZiOniSt officials in
the State Department clapped
their hands in glee when they saw
the slashing attack on the Jewish
Army project Probably the
same officials who cOllabOrated
with Rabbi LazarOn when, accord
ing to the late Ambassador DOdd,
he went to Berlin to promise
easement of anti-Nazi criticism in
the U. S. A. It's amusing to
hear the self-glOrifying praise for
patriotism that emanated from
the anti-ZiOnist rabbis, whose
number included venerable Clifton
Hardy Levy, who hasn't had any
connection with organized Reform
JeWry for years without number,
and who has worked for countless
years for United Nations hating
William Randolph Hearst, and
who is himself the founder and
leader of an esOteric sect yclept
Jewish Science Among the
rabbiS were quite number who
are emeritus or about to be.
Emeritus is a lovely Latin term
for a. k. These include Edward
CaliSch, Solomon Foster, David
PhiIlipsOn and William ROsenau.
Apparently these days when
a young fellow gets a rabbinical
post as an assistant he must hand
over his signature to go along
with the actions of his superiOrS,
since the assistant rabbiS in Bal
timOre, Philadelphia and New
York almost make up a majority
of the cOnveners of what has been
called the Jewish Benedict Arnold
&c %Hnn% ruvnf0Svs IN
the Revolutionary War hero? l..
Rabbi PhiIlipsOn said American
Jews are interested only in Amer
lea and nowhere else-fOrgetting
that quite a few people are de-
nOuncing Col. Robert Mccormick
for saying the same thing in the
Chicago Tribune about Americans
generally But how does the
venerable cleric reconcile that
with his endorsement of the plat
form adopted by Reform rabbis in
Philadelphia way back in 1869,
when they said that Israel is a
people who are "the bearers of
the highest idea of humanity {.
and whenever this is mentioned it
shall be done with full emphasis
laid on the wOrId-embracing mis-
sion of Israeli" In other words,
when a Zionist speaks of the Jews
as q worldwide people he's a
scOundreI but when an anti-ZiOn-
ist says the same thing he's the
direct descendant Of George Wash
ingtOn Wonder what the
huge Zionist constituency in New
ark thinks about Rabbi David
Vice, the young fellow with old
ideas, who also is joining in the
stab at the back of the Jews of
Palestine PM, which COM
pares Hearst, Patterson and Nc
COrmick propaganda lines with
Berlin and Rome announcements,
might do swell piece on the kim
ship between the prO-Arab talk
heard at the Atlantic City meet
ing and the kind of chOwder that's
turned out by the ex-Mufti Of
Jerusalem from his Hitler-cOntrib-
uted villa outside Berlin I've
been scOIded for talking irrever-
emily about rabbiS, but perhaps
Pm confused in thinking that il
America could spank Charles