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...German consulate, Mayor LaGuardia stole a leaf from the late, great Roosevelt I. While Police Commissioner of New York, T. R. once had to provide police protection for an anti-Semitic German preacher. He did so by delegating Jewish policemen to keep order. Last week Mayor LaGuardia appointed an all-Jewish detachment of police under command of Captain Max Finkelstein to guard the German consulate and escort distinguished Nazi visitors through the city...
...insult, an accusation that Reform seeks to un-Jew the Jew. So the Union in the most notable of the resolutions it passed last week voiced its faith in Jewishness. In an unmistakable trend back toward Orthodoxy, the delegates urged that all Reform synagogs employ cantors and all-Jewish choirs, singing Jewish music only, and resume use of the ancient Kiddush, a blessing before the evening meal to proclaim the holiness of the Sabbath. The Union, too, voted its faith in the Jewish homeland, praising the Jewish Agency-to which Zionists and non-Zionists subscribe-for its activities...
BARREN METAL-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). A sentimental family chronicle with an all-Jewish cast of London clothing manufacturers. Beautiful, intuitive, afflicted with a charming lisp, Rachel Pardo struggles for 20 years to save her soul from Husband Meyer's beautifully appointed hell in the West End, succeeds when she goes back to the Ghetto after he is jailed for fraud...
Meantime, the warring races continued to bedevil one another. In the preponderantly Arab city of Jaffa, Arabs set fire to a few Jewish shops. Thereupon the fire, backed by a strong wind, turned and burned a number of Arab homes. Jews from the Arab towns of Hebron, Acre and Beisan were evacuated to nearby Jewish communities. All-Jewish Tel Aviv was ringed with barbed wire to keep out bloodthirsty Arabs. In terrorist murders and police fire, the Jewish dead last week reached 18; the Arab, twelve...
...Municipal Council of the new, white all-Jewish City Tel Aviv (pop.: 105,000) took to rent-fixing to curb speculation. In New York U. S. Zionist Louis Lipsky said: "Palestine is building itself up and has all the symptoms of a boom." Begging for more idealism in Zionism, he reported seeing in Tel Aviv and elsewhere the same Jewish "brokers, speculators and profiteers that used to be seen in The Bronx during the building boom...