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Peace in Our Time. Jews throughout the world reacted bitterly. The most sensational reaction-and perhaps the saddest because of its mixture of childishness; and hate-came from Paris, where a rabbi had plotted a fantastic raid on London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Homecoming | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...small airport near Versailles, French police (disguised as mechanics) last week arrested Rabbi Baruch Korff of New York City just as he was about to board a private plane. Korff had planned to drop leaflets over England: "To the people whose Government proclaimed 'peace in our time,' this is a warning. Your Government has dipped His Majesty's Crown in Jewish blood and polished it with Arab oil. . . . We will carry the war to the very heart of the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Homecoming | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...austere rabbi (who had no children) had taken Josef to task: "You must know home for a Jew is Palestine. That is something to be struggled for ... to pave the way for the children of Israel." Now, as he prepared to board the Strasbourg train to tell his wife that Rebecca and Israel were not coming, Josef had his answer. From one of the steaming, sweating shipholds, they had finally sent him a message: "We will meet again in Palestine or never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: In Palestine or Never | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Arab moderates. He has not always been so quiet. As the editor of the college annual at the University of Cincinnati, he once raised such a commotion when a dean tried to censor him that the university's president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World War I he became an ardent pacifist, was booed and hissed by patriotic gatherings whenever he spoke. Embarrassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pacifist in Palestine | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...temple last week filled the committee room at Lake Success: "In these tragic years, when the whole household of Israel became one great hostelry of pain, we could not have builded what we did build had we not preserved our unshakable trust in the victory of truth." Grey-maned Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, speaking for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was telling the 55 U.N. delegations what the Zionists regard as truth's victory: unlimited immigration of refugee Jews into Palestine, creation of a Zionist state when Jews outnumber the Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: On the Record | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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