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Reform Jews got a new executive director last week for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. This job, equivalent to the top-paid post in U.S. Protestantism's Federal Council of Churches, went to slim, youthful-looking Rabbi Nelson Glueck, 41, of Cincinnati...
...damaging to me is the reference to myself as one of "Hitler's stooges, quislings or puppets." There is no basis whatsoever for that accusation. My opinion of Hitler, and all he represents may, or may not, differ in no important detail from that of President Roosevelt, or Rabbi Wise, or for that matter, the editors of TIME. My considered opinion, nevertheless, is that Hitler, and all the forces behind him, will not be defeated by oratorical flag-waving or wishful thinking...
...statesmanlike program to get a better break for the Jews after the war was launched last week by the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress, of which not invariably statesmanlike, emotional, politics-dabbling Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is respectively president and chairman. Announced was a project which may be of vast benefit to world Jewry-an Institute of Jewish Affairs to survey the state of Jewry and draft political plans for a more auspicious future...
Four million Jews, or one out of every four in the world, have become victims of oppression. Said Rabbi Wise: "A victory of the democracies will not automatically make it possible for Jews to live as free men again. It will have to be followed through. In the peace of 1919 the two factors which did most to guarantee the Jewish future, namely, recognition of minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe, and the establishment of the Mandate for Palestine, were won only after intensive effort by Jewish political bodies. The Jews will have to achieve their salvation...
...last week the committee had won three synagogues to its plan, two others had promised ratification, and the sixth agreed "in principle." But Rabbi Joseph Rauch of Temple Adath Israel declared: "I am out of sympathy with the entire movement and will not deny my services to anyone...