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ORBIT Page 12 Plainview Jewish Center 95 Floral Drive – Plainview NY 11803 – 516-938-5865 Express Innovation brings you an: Intergenerational Family Havdalah Service & Party Saturday, January 26 th , 2013 7:00PM in the Ballroom Enjoy elaborate dairy desserts and entertainment by: Chagit Avnon Payment: $5.00 per person ***Category B credit will be given*** Registration is required. Space is limited so please sign up early. Please fill out the form below and return with your payment by January 16 th , 2013. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Intergenerational Havdalah Program, January 26 th , 2013 Family Name___________________________________________________________________________________ Children’s____________________________________________________________ Grade: _______________________ Name(s) ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Phone: _________________________________________________ Total attending________________ Total Payment_________________
ORBIT Babe Ruth and the Holocaust - JPost.com, By RAFAEL MEDOFF/JNS.ORG - 12/20/2012 15:20 Page 13 Seventy years ago, the names of 50 German-Americans appeared in a fullpage advertisement in ten daily newspapers ‘in denunciation of the Hitler policy of cold-blooded extermination of the Jews of Europe.’ The most prominent signatory was George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth. Photo: George Grantham Bain Babe Ruth is remembered for his home runs on the field and his hot dog binges and other peccadilloes off the field. But as the American public is about to discover, there was another Babe Ruth – one who went to bat for women and minorities, including the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust. Throughout the spring and summer of 1942, Allied leaders received a steady stream of reports about the Germans massacring tens of thousands of Jewish civilians. Information reaching the Roosevelt administration in August revealed that the killings were not random atrocities, but part of a Nazi plan to systematically annihilate all of Europe’s Jews. In late November the State Department publicly verified this news, and on December 17, the US and British governments and their allies issued a declaration acknowledging and condemning the mass murder. But aside from that Allied statement, the Roosevelt administration had no intention of doing anything in response to the killings. There was no serious consideration of opening America’s doors – or the doors of British-ruled Palestine – to Jewish refugees. There was no discussion of taking any steps to rescue the Jews. As quickly as the mass murder had been revealed, it began to fade from the public eye. Dorothy Thompson was determined to keep that from happening. And Babe Ruth would help her. Thompson (1893-1961) was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany. She was once described by Time magazine as one of the two most influential women in the United States, second only to Eleanor Roosevelt. In the autumn of 1942, Thompson contacted the World Jewish Congress with a novel idea: mobilizing German-Americans to speak out against the Nazi persecution of the Jews. As a journalist, Thompson understood the man-bites-dog news value of German-Americans protesting against Germany – especially in view of the well-publicized pro- Nazi sentiment in some segments of the German- American community. Just a few years earlier, ( continued on page14 )
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