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SOUTHERN ISRAELITE For SOUTHERN JEWRY (III Land, In (In 1 Air, (In the Sea ll\ Ben Swm ei. A ' \viEKI< W Jews celebrate th«* fir**l R«#sh Hashanah since this country’s entrance in . the War of Survival, it is well to review briefly the accomplishment* <>f the Jewish com munity in connection with the war effort. It has been a year in which Jewish young men have swarmed to recruiting centers, hundreds each da\ leaving the security of their jobs and homes to don l ncle Sam’s uniform and fight for their free dom. I he past year lias produced an impressive list of Jewish servicemen who have distinguished them selves on the field of battle, or given their lives in their countrv's service. At home, it has been a year marked hv the unstinting cooperation on the part of the civilian community which has bent its ener gies toward the achievement of victory and made it clear to our fighting forces that those who remain behind are backing them by every human means. The New ^ ear was scarcely two months old when, on the 7th of Kislev, in the Hebrew year .”>701 the date corresponding so significantly to the 7th of December on the standard calendar that the enemy struck at Pearl Harbor. Many were killed, while others loomed into view on the screen of history- to become American heroes overnight. Jap bombs killed Private f irst (das- Louis Schlei- fer. of Newark. V J.; Private Jack Feldman, of Philadelphia; Knsign Ira Jeffrev. of Minneapolis, gave their lives in action that day. Corporal Theo dore Lewis gave his life while in the act of saving men under his command who were in danger of enemy machine gun fire. In the press, over the air waves. the stories of these men were told repeated ly in the months that followed. Their names have become immortal. Each day. as American troops became engaged in a widening theatre of war. in the Philippines, the eastern Pacific, and later, over the verv skies of Europe, the honor roll grew longer. In the cas ualty lists, in the lists of those cited for heroism in action, in the stories that told of \mericans taken prisoner, of bombardiers and signalmen, gunners and radiomen, commissioned officers and non- coms. privates and seamen, who had somehow dis tinguished themselves, the names of Jewish serv ice men were conspicuous. \\ ith thousands of Jews in all branches of the armed forces before Pearl Har bor. and the large numbers enlisting thereafter, the Jewish communitv proved its willingness and abil- itv to help fight this war. Moreover, backing these men at home were all the resources, the manpower and womanpower that the Jewish community could offer them. Corporal Meyer Levin. Colin Kelly's bombar dier. became a national hero. According to infor mation compiled bv the Jewish Welfare Board’s Bureau of War Records, organized to maintain complete and accurate records of Jewish partici pation in the war. scores of Jewish men in uni form have been decorated for valor since America went to war. Many times that number have been reported killed in action, missing in action, wounded in action. 11IIE X On Land, In the Air, On the Sea By Ben Samuel Page . 3 New Responsibilities By Frank L. Weil 5 Jews in a Post-War World . . By Abraham G. Duker . 6 Priorities for Good Will . . . By Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer . 7 Palestine and America's War Aims By Edward A. Norman 8 Jews of the Far East By David C. Gross 11 Should the Artist Be in Uniform? By Melvin Salzman 12 Rome and Jerusalem .... By Edward D. Kleinlerer 14 Southern Welfare Drives . . . . 18 For their part in the hazardous formation flight to Manila in an air flotilla commanded by Major Emmet O’Donnell, Meyer Levin. Sergeant lister Kramer and Lt. Morris Friedman were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Lieutenant Henry Mark, of Los Angeles, who was killed in action in the Philippines while attempting to throw hand gre nades at enemy tanks in the face of Jap machine gnn fire, was posthumously awarded the Distin guished Serv ice Cross. Radioman David Goodman, of Brooklyn, won the Silver Star for his part in operating the mosquito boat which brought Mac- Arthur from the Philippines to Australia. He was also awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster for a daring at tack made by Lieutenant John I). Bulkeley's squad ron, of which Goodman wus a member, which re sulted in severe damage to a Japanese cruiser in the Mindanao Sea, off the islund of Cebu. Goodman was recently reported missing in action. Lieutenant Commander Solomon S. Isquith received the Navy Cross for his part in saving 90 per cent of the crew of the sunken target ship I’tah during the Pearl Harbor attack. It was a Jewish lad Sergeant Irving Strobing, of Brooklyn who tap|>ed out the last message from Corregidor one hour before the Jajw took over. It was a Jewish mother, Mrs. Abraham Kratn, of the Bronx, who became the first Gold Star Mother of this war, after her 18-year-old son, I,eotiard, died in action as a gun crew member of a tanker which w as torpedoed by the enemy off the Jersey coast. It was a Jewish ensign Stanley Caplan. of Elmira, N. Y.—who, with three other naval ensigns, took a destroyer to sea which helped shoot down four Japanese planes and depth-bomb two Japanese sub marines. Caplan was recently cited by Navy Secre tary Knox for directing operation of that ship “in a most oustanding manner.” “The young officers," Knox said, “met all emergencies and operated the ship like veterans.” One of these officers was En sign Milton Moldafsky, of St. Louis—a Jew ish boy. And the war is but seven months old in this coun try. America has “just begun to fight." I Please turn to [tage 10 i Entered a* second-class matter at the post office at Atlanta. Ga., under the Act of March 3. 1879. 1’ublinhed weekly by the Southern Newspaper Enterprise*, Inc. Subscription rates: $3.0® per year in advance. The Southern Israelite invites correspondence and literary contribution*, but the editor i* not to be considered a* sharimt the view* exp reused by the writer* except thoee enunciated in the editorial column*. Established 1925. M. S. Millet. Editor; M. Stephen Schiffer. Publisher; Willy Pel*, liusine** Manat'er. Executive offices. Palmer Kuilding. Suite 217-18, Atlanta. Georgia.