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and Turks found themselves
check-mated at every turn. They be-
came suspicious, but so excellent was
the organization that it was impos-
Bible for them to obtain a single clue.1
A carrier pigeon released one day
by Sarah Aaronsohn with a note to
General Allenby happened to be fly-,
log over Asacla where a Turkish of-
ficer was feeding several pigeons of '
Itt
his own. The carrier pigeon alighted
in order to be fed. The Turkish of-
ficer in stroking the pigeon found the
paper, which proved definite com-
munication with the enemy was be-
ing carried on. Dilligent inquiry by
Djermil Pasha revealed the fart that
there was one Jewish family in Pal-
estine who had pigeons. Suspicions'
led to the Aaronsohn family. Within
two hours after the pigeon had fallen
FRESH MEATS AND FRESH DRESSED POULTRY
into the hands of the Turkish officer,
DAILY
Sarah Aaronsohn was informed of,
the event. She quickly obliterated
I ant now located in a larger store with more advantage to my
all traces of pigeon cotes, sacrificed
customers, inasmuch as I am able to more fully give the service
the remaining pigeons and awaited
and attention due them.
further events. When solicited by
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she steadfastly
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refused to leave her responsibility,
her aged father and her younger
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brother to the possible vengeance of
the Turks.
To further emphasize her deter-
mination to remain, she plunged a'
sma ll dagger into the calf of her leg,
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saying to Lichensky who was trying
they
to persuade her to leave that with this
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wound it would be impossible for her
Jowinh farmer. of Itimia by the are rendering eq. great n
to swim should it become necessary.,
Joint InstributIon Committee. They In establishing cordial relations be•
She was forced to remain, she said,
are tined. lust an freely. by the ad-' tween the Jewish pioneers and
peasantry. and be•I their Christian neighbors.
but she insisted on his leaving. Two
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days later a Turkish platoon arrived
made
her
a
prisoner.
To
all
of
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and
their insistent demands for informs-!
lion she remained mute. They thought
they could perhaps extract informa-
M. Neches.
A Comment Upon This Subject by Rabbi S.
tion by torture. .
They begun with her old father,'
est in the things of the heart—for
who was then 70 years of age, hoping I
thereby to force her to confess the • "Can Judaism survive in the where there is heart interest there is
names of those who were implicated ' United States?" is the subject mat- Judaism, and where there is not,
in her organization. They proceeded ter ofa lengthy article by l'rofessor there Judaism is dead. When it is
Horace H. Kellen in the Menorah dead, it will be time to card-index it
to administer the "bastinado," an in-
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or raise the question whether every-
genious form of punishment devised Journal.
No doubt this article has been read thing is for the worst in the worst
by the Turks which consists of whip-
in one on the bare soles of the by an readers of The Detroit Jew- possible of worlds. (The misanthrope
feet with a switch cut from a young ish Chronicle, so that it is not neces- is a sort of a cheater, for he puts it
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sapling. When the skin cracks after miry to repeat here what the worthy upon the listener to prove that there
has to say about this very is anything right, whereas the bur-
40 or more applications, concentrated professor
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den of proof ought really to be upon
salt water is poured into the wounds interesting subject.
Dr. Kellen criticizes and censures him to prove that everything is
that are thus formed. The whipping ,
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to the conclusion "that the curricula offsets, to my mind, all the glittering
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I Sarah Aaronsohn realized that if the I of the institutions of Jewish higher generalities about the near-Jews who
names of those who were actively en-1 I learning (in the United States) pro- find the Gentile pseudo-culture un- 1
gaged in this work were to be known I vide is not hopeful." The doctor, satisfying to the soul; they should
it would mean . that not the actual therefore, sees, so to say, Judaism in not expect the reward of Phineas if
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United States at the door of the they follow the deeds of Zimri.
participants alone would suffer, "'the
Judaism will survive in the United
much as their respective families, undertaker.
and so she pleaded with her father I
But let not the reader of that ar- States because there are Jews who
have the three indispensable requi-
not to divulge any names. The hurt
look in his eyes when he realized the tick scare, for the writer has seen sites of modesty, hostility and chari-
import of her remarks and his resent- , shallows of mountains as mountains. tablesness, and train their children as
The
question,
"Can
Judaism
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ment was such that in the mid st of viva i n . the United States?" is very nearly in accord with their life as Cir-
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his most terrible suffering he turned , v
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the presumption that the majority of
OIto her and said
Are you a daughter of mine, you ; teacher in life.
are not so in-
the
Orthodox
Jews
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All history answers that our Torah
unbeliever? My time has come.
clined:.
Death would be welcome; but don't I never alters and our race never dies.
Dr. Kallen's article, while in a style
let your desire for life influence you! Apart from th .remote past, I would delightful to the sense, like skillfully
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tore which she was forced to witness i
ists well;" that is, no substantiation for
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she fainted from horror Lnd 1 welfare work, that there ex
inter- his many generalizations is cited, and
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grief, she still refused to speak. A ' among us, old and young, real
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cross-examination of the author to
younger brother who refused to as-
ascertain precisely whether they are I
sist in this spectacle was clubbed over
the head by a Turkish soldier, as a re- that death was preferable to life after all truth, half-truth or non-truth, be-
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suit of which he is an epileptic today. betrayal of those most dear. She pe- fore dealing with it seriously.
This having no effect, they turned ' titioned her guards to get a change
their attentions to her. They first of clothing. They allowed her to go
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tried the "bastinado" without any re- back to her home, where under some
suit. They applied burning hot irons of her clothing she had hidden a pointed by Moses as judges were not
fegi
given,
to
denote
that
every
tribunal
to her eyeballs until it seemed as if small revolver which had been sent
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revolver and went into the bathroom the Beth Din of Moses.—Talmud.
fainted.
As soon as she was revived she said in the rear of the house.
She then placed the pistol in her
to them: "Continue; I will not !
speak." They then forced her to mouth and pulled the trigger. When
stand on burning hot bricks and the guards rushed in on hearing the
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placed them under her arm-pits. Her report, they found her lying on the
screams of agony were heard through- floor in terrible agony. The bullet
out the entire village, and again she had missed the vital center and had
fainted from the pain, and when re- cut through one-half of her spinal
She was completely paralyzed
vived she still refused to speak. There cord.
were several young colonists who on one side.
The
Turkish commander, somewhat
were also tortured, but none of them
by this heroic example,
weakened. It was then decided that abashed
she was to be taken to Nazareth with I ceased torturing the other prisoners
Esther and several other prison- ! and allowed her family physician to
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lers who were likewise being tortured come from Jaffa to often to e .
0 1 in the village, to Djemal I asha s Her family was allowed free access
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ht was
thought t o her bedside and alh
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! he hi ostlers,
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rible, pain and agony, she sent notes
so e mor ingenious form of torture
m
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of
encouragement
in
Hebrew
to her
her
divulg
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devised t o make
could be e
I friend, Lichensky, and others who
1 the names of her comrades.
A message was brought to her that I had fled to the hills for safety. Sev-
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recent immigrant; perhaps not Irt, serveir;'Whidli- are illustrious of her
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i state of mind and her attitude. "Far-
with
Palestinian
idealism
and
imbuedla
self-sat•rifiek, had said that he did ing death," she said, "one sees clear-
not. Hilnk he could stand another ty. o
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She prophesied that a new era was
night of torture, that he would be
for Israel and that in this
and Prosperow•Nw Year.
forced to tell about some of those coming
who were implicated. She•succeeded new age Jews would at last find peace
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in getting a note to him telling him and refuge in the Holy Land. She
even spoke of the great influence the
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new Jewish nation would have on the i T ff ~ j - 1
i Jews dispersed throughout the na-
tions. She died four days later and Tjl
j was buried in Zichron Jacob in the
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' old cemetery. A small. inconspicuous
grave marks her last resting place.
David Lichensky was later captured
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by the Turks and hung in Damascus
as a public example on the order of Jjt
Djemal Pasha. Aaron Aaronsohn
lived to see the successful outcome
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brilliant dash to Allepo. He knew
every inch of land as a result of many
trips on foot and on horseback. It
was during one of these innumerable
excursions through the land he loved
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that he discovered wild wheat. Fly-
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in the Peace Conference, where he
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wished to press the Jewish claim for
independent recognition, he was lost
somewhere in the channel and his
body has never been recovered.
There are many others who have
joined this glorious list of martyrs in 1 1 .
the past decade. It is impossible to ; I
even enumerate the Roll of Honor to
which Jewish men and women have
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contributed in the last decade. Even
after Palestine was officially declared
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a national homeland, Jews have had
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that they have made. Joseph Trum-
peldor, the five heroes of Petach Tik-
vah, and there have been many oth- 1
unwept, unhonored I
, era who have died
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I and unsung. The voices of these i
martyrs have not been stilled. They'
still call from their lonely graves to
the Jewish youth of the world to turn ,
back from the strange altars of irre- i
ligion and agnosticism to renewed
faith in their glorious heritage. They .
plead for devotion to the national 1
idea which has been maintained for!
20 centuries in spite of the greatest 'i ll
persecution and the most horrible
suffering to which a people or a race ! I
have ever been exposed in the his- i l!
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tory of the world.
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cold stone are not raised to the mem- .
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