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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
RABBI SPERKA TO REPRESENT
DETROIT AT CONFERENCE OF
JEWISH CONGRESS ON SUNDAY
BETROTHED
Rabbis Emphasize
Stronger Council
The book was edited by Rabbi
Isaac E. Marcuson, of Macon,
Ga.,/ and reprints of the various
papers are available.
Yearbook of Central Conference
"
of American Rabbis Publishes
Parley Record
communication addressed by Win
throp W. Aldrich, chairman of
the British War Relief Society,
he informs Dr. Wise, president
of the American Jewish Congress,
that "the British War Relief So-
ciety will, of course, be glad to
ship for American Jewish Aid to
Britain Committee and to make
remittances ac requested." A rep-
resentative of the British War
Relief Society is expected to par-
ticipate in the deliberations of
this coming Sunday, in addition
to other outstanding spokesmen
of the Jewish and the non-Jewish
community.
Re-Upholster
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YOUR OCCASIONAL
The 50th volume of the year-
books of the Central Conference
95
of American Rabbis has just
Complete
appeared from the press of the
Jewish Publication Society of Short 1ieces-2nd' of line Fabrics
Complete Suites $39.50
America. It is a report of the
convention held at Charlevoix,
Mich., and the papers presented
UPHOLSTERERS
at that convention. Of outstand-
ing interest is a discussion on 338 Rosedale Court TO. 8.4939
the resolutions presented by the
committee on contemporaneous
history urging the rabbis of
America to insist upon unity in
CHANUKAH GREETINGS
American Israel through the
strengthening of the General
Jewish Council and calling upon
the welfare organizations of the
country to refuse to give any
money to the separate defense
organizations but to make their
An Epic of Modern Jewish Heroism
contributions to the General
Jewish Council. The appendix
By AN AMERICAN HALUTZ
contains the scholarly message
MISS EDITH WENDELL
of the president, Rabbi Emil W.
"Today we call upon you once
Jewish history abounds in deeds
Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Melt- Leipziger of New Orleans, the
of heroism. We have always had m6re to demonstrate your cour-
zealous and courageous spirits age. The Galil is in danger. Not zer announce the betrothal of conference lecture by Rabbi Fer-
who knew how to live content with their attempted cut- their sister, Edith Wendell, to dinand M. Iserman, and the con-
among us
dangerously for their people and ting away of four-fifths of his- Maurice M. Wartell, son of Mr. ference sermon by Rabbi Henry
J. Berkowitz. Two papers on
who knew how to die. The Mac- tonic Eretz Yisroel, our enemies and Mrs. Julius E. Wartell.
Rashi as Bible Exegete and Tal-
cabbees of old who raised the are plotting also to close large
mud Commentator by Rabbis
battle cry of rebellion against sections of the Galil to Jewish
their oppressors in the little town colonization. To this plat we can BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL Englander and Lauterbach of the
Hebrew Union College are in-
of Modin were only one example give only one effective answer: We
WOMEN OF BNAI BRITH
cluded. Three papers on the
of the heroic strain that has as- must build more colonies and set-
On Dec. 8 a membership tea general topic, "The Jewish Peo-
serted itself in Jewish history tie more Jews in the Galil.
"Far on the northern frontier was given in the home of Norma Pie in the World Today—Its
time and again. There were many
others. There was, for instance, lies what was in ancient days Lewis at 3203 Calvert, by the Status and Its Problems," were
The Most Modern and
Rabbi Johanan Ben Zaccai who the Jewish village of Hanita. No Business and Professional Worn- presented under the titles: "Pal-
Convenient Delicatessen
risked his life to save his people Jew has lived there for the last en of Bnai Brith. Eight new estine, Its Part in Jewish Life
when the Romans were besieging 2,000 years. There are no houses, members were enlisted. The and Literature," by Rabbi Julius
in Detroit
Jerusalem in the ytar 70 C. E. no roads, no ready soil—only president, Mrs. Yetta Overton, Gordon; "Mass Migrations of the
and Their Effects on Jew-
There was the courageous Bar grim uncultivated hills, surrounded delivered an inspiring talk. Jews
ish Life," by Rabbi Jacob R.
13300 DEXTER, at Waverly
Kochba and the martyred Rabbi by hostile Arab villages. The Jew-
Marcus; and "The Spirit and
Akiba who gave up their lives in ish National Fund bought this
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Organization of the American
their attempt to free their peo- land—no wit must be occupied. and fell helplessly outside the
Jewish Community," by Rabbi
pie from Roman bondage in 135 The lot of those who will live in
C. E. These heroes were spiritual Hanita will be a hard one. They barricade. His comrade, Yehuda B. Benedict Glazer.
giants who believed that for a will be isolated from the rest of Brenner (Shades of Yehuda Ha-
people to live in freedom and the Jewish community. They will makabi!) hearing his groans, bent
CHANUKAH GREETINGS
religious consecration is more i m- be in constant danger of attack. down to drag him to safety. At
that moment, the Arabs fired
But
there
is
no
other
way
of
as-
portant than life itself.
In more recent times we have suring that the Galil will remain a volley in his direction. He died
immediately; his comrade fol-
seen the heroic self-consecration Jewish.
lowed him on the morrow. The
"We
call
for
volunteers
for
the
of a Theodor Herzl who died pre-
next evening, two characteristic
Sold F3 Serviced by
of
Hanita!"
maturely at the age of 44, in 1904 occupation
notices appeared in "Davar," the
i
as a result of feverish activity in *How the Challenge was An- daily newspaper of the Palestine
the cause of a Zion restored.
swered.
Labor movement. Qne said, "The
Then there was Eliezer Ben Ye-
This call spread like wildfire first to fall in defense of Hanita
l
hero
who
suf-
hudah, hat lone y
throughout
the Yishiv (the Jew- was brought to his last resting 1 BECAUSE: It gives motorists
th
and persecution
levied
tat
for his staunch
belief,
since hap- ish settlement in Palestine). The lace " The other said, "The road
the greatest 100 cents for a
* the highway to the settle-
I f )
from
dollar's worth of automobile
pily vindicated, that Hebrew must great necessity and the great ment of Hanita was finished to-
be revived as a spoken languagedaring of this enterprise en-
• ever offered.
if the Jewish people is to live as thralled the imagination.
What „,
true pioneer could resist its ap- '''"
Thus, in our own time have we
a nation once again.
peal! Throughout the country witnessed the forging ahead of
But let us turn to a considera- there spread a wave of enthus-
in iasm. Sure enough, before very a "stiff-necked" people because
tion of a more recent example of
the founding
modern Jewish
heroes
like and
the
Jewish
heroism, of as the Jewish col- long, many more volunteers than Maccabees
of old,
are ready
willing
to
sacrifice
their
lives
in
JACK PASMAN
ony of Hanita near the border of were
needed applied.
Suddenly,
one day, someone order that their nation might live.
Sales Manager
Lebanon in upper Galilee, north-
west part of Palestine. It was brought the news: The British From Modin and the Maccabees
15821 Grand River Ave.
during a period when marauding Government forbids the Aliya to Hanita and the Halutzim, the
i of Jewish heroism marches
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bi•igants and highway snipers (going up) to Hanita because epic
thought that they could intimi- it is too dangerous. They can- _,
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date the Jewish people and keep not guarantee the safety of the
them from building their national halutzim there. For a while the
volunteers stood dumb-
homeland. Stout-hearted warriors picked
were needed, men of courage and founded. But after a moment
vision who would brave death ra- of silence, the answer broke out
ther than succumb to the cow- on all sides: "For us, safety
ardly attacks of the marauding lies only in going forward stead-
foe. But let us begin from the be- ily. Our own work, our own
ginning: self-defense—that is our only
guarantee!" Soon the camp of
The Challenge to Modern Mac- halutzim burst into a wild Horn
cabbees
and the government decree was
The year is 1937. It was a time stamped out by hundreds of feet
of testing of the spirit, and the whirling around, as from their
Zionist Executive of Palestine is- throats resounded the now mean-
ingful song: "'El Yivneh Haga-
sued a call:
"Fellow Jews: We are living lil,"—God will build up Galilee.
To make a long story short,
now in a state of siege—all over
he world and in Eretz Yisroel. after careful preparation, the
the
However, whereas in other lands sturdy halutzim, ninety select
salvation lies in the ability to young people, managed to get
Yisroel
emig—cs(
rate
i Eretz and
for ourselves
our salva-
broth- to Hanita on the memorable day
of March 21, 1938. After two
tion
ren all over the world lies in our years of continuous terrorism in
ability
to strike
deep root
here. Palestine, these brave heroes an-
Every piece
of ground
in Eretz
Yisroel is sacred. To us, swamps, the
swered
challenge
by the
picking
most the
dangerous
and
most
deserts,
hills—do
not
mean
barren
wastes upon which to turn our encircled spot on which to build
a new colony! From sunrise to
hacks. Swamps can be drained, sunset—in one single day—they
deserts can be reclaimed, rocky labored feverishly to construct an
soil can be cleaned of its stones,
and trees and grain will then encampment.
The neighboring Arabs, how-
rear their
heads.
have al- ever, did not wait long. The very
Our Chanukah wouldn't be
ways
known
that a We
homeland
complete unless we availed
can be acquired only by labor— first night of the Hanita encamp-
ourselves of this opportunity
that only that land on which we ment, when all was complete
to extend to you our sincere
work can we consider ours and darkness, they surrounded the
wishes for a truly Happy
will the outside world consider little
band
of
modern
Maccabees
and began to discharge a fusil-
Chanukah for you and yours!
Ours.
"In accordance with this great lade of bullets into the settle-
truth, we doubled our efforts these pared
ment. for
But this
the emergency!
halutzim were They
pre-
past two years in occupying new
tracts of land. Neither political de- had barricaded themselves and
crees nor Arab bullets deterred they answered shot for shot. The
us. We build our settlements on siege lasted for hours. Finally
Mt. Clemens
Dearborn
cent rat
Northeast
North a e ,t
the rim of the wilderness, in the the Arabs felt that their attack
East Side
North End
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heart of the terrorist nests. We was a failure, and decided to re-
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JOHN R
Near Schaefer
were attacked, some of our broth- tteat. Hurriedly they collected
culvert
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('or. Net ada
h were killed, but we are still their dead and disappeared.
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how-
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ere and shall never leave."
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ever,
did
no
escape
without
cas-
And the call of the Palestine
Exec utve
i Committee continued to ualties. One youth, Jacob Ber-
ger, 'received a bullet in his chest
say:
Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka will
represent Detroit at the national
c onference of the American Jew-
ish Congress in New York on
Sunday.
Representatives of Jewish com-
munities in• more than 40 cities
throughout the country have al-
ready signified their intention of
participating in the conference to
take place at Hotel Astor to
initiate action to secure a maxi-
mum of American Jewish aid to
Great Britain short of war.
The agency to be set up will
work in cooperation with the
British War Relief Society. In a
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Best Wishes
for a
Happy Chanukah
From
NED'S