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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

Apti! 3, 1942

She Left Us With a Smile

PLAI\ TALK

by

"." AL SEGAL

This poem is dedicated to the
memory of Mrs. Eva Budman,
who passed away Monday, March
23, 1942.

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By ARNOLD WISPER

Old Man Elijah

Since my remote childhood I have felt sorry
for Elijah who is our prophet of peace and kind-
ness and justice. He is the one for whom we
have the cup waiting at the Seder: the invisible

g uest.

It used to be my duty to run to the door and
open it to let him in at the right momonet.
Sometimes when Passover fell very early in
spring and the weather was still cold, he came
in on a sharp wind when I opened the door. I
was glad our house was nice and warni for him.
I had been told that Elijah was some one I
could never hope really to see, since he was im-
palpable, like loving-kindness, mercy and justice,
none of which could be seen either, except as
they were expressed in the works of people. But
I could guess what he looked like.
His nose was blue from being out in the cold.
His shoes were badly worn because of his wan-
dering around the earth from Passover to Pass-
over and nobody taking him in, except at Seder
time. He was old and bent and very tired, and
I wondered why we didn't have a chair wating
for him as well as the brimming cup.
My father treated him all right. He raised the
cup of wine and I was sure Elijah was bending
over to take a sip from it. I hoped it warmed him
up, as our wine had a way of doing. It was made
in our own house and its deep purple coursed
pleasantly down to one's stomach.
The reception to Elijah didn't last long, though,
and shortly I. was back at the door, letting him
out and closing it behind him. I thought he
should have been allowed to stay longer. It would
have been so comfortable in our house for him.
I have been feeling sorry for him to this day.
* * *
I thought it was about time I did something
for the old man. It might comfort him to get
some notice in the world in which he has gone
about these thousands of years and scarcely no-
ticed even, except among the Jews who let him
into their houses for a moment and then let him
go, one evening in the year.
I undertook some sentimental researches to
discover where he keeps himself between Seders
and what he does and what he thinks of as he
goes on his lonely wanderings.
That was how I came to certain crossroads.
Crossroads are where one should go to look
for eternal wanderers. At crossroads a wanderer
is likely to stop and consider where to go next.
At crossroads he may stop to rest and think
on whether it is worth while to keep on going;
in such a moment one may catch up with the
wanderer.
I came to the cross-road and, sure enough, I
found not only one but two men sitting on a
rock. One was looking toward the east and the
other toward the west; from their tired eyes I
know that they were thinking it wouldn't make
much difference which way they went, ar.yway.
I knew one of them at once; he had a blue
nose.
"You are Elijah!"
He looked up at me . . . "And I know you,"
he said. "You were the little boy who used to he
sorry for me when you let me out of your house
into the cold at Seders. I remember your heart
beating sadly on my account."
He introduced me to his companion whose
shoes were as badly worn as Elijah's and who
looked almost as old as he . . . "We've

REPORT ON DEDI-
CATION WEEK

David I. Berris, chairman of
the building committee of the
Yeshivah, announces that the
Dedication Week resulted in a
great moral and financial suc-
cess.
A large number of new pled-
ges for the Building Fund were
announced. The total of the new
pledges amounts to $10,278.00.
The following list includes don-
ors of $500 and more.
Isaac Agree Memorial So-
ciety, $1,500; Max Jacob, $1,-
000; Mrs. Ida Bloom, $750;
Mrs. Meyer Newman and daugh-
ter Miriam, $600; Morris Kar-
hal, $600; Mrs. Sara Goldman,
$500.
Previous gifts for the dedica-
tion of classrooms are by the
Goldstein Family, the Karbal
Family, Morris Levin, Schumer
Bros., and two anonymous don-
ors, as well as donations for the
furnishings of a room by Salo-
mon and Bessie Cohen, the
Ilechtman Family, and Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Kaner were also
announced at the opening cere-
monies. Special mention was
liven to the late philanthropist,
David W. Simon, to whose
memory the memorial tablet of
the Yeshivah will be dedicated
and in whose honor the highest
class of the institution is named
the David W. Simon Talmud
Class.
The key to the building was
sought by Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Baker.

Many of you fed what I'm
trying to say,
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heart.
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both been knocked around a lot," Elijah said. A beautiful soul passed on to-
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day,
"He and I. He is the one from whom all the
From
her
family,
she
had
to
Cleaned
and Repaired
churches are built. He is Jesus."
part.
I bowed respectfully.
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"We are both homeless," Jesus smiled. "They But it isn't as if sr..; s gone for-
Inlaid and Battleship
ever,
let us in, though, on the holidays—me on Christ-
Rugs and Furniture
Since her name was first on
mas and Easter and him on Passover."
earth.
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"We both—how do you say it . . . yes, we
Eva built a family, and kept it
both carry the same line," Elijah added.
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"Peace and justice," Jesus said. "That's what
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"And mercy and loving-kindness."
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turn,
the day he stood on the hill beside a young Ger-
And bravely, she lived thru
man soldier who was about to descend into the
it all,
valley to die. In his ceaseless wandering Elijah
Whether
gladness or sadness, she
had come to this battlefied. The soldier had
did not yearn,
golden hair that gleamed in the sunlight. Elijah
To help others, whenever
thought he shouldn't be allowed to die, since he
they'd call
was so young and had yet to inherit his portion
of the earth.
Friends were many and very
As was Elijah's practice when he witnessed
dear,
whatever was unjust and whatever was cruel,
And I'm proud to say I'm one.
he raised his voice and cupped his mouth with She hasn't left us, do not fear,
his hands that he might be better heard. And he
She loved every daughter and
spoke to all the German captains and colonels,
every son.
to the colonel-generals and the field marchals-
even to the highest of all of them : "This youth Her soul lives on, she's near us
cast into the fires for his master . . . The flesh of
all,
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this child taken to kindle flames by which to
Throughout the day or night.
consume the earth and all that is good and decent When the sun goes down,, and
shadows fall,
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and lovely and above reproach . . . His mother
She's there with all her might.
waits for him but he is cast into the fire to perish
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for his master. Have pity!"
furnished or unfurnished,
But no one heard him, for their souls were When the Lord had beckoned
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Eva Budman to come,
without hearing. The boy perished on the hillside,
He knew that all the while,
dining room, garage in
even before he could descend into the valley;
He was calling a queen into his
connection.
he lay there and Elijah wept.
kingdom,
Then Jesus remembered the time he was with
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the Russian soldier near Kiev. His wandering has
smile.
brought him to the battlefied where this Russian
soldier lay dying. Though the Russian had been
brought up to be Godless, Jesus raised him in
his arms and turned toward the battle-line of the
Germans and spoke loudly and sent his voice
FOR A QUARTER CENTURY
to the secret place of the ober-kommandatur
where the generals, the field marshals and his
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But they could not hear him though his voice
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died in his arms and his soul stood beside Jesus
giving out light. Then Jesus cried out. (His voice
was like the tide of the ocean when it is heard
beating softly on the shore from a great distance.
He cried: "Have pity!" But they would not hear
him.
It was now toward dawn, for I had encountered
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the two wanderers at the crossroads in the deep
night. Their tired eyes grew brightly wistful,
like the eyes of a child remembering a dream
he had seen.
"We should be going," Elijah said.
"Yes, let us go," Jesus said. "We may yet
find the heart of man."
"Light's breaking over the mountain. po you
see light?"
"It may be light" . . . They went together
toward the mountain.

Zedakah Club Will
Hear Rabbi Fram

The next meeting of Zedakah
Club will be held at the home
of Mrs. Maurice Knopper, 3226
Fullerton Ave., on Monday,
April 6, at 1:30 p. m. Mrs.
Porch, of the Old Age Assist-
ant Bureau, will address the
group.
Rabbi Leon Fram will be
guest speaker at the April 13
meeting. The subject is to be
announced. Members and friends
are invited.
Zedakah Club acknowledges
with thanks contributions from
the following: Mesdames C.
Arfa, A. Kane, K. Shapiro, Lab-
el, L. Shapiro, J. Greenberg, A.
Rosenberg, N. Rubin, L. Gould
and M. Loeb.

Kalvarier Aid Society
Gives $100 to J. D. C.

A $100 check from the Sarah
Chitim Fund of Kalvarier
Aid Society has been mailed by
Rose Lewis, treasurer to the
Joint Distribution Committee, in
New York for Lithuanian Jews
in Russia.
These contributions were made
by members and friends. Mr.
David Freedman contributed $25.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gibbs, $10.
Louis Radner, $5. $5 was
given to Charles Smith in De-
troit. In February $25 was given
to the American Red Cross and
$25 to Beth Jehuda.

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Gamma Kappa Chi Frat
of Wayne University

The Gamma Kappa Chi fra-
ternity of Wayne University
names the following pledges for
this term: Sam Garfinkel, Harry
Weberman, Alvin Geffen, Mur-
ray Sherman, Joseph Fischhoff,
Edward B. Springer, Leo Mill-
man, Paul Jay Miller, Max Gar-
ber, Phil Sirotkin, Sheldon Ka-
vieff, Seymour Ribiat, Manuel
Weinzweig, Symond R. Gott-
lieb, Meyer Kravitz, Guold
Bught, Aaron Sinkoff, Irving
Cohen, Jack E. Portney, Sey-
mour Vander, Herbert Silver-
man, Ralph Gross and Ruben
Kurnetz.
committees
following
T h e
were named by the master, Sid-
ney Dworking: Pledge, Jack
Corinblit, Dan Bogard, Jerome
Furstenberg, Albert Siegel; pub-
licity and public relatons. Phil
Rothschild ; social, Al Babroff,
Lou Hoffman, Maxwell Nadis,
Chester Washnansy and Jerry
Efros; athletic, Charles Kruger,
Harold Boigen and Charles Katz;
interfraternity council represen-
tative, Albert Siegel and Ches-
ter Washnansky; locker attend-
ant, Max Bunion, Dan Bogarad ;
scrap book, Leo Berg; interfrat-
ernity dance booth, Charles Kru-
ger, Irving Berg and Albert
Siegel; picture file, Dan Bogorad,
Irving Berg, Chester Washnansy
and Al Zack.
Professor S. Waldfogel of the
Psychology department has been
named advisor to the fraternity. .

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