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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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behalf of the prosecution that the arms
they procured for an unnamed organiza-
tion were delivered to the Jewish settle-
ments in the vicinity of Haifa.

This trial has aroused much indignation,
and David ben Gurion, chairman of the
executive committee of the Jewish Agen-
cy, issued a statement, part of which
follows:

The executive of the Jewish Agency is
submitting to His Majesty's Government a
vigorous protest against the slanderous and
anti-Semitic attack made yesterday by Major
Verdin in the trial of two British soldiers.
The Jewish Agency regards this incident as a
crude frameup designed to defame the Jewish
people, discredit the Jewish war effort and
bring Jewish soldiers into disrepute in the
eyes of their British comrades and higher
military authorities.

August 20,

Plain Talk...

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1943

Al Segal

Obituary

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a Cincinnati gentlem an : citizens who (lie. I shall write
ffly
Sir—Your recent utteran cis own obituary.
on Zionism show you to be
Segal is ,dead. He was
(lead man in Israel. To all inte nts a
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
and purposes you are dead to notified by letter. It was a mat-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
the family of Israel—to its ho pes ter of a few typewritten lines
and aspirations, to its sentime
". . . To all intents and purposes
and its history. I count you nts
Sabbath Readings of the Law
as you are dead to the flintily of
dead and forgotten.
Israel," it said. "I count you deal
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 7:12-11:25.
It regards this as part of a systematic
1'
f
and forgotten."
whispering campaign, conducted for some
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 49:14-51:3.
Segal knew the way of death.
Dead! I had been altoget1
time past by an anti-Semitic group in this
It as quick as that. Sudden (Hs-
unprepared for my death. I er
s-
country against the Jewish Agency and the
u'
AUGUST 20. 1943
AB 19. 57L
even been looking far ahead ' missal. A bit shocked at first to
Jewish community and as an attempt to
at
be
sent
on
his
way
so
abrutly,
happy prospects in the world
incite Anglo-American public opinion against
the living: The victory tha of he couldn't doubt that this brief
Jews and prejudice the Jewish future in
surely coming! Retributions f s note was authentic, since it was
Judge Keidan
Palestine.
the evil-doers! Reparations f or couched in the short, snappy NV y
of death. He accepted it.
the victims! And, best of a or
The executive of the Jewish Agency is
Judge Keidan was known as a man
11,
So ended a rather confused
that
bright
new
world
afterwar
asking
His
Majesty's
Government
to
inquire
of deep religious convictions and observed
into the entire matter and to take the neces-
Another Armistice Day mo d! Jewish life that in its later years,
the tenets of traditional Judaism. Through-
sary measures for putting an end to these
gorgeous than the one in 191 re though, did cone to see more
out his adult life he was a member of political intrigues.
I remember telling my small I 8! clearly what being. Jewish meant
A large part of it was given to
dren then that it was the grea
Congregation Shaarey Zedek and f or
troubled questioning: "What is
We in America are acquainted with est. day that could ever be i t-
many years served on its board of tru
their lives. Yes, I said, this n a Jew?" Not that he was a
tees or as an officer. Having an abidii s- frame-ups and we know how despicable the day peace conies to stay fo is brooding fellow, but it was an
inquiry that he found inescapable.
faith in the beauty and eternal validi l t g they are. We in America know how poi- ever.
wars!No more wars! No mot r-
'0 It would come up on most happy
of the Jewish religion, he furthered eye Ty sonous a whispering campaign, can be.
On the second Armistice Day— occasions, as at rummy games and
cause tending to promote Jewish educ a-
If this is a frame-up of two innocent it couldn't be so far off—I wa - Bar Mitzvah parties. There was
tion, culture and ethical idealism.
to tell my granddaughte s always somebody in his Jewisn
Jews, the whole matter should be brought going
Ellen, the same thing. No mor r, circle to bring the question up.
d
The ideals of Jewish living he inherits into the open. Nothing could be more wars, Ellen. It's peace for sur e There was a time of his life
from his parents, the late Abba Eliez er cruel than to bring Jews of Palestine into this time. This time it's true. I (' when he was sure that being
was the main element of
and Hannah Fraidel Keidan, in whos e disrepute ; to impugn their integrity and will be a great world after this t • Jewish
his being. Being Jewish was
Your
world,
Ellen,—a
good,
ne
d
home traditional Judaism was exemplifie loyalty, at a time such as this.
world for you. I am thankful t 0 v something exclusive that set him
in their hospitality, love for learning, i
have been allowed to stay aroun apart. He thought of himself as
n-
The
whole
matter
should
be
thoroughly
( I a different kind of a man because
long enough to see this day.
terest in the community and adherent
e
investigated.
If
there
is
a
frame-up
gang
he was Jewish, a creature made
But
now
I
am
dead.
It's
to
to many religious movements and ente
sudden. The gentleman gave m 0 in accordance with a special pat-
r-
it
should
be
exposed
and
punished,
and
prises in which their fellow-Jews in Ame
if there are whisperers who are trying no chance. In the first mail his e tern. To be Jewish was an iden•
ica, in Europe and in Palestine were el r-
1- to undermine the Jews of Palestine they letter comes to tell me I an tity to be cultivated in a vacuum
gaged.
dead and that's all there seems t 0 away from the common life.
should be brought to book.
f
be to it. an awful pity to
f
IS PRIDE in being Jewish had
be dead at the moment of a
The judge was a life-long student o f
bright dawn after a long dark
to do with his concept of be-
the Bible. The reading of the Pentateucl
ness. The gentleman might have - ing a special kind of person. It
G
and of the Prophets was for him on
ermans Are Talking
vaited awhile. At least he shoulc was a jealous pride that in his
of the chief joys of his observance o f
save allowed me to come to the later life he saw was not becom-
The
indefatigable
Joseph
Goebbels
is
I)
dge of the Promised Land and ing to him or to any other man
the Sabbath. He loved the great mora
I
beating
the
Russian
tom-tom
again.
This
et
me look at it, even if he who made of Jewish life a cloak
figures in Jewish history. The writing
lidn't let me enter.
that hedged him in from the life
of the prophets appealed powerfully t s time it is the failure of President Roose- He caught me so unawares. of
the world.
0
velt
and
Prime
Minister
Churchill
to
in-
him. A favorite pastime of his was to
B y a word he dispatches me. I
As, . later, he looked back at
chant to his family famous verses from vite Josef Stalin to the Quebec conference. '0' m declare dead and not even an that phase of his Jewish life, he
bituary to send me decently on was amused as he contemplated
the prophetic books or the Psalms. Hence
We do not know why he was not in- ly way. I get only a churlish himself once so quaintly puffed
the standards by which he sought to vited and we do not believe that the fail- ismissal . . . "I count you (lead up by such pride: In what ways
regulate his relations with his fellows ure so to do is really very serious. It can a nd forgotten," and that's all.
was he different from neighbors
I f
and according to which he would perform be safely assumed that no decisions will
who were not Jewish? What spe-
his work as a judge were those of right- be made that would seriously impair T AM DEAD but I can not cial commission had he from
meekly submit to such an off- God? Was his heart otherwise
eousness, justice, mercy and love of God Russo - British - American relations. How-
than the hearts of other men in
1 1 ; and dismissal. I should at lean whom
and of man.
also abide compassion and
ever, it gives Joseph Goebbels a heaven- th ave an obituary—a few decent
ings said for me. After such a justice? What was his special
sent
opportunity
to
attempt
to
distract
the
His loyalty to friends, of whom there
10 rig spell of living a man should essence?
were hundreds, perhaps thousands, was attention of the German people from the ave a few kindly words said for Segal saw he was of the com-
hr m when he is fired, some ap- mon lot of men, sharing the
proverbial. Although he was a man of Hamburg disaster and the inexplicable pi
•eciation. Can a man's life be common pain; that Jewish life
downfall
of
Mussolini.
modest means, his benefactions were nu-
so entirely in vain that there is was not separate, that his inheri-
merous but known only to himself.
The disappearance of Mussolini from a ir° thing at all to be said for him? tance was the :ommon estate of
the Italian scene is the most discussed :It e worked, he suffered some, he all who dreamed of a more just
Representatives of religious and chari- topic among Germans, according to all oil umbled, fell, picked himself up and lovely
g
orld world,
that its lights
table institutions in this country and neutral correspondents in the Third d went his way again, he had were kindled by the same ideals
abroad, to which he contributed for years, Reich. "The impossible has happened" a few dreams. He should get sonic that made the lights of otht r
of a send-off.
people bright, that the way of
were always made to feel at home when must be the feeling of ,millions of weary, ki nd
Jews
must not be the lonely
I
can't
permit
myself
to
be
calling on him. Attendants at the County disillusioned German men and women. sa mmarily discharged from life. road but the highway on which
Building received them courteously for They who have felt the iron, all-pervasive 1 not stand for it. I have writ- all men of good will march t- , -
they knew that they were there to see grip of the Gestapo for more than 10 !e n obituaries for many others ward the mountaintop.
elna the course of a long newspaper In his later life Segal was set -
the judge, and the judge would accord years had probably, before the downfall fro
It would be the bitterest ing that his identity as a mem-
them a hearty welcome in his chambers. of Mussolini, come to the unhappy conclu- reer.
ny if there were no obituary ber of the human family wit ,
fo r me. This gentleman can't trior to his Jewish being. Ile
As men of learning, they commanded
that only death or the complete mili- juo st
kick me out of life. I shall w oogd e. tting intimations of broth-
Judge Keidan's respect. And in addition sion
tary
destruction
of
Nazism
could
deliver
with
dignity, in the dignified
to respect there was in him a love for
a g a
them from the slavery of Hitlerism and spices that accompany other

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his fellow-Jews, particulatly when he saw
in them a reflection of the Jewish spirit. yet the miracle of being freed from an
equally odious slavery has happened in
People of all kinds sought his counsel the case of the Italian people when II
on personal problems, on communal af- Duce and his Fascist party were over-
fairs, Jewish and general, on situations thrown. They must be intrigued by the
dealing with the law and government. prospect of the sapie kind of a miracle
To all these folk he was attentive, sincere happening to them, and thus the discus-
and free from any thought except that sion everywhere.
of service. A prominent citizen who often
According to these same neutral cor-
would seek his advice on vital matters of respondents, the people are paying no
a religious and communal character once attention to the harangues of Goebbels.
remarked: "Whenever I would leave If this is true, and we have no reason to
Judge Keidan's office I would experience doubt its truth, there is hope that the
a feeling of mental and spiritual refresh- German people may again emerge from
ment."
the semi-comatose state they have been
in for years.
Out of these discussions may come
Is This a Frame-up?
plans, and these plans may be translated
i
Two Jewish civilians, Abraham Rache- nto action that may lead to the dethrone-
lin and Leib Sirkin, were tried before a ment of Hitler and the Nazi party.
We can help this along by assuring the
military court in Palestine for the illegal
Possession of arms and ammunition. The people of Germany that if and when they
evidence produced against them was given c get rid of the Nazis and the military
by two British Army privates, C. A. clique that we shall be willing to make
Stoner and C. R. Harris, testifying on t an honorable and enduring peace with
their repre sent atives.

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