America ,fewi.s* Periodical e aster CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 1 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle October I. 1943 New Year's Greetings to All From Michigan Communities if ith but they left too hurriedly. Mirac- and American troops. Local Jew- altar had been smashed as w ulously, the Ten Commandments ish pilots piloted the American sledge hammers. The windows had and the Shield of David above had fleet into Algiers harbor. In the. the arc had escaped destruction. French Corps d'Afrique, which been broken. The ornaments By FERDINAND M. ISSERMAN The Torahs had been hidden in Editor's Note: This is the last article of a series about the North fought gallantly alongside British been stripped from the reading the chief rabbi's home out of African war front by Dr. Isserman. After a six months tour and Americans in the hills of desks. The arc door was go ne. the enemy's reach. of duty as a special representative of the American Red Cross, Tunisia, there were many Jewish The cases and closets which f As a rabbi I was naturally has resumed his work as rabbi of Temple Israel, St. Louis, volunteers who acquitted them- marlY held praying shawls had duty he Mo. He had an h Africa and selves well. been told demolished. In the me he had were beds stolen galleries from Jewish interested in the religious life of homes used by the personnel of our soldiers. While my Red Cross Capt. Warburg . to observe the opportunity to travel all over North mission was purely secular, I man- in the closing phase of the Tunisian Op touched the faces Tunis look Jews scores the clinic. In the cellar drums, were aged to perform 30 Jewish serv- H ls went on Red Cross missions to Tripoli, Cairo, been by of the the starved of large gasoline campaign, e a o indicating that the Nazis had in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and spent two weeks in the British See JUDAISM—Page 14 Isles en route home. Dr. Isserman reports being impressed during the victory celebration. He tended to set the synagogue afire, by the commendable work performed by Jewish soldiers and wished to turn over to the poor had abandoned, and Jewish chaplains who came under his observation, and this Jews a quantity of food which GerMATIS article contains the latest authentic news of their activities. the ni I Isserman's Red Cross mission was purely secular, located appealed to chief me for assistance. the rabbi of Tunas s- W he hile was Dr. called upon now and then by non-Jewish army chaplains at his home near the big Season's Greetings and Best Wishes Rosh Hashonvh, Greetings! to conduct Jewish services in areas where Jewish chaplains gogue. He was sitting in a small room, a venerable white-haired were not available. figure dressed like an Arab with d a brilliant red It is good to be home again. but only through Berlin." Many memories rush to mind as a wh ite turban anneither English. spoke wn The American Red Cross is creat- fficersI go. He French nor German; Arabic and in g a really noble tradition in I resume my civilian duties. North Africa and Sicily and I recall breakfasting at an o Sitting Hebrew were his languages. He feel privileged to have been part mess in Tunis on May R. M. Holmer, Manager across the table was 24. a young air was eager to eople. have I the food him, for warned T. E. Leutzinger, Adjuster of I it. TED PULVER, Agent am proud of our Jewish boys force captain who introduced him- his starving tha p t among the supply however, in that theater of war. I found self "It's as Eric the Warburg. same name of non-kosher FIRE AND AUTO LOSS am as Felix were several cans stroked his beard them in every branch of the army ADJUSTMENTS "These are —air force, service of supply, in- Warburg whom I knew well," I corned beef. He sadly, and observed, 2300 W. MAIN ST. fantry, airborne troops, artillery said. He smiled, sayin, hard times. This is a matter of g "Felix War- life or death. To save life the PHONE 2-1409 317 HOLLISTER BLDG. and medical corps—sharing the " dirt, hardships and risks of war burg Captain was my Warburg uncle. was one of laws of Kashruth may be sus- Phone 5-7283 Lansing, Mich. with their fellow American sal- Lansing, Mich. theby synagogue. diers. They performed their daily the first Americans to enter Tu- pended." visit ed used t had no It I had the Nazi d Cross for t then been and witho u t nis. A Reopened h clubhe battle - jo b without eroics e yet been ar Naturally they were hay- invade uch griping. m ne a bottles, typhus serum, homesick and this could be re- weary soldiers and theya suitable me ici rs lousing home. But they are determined place to sleep and eat in that atabrine tablets and Rosh Hashonah Greetings and Best Wishes to see the war through to the end. ancient city. "Hurry up and open powder scattered all over Italian and I n French, oo were As one of them expressed it to a Red Cross club here," he then nr. si g ns read "No smok Gera, me, "Sure I want to go home, pleaded. "This is why we've come here-- permitted". Everything connected me, GROCERIES AND MEATS ith the synagogue that c o uld be to open a Red Cross club," I re- westroyed destr ucti on. d PHONE 2-6915 p s leading to the plied. 1026 ALLEGAN The native Jewish population The marbl e steps of Tunis had felt the full impact LANSING, MICH. Rosh Hashonah Greetings of German occupation. The Ger- mans had been friendly to the Get Sanitone Cleaning—the Beauty Italian population and the Arabs, Treatment for Clothes at and cool to the French. They A Happy and Prosperous New Year Heartiest Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All were cruel to the Jews whose sons Meier Cleaners were impressed into slave labor. 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