October 1, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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I was preparing to conduct my Werfel received one of them and served to broaden his vision and well
as his
towards
the
seems
to attitude
me," he
then said,
last Jewish service in this Red now uses it for services for knowledge
deepen that
insight nature
into and
of human
that . faith of his own people. "It
JUDAISM
basic a structure
will show
Cross
chapel arranged
in Algiers.
I had American
the flowers
properly,
African
city.
Since
Jewish
col- characterized his career to the "that
careful analysis
of that
its
When I soldiers.
arrived
in North
Africa
excellence,
Judaism is, par
ex, the
end
of
his
days.
entered
about
a
half-hour
before
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religion
of
development."
Quot-
, n the
in California,
ices upon the request of Christian the service to see if the hymnals I heard about Chaplain Emanuel
,
Wh 1 l e in
chaplains, and the boys were de- and prayer books were in place, Honig stationed in a large North pursuit
of devoted
his business
under-
, frig John Stuart Mill's belief
(Iv he
himself
to the
that
"the course of nature can-
,. lie
1 ,--,
Jewish
like the candelabras and their candles Biers are widely scattered in the
lighted
to chaplains
have me overseas,
do it.
ready for lighting, the scrolls in war theater, a Jewish chaplain taking,
s aia tic imitate but rather to improve
. a bcst..
l e his
work.
Their presence
is a fine
source their proper place and the chairs must travel all the time, and study of man and
nee et.
i t-
not
be a proper
for us
to
upon,"
Lubin model
'averred
that
other chaplains,
are doing
a ' "while Christianity has taken
of great comfort to our soldiers. arranged. A young British soldier Chaplain Honig had a car, driven studied man in
When no Jewish chaplains are wearing the insignia of the fain- by a soldier, which took him from
books,
a so abstract
in prattle-
while
man but
in the
can paganism from the individual
available, Christian chaplains, in - entered
ous Eighth
Army
rather
timidly
from
bivouac
to
bivouac.
In
Oran
the chapel. He had been more than a thousand Jewish sol- al ways. He soon rea ize
lowshiP, perform Jewish services wounded in action and had just Biers .attended his services. He live on ideas, man in the
con- and left it intact in the state,
e eas-
the finest spirit of religious fel
state as well as from the indi-
Israel
is not
in the
the
He
be-
for them. These things will not been
discharged
a conval- he
used
synagogue
as well
ascent
hospital. from
It developed
as the
the large
auditorium
of the
Red crate
needs
also
various
uten-
Judaism
it away
from
-idual." took
ier and more enjoyable.
*
ag world
for his own sake, but for
. 'ous
Cross club in the Empire Thea- sils and
to or make
life
'-
of t var
t iny . entl
an tools
ludin dC the sake of his mission," which
had never been Bar Mitzvah.
be forgotten.
emen L
ter as a place of worship. In all mcu l Ira implements
s pc Wind-
.in
he interpreted as service—serv-
At the Red Cross club in Al- said,
Pitifully
he
turned
to
me
and
a
c
o(
cutter,
the
.
ubin
"I do not feel quite ade- Red Cross clubs, bulletin boards cam an
" ice to all who are in need of
giers there is an inter-denomina-
carry announcements about the
,
help and a guiding hand. No
tional religious chapel used
by
" other useful machines.
re lig ious, de- quote enough. I feel that when time and place of religious sere- and
Cultivator
a soil
nulverizer
half-dozen or the
more
became
also
a close wonder that Professor Thayer
a nominations,
services being I fight I do not have the spiritual ices of all denominations. At the lass lebin
rotection that others hhavewho
of the classics, both of refers to him (in a preface to
conducted
by in U. Algiers
S. Army
chap-
p been confirmed into their end of May, Chaplain Honig was
Olivia Rosetti Agresti's biogra-
lains.
When
I took
have
Study in
lain to
Jacob
who had
also
his own
people
and
of other
charge of Jewish services in the faith. Before I take my place happy
greet Honig,
his brother,
Chap-
student
races.
It o must
have
been
an in- phy, David Lubin; a a "minor
again
among
England's
fighting
Practical
Idealism)
as
arrived
in
North
Africa.
of
During the Tunisian campaign, spiring sight to see this denizen
Red
Cross
club
request
Colonel
Roy
H. by
Parker,
senior men, is it not possible for mo to I was very anxious to meet two of the West of early pioneering Hebrew Prophet" and "one of s
the distinctive great men of hi
chaplain. British soldiers of the be confirmed that I might have
other Jewish chaplains, Rabbis days assiduously study, in the - age—one of the light bringers."
God's protection like others ?"
War'- Tepfer
First and Eighth Armies not in- Go Just
then Chaplain Ala.,
Louis
We
of Birmingham,
walked
and Stone, who were sere- midst of his multitudinous
prat
In 1884 we find Lubin in the
.
Moreh Nebuc
I tical duties, the
frequently worshipped with us.
lines. now
While
d in the front
_ng din
a
bi
epfer
and
by
Maimonides
together
with
the Holy Land, where, after a care-
Unexpected situations some in and we conferred about it. I i ear
and Spencer, and ful study of the condition of the
h
times occur overseas. I faced 6 one
en I was successful in contact- works of Darwin, John Stuart people, he recommended the
as decided to confirm the young man h en
that
evening.
The
light
of
hope
t
in
him.
Rabbi
Earl
Stone,
on
Mill,
Huxley,
d
on Friday evening, Aug.
his sons to do like- adoption of several sane an
gleamed in his eyes when I coin - leave from Temple Isaiah-Israel, admonishing
during his absences from practical plans which, however,
pleted the ceremony and gave Chicago, I did see several times wise (luri
were not acted upon—to the New
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him the Bar Mitzvah blessing.
in Tunisia and subsequently in home.
He found time to write books ,. h S e ttl emen t' s d great loss. In 1904
Chaplain Werfel had arrived in Algiers. ' He and the Protestant
In 1900 he appeare in Rome. His great
ARBOR TOOL CO. North Africa in July to become and Catholic chaplains of his rag- and to deliver le: tures.
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He told me that on the day he sleeping in my room in Bill club that met weekly for the
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erne to a certain post to organ-
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ize his first Jewish service, c the Red Cross mess. When these problems. This t ook throbs with
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learned that a Jewish soldier had t h r e e chaplains, representing human sympath; a sense of hu-
found 14 Torahs in the ruins of three major religious denomina- mor and not a he pathos. Sub-
DR. W. G. ZIEVE
a bombed synagogue. He reported irons, rode together throughout sequent books and articles from
the find to the Office of . Chap- North Africa, visiting hospitals his pen were marked by the
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lains. The local rabbi said that. together, sleeping in the same same breadth of understanding
and
the
spirit
of
human
kind-
tent,
and
sharing
the
same
room,
he could not account for their
since she thougha t no one thought anything of it. It ness.
presence there bee
In 1916 Lubin delivered a lec-
n dden in
was the exemplification of fellow-
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Werfel said he went to the other when men face death together.
Chaplain Stone was one of the which we find compressed the es-
and brought back a
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committee who viewed the scrolls . first Jewish chaplains to go over- sence of his philosophy of life as
-
The scrolls were carefully re seas, and followed the troops
moved lest they be the cover for from England to North Africa.
booby traps and tenderly placed He served with the First Infantry
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ture at Rome, which became the
crowning achievement of his life.
Before going West for the
second time Lubin gratified a
long cherished wish to see Eu-
rope once again. On this occa-
sion he visited Austria, Ger-
many, Holland and his native
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