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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONIOLE and The Legal Chronicle

May 26, 1944

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE HEBREW
UNIVERSITY TO THE WAR EFFORT

world, a world made beautiful by overlooking the Harlem River Val-
the magic of science, art, liter- ley. It was an uphill odyssey re- PORT HURON NEWS
ature and the pursuit of knowl- s ptliemtegglweithsompeati inmeasndit sreice hmedwiaths
A special Confirmation Service
edge.
By JACOB S. MINKIN
This is a record of impressions, if the hearts which bore it would has been arranged by Rabbi Se.
S. Auerbach for the co
a full-size picture of the break under the burden, as indeed, lig
dfiu
Editor's note. In the following penetrating word picture, Dr. Jacob not
the heart of its creator did break. rnrliantgionthewhsiecrhvieN‘eilloftakthee p filT et
Yeshiva
College,
not
a
detailed
ac-
S. Minkin, noted author and rabbi, presents a warm appraisal count of its many ramifications If in the end the Yeshiva College
of Yishiva College which he recently visited.
and doings. For that a much did succeed, if from man. y vain day of Shevuouth. The choir of
Mt. Sinai Religious School wi
It was a cold, dismal and cheer- is not like any other book which larger canvas would be needed, for attempts and repeated failures it sing
at the ceremonies. Those i It
itself
and
American
Israel
one
of
less spring morning. A steady rain one may read, peruse or study the Yeshiva College is not an in-
be
confirmed
are Janice Borock
emerged
triumphant
to
write
for
stitution of learning in the ordi-
came down in sheets which made without heart, feeling or emotion. nary meaning of the word. It is its most luminous chapters, it was daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Sam
There is music in the Torah,
one look for shelter where shelter strange and captivating music; not merely a Yeshiva for the because, somehow, the need was Borock; Ellen L. Goldman d
gohfte Mr,
r 0. f and Blarens 1.,11( ihrzse
s aih. rd
ln i vi tl.
could be found. Little pools of wa- there are songs and melodies in strengthening of the Jewish heart felt for creating upon the shores
:uh t igea i t rx,
Belle
of
this
continent
a
home
and
cen-
in
the
spiritual
heritage
and
abid-
ter gathered faster than the thirs- its very sounds, words, letters and
daughter
ty earth could absorb. A heavy syllables. And it is this which ing consciousness of the Jewish te• for Torah which shall bring Zimmer of Vienna and niece of
mist which hung in the air, like gives life, meaning and beauty people; not merely a secular col- spiritual light and healing both
and Mrs. Joe Kortes. Other
a curtain, obscured the view of to the Torah, which makes it so lege for the development of in- to the Jews and to the world.
Shevuous services
And so, a day's visit to the Ye-
Yeshiva College which otherwise great, so strong, so immortal. tellect and character through the
a d Saturday
S t ot l e nu nl eacusNt
evening,
emninu(;, ,f
is one of the most magnificent Read without intonation, the To- pursuit of the humanizing studies shiva College was ended; was end- traditional
ed
in
a
burst
of
sunshine
which
by
which
life
is
enriched
and
beau-
in New York. For its building, rah is a poor and helpless thing,
will
ill 1:::Ii revbievedheilr
perhaps one of the most unique its words, its letters, its syllables tified; not merely a great acad- succeeded the rain; was ended a modern form, and on Mond:
with
many
things
unseen,
with
in a city of striking architecture, incapable of lifting themselves to emy of learning for secular and
morning, May 29, the second day
rises like a castle over a drop of God. This is why not only the sacred studies where Torah and many impressions, feelings and of Shevuous, when Viskor
hundreds of feet from which one Talmud, but its very chant be- Science, religion and culture, faith emotions unrecorded. But it was be said.
can see clearly on either side the came so dear, so precious, so holy and knowledge are harmoniously ended, too, in the firm faith and
During Friday night service
Harlem River with its hundreds to Jewish ears, why those who blended together. It is a great uni- conviction that, at last, after many
of boats and barges, and the Hud- had forgotten its words, still love versity of many faculties and de- years of neglect, a pattern of on May 26, Barbara Farber, Hel
son River with the majestically to recall its melody. And so, it partments, a spiritual and cul- Jewish life is being shaped in this en Kertes and Charles Winkel.
was like a beloved voice reaching tural powerhouse for the develop- country which will continue the man will render the reading of
towering Palisades.
But once inside the Byzantine from a far and distant land that ment and enrichment of one's out- spiritual and cultural heritage of the Book of Ruth. They are stu•
edifice with its domes, towers and one heard again that rousing, er and inner life, an integration our people through the ages. dents of the first intermediat
of a four thousand year old spir- Within these walls a quality of grade of Mt. Sinai Religion
delicately-wrought designs — in stirring melody,
itual atmosphere in the social and soul is being fashioned which will School. Miss Shirley Ann Cohn'
"Hoi omar Rovo, hoi omar
beauty and splendor more like a
cultural milieu of the New World, contribute to the rebirth of a is the teacher of the class.
Abbaya"
cathedral than a Yeshiva building
—a hope, a dream, a vision of a proud, happy and dignified people.
"Thus Rabba said and thus
—one felt pleasant and warm. One
Mrs. Isadore Goldman and Mrs
thousand good and pious hearts And for this we must be grateful;
Abbaya taught."
felt warm with the hundreds of
with such work, faith, such enthu- Sam Young will be hostesses a
But it was not a weird and which at last came true.
young men bending and swaying
And there is need for such a siasm, we must cooperate, if we a benefit party for the sync
over tomes of the Talmud which melancholy melody, one of tears
great
and heroic attempt if the wish to behold the spiritual re- gogue, the party to he given or
lay spread out before them; one and sobs coming from spent bod-
broken
and shattered life of our demption of our people, their ris- Tuesday, May 23. A nominal en
felt warm with the clear and fresh ies and exhausted minds of which
trance fee of 35 cents will h i
youthful voices studying Torah; Bialik sang, but a triumphant and people is to be held together; need ing to new life, their soaring to charged.
one felt warm with the happy conquering song like the voice of of it if the satanic forces of evil new heights.
feeling that in this land of ours an intoxicated lover. For unlike raised up against us shall not tri-
Rabbi Selig S. Auerbach
of which so many of the old gen- their comrades of the olden Ye- umph; need of it if the pagan
be the speaker at the Memoria
eration had despaired, a home and shiva, the Torah students of the influences of our modern life with LITTLE GIRL OF MINE Services of the Port Huron chap
center for the Jewish spirit was new day are aglow with the love its cruelty and barbarism, shall
ter of Blue Star Mothers,
heart is full of loneliness,
reared which continue the tradi- and joy and mirth of life. It was not utterly defeat us; need of it, My
Little
girl
of
Mine,
again,
if
from
the
blight
and
tion nurtured through the cen- not a company of pent and un-
since I left you dearest one
turies in the lands now, alas, de- happy students of the Talmud that chaos of a destroyed world, Juda- For
I've just been passing time.
Polonnoyer Society to
the writer beheld, their cheeks ism is to be saved and the Torah
vastated.
It was an experience one was pale, their lips parched and dry, preserved for future generations. Each nite, to slumber land I go Hold Card Party May 28
Much of the evils of modern
not likely to forget. The writer staring at the world with sockets
With all my thoughts of you,
The Polonnoye•-Woliner Societ y
was thrilled at every step he took. of anguished eyes, youth forever Jewish life and which made for Recalling
all the things we've will hold its first card party
His mind wandered back to the gone, but rather jolly warriors of its chaos and confusion, was due
done
since its establishment at 8:30
faded but hallowed memories of the Torah likely to give a good to its lack of direction. Faith and
And planning some, we'll do. p. m. Sunday evening, May 28,
the days that passed, when Torah account of themselves wherever knowledge, reverence and learn-
at Assembly Hall, 9125 Twelfth
ing rarely walked hand in hand,
was studied with love-like devo- met.
You're still too young, little St. The card party is being
indeed,
not
infrequently
they
were
That
same
morning
they
had
tion and burning, passionate ear-
Angel Mine,
arranged for the benefit of Jew
nestness in the sanctuaries of regaled their healthy appetite barely on speaking terms. Bar
To
feel within your heart,
ish refugees of the Polonnoyer
Mitzvah
was
freuqently
the
last
learning now, unfortunately, little with a hearty and wholesome
The hurt and searing pain that's area on the old Russian-Polish
more than a memory. From the breakfast, and as likely as not, outpost of Judaism and the high
caused
region. Tickets are 25 cents.
hopes and dreams of a thousand the night before they relieved school and college the spiritual
When loved ones have to part. Refreshments will be served.
hearts, from the despair and chaos their bursting energy on the gym- suicide of thousands of our best
All landshleit from Polonnoyer
of a demolished world a blazing nasium floor with Indian clubs, and most promising young men. Your Mother feels it tho, my and
the surrounding towns and
The
drift
was
steady
and
there
horizontal
bars
and
basketball-
trail of light arose which shall
child,
villages are invited to attend
was
no
checking
the
retreat.
The
outer
and
unnecessary
things
one
cheer and comfort us,. yes, and
So in the coming years,
card party and to become
bring healing for all we have suf- will say and not belonging to an world gained while we lost; the If I'm not there, you comfort the
members of the society. Thi;
world
was
enriched
while
we
were
fered and endured. For here in istitution of Talmudic learning,
her,
group was organized for the
the Yeshiva College, Jewish life, but now important for the shap- impoverished. Of the old life noth-
And kiss away her tears.
purpose of aiding Jewish resi.
the life of reverence, piety, and ing of the wholesome and well- ing remained—no pieties, no mem-
ories, no pride, no knowledge, no But somehow in my heart I feel, dents in the war devastated
learning, is being recreated anew, rounded life!
Polonnoyer area.
Efforts are
The writer found himself in the resistance, no spiritual life; they
recreated that it might continue
There won't be cause for pain, now being made to contact
kept
nothing
of
their
own
to
serve
dining
room,
a
large
and
spa-
to shine, warm and inspire hearts
Just trust in God, and you will these residents who have been
that were heavy with doubt and cious place with many clean and them in time of need.
see,
scattered all over Russia. The
It
was
not
for
the
ghetto
to
well-polished tables on which tas-
uncertainty.
I'll soon be home again.
group meets every second Sun.
One walked the corridors of the ty and appetizing food was served work out the synthesis between
Pvt. Sidney S. Tendler day.
Yeshiva College with his hopes by experienced waitresses at as- the Jew and the world, between
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At the last meeting the'
raised high. Such was the spirit tonishingly reasonable prices. They Torah and modern culture, nor
Co. E 314 Inf. APO 79 daughters entertained the
for
the
Jewish
pioneers
of
sixty
ate
their
meals
hurriedly,
for
soon
and such was the faith of the
Care of Postmaster,
mothers at a mother-daughter
time-worn academies of learning the bell would ring and they will or seventy years ago. They had
New York, N. Y.
dinner.
many
other
things
to
think
about
steeped in legend and rich with have to be in their classes for the
spiritual beauty. Floods of mel- academic program of their educa- besides the education of their chil-
ody—holy melody, the melody of tion. Torah and Chochmah are co- dren. They had problems of ad-
God's Torah—came from a dozen ordinated, sacred and secular justment, establishment, and the
places, rising in a mighty chorus learning are organically fused to- prosaic needs of their daily life.
of voices as if from a thousand gether. There is no contrast, no The old life had served them well
springs. The genius of our people contradiction between the two, in- enough and they saw no need of
lay in them its hope, its future, deed, one amplifies and comple- enlarging or improving upon it.
ments the other and helps to main- The Heder, the Talmud Torah, the
its undying life.
They came from a synagogue thin the equilibrium which must old-styled Yeshiva had produced
ON PERRY LAKE
where many young men with shin- be established among men if life great and strong characters, gave
ing eyes and alert faces sat with is to be sanctified and sanctity is them both reverence and learning,
ORTONVILLE, MICH.
knitted foreheads before open ge- to be kept informed and enlight- piety and knowledge, and they
1000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL
hoped
for
the
same
miracle
to
be
ened.
maras; they came from crowded
Yes, soon the bell would ring repeated again.
classrooms where students were
I t was from the tragedy of a
plunged in the hair-splitting sub- and the same boys who but a
THREE CAMPS IN ONE
leties of a difficult tosafot or a while ago pondered over the un- thousand lives, from the aching
troublesome maharsha; they came worldly themes of the Torah, will pain and disappointment of a
BOYS UNIT 6-16 * GIRLS UNIT 6.16
from smaller knots of scholars breathe an atmosphere centuries, thousand hearts that the dream
of
the
Yeshiva
College
was
spun,
if
not
thousands
of
years
removed
who were pondering over a chal-
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lenging rambam, and they came from them. Soon they will be that the method, the formula, the
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synthesis
was
discovered
which
from boyish voices barely matured speaking the language not of the
who were taking their first dip Prophets or Rabbi Akiba, but that should unite Shem and Japhet, or
in the deeps and shallows of their of Emerson, Spencer and Darwin. the traditional frenzied love and
riarnl .( hfirrian aim/ gef.
people's ancient lore.
Soon minds atuned to the poetry devotion to Torah of the old day
Yes, there was a sing-song of the Bible, to the subtleties of 1 together with the wisdom and
earning of the new school, the
in their voices, the old familiar
• Yi; merriffiJe4r
sing-song of the Talmud student, the Rabbis and the unique wisdom i dealism and enthusiasm of the
past
with
the
practical
educational
of
the
ages,
will
find
themselves
the chant which once one hears,
• reekce xa. Dir Own 3- Crrnt grra
he never forgets. For the Torah revelling in the wonders of a new needs of the present. It was from
t he brain of Dr. Bernard Revel,
f ounder and lifelong president of
• liforfAreiem4 fir (g) ad Jr 1O
t he Yeshiva College, himself the
fi nest amalgam of East and West,
a product of the learning and pi-
e ty of the old generation and the
cu • and knowledge of the new
culture
a ge, that the synthesis first
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S prang. But so great was his faith
a nd so infectious his enthusiasm,
t hat a band of loyal and devoted
en soon gathered about him mak-
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ne his dream come true.
The writer remembers all the
p eregrinations of this Yeshiva,
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a 11 its wanderings and tribulations,
a 11 its hardships and sufferings. It
w as not by one leap that it made
it s way from Henry Street, where
it first originated, to its present
S umptuous quarters, from its sur-
r ounding tenement houses and
S weatshops to the stately heights

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