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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Chaplain Adler
Promoted to Captain
(Continued from Page 1)
of the little Filipino boy of 10
or 11 who regularly accompanies
Lt. Abraham J. Zager of Red
Bank, N. J., to our Friday eve-
ning services. He has learned sev-
eral of our melodies and joins in
the congregational singing of
L'Cho Dodi' Sholom Aleichem"
and "Adon Olam." After the serv-
ices he whispers "Gut Shabbos"
with his , own curious accent.
"Here Jewish life is a warm
and comradely fellowship. 'Kol
Israel Chaverim' is more keenly
and deeply felt now than ever be-
fore by the lads who frequent the
services and discussion groups.. ..
It must have appeared strange to
the man in Mars to look down
upon our Minya!' last night, as-
sembled so that a soldier whose
father passed on might recite
Kaddish. For the service was
taking place not far from the site
where fighting had recently been
in progress and many had fallen.
Yet we gathered here to mark
the death of one aged and ailing
man far away. The Kaddish be-
comes the affirmation of the value
and sanctity of the individual soul
at a moment and in a place where
thousands are casulties."
Story of Lone Jew
In his last letter Chaplain Ad-
ler told the story of a lone Jew,
80 years old, whom he found
sheltered and care for by a group
of nuns. Born in Romania 80
years ago he had emigrated to
the United States. In 1898 he en-
listed in the army during the
Spanish-American War. He fought
in the Philippines during the in-
surrection and received the Pur-
ple Heart and a medal for brave-
ry. After a few years in the army
he came back to the United
States, but he had fallen in love
with the Philippines and 35 years
ago he went back and settled in
a town on Luzon.
He prospered and soon built
the biggest hotel and impartially
helped other creeds. He became
known to all as "Pop". He would
travel to Manila for Jewish serv-
ices. When the war came he took
to the hills where he lived for
several years aided by the gueril-
las. He returned with the Ameri-
can occupation a broken, penni-
less old man, for the Japs had
destroyed his property and con-
fiscated his wealth. He found
shelter in the Catholic church to
which he had often contributed.
During his last hours he recalled
his early Jewish training. He died
May 24, was buried with military
honors and Chaplain Adler re-
cited the Kaddish for him.
Denies Yalta Pact
On Palestine Entry
JERUSALEM (WNS) — Dr.
Bernard Joseph, legal adviser to
the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
last week characterized as "com-
pletely baseless" a recent report
in a leading New York newspaper
to the effect that "an agreement
had been reached at the Roose-
velt-Churchill-Stalin conference at
Yalta to permit 300,000 Jews to
enter Palestine.
How Long Will Tisha 'B' Ov
Remain A Jewish Fast Day?
By RABBI LEON SPITZ
Centered about the question
just propounded is in a large way
an entire philosophy of Jewish
life. Reform Judaism repudiated
Tish'b'Ov and tore it out from its
Jewish religious calendar. The
Jewish Nationalist continued to
hug it to his heart.
But it is not as simple as all
Judah is gone into exile be-
cause of affliction and because
of great servitude.
The ways of Zion do mourn,
All her gates are desolate.
And gone is from the Daugh-
ter of Zion,
All her splendour.
Friday, July I 3, 1945
Federation Continues 'Subsidy'
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of conscience on the part of the leaders of the Federation
who have backed Mr. Sobelon decision to continue sub-
sidizing a private profit-making business with charity
funds?
And what of the Jewish News, which has been prating
of its "highest ideals" and yet is i continuing to accept
funds which were earmarked for charity? Doesn't the
thought occur that this money is so desperately needed to
The Biblical Prophet continues save lives? For by accepting this charity money the Jew-
this. The thought of the Wailing to bemoan:
ish News may be depriving scores, perhaps hundreds of
Wall evokes a sad mood in thp
The breach of the daughter
fellow Jews, of their very lives. Doesn't this thought evoke
spirit of every Jew. Fact is that
of my people,
a Jew need not necessarily be a
a feeling of remorse? Doesn't the thought rankle that bv
For this our hearts are faint,
political Zionist to shed a tear at
accepting this charity the Jewish News may be taking
For these things our eyes are
the recollection of the great and
dim,
the bread out of the mouths of hundreds of children, ',
cruel tragedies that had fallen this
For the mountain of Zion
orphaned and homeless? Or has its conscience become so
grief-saturated day of the Great
which is desolate,
Black Fast of Israel: The destruc-
calloused that it gloats on putting something over on
The foxes walk upon it.
tion of the first and the second
And at last from Jeremiah's an- the community?
Temples at Jerusalem, the crus- guished heart bursts out the cry
ing in rivers of Jewish blood of of despair which mingles women-
It is not too late for the donors and for organizations
Bar Kochba's rebellion; and lastly tarily with a prayer of hope ;
to protest this misuse of charity money.
the anniversary of the Expulsion
Wherefore dolt Thou forget
from Spain, which made such a
We invite our readers to send us their views
us for ever?
on this
deep impression upon the contem-
most important matter.
Turn Thou us unto Thee, 0
poraries that even Christopher Co-
Lord,
lumbus noted the event in his log-
Renew our days as of old.
book. Tisha'b'Ov has come down
Jewish lament no matter how
to us as the Black Letter Day in desperate
forever turns into faith.
Discuss Relief
For Slav Jews
our Jewish calendar.
The optimism of the Jew is fa-
BELGRADE (WNS) — Headed
A Christian poet like Lord By- shioned out of the stuff of ina- by David Alkalay, a delegation
of
ron of England wrote:
mortality.
the Belgrade Jewish Community
By the waters of the Babylon
Quotes Halevi
last week left for Bucharest
we sat down and wept.
The editors of the Tisha'b'Ov where it hopes to meet with Joint
Lermontov,
this
sentiment. the Russian, shared liturgy have culled also from an- Distribution Committee represent-
other great Jewish poet, Yehudah atives to discuss the Jewish relief
Achad Ha'am
Halevi, who lived in the Golden problem in Yugoslavia.
It may be a bit difficult to ap- Age of Spanish-Jewish Culture ex-
Before leaving, M r . Alkalay,
preciate what Achad Ha'am, the actly a thousand years ago.
prophet of the present day Na-
His Ode to Zion (Zyoin, Haloh
tionalist Renaissance, meant when Tishali) is really the crowning bit
he put his thought in some such of the Tisha'b'Ov liturgy. There
words as these: "When the Tern- is a tenderness about it that cap-
ple Wall crashed there were Jews civates one's spirit.
who came to weep, but should the
At Thou not Zion fain,
national be destroyed who will be
To send forth greeting from
there to weep over it?"
they sacred rock,
Achad Ha'am apparently was
Unto thy captive train,
not overcome so much by the
Who greet thee as the rem-
sight of the Wailing Wall, which,
nants of they flock?
incidentally, scholars contend is
Take thou on every side,
not a remnant of the Temple but
East, west and south and
north,
only a ruin of the Ancient City
Wall of Jerusalem. He was more
Their greeting multiplied,
concerned with the spirit and the
Sadly he greets thee still,
culture of the Jewish people.
The prisoner of hope, who
As the graybeards of the con-
gregation sit down Tisha'b'Ov
president of the organization,
said that the Germans slew 64,-
000 Yugoslavian Jews. Ile dis-
closed that, so far, approximately
9,000 Jewish deportees have re-
turned to their former homes. Ile
revealed that the Yugoslav Gov-
ernment had contributed 500,000
dinars toward Jewish relief, but
that the money was not sufficient
to meet even the barest needs of
the survivors.
Detroit Round Table Youth Conference
How (loth the city sit solitary,
That was full of people!
She wepeth sole in the night,
Flowers for all occasions-
and her tears art on her
Dexter-Joy, Florist, Tyler 6.6622 -cheeks.
Tragic Anniversary
Tisha'b'Ov is to him the Yahr-
zeit of all the tragedies and all
the catastrophes that have befall-
en Israel during all those centu-
ries of war and martyrdom. Ti-
sha'b'Ov also calls out to him and
spurs him on to work and to help
in the re-establishment of Eretz
Yisrael as a National homeland
for all those hundreds of thou-
sands of Brother Jews and Sister
Jewesses who yearn to reconstruct
their broken lives on its sacred
soil.
How long will Tisha'b'Ov be
mourned?
There can be no other answer,
but this: Until that day when
Zion's youth shall he renewed as
in the days of old.
Groups Entertain
For Servicemen
The following organizations par-
ticipated in the social events for
our servicemen and women:
The Sunday Brunch—July 1,
Cong. Beth El, Chairman: Mrs.
Sophie Medlow; July 8, Suwalker
Indep, Prog. Assn: Mrs. Lee Glad-
?tone, chairman.
Wednesday Night Belcrest Par-
ty—July 4, Home Relief, Chair-
man: Mrs. Maxwell Emmer; July
11, Probus Club, Chairman, David
Kurzman.
Sunday Buffet Supper—July 1.
Probus Club, chairman: Jack
Citron.
Downtown USO Canteen--July
2, Temple Israel Sisterhood, chair-
man: Mrs. Maxwell Emmer: July
9, Huntington Woods Jewish
group, chairman: Mrs. Harry
Shaberman; July 9, Mothers' Club,
chairman: Mrs. J. Ingeroff.
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brew poet's utter devotion to Pal-
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the altar steps, the reader' intones Levi It who
the mournful numbers from the
"I am in the west, but my
Eichah which is another name for
the Book of Lamentations, one of heart is in the East," and, then
the little books of the Bible which again,
Oh, who will give me wings,
tradition ascribes to Jeremiah the
That I may fly away,
Prophet, perhaps because it con-
And there, at rest from all
tains the following lines . culled
my wanderings,
from the Third Chapter, which
The ruins of my heart among
seems to identify the Prophet so
they ruins lay.
unmistakably.
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first Detroit Round Table Youth
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Top Row: Left to right: Leon-
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alle y, University of Detroit;
Philip Zald, A.Z.A.; Mr. Michaud.
Marion Aaron, district president
Bnai Brith Girls; Miriam Koester,
Jefferson A venue Presbyterian
Church; Sally Hopkins, Marygrove
College; Sylvia Kosit, Bnai Brith
Girls; Phyllis Bramwell, Westmin-
ster Presbyterian Church; How-
ard Freeman, Temple Beth El,
and Rev. Joseph Q. Mayne, exec-
utive secretary Detroit Round Ta-
ble of Catholics, Jews and Prot-
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