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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

MA Ill elf nit WEEIF

THE ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD of the new Northwest Hebrew
Congregation and Center, we pointed out in this column last
week, is a young man of vitality and vision. Today, we introduce
the spiritual leader of the congregation, Rabbi Jacob E. Segal, a na-
tive of Palestine and graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America, who, too, is youthful, and who, too, sees a magnificent fu-
ture for the infant congregation
which already has taken its place
among the leaders of the city.

Federal Power Inquiry Casts Doubt
on Consolidated's Texas Gas Plan

Fresh doubt as to the ability of
Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. to
obtain enough Texas natural ga3
to supply the Detroit market has
been raised by recent testimony
before the Federal Power Com-
mission.
At the conclusion of searching
examination into gr 3 reserves
available for the pro;osed Michi-
gan-Wisconsin pipe 1sc sponsored
by Michigan Consolidated, these
facts stood out:
1. The proposed Michigan-Wis-
consin line is entirely dependent
for supply on 436,000 acres In
Texas and Oklahoma to be devel-
oped by Phillips Petroleum Co.
2. Much of the acreage in the
contract between Phillips and the
Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Co.
Is marginal land on the edge of
the rich producing land where
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.
obtains its gas.
3. The contract with Phillips
Petroleum does not specify the
number of wells Phillips must drill
nor does it contain any guarantee
compelling Phillips to deliver any
minimum quantity of gas.
4. Already a number of wells

Rabbi Segal was born 33 years
ago in Jerusalem. As a youngster
he did quite a bit of traveling,
moving with his family to Vienna
for a period of two years, then
returning to Palestine for another
year and finally coming to the
United States in 1921.
After completing his early edu-
cation in Scranton, Pa., Rabbi
Segal went to New York City,
where he studied at the Beth Ha-
midrash Lamorim and the Semi-
nary College of Jewish Studies,
pursuing his undergraduate work
at the same time at the College
of the City of New York. There
he received his Bachelor of Arts
degree in three years, and was
elected to the Phi Beta Kappa
honorary society for extraordinary
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scholarship.
RABBI JACOB E. SEGAL
In 1935 he entered the rabbinical
school of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and was
awarded prizes for distinction of midrash public speaking, and Homi-
letics.
In 1939 he was ordained as Rabbi at the seminary, at the same
time receiving his Master's Degree, in comparative literature at Co-
lumbia University.
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IN THE FALL OF that year, Rabbi Segal assumed his first pulpit,
with Congregation Bnal Zion, in Chicago, and remained with that
congiegation until his rocent call to Detroit. While in Chicago, he
played an active role in the work of the Zionist Organization, the
Chicago Board of Jewish Education, the Round-Table Conference of
Christians and Jews and numerous other communal bodies.
The field of modern Hebrew Literature has been one of Rabbi
Segal's major academic interests. In 1941, under the auspices of
Julius Blase
the National Academy of Adult Jewish Studies, of the Seminary,
ho published a volume of the selected poetry and prose of the
greatest Hebrew poet of modern times, Chaim Nachman Bialik.
The work, entitled "A Bialik Treasury," lias been widely used as
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Rabbi Segal, four years ago, married a Brooklyn girl who earlier
had established a Michigan link by taking a degree at the University
at Ann Arbor. They have one child, Jonathon Toby, who is two. Mrs.
Segal and the boy must wait in Chicago until the rabbi is able to
find them a home In Detroit.
ROSH HASHONAH
In March, 1943, Rabbi Segal took a leave of absence from his
GREETINGS TO ALL
Chicago pulpit, to enlist as chaplain with the U. S. armed forces. Af-
ter serving at two posts in Oregon and California, he was assigned
to the European Theater of Operations. There—in Germany, France
and Belgium—he nerved for 15 months. He was discharged from the
Army last June, with the rank of major.
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TN OCTOBER, 1944, Rabbi Segal realized one of his most cherished
A- ambitions—a visit to his native Palestine. In the course of a six
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weeks' flying tour through Italy, Greece, and the Middle East, he
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spent 18 precious days in the Holy Land. He not only revisited the
scenes of his childhood and the larger communities and kibbutzim,
but also made an extensive and detailed tour of the Negev, the
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great arid southern region of Palestine which is the scene of the
contemplated monumental project, the Jordan Valley Authority.
After seeing at first hand the unbelievable heroism of the
4 young pioneers—some of them mere boys and girls—who live in
tthese tiny far-flung outposts on the rim of the Sinai wilderness,
Rabbi Segal shares their conviction that, with the help of modern
engineering and irrigation, this vast desert area can yet be trans-
formed, in our time, into a fertile garden—capable of sustaining
not another hundred thousand, but a million additional Jews.
of the
"One sees in Eretz Yisroel so many achievements that border on
the miraculous," says Rabbi Segal, that one comes away with the
unshakeable feeling that this miracle, too, will come to pass."
"In spite of the terrors and uncertainties of the moment, and in
spite of the heart-breaking obstacles being put in their path, one
senses among the Jews of Palestine a spiritual security, a wholesome
abiding faith in the future, that is one of the great heartening facts
in Jewish life today."

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Phillips has failed to meet the
requirements for 90 consecutive
days.

drilled In the 436,000 acres dedi-
cated to the proposed pipe line
have been plugged and abandoned
as worthless. If further explora-
tion proves that gas can not be
obtained in quantities sufficient
to repay the cost of drilling wells
—at about $30,000 each—the con-
tract specifies that Phillips need
not "drill any wells which would
not be drilled by a reasonably
prudent operator."
5. If Phillips is unable to deve-
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line, the sponsors may seek to
buy gas elsewhere, but only after

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“QOMETHING OF THAT spiritual sense of security will have to be
attained by American Jews, if our life is to have any meaning
at all. How achieve that security? By accepting boldly, and with
vision, the mantle of Jewish leadership which has been thrust upon
our shoulders.
"It Is we, and not the Jewish DP's of Europe, who are the
real escaped remnant, the Shearit Haplayta. But that word must
not become a mockery. It must not be perverted to mean the
escaping remnant—the group that escapes from Judaism, from its
responsibilities toward Mal Yisroel. It is one world or none, for
the Jewish people, too.
"We must, in other w9rds, accelerate our drive toward maturity.
We must broaden and intensify the scope of Jewish education among
both our children and adults. We must expand and vitalize our syna-
gogues and religious centers, so as to make them adequate for entire
neighborhoods,
"We must develop a technique of communal organization to catch
the attention and invoke the loyalty of every American Jew, regard-
less of whether he considers himself religious or not. By these and
other means we may create an American Jewish community—the
phrase today is, alas, a mere figure of speech—which would be an
integrated, living reality. In doing so, we shall be achieving security
not only for ourselves, but for the other remnants in Israel—and
indeed, for Judaism itself."

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