Thursday, September 22, MS
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Rabbi Repeats
Iwo Jima Vow
MEW YORK—A pledge taken
"at the dedication of the Fifth
Marine Division cemetery at Iwo
Jima four years ago was repeated
by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn.
of the Central Synagogue of
Rockville Centre, L. I., who de-
livered a Flag Day sermon under
the auspices of the American
Jewish Committee on the "Tele- !
vision Chapel" program of Sta-
tion WPIX.
As Jewish chaplain of the Fifth
Marine Division, Rabbi Gittel-
sohn recalled the harrowing days
of the Iwo Jima campaign and
the pledge pronounced when the
cemetery was dedicated:
RABBI GITTELSOHN
"To you who sleep here silently,
we give our promise . . Too
much blood has gone into this tive conspiracy, we all lifted our
soil for' us to let it lie barren. eyes to the top of Suribachi and
Too much pain and heartache saw there the flag which many
have fertilized the earth on which of us had seen lifted on that spot
three weeks earlier for the first
we stand.
"We here solemnly swear: this time in history.
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shall not be in vain! Out of this,
will come—we promise—the birth MAGNIFICENT SIGHT
"THAT WAS THE most inex-
of a newfreedom for the sons of
men eve ,ywhere."
pressibly beautiful sight I have
.
• • •
ever seen! That was the promise
of life, liberty, and the pursuit of
TAKEN FOR GRANTED
TOO MANY PEOPLE take the happiness for all men,—of every
American flag for granted, Rabbi color, every class, and every
Gittelsohn said. "I shall never creed.
"In that moment our weariness
again, for the rest of my life, be
able to salute an American flag and dejection were somehow
without feeling, deep within my miraculously lifted from us. In
heart, at least some small spark that moment we understood, as
of the wonderfully warm pride most of us never had before, what
which filled me on a Wednesday it means to be an American and
morning back in March of 1945. to love the American flag.,
"It was almost the end of the
"For there we stood—we who
American campaign in Iwo Jima. had captured Iwo—with no dikes
As Jewish chaplain of the Fifth of discrimination or distinction
Marine Division I had lived keeping us anart. No quotas! No
through nearly five weeks of the segregation! No restrictive coven-
most miserably fiendish hell that ants No one said, this row is for
ever existed on this earth. I stood Negro graves and this for the
there that morning with my graves of whites. No one decreed
friends at the foot of Mt. Suri- that since Jews are only 3t4 per
bachi, waiting for the official ded- cent of this nation's population,
ication of our division's cemetery. therefore they can be only 31/2
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per cent of the dead on Iwo.
"Whatever differences may have
GLIMPSE OF FLAG
"WE WERE JUST about as existed between us just didn't
weary and dejected a group of seem to count any more in that
men as human eyes have ever moment. We were all Americans.
seen. Our dungarees were cover- And that was the only thing that
ed with the filth and grime of mattered.
combat. Our eyes and ears and
throats were choked with unut- One Jew in Business
terable dust.
"Beneath the ground on which in Upper Silesia Town
we stood. more than 1,500 men UPPER SILESIA —(World News
from our division alone had al- Services)—More than 2,700 Jews
ready been buried. Distant echoes live in the city of Nova Hilda
of gunfire off on the horizon told in . .Upper Silesia. Only one of
our anxious hearts there would the 2,700 owns a business—a
be more yet before we were fin- restaurant. The rest are all work-
ished.
ers in local mines, factories and
"And then, as we stood there, print shops.
with scarcely the strength and
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Plural Wives
of Yemenites
Are Problem
polygamy will be abolished be accepted only after they have
sooner or late and meanwhile it completed at least one year at the
is hoped social pressure will in-
Yeshiva B'nai Akivah.
hibit it even among the Yemen-
ites whose living standards in
"MR. GOLDSTEIN," a suppli-
line with those of all Israeli Jews
might rise to the point where cant said, "please lend me a hun-
even those who now cannot will dred dollars. I shall be forever
TEL AVIV — (World News be able to support more than one
mdebted,,to you."
Services) — Having reported the spouse.
"That's the trouble," Goldstein
debate on polygamy in the
replied as he refused the loan •
Knesseth, further information is
submitted on the situation which Yeshivah for Farmers
in the main affects a small group
of Arabs now living in the coun- Is Mapped in Israel
try and a certain number of
JERUSALEM — (MNB)—Plans
Yemenite Jews whose total is for the opening of a combined
only 45,000,
Yeshivah and agricultural col-
Little need be said about the lege aimed at training religious
Arabs among whom polygamy is farmers were announced here by
still practiced where economically the World Mizrachi headquarters.
possible. The Yemenite Jews are According to present blueprints,
the novel institutions will be set
another matter.
up at Kfar Haroeh, near Hadera,
Long cut off from the main- with classroom, hostel, and din-
streams of Jewish life and un- ing room buildings.
affected by the decree in the year
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Courses of study will be of two-
1000 by the Rabbi Gershon Ben year's duration, and students will
Judah prohibiting polygamy
among Jews in Germany and
France, the Yemenites point to
King Solomon's 1000 wives and
Rosh Hashonah Greetings and
concubines, King David's at least
eight wives and Herod's nine
Best Wishes to All
wives as justification for the
maintenance of the institution
for those who desire it.
Yet the Yemenites are the
poorest Jews in Israel and far
less than one percent of them
INCORPORATED
could afford to maintain more
than one wife.
— IN THE —
The matter is still under dis-
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