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Chief Justice Stone Honored
Rabbi-Soldier Rabbis Frime Standards
Dies in Battle For Religious Function
Board of Jewish Ministers Announces Result of
Against Nazis New York Two
Years Work Designed to Establish
Uniform Procedures
Commanded Mortar Outfit
Seeking to establish correct and uniform standards of
In Polish Division On
procedure
for marriage ceremonies, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals
Byelorussian Front
At the inaugural of Dr. Samuel Belkin as president of the
Yeshiva and Yeshiva College, honorary degrees were conferred upon
the Hon. -Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Su-
preme Court, and Rabbi Isaac Rubenstein, former senator of the
Polish Seim. Left to Right: Dr. Belkin, Chief Justice Stone, Rabbi
Rubenstein, and Hon. Samuel Levy, chairman of the Yeshiva board.
4-Citizen of Tomorrow I
Ira Hirsckinann's Stirring
Story of a Boy's Long Walk
Tells of Meeting Polish-Jewish tad, Now 13, Who Escape'd
After Nazis Killed Parents and Sister, and Walked
for Five -Years to Reach Safety - in Palestine
NEW YORK (JPS)—The following , story of-- JeWish travail
and persistance, as -told by Ira Hirschmann, : special -War Refugee
Board representative just returned from Turkey, has appeared in
the New Yo'rk Post, a. New York daily, under:- the by-line of its
Washington correspondents, Charles Van Devander and William 0.
Player Jr., and is reprinted here . by _special permission of the
New York Post:-
Enco6nfer With A 'Citizen of .Tomorrow
On The Long Road to Palestine
Ira. Hirschmann was winding up a press conference report of
his experiences in the Middle. EaSt as -a special representative of -
the War Refugee Board, and some of the reporters were pocketing
their pencils and pads.
"But there's one thing more I
might tell you about," said that he carried around with him
Hirschmann. "I don't know —it was a beautiful girl—she
whether it interests you, but it must have been - about 19 . at the
certainly interested me — _and most—and I asked him why he
that's the people themselves carried the picture. 'Oh, she wEk
whom I saw over there—espe- our leader, our heroine,' he told
cially some of the children.
me. She . did. Many brave things
"There was one little boy, a to save
.
Polish Jew — he couldn't have
`Wonderful!' I said And
been more than 13 —.arid he had where- is she riow? I want to -see
been walking, walking from Po- her, and talk .to, her .f' 'Oh, she
land to Turkey for five years. was shot,', he told - Me, matter. Of
That means he was eight years factly. -`they. caught 'her and
old when the Nazis came, when a killpd her.' I -said that . was 'ter-
he saw his parents killed by a rible, birrasked him why he still
firing squad, his little -sister carried the picttire. 'We all. do,'
trampled.. She did get away, but he told- me, 'She is our symbol.'
only to be run down later in the No, I don't believe he said `sym-
road.
bor-7-but anyhow; -that's what he
Hides - in Barrel
meant."
"This little fellow ran into a
Then, • with a nervous little
house and jumped into a barrel chuckle, he added:
of water in the cellar. and hid
"It isn't news—and, of course,
there all night with only his you wouldn't want to use it —
head sticking out. The Nazis but I wanted to adopt that kid.
didn't find him; and afterward I tried to adopt him—I would
he started walking. . Once he have liked to bring him back to
walked right into a concentration America with me. But the Zion-
camp and stayed there for a ists already had their eye on him
while, but the Nazis didn't have —he's the kind of material they
any record of ilim and he slipped need in Palestine.
out without their . noticing it.
Will Be Rescued
"He kept on walking and
"And I spent a good deal of
finally got to the Slovakian bor- time talking with officials of
der. The underground movement Great Britain's Middle East Re-
helped him into Hungary, and lief and Rehabilitation Adminis-
from there he traveled in a group tration over there and they told
of -children like him—with a me it was people like this boy:—
guide provided by the under- that have been and will be res-
ground. Onde he got so tired that cued-7-that are going to make the
he -nearly gave up and wouldn't best, the most freedom-loving
go any further, and they had to people of the postwar world.
carry him. —
"They want to go back home
"When I saw him at Istanbul some day—they're hoping for the
he was nervous and .talked so time when their homes will be
fast I could hardly understand free again—free places for them
. all that he tried to tell me — but to flourish in.
I have authoritative reasons to
"And, when I think about that
U.:lieye it was all true.
boy—I'll never forget him—I say
,
Tells About Heroine
to myself, 'What a CITIZEN that
"And he. shoived me a picture kid is, going to be!' !'
MOSCOW (JTA) — Moscow
newspapers carry a report of how
Rabbi Isaac Zavada, 53, of San-
domierz, Poland, and his brother-
in-law, Mendel Kohn of Lodz,
joined the Polish Kosciuszko Di-
vision as volunteers and fell in
the division's first battle against
the Germans on the Byelorussian
front. Soviet authorities - posthu-
mbusly have- awarded Rabbi
Zavada the Order of the Red Star
and the. Cross of Valor.
The two joined the Polish- di-
vision- in Russia as soon as it
was formed. At first everyone
in the unit looked upon the two
orthodox' Jews with surprise.
Their long beards attracted; spe-
cial. attention. They refused , to
eat non-kosher food and received
dry rations and prepared their
own food.
Rabbi Promoted
The two religious Jews showed
themselves during training to be
among the best soldiers in the di-
vision. The rabbi Was promoted
to sergeant and -later made com-
mander of , a mortar platoon
where he Won a reputation as a
sharpshooter and excellent corn-
'Lander. --
The first to fall was Mendel
Kohn, who had been 'a textile
maritfaCturer in Lodz. He was
struck in - the - head with a Ger-
man mine splinter..
"With his long beard and his
locks flying," the story in the
Moscow press . relates, "Rabbi
Zavada rushed from one mortar
to another, giving orders and
helping the crews. The Polish
division had already gained the
initiative and went over to of-
fensiVe action.". ,
In this battle, the first victory
for the Polish division, the rabbi-
soldier was killed. He was buried
in the Byelorussian village of
Lenino, on the road between
Mohilev and Orsha.
.
and other religious functions, the New York Board of Jewish
Ministers has adopted a set of Standards for Religious Func :
tions.
A Committee for the Elevation of Standards, composed of
three members of the New York - -
Board of Jewish' Minsters, repre-
"Mushroom" .Synagogues
senting the Conservative, Ortho-
On the matter of free-lance
dox and Reform branches, has rabbis
On the
matter
of free-lance
and
mushroom
syna-
been at work on the project for goues, the New York Board of
two years.
Jewish Ministers advises:
The Guiding Factors
"Before a Congregation accepts
The Standards for Religious the services of a rabbi, it should
Functions have been simply out- ascertain that he is dulf -ordain-
lined in a four-page leaflet. ed. The so-called mushroon syn-
There are 16 suggested prac- agogues are and should 'be re-
tices for engagements and wed- garded. as a commercial enter-
ding ceremonies. These refer to prise for private gain, in •,1)mpe-
the pre-wedding arrangements, titian with established syna-
the conduct of the ceremony and gogues. They have brought . harm
the ritual, among other matters. to organized religious Jewish life
and discredit to the communities
Principles for Bar Mitzvahs
in which they spring up during
For Bar Mitzvah services,- the the High Holyday Season."
six Suggested propose that the re-
ligious spirit should predoininate
ONLY ONE TO A FAMILY,
and entertainment should be in
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Fifteen standards of procedure
are listed for - Funerals and Un-
veilings. These bar the perform-
ance of any secular service, in-
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zations, in the synagogue; decree
that the officiating .ministers at
any Jewish funeral service shall
be of. the Jewish faith though
non-Jews may take part • in . the
eulogy or address; and ban - the
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rabbi's honorarium with the un-
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(Copyright, 1944,
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6.
- The T5th. Congressional District
Is FORTUNATE
to Have a Splendid Man Like
JOHN D. DINGELL
As Its Congressman
Congressman Dingell is a friend
of the needy.
He is a supporter of all good
causes.
He is the most consistent backer
of President Roosevelt in all
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He is a friend of the underdog.
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