HE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
VOL. 6—NO. 12
2114 Penobscot Bldg.
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of Jewish Events
Detroit 26, Michigan, December 8, 1944
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—Photo by Herbert S. Sonnenfeld. Courtesy Jewish Education Committee of New York
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They who bad camped within the mountain pass,
Couched on the rock, and tented 'neath the sky,
Who saw from Mizpah's heights, the tangled grass
Choke the wide Temple courts; the altar lie
Disfigured and polluted, who had flung
Their faces on the stones, and mourned aloud,
And rent their garments, wailing with one tongue,
Crushed as a wind-swept bed of reeds is bowed.
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5705-1944
E'en they, by one voice fired, one heart of flame,
Though broken reeds, arose again as men;
They rushed upon the spoiler and o'ercame;
Each arm for Freedom had the strength of ten!
Now is their mourning into dancing turned,
Their sackcloth doffed for garments of delight;
Week-long the festive torches shall be burned,
Music and revelry wed day and night.
The Maccabean Spirit
By EMMA LAZARUS
Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm,
The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.'
Where is our Judas? Where our five-branched palm?
Where are the lion-warriors of the Lord?
Clash, Israel, the cymbals, touch the lyre,
Sound the brass trumpet and the harsh-tongued horn,
Chant hymns of vicery till the heart take fire,
The Maccabean spirit leap new-born!