Friciey, Deoeverber 8, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

A Hanukah, Essay

Pehle Given
Added Duties

The Martyred Mother

By GRACE AGUILAR.
(Figt Published by R. Groombridge, London, 1845)

During the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes, the
sufferings of the women of Israel must have been as fearful
as their constancy and fidelity were powerful proofs of the
perfect adaptation of the Law of the Eternal to their temporal
and spiritual wants. Never could a religion which made them
soul-less slaves have become so dear, so part of their very

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U.S. Soldiers in Europe Help Find
American Relatives of War Orphans

American soldiers are becom-
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—John ing proficient in finding Ameri-
can relatives of Hitler-made
W. Pehle, executive director of orphans.
the War Refugee Board, was as-
Thanks to Lt. Arthur Lipschutz
signed supervision over the
Treasury Procurement Division,
but will continue to serve as head
of the' WRB.
A spokesman for the WRB said
that - it would mean no change as
far as the activities of the Board
are concerned.

hearts, that it was easier to en-4>
duce torture, and slavery, a n d who, in
the very face of the
death, rather than depart from
persecutor,
dared to obey the law
it themselves, or refuse its privi-
of Moses, and refused every ef-
leges to their infant sons. Eighty fort to turn them from their God.
thousand persons, men, women
Would this patriotism, this de-
and children, slain in the forc- votedness, have come at the mo-
ible entrance of Antiochus with-
ment needed, had it not been
in Jerusalem, and forty thousand taught, infused 'from earliest
of both sexes sold into slavery
boyhood—by example as well as.
was the horrible preface to the precept? A mother in Israel
misery which followed,
could be herself no warrior, but
Made • Capital Offense
she could raise up warriors—she
Every observance of the law, could be no priest, but she ,could
NEW
— Congress was
from the keeping of the Sabbath create priests—she could not face urged to YORK
act speedily and favor-
and the covenant of Abraham ; the battle's front, or drive the ably on the Palestine resolution
to the minutest form, was made idolatrous invader from God's (HR 418-419) approved by the
a capital offense. Yet, in spite of Holy Land—she could not stem House Foreign Affairs Commit-
the scenes of horror so continu- the torrent of persecution, and of tee, in a statement by Max Zarit-
ally recurring, the very relation torture; but she cotild raise up sky, president of the Urlitted Hat-
of which must now make every those who would seek the one, ters, Cap and Millinery Workers
female heart shrink and quiver and, by unslarinking death bear International Union; who intro-
—yet were there female martyrs witness to the fruitless efforts duced the resolution on Palestine,
baring their breast to the mur- of the other; and it was these which was unanimously adopted
derous knife, rather than bow things this heroic mother did. by the Convention of the Ameri-
down to the idol, or touch for- She had trained up her boys in can Federation of Labor.
bidden food. Women, young, that faithfulness, that constancy,
Zaritsky emphasized that the
meek, tender, performed with which could only spring from AFL Convention adopted a re-
their own hands the Covenant of virtue.
port instructing its president,
Abraham upon their sons, be-
That mother's lessons may still William Green, "to call upon
cause none else would so dare be to us as guidance—may teach President Roosevelt to use his
the tryrants Wrath; and with • us hoW we should instruct our good offices to the end that the
their infants (for whose immor- children, so as to provide them declaration made Concerning the
tal souls they had thus incurred against the arrows of misfortune, establishment of Palestine as a
the rage of man) suspended which, ere life close, may assail free and democratic Jewish corn-
around their necks, received them, either through bodily af- m.onwealth be implemented, the
death. by being flung from t h e fliction or mental woe. Religion, pledges made be fulfilled and
battlements of the Temple into real spiritual religion, • WILL the Government of the United
the deep vale below; others were NOT find resting in the human States assume its share of re-
hung, and cruelties too awful to heart unless infused— unless sponsibility in the oarrying out of
relate practiced upon others.
made the first great object in the pledges and assurances
Immortal Reward
childhood; not to affect with given."
Yet no woman's spirit failed; gloom, but inexpressibly to •deep-
and what must have been their en the enjoyment and hilarity of
attachment to their holy religion, youth. Affliction may do the
what their sense of its responsi: work for us in riper years, and
bility, and its immortal. reward, bring the soul to its God—but
what their horror of abandoning Oh! it is a fearful thing, when
it themselves and cutting off we wait for affliction to teach
their sons from its sainted privi- us our God—when sorrow must
leges, to incur martyrdoms like be sent to bring us to Him.
these? It is useless to argue that
persecution.- always creates mar-
tyrs, as opposition kindles con-
stancy. The religion degrading
or brutalizing woman never yet
had martyrs..
Where, in the vast tomes of
Men's Club of Temple Israel
history, sacred or profane, shall will hold its smoker at the Rose
Buy An Extra
we find a deed more heroic, a Sittig Cohen Bldg., Thursday,
fortitude more sublime, than is Dec. 14 at 8:30 ,p. m., for the
War Bond
recorded of Hannah, the Hebrew male membership of the club
Mother, during the periecution and the congregation. Charles
of Antiochus?
for
Aller is in charge of arrange-
Great emergencies will often ments, assisted by Sol. R. Colton,
create great characters; but in lieuben Levine and Barney
Hanukah
the narrative which we have Barnett. • .
been considering, we read some-
The evening will be highlight-
thing more in the character of ed by the showing of educational
the Hebrew mother than even films donated by General Motors
the heroism which she displayed. Corp. through the co-operation
By her close connection with her of Reuben Levine.
sons, in being brought before the
Tuesday, Jan. 23 at 8:30 p. m.,
tyrant, and condemned to share the Institute of Arts will be the
their fate, it is clear that though scene of the Men's Club "Fun
a woman in Israel, her influence Mania." The cast is made up of
must' have been supposed of members of the club. Members
some consequence. That her sons of the Sisterhood will assist.
owed their all to her, even to
Dr. Jules M. Goldsmith will be
500 MICHIGAN
their education, and that her in- M.C. for the evening.
fluence on them was very great,
The Sisterhood will be guests
we read alike in her own words, of the evening.
and in the appeal of the king
to her, to save by her exhorta-
tions her youngest born. And in
the calm courage, the noble
words of each of her sons, we
learn the education she had
Come and see our beautiful
given:
-
and complete display of pre-
Amongst the,. VaIiailt
cious gifts . . . a treasure
They . had probably been
house of lovely things that
amongst the valiant, though un-
∎ are difficult to find. We es-
pecially feature diamond
successful defenders of their
rings.
land; amongst the faithful few,

Green to Carry
AFL Plea on Zion
Resolution to FDR

Temple Israel Men's
Smoker Thursday

tion Service. One, Tony Goldner,
was located in. Milwaukee, and
the other, Herman Wertheim, in
San Francisco.
- More than 30,000 persons regis-
tered with the HIAS Location
Service are looking for surviving
relatives, according to Isaac L.
Asofsky, executive, director of
HIAS.

Dr. Tartakower Awaited
By Hebrew University
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor)—
Dr. Aryeh Tartakower, head of
the. Rescue Department of the
World Jewish Congress, is ex-
-pected here soon to take over
the Chair in Sociology occupied
by the late Dr. Arthur Ruppin
until his death. The Chair is en-
dowed by the Egged Co-opera-
LT. ARTHUR LIPSCHUTZ
tive Transport Society of the
of Battery B, 12th Field Artillery, Histadruth, Jewish Palestine's
Alfred Straus, 14, originally of Federation of Labor.
Frankfort-on-Main, both of whose
parents were killed by the Ger-
HERE'S A TIP FOR
mans and a sister deported to an
extermination camp in Poland, COLD CLOGGED NOSE
has found two uncles in America. Open up stuffy, cold-clogged nose with
Lt. Lipschutz coming upon the 2 drops Penetro Nose Drops in each
lad in the fighting region where nostril. Breathe freer, almost instant-
only the post office knows the ly. Caution: Use only as directed. Get
address, wrote to his mother, Mrs. PENETRO NOSE DROPS
Mary , Lipschutz of 320 Central
Park West, New York City, giv-
** * ******* * ** * ********
ing such data as the boy could
supply about his relations in the
U. a.
Mrs. Lipschutz communicated
with HIAS who found two uncles
of the boy listed in their Loca-

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