lit JEWISH NEWS

Friday, June 22, 1945

He Taught Jews Defense

Dr. M. M. Kaplan
Appraisal of Eliahu Goilomb `Excontrnunicated'

Chief of Palestine itagana

Hyman Tiktyner's Name
Inscribd By Family
In JNF Golden Book

WRB Director Asks
Restrictions Lifted
On Ostvego Refugees

Calls "Cherem" and Burning
Honoring the memory of their
of His Siddur by Orthodox father, Hyman Tiktyner, his sur-
NEW YORK, (JTA).— Easing
By J. L. TELLER
Editor, Independent Jewish Press Service -
vivors inscribed his name in the of present restrictions so as to
Rabbis "Nazi Practice"
Auto license P41 was the mos t only in part, might have say
Golden Book of the Jewish Na- allow residents of the Fort On-
ed • NEW YORK, (JTA) — Rabbi tional Fund.
tario refugee shelter to leave the
famous .license plate in all o
f several million Jewish lives, a nd
camp
for designated periods in
Palestine. Jews knew it, as di
Mordecai M. Kaplan, leader of the
d multitudes of Allied soldiers.
Officiating- at his funeral on the custody of private relief
the •British and the Arabs. It wa s
Reconstructionist
mo
v
e
m
en
t,
This is what Golomb propose d:
agencies was urged this week by
the car of Eliahu Golomb; a
which attempts to reinterpret the June 13, at the..
The parachuting into • Euro
War Refugee Board Director
broad-shouldered, sturdy,: mid - of an "Army" of hundreds pc Jewish religion so as to check Chesed Shel*.
,William O'Dwyer.
die-sized man, • whose face wa s Jews, organized into small uni of the escapism which, it asserts,, Ernes, 2995 Joy :
Road, Drs. A. M.
This recommendation, O'Dwy- .
ts ,
d eeply wrinkled from worry and
schooled in intelligence, sabotag e,
Hershman
prais-
er revealed, already has been
laughter, for the man combi ned and guerrilla warfare. The
ed the family for
submitted to the Department of
se
both profound concern for his
small units were to constitute ti
the Interior of which the War
selecting the
people, and a sense of hu mor leadership of "underground rai to
Jewish National
Relocation Authority, which oper-
f-
• which made his tasks and his
roads" to rescue children, elder ly
Fund—the land-
ates the shelter. is an agency.
grief bearable.
people, and the disabled out . of
redemption
Addressing the annual con-
He was 52. Golomb with out Hitler's Europe, and an extensi t.
agency of the
vention 'of the United Hungarian
doubt died in service, no . les s a guerrilla force operating . fro i
Zionist m o v e-
Jews of America at the Hotel
war casualty than . the resist ers Poland through the Balkans, an
Pennsylvania, O'Dwyer said that
ment — as t h e H. Tiktyner
of the Warsaw Ghetto and Jevt
in all the ghettos and internmen t
means of paying tribute to the the refugees must be permitted
Palestine's soldiers who died at camps in Europe.
deceased.
to do those things which would
El Alemein, in Greece,. in •Cr etc,
Such an army was ready i n
make them happy, such as visit-
Rabbi
J.
Rabinouitz
also
offi-
and on other battlefields.
Palestine, trained by Golom b.
ing friends and relatives on the
ciated at the funeral.
outside. He also declared that
He was a youngster when his i Golomb was to be its leader, an d
Mr. Tiktyner died June 12. He the Fort Ontario residents "must
parents settled in Palestine, and himself parachute into Europ
was born in Russia 73 years ago not be sent back until at least
• still an adolescent when he joined Before that he sought to join on e
and came to Detroit in 1901. His d ecent arrangements are made for
the Showier, the Jewish Watch- of the regular army units he ha d
late residence was at 2480 Oak- -t heir future relocation, at least
men of early Palestine pioneer- helped to' recruit, but was dis
man Blvd.
rf that is what they want."
ing days. They were a select suaided by. Jewish leaders, wh 0
His survivors are his wife, Ella;
group of daring pioneers, and it , felt that he was more needed a t
six sons, Nathan, Harry, David, Palestine Police Discover
was young Golomb, among others, his post than as a man in th e
and Irving Tiktyner of Detroit, Secret Terrorist Battery
who insisted that this group be ranks.
and Jack and Martin Tiktyner of
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Police
His Men "Softened" Syria,
expanded to take in wider sec-
Saginaw, and 1.1 grandchildren. announced that they have dis-
Golomb's Hagana offered it
tions of the Jewish population.
covered a loaded triple mortar
It was eventually converted into services to Britain at the ver y
battery, which was trained on
Jewish War Veterans
the Hagana. Golomb was its lead- outbreak of the war.- Its me n
the government printing plant
er: As a member of the Jewish "seftened" Syria by Intelligenc e PROF. MORDECAI M. KAPLA
N Form 52 New Posts
near the Jerusalem railway sta-
Legion in 1920, he disobeyed preparatory to the Allied of
tion.
military orders and rushed with Pensive against- the Vichyites is prevalent in contemporar y
NEW YORK—The formation
Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel
fellow legionnaires from Arafend
The Golomb vanguard Judaism was "excommunicated " of 52 new posts of the Jewish
to Tel Aviv, to defend the Jewish spearheaded the attack, disrupt- by a group of 200 rabbis at a War Veterans of the United Aviv was made an honor-
city against Arab rioters. He was ing communications; and captur- "cherem" ceremony held at Ho States in the eight months since ary commander of the Order of
the British Empire, Civilian
vociferous in urging J e wish ing frontier' posts in behalf of tel McAlpin.
the last national convention was I Division, in the King's birthday
Palestine to hold out against. the the Allies. Golomb's men par-
-The ceremony, arranged by announced by Archie H. Green- I honors.
Arabs at Tel Hai, at that time ticipated in the Allied quelling of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of berg, national commander of
the
the northernmost post. of Jewish the first coup, d'Etat in Iraq. the United States and Canada, J.W.V. Pointing out that there'
settlement in Palestine. The de- British military concede that the concluded with the public burn _ has been a 70% increase in rnern-1
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fense of Tel Hai has since become British might not have held out ing of the revised Prayer Book bership during the period of his
a , legend, and- it • established, at the Iraq airport, were it not issued by Prof. Kaplan, to which commandership, Comm an d e r
among the Arab 'brigands, re- for timely and skillfully execut- the orthodox rabbis objected, Greenberg 'said that "The J.W.V.
ed assignments by Palestinians— declaring it is contrary to the is the fastest growing Jewish or-
spect for the Jews as fighters.-
"The Beautiful"
Golomb's men.
Respected By All •
principles of the Jewish religion. ganization in the country".
This work of security and res- The ban on Prof. Kaplan and his
Both the Arabs and the. British
at
began to respect. the Hagana cue, sufficient to engross com- prayer book Was preceded by a
chosen race; that the Torah is
more and more, and the man pletely the most ingenious of speech by Rabbi Israel Rosen-
Golomb became the symbol o f men, was •not the sole—although, berg, president of the Union of a human document and not one i
"supernaturally inspired," and
the•Hagana..
Major—activity of Golomb. He Orthodox Rabbis, urging the
that modern Jews no longer -look I
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In the riots of 1929, and 193 was an organizer and leader of "excommunication."
forward to the advent of a per-
through 1939, Golomb. travele the Histadruth, Jewish Pales-
Called Nazi Practice
sonal Messiah.
.
extensively, covering the the n tine's Federation of Labor; Mapai,
Asked- by 'to Jewish Telegraph-
precarious roads of Palestine b
Jewish Palestine's Labor Party; ic Agency
'to coml.-I:lent on the
day and night, recruiting th e he was a member of the execu-
Provides every comfort—
rabbis' action, Prof. Kaplan said:
Hagana, marshalling its forces tive committee of the Vaad. "It is just too bad that men who
all
rooms have hot and
. assembling arms for defense Leumi (The National Council)
"where vaeation dreams come true"
call themselves rabbis should in
ordering his men to take up thei and a f re q u e n t contributor,
coki water — many with
this day and age resort to the
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intended
for
those
Jews
who
were
stituted the SNS, and later volun- awe of him, although Golomb led
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ing
themselves
ridiculous."
"Mo-
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difications" in Dr. Kaplan's in-
scholar, who learned Hebrew and Jewry's prestige.
troduction to the book which the
became a zealot for Jewish Pales-
orthodox rabbis particularly con-
tine, was to be its commander.
demned include the statement
Britain deferred all pleas. for a
that Jews are not a divinely
separate Jewish fighting force.
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