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Friday, February 6, 1948

THE JEWISH NEWS

ictuve Ste:miss front the Sibta

DESPITE AHAZ
AND HIS WEAK
WILL, THE ThREAT
TO LIERUSACEM
, A1A5 WITHDRAWN
THAT TIME ANO
THE CITY WAS
SAFE
FINALLY AHAZ,
WHO HAD BEEN A
WICKED KING, DIED,
AND HEZEKIAH, HIS
SON-A 000D MAN-
BECAME THE RULER.
OVERHEZEKIAH,
TOO, HUNG THE
SHADOW OF THE
POWERFUL. HATCH
ASSYRIA, WITH ITS
HUGE AND GREEDY
ARMIES, NOW LEO BY
A NEW KING -

A GREAT PROPHET OF ThE JEWS

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I HAVE NEWS, KING
HEZEKIAH ! THE

ASSYRIANS HAVE
CAPTURED THE cm
OF DAMASCUb!

5ENNAC.HERIB.

•W1411).0 A MAPSHEAVING WHERE 5E4NACHERAWS

WE MUST HAVE
HELP! I WILL
MAKE AN ALLIANCE
WITH THE
EGYPTIANS

ARMIES. WERE •••

WOE TO THEM THAT
TRUST IN CHARIOTS
AND HORSEMEN, BUT
LOOK NOT TO THE LORD.
GOO WILL PROTECT
OERUSALEM. HAS HE
NOT TOLD US. IN QUIETNESS
AND IN CONFIOEN SHALL.
BE )VUB.

KING HEZEKIAH OFFERS
TO PAY HEAVY TRIBUTE
OF GOLD W ',DU WILL
WITHDRAW YOUR.
ARMIES, KING SEN-
NACHERIB!

STRENGTH?

N JERUSALEM,THE PEOPLE COLLECT GOLD

THE ASSYRIANS WILL

KILL US IF WE DO NOT
GIVE THEM ALL OUR
GOLD, EVEN THE GOLDEN
ORNAMENTS OF OUR.

HOLY TEMPLE !

_

EVEN THESE RICH GIFTS DID NOT SATISFY
THE ASSYR I ANS • ••

WHAT OF YOUR.
GOLD? THAT WON'T
5TOP LS! NOR. WILL
NVUR. GOD ! NO
GOD HAS BEEN ABLE
TO HALT THE
ASSYRIAN ARMIES'

THE
MYSTLW/011.5
"AWE!!

Morris Subar Reports Experiences
Jewish, Civic Leaders Welcome Mayor Rokach
Of Visit to Tension-Gripped Palestine Of Tel Aviv at JNF Donor Event and at City Hall

--Personal experiences and where they may be reached if
observations of Palestine under necessary. Americans and British
tension are reported by Morris are not interested in the human-
I. Subar of 2446 Fullerton, who tarian aspect of the problem, but
returned Jan. 14 from a six-week as for business—that's another
visit in the Holy Land. story. You find British-owned
The 'following paragraphs are banks catering to Jewish busi-
exOrpts from his account of his nessmen, setting up a branch
office in the Jewish section so
trip: .
that business can continue 'as
"The outstared-::c.'77:-
usual'.
i n g impression
"During the time that I was in
left, upon me by:
Jerusalem funeral processiOns
our brethren in
were fired on with such regularity
the Yishuv was
I that it was Often, necessary for
their bitochon
the cortege to turn back and I
.their indoor-'
recall cases where the mourners
inatable faith
were forced to leave the body on
that the time was
the cemetery unburied and were
not far off when
fortunate in escaping with their
they would be:.
lives. *nip humane, civilized
Permitted to British, ubon being informed of
pour forth , all M. I. Subar
the impossibility of burying dead,
their energies and efforts into one had this re ply to the Jewish
project, the upbuilding of their authorities, 'Burn them'.
Homeland. If the doors of America
Blowing of Shofros
were now to be thrown wide open
"A mass meeting was called
to the inhabitants'of the Yishuv, in the Meah'Shearim Yeshiva in
-they would not stir. They are Jerusalem- to hear a speaker and
prepared in the face of all obsta-
rhiliin for the Jews who
cleS to achieve their aims in their say
were' besieged in the Old City.
own land.
The large Bes Midrash, in which
"I quickly saw that the British there were no seats, was packed,
government is following a careful people standing. I will remember
and purposeful plan to leave the all my days that closing scene
country in a chaotic condition when from all corners of that
for they are doing everything BeS MidraSh i 18 or 20 shofros
possible to destroy the peace. were blown in unison.
Three buses a day, for instance,
"Life, business and trade,
is the total traffic that passes
between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, generally speaking, goes on in a
a distance o f forty-odd miles. normalfashion—as normal . as can
Three buses, where a month or be in the knowledge that you
two ago a regular ten-minute never can tell when or where the
-Schedule of departures was kept shooting begins. While I was in
The three vehicles, allowed Palestine, killing of animals had
up. be
armor-plated only after been banned and there was no
to
lengthy pleading with British meat at all and very little pOUltry
authorities, are still• vulnerable to be had. The cost of living is
to the frequent sniper attacks extremely high and, of course,
the purchasing power of money
made- on this road.
very low. Anyone in America
British Reports Biased
who has relatives in Eretz Isreal
"The Yishuv wants to know should by all means send them
why America remains silent in money ''arid if they already do so,
the -knowledge of the conditi6ns such allotments should definitely
in Valestine today, and the only be increased."
answer I could give thein was
---
that the American people do not Gerald Weintraub Wins
know "what really is happening
in that land. It is common kinv.1-• Legion Award at Durfee
edge that the British news reports
are 'as biased as the word bias in, Gerald Weintraub, 14-year- Id
its 'worst form can denote. By son of Mr. and Mrs. • Jos h
refusal to recognize the state of Weintraub of 2698 ,,Pasadena,. re-
affairs, :even the American Con- ceived the Julius Rosenwald
sulSte is guilty of shameful neg- American Legion award at Dur-
ligence. This Consulate is located fee Intermediate School.
in a section which, due to frequent . The award is presented to the
fighting, is inaccessible to the outstanding ninth grade graduate
Jewish population. Yet the C6n- on the basis of high scholarship,
sula.te staff makes no effort to set leadership and citizenship rat-
up branch offices in such places ings.

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—Photos by Paul Kit'sch, Jewish News Photographer

During their visit in Detroit, Mayor and Mrs. Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv were welcomed at numerous

gatherings.

The upper photo shows the guests with leaders of the Jewish National Fund whose annual donor
event Mayor Rokach addressed on Jan. 27 at Masonic Temple. Left to right: MRS. WILLIAM KLAFER,
fund-raising chairman of the Ladies gailiarY of JNF; MRS. JACK ROSENTHAL, president of the JNF
Auxiliary; MRS. I. WALTER SILVER, the Auxiliary's program chairman; MAYOR R 0 K AC H; MRS.
ROKACH; MENDEL N. FISHER, executive director of JNF of America; IRVING W. SCHLUSSEL
and WILIAM HORDES, president and chairman ofthe board of the JNF Council.

Juniors to be Guests
Of Temple BetVEI at
Sabbath Eve Services

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Temple Beth El will play host
to members _of the Junior Service
Group at the second in a series
of special Friday services tonight,
at 8 p.m. Dr. B. Benedict Glazer,
will direct h i s sermon'- toward
young adults. Following services,
JSG members will be guests at a
social program.
An orthodOx service will be
held later this month, Corinne
Perlis, JSG - services chairman,
has announced.
Rabbi Segal to Address Junior
Lower photo shows Mayor and Mrs. Rokach being welcomed to
Service Group on Wednesday,
Detroit, at the City Hall, by MAYOR EUGENE I. VanANTWERP," on
The young adult Jew and his Jan. 28. In the background are a number of the members of the recep-
role in the swiftly-moving world,
tion committee who accompanied Mayor and Mrs. Rokach to the
of today will be discusSed in
relation to the "world view', of City Hall.
Judaism, at the • next general
meeting of the Junior Service
Group, at 8 p. m., Wednesday,
Feb: 11, in the auditorium -of the
Jewish Community Center. Rabbi . Representatives of all organiza- registered for participation in the
Jacob E. Segal: of Northwest tions affiliated with the League forthcoming Allied Jewish Cain-
Congregation will be the speaker. of Jewish Women's Organizations paign t h r o u g h the Women's
The n e w Palestinian. film, will meet at 1 p. m. Monday, Feb. Division of the Jewish Welfare
"House in the Desert," will be
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9, at Bnai Moshe synagogue, to Federation.
Mrs.
Harry
Becker
is program
talk
by
Stefan
Hey
Although the meeting is: open hear a
only to members of the Junior noted author arid comment r. chairman. All members of partici-
Service Group, any young Jewish
Bnai Mostie Sisterhood vcfill be pating organizations are urged to
signify their interest in commu
adult, from 16 to 30, may join hostess at a dessert luncheon.
nity affairs by attending and
by signing up at the door. Special
The meeting h a s been des- registering for campaign service,
JSG gliests at the Feb. 11 meeting
will be memberf of the Wayne ignated a s "Women's Division according t ci Mrs. Samuel B.
`University Hillel FoUndatiOn:7" . ' Day," and representatives will be Danto, League president.

Women'lLeague to Meet Monday

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