THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, January 26, 196 2 — 32
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Jewish History Week April 1-8
Marks Centennial of Chaplaincy
Highest Regional Membership Award Given
JWV Post 135; Honor 3 'Valuable Members'
Detroit Post No. 135 of the
Jewish War Veterans of the
United States this week was
chosen for the highest award
for membership retainment by
the regional organization. The
award was given at the meet-
ing on Sunday at Fort Wayne,
Ind.
Announcement of the award
was made at the annual amity
award dinner party of the post,
the oldest JWV group in De-
troit, on Sunday evening, at
Carl's Chop House.
The post paid honors that
night to three pioneer mem-
bers who were given Most Val-
uable Member Awards. Bud
Blum, toastmaster of the eve-
ning, praised the efforts of
Louis Schlein and Morris
Seinwell, veterans of World
War I, and Ben Schiffman,
Spanish-American War veter-
an, and presented them with
plaques and with engraved
resolutions.
Speakers at the dinner in-
cluded Morris Simon, post com-
mander; Jack Schwartz, Mich-
igan JWV. Department com-
mander; U.S. Attorney Law-
rence Gubow, president of the
Memorial Home Association and
chairman of the JWV national
convention committee; Harry T.
Madison, former national JWV
commander; Morris Tulupman,
national memorial chairman;
Belle Berkowitz, Auxiliary pres-
ident.
Philip Slomovitz was the
guest speaker. Max Sosin and
Jimmy Stevenson featured the
entertainment program.
As toastmaster, Blum pre-
sented an "Acknowledgement
and Appreciation Award to
Philip Slomovitz, editor of The
Jewish News, for Maintaining
a High Standard of Journalism,"
stating: "He keeps the watch
along the borders of darkness
and makes the attack on the
trenches of ignorance and anti-
Semitism. Patient in his daily
duty, he strives to conquer the
evil powers which are the
enemies of mankind."
Senator Javits Heads JWV Council
Artist Who Mailed
Dead Rats to Jews
Put on Probation
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Centennial of Jewish chaplaincy service with America's armed
services is marked by this poster, just issued by the American
Jewish Historical Society in observance of American Jewish
NEW HAVEN, Conn., (JTA)—
History Week, April 1-8. Theme of the week-long national A 34-year-old Connecticut artist
observance, designed to foster sttfily of American Jewish and confessed mailer of anti-
History, will be the role of Jewish chaplains, first named in Semitic material was under con-
1862 by Abraham Lincoln. Pictured with chaplains of World current two and three-year terms
Wars I and II, is Rabbi Ferdinand Sarner, first Jewish regi- of probation after paying fines
totaling $700 for his two-year
mental chaplain in the U.S.
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hate campaign.
Alan S. Moyler had previously
The first rabbi to minister to writing to the Society at its
the needs of American soldiers archives, 150 Fifth Ave., New pleaded guilty in a Westport
court and in the United States
of the Jewish faith was a New York.
Yorker who successfully lobbied
The Board of Delegates of District Court here to a variety
just a hundred years ago for American Israelites, a central of charges growing out of his
correction of the law which of- Jewish organization in Civil War sending hate material to Jews in
ficially restricted chap la in cy Days, led the national move- the Westport-Weston area. The
service to clergymen "of Chris- ment which succeeded in broad- mail included dead rats and
tian denomination."
ening the chaplaincy law to in- bats. It took postal authorities,
The story of the rabbi, the clude Jewish clergymen. Dr. Connecticut police and local offi-
Rev. Dr. Arnold Fischel, one- Fischel's lobbying experiences, cials more than two years to
time leader of New York's Con- recorded in the annals of the track the artist down.
Moyler told Federal Judge
gregation Shearith Israel, will American Jewish Historical So-
be highlighted during Ameri- ciety throw light on Lincoln's Robert P. Anderson he was sorry
for what he had done. Judge
can Jewish History Week April attitudes towards Jews.
1-8, Dr. Abram Kanof, presi-
"All the influential gentle- Anderson suspended impositicin
dent of the American Jewish men assured_me it would be im- of sentence for his Federal of-
Historical Society, sponsor of possible for me to get an audi- fenses and placed the artist on
years' probation.
the observance, announced.
ence," the Rabbi reported to three
In Norwalk Circuit Court,
Henry
I.
Hart,
president
of
the
Theme of the observance,
Judge George Wise fined him
which will coincide with the Board of Delegates from Wash- $700 on four charges, suspended
society's annual m e e tin g, ington.
jail sentence totaling 210 days
Undismayed by these f ore- a and
April 1-2, in Philadelphia, will
placed, on two years'
be "The Centennial of the casts, Fischel stood on line at probation. he charges included
the
White
House
with
hundreds
Jewish Chaplaincy Services in
counts of breach of the
of others, to get an audience five
the United States."
peace, one count of willful in-
Although Dr. Fischel won the with the president. He was "at jury to a public service company,
change in law that made the once invited" into the Presi- two counts of willful injury to
Jewish chaplaincy an official dent's room_ and "received with public property and six counts
fact, he served only as volun- marked courtesy," he wrote.
of willful injury to private
A day 'later, Dr. Fischel property.
teer in ministering to Civil War
Jewish GIs. He was never corn- received a note from Lincoln
which described the law as
fnissioned.
The first. Jewish Chaplain "deficient" and said "I shall HEBREW CORNER
commissioned by the American try to have a new law broad
government — in fact the first enough to cover what is de- Castle Hill
Jewish chaplain commissioned sired by you on behalf of the
The high hill that comes to the
sight of those traveling on the road
by any government — was the Israelites."
to Jerusalem, is generally called (by
Not long after, both houses the people) "The Castle Hill," but
Rev. Jacob Frankel, cantor of
that fought to conquer it call it
Rodeph Shalom Congregation, of Congress adopted without those
of Courage." As the quantity
Philadelphia. His commission dissent a change in the law "Hill
of rocks spread on it, (so) many
authorizing the appointment are the legends and stories of the
was dated Sept. 18, 1862.
great courage of the young Israeli
as chaplains of "regularly boys
that captured it.
Frankel served the Jewish
One of the legends, I heard as I
ordained ministers," those
wounded in the Philadelphia
climbed
the hill, one of the winter
recommended by "some auth- days. Poppies
area from the date of his ap-
as red as blood were
scattered
among the rocks. And here
orized
ecclesiastical
b
o
d
y."
pointment throughout the re-
suddenly the voice of a conversation
The
appointment
of
Frankel
mainder of the war. A second
was heard, and the voice — the voice
of two poppies.
followed soon after.
Rabbi, Bernhard H. Gotthelf
"You grew up my daughter!" so
Another early Jewish chap- said one poppy to the other — "and
of Louisville received a simi-
the
has come to know why
lar appointment on May 6, lain was Michael M. Allen, a your time
petals are red as blood. Listen
young Philadelphia Hebrew and remember, like the blood of a
1863.
soldier is your color." In the
A few weeks before Gotthelf's teacher. Before the law was Jewish
War of Liberation the arabs sur-
changed,
the
65th
Regiment
of
rounded
Jerusalem the capital of
commission was signed, the
and brought it under siege.
officers of the 54th New York the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Israel
Elderly people, women and infants
left without a drop of water and
Volunteer Regiment elected the known as Cameron's Dragoons, were
a piece of bread to eat.
nation's first Jewish regimental had elected him. But when a without
Caravans of trucks tried to break
YMCA
worker
traveling
through
their
way
through, but the heavily
chaplain. Rabbi Ferdinand
arab gangs that fortified them-
Sarner, formerly of Rochester, the camps discovered who he armed
selves on the hill did not let (them)
help to the capital. Three times
N. Y., served with his men was, he was compelled to re- bring
the Jews tried to conquer the hill
through many battles, including sign. Cameron's Dragoons, com- and
were not successful. On the
fourth time, on a black dark night,
the battle at Gettysbury in manded by Col. Max Einstein, the
tried again to conquer the
a loyal and forthright Jew, were hill, Jews
which he was wounded.
and they won. Many boys were
The only sons of their parents,
A poster dramatizing Sarner's not willing to abandon their killed.
that wanted and love to live. In
role, along with Jewish chap- efforts to have a Jewish chap- boys
every place where Jewish blood fell,
the red poppies grow."
lains of World Wars I and II is lain. They promptly elected we,
The poppy completed its story and
included in a kit of materials Rabbi Fischel to the post. His was
silent. I looked around: Alas
rejection
led
to
Fischel's
dis-
many
are the poppies that grow on
prepared by the American Jew-
the Castle, and many are the young
patch
as
a
lobbyist
to
Washing-
ish Historical Society for use in
men that were killed so to conquer
it.
observances of American Jewish ton.
Translation of Hebrew column.
History Week. The posters and See Commentary on Page 2 Published
by Brith Ivrith Olamith,
Jerusalem.
in
This
Issue.
the kit may be obtained by
Senator Jacob K. Javits (Rep.-N.Y.), newly-appointed
chairman of the Jewish War Veterans' National Advisory
Council, consults on policy matters with Past National Com-
mander Myer Dorfman of Los Angeles. Senator Javits' recent
appointment as chairman of JWV's council will give the organi-
zation leadership in planning and evaluating policy decisions.
The advisory council is to consist of prominent Americans in
diverse fields of activity.
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