THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12 — Friday, August 19, 1966
Young GOP Rules No More Rat Finks
CHICAGO (JTA) — The execu-
tive committee of the national
. Young Republican Federation
voted here to cleanse itself of the
Hebrew Corner
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Abraham Shapira
Abraham Shapira, the elder Jewish
watchman in Eretz Israel, died at the
age of 95 at his home in Petach
Tikvah. With his death, the hero of
one of the most beautiful stories of
our generation passed away.
When Petach Tikvah was founded in
1880, Abraham Shapira was ten years
old. His father had immigrated from
the Ukraine at the time, and went to
found the first Jewish settlement.
Malaria fever raged in the settlement.
Tens of people died from the fever.
But the young Abraham grew up and
became a sturdy youth. The strong
young man became a watchman in the
young settlement. The Arabs of the
surrounding villages who tried to steal
from the settlers learned to know his
strong arm. Even the Bedouins of the
Gaza strip and the Flattrani of the
Syrian mountains were "honored" by
visits from Abraham Shapira. He would
go there in search of a stolen horse.
As long ago as Turkish times, the
man Abraham Shapira became a legend,
a living legend in the Middle East
where his name was mentioned with
respect and fear.
In 1917 the British conquered the
country. Abraham Shapira was then
one of the well-known leaders of the
Jewish community in the country. In
1911' there were disturbances in the
country. Abraham Shapira, who was
then in his fifties, was head of the
Watehmen of the Jewish settlements.
He. organized the defence of the Petach
Tikvah settlement and succeeded in
reimilSing the Arabs who had come to
destroy the settlement.
During the War of Liberation. Abra-
ham Shapira was approaching the age
or. 80. Officers of TZAHAL. (Jewish
Defence Force) used to come to his
luirne for good advice. In the groups
of' •TZAHAL. the man of _ 80 used
to,. appear, galloping on a white horse.
Abraham Shapira died in Petach Tik-
vg/h, in the house where he had lived
for, 85 years. The old song, "Old
soldiers never die, they only fade
aWafc" surely applied to him.
(Published by the Brit Ivrit Olamit,
with the assistance of the Memorial
FoUticlation for Jewish Culture).
; Material in vowelized, easy Hebrew,
can be obtained by writing direct Brit
Twit Olamit, P. 0. Box 7111, Jerusalem,
Israel.
Rat Finks, a faction of the New
Jersey Young Republicans. The Rat
Finks had been accused of being
anti-Semitic and anti-Negro.
In a resolution adopted by the
committee, it was decided that
seven county units in the New Jer-
sey organization, allegedly control-
led by the Rat Finks, must disso-
ciate themselves from the Rat
Finks, the John Birch Society, the
Exterminators and all other fac-
tional groups.
The Exterminators is a faction
formed in the New Jersey group
last year for the purpose of rid-
ding the organization of Rat Finks.
The executive committee also ab-
solved Richard F. Plechner, leader
of the Rat Finks, of charges of
racism and bigotry. But, as part
of a compromise, Plechner resigned
his vice chairmanship of the Na-
tional Young Republicans.
The controversy over the Rat
Finks arose last year when the
group inside the New Jersey
Young Republican organization
issued a song book containing
lyrics which were anti-semitic and
anti-Negro.
Members of the group had sung
these lyrics set to well-known
melodies, at conventions of the New
Jersey Young Republicans.
Milton Escrow's Expose: 'The Art Stealers'
One of the most fantastic stories
of the last war is the manner in
which Nazis — Josef Goering was
a chief culprit among them—stole
art treasures. Stealing of art works
has a long history and in "The
Art Stealers," published by Mac-
millan, Milton Eserow, assistant
to the cultural news editor of the
New York Times, offers a fas-
at Kibbutz
Feared Lost Over Syrian Border
2 Foreign Students
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two young
foreign students who have been
working this summer at Kibbutz
Shamir, near the Syrian border,
disappeared last Friday and are
feared to have wandered inadver-
tently across the frontier into
Syria, Israel reported to the
Syrian - Israeli Mixed Armistice
Commission.
The students are Jeanette
Archer, 19, of England; and Gil
Hirschner, 21, of France. Mem-
bers of their kibbutz last saw
them on the edge of the Syrian
frontier last Friday.
When they failed to return by
nightfall, a search was started,
but brought no results. Israel
2,000 Zealots March
in Protest to Autopsies
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two
thousand religious zealots demon-
strated Monday night in the center
of Jerusalem against autopsies.
After police authorized the demon-
stration, the zealots started march-
ing through the main street, shout-
ing insults at police and passing
drivers. After a brief clash with
the police, the demonstrators
dispersed.
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cinating account of the art of lectors — and to the artists whose
works tempted the stealers.
stealth.
Not that stealing is so easy. The
The stories related here — they
are told by the dozens — the court author, as an example, closes his
cases, the actual names, dates and account of the stealers by stating:
"Mark Twain once pointed a
places of such occurences, make
moral for Paul Thouin, Vincenso
this a volume of unusual interest.
Perugia, Serge-Clause Bogous-
Not only the thieves are in evi-
slaysky, Roger Caswell, Adam
dence here. The reader also is
Worth and all art thieves. How
introduced to the great art col-
easy it is to steal a white ele-
phant but how hard it is to get
Staying
rid of it."
And the text of "The Art Steal-
ers" proves the practicality of such
asked the United Nations Mixed a warning to thieves of art or
Armistice Commission to try to other objects.
Milton • Eserow's is an excellent
see whether the two young people
work well worth reading for the
can be traced in Syria.
A Syrian was placed under information it offers, the stories
arrest by Israeli police after he it relates, its humor and its les-
crossed the border and asked sons.
members of Almagor settlement
for asylum. The settlers brought
House Parent Wanted
the Syrian, Mohamed Garida, to
Part time relief house parent, one
police, who detained him on
or 2 days a week for Agency's
charges of illegal entry. He told
David
children's homes. Call
investigators that he fled to Israel
Goldberg
because the Syrian authorities
were after him.
i4nvish Family &
A troublesome guest is more in-
tolerable to the patient than the
disease itself.—Arabic proverb.
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