Mordecai Noah Mr. Noah and Mt. Ararat IN 1815, AMERICAN SEAMAN WERE IMPRISONED IN ALGERIA. MEANWHILE. IN THE Us'. ... YOU SENT FOR MR. NOAH, AS CONSUL ME, PRESIDENT TO TUNIS, YOU MUST MADISoN? MADISON FREE OUR MEN AND RESPECT FOR THE .. ''.,: UNITED STATES! MORDECAI NOAH THUS EMBARKED ON AN AMAZING CAREER. EARLIER,AS A YOUNG BOY... YOUR GREAFGPANDF,ATHER CAW HERE IN 1733, AND I WILL, I FOUGHT IN THE AMERICAN GRAND- REVOLUTION. ALWAYS FATHER! REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE, MORDECAI! 111 41( ,...- Ity 111* ' ' 4 A ik. . . 1, ...sg -.AND CAUSED HIM TO BE SENT TO NORTH AFRICA BY PRESIDENT MADISON. ONE PAY, A U.S. WARSHIP ARRIVED... NOAH SOON ANSWERED THAT OUESTION! GENTLEMEN, I HAVE CHOSEN A HOMELAND FOR OUR OPPRESSED BRETHREN! GRAND ISLAND — NEAR BUFFALO, N.Y.! sr/ IN 1812, NOAH MOVED TO CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA... r WE MUST RESIST BRITISH TYRANNY AS OUR PATH RS DID! Y ESI NEAR/ 94 11:- 114 4 VtC00 Friday, November 3, 1967-13 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS "WE DEAL RIGHT THE FIRST TIME" JERRY STEIN OLDSMOBILE THE EASY TO GET TO DEALER Atik nR JERRY STEIN PRESIDENT HIS BRILLIANT SPEECHES MADE HIM WELL KNOWN._ YCU HAVE FREED OUR SAILORS...BUT .THERE ARE OTHER REASONS. MAJOR NOAH! PLAY WRIGHT! SHERIFF! JOURNALIST! WHAT ELSE WILL WU DO, SIR. ALLEN CHARNES VICE-PRESIDENT 15205 E. JEFFERSON GROSSE POINTE JUST E. OF ALTER RD. VA 1-5000 JERRY STEIN OLDSMOBILE JUST RETURNED FROM ISRAEL WITH NEW VISTAS FOR ALIYAH TO ISRAEL WE WILL CALL IT MT. ARARAT! I MYSELF WILL BE GOVERNOR AND A *JUDGE. IN ISRAEL' S Shmuel Werzberger, Director of the Israel Aliyah Center will meet with people interested in -ofessional opportunities in fields of engineering, medicine, education,. social work or who are interested in Aliyah for any purpose, To advise them of the new benefits that will soon be available to newcomers in the areas of housing, rentals, tuitions, employment, tax and customs easements, etc. AT THE LABOR ZIONIST INSTITUTE NO ONE BIER WENT TO 'ARARAT.. AMERICA ITSELF PROVED A LAND OF FREEDOM FOR ALL BUT WE STILL REMEMBER... 19161 Schaefer Rd. Wednesday and Thursday, November 8th and 9th Please call 341-0669 for appointment. For further information, contact ISRAEL ALIYAH CENTER area office, 13947 Cedar Rd., Cleveland, Ohio 44118 — Tel. 216-321-0757. AN AMERICAN DREAMER AND PIONEER-MORDECAI/AANUEL NOAH! Tlis cartoon and story are reproduced from "A Picture Parade of Jewish History" by Morris Epstein, published by Shengold Publishers, New York, by special arrangement with the author and publishers. Morris Epstein's essay on Mor- decai Noah follows: He was a dreamer of dreams with an enormous appetite for action. Strange as that may sound, it never- theless sums up the life and career of a fascinating figure in American Jewish history. Ambitious and energetic, Mor- decai Noah hoped to establish a refuge for the persecuted among his people. Of this hope nothing remains today but an inscribed stone in the Historical Museum of Buffalo, New York. Born in Philadelphia in 1785, he was raised by his grandfather, who apprenticed him to a trade. But Mordecai had a nose for news, and he became a reporter at 15 and an editor at 25. He later led a many-sided life: he was editor of several New York newspapers, author of half a dozen successful plays, politician, and social leader. He was also a major in the New York State Militia, officer of a synagogue, president of Jewish charities, sheriff of New York County, judge of the New York Court of General Sessions, and surveyor of the Port of New York. He was proudest of his appoint- ment as United States consul to Tunis. His assignment was to ran- som Americans taken prisoner by pirates and to work out treaties. When he was recalled, it was said that he had spent too much ransom money, but there were other rum- ors, ugly ones, with anti-Jewish overtones. Noah never returned to govern- ment service. But he was not a man to sit still. On his travels he had seen oppressed Jews in Africa and Europe. In 1825 he had a vision of rescuing his people from world-wide oppression. Since Pales- tine was not available, he would build a city named Ararat on Grand Island, in the Niagara River op- posite Buffalo. He persuaded a Christian friend to buy the land and appointed him- self the first Governor and Judge over Israel. On dedication day, clad in crimson, he led a long procession to the river's edge. But there were not enough boats to cross to the island. So the cornerstone was brought into a church and the cere- monies took place there . Noah issued a proclamation in- viting Jews from all the countries of the globe to settle in his new city. He also invited the American Indians, whom he believed to be the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. But no one paid attention to his proclamation. The refuge of his dreams remained a wilderness and the cornerstone was later given to the Buffalo Historical Society. Noah died in New York in 1851. His dream was not fulfilled, but it bore the seeds of the Zionist move- ment, which was to blossom fifty years later and then flower into the reborn State of Israel. RADOM TAILORS announces their 10th ANNIVERSARY. 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