Af,t.es;:A. Named Out of the Warsaw-.Ghetto
C.ollege Chancellor
YOSSel
JERUSALEM — Dr.' Avraham

Soltel has been appointed chan-
cellor of the three year-old Amer--
can College* in
;Ierifsalem, it was
announced by Dr.
Norman - • Green-
w a I d, president
of the college.
The college
which has just
moved to a new
campus in the
Beit Hakerem
suburb, was
founded to pro
Dr. soties vide instruction
in English for
students who wish to study in
an atmosphere of open discussion
at a crossroads ,of civilization and
current affairs.
In accepting the chancellorship
of the American College, Dr. Soltes
said. "Today Americans have be-
come aware of the importance of
first-hand international experience
in the higher education of our
country's future leaders. At the
American College in Jerusalem, our
- students can design a meaningful
educational experience -within a liv-
ing laboratory of internationalism.
This is reflected in the diversity of
our student body — Americans,
Israelis, Arabs, Moslems and
Budhists, among others.
. Dr. Soiles, a native of New York,
earned his BSS degree from the
City College 4 New York and his
MA degree in psychology and ed-
ucation from Columbia University.
He pursued rabbinical studies un-
der Rabbi Stephen S. Wise at the
Jewish Institute of Religion where,
in 1942, he was awarded the degree
of master of Hebrew literature:
He has served as chaplain at
Cornell University in Montreal and
has been chaplain to Jewish cadets
at the U.S. Military Academy at
West Point.
In 1961, he was awarded the de-
gree,. of doctor of divinity by
Philathea College of London,
Ontario.

DIE DETROIT JEWISH DRYS
Friday, tivramber 26, 1971-21

:

Raekceiveils . Appeal -to- His

The paper was found in the

mini of the ghetto -of- Wars
aw,
among- heaps of -charred rubbish.
It contains' the -following 'testa-
ment: - = -
I, Yossel, son of David Rackover,
inscribe -these lines as the houses
of the Warsaw- ghetto go up in
flames. The house I am in is one
of the last unbumt houses remain-
ing.
When my wife, .my children and
I — six in all — hid in , the forest
it was the night- alone that con-
cealed us in its bosom. The day
turned. us over to our-persecutors
and murderers. As the sun rose,
the airplanes zoomed over , us.
The whole day long they Murdered
us. In this massacre, my wife with
our seven-month-old child in her
arfns perished. And two other of
my five remaining children also
dissappeared that day without a
trace. Their names were David and
Yehuda, one was 4 years old, the
other 6.
My other three children died
within the space of a single year
in the Warsaw ghetto. _
Now my time has come. And
like - Job, I can say of myself,
nor am I the only one that can
say it, that I return to the soil
naked, as naked as the • day of
my birth.
I cannot say that my relation-
ship to God has remained un-
changed after everything I have
lived through, but I can say with
absolute centainty that my belief
in Him has_ not changed whatso-
ever. Previously, when I was well
off, my relation to God -was as to
one who granted me a favor for
nothing, and I was eternally 'ob-
liged to Him for it. Now my re-
lations to God are as to one who
owes me something, owes me much
and since I feel so, I believe that
I have the right to demand it of
Him.
I am proud that I am a Jew
not in spite. of the world's treat-
ment of- ug, but precisely because
of this treatment, I should be as-
• 0 *
hamed to belong to the people who
and raised the criminals
American College spawned
who are responible for the deeds
•
By RABBI SAMUEL SILVER
that have been perpetuated against
us.
(A Seven Arts Feature)
It is a source of wonder that the
I am Proud, to - be a Jew be-
dangers surrounding the state of cause it is -an art to be a Jew,
Israel do not cause fright among because it is difficult to be a
Jews.
Jew. It is no art to be an Eng-
More tourists than ever before lishman, an American, Or a
are thronging the Jewish state, and
Frenchtnan. It may be easier,
aliya, or permanent • immigration, more comfortable, to be one of
is at an all time-high. Ail this, them, but not -mare honorable.
despite' the threats from enemies Yes, It is en-h
onor to be a- Jew.
and-despite the fact that wherever
I believe that to be a Jew means
you are in Israel you are on the to be a - -lighter,. as , everlasting
border — of an enemy land.
swimmer against the turbulent,
Also remarkable is the growth criminal human current. The Jew
of the cultural institutions in Is- is - a hero, a martyr, a saint. You,
raeL
our. enemies, declare that we are
One of the most notable is the: bad? I believe that we are better
American College in Jerusalem, and- finer than you, -but -even if
the school children can attend and we were worse, I should like to
carry on their studies in the see ,how you would look in our
place!
English language. .
I am happy to belong to the un-
- Created - by a group of Ameri-
cans, the college has now won happiest people of the world,
the leadership of one this nation's whose precepts represent the lofti-
outstanding rabbis; Dr. Avraham est and - Most beautiful of all mor-
ality and laws.
Soltes. .
I believe -in You, God of Israel,
Rabbi Soltes is a gifted and
even
though You. have done every
versatile educator who has lec-
tured and written much — and thing to stop me from believing
now _is determined to strengthen in You. I believe in your laws even
the link between the JJ.S. and if :I cannot excuse Your actions.
Israel by adding new sinews to My relationship to You is not , the
relatienship of a slave to his mas-
the college. -
That college', whose New York ter, but - rather that of a pupil
to. _his 'leacher. I; bow. -my head
a
new
3,,,--efriceis- at 11881th Ave., has
en, enlarged 'curriculum before Your greatness, but will-not
MiPelli:fieldtY. Funds are kiss the,lash_ with which lroti strike

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done everything to make - me lose
BEST SERVICE .
my faith in You, but I die exactly
Fact ory trained. experts
Results
as I have lived, crying:
.Os
A!'")P-inili
Hear,
0
Israel,
the
Loi-d
our
God
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..-me, hOweVer4.15Abere iny.pnn-
aato-444. -.4......
., ishment-inAhe-wOrid capable of the Lord is One.
',CompensatinglOr the crimes that
have been _coninzithed.against us?*
You* say, .1 . know, that it is no
longer -a, .question -of sin and pun-
ishment,*-but rather a situation in
PRINCE EDWARD
which Your. countenance is veiled,
For the Look of today
in which humanity: is": - abandoned
in Black & Grey
to its -evil. instincts:-.1 should like
to - ask You,. 0 Lord-, and this ques-
• Cut Velvet • Bell Bottoms
m oilcolon
tion burns in me like a consuming
• Flares • Boots
fire, - What more; 0 ,-God, what-
more must transpire before You
Colored Shirts • Formal
unveil Your countenance again to
Knit Shirts
the world?

I want to say to You that now,
more than in any previous period
of ow. ..eternal path of agony, we,
the tortured, humiliated, buried
alive, and burned alive, we are in-
sulted, the object of mockery, we
who have been murdered by the
millions, we have-the right to knoi:
What are the limits of Your fore-
bearance?
I should like to say something
more: Do not put the rope under
too much strain, lest, alas, it may
snap. The test to which You hive
put us is severe, so unbearably
severe, that You should, You must,
forgive those members of Your
people who, in their misery, have
turned from You.
Death can wait no longer. From
the floors above me, the firing
becomes weaker by the minute.
The last defenders of this strong-
hold are now falling, and with
them falls and perishes the great,
beautiful, and God-fearing Jew- -
ish part of Warsaw. The sun is
about to set, and I thank God
that I will never see it again.
Fire lights the small window,
and the bit of sky that I can see
is flooded with red like a waterfall
of blood. In about an hour at the
most I will be with the rest of
•my family and with the millions of
other stricken members of my
people in that better world where
there are no more doubts.
I die peacefully, but not com-
placently; persecuted, but not en-
slaVed; embittered but not cynical;
a believer, but not a supplicant;
a lover of God, but no blind omen-
sayer of His.
I have followed God even when
He repulsed me. I have followed
His commandments even when He
castigated me for it I have loved
Him even when He has hurled me
to the earth, tortured me to death;
made me an object of shame and

And these are nip last words to
You, my wrathful God: nothing will
avail You in the least. You have

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