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Hanuka
By Madolyn Rosenthal
Israeli Soldiers Face Golan Winter
the interminable Golan down-
By DAVID LANDAU
JTA Jerusalem Bureau Chief pours began. Everyone got
(Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.)
soaked: the bride in her
IN OCCUPIED SYRIA — white minidress, the groom
It really needs a Siegfried in his best army boots and
Sassoon to do justice in yarmulke, the chaplain, the
words to the bleakness, the colonel, the guests from Tel
miserable desolation of the Aviv, the food, the tent,
Golan battlefield in the win- everyone and everything.
But Ofra and Nissim were
tertime. As I drove along
shell-pocked roads from one married under those gun
unit to another along the barrels "by the laws of Moses
front line near Sasa, the and Israel," and the young
lines of Sassoon's stark artillerymen sang lustily and
poetry of World War I in- toasted the young couple. It
sistently forced themselves would take more than the
efforts of the elements to
into my thinking.
The forbidding scenery of disrupt their merrymaking.
Bride and groom went
the Golan — its black and
gray rocks and sparse scrub slithering off in the jeep for
— seem to add a somber a two-day honeymoon at a
touch of their own to the uni- kibutz guesthouse—the army
17520 W. 12 Mile
versally somber sight of a footing the bill.
The rest of the comrades
cold and wet army on guard
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returned to their sodden and
against the enemy.
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It was a wedding day at flimsy tents and waterlogged
the
crack artillery reserve trenches, their makeshift
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unit which almost every day huts of empty ammunition
boxes, their cold metal tanks
Are You Aware That: since the cease fire has come and guns.
under sporadic Syrian shell-
The army is now, at last,
ing—and has replied in kind.
There are many job
The high command, in an supplying every soldier with
openings for
effort to boost morale a heavy hooded and quilted
(which, despite conditions, is waterproof coat. But less
professionals and
not really in need of boost- basic, though no less im-
ing) had agreed that gunner portant, items of winter
technicians in the
Nissim M. bring his young equipment such as gloves,
State of Israel and
bride, Ofra, from Tel Aviv to socks, waterproof boots,
Syria, together with his folks woolen Balaclava helmets
many tax and other
and her folks, and hold their and earmuffs — all these
hupa
under a canopy of gun seem still in short supply.
benefits available
Yet they are vital to main-
barrels.
The comrades prepared a tain warmth and thereby
to Ohm.
huge t e#n t. Inexplicably. directly keep up morale.
As the Jerusalem Post
We will gladly
tables laden with food and
drink were set up—and even wrote editorially recently,
assist you if you're
girl soldiers appeared to add "A man whose boots are
their touch to the proceed- sodden, or whose fingers are
interested.
stiff because he has no
ings.
Call for interview
The army chaplain and the gloves, tends to view every-
brigade commander slithered thing very differently from
up the muddy road in their a man with waterproof boots,
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jeep, and the ceremony was warm gloves, a woolen hel-
poised to begin, when the met for his ears and an oil
heavens opened and one of stove for his tent." The Post
advises the army to call
upon Jews in Israel and
abroad — particularly Jew-
ish clothiers in Europe and
America — to make good the
shortages.
One young American im-
migrant has not waited for
the army to call upon him to
aid in supplying the troops.
Jerome Chervin of Long Is-
land, N. Y., who has lived in
Jerusalem for over four
years, has made 18 trips to
the Golan and the Jordan
Valley since the war broke
out. In his Dodge car, laden
with supplies for body and
soul, he reaches the most
out-of-way units and dis-
tributes his bounty to the
soldiers.
He gauges the success of.
each day-long trip by the
number of soldiers who "laid
tefilin" with him and his
helpers. Another gauge is the
number of psalm and prayer
books he distributes — and
the number often runs into
hundreds. For the body,
Jerome offers vodka, wine
and arak, cookies and candy,
long woolen underwear,
gloves, hats and socks.
Chervin is a well-to-do
property agent, running the
Home Realty Investment Co.
in Jerusalem. Though a man
of means, he is beginning to
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each of his trips north to the
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troops setting him back some
$1,000. (A pair of tefilin
alone costs over IL100 or
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$25.)
Chervin's partner in this
venture is Dr. Arthur Levin-
son, also a former New
Yorker, who works at Ha-
dassah Hospital. Some con-
tributions have been re-
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Soft as the whisper of
Angel wings
This is the Hannka that
memory brings
The rustling of gifts in the
still of the night
With secrets shelved from the
children's sight
The glimmering flame of the
candles shine
The shimmering glow so tall
and fine
And placed there on the silver
tray
The lovely gifts for the
Holiday.
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THE GIFT
THAT GIVES A
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10 Friday, Dec. 14, 1973
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
—
Slang is the speech of him
If you put a chain around
Bernie Abrams of Columbus,
0., an old friend, wired who robs the literary gar- the neck of a slave, the other
$2,000 for tefilin purchases bage cans on their way to end fastens itself around your
the dump.—Ambrose Bierce. own.—R, W. Emerson.
and promised more.
Chervin is shocked, he
says, by the army chap-
laincy's and the religious
affairs ministry's tardiness
in obtaining enough tefilin to
replace those lost in battle,
and to provide for the thou-
sands of "new layers"—the
products, he says, of a mass
religious revival in the army.
But officials told JTA that
there simply are no more
tefilin to be had in the coun-
try. For this reason the re-
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ligious affairs ministry has
embarked on a collection
campaign among the Jewish
public both in Israel and
abroad.
Two weeks ago, Mizrachi
leaders flew in from the U.S.
for the meeting of the Con-
Call your travel agent or:
ference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Or-
ganizations carrying 25
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of tefilin for the soldiers at
the front lines.
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