16 - May 14, 1976
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Sadness Resulting From Safed Tragedy Reflected in Israeli's Story
By CHAIM MALACH
SAFED — If pain gave off
smoke as fire does, it would
be impossible to see in
Safed. But pain does not
cloud one's vision, and we
see very clearly the.fresh
Erev Shabat brings its
turned earth in our enlarged
cemetery. Earth that own special quiet to our
smothers the unheard holy city. Yet this is not a
laughter, the unplayable normal Shabat. How can we
games, and the unfeeling greet the Bride Shabat
joy of our children. Our when 18 of our children lie
hearts are shredded, our murdered, buried only yes-
minds bewildered. terday. The streets fill
r
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Honors Famous Jewish-American Patriots
HAYM SALOMON 1740-1785
Financier • Banker of the American Revolution • Patriot
aym Salomon was a fervent patriot
. whose love of liberty and business
acumen combined to make him The
financial hero in the War of Inde-
pendence. Born in Poland in -1740. he was
forced to flee that country in 1772, due to his
fight for freedom, along with Pulaski and
Kosciusko who became military heroes of the
Revolution.
Salomon prospered from the very start in
America, doing business with wealthy loyalists
while joining the Sons of Liberty, a group of
revolutionary patriots. He was twice arrested
by the British but managed to escape execution
both times: finally fleeing to Philadelphia.
Salomon's reputation for honesty and skill in
trade. especially foreign, attracted Robert
Morris, then Superintendent of Finance, who
called on him for help in raising money to wage
the war. and later to save the emerging nation
from financial collapse. Morris' diary indicates
some 75 transactions were made by the two
men between August 1781 and April 1784.
As President Calvin Coolidge said of Haym
H
A tradition in American-Jewish homes
for half a century
K CERTIFIED KOSHER
Good
to the
Last Drop,
Salomon: "He negotiated for Robert Morris
all the loans' raised in France and Holland,
pledged his personal faith and fortune for enor-
mous amounts. and personally advanced large
sums to such men as James Madison, Thomas
Jefferson, Baron Steuben, General St. Clair and
many other patriot leaders who testified that
without his aid they could not have carried on
the cause. -
Salomon's place in history is memorialized by
a 20-foot high statue standing at Wabash and
Wacker in Chicago. Unveiled in 1941, the
statue depicts three great Revolutionaries,
George Washington in the middle, flanked by
Robert Morris and Haym Salomon. It is a tell-
ing tribute to the Jewish-American patriot
whose life was dedicated to his family, friends
and country.
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CC HERkt FOODS
quietly with solemn people
making their way slowly to
the many synagogues.
A tall thin figure with
scrawny beard, rough white
robe, and strange woven
shoes that accentuate the
boniness of his spindly legs,
moves slowly past the cen-
tral bus station on the out-
skirts of town.
His pace quickens until
he reaches the municipal
religious high (school of
Safed. He stops, his eyes
scan the low roofed build-
ing with its treeless court-
yard and windows taped
against bomb concussion.
He passes among the
slower moving worshippers
on their, way to the syn-
agogues. With almost a skip
he begins to dance in front
and around them. Who is
this madman to dance so
when our hearts cry for our
children? He moves lightly
by the marble factory, down
towards the Safed military
graveyard.
His steps slow as he en-
ters. The wise old eyes scan
familiar names on the head-
stones. Walking to the lower
fence, he looks down the
headstone dotted hill of the
civilian cemetery. At the
bottom he sees what he has
come for. Far below the
freshly turned earth is cov-
ered with newly laid
wreaths and flowers, each
mound headed by a small
white marker. Only yester-
day the bereaved families
sat on the earth surround-
ing each grave.
The thin bearded face be-
gins to take on the golden
glow of the setting sun. His
eyes sparkle, his bony feet
move, first slowly, then
more quickly amongst the
graves, his voice almost a
whisper, "Children, chil-
dren!" He calls to them,
"Time is growing short.
Come in peace. Come rise to
greet the Shabat."
"Yacov, Tamar." His
voice produces the rhythin
to which his feet dance as
he calls, "Tzvia, Yona, li-
ana, Yacov," until all the
18 stood looking around.
They gazed up at the dark
windows of Safed.
"Come children, we must
be in time for Shabat." Ya-
kov turned toward the old
man, asking if they were
going to Jerusalem. "We are
going in that direction," he
answered. "Why?" ques-
tioned Yehudit. The old man
gazed to Meron, then to
Safed, and raised his eyes
skyward. "You have been
chosen to make his name
holy, and are going to a
place far better than any liv-
ing man knows."
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