54 Friday, July 30, 1976
40 — BUSINESS CARDS
PLASTERING &
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FURNITURE REPAIR
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Complete bedroom &
dining room sets
Chair re-Blueing
Caning & Rushing
Any Size
Fast Service
Clean & Reasonable
K. KENT
422-3764 (days)
937-8374 (eves)
ROOF
LEAKS??
Commercial & Residential
Roofing. Aluminum Siding &
Trim. Gutters & General Re-
pair. GUARANTEED MATERI-
ALS & WORKMANSHIP.
474-8953
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ROOFING 240 LBS. SEAL
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Over 30 yrs.
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Free Estimates.
544-3872
Aluminum
Siding & Trim
HANDYMAN
Aluminum Gutters-Roofing
Replacement Windows
s Deal With Owner
Call
569-4185
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METRO WINDOW
CLEANING AND
HOME CARE
.. Experts on aluminum storms,
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531-7060
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559-0855
685-8426
ADAMS
OAK PARK OLUMBING
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399-9528 or 399-8078
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Reasonable rates. References.
Painting also.
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MOVING CO.
CARL HARDING
MOVING CO.
Reasonable Rates
255-2881
E. LARKINS
MOVERS
Referral service,
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822-3417
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MOVING CO., INC.
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357-2674
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Disposals, Faucets & Bathroom
Alterations & Violations
No Service Charge
398-1754
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557-1338
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569-4185
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driveways
sealing — and resurfacing.
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559-7398
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.
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Call 541-4326
after 4 p.m.
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FOR THAT
DISCO FLAIR
Our music and equipment will be
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THE BLINDFOLD
APPLIANCES — Serviced &
installed, i.e., dishwashers,
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Coins Involved
in Profiteering
JERUSALEM — The gap
between the official rate of
exchange (IL 8.12 to $1) and
the black-market rate (IL 10
to $1) has been hurting Is-
rael's economy and the Is-
rael Government Coins and
Medals Corp.
Export dealers are buying
gold medals at the official
price, selling the medals
abroad at a cut-rate price,
and then exchanging the
dollars on the black market
at a profit.
New issues of the corpo-
ration will carry different
prices in dollars and
pounds in attempt to stop
the illegal, inflationary
trading.
Meanwhile, business is
booming as Israeli citizens
invest in the coins as a long-
term hedge against infla-
tion.
Dispute Over Nazi Sex Crimes
as Rabbi Patches Broken Lives
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
Countless numbers of
Jews have for centuries lived
and still do in accordance
with the laws of the Ha-
lakha. Even in the ghettos
and death camps, incredible
as it may seem, Jews contin-
ued to observe halakhic
laws. These Jews, because
of the never-ending Nazi
persecutions, were contin-
ually confronted with ha-
lakhic problems that de-
manded explanations and
solutions. Such problems
were often referred to the
community's spiritual
leader whose decisions were
binding.
It is well to remember
that problems referred to
rabbis and the decisions
they rendered usually were
in the form (rabbinic genre)
of "She'elot u'Techuvot"
(questions and responsa).
Rabbi Ephraim Oshry of
Kovno, Lithuania, one of the
few rabbis to survive the
Holocaust, compiled his war
responsa in the three vol-
ume "Mi-Ma'amakim" ("De
Profundis") which he pub-
lished privately.
Rabbi Oshry "com-
mitted his responsa to
writing on whatever
scraps of paper he could
find, and buried them in
the ground, confident that
someday redemption
would come."
Irving J. Rosenbaum's
"The Holocaust and Halak-
hah" (Ktav) is based mainly
on the responsa of Rabbi
Oshry.
Some of the she'elot
Rabbi Oshry was asked to
resolve were: Is it permit-
ted, according to Jewish
law,
• to endanger one's life
to save another person's
life?
• to commit suicide?
• to prevent conception
by using diaphragms?
• to risk one's life in or-
der to pray in a synagogue?
• to have an abortion to
save a woman's life?
The last "she'elah" re-
sulted from the Nazi decree
forbidding Jewish women of
Kovno to become pregnant.
'
Rabbi Oshry, it should
be stressed, arrived at his
decisions after careful de-
liberations, study and re-
search, and consulting the
halakhic works of such au
thorities as the "Shulkhan
Arukh," "Alfas," "Tur,"
Carter Unsure
of His Position
on Israel Issue?
NEW YORK — New-
sweek magazine reported
that Jimmy Carter's aides
equivocated on the strong
pro-Israel plank in the Dem-
ocratic platform.
Egypt's ambassador to
the U.S., Ashraf Ghorbal,
reportedly tried to reach
Carter at the Democratic
Convention in New York to
complain about the Demo-
crats' pro-Israel stance, and
was reportedly told by sev-
eral Carter aides that the
whole subject was "pre-
mature."
"Emek
She'elah,"
"Arukh Hashulkhan,"
and others. Some of these
authorities, at one time or
other, were themselves
confronted with similar
dilemmas. These resulted
from Roman persecutions;
the Crusades' and Chmiel-
nicki's massacres; Rus-
sian pogroms; and Pe-
tlura's and Kelchak's
butcheries, to mention
some.
The "She'elot u-Techuvot"
examined in "The Holocaust
and Halakhah" are impor-
tant historical documents
and mirror the Jewish soul
under trying circumstances.
The author cites numer-
ous instances of Jews who
met death courageously
with dignity and defiance.
The kabalist, Meir Of-
ten, "led hundreds of Jews
during their march to a
mass grave reciting Psalm
33:1, "Rejoice in God, righ-
teous ones!"
The "Grodzisker Rebbe"
led Jews in the singing of
"Ani Ma'amin" prior to en-
tering the Treblinka gas
chamber.
The "Spinker Rebbe" sang
"Vetaher libenu l'avdekha
b'emet" in the death wagon
to Auschwitz.
After the war, death-
camp survivors were di-
rected to Rabbi Oshry's
"she'elot" resulting from the
Holocaust. The following is
characteristic:
"After the German de-
feat, a young man and a
young woman, who had lost
all their children in the
Holocaust, were re-united
and determined to resume
their wedded life and re-
build their destroyed fam-
ily. However, to his horror
and dismay, the man discov-
ered, tattooed on his wife's
arm, the words 'Prostitute
for the Armies of Hitler."
The husband, concerned
that it might be assumed
that his wife, in her role as
prostitute, willingly had in-
tercourse with the Ger-
mans, asked if it was per-
mitted for her to live with
him once again as his wife
ff
Rabbi Oshry declared
that "the unfortunate girls
who were impressed into
the Nazi army brothels have
lived under a constant
threat of death that was
equivalent to the 'bran-
dishing of the sword" men-
tioned by the Rambam;
therefore, the woman in the
instant case may live with
her husband."
This last account contra-
dicts the statement I cited
in a review of Lucy Dawi-
dowicz' "Holocaust Reader,"
which reads: "A less perni-
cious form of historical fal-
sification is the myth pre-
tending to documentary
veracity . . . fashioned by
people who knew nothing of
the Nuremberg Laws which
made sexual relations be-
tween Germans and Jews
illegal, criminal, and sub-
ject to severe punishment."
To resolve the contradic-
tion, I wrote letters to the
publishers of "The Holo-
caust and Halakha" and
"A Holocaust Reader" ask-
ing for an explanation of
this extremely important
matter.
"For the sake of truth!
People who were not in
ghettos and concentration
camps don't know that the
Nuremberg Laws were
`amended' to allow sol-
diers in the occupied terri-
tories to have sexual rela-
tions with Jewish women,
who they later shot.
"I wrote the family (my
informants), asking for per-
mission to allow me to pub-
lish their names and ad
dresses. As soon as I receiN
the answer I will inform
you."
Prof. Dawidowicz, author
of "The War Against the
Jews" and "A Holocaust
Reader," writes:
"The Oshry incident
sounds extremely unlikely
to me. Besides, I can't imag-
ine the Germans doing that.
If in fact any woman was so
tattooed, it would seem
more probable that she had
been so marked after the
war by her own people, as a
mark of punishment."
Rabbi Oshry replied:
"To be sure, during the
war, there were cases of in-
dividual rape or sexual rela-
tions between German men
and Jewish women (German
Army men and officers
rather than SS men and of-
ficers who were extremely
scrupulous -about 'racial pol-
lution').
"But there was never any
institutionalization of sex-
ual abuse of Jewish women.
Look at the law on pp. 48-58
in the 'Reader' which you re-
viewed. During Kristall-
nacht (November 9/10,
1938), a number of SA men
raped Jewish women. They
were brought up for trial
under the Nuremberg Laws
and punished.
"At Auschwitz, recruit-
ment for brothels to serve
German occupation men
and officers and SS took
place among the Polish
women who were slave la-
borers and even that was
largely on a voluntary basis.
(The offer of more and bet-
ter food rations and less
arduous 'work' was enough
attraction no doubt.)
"I trust this will clarify
the matter a little more."
Mrs. Ida Bloom
Ida Bloom, a member of
Jewish women's and com-
munal organizations, died
July 28 at age 76.
Born in Russia, Mr
Bloom was a longtime res,
dent of the Detroit area. S'
was a member of Ada,
Shalom Synagogue and its
sisterhood, a life member of
Hadassah, and a member of
Turover Farein, Women's
American ORT and Bnai
Brith Women.
She leaves her husband,
Nathan; two daughters,
Mrs. Stuart (Jeraldine) Kar-
mann and Mrs. G. Vernon
(Shirley) Leopold; a brother,
Nathan Maxman of Hallan-
dale, Fla; a sister, Mrs. Fan-
nie Black; and nine grand-
children.