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Friday, March 18, 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-
The receiver is worse than
the thief.
—Talmud
Rabbi Isaac Elhanan -Lofty Figure of 19th Century Jewry
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sufficient evidence to cor-
was born in the province
roborate actual death.
of Grodno, Russia in 1817,
In 1864 Isaac Elha.nan
where his father served
became rabbi of Kovno,
as rabbi, and from whom
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serving there for 32 years
he received his earliest
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until his death. In that
instruction. At the age of
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8 Isaac was crowned
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with the title "Ilui" (pro-
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indefatigable worker,
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with many tractates of
fighting for a number of
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Isaac was married, re-
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fighting the blood libel
i.e., study Torah under
RABBI ISAAC ELHANAN and defending kosher
the patronage of his in-
slaughtering as humane.
laws in their home. This
His intense interest in
he did for six years and at early success in the in-
the age of 20 he accepted terpretation of this par- the day-to-day problems
his first rabbinical post.
Ocular phase ofJewish law of Jewish life gained him
Through the years his prompted Rabbi Isaac a widespread reputation
fame grew and he came to Elhanan to devote his life as a rabbi of the people.
be regarded as one of the to the amelioration of the Rabbi Isaac Elhanan is
most prominent au- plight of agunot, women memorialized in the rab-
thorities in the matter of whose husbands were mis- binical school of Yeshiva
"get" (divorce).
sing and yet who could not University in New York
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It is probable that this remarry because of lack of which bears his name,
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Ij INVITATIONS
FIRESTON l
Yom - Kippur War Prediction
Halted _by CIA Bias: Schorr
BOSTON (JTA) — munications and its satel-
Former CBS News cor- lites had corroborating
respondent Daniel Schorr photographs of fresh troop
charged here that the fai- movements, the anti-
lure by the U.S. Central Israel spirit within its
Intelligence Agency Middle East desk deterred
(CIA) to predict the Yom a prediction of an appa-
Kippur War in 1973 was rently imminent full-scale
attributable to bias war," Schorr said.
Hyatt reported that
against Israel within that
Schorr noted further that
organization.
Schorr made the charge a high CIA official was
in an address at the forced to resign because
Leadership Event of the he insisted on fair treat-
Combined Jewish Philan- ment for Israel on intelli-
thropies of Greater Bos- gence relating to the
ton recently, according to Mideast. This same offi-
Josh Hyatt, correspon- cial had been overruled
dent for the Jewish Advo- by Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger when
cate of Boston.
In a speech in which he he recommended that the
excoriated the CIA for agency's head visit the
"over concern with sec- Old City of Jerusalem.
Kissinger maintained
recy and living beyond
the Constitution" which this would "upset" the
"makes them a rotten in- Arabs because the area
telligence agency, ,, which they disputed was
Schorr claimed the CIA in Israel's hands, Schorr
could have warned said. . .
Schorr was forced to
against the impending
resign from CBS last year
Arab attack on Israel.
"Although the CIA had after he released a leaked`
committee's intel-
listening posts in southern
Jordan which perceived a ligence report on unlaw-
change in command corn- ful CIA activities and re-
fused to disclose his
sources.
Israel Bomb Blast
Probe Is Ordered
OF THE FIRST ON YOUR
BLOCK TO GET A GREAT
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The
defense ministry has or-
dered an investigation of
an explosion and fire at a
munitions dump that kil-
led two civilian workers.
The blast was attri-
buted to a high explosive
fuse that detonated acci-
dentally. Firefighters
who reached the site in
southern- Israel checked
the flames before they
spread.
Bomb Misses
Israeli Police
29300 TELEGRAPH
"JUST NORTH OF TEL TWELVE MALL
"I t
easy to be brave
from as safe distance."
—Aesop
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An
explosive charge was
thrown Sunday night at
an Israeli border police
patrol iri the main street
of Nablus but it failed to
go off. The area was cor-
doned off and 12 suspects
were detained.
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