▪ Friday, July 21, 1919 6 Daily—Mospitol •• / ‘1.4 •• • .0 :•: ..• t in Sympathy FRUIT BASKETS • wit , 3 Times Daily:: _ • Nation-Wide Delivery t . .• .. • $15 95 RODNICK- ▪ ▪ McINERNEY'S *779.4140 772-4350 OFFICIAL t j AGENCY I THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Tisha b'Av: A Day of Mourning Through the Centuries (Continued from Page 1) than others, but they share a common characteristic — all were sources of mourn- ing for the Jewish people. In 1492, the Golden Age of Spain, with all its great Jewish scholars and statesmen, its glory and splendor, suddenly came to an abrupt end. With one stroke of his pen, King Ferdinand gave all the Jews of Spain the op- tion of converting or leav- PARTY-WEDDING-BRIDESMAID-BAR MITZVA AUTHORIZED SALES & REPAIRS- Geblge Ohrenstein Jewelers Ltd. 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In 1648, the -Cossacks overran the com- munity of Constantine, and killed 3,000 men, women and children. The date was the ninth of Av, 1648. World War I broke out on Aug. 1, 1914. That was to be the war to end all wars." Before it had run its course, Millions lay dead, and a whole generation of young men in countries through- out the world vanished. Coincidentally, Aug. 1, 1914, happened to be the ninth day of Av. Of course, when we come to the Second World War, we cannot single out any day as being a day in which the Jews were slaughtered, for the gas chambers worked 365 days a year, year after year, each day devouring thousands of our brothers. We can, however, see that crucial events in the Holocaust were also , somehow linked to that day. 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It was there that half-a- "policemen" separated hus- own ninth of Av tragedy. million Jews were herded bands from wives, parents In all its years of opera- together, before being ulti- from children and brothers tion, El Al has only lost a single airplane, and that mately shipped to their from sisters: As the same writer happened when the deaths. And exactly one year writes: "The cries and calls plane accidentally wan- later, on the ninth ov Av, of anguish reached up to the dered into Bulgarian `1942, the "relocation," as very heavens, as the airspaca and was shot the Germans called it, to `policemen' herded the down. The date: the ninth the East," was begun people onto the railroad car- of Av, 1955. Given all the memories within the Warsaw riages, as if they were 'sheep which the ninth day of Av Ghetto. That was the day, for the slaughter.' " That was the night that brings to mind, it is not sur- as an anonymous writer - noted in his diary within echoed over and over to the prising that in Isradl the the ghetto, that was the sound of shots, as Jews fell day is observed as part of blackest day in the his- in their hundreds through- the national heritage. T' tory of the Jews in out the ghetto. That same whole country seems to k- modern times." That was night the SS visited the clothed in mourning. More when the Jews were first head of the Judenrat, and than 10,000 people find herded into the demanded that he "deliver" their way to the Nl%stern "Umschlagplatz" for de- 10,000 Jews by the next Wall, the symbol of oir past, portation. It was the day morning. That night, the to recite the Lamentations that the "policemen" head of the Judenrat com- there. The radio and TV pro- went about methodically mitted suicide . . . (See book grams are all related to the from house to house, review, -Back Page.) That was the ninth day of events of the day. If there is using their truncheons to force the ,cowering Av in the "enlightened" any music at all, it is that of people into the station year of 1942 . . . a dirge. Somber poems and Even the state of Israel tales replace the rock and marked for death. disco melodies on the light channels. The whole nation seems to symbolically bow its head in mourning. The ninth of Av is indeed our national day of mourn- stitutes and dovish insti- ing — not only for the Tem- (Continued from Pagel) the Aspen Institute that it tutes concerned with ples that were destroyed must sturdily resist finan- foreign and defense policy; thousands of years ago, but cial threats to the integrity there are right and left in- for _ all the tragOdies of of its Middle East seminars. stitutes in economics. Their Jewish life throughout all The controversy is hard staffs and preoccupations the ages. to follow, and not only be- betray a clear point of view. cause the corrupters and And that point of view is corrupted often collaborate used to find new donors, in- in covering their tracks. It is cluding foreign govern- Service Work hard enough to know when ments, who are encouraged, Our Specialty a meeting of Arabists logi- to say the least, to expect a 652-7551 cally needs no Israeli par- propaganda and policy ticipants and when it has benefit. _ _ "In normal times, the been closed to them. It is GOT A PROBLEM? even harder to know when biases thus served probably reflect most of the biases an agenda is legitimately DAVE'S confined to Moslem culture flowing in American and when it is designed to society. But the recycling of serve a Moslem political American wealth through the oil-rich nations of the cause. 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