THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ▪ Rabbi Eskin's Four Decades in U.S. Armed Forces Noted (Continued from Page 16) but to save a life shows you are a human being instead of an animal. Live as a hu- man. Follow your parents' example.' "Once she realized how wrong she had been and the hurt she had caused her parents, the girl wanted to commit suicide. But Eskin later received a letter from her parents relating that she was contemplating going to Israel and working on a kibutz as compensation for her wrongdoing. " 'How do you like that!' Eskin exclaimed, reveling in the conversion he'd played a part in — the birth of a new understanding." Notable in the Pugh story for the men in , the U.S. Air Force who had Eskin as an active spiritual leader is the manner in which the rabbi aimed to provide socialbility for serv- icemen. He secured a building in Stuttgart which was owned by three Jewish brothers who perished in a Nazi death camp, remodeled it, personally helped paint the walls. A kitchen and a sick ward and a room for synagogue services were in- stalled. When he returned home, Rabbi Eskin learned that the servicemen in the 100th Division named the center the Eskin House and it re- mained open, providing sociability, until the early 1950s. The Pugh tribute to Eskin is spiced with many inci- dents involving the rabbi's devotions and acts of human kindness. Especially nota- ble is the account of the friendship with the late, eminent Dr. Daniel A. Pol- ing who was so moved by a sermon Rabbi Eskin deliv- ered, after providing last rites to a Catholic when a priest was not available, that he reprinted it in his syndicated newspaper col- umn. That sermon, "What It Means to Be an Ameri- can," acclaimed in the Pugh article, continues among the very proud reminiscences in the Eskin career. Indicating that Eskin remains the loyalist and ac- tivist to this day, Pugh states in his article: "He has remained a sin- cere friend to GIs. Although 70 years old — or young, in his case — he still makes the 400-mile round-trip drive to Wurtsmith Air Force Base every month, dismissing it with a simple `they need me.' " What the Pugh article does not tell is that Rabbi Eskin makes frequent visits to Israel, that he is active here as a substitute rabbi at Cong. Beth Achim, fre- quently delivering " s upplementary sermons there; that he was a founder of the American Red Magen David for Israel — the equivalent of the Red Cross — chapter in Detroit and is active in it now; that he is associated with the local ac- tivists of Bar - Ilan Univer- sity and in many other causes. Rabbi Eskin's three children all studied in Is- rael. Stephen, a Hillel Day School graduate, attended the Yeshivath Hakotel and is now studying medicine at Tel Aviv University. Barbara is a Hebrew University graduate and is now in journalism, affil- iated with an advertising agency in Tel Aviv. Vivian studied at Machon Gold in Jerusalem and is a graduate of the University of Illinois. She is enrolled at Columbia University, studying for her master's degree. She is married. Her husband, Raphael Ben- Ami, an Israeli, a Columbia U. graduate, is in elec- tronics research with Bell Telephone. Israeli POWs Topic of Talks? PARIS (JTA) — Chancel- lor Bruno Kreisky of Au- stria and Palestine Libera- tion Organization chief Yasir Arafat met this week at Palma De Majorca, the Spanish island resort. Ob- servers in Spain believe their meeting was con- nected with efforts to obtain the release of seven Israeli prisoners of war held by the PLO. Arafat was greeted at Palma airport by the is- land's governor and the mayor of the town. He was driven to Kreisky's villa on the Costa De Blanes near Palma. An Austrian spokesman refused to say what the meeting was about or to comment on a report in the current issue of Newsweek magazine that the Israeli POW issue was being dis- cussed in Vienna in face-to- face PLO-Israeli talks. Walesa Notes Flatto-Sharon Mass Invitation TEL AVIV (JTA) — Polish Solidarity trade union leader Lech Walesa thanked former Knesset member Shmuel Flatto- Sharon this week for an in- vitation to attend Christ- mas mass in Bethlehem. The Polish leader, re- cently released from 11 months of internment, did not attend the ceremony, but said he might take up the invitation at another time. Flatto-Sharon, a Polish Jew, lived for many years in Paris before fleeing to Israel to escape trial for economic crimes he was charged with. The letter declining the of- fer, dated Nov. 21 from Gdansk, was received last week. 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