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AJCommittee

Continued from Page 2

Elie Wiesel won the Nobel
Peace Prize, but he knows
how to struggle. Last year
he wrote Mr. Gorbachev a
letter, asking him to tell his
people the truth about anti-
Semitism and its perils.
Mr. Gorbachev has
always replied to Mr.
Wiesel's petitions for decen-
cy — except this time. Then,
in January, Mr. Wiesel went
public with the same re-
quest in Moscow. Still no
reply.
But Mr. Wiesel can tell
himself that he is doing
everything he can to fight
the Jew-haters before they
become the Jew-killers.
That is a kind of prize for
the soul now available to
all.
The means for rescue and
escape are finally at hand.
There are still the
manipulating enemies aiming
to block the path to freedom.
This is where the Jewish peo-
ple come in as the combined
force strengthening the aims
of AJCommittee and the ADL
and related movements.
This is where Jewry must
act fearlessly. Jews must
avoid panic and the Jewish
people must act in unity to
assure the successful migra-
tion of Russian Jewry. This is
where the Israeli welcome to
all seeking a homeland be-
comes fulfillment of historic
aspirations, in fact fulfillment
of prophecy.

❑

Suicide

Continued from Page 2

condemned. Unless a
suicide was clearly un-
balanced of mind, the body
was buried in a special
place at one side of a
cemetery.
Samson and Saul com-
mitted suicide, as did the
whole garrison at Masada,
in 73, to escape capture by
the Romans — all 960
Zealots, under Eleazar ben
Jair, men, women, and
children perished in one
mass destruction.
In England, in 1190, the
Jews besieged in York cas-
tle exterminated them-
selves, except for a few. The
sacred prohibition of
suicide was waived, in
these and many other
historic disasters, and in
the eyes of Jews those
driven to suicide, under
such hopeless circum-
stances, became heroes,
legends of courage and
resolute faith.
The number of Jews who
have committed suicide to
escape torture, incinera-
tion, forcible conversion,

slavery or slaughter is
simply uncountable. The
toll of self-destruction in
Austria, Czchoslovakia,
Germany, Poland, France
and all the places on which
the horrors of Nazi rule fell
— no one dare estimate the
number.
The accumulated defini-
tions and comments could, for
argument's sake, be called a
conflict between suicide and
Bonarta b'Hayyim — Choose
Life, as referred to in
Deuteronomy. Actually there
is a rejection of conflict when
life as such becomes com-
munal concern and a family
duty. This may be the most
vital factor in the discussion:
the family duty, never to
abandon love and devotion
that encourage living life
with all its difficulties.
Interest in the subject and
discussion of its concerns
never end. ❑

Lavy Shapiro:
A Pioneer

T

he tributes to the
memory of Lavy Sha-
piro, who rose high in
the meat packing industry,
retain impressive memories
of his Israel pioneering as a
youth.
He went to what was then
Palestine to join in the up-
building of the Jewish Na-
tional Home with the earliest
settlers in the Ain Hashophet
Kibbutz. It bore the name of
the great shophet — Supreme
Court Justice Louis D.
Brandeis. Justice Brandeis
personally approved the crea-
tion of the kibbutz and of the
name selected for it.
It can now be recalled that
Ephraim Ticktin and Yir-
miyahu Haggai were the
Detroiters who joined Lavy
Shapiro in the pioneering
enrollment. They became ac-
tivists as members of the
Labor Zionist Hashomer Hat-
zair movement.
Yirmiyahu Haggai, who
was the son of the prominent
Hebrew educator Joseph Hag-
gai, wrote several books as
editor of the Mapam Hebrew
daily newspaper,
Al
Hanushmar.
Ephraim Ticktin had a
tragically heroic end. He and
another Ain Hashophet
pioneer, who was from Toron-
to, went to the outskirts of the
settlement to plant trees.
They were assaulted by Arabs
and both were murdered.
The names of these
Detroiters are retained in the
records of Detroiters who
shared in Israel pioneering. ❑

