Yeshiva University High School For Boys - Elchanite Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 84 of the 1949 volume:

I Qn f ji ay 15, 1948 was a momentous date in the history of ,i,,.l2iw- 491. i .525 J- fa was 1 me Q LCG, LOI1 -neg' V xl. :IE-ill: ei? I fp W J the Jewish nation. It saw the triumph of Jewish aspirations twenty centuries old, the advent of a new life, the fulfillment of a prophecy-the resurrection of the Jewish state of Israel. With it also came the somber menacings of war from the Assyrian who came down like the wolf on the fold aided by nefarious cohorts on the Atlantic. With it came the call of the Haganah to defend every inch of the birthright from the northernmost point of Dan to the southernmost city of Beersheba. The call was met with heroism and intrepidity. The newly realized vision would not melt away under the steel of the repug- nant invaders for it was reinforced by that impalpable spirit with which the Jew was imbued over the centuries. The state was preserved. However, it was not without loss of blood that the perpetuation of the state was assured. Thousands gave the last full measure of devotion so that our nation might live. To those fallen heroes of Israel who thus sacrificed themselves for their kindred we. the Graduating Class of 1949, wish humbly to dedicate this yearbook. l -UMH7 WiofAer O! fAe .ibeaj .WIARTIN K.AHANE The graves lie quietly in the night, No noise, no sounds, but gentle peace. Sweet silence encompassing all of these, XYho fought and bled for good and right. No ordinary dead are they. These children ripped from mother's womb. For they have chose the book and tomb. And died -- O G-d, so cold they lie. An eerie silence grips the land The lambs, the wolves crouch fearfully. As stepping, gently, tearfully, Comes Mother Rachel with outstretched hand. The heavens darken way up high, Stygian darkness awful, black, The liglitning flashes, crack, As the tomb doors open with mournful cry. Stepping softly, tears in eye, Soft hair flies wildly in the Wind, At last to reach her goal and find, Those graves with bodies piled up high. The mother kneels beside the dead, And tears, tears How down the tired face. O who can this hellish sight erase, Of mother weeping with bowed head. This she hears: Oh sweet Rachel, Your bitter tears have reached my throne. No more shall they roam: they have their home, And peace to our sons. Israel. -- T200 - rediolenf 3 ewage 0 June 29, 19-I9 To the Student Body: You, the students of our Tahnudical Academy, and particularly the Gradu- ating Class of 1949 have great reason to rejoice, for your period of transition from boyhood into manhood was spent in the ideal atinospherc of Torah learn- ing and modern culture. I watched your gradual progress and I was inspired by your spirit, and by the selfless devotion of your Roshei ha-Yeshiva and teachers. I exhort you to rcinain steadfast in our religious beliefs: in the inode of living' and in the ethical and spiritual convictions which are the essence and guiding spirit of our lives. It is only by the innnortal truths of the Torah and our sacred traditions, by being true to ourselves and our sac-red heritage that we can best serve ourselves and our fellowinen. Godliness as the foundation of our livesg obedience to the Divine Law of the Torah. and usefulness for the common-good of mankind are the fundamental parts of the training of a Yeshiva man. These sacred values you must always bear in mind. as well as in action. Sincerely yours, SAMVEL BELKIN. President. '-' TI! VCL' '- rincqaafii edaage My dear young friends: Thirty-one years ago this month, a small group of six young pioneers received their high school diplomas from Talmudical Academy, the first, and for many years, the only accredited high school organized, managed, and super- y vised by people of the Jewish faith. Since that first grad- uation in 1919, several thousand Jewish young men have gone forth from our sacred Walls to swell the ever-growing tide of young men and young women who complete their high school studies each year. To-day, you are about to join their ranks. Many were the obstacles you have had to overcome. Many difficulties beset your path from the first day you set foot in our Yeshiva, but great is the achievement you have accomplished. Not only have you received a secular education which, judged by any and all standards set up by the local and state departments of education, has been proved to be at least the equal of that given in the public institutions of our city, but you have also received that rich heritage of learning and spirituality which has been handed down by our ancestors for thousands of years. XYll61'Q2lS your brothers and sisters in the public high schools have received only a secular education, you, the graduates of Talmudical Academy, have received, in addi- tion, a thorough grounding in Talmud, Bible, Hebrew language and literature, Jewish history and cognate studies. Your lives are richer and fuller and more closely attuned to the traditions and hopes and aspirations-to the heartbeat- of our people. Even a casual examination of the roster of names that appears in our high school alumni bulletin will cause the heart of every self-respecting Jew to swell with pride and satisfaction. Among their nunrber one finds some of the most worth-while citizens of our community and country. Every walk of life. every trade and profession is duly represented. Not only rabbis and preachers, religious leaders and teachers, but communal workers, teachers and adminis- trators in secular schools, colleges and universities, la.wyers, artisans, business men, engineers, dentists, doctors. artists, and musicians received their first train- ing in Talmudical Academy. Every part of our country, every segment of our national Jewish life, is permeated and enriched by the contributions which our graduates have to offer to make up the sum total of human experience. As we look back with justifiable pride upon the thousands who have pre- ceded you, we can only hope and pray that you, their younger brothers, will follow in their foot-steps. XVe pray that you will hold precious those high stand- ards and lofty ideals of citizenship and service, of faith in. and loyalty to, our American democracy that we have tried to ineulcate in you, and that you will put into living practice, and uphold in your daily lives, the sacred laws and tra- ditions of our holy Torah. May you prove a source of pride and joy to your parents and your Alma Mater! SHELLEY R. SAPHIRE. Prznczpfzl - Four- 1 ,461 ' ' f f Ifl'lUll.'5fl Cli0l 5 Qiffiafge 'K-f' 0 llea r ttraduates: lt is indeed a source of pleasure for me to greet you. the second graduating' class of the Brooklyn Branch of Talmudieal Academy. Four short. years ago with the founding of our Braneli hy the Yeshiva lfniversity. your elass constituted the hulk of our student hotly. Hur growth during tlzis short period has heen so phenomenal however, that today your class register equals only one-tenth of our total student enrollment. This outstanding success is in itself a tribute to the devotion of the student body, the self-saeritice of the faculty and the vision of the administration. It is true that even now upon the completion of your high school eourse you will not he coming into direct eontaet with the complexities and amhieui- ties of life, for at least. another four years of comparative safety behind the spiritual walls of Yeshiva University await most of you. Yet it is important to examine now what you have gained during these last few years. Although to George Bernard Shaw youth is wasted on the young and perhaps others may go even further and say that education too is wasted on the young: we traditional Jews have always felt that it is the NDTPJW NDTU which is hasie and a most influential factor in the shaping of the individual. lt is the approach and outlook acquired during the early formative years of life that are of prime importance. During- your stay in the Yeshiva we have attempted to give you more than facts and hook knowledge alone. It was our purpose to eultivate. strengthen and develop a strong faith in the timeless truths otf our Torah. We have tried to imhue you with the desire and will to preserve those teachings and perpetu- ate those traditions. NVe have emphasized the development of your moral sense. heeause only sueh issues determine the kind of world we have. The greatest eontrihutions that anyone can make are those ofa moral nature. There is no dearth of scientific aehievements. of political. social or eeonomie progress. The moral law however has not heen ahle to keep paee with teelinolog-5-git is easier l'or man to make an atom liomh than to know what to do with it. You however who are ohsessed with an undying faith in the Divine nature of our Torah and its supremacy in our everyday lil'e are prepared to make moral eontrihutions for the hetternieut of society. By virtue of the specialized training which you have received, you are in a unique position to strengthen the moral structure of humanity. May your future thoughts and aets always retlect these nohle and lofty ideals: may the Yeshiva Vniversity he ahle to point with pride to you: may tl-d hless your paths in lil'e with sueeess and spiritual aeliievelneut. RABBI -XBITAIIABI N. Xl'Rttl1'l -lflmfaisfrfrlor, - Fire - Q RICHHRD SILVERMHN 5 Eonon IN cmsF Q' 'L-'W ..1 mv: ' Assoclfffi ED' ' T0 Rl FEATU RES arte 1 mamm K51f,eR,.wRe- A L 5506.153 Eonok 'BLU N0 Q.f -,ss RMHN Sflcus GUATE EDITOR mwm -Six- qi if , W ,1',! ' 2 rx , 14 j x g ' , 1' gg, 15 ai , 3 sw gg is F gf? AS 4 Y A .. xx 22 ij RHBBIBHRUCI-I N. I-'BIvELSON FACULTY AovuseR A 'gi ' , :F x ici r-rx EW ,ig 3615551-L Harms' A HLLQN ADVK5E-R RT ADVISER WURMR EDER , , N TOPOROV5 s5og.gf!Jih:,,Ac1svvfsEs BUSINESS MANAGERKY A M,.. -. 3 - xl ,, PAUL 1-LMRN 5H1,Kg :- WRC Pfwfos N ' mf '2TX'5'iD.wR, W 'WHY EWTOR, h- .Nl 1 4 .ql ',,- 'A'- 1' nf- .,A.-.,1 .---...-...,... . Il-4 P- 'll un: 5 0 U I-L gacuffy Shelley li. Sapliire ............................. BA.. College of the City of New York, 1912, M.A., Columbia 1'11lVQl'Sllj', 1913: l'l1.D., 1920. ghlJl't1l1Z1111 N. Zurofl' .............................. BJ... YL'Sl1lV11 College, 1941: Rabbi MA.. Utlllllllljlil 1l11iv1-rsity, 1949. Ilarry Allan .................................. New York University, 1931: M.A., 1933. Robert E. Bassell ............................. B.A., Brooklyn College, 1940: M.A., 1942. Moshe Berenholz ............................. Rabbi, Ner Yisroel Babbinieal College. 1942. Isaac J. Cantor ............................ . BA., New York University, 1922: M.A., Columbia University, 1931. Baruch N. Faivelson .............................. B.A., Yeshiva College, 1935: Rabbi M.A., Columbia University Teachers' College. 1947. ....1'1'i11eipz1I 11lI11lllis1I':1I111' ........-X1't 111111 l'1ll2'l1Sll ....lleb1-1-w ....S11:111isl1 . . . ,leiebrew Charles Friechnan ....................... Science, Physif-s 111111 M111l11-11111111-s B.A., Yeshiva College, 1935: Rabbi LL.B., New York University, 1940. Jacob D. Godin ..................................... Fl'G11f'l1 111111 Slrillllxll M.A.. College of the City of New York, 1932: M.S.E.. 1933. Emery Grossman ......................... .................... 3 Iusie Certificate in Music, 1930. Julius Jacobs ......................................... Pl1ysieal Ii1111cz1tio11 B.A., College of the City of New York, 1929: MA., 1935. Julius Landowne ................ ................................ B 111l11g-1- B.S., College of the City of New York. 1904: M.A., New York University, 1912. Samuel H. Lebowitz .............................. Physics 211111 lYl1C'llllSll'.x' BS., College of tl1e City of New York, 1922: M.A., Columbia University, 1926. Jechiel Lichtenstein ........................ .... F reneh and Hebrew Ph.D., University of Neuehatel, 1933. Martin Lilker .......................... .... 1 'Iistory illlll 1:11-o1111111ies B.A., Yeshiva College, 1945: M.A., Columbia University, 1946. Joseph Saraeliek ........................ Pl1.D., Columbia University, 1936. Joseph B. Strum ........................ BA., College of the City of New. 1929, M.A., New York University, 1931. . . . .1'111Q'lisl1 , . ....l'4ll2'lISll Morris Turetsky ................................. . . .Mz1tl11111111t11-s BS., College of tl1e City of New York. 1921: M.A., Columbia University, 1922: LL.B., St. Lawrence University, 1927. Szimuel Levine ................. ..... .................. l 1 i1-1-111111- Dinah llevitoii ................... ...... S l't'l'OlEl1'j' T11 1111- l1i1'1-1-1111- B.A.. Brooklyn College, 1947. Marilyn Slll'1'l1121Il ................ ...S01'1'Cli11'f' 111 the .X1l111i11is11-:11111- - Nine - W.,,,,,kq Ten Class of 1949 N X X Qs X X Y Q X i .carb Zvi' 'xx 'gas 0,0 inb- Q aff- ,f.. J.r 'A . . at I in 55 Lux 'itil' .F tw. I ' N5 . -,mga .'ILB.HilI1I'I.E MARVIN BIENENFELD Arista 5-8, TA. Publications Business lllana- ger 8, Academy News 4, Chief Librarian 5-8, Library Squad 3, Class Secretary 2, Hebrew Club 3, 4. Hailing from Boro Park, Bobo distinguished himself, in his own big Way, by doing most for the class. In cahoots with Rabbi Faivelson, he wrung the money for this Elchanite out of the students. A January graduate, he is at- tending Y.U. where he's getting the business Ccoursej. Bobo shows his best form Ufhen l1e's asleep in tlze dorm. ' A MARVIN BLUSH Arista 5-8, Class Vice-President 1, TA. Publi- cations 4, Class Athletic Manager 7, Basketball Team Captain 6-8, Basketball Team 4-8, Class Debating fllanager 2, Hebrew Club 3-5, Spanish Club 4, Science Club 1.2, 7. NIarvin has always been interested in ,basket- ball. He dribbled into T.A., passed all his subjects, hooked into Arista and fouled out on seven personal terms. His scoring aver- age - a phenomenal 93.8 per term. His hobby - collecting hundreds in math. Summary of 1Uarvin's 3M years in T..4.: Drib- ble, dribble, toil, and quibble. WALLACE CHAMEDES Class President I, Class Vice-President 7, Ko- lenu Staj? 6, Academy Newsn I, Charity Com- mittee 1-3, Photography Club 1, 2, Science Club 2, Hebrezn' Club 3-8. Vel, a stanch Shomer and Hebraist, set an outstanding record by being one of the quiet- est and nicest fellows in the Senior Class. In- terested in medicine, he will take a pre-med. course at Yeshiva, complete his professional education, and finally wind up in Aretz. He wanted to go on a sitdown strike, so he went to T..-1. Twelve - ,,.- 'VN .nr- its Q 'flf STANLEY COHEN Debating Team 7. Librarian 7. Sanitation illan- ager 7. For advice on the fair sex, all we had to do was visit Stan, the class casanova. In his spare time, Stan helped build up our li- brary. He will probably pre-law at Brooklyn. It was a long shot but be graduated. NORMAN DACHS Arista 6-8, G.O. Vice-President 4, G.O. Com- mittees 4, Class Vice-President 3, Literary Edi- tor of Elcbanite 7, 8. Basketball Team 5-8. Normie, one of the January boys, was never too busy to give advice Cespecially to you know wholl. An ardent basketball enthusiast, his loyalty to T.A. was not overshadowed by his activities in Young Israel. Attending Brooklyn College, Normie is preparing him- self for a career in business. He came, he saw, lie dia'n't like it. SAMUEL DERSHOXVITZ Lab Assistant 7. Service Squad S, Basketball Team Trainer 5-S. Class Secretary -I. School Choir 6-S, PlI0iII.Ql'lIDll-1' Club I. 2. Dersh, the class' mad scientist, endeared himself to Rabbi Yogel with his astute Tal- mudic dissertations. As class physician, he was always waiting for the chancc to operate on a teacher. Perhaps he'll get his chance at Y.U. this fall where hc will pursue, among other things, his prc-medical studies. Sam has an inferiority roniplexv - 4 L'4'l'-YUIIL' is inferior to bim. - Tlzirtcen - ELBHIIIIITE T on N as '- it ! . Q. ' . x ., -, ,, 4 ,K L.:- SAMUEL FEDER Arista Vice-President 5-6, G.O. President 1. Class Vice-President 6. Academy News Staff 3, Elclzanite Board 7. 8, Class Athletic Man- ager 4. Hebrew' Club 3. Matlz Club 7, Science Club 1, 2, Spanish Club 3, Infantile Paralysis Drive Chairman 3. Suave and sincere, Sam was always a popular guy. As G.O. president, he get us cut of many a broil. Aside from his political activities, Sam was an ardent Talmud scholar and is now continuing his education at Y.U. Out upon it! I have studied three whole days together. IOSEPH FISCHER Debating Team 7, Class Secretary 6. 7, Sanita- tion Wlanager 5, Photography Club 1-3, Science Club 7, 8. Yuss, the lone commuter from Kew Gar- dens, has the distinction of being the first of 'I'.A. Brooklyn to go to Aretz. He will con- tinue his education there at the Hebrew Uni- versity. Yuss's ambition is to work on his own farm in Aretz. Joe is a wail of a student. IRVING FORMAN .-1 rista 5-8, Class President 6-8, Class Vice-Pres- ident 5, G.O. Athletic .Manager 3, TA. Publica- tions 6, Co-Captain of Basketball Team 5-8, Li- brary Squad 7. 8, lllath Club 7. Newspaper Club 8. Science Club 1. Irv, a rabid hoopster and athletic champ, got through T.A. in his own quiet way. As Senior Class president he led us to the end without a scrape. Irv will attend Yeshiva University this fall where he will prepare for a career in engineering. If history was a ll1cCoy, he'd be a Hatjield. - Fourteen - .15 3 ,uc- Qs sph- FUN X , N. T' . N 1 is - 1 t JACK GLICKMAN Class President I, Taller 5, S4-lmnl Entertain- er 5-8, Class .S'ecretary 2, .i', lfebrew Club 5, 6, Public Speakingf Club 7, S. Inch, whom we inherited from Uptown, is forever performing magic and trying to tcll what he calls jokes at the same time. An active participant in the Shomer, whose mem- bers must also bear his witticisms, ,lack will return to home country this fall. lTo Y.U., naturally ll He's always cracking jokes. In other wards, a repeat performance. EDXWIN A. GOLDSTEIN Arista President 8, fl rista 7, 8, Class l ice-Pres- ident 3, Assistant Editor of Kolenu', 2-S. T..-1. Publications 4-8, T.,4l. Publications Business lllanager 4, 5, Service Squad 7, 8, Debating Team 2, 3, 5, Class Secretary 2, President of Hebrew Club 4, 5, Heb1'ezaf Club 2-5, President of illatlz Club 7, 8, lllath Club 6-3, Science Club I. Quiet and retiring ll-le's constantly falling asleepl, Edwin has big plans to become a psy- chiatrist. CHe's going to buy a big couch.5 A true lover of Hebrew, he's worked long and hard for Kolenu and T.A. Publications and hopes to go to Aretz some day where they teach Gemorrah in Hebrew. 1-llas, poor Sigmund, I knew him well. IRVING GREENBERG Arista S. G.0. President X, Class President 5, 5, Elchanite Board 7, X, Editor-in-Chief of Tat- ler 7, S, .elssistant Editor of Kolenu', -I-S, T..-1. Publications 6, School Debating Team 6-Sl, Class Debating Team I-X, Debating .llanagfer I, 2. 6. President of Hebrew Club 2-4, Hebrew Club 2-6, Public SD6'lIkllI,2' Club 7, X. Itz is really a mental giant Call 612' of himl. He's Rabbi Zuroff's nemesis, being the only one the rabbi can't look down at. He's been in the G.O. so long they think it's called Greenbergfs Organization. ltz really gets along well with the teachers and there is no basis to the rumor that Rabbi Faivelson spiked his Pepsi. An ardent Zionist when arguing, he always says: l don't know about that, you've riot to sho-mer. Roses are red, violets are blue. lf:-i s pretty colorful tool 'Cf' - Fifteen - MARTIN KAHANE Literary Editor of Elchanite 7, 8, School De- bating Team 7, 8, Kolenu', Staff 5-8, Class De- bating Team 5-8, Library 7, 8, Choir 6, 8, Class' Secretary 3, Secretary of Hebrew Club 3, He- brew Club 5-8, Public Speaking Club 8. Good looking Cso he saysl, intelligent, and possessing a grand personality, Clf you don't believe it, ask the man who knows - Martin Kahanej, this baby is packaged for delivery in Israel. In the meantime, he's becoming a journalist to while the time away. He joined the Cherut fFreedoml Jllovement to get out of school. ' ' M' PAUL KAHN it Class Vice-President 8, Debating Team 4, Char- , ity Chairman 5, Science Club 1. 2. Vice-Presi- S N 1 df-nf of Plzotograplzy Club 4, Heb,-aw Club 1-8. Pinchus, a stanch Bensonhurst Shomer, was always one for the wisecrack. CEventually Messrs. Lebowitz and Lilker got used to it.l His ambition was, is, and always will be to go to Israel, and he will do same via Y.U. Shomer is truth, truth Shomer - That is all ye need to know. P51' 'M' Winn' 'W ' ' ' iff: 1 fa. JUDAH KIRSHBLUM Class President 2, Chief Librarian 8. Library Staff 5-8. Class Athletic Manager 8. Judah, the best dressed man of 1949, hnally convinced the administration to let him out. As librarian, he was a good duster. Judah will attend Brooklyn College in the fall where he will prepare for a career in business. ' Education never interfered with his schooling. ELBHIIIIITE 'Cl' '1 I ' Q r .5 , 3 15 r , ti . ' ff - Xl i, ,,4ig.1.,.g si: 1 - YN 1- ,-it 'r 'il Q ,W Z . .- . 3 .,. . . ff. N .4 'P A A 1 f RONALD W. LANDAU Class Vice-President 5, Class Secretary 4, 6. S, Hebrew Club 2-5, Science Club 1, 2, 6-8. Quite a scientific mind has Ronald W. and if he doesn't become a great scientist a lot of people will be surprised. But the erratic hir. Landau will probably fool us and become a multi-millionaire. School has been a constant race between Ronnie and the bell. RICHARD SILVERMAN Arista President 7, Arista 5-8, Editor-in-Chief of Elchanite 7, 8, Editor-in-Chief of Tatler', 5, 6, Assistant Editor of Tatler 7, 8, Assistant Editor of Kolenu 5-8, T.A. Publications 5. 7, 8, Mdildgfllg Editor of Academy News 3, EI- chanitev Typist 6, Class Debating Team 5, 6. President of French Club 7, 8, Sercretary of Hebrew' Club 3, Hebrew Club 3-6, Vice-Presi- dent of Science Club 2, Science Club 1, 2, Pho- tography Club 1, 2. Richard, quite an active fellow, distinguished T.A. and himself by Winning top honors in the National French Contest. Aside from using his wits to grind out the Elchanite, Kolenu, and the Tatler, Dick also keeps tabs on the teachers. He will attend Columbia this fall where lie will probably study inter- national relations. In English, Richie failed - to get a hundred. SAMUEL SILVERSTEIN Class Vice-President 6, 61.0. Service Squad S. Kolenu Staff 5, T..-1. Publications .-I rt Com- mittee 6. T..-1. Publications Typist 3. -I, Class .-I tlzletic illanager -l. Basketball Team 4-6. School Choir 6, Class Secretary 5, Ilebrezc' Club 2-5. Radio Club 7. -V. Science Club I. Serious and hard working, Sammy has im- proved from term to term until he is now leader of the class. tHe leads the class to recess.l Since math is so easy to him, lic hopes to become nn engineer und some day build Il dam in lsrucl named after him. iYou know, Dam Silverstcini He cured bis insomnia in T..-1. .. i'v1'wiztemz- EL!3HHI1l'IE 551 Q' . QM l l 1 l .B AARON STAVI SKY Tatler 5, .4cademy lVews 2, 3, T.A. Pub- lications 7. 8, School Debating illanager 7, De- bating Team 5-7, Class Sanitation .Manager 7. Aaron took life easy at T.A. Cand why not?l. As debating manager of the school, he made the phrase Complaceny to utilization implies acquiescence to realization, a favorite T.A. slogan. Now at Y.U., Aaron is majoring in the humanities and will eventually pursue a career in business. For all that, ana' all that .-Iaron's a graduate for all that. ISRAEL STURM Arista 8. Class President 3. 6, Class Vice- Pres- ident 2, Elchanite Art Staff 8, 'Kolenuu Stajf 5. G.O. Nezzvspaper Committee 6, Debating Team 5, Sanitation Manager' 5, Hebrew Club 2-5, fllusic Club S, Matlz Club 7. Class philosopher, psychologist, adviser on human relations and what not, Israel remains Rabbi Faivelson's classic answer to the To- rah V'odaath boys. C Look at Sturm, says Rabbi Faivelson. You look at him, retorts the blase senior.l He will take his philosophy, advice, etc. to N.Y.U. this fall Where he will pre-med. School has been one long interruption of his daily routine. NORMAN TOPOROVSKY Arista Secretary 8. G.O. Vice-President 5. 8, G.O. Secretary 3. Class President 4, TA. Pub- lications Business ilfanager 8, TA. Publications 7. 8. Debating Tea.-n 4. Class Athletic Manager 2. Vice-President of Hebrew' Club 2-4. Secre- tary of Hebrezz' Club 5. Photography Club 1, Radio Club 5, S. In between recesses, 'iTippy has done an awful amount of work for the school Cwith emphasis on awfull and especially for T.A. Publications. He's also been pulling some mighty respectable marks without doing home- work. CThe secret's out, teachersj A stanch New Dealer, he was appointed Director of the P.G.A.F.T.A.P. Bureau. fThat's the Please- Get-Ads-For-T.A.-Publications Bureauj He gave his all fSI.50j for T..4. Publications. - Eighteen - IWIURRAY WACHMAN .41 rista 5-57. t'ElFlIllI1lfl',, A rf Staff 6-.SZ Class Pres- ident 4, 6, Secretary of 0.0. 2. .-I cademy News Art Staff 1, 4, Hebrew Club 3. 4, Kolenu .-1 r- tist 7, Librarian 5. Secretary-Treasurer of Sci- ence Club I, Spanish Club 3. lVIu1-ray, the class artist and the only T..-X. student who ever took Nlr. Allan seriously, came forth with his talents to bring some life to the Elchanite. fEditor: N.B.'l Always ready with a joke to soothe a down-hearted soul, he decided to make his exit quickly and graduated in January. At Brooklyn, Xlurray is taking a scientihc course and will ultimately become an engineer. He drew lots and came to T..-1. IRWIN E. XWITTY Secretary-Treasurer of G.O. 5, Editor-in-Chief of Kolenu 3-8, CKElClIHI1lf?,, Editorial Board 7, 8, Associate Editor of Tatler 6-S. T..-1. Pub- lications 5-8, Reporter for .-I cazlemy .Yezz's 5. Sclzool Debating lllanager 5. Class Debating Team 5, 7, 8, Class Secretary 4, Clzoir 6-8, He- brew Club 3-7, Science Club I, 2. This kid got the service bug into his system and piled himself up a neat 110 service credits plus the honor of doing most for the school. Hz, a stanch Shomer and advocate of things Hebrew, brought the idea of a Hebrew maga- zine for the school to a reality. lVe'll be see- ing him this fall at Y.U. where he will pre- pare for the rabbinate and the bar. His extra-curricular activities are his classes ' r Y I Q -Nineteen- CLASS POLi. Llass Artist .. Class Athlete Most Brilliant Class Casanova . . . Did Most For Class .. Most Dependable . . . Most Digiiiiied .... Best Dressed . .. Class Hebraist Class Hypnotist . . . Class Journalist . . . Best Natured . . . Class Optimist .... Class Orator . . . . Class Philosopher Class Photographer . . . Most Popular .... . Class Satirist ....... Did Most For School . Class Scientist ..... . Most Likely to Succeed Most Versatile ....... Class Zionist .... Favorite Teacher . .. Favorite Subject ..... Least Popular Subject l - . . . .MURRAY XYACHMAN ..... . . .IRYING FORMAN .RICHARD SILVERMAN .. . . . .STANLEY COHEN .MARVIN BIENENFELD . . . . . . .MARVIN BLUSH . . . . .NORMAN DACHS . . .JCDAH KIRSHBLUM .NYALLACE CHAMEDES . . . . . .JACK GLICKMAN . . . . . .MARTIN KAHANE SAMUEL SILVERSTEIN . . . . . .RONALD LANDAU . . . .IRVING GREENBERG . . . . . .ISRAEL STURM . . .JOSEPH FISCHER . . .SAMUEL FEDER . . .AARON STAVISKY .............IRM'IN XVITTY SAMUEL DERSHOIVITZ NORMAN TOPOROVSKY . . . . .EDXYIN GOLDSTEIN .........PAUL KAHN . . . . .RABBI BARFCH N. FAIVELSON ..................MATHEMATICS ...........MI'SIC ' T zoenty XX Q XF S M ' xx ' Q80 ian . t y I .-f Tif,T- 'f . :f' ' . ., , B flfdf- . If ff X ll iii.--af .T .... . E . 1 if u . ' -1..',,,L,4.1 sy?-2 Agfa , cf -..., tt sf- ' as ,cg i ,H if E 'f f Q. uf-at cj tgi 42 . .. -1 if-ljn .1 will Q.. ff-:Q 2 ,I ' ' ' . E' 273+ N ti., - .- 5 ' - A A of-TTT r- , F7 4:75 ' - T- . ' f 2 SEPTEMBER was JUNE S' A Some placef Really impressive, Best Yeshiva l ever saw. I knocked and a nasty pfc. told me this was the armory and my building was across the street. I looked in that direction and smiled sickly. Oh well. Ebbets Field is only two blocks away. OCTOBER '45 New boy came in today. Looks bright. Names Exams and vacation. No school till September! OCTOBER Due to the groundwork of the fourth termers, the bio marks are phenomenal . , . Hmm? Richie. 'Nur NOVEMBER '45 - Q ' Three Cohens and two Hymans. l'm still confused. .. Dr. Charles writes the Spanish assignment on the S ' :ggf walls, No blackboard yet. New Spanish teacher , Q . . . Professor Cambia . . . Mr. Stillerman . . . Mr. -A E Gonzales . . . Any more? 1 'EL JANUARY '46 ' iill Final exams! Some difference from grade school. Q FEBRUARY L ni Rabbi Kanato sky teaches us algebra. Mr. Lebo- ' witz, the scienlce teacher, says you can buy a book Q sopuonone telling how to make an atom bomb for one dollar. Careful, the Thomas Committee is listening. C. NOVEMBER New Spanish teacher. Looks more durable. I think Mr. Cantors here to stay . . . Lunchroom is in full swing. DECEMBER APRIL No fooling. a new secretary. Shes not married. Freshies come to look around. We tell them the elevator is out of order so they can't see the gym or pool, They'll learn. So why break their hearts now! JANUARY '47 Geometry I. I gave you this book but how can you prove I gave it to you? . . . This formula will come in useful if you ever take Advanced Algebra. No, you never use it in geometry. . . . Odd subject . . , Flunked Regents. Cant type either. Call for Bienenfeld. We want FEBRUARY vital statistics. P.S. Her name's Marilyn. - Tzvezzty-Tzro - Please give me an excused admit. Aw! The other secretary always gave excused admits. In the Spring . . . Next year Ramaz holds its Lag B'Omer outing elsewhere. JUNE Bio and language Regents not too bad considering. Arista formed . . . Oh well, maybe I'll get in next term. Finished with minors. XVachman must have made plenty drawing during the past two years. SEPTEMBER History I, XY'ell, Mr. Lilker .... XWl1at's KCLO5, Mr, Lebowitz. You here again. I thought I saw the last of you in general science. OCTOBER On Tuesday, Rabbi Faivelson tells his classes he wants S-IUC by Thursday. O.K. Real money? NOVEMBER Library now going full force. Look, Bienenfeld, I don't owe any money on this book. DECEMBER I hear we're buying the Knights of Columbus mansion in Flatbush for an annex . . . Lot next door bought for two story annex. JANUARY '48 XVhat's logs, huh? . . . Ask Mr. Turetsky. FEBRUARY Dr. Saphire said no three and a half year course. This is a four year school and that's that. Maybe only hardship cases. Hey Moish, can you get me a draft registration card? JUNIOR T7 JUNE Bernstein cut -I5 out of 50 math classes and got 96 on the Regents. Mr. Turetsky's theory is that he took a home study course while he was absent . . . Feld, who has been counting since first term, says only three days to graduation. SEPTEMBER Advanced Algebra is unique. No walls in the class- room, no blackboards, tno place to put thema and no textbooks. The teachers room is American History Il's class . . . Feder sits in the closet twith the door openj . . . Slfg year course announced. Bienenfeld, Dachs, Feder, Stavisky and Xxlacliman get out in February , . . Dershowitz becomes a chemistry major . . . OCTOBER Double American History. Double English, Double trouble for Messrs. Strum and Lilker. XVith only live boys graduating wc-'d have had individual in- struction if only Bienenfeld would stop persecuting Stavisky. Then we'd learn mebbe. NOVEMBER Got our Senior pins. Five men of distinction , . . H, 'lffm Mr. Cantor keeps saying some of his boys dis- appointed him on the Regents . , . I don't care what you did to .Ioe Fisher. I still say you cant hypnotizc me. Yes. ,lack Glickman, I see a three- headed boy. DECEMBER Hurricane strikes Florida. 12,0Uo,tItItJ dollar dam- age. How dreadful . . . Dr. Saphir pays Seniors a visit to reassure us we can't make it in 595 years. However. new tive year plan tcoursej introduced. JANUARY '49 Five familiar faces are no longer with us. 'I'hey've gone the way of all students and will be no more. Ah well, tive down, eighteen to go . . . Say, Tippy, I hear Dr, Saracheks giving out lOtl's in English. Wlitit? l failed? Awl Wlait till next year .... FEBRUARY Seniors in control of G.O. executive. Greenberg, presidenu Toporovsky, vice-president: B I ti s h. Athletic Manager . . . All three got 160 votes. Roll call reveals 155 students in school . . . XVC got four new telephones we don't use. so we had to get a switchboard . . . We don't use that either. MARC!-I Only 102,240 minutes of school left. As La Guardia would say. Patience and Fortitudef' APRIL Say, Irv, what's the cotan of a b c over capillary action x Treaty of Chapultepec? XVell, leave the room. . . . Brooklyn College test. Y.U., here I come! Guess what? The Regents Scholarship Exam! Lucky I had my ouiia board along. Gee, that Der- showitz knows his bio . . . Lag B'Omer outing . . . Student Day arrives. VUhat'sa matter Greenberg. gotta stiE neck? Mr. Bassell has to read from Canterbury Tales. takes off jacket. Hot day, huh? JUNE We passedf We passed! XY'e passed? XVhat? XVe failed? I want my tuition back . . . Graduation night. Bewildered , . . in a daze. Shake hands. Diploma . . . FREE. And all my bonds aside were cast Yet these heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage f and all my own And half I felt that they had come To tear me from a second home . . . My very chains and I were friends So much a long communion tends To make us what we are - even I Rc-gained my freedom with a sigh And so to college. 'fe ff' ,.. ,1 ff .v X, Q' in SENIOR fc-LIL' f la if -Q,4a f , ' : Z 4111 ff 'CAM 74,44-X - f f f QM 'I 1 le, I 4, i At ' of aio- A V 1 'lin i- xx-4'-'?F'T? 7' S . 4 ' I I X 1+ t g 4 4 n FALSEHOUD, BLASPHEHY, PREvARucA1'voN.fr Vo 1 No. 1 Published by T.A. Brooklyn Alumni January 1, 196 Kahane De Martin Kahane. candidate for president on the Cherut party ticket, today closed his campaign with a reaitirmation of his party's slogan, ReanneXation of Asia and Reoccupatfion of Europe. He again stated his party's platform which is as follows: 15 We must have a Jewish state on both sides of the Pacific. 2,3 We demand a port that is frozen all year round. 33 1080 80' or fight! 4m Long live shekel diplomacy! As candidate of the mildly expansionist party. Cherut, Mr. Kahane reaffirmed his determination to buy Patagonia for 37,200,000 though some critics have labeled it Beigin's Folly. NEW ECONOMY DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY IN GOVERNMENT Marvin Bienenfeld, successful businessman and iinancier, who amassed a huge private fortune selling old bio tests to students and swimming suits to the Eskimos at the North Pole. today announced new economy measures in the budget. Appointed by an economy-minded Congress after the US. announced an 83 billion dollar budget for the third straight year. Mr. Bienenf-eld has been doing exhaustive research on each department's expenditures in the government. These are his cuts in the 83 billion dollar budget: ll Instead of putting extra stamps on heavy letters. risk mailing them with one stamp. 2+ II'hereas in the past US. government letters were sealed with the gum on the flaps, in the future they will be closed by inserting the Hap into the letter. Thus the government saves the price of the gum on the tiaps. 31 Whereas in the past every department hired unskilled labor to lick the backs of stamps. in the future it will be a civil service job and thus we will have skilled and rapid labor do the job. fEd. Note: There is no basis to the rumor that Mr. Bienenfeld will hire certain students to the last job even if they are skilled at the vvorkf: Mr. Bienenfeld estimated the savings by his moves mand A ia!i . . , . l . -1 - Kahane Addressing Usual Overflow Audience NOTHINGATRON DISCOVERED! Mr. Irving Forman rose to new heights in the elec- trical world last night when he discovered the nothing- atron. As Mr. Forman said: I was feeling mighty low last night. Then I sat down on a tack. You have no idea what a lift that gave me. IVhen I landed, I had lost my glasses. It was then that I saw the nothingatron. Mr. Forman gave the following facts about the nothingatron. Its diameter is .000000 of an inch. In fact it is so small that even the most powerful micro- scope cannot see it. It has no weight and no electrical charge. This morning, however, Pravda denounced Mr. For- man's discovery as capitalist propaganda. It is a well known fact, said Pravda, that in 185-1 Nikolai For- mansky discovered the nothingatron in Russia. CThat is the same year by the way that Orville and 'Wilbur Left discovered the airplane near Moscowxl When asked this morning by your reporter Whether he realized the magnitude of his discovery. Mr. For- man answered: Oh, it was nothing at all. at a minimum of 550. which is enough to put a full page ad in the Elchanite. advertising the savings. lEd. Note: All this trouble might have been avoided if Congress had not revoked the free mailing rights of government departments in 1963.1 - T2e'ewty-F0zrr- PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE DISCOVERED LANDAU MAKES NEWS AGAIN! Ronald Landau, famous physicist and watch lover extraordinary, today announced that he had discovered the long awaited perpetual motion machine. Said Mr. Landau: After 37 years of experimentation, I have come to the conclusion that my mouth is a perpetual motion machine. Scientific authorities investigating Mr. Landau's claims believe that they are true, for no one who has ever known Landau can remember when his mouth stopped going. As Mr. Landau's law- yer said: It's an open and shut case. Moreover, I would like to point out that although many perpetual motion machines were invented using the principle of water, this is the first one using a drip. Mr. Landau is a great watch and clock lover. In fact, last year he fired two employees for punching -the clock when they entered the office. Mr. Landau is also a famous mathematician and he used higher mathematics to develop his machine. Some of his calculations are pictured on the right. CSee photo at right.D TOPOROVSKY RETURNS FROM TONGERIK! Dr. Norman Toporovsky returned yesterday from Tongerik Atoll where he served as medicine man for the natives for the past ten years. Your reporter had tlieg following interview with Dr. Toporovsky. Question: How isthe health-,situation in South Pacific? Ans-wer: Excellent. Mary Martin is in the pink of health. ' ' Question: I meant in the South Pacific islands. How is the health of the natives? Aizszeer: Beastly good. However, the hospital facilities are quite primitive. Qziestioizz How have you helped improve the health of the natives? Answer: When I came to the island ten years ago, it was dreadful. The poor natives didn't even know that they were sick. Why, they spent their whole lives without seeing a doctor or going to the hos- pital. However, I quickly remedied the situation. I showed them how many sicknesses they should have. I instituted many health weeks. There were appendicitis weeks, pneumonia weeks, and indu- enza weeks. It was I who discovered the three types of cold twhich necessitated seeing the doc- tor three timest They are the uncommon cold, the fairly common cold. and the common cold. Questioizz What was your greatest thrill in your ten years at the atoll? Ansuwr: Wh-en I almost beat my trained chimpanzee at chess. Dr. Toporovsky said that he is now worth ten million cocoanuts. q il ,.- P' IRQ we X g 0 X- .XX xy Smit mit' I 1 fa, K 5 x y tr-05'Ax 7. 93 8 X S a'iJS-fl .' gcosd' zz 7 '1- -' s OO I-05 'Yi 7 S' X i,QL S.1 ,-4igx,.,,...1 If Sq 5 : an KLXT-VbMN5:?QY i Q Mr. Landau's Calculafions WORLD-FAMOUS PSYCHOLOGIST INTERVIEWED Professor Edwin A. Goldstein, author of the best selling 'tSex Habits in the Male Mosquito, was inter- viewed today by your reporter. The book which sold 18,000,000 copies tEvery male mosquito bought one: was written by Prof. Goldstein on one of his periodic visits to Ward 3 at Bellevue. Prof. Goldstein told your correspondent that he is now writing a sequel called 'tl Didn't Meant It revealing that all his revela- tions about the revealing facts of mosquito life were revealed 'to be false. He has already been promised by the Boston censor, his brother-in-law, that the book will be banned for revealing too much and so the book can be expect-ed to succeed. P1'of. Goldstein is now teaching at iVestminster College. tSee photo be1ow.fD i 12 ANARCHISTS ACQUITTED! Capping a series of brilliant moves. Irwin Witty. famous lawyer. won a mistrial for his twelve clients last night. Mr. Witty, however, was held in the highest contempt of court. iThe court had nothing but contempt for Mr. XVitty.i Mr. Witty's legalistic moves are worthy ot' mention. He tirst swung public opinion to his clients' side by becoming their lawyer. This moved the public to have great compassion for the twelve doomed men. He next demanded a ruling ot' mistrial because of improper lawyer and defense. This was an irret'utable argument and .ludge State, the presiding judge. had to rule a mistrial. - Ticeziiy-Fit? - NEW PAINTING ANALYZED! Murray Wachman's now famous drawing Two Polar Bears With Backs to Viewer at North Pole during Snow Storm. CSee Photol was analyzed today by Israel Sturm, noted psychoanalyst. Mr. VVachman's drawing took the intellectual world by storm when it came out a few months ago. In his own words: I got the idea from poetry. In poetry we have free verse and blank verse. VVell, I've seen free painting and now I have painted tblank paintingf Professor Sturm's analysis is as follows: tEd. Note: See photo of drawing as he analyzes it.l Notice the powerful stroke of white. This shows that Mr. VVach- man is forceful and has an exit in life. However the slight waver in the center shows there is an inner coniiict. In other words, he has a Thyestes complex. That is, he suspected his great uncle of maltreating his brother-in-law's cousin's aunt whom he thought he once saw. However, now that his sister is married, it is obviously wrong and his picture shows this. The color composition further shows that at the age of one year, three months, and eight days, Mr. Wachman was dropped on his head in a pile of snow thus causing this drawing. CNOTE: Mr. Wachman is also the artist who drew the famous Midnight in a Blacked-Out Town when the Moon and Stars Aren't Out. j NEW BOOK ON GEMARRA PUBLISHED! Rabbi Samuel Feder astounded the Talmudic world with the publication of his new treatise on the Gemar- ra entitled, Stop -the Nigunf' In this work, Rabbi Feder asks many questions on the commentaries. Among the questions was the following one. If a man should hit his friend over the head with an iron bar, and the iron bar should break, and one of the pieces should fly through a steel grate and break a metal magnet which would then repel three pounds of iron filings through the window, is the owner of the steel mill obligated to pay two cents per pound for iron ore to the miner? Said one commentator: It is an eiseneh question. A 2nd expert said, N-n-yah, An unidentified person said: The answer to this may be found on page 19 of the Reverend's Handbook. Rabbi Feder is the author of several other books of questions and answers on the Talmud entitled. So you want. to give a Shiur'? , I-Iishonim or Nothing . and t'The 6-I answer question. SAM, YOU MADE THE EGGS TOO HARD by L. E. G. HORN, Special Correspondent Samuel Silverstein, engineer and mathematician, was honored last night for solving the age-old enigma, Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Mr. Silverstein said they came together. He proved this by his new formula which has five steps in it. ll -Sig Ux flir2x3 25 ..34X4D:3:-:4 X 22S46Z00 35 Subtract fifteen just for the fun of it. 43 Add twenty-five if in a good mood. 57 Mix, shake well and serve slightly warm. Mr. Silverstein modestly refused any credit for the formula. Said Mr. Silverstein, Let's be hard boiled about this. I don't deserve credit. My history teacher used the formula for many years. I merely gave it a new use. - As a reward, Mr. Silverstein was given a chicken inspection badge, five dozen rotten eggs, and the title of Grand Egg. L P.S. At. the present time Mr. Silverstein is studying the properties of chickens and eggs. NEW KIBBUTZ OPENED IN HONOR OF GREENBERG Yitzchak Greenberg, head of the A.F.L. CAretz Federation of Laborl and famous political leader, whose maiden speech in the Asefat Hanivcharim on behalf of delinquent Yeshiva boys was a sensation, today ofliciated at the founding of Kfar Yitzchak. The ceremonies, however, were picketed by rivals, who claimed that the kifbbutz should be named Kfar Jacob tAvraham has not been heard from yetl. Upon being heckled, Mr. Greenberg said: Stop kibbutzingf' Mr. Greenberg has been in the news several times in the past. Once he was head of the Third Floor Of- fice Worker's Union who wanted to be transferred to the fourth Hoor. When the boss refused, the workers struck for a raise. I Last vear there were A Hmmm! also two attempts on 1 Mr. Greenberg's life. ' . N I Once a hired thug fired X buckshot-tdollar billsj - I X it - at Mr. Greenberg. I , However. the money tl 1 I 1 went awry because ev- , X Il 5 eryone knows that cap- - Hi I 'I' ital is afraid of labor. ,i X I l A second time a char 1-I ,f M V attempted to run him 'I ff l down. but Mr. Green- - I , l bcrg' merely sprad his 5 Q' ' I V legs and the ear zoomed ' A l ,. under. tFor season see ' Tl pliotol - I 'l 'i Spur-f 170119 not pgrmit Q' complrtr picturf, - Tirmvty-Sin.: - A A ,...-,... ,QT5-:nf -- I 5 t I 9 0 m ENTERTAINERS ANNOUNCE NEW ACTS! Zev Chamedes, Pinchas Kahn and Akiva Glickman. the three chalutz entertainers, for Hakibbutz Hadati. announced their new acts today. Zev Chamedes and Pinchas Kahn announced a new death-defying act. fThey crack jokes before an audience which hasn't been disarmed.J, while Akiva Glickman, alias Hypno, the magician and hypnotist, announced his new magic trick. He shuffles a pack of elephants, cuts twice, and deals out ivory keys. Followers of the entertainment world are breath- lessly awaiting the new acts since they recall the sensa- tional old acts of -the three. tlt Kahn and Chamedes duet with Kahn singing t?l and Chamedes playing the comb. t27 Glickman's now famous hypnosis of the Sphinx which made it honest. tUp to then, it had always been half lion.l U.S. AMBASSADOR REACHES MOON! Richard Silverman, first U.S. Ambassador to the Moon and founder and originator of the M.R.P. tMoon Recovery Plant arrived at the moon at 1:57 this afternoon. Mr. Silverman radioed the following message: Attention all cheese lovers. There is no basis for the rumor that the moon is made out of green cheeseg it's made completely of American cheese. However, I t-t-think that I 1-l-landed on the w-w-w-rong side of the m-m-oon because the s-s-sun isn't s-s-shining h-h-he1'e at all. Washington greeted the news of Mr. Silverman's landing with mixed reactions. Senator Miller said: Ah have always been against this trip. It is obviously a Communist plot. There is no question in mah mind that the moon is anti-U.S. for everyone knows that it is a SflfPllZ'fQ.,' SMASH STAVISKY COMEDY ARRIVES! PLAY GOES OVER WITH A BANG! A new smash comedy opened last night at the Habimah Theater in Tel Aviv. It was entitled You Too Can Pass a Regents and it was in three acts tlooking, copying and handing inf! The play was a riot and the audience just died laughing. The critics who had been warned beforehand went for the play in a big way. Said one critic, Looking up the barrel of a gun, the play was terrific. Another critic said, The jokes came as fast machine gun bullets and were just as funny. Said another critic. The play smells. Mr. Stavisky is also the author of a best-sellintr novel, Wherefore art thou? an epic and grand ver- sion of the Lost Weekend, entitled The Last Decade or My Ten Years at T.A. 1 TIM Mfg!- NEW ANTI-TRUST ACTION IN WASHINGTON? The DPDY- of llljustice brought anti-trust actions zlirainst Judah Kirshhlum, prominent businessman, for cornering the market in Izfft-handed teacups. Stanley CUYWIL C0l'I10l'ation lawyer, rlefcnrlt.-fl Mr. Kirshblum in a brief suhmittcrl to the court. Said Mr. Foht-nz Mr, Kirshblum was raising the price on left-hanrlwi teacups to make it impossible for leftists to drink tea. Thus he was defending the American way of lifc. Besides, one half of the monopoly profits were going to a Y.U. scholarship fund. Mr. Kirshblum is well known for his terrific coup a few years ago. At that time, he sewed up the rotten egg market just before one of Ernest Be'.'in's trips to America and made a killing, selling them to demon- strators. NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCED! Marvin Blush. head of the Legume Tooth Powder Co., makers of Peter, the only soap made out of cab- bage, tMotto: If you're tired of washing with it. eat itjl today announced his new product, Bl, the perfume with the magic ingredient, Dizgazdjng. Mr. Blush made the following statement. Bl is guaranteed to make every young girl a Hollywood star. Our motto will be Why Dream of Being a Holly- wood actress? Bl . Bl is made out of limburger cheese with 'infusion de skunk' added. Be 'outsanding' in company with 'B1.' Nine out of ten Hollywood actresses prefer 'Bl' to fertilizer. 'Bl' comes in three sizes: economy size, jumbo size, and hoohah! OPERATION SAVES LIFE! Dr. Samuel Dershowitz today successfully completed a hazardous operation on Mr. Joseph Fischer. The operation was in two parts. The first was a brain operation which was done with ultra-microscopic tools. The second was a gastro-skeneatelic operation fwhich was done with mirrors.5 It seems that Mr. Fischer had swallowed a copy of Life magazine and it had gone to his head. Thus Dr. Dershowitz saved a Life by operating. P.S. Dr. Dershowitz has mislaid a loaded revolver. If anyone finds it. please return it. P.P.S. Mr. Fischer announced that he was suffering from shooting pains. vepfsi . , -li I l9l39gvT5 oh v 4' :I . lx :+G -u 0 Q 'fn I Y A s 112 , tf ' M. .ezs1 f . , . , If 'fe e S' lang-JL' .I B 3 IG 2 Dr. Dershowifz af Work Strut - NEW MANUSCRIPT DISCOVERED! HISTORIANS AMAZED! Mr. Norman Dachs, prominent life-insurance sales- man and president of the Dachs Life Insurance Co. QMotto: The Dachs Life Insurance is as strong as a marshmallowl, today discovered a manuscript which has revolutionized history. While attempting to sell a life insurance policy to a resident of 1060 President Street Lwho's been dead for fifteen yearsb, he dug up an old manuscript. The manuscript had the date 5709 on it and since up to now historians believed that man could not write in 5709 B.C.E., this lmocks history into a cocked hat for it is not only written but printed. Here is a reproduction of the document. Ielrntmznls nf -lilhvra nf the 1. . NYe, the Elders of T. A., otherwise known as Seniors, being in complete possession of our faculties Chaying just taken prisoner our Hebrew and Eng- lish teachersl, do hereby dispose of our unearthly possessions in the following IHHIIHGI' . . . To RABBI FAIVELSON we leave a court record. so he'll know whats involved in his case. To DR. LICHTENSTEIN we leave a Cl'll11llilSl1n class that understands French. To DR. SARACHEK we leave a class of boys and girls to increase his basic vocabulary. To MR. STRYM we leave a loudspeaker so they can hear him in the back. To MR. FRIEDMAN we leave a new science to master. To MR. L1-IBONYITZ we leave a fresh supply of sodium and a can of water to keep it in Cand a new lah to take thc place of the missing onel. To MR. GROSSMAX we leave 100 Long Playing records and an old phono- graph to play them on. To MR. GODIN we leave year's supply of pretzels. To MR. TURETSKY we leave a Shas and a Math book in one volume. To MR. CANTOR we leave a private room for his detective agency. To MRS. LEVITON we leave a picture of a window to hang in her office. To MISS SHERMAN we return the stencils of last term 's finals. And much to our relief . . . we leave T.A. ln perjured witness thereof, we hereby affix our signatures Cone X for alll, - T1c'cnty-E1'g1zf- X X k Nw X XXRX XM 'X Xf X x O' .xy S vw Q-iv G. 0. Council-Fall Term ai. gi . During' the past year. the H. O. has taken new strides on its way to becom- ing a true students organization serving the student bodv's every need. This year has seen great successes in every phase of the H. U, A Club Period has been introduced and at present there are ten clubs functioning in the school. The Club Period is held every Sunday morning' and thus far all the clubs have been highly successful. Typical of thc manifold activities of the clubs are t l'he Star, the G. O. newspaper, which is published bv the Newspaper Club. and a play produced by the English Speaking Club. Inter-school activities have also taken on new signiticance as a school debating teain was set up. lt scored two smashing victories over T. A. Fptown and has already challenged several public high schools. In thc lield of sports. T. A. has also begun to show its merits. Our basket- ball teani record has improved innnenselv. Ping pong' and intramural basket- ball tournanients have been ln-ld and nianv more are planned for the near future. - Thirty- A111o11g the 11tl11'1' N1l1'l'CNS1'N 111:11 111Ll'1l1lQ'111l'K1 1111- 1-. H. N :11'111'1111,-s 11118 ya-111' was 11 l1igl1ly s111'1'essf11l 5111111-111 Day, i11 wl1i1-11 :1ll 1'l11sf1-N 111'1-51-1111-11 il 11121-1' 2lll11 s1111g'. This was 1ll'0Cl,'1,1Cl,1 hy vlass l11llll'1l1b2l11 211141 ping pong 1lIlll'llklllll'll1S illlll 21 Lag B11Vlll1C1' 1111ti11g at 11'l1i1'l1 all the vlasses 1'1lllllN,'1L'11 i11 track Zllltl l,1:1s1-111111. The wi1111i11g class was 5111 'l'1-1-111 NY1llf'1l uosenl 11111 33111 111111 21111 '110l'IllS i11 il V1-ry 1-lose light. Hur G. O. also il1'l'il1lQ'041 for 1111- entire school to aiteml il B1'o11kly11 UUL1Q'L'l' baselmll game ou 1111110 T. A new sr-1111111 111111111-111 was 1-l111se11 after 21 Contest was held and new pins were Ill2ll1C. A11 elhc-i1-111 and Slll001111j' f1111cTio11i11g Service Squad to patrol the school was H1SOfU1'IllC11. Finally. the G. O. appropriated eighty dollars to help T. A. Publications eo11ti1111e its line work. All ill all, it has been the most Sl1C'COSSfUl year 111 The ll. Ofs l1ist11ry 211111 the G. O. eau face the future with high hopes and the assurance of a job well done. G. 0. Council-Spring Term - - -s.-' 5 9' our .fgfid lla Arista, the honor society of the school, continued to function this past year and added to its achievements. T. A. Arista consists of a selected group of students, outstanding' in scholar- ship, service, and character. Candidates for Arista are interviewed yearly and their admission is voted upon by the Student Assembly of Arista and by the Senate, which consists of a group of faculty members. The Arista organization has done meritorious service by conducting' a coaching club for those students needing help with their studies, by disseminat- ing information concerning the school to various interested parties, by proc' toring entrance and final examinations, and finally by exerting' a moral influence on the rest of the student body Tu live up to the ideals for which our school stands. 4-ev Y - Th zirty-Two - f7!w jallir The '1'e1tlel'. our lflllglisli IICWSIJQIIJPIQ is Q1 1'evoluliouz11'y one in that it is ai hybrid ilewspnpei'-iiiziguziiie and of ai unique size. Although only eiglu paiges long for il stzirter, the IHIIJGI' includes excellent NOXYS l'llYCl'2lQ1' an well ilf reviews. eoluiuus, editorials and urtif-les of ai g'C'IlCl'ill interest. Pairtif,-iilurly interesting is the 'l'utle1 ' editorial policy. eleurly iudieaited hy the editoriulx dealing with the Palestine probleui and the CKYl'il-C'lll'l'lC'lllil1' zuztiyilies, This term, the TZlllG1'H staff eousisted of Irving' l,il'COlllJC1'2. editor-iw chief, Martin Kuluuie, Richard SllVG1'1llilll, and Irwin li. Witty, associate edig tors, and Murray Xvklfilllllilll, Art editor. l'11fo1'tu11ate1y, the puhlientioii of the THflE'1'H has heeu lminpered due lv the laek of funds. The puhlif-ation of furthei' ,ll2lllL'1'HN is up to the student hotly. If it receives the wliolelieurted support of the student body, the 'Tatlei- will continue to he one of the more iiuportaiit activities of the sf-hool. xii gf' if? XM' ,X ,i J 'f .. ar' 4- -. - -Ly-, - Tlu'vty-T11rcc- 5, . . . pudgca fiond T. A. Publications constitutes the business board of all three student pub- lications of T. A. Brooklyn: Kolenu. our Hebrew student 01'g21I1. The Tatlerf' our English tabloid. and the Elchanite. our graduating annual. The board consists of two representatives from every class elected to serve for a period of one year. The business manager and circulation manager are then elected by this representative body for the remainder of the year. During' the past year Marvin Bienenfeld and Norman Toporovsky have served as business managers. Irwin NVitty as circulation manager, and Elliot Aberbach as secretary. Meeting-s are held bi-weekly under the guidance of Rabbi Faivelson, our faculty adviser. who has been instrumental in molding the group into a functioning student organization. Une of our main difficulties during the past year was the raising of funds. in order to induce inure students to participate in the procuring' of ads. a ten per cent commission on all ads and various prizes were offered as an extra encouragenient and reward. T. A. Publications has held assemblies and spon- sored publicity cainpaigns to make students more T. A. Publications con- scious. These efforts have proven to be quite successful. T. A, Publications can point with pride to this year's record. It is finishing the sclinnl year with a balanced budget after having' published an lil:-hanite which is larger an-l better than that of last year. - Th irty-F011 r - 3 'G uf UQLM1 ff Kolenu. tl1e Ht,-brew student organ of T. A. Bl'lllllilf'll. is lhl'l1llillll-Y thc only one of its kind in the world. lts proy'o0atiy'e at-tit-les, its b1'illiz1nt style, its exhibition of the lllUSl lllUtl0l'll tetaninology in Hebrew, and its o1'iginal format have received the highest aeclaiin from Hebrew literary eireles. Thus far, two issues of Kolenu have appeared under the editot-ship ot' Irwin NYitty. Rabbi Faivelson, our faculty atilviser, has helped us Pl'tltllll'1t issues wlnt-l1 were truly beautiful. Antong the various artivles lllf,'lllil0t,l in the last issue wwe: 'l'l11- Ques- tion of Languages by Edwin Goldstein, dealing- with the Pl'Ulll0lll of llebrew 01' ,lm-wisl1 as the lz111g'11:1g3'0 to be 0Illlllllj'0tl i11 our Yesl1ivosg l'llllll'2lll1lll for tli1'ls by Irving' Sltupsliy: :1111l a Sj'lllllllSllllll of two 11-ligiolls points ot' View on the establisl11ne11t ot' the -lowisl1 State ot' lsrat-l. by Satnuvl SllYt'l ilClll and Irving' Greenberg. Some of the other features imluded t l1i1l11sl1ei 'I'o1-11l1 by NYallace Chamedes, Arnold Turin. and Melvin Heller. Il 1-1-osswm-tl puzzle by Israel Sturm. a llllllltll' Ulillllllll by 3l4ll'lUll 5llllllllt'l'. :1111l Sll0l'l stories by Irving' iil'l'1'lllll'l'L1' and Blurray NYz11-l1111a11. The ltlditorial Board 1l111'i11g' the last year 1-o11sist1-tl ot' l-l1l1x'i11 tloltlstt-i11. lrx'i11g' ill'0Qlllll'l'Q', Rlt'llill'tl SllYttl'Ill2lll. 11111-11111 Sllllll1ll'l'. and llu1'1'z1y XY:11'l111111n. The fUl flll'UIlllllQ' issue ot' KUlt'lllll' will be ptllmlislwtl in the t'ill'lf' part Ill' next te1'111 in order to Q-iw Sllltlt'lllN an oppo1't1111ity tu xrrite :11'ti11les and 1l-1 l'CSt'ill't'll UX't'l' tln- Slllllltlt'l'. - Tllirt1l-F1f'v- - Q' S 1 f , wr-qv.:-f-wu-1 My. ' 'aaa lf Rn Y. . . 5 Wing -qlllm' mmfmga Q-5 'N1u . S -1 A341 Sb? .ix fixg qgpn-m-uf N4 51 x e x . gif .X 4m 3' Q 'X ' CZ. I Eff. Him -Ql- 1.., .155 fi' .,..-- 2:...,x L-I -g-,-.,,, gba.-. 3: 1 '-vi! . .a i-., JL., ,Q a,,n ..-- rv 58 '. f 6 Gr :NEED 53' K ry b I X1 .,,,X 1. insulin ,. u., :Fain- . ,.Y, C x - ' I ' - 1: we olgglaafg The long and hard work on the parts of Mr. Lilker and Rabbi Faivelson. library faeulty advisers, has finally been rewarded. The expanding library has definitely taken its plaee as a eenter of student interest. The library, which eonsists of English and Hebrew departments, has been under the supervision of Judah Kirshblum. chief librarian, Ynder a rotating sehedule. two librarians are on duty daily and eaeh member of the staff serves only a half a term. The library has reorganized its reference department this term so as to include eneyelopedias, dietionaries. and other reference works. It haw also arraneged for the importation of books from Israel to augment its already line eollerrtion of Hebrew books. Library books are available for referenee and eireulation every day from 1:15 pm. until 2:00 lun.. exerpt on Fridays and Sundays. a11d at other eon- yenient hours. Q ,,, i l I r 94 l X f l , ' hwhw In 'le Q fl, lang Ucle L 5 EW lb A I' ' f L 12' 1 E A XV I . l ' y- U 'lllll' lll't Illl nl' .Xvillx lr..w .ll l.nxl luv:-'ml' 1 re Illl lu J f 'l'. .X.'Q lull l'llYlNl1llll4l 4lf'll lllI 11-'mn luux Hum In 'V I llfm' llllllvl' llll' 1lll'1 'llwru ul' ,Xsrrrvln Nlslvlxll ml lnlx --q. Spring Team 9 7 7 7 1 NNl l x I , A ,Xl lvl l'illE2C'Kl. ll full l ml mall . 2 ' I ' I 1 Qin. we m'u l plmxll s l4'2llIl. llll'lUIDl1'NX2Ii Ill ulvrx, NWI' l lNllllNlIllI Xl1llrIY 'YI ilu l N. Ntllll all-wut ln11l1I.n15 .ml lu llIlllI lxn lwli. Hui' il,-11111 luuli lln- lu-gwllivc mul xx 10 Jllwlgvs xvm-V0 llr, -lem-plm 52ll'Jl1'll1'li :mfl Xl! llm X 11r'f-lslilv. -U5 . mm IIl4ll'1' 11111-1' sc-lwul ll1'll2ll1Y 'nm ln uw ll L2 Fall Team - Tl' N111-,X'1':fe ts - 1 ist, 5 W we .00 Cdoir The school choir continued to function this year under the leadership of li-win E. XVitty. The group sang for the school once this year, at the Chanuka affair, but was called upon to perform at other ceremonies. It made a request appearance before the Yeshiva University Ladies' Auxiliary and was received enthusiastically. The group consists of about a dozen boys and sings in two voices, alto and bass. Its repertoire consists principally of Hebrew melodies in traditional harmonies and of several Jewish numbers. Soloists are Martin Kahane and Samuel Dersliowitz, who is also assistant leader. Although the choir has had many handicaps to overcome, it has achieved a certain degree of success. It plans to increase its activities in the future by performing more often at such school functions as assemblies, parties. and graduations. -Forty- ATHLETICS O11 March 21, T. A. of Brooklyn completed its haslcethall season hy defeat- ing an inferior Ramaz team in a thrilling upset. Weakened hy the lack of a gym, the team struggled through the season attaining a fine record of victories. Following are some of the highlights of the basketball season. Opening the season. T. A. trouneed M. T. J. to the approval of a throng of students. Setting a precedent, T. A. of Brooklyn ventured out of the Yeshiva League to play Thomas Jefferson's Junior Varsity. After putting up a gallant fight, T. A. succumbed to the superior .leliferson team. T. A. then proceeded to play Lubavieher Yeshiva, R. J. J., Ramaz, T. A. l'pton'n. H. T. J. for a second time. and finally R. J. J. for a second time. Avenging an earlier setback, Ramaz beat T. A. in the last game of the season. The prospects for next year are hright. Losing' only Irv Forman and Marv Blush, due to graduation, Uoaeh Hal .letter will have almost his complete squad back again. XVith the close of the haslcethall season. dil'l'erent sports were practiced at T. A. A thrilling ping pong tournament was won hy Sam lleishowitz. who came out first in a field of 10-1. Since the purchase of boxing gloves by the adininistration, our spacious play-room has heen the scene ol' many a houl. During' physical education, Mr. Julius Jacobs, our health-ed iustruetor. gives aid and pointers in the manly art ot' self-defense. .- For!!!-Om' - f 55124 My WW wt 91 x X fu . X Q XX x xYX XX T , X SSN X xx Q, ELBHHIIITI Affaft af .flbawa Standing there under the shadow of the grey walls of the Old City that morning brought back memories of a visit which I had paid to the Sacred city in 1936. Only then I had come to the city under the veil of darkness. It was at the height. of the Arab riots, and for a Jew to roam the streets of the Old City in daylight mea11t sure death. My student visa had almost expired. But I had to see the Old City. And so I had gone in for a night. llow different was it now as I stood outside the walls among the Haport- zim, that crack Palmach unit massed to breach the walls and rescue the be- leaguered inhabitants of Jerusalem, For two thousand years the Old City had echoed and re-echoed to the clang of invader's steel. For twenty- four centuries, foreigners had trampled the streets of Jerusalem. For all that time not a Jewish army had raised its banner in defenseg not a brigade or company had defended its ancient Jewish birthright. Yet here I was, standing upon the threshold of new days in the Old City's history, for a Jewish army was about to smash its gates, breach its walls, and liberate its Jewish inhabitants. The sun was rising from the east. The pale crescent moon faded in the morning sun and the Arab hold on the Old City was quickly ebbing. The commander of Haportzim spoke to his men: i'Cl13.V81'I1'I1, this is a day for which we have been waiting. I cannot urge you to do anything, but let each and everyone remember that we are the first Jewish invaders the Holy City has seen in 2-L00 years. Act accordingly! It was a simple message. No heroics. No blood and thunder. Just a reminder. Just a. reckoning long past due which was to be settled. At 5 :OO a.1n. the heavy guns of the Palmach spoke. Cpening their yawning mouths, they roared the message of a long self-contained people and cried out, Kanaim, we have returned! The battle for the Old City was on. The Arab Legion was not long in answering. From the rooftops near the walls, from every cranny and nook in the walls, the fire was returned. The duel went on for twenty-seven minutes. Then abruptly came the silence. It was a silence more ominous than the previous noise. Did it spell the defeat of the attempt? NVas the attempted break dying already? I glanced worriedly at my watch. For over three-quarters of an hour the silence reigned over the Old City. Then the officer of Haportzim spoke again. Strike for the gates. Our objectives are the Jaffa. and Zion gates. The people of the city are waiting near the gates for you, To the attack, Haportzim! Suddenly. the line surged tforward. Like an angry torrent it leaped toward the gates. Like a huge carnivorc of old. it opened its mouth to swallow its prey. The Legion guns opened again. The Palmach artillery reopened its barrage. The Haportzim reached the gates and formed two parallel lines with a path in - Forty-Fam' - hetween for the Old lfity inhahitanls to llee tln'oue'll. The tiring was her-oming more furious, hut the llaportxim did not give ground. The seeond wave went into aetion. It swept over the adyaneed Arah positions and went l'llI'lllCl'. For an hour the evacuation eontinued. Then the otlieer eave the signal, Hllaport- zim, withdra.w l Under the cover of the ,lfalmaeh artillery, the llaportzim withdrew. The artillery ltept up the tire until the Haportzim were haeli to the artillery posi- tions. First the guns and then the men withdrew. The iirst Jewish army to invade Jerusalem in over two thousand years had :ter-omplislied its mission with a minimum of loss of life. The avenging Jewish army had hosted the hatefl inyader. Bar Koehha, they had returned! Irving Greenberg je 05,0111 By WILLIAM NYANDERHR My help, my hope, my strength shall he, Thou perfect Law of G-d, in thee! My faith shall be my roek ot might, Its Law my portion and my right, Its testimonies 1ny delight, And day by day, my voiee I raise In song and hymn to ehant their praise. How did the angels then lament XYhen from their midst. by G-d's intent, The holy Law to earth was sent. NVoe that the pure and sanetihed Should now on sinful lips ahidef' The people tremhled when they saw Approaching them toe heavenly Law- Their voiees rose in joy and awe: Thy eoyenant. U liord, fultil: Deelare it. we will do thy will. llear thou then Thy in-opleispl'21y0l'. U King. NYhen like the heavenly host they sing Thrice, -e lloly, lloly, Holy gr uttering' Sweet hymns and songs of plensantness With joy and awe Thy name to hless. 1 Y Y f Forty-l fL'1' 1 OZDCLIIJ By MARTIN KAHANE Land of a promise, land of Gilead, Land oft conquered, land oft seized, Land now again held by another, Land, raped by Edom, Land mocked by Rome, ' XVe survived all of these - so too this other. Land of martyrs, land of pride, land great and full of joy Land, for you we dare, The will is there. The enemy, we 'll crush and destroy. Land of present, land of past, land of future consecration. Land, though we die, Land still we'll cry, 'Tis good to die for our great nation. Land, how they shame you, land how they blame you. Land you are not mine. they claim, Land, if thou'rt not, Let my right hand be forgot, And forcyer accursed be their name. There 'S a land of glory, a land soaked with blood, A land ripped away from my mother 's breast. And land till we'ye kneeled, On your sacred fields, Until that day, we swear we'll not rest. Land of tempest, land of storm, land of bitter tragedy, Land, we'll take thee, Land, We'll make thee, O holy land of fathers three. Land of prayers, land of tears, land crying out in fear, Land, We heed thee, Land we need thee, Land, we march, we strike, we hear. Land chosen for rule, land chosen for pain, Land, when may I call you mine again? O land, the road is long, And the enemy strong, But still we'll conquer this son of Cain. ELIHHJIIHE 1 V V Claim 77acdm an 111, J11'1fo,v 1,1f1.'.v1fJ1.' Cliaiin Nillflllllilll Bialik is iiiiquestionalily the greatest llc-brew poet of 1111111- ern Hebrew literature. He was bor11 in the l12l1l1lC'E of Radi, i11 Yolhynia, Russia, of poor Has- sidie parents. When Bialik was six, his father died. ln o1'de1i to alleviate thc Iinancial burden of the family, the youiig' orplian was sent to an lllll'lt'. While there, he was l11llllCllCOtl by a. learin-d Q,'1'ill1Llf2llllf'l' who sent hi111 to the l'21lIlOllS Volozhin Yeshiva. In l1is poein The Bll2tS1l1ld,H one of his many autobiographical sketches, Bialik gives us 3111 insight i11to his younger years as a Yeshiva student. He pic- tures l1i111self as a type of perpetual scholar, deaf to all the whispers and teniptations of nature and the lure of his OWI1 young blood. 'The Masmid' was considered a speeinien partly of comic and partly of tragiconiic huinan degeneration by the apostles of culture, to whoin pure intellect, asceticisin, and self-sacrifice for 1110136 learning had become unity ill the highest degree. Bialik regards the Beth Haniidrasli tHouse of Studyj as a holy prison, the pure source of Jewish emotion and desire. In that house of learning the Masniid spends lllfllly years - years that know no life 11or sunlight, years of a youth growing into manhood, years of Struggle to overeonie obstacles. years of hun- ger, sleeplessness, wasting iiesh a11d falling cheeks. years 2110116 with his three friends-his stand, his candle illld his Talniud-devotiiig hiinself to the study of the Law. This was the blessed life of the iihI3S111ldli as described and experienced by Bialik. His ability to construct a lifelike picture before the reader illlfl to depict the hardships and difficulties he had to overconie are revealed ill this poe111. However, The Masinidn was not Bialik's Olllj' poem. In fact, he has written hundreds of other poeins, essays, and stories i11 Hebrew as well as in Yiddish. His lirst, known poein was lil Ilatzippoi-. illl iiiiagiiiary conver- sation between the poet and a bird returning from Pali-stiiie, in wliivli Rialik gives ve11t to his deep feelings of grief over the s11ll'e1'i11g of his l1l'l'lll1'Cll in exile. This poem ill1'Cilllj' bore the speeilieally 1111tio1111listiv l'llil1'ill'lC1' which led to the poetfs being erowned as the national poet of his DCOpl0. 'l'he poet was seized with divine lil'l'1lZj'H Wllt'll he 1-oiiiposeil his a111g'1-5' pogrom poems. 'l'l1e Songs of XY1'2llll.H wliieh at once estalilislieil his SllI1l'k'lll4 :ivy as the poetic l'l'l1l'OSOlll2lllVC ol' his llilllllll. The lNll'lll Heir ll:1l1g11'i2:1l1 -- F1vf'I!f.ql'l'i'1l - EL.3HI1I1l'l'1.' t ln the City of Slaughtermj, written in 1903, is a graphic picture of the atrocities committed during the Kishenev pogrom. Here he lashes in bitter and angry tones. not only at the instigators of the pogrom, but at the passive tolerator, whom he considered more guilty than the perpetrator of the crime. He became one of the purest, most expressive lyric poets of modern Hebrew literature. He resuscitated the almost defunct Hebrew language and gave it elasticity and originality. showing that it is capable of expressing all the effects of light, sound, and color. Before long, he achieved fame as the greatest Hebrew poet of his day. He became the poet laureate of the Jewish renaissance, its most beloved name and popular figure. He was accorded the highest recognition of any Hebrew or Yiddish writer. the central personality in literaturefequally respected by all factions of Jewry. The struggles over Bolshevism which almost cost him his life did not prevent him from protesting against the persecution of his people. NVith heroic self-sacri1'ice, he championed the cause of the Hebrew language and its culture. He protested, he complained, and his voice was that of an entire people whose culture was being trampled upon. Bialik was allowed to leave the country in 1921, whence he travelled to Berlin and Hamburg, establishing publishing houses in both cities. He finally arrived in Palestine in 1924, where he spent the remainder of his life. There he turned to translating and completed several Hebrew versions of illustrious foreign works. S-hakespeare's Julius Caesar, Cervantes' Don Quixote. Schiller's HXVilliam Tell and Heine's poems were some of the works he rendered into Hebrew. ln his later day, Bialik was active as a leader ot the Zionist movement and was a member of the governing board of the Hebrew Yniversity in Jerusa- lem. Chaim Nachman Bialik was unquestionably one of the most recognized Jewish figures of his generation. No poet in Israel has been accorded such universal recognition, esteem, and affection. The great poetfs career came to an end on July 4, 193-1. Throughout the world, he was mourned by all classes as the resurreetor of the Hebrew language and culture. This date of July -1. 1934 is certainly a memorable one in my life for on that day l was born and named Bialik Myron Lerner. - Forty-Eight Q .NG waj l'ell hy SABII' IC Ii l l'1IJl'I II N.xltR.vroR: This is Maintown - Blaintown, Kansas. llaintown is just a small town with small town villagers and small town ways. l,ik1- every great eity and small town, it has its war dead. the heroes of Iiataan, Huadaleanal. Anzio, Normandy, and lwo Jima. Today, Maintown is a proud town. Her eitizens are proud, for today the people are dedicating' a playground to Corporal Joe tlreenherup a Congres- sional Medal of Honor man. A few faets are in order before we open this story. Joe was Jewish. He was horn in 1921 ot' foreign parents. He died at Iwo Jima in 19-I5. This is the story of a simple small town hoy trying to make good. As we open our story, Mayor Cole is in the aet of dedir-ating a playground to the memory of Joe Greenberg. BIAYORZ . . . Therefore, we who are gathered here today are dedir-ating this memorial to one of our own boys. Corporal Joe Greenberg. He was well- known to all of us. He Qrew uv among' us. You eould always have found . l . . him with the gang at the eorner eandy store or at a eommunity gathering, His childhood was that of any young hoy of Maintown. He was born . . . tV0ice fadcs.D Mics. GREENBEM: He was my boy. He was a good hoy. He would he happy to hear them say that he was one of them. Joey neyer liked to he ditferent. tHer ro-ice fndes.l MRS. GREENBEHG: Why, Joey, I thought you were playing foothall with the boys? Joe: They clon't want to play with me. MRS. GRIIQENBMUQL: NYhy. what's the matter? JOE: You see, Ma, it like this. All the Fellows have foothall helmets and things for Christmas presents and I had to tell them that I didn't have any Christinas. Then one of the fellows said that I was ditt'erent and that I eouldn't play with them anymore. Mas. Hniclfixislclzo: Naturally, I honght him the et ui nnent, Inn he never forgot . I that he was ditterent . . . tI'oi4-1, fruits out.l BIAYOIIZ Yes sir. he was one of us. We all hold dear memories --I' him deep in our hearts . . . 1I'o1'rv j'm11s,l JOAN: That's my father talking there. You just heard what he said. Yes. I should feel proud ot' him. Yet there is sometliine' I ean'I forget. I1 happened one day after sehool. tlvtflid' ffldrsd 1 - Forty-Xirzt' - Y Y BIAYORZ Why so late. J oan? JOAN: I stopped to talk to Joey 'Greenberg on the corner. You know him. He 's the captain of our high school football team. BIAYORI How many times did I tell you that I didn't want you to talk to him? Ill have no daughter of mine talking to a Jew in the street. Har- rumph, especially when I intend to run for re-election next fall. CVoice fadesj MAYOR: We all remember him as the captain of our football team and how he led his team to victory. It was when Joey was nineteen that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the marines two weeks later. He made a fine record there and we were all proud of him. It was our privi- lege that he came from our IOXVII. But then he was killed at Iwo Jima. Part of his citation reads, On the fourth day of fighting, Corporal Greenberg and his men were sent ahead to cover an officer who was trying to take medical supplies to some wounded soldiers in no-man's land. CVoice fGfZf?S.J BIULLIGANZ Yes sir, that what the citation said. I remember how he was sent out. CVoice fadesj BIULLIGANZ You guys all know that the captain is stranded out there. I want some volunteers to cover him. JOE: I volunteer. Sergeant Mulligan. VOICE: I'll go with Corporal Greenberg. IIULLIGAX : Come here. Greenberg. Listen, you know you don 't have to go out there. I know you have some screwy ideas about being different. Out here, we're all the same. Nobody 's any better than you. JOE: I don 't know what you're talking about. MULLIGAN: Oli., O.K. Go ahead, Greenberg. CI'0fice fadesj MAYOR: Yes. ladies and gentlemen, today is a great day in the history of Maintown. IYe all feel a. terrible sickness in our hearts when we think of Joey out there, a lonely grave in the Pacific marked only by a white Star of David. It is, therefore, only fitting and proper that we dedicate this playground as a. memorial to Corporal Joe Greenberg. Every man who served in the armed forces of our country is a hero and every man who received the Congressional Medal of Honor is a special hero. But Joey was different. He belonged to us. Yes, Joey was different. He was one of us. ILBH 'lIll'l.E -Fifty- 'Cl' ,Mmaf id meafd By MUli'l'tbN Sl'MMl'Ili XYhat is death? l asked myself, walking down the street, and the echo answered. Yes, what is death ? Down the block, I saw a crowd gathering around a Store windowg l walked over and saw a man lying on the ground, lying on the ground cold to the world, still clad in his work apron. The woman near him, standing upright, started to scream. and the scream was a horrible, terrifying, heartbreaking sound, alld the ambulance siren in the background throbbedg this is, this is. this is death. What is death ? I asked myself, farther down the street. A little old lady was crossing the street. with two bottles of milk and a loaf of bread, the stat? of life, when all of a Sudden a car came careening around the corner. and in a moment the little lady was lying in the gutter, her head twisted in a grotesque manner, the milk spilt all over. the bread still clutched in her hand. and as the crowd gathered, the police siren wailed in the baekgroundg this is, this is, this is death. 'WYhat. is death T I asked myself, as rain-clouds gathered overhead. NYhen the storm broke. I ran up on a porch and asked the old man sitting there. May 1 stay T And he replied, Yes, my son, you may. While the thunder crashed and thc lightning flared. l asked him, Are you afraid of death '? and he said. No, my son. for what is death but a never-ending sleep - a never ending sleep for the body, while the soul rises on high. And the rain drops falling echoed: that is. that is. that is death. - Fill-f,ll-flllr' -- ELJHIIIIITZ Car! Sandgurg: aureafe of .gnoludfriaf .fdmerica by RICHARD STLVERBIAN The recent opening of the Lincoln letters brings to mind an author who spent years in interpreting the greatness of the civil war president. His name is Carl Sandburg. Among our modern authors who have written both prose and poetry, Carl Sandburg occupies a prominent position. Though he has won great acclaim for his biography of Lincoln, to my mind, Sandburg has a more powerful and more human facet as poet and interpreter of the industrial life of America.Sandburg'S poetry, a poetry of free verse written in the plain speech of the American people, was strikingly new because it was a poetry that contained the singing of the American idiom. It was a. poetry that sounded the voice of the man on the street by employing expressive words and phrases like galoots, jazz- man, fourflusher, jazz the classics, bring home the bacon, and you said a mouth- ful. Of course. the language is at times crude and raucous but, as Sandburg says, he wanted Hsomething in the American lingo . . . Unless we keep on the lookout, we write book language and employ the verbiage of dead men inst.ead of using the speech of people alive today. 1 Thus, through his selective vocabu- lary, Sandburg presents a kaleidoscopic parade of vividly presented pictures. Sandburg, having gained his education, as Louis Untermeyer says, in the 'University of Hard Labor, 2 is the poet of the lowly born. He is a member of the proletariat and one of its defenders. Sandburgs is a life devoted to the protection of labor, a life dedicated to the advancement of social democracy. A great part of Sandburg's pages is devoted to the worker 'and indeed these are his best pages. Sandburg truly depicts people in such lines as, 'tHow many cents for the sleepy eyes and fingers? He wants us to know of the stockyard Hhunkyt' sweeping blood off the floor, getting 'ta dollar seventy-five cents a day when he works. He must tell us of little Mamie from Indiana who dreamed of romance and big things off somewhere the way the railroad trains run and now has a 2146 a week job in a Chicago department store. Sandburg is the 'tdefeated artist . . . crying out against these wrecks, these misshapen hulks of houses, huge ugly buildings that he has to pass day by day, the output of a purely utilitarian age that has no beauty, no joy in it . . . buildings so hope- less that you have to see them only at dusk or by moonlight to get any poetry out of them. 3 Sandburg's first poetic work appeared in 191-I under the title of Chicago Poems. In it is perhaps his best known poem, Chicago, with which he came into his own. ti'hicago is representative of Sandburg's style and philosophy. lie addresses the city thus: V Player with Railroads and ,the Nations Freight Handler: Hog Butcher for the XYorld. Tool Maker, Stacker of XYheat Stormy, husky, brawling City of the Big Shoulders. 115 Rica Brenner, Ten Modern Poets, Harcourt, Brace X Co. C23 Louis I'DtEl'lll6j'61', Yesterday and Today, Harcourt, Brace S Co. C3j Harry Hansen. Midwest Portraits - Fifty'Tu'o - lle goes on to describe the unpleasantness and brutality ol' the city, eritieims vituperatively the coarse lite ot Chicago, and concludes: Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter ol' youth 3 halt-naked, sweating, proud to be a. llog-butcher, 'l'ool-maker, Stacker olf NYheat, Player with Railroads, and Frcight-handler to the Nation. Sandburg's brutality is an essential characteristic of his poetry only when the subject dealt with is brutal. Sandburg can be delicate, as in the poem en- titled Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. lt sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunehes and then, moves on. Sandburg uses harsh colors and raw dissonances when his theme is a vulgar dance hall or a battlefield, it would never occur to him to paint the howling en- ergy of a steel mill in delicate pastels. Two years later, Sandburg brought forth his second work entitled Corn- huskers These poems take us to the Illinois country where the poet was born and describe t.he laborers and hoboes, and women and children he became ac- quainted with while earning a living. Soon after, in 1920, Sandburg came forth with Smoke and Steel which is perhaps his finest work, for in it he has reached human and artistic maturity. In Smoke and Steelf, Sandburg brings us into the shops and factories of America and presents the sweating men of the factory, the huge mills molding steel for American Industry - the vitality of American industrial life. Sand- burg's philosophy mellowsg his themes become more significant, his artistry shows more restraint. Sandburg's next volume, 'tSlabs of the Sunburnt NYest, is inferior to his first three works. The greater part of the work is sketchy and weary and the slang is overdrawn. But. one poem, HAnd So To-Day,'l deserves mention. A poem inspired by the burial of the Unknown Soldier, it is an attack against the leaders of our nation. He says: The honorable orators, Always the honorable orators, Buttoning the buttons over their prince alberts, Pronouncing the syllables 'sac-ri-tice' Juggling those bitter salt-soaked syllables - Do they ever gag with hot ashes in their mouths? The poem continues to discuss the principles for which the l'nknown Soldier gave his lite and which remain unrealized. The poet portrays the procession down Pennsylvania Avenue as men and boys riding horses, roses in their teethu and as skeleton men and boys riding skeleton horses. lle visualizes the nation panegyrizing the dead hero and sketches the nneomprehending crowd of onlookers. Answering the orator, the eynieal newsreel man says. Feed it to 'em, they lap it up . . . bull . . . bull, The scar-faced ball player says. lt's all sa l'e now, sate for the yes-men. The irony ol' the poem is seen in the last stanza. 1 - Fifty-T11 ree - Y 'V And so to-day-they lay him away- The boy nobody knows the name of- They lay him away in granite and steel- XYith music and roses-under a Hag- Under a sky of promises. His later poetic works. Rootabaga Stories, Rootabaga Pigeons. The American Songbagf' The People, Yes, etc. are characteristic Sandburg material. Some treat diiterent themes and others present new ideas, but they are all alike in that they embrace the American idiom. Sandburg stands as the liberator of American poetry from classical forms and as the exponent of the use of the American idiom by the American writer. Travelling through Sandburg's domain, we see gigantic visions of the mas- sive city. XVe hear the whistle of the policeman and the sounding of the auto- mobile horn, sounds peculiar to the city. YVe see America at work-huge crowds of rugged men and women. bent and twisted to form the gargoyles of American city life. In effect, we see Carl Sandburg as the laureate of industrial America. reen, Czeede ana! fAe 7140011 By ARNOLD TSERIN We are lost souls in a lost world, Naught but ions and ions of space and time Sprinkled with broken bits of a lost universe. So rush on, crush on, Oh grab 011. crab on, Do think on. blink on. To clink on, drink on. Why, laugh on, chaif on, Aye cry on, die on 5 Futility thy name is human! So. slaughter on, court her ong Oh blast on, fast ong Do pray on. slay on, To defy on. July on. 'Why, rely on, pry on: Aye dance on. chalice on, Into meaningless oblivion! And why call stop, why call stop To aimless. meaningless wraiths In trackless. placeless void? t EL!3HllIl,I'l'E - Fifty-Four - 1 id lnfgig jjallnurlv By llikv l N XY lT'l' Y At twenty-nine, Yaak Romano was the youngest singer ever to be signed for the tenor voice group of the Metropolitan Hpera t'ompany. 'l'welvt- years ago. Reedy had discovered him singing' in New York and after only one year's coaching by Angelo, Yaak was accepted. Reedy was Malcolm Reid, manager and talent discoverer exti'aoi'tlinary. He was a short. pot-bellied little fellow with a brogue as thick as a Humstead special. He could always be found boasting about his boy in the thick of the mist curling from his cigar. Yaak had Reedy to thank for his position today, and he entrusted him with arranging his concert programs. NVhen i'Reedy iirst discovered Yaak's talent. Yaak was substituting for his father, Cantor Romanovsky. at an ordinary synagogue function. Yaakov Roinanovsky had a voice. Everybody said so, Even Reb Berel Chosid, the synagogue 's greatest authority. said, XVe'll see 'nachas' from him yet! Yaakov, at the time. was a student of the Yeshiva on the East Side, and he was 0116 of the more brilliant fellows in Reb Yitzchak Isaacs class. People had high hopes for him to become a rabbi. But Yaakov enjoyed singing more. He was a natural cantor and when Reedy gave him his chance-and he was only seventeen, mind you-he grabbed it. But throughout his career, the thought of Reb Yitzchak Isaac kept obsessing him. A The plane motor droned on monotonously. He tried reading a newspaper. He tried smoking. 'Reedy watched him carefully. Yaak was worried about something. He had performed before and he had never so much as batted an eye. Once in Hollywood, he performed with Lauritb Helchior, Laurence Tibbett. and Robert Merrill in the audience. He walked out and had them duinbfounded. They applauded until the house rocked. And now, he was nervous. He was returning from Vancouver to New York after a successful tour of Canada. to open the season at Carnegie Hall upon the invitation of the Music Critics' Association. In its announcement of its choice. he had been called the greatest living tenor. He had a melodious lyric style. and everything he sang had 110tl1ll1f7 ll'llId0i21l about it. He had the top tones in his back pocket. 1 , 1 D L As he descended the plane steps and entered the waiting cab, he glanced nervously at his watch on his shaking hand. lt was 6:18. It would take an hour to get to the hotel room, wash, dress. and grab a snack. lle would make it all right. In the hotel room, Yaak glanced over the program and the score for the night. Selections from Verdi. NYagner, Saint-Saens, Gershwin. and Porter were on the program. But his first number was to be a new piece in honor of Israel. lt was a composition called Koi Nidrt-i. lt was 1'UlIlI Wl'l IW Rossolini ot' La Scala fame who was touring the l'nited States and who would - Fzfliflf-F1'1'e' - Y Y ILJHIIIIIII be there to hear him perform it. Yaak k11ew it perfectly. Rossolini had even coached him. but he was not exactly calm about it. His mother had written him that she and his father would be there to hear him perform, but so would Reb Yitzchak Isaac who had always said: Let the man who wishes to have the fear of G-d removed from him go without a hat. That was what he was recalling to himself then as he heard 'tReedy calling to him: Come on, kid! it's 7:45 already. XVe'd better be going. I called a cab already. After they arrived at the hall and were ushered into their dressing room, Yaak put on his dress suit. As UR-eedy helped him on with his jacket, he asked: Yaak, what 's this undertakei-'s cap you 've got. in your suit pocket. Should I throw it away? 'Nof' he said. HI'm going to need it tonight. Just before he was to go out, he looked through the curtains, There they were. His mother, now much older, was sitting and waiting anxiously. Her hair had become grayer since the last time he had seen her. She read the pro- gram and glanced nervously toward the door and then back to the stage and back again to her husband and Reb Yitzehak Isaac. His father, now weak from a heart attack he suffered the previous year, was sitting with his hat on, mopping his brow and smiling at something Reb Yitzchak Isaac was saying. Reb Yitz- chak's beard was as white and long as ever, and his dark piercing eyes were still hidden beneath his long lashes. Then the overture began. Yaak looked at the hands of the large clock at the rear of the huge hall. It was almost 9 :30. By this time there was an overflow crowd, with standing room only. Yaak was still thinking of Reb Yitzchak Isaac's thoughts. He re- called how long ago, the other students would push each other to get a seat up front to be able to hear Reb Yitzchak Isaac. Every second day or so. he would take time out to rebuke his students for not wearing tzizis and for not wearing a hat. A bare head was the worst thing imaginable. Then he looked up at the box seats. Rossolini was smoking quietly and peacefully, waiting for the program to get under way. What would he know about a bare head '? To him the composjftion meant royalties and fame. Oh! It was a fine Jewish liturgical composition, a traditional prayer-even a popu- lar classic. Many who heard him that night didn 't even know he was Jewish. But as he walked out on stage to the cheering of the crowd and bowed in response. he put his hand into his pocket and but on his skull cap. Maestro Pellicini took up the baton and the introduction began. Rossolini was waiting for Yaak when he finished. As he bowed with his hat still on. his rabbi did the same thing Yaak did. He took out a handkerchief also, but not to wipe his brow. - Fifty-Sir - me Cibikrnma of Souief ewrg Iiy ALEX HUi Fl'lli According' to the census taken in 15139, Z1,tI2tl,tJtIti Russians declare-d then:- selves of Jewish nationality. According' to thc analysis ot' .lacoh Lcstchinsky, a Jewish economist, the total number of Jews within present Soviet bound- aries docs not exceed l,500.000. ' The estimate of the research department ol' the American Joint Distribution Coininittee is l,S00,0tltl. One fact, however, remains undisputed. Hrganized Russian Jewish life is deteriorating deplorably. The 1936 Soviet. Constitution states: ln order to insure to all citizens freedom of conscience. the church in the l'.S.S.R. is separated from the state and the school from the church. Freedom ot' religious worship and freedom of anti-religious propaganda are recognized for all citizens. Nevertheless. once this freedom was granted to the people. there was an appalling turn toward irreligion on the part of the youth. gentile as well as Jewish. The older folk, as usual, clung tenaciously to religion, but because of the rigid censorship of education and the ban on public observance, there need be little wonder at the condition of Judaism there. During the war. however, there was a slight increase in religious interest because of the decline of anti-religious propaganda. This, in turn, was due to war and political considerations. From infrequent notices in the press, we conclude that a number of syna- gogues do exist. Rabbis and slaughterers perform their functions and unleav- ened bread is still being baked for the Passover season. but with much trouble. Nevertheless, witnesses report that it is not quite so easy to conform to the requirements of the Jewish faith, for religious ceremonial objects. scrolls of the Law, prayerbooks, and phylacteries are all hard to find. The fact that no Jewish calendars are published in Russia makes it difficult to observe the Holy Days on the proper dates. It is still forbidden to import these objects. Since the advent of the war, the cultural institutions have decayed. Publi- fation of Hebrew journals and all activities in llebrew are strictly forbidden. Only a. short time ago, one Yiddish newspaper was published in Moscow three times a week by the Jewish Anti-Fascist tfomniittee. li. Auerbach. in the Jewish Morning Journal. suggests that the lCinigkeit. the newspaper in question, attempted to maintain a bit of contact and unity with the rest of world Jewry. Therefore. it too was suspended. Now. in all of the vast Soviet territory, there is not one journal dedicated to Jewish topics. No Jewish religious instruction exists in the Soviet l'nion. Moreover. some people have already been severely punished for having taught their children the precepts of Judaism or tor having proinulaated the essentials of Zionism. 1 'l'he New Leader, May S, l9-17 1 - Ff,l'fy-SCl'C1?- Y W As yet. in Russia. tl1e government has not seen tit to maintain even the Yiddish- ist type of school in which Zionism and Hebrew are forbidden. The Soviet government has sought to solve the problem of Jewish nation- alism by establishing Birobidzhan. an autonomous region for Jewish settlement. For those only wanting to escape from persecution. Joseph Stalin can point with pride also to the Constitution which provides that anti-Semitism is forever eradicated. That connnunism has properly dealt with the Jewish question is an incorrect supposition, will be shown below. Birobidzhan was instituted as a Jewish autonomy to attempt to solve the problem of Jewish nationalism by dedecting the growing interest in Zionism. Menahem Boraisha points out that this failed for two reasons. The Jews who were not interested in the preservation of Jewish nationalism did not bother to settle there because they assimilated where they were and those who cared for traditional Judaism saw in the Soviet Jewish territory nothing but a. mockery of Jewish aspirations. 2 Anti-Semitism still flourishes in the country once identified with pog- roms. 3 Jews who returned after the war are still demanding the return of their confiscated property. Jewish professors and teachers who were forced to leave their positions are no longer admitted to the universities. In the army, Jews are denied admission into the higher ranks, although in some cases they merit elevation. In the press. Jewish writers and intellectuals are constantly being attacked. Because it is feared that connections might. be established with Jews outside of Soviet borders, there are few Jews in the diplomatic corps. Because of the great catastrophe which befell world Jewry in recent years, certain signs of Jewish national consciousness have become manifest. Ynfortunatey. nothing can be done to encourage this trend because no separate Jewish political. social. cultural. or relief organizations are allowed to exist in the Soviet Union. Zionism has been outlawed for some thirty years and countless Zionist leaders have been arrested and imprisoned simply because they belonged to illegal organizations. The Russian government is not only a political and economic dictatorship. but it also co-ordinates cultural institu- tions. No personal opinions are tolerated for conformity is the required vogue. Judaism renders its adherents di1Terent and sets them apart. Therein lies the basic conflict between the latter and communism. Many disillusioned Russian Jews have concluded that communism has not solved the Jewish problem. but indeed has only intensified it. They have been forced to the realization that the answer depends not upon the bounty of Russian communism and that the solution to the two thousand year old prob- lem of Jewish degradation and homelessness can only be in a Jewish state. un- der Jewish auspices. However. Soviet authorities refuse to permit Jews to emigrate to their ancient birthright. Here we have the dilemma of Soviet Jewry. 9'iC'ongress NYeekly. American Jewish Congress. Feb. 21. 19-19 3 New York Post Editorial. May 19-L9 l.'LBHi1Ill'l'f. -- Fifty-Eight - 1 .,I- me juJglllellt Iii, MART IN KA l I AX li The city slept a troubled sleep. The warm night seemed taut with appre- hension. lt seemed as if the streets and buildings were nervously waiting. And then it came. NVith a thunderous roar, the towering Administration llead- quarters seemed to leap forth from its foundations, and with an eerie flash ot' light, it burst into a blazing inferno. XYailing sirens split the air with ear-shattering elfeet. From out of the darkness, armed soldiers leaped forth quickly in pursuit of two shadows that lied down the narrow valley. As Josef Hein raced through the inky blackness, the blood pounded through his head and his dark face felt hot and unnatural. His thoughts raced through his throbbing, weary brain. It 's done! Thank G-d, it's done! Oh! . . . The sharp salvo of rifle shots echoed in the narrow passageway. Josef felt two thuds ripping through his back. The black concrete came rushing up to meet him, spinning crazily, closer and closer. and then-blackness. if is is if From far off in the distance, the music came: it grew louder and louder, until it. seemed as if 2111 611011110118 chorus was lifting its voice to the heavens. A glowing, radiant light seemed to arise from all about him. There was some- thing intangible about it, as if everything material had been swept from him, and only his soul lay bare before him. Suddenly. from out of the misty white clouds, tens upon tens of similar apparitions. each shedding that radiant light. seemed to emerge. The lines marched slowly and majestically towards seven tremendous gates so high that though Josef raised his eyes upwards, he could see no end to them. The gates were set wondrously with precious emeralds and saphires, and priceless rubies and pearls. All about was a heavenly frag- rance of rare spices and frankineense. so that a delicious smell pervaded the entire scene. Suddenly. all was quiet. Nothing moved. nothing spoke. nothing breathed. The heavens darkened. Blacker and blacker, a choking. oppressive dark- ness engulfed all. -losef trembled in his plaee. lle t'eared the blackness and the stillness. a11d the awful doubts that pervaded his mind. XYhere was he? NYhat was all this? llad he gone insane? llis head ache-l fearfully and he raised his hands to clutch at it just as a terrible bolt ot' light- ning split the inky darkness and illuminated all about him. Slowly. he gazed about him in wonder and fear. for high above him. oven-shadowing all below. was suspended a th1'one. a throne that surpassed all for grandeur. for sublime beauty, for strength. ll was a gigantic throne. llis seat ot' judgment. Fear' fully. the huddled apparitions llung themselves on their faces and trembled violently. How long he lay there he knew not. .Xll he eonld recall was that terrible and powerful scene. 'l'hen a tlninderous voice pealed t'orth. .Xris . you souls. and seat vourselvesl .loseI' raised his head and ventured a t'eart'ul glance. All about. him, the countless souls took their seats. .lost-t' saw. sitting on a - Fifi!!!-Xiirlt' 1 I.'L!3HilIll'le.E high dais, looking awesome and terrible. four angels. And right then and there, it dawned upon him that he was dead. He, Josef Hein, had died! It could not be true! He could not die now, not now when there was so much left un- finished down there. It must. not be true! But it was. The thought struck him as both terribly important and strikingly strange. Swiftly, the proceedings unfolded before his eyes. The judges were sit- ting calmlyg the angel for the defense was dressed in spotlessly white linen and the prosecutor's head was covered with a deep black hood. Josef felt his heart beating. Cold sweat broke out on his face, and he bit his lips to keep from screaming out. It was so unreal: it was a nightmare. t'Josef Hein! Josef started. His knees felt watery and weak as he slowly approached the great dais. The towering angel loomed over Josef. t'Josef Hein, you stand before the supreme court of all life. You are about to be judged on the basis of your deeds in life. so as to determine whether you shall inherit the life to come or not. May G-d, in His infinite wisdom and kindness, open the doorway of paradise to you! Then, turning to the Black Angel, he motioned to him to read the charges. The prosecutor turned to the judges and withdrew a large scroll of paper from a silken packet on the table. XVorthy colleagues, we are here to determine whether Josef Hein, late of the terrorist group known as Irgun Zvai Leumi, is deserving of paradise. Gen- tlemen, the man stands before us with his hands soaked with the innocent blood of his victims. In a military cemetery near Haifa lies the first of his victims, a British soldier. This soldier attempted to halt an attack upon the prison of Acre, which was aimed at the freeing of known Jewish terrorists, and was shot down by this man. Gentlemen, this blood must be avenged. HAS a member of the Fascist organization 'Betar,' he provoked harsh measures to be laid upon the Jewish connnunity of Jerusalem, by bearing arms with his comrades against what he claims were Arab killers. XVorthy colleagues. heed my plea. ln a world of evil, deceit, murder, in a society of ruthlessness. the Jewish nation has always maintained an unim- peachable moral standard. They have always been a model of self-restraint to a world where cruelty has reigned supreme. True. they have suffered to a certain extent. They have been persecuted at times. But. they have always upheld the traditions of godliness and peace. Yet here, a young murderer, rebclling against the strict code of his religion, dares to stain this beautiful tradition. He does not realize that his people must suffer to show the world a moral lesson. He does not understand this. He kills and strikes back! He must be punished! He must be taught to realize that the Jews must not retaliate, that they are the people of the book, and not of the sword. And his punishment, when meted out. will be a lesson to all violators of the Law. HYour Honors. I would like to present to the court a man who is mute testimony to the evil of this man. Then, turning dramatically to the great doors, he raised his hand and called out, Enter Lord Moyne! An excited roar went through the court- room. The entire court turned eagerly to the door, looking and Waiting. Slowly. the door opened. Into the room strode the figure. Tall and slim. 1 Sixty - his ghastly pale lace retlet-ted vividly the narrow si-ar which ran flown his cheek. IIe silently strode up to the stand. Bending over, he whispered something to the prosecutor who smiled thinly. Then, straightening up, he looked squarely at the 4-ourt. and in clipped, precise tones, he spoke. Gentlemen, my name was Lord Moyne. I was formerly British Admin- istrator for the Middle East. I was a conscientious public servant, who devoted everything to his country. I incurred the wrath of the Jews in Palestine, simply by doing my duty. Une of these duties was the smashing of illegal Jewish immigration. I considered that immigration a crime against my country, illltl therefore against myself. Ilnfortunately, some Jews on the illegal ships Patria and Struma. were killed when I refused them admittance to Palestine. That. was regrettable, but unavoidable in troubled times. I met my demise on earth at Cairo, Egypt. Some fanatical terrorists. outcasts even in their own community and disavowed by their own government. shot me. I condemn them as I condemn this Josef I'Iein. Hoodlnins and gang- sters are not to be tolerated. If he were admitted to paradise, it would be a sin against myself and all honest men. Finished, Moyne strode calmly out of the room. Smiling, the prosecutor turned to the court and spoke. Honored colleagues, you have heard the testimony of Lord Moyne. His words cannot help but be the final link in the chain of guilt which points inex- orably to the defendant. Therefore, I feel that the harshest of penalties must be meted out to this perpetrator of evil deeds. You must punish him as a lesson to his compatriots. The judges glanced at each other: they conversed quietly among them- selves. Then a judge turned and nodded to the angel in attendance. Josef Hein, address the court in defense! Josef stood up slowly. Dazedly, he glanced around the court at the grim unsmiling faces. Speak? Defend? XVould it do any good? He was doomed before he started. The bitterness weighed heavily on him. Suddenly. he felt it lift, and he felt free, free to speak what he felt. 'fMy name is Yosef ben Abraham Hein. I was one of six children in a simple and pious Jewish family of Pinsk, Poland. Gne of the first recollections of my youth is a. pogrom in my town. It was Passover. 1926. The family was gathered around the luunble little f'Scdcr and reread. with tears and heart- break, the struggle of our fathers in Egypt. The struggle we were reliving 77 here was in an exile known as Poland. Yes. the name was different. but the tortures were the same. The people were different, but the tortures were the same. The people were different, but the beatings and whipping-s were the same. XVhcther it was Pharaoh or Pilsudski. the hating eyes and the agonizing rack were the same. All of them meant one thingfdeath to the Jews. But I wander off the topic. NVe were sitting and reading when suddenly. from the street, we heard thc sounds of screaming men and women. I rushed t.o the window and saw death unleashed. The hoodlums were racing throuuh the streets. killing, burning, looting. And my people lay huddled in fear. on the streets. afraid to defend themselves and their honor. afraid to wipe out these rnonstcrs. this eaneer. 1 - Si.rtg1-0wC- Y Y UYes, Mr. Prosecutor! They were 'maintaining an unimpeachable moral standard' They were being a 'model of self-restraint' to the world. Of course. they were. No other nation would have dared to lie down in the streets and let itself be slaughtered like sheep. They say that if a person beats you, you are honor bound to do o11ly one thing-beat him back. Josef paused. But, no. The policy of 'Havlaga' Cself-restraintj was continued and intensified. Yes, Lord Moyne, I remember the day on which you were killed. the day our leaders grovelled before your nation and pleaded forgiveness. I 2llSO remember another day in Haifa. An old, weather-beaten boat limped slowly into the harbor. On board were four hundred of my people, rescued from the inferno, freed from the hell of Europe. They asked nothing of you. They only wanted to begin life anew in their sacred homeland, Their hope was not yet lost. Never would it be lost so long as they had Aretz, their land. So they pleaded for this one small favor, this tiny boon which to you meant nothing. but which to them meant life. But you refused. You refused to grant them life. so they accepted death. And the explosion which ripped their souls from their martyred bodies. that at last gave them relief from their sufferings, pierced my very heart, my soul. lVe sat there, my brother 'gangsters' and I, and we wept till we thought our hearts would break. for these, who died to sanctify His name. Then we stood, and read the Kaddish together solemnly. 'May His great name be exalted and sanctified' XYe took a solenm oath before G-d and man that the jackals who perpetrated this unheard of crime would be punished though it would mean our last 'drops of blood. So two 'fanaticsf toutcasts in their own community,' shot the administrator to death in cold blood. But as the bullets reached their mark, the two fell to their knees and offered thanks to the Lord who had permitted them to live and reach that day. For the admin- istrators death meant Jewish life. It was a resurrection of the dead. The heroes of IsraelHDavid, Judah, Macabee. Bar-Cochba-had come back from their graves to instill once again into the bosoms of their Solis a pride. a jealous pride. My people had broken with cowardice, with this yoke of moral standard. You must understand this modern miracle, t'Mr. Prosecutor, you have called my people the people of the book. I am glad. But with this sword I carried, I was not destroying the book. I was not condemning the book. No. never. XYith every stroke of the sword, the book thrived. XYhy. if not for the sake of the book. did we carry the sword? Every bomb thrown against the enemy meant that more of my people could read the book, could uphold the unimpeachable moral code of our people. but with pride, with dignity, and with honor. Now I stand before you and my fate is in your hands. You must decide whether the will to be free. to live in peace in one's land, is just or not. You must judge whether seventeen year old lads marching to the gallows, with heads thrust high, and with tears of happiness streaming down their boyish cheeks. are criminals, or the most glorious martyrs the world has known. Judge me. but also judge my people who ery out to heaven for justice, and who are not heard. My duty on earth lay before me. lt was a choice between grovelling in the dust before the rulers of the earth. or standing up and believing in the King of all IL illilllllf. - Sixty-Two - 1 f '0Htf'd. ee .lllllsrlk hut in the name ot' all holy. ot' all good and right:-ons. judge not me alone. Judge my people. judge justice. The room was still. Silence gripped all about it. Josef sat limp and weary. Far above, even the seventh heaven paused in its work to listen eagerly to the yerdiet. The judges sat, quietly, pondering. Then very slowly, they stood np. The presiding judge, with trembling fingers. raised his gavel. ln a shaking voiee, he read, NVe, the supreme tribunal of all things, living and dead, limi the defendant Yosef ben Abrahan Hein guilty of crime perpetrated against man and sentence him to the lower domain. The eourt sat. shoeked. Guilty. The judge lifted his gavel high to seal the ease. Down eame the arm to seal the doom. BOOM! A thunderous roar rocked tl1e eourt. From high above eame a blinding. glowing light, encompassing all. The court rocked with fear. It was- Fearfully. the great judges, the angels, and the seraphim, all trembling violently, eovered their eyes, and threw themselves on their knees. NVait! The booming voiee from above sent a thrill of horror through all. The heavens were in chaos. The universe trembled before Gabriel, the messenger of the Lord. ' Wait Thus hath the Lord spoken. I have heard my children, Israel, sigh. and my heart bleeds. They have sinned, but they repent. They repent in strange ways, but they plead for forgiveness. They die for my Law, for my Torah, for my heloved eountry. The bombs they throw. the blood they shed. are measures of the desperateness of their exile. Therefore have I seen their tears and have forgiven them. Soon shall I return them to their sacred home- land, Israel, and my dwelling place, Jerusalem. From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the I-Iittites and unto the great, sea. encompassing both sides of the Jordan, shall be their boundary. And this ehild standing trial before me is my dearest dream. For two thousand years have l waited for sueh a generation to arrive. Would that all my ehildren followed in his path, ready to die for my name. my Torah! Never shall he he permitted to suffer more. l eommand the gates of paradise to he opened before him. Enter my son in thanksgiving. This is the gate of the Lord and the righteous shall enter it. Josef stood up slowly and his heart was singing. The tears ol' happiness were down his eheeks and he could neither speak nor otter thanks. As he passed through, the angels and seraphim joined in majestie ehorus and sang till the heavens rocked in eeho. The song grew louder and louder. lloly, lloly. lloly, Lord of llosts. Lord, liord, H-d mereiful, long sut't'ering and forgiving. And as the ehorus swelled in music-. the great gales swung open, and as if in a dream, -loset' mart-hed proudly through the misty elonds to heaven. where the great halls ot' the righteous et-lioetl in song and running forth to weleome him were the good. the righteous. and the holy. as the massive d twt- rs slowly elosetl. - Sf,i'fjf'TIi ITP I W W ILIEHIJIIITE jorad ann! Scienceg :Do jfzey gonfgcf By XVILLIAM XVANDERER A definition of the terms Torah and Science is a prerequisite to any dis- cussion concerning them. Torah, in its restricted sense, means Hdivine teach- ing. It is a book of moral instruction and spiritual guidance. Science is knowledge, as of principles or facts, systelnatized and formulated with reference to general truths or general laws, especially relating to the physical world. The Torah is not a book of science. Its aim is not to tell us how the world came into existence or how man developed. It is not a work of astrology. astronomy, geology or anthropology. XYhere it gives apparently scientific facts, as in the first chapter of Genesis, it is intent upon conveying merely certain ethical, moral and religious principles, and uses these statements merely a vehicle to convey such thoughts. Rashi, who is considered one of the greatest interpreters of the Torah, tells us that the account in Genesis is not intended as an accurate chronological story of creation. For, if it were, then the creation of the waters should have been mentioned first, since they preceded the heaven and the earth. The main purpose is to teach justice and righteousness, that G-d chooses those who practice justice, and ignores those who, by their lives, deny this fundamental principle of Jewish life. A careful reading of the early chapters of Genesis will reveal to us where the real emphasis lies. They attempt to teach us four fundamental truths, not scientific facts. Religion assumes the existence of G-d. Of course, philosophers have at- tempted to prove the existence of G-d or a First Cause. However, let us, for the sake of argument, accept it as an axiomatic truth. In science, too, we must assume certain axiomatic truths. No topic could be developed otherwise. Granting then, that there is a G-d, our Torah tells us that there is only one G-d, who created heaven and earth, light and darkness, inorganic and organic matter .... Everything in the heavens above on the earth. and in the' waters below was created by Him. This is the greatest contribution made by our Torah to religious thought. No nation of antiquity could reach such an exalted conception. The Babylonians believed there were many gods who were created by some other force. The Persians believed in dualism. They thought that there were two forces, one that created light and another that brought forth the darkness. Even such peoples as the ancient Greeks and the Romans believed in polytheism. XYhile Zeus was the chief deity on Mount Olympus, there were other deities who assisted in the administration of the affairs of the world. The second truth that the Torah tries to teach us is that the world is good. The Torah 's attitude towards the world is that it is not a vale of tears, but that it is good. Man has only to control his animal passions and it appears to him as good. Evil is not of G-d's making, but of man 's. That the Sabbath sanctifies man's existence is the third fundamental truth of the creation. No consideration was shown by the ancients to laborers and slaves, who fell from utter exhaustion. The Jew proclaimed the Sabbath as a sacred duty. - Si.rty-Four - The fourth and last. fundamental truth of the creation story is that man is not a mere animal. He is not descended from the ape, or any other lower form of animal. I-Ie was created ethically and spiritually in the image of G-d. The ditterence between him and the ape is not merely in degree, but in kind. Although this is in direct eontlict with the Darwinian theory of evolution and the descent of man, this contlict may be resolved in several ways. In the first place. the Darwinian theory has not been completely proven. There is still a missing link, and the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The Darwinian theory may conflict with the Torah, but I shall attempt to prove that that does not mean that science contiicts with the Torah. The Bible and scie11ce do not contiict. They are not mutually exclusive. One supplements the other. Science concerns itself with the physical universe. Sei- ence tells what things are. The Torah tells why things arc. According to our definition, science investigates facts. Religion tells us the purpose of existence, and the spiritual significance of things. It concerns itself primarily with the re- lation of things and human beings to one another, to the universe, and to G-d. One may ask, If science and the Torah do not conflict, then how could the sages of the Talmud say such things as the world stands on pillars, is flat, and many other scientifically disproven facts. The Rabbis of the Talmud gave remedies for diseases which definitely could not improve the condition of the pa- tient. To this I say that here is a case where one of the two has overstepped its boundaries. It was not in the field of the Talmudists of old to state facts which deal in the realm of science. And at this point, it is extremely neces- sary that I quote from Rabbi Abraham ben Moshe ben Bfaimon, the son of the Rambam, who writes in his Introduction to the Agada of the Ein Yaakovu where he quotes from his father book, The Guide. Know that it. is your duty to understand that whoever propounds a certain theory or idea and expects that theory or idea to be accepted merely out of respect for the author without proving its truth and reasonableness pursues a wrong method prohibited by both the Torah and human i11telli- gence. According to this preamble, then, we are not bound to defend the opinions of the sages of the Talmud, concerning medicine, physics, and astrology, as right in every respect simply because we know the sages to be great men with a full knowledge of all things 11'-yftrr-rl1'ng1 flu Torah in its various details. Although it is true that insofar as knowledge of the Torah 'I is concerned, we must believe the sages arrived at the highest stage of knowledge, as it is said tlleut. IT, Ill 'In accordance with the instructions which they may instruct you, ete.', still it is not necessarily so concerning any other branch of knowledge, since we tind that the sages themselves had said, concerning medical knowledge, that the opinion ot' such and such a rabbi did not prove to be true, as for instance, the eagle-stone 19-habbos fol. 66b.l But it would be wrong to argue thus. 'Because they are wrong in one thing. they must be wrong in everytltingf Preserve that which de- serves preservation, and destroy that which deserves destruction. Probably the greatest eontliet that has ever arisen between science and the Torah is that of the evolution theories against our beliet' that ti-d ere! 1 - St.r'fjl-Ftl'e' - Y Y ated man as he is today. However, is evolution really science? According to logic. science can never be wrong. There can never be any exceptions to the laws of science. Yet. I will show how one theory of science can make holes in another. Here we are dealing with theories. with opinions. but not that which science stands for - facts. Once we come to this point. let us un- derstand that it is not' science that contradicts the Torah. but opinions. the simple say-so of certain men who are guessing at the causes of the phenomena of our universe. Pasteur demonstrated that life can come only from life. Frobishes formu- lated a theory saying that the formation of the world originally came from a chatnce chemical reaction and that organic substances came from inorganic substances. Frobishes said that inanimate chemical elements shaken together could give rise to proteins, the substance without which life is impossible. it was called the fortuitous concourse of atoms. However, Frobishescannot give us the answer to what provided the energy for the chance chemical re- action and to what brought the substances together. And what about Pas- teur 's theory '? Scientists have been trying for ages to bring inorganic substances together, but life has never been the result. XYe know the chemical constituents of protoplasmg we can mix them, but never get life. In fact, through mathematical calculations, it has been proven that the chance reaction could not have occurred within the estimated 650,000,000 years of the earth's age, much less within 5709 years, the age of the earth according to Jewish belief. Lamarck stated that environment causes changes by adaptation. For ex- ample, the giraffe was once a short-necked animal. but since it had to keep stretching its neck in order to get to its food which was tender leaves and which grew on high branches. it eventually developed the long neck that it has today. This sounds more like one of Aesop fables, rather than science. It is a fact that acquired characteristics are not inherited. This has been proven by experiment. Experiments have been conducted in which the tails of mice have been cut off for generations. but each succeeding generation of mice al- ways had regular full-sized tails. It is a. fact that X-rays can cause inheritable changes as experiments with fruit llies have shown, but it has never been seri- ously argued that this occurs to a sutiicient extent to cause evolution. Dai-wins theory of evolution is based on natural selection and the sur- vival of the fittest. Darwin knew that there was a gap in his theory - the gap between organic and inorganic substances. Although he knew it and ad- mitted it, his disciples disregarded it. They we1'e overthrilled at finding a theory that would explain a lot of things around them. De Vries advanced a theory of evolution, the mutation theory. According to this theory. as generations advanced. certain sudden changes occurred to one or more of a certain plant or animal species which were inherited, thereby forming a new species. The only fault with this theory is the fact that most mutations are usually reproductive mutations. rendering the mutant sterile. as the Thomson seedless grapes, navel oranges, and so many others. that require artincial grafting because of their inability to reproduce. Since they could not reproduce by themselves. there could not possibly be an evolution. ILBHIlIll'lE - S1'.rfy-Silt - 1 cl, tieneties has established thc tvntslunry ot' the species and the rigi4lz'ty of llf'l'l'd7:ftll'!j characteristics tc.g. blood typesl. Un the other hand. the basis ot' evolution is plasticity, the ability ot' a species to change its characteristics by adapting itself to external changes. Here we find two theories that contradict each other. Neither theory can bc checked: neither is scientitie. In general, the main objections to the evolution theory are: tlt Variations amongst animals of a given species are so small that it can make no difference in the battle for survival for many generations. t2J If accidental evolution gave rise to the different species, it would be diffi- cutl to account for the remarkable adjustments we see. For example, it is impos- sible for termites to digest. celluloseg yet they eat wood which is for the most part cellulose. But the termite has within its digestive tract certain protozoa tone- celled animalsj which break down the cellulose for it. How could this have ever been an accident. a. mutation?l t3J NVe see around us no indications of transformation of species. True, the cow was once an animal that gave enough milk for one calf, and man has bred it to its present state. The cow has improved, it is a better cow, but it has not changed into a horse, or any other species. ' Q45 Let us consider what I mentioned before concerning the differences between man and the animals. lYe see a definite break here. Man can talk. has reasoning faculties, can deal psychologically with his fellow-man, heals his sick, has a thumb, and produces machines to work for him. All these beside the spir- itual differences. The expounders of the evolutionary theories claim that they have prooft for their claims. These proofs are divided into three classifications. l. Paleon- tological evidences are arrived at through the study of fossils embedded in the different strata or layers of rock in the earth. There was once an accepted geo- logical theory that the layers of rock came on to the earth as the earth ad- vanced i11 age, that in each layer lived an era. and by peeling-off these strata, we can discover exactly what came first, what type of life existed before ours. etc. All was fine, except for the fact that quite a few times. the geologist fotuid himself dazed to find a fossil in a much higher stratum than the time that he found the same type of fossil before. lflvidently, the earth 's strata are not arranged as the skins of an onion. as it was previously thought to be. This was also later proven. It is a theory that the earth is six hundred and fifty million years old. According to Judaism, the earth is five thousand seven hundred and forty-nine years old. The conclusion that the earth is six hundred and fifty years old is drawn by a very ingenious method. lt is based on another theory that in the beginning everything was radio-active. as raditun or uranium. Through experi- mentation we have found that it takes a certain atnonnt ot' time for the atontie weight of uranittm to lower and change to lead. .Xeeordina to eztlculations based on this theory, ottt' earth is supposed to contain the ratio ot' lead to uranium which will lead us to the nutnber ti3tt,tttltl.tttltl. We must remember though that - Stv. f!l-St'l't'I1i - I.'L5Hlllll'l-I all this is true only if we accept the assumption that in the beginning every- thing was made out of uranium. Then, again, if we do assume that, how do we know whether or not the amount of time for the change increases or decreases as time moves on? A falling object increases in speed as it fallsg why not say the same about the uranium-lead transformation '? Why didn't all the uranium change by now? XYhere did the other elements come from? These questions cannot be answered because the entire explanation is merely theoretical. C25 The second proof of evolution is known as comparative anatomy. The front fin of a iish is seen as the ancestor of the arms of animals and the wings of birds. But it seems fairly obvious that the bones of fins and limbs are quite similar in number and position because this is necessary for the equally similar function. Note this point. The eye of the squid. one of the octopus family, is remarkably similar to that of the human being. It has the same muscle forma- tion, iris, cornea. and pupil as man does. Yet, thc squid is considered a much lower form of life and not clirectly related to man on the evolutionary tree. Did this complex eye develop twice? If this is granted. then structural similari- ties can no longer be considered a proof for evolution. lt. then, may be assumed on bzblogical and scientific grounds that the various species did not have a common ancestor. but were created separately. us the Torah tells us. Q35 The third proof of evolution is known as embryological evidence. One theory claims that the embryo of any animal shows, during the stages of devel- opment, deiinite signs of the embryological stages of animals that preceded it. That is to say that the embryo of man will show the gill slits of a fish, the head of a sheep embryo, the lungs of a bird embryo, etc. This is supposed to prove that all those came before man. It also is supposed to tell us which animals came first, and their order. This is given as proof positive in the average high school biology book. But the more a person delves into biology, and the more he ob- serves in real life. he realizes that the scientist who claimed that. must have had a very strong imagination. It was a scientist named Haeckel who stated this theory when he said. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. That is to say that the embryological stages relate in brief the stages of development of the species. Embryology is the study of the egg from fertilization to birth. This evidence has been disproven more than proven, for there is no stage in the development of the human embryo when it can 't be recognized as such. The most outstanding features recognizable in the human embryo which seem to prove Haeckels theory are the gill slits. These so-called gill slits have been traced by modern biologists to the parathyroid endocrine glands, the tonsils. and slightly. the jaws. So we see that those gill slits are not what they look like. but have a purpose and belong where they are. NVe see that evolution does contradict our Torah, but how can one say that that makes evolution correct. and the Torah wrong? The theories change, not the Torah. The theories contradict each other, are proven wrong. not. the Torah. Our science text books attempt to make these theories look crystal-clear and perfect. Many theories that have been accepted as science have been disproven by true science. through the investigation and checking of facts. The theory -Sixty-Eiglzt - of Sl10lltilllt'0llS Q'C1lC1'illl01l, the Ill1lUgySl0ll llll'tll'f' ot' l1111'11i11g. the 1111-ories that the sun ci1'cles the earth a11d that the 31110111 is inmlivisible are dead Elllll b111'ie11. Tl1e true scientist who investigates facts, as the 2l1'CllilCUlOf,IlSl, has Illilllf' t.i111f-s helped prove the Torah, as the CXCilV21llO1lN i11 Palestine 111111 ligypt have shown. Till now, we 11ave looked at these theories from a scientific point of view. For a short while, let us look at them from the TO1'2ll1lS point of view. Let us assume that without doubt it has 110011 p1'ove11 that certain rocks have 116011 fouml on the earth that are 650,000,000 years old. That is explainable. There is a Miclrash Tlliltlf- states that G-d created seven worlds before our earth, and fle- stroyed them, Zllld with their parts, created ours. Tl1is ea11 also explain fossils of 1J1'Gl1lSlO1,'lC a11i111als as the di11osau1'. 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STAATEN CLEANERS 4822 Fort Hamilton Pk'y Brooklyn, N.Y Compliments of . . I. KESTENBAUM Compliments of . . MR. 61 MRS. ISRAEL GROSSMAN Compliments ot . . MR. :S MRS. WEISBROD and Family Compliments of . . A FRIEND OF ZEV AND MARTIN Compliments of . . . ZERT 5 IOFFE 810 Washington Ave. Compliments of . . . MR. 6: MRS. HYMAN STURM and Family Scventy Seven- Compliments of . . . MR. 5- MRS. MOSES SILVERSTEIN in Honor of Their Son Samuels Graduation Best Wishes to . . . NORMAN from Dad, Mother CS Harold Compliments of . . . Mr. G MRS. MAX I-'EDER G FAMILY in honor of the graduation oi their son SAMUEL MR. G MRS. S. TOPOROVSKY G Family extend Best Wishes to NORMAN on his graduation Best Wishes to . . . RICHARD from Mother Compliments of . . . MR. G MRS. HARRY SCHARAGA ci Family Compliments of . . . MR. G MRS. IRVING S, HOROWITZ and Family Compliments of . . MAX NEUSTADTER 1168 Lincoln Pl, Brooklyn, N.Y. Compliments of . . . H. ROSENFELD Compliments of . . . SILVERSTEIN'S MEAT G POULTRY 883 Nostrand Avenue Brooklyn, N.Y. Compliments of . . . ABRAHAM ROSENBERG Compliments oi . . LOUIS EDISON Compliments of . . MR. G MRS. I. GOLDSTEIN Compliments oi . . BLUSH GLASSWORK S23 Nostrand Avenue Brookl yn, N .Y, Compliments of , . . A. GOODMAN I-I. T. LEWIS Optometrists Cotnplitnents of . . . MORTON RICHTER and WILLIAM KOTKES - Seventy-Eight - i N 1 A . . ' t .::::: ' nts oz . . . Compliments c .... CHARLES I. COHEN FIRST TERM CLASS Compliments of . . . MR. :S MRS. I. KRIEGAI.. Compliments of . . . SECOND TERM CLASS Compliments of . . . CARLBE OPTICIANS Compliments of . . . THIRD TERM CLASS 141 Canal St. WAlker 5-1267 Compliments of . . . CIRCLE ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT CO. Outfitters of the Yeshiva Compliments of . . . FOURTH TERM CLASS 865 Franklin Avenue Brooklyn, N.Y. Compliments of . . . DUPLER PRINTING CO. Compliments of . . . FIFTH TERM CLASS 49 - 55 West 27 St. New York l, N.Y. Compliments of . . RESSELNIK G COHEN Complim ' ents of . .. SIXTH TERM CLASS 20 Eldridge St. New York City Compliments ot . . . GLENWOOD KOSHER MEAT 51 POULTRY MARKET l476 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn I0, N.Y Phone: GEdney 6-0560 Compliments of . . . SEVENTH TERM CLASS CAMP MONROE for boys and girls Monroe, N. Y. Rabbi H. S. Port and Ioseph Krieger, Directors Finest Kosher Cuisine Offices: 1330 - 52 St. Brooklyn, N.Y Compliments of . . . SENIOR CLASS -Sm' fifty-X1'nc -- 'MA 'ML erd Neuiield Fine Furs Lowen's Bake Shop Friends ol Herbert Leibowitz Martin Fried Inc. Sol's Fruit G -Vegetable Market Moskowitz 6: Wachtenhien Raiselle ci Leah Sorcher Ed Caruso - Shoe Repairing Israel Trachtman Iack's Fruit 6: Vegetables S. Renick Lieber's Dairy Iay - Kay Bakery Mr. ci Mrs. Abraham Zelefsky Mr. ci Mrs. Paul Blackman Mr. CS Mrs. A. Hoffman Mr. ci Mrs. N. Alter Dr. CS Mrs. M. Grunschlag Mr. William Fishback Dr. Charles Bauman Ionah Kupietzky Ioel Shechter Sa -So Service Gift Shop Irwin Horn Heyman's Pharmacy Bernard Erlbaum Dr. G Mrs. D. l... 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