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

Text from Pages 1 - 92 of the 1941 volume:

K X -.1 1 -' 7' 4 r 4 L. Q 4 4 I ' I ,J 1 1 IIII 4lClIlfIHITL .giuclenffi , .xdnnuaf puggcafion jafmuckcaf .xdccwlemy JW ,saw June 1941 A I -- fn, EI ' 1 i jeckca fion 25113 ,ML Afnflfy PQJUKIQ fo CILJAQPQ l.l'l fAOH9A anal aleecl LL0 Me ialeag exelflfzlogfeaf in My ff our Jefoarfeac yef ever l 0l'VlQlfl'lLQl'0L'Z Lanai lorecepfor, anal guirle, cibln. EPFLCLFCJ Raef fo ufA05e Jairzfea! l?fl8ll'10l'f,l we ffefbfafv 1lAl-.5 E7AIAHlZl.ZlU. we fafe lf. Efflflfbil ! by Dr. Benjamin D. Shapiro The ElchaniTe oT I94l is dedicaTed To The memory oT Dr. Bernard Revel, The IaTe leader and presidenT OT The Yeshiva. IT is indeed noT very diTTiculT To panegyrize a man who has made Tor himselT a deTiniTe niche in The hisTory oT Jewry oT The world aT and parTicuIarly in The hisTory oT American Jewry. BuT This is noT my Task. OThers already ex- pressed Their deep senTimenTs abouT Dr. Revel, The greaT TalmudisT, The greaT secular scholar, The leader oT Israel, The greaT propheT oT TradiT- ional learning who was among The TirsT To discern ThaT Jewry could noT sTrike rooTs in The inimical soil oT America unless The Yeshiva could be merged wiTh The I-IascoIa , The basic principle ThaT underlies The Yesh- iva College. I have been asked To depicT This sainTed man as I know him during The pasT I8 years I have been associaTed wiTh him in This insTiTuTion, as The sTudenTs knew him wiThin his oTTice sancTuary, aT Their Siums , and Their Chagigas . I meT Dr. Revel TwenTy years ago, while The Yeshiva was occupying iTs humble birThplace on Gouverneur STreeT. I came To see him because my TaTher had inTormed me ThaT I could be enrolled in The Yeshiva as a sTudenT oT Talmud, while, aT The same Time, I TaughT in The Talmudical Academy I-Iigh School. When I explained To Dr. Revel The purpose oT my visiT, he genTly informed me ThaT my TaTher musT have been misin- Tormed because The I-ligh School required College graduaTes as insTruc- Tors. Seeing chagrin and disappoinTmenT wriTTen on my Tace, he genTIy paTTed me on my back and said, Come back when you are ready To Teach. Perhaps, Then, There will be a place Tor you. NeiTher he nor I had any ThoughT Then ThaT This poliTe rebuTT was really a prophecy, Tor several years laTer, I became one oT The Teachers in The High School. For a long Time ThereaTTer, The person oT Dr. Revel was iusT a myTh To me. I knew him as The presidenT oT The Yeshiva. I heard him deliver many inspiring oraTions on diTTerenT occasions, buT I had no personal conTacT wiTh him. ATTer The Yeshiva moved To iTs new quarTers upTown, The boys would now and Then plead wiTh me, Dr. Shapiro, please posT- pone The TesT in Economics To anoTher day. We are having a Bchina wiTh Dr. Revel in Talmud. We musT have Time To prepare Tor iT. There Page Six ELCI-IANITE was The dreaded expecTancy oT The ordeal oT The approaching Tesf ThaT seemed To haunT The boys. They knew ThaT by The Time Dr. Revel con- cluded wiTh The examinaTion he would have a compleTe picTure oT Their knowledge OT The Talmud - - - or The lack oT iT. The boys knew ThaT There was no hiding one's ignorance or lack oT preparaTion in any subTerTuges or excuses. And yeT, while The boys Teared him, They neverTheless had a deep respecT Tor him. In his presence They seemed To be inspired wiTh a 'iYiras l'lakovod , ThaT was a combinaTion oT love, aTTecTion, admiraTion and awe. When They passed Through The ordeal oT such a Bchina , There was rekindled in The boys The desire To sTudy, To overcome whaT- ever diTTicuITies ThaT may have arisen in Their Talmudic sTudies. My room was nexT To Dr. Revel's oTTice. I meT him almosT daily as I was enTering my room and he was leaving Tor The day. lnvariably, he would grasp my hands and, wiTh his halTing speech, ask me, T-low are The boys, Dr. Shapiro? I-low are They? And when I gave him a cheerful reply, I could see ThaT iT acTed like a Tonic upon him. I aTTended a Chagiga some Time ago. QuiTe a large congrega- Tion of sTudenTs, visiTors, and guesTs were presenT. One would Think ThaT, on such an occasion, he would remain digniTied and alooT. NOT Dr. Revel. When The boys bursT TorTh inTo Tamiliar Yeshiva songs, Dr. Revel ioined Them. BuT more Than ThaT. I-le leTT his exaITed dais and marched Through The aisles swinging his hands in his characTerisTic Tashion, and leading his boys in singing. I was deeply moved by This specTacIe. Once more Dr. Revel proved To The assembled audience ThaT To The boys he was noT The ausTere Dr. Revel, The presidenT oT The Yeshiva. To Them he was more Than Rosh I-laishiva . I-le was also Their spiriTual TaTher, Their broTher, a Tellow reveler, a Tellow singer. I-le was permeaTed wiTh The spiriT OT The occasion and wished To in- culcaTe The boys wiTh The same spiriT. And The boys seemed To respond. Their hearTs and souls, and The hearT and soul oT Their leader and Rabbi, were merged in a real Oineg-Ruachu. ln The deaTh oT Dr. Revel, World Jewry IosT a greaT man, a greaT scholar, and The Yeshiva IosT iTs leader. ln due Time, some oTher greaT rabbi will Take his place as The head oT This insTiTuTion. BuT iT will be a long Time, indeed, before The new propheT of Israel will be able To replace The laTe Dr. Bernard Revel in The hearTs and souls oT The sTudenTs who knew him so well and loved him so dearly. ELcHANlrE page Seven w v X I jfllfllhy 0 SHELLEY R. SAFIR, Ph.D. A A Principal NORMAN B. ABRAMS if W Adminisfrarive Assisiani PETER ABRAMOWITZ, M,A, ,.....,....... ,,...,..........A.,.............. F rengh FRANK BLUME, M.A. -. SASCHA CHARLES, J.D., Ph.D. I I- . A German, Laiin GERSHON CHUROIN, PHD. ...V,..,.,..,,..,,,. AA AAA.A 4,,.4.,..... H ebrew CHARLES EIQIEDMAN, BAA. A.., MSIIIA, Chemisify, Physics JACK GOLDSTEIN, M,S,E- ...,..,AA.,A...,A.., A AA,AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA French SIDNEY BNHOENIG, PIIAD. I ., ........ Bible BENJAMIN KRONISH, BSS. .,,,.A. . .,.,4,4.....,.,...,....... HISIOIY SAMUEL H. LEBOVVITZ, MA. EMANUEL LEIBEL, MA. I .....,..... .- JOSEPH LICHTENBERG, MA. JOSHUA MATZ, B.A., MA. A JOSEPH NOBLE, MA. . ISAAC ORLEANS, BAA. ISRAEL RENOV, EAA. . IRVING SAROT, MAD. MAURICE SHAIN, MS. ,A AAAAAAA 0 BENJ. D. SHAPIRO, MA., JAD. JOSEPH B STIQLINI, NIA. SOLOMON WIND, MAA HYMAN WETTSTEIN, M.A. ELCHANITE J Clfiemisrry, Physics I ,I Ma+hemaJricS Maihemaiics .AA,A , Hebrew English , .A.A.,..............,...,..A.A..... Aff Healflw Educaiion HiSrory,CiviCs,Economics . ..... .,.,.,. H ebf-ew PiIySiCal Training Page Nine gzlanife ouerning Hmm! ELLIOTT ORGANICK JOSEPH ZAITCHIK Edifors ALLEN MANDELBAUM HAROLD MILLER Associafe Edlfors Page Ten ELCHANITE rom fAe governing Hoare! Qi? ll' is buf a year and a hall since 'rhe slari of The 'riranic srruggle in which mighl, wirh all irs vigor and lusrful rurhlessness, is pilled againsi righi, which fighis roday for The liberalion of enslaved Europe and lhe redemprion of persecuied minorilies Throughoui rhe world. Yer, how many of us are aware of rhe change which has come over American Jewry since fha? fareful day early in ihe monrh of Seprember, I939? The war has, wirhour doubr, placed an indelible impression upon our menral malceups which is noi To be easily removed. Few of us can lisien To a comedian paid 'ro make us laugh, wirh- our giving ven'r To a sigh, on refleclring upon grim realilies. Few of us can grab an evening paper and Turn direclly ro rhe sporrs secrion io see Jrhe box score of fhe day's game wilhoul lirsi sipping from The biHer cup of war news. Amusemenrs and recrealion no longer carry rhe full weighr lhaf lhey were wonr +o possess, nor do rhey succeed in bringing complefe relaxarion To our minds and bodies. lr is, fherelore, nor slrange Thar rhis form of resllessness which invades our privale lives has also affecied our srudy and worlc, and 'rhe producfs rhereof. Wirh rhe whole srruclure of European Jewry Jroppling, coupled wirh our heavy and irreplaceable losses, The passing of Dr. Bernard Revel and' Rabbi Moses Soloveilchilr, our leaders of sainled memory, il is no wonder 'rhaf we, s'ruden+s of Talmudical Academy, consciously or un- consciously, acquire added burdens and carry loads of far grealer imporlance. ELCHANITE Page Eleven WiTh The nucleus oT all The Diaspora, noT only as regards moneTary problems, louT also as regards inTellecTual life, shiTTed To America, wiTh The Yeshiva bearing upon iTs shoulders The problem oT replacing The desTroyed European cenTers oT TradiTional learning, The Talmudical Aca- demy, an inTegral parT oT The Yeshiva, and iTs sTudenTs Talce on added significance. STudenTs Teel ThaT They no longer live as mere individuals buT as members oT a uniTed whole, parT oT which is being harassed and persecuTed. These solemn changes broughT abouT by Tyranny abroad have produced so proTound an eTTecT ThaT we, sTudenTs oT Talmudical Aca- demy, cannoT permiT ourselves To Tollow cusTom in The general conTenT oT our yearbook, The ElchaniTe. lT has been The pracTice To place humorous arTicles abouT gay, careTree high school liTe in such publica- Tions. On The whole, iTs purpose is To be a lighT reminder oT one's younger days. This year iT is much modiTied. We do noT express regreTs. RaTher do we Teel honored in being able To publish a chronicle which exempliTies Those principles Tor which YeshivaTh Rabbi Isaac Elchanan and OrThodox Jewry sTand. For, by producing an impressive publicaTion, by exhibiTing To The world such a represenTaTive work, we enhance The posiTion oT our all buT deTeaTecl naTion To no small degree. The Talmudical Academy has in The pasT never Tailed To puT TorTh a yearbook which was Tar beTTer Than Those oT many schools, greaTer in number and resources. This year we have again aTTempTed To emulaTe The accomplishmenTs oT Those beTore us in seTTing TorTh an ElchaniTe oT disTincTion. We believe ThaT we have also succeeded in some measure in doing our share This year, Tuhcilling our cherished duTy To Jewry and Judaism, aT presenT impaired and brolcen in spiriT. Page Twelve ELCHANITE ARM, MILTON MilTy , as Mr. Leibel lilces To call him, is one oT The mosT philosophically minded sTuclenTs in The school. Al- Though he is conTinually perusing boolcs on philosophy andJudaica,'MilTy' hasTound Time To be SecreTary oT The G. O. and member oT The Senior Council. l-le has Talc- en inTeresT in The BeTar move- menT. and Thus has been awarded a nineTy in l-lebrew by Dr. Churgin. MilTy plans To go To C.C.N.Y. and Talce up social sciences. DOPPELT, STANLEY STanley has made a name Tor himselT Through his color- Tul baslceTball playing. As capTain oT The Team and high scorer in almosT every game, he led The T.A. Team Through The mosT successTul season in iTs hisTory. STan is one oT The mosT agreeable and co- operaTive Tellows To meeT, boTh on and oTT The courT, and has Thus been voTed The besT naTured in The senior class. Yeshiva and Yeshiva baslceTball Team , says STan. Page FourTeen AUERBACH, BERNARD Baby Bernie . The young- esT member oT The class, as- Tounded everybody when he announced ThaT beginning nexT Sunday, he would sTarT To shave. AT The end oT The period, a generous member oT The class slipped him a boTTle oT hair-grower. Yeshi- va College, nexT year, will have among iTs new arrivals a good naTured and brighT TiTTeen year old youngsTer. FRIEDBERG, ISRAEL From UniversiTy I-leighTs comes To us our class scien- TisT, Izzy Eriedberg. Izzy is a modesT, well-liked Segu- lah member, and has as yeT To Tind someone Toisurpass him in sciences. lzzy is loaded wiTh Summa Cum Laudes, and his grades look like TemperaTure readings. l'lis ambiTion is To become a chemical engineer, in which Tield he will, wiThouT doubT, be successTul. ELCHANITE GERSHON, HERMAN The only Tellow in The class who has as yeT To geT a goose-egg or a croix-de- guerre' in Dr. Shapirds Eco. class. He once made a speech On Speeches in Mr. STrum's class, and has, since Then, beshrewn all speeches Tor The resT OT his speaking liTe. A Tine hisTory sTudenT, he plans To aTTend Yeshiva College. HERMAN, BERNARD Whenever The oTTice calls Tor Herman, Herman and Herman , Bernie will shouT, Which one? He's a swell looking chap. buT Waldman sTill claims ThaT his picTure TlaTTers him. An ardenT mem- ber oT The Boro Park Shomer HadaTi, he hopes To reawak- en The dormanT Shomer Ha- daTi aT Yeshiva College. ELCHANITE GOTTHEIM, ERN EST Ernie is a Tall, handsome blondie who, since his arrival aT T.A., has consTanTly Taken parT in debaTing. This Term, as a reward. he was appoinT- ed Chairman OT lnTra-mural DebaTing. He is a member oT The SchwarTz - Krasner C-5oTTheim TriumvaraTe' which alas, may have To be severed, since only Ernie plans To aT- Tend Yeshiva College. HERMAN, HARRY Harry is one of The Tew sTudenTs in The hisTory oT Tal- mudical Academy To have been graduaTed in Two years. AlThough he came To Ame- rica buT 4 years agof' Harry speaks a perTecT English wiTh- ouT The slighTesT Trace of an accenT . He has been voTed 'MosT ModesT' and is a very agreeable chap. Everyone likes him. and so will Yeshiva College, when iT looks aT his marks. Page FiTTeen KLEINMAN, JACK Jack, who has been voTed as boTh The mosT conscien- Tious and mosT naive sTudenT OT The senior class, is one oT The longesT 'Mincha-davners' in The school. He likes lang- uages, especially German, lHe was Dr. Charles' prize sTudenTl, and is also quiTe adepT aT TwisTing his Thumb when Trying To explain an an- Tinomy in The Talmud. LEISER, HERBERT If everyThing is perTecTly quieT in a classroom and you Think ThaT you're all alone- you'd probably be wrong. In all probabiliTies silenT 'Herby' Leiser will be siTTing in some corner, reading one oT his modern books, and noT uT- Tering a sound. ln one oT his very rare mornenTs oT con- versaTion, Herby venTured To say ThaT he would like To learn some Talmud Tor a change. NexT year, The noise aT CiTy College will noT be increased by The advenT oT guieT Herby Leiser. Page SixTeen KRASNER, NORMAN Sonny , a naTive oT Boro Park, is conTinually being mobbed by sTudenTs, asking Tor ping pong balls. ATTer being Playroom Manager Tor a year, he has Tinally learned To hiT The ball over The neT and noT under The Table. He is a member of The Segulah and is never seen wiThouT a camera. He plans To aTTend C.C.N.Y. LILKER, MARTIN Don'T be surprised if you see MarTy wiTh a new Pon- Tiac nexT year. You see - he's The 'Fellow who's been Taking care OT all The G. O. Tunds Tor The pasT year. Mar- Ty, so Tar, has been runner up in The race Tor zeros wiTh Organick. BuT he sTill hasn'T given up hope. He was As- sisTanT EdiTor oT Academy News and is a member oT The Segulah. AmbiTion is To be - lOh no! NoT ThaT!l - a hisTory Teacher. ELCHANITE a - r---x. MANDELBAUM, ALLEN Vice-Pres. oT The G. O., AssisTanT EdiTor oT ElchaniTe and Academy News, Chair- man oT Segulah, Chairman OT lnTerscholasTic DebaTing, Member OT Senior Council, Class PoeT, MosT BrillianT and MosT Likely To Succeed - Allen Mandelbaum. Al is one oT The mosT brillianT Tellows ever To leave The porTals oT T. A. He is a born oraTor and wriTer and hopes some day To be The auThor oT a besT seller. He will aTTend Yeshiva College. MARKOWITZ, RUBIN IT, by chance, you meeT a T. A. sTudenT aT Carnegie Hall one oT These days. don'T Think ThaT iT's his love Tor music ThaT brings him There. lT's iusT ThaT Rube Marico- wiTz, T. A.'s ConcerT Bureau Manager, loTTice hours I-2 and 5-6 in ElchaniTe oTTicel had a couple OT exTra reduc- Tion TiclceTs wiTh which To do away. Rube is also doing a swell iob Taking care oT Class NighT and hopes To malce This year's show a suc- cess - Tor a change.. ELCHANITE : MARC-SOLIES, IRVING Pardon me - buT have you seen Margie? He's The chap who's always handing ouT Tangerines To ZaiTchilc, in reTurn Tor which, The laTTer will share wiTh him The em- bezzled Tunds OT The Elcha- niTe - lbuT ThaT's a secreTl. Margie is a sTeady 85-90 sTudenT and will aTTend Ye- shiva College nexT year. MILLER, HAROLD As PresidenT oT T. A. Tor Two Terms, Harold has cre- aTed an enviable record oT service, as is aTTesTed To by his being voTed as having done mosT Tor T. A. His b u o y a n T personaliTy has made him The mosT popular boy in The senior class. A Tine debaTer and hisTronic arTisT, he will malce a Tine courT pleader aTTer being graduaTed Trom Yeshiva Col- lege, he will enTer Harvard Law School. Page SevenTeen NISSEL, JOSEPH Whenever Mr. Kronish has an urge To disTribuTe a Tew Two's or Three's, he calls on Joe Nissel, The nuT lbad punl who never lcnows his his- Tory. However, Joe more Than malces up Tor This by being one oT Dr. Charles' prize sTudenTs in German. Unless The draTT of a squirrel lsTill worsel doesn'T geT him, he will aTTend Yeshiva Col- lege nexT year. PEYSER, PINCUS Pinky has been The oT- Ticial scribe oT well-nigh eve- ry organizaTion in The school -noTably The G. O. and The Senior Class. ln addiTion To his 'minuTe' Taking acTiviTies he is a Segulah member and a member oT boTh The El- .chaniTe and Academy News sTaTTs. A chemisTry enThu- siasT, he plans To enTer The Tield oT bio-chemisTry7 con- Tinuing his sTudies aT Yeshiva and lvl, l. T. Page EighTeen ORGANICK. ELLIOTT Organ, besides giving Dr. Shapiro a bad case oT angina pecToris, has been The TirsT halT of The ElchaniTe nighTf mare. He was voTed by The seniors as having done mosT Tor The class, is a member oT The Segulah, and a prize his- Tory sTudenT. EllioTT has ac- cepTed upon himselT The burden of being The recipienT oT aT leasT halT The zeros which Dr. Shapiro hands ouT. He loves Madeleine lCarrolll and will aTTend C.C.N.Y. RABINEAU, LOUIS From Albany hails Lou, our Tennis arTisT superb, capTain oT The Team, and wiTTiesT in class. OTT The courT, he is a TervenT admirer oT Dr. Charles. and German is his TavoriTe subiecT. He inTends To become a professor oT analyTical geomeTry. He will aTTend ColgaTe. ELCHANITE -.. .,.,1.x.: . '- ROSENBAUM. NATHAN Founder, advocale, land murdererl of Class-Nile and Varsily Show, Rosy and his produciions will be remem- bered for years lo come. Gerling his slarl as social direclor of his class. 'Rosy' was appoinred chariman of T. A.'s firsl' Class-Nile. The Tremendous success of Jrhe show was due mainly ro his ellorls, and he was appoinr- ed +o direcl 'rhe Varsily Show - bul +ha+'s anolher slory. His incomparable sense of humor won him The presiden- cy of 'rhe February senior class, la joke in ilsehfi. He hopes soon +o direcl Class- Nile ar Yeshiva. RUBENFELD, HENRY Alfhough lhe baseball 'ream in T. A. has been in- aclive for some Time. Henry srill lives on lhe repulalion he has crealed for himself as a slar hurler a few years ago. He is also quile adepl a+ baslcelball and worming his way our of righl spols when called upon in Eco. Al- lhough he is yel in doubf as 'ro whal college he will al- lend, he is quile sure of his ambilion, +ha'r of being a rich capiralisl - or are lhey II7 6 . ELCHANITE ROTHMAN, IRVING Oiving , who un+il re- cen+ly was a resideni' of The Bronx, is an old 'iimer in 'rhe school. From I937 unlil '41, he has been amusing 'rhe fa- cully of T. A. al' his own expense. A gluHon for Ger- man, he dropped Jrhe course alrer a few monlhs due lo circumslances over which he had absolule conlrol. A swell fellow wifh a lceen sense of humor, he will aHend Yeshiva College. SAPHIRE, ENOCH lnlroducing fall, darlc, and handsome Enoch J. Enie Saphire, colorful senior from lhe Deep Soufh. Enie hails from Florida which he proud- ly exclaims was Jrhe 3rd sfare +o secede. Enie's 6 H. I inch and I7O lbs. would loolc well in Jrhe hallowed grey of old Dixie. Gels is a 'rop fIigh+ sludenl and alhlere, caplain of 'rennis leam, member of baskelball Jream. A+hle+ic Manager of T. A.. Assisranl Edilor of Academy News. Caprain of Sani'ra'rion Squad, and a member of Segulah. He will allend Dulce Univer- sify. Page Nineleen SCHWARTZ, LEO Leo has come To us as a giTT Trom ETZ Chaim Yeshiva in Boro Parlc. l-le claims as his possession a cuTe lip- Ticlcler which he nourishes and culTivaTes. RaTher ver- bose in sTyle when he rises To commenT in English class. you can be cerTain ThaT you are in Tor a lengThy session oT hair-spliTTing. As lnTra- mural DebaTing Chairman, he proved himselT very compe- TenT. l-le will enTer Yeshiva College. SELTZER, BERNARD IT There were Two days in succession ThaT B. S. was in school, Mr. Abrams would call a meeTing oT The TaculTy and presenT him wiTh a plague Tor perTecT aTTend- ance. Bernie is a swell de- baTer and a Tine Talmudigh l-le'll never Tail To bring you a Rayeh Trom Rambam lo prove ThaT iT is perTecTly moral To copy The French honieworlc. Page TwenTy SEIDMAN, EMANUEL Manny is a handsome chap from UniversiTy I-leighTs and some Think he was cheaT- ed ouT oT The MosT Hand- some spoT. Thoroughly en- joys The Economics class, ex- cepT when iT comes To TesTs: Then he isn'T There. l-le's an eTTicienT member oT The Dis- cipline Squad and has been a member oT The baslceTball Team. A scion oT a disTin- guished Tamily, he will aTTend Yeshiva College. SIEGAL, BERNARD Sea-Gull , sTanding Tive TeeT Tive and weighing I56 pounds, claims ThaT he is a TugiTive Trom a iulce--box. A Toreigner, he hopes To go To college in his naTive land, Brooklyn. l-le's The Tellow who is always asking Mr. Leibow- iTz when he's going To re- duce. ELCHANITE SEIGEL, MORTON A six TooT Segulah mem- ber, 'IvlorTy has The honor OT being The school poliTician He has held many posiTions in The school. His ediTorship oT The 'Academy News' ranks TirsT and ToremosT. As a re- buTTal arTisT, he cannoT be surpassed and will always Tind a TechnicaliTy wiTh which To sTick lvlr. Orleans. He will aT- Tend Columbia and Take up iournalism. SHONFELD, DAVID The RedSox are bound To win The pennanT This year , Dov has been saying Tor The The las+ Tour years. A naTive oT BosTon, he would voTe Tor Joe Cronin if he ran Tor PresidenT. However, Bos- Ton hasn'T compleTely Tailed him. The BosTon Bruins won The STanley Cup and Dov comes Trom BosTon - so, who cares abouT The lvlaTh. Dov will yeT have To waTch The acTiviTies oT his Teams Trom The oTher side oT The Tence since he will aTTend Ye- shiva College. ELCI-IANITE l si-memo, Joss-IUA Josh is a naTive OT AT- lanTic CiTy, where he has The repuTaTion oT being The Tour- isTs' Romeo. Jolly in spiriT and robusT in acTion, he is an all-around good Tellow .His ambiTion is To become a veT- erinarian. Josh will pursue his sTuclies aT Cornell Univer- siTy. SLOCHOWSKY, ISRAEL IT you're walking near l86Th sTreeT and hear a Tremend- ous roar, know ye ThaT Slug- go Slochowsky has hif an- oTher home-run in T. A.'s Ta- voriTe sporT, punch - ball . However, Sluggo isn'T so conTidenT in The hisTory class. He breaks ouT inTo a cold sweaT every Time Ivlr. Kronish looks aT him. Slug will yeT Tor years TormenT his oppon- enTs wiTh his long range homers since he will aTTend Yeshiva College. Page Twenly-one SOFER, MARTIN lvlarTy , T. A.'s paragon QT pulchriTude,. was voTed mosT handsome in The class. l'le is a 'wow' wiTh The mem- bers of The Tair sex and is a swell dancer. l'le's going To Yeshiva Tol or, perhaps, andl play baslceTl::all. So-Tar, so good , says SoTer. STETNBERG, ISIDORE. The only reason lssy did noT play Tor T. A. varsiTy This year is ThaT, no-no- yes! l'le's iusT Too good! For The lasT year he's been The pivoT man oT Yeshiva College bas- lceTball Team and has morTi- Tied his opponenTs by his long dead-eye shoTs. l-le will aT- Tend Yeshiva College and no doubT will soon be The TirsT sophomore To be cap- Tain oT The baskeTball Team. Page TwenTy-Two SOLOMON PHILIP Phil has come To Yeshi- va Trom Jerusalem, via Los Angeles. .l-le has Talcen every lVlaTh course oTTered in T. A. and G. W. nighT school. The IOO's received in his lvlaTh RegenTs have signed and cer- TiTied his career. CaliTornia Tech will greeT nexT year, a good-naTured, eager civil en- gineer prospecT. TUCHINSKY, NATHAN Tuch is The oTher halT oT The Weisberg-Tuchinsky Dis- cipline Squad combinaTion where he has acTed as a very able AssisTanT CapTain.l-low- ever, he has oTher problems Than ThaT oT keeping order in The corridors, - among which, how To keep The in- numerable Temales away Trom him. Tuch is a Tellow who's really inTeresTed in The school's welTare and will never Tail To cooperaTe. l'le will aTTend Yeshiva College. ELCHANITE TURK, IRVING No. Guess again. lrv Turk is noi a Turk. He's iusl a handsome, good-nalured fel- low who goes lo T. A. and who is coniinually asking for lhe his+ory homework. He once made a speech for fif- 'reen minules in Mr. S+rum's class, uHering bu+ five words er-er-er-er-er 'lrv' will noi maior in public speaking ai Yeshiva College. WEINSTEIN, CHARLES 'Woosie r, nor Wo rkesie r', 'Charlie' is always correciring. As you've probably guessed, Charlie comes from Wor- cesler lcorrecl spellingllvlass. He has acled as Managing Ediior of The Academy News and is a member of The Se- gulah. Charlie is one of lhe very few who learn To- rah lishmo . - so he claims. He will aliend Yeshiva Col- lege. 4' J 1 ELCHANITE NNALDMAN, SAMUEL Schmeiel , The chap wilh The uprorious Glilz accent is a naiive of Wilming+on, Del- aware. Alihough +his is buf his firsl year al T. A. Sam has been complelrely won over and has becorne one of lhe boys . When, however, he does resorl lo his nalural voice and inionalion, you will invariably hear about Pal- esline, Cen+er of Music in Jrhe Near Eas+ . A fine Tal- mudisl, he will conlinue his sludies ai Yeshiva College. WEISBERG, SAMUEL This Red from Brooklyn has sfruck Jferror info +he hearls of 'rhe freshmen and sophomores by lhe uncomp- romising mililarisiic measures which he has inlroduced in+o fhe school as Caplain of +he Discipline Squad. He is a ra- bid Brooklyn baseball ian and has been known fo have uliered disparaging remarks abou? lhe Gianis. He loves lo drum on 'rhe back ol: a waslepaper baskel. during Senior Council meefings. Ye- shiva College for Red , Page Tweniy-'rhree ZAITCHIK, JOSEPH Fuzzy hails from Boslon and is co-owner ol Jrhis mag. Among his achievemenlrs in The school, - Secrelary of G. O.. Member of Senior Council, Member of Chess- Team,Co-Edilor of Flchanife, Vice-chairman of rhe Segu- lah and 97 in 'rhe French regen+s.l-le has delighied au- diences and morfified Tea- chers by his gill of 'rhe gab which is variagaied wifh quaini New England humor. Joe has already Jralien French, Lalin, and German in high school and hopes lo sludy G-reelc, Sanskrit and any olrher language offered af Yeshiva College. Page Twenfy-four ZELKOWITZ' MARVIN Marvin is iusi as quiel and unassuming as Scranlon, Pa., appears io be. l'lome+own,oli course. Fle can oflen be seen af Jrwelve midnighl plugging away in preparaiion for Mr. Lich+enberg's sliff mafh ex- ams. Marvin was nosed oul by one voie in being voled Jrhe besi dresser in lhe senior class. Yeshiva College is his desliny. ELC!-IAN ITE gfadj ,Maier-y SEPTEMBER, I937 - l-lere we are, fifTy naive freshmen, wearing fiffy broad grins, come To school, washed behind The ears, all fresh and clean, and aching To rneef The Teachers - - buT we are soon disillusioned - - we seen differenf in The caTalogue - - big men sfare af us and laugh while we walk Through The corridors - - we learn ThaT we don'T geT separaTe marks for conducT, efforT, and cleanliness - - we learn loTs of Things - - we learn ThaT whaT Mr. Braun is conTinually saying is noT I'm sure , buT Monsieur - - we learn ThaT Mr. Linn boxed wiTh Benny Leonard, or rafher Benny Leonard boxed him - - we hold an elecTion, and a spliT among The Yeshiva D'BronxiTes hands The class presidency To Harold Miller, a dark horse - - The firsT Third is over, and so is The Three-year course for The f i r s T Third of us 1 - Mr. Small Takes The Civics class on a ferry Trip To Manhaffan - - The ferry sinks ThaT day - buT before we geT There - - The second Third is finished and so is The s e c o n d Third of The class - - The adminisTraTion says ThaT we don'T geT enough fresh air - - Mr. Linn organizes an eTigueTTe club where you ain'T allowed To say ainT - - Mr. Lichfenberg Tries To explain To us why even an ad- minisTraTive assisTanT can'T do wiThouT mafhemafics - - also, how he Taughf a girl from 6. W. eTc. eTc. - - we go in for our firsT admifs - - we don'T geT Them - - buT we do gef The iiffers - - The Third Third comes To a close and wiTh iT The Term, leaving behind iT ThirTy refugees from The Three year course - - we Take our firsT finishing exams lfinals To youl - - They finish us! FEBRUARY, I938 - Mosf of us are back again 1 - some of us already swifched To long panTs - - well, well - - look aT Those children walking in - - oh! Those musT be The liTTle firsT Termers, poor Things - -- Miller is reelecTed presidenT, Rosenbaum elecfed social direcfor - - we buy our firsT class caps - - we find Them eifher Too small or Too big - - we ve already become big shoTs in debafing, and good shofs in baskeTball - - The high and rnighTy fall, as we beaT Page Twenfy-six El-CHANITE The seniors in debaTing - - and Take The school championship - - led by Izzy STeinberg we become lower division champs in baskeTball -- - The baseball season is here, and here comes ShoenTeld gabbing away like a Toxx abouT The BosTon Red Sox - - Red Weisberg geTs his knuckles red and The oTher Tellow's Tace blue - - when a GianT Tan asks him The eTernal quesTion: Are The Dodgers sTill in The League? - - everyone cuTs drawing 1 everyone Tlunks - - we TirsT meeT Dr. Shapiro, his library, and his raTTles - - are we impresed! - - The adminisTraTion noTices ThaT The walls are bursTing in The classroom, so They divide The class - - we remain second Termers, while The remnanTs oT The Three year school iump To TourTh place - - The Term ends wiTh only a Tew of us ioining The Tive-year course -- - SEPTEMBER, l938 - Surprise! Miller elecTed presidenT. We meeT a mass oT hair under which walks Joe ZaiTchik who geTs a Third reporT card ThaT looks like Temp-eraTure recordings - - buT waiTl There is an explosion, a Thun- derous roar - - when The smoke liTTs, we Tind ThaT ThirTy have become TiTTy - - Tuchinsky says ThaT lvloshiach has come - - SoTer says ThaT Houdini has come - - iT's neiTher - - iT's only ThaT TwenTy Three-year course Treshmen have crashed our lines - - They're soon assimilaTed - - buT our English classes are divided - -- The 4's geT Dr. Sarachek, The 3's Mr. Orleans - - Dr. Sarachek, who says Ellen- boooogen, Thinks ThaT IOO is a passing mark - - so he passes every- one - - The 3's choose Siegel as Their presidenT and amaze The 4's by remaining 3's - - Mr. GoldsTein speaks Spanish, and looks aT SoTer when he calls on RoThman - - WeinsTein begins correcTing, WoosTer, noT Worke-sTer - - Mr. Shain gives us a lecTure on gene- Tics and herediTy - - and are we enlighTened? - - we Tind ThaT Palgrave's real name was Cohen - - The Tower, class newspaper, Talls on The heads of ZaiTchik and Rosenbaum - - Tinals again - - we go home To resT our cerebral secTions Tor a Tew weeks 1 - FEBRUARY, T939 - Surprise! Miller elecTed presidenT - -The brighTer boys choose Siegel Tor a second Term - - we Take in Organick who immediaTely begins To TormenT Dr. Shapiro in The Ancie-nT HisTory class -- - Rosen- baum presenTs some delighTTul class programs - -- Dr. Sarachek, ELCHANITE Page TwenTy-seven who says Ellenbooooogen, suspends Them 1 1 Dr. Shapiro Takes us To The Museum oT ArT where we are very much impressed by The French arTisTs 1 1 Mr. GoldsTein surprises us by looking aT SoTer and calling on SoTer 1 1 RegenTs and RegenTs worries come around 1 1 Mr. l.ichTenberg says ThaT a 99 and 44X IOO is a Tair mark Tor The Geomelrry RegenTs 1 1 we are willing To bargain Tor a 64 and 4-4flOO 1 1 we receive our 5O's and need all summer in which To recuperaTe 1 1 SEPTEMBER, I939 1 Surprise! Owing To circumsTances over which he had compleTe conTrol, Miller was noT elecTed presidenT 1 1 Rosenbaum Takes over in The 4 1 1 while WeinsTein overTakes Siegel in The 3 1 1 We swiTch English classes 1 1 The 3's meeT lvlr. Leibel, his Canada Dry, his son, and Uncle Luyeh, while The 4's are impressed by Mr. Orleans' acTing abiliTy and Van Dyke 1 1 boTh classes spliT 1 1 some become NuTsies under The Turorship oT Dr. Charles lspelled ChaTchkal 1 - The oTher holT begins To learn The easisesT way To blow up The building 1 1 Dr. Charles Tells Lilker You are looking Tor Trouble 1 1 Mr. Freedman says noThing 1 1 The SchwarTz, GoTTheim, Krasner Trium- viraTe enTers The school wiTh Their gab' gab, and camera, respecTively 1 1lvlandelbaum, a guinTeT oT his own, sTorms T.A.1 1The borschT boys are Tormed 1 1 Doc Shapiro warns Them ThaT loTkas will Tlow like borschT unless They sTop Their inTernal noise 1 1 we walk away wiTh The laurels oT TirsT TA. class nighT 1 1 TeaTure aTTracTion 1 Miller 1 1 Teacher aTTracTion1D. Shapiro 1 1 ZaiTchik, TirsT To enTer school poliTics, elecTed secreTary oT G. O. aTTer a smear cam- paign againsT WorcesTer,, Mass. 1 1 Miller wins The aThleTic man- agership wiTh a wriTe in voTe 1 1 buT The adminisTraTion says no 1 1 we squawk To Mr. l.ichTenberg 1 1 H7499 isn'T 75'l, says he 1 1 I'I yeT be king , vows Miller 1 1 lnTermediaTe RegenTs 1 1 and Then vacaTion 1 1 JANUARY, T940 - LeT's see 1 1 65, 85, 73, 80, 78, equals 75.0I 1 1 Miller elecTed presidenT 1 1 SchwarTz elecTed class presidenT Tor The 3's 1 1 The 4's now meeT lvlr. Leibel, his Canada Dry, his son, his Uncle Luyeh, and The TiTTy-TirsT dragon 1 1 Dr. Charles brings German propergander To school 1 1 The scienTisTs led by lzzy Friedberg meeT Page 'l'wenTy-eighT ELCHANITE lvlr. Lebowilz, his raisins, peanuls, and, well-iokes - - we barely gel enough sludenls lo make a lrig class where we learn aboul every- lhing, lrom Japanese grammar lo modern chess openings - - elec- eclions lor school ollicers come around, and we become embroiled in lhe pol ol school polilics . .a schism arises belween lhe lwo classes- vs. Siegel- Weissman vs.Weinslein- Arm vs. Gordon- Miller walks away wilh lhe presidency - - Weissman, Vice-Pres - - Arm, Sec- relary - Lilker, Treasurer - Saphire, Alhlelic Manager -- lhe lwo mighly miles, Organick-Zailchik, assume co-ownership ol lhe Elchanile nilemare -- we can'l wail lill nexl lerm when we become lhe bosses --beware lhe Regenls--hislory, French, geomelry, chemislry, lrig, --lhe summer and sloopball seasons are here--nexl year we're seniorslll? SEPTEMBER I940 We own lhe school - Weisberg lakes over lhe Discipline Squad --as usual lhey are lhe only ones lo cul lhe assemblies-- Sieg- el becomes edilor ol lhe Academy News - - Doppell and Kalz lead baskelball varsily in seven slraighl viclories--lvlandelbaum, chair- man ol lnlerscholaslic Debaling - - we debele an Evander leam composed ol lhe lairer sex--lhe leam loses lhe debale and ils hearl--lhe chess leam, aller delealing Slyvesanl l-ligh 5M-K2 is lold lo pick up lhe pieces--Schwarlz does a swell iob laking care ol inlramural debaling - - lirsl sludenl council meeling - - new laws enacled--members eiecled--lockers lo be crealed Miller elaled-- lirsl senior class meeling --Miller, Weisberg, Arm, lvlandelbaum, Zailchik on senior council--we discuss senior hals--we slarl lo read Burke wilh lvlisler Leibel-- ll's bor- ing, says he - - so he lells us aboul lhe lilly-lirsl dragon - - we have a second senior meeling--we discuss senior hals--Mr. Abromowilz can'l undersland why we can'l undersland--German Regenls lor lhe linguisls ol lhe class-- You don'l know a lhinqf' says Doclor Charles--lvlr. Lebowilz says nolhing--we have a lhird senior class meeling --we discuss senior hals--and senior hals disgusl us--we lorgel aboul lun lor a while--Dr. Revel has passed away--we cannol believe il--sadly enough, il is lrue--no man was more loved and respecled by lhe sludenls- -we end lhe lerm wilh heavy hearls. ELCHANITE Page Twenly-nine FEBRUARY I94I - We enTer The lasT sTrecTh -- - Miller re-elecTed presidenT of 6.0. amidsT cries of dicTaTor--Mandelbaum cops The vice-pres- idency-- Peyser, The secreTaryship, of course--Lilker skyrock- eTs 6.0. membership To a new high as he enTers his second Term as school Treasurer--sTill embezzling The Tunds To beT on The Dodgers - - work on The ElchaniTe begins in earnesT - - special ElchaniTe assembly--and Mr. Leibel Talks abouT his Uncle Luyeh who drank Canada Dry while playing in and ouTdoor chess TournamenT wiTh The TiTTy-TirsT dragon lurking nearby 1 - l-lis English sends The audience inTo The lsles--only Three sTudenTs Trampled in The rush To receive Their ElchaniTe ad blanks aT The door-- NOT enough school 'oiriT, says Organick -- we have a senior class meeTing and we discuss sen- ior haTs -- Mr. STrum asks whaT is gambol7 ---a shouT from The back oT The room -- Seven come eleven! --Tor a momenT we see a TleeTing image oT PheTerson - - buT soon iT is gone - - Mr. Kronish discusses labah, and labah unions--we discover from his speech ThaT Don Ameche did noT invenT The Telephone-- Mandel-- baum gives a deTaiIed reporT on labor and is Truly rewarded Tor his lab- or-we Take up l-lamleT and are amazed To learn ThaT even Shakespeare knew To be or noT To be --Mr. GoldsTein sTill shouTs, Don'T yell aT me --Turk makes a speech oT TiTTeen rninuTes,er, er, and er- --we have a senior meeTing--we discuss senior haTs--un believable! we geT our haTs--we see our haTs--unbelievable --we parade The sTreeTs wiTh our bereTs and hear The onlookers bray aT our brazenness--we Take our senior picTures and are am- azed land someTimes disgusTedl aT The similariTy To our own persons - inTerviews wiTh Mr. Abrams To answer The qesTion: Will we or won'T we? - -- Organick goes around yelling, Seniorl l haven'T senior Tee -- even ZaiTchik is supposed To pay his 52.50 1- pre-publicaTion TorecasT by ediTorial board sTaTes ThaT The June l94l ElchaniTe will be The besT ever - - cream of The crop inducTed inTo The Segulah -- 9Of'2 seniors - - RegenTs are drawing closer, closer, closer, lpreTTy soon They'll be in back OT usl -- - summer and day dreaming abouT graduaTion - - - you're all dressed up--whiTe ducks-all eyes upon you as your name is called - 4 diploma in hand - - au revoir-- . Page ThirTy ELCHANITE YJUAOQ M0 IN THE SENIOR CLASS slr Mosl popular 1 Harold Miller Besl nalured 1 Slanley Doppell Mos? lilcely lo succeed 1 Allen Mandelbaum Mosl handsome 1 Marlin Soler Mosl brillian'r1 Allen lvlandelloaum lvlosl conscienlious 1 Jack Kleinman Wi++ies'r 1 Louis Rabineau Hall:-Williesl 1 Harold Schulweiss Besf Aihleie - Sianley DoppeI+ Besl Spanish Alhlele 1 Harold Schulweiss Mosl modesl 1 Harry Herman Class poe'r1 Allen Mandelbaurn Did mosl for school 1 Harold Miller Did mosl for class 1 Ellioll Orqaniclc Besl dressed 1 Harold Miller lvlosl naive 1 Jack Kleinman Class scienlisl 1 Israel Friedberg Class malhemafician 1 Philip Solomon Class Linguisl'1 Joseph Zailchilc Class orafor 1 Harold Miller Class aclor 1 Harold Miller Teacher's drag 1 Morlori Siegel Class grind 1 Nalhan Tuchinslcy Mosl respecled - Norman aramid Class 'laln'iudisl1 Norman Bronznick ELCHANITE Page Thirfy-one Class l-lebraislr 1 Millon Arm lvlosl lilerary 1 lvlandelloaum, Zailchiclq Class Dodger lan 1 Miller' Weisberg Class Gianl lan 1 Auerbach, Saphire O AND THE TEACHERS ? lvlosl popular 1 Mr. Jaclc Golclslein Besl dressed 1 Mr. Jack Goldslien Mosl handsome1 lvlr. Jaclc Goldslien Besl ping-pong player 1 Dr. Benjamin D. Shapiro lvlosl modesl 1 Mr. Joshua lvlalz Mosl senlimen+al1 Dr. Beniamin D. Shapiro Mos? cooperalive 1 Mr. Joseph Lichfenberg Highesl marker 1 Mr. Joseph Lichlenberg Lowes? lvlarlcer 1 Mr. Beniamin E. Kronish Belween-meal-ealer 1 Mr. Samuel Leibowilz lvlosl punc+ual1 Mr. Isaac Orleans lvlosl popular subiecl 1 Hislory Leasl popular subiecl 1 English lvloslinlelleclual leacher1Mr. Beniamin Kronish Mosl excileable 1 Isaac Orleans I ALSO 1 THINKS THE SENIOR Williesl 1 lvlr. Emanuel Leibel Favorile aclress 1 Lana Turner Favorile aclor 1 Paul lvluni Favorile magazine 1 Life Favorile Orcheslra leader 1 Glen Miller . Page Thirly-lwo ELCHANITE fi Ihr ilinrvrant VOL. Il. - JUNE I5. I95I TUCHINSKY FLEES ALCATRAZ Red Weisberg, chief of fhe G-men, foday offered a fen fhousand dollar reward for fhe capfure of Na+ Tu- chinslcy, who lasf nighf es- caped from Alcafraz. Na+ fhe Baf , who could always be home reading a bool: on economics in his cell, hif fhe guard over fhe head wifh 'rhe boolc, fool: fhe lceys ouf of his poclcef, opened fhe door, and was abouf fo leave when he reminded himself fhaf he had forgoffen his ec- onomics books. I-le ran baclc, foolc a sheef ouf of fhe boolc and wrofe fhe following nofe which he placed on his cof: Nof enough efficiency . l'le fhen escaped. II' is surprising +hafWeisberg offered a very minufe discripfion of Tuchin- slcy, including fhe address of his girl friends. If is rumored fhaf fhey were once friends. Solomon Zeides, admin- isfrafive assisfanf af Talmudi- cal Academy foday announ- ced fhaf he would resign his office due fo ill healfh. MILLER QUITS MARK AND WITS ELKA AND NIGHT TO COMBINE. J. Zaifchilc and E. Org- aniclc, eclifors of 'Ellia' and 'Nighf' magazines respecf- ively, announced fhaf fhey would combine fhe fwo mag- azines info one publicafion. The weekly circulafion of fhe Elica has been I,500,000 while Nighf has almosf reached fhe 2,000,000 marlc If is' be- lieved fhaf affer fhe maga- zines are combined, fhe cir- culafion will reach 4,000,000 MANDELBAUM PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. Allen Mandelbaum, fa- mous poef of Love has been awarded fhe Pulifzer Prize for fhe oufsfanding po- em of fhe year. Among fhe judges was Emanuel Leibel, head of fhe English deparf- menf af Yeshiva Universify. When informed of fhe selec- fion of 'rhe iudges Mandel- baum simply sfafed, Myriad discordanf voices in unhar- monious waves did rise. Harvey Millard, famous sfage and screen sfar. has Ieff fhe Marlc and Wifs sfu- dios following a quarrel wifh Marlc and Wifs. Alfhough Millard has remained silenf as fo fne causes of Ihe ar- gumenf, informed circles in I-lollywood believe fhaf Marlc and Wifs had chosen Char- les Laughfon fo porfray fhe leading role in 'Fuzzy Wuzzy'. Millard achieved fame by his realisfic porfrayal in I Was a Dicfaforu. If is be- lieved, however, fhaf fhe Ro- senbaum sfudios have offer- ed him a confracf and fhe leading role in HG. O. , Young Man . NEW INVENTION I. Friedberg, famous sci- enfisf, announced fhaf he has invenfed an aufomafic 'loflce' disfribufor which is confrol- led by an elecfric eye. Af a dinner given in his honor, Friedberg announced fhaf Talmudical Academy would be fhe firsf school fo use fhe invenfion. The ForecasT . Y Page 2 T H E F O R E C A S T Annual publicaTion oT The graduaTing class oT TALIVIUDICAI. ACADEMY l.lvl. ESENOR,EdiTor-in-chief MAY BEE AssisTanT EdiTor We have aTTempTed To be iocular in This, our pro- phecy. We have iesTed a- bouT our ambiTions, and 'kid- ded' ourselves abouT our Tu- Tures. We can do This be- cause we have worked Toge- Ther Tor Tour long years, and we know each oTher well.Our likes and dislikes, our pasTs and plans Tor The TuTure, are open books before us. YeT, aT Times, iT seems almosT impossible To make plans These days. All our hopes may be shaTTerecl in one TleeTing momenT. We someTimes Teel ThaT The Tu- Ture has in sTore Tor us Somber days. Now, more Than ever, The realizaTion oT our ambiTions is dependenT upon exTernal Torces. While we ioke abouT our ambiTions The baTTle Tor Treedom is be- ing ToughT. How many of our aspiraTions would be re- alized were democracy To be compleTely desTroyed in Eu- rope? OT whaT avail are high ambiTions in muddy Tren- ches7 One can noT simply say These days, I wanT To be a CIOCTOF. 6 lawyer. a scienTisT. ln The world, one will meeT greed, discriminaTion, and a- va riciousness, diTTiculT ob- sTacles To overcome. YeT, while we plan Tor ourselves, we hope and plan Tor a beTTer world. We hope To ioin The masses oT men who conTinually sTrive Tor a world beTTermenT. We shall do our share in The crusade againsT The evils which are Tound in our world Today.We may or may noT succeed in our own, selTish underTakings. Our own ambiTions musl' be TorgoTTen unTiI The Time when all men's ambiTions shall sTend a chan-:e of realizaTicn, no maTTer 'n vhich par? QT The world They are To be Tound. This is our prime ambiTion. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Dear EdiTor: Their have bean manny complainTs Two The english deparTmenT abouT The IamenT Table errurs ir gramarr and puncTuaTion in This years El- chaniTe. Now, This ainT pro- per. FirsT, preposiTions are bad To end a senTence wiTh. To daringly spIiT an inTiniTive is a crime. One musT olways kapiTalize english. The only word wiTh Two I's aT The end is Tul. You and you're eiica- Tiunl Saroyan is crazy! Yes?? Ful of respecT, Isaac Orleans. P. S. P.S. is bad To end an english IeTTer wiTh'. A g.,,... SITUATIONS WANTED Good JaniTor, college grad- uaTe, 25 years oT age, voTed mosT likely To succeed, has had experience. Send IeTTers To A. Mandelbaum cfo Mills HoTeI. Handsome brighT young man 26, college graduaTe, wanTs girl, S50,000. WriTe To Mar- Tin SoTer, cfo ForecasT bldg. STage money on requesT. IT looks genuine. Fool your friends. Apply MarTin Lilker. U.S. lv1inT. ,Ll Public Slrenographer. CiTy Hall Building. Bring your own TypewriTer. Apply P. Peyser. Box 66 fv- LeT me pick up your rugs. Take care oT The baby, or wash The car. EIlioT Organ- ick. Cell l2. CiTy Jail. E. Or- ganick. Shadchan Bureau. Personal inTerviews. WriTe To H. Her- man. Box l23 ForecasT Buil- ding. AcTor's posiTion wanTed. Ex- erience. Played in Snow WhiTe and The Seven DwarTs' Took parT ol: Dopey . cfo Third bench on The Bowery. Harold Miller. WanTed. SenaTorship posi- Tion. Good TiIibusTerer. Har- old Shulweiss. cfo T.A.'s Eco Class. AmsTerdam Avenue X1 l86Tl's STreeT. Page 3 The Forecasf ARM ACCUSED OF PLAGIARISM. MiI+on Arm, aurhor of Spanish and French Jewry and oiher works on Judaica. was accused of plagiarism by Le Vin Zelkowirz' Zelkowiiz, aurhor of Scran of Scran- +on , claimed Thai Arm siole an armful of li'IeraI'ure from his chapier aboul The arms of an army armored car in relafion To The armamenr of Ihe Spanish Armada. li, NISSEL EVADES INCOME TAX. Joseph Nissel was 'roday arraigned in The Washingion Heighis Superior Couri, sifu- a+ed on Amsferdam Avenue and I87+h S+reeI', for' a+- Iempling 'ro evade The in- come Iax. Nissel, owner of 'Ihe Squirrel Nui and Boll Co. . did nu'I seem confidem' of being vindicaied. His counsellor, E .6o'r+heim, said however, 'rhar The Nissel wal nu+ be jailed in di an. BUY NISSEL'S NUTS They wal nu'I' cause you indigesfion I I I BUY MARGIE TANGERINES They're BETAR EDITOR'S LIFE SAVED. Lasi nighlr, The Tanca- donia News Building, ai Tan- cadonia, N.l-I., burned down. The life of The Edi+or, Dr. Morron Siegal, was saved when a passer by saw The bIaze.'E knocked on The door and screamed 'S a iireI LILKER APPOINTED SECRETARY of TREASURER Presideni Franklin D. Rooseveli yesierday appoini- ed Dr. IvlarIin Lilker as his SecreIary of 'rhe Treasury. Dr. Lilker has been presidenr of The siock exchange Tor The Iasr Tive years. Lilker has promised Io siimulafe The sale of GOvernmenI bonds. Na+han Rosenbaum's produciion LAST NIGHT Come Io T. A.'s Annual CLASS NITE Admission 25 cenis lio be reiurned ai end oi show.I JUST OUT I I I E L K A The new magazine J. Zaiichick, ediior JUSTOUTIII NIGHT The new magazine E. Organick, ediior REGINA THEATRE presenis Toupee Or Noi' Toupee wi'rh Harvey Millard N O W I ai DIAMOND THEATRE f : 1 w.TA..i J IJ ,xg X f X 7' 4 -e - uns .., ,L sm b 60pm The ForecasT Page 4 SPORTS RUBINFELD PITCHES NO-HITTER. Babe Rubinfeld, sTar hurler oT The New Yorlc Lan- Iceys, yesTerday piTched The TirsT no-hiTTer oT his career. Even Sluggo Slolcowslcy, powerhouse oT The ST. Louis Frowns, could do no more Than geT Two Tree passes To The Lane. The mosT dramaTic momenT of The game came when The Frowns came To baT aT The end oT The ninTh inning, Trailing by The score oT 2-O. ATTer RubinTeld had sTrucIc ouT Two and walked Two men, Sluggo came To baT. WiTh The counT Three balls and Two sTriIces on The baTTer, RubinTeId Took a long wind-up and senT The ball sfreaking To The plaTe. Casey sTruclc ouT. RABINEAU DEFEATS SAPHIRE Louis Rabineau Today won The naTional Tennis championship by deTeaTing Enoch Saphire, love-six, six- love, love-siclc. AT The end oT The Tiring maTch, Rabin- eau wallced To The wall oT The clubhouse, shook baclc and TorTh, and began mumbling To himseIT. DocTors said ThaT This menTal disorder was caused by The sTrain OT The I I l I i YANKS REMOVED FROM MAJORS - COMM. SHONFELD ANNOUNCES The New York Yanlcees have been disqualiTied from The maior leagues, Commis- sioner Shomfeld Today an- nounced. The Team, which is composed of RuTTing, Fer- reI,Derringer,WalTers, Green- berg, Foxx, Gordon, Keller, RizuTTo, Dimmagio, VWIIiams, and Averill, has yeT To win a game. The baTTing average of The Team is .OOlI. The Yankees will probably ioin The lnTernaTional League, The Commissioner said. BETH MEDRASH VERSUS YESHIVA Rabbi Irving Margolies, chieT rabbi oT PaIesTine, yes- Terday 'Threw ouT The TirsT ball To inauguraTe The annual baseball series beTween The BeTh Medrash Lamorim and The Yeshiva. Hair pins were disTribuTed To The players aT The beginning oT The game. The YeshivaiTes won by The score of 3-2. . LISTEN TONIGHT STATION WYRU Josh Shapiro and his drums HITLER BITES MUSSOLINI Has severe case of Hyclrophcbia. AdolT HiTIer and BeniTo Mussolini, cellmaTes aT Sing Sing, lasT nighT came To blows. The conTIicT was caused by a quarrel over The division of The cell. I wanT lebensraumn, They boTh screamed. ATTer Mussolini had made a speech abouT The superioriTy of The Greelcs, HiTIer biT him on The shin. The guard said ThaT HIT- Ier had been acTing gueerly laTeIy. When given orange- juice To drinlc, he screamed. I haTe iuicel For nighTs, he has remained awake planning an invasion oT The BriTish Isles. Mussolini has been re- moved To The CiTy l-lospiTal where he was iniecTed wiTh anTi-rabies serum. WORCESTER, NOW WOOSTER Owing To The unTiring eTTorTs of Mayor WeinsTein, The CiTy Council of Worces- Ter, Mass. Today raTiTied a bill changing The spelling oT The ciTy Trom WorcesTer To WoosTer. Previously , The Mayor said, pronunciaTions oT our beloved ciTy had ranged Trom 'orchesTer' To 'VurshT'. ThaT was very bad. Now, iT's I I game. I admiTlTancel noT 'free IWoorsTer, EBBHZIH 'Q' We, fhe graduafing class ofJune, I94I do hereby bequeafh, hand over, and ofherwise gef rid of fhe following fo fhose who remain affer ourdeparfure fo sweaf, foil, and ennoble fhemselves in fhe blessed porfals of Talmudical Academy under fhe benevolenf eye of our Ad- minisfrafive Assisfanf, Norman B. Abrams. To lvlr. Goldsfien 1 nofhing. We'd like a couple of his sharp fies ourselves. To Dr. Shapiro 1 We leave an aufomafic laflca disfribufing ma- chine, and a fop spin on fhe ping pong ball. To Mr. Leibowifz 1 We leave a cafeferia in The physics room. To Mr. Orleans 1 We leave an eighf dollar appropriafion for a new closef, and a van-dylce. To Mr. Renov 1 We leave a class fhaf doesn'f cuf . To Dr. Saraf 1 We leave a class. To Dr. Charles 1 We leave an office in fhe German Embassy. To Mr. lvlafz 1 We leave a Dedelcind schni+f and checks fhaf don'f bounce. To Mr. Lichfenberg 1 We leave a good cigar. To Mr. Kronish 1 We leave anofher Mandelbaum. To Mr. Sfrum 1 We leave poor Yoriclc and l'lecuba. To Mr. Shain 1 We leave an MS. and a class 'rhaf won'f blush af his lecfures. To Rabbi Wind 1 We leave a class wifhouf knufyos . To Mr. Noble1We leave a few good procfors for The Befh Medrosh exams. To Mr. Abromowifz 1 We leave a new slcull-cap. To Mr. Leibel 1 We leave Uncle Luyeh, an oufdoor chess fourna- menf, a few cases of Canada Dry, Mrs. Yifnif, and fhe fiffy-firsf dragon. To Dr. Churgin 1 We leave fhe Galufh . To Mr. Friedman 1 We lebowifz. To Mr. Abrams 1 We leave, af lasf. To Dr. Safir 1 Alas! We leave! To fhis confracf we affix our signafures wifh all due seriousness and gravify. ISAAC NEWTON and fhe GRADUATING CLASS OF l94I. ELCHANITE Page Thirfy-seven 43? N 5233-N 'n ,. - ff? 'L N ' Q A i We fgrl 5 4 ' ..?' ' ' 4 1 WV? 1 X1 ,QA .. - 5 V s mf Q X X- A A T' N , . f X A X Q 5 uv. g + SFS-3. ximg ' - sd' -. fs - 1 I f X. .. VX55' A, ' ' , ,,,,gL,. 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TT was buT Three monThs beTore ThaT l had heard The same words aT The l-l e s p e d Tor Dr. Bernard Revel, 53-135 png my World Jewry suTTered iTs TirsT blow when ThaT greaT sage and leader leTT his hearTbrolcen people. And now, Rabbi Moses SoloveiTchilc. Whom shall l send, and who will go Tor us, saiTh The Lord. I was sTanding nexT To The bier which resTed in The audiTorium where Thousands had come To pay The lasT TribuTe To Their greaT Gaon and Teacher. lT was a hearT-rending sighT. STudenTs and rabbis, grown men and women, wepT like children. A eulogizer had come To The plaTTorm and broke inTo unconTrolled wailing aTTer saying. Rabbi Moses SOlOV6ll'Cl'1llK is dead - H3125 pwjg jjr l TelT a Tear Triclcle down my cheelc. My hearT cried noT only be- cause Jewry had los+ iTs greaTesT Gaon, buT also because he had been my Teacher, and l, as all his sTudenTs, had loved him. lT seemed To me buT yesTerday ThaT l had heard him deliver a Shiur. l-lis eyes sparliled, his voice was spiriTed, his Tace radiaTed wiTh happiness when he exposTulaTed Two seemingly conTradicTory Rambams. He would conTinually emphasize ThaT exTensive knowledge oT The Talmud P099 FOrTy ELCHANITE was of less imporTance Than a deep, Thorough undersfanding of The TracTaTe. He loved To siT for hours and argue wiTh his sTudenTs abouf a fine anfinomy in The Talmud. The Crescendo wiTh which he habiTually Terminafed The Shiur kepT ringing in my ears, Though somewhaf infer- mingled wiTh The incessanT wailing of The assembled. l Tried To look aT The speaker, buT ever-increasing Tears, formed by recolllecTions OT him, had blinded my eyes. l remembered The Time he invifed me To his home for The evening, as he would say, To Talk Divrei-Torah . He was like a faTher To me when he welcomed me inTo The house. He inquired abouT my healfh. He asked me abouT The boys . Did They eaT well? Were They safisfied wiTh The Shiur? Do They have sufficienf sleep, enough fresh air? When I was abouT To leave. he admonished me saying, lT is all very well and good To siT and learn all day long, buT remember, your healfh is more imporTanT Than anyThing else. He was very devoTed To his sTudenTs. In The many Yeshivas which he founded, he worked unfiringly and unselfishly in The inTeresTs OT his Yeshiva Bachurimu. Since The greaT Gaon, Rabbi Chaim Brisker, The faTher of Reb Moishe died, leaving his son The duTy of keeping up The learning of The Torah in Europe, iT is difTiculT To find in The annals of Jewry a man who did so much To furTher The exTension of Talmudic learning Through- ouT The world. AlThough he himself never aTTended a Yeshiva, having been Tufored by his fafher, Rabbi Moses SoloveiTchik was The founder OT many Yeshivas in Europe and in America. When yeT a young man, he had organized The Yeshiva in LiThuania. One of his sTudenTs There, who laTer achieved fame, was Rabbi David Leibowih. He Then wenf To ChaslowiTz, where he did much To beTTer The condiTion of The poor sTudenTs. ln l92l he came To Warsaw, where he acfed as Rosh Yeshiva aT Tachgamoni, one of The largesf Yeshivas in Europe. EighT years laTer he emigraTed To America and immediaTely ioined Dr. Revel in The founding of The greaTesT insTiTuTion of Jewish learning in America -Yeshiva Rabbenu YiTzchok Elchanan. A few years laTer, he founded The Yeshiva of WashingTon HeighTs, which now bears his holy name. He was sTeadTasT in his beliefs and ideals. He had once fOughT againsT almosf The enfire Rabbinical Council in Poland To geT a religious burial for a man who had asked, before his deafh, To be cremafed. He never languished in defending The Yeshiva againsf calumny and invecTive. He devoTed his enfire life To Torah and foughT againsf all aTTempTs To uprooT The Tradifion for which iT sTood. My fafher, my TaTher, The charioT of lsrael! Rabbi Moses Soloveifchik, The fafher of Yeshivas, The fafher of his sTudenTs, is gone. He was loved and respecfed in his life and be- wailed and mourned by his people ThroughouT The world in his deafh. ELCHAMTE Page FOrTy-one Wflfllfe ElI'1C!f!l6 ZLHCICA By Carmi Charny Today in PalesTine The Jewish people are reTurning To Their Tormer mode oT living. They Toil, sowing and reaping The TruiTs oT The land. The golden Tields, The mounTains, and The rivers reverberaTe wiTh The ioyous song oT a people reTurning To naTure. ProximaTe To The naTural elemenTs, The rain, The sun, and The winds, They live a healThier, 'fuller liTe as Their ToreTaThers did in'The Time oT The Tanach. For The Hebrew people as described in The Tanach were essenTially a people aTTached To The earTh. lTs concepT oT G-d and iTs moral code were born oT iTs innermosT love Tor naTure, G-d's handiwork. The liTe oT The enTire naTion was inTerwoven wiTh naTure in iTs holidays, cusToms, laws and speech. The Three l:esTivals were primarily holidays in which Thefpeople oTTered Thanks To The Lord Tor The naTural riches which He had besTowed upon His people. Passover, oTherwise called The Spring Holiday, was The period when barley was harvesTed. ShvuoTh, The HarvesT FesTival, marked The harvesTing oT wheaTg and on Tabernacles, The GaThering--in l3esTival, The TruiTs were gaThered. These holidays were spiriTual cords which bound The naTion. They were TacTors which conTribuTed To Their uniTy, since The enTire naTion gaTher- ed in Jerusalem Tor The celebraTion. lT was naTure, and holidays dedica- Ted To naTure 'which solidiTied The lsraeliTes. lWe also Tind ThaT The Song oT Songs and RuTh , Two oT The Three lv1egiloTh which are read during The FesTivals, perTain To naTurel. Our pracTical laws, parTicularly Those perTaining To EreTz-lsroel serve as excellenT wiTness To The aTTachmenT oT The Hebrews To The earTh. The SabbaTical Year is noT only a social law which provides Tor The mainTenance oT The poor, buT iT also shows a deep undersTanding oT agriculTure. The people knew iT was harmTul To exploiT The land. - I. Thou shalT noT sow Thy Tield nor prune The vineyards Tor iT is a sabbaTh oT solemn resT Tor The land . This same undersTanding is again evinced when The Torah orders The besiegers oT a ciTy: 2. noT I. Le-viTicus 25.4 2. DeuTeronomy 20, I9-20 Page Fwy-Two ELcHANiTE To desTroy The Trees ThereoT by wielding an ax againsT Them: Thou mayesT eaT oT Them buT Thou shalT noT cuT Them downg Tor is The Tree oT The Tield a man ThaT is should be besieged of Thee? The Jubilee is noT only a law which emphasizes ThaT all land be- longs To G-d, buT iT also prevenTs The permanenT ownership oT land in excess of one's righTTul needs by mainTaining The original properTy disTribuTion, which was Tair and iusT. This is accomplished by a uni- versal reTurn of lands To Their original owners each TiTTy years. The Torah also says To The masTer who Trees his slaves: 3. Furnish him liberally ouT oT Thy Tloclc, and ouT oT Thy Threshing-Tloor and ouT oT Thy winepressu. The Torah does noT order The masTer To give him money, buT raTher The yield oT The land To enable The Treed slave Toi esTablish an agriculTural career. We can recognize The characTerisTics oT a naTion and iTs manner oT living Trom iTs liTeraTure, noT only Trom The conTenT buT also Trom The sTyle. The Tigures of speech employed in The Tanach bear wiTness To The imporTance oT naTure in everyday liTe. NaTure was Talren Tor granT- ed and The people consTan+ly alluded To iT. The American speech reTlecTs The American liTe. From cards we obTain,fThe use oT a Trump card , a Tour-Tlusher . From baseball are derived such idioms as he had a Tull counT on him , and, on The hoT corner . I T The idioms, peculiar To America, have developed as The resulT of TavoriTe American pasTimes, and To The Toreign sTudenT oT American hisTory would reTlecT The American liTe. ' The Tanach abounds in idiomaTic expressions perjraining To naTure. 4. The TaThers have eaTen sour grapes and The children's TeeTh are seT on edge . 5. They have sown wheaT and reaped Thorns . 6. For They sow The wind and They shall reap The whirlwind . 7.'TThey ThaT sow in Tears shall reap in joy. Perhaps a more eloguenT proof would be The speech OT a simple, everydaylman To his Tellowmen. When JoThem wished To spealc To Abimelech who murdered his sevenTy broThers on one sTone, he used an allegory 'in which he compared Abimelach and his cohorTs To Trees. ln ThaT manner he conTinued his Tamous speech, The Trees wenT TorTh on a Time To annoinT a king over Them . . . 8. 3. DeuTeronomy l5.I4 4. Jeremiah 3I.29 - Ezekiel I8-2 5. Jeremiah l2.l3-6. Hosea 9.7-7. Psalms 126.5-8, Judges 9,8-I7 ELCHANITE Page l:orTy-Three The prophefs, as The resT of The people, were close To naTure in which They recognized The omnipoTence of G-d. They Iisfened To The whispering leaves and Their souls responded To The beaufy of The rising sun and The ,Thrilling of The birds. Their hearTs Thrilled To soIiTary nighTs embraced by naTure and iTs fragrance, whilsT The moon baThed Them in silvery beams. They undersfood ThaT living by naTure, man could more easily find his own soul and discover G-d. Knowing ThaT The aT- mosphere of naTure was heaIThier for man, boTh physically and spiriTuaIIy They consTanTly urged The people To refurn To naTure. 9. I will yeT again make Thee dwell in TenTs cried I'Iosea in anguish, when he saw The naTion of Israel influenced by The mercenary Cnaanifh culTure. IO. I will allure her and bring her inTo The wilderness he cried again when he saw The naTion leaving an ideal life of honesTy and TruTh To become enTangI- ed in The guiles of money. I-Ie, like oTher propheTs, appreciaTed The ex- Treme difference beTween urban and agrarian cuITure. In The ciTy The Jews engaged in business. They were far from naTure and Therefore became Traffickers wiTh balances of deceiT in Their hands . On The soil, however, They were proximaTe To naTure, leading a life of simpIiciTy and moderaTion. The prophefs, when speaking To The people, had as Their obiecT The effecTive communicaTions of Their idea's and aspirafions. They Therefore spoke The peoples language of naTure. When Isaiah wished To I I.chasTise The naTion for iTs mideeds, he compared Them To a vine- yard of which G-d was The keeper, a vineyard, which afTer careful and laborious care' refused To yield good fruiT, buT rafher produced roTTen grapes. This was The life The people led, The language They undersTood. Isaiah, 2.when he wishes To show The people ThaT Gsd is The guiding power oT The universe, uses as his medium a farmer who musf plan his work and arrange his furrows. I2.I-le musf choose fiT soil for various seed, I-Ie musT use differenT Types of sowing and plowing for diverse grains. Thus, G-d has carefully planned and prepared This world. Jeremiah, when describing The sins of Israel, says I4. For my people have commif- Ted Two evils. They have forsaken me, The founTain of living ,waTer, and hewed Them ouT broken cisTerns ThaT can hold no wafer. Milfon, aT The beginning of Paradise I.osT, when he wishes To speak To someone, Turns 9. I-losea I2.IO- IO. I-Iosea 2.I6 -- II. Isaiah 5.I-I7 Page Forfy-four ELCHANITE To The Muse. When Moses and Isaiah wish To speak To someone They Turn To The heavens and earTh. I4. Give an ear ye heavens and I will speak, and IeT The earTh hear The words of my mouTh. My docTrines shall drop as The rain says Moses. And Isaiah, l5. l'Iear O Heavens and give ear O EarTh. The paragon oT beauTy was a deer. The ulTimaTe in blessing was a TerTile pIoT oT land and blessed rains in Their Time . The pious man has oTTen been compared To I6. a Tree planTed by sTreams of waTer ThaT bringeTh iTs TruiT in iTs season , and The evil doer has been likened To I7. The chaff which The wind driveTh away . The enemy has been TreguenTly compared To an unrushing sea. The clove symbolizes Israel, The serpenT, Assyria, The TorTuous serpenT, Babylon, and The dragonein-The-sea' EgypT. l8.The mosT beauTiTul and realisTic descripTion oT an army oT locusT is To be Tound in Jael. The Thrilling Messianic prophecy of peace in The TuTure is exempliTied in Terms oT naTure in, l9. And The wolf shall dwell wiTh The lamb. and The leopard shall lie wiTh The kid. These are merely,a Tew of The vasT TounTain oT naTure idioms To be Tound in The Tanach which TesTiTy To The bond beTween Israel and naTure, a bond which ThroughouT The cenTuries has never Torn asunder. AlThough during cerTain eras The Jew, because of The Torce oT circum- sTances, has been obliged To live in The ciTy, his hearT sTill cherished The Tond hope oT reTurning To The land. The call of The land is powerTul and cannoT Torever be denied. This is The call, The TrumpeT blasT, To which The chaluTzim oT Today respond when They eagerly march TorTh To The plenTiTul Tielcls, sickle and scyThe in hand, and love Tor Their land in Their hearTs. I2. Isaiah 28.23-29 - I3. Jeremiah 2.I3 - I4. DeuToronomy 32.l l5' Isaiah I.2 - I6. Psalms l.3 - I7. Psalms I.4 - I8. Isaiah 27,l I9. Isaiah II.6-IO. T' gales? ELCHANITE Page ForTy-Tive pkaazlre ruide By Enoch Saphire I had had exciTing experiences beTore, buT This one was To surpass all oThers. I enjoy exciTemenT, and, Though This promised To aTTord fme a Tull measure oT Thrills, iT was noT To my lilcingy you see, I was going To die. My advenTure had sTarTed, Tor I had been Too melancholy oT IaTe, as a pleasure cruise on ThaT ribbon oT swiTTIy Tlowing blue waTer framed on The greaT baclcground oT ocean green, The Florida C5ulT STream. AT TirsT all had passed as planned, brighf SouThern sun, a waTT of pleasing Tobacco Tumes, and my conTenTed self incIolenTIy sTeering Dulce Il, oblivi- ous of Those shadows which TliTTed ominously Tar beneaTh The bow of The liTTle vessel, shadows and silhoueTTes whose TransiTion inTo siclceningly real images would cause such TrighT as To render The approach of a paclc oT hyenas a True pleasure. IT happened as iT has many Times beTore. I suppose There is no 'for- Telling iTs-happroach. DirecTIy To The righT, manouvering as a baTTIe TIeeT, inTo TighT concise TighTing array, raced a Floricla line squall iTs blacliish purple scud moving wiTh a quieT, reIenTless acceIeraTion which inspired me wiTh awe. When direcTly above, iT sTrucI4 wiTh a violence which can only be likened To having one's Tace sysTemaTicaIIy beaTen wiTh a wood- en planlc. When I resumed consciousness, iT couIdn'T have been much IaTer, The vicious liTTle line sguall had disappeared, along wiTh Dulie II, my boaT. I was TIoaTing in The SUIT STream, The swiTT sTeel shadows mean sporT when you have a Tirm declc below you and a sTrong rod in your hand, buT mean a horrible deaTh if one crosses The boaT's boundary inTo Their own TerriTory, The clear blue waTers, Their counTry, wild and lawless. On The reaIizaTion ThaT The warm weTness meanT Thar I was in The enemy's counTry, I was so paral- yzed wiTh Tear ThaT I nearly slipped below The surTace. In The Gulf STream wiThouT The good sTrong inch oT proTecTive plankingl I-low long would iT be beTore These awesome shadows maTerialized inTo someThing more Tangible, and more deserving oT Tear. AnTicipaTory pain coursed Through Page I:orTy-six ELCHANITE me similar in nafure fo a clumsy denfisf's affempfs fo exfracf an impacf- ed foofh. I fried fo calm myself. Affer a while I grew callous fo fhe darfing liffle fish, which sooner or lafer, I lcnew, would bring fhe gianf enemies I feared. I found myself speculafing as fo whaf baleful beasf of fhe seas would end wifh me in ifs spacious craw. A barracuda7 Please, God' no! Thaf lean avaricious monsfer wifh ifs long fhin piclcerel-lilce body, and Iengfhy underslung iaw, was a slashing fearing nemesis, since if had five rows of glassy sharp feefh. I-le would rip my arm, like a shredded piece of asparagus or fear my chesf fo fhe windpipe in a dozen bleed- ing secfions' A Sfingaree? Nof fhaf eifherl Wifh fhe barbed whiplash he would severe a limb as guiclcly as a buzzsaw, buf fhe process would be more painful: fhe acrid poison from fhe glands in his lash would spread over my body and complefely paralyze me. A moray? I shudder- ed! He would slowly, easily, uncoil his slimy unhealfhy looking, brown- green ocfopus-lilce feef, and sinlc fangs info me secrefing a poison info me as deadly as fhaf of a raffle snalce. A manfa ray? Well, nof so hor- rible as fhe ofhers. Buf being crushed by fhree fhousand pounds of solid muscle was nof fhe deafh I would choose. If would be lilce placing my- self on a railroad fraclc, fo awaif fhe pilof wheels of a mighfy engine. A sharlc? Yes! I hoped fervenfly fhaf one of fhose lcillers would finish me. A sharlc would bife clean and end my life wifh a few cruching movemenfs of his mighfy iaws. This was fhe deafh I wanfed. Then fhe humor of fhe sifuafion caughf me, even fhough I was blanched wifh fear. I-lere I was, praying fhaf a sharlc would find me and lcill me. I laughed af fhaf, and was surprised fhaf I could laugh. If was a good iolce, buf a iolce I could never fell anybody. I began fhinlcing as I floafed fhereg I had nofhing else fo do. I ar- rived af fhe conclusion fhaf dying wouldn'f be so bad. My healfh had been poor. Ever-recurring headaches had made my life a nighfmare: darlr dismal failure had ended my efforfs affer each shiny success. The failures and unpleasanfnesses far oufweighed fhe happiness I had had in life. When deafh came, I wouldn'f be grasping fhe shorf end of fhe rope. If was only fhe manner in which I was fo go, fhaf froubled me. I saw if a few seconds before if sensed my presence, a darker pafch, an umbra, in fhe dark wafer. I received a shoclc as if I was elecfrocufed, my sfomach seemd fo drop away from my body wifh roller coasfer El-CHANITE Page Forrg. seven Speed, geffling heavier as if wenf. Somefhing rose in my gorge fhaf +hreafened fo push ouf my eyeballs. l was salivafing freely. A hammerhead, a man-eafing shark by ifs reflecfionl He glided languidly forward yawing from side fo side as he came, like a Wraifh desfrucfion. Then some murderous insfincf compelled him fo realize my presence. Abandoning his languorous shunfing, he launched himself surfaceward like a grey forpedo of violence. Though in a paroxysm of fear, I admired wifh pefrified wonder fhe graceful curve fhe hammer- head's body made as if arched 'rowards me. lfs huge frame moved up- ward wifh a silenf, unrelenfing assuredness of fafe. The huge living engine of desfrucfion was upon me, fhe flaf fhin plafe-like head, fhe brighf green beady eyes, filled wifh no emofion excepf fo safiafe a rapacious hunger, fhe finy indenfed nosfrils in a discus-like head, fhe slifs behind fhe eyes which looked like venfilafors, and lasf, fhe horrible slighfly parfed jaws. The sighf was ferrifying, since fhe wafer disforfed if even more fhan if was. Buf if was gorgeous, a beaufy of ferror. As 'rhe huge cream colored underside scraped my chesf, I screamed, and dove underwafer seeking escape. l had as much chance as fhe shark would flopping pififully on land, wifh a gaff poised over him. l dove righf info fhe shark, his mighfy head loomed larger and larger, unfil fhe open iaws wifh fhose pike-like feefh filled my vision. l raised an ineffecfual arm fo ward off fhe hammerhead's blow. ln vain. A brighf yellow explosion of excruciafing pain flashed fhrough my body, blowing ouf fhe fuses of my brain, and leaving all a murky black excepf for fhin, dancing columns of orange smoke which slowly degenerafed info bubbles and fhen disappeared. lfem in fhe Miami Herald, June l2, I94l. Joseph Sanoch was found dead foday on board his boaf. l-lis deafh was due fo an apparenf sfroke in his sloop, Duke ll. lndicafions are fhaf he did nof die peacefully, since fhe inferior of fhe boaf was in a iumble. The Miami Beachi Pafrol found fhe boaf in 'The Gulf Sfream. The Coroner's reporf: Mr. Sanoch suffered from pressure on fhe brain, and immediafe deafh was caused by a bursfing blood vessel in fhe brain. x , 'iv i Page Foffv-sigh ELCHANITE lawn on. 1815! .greet The sun's child, dawn, STreTching, yawning, Shoves aside The moon And awakens To find The Trolley inTrusive In blaTanT manner rude lnTerrupTing The river's repose In iTs muddy bed ITs leThargic mood. Lazy river Drowsy river FilThy river Harlem River. The Trolley passes on Bronx-ward bound Spewing TorTh sound Bawling, belching, Roaring, rumbling OuTward Tumbling Mingling wiTh man-m OT The CiTy ade discord The iarring musical paTTern OT The Bronx. Raucous Bronx Teeming Bronx Squalid Bronx My beloved Bronx. O ELCHANITE By Allen Manclelbaum Over The massive bridge Whose Thiclc-seT cemenT Thighs From ouT oT The sandy silT Up To iTs body rise. Passes The Trolley WiTh iTs work-bound human cargo Of morTal's worries Each bearing his share And worldly cares Over The indiTTerenT bridges OT human sorrow disdainTul. Cold-hearTed bridge Warm-hearTed man STone-hearTed bridge PassionaTe PulsaTing Man. Page ForTy-nine nowffagea - wo mrff in wife By Joseph Zaifchik Nighf. Mulfifudinous waves of snow are falling slowly, sfeadily. An enorm- ous quilf of whife covers fhe village. Whife bellows of smoke mingle wifh fhe ever-falling snonwflakes and seem fo engage in silenf conversa- fion wifh fhem. Here is a beaufiful picfure of peace, painfed in peace- ful whife. All is sfill and quife and fhe village seems mofionless, save for fhe confinuous, undisfurbed clescenf of fhe snowflakes. A dog barks fhreafeningly af fhe infinife sfillness, and, fhen, subsides, perplexed anclivanquished. Yef, fhe people are nof in fhe folds of deep slumber. Here and fhere we see small snow-variegafed lighfs, each revealing porfions of eavesdropping snow resfing on fhem. They' eavesdrop on an aged, sagacious couple siffing fhoughffully, reminiscing of fhe days gone by, and offering fheir mellowed philoso- phies of life. The old man rises, walks fo fhe window' and gazes af fhe clinging snowflakes. l-le speaks slowly and soffly: You know, we have much fo learn from fhese snowflakes. Mosf of us are aware of fheir exisfence only when we remove fhem from our pafhs and sidewalks. And yef, fhese seemingly unimporfanf snowflakes clo, in fheir own way, carry a message. We humans are very similar fo fhem, our lives following fhe same paf- fern. They fall fo fhe earfh in infinife masses fhroughouf fhe enfire world. Some fall info wafer and insfanfly disinfegrafe: ofhers descend on dry ground and survive for a relafively longer fimeg and sfill some, fhough in proporfion, few, fhaf remain for many monfhs on fhe peak of a mounfain. Buf even fhey cannof for long resisf fhe omnipresenf sun. And even were a snowflake fo fall in fhe coldesf parf of fhe world, on fhe summif of fhe highesf mounfain, - evenif would immediafely melf, were fhere nof fhousands of ofhers like ifffo supporf if. A single snowflake will invariably perish. ln order fhaf any one of fhem mighf 6XiS'f.'+hey musf all sfay fogefher and supporf each ofher againsf dis- infegrafion. Page Fiffy ELCHANITE I don'T like To make sermons, - buf really, we humans are no differenf. We, Too, are born alike, hundreds of Thousands of us, and are indiscriminafely Thrown Throughouf The world. Fafe has planned our lives from The day of our birfh. Amassed wealfh awaifs some of us. while oThers fall info The vicious circle of sordid poverfy. Some of us will live long and happy lives, while The lives of ofhers, less forfunafe. will be filled wifh Tragedy and sorrow. Buf, if any one of us is To, exisf, we musT all work TogeTher and assisT'one anofher. None of us can be Truly happy while seeing ofhers bowed down by poverfy and misery. l, Too, once believed fhaf one should confinually sfrive for self-advance- menf and ThaT The easiesT way of life was To disregard The Troubles of oTher people and, Think only of yourself. l realize now ThaT were we To work solely for ourselves, no one could exisT. Fafe has willed ThaT we should help and assisf each ofher, iusf as iT has willed ThaT The snow- flakes musT supporT one anoTher or suffer disinTegraTion. JusT imagine if each snowflake were To separafe ifself and assume a cloak of indivi- dualism. They would all perish. Yes, - we can learn much from a seemingly unimporTanT snowflake ' The snowflakes conTinue To fall undisfurbed and unabafed. and The paly grey of The morning reveals a peaceful world in peaceful whife. NighT. An angry wind blows The descending snow info fanTasTic, chimerical forms. The shrill cry of The whisTling bombs, The deaTh-bearing chaTTer of The machine-guns rival The howling wind for The masTery of The nighf. Tens of searchlighfs prying The sky, The bursTs of anfi-aircraff shells il- lumine a snow moTTled sky. A flaming airplane dives crazily To a whife deafh beneafh. Marching men curse as They slip and fall on The ice- covered ground and Try To keep The bifing, blinding snow from Their eyes. Af shell bursfs among a group of soldiers - a Thunderous explo- sion - for a momenT, a ludicrous picTure of flying limbs and bodies, soon To be covered by The everfalling snow, and forgoTTen. T-Tere is war in ifs mosT brufal form, where The big guns never cease To roar, and The only peace, The peace of The grave. ELCHANITE Page Fiffy-one Through The Telling snow, a small, whiTe TenT is discernible. Inside, a Tall, uniformed man is pacing The Tloors nervously, while some officers look on wiTh expecTancy. l-lis voice is raucous and exciTed: Snowl Mars has been wifh us! lT is Time To aTTack. We will caTch The enemy unawares and The vicTory shall be ours. For The glory of The FaTherland! The superior race shall soon be masTer, and The arroganT in- Teriors - slaves. lT will be a hard TighT, buT we musT win, Though we lose TwenTy Thousand men.lThe snow will blind Them. . Yes, we Too musT be like snowflakes. True, They are soTT and melT quickly. BUT when They Torm inTo ice - They're dangerous! Men will slip and Tall, and break Their arms and legs, -- Then, They are danger- ous! BuT There musT be sacriTices. The moisT ground will noT readily accepT a hard covering oT ice. BeTore ThaT can be achieved, many of Them. perhaps millions, will perish. BUT They will acT as The Torerunners of a sTrucTure which will noT easily be broken. IT Takes millions of snow- flakes To Torm a block oT ice. No place Tor individualiTy or independence' Those will perish. Then only will There be ice, hard, ruThless, dangerous, eTTicienT! Men will cover iT wiTh ashes, buT soon more snow will Tall and more ice will Torm. Snow can be Trampled inTo noThingness, buT ice - ice will make Them Tall, Tall hard. Snow can be gaThered inTo shovels and Thrown To The winds, buT ice - ice will break Their shovels. TonighT, we aTTack! BuT we musT remember ThaT lives are of no concern when we make ice, unbreakable ice, which will resisT all aTTempTs To desTroy iT. Snow will melT, buT ice is dangerous. lT makes men slip and Tall. OuTside, The snow had farmed inTo an enormous block of ice. The soldiers cursed as They slipped and Tell. 060 Page Fiffv-+wo ELCHANITE paggi Zvi cjshrdck .jgagfiger by Alien Msndeissum On The 2IsT day OT January, in The year l793, The head OT one Louis CapeT was severed Trom his royal body. WiTh his deaTh, There swepT TorTh Trom The cOunTry OT his Tormer rule, Over The whole OT Europe, The principles OT liberTy, equaliTy and TraTerniTy. Across The Rhine, in Germany, was This new era also TelT, liberal ThoughT and philosophy became The vogue. The Jew, as a minoriTy, was quick To Teel The' ToleranT spiriT which pervadecl The Germanic sTaTes and prin- cipaliTies. He, Too, Took his parT in The poliTical, social, and liTerary upheavals OT This period. ln regard To his inner liTe, The German Jew in general, was swepT inTo ReTorm Judaism, essenTially anTi-ZionisTic and imbued wiTh The spiriT OT German naTionalism. To sTem This Tide, which sOughT To Tear Judaism away Trom iTs anchor OT TradiTion, There arose aT This Time Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalisher. Kalisher was born on The TourTh day OT Nisan, The monTh OT The Re- dempTiOn, in l796, in Lissa, Pozen. His rooTs in EasTern Jewry, he was yeT able laTer To absorb Trom The wealTh OT WesTern culTure. His philosophy represenTed a Tusion beTween The poliTical and The religious yearning Tor PalesTine. His early precepTOrs were Rabbi Akiba Eger OT Pozen and Rabbi Jacob OT Lissa, ATTer his marriage, he became rabbi in Thorn, Prussia, Tor which posiTion he did noT accepT any mone- Tary renumeraTion. lT was here ThaT his wealTh oT ideas Tound TerTile soil. The composiTiOn OT his Halachik work, Eben Ha-Bohan, earned him a repuTaTion Tor learning among EasTern Jewry and creaTecl Tor him an audience To hearken unTo his laTer ZionisT preachings. ln his nexT work, The Emunah Yesharah, a philosophical TreaTise and cOmmenT- ary on Job and KoheleTh, Rabbi Kalisher exhibiTed noT only a deep undersTanding OT The Jewish and ChrisTian philosophers OT The Middle Ages, buT also an Hebraic sTyle which can compare Tavorably wiTh The liTerary works OT many modern Hebrew wriTers. In The Emunah Yesharah he propounded his religious philosophy. The TirsT parT OT his book deals wiTh philosophical sysTems and super-naTural Torces in man. ln The second parT, he deals wiTh creaTion, predesTinaTion, and The oral and wriTTen law. ELCHANITE Page FiTTy4Three In Kalisher's laTer and greaTesT work, Drisl'1aTh Zion, - in realiTy a conTinuaTion oT The Emunah Yeshara - he proposed Theories which were To Torm a source Tor laTer ZionisT ThoughT and esTablish him as a TaTher OT modern poliTical Zionism. His chieT avenue OT approach To his proposals was his inner religious belieT, yeT his cerTainTy ThaT The Time was ripe Tor The pracTical applicafion OT These belieTs was due To The exTernal influence oT The emancipaTion Jews. He realized ThaT iT The Jews were To mainTain a naTional consciousness now, aT a Time when assimilaTionism and reTorm Judaism were running rampanT, They musT regain The aTTribuTes oT a unified naTion, chieT of which was a naTional homeland. Because of emancipaTion, many Jews such as MonTeTiore, Cremieux, and RoThchild, had aTTained posiTions oT poliTical inTluence and he saw ThaT wiTh Their sympaThy Tor his program Tor PalesTine, he could do much To TurTher his plans. He wroTe in DrishaTh Zion: ln This enlighTened cenTury, in which many of us have been granTed Treedom and many of us have aTTained high oTTice, iT is only jusT ThaT we do our uTmosT Tor our land and our people. The Messianic ideal occupied a prominenT place in Rabbi Kalisher's ThoughTs. His view in regard To The Messiah was expressed in a leTTer ad- dressed To Anselm Mayer RoThschild in I836. LeT no one imagine ThaT The Messiah will appear sud- denly and amid miracles and wonders, lead The lsraeliTes To Their ancienT inheriTance. The beginning oT The redempTion will come abouT in a naTural way by The desire oT The Jews To seTTle in PalesTine and The willingness oT The naTions To help Them in This worlc. ATTer many Jews have seTTled in PalesTine and,Jerusalem has been rebuilT, The Temple reesTablished, and sacriTices oTTered To The Lord, Then will G-d show Them all The miracles in accordance wiTh descripTions given by The propheTs and sages. l:irsT a man will appear endowed wiTh greaT naTural abiliTies, who will bring abouT in a natural way The seTTlemenT oT PalesTine by Jewsg Then G-d will send his propheT and his annoinTed king. ln The above leTTer, he expressed The TirsT elemenT in his philosophy ThaT The redempTion oT The Jews can come abouT only in a naTural way, Through selT help. The second linlc in his philosophy was The colon- izaTion oT PalesTine, and The Third The admissabiliTy oT sacriTices and oTher laws connecTed wiTh The land in The reiuvenaTed PaIes+ine. His Page FiTTy-Tour A ELCHANITET pracTical program embodied planks which were Tar reaching and pro- pheTic in scope. He proposed The esTablishmenT of an organizaTion known as EreTz-NosheveTh, iTs program To include: I. The donaTion oT money on The parT of wealThy philanThropisTs in order To buy land. 2. The esTablishmenT of agriculTural schools To Train The Jew in The maTTer oT scienTiTic Tarming. The Jews were To enTer PalesTine from Russia, Poland and Germany, and Those who were capable of Tarming were To be given land granTs To be developed by Them. The organizaTion EreTz-NosheveTh was To aid Them wTh loans on crops, if necessary. 3. The esTablishmenT of a Jewish miliTary guard in PalesTine in order To proTecT The Jews againsT Arab agression. From l83O unTil his deaTh Kalisher Travelled The lengTh and breadTh of Europe, agiTaTing Tor The adopTion of his program. He consTanTly wroTe arTicles voicing his aspiraTions in The leading Hebrew periodicals oT his Time, such as Hamagid and Halebanon . His consTanT agiTa- Tion caused The Alliance lsraeliTe Universelle, under Charles NeTTer, To esTablish The PalesTinian colony oT Mikveh Israel in l86l, iTs purpose being The Teaching oT agriculTure To Jewish youThs. More Tar-reaching, however, Than The immediaTe resulTs of his agiTaTion, was The influence he was To have on The Tounding oT Zionism as we know iT Today. He exe-rTed a proTound influence on The masses oT EasTern European Jewry, who were more willing To hearken unTo The words of an OrThodox Rabbi whorhad esTablished himselT as a profound scholar and a man of pieTy, Than They were To lisTen To a man such as Moses Hess. The universaIiTy oT Kalishers personaliTy and appeal can be seen when we realize The influence he exerTed noT only upon OrThodox EasTern Jewry buT also upon emancipaTed WesTern Jews, versed in secular culTure, some oT whom had imbibed Trom revoluTionary, poliTical Theory. Hess was impelled To wriTe Rome and Jerusalem by Kalisher. GraeTz, lvlonTeTiore and Cremieux also TelT his influence. The TirsT OrThodox Rabbi To preach Zionism, Kalisher leTT aTTer him oThers, such as Mohi- lever and Gujrmacher, To carry on his work. As Moses, he did noT live To see The TulTillmenT oT his dream. IT has been Tor us To cross The Jordan and enTer our Promised Land. ELCHANTTE Page FIfTy-five we EDUC! By Avrum Organick A dusTless whiTe road emerging Trom The lush verdure oT The valley enTwined iTselT lazily abouT The waisT oT The mounTain. lT rose sTeadily weaving iTs way back and TorTh up The slope, mounTing higher and aT each new Turn, Near The,mounTain's dizzy summiT iT appeared Tor The lasT Time, a mere whiTe Thread upon a bare bald headg iT was Then seen no more. The low rumbling oT many solid-wheeled carTs was heard midsT The rhyThmic plodding oT oxen sTraining aT The yoke. Whips cracked, men sl'1ouTed and swore as The supply Train neared The summiT. One hundred TwenTy weary beasTs, one hundred TwenTy weary men had dragged Their weighTy burdens one hundred rugged miles Trom The sea. The new road led Them Through a broad crevice inTo a damp, cool groTTo where a Tresh spring bubled. IT was in This cave ThaT The haggard Travelers, TaTigued by Their climb, resTed. The TeamsTers baThed Their parched lips in The cool waTers and drank, and The Tired oxen plunged Their grimy muzzles inTo The sparkling waTer and guzzled. For a resTTul hour man and beasT alike reposed on The soTT cool moss. The ruddy rays oT sunseT soughT Their way Through chinks in The rock To pierce The blue haze oT The groTTo. A quieT conTenTmenT reigned in The hole on The mounTain which was disTurbed only by The heavy breaThing oT The animals and The occasional snores oT The napping men. NighT crepT upon Them slowly. The Time had come! A crack oT The whip and a shouT sounded by The leader pierced The lull. Upl was The cry, Upl One hundred TwenTy men and one hundred TwenTy beasTs arose. Janglinq chains and shouTing men again were heard in The darkness. They musT make hasTe! The baTTle begins aT dawn! Ten miles down The mounTain slope, TwenTy more level miles along The river in The valley, seven oThers Thru The pass and Their desTinaTion will be reached. l-lurry! Hurry! l-lurry! shouTed The leader. The brave sons oT baTTle need spears, swords and sTrong shields. Make hasTel The baTTle begins aT dawn! WiTh The echoing claTTer OT hooTs sixTy dark shadows oT The carTs, drawn by one hundred TwenTy beasTs oT burden, emerged inTo Ther clear nighT air. A lone nighT bird soared high across The waxing moon shaTTering The silence wiTh a cry Tor prey. Page FiTTy-six ELCHANITE The wagon Train Thundered away along The winding road, downward. WiTh a broad sweeping curve The whiTe road leveled oTT inTo The valley and sTreTched along The river bank unTil iT disappeared inTo The deep purple shadows oT The mounTain. FurTher on where The valley Tapered oTT, They parTed, The river plunging over a caTaracT and The road peneTraTing a narrow winding pass. A Tew miles more and The road curved down inTo a bowl shaped glen wherein The soldiers' en- campmenT lay. An hour aTTer midnighT The supply Train plodded slowly inTo The slumbering dale. A baTTle was ToughT The Tollowing day. Some say The enemy was beaTen back: oThers say They were vicTorious, occupied The land Tor several years and laTer wiThdrewg some say The invaders occupied The land and remained To become The ancesTors oT The presenT populaTion. BuT The people were noT sure - They had TorgoTTen. The winds and sands oT The cenTuries had made The road obscure. Somewhere in The TorgoTTen pasT a sTone Tumbled down. AnoTher Tollow- ed, and anoTher, an sTill anoTher, The cenTuries crepT by and The windi- ing pass peneTraTed by The dusTless whiTe road was blocked. The valley down which The road rambled along The river bank was losT. The road could no longer be seen on The Tace oT The mounTaing The sands oT The cenTuries, shiTTed by The winds oT'ages, covered iT. ll. The high mounrnTul whine oT The engines oT many greaT, lumbering Trailer Trucks could be heard as The supply Trains reached The summiT. SixTy giganTic monsTers oT power had hauled Their weighTy burdens one hundred miles Trom The sea. The dusTless whiTe road which had climbed To dizzy heighTs now leld Them Through a broad crevice inTo a cool groTTo. WiTh a shorT groaning graTing sound, The drivers shiTTed Their gears and roared inTo The blue shadows oT The cavern. IT was in This cave ThaT The reTueling crews waiTed wiTh Thousands oT gallons oT gasoline To gorge sixTy insaTiable engines wiTh Their life blood. A sTring oT huge black hulks rolled inTo The shadows and came To a screeching sTop. The drivers dismounTed and relaxed while The refueling crews Tilled The Tanks. The low rhyThmic Throbbing oT many idle engines was heard in The darkness mingled wiTh shouTs of men and The brassy Twang- ing OT The empTy gasoline Tins. The lasT oT The huge land TransporTs was rolling inTo The shadows as The head oT The supply Train was pre- paring To deparT. ATTer a shorT exchange OT words wiTh some oT The ELCHANITE Page FifTy-seven crew, The capTain oT The moTor convoy climbed inTo his high cab and sTarTed his engine. The roar oT The leader's moTor was The signal To The oTher drivers ThaT iT was Time To leave. ln one minuTe The Thundering Truck engine re-echoed in The rocky cavern. WiTh one lasT greaT surge oT power The giganTic drive wheels sTarTed To Turn. One by one The sixTy moTor TransporTs roared ouT oT The reTueling sTaTion inTo The crisp nighT air. Speed, power and endurance were needed Tor The lasT lap in Their journey Toward The baTTle lines. Ten miles down The winding road Toward Thevalley! Those engines were builT Tor speed and wiTh greaT weighT behind Them They could go hurTling down The mounTain aT sixTy miles an hour. TwenTy level miles along The river bank in The valley could be Taken aT a TiTTy-Tive mile clip, and The remaining disTance in The gap. aT TiTTy. BuT They musT make hasTe. They need Tood Tor The hungry, bandages Tor The wounded. l-lurryl Hurry! And sixTy greaT moTor Trucks wenT roaring down The mounTain. ln warTime headlighTs musT be shuT oTT. Only dim purple lighTs in- visible Trom above ThaT line The road, guideIThem TwixT liTe and deaTh. The drivers knew ThaT: They knew oT deaTh on The narrow winding road, deaTh below. They also knew oT deaTh Trom above. A lone nighT bomber soared high across The waxing moon, holding in iTs bowels a Tive hundred pound package of deaTh. The piloT dimly saw moving shadows below. l-le pulled a lever. A blinding Tlash oT lighT and a Thundering explosion shaTTered The nighT. Tons oT sTeel came hurTling down. Tons oT debris wenT Tlying across The road. The Trucks ploughed Through and reached The valley saTely. WiTh a broad sweeping curve The road leveled oTT inTo The valley and sTreTched along The river bank. Where The valley Tapered oTT, road and river parTed. The river plunged over a caTaracT and The road peneTraTed a narrow gap. SixTy camouflaged Trucks roared Thru This pass and reached The baTTle zone an hour laTer. A baTTle was ToughT The Tollowing day. The deTenders were crushed and many lay dead on The field. BuT This baTTle will hardly regisTer on The clock oT The ages. IT will soon be TorgoTTen. The dusTless whiTe road will be covered by The sands oT Tomorrow. IT will soon ouTlive iTs use- Tulness and become obscure. No longer will iT be seen on The Tace oT The bald mounTains. lT will be TorgoTTen. Page FiTTy-eighT ELCHANITE mtl'0:5l9L'Cf By Monroe S+rickberge ls dealh 'ro me a faded dusk Of dim and shadowed clouds gone by? Of dark and somber gloominess Thalr on 'rhe foggy misls does lie? ls il a blank oblivion Thai clofhes a blackened mind in dea+h'? Or perhaps a rushing gusl of wind Thai carries wisdom in i'rs brealh? ln answer lo perplexily The log of doubl' uplifls and dies And on lhe heels of ignorance A new and golden dawning flies. On Jrhe Spangled Tinseled beams Thai shimmer in lhe new-born lighf A glimpse of long-gone lhoughls efface The duskiness of sinking night Wi+h clarily my Thoughls revive The sad forgollen memories The sfabbing pains of bilferness The gnawing griels, fhe miseries. Foolish are 'rhe lordly ones Who dream of heaven's ecsiasy. For can'+ The woeful cries be heard Of Those lhaf bleed in agony? Can lhey nol see The heavy yoke Which lhe wreiched weak musf carry? Can 'rhey noi hear a rumbling roar Shall humans Tools forever be Unheedful ol Their human kin? Shall They dream ever pleasanlly Amidsl lheir brolhers' fearful din? Whaf mailers beauly or pre+'riness? Those are dreams for fools 'ro dream of While all lhe world is Turbulent Whai mallers godliness or love? As long as on 'rhe world shall lie A single soul lhaf weeps of pain Then on Jrhe earlh on Judgemenl Day Shall blasphemies and curses rain. If from messages as 'rhese The world shall see ils unborn sfrenglh Then is my purpose al an end And l shall resl in peace, conlenf. ELCHANITE Page Fnfly nine loanidk anc! grench yewrg By MilTon Arm Very liTTle remains in The romanTic counTries of France and Spain To denoTe ThaT aT one Time There exisTed There greaT Talmudic acade- mies. Even before The Babylonian academies under The guidance of The Gaonim, were passing inTo oblivion, small Jewish seTTlemenTs in SouThern Spain and France were being esTablished on The banks of The blue MediTerranean. ln The fourTh cenTury some Jews were To be found in These counfries, buT we are concerned primarily wiTh The seTTlers who assisTed in The esTablishmenT of The famed academies of Jewish learning. IT is easy To undersTand ThaT These small bands of,Jews who were inTer- esfed in securing Their economic exisTence seTTled on The warm shores of The Mediferranean Sea where The climaTe is conducive To The growing of grapes. Their aTTempTs To culTivaTe The land, however, were noT very successful, because The Jews aT ThaT Time were becoming an urban group and were finding ThaT Their genius lay more in indusTry and real esTaTe Than in agriculTure. The French Jews were permiTTed To enTer The Guilds and could pracTise every handicrafT, inasmuch as The expulsion of The Jews from The Guilds did noT begin unTil Thei TwenTieTh cenTury. Money lending was frowned upon, because The Jews were permiTTed To Train Themselves in The arTs and crafTs. AT This period The difference befween The French and Spanish communiTies became apparenT. Their habiTs, cusToms, and modes of living, differed. Wealfhy and easy-living Spanish Jews were conTrasTed wiTh poor and indusTrious French Jews. WiTh This mosT imporTanT dis- Tincfion, we are bound To nofice The difference which inevifably sprang up in Their culTural and religious lives. LeT us concern ourselves firsT wiTh The academies of learning in Spain and Then we shall Turn our Thoughfs To Their French breThren. N Acfual Talmudic learning began in Spain wiTh The arrival of The scholar Moses Ben Chanoch. He was one of The four rabbinical capTives who were originally senT from Babylonia To raise money for The school of Sora, buT was capTured aT sea. Each one was released aT a differenT porT afTer The Jewish communifries ransomed Them. Moses Ben Chanoch rose To fame rapidly afTer elucidafing a difficulf Talmudic passage aT The Yeshiva of Cordova. The greaT paTron, Chasdai lbn ShapruT, helped The scholar firmly esTablish Talmudic learning on Spanish soil, and malce Cordova The Andalusian Sora. AfTer The deaTh of Moses Ben Chanoch, Judaeo-Spanish culTure lceriT conTinually rising, being helped along by The declining Babylonian Page Wy ELCHANITE academies. ln sunny Spain, Talmudic learning Tlourished side by side wiTh Arabic cuTlure. Jewish scholars were held in high esTeem aT The courfs of The caliphs who conTrolled Spain aT ThaT Time. The academy aT Cordova enioyed preeminence over The schools of ThaT era. AT This period TIOOO C.E.l Two eminenf scholars, Samuel lbn Nagrela and lbn Janach, were The celebriTies oT The Time. lbn Nagrela was boTh a Tal- mudisf and poeT, while lbn Janach direcTed his energies Toward The explanafion of The Bible TexT and grammaTical research of The Hebrew language. AfTer The desTrucTion of Cordova by Suleiman of Barbary in IOI3, Spain was presenTed wiTh The greaT poef and Thinlcer, Solomon lbn Gabirol. Gabirol was The poeT of grief and sorrow, which can readily be undersfood by his gloomy exisTence. The greaT confemporary of Gabirol was The celebraTed Jewish philosopher, Bachya Ben Joseph, The model of earnesT pieTy and alTruisTic moraliTy. Bachya's greaT work, DuTies oT The HearT , wriTTen in Arabic, Taughf ThaT our conducf should be ruled enTirely by mosT serious religious convicTions and holiness of purpose. One of The mosT successful eras in Judaeo-Spanish hisTory was crowned wiTh The arrival in'Spain Trom Fez of The greaT halachisf, aufhor of a greaT compendium on The Talmud, lsaac Ben Alfasi. Spain was enriched by The presence of This legalisf who was accounTed as one OT The greaT TalmudisTs oT his age. Times were changing, however, and alThough Spain reTained her influence in respecT To Hebrew poeTry. linguisTic aTTainmenTs, exegis and philosophy, she was Torced To re- linquish her preeminence in Talmudic learning To neighboring France. While Alfasi was sTill a young man, France received inTo her midsT her greaTesT Jew, The modesT rabbi from Troyes, Rashi. Even before The birTh of This unsurpassed commenTaTor, Rabbenu Gershon, The lighT of The Exile, had esfablished his greaT Talmud academy aT Mayence on The banks of The Rhine. HiTher floclced numerous sTudenTs and among Them was The young rabbi, Solomon Yizchalci. Alfhough France had many TalmudisTs before Rabbenu Gershom, crediT is due him for planTing Talmudic learning in France and Germany. Rashi aTTended The acade- mies aT Worms and Mayence and developed inTo an erudife TalmudisT. Rashi's greaT abiliTies as a commenTaTor lay in his concise and clear explanafion of The TexT. His Tame spread' noT only because of his com- menfaries, buT also because OT his Tamous Yeshiva aT Troyes. French Jewry may be undersfood beTTer by The characTer and learning of This rabbi of Champagne. His knowledge was limiTed To religious sfudies. Thereby giving him an express advanfage over his Spanish conTempor- aries who delved inTo science and philosophy. French Jewry did noT parTalce of The fruiTs OT secular learning, buf lirniTed iTself To The sTudy ELCHANITE Page Six 'y one and explanaTion of The Bible and Talmud. The celebraTed grandchildren and descendanTs of Rashi, The Tosa- fisfs, leT Their auThoriTy be lcnown by Their ringing commenfaries on The Talmud and explanafions of Their ancesTor's worlc. The ouTsTanding Tosaf- isTs were Rabbenu Tam, Samuel Ben Maier lllashbaml, and lsaac Ben Samuel. Talmudic learning reached iTs zenifh in Norfhern France wiTh The advenf of These scholars. A shorT survey has been made of The conTribuTions of early French and Spanish Jewry To The sTrengThening of The bonds of The Hebrew religion and culfure. All Jewry is indebfed To men like Rashi, Rambarn, and Alfasi, who inTerpreTed and expounded The Talmud so ThaT iT mighf have meaning for The sTudenTs of The following generafions. Where can more melodic or philosophic Hebrew poeTry be Tound Than among The lyrical verses of Judah Halevi or Solomon lbn Gabirol? Does noT Bacha- ya Ben Joseph give man a new reason for his exisfence. in his greaT worlc of efhics? The conTribuTions of The French scholars were mainly direcfed To- wards Talmudic learning, while Spanish Jewry expended a greaT deal of iTs energies in improving Hebrew culTure and delving info The depThs of philosophic speculaTion. From a scienfific sTandpoinT we may under- sfand why The sTudenTs of The academies of Cordova and Toledo culTiv- aTed worldly culfure, while The scholars from Troyes and Rameru devofed Their Time exclusively To The Talmud. We lcnow ThaT aT The zeniTh of Jewish learning in Spain, Spain was noT only a counTry of wealfh, buT Thaf iT was under Moorish conTrol. The Moors were paTrons of The arTs and sciences and They encouraged Their Jewish subiecfs likewise To sTudy and appreciaTe secular lcnowledge. The Spanish Jews eagerly accepTed The inviTaTion which puT Them on a sTaTus of egualify wiTh Their rulers. ln France, however, pracfical Chrisfian monarchs who despised seeds of secular learning, held Their Jewish subiecTs in confinual sub- servience. NoT only did France ouTlaw secular knowledge, because of iTs deTrimenTal essence To The safeTy of The sTaTe and religion, buT she was Too poor To occupy herself wiTh sTudy. Herein lie The apparenf differences in Spanish and French learning. The man who Typified Judaeo-Spanish culfure in his fusion of se- cular and religious learning was The greaT legalisf and ArisToTalian philo- sopher, Moses Ben Maimon. In him lies The sTrengTh of Spanish Jewry. French Jewry, on The ofher hand, was exemplified by The modesf rabbi from Champagne' Rashi. Though differenT in Their meThod of learning and Their approach To culfure, They bofh added To The glory of Jewish learning, our cherished herifage. Page Sixfy-Two ELCHANITE e By Morfon Siegel You wake up on Sunday morning feeling fine . . IT is The lasT day of school before The long awaiTed Two weeks vacafion . . you have a heavy daTe TonighT . . you're going To have a swell Time . . you Think abouT The coming eighT hours in school . . you will have To suffer for a few hours . . aTTer ThaT comes blissful oblivion from all ThaT's connecTed wifh higher educaTion . . Two weeks of unimaginable freedom and happiness . . life is very sweeT indeed . . you geT ouT of bed as chipper and as iolly as can be, wash and dress in a superman manner and come To school early for The firsT Time in many a decade . . Teachers evidence surprise aT your sfrange behavior . . you don'T make one crack The whole morning . . you Think abouT TonighT . . you smile very happily . . ah, yes, life is good . . The morning ends . . school is half over . . you amble down To The lunch room . . order a TwenTy-five cenT dinner . . Three hoT dogs, Two more Tive Toofhpicks . . you sfudy some face during lunch . . Then you go To English . . you geT a TesT . . you squirm a liTTle -- The TesT is Tough as TesTs go -- you flunk -. oh, well, Two weeks ahead -- daTe TonighT .. whaT's one liTTle exam -- you hand in a scrowl- ed-up paper -- Then you go To Eco -- The Teacher calls on you -- you answer -- you know your Eco -- The Teacher doesn'T Think so -- he Thinks you Talked Too much and said Too liTTle -- you geT anofher minus and your delaney card begins To bear a close resemblance To a checker board scrawled over by a baby wifh a mechanical pencil -- There is a liTTle lump in your ThroaT and your sTomach begins To feel a Trifle ouT of sorTs .- buT you puff ouT your chesT and say To yourself ThaT There are only Three more periods To go .- you're going To sfick iT ouT -- you're deTermined -- so you go To hisTory -- you had To prepare The Topic of banking for This period .- you didn'T have Time To do iT lasT nighT -. lasT nighT you boughT The TickeTs for TonighT's show -- gosh. you're going To have a swell Time aT The show TonighT .. you sink info a sweef dream -- Then comes a rude awakening -- The omnipoTenT pres- ence aT The desk in fronT of The room Turns a glance of disfavor upon you -- you're called upon To describe The enTire Federal Reserve Sysa Tem -- iT is amazing how green you become around The gills .. spuffer- ELCHANITE Page Sixfy-Three ing lor a lew seconds unlil you galher your lhoughls logelher, you muller proudly and wilh seeming conlidence somelhing or olher -- your remarks are summarily deall wilh by, lhe inslruclor as lhe essence ol slupidily and lack ol preparalion -- you gel a zero -- lhe sun desn'l seem lo shine so brighlly any more -- il is very discouraging -- dale lonighl -- yeh -- bul iusl lhe same you'll have lo work like a horse lo make up lhese marks -- you'll lhink ol somelhing -- you always have -- you decide lo be a Sloic -- you regain your oplimism and recaplure a bil ol your lormer exhiliralion -- lhe bell rings -- only lwo more periods lo go -- you walk upslairs lo lhe Physics room -- you wail live, len, lilleen minules -- a lellow senior-rushes up brealhlessly .- lhe Physics leacher is absenl .. nolhing lo worry aboul -- see. everylhing is going lo be all righl -. complele resloralion ol unlimiled oplimism occurs -- you kid around lor lhirly minules -- lhen you go lo French -- lasl period ol lhe day -- French is swell lor lhe lirsl lhirly-live minules -- inslruclor lhen announces his decision lo give a lull period lesl upon lhe relurn lrom lhe holiday . ' bad news . . bul you have lwo weeks . . nolhing lo worry aboul -- you look al your walch .. gol lo meel her al seven-lhirly -- hope he doesn'l dismiss lhe class loo lale -- you have lo shave, wash and dress -- yes., you also have lo eal -- you gel oul on lime -- run down lhe slairs -- you run loo lasl -- you sprain your ankle -- you say unmenlionable lhings -- you massage il lor some lime -- il leels beller -- you gel up and limp home -- lilleen minules wasled -- never make il now . . rush inlo lhe house and gobble down lood amid prolesls lrom molher lhal lhree minules is nol sullicienl lime in which lo digesl a meal -- explain lo molher lhal ealing is an old-lashioned idea -- anyway you have a dale lonighl .. lhal reminds you -- you lump up and kiss Mom -- amazing how sweel you become -- your molher knows -- she gives you your nexl lwo weeks' allowance in advance . . whal a swell molher ., nexl comes shave -- you look in mirror .. really nolhing lo shave -- you wanl lo leel manly -- you're going lo shave -- you remem- ber lhal your lalher look lhe eleclric razor away lo be repaired -- you'll have lo use shaving powder -- shaving powder has a horrible odor -- you once smelled il -- you didn'l leel very well lor some lime aller lhal -- maybe you don'l need a shave aller all -- so you don'l shave -- you rip oll clolhes and hop inlo shower -- lurn on waler -- you sing mer- rily -- lhe waler suddenly becomes very hol -- you lel oul an agonized howl -- waler linally becomes regulaled aller precious lime is wasled -- splash around lor len minules -- gelling lale, you ligure -- hop oul ol lub -- dry wilh lowel -- pul on underwear and robe -- ask molher Page Sixly-lour El..Cl lANlTE lor clean shirl -- look al lime -- nearly seven -- lhal's lerrible -- you'll never make il . ' molher gives you shirl . . you are in a hurry . . you snalch shirl lrom hanger -- shirl lears -- you leel dismal -- you pul on old shirl -- old shirl has bullon missing -- lrellul minules are wasled as molher obligingly sews in bullon -- you gel shirl bulloned -- iump inlo panls and hurriedly make lie .- shoes will have lo be shined by local boolblack -- you pul on a iackel and arrange handkerchief -- lhere is a mirror in lronl ol you -- you look inlo il -. my! aren'l you handsome! -- you snalch wallel and see lhal lunds are in order -- whal you are spending lonighl will pul you in hock lor years lo come -- so whal? -- she is a swell girl, isn'l she? -- you grab glasses -- give lie a linal lwisl and dash oul ol lhe house -- you walk hall a block hurriedly -- you lor- gol somelhing -- you hurry back -- gel whal you need -- as you are in lhe house, lhe lelephone rings -- one ol lhe lellows, you lhink -- you pick up lhe receiver -- you hear a girl's voice -- lamiliar voice -- you are surprised -- you lislen -- you become exlremely weak around lhe knees -- you don'l go oul lonighl -- she has lhe measles -- she is so sorry -- you lell her you undersland -- hope she will gel be-ller soon-- hang up in a lrance -- leel sick -- no use lrying lo lool molher -- she knows whal has happened -- you go oul ol lhe house -- il is a beaulilul nighl -- you lhink ill' is drizzling -- whal a day -- whal a nighl -- you lhink ol lhe English lesl -- you leel bad -- you lhink ol l-lislory .. lhe zero -- you leel nausealingly miserable -- you insull yoursell in no un- cerlain lerms -- you remember lhe French lesl when you relurn -- lile is horrible -- lhe imaginary drizzle has now lurned lo a soggy gray rain -- your shoulders are bowed under lhe weighl ol lhe world's lroubles -- you lhink ol lhe war -- everylhing is going wrong -- whal will you do? -- you gel a manly idea -- ioin lhe army! -- lhal's lhe idea -- no, no good -- you mighl gel hurl -- so whal? -- lile isn'l worlh living -- you walk a lew more blocks -- leel disguslingly horrible -- re- lurn home -- you undress slowly -- go lo bed -- lake oul French book -- sludy -- have lo sludy somelimes -- whal is lhe use ol worrying .- be a sloic, oplimisl -- you lurn oul lighl -- go lo bed -- Q60 ELCHANITE Page Sixly-live ell! y0l'L2l' By Avrum Organiclc ManhaHan, where millions dwell, is an island made up of man-made cliffs and canyons. The average New Yorker malces his home in a crevice hewn ouf of one of fhese cliffs. He eafs, and sleeps in his hole in fhe wall, offen more fhan a hundred feef above fhe earfh. On all sides, greaf sfone walls fower hundreds of feef above him: beneafh his feef is sfone: he is surrounded by nofhing buf hard grey sfone. This sfrange cliff dweller seldom freads upon soff green grass: seldom does he scenf a flower in bloom. Occasionally he nofices a line of blue slcy above him, feels fhe warmfh of fhe sun's rays upon his baclc: buf he cannof enioy fhis long, for he soon descends info a hole in fhe roclcy floor of fhe canyon. The blue slcy and fhe warm rays of fhe sun do nof penefrafe fhe rock-encased funnel Through which he fravels. Before long he emerges buf he finds now fhaf fhe cliffs fower fhousands of feef above him. He cannof gaze upward fo glimpse a line of slcy. Below he finds himself fo be parf of a seefhing sea of mulfifudes. He musf falce care fo be caughf in fhe righf currenf, for if nof he musf fighf his way upsfream fhrough a mob of his compafriofs who were unforfunafely pushing in fhe opposife direcfion. He finally reaches his desfinafion, one of fhe many loffy sfone cliffs and injone of ifs numerous caves, worlcs all day. ln fhe evening he descends info fhe canyon below, drops down info fhe rocky funnels and volunfarily cans himself in wifh fhe ofher sardines. As he emerges, fhe sun's slanfing rays no longer reach fhe bed of fhe canyon. If is cold and darlc for nighf has fallen. He finds his way fo his familiar dwelling and crawls bacl: info his hole. ln fhe morning he sees fhe neighbors daughfer wafering a liffle clay pof af fhe enfrance fo her cave across fhe alley. As he looks af fhe pof more closely he nofices a liiffe green shoof. 'iAh! says hefspring musf be here. Page Sixfy-six ELCHANITE IIII ITKTIVITICS ,4 Wemge fo flue .Sifwlenf 50015, By HAROLD MILLER, PresidenT oT The G. C. During The pasT year The Talmudical Academy has experienced a revoluTionary change. AT The beginning oT The Tall Term oT l94O, T. A. was buT a small school, siTuaTed in WashingTon l-leighTs, unheard oT. unheralded, and unnoTiced. BuT, Through The uniTed eTTorTs oT a school- spiriTed sTudenT body and capable ExecuTive and STudenT Councils, Talmudical Academy aTTained an imporTanT posiTion in The New Yorlc CiTy school sysTem. Since The beginning of The Tall Term, exTra-curricular acTiviTy has reached new heighTs. When The TirsT semesTer was over, The sTudenT body was amazed aT iTs own achievemenT.The baslceTball 'TvliTes Trom The l-leighTs' had already romped Through seven consecuTive vicTories! The inTer-scholasTic debaT- ing Team was deTeaTed buT once. Dozens of sTudenTs had Talcen parT in inTra-mural basl4eTball and debaTing. A chess Team had been Tormed and had already won Two maTches.The 'Academy News' had been published regularly. Funds oT The G. O. were used inTelligenTly, and we had a surplus leTT over Tor The spring Term. Everyone was conTidenT ThaT The spring Term was going To be re- membered in T. A's. hisTory as The greaTesT, and none were disap- poinTed. FirsT, The Gi. O. membership had passed The Two hundred mark. A school-spiriTed sTudenT body Tloclced To assemblies, debaTes. baslceT- ball games and Tennis maTches. A new consTiTuTion was raTiTied by The STudenT Council. Absences aT Council meeTings almosT compleTely dis- appeared. SaniTaTion and playroom squads had been appoinTed and were TulTilling Their Taslcs compeTenTly. The baslceTball Team ended iTs season wiTh The record of eleven vicTories lall consecuTiveT and buT Two deTeaTs. The inTer-scholasTsic debaTing Team, had emerged Trom iTs Torays wiTh a similar record. The newly Tormed chess Team ioined The lnTer4ScholasTic Chess TournamenT, and had already deTeaTed Evander Childs l'ligh School. The number OT sTudenTs Talcing parT in inTra-mural acTiviTies, debaTes, baskeTball, baseball, ping-pong, and chess, had doubled. The Tennis Team had an impresive schedule. For The TirsT Time in The hisTory oT T.A., an honor socieTy, The Segulah lsimilar To an ArisTaT was Tormed, and iTs TirsT Twelve members were inducTed in a colorful ceremony. BuT greaTly surpassing all These achievemenTs was The TacT ThaT The sTudenTs oT T. A. had aT lasT Taken a decided inTeresT in Their school and had cooperaTed To The TullesT oT Their abiliTy. TT anyone is To be praised, iT is The sTudenT body iTselT. There is much yeT To be done in The school, buT I am sure ThaT, were The TuTure sTudenTs oT T. A. To emul- aTe This years eager and school-spiriTed sTudenT body, anyThing could be accomplished. Talmudical Academy has been puT on The map, Thanks To you! Page Wy-eish+ ELCHANITE green five Councif FALL TERM I-IAROLD MILLER, Presidenf IRVINO WEISSMAN, Vice-Presidenf MILTON ARM, Secrefary MARTIN LILKER, Treasurer ENOCI-I SAP!-IIRE, A'rI'1Ie-fic Manager J. ZAITCI-IIK and E. OROANICK, EdiIors of Elchanife 060 S P R I N G T E R M HAROLD MILLER, Presidenf ALLEN MANDELBAUM, Vice-Pres. PINCUS PEYSER, Secrefary MARTIN LILKER, Treasurer VICTOR SELLER, AII'1Ie'ric Manager J. ZAITCI-IIK and E. ORGANICK, Edi+ors of Elchanife ELCHANITE Page Shfy-nim, - vi' -v - .gykuclenf gouncif HAROLD MILLER, Presidenf Allrusky Budnilrsky V Freidman Goffheim Hulkower Levy MarkowI+z Organick 1 Page Sevenfy N Singer Sofer Spielman Sfrickberger Sussman Reichel Verriclwson Weiss 6LAanife GOVERNING BOARD JOSEPH ZAITCHIK ALLEN MANDELBAUM LITERARY MIIIon Arm Avrum Organick Monroe Srrickberger Leo Schwarfz CI'1arIes Weinsfein Carmi Cnarny Harry Herman ART Max SI1oIo Bernard Gopen ELCHANITE ELLIOTT ORGANICK HAROLD MILLER BUSINESS Morfon GarIieI Marfin LiIIcer Pincus Peyser Jerome Shoffensfein S'ranIey Doppelr PHOTOGRAPHY Norman Krasner Joseph Lassner Herbern' Glazer .X4CCLJ0l'YI.g ewd This year wiTnessed The reawalcening OT The hereToTore hibe-rnaTing 'Academy News'. Under The compeTenT ediTorship OT MorTon Siegel, and wiTh The aid oT an eager sTaTT, The 'Academy News' Tor The TirsT Time in iTs hisTory made regular bi-weekly appearances. In addiTion To com- pleTe news coverage oT all sTudenT acTiviTies, special TeaTures were inau- guraTed, such as drama and liTerary revues and inTeresTing inTormal es- says. lTs ediTorials reTlecTed sTudenT opinion accuraTely and helped shape sTudenT policy. The 'Academy News' broughT To The aTTenTion OT The sTudenT body The need Tor general beTTermenT wiThin T. A. AcTing as a liason beTween The adminisTraTion, The school oTTicers, and The sTudenT body, iT promoTed cooperaTion and good will. By publicizing The library raTTles and sTressing The need OT obTaining adverTisemenTs Tor The 'ElchaniTe' iT insured The success OT These venTures.The 'Aca- demy News', This year, Truly TulTilled iTs TuncTion as a sTudenT organ. Page SevenTy-Two ELCHANITE ' Y,,Q,'L1 'X T -1 J A P 'W A '.. . ' H i .gzgufag A STrong ambiTion oT our Principal, Dr. Safir, has been To creaTe an honor socieTy parallel To The ArisTa of The public high schools of New Yorlc. Owing To his unTiring eTTorTs, Dr. Safir succeeded in inau- guraTing The Segulah lchosen onesl SocieTy in Talmudical Academy. lTs purpose is To insTill an ambiTion Tor individual achievemenT and Through This meThod succeed in a general desire Tor excellence and beTTermenT. lT also renders a sysTem of rewarding The deserving sTudenTs in The school. QualiTicaTions for accepTance inTo The socieTy are excellence of characTer, ouTsTanding service To The school, and high scholarship. The members are chosen by The SenaTe, consisTing oT Dr. Safir, lvlr. Norman B. Abrams, lvlr. Samuel l.ebowiTz, and Dr. Benjamin Shapiro. The Assembly consisTs of The following: Israel Freidberg Pincus Peyser MorTon Gordon Enoch Same Norman Krasner MOFTOH Siegel MarTin Lillcer Charles WeinsTein Allen Mandelbaum Joseph ZaiTchilq EllioTT Organiclc Leonard Zion AT The TirsT meeTing ol The Assembly, A. lvlandelbaum and J. ZaiTchilc were elecTed chairman and vice-chairman respecTively. ELCHANHE Page SevenTy'Three rogrerssiue is fAe mr! FOR THE TALMUDICAL ACADEMY LIBRARY This year, The Talmuclical Academy Library conTinued in iTs sTaTe of rapid developmenT. Many new volumes and periodicals were added To The shelves of The library and addiTional TaciliTies were inTroduced. As a resulT oT The deTerrnined, energeTic eTTorTs oT Dr. Shapiro, The Tounder oT The library, The annual raTTle was held wiTh surprising reTurns resulTing. ln TacT, so successTul was The sale ThaT anoTher raTTle has been held wiTh equal resulTs. WiTh a major porTion oT The money Thus re- ceived, conTemporary TicTion and non-TicTion were purchased. BesT- sellers were acquired Through our membership in The BookfoT-The-MonTh Club. UndoubTedly, T. A. sTudenTs have an unequaled opporTuniTy To read modern liTeraTure. lnTroduced, also, This year were many works oT reTerence on English, hisTory, arT and IiTeraTure. Because oT iTs elaboraTe lisT oT well chosen liTerary works, The T. A. library can now be compared in qualiTy, and perhaps soon in quanTiTy, wiTh any high school library. lT is inTeresTing To noTe ThaT in spiTe oT iTs limiTed size, The library's circulaTion Tor The pasT year has been well over Tour Thousand! In re-Tracing our sTeps, we discover ThaT Trom a small collecTion oT perhaps Two dozen hisTory TexT books, The Talmudical Academy Library has made remarkable sTrides. lT now possesses a Tine selecTion oT TicTion, drama, poeTry, in addiTion To works on The social sciences. Through The ardenT eTTorTs oT Dr. Shapiro and wiTh The Tull co- operaTion oT The sTudenT body in The sale oT raTTles, volume aTTer volume has been added To The expanding collecTion and To The rnounT- ing number oT shelves. The TaculTy, Too, has done iTs share by aiding in The selecTion oT books, by donaTing books oT Their own, and by The sale oT raTTles, so ThaT The sTudenTs are able To derive The greaTesT possible liTerary beneTiT and enioymenT. The enTire sTudenT body ioins in a voTe oT Thanks To Dr. Beniamin D. Shapiro Tor his splendid demonsTraTion oT his love Tor his pupils and his inTeresT and concern Tor Their welTare. ln addiTion, we, The sTudenTs, prophecy ThaT, under his leadership, The Talmudical Aca- demy Library will yeT aTTain new and even more impressive heighTs. Page SevenTy-Tour A ELCHANITE f ,ffif if 6 DR. BENJAMIN D. SHAPIRO, Eacul+y Supervisor SOLOMON ZEIDES, Chief Librarian HERBERT LEISER, Assisianr Librarian Fw Y i 1 I ,A I A 1 5 -Y? F-f'T':ff ' ' Q'? f ' i A X J! ' I A 1 1.2 i 'VI' i Q 1 F Y Y E i I . i V Z , L.WL VIEW OF THE LIBRARY ELCHANITE Page Sevenfy-five i .gn fer-Schofadfic ibegafing Sociefy lnTer-ScholasTic debaTing is one oT The Tew means by which T. A. comes inTo The Tocus oT The eyes oT The world, and Therefore is a very imporTanT TuncTion oT The school. Allen lvlandelbaum and Leonard Zion were chairmen Tor The Two Terms. Many debaTes were held, The mosT inTeresTing and vigorous oT which was The Evander Childs meeT. BeTore a large audience, T. A. received a unanimous decision aTTer upholding The negaTive on The Topic: Resolved ThaT The U. S. declare an economic embargo againsT Japan. The debaTers were H. Miller, L. Zion and M. Siegal. lnTer-ScholasTic deloalring, as usual, remains an inTegral parT oT T. A. acTiviTies. Page SevenyT-six ELCHANITE 668155 3061171 The Chess Team, This year, can boasT oT iTs accomplished eTTorTs. The Team, The schools TirsT, played several maTches and Then ioined The lnTer-ScholasTic Chess Tourname-nT. In iTs TirsT game, The T. A. Team deTeaTed STuyvesanT. 5'ffz-W. winning on all boards buT The sixTh. Bronx l-ligh School OT Science was also vanquished by The score oT 5-I. In iTs TirsT game in The lnTer-ScholasTic TournamenT, The Team which consisTs oT Zion, Cohen, Mandelbaum, ZaiTchick, and Gleiberman, broughT home The laurels by deTeaTing a sTrong Evander Childs Team. The score was 3-l, boards one and Two drawing, and Three and Tour winning Their games. T. A. TirsT meT deTeaT aT The hands OT a superior DeWiTT ClinTon Team by 3-I. The Team, however, Then deTeaTed Monroe, 3-l. There are yeT several maTches To be played and The Team is eyeing The ciTy championship. AlThough Two regulars, ZaiTchil4 and Mandel- baum are leaving The school, They will be well replaced by Gleiberman, Levy, and Krieger. ELCl'lANlTE Page SevenTy4seven li5Cil9Al'l8 .ggquasl ETTicienT is The proper adiecTive To describe The Discipline Squad. Excessive noise was eliminaTed in The corridors and proper decorum was aTTained. Working in close cooperaTion wiTh The SaniTaTion Squad, The Discipline Squad broughT abouT perTecT cleanliness ThroughouT The school. Red Weisberg, CapTain oT The Squad, and NaThan Tuchinslcy, AssisTanT CapTain, proved able heads oT a willing sTaTT. jennid jeccln OriqinaTed and TosTered by Dr. Safir, The Tennis Team wenT inTo iTs season wiTh a heavy schedule. New sTrengTh was added To The Team by The undergraduaTes Marvin Fredman and Joseph Glazer, who supplemenTed The veTerans, Louis Rabineau and Enoch Saphire. The lasT Two, The one and Two men respecTively, have developed inTo a cliclcing doubles Team. WiTh maTches scheduled in June wiTh WashingTon, TaTT and Monroe High Schools, The Team looks Torward To a successTul season. Because of The success of The Tennis Team, many sTudenTs have become inTeresTed in The game. Page SevenTy-eighT ELCHANITE Mefiaffjm, T Sludenls ol T.A. will, in years lo come, poinl wilh pride al lhe record ol lhe '40-4l baslcelball leam. Gelling oll lo a lale slarl, lhe quinlel compleled a lhirleen game schedule in royal lashion. Aller dropping lheir lirsl lill, lhey responded nobly lo lhe coach- ing ol l-ly Wellslein, and lurned in lhe largesl winning slrealc in lhe hislory ol lhe leam. Eleven limes lhe banner ol lhe Blue and While relurned lriumphanl. Eleven limes lhe opposilion bowed down belore lhe onslaughl ol lhe Miles lrom lhe l-leighls . Thebrighlesl slar on lhe leam was Caplain Slan Doppell, who rolled up I2l poinls lo lead lhe leam in individual scoring honors. Red Kalb and Arly Gewirlz were runners-up wilh 85 and 50 poinls respeclively. All in all, lhe T. A. guinlhooplels swished 505 poinls lhrough lhe opposing hoops. On lhe defensive side ol lhe ledger, Belo Sharlslein, Slug Silverman, and Shimmy Kalz pul up a slerling delense. ln lwo games lhe opposilion scored bul six poinls. ln ils lasl game, T.A., lhough going down lo deleal, gave lhe mosl inspiring perlormance ol lhe year. Aller lhe enormously lavored Brooklyn Academy live scored len lasl poinls, T. A., sparlced by lhe line play ol Slug Silverman and Shimmy Kalz, lound ilsell and carried on nobly unlil lhe very end, going down, lighling like mad , under superior pressure, 43-30. Much credil is due lo lhe reserves: Mill Shuclc, lvlarly Soler, Enie Saphire, Jaclc Umlas, and Wally Glassman. They lilled in compelenlly when lhe weary regulars were removed. Allhough il will be dillicull lo replace Doppell and Kalz, who will ioin lhe Yeshiva College leam nexl year, lhe leam, nexl year, which will be led by Arly Gewirlz, has high hopes ol as successful a season as was enioyed by lhis year's baslcelball leam. ELCHANITE Page Sevenly-nine SCORES High Scorer T, A. - 20 Home EclucaTional Alliance Kafz .- T. A. - 35 Home Cooper Union Gewirfz .- T. A. - I9 Away James STreeT Boys Doppelf .- T. A. -- 37 Home Yeshiva All STars Doppelf - T. A. - 60 Home James STreeT Boys Shar-fsfien - T. A. - 48 l-lome SparTans A. C. Gewfrfz .- T. A. - 35 Home CrescenT A. C. Kalb - T. A. - 62 Home Franklin Prep Gewirfz .. T. A. -- 27 Away Cooper Union Frosh Doppelf .- T. A. - 25 Home Cooper Union J. V. DOF-,pelf - T. A. - 25 l-lome EducaTional Alliance Kalb - T. A. - 23 Home Cooper Union Frosh Doppelf- .. T. A. - 30 Away Brooklyn Academy DoppelT .- INTRA - MURAL BASKETBALL Even The impossible occurs in T. A. ATTer a Thrilling baTTle againsT The iuniors, The TirsT-Termers copped The inTra-mural championship. VicTor Geller, AThleTic Manager aT T.A., did an excellenT job in arranging The schedule and organizing The Teams. SENIOR COUNCIL This year's Senior Council was composed oT lvlilTon Arm, Allen Mandelbaum, Harold Weisberg, and Joseph ZaiTchik, wi+h l-larolcl Miller as The honorary chairman. Through The councils eTTorTs The seniors were seen sporTing blue and whiTe French bereTs, The new vogue Tor T. A. seniors. When The boaT ride up The Hudson becomes an acTualiTy This June, a glisTening and sparkling aTTracTion will greeT The eye in The Torm oT handsome rings and impressive pins. We all doTT our senior haTs To The Senior Council! INTRA - MURAL DEBATING AnoTher successful year in inTra-mural debaTing has been compleTecl Through The eTTicienT managership OT Leo ShwarTz and ErnesT GoTTheim. The undegraduaTes were given an excellenT opporTuniTy and ex- perience To speak beTore The public. Such Training is deTiniTely a com- ponenT oT a well rounded educaTion. CONCERT BUREAU The ConcerT Bureau, headed by Rube MarkowiTz and assisTed by a cooperaTive sTaTT, succeeded in aTTording T. A. sTudenTs an oppor- TuniTy To enioy good, wholesome enTerTainmenT This semesTer. Broad- casT TickeTs, reducTions Tor concerTs, TheaTer parTies and a hosT of oTher medii oT enTerTainmenT were procured Through iTs eTTorTs. The Bureau reached iTs zeniTh when iT was Thus menTioned in Allen Cook's radio column in The N. Y. World-Telegram: The T. A. has asked Tor blocks oT 8 To I0 TickeTs each week Tor a popular broadcasT so ThaT sTudenTs oT The Talmud could aTTend The program! 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