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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, September 19. 1947
LEHMAN AMONG
NOMINEES FOR
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
OSLO, (JTA)—Herbert H. Leh
man, former director-general of
UNRRA. Is among the nominees
for the Nobel Peace Prize for 1947,
it was reported here by the Nobel
Prize Committee.
Other nominees are Pope Pius,
Mme. Alexandria Kollontay. form
er Soviet Ambassador to Sweden,
Mohandas Ghandi, Eduard Benes
and Sir John Boyd Orr, director
Of the UN Food and Agricultural
Organization.
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By ALFRED SEGAL
Mr. Zilch, the widely known ci
tizen of this column, had died and
the course of celestial events he
had come to Judgment in the way
dsecribed by our spiritual betters.
In other words, Mr. Zilch had as
cended to Paradise, there to give
an accounting of his conduct on
earth. He wasn’t feeling too sure
about the eternal fate that was
awaiting him, for, religiously, he
never had been one of the active
Jews.
At this moment he was troubled
by an embarrassing comparison in
the presence cf the great Kabbi
Gadnliah Pfeiffer, who had died
t,he same day as Mr. Zilch and was
Just ahead of him in the long line
that was waiting to be admitted
into the Everlasting Gates. I need
say nothing by way of introducing
Rabbi Pfeiffer to the intelligent
readers of this coumn. For. as
everybody knows, Rabbi Pfeiffer
was widely acclaimed as the Grand
Rabbi of Orthodoxy. His name was
carried on the better brands of
kosher foodstuffs for indorsement.
When a Jew found Rabbi Pfeiffer’s
name nfflxed to a salami he could
feel sure it. was safe to eat.
Rabbi Pfeiffer was a proud spirit
as he stood in the long line at
the Everlasting Gates. If only
one of this vast procession of the
newly dead were admitted into
heaven, he knew he would be the
one. He was conscious of such an
eminence that he could look down
at all the waiting spirits in front
of him and behind. They were
all kinds and Rabbi Pfeffier
pondered on the abhorent fact
that even in heaven mistakes may
be made. How otherwise than by
accounting It to error could be
explained the fact the Jews ancf
Christians were ail mixed up to
gether at the gate?
So the rabbi felt somehow at
home when he noticed Mr. Zilch
immediately behind him.
“A Jew, I presume," he said.
Mr. Zilch acknowledged the
Identification . . . "And ,on my
part,” he said, "I shall presume
that you are one also.”
‘‘He presumes," exclaimed Rabbi
Pfeiffer. He proceeded with a reci
tation of all the Jewish honors he
had gathered on the earth. He
was the one. lie said, who was
called Grand Rabbi. Hadn't Mr.
Zilch heard? He was the one
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whose signature appeared in ap
proval of all the best kosher food
stuffs. Hadn’t Mr. Zilch been pa
tronizing the kosher places? He
was the one whose word was like
the sacred law in Jewish circles
. . . ‘‘And he presumes I am a
Jew! ”
He addressed himself directly to
Mr. Zilch: “As rabbi it is my
privilege to ask you what kind of
Jew you are and how do you ex
pect to get in here? I must pre
sume that you were no more than
what we call a Rosli Hashonah or
Yom Kippur Jew?”
At this Mr. Zilch fell Into deep
troubling. He had tried all his
life to be a decent man, had done
all the ethical things that the laws
and the prophets require of a man
in the way of being righteous, but
he had to admite it was quite true
that his synagogue life had been
only on Rosh Hashonah and Yom
Kippur.
He replied contritely: “Yes, that
was me if you want to call me
that—a Rosh Hashonah and Yom
Kipptir Jew.” Mr. Zilch felt there
was no use denying aynthing in
order to make a showing at the
Everlasting Gates where they look
through a man and know' all about
him. Mr. Zilch was feeling deeply
humble. He decided he wouldn’t
hold anything back when the mo
ment came for Judgment; he would
throw himself on the mercy of the
Judge.
Rabbi Pfeiffer said that since
Mr. Zilch had been only a Rosh
Hashonah and Yom Kippur Jew.
lie couldn’t expect anything from
the Judge . . . “You know what al
ways has been thought of Jews
like you—Rosh Hashonah and Yom
Kippur Jews—two-day Jews, you
might say. It’s a pity there are
so many of you.” He was feeling
sorry that he couldn’t promise Mr.
Zilch much when he came to judg
ment . . . “What can you say for
yourself, except that you were In
the schul on Rosh Hashonah and
Yom Kippur. Won’t you be
ashamed? But I’ll do what I can
for you.”
The Interminable line was mov
ing slowly forward. Mr. Zilch
practically gave himself up as one
of those who were lost at the
judgment place. He recalled that
he had scoffed at the religious con
cepts of Jews like Rabbi Pfeiffer.
Soon he would be at the judgment
place to answer for it all. What
could he say? The spirits came
to judgment two by two and there,
finally, stood Rabbi Pfeiffer and
Mr. Zilch side by side. The rabbi
drew away from Mr. Zilch a step
or two, lest it might be thought
that he and Mr. Zilch were of the
same kind. He w~as admonished
not to pull away so far. He pro
tested. "But this man is only a
Roah Hashonah and Yom Kippur
Jew and I. as you should know,
am Rabbi Gadaliah Pfeiffer.
The Judge's countenance beamed
with such sunlight as you might
attribute to the qualities of pa
tience and mercy. He said he was
happy to see the rabbi so proud;
it was only a question as to which
of these men might feel the proud
er. He could find no fault in the
rabbi, except that at times he
seemed too vain-glorious in his
function as a spokesman for the
Almighty . . . "Thou mightest have
walked more humbly with Thy
God’’ . . . But the Judge was for
giving him.
"Then, this other man!” the
Judge went on. "He was always
very busy with the affairs of his
life, earning his living, bringing
up his children in the righteous
ways, worrying and struggling,
stumbling and falling and rising
again. He was not much in the
synagogue but he never forROt
his God. Even after a whole
year of looking after his own af
fairs, he remembered his God in
the two days. Should he not be
praised for that and given hie
just reward for the two days in
which he did not forget. O, my
good son who didst remember me
the two days!”
Departing from the Judgment
place Mr. Zilch and Rabbi Pfeif
fer walked together into the glory
of the Shechina.
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VIENNA. (JTA> — Anonymous
fascists this week threatened to
blow up the Rothschild Hospital,
which houses 2.000 Jewish refugees,
unless "the Jews who were re
sponsible for the war disappear”
from Austria. Jewish authorities
turned over the Nazi letters to
American military authorities.
The steady exodus of Rumanian
Jews from Vienna and Italy and
the U. s. zone of Germany con
tinues at the rate of 1,200 weekly.
Since new arrivals from Rumania
now total only about half that
number, it is expected that, barr- !
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refugee population in Austria will
be down to 20.000 by winter.
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the Louis and Mary Horowitz
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Dr. Charles L. Smith, a Baptist
clergyman in Indianapolis, and
Rev. Gus W. Van Beek. a Presby
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that Dr. Sheldon H. Blank, profes- •
sor of Bible, has been appointed
chairman of its faculty.
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