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high point of Judaism in teaching
us that to be religious means to be
good to man as well as to God.
It can atone only for sins against
God, but those against man must be
forgiven by those who were
wronged. That is why Yom Kip-
pur is begun with a seltlement of
personal disputes; that is why, be
fore we begin our prayers, we ap
proach our friends first, asking
them to forget their grievances, to
forgive all intentional and un
intentional offenses committed
against them. For we cannot be
at peace with our creator unless
we are at peace with his creatures.
Thus Yom Kippur, a day of fast
ing and prayer, of repentance and
regeneration, is one of the great
blessings that God in his kindness
bestowed upon his people, one of
the means by which we can learn
to live a life of true worth.
A Former Atlantan Writes of
Aaronsburg, Pa.
Frank G. Lieberman of Pifers-
ville, Pa., remembered The South
ern Israelite readers when he read
a certain historical article in the
“Pennsylvania Farmer.”
Accordingly, he clipped the fol
lowing and dispatched it to the
editor via his sister, Mrs. A. L.
Myers of Atlanta, his former home:
The Country Colyum
By A. R. W.
The observance of the 150th
anniversary of the opening of the
Salem Lutheran Church in
Aaronsburg, Centre county,
Pennsylvania, located on ground
donated by Aaron Levy, a Jew, to
take place in October, will in
deed be a significant occasion.
Aaron Levy, founder of Aarons
burg in 1783, now a lovely village
in Penn’s Valley, also donated a
silver communion service to that
church. And so on Sunday, Oct.
23rd, the anniversary ceremonies
will be inter-faith in Nature; that
is, leaders of the Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish faiths will
participate in a religious pageant.
Writing in his newspaper col
umn about this occasion, Dr.
Daniel A. Poling, a distinguished
advocate of religious tolerance,
said recently: "Here, in a land
of Nature’s peace and plenty, is
a little toum that has a message
for a troubled world.”
Then Mr. Lieberman did a bit
of geographical research of his own
and he added the following to
round out the information on this
historic spot:
“I have just looked at the map
to see where Aaronsburg, Centre
Co., Pa., could be. It is such a small
place that it is not listed in the col
umn of towns and cities that ac
companies every road map. It is so
small that it was not listed even on
the map that the State of Penn
sylvania has had drawn, printed
and distributed. Finally, I did find
it —
tCentre County is just that —
East and West or North and South,
it’s all the same. This little up
land village is located in one of the
numerous valleys that lay along the
Eastern slope of the Allegheny
Mountains.
“In this section, all of which is of
glacial origin, the mountain ranges,
the valleys, the old Indian trails
and the modern highways all run
from Northeast to Southwest, mak
ing a bias pattern for that entire
section of the state. Within a com
paratively short distance from this
little village, (which is only about
35 or 40 miles due east from Belle-
font, Pa.) and in all four directions
of the compass the state has taken
over large tracts of wooded lands
and made parks of them in order
to preserve the old stands of native
hardwoods. The valleys are really
beautiful — full of good land that,
in the majority of places slope
gently from the hills down to a
small stream. The farmers are pros
perous and the country is a peace
ful one. The towns are many and
small and their names are pleas
ant and homey names — Fiedler,
Milheim, Wolfs Store, Rebersburg,
Spring Mills, Center Hall and
Pleasant Gap. One could almost go
to sleep just trying to visualize
what these towns look like."
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Hashona and Yom Kippur
I Saw Herzl Co Home to Rest
and their age-old symbolism.
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Isidore Schallit, surviving close col
laborator of Herzl, who had flown
in from Tel Aviv especially for the
occasion. Dr. Schallit, a white-
bearded gentleman, whose appear
ance suggested the typical Austrian
aristocrat, boldly flayed the non-
Jewish world for its complacency in
face of the Jewish tragedy and
caused a near-disturbance when he
referred to universal interest in the
victims of Lidice and none what
ever in the case of six million
slaughtered Jews. Eulogizing
Herzl as a volcano, whose “Jewish
soul erupted just at a time when
Jewish destruction was in the off
ing,” he painted a glowing picture
of the great pioneering work that is
going on in Israel and will redeem
not only our people but lead the
whole world on the road to peace.
Police, in anticipation of possible
counter-demonstrations by Nazi el
ements, had thrown a strong cord
of security detachments both
around the Seitenstettengasse
where the one remaining Jewish
Synagogue is located, and the Kon-
zerthaus. There were, however, no
hostile incidents.
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