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Friday, October 22, 1965 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE r««
SILVER LINING — by I)r. Samuel Silver
Tribute to My Teacher
Letter From Lila..
Continued from paue 1
all, all Hebrew speaking people
are not geniuses and if they
could learn, I could too! At this
stage, the trip to the post office,
which used to leave me shaken,
damp and exhausted, now is a re
latively easy procedure. Even
when the storekeepers, etc. want
to speak English, one must bear
down all the more and insist
upon Hebrew.
If you read that there has been
an increased rate of shattered
eardrums, know that Lila is afoot
in Israel!
Sometimes I have to pinch my
self to know that this is all real
Sitting in my lovely apartment
on the “mirpeset” (porch—which
nearly every single Israeli apart
ment has), I hear the children
olaying in the streets—hear them
chattering away in Hebrew—
hear them sing the very songs
we have been singing at Camp
Judaea—and I have to shake my
head in amazement. It is true!
Such wondrous things to me
which are absolutely the “norm”
in Israel, color my days. For ex
ample, on my first day in the
apt., I purchased some necessary
foods and supplies in a nearby
Super-Sol (barely distinguish
able from our supermarkets, in
appearance, that is) and since I
had quite an armful, the old de
livery man took it home for me.
We chatted on route—all about
my being “new” (how could he
tell!) and when he finally de
posited my things in the kitchen,
he looked around, smiled, shook
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my hand and wished me a hearty
‘ Mazel Tov.” I ask you, what
supermarket gives me that ser
vice! With a series of little hap
penings, similar in nature to this,
taking place daily you can can
imagine the effect it has upon me.
Of course, there is still quite
i gloomy side to life here in that
the needs for education of so
many “olim” (newcomers) to
Israel from so many areas of the
world has to be achieved.
Cultural differences are slowly
becoming reduced but one is
aware of the fact that a soci
ologist could write reams on the
enormity of this undertaking. In
time, the new "sabra” generation
will be of a more uniform char
acter but Israel has not contented
herself to merely wait so you can
see where much energy and
funds have gone to raise the
standards of those who have
been from undeveloped cultures.
While in Natanya, living at the
small Pension there, I saw the
new housing project to which
olim from mainly North African
areas had been located. It was
not unusual at all to find the
mother of the family crouched
in the little field across from the
apartment, pounding grain with
an old mortar and pestle. This,
within a fraction of an inch of
her new and modern kitchen!
There isn’t a place that I’ve
been to-date where I have not
been able to see the worth of
every organization abroad who
have given funds to be utilized in
this real drama of restoring a
people and a country. Nor can
I fail to be deeply moved by the
amount of service, taxation, and
cooperation given on the part of
the Israelis themselves to resolve
these problems. "Yee Ye Tov”—
“It will be good”—seems to be
the universal answer the Israeli
gives me. With this kind of atti
tude, how can they not succeed!
I was in Jerusalem last week
and since I only had a very short
period of time to stay there, I
quickly took a hop up to the
Hadassah - Hebrew University
Hospital. I wanted to at least see
the new buildings, (the land had
only been partially developed
when I was here last and the
buildings were only in the very
rough building stages). I tagged
onto a routine tour of the facili
ties and listened carefully as the
guide (a volunteer of Ya Al) ex
plained how the hospital came
about and what it has and con
tinues to accomplish. Really, the
tour could almost have been as
effective without the comment
ary. One had only to look around
to see the volume of work being
done and the numbers of people
being attended to both as in
patients and as out-patients. I
really didn’t spend the kind of
time yet that I plan to do next
week—really carefully looking
into each Hadassah project here
so that I can send you some in
teresting insights. Now that I am
fairly well organized, I’m making
my next trek to Jerusalem with
just such an idea in mind. As I
visit each institution, I’ll send
back reactions and should there
be features of particular interest,
I’m sure that Lil will circulate
1 hem.
In the meanwhile, I extend an
open invitation to you all to
drop m and pay us a visit!
I close witli best wishes for
a very successful Hadassah year,
brimming full of activity
throughout our Region. My love
and thoughts are with you.
Fondly,
LILA
My teacher died.
I’ve had many teachers, but,
as must be true for you, too, one
stood out
In my case it was Abraham
Cronbach, whom the world lost
recently, and a
darker world it
is without him
He was profes
sor of social
studies at the
Cincinnati
branch of the
Hebrew Union
College - Jewish
Institute of Religion.
In a thesis which I wrote for
Dr. Cronbach, stress was put on
the Jewish belief that a teacher
is a third parent. My own parents
have helped to mold me, but
they are the first to acknowledge
an important share in that dif
ficult task to my favorite teacher,
Dr. Cronbach.
He was 83 when he died. In the
course of his career as rabbi,
professor, lecturer and uncom
promising pacifist, he had put his
stamp on two generations of
Americans.
He was an expert in Talmud
and semantics, sociology and
psychiatry. He wrote hundreds
of thousands of words. Books
were not only written by him,
but about him.
But more striking than what
SAVANNAH NEWS
Among those attending Alumni
Day on October 5 at the Univer
sity of Georgia Medical School in
Augusta were Dr. and Mrs.
Irving Victor, Dr. and Mrs. Jacob
Rubin and Dr. and Mrs. E. F.
Rosen.
Barry Shedrow, Susan Wagger,
Charlotte Lipstiz, Paul Cranman
and Lynn Rudikoff were among
a number of Armstrong College
students attending the UGA-
Clemson football game at Athens.
Savannah Section, National
Council of Jewish Women, dis
closed future plans at its recent
meeting. In cooperation with the
Economic Opportunity Authority
a program of working with pre
school children is to be develop
ed. Monthly parties given at the
Chatham County Nursing Home
will be continued and this year’s
fund-raising activities will be a
gourmet luncheon in February
and thrift sale in the spring.
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A $10,000 contribution was
made by the Agudath Achim
Brotherhood toward the proposed
future construction of a new
synagogue. A $1,000 contribution
was also made by the Brother
hood to the synagogue’s Youth
Committee for the youth pro
gram. Sam Diemar, immediate
past Brotherhood president, was
named “Man of the Year” and
presented with a plaque for
service to the synagogue. He had
been president of the synagogue
for eight years.
Koufax Pitches
Dodgers To World
Championship
MINNEAPOLIS — (JTA)
Sandy Koufax, the Jewish lad
from Brooklyn, pitched the Los
Angeles Dodgers to a 2-0 victory
over the Minnesota Twins in the
final game of the world series
last week to make the Dodgers
the world champions.
Koufax, who refused to pitch
the opener because it was played
on Yom Kippur, went to the
mound in two previous series
games, losing one and winning
one. The 29-year-old Brooklyn
lefthander went into the final
game with only two days of rest
but struck out 10 Twins. It was
his second straight world Series
shutout.
During the regular season,
Koufax had won 26 games in
cluding eight shutouts for an
amazing total of 28 wins and 10
shutouts for the season.
he did was what he was. He was
a saint m the sense that he re
fused to sink to anger when he
was opposed or criticized. He was
a believer in the God not that
you expound but that you experi
ence, and he was able to convey
His presence by the warmth and
fervor of his idealism. Dr. Cron-
bach felt that God’s presence is
manifest when you and 1 are
melted from what he called
rivalism to mutualism, from the
inclination to be master over
others to the willingness to mini
ster unto others.
Dr. Cronbach conversed with
such erudition that he sounded
like a book talking. On the other
hand, he invariably embodied in
his conversations shafts of humor
which would have you laughing
and himself rocking. We who
adored him will always nurture
recollections of him explaining
profound points with polysyllabic
glitter and, at other times, shak
ing with glee over some amusing
quip.
Dr. Cronbach was the kind of
person who would give up hours
of his time visiting the disreput
able in prisons and institutions;
Nathan Leopold came under his
influence. As a pacifist he out-
quakered the Quakers, who loved
him. As a husband, he exasperat
ed his wife because of his disdain
for the gastronomic; but that
wife looked after him with Cron-
bachian selflessness. As an ideal
ist, he encountered the disdain
of the pragmatic. But as a teach
er, he made indelible marks upon
the minds and souls of his
disciples, of whom I am proud to
be one.
Dr. Cronbach, had but one
child. She is the wife of Rabbi
Maurice Davis of Indianapolis,
Ind. But his spiritual children
are legion, and his spirit goes
marching on as we who sat at his
feet feebly try to transmit that
which was most glorious in the
character and career of this al-
most incredible giant of a
teacher.
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