The Sentinel, v.162 no. 04, 1948

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PASSOVER GREETINGS
CONGREGATION
B'NAI BEZALEL
7544 SAGINAW AVE.
Rabbi Paul J. Bender
Cantor A. Freidin
Paul Greenhut, Pres.
Max Malkin, 1st Vice Pres.
Sol Ruthstein, 2nd Vice Pres.
Leo Schwab, Treas.
George Kahn, cor. Sec.
Sam Levy, Fin. Sec.
Joseph Roman, Sup't. Bldg.
Mrs. Samuel H. Herron, Pres.
Sisterhood
Mrs. Sol Ruthstein, Vice Pres.
The Lawn Manor
Comm unity Center
6641 South Troy Street
Extends Passover Greetings to
Its Officers and Members and
Best Wishes for Israel and All
Mankind.
MORDECAI SCHULTZ Rabbi
IRVING B. GOLDBERG, President
TEMPLE
Isaiah Israel
Greets the Community
for A Blessed
Passover for Israel
And All Mankind
Passover Greetings
AUSTIN JEWISH COMMUNITY
CENTER
116-118 S. CENTRAL AVENUE
Louis J. Leerfield, Rabbi
Jack Moss, President
Aaron Kritz, Cantor
Officers and Members of
Congregation B'nai Shalom
4850 N. SAWYER AVE.
Wish all their friends a
Happy Passover
Rabbi Samuel Burr Yampol
Hyman J. Berg, President
Passover Greetings To My Many
Jewish Friends
Long's Convalescent Home
ELSA S. LONG
5250 SHERIDAN RD. LON. 6342
Licensed Home
Passover Greetings
CREATIVE LETTER
SERVICE
BEN KAHAN
325 W. HURON, CHICAGO
DEL. 4252
Season's Greetings
FROM A FRIEND
The Story of
Haganah
By HIRSCH WOLFSON
Since the United Nations Assembly
made its decision to establish independ-ent
Jewish and Arab states in Palestine,
the Haganah-the Jewish defense army,
has come more and more into the fore-front
of the struggle for the actual es-tablishment
of the Jewish state. And
with the American reversal of policy on
the Palestine problem and the grave
danger of the UN Assembly reversing
its decision the question of the very
existence of the Jewish state after the
termination of the British Mandate de-pends
on the ability of the Haganah
to hold and defend it.
The membership of Haganah today
includes just about every able-bodied
adult Jew in the country, from the
chalutz to the shopkeeper to the fac-tory
worker and the plant manager. A
recent visitor to Palestine reports how
when making a purchase in a Jewish
store on one occasion, the storekeeper
asked him to please be quick about
making his selection.
"Why the rush," asked the visitor,
"is it closing time?"
"No," replied the storekeeper, "but
I have to report for guard duty in a
few minutes."
The same party reported that the
young man who was his guide dur-ing
his stay, bid him farewell the day
before he left the country.
"I must say goodbye now," the guide
said, "I won't be able to see you again
tomorrow."
Upon being asked where he was go-ing
he replied: "I have to report for
active duty with the Haganah."
Estimates place the strength of the
Haganah at about 70,000 including its
full-time, part-time and reserve units.
On the basis of a recent registration of
all young Jews in Palestine between
the ages of 17 and 25, 85,000 are avail-able
for all types of service. And with
the unofficial self-imposed conscription
the Yishuv may well succeed in build-ing
up its active defense force to 100,000
or even 150,000.
Without a doubt the Haganah today
represents the highest degree of unity
in action that has been achieved by the
Palestine Yishuv and takes in all sec-tions
and groupings in the Jewish com-munity
except the right-wing dissident
Irgun and Stern group elements.
0
There is a 30-year history behind the
Jewish defense army Haganah, which
incidently, has been an illegal organiz-ation
almost since its inception. The
first defense groups to guard the Jewish
settlements were organized when Pal-estine
was still under Turkish rule in
the early 1900's. In 1907 these groups
banded together in the organization of
Jewish Watchmen, some of its mem-bers
serving in the British Army's Jew-ish
Legion during the first world war.
After the war the Watchmen, which
tended to develop into a professional
army, were disbanded to make way for
the Haganah which was immediately
organized on the basis of involving all
the able-bodied people in the Yishuv.
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PASSOVER GREETINGS
FIRST ROUMANIAN
SHAARI SHOMAEM CONGREGATION
Douglas Boulevard and Millard Avenue
Harry Moscowitz, President
Benjamin Itzkovitz, Treasurer
Rabbi H. Goldstein, Spiritual Leader
Morris Luftig, Vice President
THE OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE
CHICAGO CHAPTER OF HADASSAH
Extend Greetings for the Passover - "The Holiday
of Our Liberation" with the speedy establishment
of the Jewish State and peace in Palestine.
BERTHA READ RISSMAN, President
Passover Greetings from the American Federation for
Polish Jews, Midwest District to all our members, contribu-tors
and friends.
On the eve of our holidays, we call upon you to remember
the surviving Polish Jews, wherever they may be.
AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR POLISH JEWS
MIDWEST DISTRICT AND ITS WOMENS DIVISION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
72 E. 11th STREET SUITE 612 WAB. 0691
PASSOVER GREETINGS
TO MY CO-RELIGIONISTS EVERYWHERE
To my brethren in this blessed land of ours, as you sit at the Passover
Seder and retell the "Nissim" o the Hagaddah, I bid not to forget for a
single moment the hundreds of thousands of our brethren who are stateless
and homeless, wretched and hungry, yet steadfastly clinging to the ray of
hope of the Promised Land.
Let us, the most fortunate, resolve not to rest until our "Sheareet ban" Hachur- are truly liberated, returned to the home of their forefathers, to Eretz Yisroel, which must, shall, and will become our people's National Home,
MAX BRESSLER
SEASON'S GREETINGS
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney R. Leader
and Family
PASSOVER GREETINGS
To Our Rabbi-Members-Congregation-Friends
A. 0. WEINGART and FAMILY
2150 S. WESTERN AVENUE VIR. 7700
Passover Greetings
i To All Our Friends
REST HAVEN, INC.
In the very near future, we will announce the exact date
for the breaking of the ground for a new Rest Haven.
Fanny I. Chern, President
Malvina Cannon, Superintendent
Board of Directors
PASSOVER GREETINGS TO ALL JEWRY FROM
Officers & Board of Directors and Members of the
JEWISH PEOPLES CONVALESCENT HOME
1518-22 S. ALBANY AVE.
April ,2, 1948