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...Immigration officials at Highgate Springs, Vt., it was another case of radical cheek. Sarah Cousins, 24, daughter of Saturday Review/World Editor Norman Cousins, was accused of smuggling a fugitive across the U.S.Canadian border. Under a coat in the back of her car was Israeli Rabbi Aharon Ron, 47, convicted in the U.S. for conspiring to sell $800,000 in stolen securities. Ron jumped bail to visit his family in Israel while his case was pending appeal. Sarah and he met 18 months ago when she was a dropout. "He has been a constructive force in her life," said Cousins, relating...
Before Harmon spoke, a short religious service was conducted by a rabbi who recited the Jewish prayer for the dead...
...tale of the Rabbi that refused to listen to Rosenberg/Vrba's report is not the tale of a Zionist suppressing a warning of doom. A Rabbi is not to be confused with a Zionist. Many people were disbelieved in a similar fashion, regarded as madmen for their ravings of such barbarity. It is not difficult to understand, even now, why this might be so. By the time the Jews began to realize the seriousness of the situation, it was too late. They were all neatly rounded up in ghettoes from which escape was not exactly an easy feat...
After my escape from Auschwitz, I went to a small town in Slovakia in which several thousand Jews still lived. I asked the Rabbi of the community if I could speak in the synagogue on a Friday evening to warn the congregants that they were to be gassed in Auschwitz and that they must not report to the trains for deportation. The Rabbi said he would consider my request and while I waited for his answer I stood outside the temple and smoked a cigarette. He came out of the building and told me that a Jew who smokes...
...RABBI) IRA A. KORFF Nantasket, Mass