September 8, 1972: Rosh Hashanah Edition

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THE JVISH

Itosli Hashaiinli

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l Council Blufhf Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha *• A

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Vol. LH—No. 1

OMAHA, NEB., FBI., SEPT. 8, 107*

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, ; The Wandering Jew: Wherever lie,goes, he puts down roots and flourishes

The *Wandering Jew' in Omaha By MICKEY GERELICK have come from many parts of country of his own,- the Jew This Rosh Hashanah as we the world to make. Omaha their was dispersed Into^ m a n y strange lands. Wherever he sit in the synagogue, many of home. It Seems to be the story of wandered, tho homeless Jew us will be aware of the'change in tho make-,up of the congre- the "Wandering Jew" all over tried to become a loyal and gation. Those of us who a r e .again, but with a different productive citizen of his adopted land. At the same time he life-time residents of this com- twist. managed to maintain his< idenparatively small Jewish comEveryone is familiar wjth the munity are accustomed "to historical image of the "Wan- tity' as a Jew. It is a miracuknowing everyone." But as we dering Jew!' who was forced lous tale of survival. scan the sea of familiar faces, to move to strange places. The Some years ago archeolowo will bo startled at the many long history of the Jewish Peo- gists recovered a*tablet conpeople we don't know» These pie followed a pattern df perse- • taining a report from an Egyparo the newcomers, Jews who cution and exile. Without a tian governor of Canaan to his

ruler. Tho date Was about 1500 BCE and among the messages was one which said, "Israel is destroyed." , , Historians have not' determined what prompted iliht report, but obviously it was not true. We arc still here. We arc here 3,500 years after tho Egyptian governor's letter; 25 centuries after Nebuchanczer the king of Babylon destroyed the Temple of Solomon; 1,900 years aficr Titus, General of

the armies of the Roman Empire conquered the Second Jew* ish Commonwealth and burned the Second Temple; 9 centuries after the blood bath of the Crusades; 500 years after Torque* nndo and toe Inquisition; 5 decades after the execution of Nicholas, II, the last of the Russian Czars; more than Z decades' after the demise of 'Hitler—WE ARE "HERE! During this long, incredible " (Continued on Page 48)


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