The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-07-18
the
- notes ring out, poignant,
pitiful; "Te-ke-Oo." Once


again it resOundS in the
hOary riffs of the "wailing WALL" REM
nant of Hebrew glory, symbol Of He
brew fall. Piercing, clear, it heralds a
mighty surge of grief. For from the
gloom Of a hundred souls cry is
wrung, uncanny in the smiling sun.
shine, writes Marian Weinstein to the
Chicago Daily News. The Jews of
Jerusalem have come to mourn, to
pray. They have brought to their
Father the sting Of their newest afflic-
ton, the fresh page in their long
tragedy-the slaughter of their bretll-
rem in free Galicia.
The bearded elders in their faded
caftans bend and sway over their
huge tones. Their earlocks brush
the following leaves of prayer. Apart
on the cObbled street sit shawled
women, scar, fleshless, resting their
quivering forms against native hut.
Their younger sisters. old-young wom-
en-. press the temple ruin. Now they
fondle the stones and now they clutch
them in despair, choking dry sobs.
Beyond, girl is weeping. She has
lived through Russian pogrom.
There is a lull in the wall. For mo-
ment the mass of motley headgear-
skull caps, turbans, fezzes-ceases to
sway. But only for moment. And
now the little Talmud Torah boys
come from their schools, tiny replicas
with their side curls and long coats
of their elders. They file in unde,
their rabbits eye, look Of awe on
their pale faces.
All United in Mourning.
Jerusalem has forgotten its SQUAD
bles. In this hour Of prayer and
mourning before their Maker all Jews
are brothers. "a dole, dole" q
| wretched bundle of rags whimpers
through the crowd. Between two
sputtering candles against the wall {
khaki-clad soldier from the Jewisl
battalion pauses to read the call Il
this prayer that was posted for days
in the streets of the Holy City, ir
Hebrew and in Yiddish.
terrible reports come to us, one
after the other, from Galicia. Enc
mics Of Israel shed Jewish bloot
like water. Hundreds of Jewish vic
Tins have been murdered amid al
sorts Of atrocities. Countless limo
cents, men, women and children, Oul
peoples most pious souls, have fallen
In Lemberg alone 1OS, butchered ant
burned, were buried in one grave
Scores of scrolls of the law have beer
destroyed, and such outrages were
committed as in the day of the de
struction of the temple. All ou
brethren in Galicia are In deadly ter
rOr.
"Our elders, therefore, have me
and decided that the whole communi
ty-men, women and children-shoult
assemble Tuesday Mt o'clock, Arabic
time, at the temple ruin to read tn
psalms and blow the shophar that tn
Lord above may take pity upon on
brethren"
''Ibrahim! Ibrahim" A shrili CT,
strikes the air. From the roof of he
stone hut swarthy Arab woman call
her son, who has somehow beef
caught in the wailing, swaying multi
tude. "Ibrahim:'
At the Waiting Place.
The Jewish soldier rescues the re
luctant lbrahim just as a score o
British Tommies appear in the wax
of q MOslem guide.
"Here you have the Jews wailin
; wall" he recites in sing-song. 9TH
upper stones were built in the time o
the Romans. but the lower blocks be
longed to Solomon's temple. Here tn
Jews come every Friday to WALL
The Jewish soldier has recognize
a fellow Jew in an American Re
Cross doctor, standing thoughtfully a
the edge of the praying crowd.
"From what part Of the States ar
your" he whispers eagerly. I'm frol
, Philly. l thought you might be, 100.
Down the stony steps leading to IN
! wailing place new figures are eve
. hurrying, scurrying. The Talmu
T0rah children are leaving with thel
rabbi. The weeping gill leans asa'ns
the Arab hut now, her eyes hal
. closed, her lips trembling. The ole
young women still cling to the wall a
Il the God whose ear they seek wer
] In its very stones.