"When we point at other people’s lifestyles, are we not just expressing an insecurity in our own?"
This week’s For the Record spoke of the help that Tomas Masaryk and his son Jan Masaryk offered the Jewish People and later the fledgling Israeli Air Force. In fact, Czechoslovakia did more.
My father, an American World War II veteran, along with other British and South African veteran volunteers, formed the Anglo-Saxon unit of the Haganah. He told me that the captured British Sten gun jammed often. It was the Czechoslovakian rifles provided by that government that were the most reliable weapons to the poorly equipped, outmanned, and outgunned Jewish soldiers in the War of Independence.
Dovid Green
Much thanks is due to Reb Dovi Safier and Reb Yehuda Geberer for their latest masterpiece. They brilliantly portrayed the life of a saintly figure whose actions and demeanor were so otherworldly, I never believed they could be properly written up in a magazine article.
Each and every article from these two is a treasure, and I truly hope that we continue to see more content of this sort, both from these writers as well as from other Mishpacha writers. It is only the knowledge of our history that allows us to build upon the actions of the great leaders of the past.
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