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To be ashamed of being a Jew, is in the last analysis, to be ashamed of your own father and mother.
VOL. n.—No. 8
You cannot build up l o y a It y to mankind u p o n disloyalty to your own kind.
Entered p-VC^nd-class mall matter on January 27th, 1921, at postoffiee i,~'-2S*lia, Nebraska, nnder the Act of March 3, 1878:&•§-:
Interest in Press Contest Growing Keener Council
Bluffs Girls Enter Race for Big Money.
"DARK HORSE" RUNNING AHEAD OF ENTIRE FIELD.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1922
Poles Would Become Colonists in Palestine Warsaw. (J. P. A.) According to the Palestine Bureau in this city, Polish laborers and . artisans have manifested an intei-est in emigrating to Palestine. The Palestine Bureau as well as other Jewish institutions have been requested time' and again for information, with regard to possibilities in Palestine. This sudden Polish interest in Palestine is attributed to the influence of the anti-Semitic propaganda which constanttly emphasises the wealth and power of the Jews. As a result, fancy has been stirred by the thought of Palestine, being once more the land of milk and honey, where they might amass great fortunes.
Prominent Chicago Jurist, With Chas. Rubens and Miss Jessie Bogen, to Address State Conference and Brandeis Theater Meetings
Budapest. (J. P. A.—By mail.) Alexander Chalmes, a young Jewish tailor, has been awarded first prize at the fashion show held jn this city, for the most beautifully designed gown. This artist in woman's apparel was a student of medicine for several Tragic Conditions Among Thousands of Jews In Europe Will Be Describedyears and was near the completion of By Noted Social Workers To Aid Appeal, Which his course, when the anti-Semitic Hungarian government passed restricStarts Monday, February 6th tive legislation against Jewish stuwhich barred him from continuMOTION PICTURES AND FIRST HAND INFORMATION TO BRING dents ing his studies. Not having the means MESSAGE OF URGENT NEEDS OF EUROPEAN JEWS to go abroad, he turned to tailoring as a means of livelihood. His capaciTO CO-RELIGIONISTS IN OMAHA ties in th's line were such that he soon became one of the leading arSunday will be a gala day in Omaha. On that day Jews of this city will be hosts to hundreds of prominent fellow-Jews through- tists in women's modes.
Public Funeral for Corp. Goldware Will be Meld This Sunday
Rabbi Morris Taxon Re-Elected Minister Here for Five Years
Uniermented Wine For Sacramental Purpose
American Jewish Congress . to Come to Life Again
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Antisemites Helped Him Find Vocation
Enthusiasm For New Year Narks Federation Neet Reports Show R e m a r k a b l e Progress Made During 1921. MORRIS LEVY ELECTED PRESIDENT FOR SEVENTH TIME.
"What we give and do rather than what we have and keep, must hereafter be the standard of a man's worth in this community," Morris Levy, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation told a capacity audience that out the State who are coming here to attend the state conference in the interest of the $14,gathered last Sunday night at the 000,000 relief appeal, the campaign for Nebraska's share of which begins on Monday, Feb. 6th. Federation's annual meeting. Nearly The quota for this state is $125,000. 1,000 people were in attendance at the At the same time Judge Harry M. Fisher of the Superior Court of Illinois, Chas. M. RuFontenelle. Hotel Ball room to hear bens of Chicago and Miss Jessie Bogen, of New York, will be in Omaha and will address the state reports of the year's work and to conference to help draft final plans for the great work. The conference will convene at the elect officers for 1922. Jewish Community Center at 2:00 o'clock. The report of President Levy In the evening Judge Fisher, Miss Bogen and Mr. Rubens will address a public meeting at formed the most interesting feature the Brandeis Theatre, giving first-hand information of conditions in Europe, and motion pictures of the actual life in the famine regions will be shown. Admission to the theatre is open to Omaha Boy Who Made Supreme of the evening. Mr. Levy, who on Sacrifice to Be Buried With Sunday night completed six years of the public. Military Honors. service as president of the FederaJudge Harry M. Fisher is a leading has been the means of saving the jurist of the state of Illinois, being MISS BOGBN W TALK AT lives of tens of thousands of these AMERICANTEGfON TO CON- tion, presented a resume of communal unfortunate waifs, through the comnow on the Superior Court bench. He developments of the past year, and TEMPLE AND AT JEWDUCT LAST SOLEMN mittee's • financial adoption plan. She has a reputation of being one of the urged co-operation of the community ISH COM3HUNITY RITES. has just returned from a third trip most forceful and eloquent speakers ii| carrying to highest perfection the CENTER. to Europe, in the interest of this Jews of Omaha will gather at the work of the Federation. n America. A member of the exeMiss Jessie Bogen will work, and brings most recent infor- synagogue at 24 and Nicholas streets, Budget Increased Over 100 percent. cutive committee of the Joint Distribution Committee, he went overseas arrive on Fri3ay morning, mation of conditions there. Sunday morning, to honor the mem- From first to last the meeting wag Charles M. Rubens, a prominent ory of Corporal Morris Goldware, who surcharged with optimism and hope ast summer to see for himself what and will narrate her expehad befallen his people there. His riences among the children manufacturer of Chicago, and for died in France in October 1918, from for the coming year based upon the story of tragic conditions in Europe, and women in Central Europe many years an active lyorker in comgreat success achieved by the Federenhanced by his powerful oratory, is at Temple Israel jjriday night. munal * affaire there, , assumed |the ation during the' past year. ..The more convincingffiit"any ." On ISktuScTayvSfternodn she chairmanship cf zone -f--at-*Ise^fc^gfn-; various reports submitted Bhow68"Hfhftt address that has ever been made on will lecture on the war orphan the membership- of. the Federation of the ?14,O0O,OOa appeal.,^ -jAg this subject. problem in Europe following Tiing had been increased 70 percent over head of the organization in the states Miss Jessie Bogen is a well-known a reception in her honor at of Illinois, Kentucky,. Indiana, Minthat of the previous year, and that more than twice as much money had Jewish social worker, and inherits her the Jewish Community Cen- nesota, Michigan, North and South been collected and expended as in ability in dealing with Jewish prob- ter. The lecture will begin Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Nebrasat 4:00 o'clock. 1920. 19 institutions and functions ems from her distinguished father, Miss Bogen will also speak ka, Mr. Rubens has had the opportunof social service are now embraced by Dr. Boris D. Bogen. Miss Bogen was at the public meeting at the ity of developing his talents for or-the Federation according to the tfethe first Jewish woman to enter the Brandeis Theatre on Sunday ganization to the fullest, and each port of Samuel Schaefer, Superintenfamine and war zone of Europe, when night. dent. state in his zone is now thoroughly The public is invited and organized and at work. He will narReports of the Jewish Women's she accompanied her father on his Welfare Organization, Mrs. R. Kulafirst trip in 1917. Since that date her urged to hear each of Miss rate the plans of other communities Bogen's addresses. kofsky, president, and of the Junior entire time and all her energies have in raising funds for relief, and tell Welfare Organization, Miss Sylvia been devoted to the cause of the 300,- tor of the War Orphans Bureau of how Omaha and the state of NebrasKulakofsky, president, disclosed th« 000 Jewish orphans abroad. As direc- the Joint Distribution Committee she ka can raise its quota of $125,000. fact, that the Jewish girls and women of Omaha are strongly organized for social work, and that these two organizations are keeping pace "Witll MODERN ORTHODOX RABBIS NO EMIGRATION OF the growth of the Federation. DECIDE JEWS NEED NO MOST COUNTRIES HAVE MEN FROM RUSSIA Morris Goldware. The Free Loan Society, through its SPECIAL PRIVILEGES Kovno, Feb. 2.—(J. T. A.) EXCEEDED IMMIGRATION Rabbi Morris N. Taxon. secretary C. C. Katleman, reported an illness contracted in the performance Emigration from Soviet Russia QUOTAS. increase of $10,000 in its capital durNew York. (Jewish Press Ass'n.)— Oct. 15, 1927. The membership of of duty. COMPLETE REORGANIZATION OF will be restricted to children The Rabbinical Assembly of the Jew- I the Beth Hamidrosh Hagodel and of New York (J. C. B.) The The public funeral of Corporal ing the year, and# loans made aggre* NATIONAL BODY AGREED under the age of 18 and womish Theological Seminary, with a !the B'nai Israel Synagogue, by a vote Goldware will be the second to begating $14,000. number of immigrants aden, going to join parents or UPON membership of 158 rabbis, which met ' that was practically unanimous, demissible to this country to the. husbands who are naturalized .'held in this city for a Jewish soldier Election of officers for 1922 rein executive session at the seminary I cided at meetings held duringthe week who made the supreme sacrifice "over sulted, as follows: Morris Levy, presend of the fiscal year, June 30, American citizens, Mr. Krainin, New York. (Jewish Press Ass'n.)— building decided that unfermented ; that the Rabbi's record of communal there." The other youth to be so ident; Dr. Philip Sher, vice-president; 1922, and also those admissible a Russian Jewish leader inAt a meeting Sunday of the Proviwine might be used for all religious service during his incumbency was a honored was Corporal Archie Kru- Mrs. R. Kulakofsky, Mrs. Philip Sher formed a correspondent of the for the month of January, were sional Committee of the American purposes by Jews. This decision was splendid index of his fixture deeds, pinsky, of Fremont, who was laid in and Mrs. B. A. Simon, 1st, 2nd and J. T. A. today. given out at Ellis Island. Jewish Congress, called by its execureached after hours of discussion by and that Omaha could not afford to his last resting place on June 5, 1921. 3rd vice-presidents respectively; H. tive secretary, Bernard G. Richards, These regulations concerning The following countries have rabbis from various parts of thebe without him. Corporal Goldware was 26 years Friedman, treasurer; and C. C. Katleemigration from Russia are an a complete reorganization was decidIt is generally exceeded their quotas for imcountry, and will be presented for known that the Rabbi has had several old at the time of his death. He came man, secretary. • appreciable departure from the ed upon. Since the end of the war the migrants admissible during the approval to the Orthodox rabbis of offers from communities larger than to this country from Russia in 1911, Speakers Urge Liberality. original understanding reached activities of the Congress have been reniainder of the fiscal year: this country. and made his home with his brother Following election of officers adbetween, representatives of the Omaha, among them Boston, Chicago, practically non-existent, though never Australia, Africa, Atlantic IsComplaints made by prohibition San Francisco and Los Angeles, and Jos. Goldware, of Albright. He en- dresses were made by Isidor Ziegler, was there so great a need for its World Jewish Relief Conference lands, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungagents that some rabbis were taking a recall to a Columbus, Ohio, pulpit. listed in June, 1917, and saw service Harry Wolf, Harry Lapidus and Henand Litvinbff, representing the stimulus as now. ary, Jugoslavia, Other Asia, advantage of their privilege to issue in France with Butchery Co. No. 344. ry Monsky, each of whom dwelt on Soviet Government, according Magristrate Alexander H. Geisman, Other Europe, Palestine, Poland Following his graduation, Rabbi liquor permits, caused the American He succumbed to pneumonia in the a specific phase of Jewish social to which men and women aboveone of the speakers at the meeting, Portugal, New Zealand, Spain, Jewish Committee to call upon the Taxon held the post of lecturer in American hospital in the village of service: Each urged greater liberalthe age of 46 were allowed to attacked bitterly the restrictive imSyria, and Turkey and Smyrna organization of rabbis to regulate the Talmud at his alma mater for one Nevers, one of the prettiest hamlets ity in money and in service on the emigrate to all countries. migration policy now advocated, exdistrict. distribution of permits and to investi- year, after which he occupied pulpits in France. The body arrived in part of every member of the Federapressing it as his belief that its inGreat Britain has 50,300 to gate this entire matter, in order to in Whiteplains, N. J., for one year, tion to the .cause of Jewish philantent was to injure the interests of the SHAKESPER.EAN THEATER WILL Omaha this morning. come; Germany, 57,706. and remove the stigma of "lawbreaker" and in Columbus for four years. He Services will be conducted by Rabbi thropy. BE FOUNDED BY JEW. Jewish immigrants above all else. was called to Omaha from Columbus. Russia, 18,246. from the Jewish people. London. (J. P. A.) t h e Jewish Morris Taxon and under the direction Musical numbers were given by ArRabbi Stephen S. Wise stated that Since coming to Omaha he has been It "Was decided to appoint a comthere were two things Jewry needed, theatrical director, Paul Davidson, of the American Legion. Burial will thur Rosenbhxm, Mrs. Harry Silver* mittee to confer with representatives actively identified in all phases of man, Miss" Helen Sommer, Miss Belle faith in democracy and the capacity who has just completed the season at be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis communal work pertaining to theLORD BRYCE A TRUE FRIEND of self-government and control. He a Jewish theatre here, has formed a Mr. Harry R. Weinberg, head of von Mansfelde, .Miss Rose Davidson, OF JEWS. within the next month. The purpose welfare of the Jews. He has been said, "If the Jew renounce his faith syndicate for the establishment of athe Legion's Welfare Department, re- Miss Cecilia Feiler and Mr. Harry Of the proposed meeting will be toespecially active in the City Talmud London. (J. P. A.) Several days in democracy, he might just as well national Shakesperean theatre. Mr. quests that all former Jewish service Braviroff. persuade the orthodox rabbis to re- Torah, being chairman of its com- before his death Lord Bryce wrote a go back to Poland and other East Davidson has asked the Government men report at the Court House Sun- The complete report of President gard the question of the use of wine mittee on education, and in the Sun- letter to your correspondent in which European countries and put himself for a subsidy of this project. The day morning at 10:00 o'clock, in uni- Levy appears on page 2 of this issue. for religious purposes in a modern day School conducted by the Deborah he condemned the renewed and in- under control of those royal bandits British press as well as the public form, to act as military escort for the Society. light. tens'fied anti-Semitic propaganda who have persecuted him and broken are warmly supporting this idea. body;. Lodz. (By mail.—J. P. A.) To He is a past president of. the B'nai throughout the world, particularly his nation for centuries." Tfie deceased is survived by the commemorate the twentieth anniverJEWISH COLONIES GIVEN CITY B'rith and a delegate to the 1922 dis- that in England. In his letter, he ! London. (J. P. A.) The official brother witth whom he lived and a sary of his .business activities, the trict convention of the order. He is supports the Jewish demands for GALICIA PERSECUTES ZIONISTS. 'government report of the Jaffa po- second brother and a sister in Russia. wealthy manufacturer, Oscar Kahn, CHARTERS. London (J. P. A.) According to on the Doard of directors of the Jew- minority rights. He states that the Lemberg. (J. P. A.) Reports from grom incorrectly presented Dr. Eder's contributed 50 million mark toward British Government is impartial, various cities in Galicia state that testimony on the witness stand. Ac- JEWISH ART EXHIBITION IN the establishment of a Polish F61yreports from Jerusalem, a number of ish Welfare Federation and of the the larger Jewish colonies in Palest- YMHA, is chairman of the local treating the Jewish question from a the local authorities are continuous- cording to the stenographic report Dr. PALESTINE. technic Institute in this city. ine, among them Rishon le Zion rind Keren Hayesod committee, and a purely humanitarian point of view, ly harrassing Zionists. In many lo- Eder is represented as declaring that Jaffa. (J. P. A.—By mail.) Under Mr. Selwyn Jacolis, who was very Rehovoth have been chartered by the member of the executive committee and hopes that its efforts to solve the calities they are forbidden to organize whereas the Jews of Palestine should the direction of Jacob Firman an exJewish problem in Poland and Ukrai- into societies or to hold open meet- be permitted to carry arms, the Arabs hibition of Jewish art was recently ill at his home during the early part government of Palestine as municipal of the Zionist organization. governments with all the rights of During the war he was appointed nian will be finally crowned with suc- ings. Their cultural institutions are 1 should by' no means be allowed such opened here at which the works of of the week, is reported as conlocal self-government. The newly- by the Governor as a member of the cess. privileges because experience :• has famous Jewish painters and sculptors valescing. closed without even an excuse. created municipalities will now elect state committee for the thrift stamp The entire epistle vibrates with The central Committee of the Zion- demonstrated that weapons in j theof the Diaspora as well as of Pales"their own mayors, city-councils and campaign ai.d has done intensive work sentiments of friendship and sym- ist Organization has protested these hands of the Arabs are too often em- tine are on display. Among1 the exMr. Leo Rosen thai, who _ had been -will most probably have the right in all subsequent appeals for war re- pathy toward the Jewish people, and anti-Zionist demonstrations to the ployed for plunder and murder jwhile hibitors are Professors Schatz of the confined to his home for the past to organize local police forces for lief, anti-defamation, and other Jew- is but another manifestation of his Governor of Galicia but so far no ac- the Jews use the same for-sel-protec- Bezallel School oC Art, K&nstanti- three weeks because of iHhess, has their protector *-, completely recovered novsky, Pann and others. ish aobility of character. tion was taken to better conditions. tion only.
The "Jewish Press" subscription contest is going over big. Forty girls from Omaha and Council Bluffs are now entered in it, and competition is growing keener each day. During the week the Junior section of the Council of Jewish Women of Council Bluffs entered the race, intent on carrying off some of the big prize money. Latest reports to "The Press" indicate that the girls are getting every possible subscription in the Bluffs. During the week the X. T. C. Club and the Senior Young Judeae Girls decided to join forces in the contest, Record of Present Term Merits and they will be a factor that will Long Continuance, Members of Synagogue Declare. be hard to beat. The combined strength of the two groups comprises forty-five girls, each of whom A C T I V E L Y ENGAGED IN M\NY COMMUNAL is a live wire. AFFAIRS. This move has made the members of the Junior Hadassah unit more Rabbi Morris N. Taxon, for the energetic than ever. Every girl in past foi ? years spiritual leader of the this club is hustling to annex the United Orthodox Congregations of subscriptions for the sake of some Omaha, has been re-elected to that unfortunate child in Europe. The position for a five years term ending club will use its prize money to adopt one'tflT'Ehe i thousands of Je* -^h orphans overseas. jf A dark horse in the race it. , Jtain girl who has not affiliated herself with any group. It is known that she has secured more subscriptions than any other girl to date. The contest is creating great intereBt among "Press" readers, each of •whom is trying to help his favorite group of workers. Prizes of $100, 375, §50 and $25 are being offered.
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