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I never make the S mistake of arguing with peo p i e for whose opinion I have v no respect*-—Gibbon.
Entered as. second-class mall matter on January 27th, 1021, at poatofflce at Omataa. Nebraska, under the Act of Mnrcb a. 1879.
Omaha Jews to Join in Celebration of Opening of Hebrew University, Sunday Evening at City Auditorium
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1925
SUBSRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $2,50
The BuiMmg ohiBeHebrew University
Governor Adam McMullen And Many Other .Prominent Speakers Will : Appear On The Program. THIS CELEBRATION IS OPEN TO ENTIRE PUBLIC—PROGRAM WILL v BEGIN AT 8 P. M. On Sunday evening, April 12, 1925, at the City Auditorium, an- historic event unparalleled*in Jewish history will be celebrated in this city. It will be the climaxof Jewish achievement—the celebration of the opening of the Hebrew University. The Hebrew University was formally opened April 1; on Mt. Scopus. The ceremony was attended by leading figures from all parts of the world. Lord Balfour of England, who madp conditions; possible for the Jewish people to build'the University, was the principal speaker. ; Omaha jfewry is co-operating with brother, Avrum Lustgarten, will give other communities throughout the a violin duet, accompanied by Ida country and are holding the celebra- Lustgarten. • " r tion Sunday evening. Very prominent The program will begin promptly speakers have., been obtained for the at eight o'clock - and, because of the celebration Sunday evening at the city large crowd-'r expected to attend this auditorium. celebration, extra seats have' been The speakers of the evening, Gov.. placed in the large." hall. TJiere will ernor Adam McMullen of Nebraska,'; be no admission or collection. Mayor Jas. C. Dahlman, Father John F. McCormick, president of Creighton University; Dr. Daniel El Jenkins, president of .Omaha University; Rabbi Frederick Cohn, Rabbi J. M^Charlop. A feature attraction will be Cantor A. Mslek with his choir. Miss Ida Lustgarten will render a piano solo, and • |liss Dorothy Lustgarten arid
Harry B. Cohen'."to Graduate in Tune With Phi Beta Kappa Honors. Harry 1$. Cohen, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Cohen, 2232 North Nineteenth street, is graduating in June from the Nebraska University with Phi Beta. Kappa honors. Young Cohen is graduating from the Business Administration department, and is the only Jewish student who is this year graduating with these honors. Out of a class of four hundred graduates, but fifty-five students received these honors. An average of at least 89 per cent has to be attained during the entire school term in order to receive the Phi Betta Kappa honors. Harry Cohen is a graduate of the Omaha Technical High School and has worked his way through the entire four years at college.
The celebration of the opening of the Hebrew University in Palestine is one of -the greatest achievements of the Jewish people. This .celebration is being, observed by practically every community in the country. During the past week, leading Jewish men and women who were thrilled with the work of the -Jewish people in Palestine, have contributed large sums of money to further the aims of the University. • Palestine during the past week has been the center of attraction of the entire universe. ^ With such leading men as Einstein, .Weizma'n,, General Allenby, Lord1 Balfour, Sir •* Herbert Samuel and many,others, all participating in the celebration exercises. "We invite the people of Omaha tcr come to this celebration^"; said Max Fromkin, chairman of this affair. 'This program will be of interest to every one. The Hebrew University in Palestine has-been built by the Jews, many of them young .men and boys who worked or an ideal> an Inspiration, somethingthat would-be a guiding light to the jews throughout the world." " I : The program will begin promptly at 8 p. m. . .
Minsk Court Rejects Indictment Against Minsk Chief Rabbi in Ritual Butchers Trial Minsk, (J, T. A.)—The trial against the three ritual butchers accused of complicity in a plot to. murder the "proletarian" schochat, Droykin, took a sensational turn when the public prosecutors, Agursky and Wolobrinsky, demanded that charges of complicity in the plot be made against the chief Rabbi of Minsk, Rabbi Gluskin. • The public prosecutor Rosenhaus and the attorney for the state, Wlodawsky, ^demanded that Rabbi Gluskin be called as a witness only. The counsel for the defense, however, resisted both .demands. The court upheld the opinion of-the-defense. \ Great interest was displayed by those present at the trial in the testimony of Weinhaus, "Moshke HOPES AMERICAN COLLEGE IN SYRIA. WILL TEACH HEBREW Hainan", the chief witness for the Beirut, (J. r T. A.)—Professor Rich prosecution and of the detective Gildard Gottheil,head of the departmen ingersh. of Semitics, Columbia University New York, who is now visiting th ROUMANIAN JEW LEAVES Near East onv-h'is Sabbatical leave, in ESTATE FOR DORMITORY a lecture delivered in the American AT BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY College here on the subject o: Bucharest, (J. T. A.)—An estate of philology dwelt on the close relation, thirty million lei for the purpose of ship between Arabic and Hebrew an establishing a dormitory at the Uni- the- present revival of the Hebrevs versity of Bucharest ^was left by language in Palestine. • v Anton Gross, Roumanian Jewish Professor Gottheil- expressed th merchant, who died here. K - . hope that the Hebrew language will The trustees, according to the will, in the near 'future, be taught in th are to be the president of the-Jewish American college in Beirut. /;. /, Temple in Bucharest, the Rabbi, the Sunday, the Beirut: lodge: of u th dean of the Bucharest University and Independent Order BriaiB'rith^avwi a representative of -the Roumanian reception - on ^the'- "occasion", of th Ministry of Education. seventy-fifth." birthday of Adolph One half of the dormitory"is-«to rKrausi'^prominent .lawyer' an^' . accommodate Jewish students, the worker in Chicago, 111., -who is other half Christian students, accord- ,-president' of; the. Order. - Professo. Gottheil presided at the reception. - ing to specifications of the will.. •
Omaha'Hebrew Club to Celebrate 33rd Anniversary April 26 Maurice Samuels, Author of "You Gentiles" to be Speaker. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NEW MEMBERS TO BE INSTALLED
The Omaha Hebrew Club, one of the largest and oldest Jewish organisations in the city, will celebrate its thirty-tihrd anniversary on Sunday evening, April 26, at 8:00 o'clock, at the Fontenelle Hotel ballroom. The committee in charge are making arrangements to bring Mr. Maurice Samuel, author of "You Gentiles" for the principal speaker of the evening. Other prominent speakers and musical numbers will be included on the program.. A feature of the program will be the public initiation of one hundred and fifty new members to be initiated by the Degree and Ritual Team of the club. The members in charge of the program are Messrs. A. Kaplan, N. S. Yaffe, John Feldmnn, Morris Civin, h. Cohn, and Fred White. The public is invited to attend the in celebration.
Sketch of the central building the Library of the University.*
The Hebrew University on "Mount Scopus overlooking Jerusalem, the \ Dead Sea and the Hills of Moab will, when entirely completed, consist of a group of buildings of impressrve architectural beauty. The buildings were designed by Sir Patrick Geddes, the eminent educator,: architect and own-planner. Needless to say_that Men and Women are Stranded his beauty is combined with the latEuropean Ports est improvements developed - for Chaluzim at work building" the Hebrew University .on Mount Scopus.buildiqg of that type. EMERGENCY COMMITTEE The general style of the architec- buildings have been completed and ceremonies which took place on RAISED ONLY $251,000 ture is oriental. A number of the were the center- of the dedication April 1st. . - . ' . ' •
Distress of Stranded Refugees Greater Than Reported, Warburg Cables
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Federation Gives Theatre ~ Harry Party For Y. Show Worifcrs The Jewish Welfare ^Federation, enr tertained at an Orpheum Theatre program Wednesday afternoon, April. 1, for about fifty boys, and, girls of the Y. M. and Y. W. H.A., who_were participants of the recent Y Road SHbw, but who did. not .attend the banquet given recently.- After the show the group assembled ~ "at the Jewish Community Center, where^they were entertained. The Mesdames B. R. Boasberg and M. E. Handler,-and Miss Ethel Greenberg, were chaperones for the evening. Mr. I. Sternhill was chairman of .the afair.---;
Omaha Jewish Student Receives Honors at Neb. Urn*.
ANTI-SEMITIC CHARGES IN BARMAT AFFAIR COLLAPSE Berlin. (J. T. A.) The Barmat af!air, which was magnified by the anti-Semitic press in connection with ;he high finance scandal in Prussia completely broke down here when the question of releasing the arrested Barmat brothers was taken up by the investigating authorities. The authorities officially stated that the charges made against the Barmat brothers of credit fraud and bribery were unfounded. Their release, however, wr postponed until further inestigation was made with regard to the former Prussian Minister Hoefle. Dr. Alfred Klee, Counsel for the defense, in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent, declared that the creditors of the Barmat brothers will in all likelihood receive 90 per cent of their investment. Democratic press • organs emphasized that in spite of the fact that two parliamentary committees were engaged in investigating the charges against the Barmat brothers no one knows what the crime of the Barmats really was.
TWENTY JEWS ARRESTED FOR RESISTING ANTI-SEMITIC RIOTERS IN FGCSANY Vienna, (J. T. A.)—Twenty Jewish citizens of Focsany, Roumania, were arrested for resisting the rioters during the anti-Semitic disturbances which occurred in that city," according to reports received here from Bucharest. The riots occurred in connection with the trial of Professor Codreanu for implication in the murder of "the Jassy chief of police.
Lapidus Returns From Dallas, Texas
Mr. Harry H. Lapidus returned Sunday from D_allas, Texas, where he had been during the past week. While-in Dallas, Mr. Lapidus visited with Rabbi Morris N. Taxon, formerly of Omaha. Rabbi Taxon is head of one '.of. the-ltrgest congregations in the South. Services are held every Friday evening and these services are attended by more than four hundred persons.
Council Bluffs Snnday School to Present Passover Program The Council Bluffs Talmud Torah and Sunday School" will present a Pesach Program to the community Sunday afternoon, April 12, at 2:30 o'clobk at the Danish' Hall, at Broad"*wsy and'Park; .Avei The-following' program will be given: Opening: Eemarks, bj- Mr, Sam Rosenthal, President of the-Tiiliflud Tornli. Remarks by the Chairman, Sir. I. Morgen stern. - , Piano Solo lij- Miss'Hose Brandeis. "THE SILVER COP", a Pesacb plnj presented entirely in Yiddish by the following cast of characters: Father „•.__ ... .....Meyer Maltz Mother --„-Jennie Baron Son l._.Bernard Balftbao An Old Man Paul Hoffman A Neighbor _. Herbert Wintrorcb The Meyerson • Quartet, consisting o Gwenrtolin, Sato and 'Tale Meyerson on the Violin; -and Leo. Meyerson on th< Piano, will-play. Reading, "Joey on the Telephone", •will bi rendered by Seymore Cohen. Another play will be given, called "THE PASSOVEK GUEST". The cast is as follows: :".'•• Ephraim Judah." father...'.....Hj-mie Krame Deborah, his wife. „.'. Marinn Katelman Reuben, their older^soh Leonard Krasne Samuel, their yo'utfger 'son....Jacob Gordon Joseph, Ephraim's brother ; _ : -....' ....'. : :.Henry Mendelson Grandmother Judah, his mother „ _.... ._Ruth Shyken A Stranger .-. Harry Kosenthar
Warsaw, (J. T. A.)—The unification of the four Zionist districts in the Republic of Poland was decided at a conference of Zionist delegates held here. A number of resolutions passed by the conference provided for the creation of one Zionist organization in the Republic which is to be headed by a Supreme Council consisting of 18 members representing Congress Poland, 8 representing Eastern Galicia, 6 representing Western Galicia and 2 the district of Vilna. According to the provisions accepted by the conference, the Jewish deputies in the Polish parliament belonging to the Zionist organization will be The plays are being coached by responsible to the Council for their the Misses Fannie Katelman and parliamentary activities. }>Fannie Shyken, and Mr. I. Morgenstern.
Federated Within The Federation
New York, N . Y. (J. T. A.) '"Failure to enact legislation permitting the eight thousand men and women, holders of American visas, now stranded in Bremen, Antwerp, Hamburg, Danzig, Libau, Southampton, Riga, to proceed to this country •without regard to the technicalities of the "quota" immigration law," Mr. Marshall said in a statement issued from tire headcrasrters of -the Emergency Committee"" for Jewish Refugees,~""has .aggravated the distress among these' marooned Jews who had set out for t h e United States, some of them as' far back as two y e a r s ' a g o , on the. justifiable assumption t h a t the visas of'American consular 'authorities would enable them" to enter this country.'*' _ " The Emergency. Cpmmittee' lias received a-cable:"from Felix M. Warb u r g who recently visited the detention camps where the stranded refugees are kept, in which Mr. Warburg stated that their distress is worse than had been reported and that immediate relief is imperatively demanded if a calamity is to be averted. " I t is therefore absolutely essential that the fund of $500,000 which the Emergency Committee is seeking to raise shall be completed without further delay," Mr. Marshall declared. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, campaign chairman of the Emergency Committee, announced t h a t $251,000 has thus far been received in cash subscriptions in response to its appeal for t h e half-million dollar fund.
The Thorpeian Athletic club called off their' regular meeting' scheduled for Wednesday evening, April 8,1925 as it was the first Seder night. The next< meeting will be held on Wednesday evening at 8:30. p. m. at E L E V E N THOUSAND the Jewish Community Center club CHALUTZIM EXPECT PERMISrooms. . : . . . ' . , ! . : . v SION TO COME TO PALESTINE TO RELIEVE JEWISH ARTISANS ,AND: TRADESMEN Kovno. (J. T; A.) Jewish artisans and small- tradesmen,,whose .business have not the,'aspect-'of: an' enterprise or ^factory, rhay find-relief ifrpm the compulsory .'Sunday^ rest' as* a resul of instructions; in-an; order*;issped by the'Lithuanian ".Minister-of. the Interior to'the cfiiefs'"pP.pqlice/irf various t o w n s .
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The order. of the; Minister. interprets Clause 4-of~the-bill,-which prohibits •work'on..Suridayl.iri commercia enterprises and factories, in such a way that artisans and-tradesmen who do not do their work in public places, WILLIAM R. BLUMENTHAL SOPHYE JOFFE but in their homes, will'not come unAs a surprise to their many friends Angeles, Calif., to assume the duty der this law. l ' - ~ '-•»• comes the news of the marriage, of of superintendent of the Federation, 'Miss Sophie Joffe, general secretary where Miss Joffe has been general FOCSANY JEWISH DELEGATION at tbe Jewish Welfare Federation, to secretary for more than three years. PROTESTS AGAINST EXCESSE1 Mr. William R. Blumenthal, . super- Although friends had for sometime Bucharest, (J. T. A.)-—A delegation intendent of the Federation,.- • -The seen them constantly together, the representing the Jewish community of marriage took place Tuesday evening1, young: couple successfully kept their Focsany intervened today with thi romance a secret. government with "regard to the anti April 7, at five o'clock at the'"home • Mr. Blumenthal and his bride left Jewish excesses which took place in of' ihe bride's mother, Mrs. Hose immediately after the ceremony for that city as well as in Maraschesti Joffe, at 1728 Lake—streefc—"Rabbi Cleveland^ • Oh'io, where they will and Odobesti. . . Frederick Cohn officiated-beforej^the spend their honeymoon and visit dur- Understate Secretary Churchulescu presence of only the immediate fam- ing the. holidays with Mr. Blumen- assured the delegation that the gov ily. . ' ;*• thal's parents. Upon their return eminent would take strong measures The young couple met last. May they will make their home at the El ! to punish the officials guilty of no when Mr. Blumenthal came .from Los Beudor Apartments. [ suppressing the outbreak.
Jerusalem, ( J . T. A.)—Eleven thousand organized Jewish workers in Poland are awaiting the first opportunity to embark for Palestine according to cable advice j u s t received here. The Zionist authorities in Poland have demanded 4000 immigration permits immediately. I t was stated t h a t the Zionist executive here is asking the government to g r a n t 10,000 permits in the next six months in order to accommodate the increasing volume of Jewish immigration into Palestine, which is now practically the only refuge for homeless Jews. If the request is granted this will mean at least 30,000 new immigrants in half a year, as each immigrant brings two dependents. This is equivalent to a 30 per cent increase in the present Jewish population in the country. BERLIN GEMEINDE DECIDES AGAINST GREETING HEBREW UNIVERSITY OPPENING Berlin, ( J . T. A.)—The Jewish community of Berlin will be the only Jewish community in Central Europe which, having taken up tbe question of greeting the opening of. the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has decided not t o do BO. With a - v o t e of three to two, the Board -of Directors of the Kultes Gemeinde decided against the greeting ••—..
American Jewish Congress Selects Committee to Assist Jewish World Relief Conference New York. (J. T. A.) A committee to be placed at the disposal of the delegation of the Jewish World Relief Committee, composed of Dr. Leon Motekin, Rabbi Moses Eisenstadt and Dr. Oscar Ivohn, to organize, and meet with other groups to devise ways and means of meet ginhte demands of the delegation, was decided upon a t the meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Congress held at the Hotel Biltmore last Sunday. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, presided. In his speech, Dr. Wise touched upon the question of providing religious instruction to public school children in connection with the school work and stressed the inadvisability of any step which might lead directly or indirectly to confusing the function of church and state. Dr, Motzkin told of the. plight of the Jews in Eastern and Central E u rope and appealed for support of the Jewish World Relief Conference and the Committee of Jewish Delegations. He said, with the exception of France, England and Czechoslovakia, the Jews were subject to persecution similar to that earned on against them in the days of the Russian csars. In Poland, particularly, the Jews were deprived of their livlihood by economic laws and in Roumania they were disfranchised. He also spoke of the starvation the Jews are suffering in Ukrainia und urged immediate relief. Rabbi Eisenstadt, who was formerly Chief Rabbi of Leningrad, spoke of the religious persecution of the Jews in Soviet Russia, where they are unable to maintain their religious schools or give Jewish training. He also spoke of the economic plight of the Jews. CREATION O F FASCISTI INTERNATIONAL DECIDED BY GRAND COUNCIL Rome. {J. T. A.) The Grand Council of the Fascisti Party has decided to establish international connections with all similar Nationalist moce" ments in other countries. The New International will include the Nationalist bodies of Spain, Hungary (the Awakening Magyars) and the antiSemitic Royalist circles grouped around the "Action Francaise." The international will be primarily clcri-* caljst and, the Government press states, will fight free-masonry, anticlericalism and Jewish capitalism. Hitherto, the Italian Fascisti Party has stood apart from association with the 'Nationalist movements in other countries, and has been notoriously free from. anti-Semitism prejudices. Mussolini" not very long- ag-o repudiated anti-Semitism on behal*1 of his party and refused to have association with the anti-Semitic Hiileriut
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