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The victory1, of eess is half won when one gains "the habit of work.—Sarah *A. Bel-: ton.
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-Bntei © t» rond-claBB mall matter on January 27th. 10ZL, at posto. 2 . toaha. Nebraska, under the Act of March 8. 1879.
SUBSRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $2.50
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTE3VIBER 10, 1925
Mass Fleeting of Jewish Ladies' Auxiliary of Community Center Organized; to Campaign for to Every Jewish Woman Asked to Attend Mass Meeting Tuesday Afternoon to Discuss Campaign. MRS.
REUBEN KULAKOFSKY E X E C T E D P R E S I D E N T OF LADIES AUXILIARY.
THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS EXPECTED AT PALESTINE . NEAR-EAST EXHIBmON Jerusalem, (J. T. A.5—-AII; buildings pavilions in the Near-East exhibition which "will be opened shortly in Tel Aviv are being completed -with • J speed. Mesopotamia, Syria and other neighboring countries are displaying great interest in the exhibition. ; The work of the exhibition is being Exported by the American Jewish fraternity, "Sons of Zion". Thousands of tourists are expected.
THREATS AGAINST I- ' JEWISH SETTLEMENT I RETORTED AND DENIED
New Year BKJ LITTLE WORDS—This" is the season wh*?n the scroll of the forgotten past memories shoiiiUI return home; when scraped intentions., unkept promises, spent resolutions should act as a reminder that we renew the broken ties of affectionate association. The traditional custom of beginning the New Year aright should give birth to a felicitious expression of a heartening character. SAY THEM— A HAPPY NEW YEAR! in the September 17±h edition of The Jewish Press. ;• Let The Jewish Press carry your message of greetings to all your friends for A Happy New Year. By printing your greetings in The Jewish Press you are relieved of the worry of forgetting some one and are saved a great deal of time and money in the mailing: of the old card system. The practice of sending NewYear Greetings through the local Jewish newspaper is well established and is also being carried on in all the larger communities. . Nobody can chide you for forgetting them' on Bosh Hashona if your greeting is published in The Jewish Press. In mailing your New Year, gredangs you are privfleged to write your own greetings. Mail them before September 15, as this special feature page will close on tilis day. r
Official British Report Tells of Son's Progress
I Riga,—(J. T. A. M. S.)—The Jew- J i ish colonly of Kxasnaja Zarja, near j Berditchev, in the Ukraine, according j to a report which has reached here, j has appealed to the Jewish Commun- Optimistic Over the General ist Section f OT urgent assistance, statConditions Prevalent ing that the peasants of the neighin Country borhood have destroj'ed the harvest of the colony and are: threatening JEWISH EDUCATION the colonists with bloodshed.
PRAISED IN REPORT
Immigration in 1925 Reduced to One-Fifth of Former Years
New York. — The official report of the Government of Palestine, for the year 1924, issued by the British ColThe Ladies Auxiliary of the Jewish Community Center will onial Office, gives an optimistic view hold a public meeting for women of Omaha "next Tuesday afterAdjustment to Quota Law Conditions of general Palestine conditions and noon, September 15, at the Jewish Community Center rooms in Evident; Balk of Jewish Immilays particular emphasis upon the ' the Arthur Building. An women's organizations • will be Dr. Stephen S. Wise Arranges rfox grants Came From Western fact that in creased Jewish immigrarepresented and every lady in the community is invited. Headquarters at League of Europe. tion of the past year has resulted in At a meeting of officers of the various women's organizations Nations Seat. a marked economic revival. held Wednesday afternoon, the Ladies Auxiliary of the Jewish ' Washington, D. C , (J. T. A.)—ImCommunity Center was organized with Mrs. Reuben Kulakofsky The office of the American "Jewish Industrial development in Palestine j -migration of Jews elected president and Mrs. William R. Blumenthal elected Congress announces that in accordhas been stimulated by the arrival I States during 1925 diminished to one- of a large number of Jewish immisecretary. Other officers will be elected at the meeting next ance •with cabled dispatches, received ' ! fifth of that of the previous year, ac- grants with capital and manufacturTuesday afternoon. •from its president, .Dr. Stephen Si cording to statistics of the Bureau of ing experience, who have established The Ladies Auxiliary of the Jewish Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah, Wise, this body "will hereafter\ be repImmigration of the United States Dea number of new industries, mostly Community Center will have charge Junior Hadassah, B'nai B'rith Auxi- resented at Geneva,. Switzerland, partment of Labor made known here. in Tel-Aviv, states the report, an abof-the campaign to raise funds to liary, .Daughters of Israel Aid Soci- which is'the seat of the lieague of According to the statistics of the stract of which has just been receivequip the new Jewish Community ety, Chesel Shel Emeth, Temple Is- Nations, by a permanent > Imreau, Labor Department, in the fiscal year ed at Keren Hayesod headquarters Center building. The amount neces- rael Sisterhood, Deborah Society, which will be enabled to take up 1924, 49,989 Hebrews immigrated. here. sary to equip the building is 540,000 Y. W. H. A., Ladies Orphan Society, from time to time with officers and Por the fiscal year 1925 ending June and this amount •will be raised from Golden *Hill Society, and Women's departments of the League of NaThe tourist traffic has shown a 30, 10,292 immigrants and 2,945 nonProgressive Club. the "women of Omaha. tions, matters affecting the rights of marked growth and is constantly inimmigrant Hebrevrs entered, makingminorities and similar questions. The money raised will be used for a total of 13,237. During the year creasing, with the result that the the. general equipment-of the buildThis /bureau will be in charge of 1924, 260 Hebrews emigrated from the deficit in the Government budget of ing. Among the principal equipment men especially qualified for the work United States and during the fiscal the previous year was transformed i s gymnasium equipment, Mtchen, which will also be carried, on in coyear 1925 291 emigrated and S46 non- j i n t o a s m a 1 1 surplus for 1924. Favorauditorium, movie, office, carpets and operation- with the activities of the immigrants left the country. This a b ! e conditions, the report states, many other articles. Committee of Jewish Delegations, in makes the total increase in the Jew- have permitted an extended increase To Play the First Round Sunday <f Paris. The personnel wiuu l>e an- Additional Paid We ask every lady in the city to ish population of the United States in immigration which amounted to Morning 't •notinced later. ' 13,553 in 1924, as compared to 7,991 attend this meeting Tuesday after12,100 for the fiscal year 1925. in Full Pledges in 1923. There were 697 non-Jews noon," said Mrs. Reuben Kulakofsky, Dr. Wise spent some time urGeneAn examination of the figures of The first round of the second anThe following subsribers have among the immigrants. It is noteva and Paris during July and August newly- elected president of the the Bureau of Immigration shows that nual Highland "CouBtrFivGlub "Golf and at Geneva was in consultation paid their pledges- in Full to the ; Winner in N. Y^University Examina .the Jewish immigration has adjusted worthy that Jewish immigration for auxiliary. Tonrnament "will fce^played off __this ,Cd%desi-.M&y ,B* first six months of 1925 WHS The'princTpaT speakers ^tfiie "meet- Sunday at the club grpun^s. Miv -with- important officers of t h e league * *iisBlf-to the new quota law. The J. Weieiman, Because of Father's Citizenship ing Wednesday were Harry H. Lapi- Heaney, professional of the club, is of "Nations. He completed all arrangenumber of Jews who entered this more than the total Immigration for C. Schlaak, ments for the establishment of this ^ originating ^ M ^ Eu- 1924. Unemployment of the previdus, Joe L. Wolf and William I* in charge of the tournament. country, in Eastern '[ Bureau before leaving for Vienna to S. H. Schaefer, New York."(J.T. A.) Samuel Silver-} ~~pe"ha's s n r l m k " ^ "very7o"w figure ous year was practically eliminated Holzman. "We have always depended The following "pairings have been attend the Zionist Congress. -, ; -J *B. Korney, D upon the women to do their duty and f ^ ^ e J l i ^ h / ? a i l S S ^ n e t - ^ ^ l 1 s n d t h e ma 0° rit J 7 o f J e ^ s who entered among the Jewish population. made for the first round: Joe Batt Dr. Wise will present a report on j now we depend upon them to furnish v^i. n ^'r. nr: , ,*„ came, most probably, from Western j ' r n e report states that Jewish agri. CHAMPIONSHIP ITJGHT the various phases of the_JewiEh situscholarships, the awarding of which | E u r o p e . According to the figures, cultural colonization continues to exthe interior of the Center, while we Bill Xousem plays Abe Brodkey. ation in Europe at the biennial "sesbuild the exterior," said William L. was announced August 21,. may be j ,4^7 immigrants were boxn in Poland. pand steadily. Extensive areas of Will Tougem" plays Earl KrclakotRky. S. K-ulakofsky T>lays Harry Unlashoek. sion of the delegates "to the "American OMAHA A. Z. A. CONDUCTS Holzman. barred from receiving his scholarship O f these S,17S are Poles. This makes farm land were purchased by Jewish Ben lonsem -playB Bud Wolf. Jewish Congress to be held beginning INITIATION A T CO. B L U F F S ' because he is not a citizen. The law the maximum of Jews who entered agencies for settlement. The anti"The equipment ior the Jewish. FKEBIDEXT FMGHT M. E. Chapman play8 Ike Zimman. October 18. j authorizing the scholarships requires f r o m p o ] a i l d 679. Of the 2.043 im- malarial campaign is being vigorousCommunity Center building will cost M. Herzberg plays Harry Trtutitt. Omaha Chapter No. 1 of the Otrder j citizenship of those who receive | migrants entering this country from ly carried on with the result that $35,000 and I know that the women Eugene Blazer plays Dr. B. T. Friedman. A. Herzberg plajB Sam Herzberg. of Aleph Zadik Aleph initiated a! them. of Omaha will do their share in Eussia, 1,225 are Russian by race. practically all the towns in Palestine SECRETARY IXIGH* class of candidates of Chapter No. 7, Samuel Silverman, 16, of 66 Riving-1 The greatest possible number of Jews have been freed from what used t | raising "this money to equip this J. Splesberger plays David Cohn. at Council Bluffs. The ceremony was j ton street, New York City, is a grad-i from Russia would therefore be 818. be the country's chief sourcge. Aral! wonderful building," said Joe L. Dr. Philip Levey plays Bill Boatman. Kerer plays B. • .^red. hld b f l b off B'nai B ' i i -nate of DeWitt Clinton High school, ii During the fiscal year 1925, 1,137 and Jewish villagers have actiwly held before a large number Wolf, secretary of the Jewish Com- H. Ben TuttenBten plays E. Tteller. B'rith and A. Z. A. members. j He was born in Russia, and his j Hebrews were debarred as compared co-operated manti-malarial drainage munity Center. TREAStZKEB FMGH* The semi-annual election of officers L. Kulakolsky 'plays J. Slosburg. The candidates were Messrs. Gluck- j father, Benjamin Silverman, is not!-with 1,754 in 1924. Jand in the installation and improve"We are about to complete the Win. of the Y. M. and Y. W. "H. Ai will be Grodlnaky plaj-B Keuben Kulakofsky. jy e t a citizen, 'although he has applied j The figures also show that Jews oc- j ment of water supplies. In itvne Jewish. Community Center building," J. H. "Knloiofsky' plays D. Greenberg. held Monday evening, September 14, man, Shyken, Kramer and Saks. : The Omaha degree team was com-. fo r fmal papers and expects to re- cupied the eighth place in the num- months in 191S, 118 persons died said Harry H. Lapidus, president. Morris Perer plays A. Goldstein. at the Jewish Community Center. posed of the following Alephs: Dia- ceive them in December. ''The building equipment campaign Miss Pearl Sherman, acting president ber entering and the number debarred. from malaria in Jerusalem. Samuel he&ded the Manhattan list | will be left.to the women of Omaha. Temple Israel Annual of the club, will preside. Only mem- mond, Freeman, Zacharia, Lapp, AlMeeting September 13 bers of the "Y" will be admitted to pirn, Levin, Givot, Wise, Graetz and with an average of 96.64 per cent in Every Jewish woman in the city Theodore. should do Tier share in helping equip his college entrance examinations. He.IA New Selection of Floor The Temple Israel Annual meeting attend this meeting. the new Jewish Community Center of the Congregation will be held was graduated in February and imLamps at Rialto Music Shop This is the opening meeting of the building." mediately entered .New York UniverSunday afternoon, September 13, at fall season and plans will be dis- YOUNG ISRAEL SYNAGOG TO CONDUCT SERVICES sity, -where he is taking an academic A large selection of beautiful floor A Jewish .National Folks School Organizations represented at the three o'clock in the Temple Vestry cussed for the different activities. and bridge lamps have just been remeeting Wednesday were: Jewish Booms. Officers will be elected for The Young Israel Synagogue will course. The two standing next to ceived by the Rialto Music Shop, will be opened here November 1 unSamuel Silverman in Manhatfc.m are Women's Welfare Organization, the the year. der the sponsorship of the Poa!i~ HOLD FOOTBALL PRACTICE, . open, its year's activities with serDouglas St. Mr. J. i Eleanor E. Frarikel of 420 Riverside j Zion Club, the Jewish National Allivices on the High Holidays to be held Omaha Chapter No. 1-of the Order ! Drive, a Wadleigh school graduate, stein, proprietor, has just returned ance, and the. Jewish National Ladiesboth days of Rosh Hashonah and on from a buying trip at Chicago, III., of Aleph Zadfk Aleph have secured 9_ _6 _. _ where he also purchased pictures, Progressive Club. the permission of the parfc. depart- Yom Kippur at the Talmud Torah ^ ° Bronx the This school will be a branch of th? Building, 21st and Burt Sts. Promimirrors, tea sets, and a variety of ment to hold football practice Sunday leader -was Louis Volansky. Jewish Schools that are condvctvfs nent speakers will adress the asj other articles suitable to complete the morning from nine o'clock to twelve sembly. Both young men and young', in every. large .city in the east, Th" furnishings of the home for the holiat Gifford Park, 33rd ajad'Cass StT * Women are cordially invited to at- • school in New York is conducted by The practice of sending Kew Year's Greetings to days. They also handle a complete ' AH candidates for r the; Aleph foottend. j Prof. H. Kaufman and H. Choice. friends and relatives through the local Jewish paper line of vicfcrolas of the best make. ball team are urged to be on hand The school here will hold The purpose of the Young Israel is general throughout the country. Its advantage, "A visit to our store "will convince at the appointed time. Coaches after S o'clock every day. The Synagogue is to maintain the tradiover the old individual mailing card is evident in the purchaser that our prices are Krasne and Chapman will direct' the This Sunday morning, September subjects as taught in all the othor tional laws and principles of Judaism the saving of time, expense and worry over forgetright," said Mr. Himelstein. practice. ; • 13, enrollment for the new semester among the young Jewish boys and Jewish National Polks Schools will ting a friend. girls. Services are held every Fri- j will be held at the Temple Israel be taught here. Classes in bot*. To Present Saphir Torah SOVIET GOVERNMENT GREETING CARDS in THE JEWISH PRESS day evening and Saturday morning. Sunday School and at the City SunJewish and Hebrew will be conducted-: HONORS MEMORY OF A Saphir Torah will be presented day School. Classes in Hebrew, Jewish History, will take this form: .a t JEWISH COMMUNIST Adass Yeshuren Synagogue, Temple Israel "will this year have! and the study of the Bible are among streets, Sunday ZIONISTS EXILED TO SIBERIA aand n d sSeward *<wwr s ~ * Moscow, (J. T. A . ) — Ephraim the Young Israel Synagogue's activ- nine gTade classes and three c l a s s e s l ^ WILL BE GIVEN CHOICE To at 2 o'clock. «- . * * «, ,\ in the high school . department. September IS, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jacobs and Family, department. Miss Miss' afternoon, Skliansky, Communist leader and as- :ities. J M EMIGRATE TO PALESTINE speak. The - - Charlop of 4805 Grand Avenue, I Stella Abraham will be in charge this sistant of Trotzky, •who was drowned public is invited to attend. 'year. together with Churgin, -will be honor- JEWISH COLONIES Extend their best wishes to their relatives Moscow, (J. T. A.)—Nine younc A larger force of teachers will be ed by the Soviet Government, acsnd friends DESTROYED BY POGROM DETROIT WOMAN GIVES I Zionists out of a greater number cording to an order of General Pruhse, BANDS WILL BE REBUILT j in charge this year at the City Sunfor a Happy and Prosperous New Ye>r.' $75,000 FOR HEALTH CENTER were sentenced to exile in day School. Miss Llllie Kooper will j Soviet Commissar of War. MOSCOW,-(J. T. A.)—Ten thou- ! be in charge. Detroit, Mich-,—(J. T. A.)—Mrs. \ were allowed to eroigrrate to Pale*-The first infantry school in the city Leopold Winemen has given $75,000 tine instead, according to the decision sand -desiatin land were allotted for MAIL THE COUPON BELOW NOT LATER THAN of Leningrad will be named i o r to the local United Jewish Charities of the Soviet authorities here. Thos? Skliansky according to the.decislon of Jewish colonization in the District of Poali-Zion Dramatic Section TUESDAT, SEPTEMBER 15 ; .. , for a building to be known as the permitted to go to Palestine are Mins Marjupol, according to reports reGeneral Frunze. . - - . . • „ " ••: ; „ Held Raffle September 2 Leopold Wineman Health Center. Morduehowitch, Exiansky, the Brwceived here. XHE JEWISH PRESS, _ " '/* This is the largest gift t>f its kind in lofsky brother and sister who are The wrist watch raffled by the The land formerly belonged to the 490 Brandeis Theater Building, TONE HUNDRED PROCEED Poali-Zion Literary Dramatic Section the local Jewish community's history. in the Butirld prison. These will Jewish colonies Netchaewka and TruTO PALESTINE FBOJffl ;..-• Omaha, Nebraska. ."' * .•' ' dolubowka which were completely on Wednesday evening, September 2, The gift perjetuates the memory of ceed t o , Palestine as soon as thaisRUSSIA DURING JULY visas arrive. Four others, Kothstnln. GENTLEMENi— destroyed by pogrom bands of the Ot- at the Jewish Community Center was Mrs. Wineman's late husband. E£Mn, Est«r Krassinskaya and Ro«* won by Mr. Jake Weycer, 1412 North . 'Enclosed find $2.00 for which please insert m^ New iloscow,—(J. T. A.);—Iffee mindred toman, Machnor. The land will be Shargoradskaya, who are already In Year Greeting Card in your Rosh Hashonah (5686) N&mbefc emigrants proceeded to Palestine from settled by new colonists in view of 19th St. Miss Esther Krautz, who SIR HERBERT SAMUEL HEADS ROYAL COAL COMMISSION Circassia, -will be -taken to Odessa fflt Soviet Rtissia through ihe^port, of the fact that part of the old colonists sold the most tickets for the raffle, NAME London^—(J. T. A.)—-Sis Herbert embarkation to Palestine. The ninth, Odessa, during July, according to re-> have perished and others have settled won the gold Mogen Dovid which be presented to lier at a special ban- Samuel, former High Commissioner of a youth Jiamed Gnessin, refused to .go in various colonies. ports received here. ADDRESS Palestine, was appointed chairman of to Palestine. It was stated that .all. There are seven Jewish colonies in <juet to be given by the ttub. During thfeTnonth of Angnsrfc stj?ty Russian Jewish immigrants returned the District of Marjupol having toThe Poali-Zion Club forwarded 950, the Royal Commission to inquire into other Zionists "who were exiled 'tt> from Palestine, giving as" their" tca- gether 8,300 desiatin land with a po- the proceeds -of the raffle, to the the coal industry, according to an of- Siberia andrthe Ural will be given Vtm ' choice:-ol-emijp'ating- to Palestine. *, £cial announcement here - •: pulation of ,790 persons. sone unfavorable Palestine Workers' Pund. •
American Jewish Congress Bureau Represented, Geneva
Highland Club to Hold Second Annual Tournament
Citizenshippinders Scholarship Winner
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Jewish National Folks School to Open Here November 1
New Year's Greetings
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