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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1926
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PLOT TO INSTIGATE RITUAL MURDER ACCUSATION DISCOVERED IN RADOM
Hebrew University in •' American Jewish Committee Issues • Jerusalem to Unite ' East and West Annual Report
Warsaw (J. T. A.)—A plot to instigate a ritual murder accusation ) '•:,:., _i • 1 1» ' against the Jewish community in Badom was discovered in the nick of | ] time last night when two Christian [ Condition of Jews Throughout I To Develop University Along ' Omaha, Nebr., March SO, 1926: The Highest Intellectual Poles "were seen attempting to leave i t h e World I s Surveyed. Dear Subscriber: Standards lite body of a dead Christian boy in a: Registered Letters: Being Sent To Delinquent Subscribers Jewish matzos bakery. i President Coolidge This letter is of great importance to yoa, and thereof Building Fund , >. . DOING GOOD WORK OF REThe two. Poles were carrying the fore is sent by registered mail. Lauded in Report CONSTRUCTION sack" containing the body -when they! ^ BUILDING WILL B E OPEN W H E N PLEDGES READ IT CAREFULLY. were arrested by the police. j New York.—The Nineteenth Annual 1 Berlin,. (J. T. A.)—A better underYou are indebted to the Jewish Community Center ARE COLLECTED :: The Jewish population considers it Report of the American Jewish Comstanding' between the East and West ihthe amount of $^.____^_ This money is long past due a miracle that the plot was discovered, mittee, made public by Louis Marshall, will result from the establishment of •' Subscribers to the Jewish Community Center Building who and many bills and requests to pay have been sent to thus preventing any Passover riots, i its president, surveys the condition of j the Hebrew. University in Jerusalem, have not as yet paid their pledges in full are "urged to do so you* Jewry throughout the world during j which will unite the East and West immediately in order to continue the work oh "the building. The We must pay the contractors. Our funds must come the past year, painting a canvas' with strong spiritual bonds, declared remaining amount of money that is due by the pledgors is from your pledge. We cannot have the contractor delay darkened by the situation in Eastern j Prof. Albert Einstein, author of the necessary to finish the. work. The contractors have issued a the completion of the building. You must, therefore, and Central Europe, but pointing to theory of relativity, in outlining the call for money immediately and this must be-met,-'is the opinion PAY UP AT. ONCE. a future -betterment through the Lo- program of the Hebrew University, of the officers and directors of the Jewish Community Center. This letter is sent to you so that you may be adcarno treaties, the Polish-Jewish to the Board of Governors of which Declares That Disparaging ExpresOn this page is printed a copy of a letter that is being sent vised of the necessity of. a PROMPT. REMITTANCE. agreement and the $15,000,000 Joint he was recently elected. sion Does Not Refer to Jews to.delinquent subscribers urging them to pay their pledges imIf same is not forthcoming it will become pur duty to Distribution Committee campaign. In an interview here he outlined mediately or other methods will be pursued inJ collection,: of the proceed as we did last Spring—to collect on pledges thru Operation of the 1924 ImmigraPittsburg, Pa.—(J. T. A.)—A reply the program of the University, depledges. ' the court. to the criticism voiced against the tion Law forms the major part of the claring that the school is being deThe Jewish Community Center Be assured that it is not our desire to pursue such a Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis, report's su*-vey of conditions in the veloped as an institute of research Building at Twentieth, and Dodge course, but your indifference requires drastic action. You because of an expression contained United States, in which the commit- rather than a center of teaching. streets is nearing completion. The inwill have yourself to blame for any unpleasantness. "The University," according- to in one of his articles which was con- tee's president calls attention to sevterior work of the building and the eral cases in which the quota law was Prof. Einstein, who is a member of strued as one of -anti-Semitism, was furnishings require a large sum of IT IS UP TO YOU NOW! made by the Secretary of Labor in a misinterpreted by the Department of its Board of Governors, "is to be money before the building con be Country Will Shortly Enjoy, Prospercommunication addressed to David Labor, with the result that severe devoted, on the one hand, to the study PRES. HARRY H. LAPIDUS. formally opened. This work must be SEC. JOE L. WOLF. ity; Friction, Gradually DisapAlter, publisher of the "Jewish Cri- hardships would have been suffered if and restatement of the Jewish culdone. . pearing, He' Tells Candian the courts had not reversed, its de- tural heritage and to the revival of I terion," a weekly paper here. "We must have the money immediZionists--cisions. Jewish spiritual traditions. It will j "The Jews are tie beaver type. ately," said Harry H. Lapidus, presiv ' ,j t» i i rm. i. "IJ J.-L. it. i ^ ii "Evidence as to the unscientific concentrate also on scientific invesYniiHl PrMtlam They build up rather than destroy," , ^ , _ . , . dent. "These subscriptions are past Montreal.—Lord Allenby received lUUiil iivBlSEl ._ j[_ _^_A __,_ „_ v _ iV _ c.__ll character of the quota basis of re- tigations of the whole range of is the statement made by the Secredue and should be paid. here a delegation, of the Zionist striction is accumulating," the report Oriental civilization and through this tary of Labor Davis in his letter to "The ; sooner the money is paid the Federation of Canada • composed of states. It quotes the findings of ex- research lay the foundations for a Local Synagogues to Hold Special Local Young Judaea Meets Every Mr. Alter. - • . sooner we" will open the building," A. J. Freiman, Louis'Fitich, A. Levine, perts which reveal that 55 per cent of new spiritual relationship between Services. Thursday Evening. i An article of the Secretary of Lasaid'JoeL. Wolf, secretary. Lyon Cohen, H.Wblofsky, Rabbi J, the foreign-born white paupers in Orient and Occident. bor in a recently published book, More than six hundred of the sub- L. ZIotnick, Rabbi Abramowifz, Rabb:' almshouses on January 1, 1923, came Tuesday, April 6, will be the last 1 "The natural science institutes of The problem presented by the Am- "The Iron Puddler," contained scribers to the Jewish Community Berger and Rabbv Samuels. Freiman day of Passover, the holiday celebratfrom Ireland, Germany and England, i the University, on the other hand, are eriean Jewish youth following his Bar following statement: Cenfer Building__: have paid their President of the Canadian Zionist Or- ed by the Jews, for more than 4000 Mitzvaa J favored by the law, while an average j or lias been ; now investigating' those problems or confirmation confirmation .has pledges in< full. The building which ganization, welcomed-Lord Allenby on years, when Moses delivered the Jews! ^ Are Rats. j of 3.2 per cent came from Poland, ~ Youag Judaea, national accepted by which are of considerable importance according-to many who have seen it, behalf of Canadian Jewry. Mi*. Louis from King Pharoah and Egyptian | . j , - . Some men are by nature beavers, Russia and Italy; and that during the for, the development of the country. . .^ j ^ ••.„•„; ^ . ew sh T?fint1i Jewish youth.. •is cons&ereti-srae /of. th^'feest-^rf* Its- Fitch,^^ vice-president, 'presented -tp-the as '•are"Tatsryet-tfeey,:all--bc--.P*st twe»*y years.. annalgrants-,.Jram .^..~,^™,..,..= ,,...,, . _ , j M , # w ., < s , l . own particular kind M" the etfu&try, being equipped distinguished guest,- with an-addres: With the ^ te .•»«,« *e •*<*« that-**On Monday and Tuesday, April a; to the human .r,ace. The people Northern ard Western Europe seek-' ^ Hebrew sch&ol •with all the latest facilities and con-. in, which was;pointed but his achievthe United States I «"»*•«« o f e x a c t scientific ing admission to and 6, special holiday services wiU be ^ ^cstiatL-tnm the that came to this country in the early c a r e rf i n which Veniences* <%It as up to the other three ment and the appreciation of the Jew ° " r / ' h o e " o d , e m «™hmheld, m the Synagogues. The Syna- he is old enough to learn of Jewish d * y s ^ * e the beaver type and have shown a higher proportion ..of'I tion is rooted hundred subscribers to pay their ish people' for '-• the ' conquering* of and which must cergogues in Omaha to hold special serv- customs, manners, history and the , j it was mental diseases, showing that America tainly be a basic fact in the upbuild, .,. pledges immediately so this building Palestine by Lord-Allenby. ' / ices on these days are the B'nai Israel, im- ing of a new Jewish cultxsral life in Hebrew language until he arrives at ^ e i r ***** t o b u i l < L Then the rat- problem of fairly selecting our can be open to the public, voiced a "During the war it was given to began coming here, to house the Bar Mitzvah or confirmation age, number of the directors of the build- me to take.charge of what was apPalestine. th ing as they began their campaign to parently a side issue in the war," Lord Adass Yeshuren, the B'nai Jacob, and there remains a great gap in the under the roof that others built. And e social groups may rest better upon The development of the University e the Congregation of Israel. ' selection than upon racial along the highest intellectual stancollect. Jewish education of youth until he is ^ try. to undermine and ruin it individual or I Allenby stated.'"And one of us should Rabbi Fredrick Cohh will give a because it is in their nature to de-s national group selection." dards is "the most difficult task set be satisfied with his role in.the con- special sermon at the Temple Israel old enough to affiliate himself with They call themselves anarj The report, brings to light for the to the present generation of Jews," struction of an edifice. What is im- on Sunday evening, April 4, His sub- one of the several youth organiza- c h i s t s . " • -• -. _... ~ - .. ... ji first time the ceaseless activities of tions in existence for several years portant, is not the' laying of any par- ject will be "Passover and Easter". Mr. Marshall in demanding a fair and according to Dr. Einstein. "It is Tn his letter to Mr. Alter, Mr. Davis f and doing excellent work. This probticular stone, as.long as each stone is non-descriminatory administration of of the most important pillare in . The Passover, falling at the be- lem of the adolescent youth, which d e c l a r e d : entire work of Jewish reconstruction well and truly laid. I for myself felt Some Jewish people have said that the naturalization law, revealed in the in Palestine, for the University is tHe ginning of spring, had originally a has been more or less neglected until George S. Steinberg was elected that I had my reward knowing that 1 | pastoral and agricultural character, this paragraph refers to the Jews, many letters which passed between symbolic expression of the true meanAlderman of the Sixth Ward a t . a laid one stone well and truly but my which in time was overshadowed7by now, is at last receiving the atten- but you will note, if you read not M r - Marshall and various officials ©£ ing of the whole upbuilding procity election Held in Council Bluffs, reward is increased -by your presence the historical event associated later tion of Young Judaea with its wealth only "the paragraph, but any other the Department of Labor. The report gram." Iowa, on Monday, March 29. This is and kind remark's. The entry of with the feast. Freedom and its oblig- of- experience in educational matters portion of the. book, that there is no also tells of the committee's activity "In the work of Jewish reconstructhe first time in eight years that a" Britain in the war^was based on the ation is the keynote of the celebration. and its thousands of workers from disparaging statement about any race , in opposing registration and drastic tion in Palestine, the Hebrew Untvtit" principle of justice and freedom to one end of the country to the other. Jewish man in. this city has been 1 or religion. Under these circum- [ deportation bills, regarded by the cornYoung Judaea until very recently stances,-when one states that 'rat' in! mittee as unjust and un-American, | sity is , as I believe, today one of thf; elected to such an office. Mr. Stein- all and the day when I entered divided its efforts between the Jewish the paragraph quoted refers to Jews, | President Coolidge is highly lauded most important pillars for it exberg was victorious over his oppon- through the gate.. of. Jaffa into JeruThose who paid their pledges in presses clearer than the other phases salem I issued a proclamation to the boy and girl of all ages, organizing cntent by a large majority. Mr. full this week for the Jewish they classify - the Jewish people as for his addresses at the cornerstone of this work the true object to which inhabitants to the effect that each one clubs of children of eight or ten or Steinberg's is at 1428 West BroadCommunity Center are as follows: anarchists, for in direct language it laying of the Jewish Center in Wash- the entire Jewish effort in fifteen or eighteen years of age. ' way. . He has taken an active part should' continue his i occupation as in states that reference, is made only to ington, D. C, and before the American is directed. For this very rearon, E. V. Lorig I. Schlaifer providing programs for juniors, inin the community and is a member peace'time and from that day to this anarchists, and does not limit the de- Legion in Omaha as the leading factor however, it presents, on the oths; Joseph HayHn Jack Bramson no obstacle has been placed towards termediates and seniors. As one step of the local B'nai Brith. nunciation to any race to "which they in the collapse of the Ku Klux Klan hand, one of the most difficult probAbe Falk the upbuilding, of the country: and to toward a more complete unification | and the end of widespread anti-Jewish may belong. the participation by all to justice and lems in this work of reconstruction. of its work, the" intermediate classij propaganda in this countrq. KING OFFERED liberty. ' . ' . ' > ,'• ^ For its existence and its task is no>; "Anarchists Are Enemies of fication was dropped some.time ago [ "Although symptoms are rot 3ack-PEERAGE TO SIR rooted simply in the realities of PalesHebrew Race." and the program work confined to j ing of the existence of religious bigot, HERBERT SAMUEL "I was in Jerusalem; last May. when tinian life—as a 'Palestinian nations: | what it termed junior clubs, which "My experience among the Jewish > Ty a n d ^ ^ discrimination in the Lord Balf our .opened the' Jewish Unirould, indeed, especially at aim, Beginning rnaay included those up to the age of nfpeople is that they, are as a people toward the survival and University Vrdted stateS) London (J. T. A.)—Sir Herbert versity on Mount:Scopus and there I at *the present stage, hardly have any • —r • I teen years, and senior clubs, those precisely the opposite to anarchists.! g r o w t h o f w h i c h «w'passage of the "" Samuel was offered, peerage, when he heard Lord Bolfour ' repeating the "His People," the Universal-Jewel ] a b o v e fifteen years. The standards They are law-abiding citizens and be- j .immigration Law of 1.924 indirectly right to rxisienee.—but in the spiritual was received in audience by the King, Balf our Declaration, - that Palestine 1 production • in which Rudolph Schild- were raised and this had the result lieve in law enforcement, not the j COntributed, there has been no wide- position of the Jewish people aP s. according to a report published today was.to become a homeland for. the whole, which requires a concentration In the "Jewish World", London Anglo- Jewish people. I noticed on the oc- kraut, famous European stage star, of making even more clear the fact destruction of property and govern-- j sp rea( i anti-Jewish propaganda during of its spiritual forces and the reconmakes his American debut in picthat the adolescent youth was being merit.. In fact, (the .anarchists are : t ^ e Jewish weekly. ••- • " , casion of that. visit the remarkableyear in the United States," struction of a new centre. In uruk'rtures, is the next, feature to be v-.'oefully neglected by everyone inter- enemies of the. Hebrew race as much Sir Herbert respectfully declined, process that the country has'made I the report states. "By this it is not taking this great task, the University shown at the Sun Theater, commenc-r ested in educational matters. as of any other people. the paper stated. It is probable, how- since 1919. In 1918-1 was in Tel "Aviv. •meant to imply that Jews are not becomes the symbolic expression *>.'. ing April 2. It is a powerful story While the younger boy and girl will"Apparently this reference is be- victims of social ostracism and of disIt then had a -population of three to ever, that he will be included in the the true meaning of the efntire work four hundred, whereas now it hat a of the life of a plain Ghetto family— not be neglected, the greatest em- ing used in a political way. So far abilities in the matter of securing em- of Jewish reconstruction," Prof Einnext list of baronets. the patriarchial father, the patient, phasis in the future will be placed on as I personally am concerned, it can- ployment. Ignorance and bigotry alone population of over thirty thousand. stein declared. not do me any harm, because when can account for this condition. This When I was there last May, I was submissive mother and the two sons,e this great group of boys and CONSTANTIN FEHRENBACH, one an ambitious student, and th between the ages of thirteen and the statement is read it speaks for! is a problem, however, which only (Continued/>n page 4.) Entertained at a tea on the same spot FIGHTER AGAINST RACIAL other a prizefighter. How the. fam- twenty, who have received so little itself, but when the statement is' PREJUDICE, DIES which in 1918 was surrounded by sand years of education, leading to the dunes and which now is in the midst ily finally .achieved happiness after attention at the hands of Jewish said, to be an, attack upon the Jew greater spread of a fair and liberal Cantor Sings Over Berlin, Mar. 27 (J. T. A.) — Dr. of a street large and as nice as any a series of mishaps is graphically, educators. One of the means by it creates a ,semblance of prejudice j American attitude can solve. . . . W. O. A. W. Kadio Stalin* and humorously depicted under the which Young Judaea is contending because the .American people, Jews j Constantin Fehrenbach, ex-chancellor in this city. "It is gratifying to note that the -capable direction of -Edward Sloman.' with ^the problem is The Young of Germany, leader of the Centrum, Cantor Shaia Kohanowitch, WPU "The influx of the Jews in the Supporting Mr. Schildkraut are Rosa Judaea Magazine, a monthly publica- included, are' bitter against any form ' opponents" Tf~" "the " new nativfetic who -died here yesterday, w an active known cantor of Minsk, Eussia, «."h<» of anarchism or .communism. I have p M l o s o p h y h a v e f o u m i a c o u r a g e o n s figure in the movement to combat country was considerable. Of all I Rosanova, George Lewis, Arthur Lu- tion for the Jewish youth, the March many acquaintances, friends and asand redoubtable opponent in the Pres- is rendering the services at the Bei.h anti-Semitism and racial prejudice in have seen.and I have heard the new bin, Kate Price, Blanche Mehaffey, issue of which is off the press. sociates among Jewish people, and 1 ident of the United States, who has Hamedrosh Uagodo) ByvBgogxm durJewish immigrants are proving them- Nat Carr, Otto Lederer, Bobby, GorGermany. :; Mr. M. F. Levenson recently orfeel that if this is made a political utterly demolished some of the most ing the Passover holidays, will *nn£ 1 Dr. Fehrenbach was vice-president selves to be very capable and: fit to don and Albert Bushalano. _'.i ganized a local Young Jndaea organmatter all the Jewish people will cherished of the pet notions of Ku over the W, O. A. W. Broadcasting of the Association to Combat Anti- do pioneer work to reinhabit the unization in order to tackle the Jewish suffer to some extent thereby. They and Nordicism. Mr. Coolidge station this evening, at <J:30. He will Semitism and originated the slogan, inhabited places in Palestine. The Great Britain will never go back on you*h problem in Omaha. This club ought_ to be. spared tins embarrass- Kluxism d e l i faow^iVplain'terrns that | be accompanied by Al Finkel. h a s m a "Anti-Semitism is a dangei to . the self denial of the Jewish pioneers is its promise to fulfil the Balfoux Dec- meets every Thursday evening at the he was entirely out of sympathy, with ment.* sufficient assurance^that the progress German People." the New Know-Nothingism and that and bigots and of those who of the coutry.will continue and will in laration and helping the -Jewish Jewish CommTinity Center. Those a short time restore to the country people build a home in Palestine. At who desire membership in this or- Zionist Special Meeting he appreciated the debt which America it to be for their interest to tlftrJEWISH WOMEN'S WELganization are invited to attend the the opening. of the University last seminate hatred, suspicion and «ni-~ the prosperity that did exist in the Tuesday Evening, April 6 owes to the Jews. FARE TO MEET APRIL 7 days of King Solomon. This prosper- year I met Dr. Weizmann and others i ext meeting or call Mr. Levenson at "In view of these exalted pronounce- j mosity." A special meeting, will. be held by ments of the President which have i Turning to European Jewry the reKathan Bernstein will address the ity will be shared by all the inhab- of the Zionist leaders and was pleased Atlantic 3507. the local Branch of the Zionist Organ- reached into every corner of o\ir land, j port declares that "Though lit*!* members of the Jewish Women's Wel- itants, the Jews, Arabs and Christians at the great progress that the Zionists fare Organization at 7ts next monthly and any little friction which may are making. Now 't is the spring, and weeds are ization, on Tuesday evening,. April 6, the committee can not help feeling- change has taken place in the entrat the Jewish Community Center. . confident that the traditional sense of | <!ition of our br< thren overseas meeting to be held Wednesday after- j have existed is dying out and will be shallow rooted; "I am glad to have played my part A full report of the ball given re- fairness and justice of the i.merican the past yeai, three events have hj noon, April 7, at the Jewish Com- replaced by amity and friendship and and that it was my happy lot to help' Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden," •nunity 'Center. His subject will be \ that they work shoulder to shoulder. your people return to their ancient cently by the Zionist organization and people has not and will not be weak- them potentialities for a distinct And choke - the herbs for want of 'Our* Government' the Daughters of Zion will be given. ened by the outpourings of fanatics lasting bettermen* "You know as well as I do that country after centuries Qf Buffering." husbandry. —Shakespeare.
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF OMAHA
Jews Are Builders, Says Secretary James J. Davis
Glad I Helped Jews Return To Palestine—Lord Allenby
Young Judaea Tackles Tuesday is Last Day of Passover Holiday
Council Bluffs Jewish Man Elected Councilman
"His People", Jewish Play
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