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Oraaha Represented at Social Service Conference in Cleveland William R. Blumenthal, to Represent Jewish Welfare Federation and J. C. C. WILL READ PAPER ON OMAHA AGHIEyEMENTS AND INVITE DELEGATES TO SEE OMAHA CENTER
S aiail inatter'on January 27th. 1921, al Nebraska,: under tbe Act ol March 3.18TOYet-
UBLIC INSPECTION 'i, OF JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER A public inspections! the new Jewish Community Center Building will be held Sunday, May 23. The building'will be open all day and all visitors are welcome. Special guides will' conduct the visitors through the building. ' .The work .of completing the Jewish ' Community Center' is progressing rapidly.'"-'.'
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $2.50
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THUKSDAY, MAY 13, 1926
Tp Book Lovers The Jewish Community Center has decided to have in the new building an up-to-date library consisting of. English, Hebrew and Yiddish books. Many new books are rbeing purchased and no effort will-be spared to make th'e library as complete and as fully equipped as possible. We want to be proud of our library and,to make it one of the.show places of the new building, as well as an inviting place to read in and study in. ' ' ' . . * There are any number- of important Hebrew, English and Yiddish books that itf is difficult to obtain from the boofcTsellers. We know that, among the pioneer families in. the ) ci£j, there., are a number of various Mnds of rare editions, especially of Hebrew books, thatlwould; help enlarge and enrich our library. These citizens and all other book lovers, we call -upon t a present ~to the new library as inany books as they feel they can give to our communal-.literary collection. We will appreciate, it greatly i t during the next week books are sent to" the Federation • office tin the Arthuc- building. : •- : ...'*". Proper credit will be given to those-who respond. '-
World Migmtion Congress to Take Place in London Will Proclaim Principles of Free Immigration at Congress URGE CO-OPERATION OF TRADE UNIONS
Remodeling Started On Wise Memorial Hospital -Work has been started today on the remodeling of the Wise Memori&l.. Hospital which was made necessary by the widening of Harney street fourteen feet. This work destroys the north half of the north wing. . The work should be completed before July 1. The hospital will continue operation while this work is. going on. - The A. H, Brodkey Company are the contractors for -this work.
Battle of Religions in Schools Again Before Court Justice Staley, of White Plains, Rules Against Free Thinkers MAY CARRY FIGHT TO SUPREME COURT
London. {J.T.A.) A world migraAlbany, N. Y,—{J.. T. A.)—The tion congress under the auspices of right of boards of education to perWilliam ' R. Blumenthal, superinthe International.Federation of Trade mit release of school pupils for certendent of th Jewish Welfare FederaJ Unions and the Labor .and Socialist tain periods each week for religious* tion and executive secretary of-the International, willrtake place here on ous education in churches selected bjr May; 18 to 21. Jewish Community Center, will leave their parents was upheld by Supreme Omaha" Mpnday "for Cleveland, -Ohio, Delegates from, the National - Trade Court Justice Ellis J. Staley. 1 •where he -will attend the National Union centers "affiliated to the InterIn denying a mandamus which •-• v \ ••!•'.- •:.-. — ..'. , Sincerely, ' • • . '' national" Federaf ion" of Trade. Unions To "Devidc Players yers Jirto "Tyro flights— Frank Ackerman has a Record of 28 Joseph Lewis, president of the. Free V : : -andc the..Labor. ..and^Socialist-Inter"J E m S H O O M M t J N i T Y C E N T E R LIBRARY COMMITTEE hip And Presidents Championship Thinkers Society," had sought against A's During Foor-Tcar Course" national,- the- -International -Trade '" "' ""'* '"*"- ; • ' " - ; ^ - ' . - D r . P h i l i p S h e r ' ; * " * ' ' the commission'of education to com\Secreteria-ts,—-and- the -National Sec -* --•'." ':....-- - —•*.'">.•,•-••*W m . L . H o l z m a n ' J' V ' pel the latter to force discontinuanca Frank Ackerman, son of Mr. and Harry A. Wolf tioni- of the^Tlabor. and Socialist, are The second ..annual - Golf TournaHenry Monsky Mrs. Louis Ackerman, 115 North of the practice in the schools of White expected. "to".rattend the congress, ment of the JocaT B'nai B'rith Lodge graduate this June Plains and in many other cities of the Labor . organizations . in Australia 33rd Street, will start next .Sunday morning> May state whose school "boards are coopBritish "Guiana, British India, Cuba, 16, at Elmwbod Park."- This year the erating in giving religious instruction Czechoslovakia,^ Dutch East Indies golfers -will —be— divided~ into -two the Justice held that not only had Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Ire flights, according to the ^ability of the} he no right to issue such a mandaand, Japan, -> Mexico, New Zealand pla\ ers. The: first: flight to he known mus but the local educational authori* Norway South. -Africa and West Inas the Championship flight and the ties were clearly within that audies have been:" invited to send dele second flight will' be - known as the thority. gates. President's flight.- The winner, of the The Free Thinkers Society has an; Team is Now in 'First' Place Championship '• flight to receive the H. Leivick, Author of "The Goilom,* Prominent Personalities nounced its intention of caiTying the Lecture on Jewish-Life in B'nai. B'rith loving, cup for one. year, The congress will be held unde: matter to the Court of Appeals and The Jewish Community Center' base' Poland and Russia.' - and the -winner of- the President's he chairmanship..oi the Rt. Hon."J, perhaps to the United Supreme Court, ball team won its ' fourth straight flight-to rceive-an appropiate. prize. H. Thomas, M.-P,,- British ex-Colonia game when it defeated the fast 24th Quotes Supreme Conrt H. Leivick, well known * Jewish Twenty-seven L nien - • have already Streets Merchants team;hy a score Minister. 'J; W. Brown, secretary o After quoting- an opinion of the dramatist, author of "The' Goilom" entered ; the. tournament' an^ are as the Internatjorial Federation of Trad Sammy Kauffman, ace of of 7nited States Supreme Court in the and-other dramas portraying Jewish follows. ' '-'••> - -•--• Unions, .will.be,.the secretary of the Oregon state law case that "the child life and culture, comes to Omaha for the Center pitching staiL, tfave the congress.—The-Agrenda includes ad-' FIRST FLIGHT s not the mere creature of the State"' a'lecture at the Labor Lyceum", 22nd Merchants but four hits -and whiffed dresses and .reports on the Regula' ._,. : Joe Ro'sehtbaV-Jake' Malashock, '. and Clark streets, on Thursday, May fourteen men. and that "those who nurture him and Harry Malashock, Jack" Alberts, by tion of. Migration by L. Jouhaux, direct his destiny have the right, « • -. - - •- .' Three home runs were gathered Dr. M. E. Stean,~Sam Leon, Sam 20, at 8 p.m. is, •vice-president of the Interna-' ,- WM. R. BLTJMENTHAL the Center men,' Somberg,v L. Weitz, oupled with the high duty, to prepare Green, Moe..— linsman, —Harry - • Mr. Leivick has just'returned from Conference of Jewish Social Service arid Johnny Swartz- were the home tional Federation of Trade Unions him for additional obligations, "the Truston,. Abner Kaimen, Nathan an extended tour through-Europe, and the National Conference of Jewand the Labor and- Socialist Interna- , FRANK ACKERMAX E. Green and Ed Kraus." ustice stated. including Poland and Russia^ He has run bitters. Community Centeriearo tional and secretary of French Naish Community Renter Secretaries as The "The board of White Plains, or any from the Omaha Central High School SECOND FLIGHTmade a close study of the'economic, delegate from Omaha. will play the Crane Company- team titmal Trade Union "Center; Restric- with' a; record of 28 "A's", during his school board, and the commissioner, J. J.. Greenberg, Dave Greenbeur, social and cultural life' of the Jewish The Jewish 'conference will he held Dr. A. GreeubergJ.'MiiuTice D. peoples in the:difEerent countries and Sunday afternoon' at; AlhleSsc' park, tion, Exclusion i and Assimilation by four-year course at that school. n their exercise of direction in €he May 23-26, which will tie'followed-by C.-T. Cramp,' London, member.of exMicklin, T>avi^ GreenberK, Irvinx is now on a lecture' toxir that* iricindes 22nd and' L streets. * ~> determination that a rule which acAckerxnan is one of the three stuStalmaster, Sam LBeber,. Ihr. N. nc5. from May 26—t ecutive Labor and : Socialist- InternaCjntfr_ cedes to the request of parents to j?x-_. ter. t«aa3-is tea June'fC' Headqnartevsof tfie'-confer- MusMn, Dr. ^c Bomonekt tsadore. , all "the ! prradpaV centers- iii'- Atnerica." in first place having won four: games tioal, industrial geaeral/ •"-secretary: dents who -wSL ^rradoaie"with 'Perfect'- rase their children thirty minttiiliS^'i Weiner, Leo ,Abram£pn, Reuben ^scholarship record; it is the first time ^ Hisartas a dramatist enables him ences will be held at the.Cleveland National Union of Ratlwayinen • The in the history*-of *the school that such week for religious instruction constiH. Brown, Harry Robinson and to give a -portrayal of -the -life' of his and '•• losing none. ' Hotel. 210 social service organizaProtection of, the Immigrant by: A. perfect grades have been made. William Grodinsky. :' : . tutes an absence not amounting to people in- present day Europe- and tions representing 91 cities'.'in '36 Rnoll, Berlin, ' member- of : executive irregular attendance in the fair mean.Dr. Morris E. Stein is chair atan of Ackerman is also prominent in Russia that brings to-view the pathos, states and -£our organizations will asGensan National .Trade Union Cen- activities in school. During the last ing of the term, may properly givt the Golf Tournament and will accept tenacity and heroism of the Jews semble" in Cleveland for joint sessions ter; The Position of the Immigrant consideration for their guidance and , ef Welfare organizationf- and Com- entries into the tournament by calling under the changing-.conditions- now irt Respect of Social Insurance.by L. semester he was sporting editor of sound judgment to the utterance of him at AT lantic* 9707.' rapidly taking place in Europe. His the school paper, and is at the present munity Center worker.?. knowledge of Jewish history "and Hears Report of Economic.Distress in de Brouckere,'Brussels, member -of time associate manager of the O-Book, the United States Supreme Court A review of the year's -work will be executive Labor and Socialist Interabove referred to and to appealing culture,- together with his studies of Poland ' presented by Louis M. Cahn, Presinational, member Belgian senate; and on the Purple and White hand- weight of the following propositions: economics enables him to present the book committee. He represented dent of the Conference, in his annual "facts from* the simplest incidents to New York—The twenty-fourth an- Economic Factors in Migration by J. Central in two divisions of the state That the right of the parent to direct report, at the opening session, Sunthe sweeping changes, in the world's nual convention of the Agudath Ha'- W. Brown, and Labor Migration Pol- scholastic contest at Lincoln last the training and nurture of the child day night, May 23. l)r. Maurice B. rabonin, the Union of Orthodox Rab- icy by C. ~Mertens, Brussels, viceis a fundamental right; that the obliHexter, of Boston, Mass.". will deliver Discovers Seven Blocks, of Stone Dis- economic and political structure. bis, opened at the Kensington Gar- president International Federation of Saturday and ended, first in Latin gations of citizenship require the proMr. Leivick is also popular as a dens Hotel' in Far Rockaway on Tues- Trade Unions, secretary Belgian and second in History, having placed the .principal address at the opening posed in Semi-Circle with Broad Jewish poet. This has added to his day in the presence of 200 Rabbis Trade Union Center.' first at the school in the fourth year motion of a spirit of patriotic and •ession, on. Evolutionary Tendencies Stone in the Center ' civic service and the fostering In popularity as a lecturer. fa Community Organization. DisThe joint preparatory commission Latin division, and senior American children of moral ss well as inteldelegates to the convention. Goilom," one of his best known history. cussion will he led by Rabbi Abba Philadelphia. — (J.-. T. A.)—The The first session was taken up with appointed by .the executive. ,of the lectual qualities; that religious conHillel Silver, of Cleveland. altar that Joshua built at the com- dramas was produced, on the screen the addresses of Rabbi Israel Rosen International ..Federation of Trade science, conviction and accountability : A joint session of the Conference mand of Moses after-the Israelites in Germany and proved quite a sen- berg, chairman of the Executive Com Unions and the Labor and Socialist are the last dispensable foundations of Jewish Social Service and the Na- captured Jericho and Hai, is believed | sation and pleasing to American, mittee of the Union, and Rabb: International consists" of L. Jouhaux, for good citizenship and real patriottional. Conference of Jewish Center i to have been discovered,-accoxding a u d i e n c e s . „.. -.-..__•_- .._.,:,...,.,..._. Ezekiel Idpscbits of' Kalisch, - presi- C Mertens, Jahn_W.= Brown, L. de ism; that moral growth and intelSecretaries -will be held Monday night, to a dispatch received here by the The- subject of Mr. Levick's lecture dent of the Union of Polish Rabbis Brouckere,. C. T. Cramp and Dr. HT. lectual growth go hand inT hanct "W" 'the two organizations meeting in the "Catholic Standard and Times" from .will be "Jewish Life in Poland .& who is the guest of the convention Diamand. Alpha Chi Chapter of the Phi Delta make the essential elements of charRussia." Branch 626, Workmen's Rabbi Rosenberg in his address resame city for the first time since 1923. Jerusalem. The creation; of an International Epsilon fraternity of Creighton Uni acter and good citizenship; that thfe James H. Becker, of Chicago, will The Rev. Raphael Canneau, archae- Circle is making the arrangements. viewed the activities of the Union versity Medical College vrill entertain right of the state to enforce school (Continued on page 4.) preside, and Harry L. Glucksman, Ex- ologist ; and professor at the Ecole during the past year. Ha pointed otr for its graduating seniors at. th attendance does not mean that the ecutive Director of the Jewish Wel- Bilique de SfEtienne, who is now in that the Union of Orthodox Rabbi; home of Samuel Faier on Saturday mental and moral development of all fare ' Board, will act as co-chairman. Palestine, after examining -authorities children mu-rt be'limited to a common of America was the first organized evening, May 15th. 1 Jack Nadel, President of'the' •Renter on" the' subject,, and • .traversing ; the body of Rabbis in the. world. This At-.this gathering the following mould and that all children must be Conference, will open the sessions ground, observed. -a valley that runs became necessary in America in 1902 newly elected, officers will be installec standardized that the regulation does with a talk and Rabbi- Max Kadushuu up to the. two,flanks of Mount Hebal Mrs. Arctribald Sflverman, of not create a union. between church because of conditions. -Following Has their by Dr. Leviae, past Consul: The Shimslsr Belief' of New York will deliver an address and Moont Garizim; forming;,an am- idence, E. I., will be in. ^©maha and states, or teach any sectarianism example, the rabbis of Poland organ Consul—Meyer Greenberg. on The Place,of the Jewish Center in phitheatre. '•-'..''.-' . *" : Tuesday, May 18, as the guest of. the ized into a union for the_ purpose of first dance of- the season on* Sunday Vice Consul—Maynard Greenberg. in the schools or invade the religious evening at Keep's Dancing- Academy. American Jewish Life, with rliscussion This seems to correspond to the Omaha Chapter of Hadassah- To strengthening religious life. freedom or conscience of any indiScribe^—Samuel Faier. Money raised from the dance ill be b by Ezekiel J. Londow, Field Secretary Bibh'cal account "of "• tiie location of honor Mrs. Silvermanj, the bo^rd'of vidual." Rabbi M. Z. Margolies welcomec sent to Shimsk Russia for. all Chancellor—Ben Sliitzkv. lor New Jersey, of the Jewish Welfare Joshua's altar, since the people, seated the. Omaha Chapter of Hadassah are the,convention and Rabbi D. A. Levin the Historian—Isaac Sternhill. Power To Schools ' Board and Charles Nemssr, of Cleve- in this amphitheatre,'with the-ark arid entertaining at a .luncheon; Tuesday thai of Philadelphia introduced Rabbi needy ones. . ~ • r Chaplain—David Gross. The justice pointed out that in the The following are on the Dance and land." Samuel A. Goldsmith. Secre- altar at the base, would be "by\Mount noon at the Fontenelle. Following the Lipshitz who is his cousin. Rabb city of White Plains the arrangement tary of the Social Service Conference,] Garizim". and. ]^by Mount HebaL" luncheon, Mrs. Silverman" will; speak iipshitzin his address described th Arrang'eineht. Committee: ;Miss Nellie Ferer, Chairman; DR. WEIZMANN HONORED by which . children attend their speak on National and Interna- Father Canneau found near*the'spo£ a£ 2:30 in.the ballroom, to which the condition of the Jewish population i churches during the ordinary school Messrs. Reuben Ferer, Harry Weiner, tional Social Work. . where he had theoretically placed the public is invited. AT PARIS RECEPTION Poland and stated that ninety percent hours is entirely voluntary and that Dr. Louis I. Harris, Health Com* altar,, seven great 'blocks of stone, dis- Tuesday evening, Mrs. Silverroan of the Jewish population' are on the Neyer Ferer, William Weiner, Max churchs of all denominations, includFox, Jack Brieff, H. Ackerman; Mesmissioner of New York: City, .will de- posed in a semi-drcjej with a broad will speak at the Zionist meeting at verge of ruin. Credit is needed more Paris.—The amount of 200,0(K ing Catholic, Protestant and Jewish dames: Harry", White,. Harry Weiner, liver the principal addret&( at the stone at the center. The central stone, itiie Jewish Community Center. . than charity, he stated. Francs for the Palestine Foundatio; are participating in affording the closing session Wednesday morning, the archaeologist -saad, was of such :iMrs. Silverman is an active" Zionist A resolution was adopted that "it Reuben Ferer,. William .Werner. Fund was raised here last night at means of instruction. After quoting on Co-Operation Between Public andj height that it-might serve as an altar. and Hadassah worker. She is just-re- is the duty of every Jew who is not reception given in honor of Dr. Chain from the provision of the educational Private Agencies. Promoted at Cincinnati Uni Examples of Semitic altars have al- turning from a tour on ^ the Pacific a recipient of charity himself to conWeizman, president of the Worl Mr. Blumenthal "will real' 3 paper ready been found, but this is believed Coast, where she organized a number tribute to the relief funds for East Dr. SaurB. Arengon, formerly of the Zionist Organization, who was de law, showing that local educational on "The Technique of the Jewish to be the first example of an authentic of Hadassah Chapters. She was one European Jews." department of Chejnistry at the Uni- talned here on his way to London o: boards have the power to prescribe • necessary regulations for all social, Community Centers", in which he will Israelitic altar. . . "• of the principal speakers at the last Rabbi Lipshitz also declared that versity of Nebraska, has beenTecently account of the British general strik educational or recreational activities emphasize the necessity of makir.g promoted to Assistant Professor of convention ofthe National- Hadassah. of the 3,000,000 Jews in the Republic The reception, which took place a under its charge, he continued; "Th© the Jewish Community Center more THORPEIANSof Poland, 2,500,000 adhere to Ortho- Chemical Engineering at the Univer- the Hotel Continental was attended hour of opening and closing the Jewish, in order that the greatest ELECT OFFICERS] JEWISH LABOR GROUP dox traditions. He deplored the fact sity of Cincinnati. He. was also elected by 300 prominent French Jewish citi- schools is not. fixed by law, but is contribution to (American ideals may that because of the direct economic secretary-treasurer of the nevrly in- zens. Dr. Zadock Kahn, son of late subject to regulation by the board of MESSAGE OF SYM- need, be achieved. v ; The regular meetihg""of' the Thorpe- j SENDS many Orthodox Jews are com- stalled chapter of Sigma 32 at the Rabbi Zadock Kahn, and chairman of education which is directed to mainPATHY TO STRIKERS Due to the fact that: the dedication ian Athletic Club was held at the the Keren Hayesod, presided. Pro- tain school sessions for. at least 180 pelled to send their children 'to the University of Cincinnati. ; of the new Jewish Community Center Jewish Community Center Wednesday Warsaw.— The sympathies of Jewsecular Yiddish schools where, he He is a member of the Zeta Beta fessor Victor Basch,M r. Corcos,1 days. The petitioner asserts that the : Building will take place on June 6, evening, May 5. ••' ' V--* " "-' ish labor in the Republic of Poland charged, hatred of Orthodox tradi- Tau fraternity. . French author and organizer of the mandate of the statute requiring atMr, Blumenthal" plans to leave CleveAfter several orations and heated for the British Trades Union Con- tions is being implanted in the youth. French Palestine Committee, Dr. tendance upon- instruction for the land before the- convention closes. arguments, the following members gress in the general strike were exFilderman, president of the Zionist entire.time luring the school shall be Some excitment was caused at the Three more names are added He is expecting to return to Omaha were voted to take "office for the com- pressed in a essage sent by the Exe- convention when a resolution was subFederation of France, Mr. H. Zlatop- in season, is absolute." by May.30. to the list of 100% "pledges to ing term. olsky, Mr. Ascher addressed the gathcutive Committee of the Bund, the mitted by Rabbi Novinthal, of PhilaActing upon the advic? of. the President: Henry' Weisberg; Vice- Jewish labor party. the Jewish Community Center. "erin'g. delphia to exclude from membership Omaha Chamber of Commerce and President: Leon Mendelson; Treasur- The Jewish Labor Party, Bund, of in the Union Rabbi Friedraan-Jt was They are as follows: Dr. Weizmann in his address stated The Community Center orchestra. the Social Worker? Club of Omaha, er: Eddie Ruback; Reporter: William the Republic of Poland, wishes to ex- charged that Rabbi Friedman, in a Dr. B. M. KuIIy that the most important problem of under the direction of Mr. Sklel of Mr. Blumenthal will invite the nation- Raduziner; Athletic" Director; Abe tend to you its enthusiastic expression published leaflet, attacked Rabbi A.L S. Spiegel & Sons Palestine today, is that of immigra- South High School will practice thia fcl conference • of Social Workers to Meyers; Sergeants at Arms: Gershen of support and wishes for your vic- Kook, chief rabbi of Palestine. This N." Slobodinsky tion. *'Our Telations with the Arabs Tuesday evening, eight o'clock meet in Omaha nest ycer. VShermun:aml Sam Katsman. at the Centej -^ resolution, was accented. tory, the -message .rea«i
B'nai Brith Annual Golf Tournament Starts Sunday
Jewish Boy to Graduate With Honors from Central High
Noted Jewish Dramatist . Community Center Ball Team Will Lecture Here Wins Fourth Gsme of Season
Union of Orthodox Rabbis Meets in 24th Convection
Joshua's Altar Found
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Phi D. E. Medical Fraternity To Entertain for Graduates
National Hadassah Worker to Speak here Tuesday
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