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PLANS FOR TALMUD TORAH BALL ARE
Communists Print • .' •. Rabbinical Journal
VOL. VIL—No.
' OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY,.MARCH,15, 1928
Club Will CHALUTZIM LEADER G U P PERFORMANCE Highland Have Stag, Election TO SPEAK HEREON TO ATTRACT M M TO WORK INPi COMMUNITY CENTER
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Esther Raduziner Wins Queenly Crown
Esther Raduziner was the successThe annual meeting and election of Moscow—(J. T. A.)—The first issue ful contestant among the thirteen officers of the Highland Country club of a rabbinic periodical,"Yagdil Togirls who aspired, to be queen of the will be combined with a stag party jah," has appeared here. Thorpeian Jubilee Ball at the City to be held Tuesday evening .at..the The journal is devoted to rabbinic Auditorium Sunday evening. Blackstone hotel. research and is edited by Rabbi Ab- Interest in Ibsen Production BeDr. Chaim Arlazarov to BeThe crown was placed upon the Recent Survey Shows Swift Afternoon, Evening Programs ramski It is announced that the club's new Brought to Omaha by Workers of Sluck, and contains many Growth in Greater New To Be Given March 25. comes City Wide. queen's head by Harry H. Lapidus. "pro" will be introduced. Business will contributions from leading rabbis. The for Palestine. PRIZES ANNOUNCED. Other prize winners in the popularity be followed by cards.-Sam Leon is in publication, in rabbinic Hebrew, <vill MANY RESERVATIONS. contest were Mollie Grossman, second; JEWISH CENTERS SHIFT charge of arrangements. . 'appear periodically and is printed, by TO COME MARCH 20. "The Talmud Torah fund -will be Sophie Ban, third, and Mary Shames, the Communist publishing house. New York—(J. T. A.)-~-The Jewish Literary and study groups throughthe beneficiary, of proceeds of the fourth. Dr. Chaim Arlazarov, of Palestine, population in Greater New York was out the city are expressing great inball- 'Which has been planned for world-renowned authority on the work placed at 1,728,000 on the basis of terest in the production of Ibsen's Sunday, March 25, at the City A'ndiof the Chalutzim in Palestine, will estimates, in the Jewish Communal The Doll's House," which will be toriiim, 15tl| and Howard Streets. Survey of Greater New York, the represented Saturday and Sunday eveThe -committee; in charge has sllts of which were made ptibSc today nings at the Jewish Community Cenplanned ,an elaborate; "program to'beby the Bureau of Jevnsh Social Reter by the. Center Players' Guild. Resg i n a t 2 p . m . - A-program of music search, ervations for parties are "being made and dancingv ringing by. the Talmud Brooklyn lias supplanted Manhattan by a number of these groups'who wiU Council Sabbath-Observed SaturTorah children,., entertainment, and day in -Temple Israel. Adolph Ochs, Great Figure hi as the center of Jewish population and see the play as a. part of their observthe givlngj alway'of. several .valuable Work in Behalf of Immigrants Judaism and Journalism, "for some time to come will have to ance of the centenary of Ibsen's birth.' prizes will be features of the 'ocHas Reunited Many Families. be COUNCIL WORK DESCRIBED. the new focus of attention" as far Carries On The "part of "Nora," made famous i^ as a Jewish communal program is by three generations of great actress- . . The Jewish woman today, 100 years Ida and -Dorothy l>ustgarten •will FORWARD-LOOKING POLICY concerned, according to thefirstsecSTARTED AS NEWSBOY es, has come to'be a symbol of the ago, and 3,000 years ago is essentially present ;.7Jqlin/ and piano _numbers. tion of the survey. modern woman- and her rebellion the same, Mrs. I. Rosenthal, president j Cantor, of .the_B'nai.Israel /will sing, Because of the special interest in New York.—(J. T. A.)—Adolph S. They Prosper against her too frequent role as a of the Council of Jewish Women, said and -will.be,assisted.by their choirs. the immigration problem Senator Ochs, publisher of the "New York In the statistical tables of the surpetted dolL Miss Annette Riklin -will present Robert B. Howell's candidacy for rein her address at Temple Israel SatTimes," who is now in California on ; vey the steady economic growth of Miss Faye Klein has been cast as several of. her., students in dancing election to the United States senate a tour in behalf of; the Endowment Nora in the Guild production. Hyman urday morning on the occasion of the the Jewish community is shown. The n u m b e r s ; - ; :J .•••••. • • is creating much comment. Fund of the Hebrew Union College, Shrier, president of the Guild, will observance of Council Sabiaath by the :: onward march from the tenement disEight Omaha girls, Doris Weiss, attained his seventieth birthday on Friends of Senator Howell point to local council.' ", • '. ' - ~-l :;.'"*...' of the lower East Side is porplay Thorvald, . her ; husband. Bess Freedman, Celia Weise, Floren- Monday, March 12th. his record during the past — years, tricts "She is~ steadfast in her belief in! trayed in chart form and the story in Weinstein, George Cohen, and Marion ce Eingle, TiQie Zusnian, JJae Borsand the assistance he has always giv- figures describee the movement to one God, devoted to her" tome, and Born in Cincinnati, March 12th, Graetz will also have important parts- the helpmate of 'h$i husband," Mrs. ky, Anna Borison, and- Dorothy en when hardship and injustice would Yorkville, Harlem, Bronx and finally Single,'-will"represent the League of 1858, the son of Julius and Bertha Other members of .-the cast are Martha •Rosenthal said. "Esther's devotion to result to immigrants but for his abili- into the Park avenue section, The surDr. Chaim Arlazarcv Ochs, he received his education at the Himelsteni, Carolyn Diamond, and Nations. .•••'•-ty and willingness to help. her people saved her race. T6e Jewish vey, which was undertaken almost public schools. At.the age of eleven Kuth and -WillaTd-Friedman, children speak in Omaha March 20 and 21, unThey recall many cases where two- years ago at the direction of a Twenty chilclren-from- the -Talmud. he delivered newspapers for the vrorban has always been deeply re- der tha auspices of the United Nafather and mother were about to be citizen's committee, of •which Judge Torah, under the "direction inf.'Super- "Knoxville Chronicle." In 1878, hav- of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Friedman. ligious." ...'[-'' New spotlights,". presented to the Mrs. ilosenthal-tffld of the work of tional Workers for Palestine. separated from their children on ar- Ctlo A. Eosalsky is chairman, and Dr. intendent Block,~wiil sing the Hatik- ing served usrgrbcery clerk, druggist's speak in the Jew- riving at New York from their forVah. Anjorchestra of 20 pieces will apprentice, compositor on the "Knox- Guild by the Brandeis players recent- the Council of Jewish Women in' ly, will be used in this production, for broadening the mind and ths.fieldof|ish Community Center auditorium on mer homes in Russia; of an instance j! Lee XL Frankel is chairman of the play. ._ _"." ~: ' ville Daily Tribune," reporter and bu"Political and Economic Conditions in •where a child, born on the ship on executive committee, was made by a In the- evening* EandaU's ~ Eoyal siness manager, he was the owner and •which special scenes are being painted. activities of women, Palestine-Today." His lecture will be the way to America, -was threatened staff of 50 research -workers headed The play is one of intense dramatic Pontenelle dschestra, -will be featured. publisher of the "Chattanooga Times." the women should not- allow things free and open to the public values, tellingof a young and beautivrith deportation until Senator Howell by Samuel A. Goldsmith, executive diTwo ' valuable'gifts will be given Thirty-two years ago he came to ful wife who has always been guarded religious to drift, bat should feel her Dr. Arlazarov was in the ,. • mother from rector of the bureau- It includes, in awayi'—One -_-is".--a-".• diamond ring, New York from Chattanooga. In 1S9G responsibility to perpetuate the good. Last y ste e d l nt 0 s a v e addition to a study of the movement from life by the protection of her husf t> ! PP presented by the Sam Swartz com- Adolph S. Ochs -was invited to take Frederickon Karen Haysod. At each o. the | being separated from her -new-born of the Jewish population of the five band, who considers her mainly in the pany, the:offiefa-chime clock, given ovfer the property of the New York " was inspiring f babe; of instances where minor ailstudy of mortalit; Zionist conferences, he by the Eagle -Jewelry company, Joe Times, following the death of George light of a charming child. Then he of the council. Miss Lkur members kept families from bea« evaluation of taken a leading part, and was prorridiscovers that Nora has saved his fife Ban - and Julius . GereHck. These Johns, one of its founders.' , Three soloist. • munal resources in the fields of child j nent in .the work of the last congress at the cost of her honor, having coming to their husbands in America prizes are on displayj-at the Jewish years later he.took;over a controlling f oxged a note in order to get money :.; This service was a part of the na-at Basle. He is known everywhere as would have been returne.'. in sadness care, family -welfare, health delinCommunity Center. ~ ohservahee of Council Sabbath; interest in the. New York Times, ^which. woultTenable him to. go~-toja on Zionist topics. He is community orjjanbsa; ... - H a r i ^ j y t J T m r ^ - g r . . c a i -w.hlcb.lie has'.held from that-date. . different climate."He is faced by a i, recreation and Jewish. ei&fMitifiM&r"tne^autiibr of~ several U o & & ' s f "in "Be-; Senator J2owell obtained in receiving appeals. to the - Jewish- "people ~of A Chevalier/ Too." * \ V * complex m'o'ral issue. Nora has beOn the basis of calculations of the brew. permission for'them to «nter. Omaha .to; come to the support of : school population of Jewish children, Dr. Arlazarov has been received Mr. Ochs is the holder of four hon- come a woman who can make her own It is reported that this" great intheir Tjalinud. Torah,. which is mainas prepared for 1925 by the Jewish by the great statesmen of many nadecisions. Out of the doll's house has terest in the troubles, sorrows and diftained for_..the -good . of the whole orary degree. - From Yale university Education association, the survey fions. He is the president of the oremerged a thinking adult who must ficulties recent liiuiut;Acuity, immigrants, and community.'' A. Kaplan i s ' chairman he received the honorary degree of ii(;uiuicfr of ux the cue it?t;c:ijL tui»a _ , . ._ . . . . ., . , , , . , o i T T ii i. ! places the peneral Jewish population ganized Chalutzim of Palestine. live her own life. M. A.; from Columbia university the of the program" committee.... this helpF -which Senator Howell has i * , „„ »_„ -, ^ ^ ., , % x . , . at 1,728,000. In that*year, the study degree of L.L.D. was conferred on ' ! always rendered to them, is being reveals, Brooklyn had 45.6 per cent him, .and the honorary degree of Docspread rapidly, and much work to help of the Jewish population of New York _. • Herman Faier, of Boy Scout troop flTY GIRLS tor of Literature^ was' given him by the re-election of Senator Howell is City. Manhattan was second with 2S No. 62 of the Jewish Community Cen-1 the University of Chattanooga,, and being carried on. •ter,- was awarded the eagle badge of per cent and the Bronx with 22 per by New York university. He is also a The friends of Senator Howell are cent was third. Queens, according to scouting a t the February Court of Chevalier of the Legion "of Honor of Honor recently. He is thefirstJew- Greater experience in the game urging this humane quality to be the latest figures, has S per cent and Omaha is proud of the success of ish boy to have received this award, found in Senator Howell as another Richmond one fiftieth of one per cent. Sigrid ; TJndset's trilogy, "Kristan France. In addition to his publishing inter- one of its native sons who has recent- the highest honor and one which can enabled the Kansas City girls team e v i d e n c e o fM s i n t e r est in the welfare Lavran's Datter," is a new addition to They Leave Manhattan. defeat the JevasTi Community, o fMs c o n s t i t u e n c y w h i c h s h o u l d e n . ests, Mr. Ochs is in the forefront of ly become editor of a New York trade be attained only by First Class the remarkable "Norwegian literature In 1916, according- to the study, civic, communal and philanthropic acpaper, "The Restaurant Man," accordtitle him the support of the voters. of which Ibsen is' the greatest figure, The political wiseacres have it there were 096,000 Jews in ManhatRabbi .Frederick Cohn told the mem- tivities of the country.. He is a trustee ing to word received here this week. number of merit badges. tan; in 1925 there were 490,500, or a Aaron, as he is known to hundreds bers of the Temple Sisterhood book of Temple_Emanu-El and is chairman Herman joined Troop 62 in 1924on the floor of the Jewish Communi- doped out that Senator Howell's exceptional business ability, his years ' decrease of 2S.S per cent within the review group at its meeting in the of the §5,000,000 endowment fund of his Omaha friends, has risen rapid- and has served the troop as scribe, ty Center. of experience as United States senadecade. committee of the Hebrew Union colThe two forwards -who starred for ly in his profession since he began Temple Tuesday. ... treasurer and bugler. T e *> Jewish population of Greater Rabbi Cohn traced the source of the lege;. He is a member of-the execu- work in a newspaper office. He has He attends Central High school, the K. C. teams were Smolinsky and tor from Nebraska, his consistent rective committee of the Union of Ameriheen on the staff of the Omaha Daily Pittell, who scored 18 and 13 points ord of championing progressive legisN w York constitutes 30 per cent of • greatness of Norwegian literature to where his averages stand high and lation, and his unyielding attitude to- the city's total population. Over the the inspiration- of Norse legends and can Hebrew Congregations. Among News, the Falls City paper/ and the where he has distinguished himself as respectively. decade ending 1925, New York City's his many public bequests are: $50,000 Omaha Bee-News. myths.' • '•••-,'• a swimmer, being a 'member of the Both teams played fast and laard ward the -agricultural problem, will population increase was 16.4 per cent work was evident, but due to thehelp sweep him back into office as our Since his going to New York, his first swimming team. "This trilogy, is a great epic of to Chattanooga university for the and the increase in. Jewish population life," he said. "It is greater than Gals- endowment of a professorship in city friends have been able to follow his The requirements for the eagle more experienced players on the K.next United States senator. was similar. C. team a hard game was fought, j forward-looking government; §200,000 to the Hebrew work through: his sports features pubI t i s s a W t h a t t h e worthy's "Forsyte Saga." It is a piece scout award are as follows: 1. His Decentralization of New York City's of tapestry wprked out in infinite de- Union college fund- and ?1O,OOO and lished in the Sunday World-Herald. record of satisfactory service as aThe result was a S6-8 score in favor policies of Senator Howell coupled Jewish population is cited as the roost of the K. C. team. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. first class scout shall have been for with his sound and conservative judgtail, yet possessed of a wonderful har- two'menorahs to the Cathedral of' St. The game was followed by a dance ment on economic and social ques- striking feature of the population John the Divine. Davidson of Omaha. mony." ':•'•}.'': the period of at least one full year. In a letter -written to one of his 2. He shall have qualified for 21in honor of both teams. Chaperones tions make Mm the ideal candidate. drift. This distribution has been due The story is of fourteenth century to a, direct movement from congested friends recently, he says of the Omahn n^rit badges, which shall include first were, Mr. and Mrs. Harry KulakofsNorway, telling of a people half Junior Hadassah to -to middle class areas. The movement ky, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Brodkey. B'nai B'rith lodge of which he is a Christian; half pagan, telling the comaid, life saving, personal health, pubin Manhattan has been out of the The crowd heard a talk given by Give Novelty Program m e m b e r : •. . • plete life of a woman from her childlic health, cooking, campingy civics, Miss Bess Epstein, coach of theBernard Simon Rites Lower East Side %nd Harlem, the "It .is in the Omaha lodge that I hood to her death. Rabbi Cohn said bird study, pathfinding, pioneering, K. C. team. Held Here Wednesday most populous areas, the survey still count my best friends and it is A gay evening of comradeship is that it is frank in its treatment of athletics or physical development. The Kansas City Y. W. H. A. shows. there that I want to find my lodge being planned by the Junior Hadassah immorality but not morbid. In the The funeral of Mr. Bernard Simon, basketball team arrived safely Satur- who died Saturday in Los Angeles, end, the story' becomes a tribute to( honoring the senior group at an af- brothers. I consider my Omaha mernday, March 10, at 3:15. They were where he had recently made his home, •fairi to be given Wednesday, March bership one of the most binding ties1 the value of good.* '" "' ' •— ~ met at the station by a large group was held in Omaha Wednesday after.28, at the Jewish Community Center. between my home town and myself. of Omaha girls. The girls were noon. •' Music, community singing and a taken to the J. C. C in cars offered peppy program will be the -keynote Cantor Wins Praise Newsie's Dream to Mr. Simon is survived by his widow, _ of the evening. At this reception the Joe Koomj well known in Omaha by Mrs. Holzman, Mrs. Malashok, Mrs. Celia Simon; four daughters, ^ e firet a ™ u f iradwest volley ball Gome True Friday Hadassah girls are planning on someFor Radio Program Jewish organizations, died Thursday and Mrs. Silverman. . At six o'clock^ Saturday, the girls j Mrs. E. Frieden and Mrs. Abner Kai- tournament will be held at the Jewish thing entirely different than they have Letters, and telegrams received by morning after an illness of less than chaperoned by Miss Ethel Green- man of Omaha, Mrs. I. Hirschberg of I Community Center Monday and TuesWilliam; Sokolof, fifteen-year-old ever given. : Grace Eosenstein, chairM *«h 1 9 . a " d 20 - Eijrht of the newsie is all sat" for the realization of man of the affair, is assisted by, the officials of the WOW radio station, two weeks, leaving his widow, Mrs. borg, physical director of the center, El Paso, Tex., and Mrs. Fannie Block l*&< e a d l n ^ teams m Iowa and Nebraska a long cherished dream,—a ride in an following girls: Publicity, Mrs. I. Lev- •lauded the program given last Sun- Dora Koom, and two children, Lillian were entertained by the basketball of Los Angeles, and Three sons, J. 14, and Morris 12. day morning between 11 and 12 by Simon, Louis Simon and Max Simon,! airplane. Friday is the day set for in and Mary Claire Shames; refreshTo date we have the Jewish Koom was associated in business girls at the Ad-sell Restaurants. Father Flanagan's. Boys' Home. of Omaha. this extraordinary joy ride. The K. C. girls spent their short allAt munity Center, Psi Mu, Council Bluffs, ment, Ida Daytch; program, Mrs! L Those, who wrote to the radio sta- • with his brother-in-law, Maurice Mickthe time of his death, Mr. Simon It happened this -way. • William "was Levin and Ann Greenberg; arrangestay at the homes of the J. C. C. la.; Avoca, la.; Springfield, Neb.; lin, in the Micklin Lumber company. immersed in conversation with'his fel- ment, Bebecca Segal,"Sally Morgan tion complimented Issiah Kohono- He was a member of the Omaha basketball girls. Sunday afternoon, was 74 years old. He was a resident North Bend, Neb., and two local Y. wich of the Beth Hamedrosh Hogodel of Omaha and Council Bluffs for 40 low newsies on ;the street corner. As and Sylvia,Bernstein. • . synagogue, who was the featured ar- lodge, B'nai B'rith and the Omaha the girls were taken for a tour years. Even after moving to Cali- M. C. A, teams entered. usual, William "was talking about airThe tournament will be on a douaround the city in cars given by Mrs. Keport of this affair wDl be given tist on the program. The cantor sang Hebrew club. planes. He was always telling his to the national office of the Hadassah .the ^Yesamah,? translated the "Or- The funeral was arranged for 2 p. Cooper, Mrs. Wm. Holzman, Mrs. fornia, he maintained his membership ble elimination basis, thus giving: the in the Omaha Hebrew club and the friends about airplanes: - Only this at'New York City. . losing teams a chance to compete in Greenberg, Mrs. Malashock, Mr. Modern Woodmen. phan"\and the Volga boat song. In m. Thursday. time, it happened that C. E. Steele, of the finals. Harry Laidus, and Tina Altshuler. the latter- selection he was accomthe Steel Airlines Inc.; stopped to ge According' to Harry Malashock, This was followed by a swim in the panied on the piano by Miss Fannie a paper and heard a fragment of the BROTHER OF M. MEYER Joe Goodbinder Dies chairman of the volley ball commitpool and a tour through the J . C. C. MRS. SOL BRODKEY DIES Fish. KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE talk. play veil] stait 6 p. m. sharp After Long Illness Sunday evening the girls were Father Flanagan's Boys' Home have IN LOS ANGELES HOME tee, Monday evening in the Center gym. '•Want .a ride in an airplane?" .he . The funeral of Mrl Simon Meyer of their regular period over WOW every chaeroned to the jubilee, sponsored Omaha friends were informed this Gold and silver medals will be asked William. St. Louis, formerly a . resident- of Sunday morning between 11 and 12. The death of Joe Goodbinder, son of by the Thorpeians. awarded to the winner and runnerup. week of the death of Mrs. Sol Brodky Mr. and Mrs. Ben Goodbinder, ocWilliam rubbed' his eyes. He Omaha for 30 years, was held in St. of Los Angeles, formerly of Omaha, cured Monday evening, after an illness Miss Reva Eulakofsky, secretary of thought he was seeing , visions and Louis Monday. Mr. Meyer was killed Observing the centenary of Ibsen's S.AM GREEN WINS hearing mystic voices. by an automobile while crossing a birth, Rabbi Frederick Cohn will lec- of six weeks. Goodbinder -was well the Social Service Exchange, reports and very well known here. The second round in the bridfrt "Sure,' K he said, hardly believing, street. His .brothers, Mr. Marin Meyer ture Friday evening on the great Nor- known in Omaha, having been em- that more than- 200 transients asked! Mrs. Brodkey is survived by her aid of Omalia welfare agencies during husband, a son, Mr. Dave Brodkey of tournament, being: held by tht B'ftai of Omaha, and Mr. Joseph Meyer of wegian dramatist. His Saturday morn- ployed in the Brandeis Store.•••-.. "When.?" the month of February, and were reg-j Los Angeles, and a daughter, Mrs. B'rith, resulted in the following winGoodbinder was 24 years old. The ing topic will be "Awakening." Council Bluffs, went to St. Louis for "Friday," said Mr. Steele, and made ners: Sam Green, first; Meyer GreenAbe Koolish of f Chicago. i funeral was held Tuesday afternoon the funeral. "Before the Current Topics class of istered with the exchange. a definite date with William. berg, second, and Louis Sogolof, third Mr. Brodkey was widely known for Besides' his two brothers, Mr. Meyer the Council of Jewish Women, Rabbi and burial was in Golden Hill cemeWilliam is the son of -Mr. and MrsThe finsl bout of the tournament if Ms interest in community welfare Hide your tongue more than tery. Besides his parents, he is surCohn's topic for next Tuesday's meetone Philip. Sokolof, 1525 North Nineteenth is survived by his widow, and 1 T work durinfi his residence in Omahav scheduled for this Thursday evening. the miser his moneving will be "Americ " vived by on* sister, Anna. daughter, Hannah Meyer, of St *»uis. street
LOYALTY, DWOIION OF JEWISH 10MAN PRAISED AT SERVICE
TIMES PDBUSHHt CELEBRATES HIS 70th BIRTHDAY IN ACTION
HERMAN FAIER, FIRST JEWISH BOY TO WIN BOY SCOUT EAGLE
RABHIMSClSSES NEW NORSE TREOGY
SENATOR HOWELL TO ASK RE-ELECTION ON MSHNCnVE-RECORD
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AARON DAVIDSON IS TRADE PAPER EDITOR
JOE KOOM DIES AFTER BRIEF IiiHESS
YOLLEY BAH FANS