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VOL. VII.—No. 6
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929
Congress Will Labor Groups Plan Aid GROWTH MOSES ANNIVER RY Zionist ECONOMIC PREJUDICE An Open Letter of Importance Meet in Zurich July 28 For Jews in Russia That Requires art Answer TO BE CELEBRATED UNITY LAUK AGAINST JEWS IS LIPSKYI BY I C C . MARCH 25 SHOWN AT SEMINAR Omaha Institution First in U. S. To Plan Program of This Kind. ALL ORGANIZATIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN AFFAIR The thirtyrfive hundfeth anniversary of the birth' of Moses will be the occasion: of one of the largest affairs ever given in the., Jewish Community Center. . The Omaha Jewish Community Center will be the first in the country to celebrate this important anniversary which falls on the Seventh Day of Adar. The program, which will be open to the whole Jewish Community and sponsored: by the^ Center will be given on Monday, March 25. All Jewish * organizations are asked to cooperate in planning the program for this' celebration. * Committees of the following organizations will be named to assist in making the plans: B'nai B'rith, Omaha Hebrew club, Council of Jewish Women, Jewish Women's Welfare Organization, Hadassah, Junior Hadassah, Senior Council, A. Z. A., Temple Israel, B'nai Israel, Beth Hamedrosh Hagodel, B'nai Jacob, Adas Jesh'run, South Omaha synagogue, Arbeiter Ring, Zionist organization, City Talmud Torah, Daughters of Israel, Daughters of Zion, Workmen's Loan association, Compeers, Deborah Society, Independent Workmen's Circle,- Ladies Free Loan : d Modern Woodmen of America. I.ny other organizations not named in this list who wish to participate in the plans are asked to call the Center* office. The Omaha Hebrew club has been the first to respond with a committee of three. Dr. Philip Sher, chairman of the educational committee of the Jewish Cpjiimunity Center is general chairman of the affair.
London.—(J.; T. A.)—-The sixteenth Zionist congress, meeting bi-annually to decide on the major, policies of the'Zionist movement, will be held in Zurich; Switzerland, it was; announced here by the ZiZonist Executive. The jdateset for the congress is July 28, 1929. ' The sessions last about two creeks. Dr. Hugo Herman was . appointed by the Executive to make the necessary preparations for the congress session in Zurich. Returns on the Shekel, the Zionist membership dues which entitles the payer to participation in the election of delegates to the congress, must reach the Zionist executive by May 27, it was announced.-
DAVID RABELSKY AND ISRAEL MEREM1NSKY TO TALK HERE FEB. 20 Famous Orators Speaking for Labor Organization of Palestine. MEETING TO BE AT J. C. C. Dr. .David Rabelsky and Mr. Israel Mereminsky, famous orators and journalists, representing, 't the National Labor committee of Palestine, will speak at a mass meeting to be held Wednesday evening, February
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INSTALLATION FEB. 16,17
- The formal installation of Chi chapter of the Pi Lambda Phi, national JewishT: social fraternity, at Creighton university, will take place Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 16 and 17, at the Hotel Fontenelle. The local group were formerly the * Pi Delta Sigma. At the formal banquet concluding the ceremonies, Mr. Herbers, dean of men at the university, and Mr. Van Veen will . be the principal speakers. Arthur Frankenstein of Chicago will be in charge of the initiation team of the national order which will be composed of Joseph Harris, Jack Wislow, Saul Weislow, and Saul Kahn. Mr. Frankenstein is the divisional consultant of Pi Lambda Phi. The following men, with Dr. David Cahn Platt as faculty moderator, will comprise the local chapter: Frank Ackerman, Maurice Alperin, Sam -Faier, Daniel Greenhouse, Sam <5reenberg, Ben Kazlowsky, Harold Kendis, " Justin Levey, Louis Lipp, Frank Lipp, Sam Morgan, Ben Morgan, Dave Robinson, Albert Shrier, Hymen Shrier,* Edward Shafton, Ben Slutzky, Maurice Steinberg, Henry Sterling, Bernard White, Harold Wohlner and Sam Zacharia.
MARKS HONORED Ephraim - Marks, prominent debater and scholar at Creighton university has been chosen as one of the six members of the new editorial board of the "Shadows," quarterly publication of the university. Marks is a junior in the Arts college.
J.C. C. and Federation Meeting March 1& The Jewish Community Center and- the Jewish Welfare Federation will have their joint annual meeting at the Center, Tuesday evening, March 12. An elaborate program Including a number of novel -features is being planned and Will be announced later. The three trustees of the Center, whose terms expire this year, have; been" renominated by the nominating committee. They are II. Kulakofsky, Judge Irwin Stalmaster and Harry B. Zimman.
Dr. David Rabelsky. 20, at the Jewish Community ter, under the auspices of the local organization of the National Labor committee.. .They will describe present day conditions in Palestine and will, discuss possibilities for the future. Mr. Mereminsky is the organizer of the Zeire Zion in . Poland, the general secretary of the - Histadruth, the Palestine Lab.qr Federation, and a member of the 'Actions 'committee of the World Zionist organization. He has been called one of the greatest orators in Zionist circles, and is renowned as an editor. Dr. Rabelsky, also a well-known Hebrew journalist, has been a delegate to five Zionist congresses. He is the author of several books on Jewish life, some of which are being published in New York alt the present time. Dr. Rabelsky is a graduate of two faculties in the Russian universities, being famous in both the fields of philology and history. From 1918-21 he was professor of history in ;the University of Odessa.
H. H. KANTER-IS NEW HARTMAN'S AD MANAGER Mr. H. H., Kanter of Chicago has come to Omaha to assume the position of advertising, manager, and as-f sistant to - Mr. Myers, the. general manager of the local branch of Hart-r man's. The position was formerly filled by Mr.. Joe Lipkin, who has moved out of Omaha. ' Mr. Kan ter has been with the national chain for about five years. He has made his home here, bringing his wife and child • here from Chicago.
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J. C. C. SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS ORGANIZES CLUB The confirmation;.• class of • the Jewish Community; '• Center Sunday School haVe organized a-: club under the sponsorship -of; Mr. Jack W. Marer. At the first .meeting held Sunday, Feb. 10J Miss Gertrude Oruch was elected president. ' ' • ;; The other officers are: Benny Blatt, vice-president; Esther Silverman, secretary; Albert Oruch, treasurer, and Kalah Franklin, reporter.
Representatives of Three; Dominant Faiths Discuss Causes of Prejudice PREJUDICE ASCRIBED TO SELF-IMPOSED BARRIER
Dear Friend: through the tragedy of the world During the past five or six war, were suddenly thrown into a months one question has been asked chaotic state from which up to the hundreds of times by the leaders in present day they have been unable the United Jewish campaign effort. to extricate themselves entirely. That is: Several times the J. D. C. has Are we to have further campaigns been on the verge of liquidation, only to be called back into action by and if so, when? The purpose of this communica- another series of catastrophies that tion is to find put in some measure befell our people. Time and time what is running "through the minds again, those of us who have been of American Jewry who for nearly close to the conditions in these connfifteen years have carried a con- tries have seen the dawn of a better tinuous responsibility : toward the day and the end of our relief work, the end of our money-raising acJews in other parts of the world. At a full meeting of the executive tivities. committee of the Joint Distribution Only due to the superhuman efCommittee, the following with my-. forts of thousands upon thousands self as chairman, were appointed a of our fine men and women throughcommittee of seven fo the purpose out America have we been able to of presenting to the J. D. C. a pro- gather" our forces together and raise gram for its future activities: Louis large sums of money quickly, again Marshall, Cyrus Adler, Solomon beginning our mercy work among Lowenstein, David M. Bressler, Alex- our stricken people. ander Kahn and Peter Wiernik. A survey of those countries in The J. D. Cw, purely a money-dis- which we have worked during these tributing organization, is anxious to many years presents a most interestknow considerably in advance ing situation. Compared with the whether it is to liquidate or whether pre-war times, the economic condition of the Jew has materially it is to continue. By the end of 1929 it is my hope changed, which necessarily resulted that the balance outstanding on the in an entirely new and lower standpledges made to - the United Jewish ard of living. This condition has campaign will have been collected. obtained for such a long period of The J. D. C. can only continue its time that there is now a general acwork provided it has the funds with ceptance of it on the part of the people. which to do it. The status of the Jew will never When the present campaign is completed the J. D. C. will have ex- again be that of pre-war times. pended over eighty .millions of dolIt has not been that they have lars. •;'-' accepted the inevitable without a In the expenditure r of this large struggle. It has been an almost hopesum we will have touched every less fight, for in many countries the phase of social; activity from the political conditions have been such crudest form of palliati". relief to as to work against the interest of the highest type of social effort— the Jew, with the result that he has that of reconstruction and rehabilita- been made to realize that unless some, miracle occurs, his condition tion. ' will never be the same. We have fed millions of starving men, women* and children. We have . The marvel of it all is that despite cared for thousands upon thousands his economic plight, the lowered of orphans. We have rebuilt hos- standard of living, the suffering, the pitals. We ha*5. supplied .medica-^ misery ;and_,the'.. tragedy_iof his. .life,. ments, - surgical instruments, X-ray there has been "built up in all these apparatus. We have rebuilt count- countries a social structure covering less hundreds1 of homes, synagogues, every type and kind of Jewish social need, which has been carried on in schools, bath-houses. We have maintained schools, re- part through funds secured locally, ligious institutions. We have found- only the deficit being supplied by ed- trade schools and maintained the J. D. C. them. • We have re-established hun- All of the numerous activities of dreds of thousands of artisans and the J. D. C. and all of the social small traders -through our coopera- changes brought about by the J. D. C. have been taken over almost entive banking institutions. We have saved lives, restored lives, tirely by the local groups who have created hope and maintained the assumed a full measure of respon(Continued on page 2) morale of millions of humans who
New York. (J. T. A.) That the Jews and Catholics are • the ^ most discriminated against groups and that many ; difficulties are ;so grave and so deeply rooted psychologically, as to prevent unity on the;part of the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant faiths, but not respect for and to a degree cooperation with each other was the finding of the ? Seminar on the relations between Jews and Chrisitans which closed its two-day session last Thursday night-with s dinner at the Hotel Roosevelt. 1 While no specific program of action was adopted, it was the concensus of opinion on the part of spokesmen of- the three beliefs, that the occasion was unique and beneficial in that for perhaps the first time representatives of the three faiths had faced the prejudices current against each other. It is planned to hold similar Seminars at college centers throughout the country In the course of the session Thursday afternoon, summarizing tho. Round Table discussions,,it was admitted that there is vocational discrimination against Jews and Catholics. In particular Jewish lawyers and girl stenographers are discriminated against. In the Middle West it is impossible for the Jew to secure a university post, or a Catholic to obtain a position as a teacher, it was stated. New York, it was charged, bars Jews from most of its utility corporations arid Jews: from interneships unless in a *. hospital, under Jewish auspices. This discussion was led1 byptaEbi^ Edward. Israel "of Baltimore." • -...- „ As an experiment in remedying this situation, it was suggested that Bureaus.of Vocational Guidance dissuade members of their own groups from going into certain professions which are already overcrowded. - The overtaxed field of Jewish -lawyers was mentioned. Another suggestion to overcome the prejudice against Jewish employes was that a group representing the three faiths go to certain concerns and ask them, as an experiment, to employ Jews for a certain period to prove to themselves that their prejudice is ill-founded. ; : The prejudice against the Jew, it was.stated, is due in a considerable measure to a self-imposed barrier. The Jew, it was said, lives in a self- Speaks at Jewish Community imposed ghetto, a sort of "Island Center Thursday, Within." The necessity for a Jew Feb. 21 remaining Jewish, his abhorrence of inter-marriage, was ununderstandIS FAMOUS EDITOR able to many Christians. Paul U. Kellogg, editor of the Survey and the Survey Graphic, Rabbi Silver to Be Next; will be in Omaha Thursday, FebLecture Course Speaker ruary 21, for his lecture .for the Social Service Course of the Council Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleve- of Social Agencies which is conland will be the next "speaker on the ducted at the Jewish Community ; lecture course sponsored "jointly" by Center. Kellogg is known as an authority the Council of Jewish Women arid the Jewish Community Center. He on- social problems and a journalist will speak at the Center on Monr and speaker of note. His. subject here will be "Shuttles of. Underday, February 25. - . Rabbi Silver is known throughout standing." Kellogg was educated at Columthe United States as one of the most eloquent speakers on the lecture bia university, the New School of platform. Both in his pulpit in Social Work, and Amberst college. Cleveland" and on the lecture plat- He has been a newspaper reporter form, where he is in such great de- and editor, and has been on the mand, his apearance is always greet- staff of the Survey since 1902. He has been chairman of the comed by record crowds. Rabbi Silver's lecture will be third mittee on occuptional standards of in this series which included Norman the National Conference of CharHapgood and Anna Louise Strong. ities and Corrections, secretary of The Gigli Shotwell concert was also the committee to secure the United a feature of this course. Scott Near- States commission on Industrial Reing and Rabbi Nathan Krass will fol- lations, member of the executive committee of the Foreign Policy low Rabbi Silver in the course. association, and member of the board of managers of the Cabot fund. He DR. COHN IS HONORED AS has also, been director of the ediELKS' BANQUET SPEAKER torial and historical bureau departments of Civil Affairs, and AmeriRabbi Frederick" Cohn was the can Red Cross, in Paris, and a memprincipal speaker at the Elks' Father ber of the committee of inquiry on and Son banquet held Tuesday eve- needs of refugees, Emergency Red ning, Feb. 12, and which was at- Gross commission, in Italy. tended by over six hundred. . Kellogg will be the fourth speaker • Dr. Cohn will preach on "The in the social service series. While Messiah" at Temple Israel this eve- he is in Omaha he will be the house ning. Saturday morning . he will guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kulakspeak on "Serving the Ideal." ofsky.
PAUL KELLOGG COMING GOOD WILL BANQUET IS PLANNED BY B'NAI HERE FOR LECTURE ON SOCIAL SERVICECOURSE B'RITH FOR FEB. 2 8 Members of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic Faiths to Get Together. IS OUTSTANDING EVENT The local lodge of the B'nai B'rith will hold what is considered to be one of the most important features of its winter's activities in the form of a Good Will banquet to be given at the Ad-Sell Grill at 6:3G p. m., Monday, February 28. The occasion will bring together representatives of the three dominant faiths and give them an opportunity to gain a better understanding, of each other. The principal speakers will be: Dr. Frederick Cohn o£ Temple Israel, Jas. J. Fitzgerald, president of the Knights of Columbus; Rev. Frank G. Smith, C. C. Carmichael, president of the Elks clnb; Bishop Rummel; and Frank H. Woodland, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Nebraska Masonic organizations. Mr. Henry Monsky will act as toastniaster. Mayor Dahlman and the rest of the city commission, and the representatives of various .local organizations have been invited to attend. The banquet will be open to all B'nai B'rith members, their families and their frfends. Reservations may be made, with Phil JOutznick, chairman of the arrangements committee. Besides music by the Ad-Sell orchestra, many other forms of entertainment have been arranged to make the banquet a memorable occasion. Mr. Samuel Gerson will lead the community singing.
New York.—(J. T. A.)—A million dollar national campaign to extend over a period of five years will be undertaken by the labor groups in the United States, to buy tools and raw materials to aid the 1,000,000 declassed Jews in Soviet Russia. A call to all labor groups and Landsmanschaften in the United States to participate in the work will be issued under the signatures of the Arbeitering, the United States Hebrew Trades, the "Forward," the Jewish Socialist Verband, the National Jewish Workers Alliance and the Poale Zion. The money, which will be raised in annual quotas of $200,000 will be administered by the and the Agro-Joint.
Accomplishments in Palestine Shown as Factors in Overcoming Opposition PALESTINE ECONOMIC SITUATION IMPROVED
Victory was the keynote of the address delivered by Louie lapsky, national president of the Zionist Organization of America at the Jewish Community Center Wednesday evening;. The triumph of the reconciliation of all trends of Jewish thought, unburdened by hard and fast formulas; or unbending dogma, -was the thought, the idea that the famous orator brought with telling force to his audience which filled the auditorium oi the Center. «> There was not only happy success borne in his eloquence, but in his face, as he recited the story of how in the To Teach Anesthesia in Dental past thirty years or more, the Zionist School; Also Exodontia movement and its opponents havr Instructor. come closer and closer together,, both yielding untenable theories for more ACTIVE IN MANY FIELDS satisfying facts. Throughout his entire speech, it was the smiling Lipsky Announcement was made this week that talked. The lines in hie face of the appointment of Dr. David were soft, and his greying hair gave Cahn Platt to the professorship of only the impression of venerable age anesthesia in the Creighton Dental made happy by success after an arcollege. Dr. Platt, being only 23 duous struggle. Mr. Lipsky gave as the chief reason for the unification of Jewish endeavor, the inspiration drawn from the actual work that has been accomplished in Palestine. It was his idea that the spectacle of the Palestinian laborers, the colonists, the school systems, the spread of the Hebrew language, the industrial development, and the oth«n concrete fulfillments of the yearning for a homeland have overcome the barriers of conflicting- abstract definitions of Jewish Rims arid missions. Lipsky spoke with particular •warmth of the recent avowements of non-Zionist leaders a t their eonfpwvnep held last fall in which they proclaimed greatest enthusiasm for principle* which they had been in the habit of attacking for thirty, years. Although he did not speak directly of the extension of the Jewish Agency to include the non-Zionists, it can be said that his talk was a paean of joy over the events leading up to and including Dr. David Cahn Platt. this important move. years old, becomes the youngest proThe present condition of Palestine fessor in the Creighton university was described as very satisfactory1 in and probably the youngest professor comparison with previous years by in any dental college in the country. Lipsky. A two and a half year period He graduated from the Creighton of economic difficulty, especially unschool about two years ago with employment, has been remedied, he high honors. pointed out. He said that this would Dr. Platt has been instructor in make possible the admission of a few exodontia at the Creighton school thousand more Jewish immigrant*? since the beginning of the last fall within the next few years, semester. He will continue in that Louis Katelman, chairman of the capacity in addition to his work at local Zionist District, wss chairman of his new post. He is also dental the evening, and introduced Mr. Lip* surgeon of the St. Joseph's hospital. sky to the audience. The national The youthful professor has been executive was accorded great ovations very active in other fields outside both before and after IUE oration. of his profession. He was one of the A luncheon wag held in Mr. Lipsky's charter members of the Pi Delta honor at the Ad-Sell in the afternoon Sigma, Jewish social fraternity at at -which over fifty of the city's most the university, which has since been j prominent and representative Jews accepted into the Pi Lambda Phi, •were present. national Jewish social fraternity. Dr. Mr. Lipsky is touring the country Platt has been elected faculty modin the interests of the nation-wide erator of the chapter. membership campaign of the Zionist He has also been a participant in Organisation. Jewish organisation activity, being one of the advisors of A. Z. A. Chapter No. 100 and sponsor of the Intermediate Council of the Jewish Community Center. He is also active in the B'nai B'rith and in the Senior Club Council of the Center.
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J. C. C. Benefit Dance Is Planned by Clubs
A benefit dance for the purpose of raising funds for athletic equipment for the Jewish Community Center and improvements on the handball courts and equipment for the proposed boys' room has been planned by a joint committee consisting of representatives of various organizations. Mr. J. M. Malashock has been designated as chairman of the affair, the others on the committee being: Abner Kaiman, Irvin C. Levin, Frank Ackerman, Herman Segelman, Phil Klutznick and Jack W. Marer. The dance will be held Sunday evening, March 10, at the J. C. C. ballroom. Among the organizations behind The countenance is the portrait of the affair are the Thorpeian Athletic the soul, and the eyes mark its in- club, the B'nai B'rith, both A. Z. A. tentions, .---v —Cicero. chapters, and the Psi Mu. -
Miss Mary P. Wheeler of St. Paul speaking at the Jewish Community Center Wednesday evening on the Social Service Lecture Course on the subject, "Family Welfare," told net listeners that the methods of render* ing social service are changing' so wip« idly that what was new three yeftre ago is no longer new. "Social work is now less of giving relief and more of solving fundamental problems," she said. In this connection she warned her audiencfe against the old-fashioned method of aid, the haphazard giving of donations which destroyed the self-respect and independence of the recipient*. Miss Wheekr also told her amiienefc to disregard talk of the high overhead in present day public social servjee work. She pointed out that Sn order to attack the causes of proMfefti*, rather than giving superficial ftld, necessitated trained workers, and In order to get the benefit of their time and skill, it was necessary to pay them well.